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Diary - Wednesday 20 January 2010

20 January 2010

It's another of those days, reader, when the news seems to consist not of things happening but of people saying stuff. And fairly predictable stuff at that. Wes Fletcher, one of Town's growing army of teenage Premier League loanees, "was happy to move and I'm looking to get more games and some first-team experience and hopefully a few goals", and let's hope he does, because he sounds keen and he's made the effort to come to a struggling team when a lot of cossetted young big-time charlies wouldn't. Boooooo Woodses booooo never win anything with kids, oh, er, except when they're good ones like Martin Paterson. Meanwhile, self-appointed voice of something or other Dave Boylen controversially thinks Neil Woodses shouldn't be sacked - until Neil Woodses actually is sacked, at which point Dave Boylen will speak out to back the chairman's decision and agree that it was time for a change.

Oh, here's something! Town's superb new official website has a teamsheet for the reserve side that will kick off at home to Huddersfield in about half an hour's time. New trialist Tam McManus will begin up front alongside Danny 'Magnetic' North, and other first-teamers or potential first-teamers on duty from the start include Jamie Clarke, Matt Heywood, Jammal Shahin I LOVE YOU, Mark Hudson, The Jarman, and Nick Hegarty. Huddersfield are apparently going to field a player called Krystian, presumably in some sort of weird exchange visit project between northern reserve football and The X Factor.

And here's an email from Kevin Graham, who declares: "I have been reading Cod Almighty now for a few months after being pointed to it by the description 'One of the funniest sites of the t'internet.' Though I have enjoyed the match reports, post/pre-match gubbins and the Diary, I think I may need to wean myself off." Oh? Why's that, Kevin? "You see, on arriving back into the boozer from watching my club, Celtic, fail miserably to beat a team whose yearly football budget is our monthly wage bill, I uttered the immortal words: 'What was the Grimsby score?' to a bemused trusty keeper of fine ales and lagers. Can I be helped?" Our experience would suggest not, sir, as Town's current period of decline began the very minute Cod Almighty went online in 2002, and the worse the team has got over the seven and a bit years since, the less we've been able to tear ourselves away. Just give in to it, Kevin, and embrace the misery. Or at the very least ask Tony Mowbray if he's got a spare central midfielder who'll move down south for £350 a week and a crate of fish fingers.