Following a week consisting of mostly pleasant weather, its sudden change to non-stop rain can only mean one thing - that Mossley are due to play at home. Now this may lead some of you to believe that it's a sign that someone up there doesn't like us but I look on it as affirmation of a merciful deity considering some of the woeful performances and poor form we've seen at Seel Park this season.
Still, if the match does go ahead it's an opportunity for Mossley to exact some revenge for the late, late show North Ferriby put an at Grange Lane to claim the three points earlier in the season. United scored twice in the closing stages of the game to cancel out and ultimately surpass Steven Sheils’s opener and give a desperately dull game a score line it didn’t deserve (to refresh your memory, click here). As with most of the 'return' games played this season, the Mossley side taking to the field this Saturday will be a completely different line-up with only four of those who travelled to Humberside in September likely to feature.
In keeping with what's happened so many times already season, Mossley will be facing a side that's just hit a bit of form. The 3-1 victory over Ashton United last weekend was North Ferriby's first in the league for three months, a period during which they were overturned 5-1 at home by the then rock bottom side Leek Town. However the Lilywhites have also hit a bit of form themselves with four points from the last two games but the fly in the ointment is still the fact that they haven't won a home game for over four months.
Despite their recent poor run of form North Ferriby currently lie in sixteenth position in the league table, four places and twelve points ahead of their hosts this Saturday. United have won two and drawn five of the fifteen league games played away from home; the vast majority of them being low scoring affairs too with only twenty two goals being scored in total (five of those coming in the one game at Burscough), North Ferriby's contribution being just eight.
Prediction: The last time the two sides met at Seel Park both teams had a lot riding on the outcome. On the final day of the 2004/05 season Mossley needed a point to make certain of a play-off place and North Ferriby needed a win to claim the Unibond First Division League title. This time around it's only Mossley who are in a must-win situation and, as such, the necessity of the three points will see the Lilywhites prove too strong in a high/low* scoring game.
* Delete as applicable after the match to make yourself look incredibly all knowing
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