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Diary - Wednesday 26 March 2008

26 March 2008

Danny North and Ciaran Toner getting "one last pre-Wembley run-out" is the angle taken by today's Grimsby Telegraph on tonight's reserve fixture against York City. After his recent knee injury North seems to have been rushed back into action some way short of match fitness and accordingly turned in two awful performances over the Easter weekend; similarly, one can only hope Toner's decisive contribution to Brentford's winning goal on Monday was due to fatigue rather than disinclination. The Telegraph, of course, made clear its intention to treat the current sequence of crucial fixtures in Town's play-off challenge as little more than a warm-up for the Dulux Cup final when it billed the 7 March game against Bastard Franchise Scum as a "dress rehearsal" for Wembley - but, for those of us who see the issue of which division Town play in as a little more important than an inconsequential paint-themed bauble, it is disappointing in the extreme to see GTFC apparently doing likewise.