Quote Originally Posted by jacobncfc View Post
I’m probably more of a pragmatist than others on here, but for me we went with a plan on Monday and got what we came for. They had lots of pressure but few clear chances, job done. I think we’re decent, but I wouldn’t expect us to be capable of going to Wrexham (or Stockport, Chesterfield etc) and controlling the games on our terms.

Next eight games tells us where our season is going IMO. A team with designs on promotion needs to be taking 18+ points. That’s where the real battle is in this league, the ‘big games’ are a bit of a distraction.
While I agree with you that we’ve got to picking up a lot of points in the upcoming batch of games, there are also going to be plenty of “big games” where things are going to be very tight. I’d say there are probably 14-such fixtures this season (Wrexham, Chesterfield, Stockport, Grimsby, Southend, Dagenham & Redbridge and a surprise package), so that’s almost a third of our games. A lot of these teams are going to take points off each other, so it’s going to be fascinating to watch how we fare against them.

Saturday against Aldershot (played 3, lost 3 so far) should tell us a lot about the season ahead, especially as they did the double over us last season.