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Diary - Friday 8 October 2010

8 October 2010

Getting up on a murky muggy Friday morning to tell you how Town got on last night just feels plain weird, gentle reader. Your Guest Diarist ended last evening with a minor dose of the jitterbugs - partly because of the sporadic internet screen twitch, but mainly because of the propensity of the Town defence to do really, really crazy things. But hey, the unbeaten run continues as Town come from two down twice to get a three-all draw - as does the Town habit of beating 'form teams' and failing to beat those who can't beat anyone at all, hardly.

Afterwards manager Woods is reported as saying: "In the second half - when we headed things when we needed to head things, and we cleared things when they had to be cleared - we looked a lot better side." Couldn't have put it better myself, Neil, as it would appear that Kempson and Watt had a private bet on in the first half as to who could let the ball bounce in the more dangerous place. And as for Ridley, well, he needs to be dropped and forced to attend an intensive course of McDermott defending after a nightmare of a match. His removal boosted the fans' confidence and we ended up unlucky not to win it really. I suppose the only thing missing was a goal from Connell who couldn't quite get it right for once.

The Thursday diary never appeared, by the way, because the bloke who promised faithfully to write it apparently forgot and the bloke who has to remind folk (like a mother asking about hankies before school) was forced to work hard for a living and never got time to chase him up. What you missed was a bit of an injury update from Woodses - I seem to think he mentioned Arthur (about two weeks, which coincides with O'Donnell's loan spell), Coulson (about ten days or so), Ademeno (about two weeks) and Gobern (bit of a groin and also poorly). We got Ademeno for a realistic £10,000 at the compensation tribunal, which will no doubt infuriate the creepy Crawleys and their convicted crookster of a shouty manager.

Now, lest ye forget, Town play again on Sunday and have to trek down to Kidderminster - another of those sides who can seemingly beat anyone and lose to anyone else this season. Whether Woodses shakes up his flippant, nay, insouciant defence remains to be seen. He has the 'ain't-done-nothing-wrong-boss' Garner and the recovered teacher's pet Atkinson available. Bradley Wood is as good at left-back as he is at right and so on. Ideally we need to stay unbeaten I reckon, so reversing the shipping daft goals habit must be a priority.

So a horrible Saturday without football looms - time to cut the grass one last time, or traipse about shops or to give the pub trade a much-needed boost by sinking a few pints of decent ale. Whatever you do, enjoy it. See yer.