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The one with the stink of fish!!!
16 September 2003
In this week's Postbag: preview pray; I come from a land of blunder; free stuff; "we have yet to see a convincing performance on a Friday"; hindsight for chimps; Bolder is trumped; sneaker pimps; lost in post; battle of the heavyweights: GET v GTFC; stink of fish!!!; come on; and get your tats out
"I'll end by saying you'll have noticed that I've dispensed with the lengthy spiel at the start of this preview."
Thank God for that!
Dave Chambers
via email
Right lets talk about Walkabout (Hmmm has a ring to it). No striped shirts, no footie shirts after 8:00PM, no trainers after 8:00PM. The manager says, and I quote: "I wanted to make the clientele look nicer". So he decides what's nice and what isn't does he? Who is he? John fucking Galliano or Stella MaCartneys boyfriend perhaps? No, he's just some jumped up landlord. I suppose he is allowing the football to be shown at his establishment though? Well I know one place I won't be going to watch it either before or after 8:00PM. Pretentious Bastards.
This reminds me of a joke Ben Elton once told about these sort of places:
Hitler & Goering walk up to a pub with a dress code. The bouncer greets them "Oh nice uniforms and lovely polished shoes. Go straight in gentlemen". A few moments later Jesus rolls up with Simon (called Peter). The bouncer stops them and says "Fuck off Jesus, no sandals".
It's not really a joke, more a statement showing the stupidity of dress codes, but I liked it.
PS I apologise for the use of foul and abusive language in this e-mail. You're lucky really though, because I didn't use the word twat until now, and it's my favourite.
Mr B.L.Ackandwhite-Barmy
via email
Why don't you follow the Fiver's example (www.guardianunlimited.co.uk), and ask for Freebie PR gifts from the 'Corporate type' users of CA?
I can just imagine the CA team wallowing in there new found (and free) wealth. Obviously, you'd get so many frozen snacks that after a short time, the current 'lean and mean' CA team would be looking somewhat pudgy!
Does anyone other have any ideas on the type of gifts that CA team may get?
Martin
via email
Mmmmm. Corporate snacks. Do we have any corporate type users? If so...send us your free stuff. [Letters Ed]
Having read your preview of tonight's game, while I agree with the sentiments that Friday night football seems wrong, you can't argue that it has had the desired effect at Hartlepool - namely getting the crowds in.
I was sceptical at first but have been won over. You watch the football on Friday and then you have the rest of the weekend to yourself. Many other Pools fans also think Friday matches are a good thing, although we have yet to see a convincing performance on a Friday!
With Grimsby's lowering attendance figures has your board thought about a similar venture?
May the best team win tonight.
Andrew Swallow
via email
No. Look, quite clearly Friday night football is wrong. And as a protest you'll notice that our team didn't bother to turn up last Friday. [Letters Ed]
Coco - do you want to see if you beat Mr Hare by the end of the season? Take my advice and stay away from Hartlepool tonight.
Simon Peach
via email
Advice that should have been given to all Town fans I think... [Letters Ed]
I note in your highly addictive top trumps you have given Chris Bolder a tackling rating of Six. Are you going to update the stats for this season?
Dave Chambers
via email
Mr Green's comments in today's Grimsby Telegraph about Friday night games are spot on.
Are the Sneaker Pimps still around then and does your Sneaker Pimp friend support Hartlepool?
Paul Dawson
via email
Pete says: "Thanks for that. Ian supports Man City, for some reason, but asked me if I fancied going to see Pools v Town this season. How fortunate for me, then, that my anti-Friday-football principles spared me the spectacle at Vicky Park. The Pimps are still shifting units in the States and eastern Europe and are about to invite the original singer to rejoin, apparently - the one they sacked after the first album. I maybe shouldn't tell you that, but hey."
In the last postbag you were bemoaning the fact that you hadn't received many posts - tumbleweed and all that. Well I sent one in last week and it wasn't published. Was this because:
(a) you didn't like look of the the email address I used
(b) you didn't like the look of the name I used
(c) you didn't receive it
(d) you simply considered the content crap, or
(e) some other reason?
If (d) then bloody sod ya! (Hee hee!)
Ed
via email
Er. Sorry Ed, I'll have to go for C. I've had another look for it and couldn't see it anywhere. [Letters Ed]
A direct quote from today's Grimsby Telegraph:
"Sports editor: The Up the Mariners campaign was initiated solely by Stuart Rowson and the Grimsby Telegraph. The shares campaign was again purely generated by the Telegraph. These are incontravertable facts."
Geoff Ford has a point. The Telegraph did launch the 'Up the Mariners' campaign. The Telegraph did launch the shares campaign. These are, as he states, incontravertable facts.
What he should be facing are these facts though:
To what point did the 'Up the Mariners' campaign save Town from relegation in the 2001-02 season? Is such a feat measurable? And if it was such a success why didn't the Telegraph do another campaign last season? 'Stay Up the Mariners' surely wouldn't have been beyond Mr Rowson's wit.
I made the trek to Grimsby for the run in that season and I cannot remember people talking of that campaign. I remember people purring about the blood and thunder approach on the pitch. Yes, that was it. It was the players on the pitch that saved Town. Or did Mr Rowson take team talks that season?
The shares campaign is a moot point. The Telegraph did indeed run a campaign and I do remember that the Telegraph pledged to buy £1000 worth of shares. Firstly, that £1000 would have initially come from the pockets of Town fans. Secondly, was there a link with the Supporters Trust? What
do they have to say on this? But I think the Telegraph has to make clear how much the club has raised from the share issue and how much the Telegraph raised through the campaign it ran. These are two separate issues.
On the other side of the fence, the club appears to have scored an own goal on the matter of the ambulance. The Telegraph might have been seeking a more sensationalist agenda since the elevation of Michelle Lalor to the position of editor and you can definitely address the tone and approach to reporting, but the club themselves should be announcing these decisions.
I personally do not see what difference one ambulance will make when there are a large number of trained medical staff on hand at Blundell Park. £350 saved is £350 saved - that's the equivalent to about 23 matchday tickets. If the club had presented this issue itself then it would have avoided what was published like a matter that was looking to be
swept under the carpet. This is like many issues that have preceded it. Whether the club was planning on announcing this measure anyway is another matter.
Dave Chambers
via email
stink of fish!!!
Anon
via email
Is that an order or a statement? [Letters Ed]
Good luck tomorrow night Town. A win is what we want and need. COME ON!
Aaron
via email
Nowadays tattoos are not just the sole preserve of Hell's Angels and deckie-learners. You see them in all shapes, sizes and designs on people from all walks of life. Many
of them look quite good; in fact I secretly admire the ones my daughters have. So I was wondering: do your dear readers have, or have they seen on their travels, any cool-looking Mariners-related body decorations of the permanent variety?
In my more fanciful moments, I've occasionally considered having one done myself. After all, I've supported the Town long enough now to know that I'm unlikely to regret having had one done, when I ecstatically rip my shirt off at the home end of some poncey Premiership club. So, any suggestions please?
Abuick6
via email
Yeah, that's more like it. Send all your anti-Walkabout rants and other feedback to us. Get it off your chest.
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