It's that time of year...

[Colemans Left Hook]

We all know that my "ladbrokes hard thread" produced a double figure return and as you can see we are 6th over the last 6 games.

But what we have all miised is that "The Vikings" are on current form are likely to have a new nickname "The Laundrymen" fairly soon on that form

We have kept clean sheets in 4 out of those matches against non rubbish teams - conceeding 3 goals in the 6 games.

We are currently 13th with 13 matches to play. Only 3 of these are against teams above us
namely decaying Stevenage ( with a very short half life decay rate [Sorry Scawsby if you don't know wott I am on about] .....    Salford and Sutton .


Yes it is USUALLY logical to argue we need to be playing teams above us

but the cunning plan is for these teams to catch the "draw disease " that has infested  Sincil Bank Lincoln all season.   Surely a lot of the teams above us must have a lot of matches to play against each other ?

Bentley Bullet (his dad, Wolfie and his uncle Scawsby Steve) will all of course remember the last disease Lincoln had  in season 1904-05

https://www.familyhistorydiggers.com/post/a-moment-in-time-in-lincoln

So we will be playing 10 teams with nothing to play for.

In Colemans World the 4th to 7th teams are cast in stone to finish in the top 7 and the Champion might be a team currently in 4th to 7th

So that's iit game over you say !   Au contraire mon Ami

Basically the plan involves us winning our next  two games and Stevenage getting no more than 4 points from their next 2 games

that would cut the gap down to eleven points with us to go there  - assuming we beat them  that's 8 points we need to make up. ( yes I am ignoring goal difference)

their next two home games are Walsall and Crewe at home

then they have

Carlisle   AWAY
Salford  HOME
Northampton AWAY

and of course easier matches after that


https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/stevenage/fixtures-results

they lost 2-0 (note not 1-0) to Rochdale yesterday and mid-week were 2-0 down to now out of form Wimbledon before winning away. made 4 changes in the 2nd half and he probably  threw that many cups of tea against the wall at half time.

As you can see they are 22nd out of 24 over the last 6 games   won 1 -- drawn 1 -- lost 4
So that's my cunning plan to get  newly named "Laundrymen " into the play-offs

that being the only way we can make it.

We've already played Sutton twice.

That "Stevenage being the weakest link" theory has quickly gone in the bin ( I won't mention someone's ACCA - having take off problems  )and the fat lady was getting ready to perform the last rites on our promotion chances at Crewe on Friday night when Saltford Lake City took the lead in the 85th minute.

Don't ask me how The Railway men managed to become their bogie team and beat them.

So with us visiting their paddy field on Saturday we still have a micro-chance of the play offs . They have an exceptionally fast right winger - who hopefully will be slowed down by the pitch.

As I highlighted a while ago Stevenage also have to play Salford which hopefully ( in my dreams you say) will be of significance to us.

I thought i would check out the "pedigree chum of this exceptionally fast winger -after he scored two goals aginst us today.


https://salfordcityfc.co.uk/players/luke-bolton/

Luke Bolton (Midfielder) | Salford City Football Club
Salford City FC
https://salfordcityfc.co.uk › players › luke-bolton
bolton salford winger from salfordcityfc.co.uk
Pacy winger Luke Bolton signed a two-and-a-half year deal with The Ammies in January 2022 after leaving Manchester City's academy, where he came through

Well I did say he was exceptionally fast not fast   - it seems he read my my complement and was inspired to score 2 gioals agianst us to add to the 4 goals he had scored in 58 matches for Salford grrrrrrrh!!  sorry about that folks 

[Colemans Left Hook]

We all know that my "ladbrokes hard thread" produced a double figure return and as you can see we are 6th over the last 6 games.

But what we have all miised is that "The Vikings" are on current form are likely to have a new nickname "The Laundrymen" fairly soon on that form

We have kept clean sheets in 4 out of those matches against non rubbish teams - conceeding 3 goals in the 6 games.

We are currently 13th with 13 matches to play. Only 3 of these are against teams above us
namely decaying Stevenage ( with a very short half life decay rate [Sorry Scawsby if you don't know wott I am on about] .....    Salford and Sutton .


Yes it is USUALLY logical to argue we need to be playing teams above us

but the cunning plan is for these teams to catch the "draw disease " that has infested  Sincil Bank Lincoln all season.   Surely a lot of the teams above us must have a lot of matches to play against each other ?

Bentley Bullet (his dad, Wolfie and his uncle Scawsby Steve) will all of course remember the last disease Lincoln had  in season 1904-05

https://www.familyhistorydiggers.com/post/a-moment-in-time-in-lincoln

So we will be playing 10 teams with nothing to play for.

In Colemans World the 4th to 7th teams are cast in stone to finish in the top 7 and the Champion might be a team currently in 4th to 7th

So that's iit game over you say !   Au contraire mon Ami

Basically the plan involves us winning our next  two games and Stevenage getting no more than 4 points from their next 2 games

that would cut the gap down to eleven points with us to go there  - assuming we beat them  that's 8 points we need to make up. ( yes I am ignoring goal difference)

their next two home games are Walsall and Crewe at home

then they have

Carlisle   AWAY
Salford  HOME
Northampton AWAY

and of course easier matches after that


https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/stevenage/fixtures-results

they lost 2-0 (note not 1-0) to Rochdale yesterday and mid-week were 2-0 down to now out of form Wimbledon before winning away. made 4 changes in the 2nd half and he probably  threw that many cups of tea against the wall at half time.

