McLaughlin Keeps A Level Head

Posted on May 20, 2014 in Conor Mclaughlin

Fleetwood Town have been battling throughout the season in order to tie up an automatic promotion spot that will see them get promoted to League One. There are only four matches left in the campaign, but Fleetwood are facing a tough fight in order to get into the automatic promotion spots. They are third in the table right now with a five point gap between them and third placed Chesterfield. It is also now looking highly unlikely that they will be able to catch table leaders Scunthorpe United and Rochdale in the second position.

Despite this, midfielder Conor McLaughlin says that the players will be giving their absolute best in the hope of automatic promotion. They are not prepared to give up until it is mathematically impossible for Fleetwood to get promoted automatically. McLaughlin will be aware that getting promoted to the play-offs is certainly not going to be easy since the form book goes out of the window in such matches. McLaughlin says that Fleetwood have shown over the season that they have enough quality to be able to finish in the top three.

The club have been beaten just once in the last six matches of all competitions, but they have just one win in the last three. They’ll take on Cheltenham Town during the weekend.

“We’re going to fight right to the end to get automatic promotion. If we get a bit of luck then we can get there. We know we’ve got the quality to do it. The lads were disappointed. We had a few chances to go ahead but in the end it wasn’t to be. The lads up top have been scoring goals all season so I suppose we were unlucky,” said McLaughlin about the chances of Fleetwood getting promoted to League One at the end of this campaign.