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Diary - Friday 14 October 2005

14 October 2005

Sepp Blather is blattering on again; the official site news pages are quieter than a welldigger's arse, and so your Guest Diarist has resorted this morning to such arcane practices as washing tea towels, finding the precise distance from his new home to Blundell Park and visiting Steve Livingstone's tracker winch mounting page. But more on these stories later, gentle reader, for we are here to remember that Town have an important fixture this evening. What I should have been doing, of course, is re-reading the excellent rough guide to Cheltenham penned by Miles Moss over the summer. In it, among many other pearls and oddities, he mentions that Cheltenham had a really good run about this time last season, winning five on the bounce. Simon Wilson has written a match preview for Cod Almighty, which reviews more current Cheltenham form, and seems to conclude that Town ought to go there and win. Let's hope so.

The amusing photograph below, taken at the GTFC ticket office last Sunday, demonstrates once again why the club's marketing department needs a proofreader just as badly as its official website. (Thanks to 'original gtfc' for that.)

But enough of that nonsense: the Telegraph sports page will finally load and tells us that "Grimsby Town boss Russell Slade is banking on striker Michael Reddy to fire the Mariners back to the top of League Two at Cheltenham tonight." Slade hints that he will bring back JP Kalalala at the expense of Mr Toner, but all but confesses that he has no clue as to whether to start with Gritton or Jones the lump. Macca has declared himself fit to start, but the left side of the Mariners will remain a tackle-free zone as that most unedifying defensive partnership of Newey and Parky continues to put hearts in mouths. Let's hope we do well enough to go back top though. I like it when we are top, don't you? See yer.