besides the obvious fact that 7 points would put us outside the relegation zone you have to account for the impact it had on morale. Losing points in the manner we did early in the season must impact on the team, esp when we have a lot of youngsters. If we'd have picked up those points and made a decent start to the season who knows? Maybe some of those close defeats that followed would have seen us pick up more points if we were playing with confidence. Not saying we'd be storming the league as the squad clearly isn't good enough for that but a bit of luck early on in the season and things could have been different.
not much we can do about it now tho, just need to keep picking up as many points as we can and hope the teams down there with us don't perform.