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Diary - Wednesday 14 February 2007

14 February 2007

As local interest in Grimsby Town Football Club continues on one of its occasional temporary upward trajectories, the free travel to the Mariners' game at Mansfield is now fully booked. As you know, the club has laid on ten coaches, as part of its 'Be The Town's 12th Man' campaign, to whisk hundreds of fans to Field Mill and back this Saturday in a bid to replicate the great support that helped Town to a quite good result at Boston the other week. The 500 seats available have now all been taken, reports today's Grimsby Telegraph, with around 800 tickets in total having been sold. As much as the Diary applauds the current series of promotional offers, and as loath as I am to pour cold water onto people's new-found white-hot enthusiasm for GTFC, it is difficult not to wonder how long the campaign might be sustained if two or three more wins push the side up the league into relative safety. Another string of defeats after that and, come mid-April, we could easily be looking at a hastily devised new marketing operation entitled 'Be The Town's 13th Man, Oh Please, Go On, Just Two Or Three More Games, Then We'll Stop Pestering You For Another Year'.

There's just one more item of news to bring you today, and it is the news that Town reserves continued their relatively impressive season last night with a 2-1 win at Scunthorpe last night. Strong line-up, conceded early on, former GTFC trialist, fought back from behind, Simon Grand, Luton's Michael Reddy. That do you? Sorry - I've not had me lunch yet and I'm starving now. Bye!