Cod Almighty | Diary

No escapes

19 May 2021

Daubney Diary here with a hopeful mine of the close-season news seam. Let's swing the axe and see what we can find. Look at that, the Lincs Cup is back and we've drawn Spalding United away for a tie to be played at a date yet to be arranged.

If you're looking for a considered analysis of the play-offs and any GTFC links, you're in the wrong place. Football of any consequence is over until we commence our Lincs Cup campaign. Which is away at Spalding, did I mention that?

What you're still here? Ok, as I'm filling in for Bottom of the Barrel Diary I might as well give his namesake a scrape.

"Ardmore Rovers, idle." The three words schoolboy Daubney dreaded reading on a Tuesday in the weekly under-11 fixtures. "Grimsby Town, idle" is something we will be seeing next season as we embrace the conference and the quirks of playing in a 23-team division. If you haven't filled in the club survey, perhaps you could include some creative suggestions for our free Saturdays next season. I'll start the bidding with an open invite to similarily idle teams at home or abroad for an in-season friendly. If you follow On This GTFC Day on Twitter you will have noticed the many random friendlies that Town played against teams from across Europe. Football should be about fun and friendships and what better way to have both and avoid having to spend Saturdays at B&Q in the process.

Relegation buddies Southend United have followed Town in dropping their weaselly appeal to the league. Owner Ron Martin conceded "I accept the club's performances were not good enough, apart from short spells, throughout the season and deserved to be relegated". Quite right.

Town likewise, deserve to be relegated but in the throrough post mortem of our season, one of the main culprits almost skulked away unnoticed. And it would have if it wasn't for those pesky kit-obssessed diarists. Close season is a time for kit launches. When Devon Diary saw our shirt last summer, he immediately put a bet on us to be relegated. "The previous effort had 17th written all over it, this one just screams relegation, darling, relegation. No escapes!" I seem to recall either him or Edna Mode saying.

The club shop is having an unprecedented clear-out of anything with Errea on it. Shirts, academy gear, kit bags, everything must go. Maybe Fenty and Errea were joined at the hip. Perhaps the rumours that Macron are replacing their fellow Italians could be true. So here's another one for that club survey: Whoever makes the new kit better get one thing straight. We play in black and white striped shirts, front and back. Our shorts are black. Our socks are red. Sort it.