Through the seasons before us..

… and we’re not even playing!  But our promotion rivals are, and whilst they’re all playing an ‘extra’ game, it gives Scunny a chance of amassing a ten point lead over us if they can get a win tonight; which on current form certainly doesn’t seem to be above them.  They face a trip to Crewe, who hopefully won’t approach the game in the same way that they did when we visited and annihilated them.

Yeovil can put themselves three points clear of us if they are successful on a tricky trip north to Doncaster, whilst Oldham are at home to Blackpool – and if they can turn around the appalling run they’ve found themselves on, they’d end up one point ahead of us – although if Blackpool can play with as much endeavour and effort as they did at our place recently, it will certainly prove to be a difficult game for the Latics.

If all results fare badly for us, it will leave us in fourth place – with a game in hand over all three teams above us.  Bristol City would remain just below us in fifth, with two games in hand over the top three, and a game in hand over us (and they’re only a point behind us, remember!).  If there were any starker demonstration of the importance of our results, I can’t imagine what it would look like – 2nd – 5th place is incredibly tight, there’s a seven point gap to Scunthorpe currently, and a 5 point gap from 5th to 6th placed Tranmere.

I think I might just not try to keep track of the results – whenever I do that they all seem to be going really well until some late intervention to throw a spanner in the works – so I’ll just check the results later tonight and hope that at least some of them went our way!

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