Cod Almighty | Diary
One step closer to not having to remember whether the team or the town is Boreham Wood
20 April 2016
Wicklow Diary writes: Goals change games goes the cliche and they sure as hell change moods. I'm ready to take on the world now, are you? Fire up the Operation Promotion pledge pages and dust off the Ivano and Joe Waters buckets, we need to collect to sign another Irish legend.
Live in the moment and all that but the only thing that could get me off the ceiling was the thought that, with every sumptuous strike, our chances of seeing him in a Town shirt after May diminish. Forget trying to sell us kits that we haven't seen, just market the FA Trophy Final as perhaps the last chance to see Podge in a Town shirt.
In relative terms few have seen his like. Ron Rafferty was the last Town player to score 30 league goals in a season. That was 54 years ago but to age something in Grimsby you don't have to use the calendar or carbon dating, you can use Dave Moore. Have a look at the Town squad photos for the last forty years. Dave's in many of them, all the way back to 1978. Harry Wainman is in Dave's first team photo and if you go all the way back to Harry's first in 1963, you’ll find Rafferty smiling back at you too. It might make more sense to just use the calendar but I like Dave and if you squint hard, Harry looks like Ferris Bueller’s mate.
Last night, Dave Moore the physio was called into action to patch up Richard Tait. I’m pretty sure I heard a cry of "Get a move on Moore", a yell used in the 80s and still going strong today. Dave’s main fault as a player was that he wasn’t a match for his brother Kev. But then who was.
Anyway – I digress. Last night gives us the platform to go to the playoffs in positive mood. We are nearly there. We've almost been granted the wish to take the time machine to go back and correct the mistakes and right the wrongs of May 2015. Nothing can stop us now with Podge and Omar up front tormenting and Hurs…….what’s that, Fenty’s on the Fishy again? FFS.
How many times does this have to happen? Is it ego, stupidity or some long word ending in -iac or -ist? Familiar with the advice about never wrestling with a pig? You get covered in muck and the pig loves it. As fans, we can ignore this advice and pile into whatever argument or row whether on- or offline. That's John's usual calling card: I'm just a fan like the rest of you. You're not though. You're the fan that owns the club and has dragged it down into the mess we are trying to somehow recover from.
John, refer everything from an idea for a great Fishy post to ordering a Chinese to the Mariners Trust directors.
I worked in IT in London for a number of years. To my amusement, I had a colleague named Keith Alexander who, despite being of average height, was obviously referred to by me as 'Big Keith'. Asked to transport a couple of hefty desktop computers from Basildon to Brentford one day, I noticed Big Keith going to great lengths to strap the computers into the rear seat belts of his car. His logic? When your car rolls doing seventy on the M25, you don't want a bad situation getting worse. Well John, we've been in that cartwheeling roll for a few years now. Just strap yourself into the backseat with the PCs of decapitation and death and sit tight. Refer everything from an idea for a great Fishy post to ordering a Chinese to the Mariners Trust directors.
What else is there to round up? The reserves host Scunny this afternoon at Blundell Park. The focal point of our favourite place in the world has a new name. Fostered by several companies since its creation, it has been known as the Findus, Stones, John Smiths, Carlsberg and the current Frozen Horsemeat Stand. Yesterday the club announced it was to be renamed as the Young's Upper and Young's Lower.
The glorious sight of the elegant angles approaching from Cleethorpes won’t change of course. Although years on and I'm still irritated by that giant cold store building detracting from the view. Still on the plus side, this is built closer to the sea than Blundell Park. You can use it on the next Fishy stadium debate to counter arguments that say the soil around BP is too tricky to build on. If you see Getyourfactsright on there, notify a responsible adult.