A hectic week this week including moving house and travelling to Somerset for a random midweeker at Yeovil kept me busy as the Cobblers took one point from two tricky encounters in League One. We’re back in the bottom half following a 1-1 draw at home to Leeds and Tuesday’s agonising late defeat at Yeovil.
I was in the middle of moving house on Saturday as was gutted to miss out on the home game with Leeds. Their recent form may suggest that I could get an unexpected chance to get to it next season though if their current slump carries on. Big Bayo saved the day again and by all accounts it was a deserved result as we held onto our position in the top half.
That position was surrendered though on Tuesday night as we had a nightmare evening no and off the pitch. I had managed to persuade a couple of friends that Yeovil away was a suitable piece of entertainment for a Tuesday night, don’t ask me how, and we headed on the short journey from Southampton to the land of coider, ooh arrr.
The hotel we were staying in was suitable at the price was paid that worked out to around £13 each for the night and the staff seemed helpful enough in giving directions to Huish Park. A man at reception told us, in a quite brilliant Somerset accent, that all we had to do was “go straight down, over the roundabout and keep crossing the roundabouts, straight overrrrrrr”
So “straight overrrrrr” we went and we walked and walked some more. Setting off at 7pm would give us enough time to walk it as we were told it would take half an hour. 45 minutes later and we finally got to roundabout number one and after a couple more “straight overrrrrs” and a massive road at the side of the ground we arrived at 8:05 pm, missing the opening 20 minutes!
For the rest of the half we were under pressure but in the second it was a different story as we could well have won it. Had Jackman’s effort from an angle gone in or had Hoobs known where the goal was to direct his free header we could have won it and had that happened, the locals could have had no complaints.
But an injury time winner once again for Yeovil and we were left hanging our heads in the sparse away end. Around 200 Cobblers fans had travelled down and to be honest I think we deserved better than to have just THREE of our players applaud us at the end of the game. I had travelled just 90 minutes or so from Southampton, a pretty straight forward journey but for the other that had came from Northampton, some four hours up the road, it was disappointing that only Mark Hughes, Danny Jackman and Ryan Gilligan could be bothered to acknowledge us!
So a disappointing evening in Somerset but we have to hope that it’s a mere blot on the copy book and not the start of another poor run. Gillingham at home represents a good chance of points and this is the sort of game we have to be winning to steer clear of the lower reaches of the table once again.
Let’s hope that night in Yeovil is forgotten about with three points on Saturday!
Up The Cobblers!
Danny
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