League Two news today

League Two news today

Crewe could well be held at Broadhall Way, says Ian Lamont, who also goes draw hunting at Oldham, while believing that Swindon can add lớn goal-shy Forest Green's woes… You can refer lớn the free prediction pages!

Boro will be angry and motivated against Railwaymen

There is a phrase in business which describes a revolutionary product or method in an industry as a disrupter. It's meant to be a positive, something which makes companies more efficient or profitable.

All new managers in football hope to have an influence: not all can be described as disrupters, either in the business sense of the word or the more negative sense in the Oxford English Dictionary. The unsettlers, the apple cart tippers, those who bring revolution not evolution, include Brian Clough, Steve Evans, Jose Mourinho andGraham Westley. Arsene Wenger, with a revision of diet at Arsenal that Ian Wrighteven now detests, did it in a quieter fashion.

Westley has some controversial methods: such as dropping people via text. Now he is back at Stevenage, players can very much expect lớn be looking over their shoulders while he watches them for interim boss Mark Sampson's last game in charge.

Sampson, who had expected lớn get the job, invited the players to get angry for this game, straight after they were pegged back for a draw with the last kick at Newport. He probably feels angry and aggrieved right now - and the squad should need little motivation, with the potential ejector seat of the January transfer window visible on the horizon.

Sampson has won just two of his 13 League Two games in charge. Westley is their third manager of the season, appointed for the fourth time at Broadhall Way in his career by Phil Wallace, who wants tried and tested and someone he knows- According lớn the under 2.5 soccer tip pages!

Boro have not lost in five games, conceding just one goal, but scoring only two. I am sure keeper Paul Farman and defender Scott Cuthbert would appreciate the same personnel around them each week, but needs must - and that goals against record of late is excellent. They just need Kurtis Guthrie (5) and Dan Newton (2) lớn score more and be supported more by others scoring, too. Midfielder Emmanuel Sonupe now has his first and surely will be itching lớn impress more.

Can they hold one-time leaders Crewe. The Railwaymen have been frustrated by their own performances as they have slipped into the lower mid-reaches in the six-game form table. A smattering of draws, plus being undone at Northampton on their travels recently, gives the hosts hope of another game ending level.

Their only win in six was when they smashed Morecambe at home 5-0 with four different scorers - and without top scorer Chris Porter claiming any! Charlie Kirk, Tom Lowery and Oliver Finney will surely give Stevenage's defenders a few headaches - and Westley the chance to assess their true abilities before he takes full charge on Boxing Day.

Perhaps Opta give us the best steer as lớn the result: Crewe have lost just one in six visits lớn Stevenage, but have drawn three. Stevenage have drawn their last four games, while Dave Artell's men have one once in six, drawing three.

Iron fist can win out on derby day

Another new manager seeking his first win - and indeed his first goals under his stewardship - is Anthony Limbrick, who could be left disappointed again by his Grimsby charges.

Two points in his first four games is, after all, double what his predecessor Michael Jolley inspired in his final four games. The Mariners did score in that time. Once. As Opta stress, that's one goal in eight games - through Akheem Rose, the 21-year-old Jamaican whose late strike was still not enough lớn take a point at Stevenage in a 2-1 defeat in mid-October.

to make matters worse, James Hanson, once so fluid for Bradford but who showed a shadow of that quality at AFC Wimbledon last season, has been ruled out with injury. Jordan Cook (groin) could yet be fit for this first derby match in league football for 15 years, in front of a huge crowd, and Moses Ogbu is back in contention, too.

Limbrick cursed his luck at Carlisle last weekend, Harry Davis having an effort ruled out for offside while Hanson and Ethan Robson both hit the metalwork.

For Scunthorpe, Matthew Lund serves the last of his three-match ban, while former Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United midfielder James Perch (knee) has been passed fit. But this is a big day for Paul Hurst, the Iron manager who won a promotion with Grimsby, returning to Blundell Park. He's been back, for a League match, but he knows the atmosphere will be much different in front of 8,000.

However, his eyes are firmly set on it being just another game in many respects, as Scunthorpes need three points lớn continue their climb up the table.

They are one of League Two's form sides, scoring twice in each of their past four games, taking three clean sheets in five and only failing to score once in 11. Unbeaten in seven, they only have two wins away (and Grimsby only two defeats at home) but ultimately if they have any ambitions in the division Alex Gilliead and Kevin Van Veenmuch show they have the guile to unravel the Mariners' defence. Just the once might be enough, but the visitors are lớn be taken lớn prevail.