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Northampton sack manager Colin Calderwood following their dreadful start to the season that's left them bottom of the football league. Among the early names linked to the job are Bobby Gould and Nigel Clough.
Arsenal accept the loan move for Birchall, so it's that jolly old wait to see if he'll join.
October 25, 2004
Elliott Ward could well be staying until May after the Hammers accepted the move to tie up his loan deal right through to the end of the season. The 19 year old, whose original deal ends in two days time, has been a vital part of the defence so far this season.
And the slightly less important - but perhaps more realistically winnable - trophy begins with the FA Trophy First Round Draw. I'm pleased enough to see us handed a visit to Egham.
October 26, 2004
Mustafa hurts himself. He'll miss a week. Barring an injury crisis hitting before the Canvey game on Saturday, I don't care.
October 27, 2004
On the day his loan ends and he returns to Upton Park, Ward agrees to head straight back and see out the season at Hornchurch. The centre back claims to have thoroughly enjoyed the experience he's gained here and is happy to return.
October 28, 2004
Two days short of the big FA Cup match further pleasing news comes as Birchall decides the second time round that Hornchurch is a good move. He joins for a 3 month spell.
October 30, 2004
Another all-Essex clash, only this one means business. Winner takes all... Well, a place in the FA Cup proper...
FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round
The Stadium, Upminster
Hornchurch v Canvey Island
New loan signing Birchall goes straight into the side, in place of the ever-disappointing Neil Ross. With the two central defenders back from the double-suspension, we have a full strength side available, which is always good when you're the underdog.
Canvey, coming in as 4-5 favourites for the win, seemed a little nervous to be seen as having to live up to those odds, and I was delighted to see much of the early play being aimed towards Danny Potter in the Canvey goal. Our midfielder was on one of their good days, linking up nicely and creating room to get forward and threaten, while Canvey struggled to string together anything resembling a good attack.
Therefore, it was inevitable that Canvey would go ahead. And they did exactly that, heading in from a corner early in the second half.
Almost instantly though Goodfellow hit a hopeful cross, and right back Adam Locke was in the right place to knock in a rare goal. Locke also nearly set up a second for us, finding Brayley in space but the reflexes of Potter kept him from finding the net. Canvey had grown in confidence though and scored again to go ahead. Sedgemore then made the scoreline a bit too flattering in the dying seconds.
Hornchurch 1 (Locke 51) Canvey Island 3 (Sterling 49, Gregory 72, Sedgemore 90)
Attendance: 2763
Man of the Match: Neil Gregory (Canvey Island)
The result looked better for Canvey than it was, but either way we were out of the biggest cup competition in the land. There's always next year, I guess.
12-09-2004, 03:20 AM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #32
We discover our first international player, kind of. Adam Birchall gets a call to join the Wales Under 21s. I think I can say that's the greatest honour to be given to a Hornchurch player...
Meanwhile, the scout catches Bognor v Carshalton and returns with some typically bad reputations. Hopefully he'll head up a bit more to find some better young talent among the upper parts of English football.
I however look elsewhere and randomly offer £20,000 for Colchester's young keeper Dean Gerken. As a very pointless and random real-life side note, his sister is hot. Anyway, Gerken looks a good goalkeeping prospect and a move to Hornchurch would be nice to see.
November 1, 2004
Finally, an announcement that satisfies me. The monthly appraisal arrives among my junk emails about porn and viagra, and finally Calder's made up his mind and stopped saying he hopes for a good future. He announces his pleasure at progress so far, which is nice.
November 2, 2004
The Champions League returns to our world. Man Utd are the only successful UK side, beating Leverkusen 4-2 at the BayArena. In group C, Ajax beat Chelsea 4-1 and Rangers lose 2-1 at home to Deportivo. Rangers, with a single point, are all but finishing bottom of the group.
Tony Pulis gets the shove up at Stoke, with unemployed Glenn Hoddle the favourite to replace him.
McDonald finally visits a half-big game, taking in Walsall v Cheltenham in the LDV Trophy. Sadly, he only recommends a player already among my shortlist of potential buys for somewhere down the line. Cheers, Greg.
November 3, 2004
Colchester attempt to make too much money than I can afford from me for Gerken, so I offer £20,000 plus Caskey plus a load more when I flog him.
