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Diary - Saturday 20 March 2004

20 March 2004

The replacement of Graham Rodger as Town manager with Nicky Law looks increasingly like proving to be the mistake that takes the club into the bottom division for the first time in almost a decade and a half. Two-nil is the margin of today's routine defeat at a windswept Blundell Park as Hartlepool take an easy three points from the Mariners for the second time this season, thanks to two Adam Boyd goals and a GTFC performance devoid of just about any merit whatsoever. A limp surrender by Sheffield Wednesday at Stockport leaves Town just one point above the relegation zone with the second division's worst goal difference, but with a manager who spoke earlier this week of the big games coming up against Hartlepool and, er, Notts County, is anyone that surprised?

I will refrain from apprising you of my intentions for this evening out of consideration for readers who undergo periodic bouts of concern about the condition of the Diary's liver. Actually, that's kind of given the game away, hasn't it.