Crawl over the finish line (please!) sat 8/5 @3pm on the Sky box

[Gooner Girl]

Lindfield U10 football training has been moved to tomorrow due to the weather here in Sussex. It’s grim down south currently! Sure you tough northerners will be fine with a bit of rain though. It’s not like BP’s playing...

[Burnden Paddock]

Lindfield U10 football training has been moved to tomorrow due to the weather here in Sussex. It’s grim down south currently! Sure you tough northerners will be fine with a bit of rain though. It’s not like BP’s playing...

Pretty grim up north!

[TonyDomingos]

I feel sick. Absolutely bricking it!

Same here. I feel a long walk coming on at 3pm.

[BWFC_Insane]

I’m as calm as I’ve ever been. I think we will do the job. If we don’t then we’ve only got ourselves to blame and I guess if the character of the team isn’t up to this best we find out now.

It will be reet.

[Worthy4England]

The character of this team is different by a long way, to the character of the team before Christmas. 5 of the starters v FGR in the first game no longer get starts.

No team wins all big games, regardless of how used to winning, being mentally attuned or how much "bottle" they have.

Nervous 1-0

[LeverEnd]

Will be called off for water logging, but Bradford will win sending us up and then we'll lose 8 nil on Tuesday night after being on the piss for 3 days.

I need a lie down.

[BWFC_Insane]

The character of this team is different by a long way, to the character of the team before Christmas. 5 of the starters v FGR in the first game no longer get starts.

No team wins all big games, regardless of how used to winning, being mentally attuned or how much "bottle" they have.

Nervous 1-0

The character is found out on the biggest of days. Many many teams do great in the chase but not so well when they need to get over the line. We will find out today.

[officer_dibble]

I’m as calm as I’ve ever been. I think we will do the job. If we don’t then we’ve only got ourselves to blame and I guess if the character of the team isn’t up to this best we find out now.

It will be reet.

I was alright until I found out you were calm and confident

[BWFC_Insane]

I’m as calm as I’ve ever been. I think we will do the job. If we don’t then we’ve only got ourselves to blame and I guess if the character of the team isn’t up to this best we find out now.

It will be reet.

I was alright until I found out you were calm and confident

If we are properly focussed and play to our potential we will be fine. It’s ours to throw away.

[Worthy4England]

The character of this team is different by a long way, to the character of the team before Christmas. 5 of the starters v FGR in the first game no longer get starts.

No team wins all big games, regardless of how used to winning, being mentally attuned or how much "bottle" they have.

Nervous 1-0

The character is found out on the biggest of days. Many many teams do great in the chase but not so well when they need to get over the line. We will find out today.

Character is found in many places. If we'd, played the first 4 months like the last 4, it wouldn't have come to a coin toss. Comebacks against Carlisle and Mansfield, outplaying Cambridge, beating FGR to go into the playoff spots, getting a result at Morcambe, playing till the final whistle at Southend, big defensive performances under pressure at unbeaten at home Salford, Bradford, Carlisle. All showed character. The fact you have been setting a "bottlers" narrative around some particular games, which you put down to luck when we win them and bottle when we don't isn't going to change where character is found.

[Prufrock]

I’m as calm as I’ve ever been. I think we will do the job. If we don’t then we’ve only got ourselves to blame and I guess if the character of the team isn’t up to this best we find out now.

It will be reet.

I was alright until I found out you were calm and confident

Don't worry he's only setting it up to say I told you so later. The narrative is set, it's just how we get there.

[Worthy4England]

I’m as calm as I’ve ever been. I think we will do the job. If we don’t then we’ve only got ourselves to blame and I guess if the character of the team isn’t up to this best we find out now.

It will be reet.

I was alright until I found out you were calm and confident

Don't worry he's only setting it up to say I told you so later. The narrative is set, it's just how we get there.

I thought there was only me spotted the "How could anyone calling themselves footballers not win that?" Plot...

[Harry Genshaw]

I was more nervous at this time last week.

