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Diary - Wednesday 19 December 2007
19 December 2007
He came on loan from Donny. He plays in defence, or as a sort of wing-back type thing, I think, unless I'm getting him mixed up with that other lad. He's sort of OK, or at least better than nothing. And he's staying for another month. Well, you try writing an exciting intro for a news item about Sam Hird extending his loan for a further 28 days as his initial spell at Blundell Park was due to expire tomorrow and Alan Buckley was keen to retain the services of the player going into the busy Christmas period. Doncaster have an option to recall him at 24 hours' notice, injecting a very slight but much-needed note of tension and uncertainty into a decidedly humdrum story.
Town's superb new official website has published the starting line-up for tonight's reserve game at home to Leeds. They've also published the substitutes, and not said which are which. The SNOS gives the name of Straight Peter Bore immediately after that of Gary Montgomery, suggesting that Town's dude with the 'tude will appear at right-back, as he did in when the two sides met at Elland Road last week (oh, those haunting urinals), but if the positions on the official teamsheet are to be read as corresponding with the actual positions to be taken up by the players on the pitch then Nathan Jarman will be partnering Jamie Clarke in central defence. Still, stranger things have happened. Town starting to keep clean sheets, for instance.
Martin Robinson has emailed in response to yesterday's DIARY SCOOP about Ofcom rejecting John Fenty's complaints about Radio Humberside. "If anybody's bullying then it's John Fenty," opines Martin. "Again his PR skills are called into question. Why fall out with one of the few media outlets available to GTFC? He wants the best for the club, but you have to accept criticism and he plainly can't." Yes - the chairman receives a good deal of unfair criticism, but one suspects that, like most self-made business types, he may be too used to people telling him everything he does is fantastic to be able to recognise his own occasional unfabulousness. "Oh and have you heard that all the club's cafés will close next year, in a cost-cutting measure? Burger vans only and allowed to charge what they bloody like, and the girls employed by the club out of jobs. Of course if the books look better then so what, but what about employing local people and their sense of belonging to the club?" I hadn't heard that, Martin, no - although if the kiosks are losing money then surely Fenty would be justly criticised for leaving them open?
Today's second email comes from our virtual friends at impsTALK, the cunningly named and rather brilliant Boston United website, who have been looking at the two visual impressions of Town's proposed new stadium published recently on the superb new official website. "You have our deepest sympathies. The photos of the Fentydome made us want to blow our collective head off. The shameless lack of imagination and brazen contempt for tradition is quite staggering - yet all too familiar. We reckon it took all of eight minutes for the cognitively-challenged baby monkey to design both the Dome and the surrounding retail development, probably by bashing its head repeatedly against a keyboard marked 'Keepmoat' in exchange for a banana. Those responsible for approving/re-approving/endorsing/green-lighting/re-green-lighting and rubber stamping the plans for this vacuous excuse for a shack, rather than tossing them into a pit of shit as they should be, need herding into the Humber without hesitation - and they can take their corporate Sky Sports whore-bar, 800 acre car-park and fizzy sell-out lager with them. The twats." Yep, that's pretty much how the Diary sees it too. If it ever gets built, I'll see you at York Street every fortnight instead.