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Diary - Friday 31 July 2009

31 July 2009

Poor old Mr Diary, who spent the entire midweek becalmed in the river Freshney surrounded by the flotsam and jetsam that was non-news stories about FORMER Town players, emailed your Guest Diarist last night complaining of post-festival traumatic Telewag disorder. Having been prescribed a hair of the dog and the bosom of his family he has gone off to recharge his literary batteries and will be back next week to regale you with stories emanating from the Winterton friendly tomorrow.

Had he been here today, no doubt, he would have surgically dissected the announcement that for the payment of 'less than 10p per day' the superb, new official site is to offer the 'all new Mariners Player premium online service'. Rumours that this is Mariners World upgraded, so it will work with a few more browsers and with a bit better sound quality on the few occasions that Last Resort FM manage to get plugged in at all, are almost certainly true. And no bad thing either. The assertion that: "...Player has been designed for you, the fans, with a cutting edge user friendly design, to give the ultimate online fan experience" is the worst kind of sub-human marketing bollocks frankly. Rivalling some other announcement I heard that a phone company has solved the problems of fans that attend games and can't sit together, by linking them up by phone or summat which came on the telly the other day. But read on, for there is news of players - players who actually play for us, and players who want to, but won't be.

Mike Newell has told the SNOS that he won't be playing Colgan, Widdowson, and Forbes at Winterton tomorrow to allow them to fully recuperate from pre-season thighs, hips and knees. The article goes on to tell us that Nathan Arnold has slung his hook too. Now whether he slung his own hook, or the club slung it for him is another matter. The Grimsby Telegraph explains quoting Mr Newell as saying this on the matter: "Nathan has got an offer from a club in Scotland, or so I've been told. If we are not 100 per cent sure, then it wouldn't be right to stand in his way. We aren't in a position to give him any definite answer so I expect him to go and take that offer." So it would seem the hook-slinging decision was never actually taken.

The article also mentions another trialist, Sol Davis who won't be joining either. Wikipedia, which took in good humour the BBC ashes online text readers long and complicated riff on the ugly wife of George IV in good part yesterday, tells me that Mr Davis (whom the Telegraph describes as a veteran at 29) has been hanging about with those Bastard Franchise Scum. So we wouldn't want him anyway, really.

But Newell obviously feels that a left sided defensive type would be a beneficial addition to the squad. He has looked at his old mucker Davis, and offered Lewis Emmanuel a contract according to current Luton manager Mick Harford. An offer which Luton seem determined to counter. No doubt the lad will make his mind up early next week. We can't really afford another player in my opinion, and no-one seems to be sniffing around any of our fringe players yet. So we might start the season with what we've got I reckon. That's it - time for cricket. See yer.