Duff unhappy with Wycombe mentality
Wycombe boss Michael Duff has all but written off his side's League One play-off chances and says they struggle to turn good performances into wins.
Wycombe Wanderers boss Michael Duff has all but written off his side's chances of reaching the League One play-offs this season with four games still to play. Duff said his players have shown they do not have the right mentality following back-to-back defeats by Stockport County and Bradford City. His side are 11th, five points outside the top six, and face another team higher in the table when they travel to his former club Huddersfield Town on Saturday.
"I think that's the play-offs done for us now," Duff told BBC Three Counties Radio. "We fall the wrong side of fine margins far too often. We play well and lose far too often.
" He added: "We've shown them quite a lot of stats of where we are - goal difference, third; goals scored, fourth; goals against, fifth - but we're 11th in the league, which is impossible. "There are things we need to improve on from a mentality point of view. We've got some good players, no doubt about that.
"I said when I first came in, 'You're going to be really good for five games, don't worry about them, you'll win them,' and 'You're going to be really bad in five games, don't worry about them, you're going to lose them', that's the same at every level, every league. "It's the 36 [games] in between that decide where you're going to end up, and we've fallen to the wrong side in those tight games far too often. " Wycombe were 19th in the table when the former Swansea City and Huddersfield boss was brought in to replace Michael Dodds in September.