by shrimper » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:01 am
If anyone had looked forward to a a series of fixtures that read:
Chesterfield (A)
Rochdale (H)
Rotherham (A)
Notts Co (H)
Daggers (A)
Bradford (H)
and honestly thought we'd get at least a point from every single one of those, then they would have been described as having specs tinted with the most rosy roses the world of roses has ever seen.
A few weeks ago I looked at the fixtures for the next few months and said we should bite the bullet and not panic if we didn't get much at all out of all those. My worry was that people would start panicking and saying silly things about the team and management when, on paper, it was a very very tough line-up.
'On paper' the fixtures ease up a bit in October and November but, of course, no game is easy. If we show the same commitment and hard work in those games, though, we should be able to pick up a few more wins and the position will look more healthy.
These past few weeks have been about shoring up the defence, which we've done, and getting whatever we could out of very difficult games, which we've done a lot better than anyone could have expected.
Is the glass half full or half empty? Mmmm? hard to say - but it does look like there's room for more beer!