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24 April 2024

A win against Donny on February 17th would have left Town a point behind their local-ish relegation-ish rivals with a game in hand. This might have suggested a tight game with a further fascinating eight weeks of nip and tuck in the Battle for Nineteeth Place was on the cards. The proper spanking handed down by Rovers suggested otherwise.

A bloke near me in the Osmond that day questioned with volume and profanity as to why a stripey shirt didn't take a man out to stop the move for their opener. Well you've got to get within five yards of the player first. Just look at it again if you dare, it's a stunner. Were we really as bad as that goal and the eventual final score made us appear? No, as it happens. We didn't make them look like Barcelona 2010, it turns out Doncaster Rovers ARE Barcelona 2010. They've been beating teams 10-0 every week since and a 4-1 hiding of Colchester last night lofts them into fifth and the play-offs. Barring some sort of freak result set on Saturday, that's where they'll end up. Bravo, bravo.

Why the Yorkie love-in, Daubney? Well it's something to talk about, isn't it. And to segue back to the Mariners, that freak result set would include us losing to Crawley. Pfft, never happening. 

Town news, well Jason Stockwood has been out strutting his stuff on the telly. Now the problem with Chairman Wow is that he speaks so much sense that we've started to take it for granted. I bet you've only skimmed his recent Guardian articles haven't you? We obviously don't need him losing the plot but he at least needs to start sneaking obscure song lyrics into his interviews to keep us on our toes.

As well as Jason, others weighed in yesterday on the prospect of a football regulator. Now the problem with the National League, the Premier League, and Keir Starmer is quite the opposite; Daubney has given up listening to them because they talk such tripe, be it via agenda or rank stupidity, on just about everything. Good old Keir coincidentally chimed in on their behalf after the PL had recently taken him up the Arse, so to speak.

Good luck to the idea of a regulator but as mentioned on these pages before, you know you're in a proper pickle when you are relying on a Tory government to fix things up. The ball's burst lads, time for tea. That's what they want though isn't it? Make you so disenchanted and disengaged that they can do what they like.

Right, there's not much else going on but if Crawley is a bit of dead rubber for Town on Saturday, it's worth mentioning an important Lincs Derby that will be taking place at the same time. Boston's play-off win last night over Alfreton put them through to a National League North semi-final tie with Scunny. After a fraught few months, it's nice to be able to put the feet up and watch others sweat it out. UTM.