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Diary - Friday 28 January 2011

28 January 2011

Grimsby Town's youth team will have woken up this morning totally knackered and thinking of what might have been. Hang on, they are teenagers - they will wake up sometime this afternoon. Your Guest Diarist is sad to report that despite a terrific performance the lads went 2-1 down deep into extra time last night at Newcastle and are unluckily out of the FA Youth Cup. Click that link, gentle reader, because there is a proper report on the lads for once - it sounds like it was a great game. The Newcastle site offers video highlights for paid subscribers but to dross like us, well, we get a photo montage of the match. Worth seeing for the excellent gurning alone. If their senior counterparts put the same effort in on Saturday we will win: that's definite.

Manager Woodses, interviewed for our own paying hoi-polloi only, in training yesterday, is terse. Two minutes and 36 seconds for your money. What gleans from his summation? Well, Town, as if we didn't already know, are incapable of putting two halves of decent football together. And no-one will ever know for sure if Luton's winner crossed the line. And that Eastbourne play 4-5-1, usually concede goals and (implicit) we ought to beat them if we play anywhere near our best. Bryan Hughes is still training and has an offer on his table. Unless Fenty has been a complete dickhead and left it on his own table without mentioning it to the ageing but perhaps still great midfield genius. Genius? Dynamo? Ermm, let's leave it at 'definitely used to be too good for the likes of Grimsby', eh?

Woods has got irons in his fire. But whether his fire has reached a sufficient temperature to make them red hot pokers we will have to wait and see. But it's not glowing pokers we want: it's at least one player. Preferably not another might-be-a-winger, might be anything.

The Woods interview fails to touch on the area of who is fit and who is not. Luckily the Grimsby Telegraph has remembered to ask, and reports that Peacock (last game of suspension), Ridley (stomach strain), Coulson (knee) and, of course, Ademeno are still out. Ridley and Coulson are on the way back but are not odds-on to even make it for next Tuesday's game.

So that's your lot for now. Have a great weekend folks, and for those trekking to the south coast wrap up warm and let's hope you see some goals from Town and a half-decent performance in at least one half. See yer. Oh, hang on - Rob Duffy has signed for us after all! A hold-up forward with a reputation for grumpery. Life's never straightforward with Town is it?