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Diary - Monday 22 March 2010

22 March 2010

Mardy Diary writes: Ah. It's March - can you smell that winning feeling? Pity then, that there's only one more March match left and it's away at Rochdale. If it was any other month I'd expect a four-nil thumping, but as it's March I'm thinking sneaky one-nil win against the run of play. I'm not even thinking about April right now, and don't get me started on May. One game at a time, Ron, isn't it? Hmmm.

One player who'll be looking to play a part again next week is loanee-in-waiting Ashley Chambers. I've just watched his goal again on the BBC highlights and I agree with Woods - it's actually really, really good. Very calm, good power, well placed - we haven't seen much of that this season. Ash is also attempting to get himself integrated in the building by introducing his own management speak to interviews. John Fenty will be loving a bit of that. Young Ashley promises to bring more goals to the table - but which table is that Ashley? Which table is that? I hope it's not an occasional table! Although, yes, an occasional table is better than no table at all - and certainly better than the Conference table. What the hell am I talking about?

The match highlights also confirm that Coulson chested the ball in to the goal and didn't use his hand as some may claim. Yes - it looks like his hand, but I ran the footage past Football League referee Mark Haywood and he confirmed that, yes, it was definitely his chest. He even did that referee gesture thing by patting his hand against his chest. So that's that. No arguments.

In further news, Woods confirms that it was he - not Fentee - that instigated the appointment of Deehan. It's all part of the Woods Masterplan - that being the plan to actually run the club professionally, from top to bottom. Or anywhere is a start. Deehan seems to be taking on some sort of hybrid coach/scout/physio/scoreboard operator role - basically the bits that Woods hasn't got time to do, while also offering a "wise head" to the... unwise? This was in the response to a rumour that Deehan was installed to replace Woods as manager - everyone seems to 'rubbish' rumours these days don't they? There's not enough 'scotching' going on any more - scotching was how it used to be done, before all this modern, er, rubbish. And there's definitely no pooh-poohing anymore. Yes - I am talking shit.

Oh and if you were wondering where we went - we were still here. Although you probably haven't found us again as I write this. For future reference: if codalmighty.com doesn't work, try codalmighty.net. If neither work, get your tin hat, sit under a table and await the alien invasion. Seeya.