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Diary - Friday 22 September 2006

22 September 2006

Hi, Miss Guest Diary here again, looking forward to the weekend no matter what it brings on the Town front because it'll mean my working week is over. I attended a meeting this week about the new IT workflow system being developed and was there to represent 'the business' in a room full of business analysts and IT geeks. I only understood about one word in three, but I thought I bluffed my way through well enough, nodding and smiling in the right places. So imagine my horror when the action points came out and I was down to "prepare an approach paper for data cleaning using the generic steps". Now I know how footballers must feel when, having spent their entire career playing in a 4-4-2 formation, the new manager suddenly changes to 3-5-2 or some other new-fangled system. If anyone can suggest what the generic steps might be, I'll be eternally grateful.

Deciding to take my Diary responsibilities a little more seriously than previously, I went searching for some team news for tomorrow's game with Stockport. Going to Town's official webite, my eye was curiously attracted to this instead - let's hope their act is better than the spelling in the article. Oh, and the team news from the OS is that everyone's fit except Cohen and Reddy.

A trip to the Grimsby Telegraph produced only an article about "Rodger's Rookies", extolling the virtues of Bore and Taylor; while all the BBC could offer is that Mac2 has returned to Huddersfield. In desperation I googled "Grimsby team news" and got lots of news about last Saturday's clash with Chester, some about the previous week's game against Walsall and one amazing link to Sporting Life giving news of Town v Reading, at which point I gave up and decided to refer you to the excellent factfile on this very site.

I did follow up the last link and wallowed for a while in the nostalgia created by such headlines as "Ten Heuvel Wants Mariners Move", "Jevons Hopes to Renegotiate Contract" and "Cooke Set to Move On". This got me wondering where old news stories go - do they spend eternity floating around in cyberspace? Maybe news of Simon Ford's transfer to Kilmarnock has just reached Jupiter. I'm thinking that Sporting Life could do with some "generic steps" to clean up their data.

Darn it - just as I was about to sign off I decided to check the OS one more time and found that we have a new striker on loan from Southend. James Lawson is, according to a Southend fan "quite good, quite raw, tall, not too physical but got a good eye for goal." Let's hope he's got his eye in for tomorrow. Bye for now.