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Interesting to see Leroy's 3rd place side of 2003/04 finished with an identical record to this season's: P46 W23 D12 L11 81Pts.

Here's hoping the promotion-winning performances against Cheltenham and Southend in 2004 will be replicated over the next three weeks…

st martin got this spot on, unfortunately it was crawley who got to the magic figure as we all know

i'm really happy that hes our manager, so calm and down to earth, thanks for a great season mr ling, fingers crossed for the playoffs

I'm hoping after we've played Stanley, we kick-off at Oxford with [i][b]"79 pts"[/b][/i].
;-)

Note : On the condition we've finished the Stanley match with 78pts, as soon as the whistle goes for the start of the Oxford match we'll be on "79 pts".

The object of the exercise then, will be to keep it nil and like at Barnet, bury our one and only shot on target and turn the point we started the match with into 3 points.

Easter games are defining moments, maximum points for us over Easter will double the pressure on the chasing pack.

I'd rather us play two local derbies with Argyle the season after next than make a long trip to an away game up country..

[quote="forevertufc"]Todays results showed that 84 points will be enough, you can look at Crawley and Shrewsbury's run in and say that looks easy, as we all know at this stage of the season no game is easy, all the teams at the top will drop points against sides you would not expect them to.[/quote]

Thought the same myself a few weeks ago but if you look at the run in Shrews and Crawley have, they both have more games than us against teams fighting for their lives. We always seem to raise our game against higher placed teams more than we do against lower placed ones. So consequently I would rather have our run in now.

I hope it goes down to the the last game (although I hate going to edgar street) for if we have secured promotion by then and it's between Hereford and Argyle for the drop I would hate to be faced with the decision as to what team I want to win. ;-)

I think it may take 87 points. But there will be a few surprises on the way no doubt. I feel 84 points is too short. 87 would allow us one slip up. Our goal difference is inferior which is as good as a point at this stage of the season. Im confident we can get the points . COYY !

I think 85 will be the end result, a further 3 wins and 1 draw with a buffer of 2 defeats, could be completely wrong mind as anything could happen!

I'm going to sound like the ultimate pessimist, but I don't think 84 pts will be enough, I think we'll have to win 5 of our last 6 games BUT I can see no reason why we can't win 5 of the games - win ugly, to be honest, 3 pts at this time of the season is all that matters and I don't care if we score a goal rebounded off someone's arse as long as we win!

[quote="yellow"]I was just minded to look up the table when we last got automatic promo in 2004.

81 pts did the job, albeit on goal difference from Huddersfield. God bless Shane Duff.

Hull and Doncaster accompanied us onwards to the promised land. They obviously fared better than us. Left behind were [color=#FF0000]Swansea City and Boston Utd[/color] in 10th and 11th places respectively and [color=#FF0000]who’s fortunes have diverged somewhat[/color] to say the least.

Funny old game football.....[/quote]

Jesus, you aren't joking. One place between them 8 seasons ago, now a matter of 5 divisions. One in the top division on Earth, one playing amateur football against the Dog and Duck in front of half a dozen people. Let's hope Fatty Evans has the same effect with his current team...

Matt.

Todays results showed that 84 points will be enough, you can look at Crawley and Shrewsbury's run in and say that looks easy, as we all know at this stage of the season no game is easy, all the teams at the top will drop points against sides you would not expect them to.

I was just minded to look up the table when we last got automatic promo in 2004.

81 pts did the job, albeit on goal difference from Huddersfield. God bless Shane Duff.

Hull and Doncaster accompanied us onwards to the promised land. They obviously fared better than us. Left behind were Swansea City and Boston Utd in 10th and 11th places respectively and who’s fortunes have diverged somewhat to say the least.

Funny old game football.....

I'd stick my neck out and say we guaranteed a play-off spot tonight. Looking back at all league two tables since 1994, and 75 points would guarantee a top 7 spot every season.

Even if we lose every game between now and end of season, Crewe would need four wins and two draws out of seven to overtake us and Cheltenham would require three wins and a draw out of six. Crewe and Cheltenham also have to play each other yet, and Crewe also have an away game at Crawley as well as us and host Aldershot, who've picked up seven wins in last 10 to give themselves an outside chance of the play-offs. Cheltenham meanwhile have a few fixtures against relegation-threatened teams (Plymouth, Bradford, Barnet) but seem to be imploding a bit at the moment, so wouldn't see them overtaking us even if we had a complete disaster!

We get what we get and when it's over we've got what we've got.

Stanley up next on Good Friday and we'll see what we can get. ;-)

Royalgull and usagullmichigan spot on posts!

When we were down the bottom fighting relegation, we beat some good sides. Crawly etc play teams under similar circumstances, so can expect some tough encounters.
Some will fold under the pressure too, all we can expect is the unexpected. :scarf: