The Havant & Waterlooville manager accepts the odds are stacked against his team spending a second season in the National League.
They are nine points from safety will little over three weeks to go.
Saturday’s home defeat to Harrogate looks to have nailed their coffin and it was hard to take after going in front midway through the first half.
But the manager isn’t quite ready to accept their fate.
“We’ll keep fighting for survival while it's possible,” said the former Portsmouth defender.
“It’s not looking good now, we’re all feeling very flat about the situation. It’s going to be very tough to stay up, we know that.
“We’ll keep believing. There are for games left and we’ve got to win all of them and hopes for some luck elsewhere.
“Stranger things have happened but we know it’s not looking positive.”