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Diary - Monday 31 August 2009

31 August 2009

"I say, I say, I say - Grimsby Town are appealing!"

"Not to me they're bloody not!"

Just a brief Bank Holiday Diary to relay the news that Town are considering an appeal to the FA to rescind the red card shown to Barry Conlon at the end of the team's latest failure at home to Aldershot over the weekend. In case you missed it, both Conlon and Adam Proudlock were dismissed at about quarter past seven on Saturday night following a huge on-field melée, long after the team seemed to have given up on the notion of retrieving anything other than a characteristically dismal fifth defeat out of six games this season. On the negative side, Conlon's action, while not specifically prohibited by the laws of the game ("lifting an opposing player off the floor in an aggressive manner"), is likely to fall into the catch-all terms of reference of 'violent conduct' or 'ungentlemanly conduct' and the Mariners will have to face up to the difficulties of turning round their appalling start to the season with Conlon and Proudlock joining injury victims Adrian Forbes, Nathan Jarman, Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro and Straight Peter Bore in the club's ranks of unavailable forwards. On the positive side, the case against Peter Quinn's decision is unlikely to be hindered by his sense of timekeeping: how hard can it be to appeal against a referee who blows for the kick-off at something approaching seven minutes past three?