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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-52875204423113350182015-06-30T04:58:00.001-07:002015-12-01T11:05:01.148-08:00Fixtures and Results for 2015-16 Championship Season including Pre Season.<div class="copy-paste-block">
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<img alt="St. James's Gate" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/st-james-gate92-859020.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="St. James's Gate" width="35" /></div>
St. James's Gate <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> -A <span class="highlight win">0 - 4 </span>W T<span class="day">ue </span><span class="end"><span class="number">14</span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Limerick" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/limerick-fc-100x10092-2518916.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Limerick" width="35" /></div>
Limerick <span class="friendly">Friendly</span>Att -A <span class="highlight draw">1 - 1 </span>D <span class="day">Wed </span><span class="end"><span class="number">15 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Cabinteely" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/cabinteely-fc-100x10092-2518917.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Cabinteely" width="35" /></div>
Cabinteely <span class="friendly">Friendly</span>t -A <span class="highlight win">0 - 3 </span>W <span class="day">Sat </span><span class="end"><span class="number">18 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Newport Pagnell Town" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/newport-pagnell-town92-857322.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Newport Pagnell Town" width="35" /></div>
Newport Pagnell Town <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 0-6 W 13.00 <span class="day">Sat </span><span class="end"><span class="number">18 </span>Jul 2015 769</span><br />
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<img alt="Buckingham Athletic" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/buckingham-athletic-10092-1569532.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Buckingham Athletic" width="35" /></div>
Buckingham Athletic <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 0-12 W 17.00 <span class="day">Mon </span><span class="end"><span class="number">20 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Chesham United" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/chesham-united-logo-100x10092-2480368.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Chesham United" width="35" /></div>
Chesham United <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 1-2 W 19.30 <span class="day">Tue </span><span class="end"><span class="number">21 J</span>ul 2015 365</span><br />
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<img alt="Mansfield Town" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5892-9871.png" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Mansfield Town" width="35" /></div>
Mansfield Town <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 1-1 D 19.45 <span class="day">Sat </span><span class="end"><span class="number">25 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Barnet" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/13492-3160.png" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Barnet" width="35" /></div>
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Barnet <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 1-3 L 15.00 <span class="day">Tue </span><span class="end"><span class="number">28 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Getafe CF" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/getafe-cf-100x10092-2518934.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Getafe CF" width="35" /></div>
Getafe CF <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> H 1-3 L 19.45 <span class="day">Thu </span><span class="end"><span class="number">30 </span>Jul 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Brackley Town" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/brackley-town-badge92-325865.jpg" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Brackley Town" width="35" /></div>
Brackley Town <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> A 1-0 L <span class="day">Mon </span><span class="end"><span class="number">03 </span>Aug 2015</span><br />
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<img alt="Chelsea XI" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/492-3033.png" height="35" style="border: 0px;" title="Chelsea XI" width="35" /></div>
Chelsea XI <span class="friendly">Friendly</span> H 1-2 L 19.45 6954<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><br />
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">AUGUST</caption><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">08</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Rotherham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/6392-3190.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Rotherham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Rotherham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 9,869</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 4</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">11</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Leyton Orient" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5792-3130.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Leyton Orient" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Leyton Orient</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">Capital One Cup</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 5,444</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">15</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Preston North End" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/prestonlogo92-3096.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Preston North End" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Preston North End</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 11,035</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">18</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Bolton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/bwfc92-3031.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Bolton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Bolton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 10,765</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">22</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Reading" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/6292-3100.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Reading" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Reading</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 16,547</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight draw" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 166, 11); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">D</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">25</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Cardiff" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team-header/cardiff-city-crest-151692-34852.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Cardiff" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Cardiff</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">Capital One Cup</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 5,617</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">29</span>AUG 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Birmingham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/4592-3025.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Birmingham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Birmingham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 14,626</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 2</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_7" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">SEPTEMBER</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">12</span>SEP 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Middlesbrough" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/3092-3086.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Middlesbrough" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Middlesbrough</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 21,448</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">15</span>SEP 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Burnley" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/burnley113-3484992-3066.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Burnley" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Burnley</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 15,845</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">19</span>SEP 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Leeds" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2892-3082.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Leeds" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Leeds</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 19,284</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 2</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">WED</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">23</span>SEP 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Southampton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/1892-3146.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Southampton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Southampton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">Capital One Cup</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 10,189</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 6</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">26</span>SEP 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Derby" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/dcfc-logo92-3074.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Derby" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Derby</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 13,554</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 3</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_12" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">OCTOBER</caption><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">03</span>OCT 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Bristol City" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/bcfc-crest92-3064.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Bristol City" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Bristol City</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 14,535</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight draw" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 166, 11); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">D</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">17</span>OCT 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Blackburn" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2292-3027.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Blackburn" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Blackburn</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 11,548</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">3 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">20</span>OCT 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Huddersfield" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5692-3128.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Huddersfield" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Huddersfield</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 11,471</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">24</span>OCT 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="QPR" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/1692-3332.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="QPR" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">QPR</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 15,567</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">3 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">31</span>OCT 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Hull City" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/hull92-9867.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Hull City" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Hull City</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 15,360</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 2</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_17" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">NOVEMBER</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">03</span>NOV 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Charlton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/logo-correct-pixels92-3121.gif" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Charlton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Charlton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 9,575</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight win" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 166, 80); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">W</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">07</span>NOV 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Brighton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/brighton229-3484792-3115.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Brighton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Brighton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 23,661</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight lose" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">2 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">L</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a class="buy-tickets" href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -395px -34px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none; width: 40px;" title=""></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">21</span>NOV 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Fulham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5592-3037.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Fulham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Fulham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 14,508</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight draw" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 166, 11); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">1 - 1</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">D</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">28</span>NOV 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Wolves" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/4492-3060.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wolves" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Wolves</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;">Att 19,814</td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="highlight draw" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 166, 11); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: inline-block; padding: 3px 5px;">0 - 0</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;">D</td><td class="stats" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td><td class="report" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_21" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">DECEMBER</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">05</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Brentford" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/brentford92-3113.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Brentford" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Brentford</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">12</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Ipswich" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2792-3080.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Ipswich" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Ipswich</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 12:30</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">15</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Sheff Wed" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/1792-3144.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Sheff Wed" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Sheff Wed</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">19</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Nottingham Forest" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team-header/header-logo92-34983.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Nottingham Forest" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Nottingham Forest</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">26</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Cardiff" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team-header/cardiff-city-crest-151692-34852.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Cardiff" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Cardiff</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">MON</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">28</span>DEC 2015</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Birmingham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/4592-3025.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Birmingham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Birmingham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_27" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">JANUARY</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">02</span>JAN 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Leeds" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2892-3082.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Leeds" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Leeds</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">12</span>JAN 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Burnley" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/burnley113-3484992-3066.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Burnley" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Burnley</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">16</span>JAN 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Reading" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/6292-3100.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Reading" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Reading</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">23</span>JAN 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Bolton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/bwfc92-3031.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Bolton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Bolton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">30</span>JAN 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Middlesbrough" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/3092-3086.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Middlesbrough" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Middlesbrough</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_32" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">FEBRUARY</caption><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">06</span>FEB 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Cardiff" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team-header/cardiff-city-crest-151692-34852.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Cardiff" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Cardiff</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">13</span>FEB 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Derby" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/dcfc-logo92-3074.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Derby" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Derby</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">20</span>FEB 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Bristol City" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/bcfc-crest92-3064.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Bristol City" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Bristol City</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">23</span>FEB 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Huddersfield" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5692-3128.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Huddersfield" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Huddersfield</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">27</span>FEB 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Blackburn" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2292-3027.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Blackburn" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Blackburn</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_37" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">MARCH</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">05</span>MAR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="QPR" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/1692-3332.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="QPR" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">QPR</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">08</span>MAR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Charlton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/logo-correct-pixels92-3121.gif" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Charlton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Charlton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">12</span>MAR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Hull City" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/hull92-9867.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Hull City" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Hull City</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">19</span>MAR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Brighton" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/brighton229-3484792-3115.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Brighton" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Brighton</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><caption id="ctl00_rpt1_table1_41" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 127, 127); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 28px 0px 14px; text-align: left;">APRIL</caption><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">02</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Fulham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/5592-3037.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Fulham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Fulham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">05</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Wolves" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/4492-3060.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wolves" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Wolves</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">09</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Rotherham" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/6392-3190.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Rotherham" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Rotherham</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">16</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Preston North End" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/prestonlogo92-3096.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Preston North End" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Preston North End</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: #f6a4a7; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">TUE</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">19</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Sheff Wed" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/1792-3144.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Sheff Wed" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Sheff Wed</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 19:45</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">23</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Brentford" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/brentford92-3113.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Brentford" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Brentford</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
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<table class="fixtures_details_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 642px;"><tbody>
<tr class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">30</span>APR 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Ipswich" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team/2792-3080.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Ipswich" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Ipswich</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">A</td><td class="result" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 15:00</span></td><td class="text" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 21px;"></td><td class="preview" style="float: left; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><a href="http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/#" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://www.mkdons.com/images/editorial/milton_sprite_editorial.png); background-position: -396px -62px; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #e91c23; display: block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0.917em; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2em; margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 24px; text-decoration: none;" title=""></a></td><td class="tickets" style="padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 51px;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr class="odd" style="background-color: #e1e2e3; padding-left: 13px; padding-right: 13px;"><td class="date padding_left" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 14px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 72px;"><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="text" style="display: block;">SAT</span></span><span class="end" style="clear: both; float: left; line-height: 1em; width: 62px;"><span class="number" style="display: block; float: left; font-family: Prata; font-size: 2.167em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-right: 5px; width: 28px;">07</span>MAY 2016</span></td><td class="opponent" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 181px;"><div class="crest" style="float: left; height: 35px; margin: 7px 28px 7px 0px; text-align: center; width: 35px;">
<img alt="Nottingham Forest" height="34" src="http://www.mkdons.com/cms_images/team-header/header-logo92-34983.png" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 28px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Nottingham Forest" width="34" /></div>
<span style="display: block; font-weight: bold; padding: 9px 0px 0px;">Nottingham Forest</span><span class="friendly" style="display: block; font-size: 0.834em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">The Sky Bet Championship</span></td><td class="attendance" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 62px;"></td><td class="venues" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 15px;">H</td><td class="result" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 1px 3px 0px 12px; width: 61px;"><span class="">K.O. 12:30</span></td></tr>
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-56881973247855007222014-08-07T11:29:00.000-07:002015-05-20T03:11:21.944-07:00Pre Season News, Pictures, Fixtures and Results for 2014-15 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6tA7213Bxv86CkGxyIhWPqvJrz3bmZvX9vut0GKFLiIDbHHeHaOMbwDJs92l7AMjyGFw2-UTuUhSDZnzSp_31_D2SZlrvRDm-3RGfipKho360Xib4g8-4QIXjx02_e7Qb56ZPOECQRo/s1600/lewington+testimonial+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6tA7213Bxv86CkGxyIhWPqvJrz3bmZvX9vut0GKFLiIDbHHeHaOMbwDJs92l7AMjyGFw2-UTuUhSDZnzSp_31_D2SZlrvRDm-3RGfipKho360Xib4g8-4QIXjx02_e7Qb56ZPOECQRo/s320/lewington+testimonial+014.JPG" /></a><br />
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Stuart Pearce Nottingham Forest manager arriving for the pre season Game that was also Dean Lewington's Testimonial.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_hqruFdQ_j1h0RCcEq-xjFNxnUJFIV9zvMot-_ZMWz8-DMQ72AbeP41QFP7gnaztNUZ2gTw-roDQuEAmGKjlhnf3ZdYbFXhybE-Nxb6eqjjQV9qYKlP_29jz6KrqC843_2VSKlkJ5Vc/s1600/lewington+testimonial+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_hqruFdQ_j1h0RCcEq-xjFNxnUJFIV9zvMot-_ZMWz8-DMQ72AbeP41QFP7gnaztNUZ2gTw-roDQuEAmGKjlhnf3ZdYbFXhybE-Nxb6eqjjQV9qYKlP_29jz6KrqC843_2VSKlkJ5Vc/s320/lewington+testimonial+016.JPG" /></a> <br />
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Jimmy Gilligan Former Wimbledon assistant manager during Murdoch era and before the club became MK Dons in 2004 when he had a spell as caretaker manager<br />
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Ben Reeves<br />
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Former Dons Shaun Williams and Charlie MacDonald now at Millwall and Barnet respectively at Forest pre season.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTs9a-a2I27Gtah1iKqH_XVgES0lHrZholUMI81xLtXfmY5pCQDJ571RDD2pk1_CCFcyC52hgFDFE55H1_eB_2_8TLJcFsHyzvUhY8reQm2DRFWdW3B6u7GHpnstjd3wXO5ZS4scI2m3k/s1600/lewington+testimonial+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTs9a-a2I27Gtah1iKqH_XVgES0lHrZholUMI81xLtXfmY5pCQDJ571RDD2pk1_CCFcyC52hgFDFE55H1_eB_2_8TLJcFsHyzvUhY8reQm2DRFWdW3B6u7GHpnstjd3wXO5ZS4scI2m3k/s320/lewington+testimonial+017.JPG" /></a><br />
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Another former Don Gary McKenzie now at Blackpool.<br />
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Well pre season was not as successful result wise as last season as then we were undefeated.<br />
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This pre season we lost a couple of games but seemed to experiment a lot with team formations, we also gave the academy lads a good run out but more importantly we made some good signings and apart from the loss of Galloway who basically crapped on the club that developed him and took the advice of his greedy agent rather than try and get a better deal for the club we did not lose too many players.<br />
<br />
Gleeson left for Birmingham and Chadwick to Cambridge but I thought we have replaced them with good players and the squad looks if anything stronger than last season.<br />
The biggest loss for me was Williams and Izale was never a lone striker and I still wonder why he was ever signed as Karl would never change his system even if we signed Messi !!!. <br />
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I am reasonably optimistic anyway, changes have been made behind scenes regarding recruitment, the chairman has opened the purse a bit and is now concentrating on the new training ground the Mike Dove's academy looks in good shape and there are some good players amongst the current crop.<br />
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Here's hoping for a flying start and as usual the first target is fifty points after that Id expect with the team we have to make play offs I THINK automatic is probably too much looking at other teams but you never know !<br />
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SAT<br />
12JUL 2014 <br />
Buckingham Athletic<br />
Friendly (MK Dons XI)<br />
A 3 - 4 W <br />
MON<br />
14JUL 2014 <br />
St. James's Gate<br />
Friendly<br />
0 - 6 W <br />
TUE<br />
15JUL 2014 <br />
Drogheda United<br />
Friendly<br />
A 1 - 0 L <br />
WED<br />
16JUL 2014 <br />
Bray Wanderers<br />
Friendly<br />
A 1 - 2 W <br />
SAT<br />
19JUL 2014 <br />
Aylesbury<br />
Friendly<br />
Att. 357 A 0 - 1 W <br />
SAT<br />
19JUL 2014 <br />
Stony Stratford<br />
Friendly<br />
A 1 - 7 W <br />
TUE<br />
22JUL 2014 <br />
Dag & Red<br />
Friendly<br />
A 0 - 1 W <br />
SUN<br />
27JUL 2014 <br />
Nottingham Forest<br />
Dean Lewington's Testimonial Match<br />
Att. 4,121 H 1 - 0 W <br />
TUE<br />
29JUL 2014 <br />
Cambridge United<br />
Friendly<br />
Att. 951 A 3 - 1 L <br />
SAT<br />
02AUG 2014 <br />
Brackley Town<br />
Friendly<br />
A 1 - 4 W <br />
MON<br />
04AUG 2014 <br />
Leicester City<br />
Friendly<br />
Att. 4,332 H 0 - 2 L <br />
TUE<br />
05AUG 2014 <br />
Leighton Town<br />
Friendly (MK Dons XI)<br />
2 - 1 L <br />
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Result Score Attendance Away Fans Position Points<br />
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Sat 9 Aug 3pm H Gillingham FL1 W 4-2 7595 1048 2nd 3pts<br />
Tue 12 Aug 7.45pm H AFCW League Cup W 3-1 7174 1132 <br />
Sat 16 Aug 3pm A Peterboro Unt FL1 L 3-2 7115 813 9th 3pts <br />
Tue 19 Aug 7.45pm A Chesterfield FL1 W 0-1 5811 246 4th 6pts <br />
Sat 23 Aug 3pm H Coventry City FL1 D 0-0 10,600 3601 7th 7pts <br />
Tue 26 Aug 8.00pm H League Cup Manchester United W 4-0 26,969 6,240 <br />
Sat 30 Aug 3pm H Crawley Town FL1 W 2-0 7148 243 3rd 10pts <br />
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Tue 2 Sep 7pm H Leicester Friendly L 0-4 <br />
Sat 6 Sep 3pm A Sheffield United FL1 Postponed International Call ups <br />
Sat 13 Sep 3pm A Barnsley FL1 W 3-5 9192 363 3rd 13 pts<br />
Tue 16 Sep 7.45pm H Bradford City FL1 L 1-2 7,139 231 4th 13 pts <br />
Sat 20 Sep 3pm H Crewe Alexandra FL1 W 6-1 7,049 244 2nd 16 pts<br />
Tue 24 Sep 7.45pm - League Cup 3rd Round Bradford W 2-0 5,707 572<br />
Sat 27 Sep 3pm A Bristol City FL1 L 3-2 13,119 457 4th 16pts<br />
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Sat 4 Oct 3pm A Yeovil FL1 W 0-2 4,000 337 4th 19pts<br />
Tue 7 Oct 7:45pm H AFCW Football League Trophy L 2-3 4,407 214 <br />
Sat 11 Oct 3pm H Rochdale FL1 Postponed International Call ups <br />
Sat 18 Oct 3pm A Leyton Orient FL1 D 0-0 5,014 713 5th 20pts<br />
Sat 21 Oct 3pm H Fleetwood Town FL1 W 2-1 6,736. 110 4th 23pts <br />
Sat 25 Oct 3pm A Doncaster Rovers FL1 D 0-0 5,976 396 7th 24pts <br />
Tue 28 Oct 7.45pm H Sheffield Unt League Cup 4th Round L 1-2 8,520 1,428 <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-RNnWwU_SIozD4LuFYt4DOhtjPbd_HeJRo9erZV9SXdL89MaxvxcHSStsIyIBrWDZKYML-KZ_kXzgqcLLagJlxMVNJLkc6c0wYpibeH-u0pjeiCBWbQrI9YNP88wichjM-cs_3QKfRc/s1600/motty.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-RNnWwU_SIozD4LuFYt4DOhtjPbd_HeJRo9erZV9SXdL89MaxvxcHSStsIyIBrWDZKYML-KZ_kXzgqcLLagJlxMVNJLkc6c0wYpibeH-u0pjeiCBWbQrI9YNP88wichjM-cs_3QKfRc/s200/motty.jpg" /></a> John Motson Match of the Day and commentary legend arrives for the Swindon game.<br />
Sat 1 Nov 3pm H Swindon Town FL1 W 2-1 9,494 1,292 3rd 27pts <br />
Sat 8 Nov 3pm - A Port Vale F.A.Cup 1st Round. W 3-4 4,120 314 <br />
Sat 15 Nov 3pm A Scunthorpe United FL1 Postponed International Call ups <br />
Sat 22 Nov 3pm H Port Vale FL1 W 1-0 12,007 762 4th 30pts (3 games in hand) <br />
Tue 25th 7.45pm H Rochdale FL1 D 2-2 6,720 200 4th 31 pts (2 games in hand) <br />
Sat 29 Nov 3pm H Colchester United FL1 W <b>6-0</b> 7,646 309 away fans 4th 34 pts<br />
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Tue 2 Dec 7.45 A Sheffield United FL1 W 1-0 17,030 248 3rd 37 pts (gamein hand)<br />
Sat 6 Dec 3pm H Chesterfield FA Cup 2nd Round L 0-1 5,591 1,125 to replay <br />
Sat 13 Dec 3pm A Preston NE FL1 D 1-1 9,856 322 3rd<br />
Sat 20 Dec 3pm H Oldham Athletic FL1 W <b>7-0 </b> 7,998 400 2nd 41 pts <br />
Fri 26 Dec 7.45pm A Notts County FL1 W 0 - 1 5,897 645 2nd 44 pts <br />
Sun 28 Dec 3pm H Walsall FL1 L 0 - 3 9,311 538 4th 44 pts <br />
<br />
Fri 2 Jan 7.45pm H Chesterfield FA Cup 2nd Round Replay L 0-1 8,040 1,164<br />
FA took unprecedented decision to punish MK Dons by replaying match and incurring costs despite Chesterfield FC fielding an ineligible player.<br />
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Sat 10 Jan 3pm A Crawley Town FL1 D 2-2 2,468 424 4th 45 pts<br />
Sat 17 Jan 3pm H Sheffield United FL1 W 1-0 9,633 1,451 3rd 48 pts <br />
Sat 24 Jan 3pm H Barnsley FL1 W 2-0 8,310 657 3rd 51 pts <br />
Tue 27 Jan 7.45pm A Scunthorpe Unt FL1 D 1-1 3,005 147 3rd 52 pts<br />
Sat 31 Jan 3pm A Crewe Alexandra FL1 W 5-0 4,319 441 2nd 55 pts<br />
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Sat 7 Feb 3pm H Bristol City FL1 D 0-0 15,642 5,109 3rd 56 pts<br />
Tue 10 Feb 7.45pm A Bradford City FL1 L 2-1 11,948 136 3rd <br />
Sat 14 Feb 3pm A Gillingham FL1 L 4-2 5,107 321 3rd <br />
Tue 17 Feb 7.45pm Colchester FL1 W 0-1 2,974 248 2nd 59 pts<br />
Sat 21 Feb 3pm H Peterborough Unt FL1 W 3-0 11,162 1,738 2nd 62 pts <br />
Sat 28 Feb 3pm A Coventry City FL1 L 2-1 9,334 1,689 <br />
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Tue 3 Mar 7.45pm H Chesterfield FL1 L 1-2 7,335 227 3rd <br />
Sat 7 Mar 3pm H Preston NE FL1 L 0-2 10,618 1,994 4th<br />
Sat 14 Mar 3pm A Walsall FL1 D 1-1 3,887 473 4th 63 pts <br />
Tue 17 Mar 7.45pm A Oldham Athletic FL1 W 1-3 2,455 66 4th 66 pts <br />
Sat 21 Mar 3pm H Notts County FL1 W 4-1 11,981 559 4th 69 pts <br />
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<br />
Sat 4 Apr 3pm A Swindon Town FL1 W 3-0 10,087 896 3rd 72 pts <br />
Tue 7 Apr 7.45pm H Scunthorpe United FL1 W 2-0 8,087 247 3rd 75 pts<br />
Sat 11 Apr 3pm A Port Vale FL1 D 0-0 4,379 383 3rd 76 pts <br />
Tue 14 Apr 7.45pm A Fleetwood Town FL1 W 0-3 2,752 186 3rd 79 pts <br />
Sat 18 Apr 3pm H Leyton Orient FL1 W 6-1 10,137 905 3rd 82 pts<br />
Tue 21 Apr 7.45pm H Doncaster FL1 W 3-0 8,159 266 3rd 85 pts <br />
Sat 25 Apr 3pm A Rochdale FL1 W 3-2 3,501 422 3rd 88 pts<br />
<br />
Sat 2 May 3pm H Yeovil Town FL1 W 5-1 16,965 150tbc 2nd 91 pts<br />
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MK Dons secured Automatic Promotion to the Sky Bet Championship GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-54539790214349067182014-04-23T10:21:00.002-07:002014-05-06T05:12:47.178-07:00The MK Dons Season 2013-14 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9FerLNOdyUI4WUnaGbohfsNBQQ-CXJw0xXHVy4Y2_1fMQBYChWZK-1DMPhSgASF2Ee7gHUCozflM6hyphenhypheneHP0Y7gSbwaoXIIq1_m6xrZug5GEIsYj71ZkvOcO81SD4rbOdsKFn-EoCgnc/s1600/dean+lewington.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9FerLNOdyUI4WUnaGbohfsNBQQ-CXJw0xXHVy4Y2_1fMQBYChWZK-1DMPhSgASF2Ee7gHUCozflM6hyphenhypheneHP0Y7gSbwaoXIIq1_m6xrZug5GEIsYj71ZkvOcO81SD4rbOdsKFn-EoCgnc/s320/dean+lewington.JPG" /></a><br />
Club and Team Captain Dean Lewington<br />
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Below is a list of the fixtures including Pre Season and all Cup fixtures for the 20013-14 season <b>I will add some comments at the end of the season</b> and when I put the last fixtures up.<br />
I have been getting up to six hundred views since I stopped the monthly blogs so I will keep the site going for the foreseeable future as it is obviously being used as reference tool. <br />
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Pre Season Friendlies<br />
<br />
Mon 08 Jul 2013 St James' Gate<br />
St James' Gate Friendly Att. A 2 - 0 W <br />
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Tue 09 Jul 2013 University College Dublin (UCD)<br />
University College Dublin (UCD) Friendly Att. 193 A 2 - 2 D <br />
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Wed 10Jul 2013 <br />
Birmingham City Behind-closed-doors friendly Att. A 1 - 4 W<br />
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Sat 13 Jul 2013 <br />
Newport Pagnell Town Friendly Att. A 0 - 4 W <br />
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Sat 13 Jul 2013 <br />
Leighton Town Friendly Att. A 2 - 4 W <br />
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Tue 16 Jul 2013 <br />
Brackley Town Friendly Att. 789 A 1 - 2 W <br />
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Sun 21 Jul 2013 <br />
Plymouth Argyle Friendly Att. 1,686 A 1 - 1 D <br />
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Wed 24Jul 2013 <br />
Rayo Vallecano Friendly Att. 3,532 H 4 - 3 W <br />
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Sat 27 Jul 2013 <br />
Barnet Friendly Att. 1,062 A 1 - 4 W <br />
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Wed 31Jul 2013 <br />
Tottenham Hotspur XI Friendly Att. 8,671 H 1 - 0 W <br />
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Season 2013/2014 Sky Bet League One<br />
August Sat 03 2013 <br />
Shrewsbury att 5,144 A 0 - 0 D <br />
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TUE 06 AUG 2013 <br />
NorthamptonCapital One Cup Att 3,486 A 1 - 2 W <br />
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SAT 10AUG 2013 <br />
