Excited and nervous

Yes we had 2 free hits.  Now this is a different game with mor any stake.    Our last playoff final was built on an away win at Braintree.  Very difficult because we lost the home game.

This season we had 2 very difficult away matches.  We stood the pressures and succeeded showing great character.  We need to continue like this on Sunday.

We do have a better team than when we topped the table at the start of the season.  Only Clifton, Waterfall, Taylor and McAtee remain as first team regulars.  Although after 6 months or so out of the team we now have Sousa mark 2 starting and finishing the last 2 games.  How did he last 4 hours in less than a week?

We are aiming for our 5th consecutive playoff away win away from BP.  3 won in extra-time. (Other matches being Braintree and FGR).

It is incredible that we have come this far. I would`ve never believed this after that long streak without a win earlier in the season, but now we are just ONE game away from a League return. It makes me really excited and nervous at the same time. As I live abroad I miss IFollow desperately, so for me it would really be a MASSIVE return to a whole other world for me.
I think we probably beat the best team of the play-offs in our last match, but it would be a mistake to underestimate Solihull Moors. I really hope we are 3-0 up at half-time to make the blood pressure go down a little, but I fear another tight and nerve-wracking game.

All the best fellas! Up the Mariners!

It’s never ever a free hit. You hope with every fibre Town will win every game they play. You might not expect anything but you always hope.
As for Sunday, I’m  not expecting us to win, but I hope to the bottom of my ballsack they do. That would cap one of the most remarkable changes in fortune I’ve seen at Town. A team destroyed by Holloway and Fenty roaring back with everything you could dream of. Trouble is we don’t do fairytales do we…? Or maybe…🧚‍♀️

We have the nice fall back of scunny and York if it all goes fenty up. But hope we pull it off

Just to think.  Here we are on the brink of an immediate return to the elf.  Can we do it?  Of course we can.  Won't be easy, but neither will it be for Solihull.
And to think we were literally 5 seconds away from going out at Notts County.

I retract my last statement. I keep having nightmares that I wake up and miss my train and the game  

Exited yes, nervous no. Always said we would go up, full of positive enthusiasm for a victory and a return to proper league football. Are we going to do it, of course we are.

Quoted from lukeo

I was shocked at this (in a positive way) I don't massively rate Abrahams as I feel he doesn't tend to bust a gut like the others but that one instance alone makes me question myself about questing him 🤔

I find that odd, one thing he has always done since he arrived was be a willing runner, working really hard from the front. In fact he made a point of doing that in his very first game.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Just to think.  Here we are on the brink of an immediate return to the elf.  Can we do it?  Of course we can.  Won't be easy, but neither will it be for Solihull.
And to think we were literally 5 seconds away from going out at Notts County.

Indeed.  Let's hope for a sprinkling of fairy dust on Sunday !

I definitely felt it was a free hit when we started - we wouldn't have even qualified for the playoffs finishing 6th when we were down here before. I didn't expect us to win (again!) at notts anyway although I thought we had a chance.

But the manner if the equaliser was so incredible with I think just 7 seconds left, and then to win in the 119th minute of extra time, well it was just joyous. One of the best feelings I've had about a match.

For the second game I thought the odds were significantly tougher, they finished  way ahead of us, beat us at home and had a great home record. The only thing was their last two bottled games, and our great performance at county, which made you think just maybe.

This time it was the greatest town match I have ever seen, the best in my lifetime I think, simply utterly incredible how entertaining that match was.

Now I've gone from seeing the playoffs as a bonus to feeling that if we don't go up it will be heartbreaking after those last 2 performances. But Solihull will be really tough, beat us home and away and are a good side. Pleased they don't have jamie Osborne to come back and haunt us but I am so so nervous for this game now. The monumental balls up the NL have made of the final only adds to the desperation to get out of it.

Please town just one more heave....