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Gillingham
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Match now live on Sky along with Plymouth V MK. Perhaps the biggest game for years, great chance of promotion with an outside chance of the title and also falling into the play offs. The same level of performance and commitment as shown against Oxford and Sunderland and you never know.
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NorthstandMiller
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553
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Sunderland
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Two to go. After two fairly abject away performances recently we should be looking to put that right to (Hopefully) set us up for more of a stress free lunch time at Gillingham at the weekend. Think we may just get edged out due Sunderland's recent form and our recent away displays but hope i am wrong. ...
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League One youtube review
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With my mate Dan who's a Donny fan, please give it a watch. League One Review | Episode 29 - YouTube
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BradtheMiller
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515
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End of Season Form
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All of the teams who have been at or near the top of their league all season have gone into meltdown: Championship (Fulham & Bournemouth) League 1 (Wigan, Millers & MK Dons) League 2 (Forest Green Rovers & Port Vale) National League (Stockport, Wrexham & Halifax) Is this beca...
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Oxford
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Huge game like they all are coming up against the divisions highest scorers. No idea what the team or shape will be and I don't think PW does either. Disappointing 2-1 defeat.
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632
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Burton
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A point mathematically confirms a play off spot but obviously our sights should be set much higher than that milestone. Hopefully we can carry on with the same urgency we had in the second half against Ipswich.
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NorthstandMiller
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Ipswich
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Well the slow burn of disappointment rolls onto Saturday against another side with not a deal to play for. Viktor Harding Icky Reg Ferguson Ogbene Rathbone Lindsay Miller Ladapo Smith 0-2 defeat.
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NorthstandMiller
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5
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POMPEY
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Season decider for me. Not sure what Warnie will do to try and reverse our downturn. A win tonight will keep our hopes of Automatic promotion alive but it will still be a long haul to the season's end. Anything less than a win and I fear our chances of promotion will have evaporated. Hope he will start bot...
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GlennMiller
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CHARLTON
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Strangely, I feel more relaxed approaching this game from 3rd place than I would if we were top?! Let's hope that the extra time bounce that we had at Wembley continues tomorrow. I'd like to see REG back in the starting line-up alongside Wood and Icky and also start with Miller and Ogbene out wide. I ass...
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GlennMiller
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IN PURSUIT OF THE DOUBLE
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I doubt Rotherham United Football Club has ever been in a position where we are genuine contenders for both promotion and a cup victory in the same season. The only occasions I can think of in my living memory are the League Cup final of 1961 which we lost to Villa but we finished 15th in the old League 2. Mo...
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GlennMiller
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hibernation
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Is everyone in cold storage before the Pizza Cup final? Are we going to reconvene before the final L1 push starting with Charlton?
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BradtheMiller
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526
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SHREWSBURY
(Preview)
Another key game before a well earned and needed break. A few injury doubts surrounding Rathbone and Barlaser - hopefully the latter will be fit. I'd like to see REG return on the right and Harding on the left with Icky in the middle of the back three. Definitely start with Ogbene and Miller with Lindsay...
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GlennMiller
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Crap Support
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We are top of the league. We are miles clear of the likes of Wednesday, Sunderland. Bolton, Charlton, Portsmouth and Ipswich. We are at Wembley again in a couple of weeks time in a cup final. We beat a Lincoln team last night who are no mugs, having hammered Wednesday week or so ago. We are clearly sufferi...
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LINCOLN
(Preview)
At last this one is going ahead. Had we played them on the original scheduled date, they were on a dreadful run and looking like relegation candidates. Two postponements later, they're on a decent run and will be sterner test for us. Hoping that both REG and Miller will feature tomorrow and wouldn't m...
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GlennMiller
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WYCOMBE
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Post cup success - our return to the key objective of auto promotion. The key message from the Papa John Trophy game at Hartlepool is that REG and, particularly Miller, are now fit to contribute. I just get the feeling that our midfield mojo is back and REG will shore up the back three. With Miller, Ogben...
