Odd's and sod's.....Scott Malone joins the club. Tony Craig leaves to join Brentford so that he can play at centre back and Karleigh Osbourne joins Millwall from Brentford to play at centre back.Scott Barron joins Brentford. What is it with all this Brentford stuff?
Ryan Taylor and Scott Malone join the Lions
Darren Ward Leaves.
With Millwall favourites Craig and Ward leaving for pastures new a large amount of Millwall nous and experience has left the back four. Hopefully this loss will not come back and haunt us.
Danny Shittu joins the Lions on a years contract thanks to the chairman's generous nature.
14/8/12.....the season starts
Capital One Cup Ist round Millwall 2 Crawley 2 (aet) Crawley win on penalties att. 4050
The Capital One Cup beckoned with a Tuesday night home game against Crawley Town so along I trotted.
The Barry Kitchener Stand
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With the West Stand showing it's new name 4050 turned up to watch this first proper game of the season. From the off the Lions looked anything but Lions as they seem to lack purpose and idea's. With the late signing of Danny Shittu just before the start of the game Millwall looked solid on paper at the back even though skipper Paul Robinson was missing from the team. How wrong I was, Millwall concede to a headed goal early on and they spent the rest of the game trying to equalise. We managed to equalise twice as we continued to chase the game and there was a glimpse of us taking the lead but Darius Henderson missed a chance or two. After extra time come penalties and Crawley buried their's and we missed ours....a bit two bob really.Millwall: Taylor, Smith, Ward, Lowry, Malone, Abdou, Trotter, Henry(Wright) Feeney(Batt), C taylor(Shittu) Henderson
subs not used Mildenhall, Dunne, Racon, Marquis
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18/8/2012 League Game 1 Millwall O Blackpool 2 att. 11,010(802)
Done by a brace
A tad over eleven thousand watched this game but I wasn't one of them as I was on holiday.
With the Lions failing to score at home and Blackpool's Tom Ince on form we ended up being beaten at home. As we lost at home last season more than we would do normally I hope this trend is not continuing, time will tell.
Millwall: Taylor, Smith(Feeney), Shittu(Dunne), Ward, Lowry, Henry, Trotter, Wright, Malone, Henderson, Keogh,
subs not used, Forde, Marquis, Batt, Abdou, Osbourne
Goal scorer for Blackpool Tom Ince- 32 and 60 minutes
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21/8/12 League Game 2 Peterborough 1 Millwall 2 att.6,188(592)
"well earn't" and Darius Henderson scores the winner on 64 minutes following on from a earlier goal by Scott Malone. I don't recall any wins for the Lions at Peterborough for a long time so it was good to put the bogey man to bed.
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25/8/12 League Game 3 Sheffield Wednesday 3 Millwall 2 att. 24,752(762)
Sunk by a last minute goal
The man with the hat Miguel LLera scores Wednesdays winner just before the final whistle and we end up with zilch even though we led the game 2-1 up until the 68th minute. What feels like two wasted goals, if there is such a thing is Liam Trotter and James Henry score for the Wall.
Millwall: Taylor, Dunne, Lowry, Osbourne, Malone, Henry, Trotter, Abdou, Wright(Racon) Henderson, Keogh
subs not used, Forde, Shittu, Marquis, Batt, Feeney and C.Taylor
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1/09/12 League Game 4 Millwall 3 Middlesboro 1 att 9,576
"that will do for me"
We were good at times which was enough to win this games but we need to step it up a gear if we want to compete in the top six of this league. Still without skipper Paul Robinson who has not returned to the team after his hernia operation the Lions carve out a gritty win. James Henry runs his legs off and gets a standing ovation as he is substituted by Liam Feeney late in the game.
Liam Trotters fine strike which opened the scoring was followed by Andy Keogh's goal in each half which sealed the win. A happy weekend is on the cards.
Boro' defend in depth
Chelsea loanee Josh McEachran
Chelsea loanee Josh McEachran
The dive of the century wins no points at the Den, just a earful of boo's for the rest of the game.
Andy Keogh nips the ball past the Boro keeper and it is on it's way to the back of the net for his second and Millwall's third.
Millwall: Taylor, Dunne, Osborne, Lowry, Malone, Wright, Abdou, Henry(Feeney 83), Trotter, Henderson(Batt 46), Keogh
subs not used, Forde, Shittu, Racon, C Taylor, Marquis
Boro's only goal scored by Emnes from the penalty spot.
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15/9/12 League Game 5 Hull City 4 Millwall 1 att. 14,756
We won the second half 1-0 and that's the only comfort I can take from this game. Another weekend ruined.
Millwall: M.Taylor, Osborne, Robinson, Lowry, Malone, Wright, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Henderson, Keogh
subs, Dunne for Osborne 46, Shittu for Robinson,
not used, Forde, Batt, C.Taylor, N'Guessan, Racon
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18/9/12 League Game 6 Millwall 0 Cardiff 2 att: 9,295 (469)
I managed to wangle a place in one of the "royal" boxes for this one and if it wasn't for the few beers and a plate of burger and chips the night would have been wasted.
With the Lions limited to a few chances, Cardiff nicked two goals in two minutes just after the start of the second half and went home happy. That's six goals put by us in two games.
I just wonder what the rest of the season will bring. On paper we seem to have players that on their day can influence a game but at the moment it seems that this influence is seriously lacking.
All in All....a lack of quality and *sparkle*
subs, Dunne for Osborne 46, Shittu for Robinson,
not used, Forde, Batt, C.Taylor, N'Guessan, Racon
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18/9/12 League Game 6 Millwall 0 Cardiff 2 att: 9,295 (469)
I managed to wangle a place in one of the "royal" boxes for this one and if it wasn't for the few beers and a plate of burger and chips the night would have been wasted.
With the Lions limited to a few chances, Cardiff nicked two goals in two minutes just after the start of the second half and went home happy. That's six goals put by us in two games.
I just wonder what the rest of the season will bring. On paper we seem to have players that on their day can influence a game but at the moment it seems that this influence is seriously lacking.
All in All....a lack of quality and *sparkle*
Games like this won't pack the crowds in....not at 29 quid a game they won't
Millwall: M. Taylor, Dunne, Osborne, Lowry, Malone, Abdou, Wright, Henry, Trotter, Henderson, Keogh,
subs, Wood for Wrigh 57, C.Taylor for Henderson 57 Batt for Henry 79
subs not used, Forde, Shittu, Racon, Goodman
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22/9/12 League Game 7 Millwall 1 Brighton 2 att.12,121 (2,468)
The Lions were lacking
David Forde back in goal
Not to sure if I could be calling them Lions because they haven't been playing like them. No tackling, no passion and a lack of nous. Constantly standing off the opposition and holding back on attempting a challenge. The ball staying with the midfield and to much of the easy option of passing it square or playing back, " how about a few long balls over the top straight to the strikers" All this sideways stuff does not result in the attacking play that will get us out of our seats. The crowd has lost it's edge.
We did play better in the last fifteen minutes when we went down to ten men when Chris Taylor was sent off after Brighton's keeper conned the ref. Perhaps we played better because after going down to ten men we then changed our formation and freed ourselves up. Paul Robinson coming on sparkled up the game which raised the noise. Man on loan New Zealander Chris Woods was my man for Millwall as he showed some of his family's South London grit as he battled throughout and scored our only goal and nearly got another.
Agree
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22/9/12 League Game 7 Millwall 1 Brighton 2 att.12,121 (2,468)
The Lions were lacking
David Forde back in goal
Not to sure if I could be calling them Lions because they haven't been playing like them. No tackling, no passion and a lack of nous. Constantly standing off the opposition and holding back on attempting a challenge. The ball staying with the midfield and to much of the easy option of passing it square or playing back, " how about a few long balls over the top straight to the strikers" All this sideways stuff does not result in the attacking play that will get us out of our seats. The crowd has lost it's edge.
We did play better in the last fifteen minutes when we went down to ten men when Chris Taylor was sent off after Brighton's keeper conned the ref. Perhaps we played better because after going down to ten men we then changed our formation and freed ourselves up. Paul Robinson coming on sparkled up the game which raised the noise. Man on loan New Zealander Chris Woods was my man for Millwall as he showed some of his family's South London grit as he battled throughout and scored our only goal and nearly got another.
"Suffering" while watching the second home defeat within a week
Chris Taylor comes on as sub for the second half and get's sent off after a harmless looking challenge on Brighton's ref conning keeper Kuszczak
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Osborne, Lowry, Malone, Wright, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Keogh, Wood
subs, C Taylor for Wright 45, Robinson for Malone 61, Henderson for Keogh 76,
subs not used, M Taylor, Smith, Shittu, Batt
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29-09-2012 League Game 8 Burnley 2 Millwall 2 att 17,169 (277) a point at last
*Battling Lions*
I thought we had lost this one and I had already started to sulk when in the last minute "BANG" 2-2 sub Darius Henderson saves the day and we nearly nick it in the last few seconds.
After the game Burnley were moaning just about everything. They should have had a penalty or two, Junior's goal should have counted even though there was a offside, Blah. Blah, Blah,
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Robinson, Lowry, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Malone, Keogh, Wood
subs, Smith for Robertson 48, Batt for Malone 67, Henderson for Keogh
subs not used, M. Taylor, Wright, Mkandawire, Racon
Goals: Millwall Trotter 3 Henderson 90 Burnley Mee 19 Austin 43
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2-10-12 League Game 9 Bristol City 1 Millwall 1 att. 12.010 (180)
8 Points
Two games without defeat but still only eight points out of a possible 27 that's less than a point a game.
Hopefully we can get a bit of a run going, bring on Bolton.
Another well earnt point as the Lions trade goal attempts with the hosts on a wet Tuesday night. Like the Burnley game we could have nicked it in the last few secoods as Darius Henderson and Chris Wood come close,,,,if only.
Goals: Millwall Henderson 38 Bristol City Davies 28
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Lowry, Smith, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Malone, Henderson, wood
subs, Keogh for Wood 87, C. Taylor for Malone 84,
subs not used M.Taylor, Batt, Racon, Mkandawire, Wright, Goodman
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6-10-12 league Game 10 Millwall 2 Bolton 1 att. 10,116
Mark Beevers who was signed 24 hours before from Sheffield Wednesday on a emergency loan makes his full debut. He seems a bit useful.
Owen Coyle is on the brink. Kenny praises the crowd as some of that "edge" returns
11 points
If we can keep this undefeated run going with a win at Palace next Saturday our league position will look a bit more comfortable. Luck seems to play an important role with Millwall and with Bolton missing a penalty it looks like we may have a bit of it. Perhaps it's not luck that Bolton missed the penalty but it seems like luck that Bolton's Chris Eagles took the penalty. He had a mixed game and was jeered throughout, " perhaps we put him off".
Darius Henderson on the other hand was excellent and scored two goals one in each half and he also worked hard throughout the match at took my man of the match award closely followed by a excellent solid performance by Danny Shittu who also had a perfect goal disallowed early on.. James Henry was superb.
Ex Premiership boys on parade
*Celebration* Henderson scores his second right at the end of normal time and the points are ours
Goal scorers Millwall, Henderson 2 Bolton, Eagles
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Trotter, Henderson, Henry, Beevers Smith, Abdou, Malone, Wood
subs, C Taylor for Henry in the 73rd minute, Keogh for Wood in the 73rd minute and Batt for Malone in the 84th minute.
subs not used, M. Taylor, Wright, Racon, Mkandawire
9/10/12 Are we responsible for yet another manager losing his job as Owen Coyle is shown the door three days later.
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20/10/12 League Game 11 Crystal Palace 2 Millwall 2 att. 16,124 we take 2600
Taken from a Palace forum site....Homesdale.net
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The first half was pretty even and they hit the post. Other than the 2 goals their keeper had nothing to do. We started brightly but Millwall grew stronger as the game went on after the sending off.
Bolasie and Murray deserve credit but all the rest were average at best, Zaha should have been taken off as his head went after the booking and he dud not want the ball. Millwall played him well IMHO.
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Millwall Goals, Trotter (pen) Beevers
Palace Goals, I'm not bothered
Undefeated in four we climb to the dizzy height of 19th in the league and 12 points
Undefeated in four we climb to the dizzy height of 19th in the league and 12 points
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Smith, Abdou, Shittu, Beevers, Malone, Trotter, Henderson, Wood C.Taylor.
