Head says no, heart says yes.

Doncaster showed us that we are not ready for league one yet. That does not mean that there is not an opportunity or chance right now that it would be madness to give up on and hand it to Wimbledon, Walsall or Chesterfield. They have hardly tore this league apart and bar Chesterfield their form recently has been no better if not worse than ours. Plus you just never know anything can happen in football especially if the football gods are on our side.

If we get promoted we need to be good enough to stay at that level and be competitive otherwise what’s the point? As others have said Mansfield have struggled and they were a really decent side last season. I fear we could do a Forest Green Rovers with the current squad and that could set the club into reverse as we would likely lose far more games at home than we have done this season. Also there are a string of clubs in the past five years who have fallen straight through league two to the National League after being relegated from League One. Carlisle being the latest victim along with Forest Green Rovers, Southend and Rochdale previously. It would not surprise me either if one of Shrewsbury, Cambridge, Crawley Town or Bristol Rovers end up in a relegation battle next season either.

If however there was investment in our midfield and we added some fire power to our front line along with a sprinkling of physicality and pace we maybe able to hold our own at League One level. Regardless of what league we will be in it’s a big summer ahead recruitment wise whether that’s for survival in league one or automatic promotion and title contenders in league two.