[St Charles Owl]

THE MATCH - TUESDAY 15TH DECEMBER 2015 7.45PM KO


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After three consecutive draws, we find ourselves facing The Franchise needing to get a win to put us fully back on track for the playoffs.  This is a game we would always have put down as one we should be looking to win at the start of the season, and now we are 20 games in with us near the playoffs and them in a relegation spot there is no reason why that opinion should have changed.  Quite simply, if we are to challenge for the playoff spots then this is the sort of game we have to winning.

Obviously with the Dons being a new team we have a very short record against them, this will only be the 9th time we have played them with a record of W2 D5 L1, and this will be the first time at this level.  At their place we have W1 D2 L1 record, with our loss being the last game we played their in the FA Cup 3rd round back in January 2013.  Our best away win was a nice 4-1 comeback win that saw Neil Mellor grabbing a hat trick.



LINKS BETWEEN THE CLUBS

In years gone by MK Dons have almost been our second string team with so many players having played for both teams including Lewis Baker, Benik Afobe, Mark Beevers, Jon Otsemobor, Leon Knight, Chris Lines, Miguel Llera, Ryan Lowe, Wade Small, Jon-Paul McGovern, Clinton Morrison and James Tavernier.  Danny Wilson of course played for us and has managed both teams.

In terms of current staff:
Lewis Price - played for them in 2008
Darren Potter - current Vice Captain for them.
Richie Barker - current Head of Coaching, started playing career with us but only played in the Intertoto Cup.
Paul Heald - current goalkeeping coach played for us 5 times while on loan in 2002.

I am sure there are other links between the clubs, if you know of any please feel free to mention!!


THE LAST MATCH

Another draw, and another comeback, this time from 2 goals down after some not so good defending!!  Its good that we are able to come back but its time we actually started a game like we seem to be able to finish them.  FF got our first with a fine effort from 25 yards and Bannan finally got his first goal in a Wednesday shirt to complete the scoring.  Here is the video:





OUR TEAM

I expect CC to once again make some changes.  Will Joao start or will we see Nuhiu back in, will Hutchinson be fit or will Lopez start, does Lee need a rest with McGugan replacing him, will he stick with Loovens and Turner, will Palmer give way to Hunt and so it goes on!! Aside from that I would like the team to look like this:

Westwood

Palmer  Loovens Turner  Pudil

Lee  Hutchinson
Bannan  Forestieri Matias

Joao


WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

REF - DARREN DEADMAN 
Assts - Matt Foley and Christopher Pollard 
Fourth Official - Brendan Malone 

MS will hopefully give us the skinny on this guy in previous Owls games!!


CURRENT FORM - League games only

SWFC -    
MK Dons -    


OTHER RESULTS TO PREDICT

Cardiff v Brentford
Fulham v Ipswich
Middlesbrough v Burnley
Preston v Birmingham
QPR v Brighton


THE BIG MANS LEAGUE

Current Table

Owlkev   
Towinjustonce 
Thurnscoe   
Pei   
Wereham   
Madsteve 
Imre 
Jacko   
Consilio   
Maddix   
Stateside   
Owlshighgreen   
St Charles   
Southey 


For this week here is what you need to predict:

SCORE AND SCORER (SWFC score first please, no copying, correct for both only will win, defeats are allowed)

1-2 Hooper - Actual Result - No winners
2-1 Bannan - St Charles


TIME OF OUR FIRST GOAL AND OUR FIRST SUBSTITUTION ADDED TOGETHER (if we do not get one of them then it will count as 0, no copying allowed, times taken from minute only on BBC text and closest to wins)

92 - St Charles
122 - Actual Time 45 mins for sub, 77 for goal. Pei won the with his prediction of 110 being the closest

OTHER RESULTS TO PREDICT (Copying is allowed, all 5 correct will win)

DDHHH - St Charles
HAHDD - Actual Results No winners.


THE MUPPET LEAGUE





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