As things stand we are in grave danger of finishing not 21st but 22nd at best. Other teams around us are getting results, and as has been intimated elsewhere on this thread we have a distressing habit of not getting points against sides at our end of the table. We have an enduring, touching faith in trying to play football in areas of the field where the watchword should be to 'get rid', no midfield to speak of (oh, for a ball-winner/frightener/'combative' player in that department) & an attack which tries to live off scraps of possession. Of the players currently available to us (discounting loanees) I personally would struggle to think of three who would in my view be likely to be taken on by any other Conference National club. All that said, I would have thought that changing the manager would at this point in time make no difference, as no significant changes in playing personnel can be anticipated - 'emergency loans', joke though that name is, are the only official recruitment avenue available (other, I presume, than players without a club of any kind at this time). Up to last night I had believed we could draw every game up to & including Halifax & still survive by defeating Southport, Kiddy, Bromley & Welling & hoping for a point or two from the other April games. The pessimist in me is now making remarks about cloud cuckoo land & I can't really argue with that. I shall travel to the end of the longest cul-de-sac in the country on Saturday in pious hope - with at least the prospect of a catch-up with a former work colleague over morning coffee en route to sustain me - rather than expectation, but will try at least not to lose that hope.