New striker and Convery

Interesting to see that JQ has confirmed messageboard rumours to the CEN & official website that Mark Convery was left out on Saturday due to the former York man's bad attitude.

I had high hopes for Mark at the start of the season, and still feel he has the skill to play the link roll between midfield and attack successfully. Unfortunately he has only displayed this sporadically, instead preferring to patrol the centre circle in most games contributing little.

He also seems to have been carrying a few pounds since the start of the campaign. Is it a coincidence that he is sponsored by Spickett's the Bakers? I think not, and indeed who can blame him if he has been sampling a selection of their fine pastry based delicacies.

Anyway, yeah, hopefully he will knuckle down now and force his way back into the team, but then again he doesn't seem to be the knuckling down type, so we'll have to see. JQ's assertation that he might want regular first team football at this stage of his career would seem to suggest that his days at the Abbey are numbered.

Meanwhile, perhaps Jimmy began his search for the new Scott Rendell by taking in the Ipswich v Northampton reserve match on Monday. It remains to be seen whether he spotted anyone with the potential to turn into a money-grabbing judas git, but tractor boys striker Jordan Rhodes, who has experience of the Conference with Oxford, could be a potential target.