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Diary - Friday 2 November 2007

2 November 2007

Your Guest Diary has just wasted ninety minutes of his life fixing yet another obscure flipping Windows bug. So if today's Diary is a masterpiece of brevity, or even just short and shit then blame those twats at Microsoft.

I thought that my own career had some fairly unusual highs and lows but I take my hat off to that average coach but awful manager, Peter Taylor. From being boss of England (for one game admittedly) to manager of Stevenage is, what the journos would say, a rollercoaster ride. The down bit, especially.

Any road on to Grimsby Town, and the official site (which is both, erm, superb and new) has given us the injury and suspension breakdown ahead of tomorrow's game at Rotherham. Montgomery will replace the suspended Barnes in goal and it is expected that young Leigh Overton will be the sub 'keeper. Isiaiaih Rankin has had a 'stomach strain' all week and hasn't trained. Make of that what you will. The enigmatic ankle is still playing hard to get, showing nothing on an X-ray, but Bolland was having a scan on it yesterday. I expect there's a bit of floating bone playing hide and seek with the medics. I do watch House you know, so I am an expert in imagining what may be the trouble. The acerbic one-liners, I am still working on...

I don't think Bolland will play, so the midfield (assuming we go 4-5-1 in a tough away game) more or less picks itself. Lord Buckley said as much in his interview with Mariners World. He also sounded convinced that the poor run of results lately can be put down to the fact that "we never look fluent without the midfield trio of Bolland, Hunt and Boshell playing". Buckley paid tribute to the work rate this season of Rankin, but was forced to note that the goals ingredient was missing in his play. Yes, Alan, some of us had noticed. AB confirmed that Butler will play solo up front tomorrow, and the game should be interesting as those Miller boys have adopted a 4-3-3 formation lately to great effect themselves.

I have to meet a Scottish biker in Newark now, so that's yer lot for today folks. Let's hope for a battling point or summat tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend, and if you are off to the match, I hope you get something worth watching. See yer.