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Diary - Monday 9 April 2012

9 April 2012

Miss Guest Diary writes: Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Hence, we've had rain in Lincoln every day since the hosepipe ban came in; and FourFourTwo magazine has published an article comparing Town's goalscoring prowess to Real Madrid and Barcelona when we're in a run of poor form, with only one win in six and five goals scored.

Nothing I have heard about Saturday's game indicates that this has changed for the better. In both his post-match interview with John Tondeur and today in the Telegraph, Shorty expressed his disappointment at Town's performance and questioned how much the game had meant to the players. He gave credit to only two players from the starting eleven, though didn't name them.

Both Disley and Miller were missing from the side on Saturday through illness which, no matter what Shorty might say about everyone being a good footballer, must have weakened the team. The Telegraph reports that Disley will be back for today's game against Gateshead, but Miller is still "doubtful". It is also suggested that Duffy will return to the bench in favour of Elding. What - still no Hughes-Mason?

The Mariners Trust has advised that all the tickets have now sold out for the evening with Alan Buckley coming up this Friday. There will, however, be a DVD available shortly from its website. The trust is also urging fans to support the golf day being held by the club on 15 June to raise funds for the young player development programme.

Regular readers will know that I favour Twitter as a source of Town news and views, but I was really irritated with it at the weekend when the #gtfc feed was inundated with jolly Grantham Town supporters celebrating a victory. Yes, I'm very happy for them winning their league but don't they know #gtfc is ours - we outrank them. I was going to suggest a campaign to move Town fans onto #mariners until I discovered that belongs to some baseball team in the US. Doh!