petef
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Post by petef on Mar 14, 2021 13:04:07 GMT
For all of our "expert" opinions and rantings its pretty obvious to me that with his many years of experience Garry Johnston can see exactly where the problems are and has been doing all in his power to get things back on track. He has been and will be limited as always by budget and player availability. With the players we have lost to injury it could have been even more of a disaster but I still see a squad committed and up for the challenge despite the quality inevitably dropping off. As I see things we need to concentrate on hanging in there to make the play offs though there's no guarantee we can do that with such a open competition. Maidenhead, our next opponents are also in with a shout in fifteenth place. We need around 25 points or more in our final 18 games I feel to make a play off place. Around 75 points has historically been the figure for the final play off positions. To win the thing now is by no means out of the question but as the weeks pass without an upturn its unlikely. Its not only the physical side that's the problem its also the belief and confidence and continuity that these damaging injuries have caused.
In 2016 GJ won this league with Cheltenham with ease gaining 101 points. Don't doubt the man he knows his job and the recipe for getting out of this division better than any manager out there. Like to think in this strangest of strange "no fan" seasons we will be back on the terraces with some key players back fit and hungry with something to celebrate in a couple of months time.
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rjdgull
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Post by rjdgull on Mar 14, 2021 18:02:45 GMT
Yep, still have confidence in the manager who got us promoted 2 years ago, to the top of this division for 4 months and who has literally done it all many times before.
I would say to win the play off ideally need a top 3 finish and to end the season with form, confidence and most of our injured players back.
Personally have not remotely given up on the title with all those games left and I am sure both Garry and his players haven’t either. Easy to extrapolate recent form to the end of the season but that is the same as extrapolating us to gain well over 100 points at Christmas.
Goals are our problem at the moment which is a mixture of having both players out and lack of confidence but that can change with a couple of wins.
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Rob
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Post by Rob on Mar 14, 2021 18:23:55 GMT
Gary Johnson certainly deserves to continue and try and turn our current form around. I found it bizarre last week that one or two elsewhere were actually questioning whether he should remain at the helm. We were still top while they were saying it as well.
But we are not top now and need to grind out some results until key players return to fitness and full speed for the last 10 or so games. We are presently looking fairly disjointed with the confidence and fluidity of our game having disappeared. And fairly toothless in the final third.
He does need to offload the two loanees that he doesn’t want to select to make room for enforcements, though. As he clearly considers that he has no use for them. And we simply cannot keep going into games without 4 specialist defenders available any longer.
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chelstongull
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Post by chelstongull on Mar 14, 2021 19:47:35 GMT
Which I shared your optimism Robs...
Can’t see us as Champions and getting/staying in the playoffs is no given, seeing as our current form is south of crap!
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Post by tjgull on Mar 14, 2021 21:05:00 GMT
Obviously we are struggling for fit players at the moment and it is desperately hurting our promotion efforts. Every team gets injuries but for some reason, when our players get hurt, it seems they are out for weeks or months at a time- is that about bad luck, poor conditioning or lack of due medical diligence when signing? Answers on a postcard please...
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