And in part two of this weeks ECL fixtures, Arsenal and Celtic are in action. But before we get to those...
Conference South
The Stadium, Upminster
Hornchurch v Basingstoke Town
After the disappointment of exiting the FA Cup (in which, by the way, we'd have had Macclesfield), it was back to league action against mid-table Basingstoke, against whom we hoped to add some points to continue that climb up the table. Jordan Fowler was suspended and Glenn Boosey started in his place, with the possibly outgoing Caskey in his place on the bench.
Birchall was close to bagging his first for Hornchurch within 2 minutes as his ambitious attempt after a poor goal kick was well saved. The promising start continued with 4 attempts coming within the first 10 minutes of play, but Scott Tarr was keeping out anything on target.
Birchall could however open his account later on when Brayley set him free in acres of space to bang in the goal that would hopefully start off a free-scoring spell for the Arsenal man. As half time came and we'd achieved 10 attempts to Basingstoke's total of... 0, it looked like a nice stroll to a win was on the cards.
Brayley, McCarthy and Birchall all came close in the second half before Basingstoke formed their first attack. Predictably, they bloody scored. Not long later they mustered their second, and scored again. I better not write how I felt right now, it'll only be replaced with *s.
Brayley almost made the scoreline look closer to what it should have late on, but somehow we lost.
Hornchurch 1 (Birchall 27) Basingstoke 2 (Whiddett (65, 77)
Attendance: 724
Man of the Match: Marc Goodfellow (Hornchurch)
We'd dominated so much I could barely believe we lost. There was nothing bad about the performance. Bayes hadn't had a terrible day, but maybe the move for Gerken was going to turn out to be more than just pointlessly signing a bloke I'd met IRL for the hell of it.
Meanwhile, in those ECL games, Celtic lost 2-0 in Bucharest to throw a small spanner in their campaign, but they still led the group after 4. Arsenal qualified for the next stage, joined by group rivals Milan, after destroying GAK 4-0.
12-09-2004, 03:43 AM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #33
Dover offer £12,000 for the never used striker Andy Douglas. See ya, Andy.
Meanwhile three of the UK's reps in the EURO Cup play. Hearts draw 1-1 with Partizan. And in group G Portadown lose 3-1 in Heerenveen while Middlesbrough beat Parma by a single goal to nil.
November 6, 2004
FA Trophy First Round
Runnymede Stadium, Egham
Egham Town v Hornchurch
Even for me this seemed a walkover. The bookies had us 1-6 for the win, so it didn't seem difficult. On the teamsheet, Fowler returned from suspension but Boosey kept his place with Larsson recovering from a minor training injury.
It took under 4 minutes to go ahead, through Birchall who continued his good form since signing on loan. Worryingly though Egham were attacking with more force than the Basingstoke team that beat us - well they had a couple of shots on Bayes' goal at least. Fortunately though they couldn't really trouble the man between the sticks and consistently gave the fans behind the goal something to do.
Still, the 1-0 lead wasn't exactly much to take a great amount of confidence in, especially after Wednesday's antics, and Birchall's sending off just before half time did little to inspire much more comfort in my mind.
We finally found ourselves embarrassingly level shortly after the interval, when Danny Sutton pounced on a rebound to level the scoring. But within two minutes Goodfellow was brought down in the area and we had a penalty chance to go back in front. Adam Locke kept his nerve to take the opportunity.
The penalty seemed to give the guys a much needed kick up the arse, and shortly after Jordan Fowler would increase the lead with a nice strike from the edge of the Egham area, among a number of close attempts around it.
Egham pulled one back towards the end, and had put up a good fight. But Purser added another late in injury time to confirm that our attack was just that bit too much for the lowly side. Maybe we didn't truly deserve the emphatic win, but we'd got it by the means available on the day.
Egham 2 (Sutton 47, Harris 90) Hornchurch 4 (Birchall 4, Locke pen 50, Fowler 57, Purser 90)
Attendance: 185
Man of the Match: Ashley Bayes (Hornchurch)
It was an ugly win, but a win nonetheless. With some luck we'd got through to the draw for the next round. This was already looking like a more exciting cup competition than the FA Cup was...
