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Diary - Tuesday 10 March 2009
10 March 2009
Both members of Town's rapidly improving first-choice strike partnership have been recognised for their aceness against Lincoln last Saturday by being named in that fourth division team of the week thing. The gifted and highly committed Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro, of course, registered his first and second goals in English football as the Mariners filled their boots against their county neighbours, while Adam Proudlock managed an excellent hat-trick despite some media crediting his second goal to Danny Boshell and some fucking numpty writing in the Grimsby Telegraph comments section the other week that Proudlock never scores goals. That's eight in 18 league starts, in case you were wondering.
A tiny reminder that, while Akpa Akpro and Proudlock may be firing on all cylinders at the moment, not everything at our football club is done quite so well as their finishing against Lincoln. Town are currently offering 'extended highlights' of last Saturday's big win as a part of a sort of free trial thing for Mariners World, the club's paid-for web subscription service. All well and good until you actually watch them. They are extended highlights, but only in as much as there were six goals and the highlights show absolutely everything twice - and, hilariously, the second time is at the same speed as the first, from the same camera, with the same bit of commentary, rather than a proper action replay where the commentator talks through the footage second time with a different perspective and points out further detail. This isn't even the worst of it: the captions (which tell you when a goal is coming up, just in case you don't recognise a goal when you see one) would have been dismissed as hopelessly old-fashioned by a software house publishing Commodore 64 games in 1986. Good job they're offering it for free, is all the Diary can say.
Town's decision to lay on free coach travel to Chester this weekend is a cracking one, however, and there's every chance that the vehicles were either built or, at the very least, have been refurbished in the last 23 years. With just 30 places remaining of the 500-odd on offer, supporters have clearly responded in true Grimbarian spirit: perhaps not so much "let's get behind the football club that represents us in its hour of need" as "oooh, free stuff!"
News of Mariners past reaches the Diary today: Gary Harkins is still banging on about what a shit time he had at Grimsby for his good money, while one of the new Brighton manager's less successful signings during his term at Blundell Park has now pitched up at crisis-hit Weymouth. None of us know why Jermaine Palmer never really troubled the first team in that hazy, crazy 2005-06 season, but let's hope he can do something to lift the Terras out of the almighty pickle the directors have got the club into. Idiots. That's what they are. Idiots.
And finally, Town's youth team have drawn 1-1 with Chesterfield, reminding the Diary of my request last week for you to suggest new nicknames for the youth team now that Myspace is clearly on its way to a massive and fully deserved demise. "How about the Blue Square Twitter Juniors?" offers Ben Gresswell. Hey, I thought we were doing optimism this week! Anyway, the kids are all on Bebo now, aren't they? Twitter was last week. Or is it Facebook? Actually, let's just stick with Myspace and see if it comes back into fashion. If it's good enough for Mariners World and its 1986 graphics, it's good enough for the Diary.