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Diary - Monday 5 October 2009

5 October 2009

"All we can say to the fans is please keep sticking behind us. I know it's hard, but that is what we need. We've got home games coming up and we need the support we had at the end of last year."
- Ryan Bennett, Grimsby captain, quoted in today's Grimsby Telegraph

"I felt sorry for their supporters. They bought loads down, as they always do. 539 in fact. That's a superb turnout whatever way you slice it... Just to rub salt into the wound for the poor old Grimsby fans, there was not even a hint of appreciation from their players for their efforts in supporting them."
- Eric Hitchmo, Barnet fan, writing on Downhill Second Half

And there's a thing that's been bothering the Diary for some time now. Town have been shit for years, but at least when Justin Whittle was captain and we were shit, the players would come over at the end of the game and applaud the supporters - a welcome gesture which said: "We appreciate your support. Sorry for being shit." Now that someone else is captain and we're shit, the players will quite happily queue up to promise us every week via the Grimsby Telegraph that they'll stop being shit any time now, honest, and urging us to keep on supporting them - but at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, when they've let us down once again, they can no longer even bring themselves to look us in the face.