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Diary - Monday 17 February 2003

17 February 2003

Today's big story, so far as GTFC and the internet are concerned, is of the latest midfielder to state a preference for sitting on his arse over playing football. This one is Manchester United reserve and Scottish international Michael Stewart, who would really rather not get his precious little kneesie-weesies dirty with that nasty Blundell Park mud, thank you very much; so it's back to the drawing board for Paul Groves in his search for loan players. Stewart has made three full appearances for the Home Counties club this season, and is really good in the Diary's game of Championship Manager but won't leave Hamilton Academical to play for me.

Groves, meanwhile, is sounding less than chuffed with his players after Saturday's rubbish 3-0 defeat at Gillingham. In a rare public criticism, the Town boss tells today's Grimmo Telegraph: "We were very disappointed with the goals...there aren't too many positives to take from the game and we didn't cause them too many problems." Mr Paul is threatening to wield the axe for this weekend's scary-looking visit to Ipswich - but who can he replace anybody with?

Speaking of the Gillingham game, Cod Almighty astrologer Mystic Mick is celebrating a third correct prediction on the trot - but the Diary has checked the accuracy of the guesses we made on Saturday about the match, and notes with pride that we were correct in supposing on the one hand that Simon Ford had a real smeller, and on the other that one of the goals came from a dodgy free kick. Admittedly it was the third rather than the first, but that's still pretty good going, eh. We were wrong about Chris Thompson reverting to mediocrity, but hey - good on him.