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Upon reload, we're 12 days before the Ryhall match. We still lose Mike Humphries, only this time we get slammed by Paul Nisbet having an attitude problem due to off-field incident. My talk with him does not go well.

9th @ Ryhall United (10th)
G: Chris Rowley
D: Simon Bryant/Reece Edward-King/Hayden Johns/Connor Durkin
DM: Craig Attwood
MC: Dave Sherlock/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Dave Chitty/Milo Shackleford

Again, Sacko Bowl, on the verge of fired if I wasn't Unsackable, blah blah.

2 - Sherlock slams it up the wing to Chitty, who cross shoots. Goalie comes out for a leaping deflection and the ball is in the air with him on the ground. Shackleford wins the header into the net. 1-0

19 - Durkin with the ball on the right wing, and he sends it up to Jones for the long, bouncing ball that hits the box. Chitty is there, and it's no trouble to put it away 2-0

34 - Durkin with the throw-in to Jones. Back to Durkin on the wing, and the cross is good for Shackleford to spear his second header goal of the game! 3-0

53 - Kind of figured Chitty was offsides there.

59 - Complete defensive brainfart 3-1

70 - Harrison at DM, Nisbet at MC with Philpott moving to the AP position and Jones taking a well-deserved rest.

80 - Harrison-Barker on for Shackleford

8.8 for PotM Milos Shackleford and 8.0 for Dave Chitty, his partner in crime, as we finally snap an 11 game winless streak. 5 games left and nothing to play for save pride.

Harrison-Barker has had a lousy couple months of training and regressed. Milo Shackleford is lost for the rest of the season to boot.

Transfer Out - DC/AMR Hayden Johns - $4.8k
That hurts. The New Zealander had adjusted himself fairly well to playing DC after starting off in an AMR role.

DR Connor Durkin is out until the end of the year himself with a training collision. Ugh.

Transfer In DCR Ian Penney (18)
Will step in to replace Hayden Johns in the middle of the backline.

Transfer In - DR Joel Kerwin (20)
And here's the replacement for Connor Durkin.

Liam Buchanan has been involved in two injury collisions now - Durkin, and now Harrison-Barker, which will scratch the latter from our next game.

9th vs Long Sutton Athletic (7th)
G: Chris Rowley
D: Simon Bryant/Reece Edward-King/Jordan Cunningham/Joel Kerwin
DM: Craig Attwood
MC: Dave Sherlock/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Dave Chitty/Clive Murray

60 - Nisbet comes in at BWM, Philpott switches to AP, and Jones heads off.

80 - Rose for Murray; White for Edwards-King

82 - Nothing to do about that perfect strike 0-1

Transfer In - AMC/ST Darius Morgan (24)
Immediate starter, even next season when Shackleford is healthy - presuming they stay of course.

Our youth players come in.

U21 vs Youth Candidates
A boring 0-0 draw. The strikers for both sides were lousy.

9th vs Farcet United (6th)
G: Conor Hunt (Youth Pull)
D: Simon Bryant/Craig Attwood/Jordan Cunningham/Joel Kerwin
DM: Justin Cooper (Youth Pull)
MC: Mike Tulloch (Youth Pull)/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Darius Morgan/Dean Ruddy (Youth Pull)

Four youth candidates make the starting team right out the gate, including Conor Hunt, who is the best goalie we've ever had here.

34 - Hoodwinked on the corner 0-1

47 - Kerwin gets a double yellow.

48 - They score and I spend all our subs 0-2

10th @ Langtoft United (3rd)
G: Conor Hunt (Youth Pull)
D: Simon Bryant/Craig Attwood/Jordan Cunningham/Will Muzvimbiri
DM: Paul Nisbet
MC: Mike Tulloch (Youth Pull)/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Darius Morgan/Dean Ruddy (Youth Pull)

47 - Just before half, Morgan sprays it out to Bryant on the wing, and the booming, diagonal cross finds Ruddy for the silky smooth score. 1-0

64 - Cooper in for Tulloch; Chitty for Morgan

7.5 for Jason Jones as PotM, but we're still likely to finish last in the league, a reversal from how my second year teams usually end up.

I'm cracking up laughing how I keep getting reports on how Ashley Harrison-Barker keeps regressing. I mean, dude is only 25.

10th @ AFC Corinthians (1st)
G: Conor Hunt (Youth Pull)
D: Simon Bryant/Craig Attwood/Ian Penney/Connor Durkin
DM: Paul Nisbet
MC: Mike Tulloch (Youth Pull)/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Darius Morgan/Dean Ruddy (Youth Pull)

30 - Oh look, a bullshit fluke goal! 0-1

70 - Sherlock for Tullock; Chitty for Ruddy

78 - Sherlock knocked out; Cooper in.

92 - Bryant to Morgan to Cooper, the last of whom is completely laid out in the box with no PK call, but that doesn't matter because he crosses it as he collapses, and Chitty is there to finish it off. 1-1

Our U21s tie Watford's U21s 2-2 on a late equalizer by Michael Rose, which is cool I guess.

AFC Corinthians and King's Cliffe, our final opponents, have already clinched going up next season. The Original Assholes are in 3rd place.

10th vs King's Cliffe (2nd)
G: Conor Hunt (Youth Pull)
D: Jordan Cunningham/Craig Attwood/Ian Penney/Connor Durkin
DM: Paul Nisbet
MC: Mike Tulloch (Youth Pull)/Vinny Philpott/Jason Jones
ST: Darius Morgan/Dean Ruddy (Youth Pull)

We didn't play badly, but still lost 0-2.

Just glad to have this fucking awful season over with. Worst ever.