WE NEED one more point to make sure of our play-off place but I still won't rule out us reaching the automatics.

Until something is mathematically impossible you have to keep pushing for it.

That's what we will do but we have to win at Carlisle tomorrow and then the next two games after that as well.

It's going to be a hard ask but the first target is to confirm our place in the play-offs because that would be a great achievement.

Saturday is also the first of two very long away trips and there are various ways of passing the time.

The card school isn't quite what it used to be and I think it's just Mark Gower left now.

He probably plays solitaire on his own and still finds a way to lose money but elsewhere the likes of Lee Barnard and Nicky Bailey play poker on the PSP.

There is the usual collection of papers and magazines which you normally read about five times and we normally watch a few films too.

Tommy Black always brings a few with him but on our last trip we ended up watching Step-Up 2 and I wasn't happy.

We're supposed to be tough, rugged footballers and here we were watching a dancing movie!

Ten years ago you would have been chucked off the coach for bringing a film like that but the worst thing was some of the lads actually seemed to enjoy it.

Other lads sleep, eat and listen to music but the travelling is always quite tedious and boring whatever you do.

Elsewhere this week we had a club outing bowling at the Kursaal.

Loads of the staff were there and a handful of players, plus the gaffer who was as competitive as ever!

He had to win but our media manager Dave Scriven caught the eye with a strange technique which saw him bowl like a big girl!

Let's just say it came us no surprise when he resorted to just taking the pictures!

The gaffer and his staff have also been walking around very gingerly after completing the London Marathon.

Anyone who does that, while also raising money for charity, deserves a lot of praise and I take my hat off to them.

It is something I would like to do myself one day when I've finished playing but I'm not so sure after hearing some of their horror stories!