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Diary - Thursday 3 February 2011

3 February 2011

Thursdays are never great for news, and you can forget Thursday afternoons. If you have something important to do during the week you tend to go for the start of the week. Same with afternoons. If you're doing something significant you get up and you do it in the morning; nobody declares war in the afternoon. So that's the scene suitably set and your expectations suitably lowered. Don't worry: your Part-Time Diary will try and make this as quick and painless as possible; we're going to rip through this Thursday diary like a cyclone through Cairns.

So what news have we today? Well, the ever informative and always entertaining SNOS lets us know that there is no game tomorrow. That's the headline folks. No Game This Weekend. You can even have a look if you don't believe me. So don't you go turning up at Blundell Park tomorrow because there is nothing there for you, you scamps. Surely the SNOS is aware that Blundell Park is not a haven for the occasional fan, the passer-by, the interested observer. Not any more anyway. Maybe when the visitors were from cities you had heard of, but not now. Now it's down to those who have to be there, through that sense of duty, those who will definitely already know that we don't have a game tomorrow because they know that we lost to Chasetown in the trophy thingy and that because Gateshead went through they won't be turning up at Blundell Park tomorrow. But many thanks to the SNOS for the reminder.

The only other 'reporting' on the SNOS today is just a bloody big advert for the old gambling. The odds on Town going up aren't great really; that's from a fan perspective, by the way - if Part-Time Diary was a gambler then 8/1 would probably sound pretty good. This diarist still believes. The facts state that four out of five of our next games are at home, Fleetwood being the away one, and we've still got the game in hand on Fleetwood. Beating them away would gain us some good ground on our fifth-placed fishing rivals. But then you knew all this already, just like you knew there wasn't a game tomorrow.

If we make the play-offs then our new marquee signing Bryan Hughes is confident his experience will help. Hughes says Grimsby are still a big club in his eyes and remembers playing us not so long ago when he was at Birmingham. He's just like us, our Bryan, those big club delusions and remembering Grimsby being a second-tier club like it was yesterday. Fingers crossed Hughes can maintain his fitness and be the cultured, higher-level player needed to bring this team together for the final third of the season. Hopefully he'll be more Andy Todd than Penis Peter Sweeney.

So that's it from your Part-Time Diary this week, but check out the match report from the Southport game and send us some emails to help fill up these pages 'til the next game, and beyond of course. See you next Thursday.