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Diary - Tuesday 25 May 2010

25 May 2010

Armchair Diary writes: I fired up the usual news sources this morning to see what was happening in the world of Grimsby Town Football Club and one story immediately grabbed my attention. The headline read "Request to FA to allow 3 teams to be promoted" which immediately made me think that there was some official campaign to make the exchange between the fourth division and the Conference a three up/three down affair. But no, how wrong I was. It was in fact just a filler article on a football network that is notoriously unreliable so I won't even name it. The article basically says it would be nice if it were three up/three down so that Town have a better chance of getting out of the Conference but there is nothing official about it in the slightest. There was me thinking the request was being made by a club chairman when instead it's just by a random staff writer. Oh well. I did wonder why this story hadn't made any of the main news networks and now I know.

And in case you wanted further evidence how unreliable this particular network of club sites is, they have only just announced that John Deehan has been sacked, that Chris Casper has been offered a new deal and that Lee Peacock is probably happy to stay with the Mariners. Keep up, eh?

Let's try a more reliable news outlet shall we? The Telewag bring us news that Dean Sinclair has been released by Charlton although I haven't seen anything saying that he will come back to Blundell Park to sign for the Mariners but we'll see. He'd be quite useful to have in the building wouldn't he? Promising young starlet Bradley Wood is desperate to get back in the first team it would seem. Opportunities for the young defender and local forest nearly-namesake have been limited under Neil Woodses but after winning that floodlit cup thingy with the youth team Wood is keen to get back amongst the big boys. What's the betting he goes on to have a couple of storming seasons and then gets sold for a pittance to a "big club"?

The Telewag also carry a story about Neil Woodses doing his homework for next season by attending the Conference play-off final at Wembley although I thought that match took place a couple of weeks back so that's not really news is it? Perhaps the fact that Woodses was there has only just come to light. Who knows? Who cares, in all honestly?

Ooh, a signing rumour, that's what we need at this time of year. And unsurprisingly, given that Nick Colgan has exercised his "I'm a League standard goalkeeper, get me out of here" clause, it's a keeper that Town are being linked with. OK, so all that's really happened is that Kenny Arthur has been put on the transfer list by Rochdale but as we apparently almost signed him on loan before, maybe, he's being rumoured as a possible summer signing. I can't say I know that much about him so I don't know if he'd do a job for us or not. It would be nice to have a solid, reliable keeper for once though.

There's not much else to tell you, really. Thank goodness the Telewag had a few stories that I could waffle on about though else I'd have had to resort to pushing you in the direction of who various Mariners think will win the World Cup and this picture that apparently shows Ak-Ak being presented with an award. Now is it just me or does it actually look like the two disabled fans are sharing the award between them and are just taunting Ak-Ak with it?It is just me then, right.