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Diary - Wednesday 10 November 2004

10 November 2004

As Town's continuing lack of a centre-forward threatens to unravel all the good work Mr Russell Slade has done in putting a team together, the club is again casting the net for fresh blood, like a vampire trawlerman who mixes his metaphors. Accordingly, a striker called Wayne Dyer is one of three trialists set to feature in this afternoon's reserve game against Darlington. We know he is a striker because it says so in the Grimsby Telegraph, and so he can't be the same Wayne Dyer who turned out for Town reserves in last month's 4-2 defeat at Doncaster, is a Monserrat international, and plays for Hinckley United in the Conference North, because that one's a midfielder. Er. Don't know who the other two trialists are yet. Have I mentioned that Amadou Konte scored for Cambridge at the weekend? I have now.

So maybe it's the Wayne Dyer who has authored many inspirational books such as The Power of Intention: Tap into the Universal Energy Field and Transform Your Life, and whose many profound insights include: "Everything is in motion. Everything flows." If this is our man, then he's clearly in for a shock when he watches the Mariners try and play without Thomas Pinault in the side.

On the subject of Prof. P's absence from the starting line-up, Mr Russ may have seen the error of his ways. Speaking at last night's GTST football quiz at Blundell Park, the Town boss admitted something about having been wrong in leaving out "flair players", though the Diary's mind was by that point in the sort of condition that would make Adrian Mutu seem straighter than a Roman road, and so we cannot be entirely clear what was intended. Noddy added that Graham Hockless' loan at bottom-of-the-Conference Leigh RMI had not gone terribly well and that the gorgeous, pouting young king of the wing was now back at BP with his magnificent tail between his godlike legs. I may be paraphrasing.

Finally today, five words. Bryan Robson. West Bromwich Albion. And one more: hahahahahahahaha.