[spireitematt]

Well I think we can forget about the playoffs now that ship has sailed and we are at the harbour. When we sold Doyle to Cardiff Chris Turner said we would be much stronger. I want to know how we are stronger, we've bought in a player from Cheltenham who isn't highly rated by their fans, a midfielder called Duffy, a youth CB called Carter from Wolves, Lavery from Wednesday and Mani signed permanently from Wednesday.

We've lost three games on the bounce. One game I expected us to struggle in was Preston but not the other two. We've not scored a goal from open play since we've sold Doyle. The worrying thing for me is it all looks too familiar of 2012 under Sheridan. We had a top goalscorer who we let leave on a free to Barnsley and we didn't replace him, in L1 we brought in loan signings and struggled the only difference is on the 18/2/12 we were 22nd on 27 pts. In the end we finished 22nd on 42 pts, the same amount of points we are on now. As it stands we are only 11 pts safe of 21st.

I really hope this is just a bad run of form and we get back to winning ways because if it isn't then its going to be rather worrying come April/May.

If we get relegated which is a big IF then players will leave or be sold, Cookie will probably leave and the attendances will drop back to 4,000 and DA and CT will moan that fans didn't put enough money in.