Must be nailed on now

[Lcbdagger]

Boston won 3-0 tonight...

We've absolutely had it... I don't see how there is any suggestion otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the only games we win between now and the end of the season are Ebbsfleet and Maidenhead... Even these will be a struggle with no real goal threat currently. You don't accidentally get to mid-March having not won a game since New Year's Day in a league like ours, and to expect everyone below us to just lose every game was always generous, at best.

Fylde have two wins in four, Boston one loss in five and Wealdstone three wins in five. We only need two of the four teams directly behind us currently (ignore Ebbsfleet) to drop us in to 21st and only Maidenhead have played 36 games currently... Boston and Wealdstone have two full games in hand.

The only real hope for Boston to go down, especially after the way they dismantled us in short order, is because they were so cut adrift with Ebbsfleet a month or so ago.

[len]

Over the remaining fixtures, many of them including ours, involve games between struggling teams so they will be taking points off each other. These will then be classed as six pointers so they will be even more important to win. This I’m sure will be uppermost in each teams mind.

[Lcbdagger]

Over the remaining fixtures, many of them including ours, involve games between struggling teams so they will be taking points off each other. These will then be classed as six pointers so they will be even more important to win. This I’m sure will be uppermost in each teams mind.

I would be happy to see us get past 45 points come the end of season, on current 2025 form... Even second from bottom in the league only requires 12 or 13 points in ten games to get past this. I have us below only Maidenhead and Ebbsfleet going in to the Solihull game as I just can't see where the goals come from to keep us up, even if we battle hard against the Barnet's of the league.

[Diggerthedog]

We’re getting relegated, anyone that thinks we’re not needs to go to the funny farm with Dan ‘I know sweet FA about football’ Hall.

[NBDag]

Even with Ebbsfleet I can’t see where the next win comes from. This is the worst Dagenham side I have ever seen, and the players as individuals aren’t even that bad. The coach, the SD and the owners have just completely killed the spirit here. We are down. Accept it. People won’t like it but it’s getting to the point where I do really wish ill upon those doing this to us, such is the callousness of their negligence. They need to be pushed out asap.

[len]

With still ten games to play I don't know for sure how the relegation fight will play out anymore than the rest of you. However, while it's statistically possible none of the bottom clubs can be relegated yet, we shall have to see how it pans out.

[Mick Dagger]

With still ten games to play I don't know for sure how the relegation fight will play out anymore than the rest of you. However, while it's statistically possible none of the bottom clubs can be relegated yet, we shall have to see how it pans out.

What you state is of course true. However, those of us without rose tinted glasses have looked at the table and seen that all of the teams in the relegation fight are managing to pick up wins. In the last six games: Braintree (W3, D2, L1), Woking (W2, D4), Aldershot (W3, D1, L2), Fylde (W2, D2, L2), Wealdstone (W3, L3), Maidenhead (W1, D1, L4), Boston (W3, D2, L1). Our last six are D3 and L3. The odd draw will not be enough, we must start winning some games. I still think we can do it but it needs to start on Saturday.

[Diggerthedog]

To add to that the teams around have made moves on their managers or helped their current managers with some good signings and we’ve don’t neither. As sad as it is we’re going down and unless the owners step in with some very good last minute players one being specifically a very good striker we’re done for.

Our last 12 games form is worse than Ebbsfleet’s, says it all really.

SACK THE BOARD

[RM1Dagger]

I think Saturday was a killer for us. As said, everyone around us is picking up points in one way or another. I had hopes Southend won at least get a point last night but Boston are fighting like hell to stay up and their results reflect it, unlike ours. It's expecting too much now for those teams to suddenly drop off and for us to collect 2 or 3 wins, I can't see it happening. But I live in hope.

[Mick Dagger]

Assuming we do manage to win some games, the big issue for us is that it's not in our hands, we are reliant on other teams dropping points.

[DI Mike Dashwood]

That’s not the case though is it, as lots of teams in bottom 7 are playing one another. Some teams even face one another twice in the coming weeks in that bracket.

To say it’s not in our hands is incorrect, as if we win every game we play we will stay up. We won’t of course, but neither will others down there as they are playing one another, and will drop points against others as well.

And while we have clearly been absolutely awful for months (or years) generally, we have taken four points from our last two games, both away from home, so people seem to be losing their sense of perspective (puts hat on and waits to be pelted).

Not to say we will stay up or not and not to say we have been any good for ages now, but just saying.

[Auntie Merge]

Oh for the days of the AGM cup, when at least one of the bottom four stayed up because another club higher up in the division (or football league) was a basket case and got forcibly relegated.

[Mick Dagger]

That’s not the case though is it, as lots of teams in bottom 7 are playing one another. Some teams even face one another twice in the coming weeks in that bracket.

To say it’s not in our hands is incorrect.

We have played a game more than Working, Wealdstone, Boston and Fylde. I must be looking at a different fixture list. Show us your workings.

[Lcbdagger]

We can all suggest that the league remains 'in our own hands' and pull up various suggestions as to why that is or isn't the case... The reality (especially after a couple of games unbeaten) is that anything less than a win Saturday and we are toast. There will be no getting back out from a Home defeat to that level of opposition.

I appreciate now that Boston are a different team in 2025 to 2024, but a performance like that again Saturday in front of our own fans and we will see the end of the season from my perspective.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

To say it’s not in our hands is incorrect, as if we win every game we play we will stay up. We won’t of course, but neither will others down there as they are playing one another, and will drop points against others as well.

My concern is that two teams below us play each other and they both come out with 3 points for the match.

If we are above the relegation bar, and we are, it is still up to use to lose it. The one big difference are matches played and that is against us right now, and if the game in hand gets some clubs 3 points when played we very well could be looking at being in the bottom 4 when equal matches are played.