[shakermaker]

Toto was man of the match for me. Akinfenwa was using all of his presence to try and bring other players into the game, and all of his experience in order to induce fouls from our defenders. Toto dealt with this calmly and read his player well. A great performance.

Podge worked extremely hard up front. I did think that he would benefit if Murphy pushed further forward through the middle rather than drifting out wide; almost offering a second striker role when attacking (think Yaya Toure of City here). Our shape was pretty good all the way through. Devitt and Grant caused a lot of problems for the Cobblers when attacking, but our full backs suffered due to a lack of tracking back by the midfield when we were without the ball; exemplified in the way McIntyre was turned inside out by Silva. Devitt needs to improve on this, but otherwise he was almost unplayable; creating space and chances all the way through the game.

I thought Northampton's equalising goal was a foul on Kiernan and still think so having seen the replay. Then again, as has been mentioned, the officials had a shocker. The referee missed a stonewall penalty for us at 1-1 and the liners showed a flaky understanding of the offside rule.

Northampton are a good side but I thought overall we deserved the win. We looked fit all the way to the final whistle and our winning goal was superb.

Well done Cooky and Leam. Bring on the Shrimps.