It doesn't look good for Halifax Town. 6 points adrift at the bottom, one win since November tends to suggest that they will soon become the first side to be relegated from the football league twice. It's just the sort of game that you want to try and extend a run that saw us take 7 points from 9 available in a week before an enforced absence from football action.

But of course, if football was always that easy, we would get the three points here and Halifax would pick up next to no more points this season. But football isn't that easy is it?

Halifax have 13 games to save their football league place and my guess is that they won't just roll over and give it up that easily. Their season effectively starts tomorrow and you would say that they need at least 7 wins from those 13 games to have a chance of staying up.

Our cause is not helped by suspensions to key men, Andrew Mumford and Nick Cusack. They will be replaced in the starting line-up tomorrow by Kristian O'Leary and Damien Lacey with Gareth Phillips continuing to stand in as a makeshift wing back.

Halifax on the other hand welcome back to their defence Mark Jules and Paul Stoneman as they bid to try and close the gap on Torquay in 23rd place. Let's not also forget that Halifax have beaten us this season - back in September at the Vetch when Paul Harsley scored twice to give the Shaymen a 2-0 win on the management debut of Colin Addison and Peter Nicholas.

This game is a tough one to call. Paper says we should win but paper is useless for playing football on by all accounts. I can't see us losing, but then again I can't see us winning either so I guess that only leaves us with a draw. 2-2.

Swansea 0-2 Halifax, 16th September 2001