Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Nice work, Techy, on the form table / league table comparison.
Incidentally, the teams to watch out for beneath the playoffs are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Northampton and Oxford. The latter have had a fantastic January, and I'm surprised they're not higher up the form charts. The Cobblers are also clearly a good side, and will impact on the promotion picture at some point.
Incidentally, Statmail has the form chart a little differently in terms of form over the last 8 games:
Pos Team W D L
1 Swansea 5 2 1
2 Lincoln 5 2 1
3 Macc Town 5 1 2
4 Yeovil 5 1 2
5 Northants 4 2 2
6 Darlo 4 2 2
7 Oxford 4 2 2
8 Cheltenham 3 3 2
9 Southend 3 3 2
10 Boston 3 3 2
16 Scunny 2 3 3
18 Orient 2 3 3
The good thing about this part of the season is that it's all still in our own hands. Ok, so a number of sides who are "in the mixer" are on superb runs of form.
But we're not doing too badly ourselves - and if we keep pushing on, we are definitely capable of making the playoffs.
Scunny is beginning to look like a "must-win", though. They're 16th in the form tables, they've lost two on the trot on the road, they struggled to a 2-1 home win over Kidderminster, and we need to make Roots Hall a fortress again, following "wobbles" against the East Midlands pair of Mansfield and Notts County.
3 points would set us up very nicely for our trip to Sixfields... we can, we must go for it on Friday.
COME ON SOUTHEND!
Matt
Incidentally, the teams to watch out for beneath the playoffs are, perhaps unsurprisingly, Northampton and Oxford. The latter have had a fantastic January, and I'm surprised they're not higher up the form charts. The Cobblers are also clearly a good side, and will impact on the promotion picture at some point.
Incidentally, Statmail has the form chart a little differently in terms of form over the last 8 games:
Pos Team W D L
1 Swansea 5 2 1
2 Lincoln 5 2 1
3 Macc Town 5 1 2
4 Yeovil 5 1 2
5 Northants 4 2 2
6 Darlo 4 2 2
7 Oxford 4 2 2
8 Cheltenham 3 3 2
9 Southend 3 3 2
10 Boston 3 3 2
16 Scunny 2 3 3
18 Orient 2 3 3
The good thing about this part of the season is that it's all still in our own hands. Ok, so a number of sides who are "in the mixer" are on superb runs of form.
But we're not doing too badly ourselves - and if we keep pushing on, we are definitely capable of making the playoffs.
Scunny is beginning to look like a "must-win", though. They're 16th in the form tables, they've lost two on the trot on the road, they struggled to a 2-1 home win over Kidderminster, and we need to make Roots Hall a fortress again, following "wobbles" against the East Midlands pair of Mansfield and Notts County.
3 points would set us up very nicely for our trip to Sixfields... we can, we must go for it on Friday.
COME ON SOUTHEND!
Matt
