[Devongone]

Well SGB for a man who clearly loves language you are also interested enough by the model in your head of the teams' relative merits to follow it through to create a points total. I used to enjoy doing that too - Covid modelers may have put me off recently. I'm sure that like me you don't for a minute think it is a step that makes you any more likely to be right. But it does make essentially abstract ideas more "real", because it applies them to the external reality of the games to be played. And when you see what you have created sometimes you wonder if it really does match what you were thinking, don't you? (Did I really think Torquay would fade so badly? Stockport just won 0-5 away, won't they come with a rattle?)

Einstein loved his thought experiments. They turned into science. I really meant it that I loved seeing an old bloke, like me, playing the same games in his head that I've been playing since I was about nine. I didn't mean it to be disparaging in any way. If anything you make me feel a little less like I need to grow up. Why bother when "no one gets outta here alive"?

For us fans I think the play-offs would be a realistic ambition for Chesterfield this season. For Mr Rowe and the team, that ambition should be unlimited. I think he's aiming to win it. Years of being a town fan will damp that down for the rest of us.

I think a big factor I mentioned elsewhere is which clubs make best use of National League North and South players ( and even the furlough). Stockport and Sutton are both still improving their sides. Wrexham rarely go long without a transfer dabble. There are good players stranded at that level without a game.