We're going to need a bigger glass.

Anyone who's had the misfortune to read my drivel in the past will know that I'm not really a "glass half empty" kind of guy. As it is at the moment, I'm not even a "half glass full" guy either. No, the water is positively overflowing for me. In the words of Roy Schneider in Jaws, "We're gonna need a bigger glass".

Now none of that is because we were absolutely scintillating at Carlisle (we weren't), but we WERE plenty good enough to get a win at what IS going to be "A tough place to come". That last quote has become the most "Johnnyistic" of sayings over the last three seasons, but I don't mind him saying it now we got the win. Carlisle were actually pretty good, it was a cracking win for us and I'll wager it'll be their last home defeat this season.

The most important aspect of the win was that it was SO vital, and yet Johnnie and the boys still got the job done, under pressure. That bodes well. I suppose we'll never know whether or not we'd have been quite so expansive at Carlisle if we'd beaten Cheltenham at home, but it matters not a jot. The fact that we were effectively forced into going all out for the win might just be one of those occasions in life where something good comes out of a volley in the gonads.

And from here the fact that we are now "down the stretch" and realistically have no option BUT to go all out to win from minute one, will surely only help us. There are nine games to go, we should go all out to win all of them. That's not a misprint. Try and win all nine (I mean REALLY try to win them) and we might win seven or eight. Eight would I think see us promoted as Champions.

See in conclusion although I agree when folks say it's a relatively weak league Two this year, I totally disagree when they say there are "no outstanding teams" in it. That is wrong, there is one outstanding team and it is US. We are the best team in the division and by quite a margin in my opinion.

I think it was Kennedy who said that "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". He was spot on correct, that applies to us too. He was some orator was that lad. In fairness he also announced to a mass gathering of bemused Germans that "Ich bin ein Berliner" (a "Berliner" is a doughnut in Germany), but I suppose nobody gets it right every time.

So from here on in though we need boldness from the players and management. No "let's keep it tight for the first twenty minutes" (although obviously it's handy if we DO keep it tight, I'm just saying do other stuff as well), no more slow starts, no more too late substitutions. 

It's time to become legends. Time to prove what has been obvious for some time. We are the best team in League two, let's go all out and show it. If we do, we'll go up as Champions.