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5 points will guarantee us a playoff place even if Walsall and Orient win both of their remaining games. I know people will say we don't have a chance if we do make the playoffs but all of the top teams have been very erratic this season. As long as we are in it, we have a chance.

KMAC.... Get it done.

I can't even see us scoring at the moment.

Same. How many own goals have Crewe scored this season?

Statistically that's true, but momentum, form and other factors suggest we won't make it. We've gone from a united club to a divided one that's never good for promotion.

You don't win the lottery if you don't but a ticket.

And who knows maybe, just maybe, between now and then KMAC can fix it. Either that or we could even go up on account of the others fucking things up.

I can't see us winning 1 game to be honest.

Squad is looking thin now.

I think Devera at full back will work well enough at home. Byrne can play left or right back
Macca is needed in the middle to galvanise this squad.

League table looking surprisingly positive considering the run we've had.

IF we do make the playoffs I would not be surprised at all to see Lee Cox holding in the 4-5-1

Which is one reason I hold a glimmer of hope of actually going up.

With our current form we should not be in the playoff spots but we are. With our current form we should not win the playoffs either, but......

I wish I could share your optimism!! It's probably a big bonus for you that you don't actually watch the games!!

If we get promoted, it would be laughable.

I've bought lots of tickets and still haven't won the lottery.

Seriously can't see where 5 points are coming from. I often say football has a habit of surprising you, but 5 points would be the biggest surprise of them all

But brilliant. I would fucking lord it big time over the Brizzle City fans in my office... "Never in doubt" and all that

Unless the players coach gets caught speeding on the way home we aren't going to pick up any more points let alone 5...and even if we did, fucking hell we will get smashed in the play offs.

It's a funny old game......

On form since he took over: 9 points from a possible 27 with a GD of -3 = 3 points from our last 3 at -1 off our goal difference.

Not great but mathematically satisfying at least.  :)

(pretty much out of straws here).

I'm really just clutching at straws, going by current form that is.

So that's where they've all gone.

Unfortunately to pick up 5 points, we need at least 1 win, which means a goal needs to be scored.

I just can't see it happening or even if it does, we can't seem to go a game without conceding.

It's pretty damn stupid that it's even still in our hands to be honest. 

Scoring first is huge on Tuesday night. I just don't think the players have got the courage/character/belief - delete as necessary - to come from a goal behind at the moment!!!

To say I'm worried is an understatement! I'd hate this season to be wasted, and think IF we can get in the Play Offs you never know...However, we MUST win Tuesday night and that means scoring...someone needs to get their fucking scoring boots back on and fire up the team!

I think we as fans need to our part, really get behind the team sing loudly and proudly for 90 minutes and if it all goes to shit after 90 mins have a demo out the back of the Arkells.

Like the 5 points we've accumulated from our last 8 games - we might just have limped over if we had had half a dozen games in hand, shame.

Its still in our hands because over the season we deserve it to be in our hands.

Its not over till its over.

Agree,all these teams are average...though Brentford look a decent outfit at times.

If we do manage to stumble into the playoffs we'll probably have to play one of the current top 3 in the semis.  I wouldn't relish facing any of them right now.

We are not going up. Forget it.

Think I might bring a carrier bag full of red and white confetti Tuesday night in hope that someone from Loud and Proud sign me up.

We are now about to go on a 6 game unbeaten run.

You would think that we would be able to get 5 points from games against crewe stevenage and bloody scunthorpe, im not so pissed off after the last few games to think we won't be able to

To be honest if town can't get 5 points against those three we don't deserve to be anywhere near the play offs.

On paper, yes you would, but based on results this season and the teams we've dropped points against, maybe not.

We've gone from a team that rarely let in goals to a team that lets in at least 1, often 2 per game.

We've also not scored in, what, 5 games, is it?

Both of these stats need to change if we're going to get 5 points from 3 matches. Otherwise I can see them being 0-1, 0-2 and 0-0.

Over the season we deserve to be where we are. However, the team from Christmas is not the team we have now.

As an added thought; if we somehow do go up, what's going to happen to us next season?

The only glimmer of hope is that under KMAC we haven't actually lost at home. If we take 4 points from our next 2 it leaves the teams below having to win on the last day and rely on us losing. That's assuming they all win their games.

