My brother in law works as Match day ground staff - there's essentially a raffle going on for that lot as I understand it. He's worked matchdays for 1st team, under 23s etc for a few years now and no guarantee he'll get one.
Weirdly, there is something really exciting about a relegation battle. Some of my greatest memories were the tense wins that kept us up. Not saying I want us in there, but makes for more excitement than mid-table mediocrity. Maybe that's just me.
What I will never understand is why a manager and his team can't say "this clearly isn't working with these players - let's change the system and see how they cope with that for a few weeks". Just seems a complete lack of flexibility in formation/system.
I hate seeing us sit so deep without the ball, especially being used latterly to high pressure/pressing football. Just looks so negative.
Just praying that after all the excitement they don't equalise in the first 5-10 minutes....that could spell a tonking and tears all round. Need to keep it tight early doors.
Match day is always the best day of the week - although the ingredients are certainly there for an afternoon of thinking about how could my feet are/what's the queue like for the bogs/are the trains running on time rather than being absorbed by the attacking, free flowing football on display. Could be a yawnfest. Or maybe they'll shock us all. The beauty of the unknown.