Our chances for the 2023/24 season

[upthemaggies]

Mansfield are looking very good. Definitely contenders for automatic, along with MKD and Gillingham. I think Wrexham will click at some point too.

Swindon winning 6-0 made me sit up and take notice of them. They've never hung around tier 4 for long. Last season (10th) was their 3rd worst finish of all time, so they will expect to be in the play offs.
Wimbledon probably gain a degree of impetus that they wouldn't have otherwise in competing with MKD.

[magpie_mania]

I think it may be a very open season with teams beating each other.

Gillingham's 0 - 3 v Colchester was arguably as bad as our result at Sutton. I read that MKD have never finished below 4th at this level.

I think we just need to get on with our own game and see where it takes us. We have had a really good start I think - yes even with the Sutton result. A mark of a good team is now they respond to set-backs like that.

My feelings before the season started was that I would be happy with top-half, possibly flirting with play-offs. That still stands although I will be more disappointed now if we don't manage that.

[51Magpie]

I think it may be a very open season with teams beating each other.

I don't disagree, but yesterday I remembered I'd not had a flutter on Notts this season (it's my only bet of the year apart from a ticket in the Grand National sweepstake). I was shocked to see us as equal favourites to gain promotion with Gillingham & Wrexham at virtually even money. MK Dons and Bradford are 2/1 and 3/1 respectively. I should have dug in right after the Sutton game.

We're also joint favourites with just Gillingham at 5/1 to be champions.

With every game, I'm getting more confident that we're going to be strong competitors again this year, but I was really surprised by those odds.

[slack_pie]

Swindon winning 6-0 made me sit up and take notice of them. They've never hung around tier 4 for long. Last season (10th) was their 3rd worst finish of all time, so they will expect to be in the play offs.
Wimbledon probably gain a degree of impetus that they wouldn't have otherwise in competing with MKD.

Yup, forgot about them. Definitely contenders. Presumably Stockport will get their act together at some point as well.

[uysapie]

Let's get to 50 points and then see where we go from there.