Staying UP

Wrexham play Colchester this Saturday and FGR the following Saturday - both games they will be looking to win - but we know better than that eh fellow Mariners

Experienced ref this Saturday against Newport - Bobby Madley.

He spotted that last minute handball by Chesterfield in 2017/18 that resulted in Mitch Rose converting a penalty for a 1-0 win.

Proved to be a catalyst for Jolley's remarkable run in to avoid relegation.

A good omen perhaps?

Quoted from GrimPol

I'm afraid Sutton has found form, and won 10 points from 15 (we have 5 from 15) and won 3 games with teams all above them, on the trot. When we played them on their "beach pitch" they just looked better than us and they were miles away in points below us then, so I had assumed they were down, and just going through the motions. Now look at them.
DA has brought on board some better players, but they are not enough. As a team, we still play like strangers, cannot pass, cannot trap, cannot throw in, cannot kick corners and in our final third we just stand back and watch whilst the opposition have all the time in the world to do something.. Barrow had our players bunched together in a corner whilst they passed the ball into the net with nobody near them. It was school boys v men sometimes. No matter how you look at it, its bad.
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To add context, when you're bottom, *every* team is above you

Quoted from conscorner

Experienced ref this Saturday against Newport - Bobby Madley.

He spotted that last minute handball by Chesterfield in 2017/18 that resulted in Mitch Rose converting a penalty for a 1-0 win.

Proved to be a catalyst for Jolley's remarkable run in to avoid relegation.

A good omen perhaps?

I hope he doesn’t make me eat my words, but he’s an excellent ref and it’ll make a change.

Think we stay up, but we’re certainly in more of a fight than we’d like.

Sutton’s form has picked up recently, that’s true. However I’m not sure a team bottom of the league a few weeks ago will maintain promotion form against the teams they have left, if they do - good luck to them but I’m not convinced.

Look, I get the negativity from some, I really do. We shouldn’t be here again and it’s a disaster that we are - personally think a big postmortem is needed but the time for that’s when the seasons over.

However we ourselves have lost two games (to top sides) in almost two months. We can understand we’re in trouble without overestimating the teams below and underestimating ourselves. 2 wins easily achievable imo and that for me is enough to be safe.

On Monday evening, I had us down, relegated and finished. I think the manner of the equaliser, coupled with the other strugglers getting good results led most to fear the worst and quite understandably.

On reflection however, I still wouldn’t swap our position with any of the other teams. Yes we’re struggling to win games, but we were only an unfortunate penalty away from getting just that, and we played “alright” as well, with plenty of work rate and determination on show as well, certainly a far cry from the listless, abject performances a few weeks/months back.

It’s still in our hands, and although as others have said, that’s worrying in itself, it shouldn’t really matter about the others form or fixtures, unless they go on some ridiculous run of wins of course. Saturday is winnable, drawable at worst, then 3 away games where I think we can stop Colchester beating us and maybe nick a point at either Crewe or Harrogate. Then our ‘easiest’ fixture of the run in against an abysmal Swindon where maximum points is a must, followed by a tricky trip to Crawley who could already be either in or out of the play offs by that point, again a point is achievable in my opinion. That’s a minimum of 6/7 points which I’m praying is enough.

Quoted from 140381

I hope he doesn’t make me eat my words, but he’s an excellent ref and it’ll make a change.

(Though it would be helpful if he was biased in our favour on the day  )

Quoted from Mikey_345

Think we stay up, but we’re certainly in more of a fight than we’d like.

Sutton’s form has picked up recently, that’s true. However I’m not sure a team bottom of the league a few weeks ago will maintain promotion form against the teams they have left, if they do - good luck to them but I’m not convinced.

Look, I get the negativity from some, I really do. We shouldn’t be here again and it’s a disaster that we are - personally think a big postmortem is needed but the time for that’s when the seasons over.

However we ourselves have lost two games (to top sides) in almost two months. We can understand we’re in trouble without overestimating the teams below and underestimating ourselves. 2 wins easily achievable imo and that for me is enough to be safe.

It's not negative though, it's just realistic. We've seen enough relegations to know what they look like.

We are just so poor but like everyone else I am just praying we can somehow manage to survive, but there is very little we can do about it whatever we think on social media - the players and coaching staff just have to get us over the line.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

It's not negative though, it's just realistic. We've seen enough relegations to know what they look like.

We are just so poor but like everyone else I am just praying we can somehow manage to survive, but there is very little we can do about it whatever we think on social media - the players and coaching staff just have to get us over the line.

I’m sort of talking about the people that say we’re down already. As I say though, I get it - we’ve seen this too many times before and I really don’t blame people for fearing/thinking the worst.

I just think (within the current context) there’s scope to be a little more optimistic. That doesn’t mean this is an acceptable position to be in, just recognises we are but we’ve been ok since Doncaster and lost only twice since then, have more games and Sutton/FGR have some unbelievably tough games.

I was at a meeting in New York & it was being run by a sports agent called Mark McCormack, he had some employees he didn't think that they were working as hard as the remuneration that he was paying them, so we all sat around the table & he asked those who had been struggling how they did the job, then asked those that really were successful, at the end of the meeting it was agreed that what brought the successful guys to the top was 'They really wanted to do it' & the least successful guys never gave an answer any where near that. So if you want GTFC to stay in the EFL the actual players have 'Really got to want to do it'