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Diary - Friday 16 April 2010
16 April 2010
Armchair Diary writes: Sorry folks but you have to put up with me again for the second day in a row. Let's just try to get through this together without too much fuss eh?
On Monday 3 May, the same day that the youth team will contest the Midlands Floodlit Cup final at Blundell Park, a host of stars from the world of football will line up at Sincil Bank for a benefit game for Big Keith Alexander. Gary Simpson will manage a Keith Alexander XI, who I think will be players Keith managed at some point in his career if memory serves me correctly, while Paul Ince takes charge of an All Star XI. Tickets are a tenner for adults and half that for concessions so if you can get along to support this cause on that bank holiday Monday then please do so.
It's Torquay's turn to come to Blundell Park tomorrow and their boss has said they will be going for the win despite a draw being enough to ensure their survival. The Gulls' run of 10 points from their last four matches has done wonders for them but detracted somewhat from the belief that were Town to string a few results together they may yet escape the drop. Bastards! Still, not everyone has given up hope. Dean Sinclair is still hopeful of the club playing in League Two next season even if he does resort to many of the cliches so typical of footballers these days. Michael Coulson has similar thoughts and of course Neil Woods is banging the same drum so perhaps he and the players genuinely believe that the Mariners really can take maximum points from their remaining fixtures. Personally I don't know what to think any more. I have been preparing for relegation for a couple of months now and the longer it eludes us the more I wonder if we really can survive.
The South Devon version of the Telewag has marked out Jamie Devitt as a danger man for the Mariners and based on recent form they seem right to do so although they could have put a bit more effort into it and made a proper article out of it, maybe including a few words from the lad itself. As it is, this paragraph in today's diary is almost as long as their article and I haven't even got round to mentioning how many goals he has scored yet. Nor am I going to actually, just to be different. Oh, alright, five. Happy now? He's not the only one scoring goals though as it seems the midfield and strikers all seem to be in rich goal-scoring form. It has taken a while, and perhaps a few significant changes in personnel but Woodses has got his team banging them in at last. Now we just need to wait and see whether it has all been too little too late.
Still, if as this article on the SNOS suggests Town can be declared the winners if the match ends 2-2 then maybe we can get some revenge on the rest of the division who seem to have been conspiring against us in recent weeks.
Normally I would sign off with a link to our pre-match factfile but it's not ready yet and all has gone quiet at CA Towers so I have no idea what the delay is I'm afraid. A link will appear in the usual place on the home page when it is ready I suppose. Enjoy the weekend everyone, whatever you may be up to.