Following on from the Leyton Orient game, I'm hoping this is an early lesson for the one-game makes a season crowd we sometimes get on this board - you know who you are!
Last night just shows how almost every game can be turned on one decision, one piece of play or one slice of luck.
A penalty scored and we're out of the Carling Cup, it's two home defeats in a week, Tilson is yet again the villain, and we go into the Leeds match forlorn with shoulders slumped and with our tails between our legs.
A penalty saved and it's a crushing 4-1 victory, a ticket to the next round, four goals scored, a confidence-building hat-trick for one of our strikers, and eager anticipation for our long trip to Leeds.
Just as the unjust sending-off and a beautiful free-kick at home to Orient didn't finish our season and show Tilson up for the inexperienced chancer some would have us believe, this victory doesn't negate our striking problems, cause anguish throughout the rest of League 1, or make the bookies recalculate our title odds!
Perhaps our first week is a timely reminder that, despite the need for some Monday morning venting, at the start of the season, one game, one goal that changes a game, or indeed one moment in a game that changes the outcome does not make a season.
Relax folks - it's going to be a long season with plenty of ups and downs.
Last night just shows how almost every game can be turned on one decision, one piece of play or one slice of luck.
A penalty scored and we're out of the Carling Cup, it's two home defeats in a week, Tilson is yet again the villain, and we go into the Leeds match forlorn with shoulders slumped and with our tails between our legs.
A penalty saved and it's a crushing 4-1 victory, a ticket to the next round, four goals scored, a confidence-building hat-trick for one of our strikers, and eager anticipation for our long trip to Leeds.
Just as the unjust sending-off and a beautiful free-kick at home to Orient didn't finish our season and show Tilson up for the inexperienced chancer some would have us believe, this victory doesn't negate our striking problems, cause anguish throughout the rest of League 1, or make the bookies recalculate our title odds!
Perhaps our first week is a timely reminder that, despite the need for some Monday morning venting, at the start of the season, one game, one goal that changes a game, or indeed one moment in a game that changes the outcome does not make a season.
Relax folks - it's going to be a long season with plenty of ups and downs.
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