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Diary - Sunday 27 June 2010

27 June 2010

Idle Diary writes: Some team news for tonight's game at Gainsborough Trinity, erm, tonight. As Mardy Diary noted yesterday, Town boss Neil Woods will be taking the senior squad to the game.

And while Town's relegation may have been nearly three months ago now, that time has flown by - we're only a couple of weeks away from the start of the Conference campaign. There's still time for Woods to cast an eye over his current charges, with a view to further bolstering the squad. Observers at tonight's game will see run-outs for some trialists: "former Northampton Town midfielder Alex Dyer, former West Brom defender Dwayne Samuels... and former Chelsea and Ross County defender Steven Watt", to quote the club's SNOS. Watt has already pulled on a Town top (and then subsequently played for Town) against Sheffield Wednesday a few weeks back, but Dyer and Samuels are fresh blood.

Just to repeat Mardy Diary's plea, as none of the Cod Almighty team can get to the game we'd love to hear from any of our readers who can make it tonight. The email address for your reports, short or detailed, is diary@codalmighty.com. We promise we will share your missives with all our readership and not just keep them to ourselves. (If we were the club we'd charge you for that privilege.)

Talking of trialists, as we were before that plea for reporting, there's word on Friday night's duo, Scott Brown and Lewis Nightingale. Both featured, in a mainly young Town side, at Winterton. Brown has a bit of pedigree (ie. used to be at a big club) but Woods has made it clear he is only really going to be interested if Brown can prove his match fitness, fitness being to Woods what Big Society is to Dave Cameron. Nightingale, a youngster recently released by Huddersfield, won't add anything that is already in the building. Good luck to the lad. There's a lotta people job hunting at the moment.

While Nightingale is a young 'un looking for his next chance, we'll finish with the news of Taylor Gray's trial for the England Schools' Under-18 international team. Previously a youther with Town, Gray's mum recalls he was making progress in his first season with the club before "not enjoying it the next season", and leaving the youth set-up altogether. The lad continued playing football at district and county level, and now has a chance to keep his football ambitions alive further still. Town's loss might not end up being the town and the country's loss. All the best Taylor, from all at Cod Almighty.