05/01/08

Hi all,

Things seem to be settling down at last lets hope its long term, not a lot to report.

Bannings

There has been a number of banning order appeals in the last month, 4 have been upheld with 1 still going through the process, although I am hopeful this will be as well.

Loan signings

Kenny Jackett has been given a budget to strengthen the squad, him and his team have been working flat out to finalise deals, one thing I can say is KJ is very astute, he is knows what he wants and what we should be paying, I am confident he will only bring players to Millwall that will add value to the current squad, he is a strong believer in discretion and play his cards close to his chest as he feel s it puts the club in a much stronger negotiating position, I wish I could give you a list of players but I cant.

We all must have noticed the way the team are digging deep to get the results, I was worried we would struggle during December due to the long list of first teamers injured, W6 D2 L3 is a good start to the Jackett era lets hope he can build on it and give us the success we deserve and have been starved of for so long!

Upcoming election

My term as FOTB ends at the end of the season, it has been a very eventful 18 months and really opened my eyes to the internal workings of my beloved Millwall.

Meeting with the club

I have been asking for people to get in touch with me if they want to come in a have a meeting with a member of the board, the offer is still open just get in touch petergarston@hotmail.com

Dockers Day

Chris Bethel and myself have arranged a further "dockers day" where we celebrate our clubs history and heritage, our nickname prior to 1903 was "the dockers" so we need to make sure our history isn’t forgotten, we want any old dockers to write in a letter with a short overview of how it was to be a docker and follow Millwall, some of the stories from the last one were hilarious, so if you or any one in your family are dockers get them to drop us a letter c/o the club, the best letters selected will be invited to a VIP day at the Den on Feb 23rd when we play Port Vale, we hope to have the majority of the 59 unbeaten run team in attendance as well.

We have several places left for this so get in touch if you have a family member who would like to attend.

As always any questions/queries write to me c/o the club or email direct petergarston@hotmail.com

Pete