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Diary - Tuesday 1 December 2009

1 December 2009

Unfortunately for our beloved chairman, your Idle Diarist isn't into grassing up adults who should know better. After all, when you're a well paid, supposedly finely tuned footballer, it's bleedin' obvious to the paying public when you're playing with a hangover.

Another example: take today's Grimsby Telegraph, reducing the Grimsby Town Football Club plc AGM to a piece of sensationalist codswallop, reporting the chairman answered allegations of a drinking culture within the club. Is that really the most important thing to come from the AGM? Fenty claiming the club has a protocol on no booze 72 hours before a game? I'm sure Mr Blow and Ms Lalor don't need us to point and shout at this laziness and will have their staff back on top form, digging up the real results from Friday's AGM in no time!

Oi! Watch me pint! You might spill it!

Despite being 19 games into the season, it's a time for new beginnings and all that. While the new man, Neil Woods, has revealed his nerves at his very first job interview recently, he also reveals that honesty and an ability to learn are going to be the foundations of his reign. He's also moved quickly to bring in the highly thought of Chris Casper, who has most recently been head of youth development at Bradford City, to become Woods's right-hand man. Your diarist has spoken to Casper several times recently and he appears to come from a similar school of thought as Woods: articulate, appearingly thoughtful, and with a very well hidden ability to aptly choose when to let rip (shout, not fart).

Whether the Town boss needs more of a good cop/bad cop act than a like mind remains to be seen, but with the removal of the barking taskmaster Stein, the Woods restructuring has started on a number of levels. He's saying the right things, starting to overhaul the club, but will it be enough to continue our league status next season?

Barman! Another of the Leeds Best please! My glass is half full!