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someone had to start it.

First game I've missed this season and I don't fancy our chances.

3-1 stockport. they won 3-0 away from home last week...

Its going to be really tough up there...hope we can show some bottle and get a result.

They only drew at home in midweek though and have to win there. I reckon a draw today. 1-1.

unless we get 6 points from the next 4 games i think i will be joining the malpas out gang

That won't be easy, don't fancy anything today, millwall at home should be 3 points on a good day, 'pool away will be tricky and then it's all down to udders.

4 points with some positives might be enough to keep me onside

Im dreading today

In my opinion the Hereford JPT game is more important than any of the next 3 league games. Because with this defence we have a very very slim chance of getting in the play offs, but we might be able to go all the way in the JPT.  

So il be sticking with Malpas as long as we are in that. If we get knocked out to Hereford then I cant see what good the season can hold for us. We are win some loose some, waste of time.

I'd say at least 3 points. Preferebly 6 like you say. We do have come tricky games coming up.

3 pts out of 12? U would settle for that

We will win today, 2-0 maybe 3-0 - CLEAN SHEET - the season will start today - we are going up!!

Dell in crack cocaine shocker

:cloud9:

Hmmm... Can I find anything better to do than listen to this.

I might be able to find some wet paint if you want to watch it dry?

the game hasnt even started and we're already talking about sacking Malpas.

I think we'll draw today. I also think we'll do better away from home this season when we're not playing infront of our retarded fans who boo if we're not winning....

I think we might keep a clean sheet today.

We haven't had a good result at Stockport in recent years. The last two matches there have been embarrassing, losing a 3 goal lead to end in a draw, and losing 3-0 last time.

Ifil dropped from 16 matchdaay - Morrison in. Teams on OS

McNamee out to....

Smith

Amankwaah
Morrison
Aljofree
Smith

JPM
Easton
Nalis
Timlin

Paynter
Cox

Subs: Brez, Casal, Peacock, Corr & McNamee

Strong bench!

No stronger than usual. None of the players on there today are any heavier than the usual mob.

The team needed a kick up the ass and MM has done that, lets face it...Ifil is lacking in morale after last week and Macca cant play away from home, makes sense.

I can see us playing a 4-3-1-2 with JPM given a free roaming role just behind the front 2 with no wide men, playing very narrow through the middle.

Pleased Corr is on the bench. MM has been brave with putting Morrison and Timlin in to replace Ifil and Macca. Not sure about JPM though. Also no Marshall?

No point having Marshall on the bench when Macca is already on there?

Bit harsh on Marshall that he plays well from the bench and gets dropped from it to accomodate somebody who hasn't turned up away from home this season, but never mind. Interesting selection at least, although doesn't do much to alter my suspicions of a 0-0.

3-2 to the Red Army...

what the fuck happens if aljofree or morrison get injured, I can not believe Ifil is not on the bench and as for Mcgovern he was our worst player last week just defies belief.

I guess if Aljofree actually gets injured then Casal will go in at Centre Half.....or at a push he could put Peacock there.

Anyone fancy a late winner from Corr?

late consolation maybe

be nice :nod:

more chance of him coming on and getting injured...

I'm a little surprised Brez isn't back in goal.

Are we winning yet?

Unfortunately my radio fell down the toilet earlier on this year so I am unable to listen today.

I may peruse the internet for a DAB radio in the meantime.

I'm not that surprised.  One horror show doesn't turn Smith in to a bad keeper.  I quite respect Malpas, actually, for giving the guy a chance today.  Obviously, he'll be on a warning though.

we seem to get so many corners.....

Text commentary then for you. Corner to us, pretty even start.

There's a very obvious question to ask there.  But I'll refain from asking it.

3 corners and not a single effort on target!

Another corner, c'mon

5th corner. Surprisingly attacking.

Oh, I'm getting depressed about McGovern being in the side-He's my new Gurney

Fucking stfc world. *insert very pissed off smilie*

has stfc world ever worked?

 We had 16 corners at Numb and the keeper wasn't needed for a save on any of them. Then another 5 in the first few mins v ColU....is McGovern taking them?

