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Down to the last 15 games now, its gonna be very tight imho, I reckon if we win 9 of those 15, we will win promotion.aint gonna be easy, by any stretch, but its do-able. what do others think? on paper our last 7 are very tough.

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I guess it’s getting near ‘twitchy bum’ time.

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dont believe in crap like that mate, i know what i'm watching and we got a damn good shot at this.:)

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85 points secures promotion
Win 8 draw 4 lose 3.
Same for everybody else though.
All about who copes with the pressure.

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Promotion is as much ours to lose as to win. It is too tight to call yet, we still have a game in hand. It is up to us all to do our bit. The players, the management, The fans. Together we can drag us over the line.

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Confidence is the key to me and we looked full of it yesterday in front of the huge library attendance and we as fans played our part superbly if we repeat it till the season end we will carry everyone over the line.

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Really would like to see(hear)the Ultras back to their loud and proud best.... :)

The noise that used to roar out from the Clayton End, was part of our success in recent years :)

:) :) :)

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The last 7 matches will certainly sort the men from the boys.
I think yesterday proved that the bigger they come - the harder they fall!
Strangely, it's the games against the desperate that I fear most - Crewe, Barnet, FGR, Morecambe etc.
These are the games that will decide our fate.
We should fear no one in the top 7 - they fear us!

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I am of the opinion Yer Lordship. anyone can beat anyone on the day in Div 2,look how Crawley have improved from relegation candidates to play off candidates.:)

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Not least because of their current manager. How desperate does a club have to be to appoint him?

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Taking of singing, I have really enjoyed hearing "Cart On Stanley" on the tannoy recently. Any chance of the Ultras making it into a chant?

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Sod that get we will blow him away with our confidence now imho.

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If they'd waited till today they could've had Russell Slade - just been sacked by Grimsby

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I’d say we are 90% sure to go up. Only Wycombe are improving like we are. Notts Co, Swindon, Cov, Exeter are not good or consistent enough. Only Mansfield is a threat.

It’s going to finish thus:
Luton
Stanley
Wycombe
Mansfield
Exeter

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You can get odds of 10/13 at the moment on Stanley being promoted. That’s pretty generous I’d say.

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I genuinely believe it’s Accis time.
We’ve experienced the pressure before and this will help.
Only Luton have shown any real challenge to us and they seem to be wobbling.
We have a good blend of youth and experience,coupled with strength in depth should see us over the line KTF

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Tuesday night sees Wycombe v Swindon + Luton v Crawley.
It's absolutely vital we get another 3 points against Crewe.
People of Accrington, the destiny of your club is in your hands.
Now is the time we need your support.
To the loyal brigade - bring your Grandad, bring your Mother, bring your Grandkids, bring your brother.
PLEASE! If you love football - make the difference.

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Sorry mate i have no-one lives local, or i would drag em by scruff of the neck.

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Cashy! This calls for desperate measures.
Just grab anyone by the scruff of the neck & march em to the ground.

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As you say Cashy, anybody can beat anybody on a given day but the way the lads are playing, full of confidence, supporting each other and strength all over the field with a never give up attitude, I think this is truly their/our year. As long as management can keep them on their toes I think we could even overcome the "Kettle"
I'm making this assumption from all the reports on here and how can it be wrong with all that knowledge. Roll on Tuesday.

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still a long way to go yet. every dog has its day and our stanley dog given equal luck and bounce of the ball can do it this season. couldn,t care less where we finish as long as its above 4th.

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Notts County just gone 1 down at Cambridge, lets hope this continues.

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Crwho 0-0 Exeter at the mo

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Crewe just scored in the 88th, cambridge have beaten notts county - two good results against our rivals at the top of the league

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Spoke too soon - 1-1 exeter equalised

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Exeter equalise in injury time, but no big deal.:) Jeez Exeter now won 2-1

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Even with that win Exeter are still 7 points behind us, the Notts County loss is brilliant for us -hope it doesn't give Cambridge confidence for Saturday though :rolleyes:

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Hope not, but they got a decent Home record, aways crap, lets hope it continues.;)

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Why be remotely interested in anyone else ?
13 games. 7 at home. 23 points needed.
If we don't get over the line ..........

