Still don't get that at all.
We are all pretty much talking that we are down. We all pretty much believe we are down.
I said myself we are down, but have merely talked about wishful thinking and nowt more than a wild hope.
In that scenario everyone elses results are absolutely vital.
The only way we can survive is through the failure of others along with sensational form ourselves.
Therefore I would say if we are talking in hope, what the other teams are doing is crucial.
As you said yourself, heart vs head.
After the P'boro game I drove home with Mrs Oucho and the mother-in-law, who had come for a day in the shops and met us after the game. I waxed lyrical about how despite the late goal we now had a decent chance of staying up and that there was renewed hope. This hope grew with the Bolton performance and the signings of Beavon, Clarke and Foley despite my misgivings over letting Sordell go.
The basis of this optimism was that I wrote of the Bristol R game as not really due to Slade and yet another MV cock-up, but that two positive draws (albeit slips from winning positions) meant that we could be more positive about staying up with a run of fixtures in the forthcoming 2 months that included:
Chesterfield (down the bottom with us)
Fleetwood (didn't credit them as any good, little fishing town)
Northampton (on a run similar to us)
Millwall (admittedly tougher but I did think we'd beat them at home)
Oldham (fewer goals than us FFs)
Wimbledon (small club not far above the quagmire zone)
Gillingham (poor team not far avove us)
Swindon (ditto)
Bury (ditto)
Shrewsbury (ditto)
That's 10 games of which 8 were against teams in varyign degrees of trouble, the others a home game against mid-table Millwall and another home game against a tiny club punching above their weight.
We won one of them.
That's criminal.
Sounds like you still have a drop of belief - my own dried up about half way through that run.