I see Stockport have a man called Jim McNulty in their side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM&feature=related

JPM 1 Timlin 4 I think....

Do you think this counts as one of Timlin's big games that he gets all excited about?

Newcastle 1-0 down already. Oh dear.

 Not sure I can recall him doing corners, ought to be able to kick a static ball accurately though.

who cares?

our 15 minutes of pressure are over now...

McNamee was fucking brilliant at Hereford and Ifil should be in above Aljofree every time in my opinion

Trouble is where do you aim for? Once the players have finished doing their dancing queen routine on the penalty spot you have no idea where they're going to be.

BR you having problems with STFC World again mate? its working fine for me...unlike last weeks debacle.

According to the live text we hit the bar-must've missed that on the commentary

Yes mate, I click on the link, win-amp opens and....... nothing. I've also tried copying the link into windows media and real player but nada.

Ed said we hit the bar on Radio Swindon as well.

By any chance mate you arent using Firefox are you...or Opera? I cant get in unless I use IE7, it wont let me in with IE8 Beta either, I hate having to have to use Microsoft products.

Smith in missed the cross shocker!

Cox header apparently

Shit

1-0

fuck sake....

SHOCK

Oh fer fucks sake. That guy might not be on the pitch and he's scored.

oh bollocks

Ifil would have cut it out and Brez would have saved it :)

....thats nothing, Barry Corr would have scored from it!

This depresses me.

Should never have let Carricks loan finish, he would have tracked his man back

I blame Diamandis.

Shock horrer we are 1 down.

Fucksake

Crawley have equalised against the Pox.  (Don't mock - they're the biggest team in West Sussex.  I think.)

Go Crawley, 2-1 up!

How are we doing? Oh.

Hucknall 0-0 Workington at half time, who would have thought that??

fans being dick heads again, surprise surprise  ::)

Aljofree is apparently arguing our own fans.

Aljofree getting a bit of stick then?

Morrison reacted first by the sounds of it, then Has got involved

Sounds about right , Hasney having a go at the fans like he did at MKour fans really are idiots if they said somehing

Got world working. Cheers JJ, I didn't know about the I.E. thing.

Just in time for HT.  Brilliant!

They've got every right to complain.. If I'd spent all that cash and wasted my Saturday slogging it up to Stockport I'd be moaning too. You need to stop being so self-righteous mate.

Doesn't sound like we have been that bad though. Just can't keep a clean sheet. Hardly sounds like Leeds all over again although we still haven't had the second half.

No worries mate, glad to be of service.

You can't blame the captain for standing up for the youngster.   Neither should get involved in the first place, though if our "fans" are being cocks I don't really blame them.

Not near a radio right now:

I am staggard Ifil is out the squad. Is there an Injury?.
Does 1-0 sound a fair reflection.

Herthab said fans are dicks

i was moaning about it mate, after all i started the thread 'Why Are Our Fans Cunts'

moaning about what? we've been playing well by all accounts but I suppose because we've got a well off chairman we have a divine right to be beating teams like Stockport....

Not at all. It doesnt sound as if we are doing too bad... unless the players had a go at the fans, I bet its the wannabe Green Street crew

Herthab needs to stop being so self-righteous ;)

Whatever it is or was it's not good. It's only going to put confidence down even more.

Manatees!

What happened with their goal. Was it another fuck-up?

A team of manatee's eh JJ.

Ha ha ace.

WTG me! Lick my Arse Orifice

Local celeb there :D

I can live with a bit more slagging off of the adver too.

We've had 65% of possession!

what did they say John?

Malpas is getting some serious hate from the texts. At least we have such trivial things to moan about after last year.

I txt them and said we need a team of manatees and that the TE forum was betetr than the adver forum!

hahah WE ALL DREAM OF A TEAM OF MAN-A-TEES!

haha quality

"Who's gone out there, is it rains or blizzard?"

Jebus, I know its not the best place for weather but I thought it was nice this weekend.

yesssssssss

Yes!

According to my brief analysis from Johno, we've played averagely well but the fans are moaning. He says that Aljofree was reacting to one particular bloke in the crowd who shouted a barrel-load of abuse at him, rather than having an argument with the Swindon fans in general.