Crewe Att 6,911 H 1 - 0 W <br />
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SAT 17 AUG 2013 <br />
Preston North End Att 9,944 A 2 - 2 D <br />
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SAT 24 AUG 2013 <br />
Bristol City Att 7,874 H 2 - 2 D <br />
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TUE 27AUG 2013 <br />
Sunderland Capital One Cup Att 18,992 A 4 - 2 L <br />
<br />
SAT 31 AUG 2013 <br />
Sheff Utd Att 15,080 A 0 - 1 W<br />
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SEPTEMBER<br />
TUE 03 SEP 2013 <br />
Northampton Johnstone's Paint Trophy Att 4,299 H 2 - 0 W <br />
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SAT 07 SEP 2013 <br />
Swindon Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,738 H 1 - 1 D <br />
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SAT 14 SEP 2013 <br />
Notts County Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,142 H 3 - 1 W <br />
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SAT 21SEP 2013 <br />
Peterborough Sky Bet League 1 Att 8,149 A 2 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 28 SEP 2013 <br />
Stevenage Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,770 H 4 - 1 W <br />
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OCTOBER <br />
SAT 05 OCT 2013 <br />
Gillingham Sky Bet League 1 Att 5,410 A 3 - 2 L <br />
<br />
TUE 08 OCT 2013 <br />
Stevenage Johnstone's Paint Trophy Att 1,456 A 2 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 12OCT 2013 <br />
Leyton Orient Sky Bet League 1 Att 6,359 A 2 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 19 OCT 2013 <br />
Rotherham Sky Bet League 1 Att 11,564 H 3 - 2 W <br />
<br />
TUE 22OCT 2013<br />
Carlisle Sky Bet League 1 Att 6,675 H 0 - 1 L <br />
<br />
SAT 26OCT 2013 <br />
Tranmere Sky Bet League 1 Att 4,100 A 3 - 2 L <br />
<br />
NOVEMBER SAT 02 NOV 2013 <br />
Walsall Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,711 H 1 - 0 W <br />
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SAT 09 NOV 2013 <br />
FC Halifax Town The FA Cup with Budweiser Att 4,049 H 4 - 1 W <br />
<br />
SAT 23 NOV 2013 <br />
Bradford Sky Bet League 1 Att 8,970 H 2 - 3 L <br />
<br />
TUE 26 NOV 2013 <br />
Colchester Sky Bet League 1 Att 2,597 A 3 - 1 L <br />
<br />
SAT 30NOV 2013 <br />
Coventry Sky Bet League 1 Att 14,988 H 1 - 3 L <br />
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DECEMBER SAT 07 DEC 2013 <br />
Dover The FA Cup with Budweiser Att 4,060 H 1 - 0 W <br />
<br />
SAT 14 DEC 2013 <br />
Wolves Sky Bet League 1 Att 17,142 A 0 - 2 W <br />
<br />
SAT 21 DEC 2013 <br />
Port Vale Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,882 H 3 - 0 W <br />
<br />
THU 26DEC 2013 <br />
Crawley Town Sky Bet League 1 Att 3,249 A 0 - 2 W <br />
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SUN 29DEC 2013 <br />
Brentford Sky Bet League 1 Att 8,010 A 3 - 1 L <br />
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JANUARY <br />
WED 01 JAN 2014 <br />
Colchester Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,879 H 0 - 0 D <br />
<br />
SAT 04 JAN 2014 <br />
WiganThe FA Cup with Budweiser Att 6,960 A 3 - 3 D <br />
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SAT 11 JAN 2014 <br />
Shrewsbury Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,408 H 3 - 2 W <br />
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TUE 14 JAN 2014 <br />
WiganThe FA Cup with Budweiser Att 8,316 H 1 - 3 L <br />
<br />
SAT 18 JAN 2014 <br />
Bristol City Sky Bet League 1 Att 11,533 A 2 - 2 D <br />
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TUE 21 JAN 2014 <br />
Crewe Sky Bet League 1 Att 3,613 A 2 - 0 L <br />
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TUE 28 JAN 2014 <br />
Carlisle Sky Bet League 1 Att 3,007 A 3 - 0 L <br />
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FEBRUARY SAT 01 FEB 2014 <br />
Tranmere Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,460 H 0 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 08 FEB 2014 <br />
Walsall Sky Bet League 1 Att 4,116 A 0 - 3 W <br />
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SAT 15 FEB 2014 <br />
Oldham Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,385 H 2 - 1 W <br />
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TUE 18FEB 2014 <br />
<br />
Preston North End Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,279 H 0 - 0 D <br />
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SAT 22FEB 2014 <br />
Bradford Sky Bet League 1 Att 13,501 A 1 - 0 L <br />
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TUE 25FEB 2014 <br />
Oldham Sky Bet League 1 Att 2,792 A 1 - 2 W <br />
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MARCH <br />
SAT 01 MAR 2014 <br />
Sheff Utd Sky Bet League 1 Att 9,192 H 0 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 08MAR 2014 <br />
Swindon Sky Bet League 1 Att 7,424 A 1 - 2 W <br />
<br />
TUE 11 MAR 2014 <br />
Notts County Sky Bet League 1 Att 3,331 A 1 - 3 W <br />
<br />
SAT 15MAR 2014 <br />
Peterborough Sky Bet League 1 Att 9,590 H 0 - 2 L <br />
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SAT 22MAR 2014 <br />
Stevenage Sky Bet League 1 Att 3,027 A 2 - 3 W <br />
<br />
TUE 25MAR 2014 <br />
Gillingham Sky Bet League 1 Att 6,760 H 0 - 1 L <br />
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SAT 29MAR 2014 <br />
Wolves Sky Bet League 1 Att 20,516 H 0 - 1 L <br />
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APRIL SAT 05APR 2014 <br />
Coventry Sky Bet League 1 Att 2,781 A 1 - 2 W <br />
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SAT 12APR 2014 <br />
Crawley Town Sky Bet League 1 Att 8,877 H 0 - 2 L <br />
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FRI 18 APR 2014 <br />
Port Vale Sky Bet League 1 Att 5,074 A 1 - 0 L <br />
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MON 21 APR 2014 <br />
Brentford Sky Bet League 1 Att 10,549 H 2 - 2 D <br />
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SAT 26 APR 2014 <br />
Rotherham Sky Bet League 1 Att 9,405 A 2-2 D <br />
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MAY SAT 03 MAY 2014 <br />
<br />
Leyton Orient Sky Bet League 1 Att 9,965 (1,334 away) H 1-3 L<br />
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Read more at http://www.mkdons.com/fixtures-results/fixtures-list/index.aspx#odIQH8THD8ugUcer.99<br />
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Well its been a strange season and to be honest no better or worse than I thought.<br />
<br />
With the small squad we had at the start of season and inevitable injuries we would undoubtedly incur through it I had predicted 12th to finish if we lost Bamford which of course we did.<br />
<br />
With the sale of Williams the loss of Waddock the injuries to Kay Reeves Martin etc ,Chadwick going of to Cambridge we were just never going to realistically get in the play offs.<br />
<br />
Interestingly none were training ground injuries to my knowledge although a new training ground is desperately needed.<br />
<br />
Again we had a decent Cup run and again none of the money found its way to the squad the buildings around the stadium and the hotel are bringing more money in and the new developments like cinema will bring in more.<br />
<br />
Its frustrating for us fans as we often see it as the clubs money but it is not and the money from those developments goes to Inter MK Pete Winkelmans parent company if you like.<br />
<br />
Andy King was appointed as scout to work under Bobby Winkelman !! but really too little too late with Karl attending games up and down the country looking for players and even nipping over to Holland he really was doing more than a manager should have too.<br />
<br />
I think I heard he did something like 10 games in 15 days while still doing daily stuff here like training and paperwork.<br />
He has had the smallest budget of any Dons manager and it has been in real terms cut every year he has been manager ,so I give him a bit of slack for not getting in play off's this season.<br />
<br />
But then according to Pete in his talk sport interview Karl had the 2nd biggest budget last season of any manager which looking back over the squads Allen Ince and Roberto had I found very surprising ! As under those managers we had up to and over 30 players used no kids and always filled the bench so I can only think the players we have had last two seasons must be on a hell of a wage or other things must be in included !! in Pete's figure anyway and the actual team budget is only thing included in Pete's figure.<br />
<br />
Either way I know from doing team sheets every game we always have smallest squad all very confusing !(bar Orient)<br />
But I do see some fans frustration at Karl to be warranted he has after all been manager for a while and to say he is now rebuilding the squad does kind of make you wonder why he didn't get it right before !<br />
<br />
I am still a Robbo fan and like the City/Town and the club he is young and ambititious and i know from conversation's we have had he gets it and loves the club and has a real passion for the youngsters and the academy a thought Pete must have as he said not getting in play offs last two seasons was a disappointment but that Karl was still here for work he does with youngsters and around club or words to that effect. <br />
<br />
Results have been erratic to say the least beating Wolves at theirs yet losing to Crawley at home to name just two.<br />
I do still think a lot of fans expect too much but that is probably a general fan thing !<br />
<br />
I think next season will be very interesting and do not think for one minute we will have a top five budget (despite Pete saying we are always top six in everything budget attendance etc ) and I don't think we will be top five unless we do.<br />
Karl is still a learning manager but at this stage Id say he is still a better coach than manager though I do conceed he does more than a manager should.<br />
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But Id say he was as good as the money he gets ie if he gets 10th biggest budget he'll finish around 10th I do think he will get better but he has had outside interference's and I don't think an inexperienced head of recruitment with no Professional football career behind him is the greatest move the club ever made as we know contacts are made over time in the football world particularly .<br />
<br />
The season seemed to be over before the Brentford game for most fans and even I was looking forward to the World Cup more than the last few games.<br />
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But a draw against already promoted Brentford seemed to lift the spirits a bit even amongst the gloomiest of our fan-base !<br />
<br />
I really was left more confused as to next season after listening to Pete, as what he said seemed to be so different to what I have heard from others and I think we will just have to wait and see.<br />
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End of season is always a bit sad and on the Thursday before the Orient game I made a point of chatting to a few of players and after a chat with Dele and George and Daniel Powell I wondered how many would be here come August .<br />
<br />
Two of the three I mention will hopefully be here but in light of recent rumours I said to Dele if you get poached good luck wherever you go ! I forget sometimes how young they all are and not much older than my own son but they are so polite and real credit to the club and their parents of course.<br />
<br />
The last game saw us out classed by Orient a squad with two less players though they do not include as many youth in theirs it shows a small squad can get you in play off's ! As an O's fan said to me it cost nothing and its got academy players which sounded familiar but result was different.<br />
<br />
Next season will be interesting and I think will be Karl's last unless at least play off's are achieved whatever the budget is.<br />
<br />
But I have renewed my ST and will be here whatever to finish 10th with the injuries we have had and I suspect the 10th or round about that size budget is average we were average we finished mid table which is average we played at times great at times crap which combined makes average the season has looking back been average.<br />
<br />
Lewington made it to five hundred games and ten years service and for me is still one of first names Id have on team sheet John Brockwell stood down as chair of MKDSA after ten years after helping to broker the accord and securing recognition for the supporters and nice few million for the club in process though I'm not a member his contribution has been immense over the years <br />
and I for one thank him for his work all voluntary.<br />
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Onward and upward as they say and COYD.<br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-60639998929551913652013-08-01T00:13:00.000-07:002013-08-01T00:50:15.348-07:00Pre Season Part Two And so to my last pre season blog and it starts with the news that Milton Keynes Dons had on the Saturday before the Plymouth game agreed terms to sign Watford defender Lee Hodson on a free transfer.<br />
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Lee is a 21 year old and signed a one year deal with a further one year option.<br />
Lee had to battle Watford regular Lloyd Doyley to play in his favourite right back position but still managed play 91 times for the Vicarage Round team.<br />
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Hodson has a wealth of experience and has played 96 times in the Championship and League 1 as well as International games for Northern Ireland, he became our fourth signing of summer.<br />
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An away trip to Plymouth was the next pre season game and awaydays on twitter again made fun of our away support. Plymouth is a 500 mile round trip the game was on a Sunday so work for most the next day ! but no mention that Plymouth themselves only had 1600 fans there, now I don't care that some people don't like us but please get a perspective.<br />
The game itself was a pretty even affair with Powell keeping the undefeated record alive in the last few minutes.<br />
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MK Dons 4-3 Rayo Vallecano And still undefeated Pre Season<br />
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Our first of two games at home was against Rayo Vallecano,<br />
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Rayo finished eighth in the Spanish top flight last season and looked to be the perfect match for the Dons with our footballing style Rayo have an impressive passing style like we try to have.<br />
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The match proved to be a great entertaining one and the supporters were spoilt for choice with some fine goals.<br />
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Our former number two Mick Harford was here with his new boss Lomas sparking rumours of scouting our players ,but it was more likely they were here to watch Rayo as they played them the following Saturday in a testimonial for Steve Robinson but it was not a widely known fact so we can forgive the paranoia.<br />
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For most it was a chance to see new guys Reeves Bantom and Hodson I wasn't overly impressed with Hodson but liked Bantam and Reeves looked to be solid.<br />
Alan Smith seemed to roll back the years and looked very sharp as did the other golden oldie Chadders in his new no 10 shirt.<br />
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It was probably the first game of pre season where we saw at least most of what will be our starting line up.<br />
Dons lined up as last season in the familiar 4-2-3-1 with Martin starting to be replaced by McLoughlin on 82 minutes Hodson (Baldock 73), Kay (Flanagan who I prefer came on at 61), Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson who got sponsors MOTM , Banton (Alli who really looked class and Id be worried Lomas was impressed if he was indeed looking to strengthen Millwall 71), Chadwick (McLeod 82 who though off side missed to sitters !), Powell (Reeves 71) Smith my MOTM (Bamford to be a way off being fit and missed a sitter in comical fashion 71).<br />
Goals by Lewington 3 his 2nd of pre season so thats probably it for him now lol , Powell 43, Banton 44, Potter 59<br />
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Rayo Vallecano who made their subs at half time Cobeno, Martinez, Baena, Galvez, Trashorras (c), Rida, Florez, Arbilla, Mojica, Juanito, Perea<br />
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Subs: Alberto (GK), Ismael (GK), Tito, Diamanka, Gomez, Saballs, Lass, Gonzalez, Carlos, Isi, Niguez,<br />
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Goal: Mojica who was the stand out player 11, 27, Gonalez 71 (pen)<br />
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Referee: D Whitestone<br />
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Attendance: 3,532 about 10 away fans though I was told 4 but I saw a Spanish lady who teaches in MK with her family and a few guys as I left so approx 10 Id guess.<br />
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Next up was trip to the Hive and Barnet's new 5k capacity ground. The attendance was 1,062, 189 were Don's fans so plenty of room to move about.<br />
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It was a really hot day and Edgar David's team were under pressure first half with Potter coming closest to scoring but the Don's never took full advantage of the superior possession and it was 0-0 at half time. <br />
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The second half saw the tempo step up a bit and it was goals galore with former Bee's striker and our own club top scorer Izale getting two Chelsea loan Bamford got one and Dele got the fourth after it came off Barnet player Vilhete and rolled in thhe goal was credited as an OG though.<br />
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Barnet's goal was a cracker from twenty five yards and it actually opened the goal floodgate before Izale's brace.<br />
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So far pre season we have won seven and drawn two matches scoring twenty goals and top scorer is Izale McLeod with 4 goals despite very little match time.<br />
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Barnet: Stack, Yiadom (Vilhete 79), Stephens, Acheampong (Saville 45), Johnson; Davids (Allen 88), Byrne, Weston, Marsh-Brown a former Don's player (Marciano) 88), Gambin (Luisma 66); Hyde (Sykes 65).<br />
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Barnet substitutes: Jupp like our Ian never featured, Saville, Vilhete, Luisma, Sykes, Allen, Marciano.<br />
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MK Dons: Martin, Hodson who was better than Wednesday night, Kay, Williams (Flanagan who spent time at Barnet last season 61), Lewington (Reeves 61); Potter (Bamford 61), Gleeson (Alli 61); Powell (Baldock 61), Chadwick (McLeod 61), Banton, Smith.<br />
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MK Dons substitutes: McLoughlin who never featured, Flanagan, Reeves, McLeod, Alli, Bamford, Baldock, Galloway. <br />
Goals: McLeod 67, 83, Vilhette (OG) 83, Bamford 85<br />
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Referee was Nick Kinselly attendance as I said earlier was 1,062 (189 Dons)<br />
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And so the much anticipated home game with Spurs who we seem to have a good relationship with having in the past played a friendly against and loaned Jake Livermore Adam Smith and Andros Townsend. Spurs players arrive and rush straight in.<br />
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Quite why a few of their fans decided to protest against the game on twitter as part of the Against Modern Football I don't know, as it's ten years too late for protesting against the move of Wimbledon to MK, and Tottenham with the high wages and Sky money and the pretty high ticket prices seem to me to be more Modern Football than us ! we at the Dons do loads for the disabled supporters, the kids and low ticket prices and the community generally but perhaps they don't think we should ..who knows.<br />
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Anyway that was probably just on Twitter as there was no non cyber protests in fact the attendance was more like a League game and the away end was packed (a lot of local Spurs fans watching a live game for a change ).<br />
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It was an entertaining first half by the Dons and both sides played some nice football the second half after the substitutions in particular the Dons seemed to be camped in their own half but they defended well against the Premiership side and after McLoughlin was subbed young Charlie Burns was called upon third year scholar Burns in the closing stages had to pull off an excellent save to deny Coulthirst in injury time the Dons got the just about deserved win. <br />
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MK Dons XI (4-2-3-1): McLoughlin (Martin 88); Baldock, Otsemobor (Weston 76), Flanagan (c), Galloway (Osae 58); Alli (Wiltshire 58), Reeves (Tingey 76); Summerfield, Rasulo, Hines (Grant 72); Bamford (Osei-Addo 59).<br />
Goal: Rasulo 34<br />
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Tottenham Hotspur XI: Miles (Archer 46); Fredericks, Ward, Bentaleb, Livermore (Lameiras 73), Stewart (c), Townsend (McEvoy 73), Carroll (Gallifuoco 73), Lancaster (Coulthirst 46), Falque, Ceballos.<br />
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Booked: Livermore a former Don loan with nasty tackle he claimed to referee was a dive !<br />
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Referee: Keith Stroud (Dorset) <br />
Attendance was 8,671 (2,423 away fans )Id guess that was probably one of highest pre season attendances in UK.<br />
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So that's it for pre season and we were undefeated which although does not mean a lot during the season proper it does feel good and gives the fans and players a boost going into the start of a new season.<br />
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Away to Shrewsbury Saturday to start the season and I will be putting the odd blog up now and then through the season so keep it on your bookmarks or favourites.<br />
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Keep the faith and COYD. <br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-73145221904761356962013-07-17T05:52:00.000-07:002013-07-19T03:13:56.805-07:00Pre Season Round Up Part One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDfUyFEAJAfFzrnukDjkFX_cDk0HDP4gOmAcjteI7AYReQPswyjZ0QPtfV1VMlWA9gdkwhMTgV6PaQql_VOU7uu2mbUUXWpDmrDt94Kdq237P3V0pFKUoujJMkdV1bqTcEy-52l8v_5M/s1600/pete+getting+doctorate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGDfUyFEAJAfFzrnukDjkFX_cDk0HDP4gOmAcjteI7AYReQPswyjZ0QPtfV1VMlWA9gdkwhMTgV6PaQql_VOU7uu2mbUUXWpDmrDt94Kdq237P3V0pFKUoujJMkdV1bqTcEy-52l8v_5M/s320/pete+getting+doctorate.jpg" /></a></div>Pete Winkelman getting his Honorary Doctorate from the Open University. <br />
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So as the new season approaches and a season which will see my blogs take an <br />
"as an when" type feel with no regular blogs as such. <br />
I will be commenting on news stories about the Dons rather than the usual weekly or monthly blogs I did previously as they took a lot of time and effort and were done originally for the forums. <br />
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In the first of my pre season blogs I'll start with a familiar theme.<br />
That being injuries and as the team returned to training we learnt after his Wedding and honeymoon Bowditch was ruled out of any matches to be played in Ireland as he had had an operation on his groin ,Im sure it was nothing to do with his nuptials but who knows !<br />
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The team were at Woughton before they left for Ireland and I saw and spoke to most of them and Karl who told me he was still trying to get Bamford and a winger on loan.<br />
The Dons hit the beach on Sat 29 June 2013 after arriving in Dublin the day before.<br />
The results of the pre season games in reverse order were<br />
Brackley Town 1-2 Win<br />
Leighton Town 2-4 Win<br />
Newport Pagnell 0-4 Win<br />
Birmingham City 1-4 behind closed doors in Ireland Win<br />
UCD 2-2 Draw<br />
ST James Gate 0-2 Win<br />
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The away games against Plymouth Argyle and Barnet and the two home games I'll cover in Part Two.<br />
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In player news as Karl hoped we got Patrick Bamford on a youth loan until early January.<br />
And in the good old Dons tradition of having shed loads of mid-fielders Ben Reeves penned a one year deal with the Dons two months after he was let go by Premier League outfit Southampton leading some to speculate Paul Mitchell might have had a hand in deal.<br />
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Ben is a talented central midfielder and received a lot of interest during the summer but chose a move to the Dons to work under manager Robbo.<br />
Speaking to mkdons.com Reeves said: “I’m delighted. You can see straight away, with the infrastructure, this is an up-and-coming club and I’m excited to be here.<br />
“I’ve only been here for a day and I’ve already seen the quality of the team and hopefully I can add to that. Karl Robinson has shown faith in me by bringing me here and so I’m looking forward to repaying him too.” Reeves made his first appearance in a Dons shirt in the friendly against Leighton Town the same afternoon he penned his contract.<br />
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After the Brackley game Crystal Palace winger Jason Banton joined MK Dons on loan until January so for those who were dreading Balanta coming back fear not this is the winger Karl wanted.<br />
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As I thought Adam Chicksen did not sign his new contract and joined the seagulls in Brighton a comment I saw interested me when Adam said "I've got to say a special thanks to, obviously, the Chairman and Karl who have instilled the philosophy which has changed the way MK Dons is viewed. Mike Dove, John Gorman and even Gary Waddock more recently as well, if wasn't for them and all their hard-work I wouldn't be where I am today. <br />
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I found it interesting as Adam never mentioned Mick Harford now I could add my two penneth but those of you who have read my blogs have probably read between the lines regarding my thoughts on Mick as a coach.<br />
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Now quite what the fans that moaned don't understand about him leaving for personal reasons is beyond me !<br />
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Without going into the details Ryan needed to be back near his family for yes you guessed "personal reasons" In an ideal world he would have happily stayed but he couldn't that is why the club released him from his contract.<br />
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Yes Tranmere got him free when they should really have paid but that's business and an unhappy Ryan would have been no good for us and it was the right thing to do by the club. <br />
No it was not a mistake by Karl or the club it was just that he needed to be back with his family. <br />
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Another departure was Matt Doumbe who seemed to not be a Robbo favourite despite playing some M.O.T.M performances when called upon I'll miss him as he was a real gentleman and all round nice bloke a real pleasure to talk to as well.<br />
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In other news Dan Micciche left Milton Keynes Dons to take up a position with The Football Association. The 34 year old will join The FA in August to become Coach and Player Development Technical Lead (Under-12s-Under-16s) which is a great loss as Dan was great with the youngsters and had them playing a great style of football.<br />
Dan joined the Club from Tottenham Hotspur in October 2007 and initially worked on a part time basis with the Under-9 and Under-12s but then took control of coaching for the Under-9s and Under-16s. <br />
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In his six years with the Dons Dan and Director of Youth Mike Dove have developed a programme which has seen 11 schoolboys receive international recognition.<br />
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Good luck to all those that have left the club and I wish them all well in their new careers.<br />
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The blog site has been receiving on average over six hundred hits close season mostly direct to site so I know it is still popular despite not being advertised anywhere other than my feeble attempts on twitter so thanks to all you regular readers and hope the new format will still keep your interest.<br />
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Edit: Due to a complaint by MKDSA regarding the above comment I have since found out that the MKDSA have a link on their site under feature's tab there is a drop down option where a links options can be found my blog and other links are there.<br />
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In my defence it was something I did not know about and can barely be called an "advertisement" for the blog.. just a link.<br />
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Sorry for any offence caused to the MKDSA since the SA site has been upgraded I have had no traffic or hits from it so was unaware of link.GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-63908994369608592582013-07-01T06:47:00.001-07:002013-07-01T06:47:34.350-07:00Bamford back in MK<a href="http://www.mkdons.com/news/article/bamford-back-in-mk-887849.aspx#BaUILl0f7SO7vMls.15">Bamford back in MK</a><br />
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Patrick Bamford last season at Woughton.<br />
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So young Patrick is back till January on a youth loan which I think is great news as like a lot of fans I think he is a class act.<br />
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Before the team went to Ireland I spoke to Karl and he said he was trying to get Patrick back so he will be sinking a few tonight in celebration maybe !<br />
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Last season as we know we suffered with injuries to key players like MacKenzie , Gleeson and Chadwick but we also lost young Bamford an event that gets overlooked.<br />
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The young Chelsea player was awesome in that early game he played alongside Chadders and the pair of them looked like they had been paired for years and I think that was just the pure class and understanding of the game both possess , the seasoned old campaigner from Man Unt and the future star.<br />
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As we look forward to the coming season one of the highlights will be watching Patrick and Chadwick playing alongside each other again.<br />
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link to OFFICIAL SITE<br />
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So Gary Waddock joins as Karl's number two or is he ? Gary has been given the title of Clubs Head of Coaching.<br />
This seems a strange title is that like a Director of Football ? I find all these new fangled titles a bit confusing<br />
as I never know how " important " the person really is or what his position in the hierarchy actually is.<br />
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I mean is Gary really an Assistant manager with a Posh title of is this one of Karl's new European style of management appointments ?<br />
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Anyway all a bit too confusing for my little brain but overall I feel happy with Waddock here, and Karl's comments were interesting as well speaking to mkdons.com Robinson said: “The big thing for me is that Gary has been a manager himself in recent times and he has a great ability to encourage, develop and work with young players.<br />
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This suggests a return to the Gorman style of helping the young emerging players along, something I noticed Mick Harford did not do much of.<br />
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Also Waddock has been working for the Premier League monitoring clubs and their progress following the introduction of the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) 12 months ago. Waddock has left that position to take on the job here at the Dons and so will be familiar with a lot of players which will help us when it comes to loan's .<br />
Gary will also know the lower leagues as well and maybe knows some players that could do a job for us here. <br />
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So poor old Karl is happily sunning himself in Spain and local journalists keep ringing him asking him questions LOL<br />
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Dean Lewington I understand has already agreed and signed a new contract but as the paper says will not announce that till Robbo gets back.<br />
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Nothing new there as the club like to filter the big news through the close season to keep interest alive and give the season ticket sales a little helping hand ! <br />
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Ian McLoughlin I think would go if he was offered a first team start somewhere else but I don't think he would go to a club likely to be a lower end League One club and Id think he will be told he will feature more especially in cup matches this coming season.<br />
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David Martin is however Robbo's first choice keeper and also Pete Winkelman's but I can see a compromise as Ian did so well last season.<br />
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In other keeper news Paul Heald the goalkeeping coach has had two new knee's put in and is recovering from that so hopefully he'll be like a new man come July return to training.<br />
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Adam Chicksen is a bit of a mystery and like a lot of fans I think Adam is after a regular starting place but will never be ahead of Lewie.<br />
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Like Ian I think Adam would be off if he got a better offer and I think it will be interesting to see if he is here come August.<br />
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Still quite a while to go before the season starts and there will be some more news I'm sure before then and Id expect some when Robbo returns from his holiday. GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-63371760649144974252013-06-12T11:48:00.001-07:002013-06-12T11:50:59.283-07:00Harford departs stadiummk<a href="http://www.mkdons.com/news/article/harford-departs-stadiummk-860144.aspx#bbbxs4tHeY0oWX08.15">Harford departs stadiummk</a><br />
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Not a great surprise although I thought he might be offered the scouting role.<br />
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In the year he was with the Dons I only ever spoke to him for more than the customary hello once<br />
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After the banter and talks Id had with John Gorman I thought Mick was quite aloof.<br />
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He seemed to have little passion during training or on the touchline and I think most fans were not<br />
surprised or upset to see him go, although it does seem to have a feel of the scapegoat scenario about the departure.<br />
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So what will happen to Ian Wright ? the infrequent coach !<br />
Unless he is actually going to be here during training I can not see the point of him drawing a wage .<br />
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Over 1200 fans came along to watch the future of football on a big stage as part of MK Dons policy of giving the youngsters a feel of what it is like to play on a league pitch.<br />
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Sadly the Dons lost with two goals from Butungu on 39 and 49 mins, the other two goals came from Solanke just before half time on 44 mins and Abraham made it four on 68.<br />
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A very impressive Callum Brittain scored a lovely goal by breaking through the defence and one on one with the keeper coolly slotted the ball home.<br />
Both teams rotated the players although Chelsea only named two subs.<br />
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I enjoyed the game and always smile the difference in size of the lads at that age some look like grown men while others look like school boys which of course they are ! some of the quality shown at this level is pretty astounding the Dons boasted two Internationals amongst the team in Kevin Danso and Hugo Logan and it was easy to see why both have been called up.<br />
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Another player who caught my eye was Adam Hunt the young right back from Bedford who made some good passes as well as getting back to tackle impressively. <br />
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MK Dons Under-15s: Van Der Schoot, Hunt, Bradbury, Danso, Collinge (c), Osei-Bonsu (Omar 56), Brittain (Kiwewesi 77), Hadden (Simmons 77), Owusu, Logan, Furlong.<br />
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Subs not used: Taylor, Tshikuna, Asonganyi, Jackson, Schulz.<br />
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Chelsea Under-15s: Tupper (Gyamfi), Tomori, Ali (a), Clarke-Salter (Benney 46), DaSilva, Sammut, Bakary (Makanjuola 46), Christie-Davies (Butungu 78), Abraham, Solanke, Butungu (Bakary 63).<br />
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Attendance: 1,221 this included the chairman Pete Winkelman and his daughter also MK Dons directors Andrew Cullen Sue Dawson (who helped out at the concession stand) and Reg Davis also a former Wimbledon FC director.GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-64018714004045315992013-05-28T06:46:00.001-07:002013-06-16T13:55:29.311-07:00Is Robbo too big for Dons boots? - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen<a href="http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport/football/mk-dons/is-robbo-too-big-for-dons-boots-1-5137454#.UaSu6kmkQdk.blogger">Is Robbo too big for Dons boots? - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen</a><br />
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Personally I don't think so (in regards to this story which is basically responding to the rumours of Sheffield Unt supposed interest in Robbo) so no he not to big for his boots.<br />
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Reason being it was only ever a rumour and no official approach or even talks were made by Sheffield Unt so why should Robbo or even MK Dons comment on it ? <br />
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Robbo has moaned about budget restraints but what lower league manager doesn't ! he has also cited the injuries to key players through the season but then I think with MacKenzie Gleeson and Chadwick fit we would have at least made the play off's lets not forget how long Gleeson and Chadwick were out for and they were arguably our two best players.<br />
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Robbo is not perfect but he has been loyal to the club in the past when genuine interest was shown and for that reason alone I think he deserves our support .<br />
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My own view is Robbo has had three seasons to build a team and so last season was the one he should have done it but I sympathise with him and I think the injuries did cost us.<br />
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But it was his choice to have a small squad of quality rather than a bigger squad with more depth, in that regard the gamble did not pay off and he could have used his contacts to bring in players of same or better quality ! maybe he tried and was not given the money to cover wages those players would have cost but we will never really know for sure.<br />
