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Diary - Thursday 28 April 2011

28 April 2011

Why are you here, gentle reader? There's nothing to learn here today. Your Guest Diarist is belatedly scribbling something today because Part-Time Diary has been sent to Milton Keynes by his boss on offshore banking business. The tumbleweeds of news are far and out of sight so if you insist on something to read then I'll dip my hand deep in to the googlesack and see what comes out.

Well, Robbie Stockdale has alarmed the Telegraph readers by telling them he's worried for the youth team at Town. For the first two seasons of our non-League status we get half what we used to from the League (by bank transfer, I understand, rather than the quaint populist parachute payment method). But hey, there's a whole season to go before that wasp bites us. And the superb new official Town website has promised an interview with Mr Stockdale where he, ermm, takes stock of the youth squad for us. In terms of who's succeeding and who is failing and that sort of thing. But it's not published yet for us to chew over. What I do know is that the news is bad for quite a few of the yoof.

And Bradley Wood has confirmed our best and worst suspicions about the new managers. He's their kind of guy. All-action, fit and runs until he drops. But a bit clueless once he gets the ball. The tactics will be simple next season - win the ball, win it back again. Win the ball and get it as fast as possible to the other end - the danger end. If you concede a few free kicks it shows you have desire to win the ball and that you are doing your closing down. Leary and Wood - the dream partnership. Athletic, mobile, aggressive. Leary and Wood - the nightmare partnership. Can't pass, no vision, little skill.

Town are marooned in 10th place while Wimbledon are equally marooned in second. So will they go easy on us, afeared of injuries affecting their play-off line-up? Well, we can hope. But more on that tomorrow. See yer.