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21 march
2002
Fact and
fiction.
Sorry for
the delay, plenty of things have been going on- great results,an illness
to the gaffer and loads of rumours about players at the club, some fact
some fiction and some still up in the air.
On a personal front, I've been back training with the first team and reserves
but have yet to start a game for either since I missed a couple of weeks
training with a kick to my heel. I'm hoping to get a start with the reserves
up at Filbert Street on Monday (march 25) night. The ressies have had
a couple of good wins lately and some of the younger players namely Adam
Nowland, have worked their way into the first team squad. The reserves
are uncertain which league they will be in next season, the rules state
that if a club has dropped out of the Premier League then the reserves
have 2 years to play in the reserve Premier league then they must drop
down to the Nationwide reserve league, sounds a bit complicated but the
rules may be changed next year and our reserve side may keep Premier League
status we'll have to wait and see.
That would be irrelevant though if the first team can keep on this great
run and make the play-offs. We are well in reach of them and Sheff Utd
beating Millwall did us the world of good on Tuesday night. We have the
most favourable run in out of all the clubs up there but we still need
the other teams to lose- I think it's going to go right to the wire.
One person we will miss in the next few games though is Dave Connolly
who has hit some great form in the last few games, unfortunately though
his sending off will cost us dear and we will be without him for 4 games,
a real blow. Adam Nowland may get his chance sooner than he thought but
he's been in an incident too, a car crash near his Surrey home. He trained
on Tuesday and looked like he'd been beaten up. Cuts and bruises all over
his face and about 6 butterfly stitches, probably not the last scars he'll
get but hopefully not too many more outside of football.
Other injuries at the moment include Hakan who is still feeling his groin
and Hughsie who is still sore around the ankle, he tried it on Tuesday
in training but looked below par and admitted he was carrying it the whole
time. Shipps is back though and could be a straight replacement for Dave
on Saturday against Grimsby.
The most
recent injury picked up is the gaffer, he was rushed to hospital with
appendix problems on Saturday and it is quite serious by all accounts,
hopefully he'll make a full recovery as quick as possible. But for now
Stuart Murdoch has taken over the managerial hotseat while the gaffer
is away and has a 100% record so far.
Now to these rumours, firstly myself- I was linked with a loan move to
Bristol City a few weeks ago and this was true but I felt I could still
break back into the team here and so turned them down. The next one was
a story about QPR on Sunday, apparently I have turned them down. All I
can say is this is news to me- I haven't heard anything from QPR.
Another story
recently linked Coops with West Ham - this was untrue, but he has been
linked with West Brom. I think Wimbledon accepted an offer for him but
Coops says he's staying put. Lionel seems to be linked with another club
every week so it's difficult to say what is rubbish or not and finally
Kenny was rumoured to be going to Millwall on loan. I asked Kenny about
this and he gave me a look as if to say "Gareth I think you know
the answer to that without me saying anything" so I'll take that
as Kenny will be staying.
I've received quite a few e-mail's from people wishing me all the best
since the news that I will more than likely be going on a free in the
summer. I have a great bond with all the supporters and thank everyone
for all their support throughout my time here, you never know I could
yet play a big part in this season, football is a funny game. (sorry for
the cliché).
Anyway here's
a mention to all who mailed me,
Thanks to: Darren Leach, Niall from Y&B, Julian Ehrhardt, Dan, Nick
Lehmann, Steve Crowhurst, Andy Minas, Trevor Warner, George Hackforth-Jones,
Chris Newman, M.T. & A.S. from the Holmesdale Road stand, Helen Young,
Nick Palmowski, James Bruce, Iain Halstead, Tudor Jennings, Gareth (cool
name) Bayon, Matt, Jamie Weir, Mark Andrews, Michael, Antony Butler, Lee
Finch, Gerald Morgan, Kevin Rye, John Perrie and Dave Challinor who also
enclosed a scan of his unborn baby, hope everything went ok Dave. Sorry
if I missed anyone or got any spellings wrong.
Finally here's a picture of me and the amazing Disabled Football team
here at Wimbledon, the game was earlier this season and I've only just
been sent the photo. I was proud to be in this picture and wish everyone
involved in that game all the best.
Gareth.
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