Come on guys, it could be worse. Brighton let Walsall score against them with

1-1

MALPAS OUT

Get the fuck in, wondergoal from Easton

I thought that too Nemo, very ironic.......1-1 Easton!

WOOOOOOOOOO

get in

FUCKIN HELL MALPAS HOW DARE YOU LET US SCORE

Get in Easto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...9 men!

Wahey!

Well that makes my post look stupid.... (Cheers DV!)

E-I-E-I-E-I-O UP THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE WE GO ;)

Getting Manatees on the airwaves must be lucky.

For those who are wondering what the goal was like...

"Goal by Craig Easton (Swindon) right-footed (bottom-left of goal) from right channel (25 yards).Stockport 1-1 Swindon. Assist (pass) by Jack Smith (Swindon) from left channel."

I think we should all txt in...we all dream of a team of manatees Lick my Arse Orifice

Paynter miss. Come on Town. Keep going here.

Whats the number?

Get In ! (erm, that was a "Trigger" moment for the equaliser)

07786203303 mate, the missus is doing it too!

07786 203303 I think.

Can you not email in anymore?

It used to be [email protected] didn't it?

It did always used to be that, but not sure now Ben.

Still is.

Corr on for Paynter

CORR

why is Paynter going off?

Big Bazz is back!

Not risking going three up and sod all chance of Cox coming off?

Amazes me we never take Cox off. Even if paynter was to score a hat trick he would be sent off instead of Cox.

Cox is our highest scorer. Why would we take him off?

Maybe it's because Cox is our best player?

Corr Injured FFS

Yeah however if Paynter is playing better than Cox on the day.

Because Cox is more likely to pop up and score a goal from nothing.

Doesn't sound like he was on this occasion.

Hypothetical situations make for a crap argument Gazza. Fail.

Besides which aren't Corr and Paynter a bit too similar/slow to play together? Even on his off days Cox's workrate is usually superb.

So is Corr injured or not? Im not listening to the game by the way

no

No not yet anyway.

A good point well made Batch mate.

Not that I've heard.

I'd bring on McNamee now i think.

Yeah get JPM off and push Macca on and press them into mistakes at the back.

Good call.  If we're serious about doing anything this season other than settle for lower mid table, we should be looking to nick games from positions like these.

why the fuck are we playing Cox up front with Corr just off him? fucking hell

Because a point away isn't actually that bad a result?

surely you would have Cox off Corr? Corr is a target man

Peacs will get the winner

Corr's just come on after months off, he's gonna chase after everything even if he is meant to be up front.

That'll do then ref

Cox off anyway never mind Nemo, nice disagreeing with you though

As it happens I agree with you, but its always fun to have an argument to spice up a now rather dull game.

5 minutes added time...Oh lawd.

5 minutes. Come on Town!

Ricky Shakes got replaced for Ebbsfleet after 56mins, Ebbsfleet then score in the 57 & 58 minute :)

3 minutes...come on Town!

1-1 isn't a bad result really, what with being away from home. If we can sort our home form out we'll do well.

Full time, that'll do. Good recovery after the early fuck up.

full time 1-1

Full time. I'll take a point. Unbeaten away in 3 WTF?

Macca gets a point for me in Fantasy Football for a three second appearence.

Nothing wrong with a 1-1 away win. I'll still await a different response from certain groups who think we should be top of the league though.

1-1 away win?

well if we sort our home form out... off we go!

I would have preferred us to have gone into the last 5-10 mins going for it, but I understand why we didn't, I'm just a bit mental.

I'm quite happy with that - though wish we'd made something out of the first 15 mins of constant pressure on Stockport

Good result-well done Malpas,our most successful away manager for years!

quite happy with a draw.i hope the abusive fan got a slap off someone.

WTF are we doing drawing with these tinpot shite. malpas out NOW

I am fairly pleased with a draw, lets build on it at home now.

Fair play good result lets hope we build on it

manatees!

haha a pod of manatees

manatees! PMSL

We all dream of a team on manatees!

It's a heard of manatees. Don't worry, I've already emailed in to tell him.

