Huddersfield Town saw off Oldham Athletic at the Galpharm Stadium this evening, winning by two goals to nil. The win moves them three points off Colchester in seventh and within six points of the Addicks. The pressure really is on Colchester right now and they face in-form Swindon Town on Saturday at their Weston Homes Community Stadium.
The U's have failed to win any of their last four home games and have managed only three draws from their last eight league games. They then have to travel to the Valley on Tuesday which could, arguably, seal their fate should we manage an unlikely win at Southampton.
With two home games to follow, Phil Parkinson will be aware that we need a result at St Mary's if we are to seriously challenge for automatic promotion. Our back-four have enjoyed two solid displays and Darren Randolph has managed two-and-a-half clean sheets since replacing Rob Elliot at half-time in the Gills game. Sasa Ilic managed seven successive clean sheets as we closed out the 1997-98 season to win through in the play-offs and a similar performance from Randolph would see us go very close again and possibly resurrect his Charlton career. No pressure Darren!
For those of you who remember the 1980-81 promotion season from Division Three, you may be interested to know we were on the equivalent of 77 points having played 40 games, so we find ourselves three points short. However, we lost the next three games then before finishing draw, win, win to claim 84 points and third place. I can see us matching that 84 point finish but suspect it won't be enough for second place. You never know though.....
Glad to hear you had a successful trip to India albeit a tiring one. I will also be following the results with great interest while watching Rothes v Forres at Victoria Park in the Highland League Cup. I'm off to Oman in 2 weeks so everything apart from the goverment should be sorted by then. Hopefully Charlton promoted 'Come on the Reds' Davie
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