FL2: Southend Utd v Torquay Utd, 16 March 2013

Don't think my ticker can take another 9 games.

I'm hoping to see us beat them Northern gits Chesterfield on Tuesday.

Well it's quite obvious I meant the Gillingham from Chesterfield

They certainly are important as looking at the other clubs around us, I can see several of them not collecting anything by 5pm next saturday. A good chance to put a smidgen of daylight between us and the other strugglers...

Chesterfield: bunch of jessies from the East Midlands!

Hope they play like a bunch of Jessie's on Tuesday Chris, Its about time an away team got charitable at Plainmoor and we need all the charitable Jessie's we can get at this moment in time.

For me it shows what a poor season we are having and how desperate things have become, when we get excited that we have taken two points from our last two games. In saying that those two points have given us some hope that we might stay in this division, but then it’s how you choose to read the table. The positive amongst us could say the five teams at the bottom are in joint 20th place, the negative ones could say they are all joint bottom of the table.

We would not care one bit if we ended up with the same number of points as the bottom two clubs as long as we had the better goal difference that meant it would be those two clubs that were going down. While the last two points were well won and fought for and that in itself has to be very pleasing, we had as far as I’m concerned, slipped closer to danger. A very welcome win would change all of that and we surely must win at least one game very soon, but if we don’t, then we really will be in much deeper trouble.

Its going to come down to which teams have the most fight in them, we have shown some real fight in our last two games and we need to find much more of the same in our remaining games. Do that and we have every chance of staying up and now its even more important we match or better the results of the other four teams all on the same number of points.

Yesterdays well won point kept us off the bottom of the table, I dread to think how we have all been feeling now if we had not won that point. I still feel we are very likely to end up on the bottom two before the season ends, but still maintain hope that come the end of the final game, we will still be a league two club.

This is not going to be a pleasant journey for sure, there are going to be many twists and turns along the way, not a journey for the faint hearted, but one we must all travel untied if we are going to beat the drop.