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24/10/12 League Game 12 Millwall 3 Birmingham 3 att.9,258 (510 away lot)
It doesn't feel like it but that's five without defeat
How can we?
I am trying to remember if I have ever seen the Lions give up a three goal lead but no game springs to mind so this is the first for me and probably the first for all the players of this current Millwall squad.
There's plenty of goals in us but we must close up at the back. I believe that no team should not give up a three goal lead and certainly not the Wall and especially at home. That is bordering on a criminal act and no excuse will do. I think we went into the same frame as mind as the team and thought the game was in the bag and eased off. Once we verbally started on Birmingham's Marlon King and his manager and not roaring on the Lions the team went into snooze mode and that was that. King scored a hat trick and captured all the headlines.
The few pluses to come out of the game was that Chris Taylor scores his first goal for the Lions and Chris Wood scores a brace which would normally have been enough to win any game.
We could have lost this game but also could have won it! 13 points
Millwall's goal scorers, Wood 11, 18--- C.Taylor 13
Millwall: Forde, Smith(Lowry 46), Beavers, Shittu, Dunne, Trotter, Abdou, C. Taylor, Feeney(Keogh 66), Woods, Henderson
subs not used, M.Taylor, Osborne, N'Guessan, Malone Wright
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Room for improvement
I think that I have sussed it. We can score goals so no problem there it's just the problem of tightening up the defence. A few tweaks here and there, sorted. Ok' maybe more than a few tweaks and perhaps like strikers defenders need to be matched especially in the central positions and it could be finding the right combination.
With Paul Robinson missing because of injury a major player in our back row is unavailable which does reduce our options when looking for the central pairing. The full back positions are not unblemished when it comes to leaking goals but apart from other players taking these positions more instruction is needed off and on the pitch. I am sure KJ knows these things.
27/10/12 League Game 13 Millwall 4 Huddersfield 0 att 11,066
That's six without defeat, four goals and a clean sheet 16 points
Can we keep him, Chris Wood that is......Another two goals from this man as the Lions run riot and score some cracking goals. James Henry and Liam Trotter score the other two and Millwall look sharp.
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24/10/12 League Game 12 Millwall 3 Birmingham 3 att.9,258 (510 away lot)
It doesn't feel like it but that's five without defeat
How can we?
I am trying to remember if I have ever seen the Lions give up a three goal lead but no game springs to mind so this is the first for me and probably the first for all the players of this current Millwall squad.
There's plenty of goals in us but we must close up at the back. I believe that no team should not give up a three goal lead and certainly not the Wall and especially at home. That is bordering on a criminal act and no excuse will do. I think we went into the same frame as mind as the team and thought the game was in the bag and eased off. Once we verbally started on Birmingham's Marlon King and his manager and not roaring on the Lions the team went into snooze mode and that was that. King scored a hat trick and captured all the headlines.
The few pluses to come out of the game was that Chris Taylor scores his first goal for the Lions and Chris Wood scores a brace which would normally have been enough to win any game.
Can't believe that we nearly got mugged by a team playing in PINK!!
In the last 10 minutes Millwall could have scored another three
Millwall's goal scorers, Wood 11, 18--- C.Taylor 13
Millwall: Forde, Smith(Lowry 46), Beavers, Shittu, Dunne, Trotter, Abdou, C. Taylor, Feeney(Keogh 66), Woods, Henderson
subs not used, M.Taylor, Osborne, N'Guessan, Malone Wright
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Room for improvement
I think that I have sussed it. We can score goals so no problem there it's just the problem of tightening up the defence. A few tweaks here and there, sorted. Ok' maybe more than a few tweaks and perhaps like strikers defenders need to be matched especially in the central positions and it could be finding the right combination.
With Paul Robinson missing because of injury a major player in our back row is unavailable which does reduce our options when looking for the central pairing. The full back positions are not unblemished when it comes to leaking goals but apart from other players taking these positions more instruction is needed off and on the pitch. I am sure KJ knows these things.
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________________________________________27/10/12 League Game 13 Millwall 4 Huddersfield 0 att 11,066
That's six without defeat, four goals and a clean sheet 16 points
Can we keep him, Chris Wood that is......Another two goals from this man as the Lions run riot and score some cracking goals. James Henry and Liam Trotter score the other two and Millwall look sharp.
Back after his injury James Henry turning up the heat with the ball at his feet
Liam Trotter's goal was a peach as he finished off the scoring to record the Lions biggest win of the season. James Henry drove home a super goal a short time before before Trotter's to compliment yet another two goals by on-loan Chris Wood. I do hope Wood can stay or wants to stay as his career is taking off while playing for the Wall. Chris Taylor was buzzing about all over the place and looked sharp and up for it.Henderson was very unlucky as he failed to score but his contribution to the win was mustard.
I don't think a single ball that come anywhere near the Lions 18 yard box wasn't headed away by big Danny Shittu as he had yet another brave and solid performance. I must mention them all as they all put in a very solid and gutsy shift. On a very cold day this win was more warming than a bath full of Bovril. Well done KJ
Millwall: Forde, Lowry, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Abdou, Henry(wright), Trotter, C. Taylor, Henderson Wood
subs not used, M.Taylor, Racon, Feeney, Keogh, N'Guessan, Malone,
Supporters poppy collection raised 1,753.60
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2/11/12...Jack Smith injured and Alan Dunne suspended so we emergency loan sign Adam Smith a young right full back from Spurs for three months. He won't score the goals like the last spurs loan player Harry Kane but if his football skills are just as good he should do all right,.
Jimmy Abdou signs a new 2 year deal, I don't think that there will be many complaints about that.
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Nottingham Forest away, a tough one away, but you never know. There seems a bit of a gap between us and them but winning all the three points will close it to five points and the play off will not seem that far away.
As it is now......Forest 7th with 21 points
Lions 15th with 16 points
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3/11/12 League Game 14 Nottingham Forest 1 Millwall 4 att. 24,169 (707)
As I said above "you never know" 19 points
Well nobody knew in Nottingham and that includes their manager...
From a post on HOF
At last an opposition manager....
The Lions shine and continue their unbeaten run to seven games. We looked sharp in all area's and it would suit us if they continue to ignore us. We have a very good football team and a excellent manager and as I said, "you never know"
Play offs by Christmas.
Millwall: Forde, A. Smith, Lowry, Beever, Shittu, Abdou, Trotter, C.Taylor, Henry, Wood, Henderson(Keogh)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Wright, Feeney, J Smith, Osborne, Malone
Goal Scorers: Trotter, Wood, Henderson and Keogh
Sharp for Forest
As it is now
Forest with 21 points
Millwall with 19 points
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6/11/12 League Game 15 Watford 0 Millwall 0 att.11,293 (we take 950)
It's Tuesday night and we field the same team as Saturday.
20 points
With Darius Henderson starting his 50th game for the Lions we grind out a 0-0 draw.
Watford had a few chances and so did we. On another day these chances could have gone in for both sides but being bias I will say that our chances were better. Our central defence team of Mark Beevers and Danny Shittu left their mark and Watford players who had to deal with them knew these two were on the pitch.
Early second half was met with disaster as Darius Henderson and James Henry go off with hamstring injuries. Josh Wright and Andy Keogh took their places and it still looked a good side on paper and on the pitch.Chris Wood could have won it with seconds to go but he blazed into the night sky and they are still looking for the ball.
I gave some thought to the outcome of this game beforehand and after our recent success I think that I was expecting goals and a Millwall win, nil-nil didn't come into the equation.
P W D L F A GD PTS
15 5 5 5 27 25 2 20 8 GAMES UNDEFEATED-FOUR POINTS OFF THE TOP SIX
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Shittu, Beevers, Abdou, Trotter, Henry(Wright ), C.Taylor, Wood, Henderson(Keogh)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Osborne, J.Smith
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10/11/12 League Game 16 Millwall 2 Derby 1 att: 10,392
Goals from Feeney 23 and Keogh 73 23 points
*NINE GAMES WITHOUT DEFEAT*
This game reminded me of a good battling display like we used to have at the old Den
Pre-game drink in the beer garden
A impeccable minutes silence before the game to remember the fallen
A good solid battling performance by the Lions took us up the table to tenth spot and even though we were missing James Henry and Daruis Henderson with hamstring injuries we had enough in the squad to out battle a good Derby side and keep our unbeaten run going. With many of us in the stands seething about the treatment dished out by the club and the media to a young 13 year supporter regarding Bolton's Marvin Sordell Twitter rant this win was a happy tonic (please see my post on the home page).
Played 16 won 6 drawn 5 lost 5 goals for 29 goals against 26 points 23
Millwall: Forde, A Smith, Lowry, Beevers, Shittu, Trotter, Abdou, Feeney, C,Taylor(Malone 45), Keogh, Wood
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Osborne, Wright, Batt, N'Guessan
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18/11/12 League game 17 Millwall 1 Leeds Utd 0 att 13,117 (Leed's bring about 2000)
Goal from Chris Wood, 85mins 26 points 2 points off the play-off's
Millwall's first live game for awhile
I think we had the measure of them even before they went down to ten men after Verney got sent off for elbowing Adam Smith. They matched us in some areas but overall we were the better side and deserved the three points. With Jimmy Abdou home with his wife and new baby, midfielder Josh Wright took to the field along side Liam Trotter.
TRUE LIONS
From David Forde to Andy Keogh they all put in a good shift and battled right to the very end. A scrappy game but still a cracking game of football, especially if you was behind the goal in the Cold Blow Lane Stand and like my post from the Derby game recently it was like being back at the old Den, mind you saying that not all games at the old Den were cracking but I am sure "you know what I mean"
Wood and Co getting ready for the off
Blackburn away next Saturday, not played them for a while so not to sure what to expect, we are ten games undefeated so I suppose that means that I expect Millwall to get something..
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The normal moaning from Neil Warnock, should have had this, should have had that, sending off was a bit harsh, blah,blah,blah. I say "just admit you got out battled and out played". I think he should be lucky that our finishing was somewhat less than usual which meant that he got away lightly and so did his team.
Millwall: Forde, Smith, Beevers, Shittu, Lowry, Trotter, Wright, C.Taylor(N'guessan) , Liam Feeney, Wood, Keogh
subs not used M.Taylor, Racon, J.Smith, Osborne, Malone
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23/11/12
John G Berylson puts a few more bob into the club spread out over the next three years. According to the local paper nearly nine million to be precise which will raise JGB loans to the club to 20 million or thereabouts. It's to be used for the day to day running of the club but it may release a bit more cash for "other things".
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24/11/12 League Game 18 Blackburn Rovers 0 Millwall 2 att.13,898 (we take over 900)
That's eleven without defeat.
DDWDDWWDWWW 29 Points and a play-off place
Goals, Chris Wood 71 and James Henry 89
With his loan period extended to January Chris Wood carry's on banging them in and what a super strike it was. We have got to permanently secure his services for the rest of this season and beyond no matter what it takes.
Our second goal which was another super strike scored by James Henry sealed the win and made sure we carry on rolling up the division.
TOP SIX
Cardiff 1st with 37 points
C.Palace 2nd with 36 points
Leicester 3rd with 33 points
M,Boro 4th with 32 points
Hull City 5th with 31 points
Millwall 6th with 29 points
Everybody else not too far behind
We are beating some big names in this division week in and week out and the likes of......
Bolton Wanderers, Huddersfield Town, Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Leeds United, and Blackburn Rovers have come a cropper against us and have all been out played and out muscled.
Billy Gray said after we beat Leeds, Millwall are a average side. I am not sure how he can judge us on just the one game because I am sure that he hasn't seen many Lions games this season, but it is obvious to see that we are some what better than a average side.
Millwall: Forde, A. Smith, Lowry, Abdou, Shittu, Beevers C.Taylor(Malone 87), Wright, Keogh, Wood, Henry
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith. Osborne, Racon, N'Guessan, Feeney
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Taken from a Blackburn supporters chat forum
Posted Today, 06:16 PM
Well beaten today by a better team , they had everything we don;t , energy and physical presence ...
henning will know now if he didn't before , this is a big job ! No overnight fix , next season we will still be in this division but hopefully we will be a better team !
Some players are not good enough for this level , and today it showed ..
henning will know now if he didn't before , this is a big job ! No overnight fix , next season we will still be in this division but hopefully we will be a better team !
Some players are not good enough for this level , and today it showed ..
