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Diary - Thursday 9 December 2004

9 December 2004

Hull striker Danny Allsopp would sooner stay at Boothferry Park and fight for his place in Peter Taylor's first team than go out on loan to Grimsby, or anywhere else, for that matter. A report from BBC Humber quotes the player as follows: "Hopefully, maybe today's the day. I just have to wait and see and take it hopefully from today. My wife's heard the rumours and someone told me and that's as far as anything's happened." A setback for Russell Slade's interminable quest to sign a new centre-forward, it would appear, but for the Diary to be anything approaching disappointed at this news, I would need to be convinced that Allsopp is considerably better at scoring goals than he is at speaking intelligible English.

In other striker news today, the Grimsby Telegraph rocks the football world with the news of Noddy's contingency plan for when Allsopp and Jon Walters say no to his face and those Scandinavians have returned to Humberside Airport after everyone has forgotten about them. Mr Slade has agreed a loan with fat southern vowel-mangler Barry Fry for Peterborough's Richard Logan but has yet to speak to the player himself about the move: a matter of the supremest indifference to Town fans who have seen Logan play for Posh and Boston and believe the player's usefulness to be on a par with that of the proverbial chocolate fireguard.

What else? One of the Blundell Park suits has got a new car, Reading and Forest fancy a bit of Jogging Danny B, and what do you know, if Rusle Slades had selected failed Leigh RMI loanee Graham Hockless against Notts County the other night then Town would have won the match! Eh? Oh.

And that is all from your regular Diary for another week, but tune in again tomorrow for bite-sized chunks of regurgitated Mariners news from one of Cod Almighty's team of guest diarists. I'm going off now for my work Christmas do, which means that in roughly ten hours from now I will most likely be creating a scale model of the Millennium Falcon from a coriander naan bread. Cheerio!