Midlands Derby has live online commentary tonight from 7:30pm on Mixlr.com/BetweenTheStripes
Expecting this to be a close run thing. Athlone a very decent team this season, Longford still yet to fully find their groove but certainly showing glimpses that they will. We haven't played on this new 4g before, when I watched Athlone in pre season the pitch was only a few days down and it was very slow and lacking in any real bounce, I'd imagine it probably hadnt been brushed right because a lot of people have commented how quick it is and with a bit of drizzle falling this morning it may take a good 10-15 minutes for us to settle into the game.
If we are talking about promotion and the play offs this year we have to win this game as we are already playing catch up and have Shels and Bray coming up in next 3 weeks. I reckon we nick it by the odd goal but could be an absolute classic.
Have to say it's great to have the derby back again, it has been simply a walk over in years gone by with no hype no atmosphere but if expect a good 200-250 to travel over tonight and they had almost 700 at their last game so could we see 800-900 tonight? I'm hoping so
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