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ChrisSumpter  |  Dec 5 2008, 10:24 AM |
 Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Hi everyone, it's my turn to don the apparantly padded and roomy Big Match Live hot seat at stadium:mk this weekend. So join me to ensure you don;t miss any of the action in another big and tough looking clash for Scunthorpe. I'll be online from around 2.30pm, but feel free to leave any of your thoughts/team selections below. |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 14:48 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Afternoon everyone from an impressive - but chilly - stadium:mk for the Iron's clash with MK Dons. Team news for you - May's in (bet you'd never have guessed), but that's the only change from the team that beat Alfreton. Izzy's struggling with his knee problem, so isn't even on the bench today. Here's the teams... MK Dons: Gueret; Cummings, N'Gala, O'Hanlon, Regan; Wright, Navarro, Leven, Puncheon; Gerba, Baldock. Subs: Abbey, Stirling, Johnson, Wilbraham, Flo. Scunthorpe: Murphy; Byrne, Pearce, Mirfin, Williams; Sparrow, Togwell, McCann, Woolford; Hooper, May. Subs: Lillis, Thompson, Morris, Wright, Hurst. |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 14:51 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | To do a bit of scene setting for you.... it's a cracking stadium. Two tiered (though only the lower tier has any seats in it) there's a big gap bewteen the two, allowing fans to watch the game while they're queuing for refreshments. Padded seats all over the shop - not just for the press - and they're much wider than the likes of GP too! Pitch looks in good nick and there's already a decent following of United fans gathering in one corner of the ground. Any thoughts on the game then? Is a point a good result today? Has Adkins got the team right? |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 14:59 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | The two teams are out - led onto the pitch by two fluffy cows waving big MK Dons flags. I've seen it all now! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:05 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Home crowd are in good voice, but it's the Iron who've made a couple of breaks forward. Hooper got the ball stuck under his feet in the box, unable to work an opening, but Marcus Williams did test Gueret with a cracking shot which the home keeper palmed away. Promising start by united! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:10 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | United just had a let off at the other end, Wright got in a good cross, obviously from the right, and it was just too far in front of the break of Peter Leven from midfield - whose already got seven goals this season. Looks like the Dons could be decent side on the break - one thing United will have to watch out for! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:12 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Ten minutes gone now and Ben May was just off target with a flicked header from a Woolford cross. The former York winger has started well this afternoon - hopefully it will continue. Few players have an answer when he gets on a run! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:15 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Good job I'm not a betting man. Hooper has just blasted a shot well wide from almost on the penalty spot after a mistake by Carl Regan played him in. I've have put my house on him netting that one - as it is it's still goal-less (somehow). |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:18 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Two physios have just had a race into the middle after a challenge from Gerba on Mirfin - and Alex Dalton won! Up the Iron! It brought the first noticeable cheer from the travelling support. Anybody else out there? Or are you all Xmas shopping or something? |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:23 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Another glorious chance goes begging - again for United. Hooper did well to nip in behind N'Gala to get on the end of Togwell's threaded pass, but after flicking it past Geuret, O'Hanlon got bacl to nick it clear. It's all United though at the moment - they have to make this ressure pay though! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:26 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | A slight scare for Scunny. Hooper is rubbing his calf quite a bit after appearaing tohurt himself when he chipped in a cross! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:30 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | It's taken the hosts 28 minutes for their first corner and then shot, winger Jason Puncheon seeing a low drive held by Murphy at the near post. Hooper looks to have run off that calf problem now. Him and May doing okay together at the moment. |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:34 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Bit a lull in play now, ball getting bogged down in midfield. Woolford is the man making it happen for United - but they aren't getting the ball to him enough!!!!!! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:42 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | The Dons have had a little bit of pressure, Byrne doing well to clear the ball in front of Baldock before Gerba had a shot well tipped around the post by Murphy. Big blow for the Iron though is losing Mirfin, as a result of that challenge earlier on. Andrew Wright's on, at right-back, with Byrne now in the centre. Hopefully it won't affect the visitors too much. |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:43 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | It makes for a good tounge-twister actually. Wright at right-back is marking Dons winger Wright who is now on the left! |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:46 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Dons have gone agonisngly close to a goal, top scorer Baldock poking wide from close ranger after Puncheon had had the Iron defence on the rack cutting in from the left to drill in a cross-shot. Baldock was booked for protesting he was fouled and McCann's been booked for a foul - his fifth yellow of the season which means he misses the Northampton match next week. |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 15:49 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | HALF-TIME: Dons 0 Scunthorpe 0. Good first 45 for United, who really should be at least one goal up! |
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| demonbarber | Dec 6 2008, 15:50 PM |
 Group: Member Posts: Joined: Tue Jul 8 2008 Status: Offline | so Sparrow in the middle next week then? Who would you have on the flanks then Chris? Hurst on the left Wooly on the right, or Thommo on the right, leave Wooly at Left? What's a tounge? |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 16:04 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Quote: demonbarber at Dec 6 2008, 15:50 PM wrote so Sparrow in the middle next week then? Who would you have on the flanks then Chris? Hurst on the left Wooly on the right, or Thommo on the right, leave Wooly at Left? What's a tounge? I guess so, he did okay there against Leicester though. I'd bring Thompson in myself - keep Woolford on the left where we know what he can do (he didn't look v good on the right against L'ster) What about you? BTW - a tounge is a tongue for someone like me, who clearly can't spell! Teams out now for round two.... |
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| ChrisSumpter | Dec 6 2008, 16:08 PM |
Group: Contributor Posts: Joined: Mon May 28 2007 Status: Offline | Puncheon has just smashed a long range piledriver over the top. He's the Dons' best player a mile. The best name though in the home team has to be Ali Gerba - known as Ali G on the terraces! Booyakasha! |
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