Peterborough United chairman’s glimmer of hope as forwards click into gear and a need to reward the Posh fans

The form of the forwards has given Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony a glimmer of hope his side could yet clamber out of the Championship relegation zone.

Posh won 3-1 at QPR on Sunday to move off the bottom of the table, but they still have a football mountain to climb to preserve their second tier status.

But Posh have now scored in four successive Championship matches for the first time this season. They have scored seven goals in their last three games with strike partners Jonson Clarke-Harris and Jack Marriott responsible for six of them.

But MacAnthony has also praised the impact of teenage back-up forwards Ricky-Jade Jones and Joe Taylor.

MacAnthony, on today’s edition of his Hard Truth podcast (March 23) said: “The fact we have started scoring goals give me a glimmer of hope for this season.

“It’s been a long time since our oponents have had to worry about us as an attacking force, but they do now. We’ve scored in our last four games and we’ve just gone two, two and three goals in our last three matches.

“Jonno and Marriott have shown what might have been had they been fit all season. They would probably have scored 35+ goals between them.

“The emergence of Ricky-Jade Jones has been a highlight of the season. He was breathtaking in the games against Manchester City and Swansea.

“And we have Joe Taylor, another 19 year-old, who has been getting minutes in the first team on the back of his goalscoring for the under 23s.

“I saw some comments wondering why we were playing Joe ahead of a loan striker (Callum Morton), but he will get loads of goals for us. He’s prolific and the manager loves him.

“Obviously it’s a tall order for us to get out of trouble, but if we win some games and score plenty of goals it would at least give the fans something to cheer about.

“They deserve that and I was really pleased for them on Sunday as they have travelled up and down the country and barely seen their team win. There were 800 of them in London for an early kick-off.

“I wasn’t that surprised we won at QPR as I’ve sensed a result like that was on the way.

“We played really well at Bournemouth (a 1-1 draw) and we should have beaten Stoke (2-2) and we could have beaten Swansea (2-3) as we took the lead, but then decided to sit back which is never a good idea with our defensive record.

“We deserved to beat QPR despite falling behind after another mistake by us. We were the only side who looked like scoring in the second-half and we missed a sitter right at the end.

“I’m convinced we can beat anyone in this league, but too often we’ve just beaten ourselves.”

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