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The Playoffs? Realistic or not?

The message from Home Park is to push for the playoffs. At 15th with just three months of the season remaining, it is a tall order. If it is going to happen,...

06.02.26, 16:53 Updated 06.02.26, 17:01 3 Minute Read

John Duerden

John Duerden

On Thursday, new loanee Wes Harding sat in the media room at Home Park and talked of a push for the playoffs. The defender gave the impression that he hadn’t come west from Millwall just to spend the rest of the season in mid-table obscurity –although given the situation just a few weeks ago, that wouldn’t be a disaster.

There’s nothing wrong with optimism and the message coming out of the club is that a push for a top six spot is the objective. It has to be given that there isn't much of an alternative as long as the playoffs are even just a theoretical possibility.

Not just that but being in the hunt adds meaning and drama to the rest of the campaign and also gives a platform to build on for next time around when the first half of the season should not be quite so bad as this one.

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