Took the dog for a walk, came back and RS were talking about manatees. What the fuck have you lot been up to!

The manatee word must get out each game!!!

Geeks

amen shorty

Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick

Manatees

 :soapy tit wank:

WTF we may as well play manatees as we already have a useless lumps at the back the captain being the main one? Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick

My missus Anniekins got her txt on as well lmfao

i never found the manatee thing funny.even less now.no offence jj

agreed

At least it gets rid of half the negative txts that come in.

Indeedy dee, its all a bit of fun, IMO.

I never found it funny but listening to the guy reading the texts out now quite sure what is going on is slightly amusing...

As VV says its better than the idiotic shite they read out last week.

That was the whole point of the manatee thing to start with, it was never meant to be funny.

so we swap negative and stupid for just stupid?

In a word, yes....

Agreed

i'm not having a pop by the way before anyone goes off on one.not my cup of tea thats all

Agreed

Yeppers

No offence taken mate, I only sent the original txt to take the piss out of the damn annoying presenter!

It just made me chuckle....sad I know but it lightened up my little existance!

When the manatee thing first started it got on a lot of people's nerves. But it does prove a point, it gets tiresome reading about manatees but it also gets tiresome posting the same thing 100 times about something with very little intellectual input.

Of course I'm talking about the days when people were calling for the Board to to step down because they ran out of ketchup for their burger.

Infamy

It's Sabre Toothed Elephants next game.

West African manatee BR?

Well done chap! They are giving a history lesson about Manatees!

Done and Done mate!

Infamy Infamy.......they all got it in for me!

i regret making that post now. :)

Excuse the ignorance but what does this and PMSL mean??!

Rolling on the floor laughing and pissing my self laughing.

It might be fitting that both get the soapy tit wank treatment.

I know that means Rollling on the floor laughing.

What does MOM mean? I was really struggling with the teen spaz speak from the Lids last week on myonlyswindon.com.

That's all well and good BR - but what does it mean?

:D

If thats the case then both are wrong and should be ROTFL and PML??

Either they are talking about Microsoft Operations Manager or they mean Man of the Match but dont release of the are two words!

If fookin hate text speak!!

Just got back.

In reply to arirba's post earlier, that bloke would've got a slap from me if he didn't have loads of police around him after 'reporting' Aljofree. Fucking joke. The guy shouts out at Aljofree saying "you're fucking rubbish" and then goes running to the police when Aljofree turns back and calls him a "fucking prick". There weren't half some mongs there today. Some bloke asking for Malpas to change it and bring someone else on when we were one-nil down after 20 minutes.

And to top it all off, some bloke and his kid turned up with "Malpas Out" painted on their faces. Some of our fans are a fucking joke and I wonder why the hell they bother driving all the way to Stockport just to have a go at the players and other fans.

As for the game, I thought it was a good battling away performance. Nobody reall put a foot wrong:

P Smith - Didn't have a lot to do, a good save in the first half. Faultless for the goal, didn't see it until it'd come through a body of players.
J Smith - Solid game but gave away some silly fouls.
Aljofree - Didn't put a foot wrong all game IMO and won some good tackles and headers.
Morrison - Steady game, looked a bit nervous but no big mistakes.
Amankwaah - My MOTM, was superb. Defended well and got forward even better.
Timlin - Had on ok game. Some good passes but a but ineffective on the left and drifted inside a lot.
Easton - Quite quiet I thought but popped up for the goal.
Nalis - What a fucking find this guy is, has a great footballing brain and can pick a pass with ease. Close to Amankwaah for MOTM.
McGovern - Some nice touches and showed a bit of skill, did well cutting in from the right instead of staying wide.
Paynter/Cox - Both had a less than average game I thought. I can understand why Paynter was subbed so early because he really didn't have much influence on the game.

Notable efforts:
Corr - Looked sharp but wasted a good opportunity by shooting from 35+ yards when he could've rolled Peacock in at the end.

we do have some idiot fans.

you'd think you'd get away from them away to Stockport but clearly not.

