The run in

[ramAnag]

8 games to go in this Championship season, in which John Eustace has rejuvenated a wafer thin squad in his first 6 games in charge. He has built a structure and shape into the team, both with and without the ball and the future looks bright if we can secure Championship survival. The players look like they would run through a brick wall under this manager and with a further 2.5 weeks of coaching I?m optimistic. JE has said multiple times that we take one game at a time, which is a logical approach and keeps the players focused.

Looking at the bottom eleven teams and their fixtures it is interesting to see that 6 of our remaining 8 are against teams in this group, while Portsmouth only have 2, Oxford 3, Luton 3 and Plymouth 2.

Reasons to be cheerful, part 3

I’m more optimistic now than I have been since late October about our chances of survival, MA…but it is by no means a gimme.

Without going over old ground about the previous manager, such was the mess that we found ourselves in by the end of January that it is impossible to believe that JE joined without considering the very real prospect of relegation. To do so would have been unbelievably naive.

In the light of recent results and performances I share your hope and ‘reasons to be cheerful’ but, even if the worst happens and we do go down, I’ll still feel more optimistic about Eustace’s ability to rebuild than was previously the case and the fact that Mr. Clowes will no longer be the ‘newbie’ he was in the world of football club ownership can only help. Both will have been on enormous learning curves over the last three years or so and I think we can only benefit from that.