How come now, after sleeping on it, I am not remotely bothered about our 8-1 drubbing last night? Weird he?
It was a schooling and a masterclass in possession football by a side with a weekly budget bigger than our annual one, and from a league 3 above us which is widely considered the best in the world. It was also an away game. Our manager is a rookie, theirs is a master. It was always on the cards if we didn't turn up and they hit form. They've been superb in the PL of late.
Now on to Barnet with a bizarre confidence that we are going to give them the mother of all backlashes from it on Saturday.
Fingers crossed I am not losing my marbles. Again.
My lad is gutted when Notts lose. Last night he sat there laughing and singing about it being a cricket score. Just goes to show he knows where we are as a club. We have both loved our mini cup run but it's time to move on. He hasn't got a game Saturday so where off to Barnet hoping we run into Loudmouth , he loves his blogs.
Barnet might not be the revenge match you're hoping for, Swale. I predicted a draw with Swansea, 4-1 against Crewe and 0-4 against Swansea so I'm on form at the moment. 2-1 to Barnet on Saturday.
I personally think we are going to suffer a knock on effect. You can't shake a drubbing like that quite so easily. If we win on Saturday though then I feel we'll be ok.
Yesterday was a lifetime ago now. And lose 1-0 or 8-1 you're still out of the Cup. Nolan will get them going again and it may be a monkey off their backs. They can focus on putting Barnet to the sword and promotion. No-one will expect Barnet to play like Swansea did and it starts 0-0.
To be fair, the piss taking today has been quite good fun, and I am less gutted than if we’d played well and lost on penalties.
Nothing less than a win will do on Saturday though.