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MK Dons The Preview

With promotion now gone, Alan Pardew has to prepare for the JPT.

Now the last lingering hope of promotion has now gone AP now has to prepare for Wembley and with that in mind he needs to play the players that are elegible for the JPT in the place of those that arent.

That means starts for Papa Waigo and perhaps Chris Perry, or move Wayne Thomas to the centre and play Lloyd James at right back, that means resting Lee Barnard, Jason Puncheon, Jose Fonte, Daniel Seaborne etc, but we need to try and gel their replacements and now concentrate on the game against Carlisle.

In games like this though with the pressure off you sometimes find that sides come out and play without fear and with that in mind you wouldnt bet on Saints making it four in a row against the Dons.

For Saints fans its now just another game and a chancce to enjoy themselves with nothing resting on it, I think Saints will win and I also think that come the last day we wont be far off the play offs, sadly I think we will be left rueing the dropped away points of the last three months not to mention the Swindon game on Tuesday.  

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