Day 228

The bookies think tomorrow’s home tie against Luton Town will be a close game. They’ve given us only slightly better odds—6-4 versus 13-8. The danger-man has been identified—quite rightly—as Stuart Fleetwood, their star striker. He’s scored 19 goals in 31 matches, with an average rating of 7.1 out of 10. His only standout quality is his determination, which makes it tricky to figure out how we can keep him quiet.

We last met them five months ago, winning 3-1. Fleetwood was poor that day, so perhaps Marques and Gowling have his number. I’m counting on it.

I had a look through the remaining fixtures. We have seven out of thirteen games against a team currently in the top half of the table. Second-placed Mansfield do, too, while third-placed Wrexham have seven out of fifteen. Of those games, we have one against Mansfield, and Mansfield and Wrexham have one against each other. I’d say that Wrexham have a slightly easier finish than either us or Mansfield, but that’s with two more matches to play and at least three points to make up on us (nine if you count their two games in hand, which are both against weak opposition). It should be an interesting title race.