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Diary - Monday 2 October 2006

2 October 2006

What? What do you mean it's not a bank holiday Monday? Oops. Sincere apologies for the late arrival of today's diary - it was due to [insert your own witty excuse here - I'm in a hurry]

This being the first Diary entry since Friday day, I must start by mentioning Town's fantastic victory up at Darlington on Friday night, the Mariners thrashing the Quakers 2-2. Eh? Well, it felt like a victory, anyway, such was the nature of the rousing comeback. Indeed, Rodger the Grodger felt that his team had done enough to deserve all three points rather than a mere 33 per cent of them.

I tell you who has won a match though. Town Reserves. No, really. No, stop blowing air through your lips and loosely flapping your hand in my direction, cos they have. Not only that, they won 6-1. Look - it says so here. And it's not even April the first. Is it? Young Chamberlain's clearly recovered from his secret injury, as he was one of the scorers; young North and young Shahin did all the right things to move up to the first team by scoring twice each; and exciting new prospect 'Tayor' scored the sixth. Although that might have been Andy Taylor, I suppose. Perhaps his mum washed his shirt on too hot a wash, and the 'L' fell off.

Finally - before it becomes Tuesday - let's have a look at how the auction is progressing to take part in the "Sponsors vs Club Staff" charity match. You may have noticed that the 14 places up for grabs (team of 11 plus three 'rolling' subs - fat people only need apply) were available last week at £200 a pop. How many bidders? Two. Both for defensive positions. And then one of them dropped out. So the auction ran its course. Today, however, it' back, with a starting price at a much more reasonable £50. So, how many bidders this time? None. Oh dear. Still, nine days left to run on the auction, and the match isn't until November 12, so I'm sure there'll be the requisite number of sponsors to make a team up by then. Makes you wonder though, if it's this hard to get people involved in a charity match, to ask fans to stump up a little cash to play on the Blundell Park pitch against ex-players and everything... shows you how bloody difficult it muct be to attract professional footballers to the club. Perhaps we should be thankful for those we've got. Tra!