What's going on?! So, that's five away wins in a row - matching our best ever run and the only we've ever done it in the same season - and four home defeats in a row, which is pretty awful by anyone's estimation. Had it been the other way around, of course, no one would be complaining. Over the last few years we've come to expect to win our home games and lose away - the fact that we're getting over nine thousand people seeing us lose at home (compared to just a few hundred seeing our victories) makes it seem all the worse.

Although there have been a few points of frustration - Sean O'Driscoll's negative substitution policy, the fact that Fletch appears to be on his last legs - It's important that we don't get carried away with the moaning. As things stand we're still in sixth place, which is still a play-off place. Sure, we'll almost certainly finish seventh (that's another thing we have come to expect), but even that would be a remarkable achievement.

Raising the expectations of the fans is the worst thing a team can possibly do, and we need to keep that in perspective regardless of what happens in the final weeks of the season. I for one would rather suffer the disappointment of missing out on the playoffs right at the end than settle for the benign emotions of a season in mid-table.

A quick look at the squad suggests we have achieved what we have avhieved this season with just 17 players, not including the long term injured, kids who don't play and loanees. 17 players is not a squad; it's little more than a team. And if we fail to reach the playoffs that is the sole reason. With no reserve team squad players like Elliot and Spicer have not had the luxury of missing games thorugh
loss of form, tiredness or even injury. They've had to play regardless because there is no one else.  ¶ 4:06 PM

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