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Diary - Tuesday 31 October 2006

31 October 2006

Beleaguered Town manager Grahams Rodgerses at last has some good news to warm his cockles after several weeks of defensive blunders, disappearing players, suspensions, injuries, dark rumours, cod shortages, asbos, climate change, global thermonuclear war and Gary Jones. Hang flags from the telegraph poles, reader, for Isaiah Rankin could replace the banned Lump in tonight's Pot of Paint match at Mansfield, and much more besides. The mighty Ranks scored on his second debut for the Mariners, in August's curtain-raising, not to say hair-raising, 3-2 win over Boston and, despite failing to find the net since and missing eight games with a thigh thing, still tops the table of Cod Almighty man of the match awards. Crikey, what a lot of links! Today's glad tidings extend to the circumstances of Town's two remaining loanees, as Forest have said Kevin James can play tonight, and Scunthorpe were knocked out of the competition last night so will presumably not be too concerned at the prospect of Andy Butler becoming cup-tied, or even Pot of Paint-tied. Paul Bolland is back in training, furthermore, and, bringing the biggest smile of all to the Diary's face, so is Gary Cohen. The counterharmony of all these good vibrations, of course, is that Grezza has several less excuses for failure - so if he was feeling stressed already, he'll feel like John Fenty in a 20mph zone now.

And unlike this dog's breakfast, the story on Town's official website that announces all of the above is a actually reasonably well-put-together piece, so maybe Gary Harkins will be player of the season yet.