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Diary - Wednesday 29 September 2004

29 September 2004

I don't know, because I wasn't there, and I don't know anyone who was, but the Diary's ears are hearing between the lines and it sounds like Hockless was rubbish. "One or two [players] have knocked on my door and wondered why they've not been in the first team," says an angry Russell Slade - if you can imagine such a thing - about last night's easily anticipated Football League Trophy defeat at Carlisle. "Well, they've answered their own questions tonight. So anything going round in their little minds, perhaps they have answered for themselves." Ooooh, get her! But of course, with no Town fans actually having seen the game, gorgeous Graham (22) will continue to have them all turning weak at the knees every time he does those stretching exercises on the touchline.

Towering five-foot-ten target man Colin Cramb is chuffed to have scored on his Mariners debut, though, and reckons he wants to stay at Blundell Park despite interest from other clubs. The gigantic striker put Town level last night before the Cumbrians' second-half winner, finishing well from a Clint Marcelle pass, and has opened his heart to the Grimsby Telegraph, speaking passionately of his burning desire to commit his footballing career to GTFC and plunder the goals that fire the club right back up the League. "I want to stay here," says Cramb.