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Diary - Thursday 6 September 2007

6 September 2007

Much credit has been due to Town's assistant manager Stuart Watkiss for the improved form of the reserve team over the past year, and as the club's superb new official website informs us that the second string overcame a two-goal deficit against Hartlepool yesterday to record a worthy draw, much credit must also go to whoever is writing the site's much-improved match reports. Jamie Clarke and Nick Hegarty scored in the second half to haul the Mariners level, with ex-Barnsley ex-overweight trialist Nathan Jarman again featuring for half the match, and the SNOS has scored with a report that is as informative and error-free as Tuesday night's excellent account of the first team's thrashing of Huddersfield in the Football League Trophy. If you really want to look for the negatives then the phrase "renewed resurgence" is kinda tautologous, baby, but let's not dwell on that, because the rest is so good, and if I keep saying nice things then GTFC might stop sulking and belatedly grant Cod Almighty the Alan Buckley interview they pulled the plug on in July by way of retaliation for the Diary ripping the piss out of the then newly launched SNOS. Go on! Please!

Rob Smith is another person who has been enjoying the official web offerings of our beloved football club - so much so, in fact, that he has emailed the Diary about it. "Just been on the SNOS listening to the Messiah, who was lyrical about the demolition of Huddersfield. He is keen for us to win on Saturday at Accrington after our defeat in the last game 'at Oxford'. Is the club running two teams, with one secretly confined to the Conference under an assumed name? Perhaps that's who Ebbsfleet United are then?" Well, if such a great manager as Sir Bobby Robson can't even remember the names of his players, perhaps we shouldn't worry too much if Lord Alan Buckley can't quite recall which division we're in.

So, just before I leave you to the tender mercies of a Friday guest diarist, there's one more email. Dan Humphrey has been reading about the bizarre and self-contradictory "cool kids competition" being run by the Grimsby Telegraph, which, he says, "features a nine-year-old lad saying he is a massive Town fan, but wearing a Man Utd shirt. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, the same page has the identical scenario for a six-year-old boy. When did the Man Utd top become linked to GTFC?!?" And more to the point, can anyone truly be considered cool - including young children - if they're wearing the same shit as everyone else? I really must remember to start that campaign for people wearing Premier League shirts at Blundell Park to be placed with the away fans.