Friday night game.

[bunji]

Personally there not for me and 3 of us cant make it Friday night but all the best to the boys as we ve done this to death last year. But I would urge the club to play Plymouth on a Saturday IF I said IF we meet in the playoffs despite Plymouth playing home games on a Friday.

[grooveavenue]

for Moz - Plymouth is a long way...........Friday night fixture..............maybe no overnight expenses
for Alb - Moseley is a long way...........Friday night fixture..............maybe no overnight expenses

Alb need to save £
Moz like to save £

Maybe right?!

[studleyken]

Maybe a little cynical but Plymouth are a fully professional side who can travel to away games without affecting their players whereas semi-professional sides like Moseley may have problems when semi-professional players have to be available for a Friday.

[professor]

I won't hide my cynicism about this subject, as I firmly believe there is gamesmanship going on with asking us to travel down and play on a Friday night - wasn't it the case last year in the playoffs too? Plymouth is a fair old poke - updwards of 3-4 hours, let alone contending with the dreaded M5 on a Friday night...

Do I also remember correctly the team arriving only 30 miniutes or so before kick-off last year? I guess any advantage to be gained is there for both teams - and I also suppose Mose have to agree to the fixture?

[grooveavenue]

You mean Plymouth Albion the full time club in serious financial problems who had to sack new coach within weeks of him joining to endeavour to save money? With doubts still remaining about the viability for next season?

Any season they play on Friday - Moz and Albion save what about 2 grand or so on overnight Friday for Saturday .

We all need Mr Tom Caves to end this spat!!.................maybe?...............

WhooHoo! Cold Blustery Friday night on the Common with cooling chips frozen pint high passion and a victory............what more do you want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Come on Moz!

[bobbrown]

I must have missed the point here, what do you mean Mose & Albion save about 2 grand or so on Friday night?

[kingsheathlad]

I assume it must be on hotels.

[grooveavenue]

Well I assume that Moz to Plymouth or Plymouth to Moz journey for a Sat 3.00 pm KO deserves overnight stay...............but what do I know.......so savings on early Fri start warm up training then match on Fri night................returning home late Fri night. That would seem sensible.

Lets see if them upstairs want to comment....................Mr Caves over to you!

[Oddsox]

I've always enjoyed Friday night games & I am sure someone will be able to tell me that Moseley's record on Friday nights is pretty good. Will remember that Friday night at Coventry with 3 penalty tries & last minute win for a long time. Thrashed Esher in playoffs last year on Friday night.

In fact.....I enjoy Friday night games so much, I completed a 40 mile round trip to Billesley LAST Friday, just to confirm the game was tonight not last week. Doh !

Cum on boys - don't let me down.

[robheap]

pity you missed, great performance and win.
messy game cos of the rain, soggy ptich and obviously bar of soap for a ball. lots of handling errors, most notably by plymouths number 11, poor bloke.

our defence was superb, Glyn Hughes kicked like a demon, 3 great penalties and kicking from hand tactically very good.

only criticism, why didn't try a drop goal at the end as we were in a good position instead of just kicking the ball into touch? a drop goal would have denied plymouth a losing bonus point. possibly worried that if missed they might have run it back the length of the pitch and scored a try?
good night despite the weather.

[kingsheathlad]

Does the position you finish in the bottom four have an impact in the play off format. If not, at this stage it is a must we try and gain another win and target the Bedford game being a home one.With the top eight looking at the their play offs you don't know whether they will rest players in the three remaining games after this weekend.

[Rich]

rob, an attempted drop goal to deny Plymouth a losing bonus point would have been madness, you never risk giving a losing team possession with the last play - we have been undone too many times in that exact situation - Plywood and Leeds away this season to name but 2

[robheap]

yeah I agree, but it seemed such a pity with Glyn on such good form.
hit it hard enough and even if it misses it goes dead and game ends, no?

then again i'd have settled for 9-3 b4 the match.

bring on Bristol.
to answer Kingsheath lads point, we only get carry forward points for beating the others in the bottom 4, I think, so the present position is we'll get 3 to start, two wins against Esher and one from Plymouth win on friday, is that right?
no doubt others will confirm.

[CJB1]

No, we get 1pt for every win, no matter who we beat, so at the moment we will have 6pts, as will Plymouth. Three games to go ...

[robheap]

thanks for clarifying that. much appreciated.

[Shy Spa]

Doesn't final position determine some form of 'home advantage' - 9th/10th brings first match at home, then alternate home/away fixtures ?

Esher play London Scottish next weekend, so likely that we, LS and PA will start level, a bonus point win (at least) ahead of Esher. Friday's defensive performance bodes well for the play-offs if it can be repeated.