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24/11/12 League Game 19 Wolves 0 Millwall 1 att. 18,174 (400 on the road)
We win the last four games
We move in to fifth place That's twelve without defeat 32 points
Another recent ex Premiership club gets done by the Wall. Wolves supporters calling for their managers head, mind you this seems to happen quite a lot with the opposition we beat.
The game itself was not a rip roaring affair but the Lions done enough and limited Wolves to the bare minimum of chances.We deserved to win.
Andy Keogh went back to his old club and killed them off with a 78th minute strike that was neatly put away.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Wright, (Feeney,N'Guessen 73) C.Taylor, (Keogh,J.Smith 89) Wood
subs not used M.Taylor, Osbourne, Malone, O'Brien, Racon
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1/12/12 League Game 20 Millwall 0 Charlton 0 att.18,013 (3,394)
A bigger crowd for this one, a restricted sell out 33 points
Two points lost as Millwall dominated this game. Charlton had a ten minute spell at the start of the second half but for the rest of the game offered little in the way of attack and looked like a team that had come for the draw. On another day we could have had two or three goals, but it wasn't to be as we went for it right to the end, but no luck and no three points.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Abdou, Shittu, Beevers, C.Taylor, Wright, Keogh, Wood Feeney(N'Guessen 66mins)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Racon, Osborne, Malone, Batt
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2/12/12 Drawn Preston at home in the FA CUP game to be played 5/6th of Jan.
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8/12/12 League game 21 Ipswich 3 Millwall 0 att: 17,380 (we take 1,109)
With chances missed and according to Kenny Jackett a perfectly good goal disallowed the Lions are defeated after a excellent run of games which has seen them climb the Championship table.
Sometimes in life you just know the outcome before the event happens and I can say with this game I just knew....we were going to get beat. A long run of being undefeated becomes a burden and knowing that a defeat will come at some stage in some ways in is good to get it out of the way. The proof will be if we can still kick on from here and finish off the season playing the way that will get us something from this campaign such as a play off spot.
Millwall: Forde, A,Smith, Shittu, Lowry, Trotter, Abdou(Wright 57), Henry, C.Taylor(N'Guessen 57), Keogh, Wood
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Feeney, Osborne, J.Smith
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15/12/12 League game 22 Millwall 1 Leicester City 0 att: 10,189
36 points
With Mark Beevers sure to permanent sign in January he and the rest of the defence kept the Foxes at bay as they started brightly but succumb to Lions pressure and a wise substitution choice by Kenny Jackett. The substitute in question was Chris Taylor coming on for Dany N'Guessen in the second half and was bang in the right place for burying the winner from a few yards out. One defeat in fifteen is not a bad stat and let's see if we can continue this form away to Brighton Tuesday night.
*Adam.Smith, Shane Lowry, Danny Shittu and Mark Beevers* a solid defence see's off Leicester
The last time we played them they beat us and we were near the bottom and they were at the top.
New ground, big crowds, fancy players and success is expected, that's Brighton.
We just do what we do best.
We continue the form but a soft penalty 2 minutes from normal time see Brighton equalise.
Chris Wood scores another couple of goals which see the Lions secure a 2-0 lead but a good strike from LuaLua shortly after Millwall's second made the remainder of the second half interesting. With the defence working hard to keep Brighton at bay it looked like that we were going to grab all three points but after constant Brighton pressure of griping at the referee he gave the penalty and Lopez scored, Mackail-Smith scored a 8.5 in the diving event which resulted in the penalty.
Five minutes of extra time and no last minute winner scored by Henderson.
Top six Cardiff 44, Palace 42, Middlesboro 41, Hull 41, Leicester 37, Millwall, 37
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Henry, Wright, J.Smith, C.Taylor(Feeney 51m)
Trotter, Wood(Henderson 89m)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Osbourne, Batt,
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22/12/12 League game 24 Millwall 1 Barnsley 2 att 10,118 (199)
The fourth home defeat of the season and no Christmas cheer, still 37 points
Barnsley win this game with a injury time winner from Tudgay, Darius Henderson misses a penalty on his return back from injury and was substituted. Adam Smith was red carded for a 50-50 challenge early in the 2nd half which we will be appealing. With ten minutes to go and the Lions trailing to a earlier Barnsley goal Chris Wood levels the score but we couldn't add to our goal tally and a sucker punch by Barnsley meant they took all three points.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Wright, Shittu, Beavers, Feeney( J.Smith 63) Trotter, Henderson(N'Guessan) Wood, Henry
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Batt, Osborne, Malone
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27/12/12 On loan Chris Wood is rumoured to be joining Leicester City and won't be signing permanently for the Lions. Not heard anything official yet.
28/12/12 Wood joins Leicester City.
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29/12/12 League Game 25 Cardiff 1 Millwall 0 att, 24,263
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16/2/12 FA CUP 5th round Luton Town 0 Millwall 3 att; 9,768 (1500)
Goal scorers, Henry 12 min, Hulse 36min, N'Guessen 86 min
I watched this game on telly (ESPN) which made a change. This all ticket clash had certainly got the media into a Millwall frenzy as most of the pre-game hype were strewn with footage and comments of the infamous game of 1985 which as we know, due to pay on the day and greed the away end was filled to at least twice it's capacity which resulted in me and many others near to being crushed to death, it was a nightmare.With some of us breaking through mesh to get off of that terrace others behaved to the extreme and this resulted in tarring us all as hooligans and the rest is history. The way the media was going on you would have fault that this event was last week not 28 years ago.
Anyway back to the game........
Alan Dunne first game since November starts and has now reached the 300 game mark for Millwall appearances, well done that man.
We won this game honestly and workmanlike and it was good to see on loan Rob Hulse score his first goal while wearing the Lions shirt. He must be pinching himself, a few weeks ago he was in the doldrums at QPR with no chance of a game and now he is just one game away from a Wembley appearance. How fortunes can change. With James Henry tearing in to score the opener and a steady David Forde keeping goal Millwall's win was never in doubt. With Danny N'Guessen scoring the third our job was done and we said goodbye to Luton.
No giant killing today, sorry ESPN, Commentators, Pundits, British public and world viewers. A special message to Luton Town and their supporters..."as if"
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Beevers, Osborne, Lowry, Henry(Smith) Trotter, Abdou, Feeney(N'Guessen) Hulse(Marquis) Keogh
subs not used, Maik Taylor, Wright, Goodman, Malone
We win the last four games
We move in to fifth place That's twelve without defeat 32 points
Another recent ex Premiership club gets done by the Wall. Wolves supporters calling for their managers head, mind you this seems to happen quite a lot with the opposition we beat.
The game itself was not a rip roaring affair but the Lions done enough and limited Wolves to the bare minimum of chances.We deserved to win.
Andy Keogh went back to his old club and killed them off with a 78th minute strike that was neatly put away.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Wright, (Feeney,N'Guessen 73) C.Taylor, (Keogh,J.Smith 89) Wood
subs not used M.Taylor, Osbourne, Malone, O'Brien, Racon
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1/12/12 League Game 20 Millwall 0 Charlton 0 att.18,013 (3,394)
A bigger crowd for this one, a restricted sell out 33 points
Biggest crowd for ten years, a full house but 2000 empty seats
Lager sales up on normal
Lager sales up on normal
Two points lost as Millwall dominated this game. Charlton had a ten minute spell at the start of the second half but for the rest of the game offered little in the way of attack and looked like a team that had come for the draw. On another day we could have had two or three goals, but it wasn't to be as we went for it right to the end, but no luck and no three points.
Plenty of attack but we drop to seventh place. That's thirteen without defeat
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Abdou, Shittu, Beevers, C.Taylor, Wright, Keogh, Wood Feeney(N'Guessen 66mins)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Racon, Osborne, Malone, Batt
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2/12/12 Drawn Preston at home in the FA CUP game to be played 5/6th of Jan.
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8/12/12 League game 21 Ipswich 3 Millwall 0 att: 17,380 (we take 1,109)
I cannot say I didn't see it coming
Sometimes in life you just know the outcome before the event happens and I can say with this game I just knew....we were going to get beat. A long run of being undefeated becomes a burden and knowing that a defeat will come at some stage in some ways in is good to get it out of the way. The proof will be if we can still kick on from here and finish off the season playing the way that will get us something from this campaign such as a play off spot.
Millwall: Forde, A,Smith, Shittu, Lowry, Trotter, Abdou(Wright 57), Henry, C.Taylor(N'Guessen 57), Keogh, Wood
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Feeney, Osborne, J.Smith
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15/12/12 League game 22 Millwall 1 Leicester City 0 att: 10,189
36 points
With Mark Beevers sure to permanent sign in January he and the rest of the defence kept the Foxes at bay as they started brightly but succumb to Lions pressure and a wise substitution choice by Kenny Jackett. The substitute in question was Chris Taylor coming on for Dany N'Guessen in the second half and was bang in the right place for burying the winner from a few yards out. One defeat in fifteen is not a bad stat and let's see if we can continue this form away to Brighton Tuesday night.
That's us back in the play-off spots and I feel that we are the fly in the ointment.
Goals by Chris Wood 25 and 57 minutes 37 points
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18/12/12 League game 23 Brighton 2 Millwall 2 att: 24,733 ( 1378)
The last time we played them they beat us and we were near the bottom and they were at the top.
New ground, big crowds, fancy players and success is expected, that's Brighton.
We just do what we do best.
We continue the form but a soft penalty 2 minutes from normal time see Brighton equalise.
Chris Wood scores another couple of goals which see the Lions secure a 2-0 lead but a good strike from LuaLua shortly after Millwall's second made the remainder of the second half interesting. With the defence working hard to keep Brighton at bay it looked like that we were going to grab all three points but after constant Brighton pressure of griping at the referee he gave the penalty and Lopez scored, Mackail-Smith scored a 8.5 in the diving event which resulted in the penalty.
Five minutes of extra time and no last minute winner scored by Henderson.
Top six Cardiff 44, Palace 42, Middlesboro 41, Hull 41, Leicester 37, Millwall, 37
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Henry, Wright, J.Smith, C.Taylor(Feeney 51m)
Trotter, Wood(Henderson 89m)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Osbourne, Batt,
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22/12/12 League game 24 Millwall 1 Barnsley 2 att 10,118 (199)
The fourth home defeat of the season and no Christmas cheer, still 37 points
Barnsley win this game with a injury time winner from Tudgay, Darius Henderson misses a penalty on his return back from injury and was substituted. Adam Smith was red carded for a 50-50 challenge early in the 2nd half which we will be appealing. With ten minutes to go and the Lions trailing to a earlier Barnsley goal Chris Wood levels the score but we couldn't add to our goal tally and a sucker punch by Barnsley meant they took all three points.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Wright, Shittu, Beavers, Feeney( J.Smith 63) Trotter, Henderson(N'Guessan) Wood, Henry
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Batt, Osborne, Malone
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27/12/12 On loan Chris Wood is rumoured to be joining Leicester City and won't be signing permanently for the Lions. Not heard anything official yet.
28/12/12 Wood joins Leicester City.
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29/12/12 League Game 25 Cardiff 1 Millwall 0 att, 24,263
Still no Christmas Cheer and still 37 points
Cardiff win this game by scoring a 8th minute goal but we could have won this game if we had been more ruthless in front of the Cardiff goal. With Loan player Chris Wood now at Leicester his ex team mates had learnt nothing from him on how to scores goals and chances went begging. There does not seem to be much difference between top spot Cardiff and the Lions and another day we could have left Wales with all three points. That's two defeats on the spin, let's not make it three as we take on Bristol City this Tuesday
Millwall: Forde, Lowry, Shittu, Beevers, A.Smith, Henry, Trotter, Abdou, Malone(Feeney), Henderson, N'Guessen(Batt),
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, J.Smith, Osborne
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Darren Ward who we loaned to Swindon Town has joined them with a permanent move. Good luck to him and I wish him all the best after playing 250 games for the Wall.
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1/1/2013 League Game 26 Millwall 2 Bristol City 1 att, 9,748 (away 394)
2013 brings a win and it's.... 40 points
We needed this win to keep us in touch with the play off spots, so well pleased that we got it even though we failed to score more than two after a host of chances went begging.
Sky Sports News stitch up Millwall with a anti-Millwall biased programme, I wrote about this on my other Millwall blog 7windmills.blogspot.com and cannot be bothered to do it again.Darren Ward who we loaned to Swindon Town has joined them with a permanent move. Good luck to him and I wish him all the best after playing 250 games for the Wall.
