The valley view

relegation zone and since we have achieved that we have to be delighted.
I think when you get on a bit of a run, it is easy for people to get carried away and expect you to win every game you play, but in top-class football that just doesn't happen.
You're never going to have everything your own way and it is very rare indeed in the Premiership that you can perform below your best and still win games.
Of course it would have been fantastic for us to have picked up a win against either Manchester City on Good Friday or Reading on Monday.
But the two points we have earned from those two games has seen us go above Sheffield United and into 17th position - out of the relegation places for the first time since September, somebody told me.
It was a pair of results that also stretched our unbeaten run to six matches, and that really gives us something to try to prolong when we go out onto the pitch now.
In terms of the games themselves I feel we just let our standards slip very slightly. Our effort and determination levels could not be faulted over the two games, as our fifth clean sheet in six matches underlines.
But even though the injuries to myself and Marcus Bent and Alex Song's enforced substitution didn't help, perhaps we haven't passed the ball as well as we can recently. That, conversely, is showing up in a goals for column that read eight in the three games prior to our last three outings.
As I mentioned earlier, though, you don't always get the opportunity to knock the ball around, especially in the position we're in, and I hope fans understand that it might not be too pretty from here on in.
From a personal point of view, I think Sky Sports' cameras made it clear how disappointed I was to come off early on in the Reading game.
The knee injury I picked up was an aggravation of the same one that cost me a few games recently, and it could not have come at a worse time.
Thankfully, Ben Thatcher has got himself back to full fitness and he was on hand to be a straight replacement for me, and I hope to be back and available for selection again as soon as possible.
Everton this weekend might be too soon for me, but it will be another Charlton team in confident spirits that goes to Goodison Park this Sunday hoping to pick up that all important away victory. 
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