 If someone wants to voice a opinion thats up to them it does my head in whenever someone says they want him out they told to back up the argument yet no one seems to have a reason for him to be kept on

Sigh. What did they think they would acheive? Yet they travel all the way to Stockport. Bizarre.

Ive got no problem with anyone shouting Aljofree you are shit, but surely if you give it out you take it back?

As for Malpas Out facepaint, call social services now. It will probably take SBC 4 years to do anything about it anyway, so the call needs to go in immediately.

To be fair to Corr, Peacock had chances laid on a plate to him at Aldershot and missed them both, so I dont blame him one bit. Great to hear hes back.

Good to hear Amankwaah is improving, I thought the same at Hereford. But still think Nalis is real deal captain material. Malpas seems unable to drop Aljofree as captain, so to be honest I hope Malpas gets an excuse to drop him as captain.

When I first saw him I shouted "Oi, facepaint!". He looked at me expecting to get a thumbs up or something, but I called him a cock instead. He then put his hat on (to cover up some of the writing) and kept it on for the rest of the game.

Can Aljofree get done for telling the truth? Anyone who runs to the police to report their own player is indeed a fucking prick.

So was the fan telling the truth

haha Craig just called me and told me about that and the Hasney incident we do have some stupid fans

I look forward to Hasney reporting him to the police then. Oh, he didn't.  He may be "fucking rubbish" but at least he's not a prize cock.

These people do it because they don't expect the player to react... and when they do they always look stupid and go running to the authorities... what a hardman Mr. Fan.

Aljofree's professionalism is questionable here but this is the 3rd tier and people are expecting perfection and not getting behind their own players as a result of it.

I cant help but laugh at this. 

Same here. The fan and aljofree are both cunts

how can some cunt go all that way and paint his face with malpas out?
what a fucking cock.any photos of these wankers taken today?

Ive got to say, Aljofree is a strange character. In the papers he has repeatedly over inflated his own career, and the fact that he apparently played in the world class league that is "the championship". He is petulant, aloof and arrogant and puts himself well before his team mates. It sticks in my throat that he is our captain. He literrally is not fit to clean dog shit off Shaun Taylors boots, I would pay to do that myself.

If I was moved enough to pubicly and personally slate one of our own players I would make sure I had something to back it up.

Running to the police. What a fucking prick.

U would pay to whipe dog shit off

I was taking it a bit far there.  :-[

But Hasney should be made to watch a few 93-96 videos to see what a True Leader of Men looks like.

Haha serious question though how comes jerel was out the squad all together today

What bothers me, is like the half-time booing at MK, there didn't appear to be any reason for having a go at Aljofree.

Good performance, good game, good point. Good day in fact. Apart from the huge scary northerner who seemed to fucking hate his daughter. She was ginger though.

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It's a bit late but I thought this might be appreciated (StumbledUpon it).

The Aljofree incident at McDons was a few groans that turned into a few shouts of frustration. Nothing really.

The HT booing was well dissapointing though.

Sorry I didn't mean to include the Aljofree incident at Franchise in that, merely the half time booing, compared to todays Aljofree incident.

Seeing that written down (separate Aljofree incidents) is a bit worrying though.

i think aljoree is on a hiding to nothing here now.like malpas, some want the slightest excuse to have a go at him.

I missed the game today (bowood for the eldests birthday party - on threat of removing my balls and wearing them as earrings) so missed all this manatee chat.  Whats going on?

Just got home and well that was a bit shit really. On the face of it a draw sounds a good result but they were awful today and there for the taking, i mean their keeper looked shakey as anything. Malpas' tactics were mind boggling. Why he waited until 5 seconds before full time to bring on Macca I do not know. Our lack of width today was so frustrating it was driving me mad.
Kicking Ifil out of the 16 suggests Ifil's been made the scapegoat I remember how well that worked when King was in charge. Team spirit seems at rock bottom with the players constantly bickering with eachother I'm expecting a fight between our own players soon.
 
As for the Aljofree incident some of our fans need to grow up but then so does he, I mean Aljofree offered the bloke a fight outside the ground after the match.........hardly the behaviour of our club captain. Probably best for him and us that he leave tbh. I disagree Sam he was not too good again today anyway kept commiting himself needlessly and got another stupid booking taking someone out on the halfway line and did exactly the same second half and was lucky not to get a second yellow.

