Are we trapped in a weather pocket of our own? And is it anticipating our movements? Looks like it after the postponement of another two games last week. North and South at that. Morpeth understandably keen to protect their pitch with the Vase game against our nemesis from Bristol in mind, so no great surprise there, and they haven’t played at home for months anyway. Not that it did them any good, the Vase game was off as well. And then Norton, caught in a Teesside swamp attack. So the season goes into May now, and we face two games a week every week. As does just about everybody else for that matter. Could lead to some funny results come the last few weeks, in fact I take that back, it will lead to some funny results come the last few weeks. Footballers are creatures of habit, and for most the summer is May and June, time to get the holidays out of the way before pre season comes round. So a few people will go missing no doubt, some unfamiliar teams will take to the pitch, and a few end of season boys trips might have to be rescheduled. Still, some nice warm evenings too enjoy a game, and with the rain presumably finally abating.
I see the bold lads from over the water have been enjoying some warm weather training in Dubai. Not like our lads, for whom warm weather training means indoors at Nissan. Big Sam, as we are now obliged to call him, went off on a wave of optimism after turning over Basingstoke’s favourite team, not something which happens very often. It looks tight now at the bottom of the big league, any three from six to take the dreaded drop. And Sam does seem to have managed to bring in several good reinforcements in January. Better than the usual run of emergency Sunderland signings anyway. Will it be enough? We will see, we will see....