If the wet weather that's worrying a fair few Town fans on their message boards eases up, Mossley should be making their second trip of the season to the Fylde coast to take on Fleetwood Town. And barring some mini-miracle occuring between now and the final whistle at Gateshead on the last day of the season, there's a good chance that this could be the last journey we'll be making to Highbury for some time.
In fact the threat of global warming means it could turn out to be our last ever visit before FY7 disappears under the Irish Sea. On the bright side though, in the event of all those coastal and low lying sides being submerged under the rising seas, Mossley should jump up a couple of leagues or so by virtue of people not having to swim to the ground to attend matches.
Our previous sodjourn to Fleetwood this season took place last November when Mossley went down 2-1 in the League Cup; the long since departed Chris Ward scoring our goal from the penalty spot a rare event in Mossley's recent history. When I say departed I don't mean in the 'dead' sense of the word but that he left to join another club. And as that club was Clitheroe I'll leave it up to you to make up your own puncline.
Fleetwood had a phenomenal start to life back in the Unibond Premier following their promotion from the First Division last season. Sadly for them they were unable to keep the momentum going and currently lie thirteenth in the league on thirty nine points but, due to cup runs and the predictably lousy nature of the British climate, they have enough games in hand to make a go of claiming a play-off spot with a late end of season run. They go into this match unbeaten in three games (four if you include their victory over Grantham in the League Cup) and have scored in each of their last twelve league games.
The Lilywhite's on the other hand take to the field with four points under their belts from the last eighteen available. Or if you want to look at things in a more depressing light, ten from the fifty one possible since our last home league win almost five months ago.
Prediction: Call me a dreamer but I seriously think we can and will win. If we have any intentions of avoiding the drop then we've got to start pulling off some surpring results against good teams and Fleetwood's as giood a place as any to start. However, whilst we may be lacking the experienced goalscorer we need to pull ourselves out of the relegation quicksand, at least history is on our side as we haven't lost a league game at Fleetwood for five years. Little comfort it may be but it's a straw and I'm going to clutch at it.
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