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25 september 2001
Kendo on his way back.

Great result against West Brom, especially down to 10 men. I was listening to the game on one of the national radio stations and they gave the final score as 0-0 which I thought was a great result away to the Baggies but when I learnt it was 0-1 and we had 10 men for a good part of the game I knew we were back on track and hopefully have had our little hiccup.

By all accounts on Sunday (23rd) at the training ground we were the better team and had the best chances, Hughesy and Andy Roberts had a great game and Kelvin was as good as ever in goal. The best thing is that we have Kenny, Peter and Damo very close to playing for the reserves and hopefully they'll be knocking on the door of the first team very soon.

My own situation has slightly improved but not as fast as I'd hoped, I had my left ankle looked at by the club surgeon and he wanted to clean the ankle out thinking there would be some debris from years of tackling in there, he said he found bits of bone but nothing really significant that would be causing major problems. In fact he said I had a good ankle, structure wise, and had just bruised where the bones attach to each other, hopefully it won't be much longer but I'm not setting targets anymore as I'm a bit gutted not to be with Kendo and Pete training over at the bank. All I can do is keep strengthening the muscles around my ankle and keep my fitness at a high level ready for when I do return. Being my last year of contract I'm desperate to get back and prove myself.

No knocks to report from the weekend but Alan Kimble and Jermaine have been in to have their backs loosened off, could be the long travelling on the coach lately as much as anything.

Trond looks like he'll be ready for selection this week, if he misses Tuesday then he thinks he will be okay for Saturday.

Ards still is struggling with ankle ligaments and could be anything between 2 and 4 weeks from now.

Rob Gier is all set to train this week which is good news.

Blackers, Kjetil, Andreas and Juppy are the other long termers with myself, so I'll keep you updated on those players as they get closer to full fitness.

Nothing more has been said to the players about MK and the proposed moving, it seems to have gone a bit quiet, again I'll keep you updated on that situation if anything breaks.

The fat tests were done last week again and everyone has been keeping control of their body fat, with only 2 people increasing and that was only by half a millimetre so nothing really. Most people had lost some fat from the last time, and the players with the least body fat included Juppy, Lionel and Patrick with the lowest of all being Ansah Owusu.

Away from football the band has had a photo shoot with 442 magazine which hopefully will look okay! Trond has been asked to list his top 10 albums of all time so we've been reminiscing about LP's we used to and still do have. I have quite a few records from the 80's in my Mum's loft including some rare Guns and Roses picture discs.

The piano is coming on okay but I'm still struggling with the sharps and flats, I hope that's as hard as it gets!

I don't know if anyone has seen it, but I've been watching re runs of "the old grey whistle test" on BBC2 and seen some amazing demos by bands before they were famous. My favourite being Lynyrd Skynyrd's freebird, I thought that was an awesome showing and it prompted me to go and buy the 30th anniversary edition DVD of the "whistle test".

Here's to the start of a good run now, with minimum injuries. The league's still wide open and it's still very early in the season. We still have every chance.

Gareth.