I have spent hour after hour studying the league table over the past few weeks working out all the possible permutations and trying to predict the final points tally for the Reds.

I did predict the draw against Aldershot in most of my calculations but that doesn’t make the two points lost any easier to swallow.

We should have returned home from Hampshire with all three points, but it’s not the end of the world as far as our bid for the playoffs goes.

We now have nine games left and six of them are at home starting tomorrow night against Hereford.

Now if there’s a team that we owe a thrashing it has to be the Bulls. The trips to Edgar Street are very seldom fruitful and the trip home on the back roads is hellish.

I get the feeling that we are due another 7-4 Gillingham result, we just need the rub of the green as far as the officials go and a tad more luck in front of goal.

With 27 points to play for I can see the Reds gaining another 20 and ending the season on 74 points.

That amount of points would have secured a top seven finish over the past two seasons and I think it will again this year.

It was great to see Rory Boulding on the score-sheet this week. He is a very lively player with bags of talent and, while I wish Terry Gornell a speedy recovery, it’s great to know we have such a strong subs bench.

If you combine the great feeling around the team with the promise that the off-the-field saga is close to an end, it could be a very happy Easter for Stanley fans.