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Diary - Friday 10 March 2006
10 March 2006
I've collected the eggs and boxed them up for collection. The cows have been milked, the yoghurt is curdling, and the cheese has been left to mature. This guest dairy business isn't too hard, really.
Hi guys! Durham Diary here, giving induced dyslexia a try in a concerted effort to make you smile on this bloody miserable Friday afternoon. But fear not, for Friday afternoon is just the build-up to Saturday. And on this particular Saturday Town are at home to 18th placed Barnet: a match that is definitely on, according to an officially unofficial email sent to me by Mr S Wilson. The OS has an online voucher you can print off, which will let you have two concessions and two adults, one adult and three concessions, or four concessions tickets for just 21 of your English pounds (including the £1 you have to pay to me for telling you about it). So now you have no excuse not to help Town reach their Target 6000, unless you're getting married, or are at uni in Durham, or something.
Russell Slade has been waxing over Craig Richards, the young defender on trial from Southampton. Sorry - waxing lyrical. Having had the reserves match against Hull rearranged, Rusty Russ reckons he's "probably getting him back for the same fixture a week on Monday." In the interview with the OS our Russ goes on to reveal: "When you get an opportunity to look at a boy, who was a scholar in the Premiership, you've got to look." Maybe he has been waxing after all then...
At the end of the aforementioned interview Slade talks about contracts, more specifically the one he hasn't yet signed, proclaiming: "There's not really a problem, I want to stay here." Which is more than can be said for the impressive pair of Steve Mildenhall and Rob Jones, according to the back page of today's Grimsby Telegraph. While the club has an option to keep Rob Jones (who has turned down the offer of an extended contract) for a further year, they do not have a similar option with My Lord, who would be free to leave for another club should he want to at the end of the season. Amid talk from President Fenty of wage structures and financial stability, there is the suggestion that the offer would be revisited and could be improved should Town achieve promotion to League One next year. So here's hoping.
Today's list, compiled by me, is: "Things you'd like to hear if you knew you were only going to score once tomorrow."
(1) Paris Hilton's coming round in the afternoon.
(2) Your defence isn't going to concede.
I think I'll start with (2). Having netted exactly one goal in each of their last 3,701,954 matches, Grimsby will be delighted to learn of the improvement in the condition of Justin 'Brittle Skittle' Whittle. The defence has always seemed to be more resolute with Whitts in attendance this year, and hopefully his return will help Town keep a clean sheet. Which is something I'm unlikely to do if (1) above comes to fruition. I'm sorry. It's the hormones, you know.
On which note ends today's chauvinistic, dyslexic, and thoroughly enthusiastic ramblings. Northampton and Carlisle play tonight, meaning they can't both get three points this weekend. Therefore a win for the Mariners tomorrow would definitely make more difference to the league table than the one scraped against Chester a fortnight ago. Hope you have a nice weekend, and go and support the team if you possibly can. I've got milk to semi-skim.