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Diary - Wednesday 4 March 2009

4 March 2009

Diary readers, Grimsby Town fans. Your team is playing shit. That's pretty much a fact. But how you deal with your team playing shit - this is what defines you as a fan, and as a human being. You can take the easy option: give up. Decide the battle is over. Go home, log on, run up the white flag and bleat. Or you can take the harder option: be strong. Get some dignity and get some spirit, and keep fucking supporting. Are you, after all, a supporter? Or are you one of the spineless deserters who started leaving last night with 15 minutes to go? Or one of the hollow-hearted traitors whose only contribution was to jeer at Henderson and Widdowson when the wind blew their kicks out of play and then sing "we're shit and we know we are"? You people - are you happy to look in the mirror and see weakness staring back at you? Because that's all you're showing at the moment. That's what you're being. Weak supporters, and weak people. And what's needed now? Strength. Inner strength, and spirit, and soul. Have you got any of that? Go on, ask yourself - have you? This is no time for the weak. Weakness will take us down. If you can't toughen up, don't fucking turn up.

One previous inhabitant of Blundell Park who knows all about bottling it is Russell Slade. Fresh after his highly intriguing departure from Yeovil (believe you me, that'll be a tale if it ever comes out), the boooooobaldteacheromglolzboooo former Mariners boss is now being linked with the vacancy at third division strugglers Brighton, who are paying with a relegation struggle for the truly ludicrous sacking last summer of Dean Wilkins. Brighton's local paper the Argus names Sort It as a leading contender to succeed Wilkins' successor Micky Adams, who was in turn sacked last month. The Diary can't help thinking that Slade would be a decent choice to turn the Seagulls' fortunes around - and then lead them to a play-off final which he then can't really be arsed to motivate his team for because he's blagged a job with another club to start a couple of weeks later.

And finally! An Icelandic trawler has landed at Grimsby for the first time in 20 years. The Sturia GK12's arrival at Grimsby tested the effectiveness of adding direct delivery to the controlled environment distribution chain, don't you know. Lumpers at the scene are understood to have rubbed their eyes in disbelief as the vessel was accompanied by a mirage of Tony Rees backheeling a ball to Steve Saunders, who then sliced it into the Alexandra Dock for a throw-in.