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Diary - Tuesday 29 May 2012

29 May 2012

So there you have it, lads and lasses: season ticket prices are frozen again - unchanged for, what is it, about the fourth year on the trot? Your original/regular Diary is pleased but not too surprised by this news. After all, the menu at McMenemy's looks like it's been frozen since 1981. The scoreboard above the Osmond hasn't changed in a couple of decades. And the GTFC business plan of "spend too much money and hope for the best" is unchanged for about the seventh season in a row.

Still, there it is. "Guarantees you a place at every league match in the area of the ground of your choice," apparently, which is nice. I presume there'll also be a sheet of vouchers offering 7.5 per cent discount with a range of local businesses including restaurants seemingly named after experiments in biological warfare. Yes, Oscablax, I haven't forgotten you, whether you still exist or not. With a name like that I suspect not.

When he wasn't featuring in short films with Danny North, in which they played video games in hotel rooms, giggled a lot, and came across like a couple of 11-year-old boys, Nathan Jarman used to play the odd game of football for Grimsby Town Football Club. He looked pretty good at times, too, so it was a shame he only managed half a dozen goals in 50-odd games. Especially after shedding all that timber at the start. Anyroad, Jarman the Starman's ex-GTFC colleague Gary 'The Lump' Jones has seemingly persuaded him to join Chester. Lumpaldinho is assistant manager with the, um, can we still call them the Deviants, and has clearly had much more success at signing Jarman than I used to in Championship Manager when he was still at Barnsley.

Last up today, CA's friend and reader Phil 'The Power' Watson has emailed to point out some good news for Poor Serge Makofo. This comes in the form of a pronouncement to the Grimsby Telewag last week from club mascot John Fenty (Hotdog), who said: "We do not have any excess baggage in the camp." Presumably, then, Poor Serge is now considered an integral part of the squad again. But then again, Phil adds: "Perhaps he's not in the camp, perhaps he's in the building. That would explain it." Ah. Poor Serge.