12-09-2004, 04:08 PM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #34
A busy day in the news. St Albans' Iain Turkentine complains about being made to wait on a contract extention beyond his current 2006 deal. Noting this, I begin to keep tabs on the impressive young midfielder, who could well be useful when we don't have Arsenal loaners to fill the centre of our midfield.
The managerial merry go round kicks into action, with two sackings this morning. John Rains is booted out at Sutton, and Southport relieve Liam Watson of his position.
Annoyingly, Andy Douglas snubs a move to Dover. He can waste space here for a bit longer, then.
November 8, 2004
Colchester reject the move for Gerken, so we'll wait til we have a little bit more money to try on that one again.
November 9, 2004
FA Trophy draw time off at FA HQ, and it's another pleasantly 'simple' draw. We'll visit Beaconsfield in Round Two. As a result, our league match against Lewes is rearranged. Marvellous.
Conference South
The Stadium, Upminster
Hornchurch v Sutton United
Birchall's suspended, so Neil Ross gets an opportunity to do something useful alongside Brayley up front. A boring opening stage of the match is eventually brought alive after about 15 minutes with Ross coming close twice from consecutive corners.
As ever though this simply led to us going behind. Joff Vansittart broke forward and gave Sutton the lead from 20 yards. With all around him losing theirs, Brayley kept his head and moved forward, taking on several defenders before capping a magnifiscent run with a lovely strike from close range. It was enough to see us level at the break, and it was going to bee a close and exciting second half. Probably.
Brayley came close on a couple of occasions and Ross almost managed to take full advantage of a defensive mix up before Sutton could wake up and manage an attack. But where we normally go behind during a spell of dominance we actually took the lead today. Goodfellow scored from the edge of the box to put as ahead and soon after Brayley made it three.
Sutton did their best to get back into the game as the minutes ticked away but we were always looking more likely to extend the lead than watch it reduced. Bayes was having a stormer to keep out the chances Sutton did create, but the game was truly controlled by our superior midfield. It's just worrying that 3 of them are on loan...
Hornchurch 3 (Brayley 38, 65, Goodfellow 63) Sutton Utd 1 (Vansittart 20)
Attendance: 721
Man of the Match: Ashley Bayes (Hornchurch)
Finally a much deserved and desired emphatic win. We'd seemingly learned how to make the pressure count and turn it into goals. Another 30 games like that, and I'll be chuffed.
12-09-2004, 04:48 PM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #35
Neil Ross does his hamstring in training and will subsequently miss 2 months of football. David Poole will be returning to Man Utd after his loan spell at Darlington in a few days, so an option's nicely set up to take advantage of.
November 13, 2004
Nothing happens whatsoever for a few days, and we don't even play on Saturday with the FA Cup First Round stealing the weekend.
Meanwhile Wrexham go on the hunt for a new boss after Denis Smith leaves to join Stoke.
November 14, 2004
York sack Chris Brass, prompting the media to link the names of Steve Castle and John Dreyer, among others, to the newly vacated Bootham Crescent hotseat.
Darren Caskey does another bunk from training. This time he happily accepts the £1,500 fine.
November 16, 2004
The scout watches Scotland U19 player Bryan Craig. Never promising when you're recommended someone who's just lost 4-0, but I suppose he's an international. Kinda.
November 17, 2004
The loan offer is made for David Poole. I'm unsure of what to expect from the 20 year old, after his loan spell at Darlington wasn't the greatest. Only given 5 substitute appearances, he played usefully enough and scored once, but is obviously yet to experience a full 90 minutes. Still, we're playing in a league further down the skill pyramid from the reserves league he's used to at Man Utd.
Conference South
Nyewood Lane, Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis Town v Hornchurch
With Ross injured, Birchall off with Wales and half the backups unfit or hopeless, Kirk Jackson was given a rare start with Brayley in the only alteration to the line up. This match promised to be a closely fought one, with both sides floating around the same lower-mid-table sort of area.
Bognor had the first chance from a free kick, but Bayes was thinking quickly and straight after grabbing the shot from the air he allowed Jackson through to almost score and give me another selection worry. He didn't though, but Bognor did 5 minutes later. Dan Beck found himself there for Saunders' cross and knocked the home team in front.