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GlennMiller
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Hartlepool away Pizza Cup
(Preview)
Not bothered, not bothered at all. TBH I'd prefer us to lose instead of participating in the "showpiece" of a competition that is as corrupt as any in Football. Play the ressies & rest the first team for a FAR more important game @ Wycombe assuming everyones OK I'd go with this team; Viktor McDonald...
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BradtheMiller
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Tippy Tappy Football
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Have Millers fans got any appetite for the kind of football that most teams seem to want to play these days? Passing it out from the back, lots of sideways and backwards, one up front, high possession stuff. To be honest I cant imagine it. What I can imagine is whoever the manager is getting dogs abuse the...
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MK DONS
(Preview)
Here we go - biggest game of the season - since the previous biggest game of the season last Tuesday. I'm pretty confident that we will see a performance that bears no resemblance to the painful second half at Shrewsbury. If that 45 minutes proved anything, it is how fundamental Barlaser and Rathbone a...
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Shame Warne
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Not about football but just seen the sad news of the sudden passing of the Aussie spin bowler, Shane Warne aged 52. He turned leg spin delivery into an art and I'll never forget his dismissal of Mike Getting. This so soon after the Aussies lot Rod Marsh.
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Calypso
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Shrewsbury Away
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Wholesale changes? I wouldnt have thought so. Rest a couple only if they really need it. Messing about too much with the team could bite us on the backside. Ferguson and Barlaser are the two who seem to be a bit flat at the moment. I wouldnt be surprised to see Lindsay or Odoffin (or both) start in midfield...
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PLYMOUTH
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There have been some memorable encounters with Plymouth over the years. Rodney Fern's winning goal in the 80\81 season probably being the most notable. I also have fond memories of Home Park, particularly watching Man Utd play St Etienne in the European Cup after the former had been banned from play...
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GlennMiller
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MORECAMBE
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It would appear that since I started doing these pre-match posts, we've played 6, won 5 and drawn 1. I may just keep them going! I hate being too positive going into a game but tonight's has all the hallmarks of a Millers' victory. Firstly, the weather is going to be perfect for evening football - somethi...
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GlennMiller
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WIGAN
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No point discussing team selection or tactics for this one; the only subject worth discussing is wind! The forecast appears to show the gales abating late afternoon/early evening so it should be breezy for the game. Only problem I have is I'll have to leave south Lincoln when the winds are forecast to...
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GlennMiller
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RIP Billy McEwan
(Preview)
Just heard of Billy's sad passing today. The last Millers manager to bring a league title to the club. Thoughts are with Billy's family & friends.
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Trevor Swift
(Preview)
Within minutes more sad news that Millers favourite and Rotherham's own Treveor Swift has passed away. What a sad day, first Billy McEwan and now Trevor Swift. RIP both
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Big Club Mentality
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There are some very big clubs in League One. Its fascinating to see their mindset as reflected by their supporters. The standard view goes a bit like this: 'The division is awful. Its embarrassing that we are in it at all. If we had even a half decent manager we would walk our way out of it'. Here is an oppos...
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Worth a read
(Preview)
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/te...alysis-tactics
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How is the Wigan game "sold out"?
(Preview)
Wigan report that they've sold out their 2000 allocation for Friday's game, now I'm a bit thick at times but I was led to believe the away end held 2600, surely it doesn't warrant 600 seats to keep the two lots of fans apart?
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OWLS
(Preview)
Going into this game in a far more relaxed manner than previous encounters. If they beat us, we'll still be 10 points ahead of them with an enormous goal difference advantage. I think we'll miss Grigg and the big question is, who will take his place? Three contenders; Ladapo, JJ and Kelly. My heart says...
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GlennMiller
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WIMBLEDON
(Preview)
Number 3 in a hectic February schedule and 6 points from 6 already in the bag. Wimbledon haven't won for 10 league games; their last victory was 7th Dec at Accrington. On paper, we should be odds on to win this one but we all know that stands for nothing. With Woody and REG out and Icky doubtful, we may have a...
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