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Diary - Wednesday 19 June 2013

19 June 2013

I was in quite a positive mood when I woke up this morning. Birds singing outside, the planes lining up for Heathrow up above, the scaffolding being erected outside my house, then a part of me cried (the eyes) when I read the latest amazing offer available for Grimsby Town fans. On Facebook and Twitter, @officialgtfc has announced that fans can "spread out the cost of a season ticket by paying in 10 monthly instalments. Pick up a Zebra Finance application form from the club shop".

Now, I've done my maths this morning and if you do purchase the early bird season ticket with this finance package, you still save yourself a little bit of money on the day, but is it really worth it? We're all adults here. Have a long hard think before signing up to a 21.9% APR credit agreement in order to save £4 a game. You default on one payment and it's a slippery slope, much like being top of the old Division One and then 10 years later in the bowels of the Conference. You don't want to be in the Conference.

This is just London Diary's view on the matter, but I really don't think that a club whose finances aren't in the greatest shape should be advising our fans to sign up to credit agreements just so they can bump up their numbers. In fact, I think it's horrific. It's like Robbie Coltrane giving you dieting advice. Stick to the acting Robbie. An early bird season ticket is great value, but please don't go with Zebra, regardless of their colours. Borrow it from your mum/dad/sister/brother/auntie/uncle Terry – come on, everyone in Grimsby has an uncle Terry.

Apparently Jack Mackreth did a U-turn on the M180 the other day and decided to stay at Macclesfield. That's not an easy thing to do on a motorway. The last person to try and do a U-turn on the way to Grimsby was Martin Paterson, opting to use junction 3 of the M180 as a turning point and inadvertently signing for Scunthorpe. According to the Silkmen's boss, young Jack "has turned down more money elsewhere to stay because he is buying in to what we are doing here". Is that us? Do we have money? Maybe we have a Zebra credit card now. The one plus side is that at least it's not another 'Macka'. There is only one Macca.

Rumour mill has been linking Karl Ledsham with a move here. 'Rumour mill' mainly being twitter with our fans asking him if he's coming or not. He scored 13 times last season, looks like a young Nick Knowles and has put in a transfer request. That's all we know at the mo.

The scaffolders are now at my window height, so I best go put some clothes on. Enjoy the day. Ignore the Zebra. Keep singing.