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Diary - Friday 23 January 2009

23 January 2009

It's a flipping wet Friday alright - your Guest Diarist got mud up to his eyeballs down the allotment trying to dig leeks and swedes an hour ago, and now has returned to find that the superb new official site's paid-for Mariners World preview runs for precisely 1 minute 29 seconds during which we only get chance to learn that manager Newell thinks the 6-2 reserve win in the week proves he has a much stronger squad than previously (as newly-fringed players try to impress their way back in to the reckoning).

As for the Sports Telegraph website, well, it is on a major go-slow. In fact it is down.

But us Cod Almighty lot have contacts. Having rung my 80-year-old mum, who has the paper in front of her, I can reveal that the Telewag has Newell saying that Town were not as bad as the 4-1 scoreline when we played Rotherham away and that we are a lot different team now any way, and Mr Proudlock saying Town 'fear no-one' in a very short interview of no tangible worth.

Tomorrow Town play a form team and one desperately hopes they take them down a peg or two in front of our home crowd who deserve to see Town play. Given that neither Newey nor Stockdale played for the stiffs one assumes that the side will be little if any changed (although Straight Peter Bore might make the subs' bench). A quick gleg at the BBC Rotherham web page is as illuminating as: "team news will follow later" and the Rotherham official site only tells us that the Millers are 6/4 against to win the match.

Diary reader Jim has rightly taken me to task for what I said that George Kerr might have said if he had taken over the great young squad assembled by the late Tommy Casey. His central point being we had a spell under John Newman of course before the great George took the reins. "Sentiment is still correct though - TC did more for the Mariners than many managers before and after." Well said Jim, but I love hypothetical quotes because they can't really be rebutted can they?

So, folks, that's it for another week - hope you make the pilgrimage tomorrow and that it is a game worth watching and the right result for us. See yer.