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Harborough now signed Tendai Daire the leagues top goalscorer from Hinckley

sussexdiamond wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:38 am Harborough now signed Tendai Daire the leagues top goalscorer from Hinckley

He scored twice in Harborough’s 7-0 demolition of Cambridge City last night.

Oh goody it just gets better and better

I suppose it was inevitable Daire would go back to Harborough, he didn't quite hit form when he was there before, but he is on fire this season. Bit of a strange feeling, usually the boxing day game is my most looked forward to fixture of the year, this year I can't help but be a bit nervous after 7-0 last night.

We really could do without playing them right now, but it is a free hit game, bottom v top, no pressure on us, one of those games where we would need a big piece of luck to get anything from, hoping for a Christmas miracle and a big performance from our youngsters against a team that probably could be competitive at step 2!

According to my calculations - which may be slightly wrong - if we score 2 in this game, which I admit at the moment seems unlikely, that will be 1000 goals since we started as AFC Rushden & Diamonds!

Cotty wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:31 am According to my calculations - which may be slightly wrong - if we score 2 in this game, which I admit at the moment seems unlikely, that will be 1000 goals since we started as AFC Rushden & Diamonds!

I'd be happy with just one in each game against Harborough and Corby If we didn't concede any. Thanks for that stat which clearly has eluded me.

Michael joked in his post game interview yesterday that he might even need to put himself on for this one, and to be honest, if he is fit enough, I think he has to, we may not be scoring many at the moment, but against a relentless attack like Harborough, we're going to need to be at our best defensively. Hard to see us not conceding at least 4 in this one with the way things are right now, but ahead of a January which our results will undoubtedly decide our ultimate fate this season, we really need something to be positive about going into the new year, even if that is a loss on boxing day where we can at least hold our heads up and say we didn't disgrace ourselves.

Unless we pull a rabbit out of a hat in this one, then the Corby game has to be the start of a turnaround in results, they haven't won a game at home all season so I actually think we need to get something out of that match to kick off the crunch period.