RAIN has meant that our last two Saturday matches have been washed out -- and that's certainly not ideal when you're aiming to keep the momentum going for a place in the Third Division play-offs.

Luckily, our training facilities at Wolverley in terms of drainage are pretty good, so it hasn't affected our day to day schedule.

When our match against my old club Swansea City was called off because of a waterlogged Vetch Field pitch, we trained on Saturday and again yesterday without any problems.

But, with our previous Saturday's game at home to Macclesfield Town suffering a similar watery fate, we are starting to fall behind in our fixtures and there's only a handful of clubs now who have played fewer matches than us this season.

So, with the enforced inactivity we are having at the moment it is obviously costing us in terms of dropping behind our play-off rivals.

If Rushden & Diamonds win at home to Oxford United tonight then they will go above us in the table, while if Hull City are successful against Hartlepool United then they'll go eight points clear of our points total.

We'll have games in hand, obviously, but with other sides winning when we're not playing it does put pressure on us.

That, of course, is not ideal, but there's also the point about the wet weather preventing us from getting some momentum going.

We've players who have been injured like Colin Larkin and Mark Blake who need to get back into action again. For them, and others, to return to top form they need two or three matches under their belts so we need to play as quickly as we can.

Hopefully, the wet weather we are experiencing at the moment will ease to allow our home match against Carlisle United on Saturday to go ahead as planned.

We certainly don't want another blank Saturday, particularly as our injury list is starting to show signs of getting smaller.

It's nice to see things are beginning to look better on that front, but I'd just like to mention Parfait Medou-Otye before I sign off this week.

As you'll be aware by now Parfait has been forced to retire from football because of a rare heart condition and people have been asking me what the future is likely to hold for him now.

Well, at the moment he's still here in Kidderminster and I think that will be the case for another week or two. He's finished at the club and he's obviously not to do any physical work, so he's just hanging around the area for the time being.

But he'll go back to France when he's ready and I think then he will have a complete rest for six to 12 months.

Then I would imagine he'll have a look at his situation and see what will be the best for him.

All of us here, of course, wish him the very best of luck.