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Diary - Wednesday 5 February 2003

5 February 2003

If at first you don't succeed, try and sign someone else. For the fourth time this year Paul Groves has agreed a deal with a club to loan a midfielder and is waiting for a decision from the player to come up to Cleethorpes for a month. As yet no names are being mentioned by anyone, anywhere in the media. "We're hoping that we'll get a decision before the weekend," Groves says, again, in today's Grimsby Telegraph. The Diary is hoping so too, if only so he doesn't play Chris Bolder on the left of midfield again.

Stacy Coldicott has won something called the PFA Fans' Player of the Month award, for January. Hmmmm. Now for one thing, Stace only made two appearances in January; for another, you vote for the winner on a website. Loath though the Diary is to make hasty accusations, we strongly suspect our fellow Town supporters of having discovered irony. If nothing else, it'll make for an interesting ceremony when our beleaguered midfield destroyer receives a trophy as the Mariners take on Coventry on 1 March.

The throng of players who turned up for trials at Blundell Park this week will have to wait a little while for a chance to display their awesome skills, as this afternoon's reserves game at Hartlepool has been - you guessed it, bucko - called off because of the weather. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, a group of men in black suits, black ties and shades were spotted in an internet café close to Victoria Park yesterday checking out the Met Office website.