Ah, yes. The much-vaunted 'battle for ninth'. It's what every player/coach/owner/supporter dreams of being involved in!!!
A match to be played out between the only two teams out of the twelve in SL who, officially, have nothing still to play for (even if for a couple of other teams it's no more than a distant hope and pray).
This has the air of last rites about it, and like many others on here, I will be glad when we are done and dusted with 2023.
Having said that, I'm in agreement with a couple of posters above, in that ending the year with six straight defeats is not a good mood setter. We have seen in the past, 2019 in particular, how the hangover can carry on into the start of the following season. For that reason alone, a win on Saturday would be most welcome.
I'm hoping the sunshine returns to Hull come weekend, both literally and metaphorically, and we have an enjoyable afternoon's entertainment to send us on our way! I do not spend my time and money to sit/stand watching my team be steamrollered, no matter what the circumstances, heaven knows we've all had enough of those at the back end of recent years
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A heavy defeat is dispiriting for all, even if it is irrelevant in the context of the season as a whole.
One of the things that we all agree needs to change at our club is this in-built attitude which sees the club seemingly down tools as soon as there appears to be no point in continuing. It's situations like the one we find ourselves in at the present moment , and our attitude to that situation, which is a microcosm of the root cause of what is wrong with the club and why we continue to under-achieve year on year.
Like I said, let's hope the sun shines come Saturday afternoon
