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Wise up suckers

19 January 2022

Boom-crinkle! That's the sound of Wrexham ticket news breaking through the midweek quiet. 729 is the magic number for Tuesday's visit to the Principality with no sales on the day, possibly due to some local Covid rules that Daubney can't be arsed to look up. The hosts' ticket system is mullered but the ever-helpful Blundell Park ticket office has stepped in. However, as tickets need to be collected or posted from DN35 7PY, you'll need to get your skates on.  

Nowt newsworthy about Bromley issuing ticket news of their own for their visit this weekend apart from their use of the potential new GTFC crest. Hold your horses there chaps, the results aren't in yet. And the longer the verification process takes, the more the image of Sandii at the Mariners Trust knee-deep in ballots with the weary look of a 2000 Florida election official grows.   

Trentside mentioned unexpected sofa purchases and the U15 Floodlit Cup tie with Lincoln, played yesterday evening at Brigg. News of the result is proving hard to find but tweets indicate an outcome in Town's favour. Yes, take that you Imps, that's the real quiz.

Having to take it last night as well were Chesterfield. A 3-2 defeat at Maidenhead aroused interest until we noticed how many points back we are. Still, file it away for the thesis, working title of "No easy games in international or non-league football unless you are playing San Marino or you're a southern team playing GTFC in a midweek game".  

Also on Twitter yesterday was a flare-up between bored Town Twitter Ultras and the official Stourbridge FC account. Backstory: Stourbridge seem unhappy that two of their players, Covid gender reveal eejit Montel Gibson and Jak Hickman ponced off for trials when they should have been, you know, playing for their registered team. It seems hard to argue that, right? Challenge accepted by the Ultras when Stourbridge alluded to Town being involved, suggesting that Hickman may have been in Grimsby "night-fishing". While it's just as possible Jak was off searching for the missing 'c' or 'e' from his name, the damage was done.

Funniest criticism of Stourbridge was a "lack of professionalism". This is sure to sting the unpaid 15-year old volunteer running the Twitter account of a level seven, step three club. Full disclosure: the mighty Pop Will Eat Itself, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and the Wonder Stuff all hail from Stourbridge, so Daubney won't have a bad word said about the place. Good luck to the football club, they're through to the FA Trophy fifth round without Gibson and Hickman. Compensation at last for getting caned at the Lane once again in Home.

Anyway, the last time we had a Hickman in the team, we won a Championship. Whether that's enough to look past a potential signing's actual playing ability or Hickman's rather cloudy departure from Coventry earlier in his career is up for debate.