That result has at least prepared me for the worst today but its not needed. We'll feckin shit em!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Maybe it’s living in a temperate country but I genuinely don’t know of any postponements among games which have to be played simultaneously for sporting integrity (ie final games in a league) since 1982’s Anschluss game in which West Germany and Austria stitched up Algeria in a stupid three-team World Cup group. Postponements might have happened since, but I don’t know of it. Can you imagine the piss and wind from the Morecambe fans if we had the advantage of knowing what we had to do?

[BWFC_Insane]

The character of this team is different by a long way, to the character of the team before Christmas. 5 of the starters v FGR in the first game no longer get starts.

No team wins all big games, regardless of how used to winning, being mentally attuned or how much "bottle" they have.

Nervous 1-0

The character is found out on the biggest of days. Many many teams do great in the chase but not so well when they need to get over the line. We will find out today.

Character is found in many places. If we'd, played the first 4 months like the last 4, it wouldn't have come to a coin toss. Comebacks against Carlisle and Mansfield, outplaying Cambridge, beating FGR to go into the playoff spots, getting a result at Morcambe, playing till the final whistle at Southend, big defensive performances under pressure at unbeaten at home Salford, Bradford, Carlisle. All showed character. The fact you have been setting a "bottlers" narrative around some particular games, which you put down to luck when we win them and bottle when we don't isn't going to change where character is found.

Football is a series of often one off games that define you. The best teams rise to these occasions. We had two chances. I don’t think we will blow the second today. We will be focussed and do the job surely.

But there are plenty of examples of teams looking great then blowing it at the end. See Leicester last season. And potentially from an even better position this season. You just don’t want it to become a habit for sure.

[Burnden Paddock]

I was more nervous at this time last week.

That result has at least prepared me for the worst today but its not needed. We'll feckin shit em!

I wasn’t nervous at all last week. I was going around the house singing, ‘we are going up’. That went well!

Bricking it today. No singing, but wearing my home top from 2005-07 which miraculously still fits!

[nicholaldo]

Find something else to do. There's no chance we'll be playing today.

[Jim_McDonuts]

I was more nervous at this time last week.

That result has at least prepared me for the worst today but its not needed. We'll feckin shit em!

I wasn’t nervous at all last week. I was going around the house singing, ‘we are going up’. That went well!

Same. But not today. Had to double check start time, was hoping for 1pm.

Make it stop...

[Worthy4England]

The character of this team is different by a long way, to the character of the team before Christmas. 5 of the starters v FGR in the first game no longer get starts.

No team wins all big games, regardless of how used to winning, being mentally attuned or how much "bottle" they have.

Nervous 1-0

The character is found out on the biggest of days. Many many teams do great in the chase but not so well when they need to get over the line. We will find out today.

Character is found in many places. If we'd, played the first 4 months like the last 4, it wouldn't have come to a coin toss. Comebacks against Carlisle and Mansfield, outplaying Cambridge, beating FGR to go into the playoff spots, getting a result at Morcambe, playing till the final whistle at Southend, big defensive performances under pressure at unbeaten at home Salford, Bradford, Carlisle. All showed character. The fact you have been setting a "bottlers" narrative around some particular games, which you put down to luck when we win them and bottle when we don't isn't going to change where character is found.

Football is a series of often one off games that define you. The best teams rise to these occasions. We had two chances. I don’t think we will blow the second today. We will be focussed and do the job surely.

But there are plenty of examples of teams looking great then blowing it at the end. See Leicester last season. And potentially from an even better position this season. You just don’t want it to become a habit for sure.

I've given you a whole list of "one off games" where we showed plenty of character - they are part of what defines us. We had two chances, because of the character we showed in the 44 games that got us there (some bad pre-Christmas and some good post-Christmas). As for Leicester last season, I don't think any of our starting eleven was even at the Club last season. So hardly a two season trend forming here at the minute.

You're trying to set up a "we lost two important games running, therefore it's a habit" story, and hedging your bet behind "I think we'll win"

[Prufrock]

Like a bad psychic.

"You don't know anyone called Gary do you?...see I said you didn't!"