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Diary - Friday 5 March 2004

5 March 2004

"He's unlucky, I made certain changes for certain games and Mike missed a game through suspension. And the way the back four had been playing looked quite solid, quite workmanlike." There's something wrong abouthat last sentence (from the newly re-appoininted Town assistant manager), says the entire, several-hundred-strong contingent who witnessed the awful defensive debacle in Nottingham the other night. But at least we know the lad Edwards is alive and well, after an ominously long absence from public view or mention, as Rodger continues: "But Mike's been a bit unfortunate, he's kept himself right, and he's available." Pick him then, for heaven's sake,or tell your new boss to pick him.

Your Guest Diarist has spent the morning shuffling around the kitchen listening to Sweet's greatest hits, and rueing the fact he never went to see 'em live. The other thought that crossed my mind was that the recent freak Town 6-1 victory had resulted in both managers being removed from their positions almost immediately thereafter. Unusual, to say the least, but rationalized, I gather, on Radio Humberside last night when the chairman said that Rodger had helped to find his successor and new boss. We will watch their relationship develop with interest, no doubt. Mr Law (I don't know him well enough to address him more intimately yet) also intimated, on the phone-in, that funds were in place in case he needed to strengthen the squad. Peter Furneaux pointedly added that Town still have two loan slots available. When Furneaux wasn't listening%ped up with a fat sponsorship cheque for Divisions One, Two and Three. The package is said to exceed the league's existing deal with the Nationwide Building Society, which will mean about an extra 32p a year for GTFC; but, y'know, the Coca-Cola League just sounds stupid, doesn't it?