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Either way I think the 2013-14 season will be crucial to Karl's future at the Don's a good cup run and the defeat of Kingston and QPR probably saved him this season gone but I do not think he will be so lucky again.GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-82803896518434615212013-05-22T05:31:00.001-07:002013-05-22T05:31:40.731-07:00Blades made no approach for Robbo - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen<a href="http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport/football/mk-dons/blades-made-no-approach-for-robbo-1-5114632#.UZy5o-1aP0Y.blogger">Blades made no approach for Robbo - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen</a><br />
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So everyone is getting their knickers in a twist over nothing stop listening to rumours from unofficial sources if he goes he goes getting all bitter before it never happens is not going to achieve anything lol.<br />
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And slagging him off when he has probably just been working on team for next season is even more stupid !!GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-67506792999950988752013-04-28T04:16:00.001-07:002013-04-29T06:59:48.452-07:00April Blog<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZsbGnzlHXwAJDmO_2oWEAVqUGWSjcMIkBZAafnfhoaQG0Tqbfb4Fg9kupyQa3vT980w6YVxUUiMZQMMNJdSzPHCYzzNPHGvAg22RgJcBHbdrZFrfUwmxFr2dfHof9lEXCFbBF4-KepY/s1600/brentford3.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZsbGnzlHXwAJDmO_2oWEAVqUGWSjcMIkBZAafnfhoaQG0Tqbfb4Fg9kupyQa3vT980w6YVxUUiMZQMMNJdSzPHCYzzNPHGvAg22RgJcBHbdrZFrfUwmxFr2dfHof9lEXCFbBF4-KepY/s320/brentford3.JPG" /></a> Brentford Players arrive at S:MK<br />
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So the first game of the month saw us pitted against Brentford.<br />
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I was pretty confident about this one as we have been good against teams above us and I thought we could win this and the play off hope would be very much on again.<br />
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Uwe Rosler had said before the game he was going to change his team but that Robbo would play the same team he played at Hartlepool (like we had choice with the injuries) Uwe also said he was not going to prepare as Brentford's record against the Dons meant he didn't have to prepare.<br />
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It was not the prettiest game to watch and football wise Brentford were probably the better side but we got lucky with the Bee's shots getting blocked by Don's limbs being in right place at right time , we were having a good defence day and the two shots we had were well struck and went in Bamford had his effort saved but other than that those three attempts were all I can remember us having.<br />
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Brentford huffed and puffed but the Dons defending all over the field was resolute in what was a pretty scrappy game and Uwe must have wished he had prepared and kept his mouth shut McLoughlin made some good stops and tipped a certain goal over the top the one's he spilled came to one of ours and that was how the game rolled.<br />
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And for once the luck went our way the officials got most calls right or in our favour and a pretty cold day was made brighter and warmer. <br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1 McLoughlin, Otsemobor, Kouo-Doumbe, Williams, Chicksen sponsor M.O.T.M , Potter, Gleeson (c) Bamford my M.O.T.M (Smith 79), Lines, Bowditch (Chadwick 62) Lowe (Powell 59). <br />
Subs not used:Baldock, Alli, Galloway. <br />
Goals: Bowditch 14, Gleeson 85<br />
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Brentford Moore, Forshaw, Craig, Dean, Douglas (c), Donaldson (German 67), Trotta (Wright-Phillips 46 who put us under pressure without killer blow ), Logan, Forrester (Saunders 71), Diagouraga, Bidwell. <br />
Subs not used: Gounet (GK), Adeyemi, Hodson, Reeves.<br />
Referee was S Martin from Staffordshire who let play flow and overall was good, 8 out ten.<br />
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Attendance was 10,455 with 2,030 away fans which was pretty impressive considering the average gate at Brentford is around 5k, the game was on the Easter Monday so Wrighty was there but the cynics might say he was there to see his son he certainly stood separately from Karl and Mick !<br />
We moved up to 10th on 60 points with 18 points available from remaining games can we reach 72 which is usually enough for play off spot ?<br />
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So the second of our three home games in a row was against Crawley who had beaten us two nil earlier in the season but sat below us in the table.<br />
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I spoke to a few people before the game and most were confident we were going to win I still had my doubts and prefer to play teams above us as I have said before we struggle against teams below us.<br />
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Before the game I saw Sam Baldock who arrived with brother George and had a few words with him, I always liked Sam and spoke to him a lot when he was here especially at Woughton funnily enough his older brother is a training Doctor at the same surgery as Dr Cave the club Doctor, and although that is my surgery I have never met him though I have met Dr Cave before, anyway I digress. Sam said the grass isn't always greener referring to his West Ham time I assumed and not his Bristol City tenure.<br />
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I asked Sam if he still had the house in Essex but he said it was rented and he had got rid of it, someone joked about him coming here and I said it would have to be on a free loan as Pete doesn't like paying for player's and I doubt we could afford a day of his weekly wage now anyway. <br />
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Another Old face returned and we all saw John Gorman as he was presented to the crowd and I wished he was still here, and I think along with injuries to key players at key times John's absence is a factor in our less than brilliant season. <br />
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As for the game I thought we totally dominated the first half but let Crawley into it second half, although they had come for a draw we were robbed in much the same way Brentford fans felt they were robbed the game before.<br />
We had three goals disallowed for offside one of which I thought was a wrong call one dubious and one right.<br />
Overall we were much the better team and the few Crawley fans that made the short trip must have been very happy with the point.<br />
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We stayed in tenth on 61 points just about keeping any play off hope alive but making the Tuesday night game with Swindon a real must win.<br />
Teams lined up Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin kept another clean sheet Otsemobor pretty dreadful passing at times , Doumbe who I thought was brilliant but will be overlooked in favour of Williams, Chicksen who I didn't think had a good game , Potter, Gleeson was again Captain Powell who is still not fit and missed a tap in (Chadwick looking almost back to his best 60), Bamford again showed so much class and was targeted by Crawley all game , Bowditch who I thought despite a less than great game might nick it for us, Lowe who was again tireless in running for everything and unlucky with the offside decision's.<br />
Subs: Smith, Baldock, Lines not sure why he didn't get a run out and young Rasulo.<br />
Booked very harshly Chicksen<br />
M.O.T.M Doumbe for me <br />
Crawley Town (4-4-2): P Jones, Dumbuya, Sadler, Essam, Clarke, Torres the poor man's version , Walsh, Bulman (c), Adams (Connolly 90), M Jones (Hunt 90), Hayes (Proctor 71).<br />
Subs: Maddison on loan from Sunderland (GK), O'Brien, Elford-Alliyu.<br />
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Referee was Darren Bond from Lancashire his first season as a ref and he overruled a bad lino call and on the whole I thought he was above average for this level a 7 out of 10 would have been an 8 but for the bad offside call.<br />
Attendance was a lowly 7,746 with just 390 pretty silent away fans .<br />
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This was the game a lot were calling our cup final which I thought might be a bit premature, the club were going on about climbing a mountain which I thought a bit silly as we are not in the drop zone trying to get out.<br />
But it was after the Crawley draw a game we needed to win to have any hope of grabbing a play off spot,unthinkable not so long back. <br />
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I thought it was probably the best footballing game I have seen at the Stadium this season and credit to Swindon for being part of that. Pictured Darren Ward and Chris Smith arrive. <br />
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Swindon named two Rooney's and a Ferguson on the team sheet and with three Tottenham loan players amongst their throng it was perhaps understandable a few of us were nervous before the game.<br />
These games tend to make me happy with a draw but of course that would be no good this time of the season and the play off hope we all still have.<br />
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As I said the game was a cracker and Id said during the second half to my mate Peter that one goal will win this so the 2-0 scoreline at the end probably flattered us as I thought it was a very even game.<br />
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As a team we showed great character and fight and deservedly Matt Dombe got man of the match by sponsor which unlike last game I did hear over our inconsistent tannoy system.<br />
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McLoughlin got a load of stick from the Swindon fans "dodgy keeper" but got his own back by winding them up after our goal and at the end of the game and he kept another clean sheet making Dave Martin's automatic return to the team Id have thought not quite a sure fire thing.<br />
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When Doumbe scored the stadium atmosphere went up another notch and stayed that way till the end when on eighty nine minutes Lowe took the ball after a cross from Semi on his chest and slotted the ball into the bottom corner of the goal to cap of a very exciting but tense night.<br />
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The teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin, Otsemobor,Doumbe, Williams, Lewington who returned to side after injury and showed why he is still first choice LB(c) Potter, Gleeson who limped off with an ankle knock (Lines a very adequate replacement 48) Bowditch, Chadwick (Lowe 63), Chicksen, Bamford (Smith 79 who nearly won a penalty sured things up in last ten).<br />
Subs not used:McLeod, Powell, Baldock, , Kay.<br />
Goals by Doumbe on 58, and Lowe on 89<br />
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Swindon Town: Foderingham who despite Swindon fans chants was dodgier than Ian, McCormack (c), Ward, Flint, Byrne, Luongo, Parrett (Adam Rooney 69), Roberts (Collins 63), A Williams, Ferry, ex Don Navarro (De Vita 63).<br />
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Subs not used: Bedwell (GK), Devera, L Rooney, Ferguson.<br />
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Booked: Fodderingham who was lucky not to be sent off , Flint, Ward, Collins<br />
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Referee was Mark Haywood who bottled the sending off, seemed to not know what he was doing or even the rules of the game at times he was from West Yorkshire but as we won and he didn't effect the game too much he gets a 4 out of 10.<br />
The league table as it looked after match.<br />
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Played GD Pts results at home<br />
1.Doncaster 43 17 78 who we beat 3-0<br />
2.Bournemouth 43 18 76 who we lost 0-3<br />
3.Yeovil 42 14 71 who we beat 1-0<br />
4.Brentford 41 13 71 who we beat 2-0<br />
5.Sheff Utd 41 16 70 who we beat 1-0<br />
6.Swindon 42 31 68 who we beat 2-0<br />
7.Tranmere 43 12 66 who we beat 3-0<br />
8.Walsall 43 9 66 who we lost 2-4<br />
9.MK Dons 42 16 64 <br />
10.Orient 43 4 64 who we beat 1-0<br />
So despite us seeming to do badly against teams below us we have only lost at home to Bournemouth and Walsall.<br />
Our record against the top ten at home is easily play off standard which makes one wonder ...if only.<br />
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So off to Orient for another of those " cup finals " as every game seems to have become now.<br />
I thought it was strange that although we were still hoping for play off's Orient fans seemed to be very quiet on the subject almost like they had given up on it.<br />
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We did not play badly but were often second to the loose balls and a number of our players were not up for the challenge, the usual suspects who I don't need to name.<br />
The consensus of opinion was Doumbe and McLoughlin were the only two who really stood out and either could have been Man of the Match for us.<br />
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We like making things hard for ourselves and although it makes for an exciting end of season with play off's still mathematically possible.<br />
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I tweeted that the fat lady had cleared her throat and was about to sing, but I was still remaining positive probably in part because so many of our fans had already thrown the towel in (and not just the usual always moaning and critical one's who I always wonder why they bother coming to games anyway).<br />
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On the day we were the second best team and Orient deserved the win and really that's all you can say we went three at the back after the first goal chasing a draw but as happens when adopting that tactic we conceded a second to make the scoreline and our performance look worse than we perhaps deserved. <br />
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The teams lined up <br />
Leyton Orient: Jones, McSweeney, Sawyer, Vincelot, Cox, Lisbie, J Smith, MacDonald (Cook 70), Clarke (c), Odubajo, Rowlands. <br />
Subs: Butcher, Obafemi,, James, Lee, Vanderhyde.<br />
Booked: Vincelot, Ritchie, Lisbie<br />
Goals by Sawyer on 82, and O's Mr dependable Lisbie on 90<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): McLoughlin M.O.T.M , Otsemobor (McLeod 82),Doumbe, Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines, Bowditch, Lowe (Chadwick 61), Chicksen (Powell 61), Bamford.<br />
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Subs: Smith, Baldock, Kay.<br />
Ref was the infamous Andy D'Urso who missed two penalties one for each side, it pains me to have to give him any score but he was not as bad as Haywood so 5 out of 10 (and was okay last game we had him I just don't like him).<br />
Attendance was 4,634 we sold our initial allocation so tickets only available on the day and 648 of the MK Army made the trip.<br />
We slipped back down to 10th as the O's leap frogged us but we had game in hand on them and better goal difference.<br />
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So we are now at the stage where we need other results to go our way but we still now have to win every game.<br />
Colchester have their own battle but theirs is to stay in League One and they certainly played like they wanted to, we on the other hand seemed tired but unlike many other games made the chances we got count.<br />
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After ten minutes of U's pressure and our old friend Jabo making a nuisance of himself Powell managed to score against the run of play it has to be said with eleven minutes on the clock.<br />
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Jabo continued to make his presence felt and he and Massey were part of the onslaught of shots hitting the post going just wide and forcing some great saves by M.O.T.M. McLoughlin the U's came close but we hung on in there.<br />
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Bamford made some nice runs but it was not until the last ten minutes when Chadwick was on the field that young Patrick got his reward after a lovely defence splitting pass from the former Man Unt man found future Prem star and he duly despatched the ball for a two nil win.<br />
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Colchester manager Joe Dunne bemoaned his sides luck and mentioned the players had cramp but gave their all, but he was also gracious in defeat praising our quality.<br />
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Lewington twisted his knee and hobbled off, the same knee that ruled him out for a few weeks not so long back and Chico still has an ankle knock so Williams may be looking at a spot there at left back Saturday when we play Scunnny.<br />
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Swindon won their game and look favourites for the last play off spot but we could still do it if they somehow mess up. In other words with two games left it is still possible something many thought would never happen.<br />
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Teams lined up<br />
Colchester United Walker the young loan from Chelsea, Garmston, Okuonghae, Sears (M Smith 82), Bond (O'Toole 82), Ibehre who I think we should never have let go, Wilson, Massey good player worth a sniff at should U's go down , White, Wright (Porter 75), Clifford.<br />
Subs: Cousins (GK), Heath, Morrison who we had on loan, Bean.<br />
Booked: White Porter Smith<br />
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Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin M.O.T.M Otsemobor, Doumbe, Williams, Lewington (c) (Kay 49) Potter, Gleeson; Powell (Lowe 74), Chadwick (Lines 80), Bowditch, Bamford.<br />
Subs: A Smith, McLeod, Baldock.<br />
Booked Williams, Gleeson, Potter Goals by Powell on 11 and Bamford on 78<br />
Referee was Roger East from Wiltshire who didn't do to much wrong 8 out of 10.<br />
Attendance was a lowly 3,175 and 211 of that were Dons fans and makes you wonder how the U's survive with less than three thousand fans !<br />
We moved up to 7th on 67 pts on 44 games played and have no games in hand we are 4pts behind Swindon both of us have 2 games left Swindon can achieve 77pts we can only get 73pts. <br />
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Before the Scunthorpe game I spoke to Karl and Mick Harford also to Damien Doyle who is to all intents and purpose the first team coach with Alex Rae gone and Wrighty never here. The subjects covered were players who would be going players we have got lined up to replace them, the pre season in Ireland, the touchy subject of budget, the new kit cropped up as well and although not the same kit supplier it is from same stable as our current kit.<br />
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I also had a good chat with Alan Smith and asked him about badges his first response was what swimming badges so I said yeah the 100 metre breast stroke have you done it yet ! Alan has not got any he and said he thought a lot of manager's haven't and agreed you probably only need the amount Karl has if you get into Europe but said he would probably do the fast track Irish course as he was interested in coaching or management Id asked as I thought he would make a good coach or manager and still being young the younger players would have seen him play and he would have the respect that comes to ex players that have played at the highest level much as Ince did his first time here.<br />
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Mick was off to watch an under 21's match in Romford between West Ham and Wolves and we agreed this season was now out of our hands and we needed Swindon to mess up it was probably the longest conversation I have had with Mick and we talked about Zeli Ismail other games on that night amongst other things.<br />
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Also ran into Charlie Burns the academy keeper who has not been offered a pro contract and it was reported he was free to find another club but when I asked him if he had anything planned he said he had couple of things lined up but was hopeful of being offered a third year academy position I wished him good luck. <br />
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Hakeeb Adelakun<br />
But I have gone off on a tangent again back to the game with Scunny who were in real need of a win to avoid relegation and our last two opponents of the season are also Swindon's but we could have done with getting Scunny after them really. <br />
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The reason I say that was that I knew it would be no push over and they would be fighting hard for the win to give themselves a slim chance of safety I seemed to be one of a few who thought it would be a tough game of those I spoke to, and the low turnout of travelling fans meant most of the Iron fans thought the same.<br />
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As with a lot of the teams below us this season we struggled to break them down despite being the better team although we were not great Scunthorpe were poor and looked like a relegation zone team.<br />
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The game like the Crawley game summed up our season to the extent we dominated the game but never scored only this time we somehow managed to give a goal away as well.<br />
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About the time Hawley scored just before half time we had all heard Swindon were winning meaning we were out of play offs whether we won or not and Id joked that maybe the players knew the score there as they seemed to be playing like the season was over.<br />
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How we did not score is beyond me we hit the post a couple of times and shots were just wide but that is how the season has been just not to be Karl was livid after the game and gave his "players wont be here next season " speech and "they had let the fans down" etc but frankly we'd heard it before and since most are out of contract and Gleeson who is in contract is going it was a pretty unremarkable statement.<br />
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Winkelman was said to be not happy but I have little sympathy there as I thought he could have helped Karl out <br />
a bit more this season when the injuries to Gleeson and Chadwick happened and MacKenzie going to Blackpool was not the action of a chairman really going for promotion.<br />
But Karl had his budget start of the season and chose to have a smaller than most size squad, less players on a bit more money was the way he saw it.<br />
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I can remember Mick Harford saying to me 22 was a player in each position as cover and would be the size of the squad, I thought then its not big enough as we included kids in that as well.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin, Otsemobor (Lowe 62),Doumbe M.O.T.M(Lines 82) , Kay, Williams, Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Chadwick (McLeod 82), Bowditch; Bamford.<br />
Subs: Smith, Baldock, Galloway.<br />
Booked: Williams<br />
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Scunthorpe United: Slocombe, Ribeiro, Mirfin, Reid (c), Ryan, Duffy, Godden (Alabi 77), Collins, Newey, Hawley, Forde.<br />
Subs: Johansen, Grella, Gibbons, Adeakun, Howe.<br />
Booked: Reid Goal: Hawley 41<br />
Referee was James Linington from the Isle of Wight did nothing wrong as I saw 9 out of ten.<br />
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Attendance was 9,752 and the sort of figure we take away to Scunthorpe was all they brought here ! a surprisingly low and silent 276 considering the importance of the game for them.<br />
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We went back down to 9th with 67pts and Bournemouth were promoted as champions.<br />
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On the Monday after Scunthorpe I saw Izale his wife and child at Next and wondered why he was not training so I made a quick trip to Woughton and only Bowds Powell Bamford Williams and Gleeson were training along with a few of the youngsters I saw Chico who said he should be fit for Saturday but it had the feel of an end of season session, where the rest of the squad were I have no idea ! Harford was taking the session and I just felt well this was a wasted journey ! Chelsea TV were there filming Bamford but I lost interest and left.<br />
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So the last game of the season was upon us and it was really just about pride for both teams.<br />
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I always think the last game is a bit sad as we know we wont see some players again in Dons colours and the season has been shorter this year starting later in August and finishing in April rather than May so I have felt a bit cheated this season as well.<br />
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The game was no classic typical end of season stuff and our two scorers may well be gone next season Bamford will return to Chelsea and Lowe is being linked with other clubs.<br />
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Adam Faiers completed his epic journey to cycle to every game raising thousands of pounds for S.E.T. and charity so well done to him.<br />
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We played Rasulo and Alli for a bit in the second half and unless they are poached we will be seeing more of them next season, along with Flanagan who has helped Gillingham to the L2 title and lately tried to help Barnet unsuccessfully avoid relegation.<br />
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Im sure a couple more of the youngsters will start to feature Hickford and Forrester would be my bet.<br />
Teams on the day were :<br />
Stevenage: Day, Gray, Charles, Dunne, Haber, Akins (N'Guessan 58), Roberts (c), Freeman, Ball (Tansey 69), Mahon, N'Gala.<br />
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Subs: Arnold (GK), Grant, Hoskins, Ehmer, Smith.<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): McLoughlin, Otsemobor, Doumbe, Kay, Williams, Potter, Gleeson (c) (Rasulo 80), Powell, Chadwick (Lowe 66), Bowditch, Bamford (Alli 71)<br />
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Subs: Smith, McLeod, Galloway who will hopefully feature more next season , Lines.<br />
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Booked: Gleeson, Kay no surprise there<br />
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Goal: Bamford 34, Lowe 77<br />
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Attendance: 3,801 there were 843 of the MK army <br />
Stevenage:<br />
Day, Gray, Roberts, N'Gala (Ehmer 5), Charles, Akins (N'Guissan 57), Dunne, Mahon, Freeman, Haber, Ball (Tansey 70)<br />
Subs not used:<br />
Arnold, Grant, Hoskins, Smith<br />
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Ref was Mr Phillips bit nit picky but okay 7 out of 10<br />
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We finished season 8th with 70 points <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yVgFi7KG1KHWjxqr2R3xS08pS0X_96sAOtPiauh-oj0C2z5RQlJlyPRuyqE0SO6wn3w4yWeAGWhfH0S8VCJjsCvJIXor76MSfs5h50hR3uTmi8hnSG3mAbEQ6EyOfE5VMXOxJ73dqOY/s1600/c836cdb35d76f63fb2baea9ac1deaa6a.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4yVgFi7KG1KHWjxqr2R3xS08pS0X_96sAOtPiauh-oj0C2z5RQlJlyPRuyqE0SO6wn3w4yWeAGWhfH0S8VCJjsCvJIXor76MSfs5h50hR3uTmi8hnSG3mAbEQ6EyOfE5VMXOxJ73dqOY/s320/c836cdb35d76f63fb2baea9ac1deaa6a.jpg" /></a> Picture courtesy of www.mkdonsset.com The great and much missed John Gorman.<br />
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John Gorman leaving last season due to ill heath and retirement I think has been a considerable factor in this season's under performance I banged on about how much he did with the players during and even after training had finished, his extra work with the youngsters like Powell was sadly missing this season and it has shown in the performance's , he was no yes man and he and Karl had some good ole ding dongs but he was respected and excepted he was no2 the whole camp seemed a happier place with him here.<br />
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John was replaced by Mick Harford not everyone's choice ! with Wright and Rae sharing the first team coach role. <br />
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Wright to my mind has been a complete waste of time and I have seen him maybe three times since September at training this has all happened during the season and has had an unsettling effect.<br />
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Rae buggered off to be with Ince at Blackpool but by then he was scouting more than coaching and was replaced in that role by the Chairman's son who whilst a nice guy is not an ex professional footballer and therefore has no contacts in the game this whilst amusing to our detractors is also not a good way to run the club in my opinion.<br />
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We had key players injured this season for longer than a team would expect in a season, and this has cost us games and points , we have played a lot of games with no keeper on the bench and in these days of seven on the bench that was a stupid risk to take for so long ,the suspensions early in the season also meant we were playing catch up Kay has missed nearly a quarter of the season suspended or getting match fit after which is another factor in the poor season .<br />
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I also think getting rid of Jabo to free up a wage was a bad move he did not score many but he was a menace and our win rate when he played was better than when he did not freeing the wage to bring in Izale seems even sillier now as Izale missed more sitters than he scored and can not play as lone striker.<br />
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We made 800 thousand pounds I'm told from the FA Cup run and that to me was over and above what we budgeted for and I think some should have gone to Karl to strengthen the squad ,this to me is like winning a bit on the lottery you don't expect it so spend it !<br />
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As I write we can finish 7th so with the 8th or 9th highest budget not a disaster in monetary investment terms but not where we thought we would be ! but that expectation was made by the bookies the club and in particular the chairman at the start of the season and we as fans got sucked in by the hype. <br />
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To me that says we have finished where we perhaps should have and Karl is perhaps not the next big thing but a manager that is still learning.<br />
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I think Karl is worth giving another season too whether Pete will back him financially remains to be seen and what the chairman says the budget is may not be the actual player budget so don't be fooled by figures banded about from the club.<br />
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The club has made over two million pounds in profit in the last reported figures and Inter MK as we know from the buildings around the stadium and the hotel itself are going to be raking in some serious money next few years we also have the stadium naming to come and some more serious money so the club and its parent company for want of better word, are healthy. <br />
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The club seems to many to be coming second to the hotel to the cinema to the developments and whilst I agree the work needs to be complete if it was not for the club there would be none of these things.<br />
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I have been fortunate enough to hear both side of the arguments but most fans do not and this has been a constant complaint ..lack of information.<br />
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We employ at <b>great cost</b> a commercial director and finance director in fact our set up is more Premier League than League One in that regard yet we as fans are told little of what goes on unless maybe we belong to the supporters club committee which obviously most of us don't, or we happen to know a sponsor or someone in the know, this leads to the silly rumours that often float about that I know to my cost make the chairman angry.<br />
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At this level a general manager is often enough and our support is not Premier League in fact it is not even the highest in League One but many fans feel they know as much about this club as the armchair fan does of a big Prem club without the benefit of the papers gossip columns and I think engaging with the wider fan base more would build an even stronger bond between fan and club. <br />
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In my own view I think the club is prudently well run but communication and the Official site are poor in fact I rarely use the OS even with the nearly 40mb download speed I get I find it slow to load and full of typo's and errors so don't bother.<br />
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Also we really need to sort out the tannoy system I listen to the team selection <br />
outside as it's clearer to hear than in the East stand and if anything has got worse since the cladding went up but Im sure it will eventually be right maybe when the seats go in !!<br />
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This season's been an interesting one and it will be even more interesting to see how it has effected the season ticket sales.<br />
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I think we hit our level in terms of fans and it will be a challenge for the club to keep the fans we have if we are to stay in the third tier for much longer. <br />
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In blog news as you may know I started the blog for the old mk dons forum and a season on the zonemk due to its popularity I kept it going this season under its own steam as Id built up a regular following and did not want to let them down.<br />
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I promoted the blog on twitter but I am not really very good at putting up links even so I have still been hitting over seven hundred views a month and have now had nearly eleven thousand views with another six thousand three hundred and thirty five on football speak I can not remember now what figures were from the forums or mk dons online and never got figures from footballprs or mk online or even my number nine feature on the prostate cancer site.<br />
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But in all the time I have done the blog it has always far exceeded my hopes and expectations in terms of how many people read it and thanks to everyone of you who has read it and especially those who have tweeted the link or commented on the blog over the years.<br />
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It has led me to be asked to write for a lot of other media sources most of which I have declined as this was always about the Dons and our fans.<br />
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I have loved and enjoyed doing the blog and will miss doing it as it is a sort of therapy when looking back at what I was thinking at certain times of the season and who I was talking to.<br />
But as I said without feedback I can not gauge whether people find what I find interesting well interesting !<br />
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So as they say all good things (or boring crap) must come to an end.<br />
As I get no feedback and few retweets and with no forum to promote the blog on (which is why it was started way back when).<br />
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The blog was an alternative to what was back when it started a poorly run Official site (though thats not a lot better now)and a Supporters club that had no one keeping the site up to date or doing much for the younger fans or indeed keeping us ordinary fans informed.<br />
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Thankfully those issue's are now addressed particularly the Supporters site and it is now up to date and contains some good stuff article wise and the role of the supporters club is now more transparent and welcoming and not the secret society it was often criticised for seeming to be.<br />
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I still think there is a need for Independent sites or blogs but I've done my shift and will leave it to others hopefully some of the <b>younger</b> fans will become more active and vocal although I realise forums and supporters clubs and even club blogging is not really the youngsters thing. <br />
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Last close season I was still getting five hundred hits so I will keep putting up Dons news during this close season and next season will keep the site going as a news and information site maybe a stat site well till the hits stop all together than I'll close it lol <br />
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Thanks again for reading the blog and to those that promoted it a bigger thank you. <br />
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MK Dons 1-1 Preston North End<br />
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So we went into March 13th in league on 46 points and a very busy month and what better way to start than watching the Chairman having a right rant and rave before the Preston game.<br />
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I wont go on to much about what he said as he said it later on Three Counties radio but to be amongst the three or four fans he tested his speech on was quite surreal.<br />
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Pete had he alluded to read or been told things people were posting on "your forum" which was odd as he said it to me and I don't post on forum's let alone run one lol Pete was actually quite livid he had had words with an employee of club and that seemed to have got his back up I said how lucky we were Martin's injury happened when McLoughlin had returned and he said what a good keeper MacKenzie was ! I said but the majority of fans would not know that and besides Gary had by then been sent on loan so point was rather a mute one.<br />
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He avoided the Harley question saying he had gone back and had a neck injury which I knew was not the full story and asked was Wright still at club as no one had seen him for weeks then one of us mentioned he had applied for the Swindon job Pete just said "has he" then went on about Southend and Swindon and we should not compare MK Dons to them (none of us had) as he had seen them go up and down league's and he was trying to build stability I did not find him aggressive but more annoyed and passionate but I was alone and everyone else thought he was aggressive.<br />
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I was just playing devils advocate and was merely asking what everyone else seemed a bit wary to ask directly and was surprised at his demeanour I had not seen him so angry and he admitted he made a mistake by saying at the start of the season we would get promoted and it put too much pressure on the team who could not handle it the, whole thing was quite odd and his wife Bernie eventually got him inside the hotel entrance.<br />
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The game itself was a bore draw between two poor teams Preston did not play a registered striker and just had one man at the front and they seemed to come for a draw we just seemed to follow their lead.<br />
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Officials were terrible and I can remember writing about the useless Mr Bates before quite why he is still a referee is a mystery.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin, Otsemobor who has gone into hopeless mode (Bowditch 68), Kay, Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines, Powell, Chadwick who signed a new 2 year deal that morning, Chicksen M.O.T.M for his goal, Lowe who would have been M.O.T.M for work rate but missed a sitter (McLeod 90 quite why he was brought on so late only Robbo knows).<br />
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Subs not used: Doumbe, Flanagan, Baldock, Rasulo. Booked Lewington silly booking for petulant behaviour, Powell<br />
Goal by Chicksen on 2 mins then followed 88 mins of pure torture.<br />