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Doesn't do any harm to keep one eye on what's going on around us though . . . . . .

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Disagree. Focus on what you can do .... not what might happen.

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Ah, but you see I'm female & so can do both (aka multi-tasking) :)

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This very fair Stevenage blog reckons that we'll have our 'moment in the sun':
Accrington Stanley: Remember Them? ? BoroGuide

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Can't see us matching Wycombe and Mansfield.
Can see 85+ needed.
Hopefully keep in playoffs. Amazing achievement if we do.

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[QUOTE=Inspector Morse;
Hopefully keep in playoffs. Amazing achievement if we do.[/QUOTE]

think if we miss out on automatic promotion from where we are now i think fans and everyone at stanley will be dissapointed. second prize in a raffle comes to mind.

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Couldnt agree more Monkey Hanger.

Play offs would still be amazing, and it would keep alive my dreams of attending a game at Wembley (wont go until Stanley do), but it would be a consolation prize and I would have no confidence in winning the semi final.

However, for the sake of continuing club growth a Wembley trip would infinitely more beneficial than autos. Clubs like Luton, Wycombe and Mansfailed know that they can attract 10 to 20 thpusand extra fans on occasion, but we dont and never have. Certain events this season have helped to put us into the minds of the public and a big game would give them the motive to come and look. In the past we've failed to capitalise on the extra 2000 day trippers, but I think we could this time out

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A fair minded Stevenage fan - who'd have thought?? Be telling us next that even the odd Burton fan can be reasonable :rolleyes:

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That's a very depressing retort Morse.
If we beat them both ?

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Erm, you were saying....? :rolleyes:

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Time for positivity. That's all I'm saying. 13 games to go and a fan writing us off ?

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I say you chaps!
Who'd want to be a Stanley supporter at the moment????
Automatic promotion - possible!
Place in the play-offs - probable!
Mid-table obscurity - unlikely!
Relegation - impossible!
After the heartache of our previous play-off encounters, we'd all be nervous if we failed to achieve the first option.
But the mere thought of our unfashionable little team of perennial over-achievers walking out onto the hallowed Wembley turf????
'Blenkinsop, pass the smelling salts!'
If that glorious day were to dawn, who'd want to be a Stanley fan then?
Half of England!
Nay! The World!

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Well for what it's worth Morse old chap, here are my predictions-
LUTON 98 pts
Wycombe 88 pts
Stanley 86 pts
Notts 85 pts
Exeter 85 pts

It's going to be tough but nothing worthwhile comes easy, the lads have to give every last ounce and the fans have to be the 12th man every game. I BELIEVE in them.

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Don't forget Mansfield.

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'Time for positivity. That's all I'm saying. 13 games to go and a fan writing us off ?'

I'm not writing us off I just think automatics is a tall order. I never anticipated the run-in we had two years ago so I'm happy to be proved wrong. To err is human.

I still think it'll be a fantastic achievement to make the play-offs.

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http://sports.williamhill.com/bet/en...Promotion.html

Stanley 4/6 On for automatic spot third favourites

In reality its the classic one game at at time scenario

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I didn't forget Mansfield or Swindon, I have them at 82 points.

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I didn't forget Mansfield or Swindon, I have them at 82 points.

Fair doos. I think Mansfield are nailed on for 2nd.

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Just bumping the thread to observe that we can't be relegated - neither Barnet nor Chesterfield can catch us now :D

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we have yeovil and forest green to play who are still not safe from relagation and apart from colchester the rest are involved in play offs or automatic promotion. not the perfect run in but its up to coley and the players to get us over the line. all we can do is turn up and give as much vocal support as we can.

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Clean sheets will see us over the line !!!

