Four significant meetings.

Posted on Monday, August 4th, 2008

Early.                                     Big Andy is the real deal. Yeh, we both know he has a problem when I’m watching him but last night the penny finally dropped that this guy could win a Grand Slam for Britain. He’s better than Tim but Dim and he’ll get into the World’s top four maybe even three given time.

The Swiss is a few years older and will Roger and out before Rafa, Novak and Andy so after a second win in a row against the Serb the big man has proved that on his day he can beat all three. Don’t get me wrong he’s behind the other three for now but who else is better than him. He’s up to number 6 in the world so numbers 4 and 5 better watch out.

Sam and I have been asked to attend a club meeting tonight. Unlike the other Michael (the one with the bat that doesn’t work) I don’t intend throwing in the towel and neither does Sam. Seriously, plans were being put in place off the park should we have made the SFL and with us soon moving into the Academy it’s a good time to put our house in order off the park.

I think one of the biggest issues we face if we are ever to be seen as a possible SFL club is how to get more people through the gate on a Saturday. With our new stadium almost complete we have to work out how to entice more fans to come along and thus generate more income and up our profile.

It’s not lost on me that the demise of the South of Scotland Qualifying Cup has denied the most successful EOS sides with a good source of income.

We play the Seconds tomorrow for the first time since Mark took over. He and Craig will be hoping that they can turn us over on the tight Peffermill park and if any of our guys think it’ll be an easy night I’d ask them to think again.

It’s a chance for one or two of our boys to push for a place this Saturday and a chance for one or two of the Seconds to make Sam and I think they could be the answer to increasing our very small First Team pool.

Finally the first league game of the season is a very important meeting of two clubs. We meet Coldstream on Saturday and like us they beat junior opposition on Saturday, the Streamers doing it away from home. Like us they will be a “new” team so no-one really knows what the outcome will be.

I’ll leave you with an interesting fact.

If we’d won the first league game of last season against Easthouses we would have won the league on goal difference.