A4E - thanks, that’s useful, I hadn’t bothered to trace through other people’s run in. Hope you are right.

We shot ourselves in the foot yet again.

Sav - Doncaster still have to play Walsall, us, Bradford, Colchester, and Notts County - Walsall still have to play Doncaster, Port Vale, and Crewe - Bradford still have to play Port Vale, Crewe, Notts County, and Doncaster - Port Vale still have to play Bradford, Walsall, us, and Grimsby - Notts County still have to play Bradford and Doncaster - and Grimsby still have to play Crewe, Port Vale, and us…. There’s so much points jeopardy amongst all of that, I reckon it’s still wide open….

Autos feels practically impossible now as would probably need what, five wins from seven? including Port Vale and Doncaster. In last week or so I’ve gone from thinking last two games of season would still be about automatic places, to fearing we will need to win them both just for playoffs.

nearly everyone OI it still leaves it in our hands

Mega-evening next Tuesday as we have on paper the easier match; at the same time Vale play Bradford and Donny play Walsall. The top 6 table will have changed again by the end of the evening

Need to really really go for it on Tuesday and again on Saturday… Six points there for the taking if we are serious about making a go of it - we’d be on 71 with 5 games still to go, very doable 🤞

OK result, but shame we never have John-joe on the bench to come on and see games through.

I expect it's very unusual that a team always wins when going ahead. We have 16 times out of 20 this season which feels like our best stat ever.

How many people are sufficiently hard core to want Notts County to beat Franchise on Wednesday?

Very true nick - I’d have taken a draw before the game started if offered…. 😬 Our next 2 games should be winnable, meanwhile teams like Walsall, Doncaster, Port Vale etc are all playing one another - things might look quite different this time next week… 🤪

Silly mistake to concede a free kick in a dangerous position so near to the end of the game. Pretty much unstoppable execution of the free kick. Thought Johnson was brilliant today and the keeper was lucky to get away with not collecting the ball three times and we could have conceded each time. Shows that we are doing something right when we are so pissed off at not beating the league leaders in their own back yard.

Re play-offs last time a couple of exciting matches then a fun day out at Wembley, so worth gunning for that again. But frankly if we did go up, there is no reason why it won't be as dire as last time - no money to invest which will be a requirement to stay up, and no cojones to replace the manager who'll have reached his level. We had that opportunity nearly a decade ago.

TBK - Been a don since 1953, sadly no longer able to attend games, but as passionate about our team as ever. Getting a distinct feeling of deja vu at the arse end of matches these days. Can't put that many points chucked away in the last few minutes as pure coincidence. I'll just say this. If we'd been pressing at their end, they wouldn't have been pressing at ours.

I doubt any teams in the playoffs will fear us either Silk. In fact any team that goes into the playoffs fearing others won't win them.

Silk- if it makes you feel better not to see this as points dropped that’s up to you- obviously it’s a matter of individual opinion, I have my view and you have yours

As always, the only time you need to be third or higher is after the Grimsby game.

When I saw that they had equalised, I assumed we’d go on to lose, but we didn’t…. A point away there isn’t bad, but the 8 points dropped late against Newport (H), Colchester (A), Barrow (H), and Walsall (A) are costing us - we’d be 2 points clear at the top. However, there are more twists and turns to come, I feel…. 👀😯

but not

Pete, I think our stats are better than most but but better than Walsall and Bradford etc.

Nick - it is totally relevant how you concede the goals. Sometimes it is bad luck, sometimes a bad call against you and sometimes bad play.

Still 21pts to play for. We won't get the autos now though, but playoffs look likely

Not defending a lead = you had a lead and at the end of the game you don’t win- how the goal(s) were conceded to give away the lead is totally irrelevant

A point away to top of the table? Nothing disappointing about that - that was last week

I think a free kick going straight in does not constitute not defending a lead. A lot of over-reaction here. Two point off the autos and seven (eight if you count GD) of 8th place.