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Diary - Thursday 15 October 2009

15 October 2009

Josh Magennis is the latest person asked to contribute towards the Grimsby Town football team perhaps becoming a bit less shit at some point. What is he? He's a hefty chunk of 19-year-old striker with a bit of height and pace, who has joined on a month's loan from Cardiff after eight substitute appearances for the Welsh side this season, and who netted his first senior domestic goal in a League Cup win over Bristol Rovers two and a bit weeks ago. Mike Newell has made his move after watching Magennis notch both goals in Cardiff reserves' 2-1 win over Hereford last week - a feat he repeated for Northern Ireland under-21s against Iceland recently. Curiously, the player has only lately become a dedicated outfield player, after spending much of his time in development as a goalkeeper, and indeed was capped twice as an under-17 international while playing in goal. Given the current area of greatest weakness in their team, however, most Town fans could be forgiven for wondering if Magennis' versatility might allow him to fill the gaping hole next to Peter Sweeney in the centre of midfield.

Another option for the middle of the park might have been Ben Osman, had the teenage trialist not been withdrawn injured half an hour into yesterday's run-out for the reserves at Huddersfield. Osman's fellow hopeful Ryan Crowther seemingly fared little better, being substituted at half time - although it was he who provided the cross for Danny North's 21st-minute goal, which was perversely allowed to stand despite Crowther seemingly being 124.9 optical gigayards offside when the ball was played to him. The account of the game on Town's website is so minimal as to constitute a waste of bandwidth, but there's a half decent one on Huddersfield's, albeit with a picture of their goalscorer Michael McCaffery wearing a shirt which is either too big or just badly Photoshopped. Still, at least Huddersfield's website actually tells you who's in the picture, rather than just putting the picture there and leaving you to guess, in the style of a website run by people without the vaguest trace of knowledge of or ability in media and communications. I mean that would be terrible.

That's all from your regular Diary for this week, so thanks for reading, congratulations to the 6.6 per cent of you who got HN Hickson, and stay tuned tomorrow for Guest Diary's doom-laden but avuncular look ahead to Simon Ramsden's goal(s) in Saturday's heavy home defeat at the hands of Rochdale. Cheerio!