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Diary - Wednesday 10 August 2005

10 August 2005

Hang on a minute... is that... no, it can't be... but... yes, it is... it's a seven-game unbeaten run! Two late goals from Rob Jones and Martin Gritton having given Town the three points their exertions deserved last night at Bristol Rovers, the Mariners have now drawn five and won two of their last seven competitive matches. Bugger me. As eventually expected, the starting XI was identical to that fielded against Oxford last Saturday - and thus craftily included pretend injury victims Michael Reddy and Tom Newey - though Gary Cohen and Luton loanee Calvin Andrew emerged from the bench to make second-half GTFC debuts. Losing to the likes of Grimsby has reduced Ian Atkins to a gibbering wreck and even had sections of the Memorial Ground booing and barracking their own players in a bizarre homage to certain of their Blundell Park counterparts; at this rate the Grimsby Reaper is sure to be re-ascending to the Earth to claim the heads of many a fourth division manager with a grisly swish of his scythe. Sorry, I'm getting a bit prog rock now, aren't I. The result fires Town to sixth place in the embryonic fourth division league table, prompting Russ to grin: "I really believe we have a chance." The Diary trusts that he means something more than avoiding relegation this time.