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Preston North End: Rudd, Buchanan (Robertson 81), Huntington, Wright, Connolly, Hayhurst, Welsh (c), Wroe, Holmes (Garner 89), King, Beavon (Monakana 77).<br />
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Subs not used: Stuckmann (GK), Beardsley, Mousinho, Proctor.<br />
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Goal: Hayhurst 7 proving once again you are never more vulnerable than when you score.<br />
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Referee Tony Bates as I said once before appropriately named (Master Bates) !1 out of 10 just for finding the ground.<br />
Attendance was 8,412 (678 of them)<br />
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MK Dons 3-0 Doncaster Rovers<br />
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Next up was the game with top of the league Doncaster and we were all probably a bit nervous I thought we might get a draw but was not very optimistic after Saturday's display.<br />
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But as usaul I was wrong and we played as well as I can remember this season Chadders went off injured after 37 mins<br />
which whilst upsetting meant we almost went two up front (although Lowei did fall back a bit) it was as close as we'll see to 4-4-2 and Izale got his much anticipated goal three minutes later.<br />
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We had started the game looking a bit shaky with passes going astray but had looked better as the Izale goal loomed and after that we were in control of the game.<br />
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Second half we pushed forward and Powell who had that day extended his contract made it two nil with a rocket of a shot.<br />
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Doncaster never looked like getting back into it and with seven minutes of normal time remaining to great applause from the crowd Gleeson made his return and with his second touch scored a thunderous goal that had the home fans <br />
in football heaven, three scorers and each could have stolen the headlines post match.<br />
The teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c), Potter, Lines, Powell, Chadwick (McLeod 37), Bowditch (Doumbe 74), Lowe (Gleeson 82).<br />
Subs not used: Flanagan, Baldock, Rasulo.<br />
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Goals by McLeod a much needed one on 40 Powell who signed new contract on 56′ and returning from injury Gleeson on 83<br />
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Doncaster Rovers (4-4-2) Woods, Quinn, McCombe, Jones (c) (Griffin 46), Spurr; Cotterill, Harper, Lundstram, Husband (Bennett 63); Coppinger, Hume (Paynter 67).<br />
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Subs not used: Maxted , Wakefield, Sinclair, Howieson, Bennett.<br />
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Booked McCombe and Cotterill<br />
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Referee who was pretty okay was Keith Stroud from Hampshire 8 out of 10.<br />
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Attendance was 6,804 with 453 away fans.<br />
More importantly we now had fifty points the first magic figure of season albeit a month late.<br />
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Next up was an away trip to Sheffield and the much fancied for promotion team who were second in the league when we arrived.<br />
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The game was a hard fought battle with both sides cancelling each other out and most of us were happy with a point on the day.<br />
Not a game for the football purists but a point well earned and the mood amongst fans had certainly lifted, the return of Bamford after his injury was a boost the gloss slightly taken off by the injury to Powell on the day but Gleeson got some more match time and Doumbe playing enabled Chicksen to move further up field which on reflection was probably a good move as Doumbe had a good game and coped well with Kitson who I think would have eventually got the better of Chicksen.<br />
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Bamford got booked for diving after being tripped when it should have been a penalty but the referee missed one for United so I guess it all balanced out.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
Sheffield United: Long, Maguire, Hill, Flynn, Doyle (c), McDonald, Kitson, Collins, Robson (Poleon 83), Murphy (Forte 62), McMahon.<br />
Subs not used: Coyne (GK), Westlake, Higginbotham, Ironside, McFadzean.<br />
Booked: Maguire<br />
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MK Dons 4-2-3-1 McLoughlin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c), Lines, Potter; Powell (Doumbe 32), Smith (Bamford 58), Bowditch, Lowe (Gleeson 68).<br />
Subs not used: Otsemobor, McLeod, Flanagan, Baldock.<br />
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Referee was Boyeson who let the game flow but missed a few decisions and therefore just a 7 out of 10.<br />
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Attendance was a massive for League one 17, 936 with 385 Dons faithful. <br />
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After the draw at United Tuesday nights game took on a must win status amongst the fans as that would keep us up with a shout of play off's baring in mind we still had two games in hand on most teams.<br />
The Shrews have had a bit of an up and down season and as we were at home I thought we should win this one but true to form this season it did not go that way.<br />
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Within twenty minutes we were two goals down both goals coming after the defence fell asleep and the two chances Shrews got they scored.<br />
Robbo then took Doumbe off (who was the one defender not at fault)this despite most of us scratching our heads proved to be a good move as within eight minutes we pulled one back.<br />
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Second half Lowe got his second and we put Shrews under a lot of pressure for the whole of the second half but could not find the net.<br />
Then in what was probably the stupidest thing I have seen this season we conceded an own goal under no pressure.<br />
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McLoughlin came running out of his goal and Kay either not hearing him shout or Ian did not shout (which I thought)played the ball into his own net.<br />
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We continued to pile pressure on but could not get an equaliser, in the final moments Alan Smith had his effort at goal turned over the bar by the Shrews keeper.<br />
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And for even the most optimistic fan that was the play off hope gone with MacKenzie and Flanagan out on loan and no scout (other than chairman's son)it does look like the towel had been thrown in and money saving is the order of the remaining season.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin Doumbe (Gleeson 38), Kay, Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines (Smith 83), Bowditch, Lowe, Chicksen, McLeod (Bamford 54).<br />
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Subs not used: Otsemobor, Flanagan, Baldock.<br />
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Goals by Lowe on 27 and 47 minutes and my M.O.T.M. <br />
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Shrewsbury Town (4-4-2): Weale who made a great save to earn the three points, Gayle, Jones, Mambo, Jacobson, Taylor (Parry 87), Summerfield, McAllister, Richards, Eaves (Porter 90), Morgan.<br />
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Subs not used: Anyon (GK), McGinn, Goldson, Rodgers.<br />
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Goals by Eaves 16, 19 who was pretty decent, Kay O.G was on 68<br />
Referee was David Phillips from West Sussex who I can not remember doing too much wrong other than usual L1 ref trait of missed fouls but gave others a 6 out of 10 Attendance was 6,672 with 233 away fans.<br />
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Friday before the match I went to Woughton to watch the training and thought we had a new trialist when I asked Mick Harford said he was the referee from Yeovil game ! which I thought was a wind up but on closer inspection it was clear he was not a player.<br />
He was joining in with the training but I was not quite sure why he was here, but I stopped wondering why we get some strange faces at MK a long while back lol<br />
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John Motson a familiar face was here again for the game and had brought his son with him and they were treated to a good comprehensive Dons win, not quite as comprehensive as the Doncaster win as I thought Sidibe and Akpa Akpro looked like they might grab at least a goal but overall Rovers passing and finishing were poor and we were on top of the game for the most part.<br />
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Of course the win against a top side gave some a hope the play off dream might be alive but personally I think that train has left the station.<br />
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We were now 12th in league after 37 games played and have 54pts probably seventeen points from the target needed for the last play off place.<br />
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Personally I think we'll finish around 8th or 9th in line with the budget(at start of season) and Robbo will talk about injuries and a good cup run and money that has made the club, the fact we have no scouts or anyone to recruit players after Rae left will be brought up and rightly so, taking pressure off himself and onto the Chairman.<br />
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Teams lined up Dons 4-2-3-1 McLoughlin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c) (Otsemobor 64), Potter, Lines, Bamford (Baldock who Id like to see more of 71), Gleeson (McLeod 71), Bowditch, Lowe.<br />
Subs not used were Doumbe and Smith we again had no keeper on bench.<br />
Booked just Kay <br />
Goals by Lewington who scored with his head 9, Gleeson who ran to Rovers fans to "celebrate" this was in response to a Rovers fan tweeting "I hope you break both legs" 43, Potter headed in after another rebound of bar on 50<br />
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Tranmere Rovers Fon Williams (c), Holmes, Black, Taylor, Palmer, Harrison (Bell-Baggie 63), Bakayogo (Stockton 81), Power, Gibson, Sidibe, Akpa Akpro.<br />
Subs not used: Mooney (GK), Amoo a former loan player here, M Kay, O'Halloran, Corry.<br />
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Referee was Oliver Langford from the West Midlands an eight out of ten.<br />
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Attendance on family fun day was 9,682 with 601 away fans.<br />
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So next up a trip to Crewe a game I thought we would lose as we struggle against teams lower than us in the league and seem to go all cocky after a win and I got the call right.<br />
With only four players on the bench we looked a forlorn and down to bare bones team, hardly a team with between 6th(Winkelman quote) and 9th highest budget in league depending on who you believe, its bigger than Crewe's anyway for what its worth I think its the 9th with the players out on loan.<br />
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Again we lost the game late on after starting brightly with a goal from Bamford the railwaymen got one back just before half time.<br />
Second half both sides pushed for a winner and game got niggly and six minutes before time Pogba got his second and then Kay got himself sent off for a second yellow and the game was lost and Kay got another ban and we had another up hill task for the next game.<br />
Teams lined up <br />
Crewe Alexandra Phillips, Davis, Ellis, Murphy (c) (Turton 59), Pogba, Leitch-Smith (Tootle 85), Mellor, Robertson, Osman, Colclough, Ellington (Aneke 75).<br />
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Subs: Martin (GK), Dugdale, West.<br />
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Goal were by Pogba on 40 and 84 minutes.<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin, Otsemobor, Kay, Williams, Chicksen (Smith 85), Potter, Lines, Bamford, Gleeson (c), Bowditch (Baldock 64), Lowe (McLeod 69).<br />
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Subs: Doumbe only sub not used which I really can not understand after last couple of games he played.<br />
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Booked: Kay who is fast becoming more a liability than an asset. <br />
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Sent-off Kay who undoes his previous good performances with his stupid temper on 87minutes. <br />
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Goal by on Bamford 31<br />
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Referee was nice but dim Tim Robinson who made a bizarre booking for a player shouting, poor for both sides a 5 out of ten not one of West Sussex finest.<br />
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Attendance was a lowly 3,770 and 143 of the MK Army made the trip.<br />
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With the ban of Kay I noticed Flanagan made his debut for the Bees as a substitute that weekend and played the full 90 minutes as Edgar Davids side put an end to their losing streak.<br />
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The Dons 21-year-old centre half put in an assured performance and helped Barnet not only pick up a valuable three points but also keep a clean-sheet for the first time since February and I hoped we would recall him.<br />
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In other news Dele Alli came on for England's U17s who beat Portugal 1-0. <br />
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As we know the Colchester game was postponed due to snow on 23rd March ! and there was us hoping winter was long gone but it gave us a chance to get the injured players fit ahead of <br />
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Another academy player Giorgio Rasulo helped England U-16s to a 1-1 draw with Holland and Dele Alli featured again for the U-17s who were beaten by Russia.<br />
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The last away game of month saw the long trip to Hartlepool who sat at the bottom of the table despite some well known and pretty decent players.<br />
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The team stopped and trained at Leeds United training ground on the way to Hartlepool to stretch out the muscles and Karl commented on the radio match day it is nice to train there on a good pitch and I thought he was having a little dig at our training ground which he has mentioned before being hard on players.<br />
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On current form Dons fans would probably have been worried playing a team below us in the table but we started well with a brilliantly taken goal by Bamford making it two in two, also on this season's form taking an early goal was a bit worrying.<br />
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The Dons continued to press forward with Bamford looking sharp the Poolies did not look to threatening but we never came close to a goal the rest of the first half. <br />
Second half Hartlepool had a man sent off for a boot to the back of Bamford who later was subbed as Patrick got yellow and Karl sensibly subbed him.<br />
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Bowditch swung a shot into the net to make it two nil and against a ten man side at the bottom of the league not even the most pessimistic fan could see a loss happening. <br />
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And even though we had the odd wobbly moment we got the win and looked forward to Easter Monday's game against Brentford.<br />
We moved up to eleventh with 57 points(helped by Coventry's ten point deduction) 9 off play off's making Monday's game massive.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
Pools: Flinders, Austin, Collins, Hartley, Horwood (Holden 46), Walton, Baldwin, Sweeney (James 24), Monkhouse, Franks, Wyke<br />
Subs Not Used: McHugh, Rowbotham, Hawkins, Rutherford, Boagey<br />
Booked: Horwood (16), Monkhouse (18), Baldwin (90)<br />
Sent Off: Walton (51)<br />
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MK Dons: McLoughlin, Otsemobor, Doumbe, Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch, Smith (Powell 56), Chicksen (Galloway 72), Lowe, Bamford (Chadwick 58)<br />
Subs Not Used: Baldock, Lines<br />
Attendance was just 3,269 with 157 very cold Dons fans Dave Martin and Dean Lewington are still not recovered from injury and Izale McLeod has picked up an injury somewhere, all were missing at Hartlepool.<br />
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Dons 0-3 Bournemouth <br />
The first game of the month was against Dorset's finest and a team we know has pots of money and a returning manager who I thought should never have left , at least not when and to the club he left for.<br />
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Eddie Howe is one of the bright young managers much like our own but with a promotion under his belt.<br />
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I was optimistic before the game but was hopelessly wrong about the outcome.<br />
I thought we did play well for the most part and can not think of any player who had a stinker but for the two obvious culprits.<br />
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Otsemobor made a catastrophic back pass to Martin after we had decided to not push forward but go sideways then back.<br />
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Lowe then had a mad moment and deservedly got a straight red for an outrageous foul.<br />
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I spoke to Robbo at Woughton on Monday and he said Jon just did not see Grabban I did not talk about Lowe as enough had been said and written but Robbo said the players were happy and he was grateful to the fans for not turning on him, he seemed upbeat and we had a good chat about injuries the key players missing and how the season was panning out.<br />
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I did get impression he was feeling the pressure and when pressed on the money available to him he wouldn't criticize Winkelman and I felt there had been words between them and Robbo may have not had it all his own way, but I'm just speculating rather than going on anything I heard.<br />
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Gary Mac was training hard with Simon Crampton it was all a bit technical for me monitoring heart rate and how he was running and what his load ratio was etc and how many kilometres he had covered.<br />
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MK Dons lined up 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor, Doumbe (Smith 69), Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines (Ismail 79) Bowditch, Harley, Chicksen (McLeod 46) Lowe sent off on 44 which really sealed our fate.<br />
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Subs not used: Flanagan, Baldock, Alli.<br />
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AFC Bournemouth 4-4-2 which seems to work for them ! Jalal,Francis, Cook, Elphick (c) (Ritchie 45), Seaborne; McQuoid (Hughes 79), Arter, O'Kane, Pugh, Grabban (Tubbs 87), Pitman.<br />
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Subs not used: Allsop (GK)David James did not travel for those interested , Partington, Fogden, Fletcher.<br />
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Goals: Grabban 9, Pugh 45, Arter 84<br />
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Referee: Mick Russell was from Hertfordshire <br />
who I thought was okay 7 out of ten.<br />
Attendance was 9,233 with 1,446 away fans considering the number were not that noisy.<br />
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We slipped to 10th and are 10pts from top 5 points from play off's.<br />
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Oldham 3-1 Dons<br />
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So it was off to relegation zone and manager less Oldham without a win in ten I thought if there was an away game we could win on the road it should be here.<br />
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But the doubts started when I saw the team selection.<br />
Now I am no expert but I know from years of watching training that injured players usually take a couple of weeks of first team training to get back to match fitness depending on how serious the injury was of course so I was surprised to see Gary Mac start and Powelly to lesser extent.<br />
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I was also surprised to see Chadders on bench after only joining team on Monday for training.<br />
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Another shock was seeing McLeod on the bench now I was not at Woughton on Thursday or Friday so don't know if he had a niggle but I could not work out why he did not start.<br />
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After twenty minutes Barnard (who must be costing Oldham a pretty penny) put the hosts ahead we never looked like we were ever going to win the game as we just did not look very good, but that is a pattern we are getting used to.<br />
Only now we never had that possession and lapse moments we just looked the second best team.<br />
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There was a brief moment of hope when Powell another returning injured player scored but the joy was short lived as we proved the old adage never more vulnerable when just scored correct and we conceded five minutes later.<br />
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Even the introduction of Chadwick was not enough second half and eight minutes into the half Iwelumo got the winner we pressed a bit and Williams came close and Izale missed a good chance and as before he has divided the fan base and misses like that will not help.<br />
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I have yet to make my mind up on Izale this time round but an Oldham fan on twitter Josh who writes a blog and knows his stuff reckoned we were better with Izale ! so I like to keep an open mind although I did think when it was rumoured Izale was coming here how he would fit into Karl's game plan.<br />
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After the game Karl apologised to the fans and in an unprecedented move and to the chairman as well.<br />
Oldham Athletic 4-4-2 which like Bournemouth seemed to work for them Bouzanis, Brown (Byrne 90), M’voto, Tarkowski, Grounds; Croft (Furman 69), Wesolowski (c), Baxter, Obita (Taylor 87) Iwelumo, Barnard.<br />
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Subs: Cisak, Murray, Millar, Winchester.<br />
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Goals: Barnard 22, M’voto 44, Iwelumo 53 which prompted a comment Dons must be shit if he scored !<br />
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MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines (McLeod 55); Powell, Harley (Chadwick 46), Bowditch, Smith (Chicksen 67).<br />
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Subs not used: Doumbe, Baldock, Flanagan.<br />
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Goal: Powell 39<br />
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Referee: D Whitstone (Northamptonshire)<br />
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Attendance: 4,094 (185 away)<br />
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I laughed when some of our fans said they predicted this up to a year ago(we were comfortably in play off spots with a lower budget) as I also remember some also predicted relegation and gloom three years ago when Robbo was appointed lol but we can all say we did when we did not or even just be doom and gloom and hope it comes true eventually.<br />
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Point is we all have views on what went wrong or is going wrong I think it is a combination of other teams doing better than expected also in an open division teams are somehow finding money to strengthen as they believe they have a decent chance this season more than other seasons and Robbo wont be given more money and has in fact had the budget cut during this season, having had to get rid of contracted players to bring in loan players.<br />
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We know Karl has not been given money from the FA Cup run but we also have to question the players Karl has brought in to replace those he has released ?<br />
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We also have to look at those around him and what they actually do when Karl is not at Woughton when manager type work at the Stadium means he is not there full session ?<br />
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We <b>do not</b> have a tiny budget probably about eighth start of season(although it is now 9th or 10th),others above us have a smaller budget put it that way.<br />
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So have events just conspired against us ? injuries at wrong time to key players ?<br />
Is the squad now too small with release of Jay and Jabo and Charlie? Are the replacements not as good ?<br />
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Is Pete's obvious desire to complete stadium work effecting the team or has Pete decided this year is not our year and has stopped anymore funding ? <br />
So many if and buts and conjecture ! Of course the stadium has to be completed this year to keep the council happy as part of the agreement but could Pete have done more ?<br />
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The more I look at what I write the more I realise I have not got a clue what if any of the reason's for the current plight are ! other than its probably a bit of all of them.<br />
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Next up was a trip to Doncaster and a game we needed to win to keep in with a chance of the play off's , who would have believed that play off's are now the dream and automatic is pretty much forgotten about.<br />
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The pitch was not a great help to our passing style ! thanks to the egg chasers and away fans have been moved this season to the corner rather than behind the goal due to low away attendances at Doncaster.<br />
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Pretty much all our players had the chance to score or so it seemed but the elusive goal never came (for either team) as the game played out to a nil nil affair.<br />
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Not a bore draw by any means but the game led to Robbo saying how did we not win that.<br />
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Donny were second in the table so a draw away from home was probably a good result but the game was there to be won on the night and we again missed chances the performance was much improved though and I had to think we seem to be a one man team with Chadwick returning and once more most fans choice for M.O.T.M Potter a close second McLeod had a good game but did not do what he was brought in to do which is score but he was not lazy, a criticism often labelled at him.<br />
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Doncaster played a lot of long ball (hoofball) and relied on long throws but could not out muscle us and Gary Mac and Williams coped well with the hoof.<br />
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Referee was David Webb who played advantage let game flow and was not card happy an 8 out of 10 Attendance was 6,423 with 180 Dons not the 13 fans @awaydays stated whilst showing a stand we did not sit in lol. Teams lined up<br />
Doncaster Rovers: G Woods, Quinn, Spurr, McCombe, Jones (c), M Woods (Sinclair 70), Griffin (Harper 46), Cotterill, Coppinger, Husband, Paynter.<br />
Subs: Maxted, Sinclair, Martis, Harper, Bennett, Wakefield, Fowler.<br />
Booked: Woods<br />
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MK Dons: (4-2-3-1) Martin, Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Williams, Lewington (c), Potter, Harley, Powell, Chadwick (Chicksen 74), Bowditch, McLeod.<br />
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Subs: Doumbe, Smith, Chicksen, Flanagan, Baldock, Lines.Booked: MacKenzie<br />
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MK Dons 1-3 Barnsley <br />
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The excellant keeper Luke Steele,Barnsley players arriving Bobby Hassel poses for picture. <br />
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So it was time for another historic day as we played in the fifth round of the FA cup the furthest we have come since becoming MK Dons in 2004.<br />
Of course as Wimbledon we won the competition in 1988 as many of our fans remember, and it still annoys me when people forget those fans that despite the troubles of Wimbledon FC stayed loyal and followed the club even when the name change was forced upon them.<br />
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Sadly the team did not seem to have the same passion for the day and first half we were awful letting Barnsley not only into the game but gifted them goals as well.<br />
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To be fair we were caught cold for the first when Dagnell scored on three minutes but the second from Harewood a former FA cup winner was due to bad defending from the normally reliable Lewington who Harewood just seemed to skip right past.<br />
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The third we had gone three at the back chasing an equalizer but the whole defence just stood there waiting for the linesman to flag which he of course did not as he had not kept up with play all game and was awful but the back line should have played to the whistle not what they thought ! <br />
Bowditch scored a lovely goal to make things 2-1 and got the crowd rocking in what was a pretty good day noise wise from the home fans Barnsley brought a good crowd and made a good lot of noise and I found them to be a nice bunch generally.<br />
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But despite a good second half the poor first half meant we had no realistic chance of getting back into the game against a rejuvenated and in form Barnsley side.<br />
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Alan Smith got sent off after just having been announced as M.O.T.M which I also would have agreed with although Chicksen was close but only a sub so hard to give it to him.<br />
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I spoke to one of our more knowledgeable fans Lew who like me clapped Smith as he received his M.O.T.M award as he felt like me it was a yellow at best and even Delap agreed it was not an elbow to the head as the hopeless referee said ,an appeal will be lodged but I'm never confident as the FA rarely go against a referee's decision.(Karl agreed apparently and never lodged one)<br />
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Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) Martin,Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Williams, Lewington (c) Potter, Harley (Chicksen 46) Powell, Chadwick, Bowditch (Lines 68) Smith.<br />
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Subs not used Doumbe, Flanagan, Alli, Galloway, Rasulo.<br />
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Booked: Chadwick, Williams<br />
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Sent-off Smith 90 Goal by Bowditch on 62 was well taken <br />
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Barnsley Steele made an amazing save to deny Smith(c), Wiseman, Cranie, Kennedy, Golbourne, Hassell (Delap 70), Perkins still a menace and close call for M.O.T.M, Etuhu (O'Brien 58), Mellis, Dagnall who was my opposition M.O.T.M, Harewood (Scotland 46).<br />
Subs not used: Alnwick (GK), Foster, Cywka, Rose.<br />
Booked: Mellis Goals: Dagnall 3, Harewood 19<br />
Referee was Mike Jones from Cheshire who let him self down with the red 6 out of 10<br />
Attendance: 14,475 with 3,702 away fans. <br />
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Izale McLeod (with parka on)sat just in front of Luke Ashmead and behind Steve Claridge<br />
doing co-commentary as he was cup tied.<br />
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We now have to concentrate on our league form and put a run together as this looks like being quite a low points needed for play off season and others will drop points around us.<br />
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We are 12th in the league and have two away games ahead of us at opposite end's of the country Carlisle on the 23rd and Portsmouth on 27th and are probably the two most important games so far this season in terms of how the season will be defined, or so it seems ahead of these games to myself and many or our fan base. <br />
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Fact is we were as close to the relegation zone as the play off places. <br />
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The stats after the game showed we had 53 percent possession and so it was pretty even but again a game of two halves with us having best of the first and the Cumbrians the second whether it is down to fitness I don't know but we are worse second half this season. Robbo made some changes and at last gave Chicksen a start and was duly rewarded with a goal from Adam.<br />
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Carlisle had changed their keeper and Collin was on the bench where he was joined by our own Martin after thirty nine minutes and thankfully after many games without one he had a keeper on the bench.<br />
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McLoughlin fresh back from Walsall stepped in and we went into half time one goal to the good.<br />
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More bad news was to follow when Gary Mac went off injured to be replaced by Doumbe but it was a corner given away by Kay who has been pretty decent till his red and subsequent ban that undid the goal by Adam and the battle to keep the Cumbrians at bay.<br />
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Mixed responses from the fans there as to blame with some saying Ian should have come out shouting for ball others saying Kay should have left it to Keeper <br />
either way the resulting corner was headed down by O'Hanlon and Beck who had only been on pitch six minutes dispatched the goal and two points were lost.<br />
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This now meant the Pompey game on Tuesday was a must win and those two points lost need to be made up putting more pressure on the manager and players alike.<br />
Teams lined up:<br />
Carlisle United: Gillespie, Simek, McGovern, Livesey who lost a lot of blood after a clash with Lewie (Murphy 69), Noble, Loy (Beck 80), Thirwell (Symington 46), Miller (c), Berrett, Mutsoe, O’Hanlon. Goal 86 mins by Beck<br />
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Subs not used: Collin, Welsh, Cadamarteri, Potts,<br />
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Booked: O’Hanlon well he was a Don<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin (McLoughlin 39); Chicksen, MacKenzie (Doumbe 77), Kay, Lewington (c) Potter, Lines; Chadwick, Williams, Harley (Powell who did not start as he was not fit according to Robbo 64) Lowe.<br />
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Subs not used: Otsemobor, McLeod, Baldock, Rasulo.<br />
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Booked: Potter<br />
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Goal: Chicksen on 36 and was the M.O.T.M so he'll probably be dropped next game !<br />
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Referee: Kevin Wright <br />
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Attendance: 4,283 with 179 away fans.<br />
We had now played 31 games were 14th in league and had 45 points and seemed to be slipping away from the play off pack and nearer the relegation dog fight !<br />
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Point is a loss or even a draw was to most of us the end of the play off hope. Mathmaticaly possible perhaps but I thought that a loss means there is more wrong than I see at the training ground or hear from those I trust who often pick up reliable tit bits.<br />
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The game was a huge disappointment for the reason's that 1.We should have beaten Portsmouth 2.There was no passion from the team 3.Play off's can be forgotten 4.We are nearer the relegation zone than the play off zone. <br />
Pompey have some good players amongst the team but they are on short contracts and really have nothing to prove and can hardly know each other.<br />
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The few positives I could see were that Chicksen was not dropped as I thought he might be McLoughlin started a game which might stop him moaning and we took a reasonable number of fans a long way on a Tuesday night. <br />
Teams lined up<br />
Portsmouth (4-4-2) Eastwood; Moutaouakil (Webster 65), Rocha, Gyepes, Butler; Wallace, Ertl (c), Racon (Reed 65), Walker (Harris 74); Agyemang remember him ?, Connolly<br />
Subs not used: Smith (GK), Keene, Akinde.<br />
Booked: Gyepes, Wallace, Ertl<br />
Goal: Connolly 22<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1) McLoughlin; Chicksen, MacKenzie, Kay, Lewington (c); Potter, Williams (Otsemobor 65); Powell, Chadwick, Harley who was injured (Lines 56); McLeod (Lowe 56).<br />
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Subs not used Doumbe, Flanagan, Baldock, Rasulo.<br />
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Booked: Potter<br />
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Goal: Williams goal to save our blushes was on 27<br />
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Referee Keith Hill can not be blamed for another woeful performance came from Hertfordshire.<br />
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Attendance was which despite Pompey's woe's is pretty decent at this level 9,815 267 were Don's fans.<br />
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March is an incredibly busy month and I am now looking at getting to fifty points rather than anything else, another season in League One is not what most of our fans thought we would be praying for but on current form and the way we are playing its the best we can hope for. I suspect there will be more twists and turn's in March but February has been an awful month and one I'll certainly be glad to see the back ofGD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-54016345947375747332013-01-30T04:37:00.000-08:002013-01-30T09:38:57.537-08:00January Blog <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oRaCg-ul3EIr48TG4G7DT0gXqAJ37HHrQE3BDwBuFHNGKrHqx1DEESvo-IgfKC_kSsc4zolzJ_mjY_FdNel76fU_2rn3W6h338FRot913JAXpHyS8mWk36W1wybcj-GDTdWYwUxrMeU/s1600/notts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="225" width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oRaCg-ul3EIr48TG4G7DT0gXqAJ37HHrQE3BDwBuFHNGKrHqx1DEESvo-IgfKC_kSsc4zolzJ_mjY_FdNel76fU_2rn3W6h338FRot913JAXpHyS8mWk36W1wybcj-GDTdWYwUxrMeU/s320/notts.jpg" /></a></div>Notts county 1-2 Dons<br />
We started the New Year in 7th place in the league on 39 points and twenty five games played and I was hoping we could manage a draw at Notts County.<br />
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What happened was we got three points and moved up to sixth and back in the play off's on 42 points and the first goal of season the fifty to safety is nearly upon us though we are really looking beyond that and Auto.<br />
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At this stage I was still confident of play off's but dreaming of Auto's though like most fans that changes depending on results lol.<br />
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So the year had started well but what was encouraging was the defence held up, particularly in the later stages of the second half when we came under a lot of pressure Kay gave away a penalty after tripping Judge and the menace that is Campbell-Ryce slotted home the penalty.<br />
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Kay was again immense and got forward as well as being the rock in defence we are getting used to.<br />
