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Diary - Friday 11 August 2006

11 August 2006

Hiya guys! Durham Diary here, refusing to write an interesting first paragraph because you're not paying me enough, or is it that I'm paying you lot too much? I really find it rather difficult to remember, but I know we're having an argument about something.

Oh, that's right. Radio Humberside and David 'Third-Degree' Burns have decided that they will not cover this season's Town matches, so the club has bought some commentary equipment and installed some new phone lines, apparently, and are ruddy well going to do it on their own. Which sounds like an expensive way of avoiding coming to a mature agreement with the Beeb, if you ask me. I personally am not affected too much: I spend most of the season at uni and get commentaries from Mariners World. But I am not your typical Town fan, who will now be unable to follow Town's away matches without shelling out for either tickets and travel or a fairly expensive Mariners World subscription. One gets the sneaky suspicion this one, like Paul Bolland on ecstasy, will run and run.

The Grimsby Telethingy has run an interview with Paul Barnes, Town's decidedly dodgy-looking new keeper. You don't need to read it; it's just the stock Town player's interview (must do better, lads training really hard, big game...). In fact I only mention it at all for the line "Teams will kill you off and then you are dead and buried", which seemed worthy of being pointed out for some reason. "A few clean sheets would boost confidence and the wins will follow after that" is definitely not worthy of comment, so I will not write anything about it. Ooops.

The OS has drafted up a predicted side to face Bristol Whichever tomorrow, including both Bore and Toner in the starting line-up, with Luton's Michael Reddy the noticeable absentee. What I'm getting round to asking is whether you wish we'd taken the £300k for Reddy last season when it was on offer from Bristol Whatever? That's one to ponder while you sit doing whatever it is people sit and do on a wet and dreary Friday afternoon.

Which is all I have to tell you about today. If anyone is going to Bristol Wherever tomorrow I hope you enjoy the game and Town win with a clean sheet. But don't bank on any of it. If you see Lawrie Lennence pull a disapproving face at him from me. I'm off to a wedding in Guildford, but I'll be slyly checking WAP at five-minute intervals for the score. As for today, I'm going to find a good book and go back to bed. I hate days like this.