Blog: Good Good Good
Wembley tickets sorted, textbook away win at Doncaster, six points out of six and the return of Sexy Football (for half an hour at least) – we've had worse weeks, writes blogger Mark Jones
With the frankly bonkers state of League One's mid-table it was important to start getting some points on the board, particularly at home. We don't want to be heading down Wembley Way looking over our shoulder worrying about being dragged into a dogfight at the bottom.
Donny were the latest in a long line of teams (Chesterfield, Notts County, Sheff U in the cups, Fleetwood on their own patch, the continuing disgrace to football that is milton keynes) to see a winning/unbeaten run crumble at the hands of the Mighty Saddlers.
On Saturday we were superb all afternoon - from the now standard heroics of Richard O'Donnell (new contract sorted asap please boss) through a fabulously well organised defence with James O'Connor playing a starring role, to some seriously good attacking play orchestrated in the main by Romaine Sawyers, with superb finishes from Jordan and Jordy; it was topped off by the magnificent support from the Saddlers followers.
We gave the legend that is Andy Butler the respect he will always deserve and while it will never seem quite right to watch him play against us; in echoes of Ada Viveash in a Reading shirt at the Millennium Stadium, it did feel like we've now moved on and that particular chapter has closed.
In contrast, Rochdale was an odd match, we were as devastating as I've seen for a long time against a pretty decent side in the first half, then took our foot off the gas, then got sloppy, then nervous but ultimately saw the game out quite professionally. Credit to Deano for changing things in the way he did.
Things are pretty positive at the moment, indeed only the news of Agent Lambert finally getting his cover blown has put a dampener on things – time for Dean Saunders methinks.
Thursday night (12th Feb) sees the next Fans Focus Meeting with Stefan and Dan in the Priory Lounge at the Banks's, starting at 6.30. I imagine it may be quite a happy one, with the awayday in the capital featuring prominently. Hopefully someone will put black shorts onto the agenda.
We now sit just two points off both the play-offs and 15th spot, players are clearly playing for places and I haven't mentioned that we've still got Super Tom to come back.
Oh and have I mentioned we play at Wembley in just over five weeks too?
