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Diary - Monday 10 January 2011

10 January 2011

Good morning my lieges, for it is Monday and already time to start worrying about Town's next tricky away fixture. Having had an all round off-day on Saturday at Wrexham, going down by two with barely a Town attempt on target all game, the niggly bits have started hurting. Connell's hamstring is sore - it's been sore for ages but you don't bother about it when you are winning. Ademeno's knee swelled up after training on Friday. Your Guest Diarist read somewhere that it was caused by friendly fire. And half the team feel like those folk in the Lemsip adverts before they swallow the nasty, hot paracetemol-and-caffeine potion.

I don't think you are going to get a match report, so let's use the introduction to the Wrexham Leader's account of the game as a succinct and accurate substitute: "For a side who went into the game boasting a record of 13 goals in two games, Wrexham made Grimsby Town look distinctly average at best." [Example of a nasty dangling modifier there, prose style fans - sub-editing ed.]

Sadly, a Town target in this transfer window has signed for creepy Crawley. The local Crawley rag has announced that James Dance has left Kettering to swallow the Evans shilling. The Grimsby Telegraph has re-run last week's Lincolnshire Echo article where Fenty gave un-ironic advice to Lincoln City about how to avoid relegation. But they have added the most 'subtle' of twists in saying that this is a coded message to Town fans that the club won't be signing loads of players in January. Oh, and for the sake of completeness I should add that messrs Colgan and Gobern have had their contracts cancelled following negotiations last week.

But surely the missing link on Saturday was fantastic goalscorer-at-Wrexham Glen Downey? Perhaps we need to haul him out of retirement. A quick browse shows his after-football business ventures are even more suspect than my own. See yer.