Let's take this a stage further and imagine this:-
The current league positions, goal differences and points differences are just like this coming up to the last Saturday of the season (well I did use the word IMAGINE!!)
If the matches scheduled for this Saturday were the ones for the last day of the season (none of the top 8 are due to play each other), then Morecambe would simply (??) need to avoid defeat on Saturday to be assured of promotion directly (no play offs needed).
However if they lost at Crawley and the next 7 clubs below them all won, then Morecambe would not even make the play offs.
Mmmm. Until this season I might say that the latter scenario would be the most likely (and that is NOT a criticism of JB, who I believe to be a person of great integrity and for whom I have nothing but admiration), but somehow this season the players and (I think) the fans have much greater belief. So obviously we would walk it. Are the Hairy Bikers at Crawley on Saturday incidentally? A 6-0 win would go down a treat.
Right, I must go and put the cork back in the whisky bottle now.