By Mill House
August 12 2014

Colin Cooper has watched the video of the lack lustre defeat at Stevenage and says his side need to show more composure and quality on the ball  when they face Port Vale in the Capital One cup tonight ...

Talking to supporters who travelled to that game we could be in for a long hard season.

Tommy Miller was decent, but we didn't really threaten until Franks and Brobbel came on to inject some pace and spirit. They both may start tonight against a side one league higher and who are likely to get the ball down and play.

That wasn't something we did at Stevenage - by all accounts. We know from our experience with Steve Howard that the temptation when you have a big man up front is to lump it up to him. Marlon Harewood was up against a set of big defenders and had little chance to give Luke James any chances.

Tonight's trip gives us a chance to put some things right before two important home games. Victory isn't that important but a decent footballing display most certainly is.