As you can see they are 22nd out of 24 over the last 6 games   won 1 -- drawn 1 -- lost 4
So that's my cunning plan to get  newly named "Laundrymen " into the play-offs

that being the only way we can make it.

you can see on March 5th after that very good draw  O-O away at Stockport  i targetted Stevenage Not Mansfield -- ( Mansfield's 4 games left include Stevenage and Leyton Orient - both at home for what it is worth) 

Stevenage really tried their best to contribute to my Cunning plan for Rovers to make the play offs

as their stuttering form including losing at Rochdale contiued .

starting with  the predicted easy home win over Harrrogate to date we have won one drawn 2 and lost 6 of the  following 9 matches taking  5 points out a possible 27 

we are now 21 points behind Stevenage  and

still ONLY 14 points behind Mansfield

does anyone remember when they said we were the better team away at Mansfield when we lost 4-1 ??

to repeat out of those 9 games we are 1-2-6 for 5 points out of 27

let's say our results over those 9 games were

5-2-2-  =17 points   (  4-5-1 also yields 17 points) 

the difference between my mythical 17 points and our actual 5 points is 12 points   so

for Stevenage we would now be not the actual 21 but 21 less 12 = 9 points behind before Tuesdays match

and regarding Mansfield we would now not be actual 14 points but 14 less 12 points which is a mere 2 points behind Mansfield

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looking at it another way

if we had beaten Harrogate home = 3 points more
Crawley if we had won  = 2 points more
Crewe   if we had won  = 3 points more
Grimsby  if we had won  = 3 points more
Harrogate  if we had won  = 2 points more

I am letting the other results  (3 defeats to Salford - Northampton and Gillingham -  "stand"    and if we had won those five easy matches (yes the Grimsby was a bit harder than the other 4)

then we would have had 13 more points

which is one more point than the first example  gave us


in this second example was I really asking that much from our results  ???


if -if and if you say

[Colemans Left Hook]

of i forgot to mention about all the drawn matches I said would happen when the top echelon met

this is the form table for the last 10 matches not 9

Bradford 5 draws 3 matches 0-0
Orient   5 including 4 in a row
Mansfield 5 draws


Stevenages record over the last 10 is better than I thought 4-4-2
but they had already lost a few after losing in the facup at Stoke

[Campsall rover]

CLH what on earth is all that about. 

Well your posts are more interesting than listening to DS’s post match interviews and probably make more sense than DS’s way of setting up the team.      

[Colemans Left Hook]

CLH what on earth is all that about. 

Well your posts are more interesting than listening to DS’s post match interviews and probably make more sense than DS’s way of setting up the team.      

Ok Camps I realise you are the founder member of this "set" and I claim my £5

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65293430

why don't you try reading my post from a different angle 

[normal rules]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

[dickos1]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

He seems to have improved Barlow beyond comprehension.

[ravenrover]

Or was the ability always there and is now showing by being played in the approprate position?

[Dare to dream!]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

He seems to have improved Barlow beyond comprehension.

1 players out of 11.

Good going.

[Filo]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

He seems to have improved Barlow beyond comprehension.

Rather the injury crisis has forced his hand, no manager has given him a chance or run of games, theres always been a player in there given a chance

[Campsall rover]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

He seems to have improved Barlow beyond comprehension.

And made all the others worse.   
Barlow having 45 mins looking like a player is some major achievement from DS then is it?

What has he done to Kyle Hurst. Probably the most gifted player we have. He is now a shadow of what he was earlier in the season.
Confidence has been destroyed. Brilliant. 

Dickos not sure what your agenda is but you are desperately trying to find some positives from DS’s tenure as Head Coach.
The fact is there are none whatsoever of any meaningful significance.

We are a worse team now than what we were before he arrived. We were marginally better for a short while but have failed to show any improvement game by game.
The football is turgid and the results are and have been bottom 2 for 2 around months.  6 points from 12 games.

Any Chairman worth his salt would have sacked him well before now.  The fact that he is still in this job is extremely concerning. It wouldn’t have been the case at any other EFL club. Not one.

[ravenrover]

Camps why can't you express your opinion without having a pop at Dickos? If he annoys you that much put him on ignore

[dickos1]

Last 12 games.
6 pts out of a possible 36.
Thats 0.5 ppg.
Which equates to a mere 23 point season.
Certain relegation material.
I can’t see that much changing next season.
DS would make Ronaldo look average.

He seems to have improved Barlow beyond comprehension.

And made all the others worse.   
Barlow having 45 mins looking like a player is some major achievement from DS then is it?

What has he done to Kyle Hurst. Probably the most gifted player we have. He is now a shadow of what he was earlier in the season.
Confidence has been destroyed. Brilliant. 

Dickos not sure what your agenda is but you are desperately trying to find some positives from DS’s tenure as Head Coach.
The fact is there are none whatsoever of any meaningful significance.

We are a worse team now than what we were before he arrived. We were marginally better for a short while but have failed to show any improvement game by game.
The football is turgid and the results are and have been bottom 2 for 2 around months.  6 points from 12 games.

Any Chairman worth his salt would have sacked him well before now.  The fact that he is still in this job is extremely concerning. It wouldn’t have been the case at any other EFL club. Not one.

45 mins?
He’s been our best player in the last 3 games!
Seaman looks better under him, biggins was playing better under him, Maxwell was playing better under him,