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Next month the games come thick and fast and will surely define our future. There is much said about the 42 points to be had but half of those will be in a space of 27 days.
2nd FGR Home
5th Wimbledon Away
9th Sutton Away
12th MK Dons Home
16th Gillingham Away
23rd Wrexham Home
29th Barrow Away

Those 4 away trips will certainly add up the mileage from the South East of the country to the North West. Not much rest for the players or the travelling fans.

So out of 21 points possible, how many should we expect? 5 of those clubs are looking for promotion and 2 are in the same boat as us so it could be slim pickings. It really does make FGR and Sutton must wins and hope we pick some points from the other games.

As optimistic and positive as I am I think it looks like a long hard month.

Quoted from DB

Next month the games come thick and fast and will surely define our future. There is much said about the 42 points to be had but half of those will be in a space of 27 days.
2nd FGR Home
5th Wimbledon Away
9th Sutton Away
12th MK Dons Home
16th Gillingham Away
23rd Wrexham Home
29th Barrow Away

Those 4 away trips will certainly add up the mileage from the South East of the country to the North West. Not much rest for the players or the travelling fans.

So out of 21 points possible, how many should we expect? 5 of those clubs are looking for promotion and 2 are in the same boat as us so it could be slim pickings. It really does make FGR and Sutton must wins and hope we pick some points from the other games.

As optimistic and positive as I am I think it looks like a long hard month.

Every time somebody posts another reality of the situation, the more difficult it seems to become.

As most of the fans would have told you while watching the terrible form unfold before their eyes with seemingly no attempt to stem the tide, we are heading to catastrophe.

Stockwood yesterday saying there is a third of the season left, but on our current trajectory that is bad news. 2nd bottom of the form table, can't buy a win and now injuries piling up we will have to dig very deep. I'm not sure this group of players have it in them to be honest.

Every match looks hard when you’re 3rd bottom. Every oppo manager is Brian Clough and you’re playing against the Brazil 1970 first team each week.

We’ve seen every team in this division and I can’t really think of any where they’ve been unplayable. We’ve lost games by being appalling rather than other teams being amazing.

A bit of confidence and we’ll be well in with a shout.

Quoted from ska face

Every match looks hard when you’re 3rd bottom. Every oppo manager is Brian Clough and you’re playing against the Brazil 1970 first team each week.

We’ve seen every team in this division and I can’t really think of any where they’ve been unplayable. We’ve lost games by being appalling rather than other teams being amazing.

A bit of confidence and we’ll be well in with a shout.

Mansfield looked a cut above, Barrow when they came here i thought were very good ( we somehow won that one)

Settle for wins against Forest Green and Sutton

Oh yeah I’ll give you Mansfield

And yet we, at the time, perhaps felt a bit unlucky to only get a point from the home fixture with Mansfield.

Long time since then and it feels even longer. But it shows the standards we can (and should) be meeting really.

It baffles me how bad we've become but I'm in full agreement regards confidence. Yesterday was in the main solid and dogged rather than anything else, something to build on for sure. If we continue doing that for the final third of the season we'll be more than fine, even more so if we can weave in little bits of quality from the likes of Vernam.

Look at Colchester’s fixtures in March that will make you feel better.

8 or 9 would be decent , and keep us on track for safety we would then have 38/39 points and would probably need only 4-8 points from the last 7 games to survive . We only likely need to actually win 2 or 3 games with our expertise in draws , as I would back us to draw a good few . It's more where the wins come from for me , especially at home .

i recon 4 points from March.

Quoted from DB

Next month the games come thick and fast and will surely define our future. There is much said about the 42 points to be had but half of those will be in a space of 27 days.
2nd FGR Home
5th Wimbledon Away
9th Sutton Away
12th MK Dons Home
16th Gillingham Away
23rd Wrexham Home
29th Barrow Away

Those 4 away trips will certainly add up the mileage from the South East of the country to the North West. Not much rest for the players or the travelling fans.

So out of 21 points possible, how many should we expect? 5 of those clubs are looking for promotion and 2 are in the same boat as us so it could be slim pickings. It really does make FGR and Sutton must wins and hope we pick some points from the other games.

As optimistic and positive as I am I think it looks like a long hard month.

BRING THEM ON!! To the end game at Crawley away ..Let's see how it unfolds!!
Dare i say each game away or at home is going to count ,be a hard fought game to avoid a "Drop" to national League
Joys of being a "Town" fan.
UTM.

Who knows, I'm dreading it, even more if we go down and the Scunts get promoted, I expect both to happen/

We are now 9 points away from 20th place so it looks like 2 from the bottom 4 to go down.

We still have to play the other three relegation candidates so it’s still in our hands. The good news is that the Cowley’s don’t appear to have changed Colchester’s fortunes significantly, but I am concerned that FGR seem to have turned it round recently. We really need to beat them,

I think Sutton are doomed so one of the three other teams in the mire will go down with them.

Some interesting fixtures between botton 4 still to come...

Grimsby Town v Forest Green Rovers
Sutton United v Grimsby Town
Forest Green Rovers v Sutton United
Colchester United v Grimsby Town

....and we are involved in 3 of them.

