What a great win at the Posh on Saturday, a real battling performance, well done lads.
Just a touch soul destroying to see we'd gone nowhere in the league, those 3-0 defeats coming back to haunt us! However, I'm told, "8 wins from the last 13 games will see us in the play-offs." Easy then! As long as two of those come with the Roots Hall games this week, then Brighton away.........
With Barnard out for this one we'll have to see if the loan striker arrives or Freedman/Laurent gets fit, I'll take either!
The '8 out of 13' man told me the loan signing was Gary McSheffrey from Birmingham, blimey, I wouldn't say no, but at the moment anyone with the hard working Theo Robinson would be good to see.
Last Six
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
OPPOSITION
Last Six
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
Big game for the Lions, victory could see them go 4th, defeat and a possible drop to ninth, though they would have to be unlucky for that to happen.
| 4 | Oldham Athletic | 34 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 54 | 43 | 57 | +11 | ||||
| 5 | Millwall | 32 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 45 | 38 | 55 | +7 | ||||
| 6 | Leeds United | 33 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 53 | 40 | 54 | +13 | ||||
| 7 | Scunthorpe United | 32 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 29 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 56 | 47 | 53 | +9 | ||||
| 8 | Stockport County | 34 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 38 | 52 | +12 | ||||
| 9 | Tranmere Rovers | 33 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 45 | 38 | 52 | +7 | ||||
Millwall arrive at the Hall not in the best of form with one win in seven. This after a terrific run which saw them going for automatic promotion places but now manager Kenny Jackett will be looking to regain that earlier good form and confirm a play-off place.
Millwall 2 Oldham Athletic 3 (report from the match played at the New Den, Sat. Feb. 28.)
Oldham winger Chris Taylor evaded Richard Duffy, Millwall's full-back, to head an injury-time winner after the Lions had bounced back from 2-0 down.
Oldham had opened the scoring on five minutes when a defensive mix-up at the back post between Duffy and Millwall goalkeeper David Forde allowed Dean Smalley to steal in and prod the ball through Forde's legs.
That lead was doubled just five minutes later when Lee Hughes, (calm down TB), was left unmarked in the box and the striker made no mistake with his opportunity, glancing Kevin Maher's free-kick past Forde.
The Lions, whose woeful first-half display drew a chorus of boos from the home crowd, emerged for the second half with renewed impetus.
Within 10 minutes of the restart they had halved the deficit, Neil Harris blasting home a penalty after Neal Eardley had tumbled David Martin in the box.
On 68 minutes the Lions were back level at 2-2. Ashley Grimes, who had scored his first league goal for the club in midweek, shimmied in from the left flank and curled a superb effort into the far corner.
The momentum seemed to be with the Lions but they were unable to find a winner and paid for their wastefulness when Taylor headed home late on.
Millwall: Forde, Duffy, Whitbread, Craig, Frampton, Henry, Laird, Abdou (Fuseini 62), Harris (Alexander 65), Martin (Barron 85), Grimes.
Subs Not Used: Pidgeley, Brkovic. Goals: Harris 56 pen, Grimes 68.
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FIXTURES
Monday, 02 March 2009: Oldham v Leeds, 19:45.
Tuesday, 03 March 2009; (all 19.45 kick-offs): Bristol Rovers v Brighton, Crewe v Carlisle, Hartlepool v Tranmere, Huddersfield v Colchester, Leicester v Stockport, Leyton Orient v Peterborough, Northampton v MK Dons, Scunthorpe v Walsall, Swindon v Cheltenham, Yeovil v Hereford.
BET
Southend (6/4) Draw (12/5) Milwall (2)
For all the footy odds go here: www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-one.
HISTORY
We Fear No Foe Where E'er We Go is the Millwall motto adopted in 1936 along with the Lions badge.
Millwall "Rovers" were founded by the workers of J.T. Morton in Millwall in the East End of London on the Isle of Dogs in 1885. J.T. Morton was first founded in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1849 to supply sailing ships with food. They opened their first English cannery and food processing plant on the Isle of Dogs at the Millwall dock in 1870, and attracted a workforce from across the whole of the country, including the East Coast of Scotland. The group of tinsmiths who founded Millwall were predominantly, but not exclusively Scottish.
The club secretary was seventeen year old Jasper Sexton, the son of the landlord of The Islander Pub in Tooke Street where Millwall held their meetings. The first chairman of the club was Irish international footballer and local GP Doctor William Murray-Leslie, who surprisingly never played for the club.
Millwall 'Rovers' first fixture was in 1885 against Fillebrook, who played in Leytonstone. The newly formed team was well beaten 5-0. Learning from this early defeat, they were unbeaten in their next 12 games before they lost to the top East London side Old St Pauls. In their first season, they were only beaten three times. In November 1886, the East End Football Association was formed, and along with it came a Senior Cup Competition. Millwall made it to the final against London Caledonians. The game was played at the Leyton Cricket Ground. The match finished 2-2 and the teams shared the cup for six months each. During this season, Millwall played two games on the same day, both at home. The first was a 0-0 draw against Dreadnought in the morning; the second, a 4-1 win against Westminster Swifts in the afternoon.
Despite an 8-1 defeat in the FA Cup, Millwall went on to win the East London Senior Cup at the first attempt. They went on to win it for the following two years and the trophy became their property.
For a fuller history which takes you up to the present day go here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_F.C.
(Thanks to all the usual suspects for their help with this article.)