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Diary - Tuesday 14 February 2012

14 February 2012

Good afternoon Meggies, Grimbarians and others of North East Lincolnshire and/or south Humberside extraction - it's you West Yorkshire Diary here today, filling in at late notice for your original/regular Diary on this special no-news Tuesday. Houston, we have a problem.

It seems a shame that tonight will pass with no football played by the Mariners, since March is quickly becoming a fixture marathon. Our scheduled away game at Hayes & Yeading, at Woking, on 25 February, has been moved to Tuesday 20 March, making it an eight-game month. The York game also needs to be moved but the SNOS reckons that will have to be April because there's simply no more room at the March inn. There will be no more no-news Tuesdays next month either, that's for sure.

Right now, as it stands, our forthcoming Friday night game at Southport (televised, for 0.001 per cent of Britain's viewing pleasure) is our only February league fixture. Quite why the Conference kicks off its season later than the Football League and finishes sooner is anyone's guess. Anyway, you can watch the match on one of the McMenemy's flat-screen telly-ma-bobs while eating a large haddock, chips and peas. But hurry - tickets for the night are being snapped up fast, as you'd expect for such a world-class venue. I'll be watching it round my mate's house in Bradford, who only subscribes to the channel for the Australian rugby league matches. The non-League football is incidental.

There's not a lot else to report today other than a nice Grimmo Telegraph interview with Town starlet Andi Thanoj, who says he's happy to be playing in the first team, isn't happy that he hasn't scored for a while and would one day like to represent his native Albania. We hope you do, Andi.