We have got the following games to play
14 games -  6 Home - 8 Away

02/03 H Forest Green
05/03 A Wimbledon
09/03 A      Sutton Utd
12/03 H MK Dons
16/03 A      Gillingham
23/03 H Wrexham
29/03 A      Barrow
01/04 H Bradford
06/04 H Newport County
09/04 A      Harrogate Town
13/04 A      Crewe
16/04 A      Colchester
20/04 H Swindon
27/04 A      Crawley Town

Colchester have left...
13 games - 7 Home - 6 Away

27/02 A Salford
02/03 H     Stockport
09/03 A      Barrow
12/03 H Doncaster
16/03 H Walsall
23/03 A      Mansfield
29/03 H Newport County
01/04 A      Tranmere
06/04 H Wrexham
13/04 A      Crawley Town
16/04 H Grimsby
20/04 A      Notts County
27/04 H Crewe

Forest Green Rovers have...
13 Games -  6 Home - 7 Away

27/02 H Wrexham
02/03 A      Grimsby
09/03 H Walsall
12/03 A      Bradford
16/03 H Sutton Utd
23/03 A      Doncaster
29/03 H Stockport
01/04 A      Crewe
06/04 H MK Dons
09/04 A      Mansfield
13/04 A      Wrexham
20/04 A      Morecambe
27/04 H Notts County

Sutton United have....
12 Games - 5 Home - 7 away

27/02 A      Notts County
02/03 A      Tranmere
09/03 H Grimsby
12/03 A      Crewe
16/03 A      Forest Green
23/03 H Accrington Stanley
29/03 A      Salford
01/04 H Swindon
06/04 H Stockport
13/04 A      Harrogate Town
20/04 H Crawley Town
27/04 A      MK Dons

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

We have got the following games to play
14 games -  6 Home - 8 Away

02/03 H Forest Green
05/03 A Wimbledon
09/03 A      Sutton Utd
12/03 H MK Dons
16/03 A      Gillingham
23/03 H Wrexham
29/03 A      Barrow
01/04 H Bradford
06/04 H Newport County
09/04 A      Harrogate Town
13/04 A      Crewe
16/04 A      Colchester
20/04 H Swindon
27/04 A      Crawley Town

Colchester have left...
13 games - 7 Home - 6 Away

27/02 A Colchester
02/03 H     Stockport
09/03 A      Barrow
12/03 H Doncaster
16/03 H Walsall
23/03 A      Mansfield
29/03 H Newport County
01/04 A      Tranmere
06/04 H Wrexham
13/04 A      Crawley Town
16/04 H Grimsby
20/04 A      Notts County
27/04 H Crewe

Forest Green Rovers have...
13 Games -  6 Home - 7 Away

27/02 H Wrexham
02/03 A      Grimsby
09/03 H Walsall
12/03 A      Bradford
16/03 H Sutton Utd
23/03 A      Doncaster
29/03 H Stockport
01/04 A      Crewe
06/04 H MK Dons
09/04 A      Mansfield
13/04 A      Wrexham
20/04 A      Morecambe
27/04 H Notts County

Sutton United have....
12 Games - 5 Home - 7 away

27/02 A      Notts County
02/03 A      Tranmere
09/03 H Grimsby
12/03 A      Crewe
16/03 A      Forest Green
23/03 H Accrington Stanley
29/03 A      Salford
01/04 H Swindon
06/04 H Stockport
13/04 A      Harrogate Town
20/04 H Crawley Town
27/04 A      MK Dons

Didn't realise Veggies still have to play Wrexham twice.

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

Colchester have left...
13 games - 7 Home - 6 Away

27/02 A Colchester
02/03 H Stockport
09/03 A Barrow

I fancy Colchester in this one.

Quoted from pizzzza

I fancy Colchester in this one.

Like I say, nothing is going for us.

Quoted from diehardmariner

And yet we, at the time, perhaps felt a bit unlucky to only get a point from the home fixture with Mansfield.

Long time since then and it feels even longer. But it shows the standards we can (and should) be meeting really.

It baffles me how bad we've become but I'm in full agreement regards confidence. Yesterday was in the main solid and dogged rather than anything else, something to build on for sure. If we continue doing that for the final third of the season we'll be more than fine, even more so if we can weave in little bits of quality from the likes of Vernam.

Mansfield battered us second half home and away and only their terrible finishing got us a point at home and saved us from another thrashing at theirs.

Being solid and dogged is our only hope, but that means we need to keep the dwindling band of players capable of that fit.

Incredible how much of a feck-up this season is, from the moment we let Crocombe and Orsi go to the current situation so many squad decisions look wrong (with hindsight but it’s the job of the manager to have the foresight). If we were going to play 3 at the back, which I think needs to be the way forward given our weakness in midfield, you’d keep Luke and Michee, In fact you’d probably keep PH as manager!

Quoted from pizzzza

I fancy Colchester in this one.

Corrected (Salford)

Can't keep clean sheets .Won't win games