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5 February 2021

Bwahaha, you thought it was safe to go back on your internets and social medias after the transfer window closed? Fools, I can tell you that takeover rumours and smug in-the-know, tap of the nose tweets have swooped in and snapped up bandwidth after a month of transfer gossip issued a 'come and get me' plea.

Worry not, Daubney Diary is not here to add to the noise. I'm going to keep this brief so we can all return to trying to guess Sam Strandt's takeover url and refreshing Twitter at an unheathy rate.

I haven't looked at the league table in weeks. The last occasion led to case of those cute French Aldi beers that come in the diddy green bottles and the hatching of a plan involving Dock Tower and a sniper rifle. With caution, I paused Ceefax on page one this morning to take a look at the top half and see how many points clear tomorrow's opponents Newport are at the top. What the hell, they're seventh??!! 

What about Podge, he must still be scoring a few, right? Well he'd need to be on the pitch first and that hasn't always been the case lately. My favourite player in the league has only started one game in their last six. Could this be related to Newport's slump? We can only hope they don't see sense by 3pm tomorrow.

Like us, the transfer window didn't just shut for Newport, they beat it into submission with the wet end of an unwanted loan striker's left leg. With their eight signings and eleven outgoings during January, tomorrow's game, and hopefully outcome, should bear no resemblance to the 2-0 stroll that County enjoyed on their visit to Cleethorpes in December.

By the way, one of their signings was Priestley Farquharson, a defender from Connah's Quay. Yes, I'm only mentioning him because of his name. Count your stars, the alternative space-filler was a convoluted yet somehow still painfully unoriginal yarn involving another new signing, Nicky Maynard, and confectionery. What was my point again? Oh yeah, they're no great shakes and half the team are strangers, let's roll them over and keep me and my rifle out of Dock Tower.

What about us and our 9 (NINE) new/new-ish players. Well, Matt Dean gave Dale a good run for his money for Interview of the Week in his chat with Joe Bunney by giving literal meaning to the phrase "car crash interview" yesterday. Joking aside, good to hear the story and good luck, Joe.

Joe incidentally has bagged the number 3 shirt, with other numbers confirmed by Sam as John-Lewis 21, Eastwood 44, Adams 45. Come on guys, are there no Hithchiker's Guide fans at the club? Surely a gaping open goal missed by the commercial to shift boxes of crap Errea shirts there with Adams 42.

Any more for the last of the footballers? Free agent Julien Lamy is still training with us but Hursty's hopes to make it a full team of new signings have been dashed by more contract shenanigans with Hereford. After they almost scuppered LJL's move and ended up in a FA investigation, this time Giles Coke is the victim. Bulls boss Josh Gowling has gone in studs up on this one by mentioning the words "due" and "dilligence" related to one another in a sentence. No official comment has come from GTFC amid cries from the office of "Phil, where's the dictionary?" and "bloody hell, not again".

That's your lot. For a meatier cut, check out Baz Whittleton's new thought provoking and occasionally terrifying read on club ownership, the upcoming AGM and the Mariners Trust. It raises some good questions and we'd welcome your views on them. Enjoy your weekend and UTM.