French winger Benjamin Laurant resumed full training today, after four weeks out of action. It’s good timing, since we’ve got three games in seven days coming up at the weekend. Now I can do a bit of rotation between him, Olembé, and Shuker. Fellow wide man Simon Russell should be back tomorrow, following his lengthy spell on the sidelines, along with stopper Mark Halstead.
That’ll leave only Robert Taylor and Chris Birchall in the injury room, with Taylor set to return to training next week. Birchall’s out for the season, but with everyone else fit and available we shouldn’t have any problems making it through the last seven games.
Fleetwood and Wrexham played out a cagey, tense draw. That’s effectively killed Fleetwood’s playoff campaign—they’re eight points adrift of the playoff zone, with fifth-placed Gateshead holding two games in hand. Wrexham’s title hopes took a big hit, too. They’re now 16 points behind us, with four games in hand. If—and it’s a big if—they win all four of those, that’ll still mean four points to make up. With our phenomenal goal difference, they’d have to beat us outright—so that would be five points on us in the final seven matches. That’s a huge ask.
In a couple more weeks, I could have the title pretty much wrapped up. Not a bad debut season for ol’ Juan Day, aye?
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