Cod Almighty | Diary

Trin Trinity, trin Trinity, trin trin, ta-ra!

4 March 2015

London Diary here – and although the mighty Town didn't play last night there was a lot of action concerning Town players in various other games.

Just hours before kick-off at the fixture between Gainsborough Trinity and Harrogate Town, Paul Walker was signing a month-long deal with John McDermott's (kind of) side, heading down the road (probably A180, A15, A631) to go straight into Harrogate's starting line-up. There he faced his teammate and mate, Hamish Watson, who also had his first start up front for Gainsborough.

I wasn't at the game, for hundreds of reasons, but according to various Twitter accounts Gainsborough were the better team but Harrogate scored a goal. Apparently Watson came off and then Harrogate scored, and then soon after that, Walker came off too. Their work is done. Also, according to one Twitter account, Paul Hurst is a celebrity. Big Brother is next.

Walker heading to Harrogate for the month will hopefully be a good thing. I would love to see both him and Watson starting for Town soonish, but we have a big team and apparently you're only allowed 11 players on a pitch. Since the loss of Andi Thanoj, Charlie I'Anson and Dayle Southwell, there's been very little home grown talent to shout about in recent months.

Incidentally, Southwell bagged his second hat-trick of the season last week and took his tally to 23 for the season; well done, son. I'm still angry about Neil Woods cultivating the talent of Nick Heggggggggarty and then dropping him soon as he got made the proper manager. All I'm saying is it'd be nice to see some local talent at our local stadium, otherwise it's just the Premier League on a national scale. Ya get me?

I'd quite like to see Walker taken under the wing of McDermott, who would make him a better defender than he already is, tell him tales of Gallimore and Livingstone, and that goal against Rushden & Diamonds, Sir Macca making Walker's legs as big as his own were circa '97, and then our Paul coming back to Grimsby, us winning the FA Cup with a wonder goal by the massive-legged-local-lad-Walker and then Hollywood knocking on the door and making a proper film about Grimsby. Hamish Watson will have a non-speaking part. I'll play the role of Barry Conlon.

Other teams around us won last night, but that's not for us to worry about, as we have another ten 1-0 wins in our locker.

Oh, one last thing. Let's bloody win on Saturday yeah? Take your barnets to Woking. UTM!