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Diary - Tuesday 14 August 2007

14 August 2007

Look North (Hull and Lincs, not forgetting north Norfolk) has brought back a Monday night sports round-up introduced by Damian Johnson. Understandably they did a nice piece on Scunny, showing the goal and revealing that Adkins shows clips from Gladiator before they enter the arena.

Then a short piece on Hull signing Henrik Pedersen, the injured ex-Boltonite.

Then they told us we could listen on Radio Lincs to the Donny-Lincoln match tomorrow, explaining that Lincoln had got stuffed on Saturday.

Then it ended.

Says it all, Mr Fenty, eh?

Yesterday, you may recall, the Diary invited readers to email with their opinions on Last Resort FM's coverage of Town's draw with Notts County at the weekend. Absolutely nobody has done so, suggesting that not a single one among the three of you who read the Diary lives within the station's tiny catchment area. But my regular Friday stand-in Guest Diary happened to view Look North last night, and it was he who emailed the observations above. It would seem that Positive John positively failed to consider the broader PR implications of his refusal to agree a radio commentary deal with the BBC, which, coupled with Scunny and King$ton Communication$ FC both sitting two divisions above the Mariners for the first time ever, appears to be taking down Town's profile in the local media from low to invisible. Still, for every few dozen floating supporters lost to GTFC through this dearth of publicity, the club probably sells one Mariners World subscription, so I guess it all balances out, eh.

Then again, nobody's perfect: the Diary forgot to mention yesterday that Town have been drawn at home to Huddersfield in the first round of this year's Football League Trophy and the match will be on 4 or 5 September. Sorry about that! On the subject of cup football, second division Burnley are expected to 'rotate their squad' at Blundell Park tonight in the first round of this season's League Cup (check out our ace preview factfile thing!), possibly because they saw what happened to Tottenham's first team here the other year, or possibly because they've got an Albanian forward and they think it makes them look cool.

Still, if no bugger turns up tonight there's always the bigger draw of the FA Cup - or is there? "Have you picked up your very handy copy of Town's fixtures?" asks John Ide in an email to the Diary. "I mean the one that fits into your filofax or pocket - you know the one I mean. Well, I picked mine up from the club shop, and apparently Grimsby Town FC are not playing in the most prestigious knockout competition this season. There are no FA Cup dates printed on it. The Fizzy Pop Cup gets a section, as does the Slap It On With a Brush Trophy, but what happened to the giant killing cup?" Isn't the Fizzy Pop Cup now the Crap Lager Cup, though? Thanks for pointing this out, John - perhaps, if anyone from the club is reading, they could get in touch to clarify whether it has simply slipped their mind to add the FA Cup dates to the fixture list or they've actually forgotten to send off the entry forms for this year's tournament.