dickwalton1964
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Probably our biggest game since the Wycombe game when we won promotion from L2. This is THE opportunity not to take this torture to the last game of the season - providing we can get the job done too at FGR, which will then supersede tonight as the biggest game since the promotion. The reason I'm calling this game bigger than the Wycombe play off game at Wembley is because it wasn't a disaster to stay in L1 that season, yes of course promotion to the Championship would have been great but the fall back was remaining in a healthy and competitive L1 - still a decent standard for where we were as a club at that moment.
With the stadium hopefully on the horizon, a new era under new management and a lot of off field stuff supposedly taking shape, relegation back to a northern heavy L2 and the likes of Barrow, Harrogate, Salford, Carlisle, probably Accrington and Morecambe too, to look forward to fills you with dread. Let's be honest, Swindon - and the likes of Bradford - should be a big club in that league but they're languishing in mid-table and showing that it isn't plane sailing getting back up to L1. Two derby games and the likes of Wrexham will appeal but there aren't too many other fixtures that whet the appetite.
Massive game tonight and the importance of it cannot be under estimated. Win and it's a giant leap towards safety.
With the stadium hopefully on the horizon, a new era under new management and a lot of off field stuff supposedly taking shape, relegation back to a northern heavy L2 and the likes of Barrow, Harrogate, Salford, Carlisle, probably Accrington and Morecambe too, to look forward to fills you with dread. Let's be honest, Swindon - and the likes of Bradford - should be a big club in that league but they're languishing in mid-table and showing that it isn't plane sailing getting back up to L1. Two derby games and the likes of Wrexham will appeal but there aren't too many other fixtures that whet the appetite.
Massive game tonight and the importance of it cannot be under estimated. Win and it's a giant leap towards safety.