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'Final Run In'.......?:idunno:
We are nowhere near that yet!:pph34r:
Wait for the last 3 or 4 matches for that.
For now, we need to just take matches ONE at a time...... striving to earn THREE POINTS every match!:jimbo::jimbo::jimbo:
Winning superbly by four goals or winning 'Ugly' by one goal.....either will do! :theband:

ON STANLEY ON :theband:
COME ON THE REDS :theband:
:mosher::mosher::mosher:

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Time for a revisit.
Anyone changed their mind ?
Come on Morse time for positivity surely ?

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If thats amazing, what do yeh call Automatic? i think yer gonna be proved wrong.

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Other teams are feeling the pressure,we have the depth in our squad to keep our players focused- simple-we going up !!!!

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Our lads are playing right until the final whistle these days, that will make all the difference imho

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Just a little interesting fact - our current points total would have been enough in each of the last 6 seasons to get us in the playoffs. Just 14 more would also make it true for the automatics as well.

Can see the totals for each being little higher though this time round.

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Cashy,if you watch their equaliser,SM took a decent corner and they broke at pace,and as they put the ball in the net,SM nearly got a tackle in.
When you have lads prepared to sprint 100 yards for your team,you’ll not go far wrong!!!,outstanding effort,and not a bad first goal from him either:)

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'f thats amazing, what do yeh call Automatic? i think yer gonna be proved wrong.'

More than happy to be proved wrong tho we haven't achieved anything yet.

Still think play-offs would be an amazing achievement but from where we are now I think we all know the deal.

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True but from what ive seen this season i cannot see us ballsing this up.;)

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'Time for a revisit.
Anyone changed their mind ?
Come on Morse time for positivity surely ?'

Yes. I think we can do it.

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Yesterday was a great result but as JC said all we did was win 1 game and with 10 games still to go we shouldn't start thinking that we have as good as made it to League 1.
I am a pessimist but I am quietly hopeful.

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We have the toughest run in but none tougher than yesterday. 10 games to go, any of the top six who get 20 points from those games will go up. C'mon Stanley.

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We just need to focus on next Saturday v Forest Green Rovers.......
Bring as many friends and relations as possible and .......:thankya::jimbo::pblink::smokin::icon_hump: :smack::arty::joint::mar::silly::gorgeous::sonic:
MAKE THE MOST NOISE EVER MADE IN ACCRINGTON......:theband::s_gupjump:wave8::horn8:
and do our utmost in order to help the team earn THREE MORE POINTS.:mosher::mosher::mosher:

ON STANLEY ON:jimbo::theband::alright:

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There's nowt we like more
than watching Mark Hughes
cause we never think
that were going to lose
with Hughes'y
we all love watching Mark Hughes. Singing the Blues. Tommy Steel or Dave Edmonds

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Both Hughes and Dunne cleared off the line on sat with great clearances, these lads kept us alive yet little mention, as someone said, plenty of unsung heroes in our lads also.;)

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The run in might suit us.

Firstly, win a game against a rival and it's a massive blow to them. If we played, say Notts Co tomorrow and beat them they would surely be out of it.

Secondly, if we lost to one of our rivals then you can shrug it off on the basis of "you can't win them all" and move on to the next big match.

Thirdly, are any of our rivals actually that good? Luton are still the only team I've seen who have stood out. The rest aren't much better than mid table teams are they?

Nowt worse than starting to struggle against some really mediocre teams and losing confidence.

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It was home draws against average and mediocre sides in the latter months that cost us promotion 2 years ago, along with the party before the game on the final day which led to a nervous and fairly quite atmosphere in the ground with few attacks until the end of the game.

I think the pitch took some of the blame for dropping points at home and it was immediately rectified that summer.

According to the bookies we are 1/7 for promotion which is 80% certain taking out their margin, but we were about 1/3 before High Wycombe and about 1/6 on the last day in 2016.

Next up Mansfield away to Notts C, and the stags are home to Stanley and away to Luton in the next four with Flitcroft currently showing his Bury form.

Notts have Stanley and Wycombe soon as well as the stags, last game home to the Hatters. I think these two Notts sides have the worst run ins, with Luton and Wycombe being sightly better of than Stanley, with the last 3 going up.

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Think 80% is wrong, i'd say 85%.:D

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Coventry have a nice run in. Dark horses for third automatic. Might change my mind after tonight.

