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Diary - Friday 12 March 2010

12 March 2010

Armchair Diary writes: It has fallen to me to bring you the news again so let's see what's going on in the world shall we?

Town travel to Morecambe tomorrow and with games running out this season we could do with picking up the full three points again. Unfortunately Neil Woodses will have to do without Jamie Devitt who is still suffering the groin problem that forced him off midweek. Dean Sinclair is "very doubtful" too as he has a dicky knee. Peter Sweeney's knee is a bit better than Sinclair's though and he's 50-50 to make the team, as is Olly Lancashire. As if that weren't bad enough at this stage of the season, Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro is struggling with a thigh injury and young Bradley Wood's groin is giving him grief. Nathan 'The Jar Man' Jarman is back from suspension while Tommy Wright and Ashley Chambers are likely to be available again after injuries to their achilles and ankle respectively. If Ak Ak isn't fit then Woodses can always call on Adam Proudlock after his goals in that friendly win over Forest the other day, and with Robbie Stockdale fit there is the potential to move Peter Bore into a more attacking role. What condundra eh? Or should that be conundrums? Either way I'm glad it's not up to me to work out who to put where on Saturday afternoon.

One player I forgot to mention till just now is Nick Hegarty. He came off the bench to replace Devitt on Tuesday night and did alright by all accounts. He has told the Telewag that he's raring to go after his injuries and thinks Morecambe is the ideal place to show what he can do. Let's hope so Nick as we need some Hegativity. He does make me feel old though. It seems like he's been at the club for ages and he's only 23.

So often this season the Telewag has carried a story from one of the players along the lines of "we know we've been a bit rubbish but we will get better, honest." Blond Bob Atkinson has put a slightly different spin on the tale this week saying that the players owe the away support a win and the best way to achieve that is to shore things up at the back after a couple of dodgy performances. He could have a point. The forwards have been scoring recently so if we don't concede as many as we score then we'll win. Cuh, this football lark's dead simple innit?

Tomorrow sees Macclesfield Town's first home game since the sad passing away of Keith Alexander and the club will mark the occasion with a minute's applause as well as a wreath-laying ceremony involving representative of all the clubs he managed. There's a quite moving video tribute on the Wraggs to Riches website too. OK, so it's just a series of stills rather than footage of the man in action but it's still brilliant to see the passion he exuded as well as his big smile beaming back at you. Wraggs to Riches have also produced a special memorial edition of their fanzine which you can buy here with all proceeds going to the Sacred Sports Foundation.

As usual on a Friday afternoon, the internet is starting to fill up with match previews. I've given you the main team news but for the rest of the facts you need ahead of the match at Morecambe why not check out our pre-match factfile. You know it's the only preview worth reading but if you want to read the others as a way of wasting your Friday afternoon at work don't let me stop you.