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1/1/2013 League Game 26 Millwall 2 Bristol City 1 att, 9,748 (away 394)
2013 brings a win and it's.... 40 points
We needed this win to keep us in touch with the play off spots, so well pleased that we got it even though we failed to score more than two after a host of chances went begging.
Cold Blow Lane begins to fill
Total first half domination lacked the absolute cutting edge to bury Bristol City and a 1-0 lead at half time which was a excellent goal scored by Danny N'Guessen proved to be not enough as the opposition equalised early in the second half which surprised them as much as it surprised me...oh shit!
After they scored we were up and at them and a super save by their keeper kept Liam Trotters cracking effort out. We continued to make chances and in the 65th minute we won the game with an Adam Smith unstoppable shot from a few yards out.
Grabbing every-bodies attention, the win that keeps us outside of the play off spots by just goal difference
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Henry, Trotter, Abdou, Feeney, Henderson(J.Smith), N'Guessen(Batt),
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Marquis, Osborne
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FA CUP SATURDAY
5/1/2013 Round Three Millwall 1 Preston 0 att 5,364 (the opposition fetch about 500)
With the Dockers stand closed and a crowd of only 5,364 a somewhat snoozy Den watched a somewhat snoozy Millwall side win with a Liam Feeney deflected goal. On reflection calling the Lions snoozy was incorrect. The team did have the enthusiasm to win and to win well but the ball was hardly retained as heavy touches, misplaced passes and missed opportunities dominated our play.
"less haste, more speed comes to mind"
Preston offered little but did come in to the game later on as they sensed that we was not exactly dominating the game but could not break us down.
Reflecting on all of this and the end of the day we beat them so still in the cup and looking forward to the next round draw.
Goal, Liam Feeney, 31mins
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Beevers, Osborne, Abdou, Wright, Henry, Feeney(Batt), N'Guessen, Henderson(J.Smith)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Racon, Marquis, Wilkinson,
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6/1/13
Just seen the the next round draw and we are at home to Aston Villa, "that's a game we can win".
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9/1/13
We sign ex Scunthorpe player Martyn Woolford from Bristol City for a undisclosed fee, Bristol City supporters have mixed views on him and mixed views of him leaving their club. Could this be another shrewd signing by KJ?
Like I often say.....time will tell.
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12/1/13 League Game 27 Bolton 1 Millwall 1 att.16,985 (we take about 1100)
Andy Keogh penalty 10min 41 points
Another one of the so called "big boys" experience playing against the Lions and they new early on that this was going to be a tough game. With Danny Shittu, Liam Trotter and others rising to the occasion Millwall powered through the first half and if the finishing had been better we could have been two or three in the lead by half time. As it was the first half finished 1-1 with a penalty goal scored by both sides, Bolton were lucky.The second half Bolton raised their game but to avail, we stood firm and David Forde was immense.
A few went up for this one and they could be heard throughout the game with plenty of vocal encouragement for the Wall and plenty of non-encouragement vocals for the opposition that could be heard all round the ground and of course the home teams subs bench.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Trotter, Henry, Woolford, N'Guessen, Keogh(Henderson 80)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Osborne, Wright, Batt, Marquis
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Striker Nathan Tyson joins Millwall on loan from Derby County. Apparently we beat Crystal Palace in obtaining him. He should get a start tomorrow against Burnley if the game is not snowed off.
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PLENTY OF SNOW, I WISH THE GAME HAD BEEN CALLED OFF...dear oh dear
19/1/13 League Game 28 Millwall 0 Burnley 2 att. 9,384
Was it the Sean Dyche factor as Millwall roll over to a average Burnley side, I am not sure but with Dyche continuing his good record against the Lions it could well be. We were awful and with Shane Lowry missing due to suspension the defence gave away two easy goals to Burnley and we missed scoring ourselves as our front players couldn't engineer a goal with the few opportunities they had.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Wright(Keogh 46), Henry, Woolford, Trotter, Marquis( Hulse 46)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Osborne, Dunne, Feeney
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8/2/13 England under 21 international Benik Afobe signs on loan for the Lions. Arsenal loaned him out which makes us north London neutral as we have Adam Smith from Tottenham also on loan.
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9/2/13 League Game 31 Blackpool 2 Millwall 1 att:12,653 we took 727
I know we have lost strikers recently and we are not banging them in regular so any lead or any goal that we score must be defended with every sinew.
The fourth defeat on the spin and another ruined weekend. It looked like we had grabbed a draw which I would have took before the start of the game but Blackpool nicked it in the 90th minute and took all three points, which was something the didn't deserve.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers Lowry, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Woolford(Feeney 85), Hulse, Afobe(Keogh 82),
subs not used, Osborne Marquis, Wright, Dunne
Blackpool Ince 61, Delfouneso 90
Lions Henry 32
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11/2/13
5/1/2013 Round Three Millwall 1 Preston 0 att 5,364 (the opposition fetch about 500)
Preston must have won the toss as first half we are defending the Cold Blow Lane Stand goal
No Danny Shittu, Liam Trotter, Chris Taylor or Andy Keogh
"less haste, more speed comes to mind"
Preston offered little but did come in to the game later on as they sensed that we was not exactly dominating the game but could not break us down.
Reflecting on all of this and the end of the day we beat them so still in the cup and looking forward to the next round draw.
Goal, Liam Feeney, 31mins
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Lowry, Beevers, Osborne, Abdou, Wright, Henry, Feeney(Batt), N'Guessen, Henderson(J.Smith)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Racon, Marquis, Wilkinson,
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6/1/13
Just seen the the next round draw and we are at home to Aston Villa, "that's a game we can win".
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9/1/13
We sign ex Scunthorpe player Martyn Woolford from Bristol City for a undisclosed fee, Bristol City supporters have mixed views on him and mixed views of him leaving their club. Could this be another shrewd signing by KJ?
Like I often say.....time will tell.
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12/1/13 League Game 27 Bolton 1 Millwall 1 att.16,985 (we take about 1100)
Andy Keogh penalty 10min 41 points
Another one of the so called "big boys" experience playing against the Lions and they new early on that this was going to be a tough game. With Danny Shittu, Liam Trotter and others rising to the occasion Millwall powered through the first half and if the finishing had been better we could have been two or three in the lead by half time. As it was the first half finished 1-1 with a penalty goal scored by both sides, Bolton were lucky.The second half Bolton raised their game but to avail, we stood firm and David Forde was immense.
A few went up for this one and they could be heard throughout the game with plenty of vocal encouragement for the Wall and plenty of non-encouragement vocals for the opposition that could be heard all round the ground and of course the home teams subs bench.
How we stand after 27 games
Top Cardiff 57 points
2nd Hull 49 points
3rd Leicester 47 points
4th Palace 47 points
5th Boro 47 points
6th Watford 43 points
7th Millwall 41 points
8th Brighton 40 points
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Trotter, Henry, Woolford, N'Guessen, Keogh(Henderson 80)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Osborne, Wright, Batt, Marquis
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Striker Nathan Tyson joins Millwall on loan from Derby County. Apparently we beat Crystal Palace in obtaining him. He should get a start tomorrow against Burnley if the game is not snowed off.
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PLENTY OF SNOW, I WISH THE GAME HAD BEEN CALLED OFF...dear oh dear
19/1/13 League Game 28 Millwall 0 Burnley 2 att. 9,384
Was it the Sean Dyche factor as Millwall roll over to a average Burnley side, I am not sure but with Dyche continuing his good record against the Lions it could well be. We were awful and with Shane Lowry missing due to suspension the defence gave away two easy goals to Burnley and we missed scoring ourselves as our front players couldn't engineer a goal with the few opportunities they had.
Cold Blow Lane Misery, hopefully it will improve against Villa
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, J.Smith, Abdou, Trotter, Henry, Woolford(Tyson 46), N'Guessen(Marquis 65), Keogh
subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Racon, Osborne
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25/1/13 FA CUP fourth round Millwall 2 Aston Villa 1 att: 15,007 (away 1600 ish)
Millwall support the campaign to stop the closures or the A+E and maternity unit at the nearby Lewisham hospital. They change this game from Saturday to Friday so that it does not clash with the protest and demonstration over the weekend, that's part of the community in the true sense and not just lip service.
Premiership Villa lose again
Friday night and it did improve, young John Marquis won the game in the 89th minute when his header hit the bar bounced back to him and he sent the Den wild as he made no mistake and the ball hit the back of the net.
25/1/13 FA CUP fourth round Millwall 2 Aston Villa 1 att: 15,007 (away 1600 ish)
Millwall support the campaign to stop the closures or the A+E and maternity unit at the nearby Lewisham hospital. They change this game from Saturday to Friday so that it does not clash with the protest and demonstration over the weekend, that's part of the community in the true sense and not just lip service.
Premiership Villa lose again
Friday night and it did improve, young John Marquis won the game in the 89th minute when his header hit the bar bounced back to him and he sent the Den wild as he made no mistake and the ball hit the back of the net.
John Marquis seals the win and the roof comes off
With Henderson leaving the club and joining our rivals Nottingham Forest, on paper our chances of scoring goals looked somewhat impossible but I need not to have worried as a Danny Shittu header that was out of the top drawer brought us back into the game five minutes after Villa took the lead in the 22nd minute
We coped with Villa's attempts to score again and as we raised the noise to a ear-aching level and with time running out John Marquis who hasn't started a game for over a year made the most of a James Henry ball into the box and victory was ours. What a night.
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Taken from a Villa forum. interesting reading
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Taken from a Villa forum. interesting reading
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I also didn't get in til half 2 and was absolutely knackered and drained from watching that shit, ye big shout out to vlaar!! He didn't deserve that abuse, says it all that 2 millwall fans say we are the worst they have saw down the den this season, we were embarassing again, millwall fans are something else I just can't think of another bunch like em, theirs summat different in the blood down that way and at end of day millwall will always be millwall and they will never change, just would like to add how much noise those fuckers make, all game was just this big hostile noise, by far the best atmosphere in english football and with so little fans
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Millwall: Forde, Osborne, Shiitu, Beevers, A.Smith, Trotter, Abdou, Feeney, Henry, Keogh, Marquis
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Rob Hulse signs on loan.
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28/1/13 League Game 29 Barnsley 2 Millwall 0 att:7,844 (166)
A bad night for weather and a bad night for Millwall, still stuck on 41 points and a win against Hull City Saturday is a must.
With Millwall starting this game with the same team that beat Villa it just got bad to worse as the Lions offered nothing apart from a couple of weak efforts. A triple substitution of Woolford, Lowry, and new loan signing Rob Hulse made no difference as Lions succumb to two second half goals, oh dear.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Osborne(Lowry64), Beevers, Abdou, Trotter, Henry(Woolford64), Feeney, Marquis, Keogh(Hulse 64)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Batt, Wright, J.Smith
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2/2/13 League Game 30 Millwall 0 Hull City 1 att:9,589 "they bring about 800"
After the dismal display against Barnsley I was hoping for a winter warmer but it was not to be.
Still stuck on 41 points and the third league game with a defeat we started with John Marquis alone up front I was thinking "we really have no chance of winning this game, but if in the first minute Mark Beevers hadn't done the worlds worse back pass that David Forde had no chance of getting Hull would not have took the lead and go on to win the game. James Henry could have levelled but blasted his sure fire chance over the bar when it would have been easier to score and then everybody blamed his miss on a bobble. I don't think it bobbled my self but I wont make a issue about it.
With a double substitution at the start of the second half resulted in Robert Hulse and Andy Keogh replacing John Marquis and Josh Wright our game really didn't improve. We tried to roar them on but they didn't respond in at least getting the equalising goal.
The transfer windows closed and at the moment I cannot see much hope for the rest of the season.
Another weekend ruined.
But still only six points off the play off's
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28/1/13 League Game 29 Barnsley 2 Millwall 0 att:7,844 (166)
A bad night for weather and a bad night for Millwall, still stuck on 41 points and a win against Hull City Saturday is a must.
With Millwall starting this game with the same team that beat Villa it just got bad to worse as the Lions offered nothing apart from a couple of weak efforts. A triple substitution of Woolford, Lowry, and new loan signing Rob Hulse made no difference as Lions succumb to two second half goals, oh dear.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Osborne(Lowry64), Beevers, Abdou, Trotter, Henry(Woolford64), Feeney, Marquis, Keogh(Hulse 64)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Batt, Wright, J.Smith
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2/2/13 League Game 30 Millwall 0 Hull City 1 att:9,589 "they bring about 800"
After the dismal display against Barnsley I was hoping for a winter warmer but it was not to be.
