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Diary - Friday 14 August 2009

14 August 2009

Good morning campers. The weather forecast is set fair, and the emergency loan goalkeeper is signed. Young Mr Overton must be in a mixed state of teenage despair and secret relief. Last night manager Newell swooped (stop it!) to sign the pleasingly named Tommy Forecast on a month's loan. Nearly 23, and bloody huge, the lad is so highly rated by all and sundry that he has been kept back in reserve his entire life. So if he plays tomorrow he will make his league debut. Forecast left Spurs, where he had done well in their academy, to get first-team football. Unfortunately he went to a club that already had two half-decent keepers, so for the first season he didn't even get a game for Southampton reserves. Town's superb new official site, copying and pasting from Forecast's profile on the Southampton club website, tells us he is tipped as "a future potential England keeper". Whether Mr Capello will be seen at BP tomorrow remains to be seen. Tell us if you see him.

Your Guest Diarist should of course mention that all this late evening swooping was caused by Colgan's groin. The extent of his discomfort clearly shows in Colgan's face as the SNOS announced his injury yesterday afternoon. What would be secretly amusing, and incredibly frustrating to Mr Forecast (and of course Mr Capello if he turns up), is if Newell puts him on the bench tomorrow. But Newell told the Town subscription channel yesterday that Overton is not ready for league football just yet, unlike, erm, our Tommy.

The Cod Almighty T-shirt man has just excitedly burst in to the CA diary room brandishing a Revolucion T shirt. They will be in the post to you lot tonight. And damn fine they look too. By the way, in an effort to break Town's losing streak, the Tom Newey shirt CA received for sponsoring the useless git last season will be ceremonially burned at noon today.

"Are you worried about those defensive mistakes?" asked Dale politely. "Hah, not worried really - you will always get mistakes," replied Mr Newell, echoing his England counterpart, before going on to explain that Town are making chances, which is the most important thing. The goals will come, the defensive lapses will always happen but as long as we score more, etc. I'm sure he is right actually, but I will be most glad when I've seen the team play well for a whole game and collect some points.

List mania continues in our national newspapers, but today Town stalwart Macca features - being about 5th in the all-time list of one-club players featured in the Independent. Have you noticed how that paper is slowly descending into a sort of pseudo-intellectual Daily Mail? Tragic, really.

So, with extra season tickets sold, and some at least of the masses availing themselves of the cut-price ticket deal to make a decent crowd, let's hope the Re-Newell starts tomorrow at home to the new Crewe. The one that doesn't play football any more. And if Burnsy gives CA one more plug on Humberside he will be halfway to a free T-shirt. Hang on though - he'll be at Chelsea watching Hull get torn apart. Let's hope Town play football and win. See yer.