Cod Almighty | Diary
One more sleep until we're out of the bottom two
12 February 2021
Town fans are to winless runs what Newton is to gravity. Just as Linconshire's most famous son did, we're continuing to discover more and more about our specialised subject as we grow older. Outplaying 11-man Newport before losing to 10-man Newport is just another entry in the Mariners Principia to go with the 95th minute cart of apples, horse and all, that Stevenage dropped on our heads. In a footnote, the two teams then play each other and contrive to inflict more pain.
As experts, we know the current skid is likely to end in one of two ways; a game where we're hugging the nearest socially distant stranger at 4-0 up after 25 minutes (Boston 2008) or one where we benefit from a flukey goal/dodgy reffing decision so late in the game that even we can't bugger it up (Chesterfield 2018).
That the latter is more probable makes for a stressful matchday experience, even if things are ultimately destined to end well. Until then, we're all in the same powerless boat. There are chaps at CA who have been here so long they are due a testimonial (you get a year off from chipping in to the web hosting fees). From long before Daubney Diary signed on a rolling six-month contract, they've been consistent in predicting that the current ownership would send the bus careering into a deep ditch.
It doesn't matter. They are as helpless to our current plight as the rest who didn't believe or ignored the warning signs until recently. And they've been flashing for a long time. This is by Pete Green from WSC in 2010. That the game is against Lincoln, good bets for division two, only serves to highlight our failures.
I believe we'll avoid relegation this season. That, to go with the prospect of new owners is exciting. The danger is that we will just sit back and expect good things to happen, never to be 92nd in the league again. The trust is the obvious vehicle to use to ensure this isn't the case. However, its current form has seen ex-club employees chair the organisation and appear too cosy with the departing owner. To take a recent example, does this statement reflect an organisation meant to represent the fans and have its finger on the pulse?
Some might perceive this as a reason to give the trust a miss but it's the very reason that people should be getting involved. As has been pointed out in previous diaries, people put their time and energy in on a voluntary basis. Any criticism should be qualified by the fact that they are, and the critic probably isn't. There are positions open on the trust board at the upcoming AGM. If you have that all important time and energy, now's your chance to help shape things at what could be the dawn of the most exciting time to be a Town fan in decades.
Anyway, I've been waiting the whole time for confirmation of Giles Coke signing. I'm about to click on submit and he hasn't done so yet. We can probably be thankful for that; with the current weather, we wouldn't be able to move for puns and bad jokes.
One more sleep until we're out of the bottom two.
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