Four defeats in a row have led to us dropping out of the play-offs with ten games to go.
If you're a pessimist the season is over, if you're an optimist all of those defeats were by a single goal to teams above us in the league and we've had dodgy refereeing decisions go against us and cost us goals in both the last two 1-0 defeats. The game is all about fine margins and a bit of luck and surely it's time for our luck to turn.
The last ten games are:
Aldershot(H)
Altincham (A)
Dorking (A)
Yeovil (A)
Maidstone (H)
Woking (A)
Dagenham (H)
Oldham (A)
Scunthorpe (A)
Wealdstone (H)
There is nothing particularly to frighten us there - Woking and Oldham are on a decent run of form, but other than that there are at least 8 winnable games which equals 24 points. That would give us a total of 77 points, the same number of points that Grimsby finished on in 6th place last season, and we know how their season ended.
So first up is Aldershot Town, now managed by Ross McNeilly since sacking Mark Molesley last October. McNeilly's win percentage is even worse than Molesley's so it's fair to say he did not really give them the new manager bounce they were expecting. They're winless in their last 7 games and most recently got a 1-1 draw against lowly Maidstone. There are likely to be a couple of familiar faces in their squad for Saturday's game, Tyler Cordner is a regular starter for them whilst midfielder Michael Klass has had to be content with mainly appearances off the bench in recent games.
It’s a game between two out of form teams (which doesn’t bode well!) and although our recent run of games was against top sides which explains some of our results, three of the six teams the Shots have faced in their last six games (Barnet, Chesterfield and Wrexham) were the same as us.
For what it’s worth, I thought our performance looked brighter and more attacking on Tuesday night, and with a bit more luck and quality in the penalty box we’d have probably got the win the performance deserved.
Husin went off with an ankle injury and it remains to be seen if he will be fit enough to play on Saturday (edit: now confirmed he won’t be). If not it probably means a recall for Harry Taylor who is a bit less attacking minded. Whether Rhys Murphy is fit enough to start two games in a week remains to be seen, if not him and Wreh will probably be a straight swap, although a recall for Callum Powell is also a possibility.
So who would you choose to start in the game that kick starts the remainder of the season and what do you predict the result will be?
If you're a pessimist the season is over, if you're an optimist all of those defeats were by a single goal to teams above us in the league and we've had dodgy refereeing decisions go against us and cost us goals in both the last two 1-0 defeats. The game is all about fine margins and a bit of luck and surely it's time for our luck to turn.
The last ten games are:
Aldershot(H)
Altincham (A)
Dorking (A)
Yeovil (A)
Maidstone (H)
Woking (A)
Dagenham (H)
Oldham (A)
Scunthorpe (A)
Wealdstone (H)
There is nothing particularly to frighten us there - Woking and Oldham are on a decent run of form, but other than that there are at least 8 winnable games which equals 24 points. That would give us a total of 77 points, the same number of points that Grimsby finished on in 6th place last season, and we know how their season ended.
So first up is Aldershot Town, now managed by Ross McNeilly since sacking Mark Molesley last October. McNeilly's win percentage is even worse than Molesley's so it's fair to say he did not really give them the new manager bounce they were expecting. They're winless in their last 7 games and most recently got a 1-1 draw against lowly Maidstone. There are likely to be a couple of familiar faces in their squad for Saturday's game, Tyler Cordner is a regular starter for them whilst midfielder Michael Klass has had to be content with mainly appearances off the bench in recent games.
It’s a game between two out of form teams (which doesn’t bode well!) and although our recent run of games was against top sides which explains some of our results, three of the six teams the Shots have faced in their last six games (Barnet, Chesterfield and Wrexham) were the same as us.
For what it’s worth, I thought our performance looked brighter and more attacking on Tuesday night, and with a bit more luck and quality in the penalty box we’d have probably got the win the performance deserved.
Husin went off with an ankle injury and it remains to be seen if he will be fit enough to play on Saturday (edit: now confirmed he won’t be). If not it probably means a recall for Harry Taylor who is a bit less attacking minded. Whether Rhys Murphy is fit enough to start two games in a week remains to be seen, if not him and Wreh will probably be a straight swap, although a recall for Callum Powell is also a possibility.
So who would you choose to start in the game that kick starts the remainder of the season and what do you predict the result will be?
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, but yes we've been close in all these games, the ones I feel we can catch are Eastleigh we have 2 games in hand and they still have to go to boring wood and chesterfield, and we are capable of putting a run together which we have done in the past.
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