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Diary - Saturday 21 October 2006

21 October 2006

Following their appalling non-performance in losing 2-0 at home to Notts County this afternoon, Town's players are locked in their dressing room for an hour by their manager Graham Rodger, who then leaves them to it and goes off to do something else. There is no way of telling whether the players spent this time thinking about what they'd done (or hadn't done, to put it more accurately) or just talking about the new cars they were thinking of buying or where they were going on holiday next year; but in being absent after full time Rodger is at least showing consistency, since his influence appeared pretty negligible during the match as well. Town sit 21st in the fourth division, at their lowest ebb for three and a half decades, and the morale of supporters is utterly exhausted - making the choruses of "We are Town", "Grimsby 'til I die" and "Graham Rodger's black and white army" that arose from the left of the Pontoon in the last five minutes all the more laudable and all the more remarkable.