The last two fixtures have brought us no reward and it's been a disappointing week for everyone.

As I already mentioned, March is a month of immense importance, filled with seven games that can make or break our future.

Saturday saw us travel to our old landlords for what was always going to be a difficult test. And it proved just that as we went down 3-0.

That scoreline was, however, flattering, as we had many chances to take the lead and, had one of them been converted, it could easily have been a totally different story.

The gaffer said they were a battle-hardened First Division team and you could see where he was coming from. Eleven hard-working, good professionals accustomed to the rigours of this division and with enough ability to pick up the needed points.

We must strive to emulate a team like Gillingham as we are similar in many ways, but it's essential that we survive this first season as the experience gained will be priceless.

Then it was on to Wednesday's clash with last year's rivals for another colossal encounter and, backed up by a tremendous following of Seagulls supporters, it made for an excellent atmosphere.

It was a tense game, understandable, given the importance, that neither team truly deserved to win. But it was the men from the Potteries who snatched a late triumph and thus leapfrogged us out of the drop zone.

And I never thought I'd ever say this but if I never hear another rendition of Delilah it will be no tragedy.

But the most disappointing thing is that after giving ourselves a great chance, with three priceless wins, we have failed to capitalise on that over the last two games, which means that the back to back home clashes are of massive importance.

Well, the away trip to Stoke brought up no end of talking points for me to comment on. Firstly, on departing Brighton Tuesday evening we discovered that the video was on the blink, so our resident electrical expert Dean White tried to fix it but was unable to due to the position of the video in the overhead locker, which required a thin arm to get to the problem. I then tried my luck but only succeeded in blowing the coffee machine as well as the video. So finally Mal (Stuart) had a go.

He amazingly straddled two seats (which is a feat in itself) and was there for 20 minutes trying to solve the dilemma. And only gave up when he discovered that it was a start lead and not a slice of pizza wedged behind the video.

We did try to get the techno nerd (Paul Brooker) to have a look, but he was playing Spanish Bingo on his laptop and replied Maana Maana. It's funny but ever since the Gaffer unleashed his film collection, a few of the boys have invested in laptops which enable you to play your own DVDs. Purely coincidence, I'm sure. And the latest one to get PC-friendly has been the Harlow Hacker Gary Hart. But it wasn't films that he and Kerry were watching, but wildlife programmes as, apparently, Argy (Mayo) loves documentaries about the rampaging ox while Bargy (Hart) is a bit of an iguana fan.

And finally, the countdown is on for Juice's new hour-long radio show involving Bobby Z and myself. The first show goes out on Friday 14th and it involves all the gossip, plus the funkiest House tracks to kickstart your Friday night.

I've had a few requests about a phone-in but, unfortunately this is a pre-recorded show so that just won't work.

Saturday March 8