The Cobblers rounded off a successful campaign with one final home game as Tranmere came to Town.
We knew that a win would take us into the top ten in the final league standings as Tranmere were placed in ninth going into the game with Stuart Gray’s men down in eleventh.
The game got off to a flying start as Adebayo Akinfenwa fired us in front within just three minutes. Chris Greenacre squared things up just before the break to send the sides in level. But Poul Hubertz, in his final Cobblers appearance, came off the bench for a fairytale ending to his brief career in a claret shirt with the winning goal mid way through the second half.
And so the season was over and our final position of ninth would have been grabbed at with both hands by any Cobblers fan at the start of the season. To be in with a shout of the playoffs right up until late in the season shows what a great job Stuart Gray has done in his first full season as manager.
The record of Played 46, Won 17, Drew 15 and Lost 14 shows a big improvement on last seasons’ fourteenth place finish. Danny Jackman claimed a deserved Player Of The Season award whilst Mark Bunn and Jason Crowe were also as consistent as ever and will surely bring back the bidders during the summer.
A bright summer ahead then as Stuart Gray begins to shape his squad for 2008/09 and if the right players are brought in to supplement what is already a powerful squad we could be looking at sneaking up even higher come this time next year. Local derbies with Peterborough, Leicester and MK Dons also loom large and next week’s fixture announcement can’t come soon enough!
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