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Vic Morgan: Oldham take two and a season best forgotten
Lifelong Swindon Town fan Vic Morgan has his definitive say on the club, every Tuesday on Total Sport. This week Morgan looks ahead to tonight's rescheduled clash against Oldham Athletic.
It's a Tuesday and that means I have to be a bit Mystic Meg and predict how the Town will get on at Oldham. Well, all I can say with relative certainty is that it's a long way and a late night.
Apart from that, there's a nice pub to have a pre match drink and hopefully time to do that, traffic permitting. It was the weather that put paid to the original fixture you might remember. Snow caused it's postponement. The only fixture in the Football League that weekend to go by the board, a snow one obviously. That means a Tuesday night in Greater Manchester.
This game follows on the heels of our extraordinary encounter with Fleetwood. A match which all but certainly wraps up our season. The play offs are now but a distant, briefly hoped-for date and relegation has almost vanished from our vocabulary.
It means that finishing as high as possible is the one remaining target. In truth this is a season I won't be too unhappy to see the back of. At times it's been uplifting at others downright depressing. I guess the match last weekend encapsulated the campaign in ninety minutes.
The first half was simply woeful, the second period exceptionally entertaining. Okay the football wasn't brilliant after the break but there was hardly a dull moment. It still defies belief that Fleetwood failed to add to their first half goal with the amount of chances they had and one of the seasons great escapes for the Town when the visitors somehow contrived to miss from point blank range three or four times in about thirty seconds.
Incredible. From a Swindon perspective, there was a much more spirited display than we've seen of late and it was good to end that dismal spell over Easter with a point. With just a few games to go then, how are we going to look back at this season?
The full inquest will come in May. Perhaps to sum up at the moment, it's a feeling of not what could have been but more of, we're in the right place. Injuries to several of the loanees brought in at the start of the season have hampered our progress.
Players like Kevin Stuart and Jordan Williams barely had time to settle into the red and white before returning to parent club Liverpool. That's bound to have had an affect. The sale of Nathan Byrne early on meant the departure of a player who was firing on all cylinders at the start of the campaign and in truth that was a big loss.
We also lost the skipper Nathan Thompson for a massive part of the season. You're bound to miss a player of that influence and we're certainly seeing that at the moment as he serves the last of a three match ban tonight.
All that and a change in management for one reason or another means it's been a rather disjointed campaign. Some good, some not so good. The one thing we don't want is the remaining games to just drift along. There are still points to be played for starting tonight at Boundary Park.
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