I reckon if we go up the board plan to sell asap, and hopefully the new owbers will have the capital to invest in the club for us to progress. If not, then back to square one.

The worry is if we don't go up, then what the hell are Jed and Co gonna do next season?

On paper you wouldn't...we accumulated 4 points in the reverse fixtures against these 3, when PdC was manager. Also 2 of them were away, and this season we've been better away.

4 points though might be enough to get in the PO's.

Sell-new owners have to spend, stay in league 1 whoever owns has to spend, go up-whoever owns has to spend.  Spend spend spend.

The mantra of Viv Nicholson...good to see she's still alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Nicholson

But you'll be at Wembley Dan  ;)

This is my worry as well.

Nope, I won't be there, neither will you or KMac.

I won't. Last time I saw town was the jpt final. Plastic, I know.

Going to games is a bit of a try-hard thing isn't it? I've always found the best and most knowledgeable fans keep a safe distance, with a sense of priority.

I know, people always act outraged when we nosedive, something that is not unusual in the many years that I've been a fan. The best days I have experienced as a fan were nearly 20 years ago (unfortunately).

I've actually found the successful seasons a little dull. Oh it's great when you can tell premier league fans that Sam Parkin is going to be the next big thing, but your heart is really in the meaty debate on if we'd be doing better if King stopped playing David Duke at left back.

It's important to note that 5 points is impossible in two games. So if we lose any of our remaining games we have to win the others.

It's also impossible for us to finish on 76 points. Shame on us.

At least we start next season well then!

All we need is 1 win, and it'll get us going, stop this negative downturn and start to give us momentum for the playoffs, it'll take pressure off the players and managers and we can start our season again (late).

Sometimes strange things happen in football, and us winning another game this season, would certainly be up there.

The players really have a chance to make a statement on Tuesday...Crewe, will always give you a chance, but conversely can play you off the park....if they turn up, commit 100%, it's a game that can be won.  Anything less, will tell us that the players have mentally shut down and just want to sort out a new club or go on holiday.

having watched the game, I can't see how we are going to get another win this season, but I do think that we will actually limp over the line.  I think we will win one of the two home games and I think that we will get one more point, and I think that it will just be enough.  My hope then is that this may actually give us some momentum by managing to hang on..  But even I realise that's a load of old bollocks I think that we will quite comfortably get turned over in the semi final

I honestly don't think 4 will be enough.

Me neither. I can see walsall and/or orient winning both of their remaining games.

Remember how comfortable the win at Walsall was?

How times change.

I think we need 5 as well, as both Walsall's are winnable.

Crewe have got nothing to play for now they won the JPT, stevenage have gone to pot and scunthorpe will be relegated by the time we play them. So keep your chins up

It'll be interesting if do start to pick up now just in time for the PO.

Could work in our favour.

All about timing.

 :)

The way some of the plyers played on Saturday they have nothing to play for

It's KMac's cunning plan to lull all the other contenders into a false sense of security.  Then we come along with a storming finish and BINGO!

You see a lot of teams sneek into 6th place and then go on and with the thing.

Stranger things have happened.

We could regain form at just the right time, starting tomorrow. It's not inconceivable.

That's what I'm holding on to anyway.

Bournemouth lost 4 on the bouce a few weeks ago and have hit form at the right time, what's to say we can't?!  :nod:

Exactly

True. But those teams are almost always those who were 10th and have put together a helluva run.

Not teams who were top and are up shit creek without a paddle.

They have Matt Ritchie. We don't.

But we have Curly Withers.

Do they have Curly Withers?

Believe.

Might as well give him a run out on the wing for the last three games. Can't be any slower than Gary Roberts.

Those not feeling confident about tomorrow can get a massive 6-1 on a Crewe win. I might be tempted to put a few quid on it, if only to jinx Crewe.

The difference is that they comfortably have the best squad in the league.

It's what he puts in the tea.

I'll put this post again here.

(smug mode)

Great win, 2 points needed

1 out of 3 so far.

Words officially eaten.

Shows what I know.  I genuinely didn't think we'd win again this season.

One of those times where you are delighted to be proved wrong.

Now just 5 draws could see us to the Championship

That's the Swindon way!

Get in....now. Let's stumble through Swindon Stylee!