Just one game on, Torquay are no longer in charge of their own fate. Borehamwood do their thing properly for once and win instead of drawing at Halifax, to make the home side's position look dodgy. And the ten men of Maidenhead simultaneously wipe the floor with Hartlepool, putting any remaining hopes they cherished of a top three finish in the bin, and sidling, with their games, in hand perhaps temporarily back into the picture.
Meantime with a team which had only Whelan's return to recommend itself to me, Chesterfield got absolutely the kind of result they needed at a depressed sounding Woking. Looking at the table the best hope we have of finishing in the top seven is unseating Halifax. If we are going to do that we need not only to win our next two games, but also to bang in plenty of goals. We need our goal difference to be well better than Halifax's just in case we end up on level points with them as the last game of the season kicks off. I'm not suggesting a situation I'm hoping for us playing the final game for a bore draw, but it does a lot for the confidence if you feel win or draw might do. Hopefully before that game Maidenhead will have met two teams in the next week who'll be too good for them, and will be able to stop Sam Barratt ........ and meantime Dagenham who can't stop winning will have measured themselves against Stockport and also come up inadequate.
So it's three wins, two of them involving the onion bag big time, and then do whatever is necessary at Halifax. Doesn't sound much like real life to me.
Meantime with a team which had only Whelan's return to recommend itself to me, Chesterfield got absolutely the kind of result they needed at a depressed sounding Woking. Looking at the table the best hope we have of finishing in the top seven is unseating Halifax. If we are going to do that we need not only to win our next two games, but also to bang in plenty of goals. We need our goal difference to be well better than Halifax's just in case we end up on level points with them as the last game of the season kicks off. I'm not suggesting a situation I'm hoping for us playing the final game for a bore draw, but it does a lot for the confidence if you feel win or draw might do. Hopefully before that game Maidenhead will have met two teams in the next week who'll be too good for them, and will be able to stop Sam Barratt ........ and meantime Dagenham who can't stop winning will have measured themselves against Stockport and also come up inadequate.
So it's three wins, two of them involving the onion bag big time, and then do whatever is necessary at Halifax. Doesn't sound much like real life to me.