Thursday, March 04, 2004

The NWN still isn't showing the NTS game, which means it has us 3 points and 5 goals down. This means we are in fact still 2nd and have important goal difference advantage over Partick, who are our main threat to finishing 4th, which is looking likely to be our final position assuming we don't throw it away now.

We still need to play MDM, but whether we win or lose they still have enough games in hand on us to catch and pass us. TVS also have enough games in hand to do the same and we don't play them again, so that would put us in 4th position. Partick and Vodafone could potentially then catch us, but if I'm right then Partick should only really be able to put themselves on the same points as us if they beat us and we have quite a significant goal difference advantage over them. You never know, cos they may get a big score against someone, like, let's say 11-1 (woohoo) but we should be able to hold our own and stick to 4th. It would require quite a shock result or two for us to stay in 2nd place or even finish 3rd, but we've had 2nd place for a damn fine chunk of the season so there's no shame in losing out to two teams who we pretty much matched kick for kick during the games, beat one of them and had disappointing losses in the other two games, especially when TVS would have been pretty much hoping to clinch promotion easily this season. We're shit hot. Basically.