‘In 50 years I can't remember ever seeing such easy-on-the-eye football’
What’s left: Carlisle (H), Orient (A), Port Vale (H), Oxford (A), Fleetwood (H), Bristol R (A), Cheltenham (A), Bolton (H).
How it started: For the first time in recent memory, I tipped us to finish outside the top six in a League One season. I went for 12th after we shed a load of seasoned promotion winners at this level in favour of youngsters with pace. In my defence I did expect Ronnie Edwards to be sold in August.
The club were quietly (unusually for our chairman, Darragh MacAnthony) confident of a good season, but they weren't shouting from the rooftops.
I expect they have been pleasantly surprised by what they've seen so far.
How it’s going:
It's been an exceptional season so far, as much for the style of play as the results. I've been watching them for 50 years and can't remember ever seeing such easy-on-the-eye enterprising football.
A 12-game unbeaten run (remarkably in between two Wigan defeats) had us dreaming of a top two finish and five wins in a row (after four straight defeats) raised optimism levels again, until losing to Pompey recently at London Road.
We played well in that game, though, so form remains strong.
Gut feeling: We will finish third behind Pompey and Derby. I can see us winning many of our last eight games, but we might need to win them all to get into the top two and we've only ever done that twice in our 64-year Football League history.
We do have the bottom four to play so you never know, but we have a lot of games in April.
Star and saviour: Top scorer Ephron MasonClark to leave with a bang before he formally joins Coventry City in the summer.
Worry lines: The lack of a natural goalscoring centre forward – despite the fact we’re the leading marksmen in the third tier - to complement two exciting wingers. If we could combine the speed, pressing ability and workrate of Ricky-Jade Jones with the finishing of Jonson Clarke-Harris we would be top two now!
Alan Swann (Peterborough Telegraph)