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Excellent stuff - testament to the team we have here right now; confirmed champions, yet go out away from home and beat a team in the top six who won their last home match six nil too. Tremendous. Still want them to win the playoffs too. Good luck Chesterfield.

Ah, I see. Guess we'll have to see if any of the young 'uns impress him this summer then.

Might be the kids didn't travel, and this was a last minute change? Ultimately, we owe it to the other teams competing for a play-off place to put out our strongest team anyway, including the bench. Would be right annoyed if I was perhaps a Sheffield United or Rochdale fan, and we turned up today with a team of kids and gave Chesterfield an easier chance at three points than we did them. Plus, as others have said; may simply be none of our youngsters who are either fit or not out on loan are good enough to have the honour of a spot on the bench?

Gillingham are a tough bunch, but think 7 points from those and you'll be beyond MK. Just be a case then as to who'll be following us, and I still fancy Rochdale to sneak in and surprise everyone...

If you had to pick from the run-ins for MK, Preston and Swindon you'd be made not to take Preston's every time.

With the MK result, I'm not surprised Preston fans are as happy as us with a point; three of their last five games are against relegation-threatened teams, so they'll likely be confident they can keep ahead of MK now. Very decent result all round; expect to see them in the Championship next year too.

Edit - wrong info; thanks, SSN

If BBC stats are to be believed; no shots for MK Dons against Port Vale - odd...

If Yeovil hang on and win, Orient beat Crewe, and other results stay the same, then the Glovers might actually stand half a (slim) chance.

Looking at it; wonder what odds you'd get on them not even making the playoffs right now? If I was Fleetwood or Rochdale's manager right now, I'd be pointing at the Sheffield United scoreline as motivation to my players to go out and get three points. Just four wins in their ten before today; lose this, and they'd be on just 15 points from a possible 30 - grim.

If it ain't broke!

Agard got the winner against Oldham at home, didn't he? What odds a repeat of the result & goal scorer?

Just throw on all our attacking options for the 2nd half and go for broke; rather lose 5-3 trying to get back into it than splutter out. (Only partially joking there...)

If we get a point or win here, surely performance of the season?

Agree with this. If Taviner was going to start one of the two games, I'd have picked this one. Hope JET takes them apart; good idea to rest him Tuesday, but with Agard finding his scoring touch again, should be good motivation for him to perform.

3-1 to City. COYR

Ditto - April could be brutal. And home form is home form - and Colchester's is crap.

Annoying in a way that MK won, but does further underline Colchester's awful home form; 7 lost out of the last 8 league games. I'd suggest that when you look at the teams who've gone there and got maximum points, we really must be aiming for three on the weekend.

True, but the fact they are what works out as five wins and a draw in terms of points behind us is slightly mind-boggling.

Was nice to read these two posts together. Puts in to perspective our loss to Sheffield United; it wasn't great, but they currently present a pretty distant 'threat' to our league position.

They've not scored more than twice in any game since October, while we've the best defensive record in the league, and while that probably means we're set up for 6 all, what I do think it means for us is; forget caution. Am thinking 3-1, with it not being a classic in terms of quality, but not lacking commitment, most importantly from our lot. Also got the strange feeling Flint will score, Freeman will assist more than one, and that their goal will be an own goal. But then I've had too much caffeine today.

Well, shit. Couldn't follow the game at all today, then see this... But also see our closest contenders also both lost, and as someone else has mentioned; one less game, still top, still a chance to pull away. Could have been much, much worse. Get 'em back in tomorrow; get 'em working hard; make sure the team bounce back on Tuesday. Disappointed, but in a way puts more pressure on MK and Swindon than us, thanks to Preston winning. And if we win the next game, we're still in a cracking position. COYR Edit - realise Preston didn't play: my bad. Still not bad

Excellent result; maintains our position, gives us a platform to extend our lead, and on keeping the easily one of the division's most potent attacking sides out, shows we've no need to fear anyone. On to Port Vale, and with this team I've no fear of an'after The Lord mayor's show performance. COYR

Thought you were done here? Too many pointless wind up merchants on this place; was hoping we'd be looking at one less. Shame.

Good; won't miss you. And nice work trying to pass off your trolling as a public service; pathetic. Bye bye.