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Diary - Wednesday 16 August 2006

16 August 2006

Afternoon, Richie. Afternoon, everyone. Stand-In Diary stepping in to the breach on this slow news day.

Stuart Watkiss took charge of his first reserve game yesterday. And his charges got off to the kind of start you expect from a team whose reputation is built upon last season's enviable record of a winless campaign. The OS front page teaser doesn't mess around with "Young Guns almost do it", possibly a reference to wild trialists Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen and Casey Siemaszko. The report notes that Town were three-nil down by half time, before Paul Ashton and Danny North reduced the arrears to one goal. "Local lad" Will Clifford of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District Sunday League Division One side Seven Seas played the first half. There are no reports on whether the management team reckon he can make the step up from local league footy or make like the last "local lad" to have a stab at the footballing dream, Bobby Lewsam.

Sticking with the theme of reserves, one-game Town trialist Robbie Foy is havin' a go of it with Scunny's stiffs. In a 4-2 win for Laws's men, the wide-boy Foy has scored what sounds like the kind of goal a dad scores against his kids in the backyard - picking up a loose ball, bursting forward beating a couple of players and sprinting clear before leathering the ball into the flowerbeds. I mean from the right side of the penalty box. Remember, Town don't have the need for such explosive goalscoring exploits from the wing especially with the emergence of eager youngsters Peter Bore and Peter Beagrie.

Which is the perfect segue for an an engaging and enlightening interview on Mariners World. Running under the slightly misleading title "Who's the next Peter Bore?", Woods looks back on the youth team's 1-1 draw at Lincoln last weekend, whinging about the pitch, how the young 'uns will become men by playing reserve team footy, and how he sees his job as "getting as many youth team players into the first team as I can". Here's a fact for you, and one that might explain Phwoar Bore's calmness in front of goal: the young lad was moved at the start of last season from up front to the right wing.

And finally, a scan of the web reveals no more increasingly boring Radio Humberside-John Fenty mud-slinging. Just as well, as it was looking incredibly meek compared to the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud in Huckleberry Finn. Boys, if you're gonna carry out a vendetta, do it right.