Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that the City team, support and the club need to keep believing and keep going and stick together.
Mowbray said to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “You have to put the season into context really.
“At the start of the season if you’d have said we’ll be in the top six with 16 games to go I think we’d have taken it, especially after the threat of relegation last year.
“Some teams have come from nowhere and are threatening in the play-offs and are all excited. We should be excited that we’re in the play-off positions and have a lot to fight for and points to play for.
“The supporters have been magnificent this year but we haven’t got to be disappointed that we haven’t won for a few weeks, rather excited that we’ve got a genuine chance of being in the play-offs or, if we can put a run together of win, win. win breaking back into the top two.
“I feel sometimes that it’s a case of ‘oh we got beaten by Burton, could only draw with Walsall and we should be top,’ but I’m not sure where that comes from.
“We’ve thrown together a team of mainly loan players and young players who have never played this level or this much before.
“I think they are finding the pace hard to keep going. When you are 24, 25, 26 it’s a bit easier because you have been there and done it and felt it but when you’re 18 or 19 and never played 25 games on the bounce I think it’s emotionally draining.
“And I think you can see it; I can certainly see it on the training field. The ones who played at the weekend have not been training much this week after playing on a heavy pitch. They need to recover so they are full of energy and life again on Saturday like they were earlier in the season.
“And if that means not being on the grass then so be it. We have to find a way to give them the spark that’s been missing because all that’s missing is a spark.
“I look back at all those games; Walsall where we dominated for an hour and were almost trying to protect a 1-0 lead and lost it; Burton I couldn’t have seen either team getting a goal and then we gave them one for nothing; Southend was almost a one-off without Fleck, Armstrong, Murphy and without the manager really because I was under the weather.
“But I think we have done extraordinarily well and we just need to keep believing and keep going and stick together – the team, the fans, the football club – and deal with the disappointment of the last three or four weeks.
“But let’s be positive and believe that we’re in a great position and have got everything to fight for. Let’s not bicker at each other, let’s keep going.”