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Diary - Tuesday 28 September 2010

28 September 2010

Idle Diary writes: "Woods Gets The Wright Man" reads the email in my inbox from the imperious and talented comms team deep within the concrete bunker of the Findus Stand. Except they're not "wright", are they? He's not the Wright man - there are many Wrights out there. He's not the right man, as this has yet to be proven he is correct for the circumstances in which he has been chosen. Is it that wright is a combination of wrong and right? Maybe. What it is, is totally the wrong pun, a terribly weak pun at that. And, above all else, it makes me think of that talentless prick off Channel 5. You know, the one who is like a poor man's Jeremy Kyle (check this from 3:30). Still, Matthew Wright's reasonably entertaining at times and can get quite passionate preaching his values to those who care to listen, unlike a certain club chairman. Am I right, am I right? I'm not wrong.

Anyway, Neil Woods finds he is short of fit midfield players for Grimsby Town FC's upcoming fixtures - and more immediately tonight's game against Wrexham. So he's brought in 25-year-old Andrew Wright on loan from Scunthorpe United. The SNOS has pretty much copy-and-pasted this page from the Scunny site, the plagiarising bastards, so we know when it says Wright is "a fine reader of the game", it isn't the SNOS meaning he's "a fine reader of [The Times'] The Game [supplement]". Whatever, let's hope he fits in to the team, and if he doesn't straight away, give it beyond tonight to see if Wright is the right stuff.

Ahead of the game, the headline on the local rag runs 'One win could ignite season' says Mariners' boss Neil Woods. Nowhere in the following collection of quotes does Woods actually say that, but there's one thing to take from this: Town have won four times already this season, two of which were against much-fancied Luton and Crawley. Wrexham will be a tough proposition, and are on an eight-match unbeaten run off the back of a 4-3-3 system. But it's the wins against the 'better' teams that stoke fans' hopes of a win, not the dropped points against the - to quote David Burns - "smaller sides" (like Histon). And when Adrian Forbes starts banging on about what quality players we have at the club, it's not gonna help those already scratching their heads at the team's inconsistency.

Still, all this anger and confusion are nothing really. I could have spent 13 years living in Battersea only for Asda - ASDA! Of all the bloody people! - to tell me I am wrong, and I actually live in Clapham.

Just think about that.