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Diary - Thursday 21 August 2008

21 August 2008

The difference between Lord Alan Buckley and that bloke Capello is that at least when Town play utterly shit Buckley usually has the honesty to say so.

Nic-Nic Nicolau has been sent home, reports the superb new official website. "Town boss Alan Buckley wanted to see how the player fared in a match situation and has now decided to allow the player to leave" we are told, before the SNOS hastily adds: "We would like to wish Nicky all the best for the future." Just in case he decides to check what they said about him when he gets home.

Town midfielder Paul Bolland has been having a word with the Grimsby Telegraph. His operation has gone OK and he says: "I'm OK and not in pain thanks to the painkillers but it's frustrating not being able to do anything apart from lie down on the sofa." Sounds like heaven to me: I suggest he watches all five series of The Wire and then starts on Homicide: Life in the Street. That will get him to Christmas without a hint of boredom. God, The Wire is just the greatest TV show - ever. I'm sure Bolly would be rooting for Omar in no time.

Now look, gentle reader, your Guest Diarist is only here because Mr Diary isn't. And it's Thursday and news is thin on the ground. So I might as well tell you that 'lucky' Hull have a cunning plan to remedy their lack of strikers. Today's Times claims the doomed Hully-Gullies have decided to try to sign a six-foot-eight-inch cook to play alongside that middle-aged retired coal miner. Rumours that Herr Maierhofer will also be required to make some snap every day for the veteran Windass cannot be substantiated at this time.

The dearth of news allows time for idle speculation as to who will play on Saturday. Surely too soon for Mr Boshell to do more than warm the bench after so long out? Did North and Jarman do enough to impress at Winterton? Will Stockdale risk his gammy leg (I really hope so)? You go off now and think about it. And email a couple of carefully crafted sentences about who should play and why. I'm likely back tomorrow so we can have a look then. See yer.