The run-in

Vernon and jackson have to start saturday, i really like jackson and vernon is in every day of the week when the only other real option is hooper.

The problem with playing Vernon and Jackson up top is that most likely means 4-4-2 and us getting overrun in midfield.

Sorry  to be the harbinger of doom, but I still fear for our league future, we have 3 games left, one away to a play off contender, one against a team looking for automatic promotion and the last against a club who would love to relegate us, I fear only 1 point from those games, which would leave Barnet needing 2 wins to send us down on goal difference, they have games against Newport who have little to play for and lastly against a chesterfield team who will already be down by then.
Desperately  hope I am being over pesimistic!

Quoted from petethemariner

Sorry  to be the harbinger of doom, but I still fear for our league future, we have 3 games left, one away to a play off contender, one against a team looking for automatic promotion and the last against a club who would love to relegate us, I fear only 1 point from those games, which would leave Barnet needing 2 wins to send us down on goal difference, they have games against Newport who have little to play for and lastly against a chesterfield team who will already be down by then.
Desperately  hope I am being over pesimistic!

No your'e not being overly pessimistic more realistic.

I think this weekend will tell us all we need to know; if Barnet win and we continue our woeful form and lose at Swindon it is very much game on from Barnet's viewpoint.

Isn't this the reverse of last time we went down - weren't we in the bottom two but improving and trying to catch Barnet? We failed then so I hope they fail now.

I still have  a feeling though it will be us that will get caught on the final day. If Carlsberg did relegations we would go down at FGR on the final day on goal difference.

Having said all that we are still better off having the 5 point gap with only 3 games left and if we win on Saturday and/or Barnet lose we will have been fretting for nowt. I am not at all confident though - I think the Fenty curse will strike one final time.

On paper Barnet have an easier run in than us, but that doesn't acknowledge the fact that they couldn't beat us.  They couldn't beat a bloody awful side occupying the 90th place of the top four tiers.  Yet all of a sudden they're now capable of picking up either two wins or a win and two draws from their final three games?

Capable? Yes they are i think. Whether they do is another matter.

Swindon are on a terrible run and have dropped out of play off contention.  A good start on Saturday and we could see the fight drop out of them.  It’s a real chance of an away point or more.  If we get points on Saturday and Barnet and Chesterfield don’t then we are nearly there.  I’m assuming Chesterfield lose tonight so hopefully they don’t over turn the form book!

I really think we have a chance of a positive result against County. We are unbeaten at home under Jolley, they are very inconsistent and were very ordinary when we played them earlier in the season.

They also have a strike force about as slow as our centre back partnering which should help in stead and ameobi. Also know someone who saw them at Colchester at the weekend who said they were rubbish. Colchester were the better side but younger, naive and tried to play football. County just bullied them and scored with their only 3 shots on goal.

I honestly believe we are capable of getting something out of each of our last 3 games. Doesn’t mean we will but I don’t think any of them are write offs and seeing the fight and desire recently, we have reasons to be optimistic.

UTFM

Was out walking with my brother yesterday and he came up with a very good point. When the board made that ill fated statement backing Slade and saying we were 13 places above the relegation zone, it was over three months ago, and in that time, despite our appalling form and only one win since, we are still 5 points above the relegation zone. Despite our best endeavours to be completely useless and give the bottom 2 all the encouragement in the world to close the gap, they have only manged to claw back 8 points in that time. To think they will make up another 5 in 3 games is a very tall order. Let's hope he is correct.

Quoted from diehardmariner

On paper Barnet have an easier run in than us, but that doesn't acknowledge the fact that they couldn't beat us.  They couldn't beat a bloody awful side occupying the 90th place of the top four tiers.  Yet all of a sudden they're now capable of picking up either two wins or a win and two draws from their final three games?

Agree , Barnet played the worse side in the division for not scoring goals and conceded 2,

The side they where playing ( us ) have the worse defence in the division and  they still could not beat us,

We are rubbish but so are they and Chesterfield,

I think it will go down to the last game of the season if the other two picks points up because I don't think we will get anything out of the next 2 games,

Hopefully it wont come to that if Barnet and Chesterfield do not get many points between now and then.

42 points might just be enough.