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Diary - Tuesday 15 September 2009

15 September 2009

A couple of good run-outs from Josh Lillis have already helped to consign the disastrous loan signing of Southampton keeper Tommy Forecast to the dustbin of our painful memories. Thinking about it, it's more of an entire Fresh Kills Landfill of painful memories than a mere dustbin, but that's by the by, because the point of this paragraph is that Lillis' parent club Plucky Scunthorpe United have responded to their young custodian's impressive start to life at the scenic end of the M180 by handing the player a new contract (which is four years long according to the BBC, Sporting Life and - oh, dear - Town's superb new official website, but three years in length according to the Irons themselves, who you'd hope ought to know). Notwithstanding its duration, the new deal for Lillis only adds weight to the charge that, after the experience of Martin Paterson, Rob Jones and Liam Trotter, every time Town discover a really good player, he ends up being signed by Scunny.