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Diary - Monday 25 April 2005

25 April 2005

With goals scored in only one of the last five games, and no wins in the last eight, Mr Russell Slade is slowly discovering - just as supporters of his club did a year ago - that the old "they're playing for new contracts" thing works about as well as a roman candle in the deep end of Scafferbaffs. This being the case, the Town manager has decided to start giving new contracts to members of his squad who aren't actually playing: namely Simon Ramsden, who has become the first of Sort It's acquisitions to extend his stay in North East Lincolnshire by signing a new deal with the awesomely faith-inspiring and motivating length of, um, one year. Another player has been formally offered new terms and is considering whether to sign, adds the bit on the official website that tells you all about it; well, all about it except the minor issue of who he is.

"Town are currently looking at Dutch defender Sven Baas. He plays at Volendam and is Menno Willems' best mate." This is the content of a text message sent by the club ten minutes ago to Andy 'Tips Results' Holt, who subscribes to the OFFICIAL SMS SERVICE, and then emailed to the Diary. Actually, it said "WIllem's", but I thought I'd better change that bit. And that's all I can tell you at this point in time. I expect it'll be on the official website very shortly - hell, it might be already by now - and we might find out whether "looking at" means Baas is going to come over and not play for the reserves or the BP backroom staff have just found a sexy picture of him on the internet. We still want to know what happened to Gambian defender Hassan Nyang, though, don't we?

And finally today, the least surprising story of the season is that no GTFC players have been selected in the PFA team of the year for the fourth division. No, not even Jason Crowe.