[spireitematt]

L1 is unbelievably tight and the worrying thing is the teams in the relegation zone and the bottom half of the table have come alive. I think we will finish around 10th. If we end up in the playoffs come May and go up then that would be fantastic to see us playing Championship football next season and would be good for the town and for the whole of Derbyshire as well and we would attract new fans. I would love to see us in the Championship and believe one day we will get there.

People are blaming the reason why we lost on Saturday to Orient on the sale of Doyle but that's not true because if you watch the goals again look at how poor the defence were. Orients 1st there is no way Mooney should have been given allowed the time and space to run with the ball that far and there 2nd Mooney shouldn't have been allowed to shoot from there and the 3rd goal was a mistake by Tommy. The defence need to close players down when the opposition have the ball and not allow them room to shoot or even run at us. I hope we get Georg Margreitter on loan again because he played well with Evatt and Raglan at CB.