It's not looking good for Saturday. Still half a team out injured plus two more suspended and we come up against the form team of the division. County are ten games undefeated and have won their last five on the bounce while scoring goals for fun and are still to lose a single game in the league on their travels.

We may have shown a little improvement away from home recently but at home we have looked poor against mediocre opposition and have been totally outclassed against teams in the top half. In fact scrub that, we've been outclassed by teams well in the bottom half. The fact remains that we still have only won one game all season against a team with eleven men on the pitch. With Peterborough and Milton Keynes to follow things might get much worse before they get better. I'd love to be proved wrong but unless we pull off at least one shock result over the next three league games we could find ourselves embedded in the bottom four.

Improving the service to the forwards seems t