by hector » 01 Jan 2018, 20:33
I don’t see us getting out of it this time. When the gap was this big two years ago we had a much better team plus the sides who went into freefall who we could catch were the likes of Welling, Kidderminster, Altrincham, Guiseley and Boreham Wood. There’s no one like that this time around.
We can probably assume we won’t catch AFC Fylde, who are now on 35pts (+15).
Below them are:
Woking +14
Hartlepool +13
Gateshead +12
Eastleigh +11
Leyton Orient +11
Barrow +10
I would not like to say which of those would be most vulnerable to us catching them. Hartlepool probably have the worst current form but that will no doubt pick up.
I think Woking, perhaps are the most vulnerable to a dip in form but they are probably too far in front to for us to catch, and we are still one of the worst teams on current form and one of only two in the division who have no win in their last 5 games.
I don’t see Leyton Orient being caught by us, so of the remaining teams, perhaps Gateshead and Barrow are vulnerable but it would take some freakish changes in form for us to get anywhere near them with less than 20 games to go and that’s assuming the other teams in the bottom four do not do any better than us.
Al in all, it’s very unlikely. We are at a disadvantage compared to the situation 2 years ago, where Nicholson managed to build a decent side, who were pulling in the same direction and the crowd and club became united for a while.
That togetherness looks so remote now. The manager has yet to sign a decent player and needs to strike gold with someone if we are to have any chance of turning this around. The whole ‘We’re not rubbish anymore’ seems a bit daft and the unity of the club is difficult to achieve when the ownership are so remote and clearly do not give a toss.
It was bad enough when we used to be struggling at the bottom of League 2; it’s quite another to look at the National League table and see us bottom of that. Just so embarrassing. Will it be any different in the Conference South?
I don’t see us getting out of it this time. When the gap was this big two years ago we had a much better team plus the sides who went into freefall who we could catch were the likes of Welling, Kidderminster, Altrincham, Guiseley and Boreham Wood. There’s no one like that this time around.
We can probably assume we won’t catch AFC Fylde, who are now on 35pts (+15).
Below them are:
Woking +14
Hartlepool +13
Gateshead +12
Eastleigh +11
Leyton Orient +11
Barrow +10
I would not like to say which of those would be most vulnerable to us catching them. Hartlepool probably have the worst current form but that will no doubt pick up.
I think Woking, perhaps are the most vulnerable to a dip in form but they are probably too far in front to for us to catch, and we are still one of the worst teams on current form and one of only two in the division who have no win in their last 5 games.
I don’t see Leyton Orient being caught by us, so of the remaining teams, perhaps Gateshead and Barrow are vulnerable but it would take some freakish changes in form for us to get anywhere near them with less than 20 games to go and that’s assuming the other teams in the bottom four do not do any better than us.
Al in all, it’s very unlikely. We are at a disadvantage compared to the situation 2 years ago, where Nicholson managed to build a decent side, who were pulling in the same direction and the crowd and club became united for a while.
That togetherness looks so remote now. The manager has yet to sign a decent player and needs to strike gold with someone if we are to have any chance of turning this around. The whole ‘We’re not rubbish anymore’ seems a bit daft and the unity of the club is difficult to achieve when the ownership are so remote and clearly do not give a toss.
It was bad enough when we used to be struggling at the bottom of League 2; it’s quite another to look at the National League table and see us bottom of that. Just so embarrassing. Will it be any different in the Conference South?