Bertie Brayley though, as against Sutton, took the defence on alone and scored another wonderful individual goal, before almost putting us ahead after Craig Stoner's poor goalkeeping clearance.
As the second half began, it wasn't the most pleasant of matches to sit and watch. Both sides were scrapping their way through and no one seemed to want to play the flowing football we enjoy seeing more.
The ugly play refused to produce much in the way of chances, and the match ended as it was, 1-1.
Bognor Regis 1 (Beck 12) Hornchurch 1 (Brayley 30)
Attendance: 730
Man of the Match: Wayne Purser (Hornchurch)
An ugly one but a point gained rather than two lost. We remained in 14th place, still 8 points from the playoffs. But there's a long old way to go yet...
12-09-2004, 05:14 PM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #36
Dull old week, but it ends with bright news in that the approach for Poole is accepted. Now let's all sit and wait for him to make up his mind...
November 20, 2004
Conference South
Priory Lane, Eastbourne
Eastbourne Borough v Hornchurch
Birchall returns, ousting Jackson, for the clash with the table-footing side. A win here will go down ever so nicely, funnily enough.
The early signs were that of an unchallenging win, with Goodfellow, Fowler and Brayley all threatening to open the scoring within 10 minutes of the start. Boro began to wake up and came close themselves as the first half flowed, but we were playing our better style of football and were always looking more likely to score first. In fact it was becoming difficult to see why we hadn't.
Birchall eventually celebrated his return with the inevitable goal by pouncing on a rebound from Ward's header, and scoring from all of a yard or so. It separated the teams on this cold, wet evening at the break, but one wasn't enough to settle things.
The very same man came along to begin taking the game away from Eastbourne, scoring with a bit more style than his first early in the second half of the match. Boro managed their closest opportunity of the match soon after, embarrassingly when keeper Lee Hook came up to bang a free kick towards Bayes.
Bertie Brayley, playing superbly whilst hiding from the scoresheet, then made his appearance and added his tenth of the season, in as many games, just after the hour mark, and the match was as good as beyond the home side. Birchall added the gloss to his game with his hat-trick nearer the end, almost nabbing a 4th moments later.
Boro took a late consolation, but it was indeed too little, too late.
Eastbourne Boro 1 (Simmonds 90) Hornchurch 4 (Birchall 36, 48, 77, Brayley 61)
Attendance: 831
Man of the Match: Adam Birchall (Hornchurch)
Things were finally looking up. Slowly but surely we were dragging ourselves up to the business end of the table, and it was at the point of needing a few more like that to start really threatening. With Birchall and Brayley firing on all cylinders, and the midfield running almost every game, it was surely time I began to take this division on properly...
12-09-2004, 07:02 PM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #37
Excellent story, very easy to read. I have been managing St Albans and I can honestly say they were the worst bunch of players I have ever come across in my life, there was no money for wages of transfers. Looks as though you have a better budget than I had!
12-12-2004, 12:28 AM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #38
Cheers AJR. Can't say there's been much of a budget, but I've spent every penny they'll let me - and a few more on top. Oops.
Anyway, after a couple of days out to go back to the real world and do some work and stuff, it's back to Hornchurch...
November 21, 2004
Struggling Conference North boys Harrogate Town sack manager John Reed. Former York man Chris Brass is the rumoured top pick for a replacement.
Meanwhile Shane Blackett makes the short trip from Dagenham & Redbridge to... Redbridge for a 3 month loan spell.
November 22, 2004
David Poole rejects the offer of a loan move to us, so never mind. Birchall & Brayley'll do the job for now, I'm sure.
November 23, 2004
Celtic secure their place in the next phase of the Champions Cup, as Hartson's strike hands them a 1-0 win over Werder Bremen. Arsenal and Milan, both already through, play out a 1-1 draw at Highbury, handing first place in Group H to the Gunners.
November 24, 2004
Porto and Man Utd draw 2-2 in the ECC, not altering much with both teams having all but qualified anyway. Group C remains in the balance with all four sides able to qualify, possibly. Chelsea are as good as through, after their goalless draw at Deportivo. Rangers just about kept alive with a win over Ajax, but need a good performance and luck elsewhere to qualify from the final matchday.
Elsewhere, Macclesfield murder Canvey in the FA Cup game we could've played in. Ha.