Only downside was Bowditch going off injured and we hoped it was not a bad injury.<br />
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This was a great win on the road after two defeats at home, the pitch was not great and we had not had the rest Notts had but we showed great character and deserved the win.<br />
Before the game we had signed on loan from Brighton Ryan Harley as I mentioned in last months blog, Ryan's debut started well with a pin point cross to Potter which Darren duly dispatched<br />
The teams lined up<br />
Notts County: Bialkowski, Kelly (Showunmi 90), Bishop (c), M Smith, Liddle, Judge, Hughes, Campbell-Ryce (Zoko 79, Boucaud, Stewart, Iwelumo (Arquin 46).<br />
Subs: Spiess, Mahon, Labadie, Bencherif.<br />
Goal: Campbell-Ryce (pen) 56<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Harley; Powell, Bowditch (A Smith 45), Balanta (Kouo-Doumbe 65); Lowe (MacKenzie 90).<br />
Subs: McLoughlin, MacDonald, Alli, Ismail.<br />
Goals: Potter 6, Powell 13<br />
Referee: Graham Salisbury was from Lancashire another eight out of ten.<br />
Attendance: 5,325 with 311 away fans.<br />
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Before the Notts game and the days following the talk was about Izale McLeod and the strong rumour he was coming back.<br />
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When Portsmouth announced he had been released the rumours turned into reports of sightings and then by 2nd January it was when are the club going to announce it.<br />
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I knew he has been at Woughton and on Thursday the third I went over to Woughton to find out that players were at stadium training so I headed over to the hotel where the players had finished the session and were heading off to Northampton.<br />
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I spoke to Izale and he confirmed he was cup tied but waiting to see if his five yellows would stop him playing in the next league game I think he was hoping that the cup game would count as his one game ban.<br />
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Lewie ribbed Izale and said he got booked for diving and he'd have to stop that here I said I cant believe Izale would dive ! and thought back to Lewie in last game when it looked rather like he went over easily in the Penalty area lol Izale seemed a lot more chatty than when he was here last when I think he was quite shy and I never found him arrogant back then as I have heard some say.<br />
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In so many games I have written how we dominated games but lacked the finish and Izale will hopefully get on the end of those killer crosses from Bowditch and Powell etc.<br />
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Patrick Bamford was expected to miss the final game of his loan spell and reports he will be out for five weeks probably means we wont see him again, Ibra Sekajja and Angelo Balanta returned to Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers respectively. <br />
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We had good news and as I hoped Zeli Ismail loan was extended (or rejoined whatever you prefer)until the end of the season including play off's.<br />
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The game itself was not the greatest to watch but there was always that excitement of snatching a goal and getting to fourth round, we had the most procession and out sung the home fans for the most part but again we did not get the all important goal.<br />
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Smith was the M.O.M. and we have to do it all over again at S:MK we played a sixteen year old and a fifteen year old due to our growing injury crisis and both did well.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
Sheffield Wednesday: Bywater, Buxton, Taylor (c), Antonio, Maguire (Johnson 68), Mattock, McCabe (Semedo 87), Sidibe (Madine 55), Prutton, Llera an ex Don.<br />
Subs: Davies, Johnson, O’Grady, Corry.<br />
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MK Dons: Martin,Doumbe, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Harley, Ismail (Deli Alli still just sixteen 67), Smith (MacKenzie 71), Chicksen; Lowe and 15 year old Rasulo 90.<br />
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Subs: McLoughlin, Galloway.<br />
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Referee was Michael Oliver who was okay 7 out of 10.<br />
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Attendance was 11, 463 with 1,185 very noisy Dons fans.<br />
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Frustrating,annoying,disappointing were the words (amongst some stronger) I would use to describe the performance against Bury who sat second from bottom before the game.<br />
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It all looked great early on when Dean Bowditch hit an early goal and we looked dominant before the goal and just after.<br />
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I really have know idea what went wrong afterwards and I have had a day to think about it! We seemed to not suit the formation I would not blame Izale as he had a reasonable game although did miss a tap in from a cross I thought he would get something on, to me the subs were brought on too late I thought Smith would have been better sitting behind Izale and Zeli should have come on earlier to make the runs down wing to feed Izale.<br />
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As the second half went on I could feel the eqauliser coming and Steven Schumacher duly proved me right with a sweet volley that Martin could not near.<br />
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Captain Dean Lewington was presented with a trophy before the game to mark his 400th league appearance but I think like the rest of us he will prefer to forget that game.<br />
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We named seven substitutes although no keeper was amongst them and we learnt Ian had gone on a months loan to Walsall I knew Burns the academy keeper had hurt his thumb and we were lucky Martin was not sent off after what looked to me a foul on last man luckily the worst ref this season saw it otherwise and penalised the Walsall player.<br />
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Martin made a superb tipping save which prevented Efe Sodje’s header from finding the roof of the net.<br />
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Sodje seemed to keep Izale quiet and was Walsalls M.O.M for me Powell was booked for diving which was harsh as he was tripped we again missed chances Kay’s shot was cleared off the line by some last gasp Bury defending and McLeod’s deflected looping effort struck the upright before rolling across the goalmouth.<br />
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John-Lewis (remember him)broke free on goal but sent it wide later on and Schumacher also missed a chance.<br />
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As Robbo said after the game "a case of two points dropped".<br />
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Dons: Martin, Lewington, Williams, Potter, Bowditch M.OM though tired toward end, Chicksen, McLeod (Smith brought on to late 78), Lowe, Powell (Ismail like Smith too late 78), Harley who looks better every game , Kay. Unused subs: Otsemobor, Doumbe, MacKenzie, Smith, Alli, Rasulo.<br />
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Goal by Bowditch on 15.<br />
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Booked: Powell, Bowditch.<br />
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Bury: Carson, Skarz, Worrall, Schumacher, John-Lewis, Sodje good game Walsall m.o.m , Hughes, Hopper (Jones 55), Thompson, Ebanks-Landell, Soares (Carrington our former player 90). Unused subs just Dibble, Wylde on a bench of just four.<br />
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Ref was terrible and named Fred Graham made a bad game worse with his petty pulling free kicks back missing the bleeding obvious and generaly bad decision making 3 out of ten as he was bad for both teams.<br />
Att: 7,384<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So after the brief intermission of a league game it was back<br />
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We had snow in MK the day before but not a great deal and we had heard the undersoil heating was getting its first workout so the game was not in doubt. <br />
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The game was quite an entertaining one with Llera providing the comedy.<br />
At MK Dons we are usually happy to see returning players but Miquel bucked that trend by the most ridiculous act's of diving,cheating and failing to bully Alan Smith (who made him look more a muppet than he was)why Llera has decided to bring these tricks to his game I have no idea but it was awful to watch.<br />
The Owls brought a strong side and wanted the win but the Dons defence held firm got some luck and kept a clean sheet.<br />
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John Gorman was again here to watch and is in far better health than when he left us last season and he must have been pleased with the youngsters like Powell and Chico who played well.<br />
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It was the Dons we love to watch that night and despite the distraction of Blackpool making an approach for Robbo before the game we won 2-0 and face QPR at Loftus Rd end of month.<br />
Teams were<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) Martin, made saves when needed Otsemobor back from injury bit rusty , Kay another strong game, MacKenzie knackered when he went off(Doumbe 71), Lewington (c); Potter, Williams; Powell who really should have gone down after he was tripped in the area but bravely or stupidly ! tried to score, (Alli 88), Smith who won sponsors and my M.O.T.M, Bowditch (Chicksen 78) Lowe.<br />
Subs not used: Harley, Rasulo, Ismail.<br />
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Goals: Williams (pen) 28, Bowditch who won pen after his shirt was tugged 76 <br />
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Sheffield Wednesday Bywater, Buxton, Taylor (c), Semedo, Madine, Johnson (Mayer 13), Mattock, Pecnik (O'Grady 55), Lee was the player who stood out to me (Antonio 62), Corry, Llera.<br />
Subs not used: Davies (GK), Sidibe, Jones, Coke.<br />
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Referee was L Collins who was pretty good and not fooled by Llera's antics 7 out of ten as he did miss a clear booking of Semedo who got away with too much I thought.<br />
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The next game was an away against Crewe but it was snowed off so back to the FA cup it was.<br />
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Last time round it was the fourth round we lost to a Gabbidon goal after a Wright-Phillips' corner but that replay was earnt after we were robbed at S:MK by an offside goal and a penalty not given.<br />
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As well as reaching the fourth round as MK Dons we took a record away attendance and in act sold our allocation.<br />
Some fans moaned that the away fan ST and ST holders were not given first dips before tickets went on general sale, but even though I would have benefitted I thought due to the time involved between tickets becoming available and time to the game it was the right decision to go straight to general sale.<br />
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The game started in the best possible way when somehow the ball ended up in the QPR net at the time some said Lewie got a touch others reckoned it was an own goal either way the Dons fans were ecstatic QPR then went through a quiet few minutes before getting back into the game.<br />
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We were under a bit of presure but soaked it up and Martin made some good saves when Lowe broke free after a Kay pass and slotted ball home to make it two nil and it stayed that way till half time.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdNnnWyltb4BCSdQKNOzvq6ByRnrA1Q_PNhnN6zRCO9rIZxca-9ubsqaOCfWBWoTW0rJ8ckXskNdNFkPmWzhgdZs5SghccFdFWrZIUjQVLB0ommltx_8-K4SHEJnxKZ1oIfI-_l9UJTw/s1600/ryan+lowe+and+players+096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdNnnWyltb4BCSdQKNOzvq6ByRnrA1Q_PNhnN6zRCO9rIZxca-9ubsqaOCfWBWoTW0rJ8ckXskNdNFkPmWzhgdZs5SghccFdFWrZIUjQVLB0ommltx_8-K4SHEJnxKZ1oIfI-_l9UJTw/s400/ryan+lowe+and+players+096.JPG" /></a></div>Ryan Lowe<br />
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The second half started in spectacular fashion when on fifty minutes Lowe got down the byline and made a sweet cross to Harley who mereley had to slot home for the third and the Ryan to Ryan show was really having a great time.<br />
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But we were not finished there when Potter found himself through on goal to cooly slot home the fourth and there was an exodus of QPR leaving the ground and an hour had not been played.<br />
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Now as you know I dont usauly do match reports as such but this was an historic and cracking game so Im making an exeption for this game so excuse my ham fisted way of doing it.<br />
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QPR were not at the races after the second goal and with the fans on there back seemed to get worse yes they had made nine changes but this was a Prem team with some big names and cost a darn sight more than ours and also had the luxury of bringing on Bobby Zamora at four down.<br />
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After a great workmanlike performance Smith was replaced by new loan signing Chris Lines with fifteen minutes left and all Dons fans were thinking can we keep a clean sheet as well as go through to the fifth round !<br />
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Sadly it was not to be when Zamora found an unmarked Bothroyd who nodded the ball in with seven minutes to go.<br />
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Chicksen came close just after that and tried to lob the keeper but he took a knock before his shot and again a lesser player might have gone down in the box.<br />
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Zamora and Boothroyd continued to provide us with some scary moments when our academy product Deli Ali was given a run out against the Premiership outfit.<br />
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In the dying moments Da Silva got another one back and it was getting to be a nervious time but I was worrried unnecessarily as we went on to win the game and more history was made as we looked forward to the draw for the next round.<br />
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QPR (4-4-2): Green; Fabio, Ferdinand, Ben Haim, Traore; Mackie, Fairlin, Granero, Park (c) (Zamora 67); Campbell, Bothroyd.<br />
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Subs: Murphy (GK), Derry, Hill, Onuoha, Ephraim, Mbia.<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Otsemobor, MacKenzie (Harley 20), Kay, Lewington (c); Potter, Williams; Bowditch (Alli 90), Smith (Lines 75), Chicksen; Lowe.<br />
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Subs: Kouo-Doumbe, Flanagan, Rasulo, Ismail.<br />
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Goals: Lewington 4, Lowe 40, Harley 50, Potter 56<br />
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Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) Attendance was 17,081 with a record Dons away crowd of <b>3155 </b><br />
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In other news we said goodbye to fan's favourite Jabo Ibehre (who scored on his return to Colchester) and also to Jay O'Shea.<br />
Charlie McDonald also left the club to go to Orient (where Jabo was rumoured to be a target). <br />
We welcomed to the club on loan Ryan Harley from Brighton and Chris Lines from Sheffield Wednesday who we seem to have a lot of ex players from.<br />
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So it was back to the bread and butter of the league and a trip to Yeovil Id call them a bogey team but we seem to have so many of them I just wont bother.<br />
There was a late pitch inspection as it had been raining heavily but the match was on.<br />
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We were now outside the play off's spots but with games in hand but a loss would mean even if we won the games in hand we would still be outside them.<br />
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The conditions helped neither team but Yeovil coped better and went a goal ahead when on loan Paddy Madden scored mid way through the first half Kay made it level after he converted a header from Harley.<br />
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Kay then went from hero to villain when he was sent off second half after a spat with Madden who then went on to score after what was seen by many to be a controversial red card.<br />
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Yeovil held on despite some pressure from the Dons but really it was another two points thrown away and the Auto spots can be forgotten and the play off's also are looking a bit dodgy as well.<br />
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Dons manager Karl Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio:"I got told by an official today that I'm too honest and my players are too honest.<br />
"Shaun Williams almost got his leg broken in the middle of the park, jumped back up and hobbled around. There wasn't even a booking for it.<br />
"Izale McLeod got punched - twice. Luckily for us we've got fantastic video footage of all the incidents.<br />
"I need to make sure there's some charge on my battery for when I phone the PGMO (Professional Game Match Officials) - whatever their job is - but you have a go at them and you get yourself done." Karl was not a happy man but I doubt anything will be done and I think he is feeling the pressure despit the good cup run he knows if promotion is not acheived this season his budget next will be cut and I think it will be bye bye Karl.<br />
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Yeovil: Stech, Ayling, McAllister, Webster, Upson, Hayter (Appiah 59), Foley, Madden, Burn, Dolan (Edwards 59), Dawson. Unused subs: Hinds, Blizzard, G.Williams, Stewart, Young.<br />
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Dons: Martin, Otsemobor (Smith 80), Lewington, S.Williams, Kay, Bowditch, Lowe (Lines 30), Harley (Doumbe 64), McLeod, Potter, Chicksen. Unused subs: Flanagan, Baldock, Alli, Ismail.<br />
Attendance was 3,152 with 99 peed of wet and cold Dons faithful.<br />
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The rest of us are left wondering why it has all gone so wrong despite the players we have who I think are in the main as good as any in League one and many could fit in a championship side.<br />
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We all have our theories and some say we are too good for the league I can not quite see that but understand what they mean as the Football we play at times looks on another level.<br />
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But we dont play it for the whole game and shut off at times also we get caught by counter attacks after we have kept possession for long periods and do try to play the ball into the net, this coupled with fact we dont seem to be able to adapt to league one type football and fact we had strikers missing gift passes and chances means we are now a mile away from where we thought we would be. <br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-78276386651869720182012-12-30T02:53:00.003-08:002012-12-30T02:53:26.634-08:00December Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSUG8iwEMImxcd2e0MUFvmQFQAIp59u1ziFJgnEEjtuVX83Uv8lRN86Jo8KfIDhQQWIXeBIPfn4hG2QaV0zbWS0FqiiYOa3roKxKox9kpjvYbOGbvOvreE1jeE7GQtvXQ5dMm_jID1UDQ/s1600/deano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="225" width="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSUG8iwEMImxcd2e0MUFvmQFQAIp59u1ziFJgnEEjtuVX83Uv8lRN86Jo8KfIDhQQWIXeBIPfn4hG2QaV0zbWS0FqiiYOa3roKxKox9kpjvYbOGbvOvreE1jeE7GQtvXQ5dMm_jID1UDQ/s320/deano.jpg" /></a></div>Man of the Match Dean Lewington<br />
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AFC V MK Dons 2-1 Sunday 2 December 2012<br />
The first game of the month was the much anticipated match against the team from Kingston upon Thames formed in 2002 after the FA had given permission but not made mandatory the move to MK. AFC were started by over two thousand fans of Wimbledon FC who protested at the moves announcement.<br />
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The game was as we thought full of inaccurate articles in the press and media with dates of the AFC formation changed and a general MK Dons bashing was the easy lazy journalistic view of the whole move to Milton Keynes by Wimbledon FC in September 2003.<br />
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Little mention anywhere of the FA commission report or Sam Hammam the Crystal Palace twelve year ground share or the fans that did actually follow the club to MK.<br />
No surprise the fact was not mentioned anywhere that Wimbledon directors owned MK City back in the eighties and were thinking of moving the club back then when even then Merton council were showing the club they did not want then in the borough.<br />
At least Winkelman finally stood up for himself and said the club was in administration for seven weeks and he wondered why AFC never bought the club. <br />
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With the recent outcry over press lies about Hillsborough and phone hacking and the BBC cover up over Jimmy Savile I took the view that I would rather we were not the<br />
darlings of the press and media and also that we are never going to be popular with them but who care's.<br />
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With various AFC trust members and fans working for or friends with the press they are always going to win any media war.<br />
But as residents of Milton Keynes we are used to being knocked and having bad press and I think that may have had a major influence on the sell out of home ends.<br />
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What did annoy me though was the vandalism that happened at the stadium and despite MK Dons emailing AFC some of the Kingston clubs officials put it down to rumours.<br />
They also refused to refer to us by our full name(so I wont them).<br />
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We all saw the pictures of the vandalism and a simple apology for the minority of their fans behaviour would not be seen as a softening of the hatred they have for the people of Milton Keynes but merely a condemnation of vandalism and football hooliganism generally they could have even worded it that way but they chose not to !<br />
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The game itself was played in the right way the players were professional and manager Neil Ardley acted with dignity in defeat as did the majority of the AFC fans.<br />
It was a game between near top of league one and near bottom of league two so the 2-1 result was perhaps no surprise.<br />
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It was not one of the MK Dons greatest performances and judging by their league place probably one of AFC better one's but we hung on and ground out the win.<br />
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It was one of the strangest games I have ever been to, outside before the game the atmosphere was very tense but not that aggressive I have been at more aggressive atmospheres put it that way back in the bad old days of eighties.<br />
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I found it more a case of people walking on egg shells I never saw fans of either team talking to each other although not a member I know and spoke to the M.K.D.S.A Chairman John Brockwell who said he had been to the away end and welcomed the AFC fans with no problems and some even shook hands with him ,he was a braver man than me that's for sure.<br />
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I was surprised at the amount of fans AFC brought nearly their average home gate and whilst grateful of the money they spent I could not help but think it was hypocritical of them to come after the years they have been calling on other fans of other clubs to boycott us and in fact even persuaded their tenants at Kingsmeadow the FSF to call for boycotts in the National Hockey Stadium days despite FA and FL giving move all clear..<br />
The teams lined up and were watched by former Wimbledon directors Reg Davies and Peter Cork still directors here at MK ,MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin a former Wimbledon player, Otsemobor who's heel of god goal will live in our memory for ever, Kay, Williams, Lewington former Wimbledon player(c); Potter, Gleeson who scored a screamer; Bowditch, Chadwick, Balanta (Ismail 66); Lowe (Smith 80).<br />
Subs: McLoughlin, Kouo-Doumbe, MacDonald, Chicksen, Sekajja.<br />
Goals: Gleeson 45, Otsemobor 90<br />
AFC : Sullivan a former Wimbledon player , Osano, Long, Harrison (Strutton 72), Midson, Moore (Johnson 81), Fenlon, Gregory (c), Antwi, Mambo, Ajala.<br />
Subs: Jaimez-Ruiz, Mitchel-King, McNaughton, Djalali.<br />
Booked: Moore, Midson, Ajala<br />
Goal: Midson 59<br />
Referee: Scott Mathieson Attendance: 16, 459 With 3030 away fans.<br />
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Brentford 3-2 Dons<br />
The next game up was away to Brentford a team who had been in a good run of form.<br />
It was always going to be tough and after the FA Cup game the team looked out of sorts and we needed all of them to be on form.<br />
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Sadly on the day Ishmail had to be subbed early to save him getting sent off.<br />
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Balanta and Powell were having bad days Potter didn't seem to get into the game and when Semi got injured we had used all our subs the draw we deserved was not to be and we conceded a last gasp goal.<br />
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Lowe got a welcome goal and Gleeson again got on the score sheet Martin made some good saves but the Bee's were quick to punish any loose balls or mistakes we made Donaldson being the pick of the Brentford players and Lewington the M.O.T.M for the Dons.<br />
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We slipped down to sixth still in the play off spot and still within spitting distance of automatic spots.<br />
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Not a disaster as a point was all most of us thought we'd get but the point would have been easier to take.<br />
The teams lined up<br />
Brentford: Moore, Forshaw (Reeves 77), Craig, Dean, Douglas, Donaldson, Logan, Forrester, Diagouraga (Kiernan 62), Trotta (Hodson 90), Bidwell.<br />
Subs: Lee, Saunders, Dallas, Hodson, Hayes.<br />
Booked: Bidwell<br />
Goals: Donaldson 43, Forrester 71, Donaldson 90<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Ismail (Powell 25), Chadwick (Smith 77), Balanta; Lowe (MacDonald 77).<br />
Subs: McLoughlin, Kouo-Doumbe, Chicksen, Sekajja.<br />
Booked: Ismail, Chadwick<br />
Goals: Lowe 15, Gleeson 53<br />
Referee: L Collins Attendance 5833 445 Dons fans<br />
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This was a game I thought we would win by a good three goals but my confidence was unfounded and we made hard work of it.<br />
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The first half we were totally dominant and should have gone in to half time at least two up but one clear goal was disallowed although I thought Lowe's goal looked offside replay's showed he was on.<br />
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The second half Hartlepool got more into the game and were nowhere near as poor as they were in the first and could quite easily have have grabbed a point but Martin again saved any blushes.<br />
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Balanta was again not having a good day and the normally reliable Gleeson by his own admission had a bad game Potter missed a sitter and the crosses Bowditch kept putting in nobody could get on the end of any of them Chadwick was the pick of the bunch and got mine and sponsors M.O.M award.<br />
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The attendance was 7,164 with just 111 Poolies who had only sold 25 tickets before matchday and had no supporters coach booked to arrive on the day those that bought on the day were most likely localish.<br />
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The referee was Roger East from Wiltshire an 8 out of ten Ryan Lowe scored on 16 we had no bookings but Pool had three Antony Sweeney 44 Jack Baldwin 65 the confusingly named Greg Rutherford not the MK Athlete 86 and we move up to 5th 2 points behind Tranmere.<br />
Teams lined up <br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin,Doumbe, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c) Gleeson, Potter; Bowditch, Chadwick, Balanta (Ismail 61); Lowe (MacDonald 83).<br />
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Subs not used: McLoughlin , Smith, Chicksen, Powell, Sekajja.<br />
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Hartlepool United with some very familiar names 4-4-2 Flinders; Richards, Collins, Baldwin, Horwood (Holden 5); Franks (Poole 71), Sweeney, Humphreys, Monkhouse; Wyke (Rutherford 81), Howard.<br />
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Subs not used: McHugh (GK), Murray, Johnson, Boagey.<br />
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On Wednesday 30th the Dons played in the Berks and Bucks senior cup quarter finals under the control of player manager for the night Alan Smith we comfortably beat Aylesbury Unt 4-0 the goals came from Dan Powell, Charlie MacDonald and two from our England U16 midfielder Giorgio Rasulo and put us in the semi-final with Beaconsfield SYCOB.<br />
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Smith was given the role by Karl Robinson who watched from the stands and Alan was assisted by Ian Wright.<br />
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The side for this competition will be made up of youth players and more senior squad members in need of playing time although quite why we did not start Sekajja or even give him a run out puzzled me. <br />
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Meanwhile at Tamworth the Lambs George Baldock has been scoring goals and getting many accolades from the Lambs supporters who seem keen to extend his loan.<br />
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Charlie Collins was an unused substitute during the last match.<br />
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Before the Doncaster match I spoke to Jon Otsemobor about his goal in the FA Cup and asked him if was deliberate he laughed and said he knew the ball had pace on it and stuck is leg out to make contact but was not expecting it to go in I told him we called it the heel of god and they were making T shirts he said he had heard and was going to get one.<br />
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He also said he did not know much about the rivalry between the two clubs and that Pete Winkelman had talked to the players and told them how the move came about and given the players the history Jon said he remembered Wimbledon but was just a kid when they were in Prem and I felt very old and forget how young these players are and that they probably dont know much about Wimbledon FC as it was so long ago now. <br />
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The players were due to leave for Doncaster on Friday afternoon so had a light training session or so it was meant to be but Gleeson picked up a nasty ankle injury <br />
and was carried off leaving myself and another fan to worry about the game twenty four hours longer than most of our fans, it was a nothing looking tackle, well not even a tackle just both players going for loose ball.<br />
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The game as we know was postponed due to the rain but it seemed very odd the way Rovers said there was to be no inspection yet the referee turned up early and called the game off at 12.30 just an hour after Rovers official site said the game would be on ! I thought surely the referee must have inspected the pitch to call the game off ? A lot of our fans were rightly peed off as they thought it could have been called off earlier as rain was forecast all day in Doncaster area I'm no weather guru but Id said to mates earlier I thought it would be off looking at forecast early morning. <br />
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I was further confused when I read on the Donny site "There was no planned pitch inspection, however when the referee arrived at the ground at his normal time, 11.50am, he went out to inspect the pitch and after consulting both managers decided to call the game off on the grounds of the players’ health and safety due to a rapidly deteriorating pitch with no sign of any improvement in the weather".<br />
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Personally I think it will be the difference between going up and not as Chadwick is such an inspirational player and on his day Gleeson can be a match winner.<br />
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Potter has not lived up to last season's expectations and Williams is better and now more used to being a centre back and a I don't think they will or can fill the voids left by Luke and Gleeson.<br />
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My pre match thoughts were proved to be correct and I thought we missed both players in particular Chadder's and Potter and Williams as I thought did not fill the void.<br />
Balanta again was well.. crap, he looked disinterested and I would not be sad to see him go back to QPR.<br />
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Powell just does not seem to get the balls that lead him to make those worrying for defender run's Chicksen Lowe Bowditch and my M.O.T.M Kay could not have been the player's Robbo referred to in his comments after the match when he said “It’s easy to pick on certain players but there was a few that weren't at the races today and didn't deserve to wear our shirt, it’s as simple as that and they won’t be again if they continue like that. he went on to say “I’ll make changes on Saturday. We’re a better side than what you've seen today and we've got plenty more gears. This is a bad day at the office and you won’t see that performance on the weekend.”<br />
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There was plenty of doom and gloom amongst the fans and I think without Chadwick and Gleeson we will not be in the automatic spots come end of April the team looked disjointed and tired especially after Walsall scored the second goal.<br />
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The defence rightly got the blame but it was mistakes and loss of procession in midfield that lead to the fragile defence being put to the test.<br />
Walsall were not a very good team, yes a bogey team for us but one we should have beaten at home Brandy and Grigg took their goals very well but apart from that the saddlers only had about six shots on goal all game and they scored four of them.<br />
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A bad day at the office yes but I fear more to come even with Jon Otsemobor and Gary MacKenzie back in defence we move down into 6th place with a game in hand over most others.<br />
Teams for the day Dons (4-2-3-1) Martin, Chicksen who you know will get dropped when Jon is back , Doumbe who seems to be Robbo's whipping boy and out of favour (Smith 73), Kay, Lewington who had a real off day (c), Potter, Williams, Powell (Ismail 59), Balanta (Bamford 46 who again limped off injured and seems destined not to feature much for us), Bowditch, Lowe.<br />
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Subs: McLoughlin, MacDonald, Smith, Alli, Sekajja who might as well go back to parent club as he ain't going to get a game for some reason.<br />
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Booked: Potter, Smith, Ismail <br />
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Goals: Lowe 6, Bowditch 31<br />
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Walsall (4-4-1-1): McCarey; Purkiss, Downing, Butler, Taylor; Westcarr (Cuvelier 71), Mantom, Chambers, Paterson; Brandy; Grigg the M.O.M for Walsall.<br />
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Subs: Grof (GK) Holden, Hemmings, Bowerman, Benning, Baxendale.<br />
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Booked: Brandy, Butler<br />
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Goals: Brandy 15, Grigg 25, 43<br />
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Referee: Stuart Atwell was from Warwickshire not bad missed a few and was a bit inconsistent 6 out of ten.<br />
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Attendance was 8,700 and 354 quiet for the most part away fans.<br />
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MK Dons 2-3 Coventry<br />
The next game was against Coventry a team we drew 1-1 against back in October and a team I said back then would not be at the bottom end of the table (as they were back then)come end of season.<br />
Also before the Coventry game I noticed that they had signed one of our academy prospects Leon Lobjoit quite how they managed to do that while in same league as us and without the attraction of being a big Prem club I don't know, but it is worrying that we are losing future prospects to rival teams on a "technicality" as Coventry OS put it.<br />
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The game had already sold over three and a half thousand away tickets the day before the match and Coventry had managed to climb the table to within a few points of us since our last meeting whilst we have been less than convincing in our last few games.<br />
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Losing to Brentford and Walsall and narrowly beating bottom of the table Hartlepool <br />
I don't think many of us were feeling very confident especially knowing Chadders and Gleeson were out and Jon and Gary were still a week away at least in Gary's case.<br />
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As for the game I thought we looked a lot better than the woeful performance on boxing day and probably deserved a draw but two long or hoof balls if you prefer were our undoing along with some poor defending not having seen the replays I will go on memory alone and I thought at the time of the goals Martin was at fault for one could have done better with another but was let down by defence all three times.<br />
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Lewie again was at best average Williams looked lost for the third Kay was again my M.O.T.M and must have been fuming at his three teamates.<br />
Chico had another good game but is often to far up field when opposition attack as is Lewie.<br />
Potter seemed to be better but not at his best young Deli was a ray of sunshine on a gloomy rainy day and I again thought he did not look out of place a great prospect if we can hold on to him.<br />
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Powell was better, Bowditch guilty of too many wayward passes Ishmail came on to late I thought and when Balanta and MacDonald came on I knew the game was up.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c), Potter, Alli (Ismail 71); Powell, Smith who was solid and got his usaul yellow (Balanta 58 please go back to QPR), Bowditch, Lowe (MacDonald 78).<br />
Subs: McLoughlin , , MacKenzie, Sekajja Ibra Robbo just don't like you mate go back to Palace.<br />
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Booked: Smith, Lewington so no surprises there then.<br />
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Goals: Powell 15 well taken , Lowe 27 back to his fox in box best !<br />
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Coventry City 4-5-1 which looked like our formation tbh: Murphy, Baker (c), Fleck, McSheffrey pretty much did what he wanted(Barton 79), Elliott really good game (O'Donovan 73), Jennings, Christie, Wood, Edjenguele do not mess with the big fella , Moussa who was quality to be fair and his goal was a joy to watch, Adams.<br />
Subs: Dunn (GK), Clarke, Thomas, Cameron, McDonald.<br />
Booked: McSheffrey<br />
Goals: Moussa 27, Elliott 49, 51 from long balls as I remember<br />
