All very true, but a few players have mentioned at away games that they would rather finish MORE than 5 points off of the top. Knowing you would have been champions but for money issues would be a negative on a team very positive at the moment. Lets get in those play-offs first and foremost, and then win them.
Mathmatically as things stand 80 points is the target figure for play off place, this will reduce for every point Dover drops as the max point of 12 point in the remaining games for them is 79 points, we could do 79 points but we need to have a greater goal difference than Dover which is currently plus 7 in our favour.
So as things stand Brantree have at least got a play off slot and are now playing for the title - they need to win one more game to prevent us winning the league out right and need potentionally 89 points to win the league.
Should we win all our remaining games that would put us on 83, and Braintree on 89 should they win their other games bar against us, if this bears out the 5 points would have took us close but would miss out by a point. Having said that the extra points in the bags would have put pressure on the over teams around us and they may have slipped up elsewhere.
Dovers remaining fixtures
Sat 16th Apr 11 A Dochester
Fri 22nd Apr 11 H Basingstoke
Mon 25th Apr 11 A Dartford
Sat 30th April 11 H St Albans
-- Edited by morph on Wednesday 13th of April 2011 03:00:20 PM
Agreed, and 6 points will do it anyhow because so many of the other clubs up there are playing each other and they cant all win. Eastleigh losing last night does us a massive favour admittedly.
However Sladie is correct. I have done a worse case senario, IE. Premier League relegation everyone is winning, the maximum with all the team below us winning all games including against the higher teams, leaves us needing 9 pts (3 wins), but that is IF Dover wins all 4 etc. Every point they drop is good for us. Dartford could do us a favour with a result against La Dover.
I have been saving my money just in case we make the play offs :) The Wife and new born baby understand it's a must that I go :)
