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Diary - Thursday 1 July 2004

1 July 2004

White rabbits, folks. July has finally arrived with a seasonably cool, and slightly showery expression on its face. Your Guest Diarist has been moping around as usual trying to think of players that he would like Town to sign. None sprang to mind today, actually. The modern player pool is more like a murky casserole, where players rise to the surface and briefly look appetising before being sucked back to the depths of the bubbling vat. What drags them down? Injury, lassitude, over ambition, under ambition, or just innate rubbishness? Hull contemplating trying to sign Nick Barmby; Steve Kabba turning down Sierra Leone last year because he still harboured plans to play for England; Luke Cornwall languishing on the subs bench at Woking; Anthony Williams, the most capped player ever for the Welsh U-21 side of whom Neville Southall once said: "He has a great future in the game. He is confident and brave, a fine shot-stopper, and can go on one day to be Wales' number one."

Williams played a fair few games for Hartlepool before falling out of favour and ending up on loan at Stockport. Released by the ‘Pools at the end of the season, Stockport manager Sammy McIlroy preferred to sign up Neil Cutler from Stoke instead, leaving Mr Williams in limbo without a club. Anyhow, the point is that he's coming for a pre-season kick about at Town according to the Official Site today. Frustratingly inconsistent seems to be the most often applied label to this keeper. As ever, we will just have to wait and see. Not so coincidentally perhaps, Aidan Davison had a chat with Russell Slade this morning, apparently, and told him that he didn't fancy playing in Town's new division, whatever they call it. So Russell stuck to his words about only wanting players who wanted Town, and cancelled Davison's contract. The big shake-out continues apace, then. Fettis, you say? Oh, he's just signed for Macclesfield on a free. See yer.