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Diary - Wednesday 7 January 2009

7 January 2009

Signings alert. Awooga awooga. Signings alert. Town's superb new official website is urging you to sign up for the club's superb new text message services on the back of the news that Mike Newell "is hoping to tie up deals" for his three potentially league status-preserving recent loan signings, Jean-Paul Kalala, Rob Atkinson and Adam Proudlock. I think we knew that already, didn't we? In fairness, Oldham's OS is at last mentioning something about JPK - who looks very fetching in orange - and the SNOS adds that "at least one new face" might arrive before this Saturday's disappointing 1-0 home defeat by Morecambe. It's up to you whether you think all this justifies however much it costs to receive text alerts from Blundell Park - although it urges you to "text CLUB GRIMS NEWS to 88442" and sign up, the SNOS doesn't actually tell you the charges. You might not be very interested in this but Ofcom probably would.

The Diary applauds the inventiveness of the Grimsby Telegraph today in creating a story out of thin air. Town will claim back from Barnet the travel expenses of £2,500 they incurred en route to last weekend's postponed fixture at Underhill, reports the Riby Square Thunderer - but adds that this is "stipulated by Football League regulations" and therefore, presumably, is what football clubs do all the time whenever a match is postponed after they've started their journey. In tomorrow's Telegraph: Mike Newell makes some telephone calls, then receives a bill and pays it.