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Well, our momentum might take a blow now - piggin Yeovil game postponed till 17th April cos of their international call ups - flamin joke or what!?!

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I certainly hope not:eek: things are always the hard way for us, but we shall overcome. At least all our lads should be fit and not injured hopefully.

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Wonder if Somerset finds this postponement "disgusting"? :rolleyes:

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It's like the ref playing advantage & then changing his mind & dragging play back . . . . . so frustrating!

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Dont worry, be happy, i certainly am whatever happens, season for me has been magnificent.;)

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Good start Coventry 1-0.

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It will cost Stanley a few quid losing an international weekend game and playing it on a Tuesday, bound to lose top spot too.

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Why bound to lose top spot? Luton 2 down at half time, we keep winning and they keep losing. yeh never know. they are at newport sat.

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What a load of ...........

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It’s no big deal. Gives Billy a week off in order to shake off that debilitating fatigue of his.

Also, can’t beat an evening game in my opinion.

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Also, can’t beat an evening game in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

you might like evening games and so do i but plenty do not for one reason or another. the gate will be down about 500 for the rearanged game. this international break really bugs me unless you have half a team missing. what do clubs have squads for. can we cancel a game if one of our players gets injured.

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How is it not a big deal, the timing couldn't be worse - the momentum we could've gained with two home games in a row could be crucial, a week's break is not only unwelcome it's a damned nuisance.
And yes, I like our evening games too but not at the expense of a weekend without a match

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Why not ask Newport if we can switch the re-arranged game to that blank sat? surely worth asking?

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It's not a blank Saturday for Newport though Cashy, they're at home to Crewe

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Ah ok fair enough Di.;)

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Evening matches will never compete with a traditional Saturday afternoon match.
For those who work all day, evening games can be a real pain.
It's all too easy to give it a miss if your tired, or the weather is foul.
Likewise, not many parents will allow their school-age kids to attend a game that ends after 9.30pm - Saturday no problem!
But the biggest difference is that the attendance by away supporters is massively affected.
You've got to be a fanatical fan to travel from Yeovil to Accrington for a Tuesday night game.
All considered - lower gate + poor kiosk sales = a very big deal indeed!

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Also quite a few local bus services do not run in the evenings, i know a few owd lads that dont come cos of that fact, but i dont think its a big deal regarding our chances of promotion? The noise the Ultras make discount that for me.:)

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Ok, I can see it’s not ideal for some, just a personal preference really. Makes the Wham feel like the Nou Camp when them lights are dazzling.

With any luck Yeovil will be the game we get promoted. That should hopefully get some of the waivers out.

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You think 8 points from the last 9 games will do it L.D. I don't think 82 will do it. We have to get 3 points next week against Yeovil because the last 7 games are all tough. I have us getting 12 points from the last 8 which will give us 88 points which should keep us top, will certainly in the top 3.

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Erm..... I think it is impossible for us to get three points next week against Yeovil. :hidewall:

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Yeovil next week is postponed mate.;)

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Do you think both Notts Co and Wycombe will average 2pts a game until the end of the season? I don’t. That’s why I think 8 points is enough.

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Cheers Cash, whenever we play Yeovil??? ------Pardon me choirboy for not being up to date.

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I don't think Wycombe will but I think Luton and Notts will.

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you are not the only one either. quite a few around me thought we played yeovil next saturday. serves em right for not being on here.

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Coventry will finish third.

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Really hope so!
Already looking forward to another day-out at the Ricoh next season.

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just looked at their run in. they have to go to notts county, play morecambe last game of the season but the rest of their fixtures are against mid table sides. your prediction may be right but hope its not stanley who will suffer from it.

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STOP doing all these sums !!!:rolleyes:
I am just content to consider one number....the number THREE!!!
.......THREE points gained in the 'NEXT MATCH' is as far as I am looking!:mosher:

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One sum that cannot be argued with. IF we gain another 17 points, then neither Notts County or Wycombe can catch us. So over the next 9 games that s the teams target.

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Just worked it out :o

:) :) :)