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Inview of everything that has taken place lets give the team our wholehearted 100% support on tuesday and who knows we may yet retrieve something from this mess.

A win would take us just 2 points behind our opponents in 5th tomorrow night so it isn't over yet, though it is effectively last chance saloon for our playoff hopes and without our two top scorers, it looks like a daunting task ahead of us.

On the more hopeful side though, Belper lost 2-0 at home to 9 man Sutton Coldfield at the weekend, so who knows. In the circumstances, I'd say if we can even get a point out of the game, it would be very good.

Well, here goes the management team's first big challenge after the weekend, we really need to see a positive attitude and attacking mindset. I was half expecting to see new players coming in

Any decent players are likely to be on a 7 day approach, so we would not likely see anyone this side of the weekend

It's a shame we lost because until our young keeper made the first mistake we looked more than capable of getting a result, in fact we were playing some good stuff. Playing with 4 youngsters on the pitch they didn't look out of place. The second goal (which wasn't coming) deflated us a bit, but we picked it up again and had a good go. Even the bloody wind stopped second half when we didn't want it to.
I'd still like us to aim for 60 points total this season and on the plus side the defeat put more pressure on moneybags Welly, I'd LOVE IT if we went to their place and killed off their hopes of the play offs.
Good effort Diamonds, let's keep going to the end of the season now and try to finish on a high.

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