Fair enough, can’t argue with that.
I have just noticed Bradford kick off at 12.30 on Saturday, so it is possible we could be off the top by the time we kick off.
Like most, I’m not fussed if we finish top, but it must give things a slightly different dynamic.
In case you missed it.
It could go either way ,it might be a weight of their shoulders and relieve the pressure
I’ll be happy with any of the top 3.
Bradford have to play both Vale and Doncaster plus some other decent teams on the run in, so there’s still the chance for us to make it as top.
But really we need some points rapid, preferably with a home win Saturday, won’t be there myself as I’ll be in Scotland, keeping an eye on things, but I’ll be at the Donny and Vale games.
If we can eek out a win against Wimbledon then get a point against Doncaster everything could look a lot rosier ,then beat Vale we would almost be done ,hard to see at the moment but who knows
Yes, he could be and he had his favourites. He didn’t do too badly though 
That’s the mad thing about all of this.
Two wins in these 3 games, against the odds (given present form) and we are basically there. Everything is lovely, we forget the slump ever happened, and well done Matt, Trivela and team (if we get promoted).
It’s the reason I’m still thinking we will do it to be honest, it’s just unfathomable that we go half a season with relegation form, after half a season of domination. It would be just a statistical anomaly the likes that’s never been seen before - and the result of what’s been discussed a lot over the last few weeks (style of football, rotations, January window, no plan B etc.).
As @P.T rightly said, time to go into Saturday positive (which is very hard given the context and the nerves); but I’ll be very upset if we lose; but also a sense of massive relief if we win.
I don’t think we’ve a choice mate.
The players need to feed off us and vice versa. It’s a shame fan groups don’t get much of a look in these days as this would be a good game to do one of those red balloon/wear red days that we used to do.
The most stubborn recent manager was Matty Taylor. He played a system that never worked and that he didn’t have the players for.
The least stubborn was Paul Merson, he kept making random changes hoping something would work.
We need a manager who knows when to stick to his plan, and when to change it.
MEMS Priestfield Stadium is never an easy place to go so a point and a clean sheet in isolation is not the worst result in the world and I thought there were reasons for optimism in the performance and we were the better side, it’s a game 3 months ago we would have won with a similar performance but that’s just the cards are falling for us at the moment that we couldn’t find the goal we needed.
For me in the bigger perspective it will be our home form that will be key to whether we cap off this quite superb season to date with promotion. A win and a few draws on the road will be a bonus and add to the tally but getting back to winning ways at home, and returning the fortress status of Bescot is imperative.
He was a journeyman left sided midfielder, signed on loan from Derby. I know who he is because a few weeks ago I saw his name and thought “who the heck was he?” and looked him up.
Not only did I see him play but I even saw him get sent off, against PNE in a game that we won (and wins were rare).
Despite that, I have no memory of him, good or bad. He made no impression on me at all, and nor on you, it appears. 
It doesn’t matter where we go teams won’t roll over but the fact they recently beat Bradford shows that they aren’t an easy side to overcome as you quite rightly point out.
I was frustrated that we had a couple of golden opportunities to win it especially the first chance that fell to jamma when he seemed to get tangled up in his own feet but for me it was one of those games where we came up against a goalkeeper who was in inspired form so all in all it’s another point away from home but we seriously need to sort out our home form which has been falling away recently.
As bad as we’ve been recently, these other teams are just the same. Watch their games/highlights, watch their vlogs and read their forums. Its like a cut and paste job from here most of it. Wimbledon last Saturday…“subs made us worse…no game management…players running on fumes… etc etc” Notts County “why won’t he change his style when its not working…no cutting edge…posession means nothing at this level…etc etc”. Vale wanting the manager gone regularly throughout the season.
All of that to me, actually makes it more frustrating. These teams are crap, and the only reason we’ve been dragged into a scrap with them is because of Sadler’s bone-headed stubborness to not use the resources at his disposal to keep things fresh and positive.
Imagine if Asiimwe had been rotated with Barrett?? Not just with starts but with sensible in-game changes. Imagine bringing a fresh one of them on - either one - with 20 minutes to go against a tiring opposition? Ditto the midfield signings, ditto again 20-25 minutes for DJ and Wheatley instead of flogging the knackers off Matt.
Its been rubbish management, doubly so bearing in mind the type of energy sapping style we deploy, and I would be amazed if he changes. You just know that when Josh Gordon is fit he’ll be back in, it doesn’t matter if Asiimwe is brilliant again next Saturday, he’ll be back to flogging Barrett for 98 minutes the week after, McEntee is more likely to get midfield minutes than Chang or Lipsuic, yet alone Comley, and Unc will play up-front long before any of the actual strikers.
I had this realisation yesterday 
He’s going to come straight back in isn’t he?
In my worst nightmares, just in time to fire blanks against the likes of flip-flop wearing Harrogate and Accrington. 
Not necessarily.
I am sure that Sadler sees Josh Gordon as one of his best options, but he generally does not bring back players who have had long injury lay-offs, straight back into the first eleven.
When JG returned from a long injury break in January, he was on the bench for the first four matches, even though Lowe had left. Oisin McEntee had five unused sub games, followed by five sub appearances before he returned to starting every match.
Desperation makes people do strange things!
I think that the main reason Sadler is slow to put players who have recovered from injuries back into the side, is his dislike of making changes.
Perhaps he really believes what he says in his post-match interviews.
Win, lose or draw, Sadler nearly always tells us that the team he sent out has played well; if they happen to have lost a close match it was through misfortune. If the team has played well - why make unnecessary changes?
If they have lost badly, then it was out of character for those players, not like them at all - and he is confident that it was a one-off; so no need for unnecessary changes.
Will be interesting again what we does for next week in terms of team selection
He mentioned that Hall, Farquharson and Daniels are extremely close, then we have the five coming back from international duty.
Simkin
Asiimwe - (Two of McEntee/Williams/Okagbue) - Allen - Gordon
Jellis - Stirk - Lakin
Matt - ?
Question marks on who he’ll start upfront with Matt. More than likely to be Adomah, people will want Johnson, Amantchi and Wheatley could also start.
Two of McEntee/Okagbue/Williams. Sadler heaped praise on McEntee at the weekend, so I’d be very surprised if he didn’t continue at RCB.
Midfield three pretty much picks itself, but Chang now gives us a forward thinking midfield option off the bench to change it up, instead of going more defensive by bringing Comley on or putting a square peg in a round hole with McEntee/Allen in midfield.