We are 10 games into the 2015-16 league campaign and I have no idea how to feel about this team.

With six points from the past five games - and only one win from those five - the Dons are all the way down in 16th place. But that doesn’t even tell the whole story.

Wimbledon are only six points above the relegation zone. But they’re also only three points away from a play-off spot.

We’re not doing that great at the moment. Yet it wouldn’t take much to completely flip the script.

Two wins and a draw from our next three games, and all of a sudden the story if very different indeed.

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It’s encouraging that we’re not entirely far-gone at this point in the season, and that there’s plenty of time and opportunity to turn things around. The climb wouldn’t even be particularly steep.

Clowns to the left of me.....

Yet it leads to an odd state. We seem to be stuck in a sort of limbo, caught between “not so good” and “not so bad”.

That makes it hard to both figure this team out and manage expectations. There’s a sense that the 2015-16 Dons are still figuring out who and what they are. And, frankly, so are we.

It’s the uncertainty, the in-betweenness of it all that’s difficult to cope with.

Should we prepare for a long slog in which just staying up would be all that mattered? Should we strap in for a play-off challenge? What, exactly, is the goal? And how should we get there?

At some point we, the team and the fans, need to figure out what exactly this season is going to be about.

Until then, we’re just sort of stuck in the middle.