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Diary - Thursday 23 September 2010

23 September 2010

Yeah Town! Come on Town! Yeah Town! Do-It-For-The-Shirt Diary is feeling positive! We're by far the grea... hold on a second... nynnggg... there, back to normal. None of that false positivity here. Gritty Northern Realist Diary has scanned t' world's media for a sniff of something Town to report and discovered that Neil Woods has recruited Bury striker Danny Carlton on loan. Our Danny made his name at Morecambe and scored at Wembley to take them into the Football League. Since then, however, goals have been harder to come by for the latest temporary Mariner.

As Town have borrowed practically the entirety of the Football League at some stage of the last two and bit seasons, t' Diary is adopting a wait and see approach. Will Carlton be more Conlon (who was rather good during his loan spell) than Ameobi (who wasn't)?

Apparently, Town are also looking to extend keeper Richard O'Donnell's loan spell at the Park on t'Umber. As yesterday's diary noted, O'Donnell is closer to Henderson than Forecast on the sliding scale without actually reaching the top end of that scale. With Town, though, competence is a rare commodity these days so we count our blessings and hope he does stay at least until Arthurs can play again.

Finally, while some cretin on 5 Live sycophantically crawled all over "Mr Scunthorpe" Graham Taylor, the Iron - fresh off the Adkins Diet - were being picked off by Man Utd. Or rather Man Who? As their 5-2 winning margin was completely eclipsed by the 8-2 and 6-1 beatings dished out to our neighbours' under-9s and under-11s respectively. Even though at that age we all had to earn a proper living it's nice to see that attacking football is alive and well in Great Grimsby. A symbol of good times (a decade) ahead? We can but hope. Oh yeah, and some other Town representative age group team played against Scunny. We'll not go into detail.