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Diary - Thursday 17 February 2011

17 February 2011

"That Grimsby goal was my best," BOOM. What a headline. Your Part-Time Diary's brain immediately began flicking through former Grimsby strikers who went on to play for bigger and better clubs; which one had decided his goal for Grimsby was the highlight of his career? Mendonca, he always loved us, scoring for Town must have been better than scoring hat-tricks for that Charlton in the play-offs or the first division. Or maybe it was Jevons, yep, must have been, for his cup winner at Anfield. Oh hang on, talking of cup goals, it could have been Jean-Paul Kalalalala against Spurs... the list goes on.

So imagine your diarist's abject disappointment, pure devastation and utter deflatedness (it's not really a word, but, if for alliteration purposes only, it will do) when the headline was from none of our strikers. No, it was Muzzy Izzet gloating about that overhead kick he scored against us years ago, which of course is again newsworthy now that some twat in the big boys' league did it last weekend. It was a great goal though, and of course got me out of a pickle with the intro to the ever manic, never dull Thursday Diary. Hurrah.

So, news. The reserves game yesterday, which saw a debut for that trialist lad Walker, ended in a 3-0 defeat to Gateshead. He limped off with a hamstring problem, shock. Part-Time Diary is sure we get more injuries than most other teams. It just seems like it's all the bloody time. Or maybe it's just because this diarist, due to not giving a flying fuck, does not check every other team's reserve match reports to scour for injuries to any trialists they may or may not have trialing. If anyone has got a lot of time on their hands and has some injury-related data then please email.

Talking of emails, this popped up in the inbox, from Richard Lord:

"One of the largest playing budgets for the division. Seven points outside the play-offs. Expected to go straight back up after relegation last season. Hull City aren't doing particularly well... or are they? The Tigers have almost exactly the same record as us, except they don't have three games in hand on the team occupying the last play-off place - and yet the mood at the KC is upbeat. What we need is a bit of Hullativity!"

A rallying cry if ever we needed one. Although we all know that if you live in Hull you've got to be cheerful about something. Oh and hang on a minute - they're fourth division anyway; they should very well be chuffed to be in the second division. Cheers Richard.

Better news came as the Myspace Mariners beat their Lincoln counterparts 5-2, whoosh, there you go, have that Lincoln, the under-12s that was, and there are numerous other age ranges' results and reports available in the Telewag report. That's about it for today: it's been a week of short diaries and were not about to change that. Oh, and if you fancy a free home shirt then you need to start gambling through the SNOS. Go on, gamble, you know you want to, and if you get in too much debt you can always flog the shirt. Hullativity.