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Diary - Monday 22 October 2007

22 October 2007

"There's no need to start panicking. We're not panicking." These are the panic-inducing words of Town midfielder James Hunt, speaking to the Grimsby Telegraph after the side's most recent dominate-the-whole-game possession-wise and-then-lose performance, away at Wycombe on Saturday. It seems barely a month ago that the Mariners were placed promisingly just four points off a play-off spot, looking for a third win in a row to set the tone for the subsequent promotion push. Oh, it was barely a month ago. I guess if things can change for the worse in so short of a space of time, they can always change quickly for the better too, no? If last season taught us one thing, it must be that. What? At least I'm trying. "We just get back on the training ground now. Like I said, we have got to stick together. We're all bitterly disappointed but we can't do anything about it until our next game so we have got to have a good go next week," said Groves after the 5-1 defeat at Vale Pa... er, I mean Hunt, after... what?

Have you heard of Grimsby Town Multimedia? The Diary discovered it a few days ago. It sounds exciting, doesn't it? A video archive of Mariners match highlights? A live webcam link, with stereo sound, between supporters' homes and the GTFC boardroom? A 3-D simulation allowing fans to experience a first-person virtual reality perspective of the Town player of your choice knocking the ball over the bar six yards from goal? No. It's a website - and, judging from the shit punctuation, an official club website - where you can order photographs. Still, it can justly claim to be the internet's number one destination for every web shopper wishing to choose between four slightly different shots of Alan Buckley shaking hands with a random man in a shirt at the player of the season awards, or if the thing your mantelpiece lacks is a 99p print of Straight Peter Bore jogging along the touchline against York City reserves.