overlap

After the idleness of the close season, and the distant, blissful ignorance of what goes on behind the scenes, it's back to earth with a bump. The last game I went to that had a little extra added road rage value was against the same opposition, and it was up there and someone obviously local, at a game we lost; this time it could have been anyone's moron, but there's still no excuse for that sort of dangerous impatience. It tells you something about how the season's started if dubious omens of off-field events leading to home wins are already edging into the picture, and a summer spent dismantling the previous squad and partially building a new one changes very little from last season's struggling. I'll gloss over the details of the game, but it's safe to say that nobody's pessimism was disappointed! One defeat down, and most of the season to go. All the same, it makes everything interesting to see what slightly different flavour of struggle we might be facing this time around, and getting to recognise all the new faces is going to keep me busy for a little while.

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