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Referee: Andy Woolmer who was half decent 8 out of ten from Northamptonshire.<br />
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Goal-Don Goal: 1st goal – 14.51; 2nd goal – 26.38; 3rd goal – 37.46; 4th goal – 48.11; 5th goal – 50.16<br />
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Attendance was a brilliant 13,660 made possible by the excellant and very loud at times 4,988 Coventry fans. <br />
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With the addition of Ryan Harley from Brighton I think we can push on and at least be in contention for the second Auto spot, with the addition of a hungry keen to impress winger/forward (and we need to keep hold of Ishmail) I think there is still hope.<br />
Realisticaly I think it will be play off's again but still a long way to go as they say.<br />
The blog has now hit 8thousand views and 747 last month, despite only ever getting about six followers on twitter to retweet it lol<br />
Happy New Year to everyone who reads the blog and especialy those who promote it most views are direct from google at the start of month so thanks to everyone for bookmarking or favouriting it.<br />
COYD<br />
GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-87495503324472871232012-11-28T11:19:00.000-08:002013-01-01T05:46:11.329-08:00November Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGKUX7o_Ji_ABZNReaB8dzLWVBRYyLnnrALXwm9Y-wZFsh0c7bsj-C4gbhq_3Ej-HG0HsFVodt4eLE5iO4yJnI4ZO5LEpShws6d1HJgGDl5Tt779GIxnLXtE-mZ58sllVL3w_vUVTkPU/s1600/fa+cup+bud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="176" width="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGKUX7o_Ji_ABZNReaB8dzLWVBRYyLnnrALXwm9Y-wZFsh0c7bsj-C4gbhq_3Ej-HG0HsFVodt4eLE5iO4yJnI4ZO5LEpShws6d1HJgGDl5Tt779GIxnLXtE-mZ58sllVL3w_vUVTkPU/s320/fa+cup+bud.jpg" /></a></div>The first game of the month was the game against Cambridge City in the FA Cup 1st round.<br />
For a 1st round match this seemed to attract quite a lot of attention and before we all had the chance to buy tickets ESPN announced the game was to be televised.<br />
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The club had put into effect the rule used for limited availabilty tickets and so <br />
tickets did not go on general sale till the Wednesday before the Friday game ST holders had from the Monday, so the bulk of tickets went in the two days before the game leaving many thinking we were going to be left with a load left over.<br />
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The capacity of ground was 1700 which has been set by the police and the local authority we were alloated 470 I assume there were some left as the club did not give out the away attendance and saw nothing on the OS saying sold out and I got no response when I tweeted the club so apologises for those who check blog for match stats.<br />
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I had a look at the City forum and noticed none of our fans had joined to say hello<br />
so I joined up and was followed by one other Dons fan, I was then contacted by a City fan via personal message asking if I could arrange an interview with Luke Chadwick for the match day programme on the night I emailed Andrew Cullen who then contacted Simone Corgan but never heard back from the City fan or our club so not sure whether an interview was arranged.<br />
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I got no replies (but 200 odd views)either to a link I put up to our OS interview with Luke (obviously idea was adopted by us as well)and it reminded me why I don't bother with forums anymore lol.<br />
I think in future I'll just ignore requests for help.<br />
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As for the game well it did not matter that the opposition was 100 odd places in pyramid lower than us we reverted to the familar way of all the possession but nothing up top, Mick Harford said it was the story of our season and yes we all agreed but also thought goals win games so we better start getting some or else it wont just be the FA Cup we are out of if we lose the replay.<br />
Cambridge City (4-4-2): Man of the Match Zak Barrett, Pepper, Theobald, Chaffey, Brighton; Allen, Prada, A Cambridge (c), Abbs (Marriott 61); Hammond, Bryant (Lester 79).<br />
Subs not used: Ordonez, Midgley, Nightingale, Death, Stynes.<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1) Martin, Otsemobor, Kay, Williams, Lewington; Potter, Gleeson; O’Shea (Alli 65, Chadwick (c) (Smith 85), Chicksen, Lowe.<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Kouo-Doumbe, Galloway, Hickford, Rasulo.<br />
Only attendance stat was 1700 which was the capacity I know a few of our fans were held up in traffic and did not make it so figure must have been tickets sold rather than actual people there I did however hear we were 12 short of allocation on the night whether that meant we sold and fans did not get there or that we did not sell 12 I have no idea.<br />
Referee was James Adcock from Nottinghamshire. <br />
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During the first week of the month I was down at Leon Leisure Centre with my daughter and noticed there was some Primary school lads there, then the day after some older lads playing on the all weather pitches and had a feeling they were going through some kind of trials.<br />
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I got talking to the manager of the centre and was told that it was indeed trials organised by Chelsea FC.<br />
As some of you will know I thought the abolition of the fifty mile rule to in effect poach players and the limit as to what clubs can receive as compensation for young players was a bad decision and indeed Wycombe Wanderers closed their academy as I think other League clubs will do.<br />
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I was pleased to hear that there was a man from the Dons there but I dont think in an official capacity as he manages a local boys side.<br />
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I know that it is not just Chelsea and all the Prem clubs do it (in fact Manchester City are increasing the size of thier academy probably as they can now cast net wider) but it did make me think that the talented young lads that might have been future Dons will be whisked away to London.<br />
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Also those that dont make the grade may just give up on the game at sixteen when they perhaps could have played in League One or Two and had a good career had they not had their hearts broken at not being wanted by a big club or heaven forbid end up like Leon Knight! but I suppose thats all football politics and not really Dons so I'll stop going on except to say I spoke to Mike Dove about it when I saw him and he knew about it and said they wont be there again but did not expand any more.<br />
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In other Dons news I heard the screens had all been delivered and came on six or eight lorries there seemed to be a bit of confusion ! or I just did not hear properly, if you thought the screens would come ready made up they don't they come in several parts and are made up on site and are delivered on pallets.<br />
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Also the under-soil heating was given a test run ahead of the boiler being set up and running and I was told it needs to go on four days before a game to have the full effect and the system has its own weather forecaster built in and is automatic which knowing how the weather changes so quickly in this country I was not overly confident of it to turn itself on in time ! But I guess there is a manual override somewhere.<br />
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Ahead of the game we heard we had signed striker Ibra Sekajja on a youth-loan deal until and including 1st January.<br />
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Danny Wilson was there ahead of the Sheffield game quite why Nigel Clough was due to be there I don't know but it was nice to see John Motson make another appearance but he did not have his sheepskin on for those wondering and I never got to speak to him this time either as I did not see him till he was going through the door.<br />
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As for the game we started brightly and were the better team throughout the first half and really should have been two or three up by half time but guess what, we failed to convert the chances we created.<br />
Allsop was having a great game as goalies seem to do against us lately .<br />
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The half time team talk did not seem to inspirational as we looked out of sorts and although again had chances we were never very threatening and I did not think we would get another it had that feel about it.<br />
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The O's could have quite easily nicked a point but in truth they were as poor as us in front of goal the game got a bit testy and Slade got sent to the stands right at the end of the game. The win meant we move up to eighth.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor, Kay (Doumbe 83), Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Bowditch (Chicksen 75), Chadwick who was M.O.T.M, Balanta who looked unfit Lowe (MacDonald 81).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, A Smith, Alli, Sekajja.<br />
Booked just Gleeson<br />
A bright spot was the goal by Lowe on 41 which may restore his confidence.<br />
Leyton Orient Allsop, Sawyer, Chorley, Griffith (Cox 74), Clarke (c), Odubajo, Cook, Rowalands (J Smith 81), James, Wagstaff (Lisbie 66), Mooney.<br />
Subs not used: Jones, McSweeney, Baudry, Brunt.<br />
Booked just Cox<br />
Referee was Robert Lewis who was another 7 out of 10 who came from Shropshire.<br />
The attendance was 6,985 with 299 although looked less very silent away fans.<br />
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With three home games in a week and this one with Sheffield United coming just three days after the O's match I was not to confident.<br />
United were strong last season and I like many others fancy them to go up automatically this season and when I met up with the match day crowd they were also predicting a home loss. <br />
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The game was very entertaining and I thought we played some of the best football I have seen this season Lewie deservedly got M.O.T.M and Im not even going to be too harsh about the missed chances as I thought overall it was the result that counted that day.<br />
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Before the game I thought how we played today would give the best indication to date of whether we really are promotion contenders and I thought we more than matched United and although biased were the better team and created the better of the chances.<br />
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I thought the referee was perhaps one of the worst I have seen this season getting some major decisions wrong, the linesmen on the east side was flagging for offside's that were not, for both sides and I say this after we won so hopefully it means more !<br />
To highlight just the main bad decision were Angelo Balanta who was turning away from goal when he was brought down by David McAllister a soft penalty by anyone's standard.<br />
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Bowditch's non penalty was the worst though when he was brought down by Harry Maguire <br />
and caused a near incident minutes later at half time when the players had to be escorted off by Robbo as some surrounded Darren Sheldrake for not awarding the penalty.<br />
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The Dons have now won three league games in a row without letting in a goal and we are looking forward to Tuesday and more of the same we move up to seventh but more importantly was the performance.<br />
Dons lined up Martin, Otsemobor, Lewington, Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch, Lowe (Smith 58), Kay, Chadwick, Balanta (Doumbe 91). Unused subs: McLoughlin, MacDonald, Chicksen, O’Shea, Sekajja.<br />
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Booked just Chadwick for his trademark late challenge.<br />
Sheffield United lined up Long, Maguire, Hill(McAllister 46), Flynn, Doyle, Porter, Blackman (Miller 73), McDonald, Collins, McMahon (Westlake 25), Williams. Unused subs: Willis, Cresswell, Ironside, Kennedy.<br />
Booked for United was Maguire who was lucky to finish the game.<br />
Referee the bloody awful Darren Sheldrake.<br />
Attendance was 9,835 there were 1,854 United fans though looked more who did not make that much noise surprisingly. The Dons fans were in great voice and were the twelfth man that day which you could say we needed as the ref seemed to be a blade.<br />
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Next game up was the replay with Cambridge City<br />
in the FA Cup. And I did laugh when I think it was the Sky camera man was looking for City fans and had to go up to bar in hotel to find some.<br />
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When he came back down with a dozen or so he had them walk to the Hotel entrance as if arriving what I thought was funny was that two had on back packs one with a Chelsea crest on the back and one with a Spurs crest and I thought blimey its like the early days at the Hockey Stadium before we got our own identity and fans started buying the Dons gear.<br />
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Steve Claridge turned up as did a number of folk from the FA including Peter Braybrook who is a very nice chap to talk to.<br />
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I thought when Williams got that first goal it would be three or even four but I did not expect six.<br />
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I thought the team played well and was really impressed with Deli Alli who I gave the man of the match to , even Jay said when he collected the award from the match day sponsor he thought Deli was the man on the night.<br />
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So we all know who we will face next and I'm not going to go on about it here as there are other matches this month. <br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Kouo-Doumbe, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Gleeson, Alli (Galloway 78); Bowditch (Chicksen 61), MacDonald, O'Shea; Lowe (Rasulo 68).<br />
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Subs not used: McLoughlin, Smith, Spence.<br />
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Goals: Williams 12, 74 (pen), O’Shea 43, Bowditch 45, Alli 75, Chicksen 77<br />
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Cambridge City had some brilliantly named players and lined up 4-4-2 Barrett, Pepper who was not to be sneezed at , Theobald, Chaffey, Brighton; Allen (sub was man with six pack Joey Abbs 69), aptly named Cambridge (c) (Nightingale no Florence joke from me 61), Prada one for the ladies (Lester 69), Marriott; Bryant, Hammond.<br />
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Subs not used: Ordonez, Midgley, Stynes. The goal by Theobold was on 60<br />
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Referee: Neil Miller from County Durham who I thought was pretty good 8 out of 10.<br />
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The attendance was not bad for a first leg replay of 4,129 with 579 away fans though I suspect they wont get that many next home game.<br />
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The next game was away to Tranmere Rovers who are still top of the league and like the Sheffield Unt game I was again not to confident and again was proven wrong.<br />
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The Dons were totally dominant especially in the first half and even in the second rarely troubled. Chadwick seemed to go where he wanted and all the midfield had shots on goal even Lewie had a shot and header on target but we again could not get the ball in the bloody net Lowe missed a gift of a chance when one on one with Fon Williams but somehow put the ball wide !<br />
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With the minutes ticking away most of us thought oh well a point on the road is okay when Gleeson toe poked in after some good work from Bowditch found the ball in the crowded box. <br />
Ronnie Moore said Tranmere were out footballed and we got some great comments from neutrals watching the match on Sky , tickets were a fiver and the gate was over ten thousand on the night.<br />
The win took us up to second for a night (as it was Friday night and our rivals played on the following day). <br />
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The Dons have played three games in ten days and beaten the two top sides and played again on Tuesday night when they travelled to Shrewsbury Town.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
Tranmere Rovers Fon Williams, Holmes, Taylor, Gibson, Bakayogo, Robinson, Wallace (c), Palmer, McGurk (Stockton 90), Cassidy, Jervis (Harrison 46).<br />
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Subs not used: Mooney (GK), M Kay, Goodison, Power, Kirby<br />
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Booked: Cassidy, Jervis<br />
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MK Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin; Otsemobor, A Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Gleeson, Potter; Bowditch, Chadwick (Doumbe 90), Balanta (Powell 65); Lowe (Smith 54).<br />
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Subs not used: McLoughlin (GK), Chicksen, Powell, O’Shea, Sekajja.<br />
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Goal by Gleeson on 87<br />
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Referee was M Naylor from South Yorkshire who again was okay 7 out of ten.<br />
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Attendance: 10,587<br />
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We had slipped down to 4th after the Saturday games so with a win at Shrewsbury we could have gone up to 3rd so understandably a few of the fans got a bit carried away with their predictions, as it turned out a draw was enough and we did move up to 3rd.<br />
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I did actually think we might lose having been on a good run, it would be just our luck to lose to Shrewsbury, another of the clubs you can put in the don't let facts get in the way of a good fairy tale club.<br />
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In fact Robbo got very annoyed at the comments in the match day programme which were unprofessional, and a rehash of an article they used years ago but still just as crap.<br />
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We really were not at the races on the night and probably did deserved to lose but Bowditch managed to save two points in injury time the goal listed as 90th minute.<br />
After beating the top two sides it was probably always going to be a tougher game than it looked on paper and it proved to be just that.<br />
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Teams lined up Shrews Weale, Grandison, Jacbson, Summerfield, Jones, Wright the former Don scored against his former club, Richards, Morgan, Taylor, Bennettt, Rodgers. Unused subs: Anyon, Purdie, Hall, Doble, Goldson, Wildig, Helan.<br />
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Dons lined up Martin, Otsemobor, Lewington who appeared to pick up a knock(Chicksen came on and livened us up a bit on 58), Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch, Smith, Kay, Chadwick (MacDonald came on and again looked like his confidence has gone 74), Balanta (Powell came on and shortly limped off 58). Unused subs: McLoughlin, Doumbe, Lowe, Sekajja still has not got a decent run out. Balanta scored on 46 and Bowditch the M.O.M on 90 so late goals both halves. <br />
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Att: 4747 the traveling Dons army totaled 183 on a wet night.<br />
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The Referee was Darren Drysdale who let game flow a 6 out of 10 was okay but missed some incidents.<br />
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In other news Jay O'Shea went out on loan to Chesterfield the day Powell limped off at Shrewsbury but Angelo's loan was extended till January.<br />
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Flanagan returned from Gillingham needing an operation on his ankle.<br />
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On Thursday 22nd we signed on loan Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford the 19 year old is here till the New Year.<br />
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On Friday we heard we had signed from a winger from Wolves at the last minute of emergency loan window quite why it is an emergency I don't know ! but anyway it is 18-year-old Zeli Ismail.<br />
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I met both players on the Friday before Colchester game and both were very polite and happily posed for pictures. <br />
A funny story I can tell you was when the players had finished training they put all the boots in a container to be cleaned ahead of the game and Zeli chucked his in with the rest but Patrick asked Karl " don't we clean our own boots" Karl said well you can if you want then laughed and Patrick threw his in as well. I thought that was really quite refreshing to see, a young footballer who cost Chelsea one and a half million ask if it was okay and not just assume it was going to be done it also showed that he was used to (and said he does)doing his own at Chelsea.<br />
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Karl then asked Zeli what he did with his and he replied in the container to which Karl said jokingly "big time charlie" but with more a player banter type comment attached, suppose you had to be there but it was very funny and proved how down to earth these young talents are. <br />
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And so onto the game against Colchester Gleeson had pulled up injured during training so I was wondering what formation Robbo would use as Gleeson was due to play but he captained the side in Lewie's absence so injury was obviously not as bad as we thought.<br />
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The game was like the weather first ten minutes or so pretty dreary but then we started to put some nice moves together.<br />
Chadwick and Bamford seemed to be on the same wavelenght and looked like they had played together for years.<br />
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The goal came on 28 after some nice play between the Chelsea loanee and the former Man Unt player after that we kept pushing and making chances until Bamford was brought down and Williams duly despatched the penalty.<br />
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The second half slighty swung Colchesters way as Massey came on but not for long as from a corner Otsemobor scored and that was game over.<br />
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Just three minutes later the U's got lucky and grabbed a consulation goal but you are never as vulnerable as when you have just scored they say and a minute later Chadwick made it 4-1. Lowe came on and worked hard and was rewarded with his name on the score sheet when he curled his shot into the top corner.<br />
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It was as dominant and near perfect performance as you will see anywhere and we move up to second in the league and into the automatic spots.<br />
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Still a long way to go but it sets up the cup game next week perfectly.<br />
Teams lined up Dons 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor, Williams sponsors M.O.M, Kay, Chicksen, Gleeson (c), Potter, Bowditch (Sekajja 85), Chadwick my M.O.M(Ismail 76), Balanta, Bamford JUST pipped by Luke for M.0.M(Lowe 69).<br />
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Subs: McLoughlin, Doumbe, MacDonald, Galloway, Sekajja.The goals were Chadwick 28, 64, Williams (pen) 37, Otsemobor 60, Lowe 82<br />
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Colchester United (4-3-3) Sullivan, Wilson, Okuonghae, Eastman (Thompson 70),Potts; Bond (Massey 46), Eastmond (Duguid 70), Wordsworth, Henderson, Morrison former Dons loan player, Sears.<br />
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Subs: Cousins , Rose, Bean, White, Thompson.<br />
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Booked Okuonghae, Morrison Sent-off Massey for the nasty tackle on Chicksen was on 66<br />
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Goal: Hendersen 63<br />
Attendance 7443 330 away fans <br />
Referee Darren Deadman and amazingly he was okay for a change 7/10.<br />
Martin, Otsemobor, Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch (Sekajja 85), Chicksen, Kay, Chadwick (Ismail 77), Balanta, Bamford (Lowe 69). Unused subs: McLoughlin, Doumbe, MacDonald, Galloway.<br />
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The next game is the FA Cup 2nd round with us playing hosts to the team from Kingston upon Thames as they have acted unprofesionaly in not giving our club its full name I will not refer to them by the name they use.<br />
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The game is looking to be a near sell out as area's will be closed to segregate fans and nuetral sections will not be as used as the club thought they would be.<br />
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Perhaps the most surprising thing is AFC have not boycotted as they always said they would (and in fact told other fans of clubs we have played to so do)but have sold the allocation they asked for and indeed asked for another thousand ! <br />
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I can only think/hope that the AFC fans are not as full of hate as the board members and hierarchy of the club and though will never like us perhaps they prefer to support the team rather than listen to the few elite that run the "fans" club and seem more interested in MK than what the majority of the fans want.<br />
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On Sunday 9th December there is a darts night at the stadium in aid of Prostate cancer and S.E.T there will be at least seven members of the first team including Mick Harford.<br />
Adrian Lewis and Steve Beaton will be amongst the darts players there and there will be celebrity guests on the night but I dont know who they will be yet.<br />
It promises to be a great afternoon and night and tickets can be bought by calling box office at MK Dons. <br />
COYD<br />
GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-81905470446860191342012-11-14T12:33:00.000-08:002012-11-14T12:39:58.075-08:00Winkelman Talks about AFC the Move and his Feelingshttp://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/pete-winkelman-i-m-proud-of-what-we-ve-achieved-1-4476577?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it<br />
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PETE Winkelman admits he has some regrets about how Wimbledon’s move to Milton Keynes came about, but now, as chairman of MK Dons, he is extremely proud of what the club has achieved.<br />
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Speaking to local media after Dons beat Cambridge City to set up an FA Cup second round tie against AFC Wimbledon, Winkelman had a lot to get off his chest, and started by insisting that he is delighted to see the two clubs finally set to play each other.<br />
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He said: “It’s a fixture we’ve been waiting for. The whole of football has been waiting for this.<br />
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“I didn’t want to get too carried away (when the draw was made) because of course a couple of years ago we were close to this moment and we managed to turn victory into defeat that night, and the game didn’t happen.<br />
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“So I absolutely wanted the whole club to concentrate on Cambridge City. If we got the result we could then get around to thinking about what is going to be a massive game!<br />
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“To be honest I wanted this game the soonest it could possibly happen. I think it’s great, actually, that it’s happened now because AFC Wimbledon have done the amazing journey into the Football League.<br />
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“But in that time of course we have also built our stadium – built a home for our football club, and we’ll be very proud to show that off. So I couldn’t wait to get it done.<br />
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“With a bit of luck, for the whole of football, it will enable us to draw a line in the sand and start looking forwards rather than continuously looking backwards. And until this game happened, there would always have been an element of looking backwards.”<br />
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With talk of AFC Winbledon fans boycotting the second round tie at stadium:mk – likely to be confirmed as being played at lunchtime on Sunday, December 2 – Winkelman accepts that, regardless of what we says, he is never going to change some people’s opinions about Wimbledon’s move to Milton Keynes.<br />
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Despite that, he offered his explanation of how the move happened, and said it was a case of trying to turn a bad set of circumstances into a good thing.<br />
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“I’m not proud of the way this club can to be,” he said. “It’s very hard for me to live with that because I’m trying to be a very good chairman of a football club.<br />
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“I’m trying to create an infrastructure that could take this club all the way to the Premier League. We are hugely proud of the home we have built for football in Milton Keynes.<br />
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“I hope the rest of football will see that, whilst we might have had a hell of a controversial beginning. And whilst it might not have the been the best idea in the world to move a football club – as the owner and chairman of a football club now, of course, I get that – but I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved over the last eight years.<br />
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“To most people in football, the way they imagine how the thing happened is so different to the way that it actually did. I suppose the biggest thing about that was the fans did win the battle with Wimbledon.<br />
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<b>“We did do a deal with Norwegian billionaires, and we did mistakenly give them Milton Keynes as an option, when they were going to go to Dublin, because I naively thought that might be better.<br />
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“But they didn’t really have any other option, and the fans won because they formed AFC Wimbledon, and went and had their first promotion in their first season, and made sure that the club went into administration.<br />
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“So actually, it wasn’t the big Norwegian billionaire owners that moved the club to Milton Keynes, it was an administrator that said ‘I’m going to liquidate this club tomorrow unless you come up with the money to keep it going’. And the only way I could come up with the money to keep it going was to move it to Milton Keynes.<br />
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“For the first seven weeks of that administration we did nothing. I will never understand why AFC Wimbledon didn’t buy their club. That’s the bit that always confuses me, that we actually had the opportunity to buy the club in the end.<br />
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“Once we made that decision – a very difficult decision – we have never taken our foot off the gas. I’ve tried to make a bad decision a good decision by the things that we’ve gone on to do.<br />
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“And I think we have done that. It’s about the home we have created, but it’s also about the heart that we’ve created in Milton Keynes.<br />
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“This is a monumental happening. There is no other football club with the story of Wimbledon FC. It’s given birth to the most successful fan-owned club in the country and one of the biggest, brightest new football clubs in the country – all at the same time.<br />
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“We’ll never be friends. But we are related, and I hope we can go and have a great family get-together.”<br />
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Considering fears that the game could generate a potentially hostile atmosphere in and around stadium:mk, Winkelman wanted to ease any concerns from fans, and actually said he wanted the cup clash to be a friendly occasion for everyone concerned.<br />
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“I’m hoping every MK Dons fan is going to come out for it,” he said. “I think the irony will be that probably the loudest roar of the day will not be for AFC Wimbledon, not for MK Dons, but for Wimbledon.<br />
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“It’s our job to put on the safest, best organised, friendliest game that there has been in football. I don’t care about the result. I think what’s going to be important about this is that the game takes place and we draw that line, so everyone can look to the future.”<br />
GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-13469090129140713502012-10-29T01:41:00.002-07:002012-10-29T01:41:58.245-07:00October Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCz58u6m2nF5WpREuwPmTwa1wrwtgxdxGQSlcfr91whxSERYdqM9rCOdZxq-kRTfA9N4xkWHqnqi1l2JpvcbMvt0dHFRxi-3OM2GHdqGPtB5Xx4g-qIXCj3kXKHK2iRkbcjFFLJJ0QIY/s1600/blackburn+jimmybullard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCz58u6m2nF5WpREuwPmTwa1wrwtgxdxGQSlcfr91whxSERYdqM9rCOdZxq-kRTfA9N4xkWHqnqi1l2JpvcbMvt0dHFRxi-3OM2GHdqGPtB5Xx4g-qIXCj3kXKHK2iRkbcjFFLJJ0QIY/s320/blackburn+jimmybullard.JPG" /></a></div>Sad to see the Back of Jimmy Bullard ! Picture was taken as Jimmy arrived for Blackburn game watched by Karl Robinson sadly Jimmy did not make many appearances in the Players entrance.<br />
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The month of October started with the sad but not unexpected news that Jimmy Bullard had been forced to retire due to a recurring knee injury I met and spoke to Jimmy a few times but not as many times as Id have liked and like many fans I would have liked to see him play a lot more here at MK Dons.<br />
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Jimmy's career has included stints with West Ham Peterborough Wigan Athletic, Fulham Ipswich and Hull City the midfielder has had a 14-year playing career but has been plagued with injury in later years.<br />
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Jimmy ruptured the cruciate ligaments in his knee twice in three years once at Fulham and again on his debut for Hull in 2009 and three years on the pain and playing restrictions forced Bullard to visit a consultant the last week of September after the news broke Jimmy said “My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player; it’s always hindered me. There are a lot of games in this League and I now know my knee won’t allow me to play Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday, it’s not built for that now.I want to be out there playing but at the same time I know my knee won’t allow me to play at my best and to keep my place in the team. I’m hindering myself more than I am helping myself for the future.” This ended his career just four weeks after Jimmy signed a short-term deal with the Dons.<br />
Jimmy added “I honestly think MK Dons can do something special with the manager and the group of players they have here. I wish them all the best and I hope they realise how lucky they are to be at a Club like this and to play for a manager like Karl, because he’s going to achieve great things for this Club. I believe he is going to become a top manager. <br />
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Good Luck Jimmy and I am sure whatever you do in the future it will be with a smile on your face.<br />
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The attendance's this season have been about the same as ours no doubt boosted by away fans wanting to see the once Prem boys ground..<br />
Sadly the fixture was on a Tuesday night which meant a lot of our away regulars could not attend but 697 of the MK Army did make the trip.<br />
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Coventry have had a rubbish start to the season and sat in the relegation zone but under new manager Mark Robins had just picked up a win the Saturday before.<br />
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The game followed a now familiar patten with the Dons starting slowly and under pressure and even conceded an early'ish goal.<br />
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Gleeson got a goal from a deflected shot after we had a free kick and we were then back in the game but Charlie again missed a sitter when he seemed to get tangled up in his own feet and Powell missed a chance as well the rest of the team seemed frightened to shoot and the game played out to a frustrating one all draw with the whole second half a nail-biting frustrating affair.<br />
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I don't think Coventry will be in the relegation zone for long but at the time it was on paper a game we perhaps should have won. I consoled myself with the fact it was a point on the road which I am usually happy with but this pattern of being the stronger team and missing chances is now getting boring.<br />
The teams lined up <br />
Coventry: Murphy, Baker, McSheffrey (Fleck 68) , Barton (Ball 78), Christie, Wood, Edjenguele (Cameron 68), McGoldrick, Moussa, Reckord, Bailey. Unused subs: Dunn, Hussey, Willis, Henderson.Goal was by Wood on 34<br />
Dons: Martin, Otsemobor, Lewington, Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch, MacDonald (Smith 79), Powell, Kay, Chadwick (O'Shea 73) Unused subs: McLoughlin, Doumbe, Chicksen (why is he not starting ?), Lowe, O'Shea, Allan.<br />
The goal by Gleeson was on 42<br />
Attendance was 9,948 and 697 were Dons fans where have all Coventry's fans gone ?<br />
The draw meant we slipped down to fifth from third going into the Portsmouth game.<br />
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On Thursday I spoke to Karl at Woughton and mentioned the missed chances and the fact Id seen the strikers and wingers working on shooting with Wrighty that morning.<br />
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Karl said we work on it all the time and that it was frustrating for him watching the players not shooting or missing chances, Id said that it was the tap in's we seem to be missing and Karl then mentioned the players he had wanted to bring in and that he had been told he cant have them.<br />
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Karl also said later when myself and another fan asked about Portsmouth that although they are on one month contract's a few are on a lot more than any of our players including Izale ! I got the impression Karl is feeling some pressure although we are fifth in the league and still well placed to push on.<br />
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I thought at the start of the season that as a club we seem to be expecting to get Automatic and that this does put a hell of a lot of pressure on the manager and players !<br />
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Portsmouth<br />
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I got to the stadium about one o'clock and there were already a lot of Pompey fans about with one coach arriving about half twelve I was told.<br />
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I got chatting to a couple of Pompey fans and they informed me of the current situation regarding the administration and likely buyers but did not think that the fan trust option could work but it might be the only one ! they also said they still could not believe they were in third division and said that the Championship was the league they enjoyed most as the Prem seemed to be about survival and they thought it was quite boring knowing they would finish on forty points and just survive.<br />
