Only Four More To Go...

It’s to Yorkshire we head once more as the penultimate away fixture of the season sees us make the relatively short hop once again to Ossett.

Thanks to the ludicrous set-up of the league this season, this will be our third league meeting with the town’s lower ranked team. Honours from the previous two games are evenly shared with both sides winning their respective home games. The aggregate score from these meetings currently stand at 5 – 5 though Mossley are winning on the away goals rule.

The last match at Dimple Wells saw the home side run out 4 – 2 winners. Hopefully the scorer of Osset’s first goal on that night will be able to repeat the feat again this time around seeing as he now plays for us; the ‘he’ in question being David Boardman.

A run of eight games without defeat has taken our opponents to sixth position but they need a win to keep their still faint hopes of playing at least one extra game at the end of the season alive. Mossley on the other hand just need a win – be it scrappy, fortuitous or deserved. To be honest a draw would do and even a 1 – 0 defeat would be a sign of improvement.

Prediction: As always with Mossley – expect the unexpected. So with no-one expecting us to win that’s just what we’ll do, leading to three very welcome points heading back to Seel Park.