We're doomed

Ten hours-ish to go, and I'm already very nervous. I feel my focus at work today is going to hit yet another all time low.

But I don't know why I'm getting tense because we're going to lose. In fact I'd advise you not to even bother going down the Abbey tonight because it will be a waste of time.

I know this because Paul Parker has backed us to win, and given his inherent level of wrongness, that can't be a good thing. Speaking after yesterdays Torquay - Exeter game he said, in his characteristically insightful manner, "home advantage can make all the different in these situations." Of course "Parks" was conveniently overlooking the fact that, in the game he'd just witnessed, the Grecians had given the Gulls a tonking on their own patch.

Hopefully this will be the first time Setanta's summariser gets something right, and indeed if we do go through to the final I think we need to be careful about giving Exeter too much respect. Reading the messageboard yesterday you would get the impression that Paul Tisdale's side is some kind of footballing superpower, and while they are the team I would least like to face of the other three play off'ers, I'm confident we would hold our own. They are very good defensively, and knock the ball around neatly ala Burton, but for large parts of yesterday's game they lacked ideas going forward, and I think our defence is more than capable of snuffing them out.

Of course there's tonight's match to get through first. Nine hours 45 to go, clock watching is such a tedious business.