Still stuck on 41 points and the third league game with a defeat we started with John Marquis alone up front I was thinking "we really have no chance of winning this game, but if in the first minute Mark Beevers hadn't done the worlds worse back pass that David Forde had no chance of getting Hull would not have took the lead and go on to win the game. James Henry could have levelled but blasted his sure fire chance over the bar when it would have been easier to score and then everybody blamed his miss on a bobble. I don't think it bobbled my self but I wont make a issue about it.
Hull get a free kick and David Forde get's them ready in defence.
The transfer windows closed and at the moment I cannot see much hope for the rest of the season.
Another weekend ruined.
But still only six points off the play off's
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Wright(Keogh 46), Henry, Woolford, Trotter, Marquis( Hulse 46)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Osborne, Dunne, Feeney
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8/2/13 England under 21 international Benik Afobe signs on loan for the Lions. Arsenal loaned him out which makes us north London neutral as we have Adam Smith from Tottenham also on loan.
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9/2/13 League Game 31 Blackpool 2 Millwall 1 att:12,653 we took 727
I know we have lost strikers recently and we are not banging them in regular so any lead or any goal that we score must be defended with every sinew.
The fourth defeat on the spin and another ruined weekend. It looked like we had grabbed a draw which I would have took before the start of the game but Blackpool nicked it in the 90th minute and took all three points, which was something the didn't deserve.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers Lowry, Abdou, Henry, Trotter, Woolford(Feeney 85), Hulse, Afobe(Keogh 82),
subs not used, Osborne Marquis, Wright, Dunne
Blackpool Ince 61, Delfouneso 90
Lions Henry 32
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16/2/12 FA CUP 5th round Luton Town 0 Millwall 3 att; 9,768 (1500)
Goal scorers, Henry 12 min, Hulse 36min, N'Guessen 86 min
We're not doing much in the league as we come into this game with four defeats on the trot.
We populate Kenilworth Road once again.
I watched this game on telly (ESPN) which made a change. This all ticket clash had certainly got the media into a Millwall frenzy as most of the pre-game hype were strewn with footage and comments of the infamous game of 1985 which as we know, due to pay on the day and greed the away end was filled to at least twice it's capacity which resulted in me and many others near to being crushed to death, it was a nightmare.With some of us breaking through mesh to get off of that terrace others behaved to the extreme and this resulted in tarring us all as hooligans and the rest is history. The way the media was going on you would have fault that this event was last week not 28 years ago.
Anyway back to the game........
Alan Dunne first game since November starts and has now reached the 300 game mark for Millwall appearances, well done that man.
We won this game honestly and workmanlike and it was good to see on loan Rob Hulse score his first goal while wearing the Lions shirt. He must be pinching himself, a few weeks ago he was in the doldrums at QPR with no chance of a game and now he is just one game away from a Wembley appearance. How fortunes can change. With James Henry tearing in to score the opener and a steady David Forde keeping goal Millwall's win was never in doubt. With Danny N'Guessen scoring the third our job was done and we said goodbye to Luton.
No giant killing today, sorry ESPN, Commentators, Pundits, British public and world viewers. A special message to Luton Town and their supporters..."as if"
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Beevers, Osborne, Lowry, Henry(Smith) Trotter, Abdou, Feeney(N'Guessen) Hulse(Marquis) Keogh
subs not used, Maik Taylor, Wright, Goodman, Malone
Other 5th round games
Huddersfield 1-Wigan 4 Arsenal 0-Blackburn 1 MK Dons 1-Barnsley 3
Chelsea 4-Brentford 0 Man.City 4-Leeds 0 Oldham 2-Everton 2
Man.Utd 2-Reading 1
17/2/13 J ust watched the draw and we have got Blackburn Rovers in the next round. I'll take that.
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19/2/13 League Game 32 Millwall 1 Peterborough 5 att: 8,769
With John Berylson continuing to call for bigger crowds we continue to drop down the league table. It was absolutely painful watching this game knowing what could have been if we spent money retaining strikers or even replacing the ones we lost. Of course strikers or the lack of them is not the only reason for five league defeats in succession.
We have a hard core of decent "Millwall players" but I have worries about the rest of them. We have no chance of bigger crowds playing like this and it is really starting to test the patience of the regular eight or nine thousand and if things do not improve I can see the attendance falling further and the money completely disappearing.
I suppose we are what we are and to expect anything else is just a pipe dream.
I know that we have improved since John Berylson joined the club, I remember the near bottom of league one and it's these recent memories that bother me because at the rate of this downfall I can see us back down there. Losing at home to the leagues bottom club 1-5 really sums up what is happening at the club. It's strange for me to even think about the running of the football club as I have always followed the team and left the admin to the experts. This season has been a real eye opener for me as I finally realised it's not about football, it's about money and not much else.
Henry scores his third goal in three games.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith(Dunne 46), Osborne, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Afobe(Woolford 46), Trotter, Henry, Hulse(Marquis 84), Keogh
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Wright, N'Guessen
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23/2/2013 League Game 33 Middlesboro 1 Millwall 2 att: 15,377 we take 215
After five defeats it was good to add three points to our tally 44 points
Liam Trotter on the bench, Alan Dunne starts again. Danny Shittu back.
Yet another televised game in the space of a couple of weeks. I must admit even though it was televised by our arch enemy Sky; I watched this game from the comfort of my sons front room and armchair and we created a mini Cold Blow Lane but with beer allowed on the terrace and much warmer than it's been at a few games this winter. Barmy was had by all on the sofa terrace as the Lions recovered from their bruising against Peterborough a few days before and a earn't a win with a forceful battling display.
The Lions first goal was credited to Boro player George Friend as a own goal but sheer Millwall pressure to get the ball from John Marquis, Benfik Afobe and Karleigh Osborne really meant the Friend didn't stand a chance because if he hadn't scored a Millwall player would have. With the Lions looking for a second goal and afobe adding a touch of class the second was scored by Martyn Woolford after the Boro keeper palmed it out and it arrived for left footer Woolford to guide it in to a undefended net. a goal
Boro raised their game second half and although they scored and had one ruled out right on the final whistle due to offside we took all three points. We are now once again looking up the table and not looking down. A win means so much in this division.
We sit 13th in the table eight points of the play offs
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Osborne, Shittu, Beevers, Abdou, Henry, Wright, Woolford, Marquis, Afobe
all subs not used, Trotter, Tyson, Keogh, Malone, C.Taylor, N'Guessen, A.Smith
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1/3/13 Just heard that Chelsea player 19 year old midfielder George Saville as signed on loan to the end of the season. I've never heard of him so not much to comment about, yet.
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2/3/13 League Game 34 Leeds 1 Millwall 0 att:19002 (due to farcical restrictions we take just 167)
Back to our losing ways again but we should have had at least a penalty. We certainly do get some useless or biased referees, two blatant handballs by Leeds players went unpunished but of course they were awarded one when Alan Dunne was judged to have failed McCormack. Even the bookings were dished out to Millwall and not Leeds, 19 fouls to Leeds, no bookings, 14 fouls to Millwall and three bookings. We had chances to win this game but like many games this year not decisive enough up front. Home to Wolves Tuesday night and it must be three points or things are looking desperate.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Henry, Wright(Saville 84), Woolford, Marquis(Keogh67), Afobe(Tyson 67)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Smith, Osborne, C.Taylor
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5/3/12 League Game 35 Millwall 0 Wolves 2 att: 8,727 (Wolves fetch about 800)
Henry out for the rest of the season,injured at Leeds.
Another Bloody Home defeat! This is getting silly
THE FA CUP IS PROVING A DISTRACTION
Not sure, it just looked like to me that we got out played, out muscled and out of any ideas. We have had this type of inept home display long before this FA cup run; Barnsley, Burnley, Ipswich spring to mind.
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19/2/13 League Game 32 Millwall 1 Peterborough 5 att: 8,769
With John Berylson continuing to call for bigger crowds we continue to drop down the league table. It was absolutely painful watching this game knowing what could have been if we spent money retaining strikers or even replacing the ones we lost. Of course strikers or the lack of them is not the only reason for five league defeats in succession.
We have a hard core of decent "Millwall players" but I have worries about the rest of them. We have no chance of bigger crowds playing like this and it is really starting to test the patience of the regular eight or nine thousand and if things do not improve I can see the attendance falling further and the money completely disappearing.
I suppose we are what we are and to expect anything else is just a pipe dream.
At least their happy
Henry scores his third goal in three games.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith(Dunne 46), Osborne, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Afobe(Woolford 46), Trotter, Henry, Hulse(Marquis 84), Keogh
subs not used, M.Taylor, Malone, Wright, N'Guessen
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23/2/2013 League Game 33 Middlesboro 1 Millwall 2 att: 15,377 we take 215
After five defeats it was good to add three points to our tally 44 points
Liam Trotter on the bench, Alan Dunne starts again. Danny Shittu back.
Yet another televised game in the space of a couple of weeks. I must admit even though it was televised by our arch enemy Sky; I watched this game from the comfort of my sons front room and armchair and we created a mini Cold Blow Lane but with beer allowed on the terrace and much warmer than it's been at a few games this winter. Barmy was had by all on the sofa terrace as the Lions recovered from their bruising against Peterborough a few days before and a earn't a win with a forceful battling display.
The Lions first goal was credited to Boro player George Friend as a own goal but sheer Millwall pressure to get the ball from John Marquis, Benfik Afobe and Karleigh Osborne really meant the Friend didn't stand a chance because if he hadn't scored a Millwall player would have. With the Lions looking for a second goal and afobe adding a touch of class the second was scored by Martyn Woolford after the Boro keeper palmed it out and it arrived for left footer Woolford to guide it in to a undefended net. a goal
Boro raised their game second half and although they scored and had one ruled out right on the final whistle due to offside we took all three points. We are now once again looking up the table and not looking down. A win means so much in this division.
We sit 13th in the table eight points of the play offs
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Osborne, Shittu, Beevers, Abdou, Henry, Wright, Woolford, Marquis, Afobe
all subs not used, Trotter, Tyson, Keogh, Malone, C.Taylor, N'Guessen, A.Smith
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1/3/13 Just heard that Chelsea player 19 year old midfielder George Saville as signed on loan to the end of the season. I've never heard of him so not much to comment about, yet.
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2/3/13 League Game 34 Leeds 1 Millwall 0 att:19002 (due to farcical restrictions we take just 167)
Back to our losing ways again but we should have had at least a penalty. We certainly do get some useless or biased referees, two blatant handballs by Leeds players went unpunished but of course they were awarded one when Alan Dunne was judged to have failed McCormack. Even the bookings were dished out to Millwall and not Leeds, 19 fouls to Leeds, no bookings, 14 fouls to Millwall and three bookings. We had chances to win this game but like many games this year not decisive enough up front. Home to Wolves Tuesday night and it must be three points or things are looking desperate.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, Henry, Wright(Saville 84), Woolford, Marquis(Keogh67), Afobe(Tyson 67)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Smith, Osborne, C.Taylor
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5/3/12 League Game 35 Millwall 0 Wolves 2 att: 8,727 (Wolves fetch about 800)
Henry out for the rest of the season,injured at Leeds.
Another Bloody Home defeat! This is getting silly
THE FA CUP IS PROVING A DISTRACTION
Not sure, it just looked like to me that we got out played, out muscled and out of any ideas. We have had this type of inept home display long before this FA cup run; Barnsley, Burnley, Ipswich spring to mind.
One of few chances, John Marquis heads towards goal, keeper saves
Other teams who have a bad first half can at times turn things around, but not us
With only Chris Taylor doing anything of note which considering he was just back from a lengthy absence due to injury he took the game to Wolves but had no one with him who could finish a move.
All in all not much else to write about apart from "KJ, SORT THIS LOT OUT" and what happened to the battling spirit we showed at Boro?
Benik Afobe injured and gone back to Arsenal, I guess we won't see him again.
