Quote Originally Posted by the_anticlough View Post
For the next couple of days, I'd rather focus on the play-offs than the outside shot at autos. Let's get a win first and see where it puts us.

By 5pm Monday, we could have sealed a play-off berth effectively.

A win would mean that Swindon, Crewe, Salford, Grimsby and Chesterfield couldn't catch us (If C'field fail to beat Bradford and Grimsby lose at Port Vale)
But I guess we'll take our chances and back Chesterfield to beat Bradford. If we can't get 4pts from the last 3 games, we wouldn't deserve to get in anyway.
A team needs to win half it's games if wants to get automatic promotion. The exception to this in the last ten years was Bury who won 22, drew 13 and lost 11.

We can only win a maximum of 22 games so automatics are an outside chance. But still a chance.

A win today needs to be more about keeping Colchester and Grimsby below us and getting a step closer to securing that playoff place as you say. The one advantage we have over those two is our goal difference which is worth an extra point but it's sailing very close to the wind to rely on that.

If anything we could do with increasing our goal difference by about five to get in front of Walsall and Wimbledon's goal difference as they are on +21 and +23 respectively whereas we are on +19.