FL2: Burton Albion v Torquay United - 12 Jan 13

Morecambe have been drawing a lot of games lately. Their form is half-decent - I wouldn't read much into the Plymouth result as new managers often have a good impact when they join. And I think Accrington will be fine if they replace their inexperienced manager who seems a bit out of his depth at the moment

As I said, though, "there are worse teams than us" isn't really an excuse - you never know what can happen. Teams will revive when you least expect and surprise candidates for relegation will drop into the picture. Remember Lincoln two years ago - good squad with a big name manager who were comfortably mid-table until very near the end of the season, when they plummeted. At the moment we're using the same players week in week out, and they're not getting results now, let alone come March/April time when they're knackered

No, now is exactly when we need to be "panicking" - or proactive, as I'd rather say. You need to act before you get sucked into it, all confidence is lost and we become fodder for all the teams above us. I'm not saying sack the manager. I'm not saying make Tactical Change X. What's clear is that the problem isn't tactical. 5 matches in a row with decisive goals coming in the last 10 minutes - that's spinelessness, which is particularly odd considering we have 3 defensive midfielders in the squad. It doesn't matter how those goals go in, or how we played in the 80 minutes prior to that - football is a results business, and the table is set by how many wins and draws we can pick up throughout the season. A defeat is a defeat, no matter how you spin it

As I said, it feels like when we went down. Reading what people on this forum and others say about the year we went down, it seems that people like to think that we were just terrible the year we went down, as if it was a kind of blotch on the landscape, an outlier caused by the dreadful chairmanship of Big Bad Chris Roberts. That's not true - there were times where we played very well during that season. We were just absolutely hopeless at holding onto points, and collapsed far too easily. The last 5 games show that this is developing again, at a rapid rate - I can't remember a run of games like this, and I can remember plenty of games thrown away late on in the past. A total lack of confidence overrides all other factors. That's a recipe for disaster. That's why we need reinforcements

Thank you Wildebeeste, I listened to Radio Devon and was under the impression we had been the team looking for all 3 points and had played well, with one defensive error and a cracking goal conceded. I then log on to see totally pessimistic posts and am reassured by a report from someone who was present.
We are all disappointed when we lose, particularly if we feel we have not played well, but this does not seem to have been the case today. We need to be 100per cent behind the team on Tuesday.

Nothing like changing history to suit an argument eh!

Our relegation to the conference season was a fait accompli once it was revealed that Roberts didn't care too shits for the playing side of the club - we had sold all of our playing assets by January and replaced them with a whole host of poor loanees and players that couldn't get contracts anywhere else.

We were easily the worst side in the league on paper and on the pitch, I'm not sure I can remember us playing "some pretty decent stuff" that year - relegation was a blessed relief after months and months of shite.

What is it with all these doom merchants......we're an average side on a poor run, it happens! you only have to hear the comments from most managers in this league that actually quite rate us.

We need 4 or 5 wins from 21 (yes....twenty one) matches to play to avoid relegation.

Yep your sure right there
Nice to see Barnet beat Rotherham though today! I can see ten chins evans getting the sack soon!

They have a budget for auto promotion simple as.....if they dont go up then its odds on Fatty will walk.

Rotherham are 3rd in the Last 8 Matches table, behind only Port Vale and Oxford: stats.football365.co.uk/dom/ENG/D3/oform.html

Richardson and Coleman are better candidates for the chop, though still unlikely. Fleetwood have been poor since they got rid of Mellon. And then there's us...