The game survived the winter frost and allowed the Dons to complete a yuletide clean sweep of the lower regions with our biggest win of the season. Brown had suggested that Kedwell would miss this game with the calf injury he picked up on Thursday. Instead he started and scored a couple of goals. The others came from Adjei, Leberl and an own goal. To top things off nicely the Chelmsford Elect managed to lose 3-1 at Newport.
After back-to-back 3-0 wins this holiday season, the Dons now have a vested interest in Fishy surviving the season because as things stand we would lose the most if their results were to be wiped from the records. With his fifth goal in less than two weeks, Jon Main opened the scoring in the 28th minute, exactly a year after he had done the same thing in the 28th minute of our 3-2 over Endon on NYD 2008.
Having brushed them aside at Dulwich on Boxing Day,the first day of 2009 offers the chance to do it all over again at ours. There is still the definite possibility that Fisher wont make it to the end of the season and these games and the points and goals earned in them wont count for anything but if his Boxing Day hat trick is the start of a Second Jon Main Scoring Spree then these will not have been wasted games.
Who goes, who stays, Brown decides. No official confirmation yet but the list of those that are not to be invited to stay on seems to be general knowledge now. The departure of Steve Ferguson has had some spitting out their black eyed peas but for the most part it's a predictable cull - Fergie, Quinn, DeBolla, Webb, Beckford, Beard, Salmon and Jolly.
Just under a year ago at the Meet the Manager night, Mr Terrence Brown informed us that he was not a particularly lucky manager when it came to play offs. Try telling that to the Staines fans after this Lazarus like victory. This morning while brushing he may well have dislodged the exact section of teeth skin by which we got through this tie.