League One Results 11th September 2010 Part 2

Hartlepool United 2-3 Exeter City
Exeter moved up into the top half of the table after fighting back from 2-1 down to beat Hartlepool. The home side are only out of the relegation places on goal difference but if they play like this every week – and if the opposition doesn’t play like Exeter every week – they should be fine.
Richard Duffy started for Exeter with Rob Edwards replacing him in the 89th minute. Daniel Nardiello also started and played well but only lasted until half-time.

Peterborough United 5-2 Oldham Athletic
Oldham lost for the first time this season against a Peterborough side who are now top of the table and are yet to drop points at home. Oldham were 2-0 up after 38 minutes but Peterborough managed to get one back just before half-time, before a second-half fightback.
Peterborough didn’t seem to miss hamstrung Arron Davies as much as I did.
Joe Jacobson was on the bench again for Oldham.

Rochdale 3-2 Walsall
Rochdale climb into the play-off places following their third successive win. For Walsall, however, this is the third successive defeat, which doesn’t sound nearly as nice.
Both teams left their Welshmen on the bench – Rochdale’s Matt Done and Walsall’s Sean Geddes.

Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Carlisle United
Carlisle beat Sheffield Wednesday by just the one goal but it could and probably should have been more. Maybe Sheffield Wednesday were in shock from nearly going into administration again – that is actually quite easy to believe considering the way they played. Let’s hope they’re feeling better this weekend.
Jason Price stayed on the bench. He is yet to play a single minute for Carlisle this season. Unless I’ve got that wrong.

Swindon Town 1-0 Southampton
This was a fixture many would have expected to have some say in the title race but at the moment, it’s looking more like a relegation battle. Swindon managed to double their points total with this win but Southampton are down in 22nd with the same number of points as bottom club Dagenham & Redbridge. Their caretaker manager thought they’d have won 3-0 if they’d scored but as they didn’t score, Southampton didn’t get to test this theory out.
Ryan Doble made his first appearance of the season on Southampton’s bench – the only striker among the substitutes - but Swindon didn’t follow suit with Billy Bodin.

Yeovil Town 3-1 Tranmere Rovers
Yeovil put on a great performance to beat Tranmere 3-1. Yeovil were 3-0 up after 27 minutes and although Tranmere did get a consolation, it was only from a penalty.
Yeovil followed my advice again and, with the help of some of their supporters, re-signed Gavin Williams on-loan. It’s getting scary now,
Gavin and Shaun MacDonald both started but Owain Tudur Jones was only given three stoppage-time minutes to show what he could do. Assistant manager Nathan Jones wasn’t in the squad.
Tranmere were without the injured Ash Taylor (knee).