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Diary - Monday 7 December 2009

7 December 2009

Making allowances for the division we are in etc etc it was a damn good game on Saturday. Half decent referee; chances at both ends and a goal apiece. Your Guest Diarist spent the journey home trying to work out, injury and indiscipline permitting, what is our best team. Coulson definitely works playing him out on the left. And the Jarman will back soon to play wide right (Featherstone for me has been a nonentity - but then he originally said he didn't fancy playing for Town so what exactly did we expect?).

When Proudlock is match fit he will be the best bloke to lead the line for us in my opinion. His partner is problematic. Akpro threatens to do something but his finishing is woeful (he has not scored in over twenty games). North is lacking confidence (although his control when he took the ball down from over his shoulder out on the wide right was Jarmanesque indeed; the two cross attempts which followed were utterly crap), Forbes is a basket case and as for Barry fucking Conlon, well the new-club novelty has worn off for him like it always does. The young loanee looks a bench signing. Which is a bit mad because our bench is full of squad strikers already. Like Conlon.

Sweeney showed the two sides of him on Saturday - a glorious free kick which would have gone in nine times out of ten; some thoughtful probing passing and a stupid over-elaborate piece of play in front of his own box that led to the dreaded-but-fully-expected equaliser. Leary is no James Hunt but the nearest we've got to one at present. Look we don't need a load of players - just pick the best ones, get them to play for each other and for us and we are half way there. Maybe Hudson will get back to his best - his best is more than good enough to give us a half-decent midfield.

Sorry gentle reader - if you are looking for news there isn't any (beyond the obligatory post match platitudinal stuff). So while I'm riding that hobbyhorse I might as well publicly hope that new team coach Casper will find time to keep developing the young lads who have had a few first team games this season and then dropped out of favour again. Wood(s), Shahin, Fuller and the others. Including Widdowson of course. The current crop of Town youth graduates need some more nurturing to help them keep improving. I'm sure that Woods(es) has thought of that though - he's good with kids. See yer.