We Win At Home - Do Not Adjust Your Set

Yesterday was like an unexpected reunion with an old friend. Hello Convincing Home Win, it’s been a long time.

Since the last time we played Eastbourne in fact. We had some fun and found ourselves saying, we must do this more often. And they said, er yes, we'll get back to you on that...

Moderate Amount of Noise also made a long awaited reappearance, thanks to Paul Knowles and his motley crew who managed to generate impressive local media attention for the vocal efforts of 40 or so. Travel Club veterans may have reflected on the days when this sort of thing was taken as read, but times have changed and it needed someone to give things a re-boot.

To complete the nostalgic feel, there was a blast from the past as Paul Furlong belied his 42 years by planting a pair of sweet headers in the net. Born in October 1968, in other words when the Beatles still had another couple of albums to go and NASA were still anxiously plotting the first moon shot, PF led the line like a man 10 years younger and warmed the cockles of all those of a similar generation.

We should make the most of Furlong while we can. Not only does he bring a dash of ex Premier League class, he is also probably the last link with the 1980’s still playing at a professional level. In one of his early appearances at RR he faced Ernie Moss, whose playing career began in the 60s. And Ernie began his career in the time of the pharaohs.