RoboCCFC90
Well-Known Member
"Crawley Town Manager John Gregory says his side can still make the play-off's this season.
The Red Devils are 13 points off Peterborough with 5 games in hand on some other teams in the league."
Firstly is John Gregory mad or do they have a chance? Looking at some of the teams they are yet to play:
Leyton Orient
Wolves
Brentford
Sheffield United
Preston
MK Dons
Among the others are most other Clubs bar us in truth (but then at this stage of the season any Club can be dangerous as we all have something to play for), but it raises a question and one I had slightly written off before reading this. We have one game in hand and we are eleven points off, with Posh to play again, so if we won our game in hand against Bradford and beat Posh we could be five points off Posh.
Therefore my question is, are the play-offs out of reach yet?
Now I know some will say probably say "no chance" but wait a minute lets take into account that Posh will have one eye on their JPT Final at Wembley, the fact that Posh aren't the most consistent bunch in the world, Lee Tomlin who was one of the best players in this league has joined Middlesborough, they still have to play three out of the six top six sides in the league and that Britt Assombalonga has struggled with fatigue at Southend last season and is looking like to struggle this season.
Admittedly when you look at John Gregory's comments it also implies that if Crawley are thinking about it then so must be every Club between them and sixth place of which there are seven.
Can we really rule it out with thirteen games to go?
Edit: I'd like to also add that even despite our small blip should we win our game in hand against Bradford we will have a better points per game ratio then anyone outside the top six.
The Red Devils are 13 points off Peterborough with 5 games in hand on some other teams in the league."
Firstly is John Gregory mad or do they have a chance? Looking at some of the teams they are yet to play:
Leyton Orient
Wolves
Brentford
Sheffield United
Preston
MK Dons
Among the others are most other Clubs bar us in truth (but then at this stage of the season any Club can be dangerous as we all have something to play for), but it raises a question and one I had slightly written off before reading this. We have one game in hand and we are eleven points off, with Posh to play again, so if we won our game in hand against Bradford and beat Posh we could be five points off Posh.
Therefore my question is, are the play-offs out of reach yet?
Now I know some will say probably say "no chance" but wait a minute lets take into account that Posh will have one eye on their JPT Final at Wembley, the fact that Posh aren't the most consistent bunch in the world, Lee Tomlin who was one of the best players in this league has joined Middlesborough, they still have to play three out of the six top six sides in the league and that Britt Assombalonga has struggled with fatigue at Southend last season and is looking like to struggle this season.
Admittedly when you look at John Gregory's comments it also implies that if Crawley are thinking about it then so must be every Club between them and sixth place of which there are seven.
Can we really rule it out with thirteen games to go?
Edit: I'd like to also add that even despite our small blip should we win our game in hand against Bradford we will have a better points per game ratio then anyone outside the top six.
Last edited: