At times this season, a sense of impending doom may have slowly started to envelop Galway United.
But Shane Keegan's side have revived their hopes of staying in the League of Ireland Premier Division and with four games to go, they sit outside the bottom three, one point clear of the drop zone.
Keegan joined us tonight to talk about his side's progress which while not yet secure, is in a far better place than earlier in the campaign.
"We've really never been that bad. When I say that, we've probably only had two non-performances in the league," he said.
"We were very poor away to Cork and we were very poor away to Rovers. After that, every single game that we lost this year, we lost by one goal. We were really in all of those games but I don't know whether it was mental strength or character but we weren't able to turn the performances we were putting in into points.
Galway United manager Shane Keegan ©INPHO/Oisin Keniry
"Then typically when you do start to win a couple of games and the ball starts to roll to you, you start to get confidence and all of a sudden the ball is going into the back of the net when it wasn't previously.
"But look, it's great form at the moment and one of the boys, Stephen Folan, stuck up a picture on the Whatsapp group, one of these form tables. The last 10 games has us third which is fantastic going but at the same time, you're just a point above the relegation zone, so imagine how much trouble we'd be in if we hadn't hit that bit of form."
Keegan also spoke of a team meeting which he feels has been beneficial during their run.
"The Thursday before the Derry game, we'd won the last two in a row, when we finished training, we did have a sit down and a real open air talk about 'this is the position that we're in'. Obviously things were looking great at that stage," he said.
"We had a real heart to heart about this. We threw a few things out and trying to get the tone of that meeting, trying to get across the seriousness of the situation while at the same time not putting a tonne of bricks down on top of them and it seems to have got the right response."
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