Hand Foot and Mouth.

You always felt even in the heady times of the four musketeers that they needed a hand in there. Now they have the Iron fist, of Jamie Hand who at 23 has already played 40 games in the championship. Fresh in from Chester he has more yellows than Kerr & Stallard put together, is 6 foot, strong, mobile and able to pass. Schoeys dreem will it appear centre on us winning the midfield battle and this is the cockney geezer to do it. Take no prisons and a 90 minute dialogue that will motivate even the long term lodgers in the cathedral to get a tackle in.

Kerr has to say the least needed someone to help out at times. This as well as the Captains band may have been one burden too many for a warrior of the highest order. Sadly despite the will of Atlas his distribution`s a bit like a stag on a stag night. As captain it would seem he was severely hampered when it came to leading by example.

Talking of stags, Saturday`s game at rivals Mansfield saw Schoey continue with his attacking instincts, electing for Hand to mop up and give short to Freck or the exciting Dani Gasman according to one elderly lady still trying to find her teeth. One thing is for sure Dani is blooming like a young Henry, Schoey is his Arson Wenger, as the chrysalis has becomes a winged marvel just like the teenage Henry of Highbury who turned inside and scored so many times they decided to make him a centre forward. Ah Dani, a goal at last. Youth, impudence pomp and power read DNG the lad who likes to say Yeeee – esss! a winger who brings your blood to the boil, then cranks up the heat unleashing a ferocious drive. Though it took a deflection it`s the perfect way to answer conceding a goal. The competition between Hand. Foot (Frecks, undoubted gifts going forward) and Mouth (Scott gives as much as he gets ask the Co Op) will enable our midfield to adapt. At times Kerr and Hand may have to snuffle out the middle leaving the creativity to Dani on the left and Dodds, who`s famed Imp namesake, Ephraim ‘Jock’ Dodds died but a year ago. Or perhaps Frecks could still feature in a trio or front of three midfielders and behind the front two. Mmm three forwards from a pick of Dani, Dodds, Forester, Stallardicus or Wright. Now that, a central defender and a full back could be the smackings of a plan.

Now the Imps may have jumped from bottom to ninth but that is not the biggest event to occur this week. No that is the mood swing in the Imps camp. Schoey has got one more piece of the jigsaw that will allow his brand of attacking football to compete and defeat the evil that abounds in league two. For beauty to tame the beast we will have to win ugly. And despite the plaudits queuing for his autograph from the terraces Jamie Hand won`t be getting £10 from each player for coming second in a beauty contest.