Last play off space, Brighton, played 35, 56 points
The Lions sitting in 15th spot played 35 44 points
last relegation spot Barnsley, played 35 38 points
Last play off space, Brighton, played 35, 56 points
The Lions sitting in 15th spot played 35 44 points
last relegation spot Barnsley, played 35 38 points
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Abdou, C.Taylor, Wright(Trotter 70), Woolford, Afobe(Keogh 11), Marquis(Tyson 46),
subs not used, M.Taylor, N'Guessan,
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10/3/13 FA CUP 6TH ROUND Millwall 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 att: 14,885 (1800 ish )
We are still in the draw for the semi-finals and even though we did not score and have to go back to their place Wednesday night and win, I still fancy it. Blackburn were average and from what I saw of them the replay is winnable and if we put in the same amount of battling spirit and commitment as we put in to this game we should progress, statements such as this I know is tempting fate but I feel that destiny calls.
With six changes from the Wolves defeat Tuesday night the Lions looked bright and up for it. Chris Taylor dazzled and Andy Keogh although he didn't score put himself about and put some excellent balls into the box. He set the ball up for Rob Hulse's now famous miss.
Jack Smith playing along recalled Liam Trotter had a excellent game and looked solid..As I have already said; a good battling performance and played well, apart from our finishing we looked a solid balanced team.
Millwall: Forde, Lowry, Beevers, Shittu, Dunne, J.Smith, Trotter, C.Taylor, Keogh, N'Guessan, Hulse
subs not used, M.Taylor, Marquis, A.Smith, Feeney, Abdou, Osborne, Saville
Blackburn: Kean, Henley(Orr), Dann, Hanley, Olsson, Bently, Pedersen, Lowe, King(Gomes), Rhodes, Best
subs not used, Sandomierski, Glvet, Rekik
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The semi-final draw
Man Utd or Chelsea V Man City
Blackburn or Millwall V Wigan
This draw disappointed ITV's Adrian Chiles and his cronies, they much prefer to see a Man Utd/Chelsea V Man City final, the way they spoke showed total disrespect for Blackburn, Wigan and ourselves.
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13/3/13
It's just gone midnight, 14 hours to kick off and after reading a excellent 12th man post on our Millwall Supporters Forum , House Of Fun it got me thinking about the importance of the 12th man and how we can by raising the atmosphere to boiling point lift our players and scare the opposition to death . This is something we usually do so hopefully it will be rocking for this one. This game as added importance, with a unhealthy run of league defeats the players could be lacking in confidence and we need to be at our best to help the players have the belief to win this game. Maybe the players are already up for this game, after all there is a large carrot that should drive them on, a trip to Wembley.
Every little helps and if we can give the players a extra 10% we will all be going home happy and looking forward to see who we will be playing in the semi.
We shall see
Other clubs still in the competition..Wigan, Chelsea or Man Utd (replay needed), Man city
All premiership clubs. Once again we are the spanner in the works and with no doubt the underdogs. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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16/3/13 League Game 36 Charlton 0 Millwall 2 att:18,514 (we take 3,153)
What a week! 47 POINTS
Reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, Wigan who beat Everton are our opponents and although they are a premier league club we can beat anybody on our day so you never know. Coming to Charlton three days after beating Blackburn and taking all three points is the icing on the cake, as I said "what a week". Charlton had chances but couldn't score and when the ball was on target David Forde was immense and guarded his goal with skill and passion. Since earning the shirt to be Ireland's number one it seems to have given him extra confidence and he is certainly enjoying playing for the Wall.
We could put the ball away and thanks to our new loan signing Jermaine Easter who scored with a very neat finish in the 58th minute we go 1-0 up. He had only been on the field one minute as a second half substitute and what away to start his second period playing for Millwall. Our other new loan signing Richard Chaplow set Easter up for his goal with a excellent ball into the box.
Our second goal was something else as Lowry took a 35 yard free kick and sweetly arrowed a absolute peach into the top corner of the Charlton goal which sent the 3000 bonkers and the three points were ours. We take the win over this lot from down the road and if we can build on this victory I am sure we will be playing Championship football next season or maybe elsewhere because there is still a chance we could make the play-offs. A bit of a long shot but you never know.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Osborne(A.Smith 17m), Lowry, Chaplow(Abdou 72m), Trotter, J.Smith, C.Taylor, N'Guessan(Easter 57m), Hulse
subs not used, M.Taylor, Keogh, Woolford, Saville
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Wembley ticket info
We've been allocated 31.500 tickets and we will not be given any more. FA segregation rules.
Season ticket holders get the chance of three tickets and like myself a member only gets one.
After a certain time period if there is any left they go out to general sale. I have a moan but I understand that you cannot please everybody but it's the kids that are going to be left out.
My two grandchildren have been to every game this season including the midweek games and all the rounds of the FA Cup, but how can they go?. As a member they cannot go with me, so they will have to wait for general sale, but being kids they cannot go on their own and if they could they would have no chance getting seats next to me let alone the same block. I could wait for general sale myself but that's a risk. As I said "I'm not moaning"
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Billy Neil is honoured for his 49 years at Millwall, incredible loyalty, what a blinding bloke
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The International break has been and gone and we play Leicester Friday night.
29/3/13 League Game 37 Leicester City 0 Millwall 1 att:22,365
50 points at last,but still not safe
Even though Leicester played for most of the match with ten men after their captain and defender
Wes Morgan got sent off we had to work and earn this win.
Another three points on the road secures 50 points in the league and with games in hand things are looking healthy. We still seem light up front and it took Alan Dunne to score his first goal in three years in the 87th minute to secure the win, and what a well taken goal it was. Schmeichel was gutted.
Richard Chaplow, who I must admit had me cursing as I didn't think he was on his game and wasted a few corners and passes but he managed to win and work the ball back from the bye-line into the path of Alan Dunne who calmly put it a way from the the edge of the penalty box. That was a first rate assist and a first rate goal and it won us the game.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Lowry, A.Smith. Chaplow, Trotter, J.Smith(Abdou 72), Easter, Keogh(Woolford 90), Hulse(Marquis 72)
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28/3/12 Centre half Sean St. Ledger signs on loan from Leicester City and he is staying to May the 4th if all goes well.
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1/4/13 League Game 38 Millwall 0 Ipswich 0 att: 10,047 (1,047 away )
51 points and another clean sheet
This was a windy day.
With Lowry hitting the woodwork and Jermaine Easter wasting a couple of good chances Ipswich were lucky. Others in the Millwall side had chances as well but it wasn't to be.
Another point to add to the tally but only a gap of four points from the drop zone, we must do better. It seems that this season 60 points is the target to reach and although we have not conceded
in the last three league games and gained five points it's proving hard to pull away from the teams below as they are making a fight of it( apart from Bristol City). Hopefully we can win at Birmingham and everyone below us has a shit weekend.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Keogh(Feeney 71), Trotter, Smith(St. Ledger 81, Chaplow, Marquis(Hulse 46), Easter
subs not used, M. Taylor, Woolford, Smith, Abdou
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7/4/13 League Game 39 Birmingham 1 Millwall 1 att:15,302
52 points and we concede
We should have a had a penalty....another two bob referee.
17 minutes on the clock and Chris Taylor is brought down and although everybody agrees it's a penalty the referee books Taylor for diving. There was also other curious decisions from the officials where they kept changing their minds. You can't write stuff like this, week in and week out we suffer at the hands of idiots.
After not beating Birmingham for 17 years a win would have been nice but the point is handy so I think that we would have took that before the game.
Five points off the relegation spot.
15th Millwall 52 points
16th Leeds 52 points
17th Blackpool 51 points
18th Sheff Wed 50 points
19th Wolves 48 points
20th Barnsley 48 points
21st Huddersfield 48 points
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22nd Blackburn 47 points
23rd Peterboro 47 points
24th Bristol City 40 points
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, St. Ledger, Trotter, Chaplow(Woolford 57), C.Taylor, Hulse, Feeney(Easter 59)
not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, A.Smith, N'Guessen, Abdou
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9/4/13 League Game 40 Millwall 1 Sheff Wed 2 att:9.084 (1,028)
After two minutes Jimmy Abdou scores his first goal at the Den
After taken a early lead I was hoping for a 5-0 win, well, that didn't happen. With in my opinion no natural goal scorer within the team we could not add to the early goal and we succumb to the sucker punch a few minutes from full time. Some may say that with one eye on the Wembley semi-final we could not put our mark on this game. The "some may say brigade" I make them right as I saw a couple of 50-50 balls that we did not challenge for and we lacked that cutting edge..
This result leaves us 5 points off of the relegation spots.
I was wondering...
I was wondering what the atmosphere and chat would be like after the Wembley defeat and the Wembley brawl and listening to people outside the ground and the people inside and around me when in my seat there was disappointment but also humour which as I know is a method of dealing with the dislike and crap that is dished out to the club and ourselves.The supporters that attended this run of the mill midweek game are a big part of the club and I am proud to say that my grandkids and myself are part of them. They deserved that win and when that ball went in it was celebrated like we had won the FA Cup .One of my favourite nights.
not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Osborne, Hulse
A follower up to this game is, two reporters from the Sun have been sneaking about the Den toilets.
I have posted about this on the home page.http://followingmillwallfc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/james-beal-and-jake-ryan-suns-two-bob.html
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20/4/13 League Game 42 Huddersfield 3 Millwall 0 att: 12,415 (254)
Back to losing ways, I'll be glad when this season is over
A poor defeat especially after a good battling display against Watford. We are looking down as the point gap gets smaller, oh! for a couple of strikers and oh! for another win.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Osborne, Beevers, Henry, J.Smith, Abdou, Woolford (Hulse 54) Keogh(Feeney 84) Batt(Easter 54)
Subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Saville
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23/4/13 League Game 43 Millwall 1 Blackburn 2 att: 8,607 (240)
Karleigh Osborne scores a cracker
Yet another home defeat, as I said, I'll be glad when this season is over
We've done all right recently against Blackburn but tonight we had one of those games and one of them ref's. Rob Hulse was jeered as he was substituted and he went straight down the tunnel. We probaley won't see him again.
If that was a penalty-then the moon is made of cheese. What a Pollock of a referee
We scored early and then Rob Hulse had a hand in Blackburn's opening goal. Danny Shittu ended up with two yellow cards, the second yellow was after the final whistle as he protested his dismay regarding the farcical penalty decision and will miss the next game which is against Nottingham Forest at home .KJ supported Danny by saying, ' he showed commitment.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Osborne, Beevers, Henry, J.Smith, Abdou, Feeney(Keogh 77), Hulse(Wright 61), Easter(Batt 62)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Saville, Woolford, Malone
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27/4/13 League Game 44 Millwall 0 Nottingham Forest 1 att:13,330 (2,041)
Things are looking desperate, yet another home defeat.
At this present moment in time I can't be bothered, so I won't.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Osborne, Beevers, A.Smith, St.Ledger, Abdou, Henry, Saville (Feeney 79),
Tyson (Keogh 61), Batt (Marquis 61)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Wright, Easter
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30/4/13 League Game 45 Millwall 0 Crystal.Palace 0 att: 12, att: 12,745 (2,089)
This well earn't point takes us to 56 points and mathematically still not safe
One game to go and to secure Championship survival we really need to take something from the last game at Derby County, we must not lose.
Back to the game, it was noisy and at times we reached a ear splitting crescendo. Palace tried to match but they were blown away so they resulted in letting off fireworks.
subs not used, M.Taylor, N'Guessan,
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10/3/13 FA CUP 6TH ROUND Millwall 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 att: 14,885 (1800 ish )
We are still in the draw for the semi-finals and even though we did not score and have to go back to their place Wednesday night and win, I still fancy it. Blackburn were average and from what I saw of them the replay is winnable and if we put in the same amount of battling spirit and commitment as we put in to this game we should progress, statements such as this I know is tempting fate but I feel that destiny calls.
Millwall Dominate
Jack Smith playing along recalled Liam Trotter had a excellent game and looked solid..As I have already said; a good battling performance and played well, apart from our finishing we looked a solid balanced team.
On his knees
Blackburn keeper holds on and with his help and our poor finishing Rovers gain a replay
Replay back at their place this Wednesday Night
Replay back at their place this Wednesday Night
Millwall: Forde, Lowry, Beevers, Shittu, Dunne, J.Smith, Trotter, C.Taylor, Keogh, N'Guessan, Hulse
subs not used, M.Taylor, Marquis, A.Smith, Feeney, Abdou, Osborne, Saville
Blackburn: Kean, Henley(Orr), Dann, Hanley, Olsson, Bently, Pedersen, Lowe, King(Gomes), Rhodes, Best
subs not used, Sandomierski, Glvet, Rekik
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The semi-final draw
Man Utd or Chelsea V Man City
Blackburn or Millwall V Wigan
This draw disappointed ITV's Adrian Chiles and his cronies, they much prefer to see a Man Utd/Chelsea V Man City final, the way they spoke showed total disrespect for Blackburn, Wigan and ourselves.
