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Pyke on a Bike

15 November 2023

Football, we are repeatedly told, is a results business. Getting too caught up in the how and why of Town's 7-2 win over a gallant Slough would be akin to squirming over the five grand you just won on a scratch card being paid in twenties instead of fifties. Town scored SEVEN and are through to the next round, bask in it while you wait for Tony B's account of the goalfest to hit the site.

The win keeps alive hopes of actually seeing Town's ball drawn out of the velvet bag/transparent plastic bowl this season. The first round was drawn in Narnia three years ago, and the second round ties landed while we toiled at Slough. On top of that, Daubney is still sore about missing the draw for the quarter finals last season, made while a euphoric Black and White Army danced away from St Mary's. This robbed us of a night of dreaming, weighing up whether we wanted Blackburn at home or Man Utd away. Before huddling around the transistor lunchtime next day to hear us get kiss of death Brighton away obviously.

So the scenario whispered by wiser men than Daubney over tankards of mead following the Morecambe win is half-complete: "Stuff ye olde Slough the coming Tuesday and ride confidence thereby bestowed down to Gloucestershire to slay the veganous blackguards. The Shorty One's hex will be broken and it will be safe to cast peepers at the division four table once more". We've probably jinxed it now, haven't we?

Keeping our gaze fixed to the south-west, Devon Diary, whilst maintaining a reluctance to do any typing has kindly chucked some diary content in our direction. We've already seen John McAtee's fine finishing for Barnsley last night, what else have you got Devon? Well ex-Mariners Cards and Mani are neck and neck in the conference golden boot trophy race. The problem with this one of course being that Town "lost" the trophy when collecting it for Podge in 2016. Maybe they've been awarding a sock or something since.

Final nugget? In another entry for our Things Have Gone Very Badly Wrong catalogue, Devon tells us that ex-Mariner Ben Pringle(s) has joined Fleetwood United, Fleetwood Town's sister club based in Dubai. Now, that wasn't something you'd ever expect to see in a sentence, was it? UTM