14 hours ago, Sheffield Pie said:

Swindon losing 3-0 and down to ten men away to Colchester, that's helping us.

Finished 3-0 and Holloway sent off. Disaster for them.

Bromley will now be promoted if they win today. Not sure I want that just yet as they might then take their foot off the gas, and we probably want them to beat Cambridge. Maybe a draw is best for us.

I can't see Bromley getting promoted at MK

Swindon can get back in it with a win at home to Accrington next, especially with the teams above playing each other. We can't write them off just yet.

We are still in with a shout of promotion either by the automatics or playoffs. There are some very tough games to come for those teams above & below us, as well as ourselves.

Notts need to do the business themselves over their last three matches, & see what happens elsewhere. I think there will be lots of twists and turns to come before the end of the season.

If this season has taught us anything so far, it's that things can change very quickly. Yesterday was a bad day and we're now once again hoping that others will slip up, but Cambridge now have a very tough trip to a Bromley side that needs a win to seal promotion. We could quite easily find ourselves in the top three again next weekend.

All we can do is move on from yesterday, win our remaining games and hope for the best.

Err I refer the right honourable gentleman to his previous post. I do hope you haven't angered the said gods @StarkMallard.

On 05/04/2026 at 15:05, StarkMallard said:

I'm going to stop posting in this thread for fear of angering the football gods.

We've still got a narrow path to automatic promotion and it starts tonight. We really need:

Bromley to seal promotion by beating Cambridge (8pm)

We beat Barnet (Sat)

Cambridge fail to beat Grimsby (Tues)

If that happens it's game on. Doesn't sound too far fetched?

Edited 23 hours ago23 hr by Sheffield Pie

It doesn't, and you're right@Sheffield Pie but I still can't get there - I'm wanting the draw

With the goal difference swing, we need all the help we can get right now. So for one night only I'm team Bromley. 0-0 with 15 left to play as I type...

Final score .

Bromley 0 Cambridge 0.

Bromley have still not secured promotion. Notts can still overtake them if results go in Notts favour.

The pressure is back on Cambridge. They do have an awkward last three games & Bromley's last two are not a given

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With three games left this season, it feels likely that MK Dons will secure automatic safety. The team that ends up joining them, along with Bromley, looks set to be either Notts or Cambridge United. We have dropped a lot of important points, especially in matches where we should have done better, and it has left us in the usual position where the players now need to fight for every inch to rescue what once looked very achievable. Promotion to League One had seemed within reach, but we have made it harder for ourselves.

If some of the January signings had arrived earlier, which I know was probably not possible, I do think the squad would have been stronger. The Cambridge United match felt like watching Notts at the start of the season. Nothing really clicked for long spells, but there were small signs that something better could come together.

We’ve been inconsistent & largely unpredictable all season. Thus, we may well string 3 wins together - as we have on a few occasions already. We have a habit of pulling rabbits out of hats.

I remain cautiously optimistic, but anything other than a win tomorrow, pretty much, extinguishes any prospect of automatic promotion. 7 points might still be enough, 6 won’t in my view.

The concern will be L1, should we get there. Having watched Luton v Stockport last weekend, (as well as the more “rural” approach of Mansfailed), I’d say we are miles off either of the standard required. They all movethe ball forwards quickly and accurately. The pace of the game, physicality of the defenders and the energy & movement in midfield is a cut above anything in L2, by some distance tbh. Interesting to note that my “Stags”mates rate Abbott very highly in the energy, mobility and skill departments.