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It was only a month ago when we had to endure the farce of playing one of the worst games of Evatt's tenure away at Morecambe on a shit pitch in a gale - perhaps a game that shouldn't have even gone ahead given the storm which was battering the country at the time.
And it wasn't just the weather that was raging that night with tempers spilling over in the crowd, the dugout and the pitch - Wanderers fans chucking stuff, Evatt going berserk about Morecambe fans spitting on the players and alleged racist comments and the ref sending off Santos for a handball that wasn't and awarding Morecambe a penalty to boot.
Fortunately Stockton booted it straight at Trafford but did manage to convert neatly a few minutes later - cue tempers reaching boiling point culminating with Evatt marching the team off the pitch.
After a lengthy delay we resumed huffing and puffing and cometh the extended extra time, cometh Baka who equalised in the 104th minute to salvage a draw.
If we fall just short of the playoffs this season, that game and the capitulation at Burton will be at the forefront of my thoughts.
But Tuesday is another day.
There will be an excellent playing surface, a different referee, a confident Wanderers and no sign of a hurricane as yet.
Morecambe are in a precarious position at the top of the group currently in the relegation zone but their last three games have been against top sides Rotherham, Plymouth and Ipswich (who they held to a draw) and they have a horrendous run in so they'll be pulling out all the stops to beat us.
Diouranga and Stockton are quality so the one thing we must avoid at all costs is complacency. We are certainly good enough to beat them - and everyone assumes we will, but they are not going to lie down so we need to be on it.
And I so want us to beat them - correction - completely annihilate them - if only for the small comfort of payback for last month's fiasco of a match. Getting three points and at the same time putting them deeper in the shit would have the added bonus of ramping up their incentive to perform in their upcoming games against Wigan, Oxford, Portsmouth, MKD and Sunderland.
Head says 2 - 1, heart says 9 nil.
And it wasn't just the weather that was raging that night with tempers spilling over in the crowd, the dugout and the pitch - Wanderers fans chucking stuff, Evatt going berserk about Morecambe fans spitting on the players and alleged racist comments and the ref sending off Santos for a handball that wasn't and awarding Morecambe a penalty to boot.
Fortunately Stockton booted it straight at Trafford but did manage to convert neatly a few minutes later - cue tempers reaching boiling point culminating with Evatt marching the team off the pitch.
After a lengthy delay we resumed huffing and puffing and cometh the extended extra time, cometh Baka who equalised in the 104th minute to salvage a draw.
If we fall just short of the playoffs this season, that game and the capitulation at Burton will be at the forefront of my thoughts.
But Tuesday is another day.
There will be an excellent playing surface, a different referee, a confident Wanderers and no sign of a hurricane as yet.
Morecambe are in a precarious position at the top of the group currently in the relegation zone but their last three games have been against top sides Rotherham, Plymouth and Ipswich (who they held to a draw) and they have a horrendous run in so they'll be pulling out all the stops to beat us.
Diouranga and Stockton are quality so the one thing we must avoid at all costs is complacency. We are certainly good enough to beat them - and everyone assumes we will, but they are not going to lie down so we need to be on it.
And I so want us to beat them - correction - completely annihilate them - if only for the small comfort of payback for last month's fiasco of a match. Getting three points and at the same time putting them deeper in the shit would have the added bonus of ramping up their incentive to perform in their upcoming games against Wigan, Oxford, Portsmouth, MKD and Sunderland.
Head says 2 - 1, heart says 9 nil.
