Not even a text awaiting my arrival at Gatwick late last night such is the apathy at the moment. I knew that wasn't good news, so was encouraged to learn we scraped a point. The 57 points we have mustered moves us up to 8th but our rivals all have at least a game in hand.
The fixtures might be kind to us later today. Palace and Ipswich are away at Sheffield Wednesday and Scunthorpe respectively and might find wins hard to come by. Plymouth entertain Watford at Home Park and Wolves play a revitalised QPR at Molineux, neither of which are foregone conclusions. Unfortunately, we are in fingers-crossed territory now and simply have to beat Wolves at the Valley next week. This is now the latest six-pointer and we will need the win as a number of our rivals have easier games than today (Wolves excepted I hope).
Catching up with the Mercury, I am interested to read Peter Varney's latest comments that he doesn't fell like he has "achieved everything I set out to because I wanted to redevelop the East Stand." Whilst he pays "a huge tribute to Richard Murray" I can't helping reading this like it might have been a decision point re his career. Our Board have done a fantastic job in getting the Valley to where it is but we have , in my opinion, been over-cautious on a couple of occasions previously when the East Stand could have been redeveloped. Money was used on the team which arguably didn't give as good a return as it might have, as our seasons have had a habit of tailing off once the threat of relegation had been avoided. It has been a long time since the last phase of development (7 years?) and we have missed out on considerable additional revenue and growth opportunities as a result, both of which are key to the Chief Exec's role. He goes on to mention previous appraoches by Celtic and Aston Villa, so you have to believe he is thinking about moving on to bigger things in the Summer.....
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