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Diary - Thursday 15 April 2010

15 April 2010

Armchair Diary writes: It's Thursday which means it's my turn to bring you updates on the reserves, the various youth and academy teams and bugger all in the way of real news. I assume that's how today will go down anyway although I haven't actually checked the news wires to see if that really is the case.

Let's have a look...ooh, I wasn't expecting that. I can't find anything about the reserves. A quick check of the fixtures on the SNOS reveals they didn't play this week, that'll explain it. Although I thought they had rearranged games against Newcastle and Leeds coming up soon. Who knows? The SNOS cupboard is disappointingly bare when it comes to news on the ressies.

On to the youth team instead then in the hope that there is something I can say about them that will pad this diary out to a length worth me getting out of bed for. The Telewag tells us the young 'uns play Lincoln on Saturday looking to make it 12 matches without defeat. That's some going, well done lads. The result won't affect their league position though so in that respect it's perfect preparation for life in the first-team. But there are cup final places to be earned with the Midlands Floodlit Youth Cup final to be played at Blundell Park on May 3.

I wonder if it is disappointing to have the cup final at home or whether it's an advantage. OK, so the final of this competition is never going to be played out in front of a packed Wembley crowd but would you rather play the match on your home ground or does a day out somewhere else, usually a bigger ground, make it more special even if the ground is almost empty? If you've any experience in these matters, even if it's just from your schooldays, why not drop us a line and let us know your thoughts? I'd add a mailto link in to that previous sentence but when our .com domain is still down what's the point? The feedback form still works though so use that instead, eh?.

That should just leave me with the rest of the news to round up and based on previous weeks a couple of sentences should do the job. Mike Newell still has the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history. Really? I didn't know that, nor do I know why this is news today when the Messi hat-trick was in a match played last week. Maybe in 20 years time Messi will be in charge at Town and can have a crack at getting sacked in fewer games that it took for Fenty to dispense with Newell's services as a way of getting his own back. Town's relegation could be all but sealed this weekend but as this helpful article explains, even if we lose we probably won't be relegated just yet. Typical Town, prolong the agony just that bit longer. I swear they only do it to wind Mardy Diary up. Torquay, on the other hand, can make themselves safe on Saturday and their gaffer has urged them to continue their good form with a win in Cleethorpes.

Our hopes of survival were dashed some weeks ago were they not? Now we just need someone to put us out of our misery and confirm our drop from the League.