That's a HUGE reach... We'd still have had to play Exeter at some point so nothing saying we'd have won any other day. Plus we went out of the FA cup in round 1. This weekend was round 4 so that's a lot of assumptions that we'd have made it that far
Everything would have happened differently, including the 11 games between Horsham and Exeter from which we took 24 points. Would you prefer to run those games again on the basis we might not have ended up playing Exeter on Saturday?
The draw was after we were kicked out so would have all been different, who knows who we would have drawn.
If we beat Sutton and nothing else changed, we'd have had Huddersfield away in round 3 (Ball 17 vs Ball 4)
If we're good enough we will go up. We have a good enough side. Just need to perform for more than 45 minutes.