November 25, 2004
In the EURO Cup, it's the usual jolly mix of British clubs. Hearts lose 4-1 at Olomouc, dropping to bottom in their group. Newcastle secure a good 3-1 win over Swiss visitors Basel, while Millwall bring a 2-2 draw home from Steaua. Liverpool defeat Nacional da Madeira 2-0 at Anfield, and in Group G Middlesbrough beat Heerenveen 2-1. In the same group, Portadown lose 3-1 to VfB Stuttgart.
November 26, 2004
Bobby Gould gets the nod for the job at Wrexham. Woot. And Port Vale chase Neil Mellor on loan. Smashing.
November 27, 2004
FA Trophy Second Round
Beaconsfield SYCOB v Hornchurch
On paper this match was over before it started. With a full strength team ready to go out for the 90 minutes we were given odds of 8-1 on.
Worryingly the home side started well and produced a handful of decent attacks before we managed to trouble their end. Just as we thought we'd made it through the storm we were behind.
Fortunately the embarrassment didn't last too long and by half time we were heading for the easy win we expected. Following on from his hat-trick at Eastbourne, Adam Birchall hit four before the break. Can't complain about that up front, I guess.
Our hosts continued to battle against the odds but the confidence was drained and the struggle was over. Shortly in the second half it was five when Brayley headed in from close range. Another came from Brayley a few minutes later, and the oppositition was rapidly being given something of a lesson. He soon joined Birchall with a hat-trick, before Birchall himself managed his 5th, doubling his goals tally for the loan spell during this match.
Another came within ten minutes, this time from Brayley. Without any high-tech scoreboards here, I was losing count of the scoreline. But still there was just time for one more in injury time, and finally one that didn't come from a striker. Goodfellow knocked in Ward's corner to complete an absolute destruction of our inferior opposition.
Beaconsfield 1 (Cooper 12) Hornchurch 10 (Birchall 24, 26, 37, 45, 64, Brayley 48, 55, 62, 73, Goodfellow 90)
Attendance: 160
Man of the Match: Marc Goodfellow (Hornchurch)
And to think, we originally went behind there...
12-12-2004, 01:09 AM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #39
Three more sackings keep the managers merry-go-round in motion. Steve McClaren leaves Middlesbrough, leaving the likes of Hoddle, Hitzfeld and Adams linked with the Riverside job. Less excitingly, Steve Castle is thrown out at St Albans. Finally Paul Merson's Walsall days end. Mark Hateley is named favourite for the job at the Midlands side.
November 29, 2004
Burnley and Stockport both make offers to loan Neil Mellor. For once I'll ignore the temptation and not make an offer myself.
And also Stafford Rangers employ Chris Brass as manager. Marvellous...
November 30, 2004
The FA Trophy Third Round draw, which sees the introduction of the Conference teams. After Saturday, I'm hoping to be drawn one of the handful of remaining useless Beaconsfield-type-sides.
Annoyingly, we wouldn't get one of those, and we'll visit Morecambe instead. Should be a close enough match, with us finding form of late and the Conference National side failing to find much rhythm themselves. Although I might note that the match is 6 or 7 weeks away yet.
I'm told Steve West's contract will expire in 6 months if I don't do anything about it. I proceed to do nothing about it.
Conference South
The Stadium, Upminster
Hornchurch v Thurrock
No change from the team that killed that little bunch at the weekend, so it's no selection dilemmas for me to care about.
Thurrock weren't quite Beaconsfield, but it looked like we were continuing the quickfire goalscoring on from that huge win when Goodfellow volleyed us in front after just 3 minutes.
Unfortunately we couldn't stretch the lead to a stupid amount - maybe those ideas were just my overactive imagination - but we did manage to add one more before half time, and yet another from the boot of Adam Birchall.
Tresor Kandol threatened a Thurrock reply when he pulled one back 20 minutes from time, but after Goodfellow extended the lead further it seemed to mean no more than some consolation for the travellers - albeit not from very far.
The final moments would see Terry Bowker see red for Thurrock to add insult to injury, and they'd finish well beaten and a man down.
