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Diary - Wednesday 3 March 2010

3 March 2010

Mardy Diary writes: Having exhausted the list of players that the Telegraph can call upon for its weekly "tell the fans we've been shit, but we'll get better soon" article - and given the number of players we've used this season, that takes some doing - they've, unsuprisingly, had to adopt a different approach lately. This latest space-filling initiative sees them call upon former Town players to essentially say: "it's a bit sad what's happening to the club really, isn't it?" Firstly it was here-today-gone-tomorrow Damien McCrory, today it's Bradley "Boulding would have been shit without me" Allen. Who next? My money is on a shock appearance by the great Livvo - or perhaps that's just wishful thinking on my part. Looking at who we've got to play and former players connected with those clubs I'm going for...Ciaran Toner perhaps? There's a few weeks before we play Rochdale though - so come on, give us your suggestions. The winner gets, I don't know: that long lost sense of winning something. There.

The diary postbag has been a little light of late. Understandable really, most people like to grieve in private. Mark Wilson, however, could hold back no longer. "Whenever I email the diary I try to either raise a smile or point out the absurd but today I'm moved to tell you how I feel. I'm 41 years old, I have supported Town ever since my grandad sat me on the fence of the Barratt Stand in (about) 1975 and from that moment I have lived and breathed this club. GTFC has been the punctuation in my life, good and bad", says Mark, adding "But they have never made me feel as depressed as I was when I left Dagenham on Saturday evening. I have been genuinely close to tears twice since then. My beloved Grimsby Town will drop out of the football league this season and become a 'non-league' club and the reason I know this is because of the dispiriting performance the players gave on Saturday afternoon. They looked like a defeated team the moment Dagenham scored and it looked inevitable that Dagenham would score just as it looked inevitable that we wouldn't. The fight has gone and with it our chances of survival." Come down from the bridge, Mark. "I'm not sure I can face games against Ebbsfleet and Woking." Ah, see - just look through squinted eyes and pretend that it's Wolves and Crystal Palace.

Anyway, context: in the middle of writing this I've just seen that Big Keith has died. So sod football, it's just a stupid game anyway. Other things are far more important: we love you Keith.