Game 16 - The Linnets (A)

Team: King's Lynn Town

Date: 26/12/2020

Where: The Walks

What line-up should Neal Ardley opt for? What will be the key areas for the Magpies to get a victory? What do you think the final score will be?

Have your say below, join in with the Pride of Nottingham match discussion.

The only thing I know about King's Lynn is that it's a phoenix club - King's Lynn FC withdrew from the Northern Premier League ten years ago and the new club, with added "Town", has obviously gone from strength to strength. They have one of the older grounds in football - King's Lynn FC/Town have played at the same ground since 1881.

KL are near the bottom of the table and are one of those clubs whose main aim is to stay in this league. As our away form has been lacklustre so far (8 points in 6 games), I'd like us to take a more aggressive approach to this game and take control from an early stage. These matches often pose a problem as the condition and size of the pitch often means we can't play our normal game, but if we're to challenge for promotion we have to adapt to this. If that means we have to be a bit more direct on occasion, so be it.

King's Lynn are bottom feeders in this division. They will do well to stay up. They have conceded 30 goals in 13 games and only scored 17. They haven't won in their last 3 league games. I'd be very disappointed if we lost this game. 3-0 to Notts is my guess. 

Aaaand both matches against King's Lynn have been called off due to an outbreak of The Sickness in their camp. We'll end up finishing the season using points per game at this rate.

Yeah, not great news for us at all especially as it’s a double header of games so that’s another set of games to catch up on.

So we’ve played 13 games in 3 months, that’s basically 4 games a month, and we’ve got 31 games (+ FA vase) left to play. If we keep averaging 4 games a month it’ll take us 7 months to complete the season!

Lots of teams in the same position and some have even played fewer than us too, Dover have only played 9 games!

And now there’s a more contagious strain of Covid-19, I agree @DangerousSausage that a PPG finish is looming again….

4 hours ago, menzinho said:

So we’ve played 13 games in 3 months, that’s basically 4 games a month, and we’ve got 31 games (+ FA vase) left to play. If we keep averaging 4 games a month it’ll take us 7 months to complete the season!

PPG looks highly likely when you put it like that. If that happens, all the unnecessary points we've dropped so far will hurt us even more. The probability of a second wave doesn't seem to have been factored in at all when scheduling the leagues.

I suppose it does at least give us a brief rest ahead of Hartlepool. Every cloud and all that.

The amount of Covid in the national league (in football in general actually) seems pretty damn high. They must be close to achieving herd-immunity soon?! Notts certainly have or are pretty close to it!