I've given up on MM now time for a change at the top I feel Malpas just isn't doing it. It's a vote of no confidence in him from me and there were many other disillusioned fans on the train home. That was the flattest I've seen our fans for years there was no songs sang all game and everyone was there expecting to lose.  The MM experiment has failed and it's time to look at other options.

A couple of points about the Aljorfree incident today.

Aljorfree was injured just before Stockport won a corner. Trainer ran round the outside of the pitch and the ref was happy for Aljorfree to be treated, but this would mean he would have to come off the pitch, thereby missing the corner. Instead he limped across the area to take up his position only for some total fuckwitted cunt to slag him off (He hadn't done anything wrong all game) No wonder he lost it.

I too don't think he's the best choice for captain, but he is not a shit defender, so why is he getting all this stick? Scape goat time again............

And as for the twats in front of us during the first half, all I can say is I'm glad they never came back after half time.

I swear some people left the game disappointed we didn't lose as they couldn't slate Malpas further.

Good away point and more importantly a good team performance.

One more point, people are right when they say they're entitled to an opinion, so am I and my opinion of the moaning cunts that get on the teams back from the first whistle is that they should fuck off.

Bollocks. A lot of twats have been waiting for any excuse to get rid of Malpas, the bloke's on a hiding to nothing because of some of our more mongish fans.

To say today was disapointing is also wrong, imo. What do you expect? We're a league 1 side.

The midfield worked well today, without Mcnamee who hasn't had a decent away game all season.
The two up front worked their nuts off and the defence looked more of a unit than it has recently. Ifil was dropped because he was fucking shocking last week. Why can't he be dropped for a performance? We scream for Malpas to make changes, then moan when he does. Fucking pathetic.

This is about to get nasty.

Predict a meltdown at Hereford if we dont go through.

Herthab, I think fans did give Malpas a fair go this season. But everytime things are looking up, we take a heavy defeat. Has been all the way through his time here. Im sorry, but he has all the hallmarks of a looser who is not getting us anywhere. Where are we going mate?

Next 3 games crucial.

One other thing Glos, some of us sang and tried to get behind the team. But you're right, most just spent the whole game moaning.

This is getting stupid now everytime someone says they don't like Malpas they get tarnished with being a mong and someone starts laying into you. Surely forums are airing your opinions as that's all we have........

It does seem Malpas can do nothing right.

I obviously didnt go to the game but would have certainly taken an away draw at Stockport. Im glad McNamee was dropped because hes only had one good game in the league this season and offers nothing defensivly. Yet is a crowd favourite yet more steady performancer isnt

People wanted Malpas to make changes and he did. Aljofree has certained turned into the new scape goat. I really dont think he is half as bad as some people make out. Sure hes not the perfect centre half but we dont exactly have a huge list of brilliant centre halves lined up for a starting role.

He probably does want to leave because our fans have got it him for him because he isnt perfect and makes mistakes, shock horror. He's a lower league footballer!

I too think Malpas is on borrowed time. But for different reasons.

We win a game and the moaning is muted for a week, we lose, or draw and they're on his back. He's never been given a chance. If Ling was manager and had the results we've had this season, would there be such a cry to sack the manager?

I feel sorry for the bloke.

I am a mong

One thing that I will say about MM, he made a brave decision in putting Morrison in today. (There was a whole other thread about this). And seemingly it was the correct choice.

Where is MM's credit for that?????

No you're not and neither is Glos. I'm not attacking people who genuinely think Malpas isn't the manager for us. The people I have no time for are the twats that were on his case from day one and who spend every game shouting abuse to our own fucking players.

A large amount of the moaning about Malpas, certainly on the adver site, has been pretty personal -mainly about Malpas being dour and not inspiring in interviews.  People I know who have chatted with him tell a different story.  And anyway frankly who was the last charismatic manager we had?  Glenn 'well er' hoddle? Andy 'refer to myself in the third person like a deluded boxer' King?  

No BKK, you're forgetting the golden rule.

