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There is no doubt we have had the worst side of Luck this season. Every side throughout a season has a balance of good luck and bad and it generally evens out, some would argue you make your own luck. Just when it seemed we where destined for non-league football next season, along comes a freak rain downpour at TQ1 prior to our crucial match at Barnet. THIS in my opinion has kept us League 2 next season.

We would have had no poke for that match, and indeed Mansell was a major doubt. The postponed match resulted in both being fit for the arranged match and a Tuesday night game was always going to give us a boost, considering Barnet hadn't won a Tuesday night game for numerous years. We also had the advantage of knowing other teams results from the Saturday.

Morecambe was always a winnable game but the sending off(is that the first against our side this season?) gave us that belief. Barry's howler and yes what a howler it was,was yet another turning point. Personally the Tw?t should have been sent off when we lost 2-0 the other year at their Christie ground, so that evens things up with him. Anyway we rode our luck in the early stages of the second half, and then come's Yeoman's magic. The rest is history.........

The point being had the original match against Barnet been played on the Saturday do you think we would now be sitting on 52 points and barring a disaster safe from relegation, I personally think we have the rain to thank. COYY

Yes, quite right !

Don't forget that although one of their players did hit the post on Sat. (Morecambe) Jarvo was very unlucky with a rasping 2nd half shot that crashed off the bar, with the keeper beaten.

And yes, I was there.

Bit of a strange thread this...Things can depend on what time you leave home in the morning, a minute either way COULD change your life for ever, unlikey but that's fate...What would have happened if Aldershot had held their lead when we won the most meaningful game of this season (as they should have done) ? ? You know the answer to that !!

Aldershot losing wasn't luck though, it was the boys digging in and getting four goals. I'll grant you, had Nico's clearance gone in, then we could have said we were lucky, but we got 4 perfectly valid goals. If I'm honest Coley, I don't understand your point. You say that this thread is strange, then go on to give a perfectly valid example of exactly the sort of thing the OP is talking about.

We have been unlucky this season, in the main, very unlucky. On the pitch, we have conceded a number of genuinely fluke goals, we have been shafted by some utterly horrendous officials (worse than ever before, and noticeably so, for my money) and we have had more red cards this term than we have had in the last 5 years combined (I haven't checked, but I'll wager I'm not far wrong) and not one of them for a genuinely dirty tackle (Manse's wasn't great, but mistimed rather than malicious). This is to say nothing of the unprecedented situation of going 6 weeks with no manager because of illness, having both loanees recalled just as they're making a difference and the other unreported occurrences which we never hear about.

This has been a bad luck season, we're not the only ones, but that doesn't help us. We'll be alright next year.

Matt.

ferrarilover wrote:This has been a bad luck season, we're not the only ones, but that doesn't help us. We'll be alright next year.

Matt.

To be fair Matt this attitude scares me. What would scare me even more if the people running our club held the same attitude.

Bad luck has been a tiny factor in this season, and if we as a club go into to next year with the oh everything will come right attitude then if we escape Saturday 12 months from now, the story may be very different.

It was the everything will be alright we don't need to invest in the team, it was the everything will be alright for 6 weeks with out a manager, while, wild Bill sat in the gulls nest finding the whole situation some how funny, and good old Simon talked about plastic pitch's, that got us in this position.

What the clubs needs on the football side of things is a complete overhaul, and if safety is secured Saturday, the hard work needs to sart at 5pm, no time to lose.

It hasn't been a tiny factor. Take the on field element alone, add on the points we have lost to the simply unbelievable bad fortune and we'd be up with Rovers and Exeter in that little cluster just outside the playoffs. Add to this the manager going on sick leave at the worst possible time and here we are.

We have invested heavily off field this year, we had a squad capable of being safe if not spectacular this year who have been below par, but then, so has everyone else. Take away the outrageous bad fortune, add in a couple of decent additions, get our best, rather than longest serving, eleven on the pitch and, added to the off field infrastructure we now have, we'll be a really good side.

Have a little faith, grasshopper.

Matt.