Playoff dates

[3spirit]

The league is St Newts to lose and has been before a ball was kicked. It's a testimony to how well we've done that it's February and they haven't overtaken us yet......but they will. We'll be in the playoffs but going into them in a strong position as opposed to previous seasons where we've done it in fifth place. There's no shame in finishing behind a team that's paid out on the players St Newts have.

 

Talk about pessimistic,Ian!

No one knows for sure what is going to happen unless of course,you're God!

 

I believe we have the best chance this year, out of the three years we've been trying. As long as we don't freeze in the big games to come ie St Neots,Bedworth,Sycob etc like we did against the speedy,fast on the break, Bedworth side.Our team/squad is good enough to be champions and with some pride,spirit and mettle we can beat anyone in this league.

 

Come on you,Rebels!

 

Not being pessimistic, just realistic! St Newts will be under achieving if they don't walk away with the title given the nature of players in their team and the infrastructure they have. We've done brilliantly considering we're without a home and playing on a cabbage patch.

 

Ian, I agree with you in regards to the state of Beaconsfield's pitch but am not convinced that St Neots winning the championship is a forgone conclusion,as you seem to infer.

 

Slough have been in the play-offs for the past two seasons and must have a decent budget to have assembled the squad we have. St Neots have only been in this league this season and while they probably have a larger budget and better stadium,that is irrelevant to how the teams play when they are on the pitch.We have, just as good a chance as they do.

 

As we both know, anyone can beat anyone in this division,on their day. The St Neots match to come should be a corker but we proved at home we could beat them,so have nothing to fear,regardless of their players.The onus will be on them,being they're at home.So that could be an advantage,as nobody likes to be the favourites.

We seem to be building comraderie and togetherness within our squad and have plenty of larger than life characters in the team.If we 'front up' and play to our strengths, we can win the vast majority of our games left including the matches against the title chasing bunch.

Steve Bateman/Fred Cummings should have enough experience to get us over the finishing line without being in the play-offs but we will need,inevitably, some luck for that to happen.

 

I'm convinced if we don't 'bottle it', we can WIN IT!