Something goes wrong = Malpas

Something doesn't go wrong = Don't talk about it.

Ok no worries I just haven't felt this alienated from the players and management team for years. There's a them and us scenario building up at the moment and it's getting a bit poisonous to the club as a whole.

So do I. Like you said he cant do anything right for some people. Whisper it if you want, but hes always been dealt a difficult hand by Fitton, not allowed any of his own backroom staff. He must have been undermined by Byrne and Williams who have taken the team before him, it must have been awkward. Its still a tiny coaching team.

As for Ling, of course not. The nostalgia would have carried him through. But Ling wouldnt agree to work without any of his own backroom staff, he wouldnt have put himself in that situation, even for Swindon Town.

Neither would any established manager.

Its a harsh lesson for Fitton. Football isnt like anything else.

We are rudderless Herthab. If want to persist with the way things are and cruise to another 15th place, you watch the away attendances and home dwindle. We'll end up like Crewe!

If Malpas stays I'll get behind him and the team.

If he goes I'll get behind the new manager.

I don't understand why people have to like the bloke in charge...........

Not sure Malpas would have had 'his own backroom staff' in the way Sturrock did though, I don't think he really had long enough at Dundee Utd to get a staff together, whereas Sturrock carries Blackley and the other chap around with him from club to club.

I'm not sure Morrison is the long term answer right now, though no arguing it has appeared to work today (though I wasn't there).

I don't like the dropping Ifil from the squad though. His confidence is already shot.

On Aljofree, he may not be Shaun Taylor but he's not as bad as people make out. I am not sure he should be captain though, unless he has the worlds quietest voice he doesn't seem to talk much.

Actually I am forgetting that if we played Ifil then we would have kept a clean sheet. Silly me.

But yeah, spot on Arriba

Sturrock's operation was just him, Blackley and Summerfield wasn't it?

We have more coaching staff now than we did then!

Can't argue with any of that Spence.

I just want to go to games and cheer my team on. Naive aren't I?

Tuttle, Lee and the fitness chap too I think. Or were they Wise-guys? And did Granville start under Sturrock?

I like your style herthab  8)

Lets just see.

I know the Ferguson comparisons drive people mad (he was 3 time SPD Champion and had beaten Real Madrid in CWC before taking over Man Yoo). But things really did just turn on a sixpence for him with Mark Robins goal at Nottingham Forest FA Cup.

Maybe someone can do that for us in the JPT and we wont look back?

Micheal, Sturrock had Byrne and Williams as well as his own staff remmember? And a decent goalkeeping coach.

The most absurd thing in that post is thinking that anything in the JPT matters one iota. :D

Aljofree........you naughty boy, i agree that some of our fans are stupid but aljofree should know better than to give it back, you could clearly hear what he said, you shouldn't react no matter what a fan or two were saying.

We played ok today but we were not great, i was bemused that peacock came on for cox, also i thought mcnamee should have come on for at least the last 20 minutes as we could have really gone for the win but bringing him on seconds from the end? what's the point?

We must play better next week because millwall are on fire at the moment.

The thing about Ifil is that he is not the kind of player that can just shrug of a howler because he is a confidence player.

My train of thought is that he has not been 'dropped' per say, but he has been pulled out of the limelight so that he can concentrate on training and stuff to get his head right again.

Don't get me wrong that I am defending Ifil to much because he is experienced enough to deal with it himself, but he just ain;t that kind of player/person. Hence the reason he is playing in the 3rd tier.

It irritates me that Ifil has to be wrapped in cotton wool but if that is what it takes to get him to his brilliant best then so be it.

You taking the piss?

You think getting to Wembley wouldnt matter? If we hang in there you will be glad of it I assure you because I dont think the league will provide any excitement in the new year besides an away trip to leicester.

Another thing I do like about Malpas was that he slated our attitude towards the cups.

Batch I'll disagree with you even if it is wine induced. Aljofree is worse than most people make out. The only time he does open his mouth is to slag off his team mates or the ref. He is in no way a captain or a leader. Despite Malaps talking about no scaprgoats Ifill looks to fit the bill. I think they were both culpable against Leeds. Its almost like he's untouchable. It looksl ike its building up to a Gurney at 'nam incident which is the most toxic I've seen between fans / players.  

