Seems to me that the players can do one of three things:

1 - Look down the remaining fixtures list, and do what the doom-merchants on here are doing and write off the season.

2 - Analyse the remaining fixtures to the nth degree, and determine every conceivable permutation of results that might result in us making the play-offs, with all the caveats attaching to each.

3 - Don't worry overmuch about the fixtures list. Instead, take every match as it comes, and do their level best in each match to grind out a result, and let the final table placings look after themsleves.


I presume we would expect the players to adopt option 3, without any question of a doubt?

In that case, why the same should not apply to the fans right now escapes me.

It does doesnt it

No problems about looking into the future...as you say, that is human nature. I do it every day when I fantasise about that multi-million pound legacy that just might appear one day from some long-lost relative...

It is those who are clear they already KNOW the future, and indeed may be in, er, raptures about it, that perplex me the most.

No it was his older brother Marcus.