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Diary - Monday 4 May 2009

4 May 2009

"Everyone needs a break after the last nine months or so. That includes the supporters, who must be at their wits' end. A few months respite won't do them any harm." It's good to know that Mr Mike Re-Newell understands how we feel, but perhaps the most notable element of the Town manager's words to the media at the weekend was his assertion that keeping the club in the Football League was as big an achievement as any in his managerial career so far. This is a manager, of course, who achieved promotions with Hartlepool and Luton, and he's probably right. Onwards and upwards, eh?

What else do you know? Four Myspace Mariners at the end of their apprenticeships will graduate to Facebook after being awarded short-term pro contracts, the surprises being that two of them are goalkeepers (Leigh Overton and Ed Eley) and none of them are Danny Freeman. Booo Woodses booo, etc etc and so on. Midfield duo Drew Rhoades and Jamie Steel complete the quartet. Josh Fuller, who made a jolly nice debut against Macclesfield the other day, still has another year to go in the youth team, in case you were wondering. You weren't? Why are you here on a bank holiday then?

Lastly today, congratulations to Mike Phillips, whose fantastic work on the Blundell Park playing surface has won him the fourth division Groundman of the Year award again. The Diary has just finished potting some tomato plants and they'll probably all keel over dead within a week, so I know all about how hard these things are. There'd be a great chance here for a lame pun about roots and growth and the youth team and Re-Newell, if the Diary weren't in such a desperate hurry to finish up so I can get down to the pub. See you tomorrow!