Run-in

[Col ISIHAC.]

Done 44,000 miles only! Big end has gone and my cranial-management-chip has malfunctioned to the extent that it will only hold one pertinent snippet of information at a time, but apart from that; a veritable bargain.


Here we are mid-March and all of a sudden we's running out of games. Trips to Noshit, Wesel and that tatty old place where Amber goes for her Burfdy bashes beckon - then there's the small matter of Amber & Mr Meds stomping sarff for a day out at WLP. It's all go!

That nice Mr Baird says he has no plans to make any more changes to the squad, everyone is strapped in for the ride (Though what he means by that is anyones guess) and he expects to be in the play-offs at the very least come the end of April.

SO.

What are your expectations for the remainder of the season then folks?

Up, down, sideways??

Personally, nothing short of automatic promotion will do - the play-off final is the day after I get married

[coops]

If you had asked about a month ago then simply avoiding abject humiliation would have been the answer, now we're looking at avoiding last day palpitations by securing survival well before mid April.

It could all go wrong of course!

[Giggy of Telford]

In the Unibond it's recently been bad results for a lot of the top teams. We haven't won for 6 games (last win was against Guiseley), our most recent performance was mgood against Ossett and we dominated the game from start to finih, however we couldn't score a goal. Hednesford have in recent matches only beaten last placed Grantham, earlier this year they had an impressive 3-0 win against Whitby in January but other than that have been on a poor run of form since we beat them on New Years Day. They have apparently found a new goalscorer in their manager Phil Starbuck though (2 goals in 2 matches now) Witton were on a very good run but their last two matches have been defeats to teams they should have beaten based on the league table.

It could well be that the top teams are all blowing up and it will simply be whoever blows up the least or get their form back quickest goes on to win this. As it stands we're in pole position and if we get our form back we can still win this. If we can't then on our recent form I don't fancy our chances in the playoffs. Our 2nd last game of the season is at Witton (we won the home game 3-1) and so that could be a key fixture for both teams.

It will be an exciting run-in for the Unibond title, that's for sure, even more interesting for us than usual as we are involved in it this time. Still anyone's title but we're definitely aiming to win it. we don't hae a match this Saturday but have arranged a 'behind closed doors' friendly with Welsh Premier team Bangor City in an attempt to get our confidence back.

[ambersalamander]

Diagonal, probably.

Upper mid table would be nice, and we do have some more nice easy games coming up and we are on form... unfortunately we then play the top three teams all in one week We have also played more games than all but one of the teams above us (Eastbourne, just above us, have fifty-eight games in hand, but I am reliably informed that they are losing one of these to ISIHAC's lot as I speak)

Thus, I shall accept anything in the top half of the table.

[peekay]

At the other end of the Unibond from Giggy after being bottom at Christmas and well into January,we're slowly clawing our way up the table. We've won at Lincoln United (the only team in the league who've scored less goals than we have) tonight to open up a 5 point gap over the bottom 3. ;D
I hope we can avoid the lottery of the 19th place finishers in the Unibond,BGB and Ryman leagues.
If we can win at Kendal on Saturday we'll move above them into the heady heights of 18th. Just hope we don't get vertigo! ;D