The first, last throw of the dice.

Obviously as the weather has calmed down on a Saturday we are away from home.  No storms.  No flooding.  No ice age.  We must be on the road....

Exactly WHO we will be cheering on the road today down at Hitchin is more of a mystery.  We've signed a new spine of a team in the shape of, checks notes, keeper Dan Jezeph, defender Lathaniel Rowe-Turner, midfielder Jack Degruchy, and forward Kane Richard, plus George Forsyth until the end of the season.

If nothing else, the club are setting out their stall about trying to keep us up this season.  Signing actual grown men rather than a succession of kids who were getting well and truly bullied off the pitch by all and sundry.  It hasn't escaped anyone's notice that three of the signings are from the now-defunct Nuneaton.  In fact, I had a "heated debate" with someone who accused the Poppies of picking over Nuneaton's still warm corpse.  Their point of view being it was unseemly to acquire these players.  On the contrary, I corrected them, we've offered the chance of a payday* to three players who were suddenly out of work and had no club.  

*assuming we can afford to pay for new players while simultaneously telling fans we have no money and have all our home games called off due to the vagaries of the new-normal UK winter weather.

Heading out of the revolving Latimer Park door (not that they got to play at Latimer Park particularly) are the exotically named Phoenix Schultz and Neo Dobson.  No great loss except in as much as I never got to post a photograph of 80's funkmeister James DeBarge and pretend it was Neo Dobson.  Well, at least until now....

Neo Dobson takes our thanks with him
as he heads back to the Cobblers