Hornchurch 3 (Goodfellow 3, 72, Birchall 45) Thurrock 1 (Kandol 70)
Attendance: 338
Man of the Match: Marc Goodfellow (Hornchurch)
The form was continuing but we remained stuck in 15th place. However we were now a mere 6 points off of 5th. Things were beginning to look more of a reality than a dream. December would be a crucial month, and Christmas would be the last thing on my mind...
12-12-2004, 02:05 AM
The Only Way Is Up. No, seriously, it is. Post #40
That monthly email arrives from my superiors, announcing they're pleased with my overall performances. Based on my recent results at least, they damn sure should be.
York meanwhile replace sacked Chris Brass with recently sacked St Albans City boss Steve Castle, while George Burley leaves Derby to join Middlesbrough ahead of tomorrow's EURO Cup match. And Oldham complete the day's managerial movements by bringing Trevor Francis into the job at Boundary Park.
Danny Shipp's contract is also to expire in half a year, I'm told. Fair play.
Newcastle, Hearts and Millwall all play in the EURO Cup. Hearts end their Group stage with their first win, beating Besiktas 1-0, but need to wait until the next matchday to find out if they'll play any further part in Europe this season. Newcastle visit Gent and win 3-1 to secure their place with a game to spare, and finally Millwall set themselves up with a chance by beating AaB 3-1 to move into 3rd in their group. A draw at Rosenborg in 2 weeks will see them through.
December 2, 2004
Liverpool edge past Hajduk 1-0 to go through as qualification matters are all wrapped up with a matchday to spare. Burley meanwhile opens his Boro career with a 2-1 win at Stuttgart to take them through as a similar case hits Group G. Those Portadown boys finally drop out. Shame.
Left winger Mark Graham requests a transfer from The Stadium. He last played in a half-hour sub appearance against Romford. I think I can safely say he's somewhat useless to me.
December 3, 2004
The FA Cup Second Round weekend begins with Bradford destroying Bristol City 5-1 in the all-League One clash. Two Conference South, one Conference North and seven Conference National sides make up the non-league representatives bidding for a place among the big boys tomorrow.
Caskey meanwhile goes to the press complaining about life at the club. He claims it'll only clear up if one of us leaves. On yer bike, Dazza.
December 4, 2004
No match for us today, but the FA Cup sees 4 of the 7 Conference sides secure a place in the third round. Woking, Dag & Red, Crawley and Barnet will be in the hat for a potential trip to Highbury or Old Trafford.
And Rick Hayward has enough at Wolves and kicks out Dave Jones. Glenn Hoddle is immediately banded around as the favourite to take his place.
December 5, 2004
Tarkan Mustafa requests a move. Laters Tark. And as the merry-go-round continues revolving, Mark Hateley jumps off to take over at Walsall.
Neil Mellor, who once 'nearly' joined me, goes to Burnley on loan.
December 7, 2004
Not much else happens in between, so it's straight to the final matchday of the Champions Cup group stages. Man Utd had already gone through but wrapped up unbeaten with a 3-1 win over Olympiakos. Chelsea also qualified, at the expense of Rangers who lost 3-0 on their visit to London, and finished bottom.
December 8, 2004
Conference South
The Stadium, Upminster
Hornchurch v Lewes
A cold Wednesday night welcomed me to the dugout for this one. Goodfellow served suspension, so was replaced by Lee Elam for the match against struggling Lewes. Fortunately Elam could do little wrong down the left side. He got forward well throughout the first half and looked like providing ammo for Birchall and Brayley if they find their scoring boots in time.
As at half time they hadn't come across them yet, although mainly down to excellent performances in the Lewes defence - Bankole and Duku in particular.
Lee was injured moments after almost putting us ahead, and replaced by Steven Clark - another who's not played since pre-season.
The match continued at it's slow pace and Bankole stood firm in the Lewes goal. Towards the end Lewes would break and go ahead through sub Barrington Belgrave. Belgrave would cause further trouble in the dying seconds when his run left McCarthy with no options beyond a crap challenge, which secured his second yellow card of the evening. Marvellous.
Hornchurch 0 Lewes 1 (Belgrave 82)
Attendance: 716
Man of the Match: Ademola Bankole (Lewes)
I thought these days were behind us. Or is just that Goodfellow is that important a part of the team? Either way, we cocked this up, but at least we didn't move from our almost rock solid 15th place, and remained within touching distance of those important parts of the table.