Jesus christ that was awful. And cold. Seats were comfy though.

Everyone was poor. Hal and Piazon particularly. Williams had a pretty bad game as well.

Vydra should've scored after a great run from McCleary, who probably should've gone for goal himself. As much as I hate to admit it, Blackman would've buried that.

McCleary missed a sitter himself in the second half. Keeper was already on the floor. Should've taken a touch and banged it, but rushed it and put it straight at him instead.

Their keeper got man of the match, and Al Habsi was probably ours. Mainly because everyone else was dogshit.

Guessing Sa is all but off. No idea why Quinn didn't get on. Should've come on at half time when it was clear we needed a change.

Shocking. Need a big performance on Saturday.

I am so pissed off. We were awful all over the pitch.

Why did McDermott bring on Cox instead of Sa when we are playing long ball. What's BM got against Sa. I am fed up with McDermott sticking with his favourites.

I hope Gunter, Taylor and Kanu aren't here next season.

Hello John was rubbish as well. Didn't want to put a cross in for some weird reason.

go on, go on go on go on go on oh for oxf*rd sake

Seriously if Simon Cox is the answer we are doomed, Birmingham today showed us that Tuesday night wasn`t as good as all the messiah lovers would have us believe.
Just piss off McDermott you are crap and always will be.

Superb stadium
Comfy seats (and let's face it that's important to fans that sit down)
Great steak and ale pie. Even better local (concrete cow company) pale ale.

Oh yeh we were shit
Al Habsi had a really good game - no mistakes!
Otherwise just Norwood as usual looked OK

Interesting to hear an entirely different version of events from supporters who were at the game. According to Dellor only one player missed an absolute sitter and only one of our team was really poor and that was Vydra! He spent virtually the whole game moaning about him and saying little else. Yet Dellor still claims he isn't running a vendetta against him.

You make a bold statement but one that I am struggling to disagree with at the moment..... I will review the situation in the morning.

To put some perspective on this, Middlesboro lost to Brizzle City today.

To put things into perspective, they can afford to lose, can't say the same about us

McD said: 'It was a 1-0 game'.

WTF does it have to be a 1-0 game Brian? Why couldn't we win 3-0 ? Why couldn't you change things and make adjustments to prevent (what you saw as) the inevitable. (Dons, btw, had just lost 5-0 at home in their previous game 4 days ago.)

Yet another wasted defensive effort. Dons, like most other teams we play, prolly knew one goal would be enough.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we're not going up.

Woeful.

They were absolutely there for the taking, we just didn't even look like we were trying in the first half.

There keeper made 3 great saves. 1 from Piazon in the first half, the volley from Norwood looked to be an outstanding save and again I thought Mcleary should have done a lot better but it was a good save!

Vydra can't play up top on his own. He's not strong enough. There back 2 won everything in the air. The chance he missed was a pathetic finish for a professional footballer. He looked to panic and pull it wide. The player that pulled him down through on goal should have been sent off, was an awful decision from the ref just to give a yellow.

If one of our many chances would have gone in, I thought we would have had enough to see out the game.

Al Habsi had a good game and made a few good saves. I thought Cooper looked ok but no one else covered themselves in glory. Not quite sure what Sa has done not to even get on. I was surprised to see Cox come on but didn't think he did badly in the 10 minutes he was on.

Nice easy trip, spacious and comfy seats. The bar in the concourse was a bit of a weird design!

And we brushed Middlesbrough aside only a few months ago ?

Good to hear Al Habsi didn't throw the ball in his net, was Bond on bench ?

How our fortunes can change ..

Good to hear Al Habsi didn't throw the ball in his net, was Bond on bench ?zzzzzzzzzzz move on

One of the most woeful, inept, tactically naive and spineless performances in a long time. Al Habsi and the God-like Anton Ferdinand emerge with credit. No one else.

I thought MK were rubbish, but hard working, close-everything-down, and took their chance. Superb stadium.

Quite how the ref didn't send their lad off - I can only assume he thought it wasn't really a clear goal scoring opportunity because it was Vydra.

Set pieces - we're a joke. Crosses - either don't beat the first man or sail over everyone. Passes - too many just went astray.

I tried to overcome my disappointment with Brian's return because I want it to work out. But today was a shattering experience, and my fears are all resurfacing.

Well he can't blame Terry Burton, who takes the rap this time ?

To put things into perspective, they can afford to lose, can't say the same about us

Can they? They're only six points clear of third, whilst we're 10 points clear of 22nd. They're in a tighter situation that we are. It's been obvious for ages it'd take something herculean to get into the play offs and we're too short of confidence and form to achieve it.

