Torquay United manager Chris Hargreaves is facing a series of potentially season defining fixtures as they face four of their five fellow members of the bottom six of League Two.
The phrase 'six-pointer' was probably invented with the Gulls upcoming league encounters with Portsmouth (a), Bury (h), Northampton Town (h) and Accrington Stanley (h) in mind.
For good measure, they are also due to travel to second placed Chesterfield before the month is out as well.
Their re-arranged home fixture with Northampton on February 11th-which had been due to take place in mid January, but was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch- will also have the added spice of an early return to Plainmoor for former manager Alan Knill, who was recently named as assistant to the Cobblers' new manager Chris Wilder.
Home advantage in the games against Bury and Accrington, as well as the Northampton fixture, will almost certainly be a major advantage to the Gulls, and as long as they don't find themselves rooted to the foot of the table by the time March comes around-which would be their worst case scenario-then Hargreaves and his players could be well on course to complete their survival target.
Before then, there is the small matter of Hargreaves's first game in charge at Plainmoor on Tuesday night against Burton Albion; and the Gulls' boss will be looking to make a winning return as manager.
