Painful Peterborough United memory is why Doncaster Rovers boss is taking nothing for granted
Almost everyone associated with Doncaster Rovers is now of the opinion that they'll be playing in League One again next season.
The bookies aren't usually wrong and you can get odds of 150/1 for Rovers to be relegated. That's because they sit six points clear of fourth-bottom Exeter - the only one of the teams in the drop zone that can realistically catch them - with the Devon side having just three games left.
It would take a monumental drop-off from Rovers and a perfect run of results not only for Exeter but also the glut of teams between them. Rovers' current haul of 53 points is way above the average required to stay in the third tier over the past five seasons (45.4 points). Yet it seems the only person not fully convinced of safety (yet) is Rovers chief Grant McCann. And it's probably understandable.
As a player, McCann was part of the Peterborough United side that suffered relegation from the Championship with a record tally of 54 points in the 2012-13 campaign.
That second tier campaign was mightily tight that year and despite winning 15 of their league matches - effectively a third of the season - McCann and his colleagues suffered a gut-wrenching demotion. They lost 3-2 to Crystal Palace on the last day when a draw would have seen them stay up.
"I still think we need another win," McCann told the Free Press in the wake of last weekend's victory over Reading.
"Because the teams that are down there have all seemed to produce results today. So I don't want to take anything for granted because I was part of that Peterborough team that got relegated from the Championship with record points.
"It was a record total for a team to be relegated, so having been in that situation I'm not taking anything for granted.
"So we'll go to Northampton next weekend and hopefully get those three points and then we can look forward from that point onwards."