Staying Up - Relegation Battle

[standupsitdown]

Updated after Monday 8th April.


Hemel 44 49 -15
Torquay 43 48 -8
Truro 40 47 -9
Eastbourne 42 44 -25
Dartford 43 43 -17
Taunton 40 41 -21
Havant 43 36 -34
Dover 43 27 -33

Looking so much better now.
Dartford, 2 difficult games out of their 3 fixtures. Unlikely to get to more than 49 points.
Taunton 6 games in 12 days, two against play off candidates. Unlikely to get to more than 50 points.
Hemel, Truro & Eastbourne still not out of it.
One more win and we should be safe, especially if it’s at Taunton.


Taunton

Braintree – away
Slough - home
Farnborough – away
Torquay – home
Weston – home
Hemel - home

7 games in 15 days.
5 – 7 points if we beat them : 46 – 48 points
6 – 8 points if we draw : 47 – 49 points
8 – 10 points if we lose : 49 – 51 points


Dartford

Worthing – home
Yeovil – away
Truro – home

Only 3 games left 2 of which are difficult.
Worthing will require points to get best possible play off position & Yeovil may not have secured the title.
Can’t see them getting more than 4 points from these : 46 - 47 points



Eastbourne

Truro – away
Chippenham – home
Weston – away
Braintree – away

Some winnable games. 6 – 7 points : 50 – 51 points


Torquay

Truro – away
Bath – away
Taunton – away
Havant – home

Poor away form but 2 or 3 winnable games.


Hemel

Slough – home
Taunton – away

Only 2 games left but not that difficult.
1 – 4 points : 50 – 53 points
However if they lose to Slough to get these points they’ll need to take something from Taunton.

[Minneapolisgull]

Standup
How many points do you think we need to survive?
Do think 49 will be enough? (One more draw)
Will 51 for sure be enough? (One more win)

[standupsitdown]

Standup
How many points do you think we need to survive?
Do think 49 will be enough? (One more draw)
Will 51 for sure be enough? (One more win)

We probably have enough points to stay above Dartford but one more point should ensure that.
Taunton hard to say as they have so many games but if we draw there it should be enough.

I would say one more win very probably enough, or just a draw at Taunton.

[ALTE]

We really should be capable of 4 points from that lot....

[TommyGunn]

Tonight

Braintree v Taunton
Dartford v Worthing

[North Curry House]

Taunton 0-0
Dartford leading 1-0 at half time.

We need Worthing and Braintree to help us in the second half.

[United62]

Now 1-1 at Princess Park

[United62]

Dartford now losing 1-2

[United62]

Darts lost...good news for us.

Taunton drew with Braintree

[standupsitdown]

Taunton drew 0.0 at Braintree.
Didn't expect them to get anything there, so a worry both in terms of the extra point and their form.

[standupsitdown]

Updated after Tuesday 9th April.

Hemel 44 49 -15
Torquay 43 48 -8
Truro 40 47 -9
Eastbourne 42 44 -25
Dartford 44 43 -18
Taunton 41 42 -21
Havant 43 36 -34
Dover 43 27 -33

Dartford can only get 49 points and to do that would need to win at Yeovil.
We need one point max to finish above them.

Taunton now 6 points behind us with 2 games in hand but they have to play 5 more games in 12 days. They have 4 ‘winnable’ games, we have 2.

Hemel, Truro & Eastbourne still not out of it but Taunton are our main rival. Unless we win at Bath we cannot afford to lose at Taunton. If we do we’ll probably need to beat Havant last game and even that may not be enough or we may be relying on other results to go our way last day. Hopefully Hemel won't beat Slough on Saturday so will go to Taunton last game with both still at risk of going down.


Taunton

Slough - home
Farnborough – away
Torquay – home
Weston – home
Hemel - home


Dartford

Yeovil – away
Truro – home


Eastbourne

Truro – away
Chippenham – home
Weston – away
Braintree – away


Torquay

Truro – away
Bath – away
Taunton – away
Havant – home


Hemel

Slough – home
Taunton – away

[Brixham63]

One point….3 games…we can’t muck this up..

[TommyGunn]

Truro v Eastbourne tonight.

I'm expecting 3 points for Eastbourne.

Will put them 1 point behind us. I can see this going to the wire.

[desperado]

If Taunton beat Slough tomorrow night it will get a bit nervy again.

[North Curry House]

Why be concerned about Taunton?...They are six points behind us with a worse goal difference, with two games in hand - I would be surprised if they overtook us.

The current bottom four, look like the teams for the drop;

Dartford
Taunton
Havant & Waterlooville
Dover