Can I thank profusely, the management players and all the volounteers invloved with the club for the great day we all had yesterday. From the superb play and a riveting game which which seemed to carry on from the 1st leg in the same vein, to the hard work by the volounteers, especially the bar staff and the refreshment staff, in particular those who had set up by the stewards hut. Thanks to Lee and Neil for a great season which now is not over yet. I have had faith in both of you from the outset, and whatever happens next Saturday that will not change.
To the team, I say you showed a lot of balls yesterday to pull that one round, and I still do not know how you managed to turn staring down the barrels of defeat at 1640pm, into a 2-1 win in such a short space of time. All I can say is that I am really proud of every one of you, and I sincerely hope to all see all of you next season, but let's get next Saturday over and done with. The ball is now in your court, so to speak, and though Guisley are on a similar run to us they have not beaten us this season, which I myself will take into next Saturday's game. The players I spoke to yesterday after the game (you cannot do that at Man U or Man C) had this steely determination in them which was perfectly evident and explained why Hednesford lost the game. It just all happened so quickly and left me also with a sense of bewilderment at the tornado that had suddenly seemed to hit the pitch!!
After the game I went for a couple of pints in the bar, mainly to calm myself down as I was still hyped up with adrenaline so god knows how the players must have felt. By the way we could not see ourselves but if Alty TV have any footage of us on the popular side after the goals, especially after the second goal went in I would love to see it. Perhaps our friend behind the goal may have picked that up?
It is now 0844am the morning after the game and last night I had a crashing headache which started in the bar after the game. I woke up this morning at 0530am and could not get back to sleep, as I replayed that 2nd goal in particular. Thanks to Damien for the clarification of the 2nd goal scorer last night, there was confusion between some of us as to whether Simon or James Lawrie had scored it. I saw it on the U-Tube that Hednesford put on Alty Twitter. Unfortunatly it crashed my computer and I had to reboot, but not before I saw Damien head the ball back across goal. He did say that Simon fell, but bizzarly that left James Lawrie with an open goal, and he finished that one witjh some aplomb.
Anyway all in all a great afternoon, thanks to Carys from Chester for picking me up afterwards; and great idea to go the the chippy afterwards!!
See you all next weekend for the final chapter!!
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