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Postbag: more of an email receptacle really

3 August 2006

Greetings fellow letter readers. As promised, the postbag is back and weekly in time for the new season. I'll see how long I can keep it up this time, eh? My record is til November I think. What odds January?You can get your very own words on these very pages just by using a computery device to send an e-mail to postbag@codalmighty.com. See yuz!

Shrews ooze

re: Shrewsbury rough guide by Andrew Holt: "The ground oozes charm and character". He hasn't been there, has he.

from Tony B

Wails

Dearest postbag

I am writing to find out what the almighty ones think of the club for selling a DVD about the visit to Cardiff? My own thoughts are along the lines of: "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OF?" Does it come with a bonus DVD with previously unseen highlights such as myself and several hundred other Town fans sweating like a baked cod on the train back to Newport? Or does it show previously cut scenes of some football being played. I know, don't tell me, it actually has a different ending... wouldn't that be good?

My point is, who in their right mind would want to buy a reminder of that godforsaken day out? Exactly, nobody. Yet another corker from the marketing department at Blundell Towers. I'd rather buy a DVD of 'Mike Lyons: The Glory Years'!

P.S. Can we have a Kevin Donovan T-shirt? He will always be a hero to me ever since he got me free tickets to see Town play Bradford. A nice chap to boot.

See you in Accrington

from Ben Gresswell

Letters Ed responds: I'm sure there's someone daft enough to buy it. Maybe MI5 are using it as a torture device. Anyway, I'm sure it only costs the club about 5p to make each DVD.

Hurraaahhhhhh. The postbag is back!

Hurraaahhhhhh. The postbag is back!

from Ian Jackson

Letters Ed responds: Yay for me!

Demands, demands

It's good to have the postbag back. I've missed it. Any chance of the resurrection of Refwatch too? We could get the band back together.

from Steve McKatt

Letters Ed responds: Lucky for you, Refwatch has returned and is now part of the pre-match factfile.

New Grimsby

Browsing the web , I have come across the Grimsby Lincoln newspaper from Canada, July 19th edition. Apparently the Caistor trees are having problems with gypsy moths. Some wierd parallel world? Grimsby, Lincoln and Caistor all in close proximity in Canada? Do any of you very well read and travelled website visitors know anything else about the place they call Grimsby across the Atlantic? Apparently it is the gateway to Viagra... sorry, the Niagra region.

from Ian Jackson

Wild Bore

Have a look at this. Young Bore, calling the manager "Grezza"! What's that all about, eh? He certainly will need to change his tune to have success in this game. His attitude's all wrong. It should be "Boss" or "Gaffer". Everyone knows that. Cheeky young scamp!

from Bob McSquirter

Grimsby is not in Hull

For your information! QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Grimsby was a really bad place to live. The town was really old and there wasn't much to do there. It was full of fishermen and it smelled of fish all the time. It was not a very nice place to be and I prefer the smell of London" - new Brentford midfielder Thomas Pinault kicks up a stink over his spell with the Mariners.

IN 'THE FIVER', Guardian Unlimited's tea-time take on the world of football.

Cheers lads, keep up the good work!

from Hos

Letters Ed responds: But... he lived in Hull, the daft sod.

Lincoln losses

Hey. Just read your Lincoln review and noticed this: "The fact that Lincoln have lost to Sleaford and Northwich Victoria in pre-season should fill Town fans full of delight. Until we remember that Lincoln beat us in pre-season, too."

We haven't played Northwich Victoria in pre-season so it'd be pretty hard to lose to them. We have lost to Sleaford, Gainsborough and Spalding but that was all our youth team, whenever it's been the first team, we haven't lost.

Anyway, enough moaning, keep up the good work on the site.

from Nathan Jackson

Letters Ed responds: Details, details, details. No, you're right though. To be fair. Sam's an idiot. I'll tell him. Sam: you're an idiot.