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20 March 2014

Paul Hurst tells @HumbersideSport that Liam Hearn probably won't feature in a Grimsby Town shirt again - not just this season. #gtfc

— tom_farmery (@tom_farmery) March 18, 2014

#Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst says they'll give Liam Hearn the chance to earn a new deal once he's back from knee surgery. #gtfc" well......

— James! (@DatGuyJMT) March 19, 2014

So is Liam Hearn going to play for Town ever again, or not? More than anything, your original/regular Diary is surprised how little traction these 'revelations' about the future of our talismanic striker have gained. BBC Humberside didn't pick it up and run with it. The Grimsby Telegraph didn't mention it. Yesterday's diary didn't mention it. Hell, even the Fishy messageboard has only managed two or three posts. And your original/regular Diary thought it was just me who was finding it harder than ever to give a toss about the football.

If I ever really believed Town stood a good chance of promotion this year, maybe I'd be starting to worry. If I deemed the prospect of a fifth season in the Conference to be some kind of doomsday scenario, maybe I'd be starting to worry.

The last time I believed – the way people mean when they put "#believe" at the end of their GTFC-related tweets – was probably the Northampton game in 2006. When Town slipped from an automatic promotion position to the play-offs, with just two minutes of play remaining, something changed. A light went out inside me that day. Four years later, when the final whistle blew on Town's Football League status, I was less concerned with mourning more than a century of football heritage than with legging it back to Burton-on-Trent station in time to bagsy a seat on the 17:22.

Mystery Coningsby emu resists police 'arrest'? Why not, eh. Lincolnshire: where every day is a slow news day.