Evo Stik Division One North
Brighouse Town manager Paul Quinn
Paul Quinn says the league’s unpredictability could provide the key to fire Brighouse Town into the play-offs.
Brighouse are six points adrift of a top five spot with only four games to go, but Quinn has not given up hope.
“I don’t think anything has changed from before the Ossett Town game (the 1-1 draw on Monday night),” Quinn told Non League Yorkshire.
“If we had lost it, it would have made it more difficult, if we had won it we would have closed the gap.
“I think with four games to go we are still in contention and you can’t ask for anymore.
“With some of the results for everyone, I don’t know what it will take? It has been such a strange league this year.
“You can’t nail your flag to the mast and say ‘this result will go this way’. You look at Saturday’s result, not many people would have said Colne would go to Lancaster and win.
“We have to keep going. We have four games to play and ideally we want to take 12 points, but we’ll see.
“If we can go into that last game with a chance then who knows? Until we’re out of it we’ll keep believing that we can get into it?”
Brighouse, who host Bamber Bridge tomorrow, had to equalise in the draw with Ossett.
Having fallen behind at the start of the second half, Brighouse needed Jimmy Pollard’s leveller.
“I thought we were definitely dominant in the first half, I was disappointed that we didn’t come in at half-time with a goal,” he said.
“I thought the second half was more evenly matched. I wouldn’t say they were on top for large parts. Either side could have nicked it.
“We’ve just disappointed that when we were on top for large spells, we didn’t capitalise.
“We had some excellent chances. Tom Haigh had a great chance from a great move, but it was a typical derby. Scrappy at times, well contested, but overall with the chances we missed and the periods of pressure they had, a draw was probably a fair result.”