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So long as we don't go for the black and yellow hoops again on the home shirt. Our last 4 relegations have seen a kit pattern emerge. 2000 and 2008 all white, then 2017 and 2024 we've had yellow and black hoops on the home shirts. However if we're going off time between relegations, we're not due one for another 7 8 or 9 years. I've seen us relegated 92, 00, 08, 17 and 24. Hoping the next inevitable relegation is 9 years from now, from the Championship, or higher and not the dreaded trapdoor.

Shrews and Cambridge yes, I think that equaliser for Reading puts them too far away now.

Cheltenham's game in hand is at home to Peterborough midweek before the last game. However, they have Carlisle Tuesday, we are away at Peterborough Wednesday, so that could be where the swing comes in if results go the way most expect. Our 3 home games are huge, I just hope the next 2 games don't have a big psychological blow on us if we lose them both and results elsewhere go against us. Realistically they're not the games we would target for a points return, but if we lose both that could heap loads of pressure on the home games.

It's a 3 horse race v 2 teams with worse form than us and very little to split us as far as points go. It may not happen, but don't understand where this, "not possible" line is coming from at the moment. We have to play 4 teams on the beach (I'm hoping Cambridge are one of them last game) where we have a good chance of getting 7 or 8 points from them. Personally think that will be enough. But that leaves Bolton, hoping they have one eye on rhe playoffs that game, and Peterborough which is always tough. 1 point from those 2 is a tall order, but not impossible, look at Carlisle they've taken 6 points from them away from home. It won't be easy, far from it, but it's not this miracle some are making out. We deserve to be in the position we're in now, but similarly, if we go down from this position, we'll also deserve to go as we've got a great chance. Would only have ourselves to blame.

I do get why people are so negative, but given the form of Burton and Cheltenham, I don't see why people think it's all over. We've got a massive chance of staying up. It's a 3 horse race for one survival spot, potentially 4 for 2 spots looking at Shrewsbury's run in.

For me the meeting is welcome, but the statement was poor. I wouldn't mind if it was short and sweet and just let fans know dialogue had started and will aim to continue. I wouldn't even mind if it said, fans have been outstanding recently and that support is very much needed in the coming weeks. But to ask fans to stop getting frustrated as it doesn't lift the players...words to that effect, is just asking for a backlash, and that's exactly what it got. A shame really as a positive was turned into a negative by a lazy statement that wasn't very well thought through.

Crosby was in charge v Pompey. We lost to Orient with Ryder.