[bluepooch]

Lets not go overboard it wasn't a good performance but we rode our luck and luckily Swindon weren't very good either .But we will take the win and hope it gives us the confidence to go on a run because we need it .Men of The Match for me were Talbot and Kellett
I think 48 points is needed to stay up so we need to be aiming for 6 wins from 12.

[spireitematt]

To be honest I don't think we will need 48 pts to stay up but would be nice to get around that mark.

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2016-2017 needed more than 46 pts to stay up
2015-2016 Newport stayed up on 43 pts
2014-2015 needed more than 41 pts to stay up
2013-2014 needed 50 pts to stay up
2012-2013 needed 51 pts to stay up
2011-2012 needed more than 44 pts to stay up
2010-2011 needed 48 pts to stay up
2009-2010 needed more than 44 pts to stay up
2008-2009 needed more than 41 pts to stay up
2007-2008 needed more than 42 pts to stay up
2006-2007 needed more than 36 pts to stay up (Boston got 10 pts deducted)
2005-2006 needed more than 49 pts to stay up
2004-2005 needed more than 48 pts to stay up
2003-2004 needed more than 45 pts to stay up
2002-2003 needed more than 48 pts to stay up
2001-2002 needed more than 36 pts to stay up (Was when 1 team used to get relegated)
2000-2001 needed more than 45 pts to stay up (Was when 1 team used to get relegated)

[bluepooch]

Well Matt the third from bottom is currently on 35 points so its fair to say they might get another 13 points from 12 games although the run Grimsby and Port Vale are on I can see them struggling to get there .Its in our hands

[spireitematt]

Well Matt the third from bottom is currently on 35 points so its fair to say they might get another 13 points from 12 games although the run Grimsby and Port Vale are on I can see them struggling to get there .Its in our hands

Grimsby are falling down the table and they haven't won a game in a while so can't see them staying up. I agree Blue its in our own hands and need to go on an unbeaten run.

[Dancingwilldoit]

When I saw COG on his own up top I thought here we go again. He cant score with his head he cant score with his feet but at least his knee just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I agree Blue Talbot and Kellett were both my joint MOM. Swindon were yet another dirty side who got away with murder. The first studs up challenge went totally unpunished but at least Ollie Banks got his just desserts.
I thought our midfield for the first time in ages actually looked pretty good until Weir went off. We were harrying and pushing and they hardly created anything of note. Reid and Hines were just getting kicked all over the place but both showed some good touches.

COG really frustrates the hell out of me. He gets the ball, shields it (well sometimes anyway), then either gives the ball away or puts a shocking pass to a team mate either yards behind him or that far in front he stands no chance. He has a touch like a baby elephant and week after week does the same thing but still gets in the team. The one thing we know and opposing managers know by now is that when COG is in the side we go long ball and not successfully.
Apart from a Kellett moment of magic and COG's mighty accidental knee, we were poor up top.
Please try something different Jack its just not working. The defence looks solid lets just get some goals in the side. Get the ball on the floor and pass the bloody thing instead of hoofball to COG and watching it come straight back again.

Looking at the remaining fixtures if the teams around us get the results they have been doing, the only chance we have is Sutton winning the playoffs and refusing to lay a grass pitch. Even then I can see Barnet leapfrogging us and we will finish bottom.

[Devongone]

I agree it does look as though, if some other teams continue as they have been doing for the rest of the season, that 48 points might well see us safe. The trouble with that is it is 18 points from 12 games. If a team accumulated points at that rate for a season ........ it would end up on 69 - last season that was good enough for Colchester to finish 8th. So we've got to go from being a bottom four side all season to playing like 8th best for our last 12 games. I suppose it is possible, but it is highly unlikely. I suppose Sol Campbell getting the Grimsby job, proving a disaster and walking out inside a month might be our best hope - but if he or someone else is even decent, we're dead men walking.

I can't say I'm against the idea of leaving out our top scorer. Teams score goals. But if you play one up front, support has to get to him quickly and a succession of long balls makes that pretty much impossible. Man City sometimes play 4-1-4-1 but Pep doesn't tell them belt the ball up to Kun does he? Players break up to join him, they get forward of him, they interpass and time when when they release him ........... Whether CO'G has the touch of a baby elephant or an angel, if the nearest team member is 25 yards away, the defence isn't going to worry is it?

I'm convinced Dennis isn't easy to play with, but CO'G is essentially a support player, a space maker, an assist man in a front three ......... a centre forward who causes a few problems and gets the odd goal. If Dennis doesn't really combine with him, then even if you stick Hines or Dodds up there with them, I can't see it working. Whether you blame Dennis or O'Grady is irrelevant, it's recruitment that hasn't worked. The alternative is Ugwu, who has been unfit almost all season.

I still think we perhaps have to have a whole different way of playing to have a shot at 18 points. Much as it is criticised when it fails, I'd be going Nelson, Maguire and Whitmore as a back three. Drew and JBW as wingbacks. See if that gets us the ball forward more. And more efforts on goal. Seven in a home game isn't really enough is it? At least with wing backs you should looking to go out wide, rather than hitting the ball up to a front man, however you arrange the rest of the team.