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Diary - Wednesday 21 July 2010
21 July 2010
Mardy Diary writes: Ah - the indifferent form of Grimsby Town Football Club. They build us up to knock us down in record time. And so a more familiar tale rears its ugly, festering face once again - and that is the tale of our beloved club capitulating to "lesser" opposition. We should just start to think of ourselves as underdogs for every match we play, I think.
Woodsesses isn't happy of course, and who can blame him. It was a different team to that which performed so well against Sheffield Wednesday, but if those on the fringes of the first team do not have inclination or ability to perform to a competent level then really they need to leave now - transfer offer or not. At least be honest with yourselves - do you want it or not? We're tired of players who don't care, we've seen them all too often. Player - if this is you - do the good thing and move on.
According to Woods we deserved to be several goals down in the first ten minutes or so - a first-half substitution or two seemed to have altered the balance slightly, but still chances were few. The second half gave nothing to note. This has a familiar ring to it, and should tighten the sphincter of even the most rose-tinted of optimist. At least, as with the Owls match, we know this is pre-season. It counts for little but fitness and organisation, yet still this match sounds one of little organisation and debatable fitness. Treadmills and heavy workouts for the slackers then, until they come back at the weekend to another match and a better performance - otherwise they'll experience the bleep test from the stands as well as in training.
Enough of the glum, already! On to your missives to cheer me up and one reader, John Ide, spotted familiar footwear on Saturday, as did I. "I see your prolonged push to get red socks for the mighties has been won. I now predict that we will storm this league," he blithely declares, "Then draw the ure at home in the third round of the cup fergie will put out his reserve team and we will take them back to the theatre of woes and get stuffed." Ah, that's what I like to see - proper Grimbarian optimism where the ultimate outcome is always defeat.
On the subject of the now defunct www.gtfc.co.uk URL, Dan Brown writes to say that "a quick web lookup shows that it was registered by a company based in Crawley, perhaps this is a pre-emptive strike?". Eagle eyes there Dan, although Richard Lord has a more convoluted theory: "I reckon Garforth Town will be sniffing around," he starts, "purely because I moved to Garforth a couple of months back and got quite excited when I realised they shared the same initials as us." Right - I'm not sure where this is going. "Still don't know why that got me excited, although it wasn't quite on the same scale as the time I noticed GTFC written on the gold shirt of DI Grimm's football top in an episode of The Thin Blue Line many years ago. I'm all for supporting my local club irrespective of their division, so it's quite nice that it's also GTFC - but the genuine GTFC (can I say that?) will always come first, obviously." Nice tangent there, Richard, but I'm not sure it solves the riddle of the the URL.
I should point out, before panic sets in among the more nervous of our following, that it's just the registrar of the URL that is based in Crawley - the address is registered to the club until August 2011. God knows why they aren't using it, then? Ooh looky here - the club registered gtfcnewstadium.co.uk in November 2005. It expires in 2011 though - quick, get building!