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Diary - Tuesday 2 November 2010

2 November 2010

Idle Diary writes: "A boy from Grimsby who did alright," is the humble summary Kevin Drinkell provides of his football career, as he pops up in today's Grimsby Telegraph in an all-too-brief video interview. Drinks, plugging his autobiography, inevitably compares Town now with the situation at Town when John Newman took the likes of Drinkell and Tony Ford "and dropped them into the first team", the club also down on all fours back then as well. Similarities in the club's position, sure, but one thing stands out as being more evident: Newman had a good set of youngsters to bring through. Can the same be said for Neil Woods, the current manager, and the man who has been responsible for looking after the Town youth for the past few years?

What is the team missing, then? Team spirit, reckoned Drinks; meaner stuff, said Richard O'Donnell yesterday; and now it's the turn of Neil Woods to roll out today's What The Club Needs To Be Challenging For Promotion. It's... fitness. If only there was a consensus of opinion here, folks, then we'd all know. Still, there's a whole week until Town's next competitive match (away at Cambridge), so plenty of time to get more, erm, fitness sorted, eh, Neil?

And seven more days of us trawling the internet waves to keep these lunchtime round-ups going, hopefully not resorting to the current fad of dropping song titles into our prose. Maybe we can get our paywall sorted at last (worked for Murdoch's Times, eh!). Or maybe the Town players can start openly dissing each other and their boss to the local rag. Anything, please! Give us news!

Christ. This is what not making it through to the FA Cup proper has done. It's just sunk in. Shit isn't it?