If it's Saturday. It must be Latimer Park....

It's another exciting 6-pointer in prospect at Latimer Park this afternoon following on from the Boston heart-stopper and the "free-hit" match at safely mid-table Banbury.  Today counts again folks as we continue in our attempt to throw as many teams as we can underneath us and make the hoped for push to mid-table obscurity.  Just in time to bemoan our too-late attack of the play-off places....

The return fixture at today's opponents, Buxton was a strange game in many ways.  Firstly, we shocked the whole of the footballing world by actually taking the lead before shipping two of the softest goals you'll ever see too trail 2-1 at half-time.  Then we spent the whole of the second half peppering Buxton's goal and setting up camp in their 6-yard box.  Gary Stohrer alone must have had half a dozen attempts on goal, which tells you all you need to know about our dominance.  In the 90th minute, the man might have been this season's Poppies hero, Andy Oluwabori headed our more-than-deserved equaliser and points and honour were shared.

"On to the next match", as a thousand gaffers up and down the country would have opined at this juncture.  Except, we didn't go "on to the next match".

No, we then proceeded to play THE NEXT THREE MONTHS without scoring another away league goal, whilst registering 17 goals in the "Against" column.  In the middle of this run we also managed to keep Kings Lynn down to just the 6 goals in the FA Cup.  

What happened to us?  

It was a blow that Oluwabori disappeared back to Posh for "contract" reasons that have been explained to me several times but has never really stuck in my head.  We brought in a few players who were patently unfit, unbothered and under-performing.  Thankfully they we re soon unused then untethered and allowed to sink to their correct footballing levels.

Thankfully Glover started getting it right with his acquisitions and soon the likes of Ellis Myles, "Mad" Frankie Maguire, Tyrone Lethwaite and George Forsyth were supporting our small nucleus of reasonable players and the tide began to turn.  At this level you can't carry 2 or 3 players who aren't up to it.  Thankfully, now, we don't have to try.

90th minute at Buxton and the last Poppies away cheer for
three months, except for seeing the sea at Scarborough
and hearing Kornell McDonald had been dropped to the bench....