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You can't like the fact that it would help Macc significantly though!!

Serious question.
What do you make of Macc's almost miraculous turnaround?
Oh, and nice one on STUFFING Cambridge. They were some of the most arrogant sods we have come across up here.

On this occasion, I can quite happily put up with it helping Macc altho I don't think you'll need any extra help staying up. You have to hold your hands up and say Ince has done a fantastic job really. Maybe some of your players should ask themselves about their performances before he came, largely the same players are they not.

The most striking thing about your revival is the fact that you're now still 5th from bootm and you couldn't relly have garnered any more points than you have.

Got to say I'm unenthusiastic about who comes down, Torquay, Boston, Accrington - one miles away, the 2 others 2 of the most depressing towns in England that I've been too.

Bury - don't want them to come down as I think it really would kill them.

Wrexham - good as it's local but by Christ they would level conference away grounds/towns for the first 3 months

Macc - come on you know you want to.

Seriously, youo'll have seen these teams, which two are most likely to come down?

Mister Crockett,
- kindly giving me a lift to that play-off match at Kettering in 2005. An extraordinary day!
Here's one of my all-time favourite Alty photographs:
http://kipax.fotopic.net/p14707627.html

I think this ones better.

http://gavin.ukgrrls.co.uk/p14762871.html

Aaaaargh, I was going to search on the old forum for your Gateshead story. GARY, WHERE'S THE LINK TO THE OLD FORUM GONE? Can it not be accessed anymore? Many a good afternoon spent trawling through that?

WHERE IS THE OLD FORUM LINK FFS?
Anyway, the Gateshead story made me laugh so much I actually printed it out. It's in here somewhere, when I've got a bit of time I'll type it out word for word. Class.

Right, Fanfare. It is sullied by the fact that we have to come out at the same time as the oppo. It's not for them, it's for us. IS there seriously no way we can tell the conference to f off on this one and just play it when Alty come out? ALso, why over the course of the last few seaasons have we not always attacked the 'Chequers' end in the first half. Don't say we lose the toss cos I'm pretty certain that all through the 80s we used to shoot that way 1st half 85-90% of the time.

Beamish for a pound a pint

Is it only me that finds myself looking at the table (our end) and running about a million sums and calculations through my head full of "what if" scenarios? Looking at the results last night and our packed and vital March fixture list - a game every Tuesday in the month for starters, what do you think we are looking at points wise?

I think we can beat Cambridge, Grays and definately Stafford at home and if we can scrape a few points on the road I think we could make it to 42-45 points. Is it enough?

No, your not the only one. My tv has page 4/4 of ceefax p326 stuck on it now whatever channel I switch to. I'm extrapolating like mad waiting for the great extrapolator (Flynny) to give us guidance.

Basically, with 4 teams going down the benchmark is 50 points. If you got that and went down you would be unlucky. That's the number of points GH has targeted for.

As such I look at the season in 3 parts

3 games v Burton, Cambridge and Weymouth
3 games v Morecambe (a), Oxford (h), Stevenage (a)
8 more games v GRAYS (actually sandwiched between Ox and Stvnge but anyway) STAFFORDD EXETER StAlbans G&N Dag & Red Tamworth ALDERSHOT.

Going into those 8 games I don't think you want to be chasing any more than 11 pts, as a team that hasn't won 2 on the bounce all season, to win 4 out of 8 would be a bit of an ask, as would W3 D2 L3. So we need 6 or 7 points from the next 6 games. Well being realistic, you would have to say that the away fixtures at More and Stev would yield nothing, the Oxford game maybe a hard fought point at home at best. That's not being defeatist but just as GH says, occassionaly you know there'll be a couple of games where you  have to bite the bullet.

Basically I think to have a chance of staying up we will need 5 or 6 points from the next 3 games (3 of which MUST come against Cambridge or else). Otherwise it really will become tough, you don't want the dogfight to be absolutely sh*t or bust. We could beat Staffs, STAlb, Tam, Cambridge but would still need us to do one thing we have not done this season, beat a decent side at home or win away at someone reasonable. It would seem the best hope for the latter would be to catch Weymuff in some form of disarray (don't know quite what the situation is really).

I also fear Grays wioll fly now they jhave their injured players, most notably Stuart Thurgood back. A point at BUrton is possible altho maybe unlikely.

God knows, we're leaving a bit late anyway.

They prob threw a pound but it was intercepted by a Vics official who let you have 20p of it.

Very droll Gary. 

He's a class act and so probably. He isn't getting any quicker though. Oh and I notice Darran Kempson has fallen down the pecking order at Crewe and ahs just gone to Bury on loan today, wouldn't he have come back to help you out Rich?