Ally Robertson: Keep calm and carry on? It’s easier said than done!

Whereas before they were just going out to play and win, now they are thinking about the prize. They might take an extra touch or whatever, and it works against you.

You don’t think you are, you don’t mean to, it can be subconsciously, but I’ve been in that position myself. You are trying to be precise and not make mistakes. That happens.

Whereas go back five or six weeks, we were playing as we wanted and everything was good. It’s very difficult at the end, however, when it means so much to the club and players. If the gaffer can keep us on track, get us to Wembley and get us up it would be absolutely brilliant.

Carlos has got to keep Albion relaxed, but also keep them focused.

Players might be thinking “we need to do this or that” but before you just turned up and tried to win.

We weren’t great against Rotherham last week, but we won. But the minutes Thomas-Asante got sent off against Sunderland, I just hoped we could get through to half-time at 0-0. If we’d have got through to then I’m sure we would’ve held on.

But they got that goal and we just didn’t seem to be able to recover.

We’ve obviously done well prior to that game, and we’ve had a bit of luck that when we’ve drawn games, rivals below have been beaten or dropped points. We kept our position because of that.

I think Thomas-Asante might have got away with his second yellow card if it’d happened in the second period and not immediately after he was booked the first time. I don’t think the challenge was that bad. It probably didn’t help with all the boos for Sunderland’s Dan Ballard.

I think we need one more win. I thought we’d be there if we beat Sunderland, probably leaving just a draw from the last three. But now I think we need three points somewhere.

At this stage of the season things happen. I always remember when we won promotion in 1975/76 at Oldham – we had to go there and win the game.

We played well and won the game 1-0 and it was fantastic. All these games towards the end of the campaign mean everything.

We were playing brilliantly at the time under Gilesy and had been on a good run, but we still had to get the job done, there was lots on the line and others could’ve beaten us to promotion.

Luckily we did well and it was fantastic for the fans, the club, the lot.

Because we were playing well in that period it was just a message of “come on lads, keep it going”. That was the message from Gilesy and that’s what we did.

Whereas at the minute with us, we’re either up or down. We’re not putting in complete performances every game.

I still firmly believe we’ll get there. I just hope we can get through the semi-finals and get to Wembley, it would be just fantastic for the new owner Shilen Patel, as well as the supporters.

Success would give us the money to start to build the club over the next three or four years.