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Last 8 seasons minimum play off points and minimum Automatic points:

01/02 – 78     84
02/03 – 81     86
03/04 – 73     83
04/05 – 71     86
05/06 – 71     79
06/07 – 75     85
07/08 – 76     82
08/09 – 76     89

Average points for Play-Offs: 75
Average points for Automatic: 84

Current Points: 70

Points to play for: 24

Potential Points: 94

8 Games:

Leeds (a) Draw 1 points
Tranmere (h) Win 3 points
Colchester (a) Draw 1 point
Exeter (h) Win 3 points
Walsall (h) Win 3 points
Wycombe (a) Draw 3 point
Brentford (h) Win 3 points
Millwall (a) Draw 1 point

Potential points from remaining games: 18

Potentially finish on: 88 points (Automatic Promotion a real possibility)

yup, good work

I think that you might be a bit too optimistic - are we going to go to the end of the season undefeated?

Unlikely, I would have thought. Don't forget what happened with Franchise and Rovers...

To be fair Alan we've had unbeaten runs of 13 games and 11 games already this season. We're unbeaten in 4 at the moment so it's not impossible we can go another 8 without losing.

leeds was the biggest worry in terms of losing until recently.now there is no better time to go there and play them.if we stifle them their crowd will get on their backs and we can beat them.
obviously colchester and millwall now look the toughest fixtures

I actually believe we'll go unbeaten until the end of the season. I also think we'll win them all giving us 94 points. :)

Please oh please oh please let this happen.  If we all believe hard enough and cross everything then it might just happen. Aceness all round!

You may as well believe that as anything else. It could happen. It's football.

Colchester have had some average results at home recently. Much more confident about winning there than at Leeds.

Automatic would be awesome.

I have a feeling that the game against Millwall is going to be a massive, massive game.

Whoever wins, goes up.

I find the idea of automatic promotion a bit of an anti-climax to be honest. I know when we went up from league 2, it was good but kind of forgotten in no time at all. If i really had to choose i'd go for the play-off route, because that's such an amazing experience, especially if we got to go to Wembley. Don't think i could deal with losing though.

 Quite. Strange things tend to happen when the pressure comes on....far better to chill out, sit back and see what happens. For example we've failed to win a home league game in March....both marred by excess negativity from fans who just expect us to turn up and win.

All games from now until the end will be tight dour affairs, on dodgy pitches, or windy conditions when you have to grind out  something and need a bit of good luck.

Take ColU on for 3 points until the Wycombe lad punched in a last minute equaliser.

we only played two and one was a credible draw against already promoted Norwich.

On the flip side we've won 3 away games this month, two of which were at places were in the past we dont have fantastic records (Brighton & Hartlepool)

So, to sum it up. fuck off reg.

:)

3 points from a draw against Wycombe would be a great result, maybe we can get a few other 3 point draws before the end of the season too!

Indeed, but sometimes its slightly easier to play away, where the fans are more supportive.

There's going to be a lot of tension about at the CG in remaining games, especially as many have got us pencilled in for max points, as on paper they look easyish games. It doesn't always work out like that..

didnt even notice that was what i wrote :doh:

Meh! Each to their own. I'd rather get as excited as fuck 8)

Got to stay focused and calm....live in the moment.

Definitely true for Danny Wilson and the players. I don't fall into either of those categories though!

Lets take it one game at a time and not get too carried away.

Go into every game as if its the final fixture of the season and try and win them all.

Easy.

Could of swore a month ago you was telling us to calm down as we had a hard run of away games coming up

Yep...and as we've got through that relatively unscathed, for the first time this season we've a sniff of auto. So things change.....