Win Win situation

LOUIS Langdown anticipates exciting times ahead at AFC Totton, irrespective of how this season’s play-off chase pans out.

With ten games to go, Totton sit eighth in the Evo-Stik South West, just a point shy of the play-off zone – some achievement considering their main target was mid-table respectability when the campaign kicked off in August.

In that sense they are in a win-win situation heading into Saturday's (3pm) showdown against sixth-placed Bristol Manor Farm at the Total Branding Community Stadium.

Last Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Bideford was a setback, but boss Langdown said: “Ultimately we didn’t think we’d be this far up the league.

"We’re going to be safe and it’s an exciting challenge for myself and the staff to think: ‘How can we get past the Bidefords and Eveshams of this world who are always in and around it?

“Most of these players have never known a promotion charge before and the next challenge is how we get to the next level.

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