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13/3/13
It's just gone midnight, 14 hours to kick off and after reading a excellent 12th man post on our Millwall Supporters Forum , House Of Fun it got me thinking about the importance of the 12th man and how we can by raising the atmosphere to boiling point lift our players and scare the opposition to death . This is something we usually do so hopefully it will be rocking for this one. This game as added importance, with a unhealthy run of league defeats the players could be lacking in confidence and we need to be at our best to help the players have the belief to win this game. Maybe the players are already up for this game, after all there is a large carrot that should drive them on, a trip to Wembley.
Every little helps and if we can give the players a extra 10% we will all be going home happy and looking forward to see who we will be playing in the semi.
We shall see
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13/3/13 It's Wednesday night and this 6th round replay kicks off.
FA CUP 6th Round Replay Blackburn Rovers 0 Millwall 1 att:8,635! we take about 570
FA CUP 6th Round Replay Blackburn Rovers 0 Millwall 1 att:8,635! we take about 570
WEMBLEY HERE WE COME
SEMI-FINAL, WE WANTED IT
Lions back on ESPN and right from the off we you could see a steely determination to get something from this game. With the same team that played Sunday, Millwall carried on where they left off and defended fiercely and gave Blackburn very little in and around our box. We battled for every ball and although our lack of finishing was still a problem we constantly pressurised them and they conceded to man of the match Danny Shittu and his gutsy header just before half time. The big defender was superb yet again and after the final whistle he spoke loud and proud into the camera as he was walking off...THAT'S WHAT WE DO Love it!
WIGAN AT WEMBLEY IS OUR REWARD
WIGAN AT WEMBLEY IS OUR REWARD
AND OF COURSE, ANOTHER WALK UP WEMBLEY WAY
Now the scramble for tickets begins
Millwall: Forde, Shittu, Lowry, Beevers, Dunne, J.Smith, Trotter, C.Taylor, Keogh, Hulse(Marquis), N'Guessen(Abdou 66)
subs not used, M.Taylor, Tyson, Saville, Smith, Osborne
Blackburn: Kean, Dann, Markus Olsson, Hanley, Dunne, Pederson, Martin Olsson(Nuno Gomes 46) Lowe, Best, Rhodes, King(Forrester75)
subs not used, Rekik, O'Sullivan, Sandomierski, Givet, Goodwillie
Ref, Mark Clattenburg
subs not used, M.Taylor, Tyson, Saville, Smith, Osborne
Blackburn: Kean, Dann, Markus Olsson, Hanley, Dunne, Pederson, Martin Olsson(Nuno Gomes 46) Lowe, Best, Rhodes, King(Forrester75)
subs not used, Rekik, O'Sullivan, Sandomierski, Givet, Goodwillie
Ref, Mark Clattenburg
Other clubs still in the competition..Wigan, Chelsea or Man Utd (replay needed), Man city
All premiership clubs. Once again we are the spanner in the works and with no doubt the underdogs. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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16/3/13 League Game 36 Charlton 0 Millwall 2 att:18,514 (we take 3,153)
What a week! 47 POINTS
Reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, Wigan who beat Everton are our opponents and although they are a premier league club we can beat anybody on our day so you never know. Coming to Charlton three days after beating Blackburn and taking all three points is the icing on the cake, as I said "what a week". Charlton had chances but couldn't score and when the ball was on target David Forde was immense and guarded his goal with skill and passion. Since earning the shirt to be Ireland's number one it seems to have given him extra confidence and he is certainly enjoying playing for the Wall.
We could put the ball away and thanks to our new loan signing Jermaine Easter who scored with a very neat finish in the 58th minute we go 1-0 up. He had only been on the field one minute as a second half substitute and what away to start his second period playing for Millwall. Our other new loan signing Richard Chaplow set Easter up for his goal with a excellent ball into the box.
Our second goal was something else as Lowry took a 35 yard free kick and sweetly arrowed a absolute peach into the top corner of the Charlton goal which sent the 3000 bonkers and the three points were ours. We take the win over this lot from down the road and if we can build on this victory I am sure we will be playing Championship football next season or maybe elsewhere because there is still a chance we could make the play-offs. A bit of a long shot but you never know.
Top Cardiff 75 points
Last play off position Leicester 59 points
14th spot Millwall 47 points
22nd spot Peterboro 42 points
Bottom Bristol 39 points
subs not used, M.Taylor, Keogh, Woolford, Saville
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Wembley ticket info
We've been allocated 31.500 tickets and we will not be given any more. FA segregation rules.
Season ticket holders get the chance of three tickets and like myself a member only gets one.
After a certain time period if there is any left they go out to general sale. I have a moan but I understand that you cannot please everybody but it's the kids that are going to be left out.
My two grandchildren have been to every game this season including the midweek games and all the rounds of the FA Cup, but how can they go?. As a member they cannot go with me, so they will have to wait for general sale, but being kids they cannot go on their own and if they could they would have no chance getting seats next to me let alone the same block. I could wait for general sale myself but that's a risk. As I said "I'm not moaning"
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Billy Neil is honoured for his 49 years at Millwall, incredible loyalty, what a blinding bloke
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The International break has been and gone and we play Leicester Friday night.
29/3/13 League Game 37 Leicester City 0 Millwall 1 att:22,365
50 points at last,but still not safe
Even though Leicester played for most of the match with ten men after their captain and defender
Wes Morgan got sent off we had to work and earn this win.
Another three points on the road secures 50 points in the league and with games in hand things are looking healthy. We still seem light up front and it took Alan Dunne to score his first goal in three years in the 87th minute to secure the win, and what a well taken goal it was. Schmeichel was gutted.
Richard Chaplow, who I must admit had me cursing as I didn't think he was on his game and wasted a few corners and passes but he managed to win and work the ball back from the bye-line into the path of Alan Dunne who calmly put it a way from the the edge of the penalty box. That was a first rate assist and a first rate goal and it won us the game.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Lowry, A.Smith. Chaplow, Trotter, J.Smith(Abdou 72), Easter, Keogh(Woolford 90), Hulse(Marquis 72)
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28/3/12 Centre half Sean St. Ledger signs on loan from Leicester City and he is staying to May the 4th if all goes well.
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1/4/13 League Game 38 Millwall 0 Ipswich 0 att: 10,047 (1,047 away )
51 points and another clean sheet
This was a windy day.
With Lowry hitting the woodwork and Jermaine Easter wasting a couple of good chances Ipswich were lucky. Others in the Millwall side had chances as well but it wasn't to be.
Another point to add to the tally but only a gap of four points from the drop zone, we must do better. It seems that this season 60 points is the target to reach and although we have not conceded
in the last three league games and gained five points it's proving hard to pull away from the teams below as they are making a fight of it( apart from Bristol City). Hopefully we can win at Birmingham and everyone below us has a shit weekend.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Keogh(Feeney 71), Trotter, Smith(St. Ledger 81, Chaplow, Marquis(Hulse 46), Easter
subs not used, M. Taylor, Woolford, Smith, Abdou
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7/4/13 League Game 39 Birmingham 1 Millwall 1 att:15,302
52 points and we concede
We should have a had a penalty....another two bob referee.
17 minutes on the clock and Chris Taylor is brought down and although everybody agrees it's a penalty the referee books Taylor for diving. There was also other curious decisions from the officials where they kept changing their minds. You can't write stuff like this, week in and week out we suffer at the hands of idiots.
After not beating Birmingham for 17 years a win would have been nice but the point is handy so I think that we would have took that before the game.
Five points off the relegation spot.
15th Millwall 52 points
16th Leeds 52 points
17th Blackpool 51 points
18th Sheff Wed 50 points
19th Wolves 48 points
20th Barnsley 48 points
21st Huddersfield 48 points
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22nd Blackburn 47 points
23rd Peterboro 47 points
24th Bristol City 40 points
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, St. Ledger, Trotter, Chaplow(Woolford 57), C.Taylor, Hulse, Feeney(Easter 59)
not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, A.Smith, N'Guessen, Abdou
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9/4/13 League Game 40 Millwall 1 Sheff Wed 2 att:9.084 (1,028)
After two minutes Jimmy Abdou scores his first goal at the Den
After taken a early lead I was hoping for a 5-0 win, well, that didn't happen. With in my opinion no natural goal scorer within the team we could not add to the early goal and we succumb to the sucker punch a few minutes from full time. Some may say that with one eye on the Wembley semi-final we could not put our mark on this game. The "some may say brigade" I make them right as I saw a couple of 50-50 balls that we did not challenge for and we lacked that cutting edge..
The Lions press but no more strikes to add to our goal tally
A blatant handball in the second half should have gave us a penalty but the officials missed it, just like they missed other decisions
This result leaves us 5 points off of the relegation spots.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Lowry, Abdou, Shittu, Beevers, St Ledger, Saville (Henry 56), Hulse (Batt56),
Easter (Keogh 78), C.Taylor
subs not used M.Taylor, A.Smith, J.Smith, Woolford
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FA CUP SEMI FINAL 13/4/13 Millwall 0 Wigan 2 att: 62,335
KJ's 300 game in charge
What a long day that was....me and my boys
It felt like the final not just a semi
We decided to leave for the game early and took the scenic route around the M25 and went from junction 3 to junction 16 and approached Wembley from the north with the Millwall flag proudly in the back window. Like I said we were well early so we had a wander around Wembley while dodging the rain and having a crafty beer on the street without being spotted by the police who were very keen to stop anybody drinking anywhere near Wembley. I know "anti social behaviour and all that" but just a couple of crafty cans don't add to much. It rained quite a bit and I got soaked and what with the beer I spent most of the time looking for somewhere to pee. There is nowhere to do this bodily function and a few Porta-Loos wouldn't go amiss.
There was plenty that didn't
Shittu and Beevers work their nuts off and they must have been pleased with the clean sheet. David Forde was again on his game and looked solid throughout.Easter (Keogh 78), C.Taylor
subs not used M.Taylor, A.Smith, J.Smith, Woolford
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WEMBLEY
KJ's 300 game in charge
What a long day that was....me and my boys
It felt like the final not just a semi
We decided to leave for the game early and took the scenic route around the M25 and went from junction 3 to junction 16 and approached Wembley from the north with the Millwall flag proudly in the back window. Like I said we were well early so we had a wander around Wembley while dodging the rain and having a crafty beer on the street without being spotted by the police who were very keen to stop anybody drinking anywhere near Wembley. I know "anti social behaviour and all that" but just a couple of crafty cans don't add to much. It rained quite a bit and I got soaked and what with the beer I spent most of the time looking for somewhere to pee. There is nowhere to do this bodily function and a few Porta-Loos wouldn't go amiss.
Party time down Wembley Way
Going in-Millwall on the left-Wigan on the right
The game it's self
Danny leads them out
I was disappointed with the first half as we didn't offer much and got caught with the sucker punch with no one in defence that left David Forde unprotected as Wigan scored their first.
In the second half we were much more up for it and threatened the northerners goal but lacked the necessary fie power to equalise. This is something we have got to sort out quickly as we are still not safe in the league and we need a win Tuesday night. Substitutions were brought on as the game progressed which added a bit more bite but Wigan scored their second with 12 minutes to go and that was that.
A strange thing went on
A row started below me and to the left which appeared to involve about a dozen blokes. From a distance I could not pick up what the row was about but my view was good and I saw some Millwall supporters arguing with other Millwall supporters about something or another. This went on and off for about 20 minutes and within that twenty minutes a good few punches were thrown and people fell about over the seating and fell over each other. It looked like a good few were pissed. What was strange that in this time span of about 20 minutes no police or stewards turned up and it was down to the sensible supporters around this altercation to try to stop it, I have just watched a video that backs this up. After about 25 minutes the police turned up whacked a few people who were nearest to them and then disappeared.
They must have a policy at Wembley that the stewards are their to meet their health and safety requirement and not much else.
