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Diary - Tuesday 5 April 2011

5 April 2011

Idle Diary writes: Is the season over yet? There's still one, two, three, four, five, six, seven fixtures left. Town are 11th in the table, 13 points off the play-offs, and 12 points off the relegation places. It'd take a miracle for Town to end the season having sneaked into the top five, and likewise it'd take a dis-as-ter for Town to be relegated. A point here and there is all it'll take. A lucky point, a sneaked point.

No need for any real effort from the players now. Any slim chance of Town bouncing back to the Football League expired when Fenty decided to play managerial Russian roulette. Personally, I can't blame the players for not being that arsed really. Can you? What have they got to play for? Contracts? Ah, those that were worth it will end up elsewhere, probably blossoming, as seems to happen frustratingly often. The rest? Their minds will be elsewhere, wondering if they will drop out of the game. A team of the odd trier and the rest not trying - it's not going to do much, is it? Fenty acknowledged previously that the rest of the season would be time for the new management team to "get to know the players". Fenty's already written the rest of the season off. So the rest of us can as well.

After the game this Saturday against Kidderminster, there's another next Wednesday: the rearranged fixture against Rushden & Diamonds. If you fancy going, remember the club is getting fans to pay for entry. It's all, quite frankly, taking the piss, especially given the chairman's involvement in getting the original match called off and the current purgatory state of affairs in terms of the team's position. We've all - with ever-decreasing regularity - sat, paid, and witnessed Town's slide into pathetic shitness. This just seems a nadir in a number of ways, the nadir of a long and calamitous period for the club. A period during which no end of people - like Tony Rees - roll out the latest "it's sad to see where the club is now" soundbite.

Chumps. That what we are. Time and time again we have paid, through the notion of hope, to watch our team, watch the team put together by the board's appointments. Just write the rest of the season off for us fans, Fenty! How much income will the club lose? Just add it to the ever-growing amount for annulling managers' and players' contracts early and let the fans in for free. Give something to the fans, and see if the fans respond. If the crowds increase, if the potential can be glimpsed from the terraces again, there could be a solid inclusion policy from both sides of the fence.

I've sat here trawling for Town news and there's fuck all today. But I found myself reading an honest and grounded take on football in Grimsby from Tony Leggett, on developing the local Grimsby leagues. That's the sort of thing Town could do with. None of this wanky pseudo-psychological battle babble from the new GTFC management team. Leggett's take is the sort of precise, honest, and considered approach that Mike Parker seemed to so refreshingly bring to the club. None of this fluffy waffling on, like Fenty has shown time and time and time and time again, and Rob Scott seems to follow in that trend. Anyway, whatever, eh. Good luck to them, dutifully the latest charges to be handled the GTFC hot potato by feckless Fenty. Ignore me. I'm just verbalising years of hearing it all before mixed with a "this is our new approach", locked in the cycle of management changes. A bit like the board.

Michael's Leary is back for the stiffs this afternoon, by the way. After his health scare, all the Cod Almighty team are glad to see him back.

Anyway, time's up. This made me laugh. I hope it puts a smile on your face too. There is, after all, only a month of pointless fixtures left. Laters.