Usually at this time of year we messily ladle-out multiple articles summing up the season just gone. Invariably there is so much to cover that it takes several days and several sections to cover it all.
Thankfully, the 2023/4 season makes no such demands on us. Or you.
In a nutshell, a Manager who wasn't quite good enough assembled a squad that wasn't quite good enough. Players and managers came and went until we were finally competitive enough to avoid another relegation.
Wow. The season before took three lengthy articles to even come close to covering all that had happened. Page after page of shirt-rending, finger-pointing and World class sarcasm. This season it took two sentences. With the creative use of a comma it would have been a single sentence. But, in an attempt to reward you for clicking on here in the first place we'll at least take a stab at offering up our Top 5, and Bottom 5 moments of the 2023-24 season.
Top Five Moments - tough one this.....
The month of March. Without which we would be heading off to Kings Langley and Barton Rovers again next season.
The win at home to Mickleover. It seemed we'd turned a corner. We hadn't.
Seeing our turn-out at Chesterfield. It felt briefly like the old days. And, I suppose, the first 25 minutes of the game.
The spicy bean nachos served at Sudbury.
The Missus scooping a couple of big Bingo prizes in the Poppies lounge and me laying my Klondike hoodoo.
Bottom Five Moments
I maintain that the defeat away to St Ives this season was pound-for-pound the most wretched performance I've ever seen a Poppies team give. No-one who wasn't there will truly be able to grasp the utter awfulness of the afternoon. The shipping of 6 goals was the absolute tip of the mountainous mountain of shite that was that game. Had St Ives run in another 6 goals we genuinely wouldn't have had any complaints.
The last 65 minutes at Chesterfield, when it seemed that we had agreed with the home team before the match that we wouldn't compete and definitely not get close, tackle, or God forbid, injure one of their precious players. Just embarrassingly meek.
The "game" at Sixfields against Scum-lite. Why did we bother?
The "Singh-gate debacle. What the f*ck was the Stratford No.18 on? And was the dosage correct?
Dropping off the BBC sports webpage. Thank God you can still get all the important information on there from the Saudi Pro League and the Russian Premier League - Sochi are having a season to forget.
"Player of the Season"
No player or one individual. Instead, the fabulous efforts off all the off-field guys and girls. A big shout-out to the people who keep the heartbeat of the club going with little thanks or acknowledgment. Well, Patgod thanks and acknowledges you. For what it's worth. The fact that the club generates more income from what goes on around the football than the actual football tells you all you need to know.
Honourable Mention - the supporters. We averaged barely less than we did last season. Which is pretty incredible given the lack of large away followings at this level and some of the truly awful guff we were forced to endure. Give yourselves a pat(god) on the back.
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| The sunset at Halesowen still remains the high watermark of season 2023-24. |
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