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The game itself started very badly for the Dons and within 4 minutes the Dons all time leading scorer Izale McLeod did what returning players often do and scored against his old club, and this was after a missed pen by captain Brian Howard that Izale had earned Pompey.<br />
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And the pressure was on and continued until Gabor Gyepes put us under even more re on 20 minutes when he made it two nil.<br />
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The Dons seemed to get over the shock of the mad first half hour of pressure and slowly got back into the game then Webster managed to get the ball in his own net after a cross from Lewie was knocked on from Kay and it was game on.<br />
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Second half was altogether a more even affair and Potter slotted the ball in after Powell missed his chance and it was honours even, we kept pressing but again miss having a striker that can actually score even Chadders missed a chance.<br />
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I thought Mustapha Dumbuya and Wesley Thomas were the pick of the Pompey players and keeper Andersen incidentaly all are on loan Thomas from Bournemouth the other two from Reading. <br />
The teams lined up Dons: Martin; Otsemobor (Smith 33), Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Chadwick, Bowditch; MacDonald (Allan 69)<br />
Goals were by: Webster (og) 40 and Potter 72<br />
We had two booked: Kay and Smith<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Chicksen, Kouo-Doumbe, O’Shea<br />
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Pompey: Andersen; Dumbuya, Michalik, Gyepes, Webster; Williamson, Ertl, Howard (c) (Buzasaky 81), Harley; Thomas (Obita 81), McLeod<br />
Goals by McLeod 4 and Gyepes 20<br />
Booked just McLeod old habits and all that.<br />
Subs not used: Eastwood, Walker, Compton, Harris, Rodgers<br />
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The Referee was David Coote who I did not think was as bad as some thought I probably give him a seven out of ten.<br />
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Attendance was 10,409 helped by an excellent 2,552 very noisy Pompey fans.<br />
But it was really all about Izale that day.<br />
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Before the Preston game there was a behind closed door match against Brighton, as it was at the Stadium we did not get to see it but reading the two clubs reports it seems both clubs were happy with the performances and no injuries were sustained.<br />
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We had two trialists playing but neither have been named one came on and set up Alli and then scored himself I often hear who the trialists are but most of the time nothing comes of it so I don't bother and really think its not fair to name them unless Im told it does not matter.<br />
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Dons played a mixture of returning from injury players, trialists and players who haven't had a game for a while along with some of the academy players.<br />
McLoughlin had a good game by all accounts and the teams lined up<br />
Dons in the usaul first team 4-2-3-1 formation: McLoughlin; Osae (Trialist 46), Hickford, Doumbe, Chicksen, Galloway, Alli; Osei-Addo (Summerfield 77), Allan, Trialist; Lowe.<br />
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Subs not used keeper Charlie Burns.<br />
Goals: Alli 47, Trialist 58<br />
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Albion used a 4-3-3 formation East, Sampayo, Dunk, Jones (Akubuine 66), Painter; Richards (Peake 83), March, Gray (Wiltshire 60); Barker, Goodwin, Agdestein. Subs not used: Keeper Smith .<br />
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There was good and bad news later in the week when we heard Gary MacKenzie would be out for three months but that Doumbe was unscathed from his run out against Brighton and was fit to play on Sunday against Preston North End.<br />
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The game was on Sky but it probably was not the best game for the viewing public as the teams cancelled each other out for the better part of the game.<br />
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It was a typical Dons performance in many ways and we again lacked the killer blow in the final third I commented on twitter through the game that we seem to have a player missing ! by that I mean we get those crosses in the box and there is no one there to tap in usually because we are not playing 4-4-2 or in the second half at Deepdale because when we do we have no fox in the box.<br />
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Sodje missed a couple of sitters and if truth were told Preston had the better of the chances although I thought we were slightly the better team..but I think we have heard that a few too many times this season.<br />
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The most controversial decision of the game I thought was the blatant penalty that was not seen by either the referee or the ideally placed Linesman, or assistant referee as they like to be called but in reality they rarely assist.<br />
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MacDonald was clearly brought down by Stuckmann but the referee bizarrely awarded a goal kick and more surprisingly not booking McDonald who he obviously thought dived.<br />
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The pundits Ronnie Moore and Peter Beagrie in the Sky studio both agreed it was a stonewall penalty as did many Preston fans, in fact it was hard to find anyone who thought otherwise.<br />
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Another draw and although almost always welcome on the road at this quarter way through the season stage one has to wonder if the Auto spots are a realistic target !<br />
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Yes we are playing at times some nice football no hoofball and no dirty tactics but we are not getting those results that are the difference between the teams that get promoted and the also rans.<br />
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The teams lined up Preston North End: Stuckmann, Keane, Laird, Wroe, Huntington (Robertson, 35), Wright, Monakana, Welsh, Beavon, Sodje (Cummins, 82), Hayhurst (Mousinho, 46). Subs not used: Simonsen, Amoo, Cummins, Procter, King.<br />
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Dons Lined up: Martin, Otsemobor, Lewington, Doumbe, Williams, Gleeson, Potter, Bowditch, Smith (Lowe, 64), Chadwick, Allan (McDonald, 64). Subs not used: Chicksen, McLoughlin, O’Shea.<br />
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Attendance was 8,327 with 177 annoyed Dons fans.<br />
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The referee was Craig Pawson who up till the penalty appeal was not too bad well for what we are used to in League one anyway.<br />
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We stay seventh for the second week and next up we have a local Derby with Wesley's former team high flying Stevenage<br />
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Next up was a home game against Stevenage who have had a great start to the season with just a minor blip the week before.<br />
In fact they have had the sort of start we wish we had.<br />
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Stevenage also get my newly created award for the friendliest players and manager to come to Milton Keynes, all the players stopped and chatted and Robin Shroot even got a couple of tickets for one of the fans.<br />
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I was chatting to one of the fans and his mum and they said they are always like that and couple of players even knew them by name and said hello as they arrived.<br />
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As for the game well it was same old same old we probably deserved a draw but the headers and shots we did have were weak and the keeper made good saves and held on to the ball to deny any tap in we could have got.<br />
To make things worse Gleeson will be out for up to three months after a foot injury.<br />
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We now moved down the table into eighth place as other results helped us not slip down any further, few boo's at the end and even odd shout of Robbo out which is a bit over the top considering we were playing a good side.<br />
But the frustration of a toothless strike force and a loss at home and the high expectation of fans this season seemed to boil over.<br />
As a crowd we were the quietest I have (not) heard all season made worse by the as always noisy Stevenage lot. <br />
Teams lined up<br />
Dons the not working 4-2-3-1: Martin, Otsemobor (Chicksen 62), Kouo-Doumbe, Williams, Lewington (c), Potter, Gleeson, Chadwick, Allan, O’Shea (MacDonald 62), Smith (Lowe 62).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Kay.<br />
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Booked just Chicksen according to OS but Otsemobor got a yellow as I remember.<br />
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Stevenage also lined up 4-2-3-1 but got a goal: Arnold, Gray, N’Gala, Roberts (c), Charles; Tansey, Dunne; Akins, Morais (Rogers82), Freeman (Risser 72), Haber.<br />
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Subs not used: Day, Ball, Iro, Lopez, Shroot.<br />
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Booked Charles according to OS but I thought there was another but couldn't find record of it on BBC match report and can not be bothered to look elsewhere.<br />
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Referee: Andrew Madley from West Yorkshire who was okay seven out of ten.<br />
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Attendance: 9,190 1,019 noisy away fans.<br />
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The FA Cup first round draw saw us get an away draw at Cambridge City which has gone down well with everyone including City fans who are buzzing about the draw the only downside was the amount of tickets we were allocated due to the size of the Milton Road ground.<br />
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So after the home loss it was back on the road to newly promoted Crawley for the Tuesday night game.<br />
But just before the game came the news that Angelo Balanta the QPR winger had signed up for his third spell at the Dons by agreeing a one-month loan move.<br />
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The 22-year-old, whose last senior appearance was for the Dons last December ,Angelo was available for the trip to Crawley.<br />
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However he will not be allowed to play in the FA Cup first round tie at Cambridge City on 2 November.<br />
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Balanta played 49 games during his two previous loan stints at Stadium MK and scored 12 goals.<br />
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Angelo's QPR appearances have been few and far between and last played in April 2010 but he has signed a new two-year contract in the summer.<br />
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But even the return of Angelo was not enough to change the fortune's of the team and we lost 2-0 Karl said after the game he was sounding like a broken record and I feel the same writing about the matches lately, better team missed chances etc etc we have now slipped down to tenth in the league and look more like a pretty football playing mid table team than a promotion chasing efficient one.<br />
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The fans are getting restless and more annoyed by the week and I think the reasons are clear for us all to see, the system is not working ! we have not got Keith Andrews or Lloyd Dyer or even Peter Leven to get goals from midfield and the strikers we have got are not capable of playing to any effect the lone striker role.<br />
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The teams lined up <br />
Crawley Town: P Jones, Sadler, McFadzean, Akpan (Torres 86), Clarke (M Jones 90), Alexander (c), Simpson, Bulman (Connolly 86), Adams, Bryne, Davis.<br />
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Subs not used: M Kuipers, Connolly, Forte, Hunt.<br />
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Booked: Clarke, Davis<br />
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Goals: both by Clarke on 21 and 89<br />
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MK Dons: Martin; Otsemobor, Kouo-Doumbe, Kay, Lewington (c); Potter, Williams; Powell, Chadwick (Smith 74), Balanta (Chicksen 65); MacDonald (Lowe 46).<br />
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Subs not used: McLoughlin, Gleeson who's injury was not as bad as first thought, O’Shea, Allan who now return's to his parent club.<br />
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Booked: Just Williams<br />
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Referee was Simon Hooper the attendance was 2,853 with 249 Dons fans.<br />
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So it was off Scunthorpe a team that according to Karl have a third of the budget they had when in the Championship and judging by the attendance on the day about a fifth of the fans they had then.<br />
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Languishing at the bottom end of the table it was a good time to play them at their place the fans are unhappy and the manager under pressure and Scunthorpe's problems seem massive compared to ours going into the game.<br />
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But you still have to win the games and with our recent worries I was not that convinced when I saw the starting line up with Doumbe left out and Chicksen left on the bench again , we seemed to be relying on lone striker Alan Smith who has scored twice in five years to get us on the score sheet.<br />
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Apart from a few spells we bossed the game and for a change our recent and usual dominance resulted in goals with MOTM Luke Chadwick grabbing a brace and Smith getting a tap in (although it came off a centre back last). Luke's first was a bit on the lucky side with Slocombe fumbling his save and giving Luke the chance to bury the goal but we have not had that bit of luck of late so I'll take it, his second was featured on SSN as possible goal of the day but his hatrick alluded him as Slocombe guessed right and saved the penalty. <br />
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I think that game was quite a turning point and fully expect us to push on in the League where we climb from 10th to 8th and the Auto dream was alive again and definitely within reach of the Play Off's.<br />
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The teams lined up<br />
Scunthorpe United: Slocombe, Ribeiro, Walker, Mirfin, Reid (c), Jennings (Ryan 71), Duffy, Collins, Newey, Hawley, Prutton (Grella 64).<br />
Subs not used: Severn, Kennedy, Gibbons, Canavan, Keegan.<br />
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Dons lined up: Martin; Otsemobor, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell (Chicksen 37), Chadwick (O’Shea 84), Balanta; Smith (Lowe 75).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, MacDonald, Alli.<br />
Booked: The usaul suspects Kay and Smith<br />
Goals by Chadwick were on 17 and 30, and Smith on 60<br />
Referee was Dean Whitestone<br />
Attendance was another low one of 2,737 with 164 very cold Don's fans.<br />
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So one win in the whole of October and a frustrating time for many of us but such is the League this season with no real runaway leaders we are still up there.<br />
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Stevenage lost and Tranmere drew losing points, in fact point wise we are still up there with the pack chasing Automatic, and right there with the play off contenders.<br />
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Crawley are up to second which makes our loss there seem a bit more bearable in fact none of the League one teams won at home on Saturday 27th. <br />
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But at the end of last month I wrote that we were third and had seventeen points one behind Notts and just four away from Tranmere with nine games gone.<br />
We are now eighth with twenty three points 15 games into the season.<br />
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We are 2 points behind Notts and are now 8 points behind leaders Tranmere and 6 points behind second and third place Crawley and Stevenage. <br />
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Next up the magic of the FA Cup and away to Cambridge City the game will be on ESPN on Friday night if you can not be there for any reason and it will be a nice pay day for City.<br />
COYDGD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-4515346655758127072012-09-29T12:49:00.000-07:002012-09-29T12:49:05.490-07:00September Blog Part TwoThe month of September so far up to the Yeovil game had been commented on a lot and on reflection there was almost a sense of mid season pessimism about our progress.<br />
I was probably amongst the disappointed but not in the were doomed club, after the Glovers game I looked at the table and results and it did not look so bad ! six games in with ten points and only four behind the leaders who were not Bournemouth or Sheffield Unt as some had predicted.<br />
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In fact Bournemouth were nearer the bottom than the top of the table and that is with Harry Rednapp there giving his services for free .. allegedly.<br />
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So after the euphoria of the Glovers win had subsided and I was in more reflective mood I thought really the only bad result was Walsall, a draw at Bournemouth and the loss to Swindon over the season are probably the kind of results one would expect.<br />
Of course the sore point is the red cards and I think that more than the results was what most of us were upset about.<br />
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The first game of the second September blog is the home game with Notts County a team who have spent a bit and seem to have a decent budget and are also ahead of us at this early stage in the league table they also have 29 players which is a big squad these days.<br />
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Looking at Notts recent past with Allen and Ince and now Curle it seems we have an old established set up with the same manager through their managerial crisis's in fact it seems like Robbo has been here forever.<br />
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The fact we are the youngest League club and they are the oldest in the world does seem to laugh in the face of the old traditionalists that say history is all in important , when you consider the recent problems Notts have had with the phoney businessmen and banks promising them Prem in three years the arrival of Sven and Sol and even hastier departure our grumbles about cladding and car parks seem quite petty.<br />
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The manager Kieth Curle arrived with the players but sat on the coach for over twenty minutes before getting off in fact I got bored waiting and went for a coffee I remembered Warnock did the same thing when he came with QPR and Curle who was his assistant must have learnt that off him lol.<br />
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The game itself was Id imagine for the neutral quite good Jamal Campelll-Ryce being the pick of the Notts players for me which was annoying as the BBC said he was unlikely to play.<br />
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Both teams had their chances and both keepers made crucial saves and overall Id say the draw was a fair result Notts seemed to be happy with a draw from the off with the keeper lucky to not be booked for time wasting we again were not clinical in front of goal and this is really the story of the season so far.<br />
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Karl said after the game much the same thing and that the boys got him out of trouble and reverted to a 4-4-2 with Lowe and MacDonald up front something the fans have been saying we should play for a while and especially on the road,so it was strange to hear Robbo say that for home matches! at home we have more room and if the 4-2-3-1 system was going to work that is where it would be most effective. <br />
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The teams lined up MK Dons 4-2-3-1: Martin; Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Kay (O’Shea 54), Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Williams, Chadwick (Lowe 64); MacDonald (Smith 81).<br />
Subs: McLoughlin, Bowditch, Chicksen, Bullard.<br />
Booked: Lewington, Potter ,Otsemobor and OS only listed two bookings !<br />
Goal: O’Shea scored on 68<br />
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Notts County: Bialkowski, Kelly, Bishop (c), Leacock, Liddle, Judge, Zoko (L Hughes 78), Arquin (Showunmi 87), Labadie, Campbell-Ryce (G Hughes 65), former Don Regan.<br />
Subs: Bencherif, Spiess, Wholey, Hollis.<br />
Goal: Bishop 21<br />
The OS didnt list the Notts bookings but BBC listed the appropriatly named LaBadie <br />
I thought there was at least another booking but hey ho. <br />
Referee: Eddie Ilderton who was average and not helped by his linesmen who missed a lot of offsides and saw a few non offsides as off.<br />
Attendance: 7,121 with 650 away which was not too bad considering it was champions league night on the telly.<br />
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In truth the Dons were never troubled by the Shakers and dominated the game throughout, there was a nervy few minutes after the never knowingly undersold John-Lewis (sorry couldnt resist)got a late consolation goal in the 80th minute<br />
but when Bowditch scored just after we had played half an hour and Bury needed to come forward more the result was not in much doubt.<br />
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Bowditch then added two more goals second half to put the game to bed and I was then hoping for the clean sheet which never knowingly put the damper on.<br />
Chadwick our top goal scorer not to be outdone grabbed an injury time goal to make the score 1-4 and take us up to fourth in the League at this early stage of the season. <br />
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Bury were managerless and bottom of the table but we beat them comfortably and thats all you can ask for.<br />
But more importantly we have our first win of the season away from home and that is always a nice thing to get before heads go down and it becomes a monkey on the back.<br />
The teams lined up<br />
Bury: Carson who probably saved it from being seven , Skarz, Lockwood who was injured in clash with Charlie Mac(Marshall 39), Sweeney (Worrall 59), Schumacher (c), Carrington former Don was kept quiet, Sodje, Hughes, Jones, Healy, Hopper.<br />
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Subs not used: Byrne, according to OS John-Lewis which is strange as he scored, Elford-Alliyu, Cullen, Belford.<br />
Goal was by John-Lewis on 81 even though he was an unused sub lol<br />
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MK Dons lined up 4-2-3-1: Martin; Otsemobor who pulled up injured on 45(Kouo-Doumbe , Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Bowditch was subbed to take the applause (Powell 71), Chadwick, O’Shea; MacDonald who got a gash that could not be stiched in time(Lowe 41).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughin, Smith, Chicksen.<br />
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Chadwick the only booking.<br />
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Goal times were Bowditch 33, 55, 67, Chadwick 90<br />
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Referee was Mark Haywood who was for a ref pretty decent <br />
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The attendance was a lowly 2,321 with 179 Dons fans.<br />
The game itself was Id imagine for the neutral quite good Jamal Campelll -Ryce being the pick of the Notts players for me which was annoying as the BBC said he was unlikely to play .<br />
Both teams had their chances and both keepers made crucial saves.<br />
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On Tuesday 25th the much anticipated game with Sunderland was upon us and I have to admit that I did not think we would win this one.<br />
Sunderland under Martin O'Neill put out a strong side and I think want to go as far as they can in the Capital One Cup and unlike some Prem teams O'Neill has respect for the League Cup as I still like to call it.<br />
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For Cup games I like to go in club red as a little treat to myself and while I was there I ran into Peter Leven who actually remembered me and said hello and he told me he was still living in MK and had been injured recently so had not been playing, he was there as guest of Gary McKenzie I said are you keeping him out of trouble and he laughed and said that's impossible ! before anyone gets the wrong idea it was a joke and Gary is quite the gentleman off the pitch.<br />
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Also floating about was Jabo but I never got to speak to him but he was not in Bury as some had suggested.<br />
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As for the game I thought we played well first half and did not look like a team two division below in fact I heard some reports from various media sources saying we looked the better team.<br />
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When Cattermole was sent off after just half an hour I thought we could win this and knowing that it was likely we would go two up front second half a cup upset was on the cards.<br />
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But then just nine minutes into the second half Gardner scored from a free kick that left second choice keeper McLoughlin rooted to the spot this seemed to be the catalyst for the Dons to fade from the game and despite changing the formation to two up front we never looked anywhere near as good as we did first half.<br />
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The second goal came and although did flatter the visitors we never looked like we were going to score but a one nil defeat would have reflected the game better I thought, we were not for the first time this season toothless in front goal and we really need to find someone who can take the chances we create personally unless we can get someone in on loan or buy in January Id play Bowditch up front.<br />
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So we are now out of the cup both JPT and League and await the FA draw though realistically it is not a competition we are ever likely to win or go past the fourth round in and will probably field a weakened team and concentrate on the League campaign.<br />
The teams lined up <br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1 McLoughlin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell (O’Shea 78), Chadwick (Lowe 62), Bowditch; Smith (MacDonald 62).<br />
Subs not used: Burns, Kouo-Doumbe, Alli, Spence. Kay was booked.<br />
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Sunderland lined up Westwood,Rose, Cattermole (c), Kilgallon, Colback, Vaughan, Meyler, McClean, Saha, Sessegnon (Johnson 85).<br />
Subs not used: Mignolet, Campbell, Wickham, Dong-Won, Fletcher, Egan. The captain Cattermole was sent off on 31 and Colback was booked the goals were scored by Gardner on 54 and McLean on 82 the referee was Stuart Attwell who I thought was pretty good to be fair.<br />
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The attendance was 10,489 bolstered by a very good turnout from Sunderland listed as 2,978 but looked and sounded more Sunderland have loads of fans in the South of England and a large supporter club in London but Id imagine a fair few travelled down from Sunderland as well.<br />
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On Thursday we were told that "Jabo Ibehre’s chances have been limited this season and that manager Karl Robinson felt it best to allow the 29-year-old to link up with the U’s on a 93-day loan, which will run until 27th December" we will play Colchester before his loan deal is up but Jabo will not be allowed to play I'll miss seeing Jabo around he was always cheerful and always said hello.<br />
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On the Friday before the Crewe game I was over at Woughton and managed to speak to Karl before the players trained he was still looking for players and I mentioned Jabo but he did not expand on the loan deal anymore than the OS had told us already.<br />
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Friday before a game is usually a light session with some shooting practice at the end, earlier in the week Karl had his windscreen broken by one stray shot and he had moved his car from its usual spot, Paul Heald was even more cautious and left his in the public car park.<br />
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Just as I was about to leave the Rochdale team turned up which was not that unusual as they have been here before and were using Woughton to train ahead of their game with Gillingham last time they came it was before their game with Crawley but it still seems weird seeing another team on our hallowed soil !<br />
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But as they say onwards and upwards and our next game and last of the month was against Crewe and I think Karl can put it far better than I could when after the game he said to MK News " the first half we were like Brazil, the second more like Bridlington".<br />
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It was the strangest game to watch as both halves were so totaly different.<br />
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Before the game we learnt we had signed signed West Bromwich Albion and Scotland U-21 midfielder (yes another International player )Scott Allan on a one-month loan deal.<br />
The 20-year-old looked very lively when he came on and had a shot on goal which second half we seemed to be lacking.<br />
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Allan has made 10 appearances for Scotland U-21s and will be available for the games with Coventry City, Portsmouth, Preston North End and Stevenage before playing his last game away at Crawley Town on Tuesday 23rd October .<br />
Sadly he could not inspire us to score again but I thought for a debut and considering he had only just met the team let alone train with them he looked pretty good. <br />
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To make matters worse after the goal drought against Crewe I heard that Jabo had scored twice at Colchester, I thought why could he not do that here we had again failed to capitalise on the numerous chances we created and were lucky to get all three points with Crewe hitting the post and Martin blocking a certain goal in a one on one situation.<br />
Teams lined up<br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1) D Martin, Chicksen, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter got MOM, Gleeson, Bowditch, Chadwick (Allan 71), O’Shea (Powell 61), MacDonald got our first half goal (Lowe 82).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Otsemobor, Kouo-Doumbe, Smith.<br />
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Crewe Alexandra A Martin, Tootle (Turton 79), Davis, Ellis, Clayton (Colclough 68), Murphy (c), Leitch-Smith (Pogba 63), Moore, Mellor, Robertson, Bond.<br />
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Subs not used: Garratt, Guthrie, Ray, Daniels.<br />
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Attendance: 11,037 with 768 away.<br />
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The Referee was James Adcock from Nottinghamshire who was one of the better ref's I have seen and I dont think he booked anyone either.<br />
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Anyway overal not a bad month we are up to third with seventeen points one behind Notts and just four away from Tranmere with nine games gone, not in the Auto spots but pretty damn close.<br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-57811827485560061482012-09-15T10:14:00.000-07:002012-09-15T10:14:40.438-07:00September Blog Part One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpueeDBupKrrxk3bRoaRju1cEWTplsSlK9v5ry2wW9mQg5WUWRI5IBKGzFWKobHiKnGZV4j68_bJR8sqKYQc9iZYPvWxB7xvhC-Ck_kXxc-QXP4DTs-i2rDcg5V7_qGOALyjqYdwy6QXA/s1600/Jimmy+Bullard+and+me.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="239" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpueeDBupKrrxk3bRoaRju1cEWTplsSlK9v5ry2wW9mQg5WUWRI5IBKGzFWKobHiKnGZV4j68_bJR8sqKYQc9iZYPvWxB7xvhC-Ck_kXxc-QXP4DTs-i2rDcg5V7_qGOALyjqYdwy6QXA/s320/Jimmy+Bullard+and+me.JPG" /></a></div>Jimmy Bullard before MK Dons V Carlisle United game<br />
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So into September we go and I thought Id comment on the various rumours that started on twitter at the end of the month of August.<br />
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It started with an interview Karl did for MK News and he said when asked if we were getting anymore in "that there might be people going out " I was listening to the interview with a few other fans so heard exactly what he said and to be honest the reporter and the camera man from Anglia I think it was were there as much to get an interview with Jimmy Bullard as anything.<br />
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This got picked up on twitter and it then got speculated on that we were selling players and Daniel Powell's name was mentioned, a Derby fan then said they wanted him and it became Powell was going to Derby.<br />
I was then quoting the article from the MK News but it did not the stop the rumours then a Huddesfield fan chipped in and our Daniel was linked there as well I was expecting to see Sky Sports News reporting it but that never happened the other funny one was Micheal Owen being spotted at Cranfield in his helicopter but no one fell for that.<br />
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Then next day the other MK paper the Citizen reported that "Robinson had previously hinted that possible departures could be on the cards, but now it looks set to be an uneventful day at Dons" and I wondered if that was a reference to yesterday or Robbo had given a different interview to them because he certainly said people might be going out as it turned out George Baldock went out on loan to Tamworth (who we seem to be building a link with) until 31st December when Bullard's deal is up coincidentally ! George joins teammates Charlie Collins and Jordan Ivey-Ward in Staffordshire for his second stint with the Lambs.<br />
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Anyway back to the Jimmy Bullard interview Jimmy is a funny bloke and his resemblance to the Chairman was mentioned and he said he has got that nickname amongst the players and both media outlets that were there that day joked about his hair. Jimmy was joking its insured and that he uses wash and go and both interviews were very funny especialy the one Dan from MK News did.<br />
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I can imagine Jimmy is a right laugh in the dressing room and I have been lucky enough to speak to him a few times now and he is very approachable and friendly and has that personality that reminds me of a naughty schoolboy .<br />
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On Saturday 1st we had Carlisle so technically the above news is August but Id already put that blog out so forgive my liberty taking lol<br />
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I do like Carllise and their players always seem to have time for the fans when they arrive and I even got to say hello and shake hands with Greg Abbott as he arrived I wished him luck but was just being polite and didnt mean it of course, but he is such a nice bloke I dont like to be rude.<br />
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One of the fans I hang about with on match days knows the Carlisle keeper Adam Collin and Adam came over for a chat as well, perfect opportunity for a photo I thought only to find when I took it Adam was laughing and the picture was even more blurry than my normal attempts at photography !<br />
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As for the match it was a bit like the Oldham game in that we looked comfortable and not in any danger of losing apart from a few minutes second half when the Dons fans really raised the noise level and support and<br />
cheered the team through it and Karl was quick to give the crowd praise for it post match.<br />
Chicksen got M.O.T.M which I thought well okay Id have probably given it to MacKenzie but perhaps the sponsors are bored with him winning it every game.<br />
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I thought all our players were good and wouldn't have wanted the job of picking one out to be honest.<br />
Chadwick again got on the score sheet and Lowe added to the goal tally of the day which would have been more had it not been for some fine saves by Collin who I thought a good game although Abbott seemed to notice his mistakes rather than his saves in the post match comments.<br />
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It was good to see Lowe score his first goal at home from open play on 64 and hopefully he will now get a lot more .<br />
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But a surprise for me anyway was the appearance of Jimmy Bullard who I thought we wouldnt see on the pitch for another week at least and he also raised the noise level when he came on he showed some us some lovely touches and might well of scored.<br />
The teams lined up Dons 4-2-3-1: Martin, Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Williams, Chicksen; Gleeson, Potter; Powell (O’Shea 85), Chadwick (Bullard 72), Bowditch; Lowe (MacDonald 72).<br />
The subs not used were: McLoughlin and Kay none of the young lads and just the five on the bench<br />
Jabo and Smith were not at the game Smith is banned so understandable but Jabo missing was a concern for me !<br />
Goal by Chadwick was on 11 Lowe was on 64<br />
Carlisle United lined up Collin, Robson (O’Halloran 65), McGovern (Symington 73), Murphy (c), Noble, Cadamarteri, Edwards, Potts, Berrett (Thirwell 37), Jervis, Chantler.<br />
Subs not used: Simek, Madden, Beck, Gillespie.<br />
The attendance was 7,227 with 381 unusually quiet away fans.<br />
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September is a busy month and we now have an extra game against Sunderland so the JPT game with Northamton is probably something Robbo could do without but it is for us fans a competition with happy memories and tickets for the game were selling well ahead of the Tuesday night game and by Monday morning we had sold our allocation according to a Northampton forum, on Monday afternoon the OS confirmed we had sold out our initial allocation of 950 tickets and received a further 300 that afternoon.<br />
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Some other news ahead of the game was that Ian McLoughlin our 20-year-old reserve keeper linked up with the Republic of Ireland U21 team on Monday 3rd September and played against Hungary on Thursday 6th September a game which the Republic lost.<br />
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Also Gary MacKenzie joined up with Scotland on Monday night and missed the MK Dons JPT clash with Northampton and also our League 1 match at Walsall but never made the bench.<br />
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Back to the Northampton game and as we know we lost to a wonder goal from Robinson that caught out Martin and although we were arguably the better team we could not a find a way back into the game despite a few good passages of play.<br />
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Mason Spence from the academy had a good game and looks to be a good prospect and did not seem fazed by the occasion.<br />
But the JPT campaign was over and we don't have to think about that again this season.<br />
The teams lined up<br />
Northampton Town 4-4-2 L Nicholls, East, Langmead (c), Charles, Widdowson; Demontagnac (Wilson 71), Tozer, Moult (Nicholls 82), Robinson (Turnball 76); Akinfenwa, Mukendi.<br />
