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Diary - Sunday 6 October 2002

6 October 2002

West Ham starlet Grant McCann, who trialled with the Mariners in the summer and featured in one pre-season friendly, has joined second division Cheltenham on a month's loan. The young Northern Ireland midfielder can play centrally or on the left - precisely where Town seem especially weak at the moment.

Player-manager Paul Groves - who sat out yesterday's woeful drubbing by Reading with a groin strain - admits the performance was "probably the poorest we've been for a while".