The agony and the er yes agony. That’s about it at the moment.

On Saturday, for the first time I saw the championship start to slip from our grasp. Everyone is starting to falter, everyone except Bury that is, City let go a two goal advantage back back back we go, yes, they score, back still further and Stevenage are level. That’s not championship form. That’s not promotion form if we’re honest yet, even now Lady Luck shines upon us. Two winnable games and if they’re won we’re right back in it. Two more draws and it’s the bridesmaids dress. There are worse fates but we could have been stood at the altar.

City were out of sorts. Is it just me or is our passing non existent at the moment? City, the late winner team, the never say die outfit that win games at the death. We’ve lost it. The previously reliable Eardley slightly out of sorts, Freck? Off you go. Bolger, not at the races. Even our trump card, the crowd. We seem to inspire the opposition not deplete them.

Yet. City are top. Bury keep winning but City pick up points, we’re not done yet. Some supporters see failure beckon but that’s not what we’re about surely. We’re Lincoln City, we’re top of the league we have to keep going. We have to.

Of course the reality of these last few stalemate weeks is although they didn’t really seem all that difficult, City have been through a tough run of games. Bury was expected, just the nature of the draw with Bury levelling three times, that felt like a real stunner, then Notts County, surely three easy points but we met them just at a time when the wheels had been firmly re-attached not fallen off, look at their results since. Northamption, well it’s always difficult playing a side that doesn’t want to win then Stevenage. If we thought they were mugs before (and I didn’t) we now know they’re not.

I’ll not pretend I’m unconcerned about current form. The trouble with going undefeated for a long time is you can end up drawing a lot, which we have. It might have been better to lose a couple and win two but you can’t have everything’.

Anyway, all is not lost, far from it. It’s probably as well to be away from Sincil Bank and all that expectation and then back again a week tomorrow to play opponents who will have been travelling for most of the day, at least that’s the theory. We've got to trust in the manager and the players and hang in there.