Reasons to be cheerful?

Not much going on in the big wide world of United this week. Apart from that it's snowing. Again. One suspects that another Histon home game will be falling by the wayside on Saturday - at this rate the Villagers won't be completing their season until July. Oh well, never mind.

Jez George becoming a director seems like a positive, if slightly pointless, step to me. Presumably it is to strengthen links with CRC, but it seems that in practical terms his job won't be changing very much. And how can someone who is an employee of the club also be a director? What I do know is that Jez and his coaches are doing a fantastic job with CRC, whose position in the Ridgeons League seems to be improving every season. Hopefully a few of this years crop will progress to the first team.

Meanwhile, United have taken Ipswich's Jai Reason on trial, a move which has surely delighted lazy headline writers (including me) everywhere. Again, this seems to be a slightly pointless given that we still have a surplus of centre midfielders, but perhaps if he does join it will precipitate the departure of Quinton and/or Convers. "He looks like he has good awareness and composure on the ball," muttered a non-committal sounding Paul Carden in the CEN. "They're prepared to do us a favour in terms of a deal, so it could benefit everybody all round". Not exactly a resounding endorsement of the lads talents, so we'll have to see whether he gives the management reason (hohoho) to get excited in the next couple of weeks.