Play offs?

Just run the Promotion calculator thing and, because it's running on other teams form and the only predictions I made were GTFC, it basically took it to the last day against Plymouth. I put us to win on the basis that Plymouth would be promoted by then and that gave us 7th but if we lost we would be 10th.

We have more players and better players, with the possibility of 2 more coming in. We have more attacking options now.

This should help us when things go wrong.  This might make the difference to just getting in the play-offs or not.

Although I think it is possible we might make the play-offs, in reality it may be a step too far. The important thing is to keep the results coming in and as a consequence the continued interest of the fans coupled with consistently higher than budgeted gates is a definite bonus. I get the impression that although MB has the play-offs in his sights he is really putting together a squad that will make a serious promotion push next season. He has said that he is always planning one transfer window ahead and some of the players he has signed have become available sooner than he anticipated. I always got the impression that PH signed some players as " makeweights " especially in the January window. MB on the other hand has definite players in mind and exactly what role he has in mind for them. I think we can look forward to interesting times ahead and I think MB will prove to be a very astute acquisition along with his coaching staff.

I think a lot of it depends on what happens with Omar, only 10 days to go now and he's ours if we surpass the milestone.

We could very well do a Bristol Rovers and gain back to back promotion, although this all depends on whether we improve our home form. We have lost 43% of our home games, for a play-off push this needs to be better. This town team has a tone of depth, which is great if we get injuries or suspensions for a play-off push.

I'm just delighted we are speaking about the Play-off's this time of year than the slight worry of if we would be in a relegation dogfight. Take each game as it comes and we will see. Believe we are too inconsistent though, we will need much better performances at home to have any chance of it.

The main thing is that we are pretty much safe from relegation now.  Dag & Red and York went down with 34 points last season and we're already above that.  The fact that we are near the play-offs without ever looking like putting a good run together should make everyone optimistic for the second half of the season.  Really looking forward to it.

UTM

Notts were a poor side but to be fair I think Town made them look bad as well. The 3-5-2 overwhelmed them in midfield and for once we kept that momentum going and they didn't sink back into a 9-0-1. Players looked to do something positive with the ball and the only thing that stopped us sometimes was the lack of someone to pass to.

Things will get brighter when the work off the ball making angles for passes improves as the players start to know more about the way MB wants them to play. Osborne made a difference not just because he has some talent but because his positional play is good as well. To me he looks like a Nolan with a tackle. He can make things happen.

In the long run, over the next two months say, I think progress will depend less on who we play than on how we play.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

  Its not going to be as easy as everyone thinks.
If it was we'd all be lottery millionaires.

i pick the winning numbers out nearly every week........i am just too tight to spend the initial £2 on a ticket  

will see how the additional firepower settles in....i hope Omar can get to grips with the fact that building a succesful strike partnership will benefit him....a sucessful strike partnership (whether with or without Omar) would ignite our season.