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Diary - Friday 7 January 2011

7 January 2011

It's been snowing a lot in Wrexham but your Guest Diarist is confident that this will turn into rain and the match tomorrow will be waterlogged rather than snowblind. Seriously, no word on the Wrexham official site yet about any inspections or owt but check before you travel westwards, folks. And don't miss the return of the Cod Almighty pre-match factfile to find out about pubs, the opposition and lots of other, ermm, stuff.

Grimsby Town hardman, physiotherapist and assistant manager Dave Moore has partially attributed recent successes to regular training on the artificial pitch at Bradley. Not because of the weather as such, more because the surface apparently encourages quick, neat forward passing. The subscription-only pre-match preview shows the Town players passing enthusiastically, if not always neatly, and in a forward direction to back up this claim.

No-one is injured but, like everywhere, Moore explains (in between complicated horse-racing analogies), a couple are feeling a bit off-it with a fluey thing. Namely, Kempson and Connell. But both are likely to end up playing, I suspect.

So, we get to play another 'form' team. And, with Kidderminster being docked points for failing to hand in their accounts homework on time, a win tomorrow would push us up to the very edge of the play-offs. Fleetwood, our immediate target team to overtake, are away at Forest Green - one of those many teams capable of beating everyone or losing to anyone. But it's too early for such talk, gentle reader. Let's just hope for a solid performance from the team tomorrow and a point, or even a sneaky 1-0 win, would be bloody excellent.

The Grimsby Yoof's opponents in the FA Youth Cup will be Newcastle (away) after the young Magpies beat Dulwich 6-2 last night.

Before I congratulate on the England team's very excellent indeed Ashes win, I must make brief mention of the rather fetching outfit worn by Radio Humberside's David Burns on Look North last night. Out-of-area readers will be fascinated to learn that Burnsy teamed a rather effete but fetching pastel lavender outfit with a matching scarf casually knotted in the latest TV scarf style. Peter Levy, take note. But I digress from that knackering-but-exhilarating win at the cricket. Here's a reminder of why we weren't supposed to perform like that. See yer.