Cod Almighty | Diary

We're a club at the heart of our community and that's where we'll stay

4 April 2023

Let's start with the big news. The women's team won their league. How fantastic is that! Congratulations one and all. An excellent outcome for the season and their final home game will be at Blundell Park on 23rd April if you fancy a celebration.

If you mulled over Doncaster away on Easter Monday and you haven't already secured your tickets then you are out of luck, they have all gone. Town fans are a mad bunch, aren't they? Well not mad really, just dedicated. At least this one is only an hour down the road. It's disappointing that we have been given about a thousand fewer tickets than we were allocated last time we played them. I for one have given up trying to fathom the machinations of how these things are decided. Police or club decision? Given that their average home attendance this season is almost exactly the same as ours, they probably didn't fancy 4,000 Town fans being the twelfth man. Their financial loss.

If you want to, you can watch on Mariners TV as it's not a Saturday afternoon. Before then, though, we have a game against Hartlepool. Much as I'd like them to stay up, obviously I want a Town win.

One team I won't be sorry to see relegated is FGR. The only disappointment is that we will have to play them next season. Not an awayday to relish, is it? A horrible ground to get to. On the other hand, I'd love to see Notts County come up. A proper club, always a decent away day and a short walk for me. Perfect.

I read the details of the proposals to relocate training to 70 miles away and close the academy at our neighbour down the A180. As a Town fan I would have been devasted if Town had ever done anything like this, although a while ago it was suggested by some fans, to be fair with no real expectation that it would happen.

Having a club at the heart of a community is for me what being a Town fan is all about. Players popping along to local events and being seen out and about always causes excitement. We have moaned about players in the past that don't "care" about playing for the club; I can't see how being in the area for only one afternoon a week would help. A few people have said "It's what Boston United do" and they are not wrong. But Boston is significantly smaller than the Grimsby and Cleethorpes conurbation, the team are semi-professional and currently sit seventeenth in the sixth tier of football. I'm so pleased that, however bad it may have been at times, Town have always had more ambition than that. And you have to feel for staff at Scunthorpe who will lose their jobs.

UTM!