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Diary - Thursday 12 February 2009

12 February 2009

Idle Diary writes: Today is a celebration of science and reason, two factors absent from both goalkeepers' displays in Tuesday night's game, which we can all see now the highlights are online. Expect no emoting from the soon-to-be-out-of-contract (YAWN) Phil Barnes over his increasing feebleness against long-range shots. So let us not dwell on that/him, and instead admire our very own Neo's disregard for physics, with a breathless wonder of a goal. Why? Because there's not a lot of news, that's why. The fans' forum being put back a day to Friday 20 February and Chairman John getting a professional to write up his latest musings on the season so far (good to see our fine tradition of passing football still upstanding amongst these turbulent times) isn't a right lot. Watch that goal again and then maybe we could get you to consider bidding on a 1933-34 second division championship medal, or something of Mr Miyagi's? No? Watch that goal again and then let us open up the postbag, for a quiet news day is better than any other to empty our sack.

Earlier this week we asked you to consider any changes that are upcoming at Town, and Jeremy Baily wasn't slow to give us his slowly disintegrating grasp of reality: "The manager (MN as I believe he is known) is being interviewed for both the Chelski and Pompy posts, North is going south and JPK is going round in circles. Brown is ruining the country and the snow is ruining my football watching, although our present squad are doing as good a job as the weather to be honest. We (GTFC) are looking at the whole AFC Telford squad and considering a complete swap for playing staff and back-room workers, the stadiums are also worth changing according to an unofficial sauce (sic). Barnet Off! That is a just a remark not a request or anything about the game tomorrow!" Riiiight. Can someone up Jeremy's dosage please?

Rooted more in the realms of the feasible are the considerations of Chris Kirk: "My feeling is that that Mr Re-Newell will take a large broom to quite a section of the club's playing staff this summer. Out, for me, would be Heywood, Newey (if Widdowson will take a gamble on division four footy), Llewellyn, Boshell, Hunt, Till, Taylor and either North or Bore." Not that Chris fancies the McDonald's Muncher to do one. "I'd like to see Danny North force himself into the reckoning again. He's a genuine tryer, and has a goal 'in him' which Mike likes. Perhaps he needs a spell out on loan to find his form and fitness." With loans now allowed again, maybe young Master Kirk will be proved right, and North will prove himself.

And, finally, Theodore Griffin advises us that "Advanced Gain Pro is the real deal - real ingredients, real guarantee, real results! AGP pills have been proven to work, and use only the highest quality ingredients available anywhere." Pah, mate. Why would we need those when we've Mike Newell? He is the real deal. Up the Mariners!