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Northampton Town vs. Swansea City | Tuesday 27.02.01 | Sixfields Stadium | Nationwide League Division Two | |
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Team News | If one player has been missed the last few weeks it's Jason Smith. After suffering a severe sprain to his right ankle in the bruising affair against Brentford he's set to make his comeback tomorrow at Sixfelds hopefully replacing Bound who looks out of his league in the 2nd Division.Another possible returnè is Steve Jones who should be near match fitness after a 3 month absence at right back, forcing JJ back into defence and limiting our attacking potency. Hopefully his insaneness Hollins will reintroduce Cusack to help a very weak midfield retain some ball for a change, bu knowing him he'll put Jason Jones our sub keeper there instead.
| One 2 Watch : Jamie Forrester | Jamie is a quick, nippy goalscorer which will suit the Cobblers down to the ground in their new 4-4-2 style. A great start whilst on loan from FC Utrecht has seen the former Scunthorpe striker hit 6 goals in ten games during a loan spell, and he signed permanently as the club's record signing for £150,000 in June 2000.
He started his career with Auxerre and Leeds, but despite promising to reach the top, he moved to Grimsby. Scunthorpe was his next club before opting to move to Utrecht - whilst being chased by Northampton. Jamie has another impressive scoring record and is also a former Division Three top scorer!
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League Positions | Pos | - | Pld | PTS | 9th D2 | Northampton | 33 | 46 | 23rd D2 | Swansea | 30 | 24 |
| Head 2 Head | ALL MEETINGS | W | D | L | Northampton | 20 | 8 | 12 |
| Recent Meetings | DATE | H/A | SCORE | - | 10.3.00 | H | 4-1 W | Div 3 | 02.11.99 | A | 2-1 L | Div 3 | 24.05.97 | N | 1-0 L | PO Final | 08.02.97 | A | 2-1 W | Div 3 | 02.11.96 | H | 1-0 W | Div 3 | 13.01.90 | A | 1-1 D | Div 3 |
| Recent Form - | SEQUENCE | Swansea | LWLDLLLL | Northampton | WLDDLLDW |
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SWANSEA CITY | NORTHAMPTON | Freestone Howard O'Leary Smith Jones Cusack Romo Price Roberts Watkin Savarese | Welch Sampson Green Hope Frain Nicholson Hunt Morrow Thompson Gabbiadini Forrester |
Song For the Day | "Your Welsh & you know you are" to the Cobblers keeper Keith Welch |
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