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Diary - Wednesday 23 April 2008
23 April 2008
Today's Grimsby Telegraph breaks up the boredom of a close season that began at Easter by going into quite unnecessarily graphic detail about the fabulously gruesome operation undergone this week by Gary Jones as the big frontman looks to get his dodgy ankle back in working order and win a new contract with the Mariners. If you want to read it word for word you'll have to go to the Telewag's website, as your squeamish Diary hasn't turned so deathly a shade of green while reading medical reports about Town players since poor Darren Mansaram "ripped something off the bone" in August 2003.
The Diary, as you know, can be fairly unforgiving of errors on Town's superb new official website. And, let's face it, there are plenty of them to be fairly unforgiving of. You will find no criticism here, however, of today's piece on the SNOS about the reserves' final league game of the season at Lincoln this afternoon. OK, so there's no explanation of why Gary Montgomery isn't in the line-up despite featuring on the bench for the first XI's trip to Bradford at the weekend. And there are 14 players named in the team, with no indication of who will be substitutes and who will start. But the piece points out that "Danny North gets another run out as he continues his recovery from injury, and local youngster Craig Norman gets another chance to impress Stuart Watkiss". It tells us where Town's and the Imps' reserves teams stand in their league table. And to guarantee empathy and indulgence from the Diary most of all, it was posted on the SNOS at something like half past midnight last night. It is important to maintain high critical standards, but at the same time it would be pretty harsh to apply them unbendingly to someone who's still doing their day job while you and I are tucked up in bed dreaming about last-minute points deductions for Peterborough, Bastard Franchise Scum and a dozen other clubs unexpectedly catapulting the Mariners into the automatic promotion places.
No such leniency is found at the keyboard of Diary reader Alan Warren, who has emailed regarding the SNOS's recent announcements, non-announcements and meta-announcements about GTFC's proposed new stadium on open land at the far edge of Grimsby. "When we have cleared up some of the remaining issues and technicalities we will share the latest update publicly," quotes Alan from the SNOS, asking: "Does this mean they just need to learn how to turn on and use the spell checker in Microsoft Word?" That and convert the web server to run on mains electricity rather than the generator connected to the treadmill used by that retired donkey from Cleethorpes beach. See you tomorrow!