A date for your diaries.

19th June, 2013.

Next seasons fixtures are out and you will get to know the date of your next cup final, assuming Cheesy's Chokers don't sneak up.

Bit of a more Northern feel to proceedings would seem to be likely, Scunny, Bury and Hartlepool being particularly inviting fixtures and only the pies at Kiddy and their wonderful main stand at Mansfield ameliorating their likely promotion.

The upside of course is the fall of Pompey, a proper big club, into the basement, we just need a few more Southern Clubs albeit visits to Colchester, Yeovil, Cheltenham and Aldershot hardly set the pulses racing.

I'm of a mind to hope the Turks hang on as well as you should we still be down, we only managed 2 points from 18 agin our three 'local' rivals which will have as much as anything consigned us to another season down with the dross, yet they still have a certain pull, worryingly though I feel both you and the Gas might well turn the tables and be more competitive than lil ol' Exeter City next time around.