5.30pm kick off tomorrow

Dont forget that Town dont kick off until 5.30pm tomorrow, so we have an extra 2 hours 30 minutes of waiting for the inevitable late goal lol

The time change was agreed early on in the season to allow for travelling time for the visiting team. The same kick off time was agreed when we played at Colchester.

Oh great, it means the despair eats into our evenings. I definitely preferred the 1PM KO, get it done and dusted and out of the way nice and early.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Dont forget that Town dont kick off until 5.30pm tomorrow, so we have an extra 2 hours 30 minutes of waiting for the inevitable late goal lol

The time change was agreed early on in the season to allow for travelling time for the visiting team. The same kick off time was agreed when we played at Colchester.

This seems a bit of an odd decision to me - a 3 kick off means Colchester would leave Essex about 10am and be back at about 10 pm. The kick off on Saturday means they will leave Essex around lunchtime but get back pretty late on Saturday night.

Shorter weekend of feeling depressed

One of two things could happen:

Barrow win, and we go into the match seven points adrift.

Barrow draw or lose, and we go into the match with a bit of a spring in our step.

Not sure I feel comfortable waiting for other results to come in before we play. Knowing what we need to do isn't always an advantage. Earlier kick-offs, as much as I don't like them on Saturdays, makes it easier to just 'concentrate on your own game' as there's no way our lot can go into the Colchester match claiming they're not thinking of the results that have already come in.

Quoted from RichMariner

One of two things could happen:

Barrow win, and we go into the match seven points adrift.

Barrow draw or lose, and we go into the match with a bit of a spring in our step.

Not sure I feel comfortable waiting for other results to come in before we play. Knowing what we need to do isn't always an advantage. Earlier kick-offs, as much as I don't like them on Saturdays, makes it easier to just 'concentrate on your own game' as there's no way our lot can go into the Colchester match claiming they're not thinking of the results that have already come in.

Barrow are playing tonight don't forget.

And we play Tranmere at Blundell Park next Wednesday.

Don't know why but heyho.

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And we play Tranmere at Blundell Park next Wednesday.

Don't know why but heyho.

Because Tranmere are in the EFL final at Wembley and don't play until Sunday. We can't have the poor souls playing 2 games so near to each other can we!  

Quoted from RichMariner

One of two things could happen:

Barrow win, and we go into the match seven points adrift.

Barrow draw or lose, and we go into the match with a bit of a spring in our step.

Not sure I feel comfortable waiting for other results to come in before we play. Knowing what we need to do isn't always an advantage. Earlier kick-offs, as much as I don't like them on Saturdays, makes it easier to just 'concentrate on your own game' as there's no way our lot can go into the Colchester match claiming they're not thinking of the results that have already come in.

This raises an interesting thought along the lines of sports psychology, in terms of which scenarios players would perform best in.

I'm sure different players would perform better or have stronger motivation in different situations.

1) Opportunity - i.e. if the other teams lose, we know if we win we will close the gap to a point.
2) Fear - other teams have won, so if we don't win we'll be even further behind.

I know man management is a part of being a football manager and it comes down to the manager knowing his players. The problem is for us, Hurst is working with a new team so there'll be limitations to how well he knows each player individually. This has also got me thinking, I wonder if another role Hurst will want to add to the backroom staff might be a sports psychologist?

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This raises an interesting thought along the lines of sports psychology, in terms of which scenarios players would perform best in.

I'm sure different players would perform better or have stronger motivation in different situations.

1) Opportunity - i.e. if the other teams lose, we know if we win we will close the gap to a point.
2) Fear - other teams have won, so if we don't win we'll be even further behind.

I know man management is a part of being a football manager and it comes down to the manager knowing his players. The problem is for us, Hurst is working with a new team so there'll be limitations to how well he knows each player individually. This has also got me thinking, I wonder if another role Hurst will want to add to the backroom staff might be a sports psychologist?

Easy Tommy;

Option 1)  "Keep us shape and maybe nick a 1-0 win"
Option 2)  "Keep us shape and maybe nick a 1-0 win to stay in touch"