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Diary - Wednesday 18 May 2011
18 May 2011
Grimsby Town Football Club are seeking a sponsor for their official website. The company or organisation that steps forward to take up this opportunity will see their branding appear on the site for the duration of the 2011-12 season, reaching an audience of thousands of the club's supporters in the Grimsby area and worldwide, as well as people from the media who visit the site. Interested parties should email dale@gtfc.co.uk for further details.
By this point some of you - particularly those who've been reading Cod Almighty since this site began - might be wondering if your original/regular Diary is feeling quite well. I'm fine, thankyou. It's just that I've spent nine years now patiently drawing attention to areas where Town's superb new official website might do better, for the benefit of the club as a whole. And it's probably fair to say that standards on the SNOS have not noticeably improved over that time. So I'm trying a different tack. The period from now until 18 June is hereby declared Be Nice To Town's Superb New Official Website Month! I hope other diarists will join in with this initiative, and be nice to Town's superb new official website - then, when the month is over, we'll see if the love and kindness approach has coincided with an upturn in standards on the SNOS.
It's not as if any of us who write for Cod Almighty are deliberately unkind, of course. When we point out anything at GTFC that we feel could be improved upon - whether this be the website or anything else - it's constructive criticism, made not out of spite but because we believe the club can and should be better run. And we've got nothing personal against Town's passive-aggressive, media-bullying, language-mangling, stadium-project-failing, manager-backing-and-manager-sacking, three-times-relegated, Conservative chairman Deadly John (Topcon). It's just that, well, it just doesn't seem very clever for the Mariners to announce that they want other clubs to sign some of their unwanted players, and for the chairman to then give media interviews about how shit those players are and what a terrible mistake our club made in signing them. It just doesn't seem to bestow on our chairman or our club much credibility when he gives his unconditional, ongoing backing to Neil Woodses and then sacks him a day later.
And if Neil Woodses has got an ounce of sense he'll get a youth team job with a much better club, take the compensation money and run a million miles laughing out loud when he sees Deadly approaching with an olive branch and threatening: "Who knows, the way things ended doesn't preclude him coming back to the club at some stage."
In other news, FORMER Town midfielder Bryan Hughes is playing in Iceland and FORMER Town defender Rob Atkinson has made the final squad for tomorrow's England C international against Portugal. CURRENT Town defender Scott Garner missed the cut after being named in the initial squad for the match. And the Diary isn't sure which is more bizarre: a final squad of 16 players being formulated from an initial squad of 40, or the fact that 29-goal genius Alan Connell was nowhere to be seen in either.
Thanks for your emails, folks - it's very often the only way we have of keeping the Diary running through the close season. This week we've received an excellent one from Chris Beeley, which we'll hand over to Part-Time Diary for tomorrow. If you'd like to talk, please email diary@codalmighty.com. Today we end with a contribution from David Martin, who simply describes Monday's diary as "pure brilliance" and "proof at last that someone from Grimsby has a bit of talent". This seems a bit unfair to the likes of Turgoose and Peasgood, David, but thanks ever so much for the compliment!