Well that was disappointing.
It was a bit like when you’re young and you get picked for the school team and spend all week in delirious excitement, only to get subbed after five minutes for that short annoying classmate who goes on to score a hat trick, rubbing it in by celebrating right in your face before he is carried aloft by his adoring team mates.
Not that that kind of thing ever happened to us. No sir.
But I imagine it must feel somewhat similar to Saturday’s result. While there is no such thing as an easy game in league 1, and with 19 stalemates the U’s are draw specialists but Colchester have been on a horrid run recently, lying third bottom of the form table, having not won in 10.
They were there for the taking. Unfortunately, we didn’t take. More unfortunately, one of the few teams on a worse trot than the imaginatively nicknamed U’s is Leyton Orient, so their capitulation at the sty was grimly predictable.
More worrying was the lack of cutting edge that seems to have been creeping in over the last couple of matches, most noticeable in the flying winger Antonio who seems to have had his wings clipped somewhat.
Depression, which seems to be many Owls fans natural state of being, is rearing its ugly head. There is even talk in the office of assuming we are doomed to the play-offs and should start resting key players now. Four points looks like a pretty big gap with a mere nine to play for.
To act as a counterweight to this malaise, here are some reasons to be optimistic.
First, Miguel Llera, the sorcerer of Seville, responded to his receipt of the coveted SWFC Football FanCast player of the week award with typical Latin flair, scoring again this week. Second, Reading’s unstoppable hurtle into the top flight of English football probably increases our chances of keeping hold of Antonio. Third, this is how things are going to pan out.
We beat plucky Carlisle and United suffer a not improbable reverse at MK Dons – one point gap. We get a slightly more improbable away win at Brentford, whilst across the city they only manage a point against Stevenage who, to be fair, are on a bit of a run themselves – we go ahead by a point.
Then on the last day, we just need to beat Wycombe at home to secure promotion.
In the immortal words of Danny Baker, Nothing can go wrong now.
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