As the bank holiday draws to an end, we entertain top of the table club Scunthorpe United who will be looking to earn promotion to the Championship with a victory that combined with a Forest defeat would be enough for promotion.
For the Cobblers, aspirations are a little different with safety within touching distance and we'll be looking to build on the Orient win. For the most part this season we've fallen to teams higher up the table but Scunny's win over us at Glanford Park was thanks to a late penalty.
Jordan Robertson will be looking to return to the starting line-up, as will Kenny Deuchar while Simon Cox has a real case for his inclusion after a good performance on Saturday and of course the opening goal.
Cobblers v Scunthorpe...Last Six meetings
18/11/05: Scunthorpe 1-0 Cobblers
09/04/05: Cobblers 1-2 Scunthorpe
30/08/04: Scunthorpe 2-0 Cobblers
21/02/04: Scunthorpe 1-0 Cobblers
17/10/03: Cobblers 1-1 Scunthorpe
03/05/97: Cobblers 1-0 Scunthorpe
So not a lot in favour of the Cobblers in recent history with Scunthorpe winning all of the last four meetings. Our last win over the Iron put us on course for the 1997 playoffs with Sean Parrish's single winning the game on that occasion. A lot has changed since then and with the march before the game from the Guildhall to Sixfields and a 7,000 plus crowd expected, it should be a good atmosphere around the ground.
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And there was me thinking I was the only blogger who ever went on about the Cobblers!
Great match yesterday, and I still haven't come back down to earth.
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