Darrell Clarke: Cheltenham targeting 15 wins for survival says boss
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After failing to win any of their first 12 games of the League One season, Cheltenham have won three times since Darrell Clarke took over at the end of September
Cheltenham are targeting 15 wins to ensure League One survival, says manager Darrell Clarke.
The Robins are rooted to the bottom of the table after a 12-game winless streak at the start of the season that also saw 11 games without scoring.
They have won three times since Clarke was appointed on 29 September.
"When I went in there, I said there's no point looking at league tables, you've got to win 15 games," Clarke told BBC Radio Bristol.
"We've won three so we've still got 12 games to win out of 28 games. There's a lot of work to be done."
Cheltenham are six points from safety and Clarke said the club needs to bolster the squad in the January transfer window if they are to keep their place in the third tier.
"Hopefully we're starting to claw one or two teams back and try and get out of that bottom four," Clarke said.
"The squad needs trimming, it's got plenty of names but not enough quality, so we need to be tweaking things and improving things a little bit in the window if we can and then try to get up as high in the league as possible.
"But 15 wins has to be the focus."
Cheltenham travel a short distance to Bristol Rovers in their next league outing on Saturday to take on Clarke's former side, where he spent more than four years as manager.
While this is not the 45-year-old's first trip back to the Memorial Ground, he said he "loves" returning and seeing Rovers fans and tipped the team for a play-off spot later this season.
"I'm sure if they can start getting that run of results together they can start threatening that top six," he said.