Time out

With 13 games played, roughly a quarter of the season gone, and an international break ahead, it's probably a good time to take time out and review our progress so far.

From the team's point of view we've only lost one game over 90 minutes, and given the team were a bunch of strangers at the start of the season have done really well to get to second place in the league. You'd hope that the team will continue to gel and get better. If that is the case then the signs are good. The highlights for me have been beating Palace again, the result at Hull, and the first 30 minutes against Norwich when they hardly got into our half of the pitch. More of the Palace game in a later post.

But the main reason for this blog is to chart the progress of Robin Rance, who aims to go to every single game this season. Some people want to conquer Everest, others want to go round the world, but Robin has more limited horizons. Every game in a complete season is the limit of Robin's ambitions. Robin usually comes away from a game ranting about something or other, and I'm helping him record his thoughts.

The next quarter of the season will provide Robin with some of his biggest challenges. A couple of midweek away games where there is no obvious means of getting to the game and home again afterwards. His meagre salary means that he might be stretched here. But perhaps his biggest challenge will be to take a two week visit to his girl in Canada and not miss a game. Currently he is due to get back to Heathrow on the day of the Preston game. Obligingly Preston have delayed the kick off, but it's going to be tight. We'll have to see if he makes it - and how he makes it.

Over the next few days Robin will be recounting his escapades at the earlier games that have not yet been recorded on this blog.