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To be fair, sounded a pretty dire game overall. But 1-0 at half time. Got to be happy with that.

Gets around that Smith - scored for us and Swindon!

Smith!!! Crap game, 1-0. Thank you!

MK go 1-1, and then concede straight away to go 2-1 down!

Needs something to lift this game really from the doldroms. Sounding very poor from us so far.

Forced sub by Sheff. Still sounding, well pretty dull. Not really a clear chance for either side yet.

All very dull so far...sounds like our passing game is misfiring a bit so far.

Notice P'boro two up as well. Just our luck if they are finding a bit of form.

Difficult to say to much form the radio. Like last few games, pretty quiet opening from us. Sheff keeping possession nicely enough.

Pretty much our first 11 with Little back. Agard on bench, not Wilbs.

I am a petty small minded man, but West Brom 1, West Ham 0. Ha!

We have started the last few games fairly slowly, so would like a faster start today. Fear a 0-1, expect a 1-1, hope for a 2-1. Pretty much covers all the bases!

Downhead Park here, just up from Willen Lake.

No worries, Just focus on his second line. Our sense of humour is.....aquired.

Yep. Of course it is manufactured, but thought it looked great when our lot came out.

I like the scarf waving! Bloody screen played about a ten minute intro, we all stopped, and started again when they eventually came on! Prefered the atmosphere at Coventry to be honest. In the top tier, and all our groups of fans seemed a bit segmented, and also more tense. As an aside, where we were, fans seemed to sit broadly where they wanted, and I only sat down at half tme. All good natured and no trouble from stewards at all.

This really. An excellent hard played for point today, if sandwiched between two wins.

Back to, and little to add to above. Smith got stuck in, but would have liked to have seen Agard have a run late on. Reported down here the ref apologised to Robinson for missing a penalty their end after the match Far to faraway for me to have a view on it.

Oddly, so was I, and would need to see it again. My instinct was that he had been caught, but certainly went down easy.

MK are pretty well versed in the dark arts at the back, and have picked up quite a few more bookings than average this season. Discipline will be key, and would not be surprised if it does not end 11 v 11.

Yep, sure - but how would that table look if we won! May just come down to who takes their chances on the day. Going for it, and ending up with a draw would be very different from setting out for a draw however - where I think we would come un stuck. Probably the best team in the league when a goal up, so lets get the first goal and see how it plays out.

Of course I hope not, but the win today means even a defeat next week is not exactly terminal. They would go one point above us, and we would still have a game in hand. It is however a chance for us to make a real break. Just keep doing what we are doing now and we should be fine.

First time we have won five in a row in the league too. Even taking the last ten, which includes those three defeats, its still 21 points. Whilst we all look at the big games, as long as we pick up points somewhere, it does not really matter. Compare that to MK, who have only lost once in the last ten, they also have 21 points and have not gained any ground, as they have drawn 3. Got to keep at it however - Preston 3 points from 5 shows how quickly a bad run leaves you having a mountain to climb.

Table looks really good right now. MK have only lost once in 18 in the league - that rather randomly 3-0 at home to Walsall, so going to be far from easy. However, its as much an opportunity as a threat now. The team I was most worried about at Xmas was Preston - and we are now ten above them with a game in hand! One thing we are doing is avoiding draws, which has got to be good.

Final score - 2-0. On to MK! Failing to win here would have put extra pressure on that one - no result there is now a disaster, but an opportunity to put some space also between us and the rest. To be honest, other than first 20 minutes, all sounded very comfortable - although does not always sound it at the time! First defeat for Bristol Rugby in other news.