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Diary - Friday 12 October 2007
12 October 2007
The fact you need to know first and foremost, gentle reader, is that your Guest Diarist hasn't the faintest ghost of an idea about the identity of the striker Lord Buckley is in the throes of signing up. And given the lack of rumours ahead of Town securing the services (on a month's loan) of young Mr Shaleum Logan from Manchester City yesterday, I suspect no-one else does either. Lord Buckley explained in his interview to Mariners World that terms had more or less been agreed with both club and striker and that, if it happened, it might happen on Monday.
The notification that Logan had signed prompted a messageboard googling burst which revealed that Town have signed another left-footed right-back who can, er, play anywhere. Your Guest Diarist stayed calm. If Sven rates him, he must be good, innit? That 'innit' crept in because, rather than reading about Mr Logan on the boring old new official website, I had a look at what he had to say about himself on Faceparty. So here is the scoop: Mr Logan is a strong heterosexual, preferring Latino women like Eva Mendes. His favourite people, though, are his mum and his nan. I can even relay a quote from the young buck: "im a lovely chap hahahahaha". Far be it from me to get the young lad in trouble, but I note that the last time he logged in to his account was eleven minutes past twelve last night. He'll be a tired bear at training this morning if he doesn't watch it, eh?
Town have stupidly arranged to play their home match against Rochdale tonight. Friday night football is so popular, apparently, that a bumper crowd is expected. Because of this, admission has been reduced to a tenner and Rochdale have laid on a second bus. The good news is that the reduced admission also allows you to bring your kids for free, even if you are an away fan. By 9:15 this morning the club was reporting that it had already sold 4,000 tickets but asked me to stress "there are still plenty left". Rochdale have much better away form than at home, and are presently level on points with Town, so a keenly contested fixture is possible, with, as a professional journo might say, the added spice of Town being on a revenge mission after the embarrassing four-nil home defeat last season.
Superstitious Town fans are exulting in the fact that Dale's prolific scorer (only against Town) Simon Ramsden is injured. The Grimsby Town team news has been handily summarised on the official site in a new personalised article called Dale team news. That should of course read "Dale's team news", but maybe I split a hair too far, eh? James Hunt is back in contention, it says, but Danny Boshell is on paternity leave. Sergeant Whittle faces one of his famous late fitness tests after missing training on Thursday.
As for formation, and whether Mr Jones will rightfully keep his place after a tremendous midweek performance alongside Taylor, there is no hint from anyone. Regular readers will know that I am a dedicated fan of the interviews from Lord Buckley on Mariners World. This week's contains swearing from the great man. But delivered with such a delightful chuckle that it makes you rewind to see if he even had actually said the 'f' word. I rather got the impression, also, that Buckley himself would not have been distracted by his wife's labour in his day, but would have called in with a bunch of flowers after the match and then gone on to wet the baby's head with his mates. But these are different times, when a man has to watch, grimace, and miss the match. We will miss Boshell alright. Enjoy the game folks, and let's we hope we cap the usual good passing performance with a win. See yer.