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'Tis the season, bah humbug!

22 December 2022

Glass Half-Full Diary writes: Seasons greetings fellow Mariners!

This festive GTFC-themed news summary will be brief, almost bereft of news due to last week's weather conditions and the resultant almost-complete absence of fourth-flight action to look back on. Also, I've been wrapping gifts.  Plus, I'm pacing my enthusiasm for this season until the transfer window re-opens. Then we can begin repeating the pattern of last season's  perfectly timed play-off peak.

(Look, I didn't tell you this, but a friend's friends' neighbours' boss' cousin's labrodoodle has let slip that a certain PH has definitely put a striker, or maybe even two strikers, on his secret Christmas list to Santa.)

Ex-Mariner winger Max Wright is in contention to appear for our Boxing Day hosts Harrogate Town after four months out with injury (he's only been there about, errmm, four months bless him), while Town will have to choose between Messrs Glennon and Amos for the left back position, and maybe a Christmas time comeback for Sean Scannell. With JMD and Wearne out on loan, that'd be timely.

Tempting though it may be, I'm not gonna criticise the festive fixture list. We have a run of home games forthcoming, with Salford, Stockport, Burton (FA Cup) Harrogate (Max again?!) and Newport all coming to visit before January ends. To get briefly nostalgic though, I miss festive fixtures against Barnsley, Huddersfield, even Lincoln. The best way to tackle that is promotions I suppose, unless all local teams want to get relegated, like Doncaster already did, but even then the League don't seem bothered about local rival festive games, meh.  

Right, I've quickly scoured all the usual social media channels, and the predictable shortage of GTFC-news continues, so I shall sign off for Christmas, with a quick reminder of when the GTFC club shop is open, for your last minute gifts and/or spending of the Chrimbo cash.

UTM.