PAUL MAYO HAS indicated Notts County’s relegation fight has been so stressful that it keeps him awake at night.
The left-back returned to the Magpies line-up after a loan spell with Darlington in January and was overjoyed to see the side pick up a critical four points over the Easter programme. They pulled seven points clear of rivals Mansfield Town who they now face next.
But he re-iterated ahead of the derby showdown at Meadow Lane that there is still work to do to guarantee their survival in the remaining seven games.
He said: “We’re fighting for our lives at the bottom and our professional careers are at stake and there’s still going to be a lot of twists and turns.”
“It’s the first time I’ve really been in this position and it’s not nice because you find yourself at home sat on the couch or laid in bed at night thinking we’re a few points above the relegation zone, if we lose here or we lose there-it’s very stressful.”
“Once we’re out of it, it’ll be a huge weight off our shoulders-we can’t get safe quick enough.”
“There’s certainly a lot more pressure at this end of the table than the top end. It’s certainly something I don’t want to have on my CV as a player as being relegated from the football league and certainly a club like Notts County shouldn’t be anywhere near it.”
“It’s in our hands. Our home form has been poor all season and poor for three or four years.
“It’s not like we’re getting beat every week but we’re drawing a lot of games and obviously not scoring more than one goal in a game, if we can concede it makes it hard. But if we can score a few more goals and keep it tight at the back then we’ll be ok.”
And he compared his time in the North East to identify reasons why the Magpies have struggled all season to grab the goals to drag them away from the wrong end of the table.
He added: “Away from home we don’t look like getting beat but scoring goals has been a problem all season, I think we’re the second lowest scorers.”
“We haven’t conceded many goals in the last few games and that’s a base for us to build on, one goal is probably all we need at times.”
“The difference has been from my time at Darlington that when the strikers there had chances they stuck them in and nine times out of ten they’d put a half chance away.”
“I’m not saying it’s our strikers that have got the problem, it’s the whole team going forward-our play up them has got to be better.”
The left-back returned to the Magpies line-up after a loan spell with Darlington in January and was overjoyed to see the side pick up a critical four points over the Easter programme. They pulled seven points clear of rivals Mansfield Town who they now face next.
But he re-iterated ahead of the derby showdown at Meadow Lane that there is still work to do to guarantee their survival in the remaining seven games.
He said: “We’re fighting for our lives at the bottom and our professional careers are at stake and there’s still going to be a lot of twists and turns.”
“It’s the first time I’ve really been in this position and it’s not nice because you find yourself at home sat on the couch or laid in bed at night thinking we’re a few points above the relegation zone, if we lose here or we lose there-it’s very stressful.”
“Once we’re out of it, it’ll be a huge weight off our shoulders-we can’t get safe quick enough.”
“There’s certainly a lot more pressure at this end of the table than the top end. It’s certainly something I don’t want to have on my CV as a player as being relegated from the football league and certainly a club like Notts County shouldn’t be anywhere near it.”
“It’s in our hands. Our home form has been poor all season and poor for three or four years.
“It’s not like we’re getting beat every week but we’re drawing a lot of games and obviously not scoring more than one goal in a game, if we can concede it makes it hard. But if we can score a few more goals and keep it tight at the back then we’ll be ok.”
And he compared his time in the North East to identify reasons why the Magpies have struggled all season to grab the goals to drag them away from the wrong end of the table.
He added: “Away from home we don’t look like getting beat but scoring goals has been a problem all season, I think we’re the second lowest scorers.”
“We haven’t conceded many goals in the last few games and that’s a base for us to build on, one goal is probably all we need at times.”
“The difference has been from my time at Darlington that when the strikers there had chances they stuck them in and nine times out of ten they’d put a half chance away.”
“I’m not saying it’s our strikers that have got the problem, it’s the whole team going forward-our play up them has got to be better.”
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