As a Millwall supporter gutted to see Wall on Wall carrying on like this around our younger supporters and I am not surprised that those with a sense of decency around this loutish behaviour tried to stop it. I knew the press would slaughter us for this and the Sun the next day were up to their normal tricks...Millwall fans riot etc. Not a riot, more a pub brawl, but not acceptable and true Wall wouldn't do this to their own. I now hope that John Berylson does not say I'm off. Hopefully this will never happen again and I cannot see how it could as the lack of response from Wembley stewards and the police would never happen at a club ground. As long as the supporters learn from this we should be alright.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, J.Smith (Hulse 61), Abdou (Trotter 61), St.Ledger, Henry, Keogh (Batt 61), C.Taylor,
subs not used, M.Taylor, Tyson, A.Smith, Osbourne,
Wigan: Al Habsi, Beausejour (Mcarthur), Alcaraz, Boyce,Figeuroa, McManaman (Henriquez), McCarthy, Schamer, Maloney, Kone, Gomez,
Subs not used, Roblez, Caldwell, Di-santo, Espinoza, Stam
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16/4/13 League Game 41 Millwall 1 Watford 0 att:9,336
55 points, probably still not enough
We beat these buggers at last. Watford didn't shine and we battled hard and took the spoils.
The first half was a non-event, so not worth writing about from Martyn Woolford come on for Chris Taylor due to a hamstring problem in the 36th minute.
The second half saw the Lions raise their game and although they could have played better they played with a determination that kept Watford mostly at bay and battled to the end of the game. They didn't drop their heads when balls went astray and with Woolford getting better as the game went on he provided the assist to Shaun Batt's winning goal eight minutes from normal time. Danny Shittu was immense with his fearless heading and tackling that with the help of Mark Beevers stopped Watford from scoring by keeping them at arms length.
subs not used, M.Taylor, Tyson, A.Smith, Osbourne,
Wigan: Al Habsi, Beausejour (Mcarthur), Alcaraz, Boyce,Figeuroa, McManaman (Henriquez), McCarthy, Schamer, Maloney, Kone, Gomez,
Subs not used, Roblez, Caldwell, Di-santo, Espinoza, Stam
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16/4/13 League Game 41 Millwall 1 Watford 0 att:9,336
55 points, probably still not enough
We beat these buggers at last. Watford didn't shine and we battled hard and took the spoils.
The first half was a non-event, so not worth writing about from Martyn Woolford come on for Chris Taylor due to a hamstring problem in the 36th minute.
The second half saw the Lions raise their game and although they could have played better they played with a determination that kept Watford mostly at bay and battled to the end of the game. They didn't drop their heads when balls went astray and with Woolford getting better as the game went on he provided the assist to Shaun Batt's winning goal eight minutes from normal time. Danny Shittu was immense with his fearless heading and tackling that with the help of Mark Beevers stopped Watford from scoring by keeping them at arms length.
I was wondering...
I was wondering what the atmosphere and chat would be like after the Wembley defeat and the Wembley brawl and listening to people outside the ground and the people inside and around me when in my seat there was disappointment but also humour which as I know is a method of dealing with the dislike and crap that is dished out to the club and ourselves.The supporters that attended this run of the mill midweek game are a big part of the club and I am proud to say that my grandkids and myself are part of them. They deserved that win and when that ball went in it was celebrated like we had won the FA Cup .One of my favourite nights.
Midweek joy
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Henry, Smith, Abdou, C.Taylor (Woolford 36), Keogh, Easter (Batt 63),not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Osborne, Hulse
A follower up to this game is, two reporters from the Sun have been sneaking about the Den toilets.
I have posted about this on the home page.http://followingmillwallfc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/james-beal-and-jake-ryan-suns-two-bob.html
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20/4/13 League Game 42 Huddersfield 3 Millwall 0 att: 12,415 (254)
Back to losing ways, I'll be glad when this season is over
A poor defeat especially after a good battling display against Watford. We are looking down as the point gap gets smaller, oh! for a couple of strikers and oh! for another win.
Millwall: Forde, A.Smith, Shittu, Osborne, Beevers, Henry, J.Smith, Abdou, Woolford (Hulse 54) Keogh(Feeney 84) Batt(Easter 54)
Subs not used, M.Taylor, Dunne, Wright, Saville
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23/4/13 League Game 43 Millwall 1 Blackburn 2 att: 8,607 (240)
Karleigh Osborne scores a cracker
Yet another home defeat, as I said, I'll be glad when this season is over
We've done all right recently against Blackburn but tonight we had one of those games and one of them ref's. Rob Hulse was jeered as he was substituted and he went straight down the tunnel. We probaley won't see him again.
If that was a penalty-then the moon is made of cheese. What a Pollock of a referee
We scored early and then Rob Hulse had a hand in Blackburn's opening goal. Danny Shittu ended up with two yellow cards, the second yellow was after the final whistle as he protested his dismay regarding the farcical penalty decision and will miss the next game which is against Nottingham Forest at home .KJ supported Danny by saying, ' he showed commitment.
Yet another home defeat, and no "fortress Den" this season. Not to sure why we are losing at home.
We cannot score goals and our defence on the whole is very good with some good solid players who show plenty of commitment mixed in with gristle so why are we losing? these games should be 0-0 draws
It's all a bit sparse, even the away support is down to 240
subs not used, M.Taylor, Saville, Woolford, Malone
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27/4/13 League Game 44 Millwall 0 Nottingham Forest 1 att:13,330 (2,041)
Things are looking desperate, yet another home defeat.
At this present moment in time I can't be bothered, so I won't.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Osborne, Beevers, A.Smith, St.Ledger, Abdou, Henry, Saville (Feeney 79),
Tyson (Keogh 61), Batt (Marquis 61)
subs not used, M.Taylor, J.Smith, Wright, Easter
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30/4/13 League Game 45 Millwall 0 Crystal.Palace 0 att: 12, att: 12,745 (2,089)
This well earn't point takes us to 56 points and mathematically still not safe
One game to go and to secure Championship survival we really need to take something from the last game at Derby County, we must not lose.
Back to the game, it was noisy and at times we reached a ear splitting crescendo. Palace tried to match but they were blown away so they resulted in letting off fireworks.
The Met's finest sort out the Palace firework boys
It was not the usual size crowd for this South London Derby but the Den was still rocking. I enjoyed the game in tems of " a local derby" but disliked the fact that it was so obvious that we haven't got a striker. I enjoyed the game because the ref knowing that it was a derby game and wasn't whistle happy and on the whole let the game flow. Well done ref.
Captain Danny Shittu received the supporters chalice as player of the year with David "so solid" Forde receiving the runner up spot. James Henry came third. Danny N'Guessan was substituted after only being on the field for eight minutes after coming on as a substitute. He walked as slow as a tortoise across the pitch and straight down the tunnel with jeers ringing in his ears. A few minutes later a cry of there is only one Kenny Jacket rang around the ground. I presume just like Hulse we will not see N'Guessan again.
The 0-0 result reflects to what I said after the Blackburn Rovers. I would have taken the point if offered before the game, so I am happy. We limited Palace to just a few chances while we worked hard around their box. Without the striker to bang in the goal I think we done enough and deserved a lucky deflection, but it was not to be
THE DERBY GAME COMING UP IS HUGE
It has been a strange season. Chris Wood was our golden boy as he wa banging in the goals and things looked rosey. Then he goes a joins a "bigger club" and we don't replace him. Just to top that off, we let Darius Henderson go to Nottingham Forest. Rob Hulse come in and managed to score one goal against Conference side Luton. John Marquis has failed to impress with his goals but I cannot fault his commitment. We need a 20 goal a season striker and also a 8-10 goal midfield or forward player.If we do not have this by the start of next season, I wouldn't rate our chances.
The 0-0 result reflects to what I said after the Blackburn Rovers. I would have taken the point if offered before the game, so I am happy. We limited Palace to just a few chances while we worked hard around their box. Without the striker to bang in the goal I think we done enough and deserved a lucky deflection, but it was not to be
THE DERBY GAME COMING UP IS HUGE
It has been a strange season. Chris Wood was our golden boy as he wa banging in the goals and things looked rosey. Then he goes a joins a "bigger club" and we don't replace him. Just to top that off, we let Darius Henderson go to Nottingham Forest. Rob Hulse come in and managed to score one goal against Conference side Luton. John Marquis has failed to impress with his goals but I cannot fault his commitment. We need a 20 goal a season striker and also a 8-10 goal midfield or forward player.If we do not have this by the start of next season, I wouldn't rate our chances.
The Lions attack but who's going to finish it?
Millwall; Forde, Dunne, Lowry, Shittu, Beevers, Henry (Woolford 21), Wright, St.Ledger, Feeney, Keogh, Batt(N'Guessan 72) Trotter 86 for N'Guessan
subs not used, M.Taylor, Marquis, Smith, Abdou
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4/5/13 League Game 46 Derby 1 Millwall 0 att:25,021
It now looks like our recent home win against Watford was massive, those three points kept us up. We nearly got a point at Derby but they banged one in with five minutes ago and those teams that mattered like Peterboro lost. We are safe.
After a slog of a season it boiled down to just two points that kept us in the Championship .Like I said after the Palace game we need to strengthen in the summer and get at least two players in that can score goals. Hopefully with the dead wood going back to their parent clubs some money will be freed up to get some natural goal scorers on the books..We must start being nigh-on impossible too beat at home.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Feeney, St. Ledger (Woolford 89m), Wright( Abdou 51m), Trotter, Keogh, Batt( Easter 21m),
subs not used, M. Taylor, Osborne, Smith, Marquis
7/5/13
Kenny Jackett resigns and that wasn't expected. I should say 'that it wasn't expected by me' and in fact I gave it no thought at all and here's me who prides himself on having he's finger on the pulse.
I have no idea at this time who I would like to take the job. I know that there is a few managers out there looking for work but I am sure that JB will not rush the appointment, he will make sure that who ever he gets will fit into his budget plans; I am sure that will be his main criteria
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10/5/13
Not much heard yet regarding Kenny Jackett's replacement. Some seem to think that Marc Bircham has a chance. Nobody has mentioned Joe Gallen, for cheapness and stability KJ's ex assistant may be the Chairman's choice
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.15/5/13
Still nothing heard, plenty of rumours but nothing fact. As you can imagine plenty of chit-chat on the Millwall forums and some of it is total crap. One bit of news, Youngster Jake Goodman signs a new one year deal.
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16/5/13
Danny Shittu signs a new two year deal which I am happy to hear. Our player of the season is the king-pin within the team and it would have been a big loss with out him.
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27/5/13
Still no sign of a new manager, the club states that it could be another ten days yet.
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4/5/13 League Game 46 Derby 1 Millwall 0 att:25,021
It now looks like our recent home win against Watford was massive, those three points kept us up. We nearly got a point at Derby but they banged one in with five minutes ago and those teams that mattered like Peterboro lost. We are safe.
After a slog of a season it boiled down to just two points that kept us in the Championship .Like I said after the Palace game we need to strengthen in the summer and get at least two players in that can score goals. Hopefully with the dead wood going back to their parent clubs some money will be freed up to get some natural goal scorers on the books..We must start being nigh-on impossible too beat at home.
Millwall: Forde, Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry, Feeney, St. Ledger (Woolford 89m), Wright( Abdou 51m), Trotter, Keogh, Batt( Easter 21m),
subs not used, M. Taylor, Osborne, Smith, Marquis
Played 46, W15, D11, L20, F51, A62, Pts 56
Millwall are awarded the least penalty kicks in the Championship for this season. Now why doesn't that surprise me?
_________________Millwall are awarded the least penalty kicks in the Championship for this season. Now why doesn't that surprise me?
7/5/13
Kenny Jackett resigns and that wasn't expected. I should say 'that it wasn't expected by me' and in fact I gave it no thought at all and here's me who prides himself on having he's finger on the pulse.
I have no idea at this time who I would like to take the job. I know that there is a few managers out there looking for work but I am sure that JB will not rush the appointment, he will make sure that who ever he gets will fit into his budget plans; I am sure that will be his main criteria
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10/5/13
Not much heard yet regarding Kenny Jackett's replacement. Some seem to think that Marc Bircham has a chance. Nobody has mentioned Joe Gallen, for cheapness and stability KJ's ex assistant may be the Chairman's choice
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.15/5/13
Still nothing heard, plenty of rumours but nothing fact. As you can imagine plenty of chit-chat on the Millwall forums and some of it is total crap. One bit of news, Youngster Jake Goodman signs a new one year deal.
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16/5/13
Danny Shittu signs a new two year deal which I am happy to hear. Our player of the season is the king-pin within the team and it would have been a big loss with out him.
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27/5/13
Still no sign of a new manager, the club states that it could be another ten days yet.
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