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Diary - Tuesday 16 October 2007

16 October 2007

Town's originally unnamed new striker who was named yesterday as Martin Butler before he, in fact, became Town's new striker has been named again today, as expected, as Martin Butler, and now he is Town's new striker. Oh come on - it's simple. Butler joins from last season's fourth division champions Walsall (where Alan Buckley achieved less but is admired much more), on an initial three-month loan "with a view to a permanent deal", as they say. All our eyes are on the bottom line, and over the prime years of his playing career, with Cambridge, Reading and Rotherham, Butler's goals-per-game ratio seems to have hovered somewhere around a healthy 0.3 or 0.4 before dwindling a little over the past year with the Saddlers. The word from South Yorkshire and the west midlands is that he never quite got back on track after being laid low with hepatitis A, glandular fever, a poorly knee and a contract dispute - so the question is whether 33 might be too old to make a fresh start. And since nobody really knows yet, the only thing we can be certain of right now is that Town's superb new official website will already be preparing the Butler Serves Up Winning Start headlines.

Booo Buckleys booo, syning strika wen u oready av 4 in da rservz!!!! Speaking of the reserves, the official website of Bradford informs us that Town's second XI will be taking on the Bantams' in the Hi-De-Hi League Cup tonight, and the match kicks off at 7pm at the Coral Windows Stadium. No, me neither. Anyway, as superbly as the Lump played in the Dulux Cup at Rotherham last week, he has not scored a goal yet this season, whatever the SNOS might tell you.