Caldwell targets top-half finish for Exeter City
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell says his side are capable of a top-half finish in League One.The Grecians have lost just two of their past 11 games - to second-placed Wrexham and fourth-placed Stockport County - and are 15th in League One, three points off 12th-placed Lincoln City. They face relegation-threatened Burton Albion and Crawley Town over the Easter period before ending the season against Huddersfield Town and Mansfield Town. "I think it can be done. It can be done and that's the most important thing," Caldwell told BBC Radio Devon about a top-half finish. "That's what we're focusing on, we want to try and win every single game."I think we have four different games, the first one being the toughest by far in my opinion, but we have four games and we want to try and win every one, and to finish in that top half would be an incredible achievement."Caldwell's side are 10 points clear of the relegation places and are set for a fourth-successive season in League One.It will be the first time the club has achieved such a feat under fan ownership - they last spent four consecutive seasons in the third tier in the early 1990s."I think you always want to be in a position of control and controlling your own destiny," added Caldwell. "This year, fortunately, we've never been down in that bottom four, last year I think we had one week in it."I think that's great credit to a club that our budget is in that bottom four every year and to only have spent one week in it in the last two seasons shows the progress we're making as a club and shows the progress we're making as a team."So I'd always liked to be that team that is in control and looking higher up the table than worrying what's below."
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