ONLY six points will do this week.
That is the verdict of stand-in skipper Adam Virgo after his side went down 2-0 at MK Dons.
Albion can eat into the eight-point gap separating them from 20th place this week, but only by beating Hereford and Swindon.
But two wins looks a long way away at the moment.
Virgo insisted: “Until it’s mathematically impossible we will keep trying.
“The Hereford game could tell us what’s going to happen next year.”
Asked if Albion needed wins from both games, Virgo said: “Yes, I’d say so. We’re not going to beat around the bush and say ‘if we get a point thereand this and that.
“If we put two wins together it will make the table look a bit different.
“We haven’t put a string of wins together this season so why not start now?
“Hereford are beatable, then we’ve beaten Swindon away already so I don’t see a problem with us trying to beat them at home providing everyone stays positive and we all stay together.
“Form goes out of the window now. We won’t take too much notice of the league table.
“We will take it game by game, minute by minute now.
“I know we can beat Hereford and I know we can beat Swindon.”
Virgo admitted Lloyd Owusu had chances to score shortly before each of MK Dons’ well-taken goals, then again when Craig Davies was sent clear eight minutes from time.
But he refused to point the finger of blame at the two strikers.
He said: “Goals are crucial and this was a prime example where Lloyd and Craig had good, good chances.
“We will never, ever criticise players for missing chances because you have got to be there to miss them, “Even with the Tranmere game, we had very good possession and didn’t quite get the goal when we were on top.
“We are struggling for goals which is unfortunate because we have got very good strikers here who can put the ball in the net.”
Virgo admitted: “Games are running out. MK are a good team and the goals killed us but there were chances for us to score.
“I think the gaffer summed it up. They had four chances, we had three good chances.
“They scored two, we didn’t take our chances which was unfortunate because the first goal was crucial. They were two very well taken goals.
“The first goal was good play in the middle and a very good finish.
“The second was a Premiership quality cross which went straight across our box and was finished with a great header at the far post.
“We kept going and Craig had a great chance towards the end. If that goes in we always knew if we got that goal we could maybe see ourselves getting another one.
“We saw Crewe do it when they played here but, just at the minute, we are not scoring enough.
“It’s difficult with a makeshift team.”
But then changes are a fact of life for Albion right now. This time there were two defensive alterations as Matt Heath returned but Adam Hinshelwood and Gary Borrowdale missed out through injury, meaning Adam El-Abd switched to left-back.
Virgo and Heath had not partnered each other before and that sort of thing does not help.
It is not the sort of chopping and changing you associate with a winning team.
“You look at Man United, they’ve had Vidic and Ferdinand there all season, they have been ever-present,” Virgo said.
“We’ve probably had more centre-half pairings than centre-forward pairings. They had two very good centre forwards and when you’re trying to squeeze up and you’re not sure if he’s going to be up with you and things like that, it’s difficult “It’s a trust thing. You know he’s going to be there. Regardless of we train with each other every day, if you don’t play games with each other it’s going to be very difficult to have a settled team.”
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