The home advantage amounts to precious little when both sets of forwards are equally determined to make goalkeepers Jermaine Anderson and William Williams question their life choices, which, frankly, I understand completely. Shepshed's Reece Reid will cause enough chaos to cancel out whatever fleeting joy Kendal's attack manages to manufacture, because joy, like all things, is temporary. A draw feels inevitable in the way that everything feels inevitable when you have a brain the size of a planet and nothing meaningful to do with it.

Kendal have the home fortress working for them today, but Shepshed's forward line carries serious venom — Reece Reid looks like a man on a mission and I can see him causing havoc against that defensive line. Kendal's midfield will grind and scrap, but neither side looks capable of shutting the back door completely. A draw feels right, but this one will be earned in blood and sweat before the final whistle.