The defeat was the second season in-a-row that Torquay have been knocked out of the League Two play-offs, with their end-of-season form costing them an automatic promotion berth as they slipped from second to fifth in five winless games at the end of the regular season.
This season, even more than last, the show became a workplace drama in which promotions, pink slips and client meetings were packed with emotion and suspense.
As the promotion pack slip further out of reach the need for a run of results increases and the hope of achieving one diminishes.
Sam Allardyce's side remain on course to make amends for allowing automatic promotion to slip through their fingers.
Microstructural examinations demonstrate that dislocations are apt to slip on primary slip planes at the initial stage of deformation (e.g., 3% engineering strain) to form planar slip bands, indicating that the existence of SRCs in Cu-Ni alloys is beneficial to the promotion of planar slip, leading to the occurrence of a "bump" phenomenon in the strain-hardening rate curves.
Two more things were ticked off my list of fifty, and we travelled home in the relative luxury of a first class carriage paid for by a promotion company's slip-up/act of genius.
"It's a compliment that the daughter of President Obama and her friends have decided to live the experience of Oaxaca," said José Zorrilla, the state secretary for tourism and economic development, slipping into promotion mode.
Head coach Hansi Flick (later to become Joachim Löw's World Cup-winning assistant) lost his job once promotion looked to have slipped away again, with replacement Lorenz-Günther Köstner stepping down at the end of the same season.
Although now back in the Championship and with hopes of mounting a promotion bid, Forest's slip down the leagues in the last decade threw up its own challenges.
Preston have now won seven of their last eight games to retain their position in the automatic promotion places, while Crewe slip to 19th in the table, now within four points of the drop zone.
