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Diary - Friday 23 September 2011

23 September 2011

Their mouths have stopped moving; perhaps now their brains will start working. Not quite though: former chairman Fenty, seemingly unable to connect all the bad publicity generated to his own words and actions, has told Town's superb new official website: "It's important to show the outside world what the fans mean to this club and visa versa [sic]." Your Guest Diarist thinks the "visa versa" thing must be a deliberate act of recalcitrance - "we don't need literate fans, we don't need clever arses who can read a balance sheet and we definitely don't need the nitpickers who dare to question me or my motives".

So anyway, if you buy the Grimsby Fentygraph there's a voucher that entitles you to take as many kids as you want for free tomorrow. The Telegraph has also run an interview with Kempson, for which the main basis is the fact that he used to play under Wrexham manager Dean Saunders. Except every man and his dog has printed the rumour that Saunders has left (by permission) to go and manage struggling Doncaster.

The Grimsby team got a good win in the FA Youth Cup last night beating Pontefract Colliery 4-0. A win marred by young Lewis Smith dislocating his knee. So let's send our thoughts out to him - it must be bloody sore today. The lads have been drawn away to Brighouse in the next round.

Shorty has handled the press this week. He talked at length to Radio Humberside and he talked at interminable length to the Mariners Player subscribers. Many words, but little worth repeating. I don't mean that nastily, but he stayed well clear of controversy, repeated that the managers are going ahead to talk about a contract extension for Jamie Green, and waffled and waffled about how the whole squad has a chance of getting picked. I suspect that their only decision revolves around any two from Coulson, Makofo and Eagle(s).

So Wrexham are close to stabilising their finances but have now seemingly lost their manager. They tend to play 4-3-3 and have good players in the middle so it's going to be tough for Town tomorrow. Our midfielders are definitely better than they were at closing down and not allowing space to play. Whether they are good enough to win the battle tomorrow is debatable. One thing is sure: Town need to convert more chances and eliminate defensive mistakes.

Am I asking too much with these requests? If Town go behind tomorrow, it will be really difficult: a point will be one well won: three, and the messageboards will be aflame with all sorts of nonsense talk. If Town can average two points a game for the next ten games then there will be something worth talking about. Let's hope so. See yer.