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Indeed - I remember it well! Another possible trip next season if...if...

I think you can add Asa as someone carrying an injury, though still playing - it looked like he expected to go off after 70 minutes v Barnet, and two games a week may be too much for him right now. I'd expect him to sit out either tomorrow or the Trophy game.

Minneapolisgull wrote: ↑01 Feb 2021, 01:58 If for some bizarre reason Sutton win promotion will they take it? I remember a few years ago when they were doing well I heard they would not take promotion as they would have to rip up there plastic pitch which they would not be prepared to do. Does anyone know if this correct?

I've no idea, but in normal circumstances that would save a team from being relegated from League 2, rather than promote someone else instead.

Minneapolisgull wrote: ↑01 Feb 2021, 01:58 Second question
If they vote to null and void league on Monday. Does that mean no promotion or relegation. Would they not just do what they did last year? If not why! We are just under half way. Does anyone know the answer?

They could decide to settle the season on the current table, but with less than half the season played that wouldn't widely be seen as fair, I suspect. Obviously we'd think it was great, but imagine if you were relegated on such a basis? Null and void means pretending the season didn't happen - this is what happened from step 3 down last season. You have to feel for teams like South Shields, who were 12 points clear at the top of the Northern Premier with just 9 games left - and didn't go up. I will be deeply upset if our season goes the same way!

Chesterfield in the last game of the 2010/11 season as we made the League Two playoffs - 5002. Quite remarkable if we beat that this weekend.

The highest ever NLS attendance is 5,022 for Weymouth winning the title in 2006.

Borehamwood site says 3pm, which makes more sense.

https://www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk/

(Sorry, Gloomy Gull - just seen that you said that in your first post! It's got to be 3 I reckon)

The biggest criticism of this I've heard is that it's hard for the highest seeded team to prepare for a game after a couple of weeks' break while the others fight it out amongst themselves; I seem to remember some rugby types moaning that this was actually a disadvantage.

Personally, I don't think the current system is 'fair' but it does make things interesting - and anyway, weren't we the first club to get promoted after finishing 7th?

I see it's going to be a week of staring at the table and working through scenarios in our heads; one of the remarkable features is that not only are there seven teams who could go down, for all but Aldershot it's in their own hands. The Colchester game is vivid in my mind too - especially the AFC fan(s?) who'd come to watch us in the hope of getting MK relegated. Bet he's not wishing us well for next Saturday...

Well, that was throughly depressing.

The performance on the pitch was thoroughly depressing. Bradford looked like they were fitter, and more awake, from the start, and our early lead felt like an unexpected gift - which is why it didn't last too long. It seemed inevitable they'd score from the free kick, and they did, and the second and third were no surprise either. We were second to almost every ball all day, and if you'd been tempted to put that down to playing against a vicious wind in the first half things didn't get much better in the second, and with the possible exception of Macklin who looked at least willing to run about a bit none of the subs changed anything. On this performance we're already down, so let's hope it was just one of those days - Bradford certainly looked a lot better than their league position merits.

In order to distract me, a few on the pop side decided to sing 'England, England', God Save the Queen and Vindaloo just before half time. I've never heard anything like this at Plainmoor - ever - and this sudden outbreak of national feeling seemed to me clearly racist. For the hard of thinking: singing England songs at a league two game isn't a claim of patriotism (you're excused the day after we win the World Cup), it's an attempt to say that your opponents aren't English. I don't get to many games these days as work prevents it - certainly not as many as those who I went and confronted about what they were singing - but I've been to many, many games but never before come across such nonsense; when we can abuse opponents for being northern we've never needed it. I was ashamed to be a Torquay fan today, but not ashamed enough to let a few idiots take my club away from me, which is why I went and said something. For the record, I didn't get the police involved - when on someone else's say-so they came and asked I told them it was taken care of, and in the second half it mostly was. It's for us as fans, not them, to decide what's allowed - and today we needed more support for the team and less abuse of the opposition.

Back to the football - how on Earth do we cope without Poke? Let's hope he's back for Gillingham.

Chris Lintott

I'm braving the worst of the Easter railway nonsense and will be down. It certainly feels like a must win, and will do so until about quarter to five...

Saah
Howe
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The fans.

Ran into a couple of Oxford fans who explained that they were safe, just deliberately taking it easy and coasting into the playoffs (!) and that the important thing from yesterday was that they should have won. The attitude of this three-sided club with its fans who talk as if they have a long history of premier league trophies really winds me up, and I will be delighted if we take three points on Monday.

I'd be surprised if we get that many given that budgets must be beginning to stretched. I shall be there, though, and I hope to see as many Gulls as possible lubricating vocal chords in and around the Priory before the game - it's usually been away fan friendly before if not after matches.

First time in ages I've been able to listen in - could someone tell the commentators to describe the game more?

I remember that 1-0. Wasn't that the relegation season? Lulled by the adrenaline after what was an awful game we all sat in the pub & talked about how the team looked set for a good run...

Lowest position now 14th, and the site's frankly obscure mathematics is predicting we'll be 3rd at the end of the season.