...If we are lodged in a play off place by Sunday, Alfie is going to be much happier with his lot and his steadily rising stock. Which in my dodgily optimistic reckoning, is on a 8 figure trajectory come end of season. Lovely moment for me was seeing each player to a man give a lucky hug to every single team mate prior to kick off, with Davies leaving his goal to do the same. It was my first match last night, so maybe it's something they did v Derby. That's a 'team' in the best sense of the word and much more preferable to the phoney group hugs and shouty captains we're used to seeing. "Worra team!!" as Hammill shouted halfway through Scowen's interview. This is becoming the best Reds year in a long, long time, may it go well into next and beyond. If that makes sense, which it doesn't...
I am so optimistic it is unreal. Not bad for a manic depressive, semi alcoholic pessimist... ****, my glass is half empty.... let me refill... Hecky, you're one of our own... Legend. Adam Hammill legend. There is work to do, but we need to give them our 100% support, through thick & thin.
Best feeling round oakwell for a long long time. Some of the football last night it was the best football I have seen for many years. Just hope we can get some players signed up to new deals Connor, davies, josh scOwen and marley watkins inparticular.
I posted pre-season that the Sports Section of the Daily Telegraph had us in a playoff slot in their Championship forecast (unlike the rest of the papers who reckoned we'd be fortunate to stay up). After two matches, I have an inkling, the DT might be right.