Same old story, shit result against shit opposition. We started brightly but then after 5 minutes just seemed to switch off, and we stayed asleep for the entirety of the first half - which was truly abysmal. One good chance which Vydra missed but for me McCleary should have done better, he did the hard bit but instead of shooting on his left in a better position, overhit his touch and the ball to Vydra wasn't great. MK Dons were terrible but had a few really decent chances without having to work hard for them. Second half was better but it was the same story, huff and puff but poor decision making and too many players not on the same wavelength and individual errors. We were second to everyball and quite were deservedly beaten by a terrible terrible side who just wanted it more - they pressed well and defended fairly robustly but we made it easy for them, too slow when we need to play it quick, too quick when we need composure and some vision. They should have been down to 10 but it was a total bottle job from the ref.

Al-Habsi 8 - MOTM, commanding performance and kept us in it with some top saves. Distribution was alright and he was confident coming out to collect balls.

Gunter 4 - An awful player, terrible at defending and woeful in attack. Same old Gunter performance.

Ferdinand 6 - Mostly solid but it has to be said was relatively untested against a toothless MK Dons side

Cooper 6 - Likewise

Taylor 5 - Poor going forward

Williams 5 - Decent first half but tailed off as the game went on. Lots of energy but little end product.

Norwood 5 - Poorest game this season that I've seen from him. Grew into the game as it went on but still poor. Awful set pieces.

McCleary 6 - Might be a tad harsh as he was our best attacking threat, but he could have done better with both opportunities presented to him.

HRK 4 - waste of space

Vydra 5 - Lots of running but wasteful, again,

Piazon 4 - A few bright moments but bullied off the ball time and time again and was pretty ineffective. Should have come off sooner.

Subs:

Cox N/A - Did he even touch the ball?

John 3 - Instant impact winning two corners (yay ) but did precious little after that.

Terrible atmosphere and whilst pockets of us tried to sing and get things going it was disjointed, what with the allocated seating and influx of fairweathers. Was always going to be likely.

McD is pissing me off with Sa. It's obvious that he doesn't like him and won't play him, so why the oxf*rd is he wasting a spot on the bench? Clueless from the manager today.

I said after the Derby game that this season isn't a write off based purely on what we've done in the past and the runs we've been on however realistically it's a bit of a pipedream. Based on this performance though I think it's a safe bet to say the playoffs are a step, and a big one at that, too far. We have the ability to be promotion contenders and at times we make the game look easy, at others we look woefully inept and, as a team, I don't think we have enough.

I thought the team looked very tired, this could possibly be laid at the feet of BMc who didn't make any subs on Tuesday and just two (?) today.

Despite a lacklustre first half we looked good at the beginning of the second, and but for a few fine stops from their keeper we'd have been in front. The turning point in the game was the potential sending off, which in my opinion was an inexcusable mistake from the referee. Playing against 10 we don't lose that game.

All in all a bit of a damp squib of a day.

We are clueless when an opposition player gets sent off, and have been for years.

We are clueless when an opposition player gets sent off, and have been for years.
True but as he said we wouldn't have lost

We are clueless when an opposition player gets sent off, and have been for years.

MK wouldn't have found a way into that game to find a winner though. I'm not saying we would have won, but I don't think we would have lost.

Why the dickens can't BM see it ! More worrying if he does and he can't reverse the trend ..

We are clueless when an opposition player gets sent off, and have been for years.

MK wouldn't have found a way into that game to find a winner though. I'm not saying we would have won, but I don't think we would have lost.

I agree I was just playing devil's advocate a tad.

It doesn't matter though as even a draw against that lot would be a shite result and we barely looked like winning.

Do we just not practice corners at all? We're completely inept at defending them and utterly woeful at even getting the ball into the oppositions box with our own. Considering a) they're probably the easiest thing to practice and b) Norwood is superb at other set ball players, it seems completely baffling how atrocious they are. When it comes to defending them the defence seem to go into panic mode.
I'm utterly clueless.

Team performance - struggled to find our own players with a majority of passes. Looked toothless in attack. Cooper looked dire and seems to think he's Steven Gerrard reborn as a 6ft 10 centre back. McCleary the only notable performance.

Stadium/Day out - nice stadium. Awful home support made for a sterile atmosphere. I think having a 30,000 seater stadium when you're fanbase is 7 years old and in the middle of an industrial state, is extremely odd and will be detrimental to the club. Seems to be a modern day manifestation of build it and they will come; albeit not yet.

All in all. Shit away day. Will not be doing MK for a long while.


EDIT: O and Cox over Sa? Are you oxf*rd mental. That game was calling out for Sa! MK looked there for the taking and we weren't playing a single out and out striker

love to know his thinking with Cox over Sa ? Perhaps they want someone to buy him and if he's playing more likely than not ?