Cod Almighty | Postbag
The one with moaning about competitions being too hard
14 October 2003
Al in gay snub shocker
Andy Harrow can say what he likes about Mr Wilkinson's poetry, but no way is Al a poof. I tried it on with him in the Pontoon the other week and he ran away and told my girlfriend.
from Todd Grimshaw
Spanking the monkey
Mat, in your intriguing tips column you have set a betting plan of three from five perms. I was wondering why you opted for this plan in the first place. Cheers and beat that monkey, eh!
from Dave Marsh
Letters Ed responds: Mat says: After much experimentation, I eventually settled on bets that would be better suited to a lower strike rate, namely the perms. This seemed to work, so for ease I stuck with it. Over the summer I did some analysis and concluded that I prefer to use a match rating cut-off of 500 points. When I looked at the results of the first season the system proved to be over 60% accurate, so I could quite reasonably expect at least three teams in each of my sets of five to win. So I continued the pe
Historian wanted
Hello there. Great idea having a history quiz, but have you thought about having a page outlining the history of the club? I found myself referring to other sites to look up the answers. Other than that keep up the good work on a very enjoyable read.
from Matt Richmond
Letters Ed responds: A club history section is penned in for November sometime, I've just been told...
Debutant does himself no harm, early doors
Pictures to go with the words? Wonderful. And a smashing report from newcomer Paul Ketchley. 'The boy done good'. Do you accept match reports from anyone?
from Paul Thompson
Letters Ed responds: We usually have the report by Tony Butcher as our main report - but we're happy to publish other reports, and any articles that people want to submit.
Me! Me! Me!
Hi. Thanks for replying about the programme pieces. I hope you do decide to put the programme pieces on your site at some point. I think there aren't many pieces on your site like your programme pieces. All the puzzles make Cod Almighty into a quiz book. The betting is like the racing pull out of the Sun. Mystic Mick is something from Viz. Please put the programme pieces on your site. And no I will not go and buy the programmes!
from Anna Housden
Letters Ed responds: Yeah, well, we'll think about it. If you'd met the people who write the betting columns and Mystic Mick you'd know that they'd take your comments as a compliment...
Premier primate
I just heard that the next manager of Tottenham will be Coco the Chimp.
from Jo Tilley
Letters Ed responds: It was either the chimp or Mat Hare. They made the right choice.
Baby bealer
Having just found your site, I am sickened at the use of minors on your website in the use of what you must clearly think is a 'joke'. It isn't a funny joke, it isn't clever and since it appears the parents of these babies have helped write the 'Blundell Babes' stories I can only question the maturity and responsibility of the individuals involved. I hope you see sense and remove this vile section from your site.
from Dominic Andrews
Letters Ed responds: He he he. Yeah, nice one Dom.
Nesbit hunting
Please, please take a look at at the GTFC OS Message Board, a post entitled 'whyme' by homeguy (Cleefish in disguise) 13/10/2003 2:26 PM. Pleeeaaaase.
from Mr B.L.Ackandwhite-Barmy
Letters Ed responds: I think cleefish should be used in schools to warn children of the dangers of the internet...
Deep breath and count to ten...
I was going to enter the competition to win a pair of tickets, but how can I if I can't answer the questions? Does your average Town fan know how big the pitch at Blundell Park is? I think not. Give us a chance to win the tickets. Otherwise if you do not want people to win the tickets why have a competition?
from Jonathan Duffy
Letters Ed responds: Jesus H Bleedin Josephine Christ. Do a bit of bloody research Jonathan, please. It's not that hard to go to bloody www.footballgroundguide.co.uk and click on 'Grimsby' now is it? Or would you prefer that I hold your hand while you do it?
The kids are alright
Blundell babes made me laff. Top!
from Jam
Eloquent exile
I've just been reading Stu Morton's article on exiled support via his experiences in France. What a wonderful piece. As a fellow exile I think he sums up the situation perfectly, succintly and eloquently.
Oh, and Stu, don't do yourself down. The writing's very nice too.
from Bob Santich
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