One more point......

For much of last night’s game it was like watching a team representing the ‘production line and maintenance’ playing ‘the Directors and management‘….with the support of a few guys from finance, research, HR and marketing. A game where one of the sides has so much to prove and the other probably regrets agreeing to the fixture in the first place.

Now who was it that came up with the bright idea to pay single time on bank holidays, to keep pace with the Chinese?…..and who in marketing secured the agreement with BMW or was it Porsche for senior management loan cars….and cutting hundreds of jobs resulted in what? Big fat bonuses for Directors …… yes, they were certainly well received by the maintenance crew, as they had to make do with last years spanners.

So as Droylsden ran out on to the pitch I sensed that they hardly needed to warm up. They had all put in a days work……but perhaps saving just a bit of energy for the evening encounter with the full timers from the south.

So it was always going to be difficult, despite an excellent playing surface that had been covered by snow only a few days before.

Talk on the Shots message board of an easy victory, against a team rooted to the bottom of the Blue Square Premier, was only ever going to fuel the passion of the ‘production line’, bring out the worst in the boys from maintenance and turn the heads of some of their opponents, the young wizz kids from marketing……

Two defensive errors led to Droylsden dreaming of a famous victory…..but a well taken goal by Mendes followed by an own goal was enough to secure a draw.

And as the season races to a finish, perhaps 2v2, against the ‘production line and maintenance’ was not so bad after all.

On reflection…..one less game to play….one point…..ignore the rest.

And now a short break….as I set off in search of the canals for a week, missing both Stafford and Salisbury.

Time to focus and forget the, ‘how many victories do we need?’.

Just one victory, on Saturday, will be fine……