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its not just points we need !

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...so this is how I see it. We need to go to Daggers last game and get 3 points to get 5th place. With 90 mins gone we are 1 - 0 up (Charlie 59 mins). The board goes up and there are 4 mins of extra. In the 94th minute Daggers get a corner off a miscued clearance that could have reached the halfway line. The ball comes in and is met at the far post with a free header from their No5 and despite Cronin getting a firm hand on the ball it goes on to the post and just crosses the line in to the side netting. We kick off again and the ref blows the final whistle.

I end up fighting back tears as the players slump to the ground totally dejected.

However I have watched the Fleet for 40 odd years so always hope for the best and then assume the worst (as it usually happens) so I might have got it wrong...but if we are off to Dagenham on the last day needing 3 points...just remember this post!

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What we want on Saturday is a miraculous St Albans win over Oxford, Exeter to drop points againt Cambridge and 3 points for us - would well & truly put matters into our hands as 3 wins then would again definitely put us in the play offs (even if one of those other results doesnt happen 3 wins would do it after Saturday)

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Originally Posted By: Harry J Allstars
I think the worst thing that could possibly happen would be everyone discussing it so much that my head exploaded due to all the different scenarios that could happen. I look at the League table every hour and it still won't change. Time doesn't go any faster. God why can't it be like last season at least then we knew what was going to happen. We knew we were going to finish in a crap position.

If this was a movie I'd wind it forward to the end and watch just because this wait is doing my head in. If it were a book I'd read the last page beacuse if we lose one game and we're out and if we're out at least then we can say "oh well at least we know how it's going to end" but then if that happens we'd always be left wondering "what if" and I can't want us to lose because I want us to win so much I've never wanted anything so much the only thing that comes close is I really wanted a an Ice Cream maker when I was a kid every year at Christmas I'd ask for it but I never got it eventually it was the only thing I wanted, it was only £20 and I never ever got it well thats what this feels like what if every year we want this and every year we don't get it thats what it feels like is going to happen. It never felt like this supporting Chelsea. All the Cup Finals, Champions League matches, playing Spurs Arsenal and Man Utd every game with the Fleet feels like all my emotions I've ever experienced all rolled into one. God please let us win.


Just got my breath back from reading that, Harry, and like you, us old 'uns cannot get our heads around the fact that we are tangibly close to getting to Wembley (for the second time this year), but the almost ridiculous idea that we could actually be a football league team in 6 weeks time.
The realist in me tells me that we will finish so near, yet so far, but the romantic in me gives me notions of 65,000 at the new Wembley, publicity like we only dream about, and Macca raising the play-off trophy (if there is such a beast aloft) after a winning brace from Charlie and Sodje.
either way, we must savour the moment, like we did against Sunderland, Notts Forest, Aston Villa.
These are once a decade events if we are lucky..
In years to come we will remember this season, like that Ryman's year, with fondness and great pride.
With luck on our side, and despite what JC says, we really do seem to have been fortunate this year,something VERY, VERY special could happen, at the best stadium in the world.
For little, tinpot, Fleet.
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Originally Posted By: Chatham Gary
Originally Posted By: Harry J Allstars
I think the worst thing that could possibly happen would be everyone discussing it so much that my head exploaded due to all the different scenarios that could happen. I look at the League table every hour and it still won't change. Time doesn't go any faster. God why can't it be like last season at least then we knew what was going to happen. We knew we were going to finish in a crap position.

If this was a movie I'd wind it forward to the end and watch just because this wait is doing my head in. If it were a book I'd read the last page beacuse if we lose one game and we're out and if we're out at least then we can say "oh well at least we know how it's going to end" but then if that happens we'd always be left wondering "what if" and I can't want us to lose because I want us to win so much I've never wanted anything so much the only thing that comes close is I really wanted a an Ice Cream maker when I was a kid every year at Christmas I'd ask for it but I never got it eventually it was the only thing I wanted, it was only £20 and I never ever got it well thats what this feels like what if every year we want this and every year we don't get it thats what it feels like is going to happen. It never felt like this supporting Chelsea. All the Cup Finals, Champions League matches, playing Spurs Arsenal and Man Utd every game with the Fleet feels like all my emotions I've ever experienced all rolled into one. God please let us win.


Just got my breath back from reading that, Harry, and like you, us old 'uns cannot get our heads around the fact that we are tangibly close to getting to Wembley (for the second time this year), but the almost ridiculous idea that we could actually be a football league team in 6 weeks time.
The realist in me tells me that we will finish so near, yet so far, but the romantic in me gives me notions of 65,000 at the new Wembley, publicity like we only dream about, and Macca raising the play-off trophy (if there is such a beast aloft) after a winning brace from Charlie and Sodje.
either way, we must savour the moment, like we did against Sunderland, Notts Forest, Aston Villa.
These are once a decade events if we are lucky..
In years to come we will remember this season, like that Ryman's year, with fondness and great pride.
With luck on our side, and despite what JC says, we really do seem to have been fortunate this year,something VERY, VERY special could happen, at the best stadium in the world.
For little, tinpot, Fleet.


Bloody hell guys! I'm a 52 year old man & you've just brought a tear to my eyes. Let's remember this next time we're tempted to go overboard at each other about stupid differences of opinion.

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I have vague memories that a month or so ago I said we had been lucky, with the abandoned Halifax game when losing, with the AFC Wimbledon saga, results going our way even when we were losing, to which you questioned our luck.

I still maintain we have been lucky, perhaps even more than I originally thought, as despite some indifferent form in February and March (1 win in 8 or 9 as I recall), results of others have kept us in touch with the play offs.

Maybe it will hold, maybe it won't.

 

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I still maintain we have been lucky, perhaps even more than I originally thought, as despite some indifferent form in February and March (1 win in 8 or 9 as I recall), results of others have kept us in touch with the play offs.
Maybe it will hold, maybe it won't.


Shirley it is the others who have been lucky, despite their poor results our indefferent run of form has left them ahead of us....or maybe we all have had some good and some bad days and it is the position at the end of April that matters not the one at the end of February.
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I do remember someone questioning you on that, but I don't think I was that person.

 

You're right to an extent - there has been an element of luck to our season. But the same could be said about teams above us, who have been able to stay in the top 5 despite at times inconsistent form, thanks to the failings of those below them. Over the course of a season, all teams can point to matches in which they were unlucky, and matches in which they were lucky too.

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I do remember someone questioning you on that, but I don't think I was that person.

You're right to an extent - there has been an element of luck to our season. But the same could be said about teams above us, who have been able to stay in the top 5 despite at times inconsistent form, thanks to the failings of those below them. Over the course of a season, all teams can point to matches in which they were unlucky, and matches in which they were lucky too.

Sorry about that JC. Could have sworn it was you. As you say, we have been lucky, others have been luckier.
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