In the league Cook hasn’t shown evidence he can get his team to perform to their full potential for these “huge games”. The story of the season is a failure to beat direct rivals in what would be considered 50/50 matches…..home or away. I don’t put that down to the quality of the opposition as the play-off places have been fluid. The only common factor is when we come up against a team in the play-off mix, the latest being Scunthorpe, we struggle. It can only be a psychological issue, a fear factor. Post Christmas our best win was undoubtedly Plymouth away. But even then we were on the back foot, never threatening to impose our self.
In the run-in every game is “huge”, so you worry how we’ll approach these fixtures. One thing I’ve stopped expecting is Blackburn and Shrewsbury to drop points……whenever the pressure has been ratcheted up, they’ve delivered. It wouldn’t surprise me if both achieve 100pts+.