Next Four Games

Quoted from tashee69

In form guide, Colchester have won once this year, Doncaster lost once in their last 8, Walsall have won 5 of their last 6, Mansfield won 6 of their last 8. I think giving Colchester 6 points is extremely generous.

I get that. But using that analysis you would never have expected FGR to beat Walsall yesterday.

I could see them beating Doncaster and Newport. But be very happy to be proved wrong!

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I think there’s quite a bit more nervousness & possibly some more drama to endure. That said the lads look bang up for the fight so I reckon we’ll be ok.

If the staff use yesterday right it will absolutely galvanise the players.

The issue, if we go back three or four games, is that we were hemorrhaging goals and routinely failing to pick up points as a result. Ultimately, we’ve stopped doing that boy by fluke but rather a fundamental shift in approach.

I’ve made no secret of how nervous I was going into the Forest Green game, but the pattern of the last 4 games has given me sufficient confidence that we can avoid relegation without too much drama.

I said to my Lincoln work colleagues that I think FGR will overtake Colchester as they are not picking up any points.

I don’t think we will go down my guess is Sutton and Colchester.

Looking at Sutton yesterday, they've had it. Colchester have lost the new manager bounce and are struggling, so it's those two for me.

Quoted from DB

Looking at Sutton yesterday, they've had it. Colchester have lost the new manager bounce and are struggling, so it's those two for me.

I guarantee the Colchester fans will be saying it’s Sutton and Grimsby!

Long way to go. Big week ahead for all 4 teams.

Quoted from Heisenberg

I guarantee the Colchester fans will be saying it’s Sutton and Grimsby!

Long way to go. Big week ahead for all 4 teams.

Our rearranged fixture at Colchester will be one hell of a game, a true 6 pointer.

Quoted from DB

Our rearranged fixture at Colchester will be one hell of a game, a true 6 pointer.

I honestly hope (and to be honest feel) we'll be safe by then.

Really don't think I can take going into that final games knowing it's all or nothing for us.

Game by game approach. It's silly season now and a lot of the form book stuff goes out the window. Some players and teams will already be on the beach, others now start to play as contracts are expiring. If we focus on us we'll be fine.

Average current league position of each of the bottom four’s opponents between now and the end of the season.

Town - 10.5 (11 games)
Colchester - 10.5 (11 games)
Forest Green - 9.5 (10 games)
Sutton - 11.3 (10 games)

Everyone has slightly tougher than average remaining fixtures, with Forest Green’s the toughest run-in on paper. What’s potentially significant though is that their next 3 look notably easier than ours (average of 18.3 versus 4.7), potentially meaning we could be in for some nervy times ahead.

That said, Forest Green’s last 6 look mightily tough, with an opp average of 6.3. Ours is 13.8 for comparison.

I think the next couple of weeks will be significant. If we can emerge from the next 3 matches with the veggies at arms length, you’d have to think we’re in pretty good shape. However, if they do draw us in (or god forbid get ahead of us), it’s going to make for a very nervy spring.

Of course, Colchester are significant in this. 9 games in, Danny Cowley is presiding over an 11% win rate and they, like us until recently, haven’t won a game this calendar year.   Personally, between them, us and the veggies, I think they have the most to be worried about at the minute. They have no momentum, and that could well prove critical.

We’ve learned quite a bit in the last 8 or 9 days. We’ll learn a lot more in the next 14.

If we get anything more than two points from these games we’re doing well. If we continue to average a point a game until the end of the season I reckon we’ll stay up. Bloody shite state of affairs to be in as Renton would say, but that’s how I see it.

We have got to stop looking at other teams games and hope they drop points.

We will do it on our own backs by keeping tight at the back and finding out shooting boots.

Some people just get too excited and blast the ball as hard as they can.

Just relax lads and stroke the ball placing it in the corner out of the keepers reach.

This is where a striker coach would come in handy we should employ one until the end of the season.

Or

Even longer if it works .