Fail to beat Gateshead

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

FFS Not chubby Evans he would screw this club into the ground no guarantee he would take us up anyway.

There's no guarantee that any manager will get us up, including Hurst.

Quoted from denni266

I liked the Chubby evans  quote   made me laugh.  but lets face it.. Chubby Brown would do a better job than  ( im worries about the opposition  Hurst )

And he lives close by.

Quoted from arryarryarry

You mean we are storming up the league and have reached the dizzy heights of 10th place.

We're joint favourites with the bookies now to win the title. You'd never think it though reading some of the posts on here.

Quoted from GrimRob

We're joint favourites with the bookies now to win the title. You'd never think it though reading some of the posts on here.

Nor from the league table either.

Lose against the Heed  one point from six at home and IMO it will be past a joke

Win and it will be four points from six.

Draw it will be two points from six.

Thought I ought to just cover all the bases there continuing from the pretty obvious comment that losing at home is a bad thing.

So genuinely if we draw or lose at home who will then be worried because if i remember correctly only the previous saturday the majority on here said leave it until christmas ..

Interesting.

If we draw again, i think i'll spontaneously combust from frustration.

In some ways I do think it's slightly unfair to say before the game that a draw isn't good enough. We could have 90% of the ball and the ball not enter our defensive third for the entire game and still draw if they park the bus effectively. Alternatively we might get a last minute equaliser after being outplayed for the majority of the game.

That said though - the season is only getting shorter and these six pointer games won't happen every week. We MUST start with a team closer to what we finished with on Saturday that started with. Too many times this season we have finished with a stronger team than the one we started with.

Even being mostly pro-Hurst I'd say that a failure to win tomorrow night would be another nail in the automatic promotion chances coffin. I know there is plenty of games and time left but we've got to peg the other challengers back when we get the chance because we're not exactly taking all of our chances elsewhere.

I am pretty hopeful we can do it tomorrow though as I think the squad rotation wheel of misfortune is due to land on a strong starting XI.

The result makes no immediate difference to the manager. Win and we creep up a little and the manager's stock rises, draw or lose and we slip a little but he still keeps his job. It's 5th October today, if he's sacked on the 7th we wouldn't see a new bloke in post until next month at the soonest.

As far as the game is concerned he will have studied their videos and will pick his team accordingly. I've given up on the hope that one day he might set out the Grimsby stall and let the other lot study our videos.