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It is nice to see the players have the ambition and target the top three. At the moment with 19 games to go who says we cant. But at the same time we could slip well away. Its nice to see us playing well and getting results and play badly and still manage to grind out the 3 points.

Im for one hopes Robbo can make this ambition true, but time will tell.

I saw this too. Think we must take it at face value. We'll soon see though, how they recover from being absolutely terrible last night, can they bounce back, or has the bubble burst?

Matt.

ferrarilover wrote:I saw this too. Think we must take it at face value. We'll soon see though, how they recover from being absolutely terrible last night, can they bounce back, or has the bubble burst?

Matt.

Teams that win whilst playing awful are often the ones who end up top 3. No harm aiming high. Beyond all expectation that we are top 6 so lets see how far we can go without putting any pressure on.

I'm putting last night down to a blip, really. Spending most of the weekend on a coach doesn't help..

Robbo is right to want top 3. If it is there to go for then why not? ( excluding the conspiracy theorists who say that we don't WANT to go up because it will cost us too much therefore would disagree). We have been poor a few times this season and got points. We got lucky with Nico's last kick of the game winner v Barnet, i don't think we played particularly well away at Macc and won and away at Vale Park and got a hard earned point. There are other examples but we keep plugging away and riding our luck and pulling results out of the hat. At the beginning of the season i thought anyone dreaming off a play off spot was completely deluded and to those i apologise. Our squad has galvanised itself and developed into one with some very special and quality players. Lathrope , Oastler and Olejnik in particular. Those three have impressed me immensely. We all know what to expect from Eunan, Nico and Manse but obviously they all have impressed too. Howe has been in and out, Stevens has improved but not completely impressed and Tai has done well enough. So we are ticking along nicely and have some young players that will make us a lot of money when they eventually move on. I'm hoping that we are a league 1 club by then though! :~D . Martin seems to me to be the typeo fella that will probably not even consider consolidation if the opportunity to progress is there. He sets his team out to try and win every game which is the best way to be and it is paying handsome dividends. The amazing thing is that during our poor run of form we were quite clearly playing with fear, playing negatively to try and not concede and look what happened.

Totaly right for Robbo to be thinking this way, in fact now the team have got themselves into such a great position, not just chasing a play-off spot, but cemented in the play-off zone, I hope the club, manager and all the players now believe a top three spot is on.

Our current form is promotion form, if the team can go through Feb achieving the same results then auotmatic promotion will become a very real possiblity, that said i am also well aware that our club is very good in fact the best, when it comes to snatching failure out of the jaws of sucsess, so we will see.

Richinns wrote: Teams that win whilst playing awful are often the ones who end up top 3. No harm aiming high. Beyond all expectation that we are top 6 so lets see how far we can go without putting any pressure on.

I do agree with the sentiment, it's just I'm not convinced we'd get away with it against Football League standard opposition.
I do agree also with Nick about the massive coach trip, it's always tough for us because of where we are geographically.
We should shoot for the moon, but we're going to have to exceed even my wildest dreams to get an automatic place.

Matt.

It's great to see such ambition from our players, and this just goes to show how much confidence there is within the squad at present. On current form we're the best in the league, it's just a matter of maintaining this for the second half of the season. Hopefully we can be there or there abouts come April and be in with a shout of at least the playoffs.

This attitude also makes a massive change from the comments we got last season from a certain PB.

We're already top. All we have to do is to stay there.
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Our goal difference has been a concern to me until I looked at the GD of clubs promoted in recent season...
Gillingham made it with +3 - now that is sketchy
After AC Northampton we should be in double figures
Great season, great team, great journey

Funny that. He said he was ambitious and then goes to Preston where Risdale has just turned up. Thats his ambitions buggered for the foresable future. Never mind Robbo. We will welcome you back with open arms.

Glostergull wrote:Funny that. He said he was ambitious and then goes to Preston where Risdale has just turned up. Thats his ambitions buggered for the foresable future. Never mind Robbo. We will welcome you back with open arms.

There's a difference between being ambitious to win stuff - 3rd division promotion, say - and being ambitious for your own career. A move like Robinson has just made is ambitious for his career. Presumably he's got a nice pay raise. Can't begrudge him that.I don't think you're going to find any player staying at a team like ours because they might win something if the alternative is higher division football.

happytorq wrote: There's a difference between being ambitious to win stuff - 3rd division promotion, say - and being ambitious for your own career. A move like Robinson has just made is ambitious for his career. Presumably he's got a nice pay raise. Can't begrudge him that.I don't think you're going to find any player staying at a team like ours because they might win something if the alternative is higher division football.

Seeing as I know how much you like to be the pedant, it's Robertson, not Robinson

Didn't you have an ambitious young manager too once? Whatever happened to him?

Southampton Gull wrote:Seeing as I know how much you like to be the pedant, it's Robertson, not Robinson

Haha! Well played.

Tempted to go back and edit it but I shall die by sword since I'm so keen to live by it..