SAM Allardyce reckons Wanderers need six wins and a draw from their remaining seven games ... or they can kiss goodbye to automatic promotion.

Following the frustration of a third successive home draw - having led on each occasion - the Reebok boss appears all but resigned to having to settle for a play-off place.

"Our target's still 92 points as it has been all season," he stressed after seeing his side held to a 1-1 draw by relegation-threatened Stockport County last night.

"We've slipped behind that now. In fact we're now five points behind schedule and that's further behind than we have been at any time.

"That's left us with the task of winning six and drawing one of our remaining games to reach that total. If we do and we still don't make it then so be it ... we'll have been very unlucky. But that's what we've got to aim for."

Last night's point saw Wanderers move back into second place in the table, having trailed Blackburn on goal difference. But the advantage will be short-lived if Rovers, who now have three games in hand, take a point or more from tonight's home game against Sheffield United.

"We have to hope that they slip up," Allardyce added. "Teams do slip up ... and we've slipped up at home. It's those home games without winning that has put us in this position.

"People would look at that and say it's disastrous but there's only been one defeat. The rest have been draws. It's a fine dividing line and we just haven't been able to turn those draws into the all-important three points we've needed.

"It's not poor form though, it's poor results. Sometimes it's been poor mistakes and sloppy goals but that wasn't the case last night. We created plenty of chances and gave everything we had but we just couldn't get that second goal ... then they scored with a wonderful header.

"I can't blame anybody for that."