Sexton Blake
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I felt at the time that any hopes of making the autos disappeared with our failure to win our home games against Carlisle and Vale.
However notwithstanding this since the Mansfield debacle we have picked up points both away and at SJP and are again back well in the running for a place in the top seven.
Eight games still to go and the playoffs yes but the autos only if we can continue to perform as we did against Swindon and others around us, in particular Wycombe and Notts County, drop points.
I have tried some crystal ball gazing. Whilst a number of the teams in the top seven still have to play one another the run ins are very similar with Luton and Swindon probably having the easiest.
Both Yeovil and Colchester could do as some favours as in the case of Yeovil they still have to play eight of the current top ten teams and Colchester six.
Looking at each teams run in there are very few obvious games where you would predict defeats but quite a few where the points could well end up being shared. However as we all know football is played on grass and not paper so there will no doubt be a number of unexpected results like this weekend when both Mansfield and Notts County have lost to Clubs fighting for their EFL lives.
However returning to my crystal ball if everything did go to form it would seem likely that the end of season table would look something like this:
Accrington 93
Luton 91
Wycombe 84
Coventry 82
Exeter City 81
Notts County 80
Mansfield 77
Swindon and Lincoln just missing out on 76 and 74 points respectively.
As for us another ride on the playoff roller coaster including a trip to play Notts County at Meadow Lane and hopefully a return to Wembley and equally hopefully second time lucky and a repeat of our previous Conference experience.
However notwithstanding this since the Mansfield debacle we have picked up points both away and at SJP and are again back well in the running for a place in the top seven.
Eight games still to go and the playoffs yes but the autos only if we can continue to perform as we did against Swindon and others around us, in particular Wycombe and Notts County, drop points.
I have tried some crystal ball gazing. Whilst a number of the teams in the top seven still have to play one another the run ins are very similar with Luton and Swindon probably having the easiest.
Both Yeovil and Colchester could do as some favours as in the case of Yeovil they still have to play eight of the current top ten teams and Colchester six.
Looking at each teams run in there are very few obvious games where you would predict defeats but quite a few where the points could well end up being shared. However as we all know football is played on grass and not paper so there will no doubt be a number of unexpected results like this weekend when both Mansfield and Notts County have lost to Clubs fighting for their EFL lives.
However returning to my crystal ball if everything did go to form it would seem likely that the end of season table would look something like this:
Accrington 93
Luton 91
Wycombe 84
Coventry 82
Exeter City 81
Notts County 80
Mansfield 77
Swindon and Lincoln just missing out on 76 and 74 points respectively.
As for us another ride on the playoff roller coaster including a trip to play Notts County at Meadow Lane and hopefully a return to Wembley and equally hopefully second time lucky and a repeat of our previous Conference experience.