D-Day

Well, this is it! About to set off for a game that could well leave us out of the Football League to all intents and purposes. Mansfield's home form is abysmal and they'll have a capacity of less than 5,000 to try to roar them on, but then we've played teams in this sort of form before and generously played them into form-remember Dagenham?

At least in the last two games we've been creating chances, and at barnet we even started taking them! Sadly, we also defended as poorly as we have since Brian Little was able to rebuild the side.

Anyway, we have to raise it a level. A draw's just not good enough. If we have six more points by Saturday evening the whole picture will look very different, but anything less and, frankly, it won't!