MK Dons v Huddersfield Town - 17.09.11

the last 2 away games gathered 4 points against 2 sides that should be in the top 6 at the death..

being honest we should have had 6 points..

thats the long version of yes..

we will get more points playing this way even if we lose a few along the way..

we are playing better for the simple reason that it all looks better when play as we are doing..we are not playing the intermenable sideways and backwards rubbish and we are playing as a unit further up the pitch when not in possession..

we made a good number of chances on tuesday and we made loads yesterday..

its better than watching dull, scrappy invariably lucky draws away from home and stagnant, slow , lacking invention home matches..

That will do
Me 38 .

First chance I've had to comment on the match since Saturday so here goes in random order...

- Oscar Gobern, what is his job? Matches just seem to pass him by and he contributed very little, I don't understand what his role is. People say he breaks play up but now DJ is fit that's what he does, and he does it much better as well.
- DJ, what a guy. He seems much fitter than last season, running for 90 minutes without struggle. He does the simple things very well and pretty much any move we make starts with him. Defensively we look so much better as he stops the midfield leaking.
- Tony Kay and Boom Boom once again looked very strong, although some muppets continue to talk nonsense about McCombe even when he does play well. One woman on Saturday must have been just to the left behind the goals, row Yish, and has no business ever attending a football match again if she doesn't know what she's looking at.
- Lee and Novak played very well again, Lee in particular once again leading the line very well and taking focus off Novak, allowing him more space as the defenders continually panicked over the big man.
- The penalty - their bloke should have been sent off and a penalty awarded for the stamp on Lee in the first place, but apparently the ref and linesman missed it which is no desservice to them as neither had a good view. From there Lee reacted, they came head to head, their lad pushed and Lee went down like he'd been shot, funny and effective as it won us the penalty.
- Danny Ward looked lively throughout and had his shot gone in the first half would have been goal of the season by some distance. I was disappointed when he got brought off as I thought perhaps we could have put Arfield in the middle and bring Gobern off for Roberts, using 2 more direct wingers to get at them and win the match.
- Scott Arfield for me would be player of the season so far, I haven't seen him have a bad game, and currently he's really on top form despite playing in a very difficult position.
- Callum Woods was once again very good, he's just as good as Hunt going forward while being very solid at the back, what he did he did with minimal fuss and we really look solid in all areas at the back at the moment.
- The singers need to start standing at the back if they're going to stand up and not watch the match half of the time. It's all well and good going on the lash but people pay to watch the match, so stand at the back and have your fun there so people who can't stand up for 90 minutes can sit down and enjoy the match.
- We should be looking at another 4 points as a minimum from the next 2 matches, we should be putting 4 or 5 passed Orient and then should be taking the game to Brentford as well.

terrier..
i think we have a general consensus on the last 2 performances.
we are much better taking the game to teams, be they the so called "better" sides or the "lesser" sides away from home.

the team works well when defending further up the pitch and we made enough chances on saturday to win a few games.


we still have to work harder on the start of each half and getting switched on after breaks in play and we effectively played with 10men for most of the game as gobern appears somewhat lost where he is at the moment.

but overall the last 2 games have been attacked properly given the personnel we have and we all seem to agree that there is no one we play in the league that we should alter that style and attacking purpose for.

100% agreed, we did everything right in the first half and really should have had the game won at half time but for whatever reason we just couldn't get the ball in the back of the net due to a combination of tough luck, the woodwork and a couple of good saves by their keeper.

Dons and United are 2 of the better teams in a poor league this season, so if we can maintain that level of performance we won't have many problems, home or away.

After been there Tues and Cas saying the game also passed him by yesterday, does Gobern need replacing with Robinson or Miller?

I've just seen the highlights on the beeb, the equaliser looked like a fault with our defense on set pieces as we seem to be vulnerable against, on different day a player would have got a leg in the way to stop it. These things happen, although can be worked on, no blame just an observation.

With the red card, he clearly stamped on Lee, although you don't see them square up as its off camera, the offending lad does seem to almost headbutt the ref when he goes to talk to him tho

alan lee goes head to head with him, then moves his own head away quickly..from a distance or from the quick glance that the ref and lino had it looks like he has been headbutted..

alan lee needs to get involved in the physical battles whilst the balls there to be won or to make a nuisance of himself, i dont want him to be involved in this sort of silly sh-t too often.. a lot of the time itll go against him, he was lucky on saturday..

Lee badly at fault for our goal - he was marking the big defender. His problem is that he doesn't jump when he goes for headers. Somehow he manages to make hia standing-style work when he's flicking on long balls but it doesn't work in your own box. He's bloody funny though so I'm happy for him to stay in and continue his Gaelic Football.

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