and witness what we believed was going to be another defeat.

Smith, Savarese and O'Leary out and the other long list of injuries surely meant we were on for a caning ? How wrong we were, surrounded by Northmptons finest supporters and amidst the cries of " Welsh mongrels " and sundry other fine expletives we took control and created a passing game on a decent pitch which only confirmed the Vetch Field turf is not to our liking.

Of course this is down to money and the idiot running the club won't part with any. ( see i'm off already ) Fabiano took the game to Northampton and with Romo and Verschave made countless probing runs down their right flank, and Fabiano was rewarded with a well executed shot putting us ahead and deservedly so. Northampton didn't show at all in the first half.

All round we looked good and Steve Watkin was very busy up front, challenging and chasing. I have to say at half time it looked very good indeed and even the morons around us had shut up, based loosely on being told to do so and the fact their team were looking very poor indeed. The second half saw us join the rest of The MAGS behind the goal, and probably this was the best move as I don't think it would have been right to have to witness the final few minutes amongst the shoe makers.

Simply we failed to hammer the nail in to the coffin, we gave the ball away too much compliments of Lacey and Watkin, and the rest of the side spent much of the time chasing after these two individuals mistakes. With fifteen minutes to go John Hodge came on, had he been wearing a white shirt again we would have won the game. He ripped Howard apart and supplied four very decent crosses which on other days would have been rewarded.

I spoke to him before the game and he said " I enjoyed it at Swansea, I didn't want to go " Now where have we heard that recently ? He also recalled the time, after a MAGS drinking mens night out :-) he took forty of our very drunken members in to a Gloucester night club and created mayhem ! A top bloke, and didn't deserve the stick he got from the 150 or so behind the goal. The first goal was a result of fairly poor positioning from Roger, but the ball should have been cleared, we simply failed to do what we had done all night. Get rid of the ball. Jason Price looked truely gutted when the ball hit the net, he had played extremely well all night.

A point was okay but Howards weak defending from a deep and wayward cross let in Gabbiadini and the game was over. Two killer goals in two minutes sums up our season, with performances like this and still losing we are doomed to relegation.

That's now a sure certainty. And still Hollins remains, and remain he will do until someone has the courage to boot his backside all the way back down the M4. He has had his chance and failed, so lets finish the season without him. And to cap it all there's rumours of a ginger bloke around the corner, the only one I saw was from Cheltenham, and he hasn't got five bob spare for chips ..........

I'm gutted Keith....MAGS