Well I had hoped to sit here and tell you all that we'd stuffed SAFC, but it wasn't to be unfortunately.
The game was an intense afair with both teams battling for their lives. The first half looked to be drifting to 0-0, when Bang! They scored from a corner. The TOON defence couldn't handle it and Defoe put the ball in the back of the net.
The mood became downcast, with the half time interval hard to bare. No banter or giggle to heard anywhere we were all thinking this is us we are down.
That all changed though in the second half, the lads came out fighting. We gave everything with no joy. Then with 15 mins or so to go Rafa the gaffer made some subs, switching our full-backs for forwards and going all out attack.
That turned out to be a masterstroke, as with a few minutes left the beautiful serb Mitrovic got his head on a ball into the burried it.
The place went nuts, St James' Park was bouncing like the good old days. I can honestly say I ain't felt an atmosphere like that in years and it was bloody fantastic.
We should've gone on and won it, but hey a point is better than none.