Subs not used: Snedker, Dias.<br />
MK Dons Martin, Spence (Ibehre 66), Williams, Kay, Chicksen; Bullard (Chadwick 66), Smith (O’Shea 69), Gleeson (c); Bowditch, MacDonald, Powell.<br />
Subs not used: Lowe, Galloway another academy lad, O’Shea.<br />
Booked: Kay, Spence<br />
Referee was Carl Berry from Surrey and the attendance was 3, 444 with 1,349 loud Dons fans.<br />
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On Thursday 6th we heard that teenager Mason Spence had been called up to the Wales Under-19 squad and I thought is there another team in League One with so many Internationals in the squad ?<br />
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And so thoughts then turned to the upcoming game with Walsall, last season at the Bescott we had Beevers starting with McNamee and Balanta on the bench all three have now gone but one of the goalscorers that day Lewington was due to return from his three game ban and that triggered the memory of the game last season when we all thought we were going to score a boatload with the whole second half playing against ten men but it turned out to be a case of forty five minutes of frustration and we didnt had to our first half tally the Saddlers had veteran goalkeeper Jimmy Walker sent off for handling outside the box which meant full-back Lee Beevers went in goal and I wondered if we would fare any better this time round. <br />
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But that was then and it was back to the Bescott Charlie Burns the Academy keeper was given the day out I thought he'd get last game and there were changes from the Northampton game as the team looked more like the first team we know.<br />
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But just as we were settling in Walsall were in front after Jamie Paterson's corner was poked home by Dean Holden on seventeen minute's and it was catch up time.But despite having most of the possession we went into half time one down we made all our substitutions but nothing changed despite fourteen corners and the better possession we were again toothless in front of goal and it was Northampton all over again.<br />
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Saddlers have made changes this season but no one of any note we have made changes and the players we have brought in are supposedly better , but we did not get the result we did last season ,should we be worried ? maybe because we should be winning these games if we want Auto.<br />
Not time to press the panic button just yet but we need to be getting something occasionally from free kicks and corners but we don't.<br />
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Understandably most fans were disappointed some angry and Robinson said after the match “The boys will go away and it’s their duty of care to the badge and the Chairman to put a performance in and that’s me included, I have a duty of care to the Football Club to up my game as well.” which I thought was at first hearing a bit OTT but afterward thought it is the thing a fan would have said and actually quite good to hear a manager say it.<br />
The teams lined up Walsall: Grof, Butler (c), Holden, Featherstone, Cuvelier, Paterson, Hemmings (Taundry 86), Purkiss, Bowerman (A Williams 90), Baxendale (Jones 77), A Taylor.<br />
Subs not used: C Taylor, Benning, Downing, Jones.<br />
Booked: A Taylor<br />
Goal: Holden 17<br />
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MK Dons the unsuccessful away from home on small pitches team lined up 4-2-3-1: Martin; Otsemobor, Kay, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Chadwick (O’Shea 68), Bowditch (Smith 75); Rowe (MacDonald 61).<br />
Subs not used: academy keeper Charlie Burns, Doumbe, Chicksen, Ibehre.<br />
Booked: Lowe, Kay, O’Shea<br />
Referee was the rather incompetent Patrick Miller from Bedfordshire the Attendance was 3,657 with 437 very frustrated Dons.<br />
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And now for some news on the players we have out on loan, at Tamworth FC George Baldock went straight into the starting eleven for the Lambs fixture with Mansfield Town and also played in midfield the game against Barrow the 19-year old helped to create chances for the Blue Square Premier side but they have fallen to 13th in the table after two defeats.<br />
Academy graduates Charlie Collins and Jordan Ivey-Ward were on the bench for Tamworth and both players came on Ivey-Ward had a chance but his effort sailed wide.<br />
Defender Tom Flanagan made his sixth appearance for Gillingham in their 3-1 victory over Barnet at Underhill Tom came on to replace the injured Matt Fish in the 84th minute and Tom helped to secure the win for Mad Dog’s team who remain at the top of League Two and are one point clear of Burton who are in second place.<br />
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And even better news was to come when on Wednesday the 12th George Baldock put pen to paper on a new two-year deal with the Dons keeping him at the Club until 2014.<br />
Karl Robinson and I have spoken a few times about George so I thought if Karl had anything to do with it<br />
George would stay.<br />
George had spent most of the summer with Icelandic side IBV and made 19 appearances and scored once during his three month loan spell there.<br />
George’s loan deal is up on December 31st and he will return to fight for a place in Karl's side.<br />
George said: “I’m really pleased to have signed a new deal, this Club is the perfect place to be for a youngster, whether you are playing or in and around the squad because there is so much talent here to improve you as a player.<br />
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And so it is the final match of this blog and we have Yeovil at home the game comes as we are having something of an early season wobble.<br />
The games away from home are at best frustrating and at worst a sign that we are not going to make Auto.<br />
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So this game with Yeovil was eagerly anticipated by those of us that want to get back to winning ways and those that want to keep in with the Auto shout.<br />
The Yeovil team arrived by the same coach firm as the fans arrived on although it looked like it was a bit posher.<br />
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Then followed a game between two teams who looked to be as good as each other with both missing the chances they had but both playing some quite nice passing football but both seemed toothless in front of goal although both keepers did make a couple of excellent saves.<br />
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When Lowe was subbed for MacDonald I thought well Lowe has not got on the end of two lovely crosses and I was not convinced Charlie would either but he proved me wrong and found himself one on one with the keeper and after a change of direction placed the ball nicely into the net.<br />
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The it was squeaky bum time as we held on in the final few minutes and even managed to have a goal disallowed in injury time.<br />
Our home form continues to be good just the away form to work on now.<br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1: Martin; Otsemobor, MacKenzie (Kay 12), Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Chadwick, Bowditch (Bullard 82); Lowe (MacDonald 67).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, A Smith, Chicksen, O’Shea.<br />
Only Don booked was Williams and Charlie's goal was on 75<br />
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Yeovil Town lined up: Stech; Ayling (former Dons loan player Marsh-Brown 76), Hinds, Webster (c), Ralph; Young, Blizzard another former Don player, Upson, Foley; Hayter (K Smith 62), Ugwu (Reid 62).<br />
Subs not used: Stewart, Ince a cousin of Tom so therefore a relation of former manager Paul, Nkumu.<br />
Booked: Ayling, Ugwu, Webster<br />
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Referee was the rather fussy and often confused (but equally so for both sides) Carl Boyeson from East Yorkshire.<br />
Attendance was 7,235 with 322 away fans.<br />
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As this is a month with a lot of games I am doing two blogs this month which I'll probably regret as a lot of you regular readers will not check till October lol but hoping the Dons fans on twitter will spread the word.<br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-6301080399075749912012-08-29T02:15:00.002-07:002012-08-31T00:50:48.678-07:00August Round up and Capital One Cup News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIIxWApQOZtPjEwe3D309J5JshH4VJQ5cMxIIbmP6g_ZxtDUYUPmmH-srKHg7Fhh9gV_o7u3kaOKI0FOanaYjGb6zKs4B1ukbYsVcgKlbO7gMClJhAbYGE9UCHhpTMkgcflnWU1W_qkc/s1600/squad-photo-1440x90092-303780.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="252" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIIxWApQOZtPjEwe3D309J5JshH4VJQ5cMxIIbmP6g_ZxtDUYUPmmH-srKHg7Fhh9gV_o7u3kaOKI0FOanaYjGb6zKs4B1ukbYsVcgKlbO7gMClJhAbYGE9UCHhpTMkgcflnWU1W_qkc/s320/squad-photo-1440x90092-303780.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Picture MK Dons Official Team Photograph www.mkdons.com<br />
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The pre season came to a close and the new season was nearly upon us and in a curtain raiser to the new season we had the League Cup match against Cheltenham.<br />
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But just before the Cheltenham game the Don's signed Anthony Kay on the Friday , nobody expected him to feature but when Williams limped off injured it was the former Barnsley,Tranmere Rover's and Huddersfield man's chance to make his debut with only half an hour played.<br />
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In the forty first minute Gleeson got sent off for an alleged dangerous follow through on his tackle, but he got the ball and even the Cheltenham manager thought it was a harsh decision along with all the Don's fans and a fuming manager.<br />
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That seemed to spur the team on and Bowditch then managed to convert after a Jay O'Shea cross right in first half injury time just minute's after the sending off.<br />
It was always going to be tough second half with ten men and in the fifty eighth minute Mohamed made it 1-1 and it was then a case of holding on with a three man defence.<br />
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Robbo decided to move Kay further up the field in a brave move that left us vulnerable down the right.<br />
But the Dons held on and it was penalty time.<br />
Dean Bowditch, Charlie MacDonald, Gary MacKenzie, Antony Kay and Ryan Lowe all netted their penalties for Cheltenham Darryl Duffy saw his kick saved by David Martin which meant the Don's go through to next round of the competition. <br />
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The Dons lined up 4-2-3-1 with Martin; Chicksen, MacKenzie, Williams was subbed for Kay on 29, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Bowditch, Chadwick (Lowe 71), O’Shea (Smith 61); MacDonald.<br />
Subs not used were: McLoughlin and Powell, and in this early stage we managed to get three booking's in Chadwick, Kay, Potter and the red of Gleeson Cheltenham just got the one yellow !<br />
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Our goal by Bowditch was listed as 45 the Referee Steven Rushton was from Staffordshire and let's hope he has a re-think over his red. Attendance was 1,660 with 352 Don's.<br />
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Tuesday after the match we heard the red would stand and Gleeson would miss the first three games of season in a decision Karl called a disgrace "they can go shove it, it's us against the world" he added.<br />
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So the season was almost here and the squad looked to be complete so we started shipping out those who would not likely be needed at least early on.<br />
Tom Flanagan went out on loan to Gillingham under the watchful eye of former Don's manager Martin Allen poor lad.<br />
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George Baldock his loan spell with Icelandic side IBV until August 31st who are in third place only six points off top spot.<br />
Charlie Collins and Jordan Ivey-Ward are at Tamworth in their Blue Square Premier so good luck to them as many are saying this is Charlie's last chance to prove himself before his contract is up in the new year.<br />
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Dean Lewington and Alan Smith arrive for Oldham game.<br />
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So the first game of the season was finally here and it was the hottest day of the year so far but apart from the end it was not really a hot headed affair.<br />
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Before the game I got to speak to one of the Oldham director's about how his season looked and what Oldham expected he said "we haven't got the budget the Don's have and it was a different world there" to which a couple of us laughed and said we are not a rich club and it may be in the top ten but no better, the director then said their budget was one and a half million and we conceded yes ours is bigger ! He was a really nice bloke and very friendly and I thought was Oldham's version of Pete the way he engaged with us ordinary folk. He then went off to meet the Oldham team coach and spoke to Dickov and the players as they arrived.<br />
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Oldham players arrive led by Paul Dickov who stopped to sign autographs.<br />
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Another surprise was meeting Darren Gough who most will know lives in Milton Keynes and has done for twelve years now. Darren told me he has a box at the Dons( but never invited me to watch the match there lol)he stood and had his picture taken with a few of us that hang around the hotel on match days then went off for his lunch with the other good folk in the posh bit.<br />
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Paul Dickov's Oldham were the team we would spend our opening day entertaining Oldham have had a bit more actively than us in the close season losing some of last season's squad amongst those leaving were Rueben Reid, Kieron Lee,Zander Diamond,Felipe Morias ,Chris Taylor and Josh Parker to name a few even our former loan player Marsh-Brown was gone.<br />
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In came Johnathan Grounds,Daniel Taylor,Lee Croft,Connor Brown and Cliff Byrne a mixture of loans and regular signings but they were still predicted to finish mid table and 14th seemed to be the most common prediction.<br />
Jordan Slew on loan from Blackburn Rovers was the one we were told to watch but apart from some snazzy looking headphone's when he got of the bus I didn't see anything to catch my eye really.<br />
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As I have said previously I dont do match reports as Im crap at them and you can read them on the official site so a summary is what you get lol I thought it was a professional performance without being rude to Oldham the Dons never looked in danger of conceding let alone losing.<br />
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A pin point cross to Potter from Bowditch resulted in the first goal just before half time, a lovely well taken header that had a few behind the goal flinching as it hit the net thinking it was going through.<br />
Daniel Powell had one of the best games I have seen him play if not the best ! and his goal was top drawer a real cracker( and all the other cliche's )and had his shot not hit the crossbar and gone in it would have been a nomination for goal of the season .<br />
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The game was marred by an altercation in injury time when the horrible Robbie Simpson who had been baiting MacKenzie amongst other's all game clashed with Anthony Kay resulting in Kay getting sent off, reaffirming the Robbo quote that it's us against the world, Simpson the instigator let off Scott free.<br />
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Really the Don's should have won four nil and been top of the table Saturday evening bit Cisak made some good saves and Lowe and other's could have done better.But it was a convincing win if not a spectacular one and you cant ask for anymore than three points on opening day but I couldn't shake that memory of losing on opening day to Bury but then going on to win the league and hoping that it was different this time ...sometimes I over think things !! <br />
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Team's lined up Dons 4-2-3-1: Martin; Chicksen, MacKenzie, Kay, Lewington (c); Potter, Chadwick (Smith 81); Powell, O’Shea, Bowditch (MacDonald 65); Lowe (Ibehre 75).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Otsemobor, the two academy lads Alli, Galloway made up the bench.<br />
Booked: MacKenzie, Chadwick, Smith<br />
Sent-off: Kay 90<br />
Goals: Potter 34, Powell 59<br />
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Oldham Athletic: Cisak; Byrne, M’Voto, Tarkowski, Grounds, Croft, M’Changma, Furman (c), Montano (Hughes 66); Simpson, Slew (Taylor 80).<br />
Subs not used: Brown, Bouzanis, Smith, Millar, Winchester. <br />
Booked: Simpson<br />
Referee: Ian Williamson who's eyesight went several times during the game was from Berkshire which seemed apt.<br />
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The attendance was a disappointing but usaul summer holiday figure of 7,409 with 512 not very happy Oldham fans.<br />
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But the games come thick and fast and there was no time to saviour the win before it was off to the seaside at Bournemouth.<br />
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I thought as I always do with most away games a draw would have been a good result with the cherries seeming to have pots of money this season, the eight hundred thousand pounds Tubbs now settled in Bournemouth who also managed to add Barnard to the squad on loan during close season.<br />
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Bournemouth started the brighter and within seventeen minute's Grabban had put them one up and we looked second best but that was not the worst of it Smith then got sent off for a reckless studs up challenge on Arter and we were down to ten men with most of the game still to go. It seemed to be a case of hanging on till half time and hope the half time team talk was inspirational.<br />
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Chadwick came on after twenty two minute's and we seemed to find our way a bit.<br />
Second half came and Bournemouth seemed to play into our hands with the intruduction of Fletcher and the high balls up to him, then on sixty two minute's the until then out of sort's Powell managed to rescue the game with a goal and the draw was on the cards .<br />
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Then followed a real dig the heels in battle and the Dons showed the fans that old never say die attitude so apparent in the promotion winning season , when Jabo came on with twenty minute's left I thought I reckon we can do this and so we did and a point on the road was ours.<br />
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Probably wrong to single out a player after that but the concensus of opinion was Gary Mac was M.O.T.M which was good after Robbo had praised him before the game for his maturity during Olldham match.<br />
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Worringly we now had three red's from three game's which was more akin to the season with Ince second time round so some very mixed reaction's from the fan's after the game.<br />
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The team's lined up AFC Bournemouth Jalal, Francis, Daniels, Barnard, Addison (c), Pugh, O’Kane, Partington, Arter (Fletcher 46), Cook, Grabban (Tubbs 79).<br />
Subs not used were Flahavan, Thomas, Wakefield, Gregory, Zubar Goal was Grabban on 17<br />
Dons lined up 4-2-3-1 Martin, Otsemobor (pronounced Semi-bore), MacKenzie, Lewington, Chicksen, Potter, Smith; Powell, MacDonald (Chadwick 22) Bowditch (O'Shea 90), Lowe (Ibehre 71).Subs not used were McLoughlin, Alli and Galloway. Smith was sent off with 21 minute's on the clock. The goal from Powell was on 62.<br />
Attendance was 5,407 with 271 Don's fans. <br />
The referee was Brendan Malone from Wiltshire. <br />
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And Wiltshire was next up as the games come thick and fast and it was away again to newly promoted Swindon who were unbeaten at home in a year and had only conceded one goal in 1710 mins of football last season.And Wiltshire was next up and it was off to newly promoted Swindon who were unbeaten at home in a year and had only conceded one goal in 1710 Min's of football last season.<br />
With Smith Gleeson and Kay suspended along with the injured we looked thin on the ground and the team looked to pick itself <br />
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Swindon started the better and if truth were told it stayed that way for ninety minute's.<br />
But the big talking point was the dismissal of Captain Dean Lewington in what on reflection and with benefit of replay's was a harsh decision but not a completely wrong one.<br />
I have seen players get away with pushing others away with their arms up but also seen them sent off or yellow carded which I though would have been the right action in this instance.<br />
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Dean by his own admission should not have got involved but he did that when he picked the ball up when Ferry tried to get the ball back (as it was Swindon's free kick although O'Shea's tackle looked okay to me) Dean pushed him away with his arm or elbow it was not violent behaviour more petulant and the ref did not see it and consulted the 4th official, who saw it as an elbow to the head or face the replay showed Ferry not hurt or that I could see made contact with, so to my mind it was a yellow I would point out that Ferry had grabbed Lewington from behind although I wouldn't say he grabbed him by the throat as Winkelman said but his arms were also raised more a case of handbags.<br />
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But Dean struck out with his arm high and he should know better, after the recent reds and yellows refs will be looking that bit closer at MK Dons I don't think its because we are MK Dons but because for whatever reason we have those reds against our name.<br />
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The chairman stopped Karl speaking to the media after the game and I think that was to save Karl from another fine and make matters worse I also think by the chairman speaking about the incident's regarding red cards all referee's might look at some of the inconsistencies during their referee meetings but maybe that's wishful thinking but after Winkelman said Lewie was grabbed by the throat when he clearly wasnt perhaps they wont !<br />
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But it did lead to questions asked such as how many times have we wondered what the 4th official actualy does ? when in some games seemingly nothing then here at Swindon send a player off. <br />
Yet in the same game ignore De Canio running on the pitch .<br />
This to me has been the problem.. inconsistency with the officials .<br />
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Three of our reds have been offences that might have been a yellow or even ignored by other refs on another day, even the red on Kay one could argue both players should have been sent off as Kay had his nose broken by an elbow that went unpunished not one official 4th or otherwise saw it !! bizarre. <br />
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But back to the game and just before half time Swindon took the lead and the Dons had forty five minutes to either hold out and make the result look respectable of snatch a draw which to be fair would have been tough on Swindon.<br />
Swindon continued to worry the defence and Martin deservedly our fans M.O.T.M making some classy saves including Jamie Collins deflected shot that De Vita hit low and a one handed tip over from the shot of Collins.<br />
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With fifteen minutes left Robbo decided to go three at the back and Chicksen came off and Jabo came on but it was not enough to grab a point and the game ended with our first loss of the season.<br />
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The teams lined up Swindon Town Foderingham, McEveley, Flint, Devera, Ferry, Collins (Storey 87), Ritchie, McCormack (c), Williams, Miller, De Vita (Navarro 73).<br />
Subs not used: Bedwell, Rooney, Risser, Thompson, Smith<br />
Goal: Ritchie 40<br />
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MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Lewington, Chicksen (Ibehre 75); Potter, Chadwick; Powell, O’Shea (Williams 42), Bowditch; Lowe (MacDonald 64).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Alli, youth team captain Mason Spence even got a place on bench.<br />
Just the one booking MacKenzie for kicking the ball out of play after a foul on him was not given.<br />
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Lewington got his marching orders on 40<br />
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Attendance was 8,299 and 497 Dons fans watched the game and some chanted sort it out and we want our money back which whilst I would not have joined in with you cant help but hope we do sort it out.<br />
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Next game up and the last of the month was the Capital One Cup game against Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday night and we all hoped for eleven men to finish rather than the right result such is the state of things at the moment.<br />
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Rovers were without Danny Murphy, Paul Robinson or Morten Gamst Pedersen and we were without Lewington, Kay or Doumbe so even in terms of players not featuring.<br />
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The Dons to a man played some nice passing football and there could have been a number of players up for M.O.T.M award Chadwick got two goals and I thought it he would get the award but the match sponsor gave it to MacKenzie which I could understand and did not have a problem with.<br />
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Rovers were in the Premiership last season but it was hard to see evidence of that with the Dons looking like the team a division above.<br />
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I watched Kean standing motionless on the touchline and Rovers disjointed play made me think what do they actually do at the training ground ? at times nobody seemed to know where his fellow player was and I could understand the Kean out chants that rang out from the away end from the minute we scored till the end of the game. In fact the scoreline did not give the Dons credit as it was more one sided than 2-1 suggested.<br />
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I could not help but remember the QPR game last season and wondered if Kean would be sacked in the morning, the Blackburn fan's were certainly very very unhappy as they left.<br />
The teams lined up <br />
MK Dons 4-2-3-1: Martin, Otsemobor, MacKenzie, Williams, Chicksen; Potter, Gleeson; Powell, Chadwick (O’Shea 76), Bowditch (Ibehre 90); MacDonald (Lowe 74).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Alli, Galloway. Goals by Chadwick were on 52, 67mins <br />
Blackburn Rovers 4-4-1-1 Kean, Orr, Nunes, Marcus Olsson, Dann (c), Jorge, Etuhu (J Lowe 58), Junior (Goodwillie 58), Rochina (Formica 68), Hanley, Vukcevic.<br />
Subs not used: Usai, Martin Olsson, Morris, Ribeiro.<br />
Goal: Goodwillie 83<br />
Referee was Mick Russell from Hertfordshire who let play flow and I thought had a good game with two assessors at the game I guess he wanted to make a good impression.<br />
Only attendance figure I got was from BBC 5873 no away figure but looked to be 800 or so. <br />
Before the game we were introduced to Jimmy Bullard and he was presented with the number 13 shirt till end of of December, and he provided my say hello to someone who has not got a clue who you are moment as I saw him arrive just after Blackburn had arrived . Karl came out of the players entrance to meet him as his car arrived (well bloody great four by four Japanese number)I turned around to see him and chirped up hello Jimmy he said hello mate and went in with Karl I told you its a quirk of mine lol..<br />
I only managed to get a photo of the back of his head he went in pretty quickly. <br />
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August has not been great in terms of points on the table or discipline and the reds will make officials look that bit more closely at us ,but we are going to have another round at least in the League Cup and I think we have good squad that will be up there challenging the top two if not one of them.<br />
COYD<br />
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On Thursday 30th August we learnt that MK Dons are to play Sunderland at Stadium MK on the week commencing 24th September, Sunderland have a lot of fans down south and a fair few in Milton Keynes there is also a London based supporters club so we are expecting a good away following for this game.<br />
Another Prem team can we cause an upset ?<br />
COYD<br />
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GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-57597577202870051752012-08-25T10:39:00.001-07:002012-08-25T10:39:31.647-07:00Chairman Pete Winkelman demands answers after another Dons red card - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen<a href="http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/sport/football/mk-dons/chairman-pete-winkelman-demands-answers-after-another-dons-red-card-1-4201211#.UDkManta8aB.blogger">Chairman Pete Winkelman demands answers after another Dons red card - MK DONS - Milton Keynes Citizen</a><br />
So many opinions on the 4th red this season but I think Pete Winkelman has a point and I have to agree with his comments call me happy clappy but only one of the reds was a red and even that was debatable as we should have had free kick which would have meant there would have been no red as the player that broke Kay's nose wouuld have been collecting his yellow or even red. GD's MK Dons Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820529761442435229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869366887292529670.post-3323010204487509522012-08-08T01:34:00.000-07:002012-08-10T02:29:54.451-07:00Pre Season Round Up and Blog NewsMilton Keynes Dons can today confirm the signing of defender Antony Kay following his release from Huddersfield Town.<br />
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The 29-year-old joins the Dons as a free agent and has put pen-to-paper on a 2 year deal.<br />
This for me is the last of Karl's targets and we now look to have cover in all position's with most players able to adapt and cover any weak area's Karl has built a versatile squad and competition for a staring place will be tough.<br />
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Pre season<br />
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So the pre season began with games in Ireland.<br />
Karl took the team to Ireland for pre season training and I had asked him before why Ireland.<br />
Karl loves the location of the training camp and the facilities and he also said its cheaper than Portugal or even other UK based places.<br />
Karl told me he saves the club two hundred thousand by going there which is money he gets for the team budget, which is strangely enough about two hundred thousand more than last season. <br />
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The total budget for the team is still nowhere near De Matteo's who I recently found out was the highest of any manager we have had.<br />
Id previously thought that it was Allen's honour to have had the biggest budget of an MK Dons manager but have no reason to believe the person ! who informed me was wrong.<br />
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Obviously the clubs budget is higher but now we have more staff both on match day's and through the normal working week so as Id said before the Chairman's take on the budget is not the same as say the manager or the fans.<br />
The first game was on Monday 23rd July at 7:30pm versus St James Gate and the Dons came away with a 0-2 win the second game was on Wednesday 25th July at 7:15pm and this was an even easier test against Whitehall Rangers and the score was 0-6 to the MK Dons.<br />
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On Thursday 26th July at 11:00 we played a team Id actually heard of although the Bohemians didn't put up much opposition and the score was a resounding 0-11 win for MK Dons, some may argue that these games mean nothing even in pre season terms and playing teams some cruelly call pub teams just risks injury and is no competition ,which I can sort of understand as Id prefer to be playing League Two or Conference/Blue Square type clubs at the early stage of pre season but I think as we are in Ireland we have to take who is available !<br />
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But saying that the first pre season game in England was a complete disaster.<br />
On Saturday 28th July at 3:00pm we turned up to play Kettering to find the pitch was not marked and that grass cutting's were left on the very hard un- watered disgrace of a pitch. Karl told me afterwards he wont be going back and Mick Harford said he felt embarrassed for the manager and if he had been manager of Kettering he would have put the markings down himself. <br />
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Karl said to me and the press earlier that he was not going to play the game but saw all our fans and relented telling the players to play at sixty percent although two players did not train the first day back due to pulls they took on the rock hard pitch (but I wont say who they were now).<br />
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The score on that wasted afternoon was Kettering Town 0-0 MK Dons and you have to wonder if Kettering will make it to the new season with no groundsman or back room staff to speak of.<br />
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Then it was the our turn to host the big boy's and first up on Friday 3rd August at 7:45pm was MK Dons v Norwich City and the canaries had the best of the first half with the Dons just shading the second and it didn't seem five minute's since we were playing them in the League so maybe in two season it could be us..no I know not realistic but stranger things have happened.<br />
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We kept out Simeon Jackson, Sean Morison and Robert Snodgrass and Martin kept a clean sheet yet again.<br />
In the second half Jay O’Shea was denied a good effort and Luke Chadwick and Charlie MacDonald also had efforts fall off-target Ryan Lowe made his mark and won a few new fans and he is already one of my favourite players to talk to as he is quite a laugh to banter with.<br />
The team's lined up Martin; Chicksen (O’Shea 46), MacKenzie, Kouo-Doumbe, Lewington (c); Gleeson, Potter (Lowe 79), Williams; Chadwick (Ibehre 73), Smith (MacDonald 56), Bowditch (Powell 62).Subs not used: McLoughlin, Burton which was odd as it was reported he was thinking about an offered six month contract although I had heard he was not in Karl's plans after Ireland.<br />
Norwich City lined up Rudd, Francomb, Barnett, Turner (R Bennett 65), Lappin, Snodgrass, Hoolahan, Surman, Jackson (Murphy 80); Martin, Morison.Subs were: Matthews, Barker, Johnson, E Bennett.<br />
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On Tuesday 7th August at 7:45pm we had MK Dons v Fulham I had been told that Fulham would not bring any first teamers as they were away in France and had recently played Nice who Fulham incidentally beat 0-4 but I wasn't so sure as they had a behind closed door match with Charlton on Saturday 11th so I thought they probably came back to the UK Sunday night.<br />
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Funnily enough Fulham's game after us is Norwich so could we make any prediction's for both clubs and their Prem campaign based on what we saw here I wondered totally irrelevantly.<br />
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Anyway back to the game Fulham arrived with a mixture of regular players and fringe players and Dons rested Doumbe. I spoke to Matt before the game and he said he was not injured despite some reports of a knee injury.<br />
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Deon Burton as Id predicted left the club to join his old boss Allen at Gillingham on a one year deal (apparently we offered a six month deal which is pretty much like not offering a deal at all).<br />
The game was not the most exciting but there was some nice passing and the ball was played on the ground.<br />
I thought Lewie had a good game and wondered if he was upping his game because his Dad Ray was there or because he was after a job at Fulham to keep the name at Fulham now his Dad's left lol<br />
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I said hello to Ray in the club red bar area ,I always love saying hello to people who haven't a clue who I am just to see if they say hello back, some do some dont but its just a quirk of mine lol<br />
Steve Sidwell<br />
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Sadly we conceded our first pre season goal a tap in from Rodallega with just ten minutes to go. Bowditch hit the bar after that but what cost us the draw was the missed penalty from Williams who surprisingly blasted the ball into the cowshed.<br />
The team's lined up <br />
MK Dons (4-2-3-1): Martin; Chicksen (replaced by academy local boy Hickford 90), MacKenzie, Williams, Lewington (c); Potter, Gleeson; Bowditch, Chadwick, O’Shea (Smith 79); MacDonald (Rowe 61).<br />
Subs not used: McLoughlin, Lobjoit.<br />
Fulham lined up: Stockdale, Briggs, Burn (Grygera 70), Baird (c), Kelly, Sidwell, Kasami, Frei (Mikwitz 46), Rodallega, Trotta (Kacaniklic 61), Tue Na Bangna.<br />
Subs not used: Brister, Kavanagh, Somigyi.<br />
Goal: Rodallega 81<br />
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And finally Blog news so you can either read on or just come back to site later.<br />
At the end of last season or close season cant remember now ! I said I was going to stop the blog as its being going a long time now and it was started mainly for the benefit of the MK Dons forum and then I agreed to put it on other site's I have helped with, as I am no longer involved with running or helping to run any of the forum's it seemed time.<br />
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In fact I rarely even post on the one I am still a member of so I thought it was a good a time as any to stop.<br />
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For a long time I have been banging on about our <b>younger fans</b> and that they are the future so I was pleased to hear that at least two are starting blogs next season(or is it now this season)so I will step aside and let them get on with it and good luck to them.<br />
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I know that a lot of people have bookmarked this site and click on it along with their other Don's related site's which is REALLY NICE TO KNOW and thanks to all of you that do.<br />
I have had nearly five hundred hit's every month of close season and the blog since January when it went out on its own has approaching five thousands hits.<br />
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I don't wish however to be seen as in competition with other's so apart from the twitter links I wont be advertising the blog site on any of the two Dons forum's( most of you know of it already and I don't mind if anyone else wants to link blog if they think it deserves a wider audience).<br />
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The aim of the blog was and has always been to give <b>my own view </b>of what I see on my travels and to keep other's informed and I will continue to put in things I have been told by Robbo and other contact's withing the club if I think it does not compromise the club,if I think it was told in confidence I wont put it in so keep checking back as there may well be a little nugget of something you didn't know hidden in the blog.<br />
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