Buxton wants Play Offs

Last updated : 06 April 2006 By Editor
Speaking in today's Nottingham Evening Post, Stags defender Jake Buxton wants the Stags to have one final go and pinching a play off spot "We are not just happy with a top half finish now, we just want to try to nick a place in the play-offs"

"It would just be great to go to the last game with something still to play for, even if we had to win and two or three other teams had to lose.

"With us all but safe now, the pressure is off us and we can just go out and play. The pressure is all on the teams above us."

"If it does start to get tight, then they are going to start looking over their shoulders if we can keep winning.

"If we win the games against the teams around us then we are obviously stopping them picking up points too. We will try to grind them down."

"Not everyone can keep winning above us because teams play each other, so we will try to take advantage of any slip-ups."

"In my opinion, we carry a lot more of a goal threat than we did at the start of the season. The ethic now is if we score three, then they have to score four to beat us. Under Carlton Palmer we were more of a defensive side."

"Apart from Jonathan D'Laryea and the back four, all the other players want to go forward and score goals - that is their instinct.

"I think that means a lot of players are more comfortable playing at home and having to take the initiative suits us."

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full article in todays Nottingham Evening Post