Hertha - I'm also a mong. I will support my team for 90 minutes. I won't slag the players or manager for the 90 minutes but for God's sake nobody at STFC should be above criticism. I've given Malaps a chance as I have others but he's got to go. Some people will be quicker off the mark than others and others will be more vociferous. I don't accept that our fans are cunts - they are pussy cats compared to most - eg Slave Traders which is why the slimy Greek Cypriot cunt got away with things for so long.

In the long run the "mong" with his face painted is probably right but is a pratt.

Totally agree, though haven't always subscribed to this opinion.

Look at the list of JPT winners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_League_Trophy#Past_Finals) and for the most part you have teams who gain promotion within a few seasons. A good side wins that trophy, which is why we should want to be competitive in it.

If you read my posts Chalkie, you'll see that from your post above I don't think you're a mong!

Our fans were so quiet today, there was no atmosphere, the thing i don't like with malpas is his tactics and questionable substitutions, if he had gone for it we could have won the game, i thought cox done well and was a bit surprised when he went off, peacock done nothing when he came on, he shouldn't have taken cox off but he should have least put mcnamee on and not peacock.

Match Stats
   Stockport    Swindon
Shots (on Goal)    6(3)    9(3)
Fouls    10    14
Corner Kicks    8    7
Offsides    2    4
Time of Possession    39%    61%
Yellow Cards    1    3
Red Cards    0    0
Saves    2    7

Doesn't look like we were shit does it?

Kinda looks like we should have won though.

The problem is going for it and getting caught on the break. Away from home the most important thing is not to lose.

Great possesion for an away team

Weve done well. Im almost glad its been at home weve made mistakes this season.

Because last season there was nothing away from home, and it seemed like Fitton just brushed it off with his statement about the mentality of our fans.

He had a point, but it was a harsh thing to say. Was pretty miserable on the road after Walsall last season.

I'm a wine induced mong who didn't read your posts properly. Aljofree is still a cunt though as is JPM . MM is not a cunt , just not good enough for STFC. Mong, mong, mong , mong, mong. Repaeat ad infinitum until i fall asleep at the keyboard. Note to self - wake up, make bacon butty, talk to wife and kids, go back to sleeep. Go past Sunday - remeber to go to London on Monday to be patronised by a bunch of Cockney cunts after paying over £100 for the priviledge. Tomorrow morning is not going to be good.

Good luck with that

Cheers - the bad news is that its not finished yet.

This whole thread makes me smile and angry at the same time (if thats possible?).

If we won today people would be saying we're going up...just accept it we're a league 1 side and we're going to stay a league one side. Why? Because its down to consistancy...

But we dont want to be a league 1 side.

Its tough shit though really. Are our players really capable of better things bar coxy?

No they aint, so who's fault is it? Genuine question

Surely its down to the manager then?

A good manager will get the best out of shit players. We all know the players in our squad now can play much much better. I ask..wheres the passion gone?

Most people don't need wine to disagree  with me! Oddly though, I agree about the points above.

I do however think he can do a job in defence. Maybe that is sleep deprivation talking.

To start looking like we are mounting a promotion challenge would be nice.

For me a very good result(that i predicted incidently)..Stockport were on fire,we won at MK who mullered Colchester.Ime glad i wasnt there to be honest,i wouldnt have liked to be in that kind of atmosphere,some of our fans think they have a divine rite to act like idiots.
Ime not a great lover of Leeds yet they applauded ther team of the pitch 3 weeks ago after a weak performance at Yeovil and a 1-1 draw.

I'm very happy with a point away from home.

Malpas has seemingly sorted out our away performances, which is a really good thing. If he can begin to make us good at home I'll be extremely pleased.

i was driving through manc around kick-off time yesterday so put on bbc radio manchester - their reports was quite complimentary of us and malpas who had "done his homework very well"...they hardly had a sniff until the goal from what i could gather.

dropping macca was a big decision but considering he does absolutely nothing away from home, probably a worthwhile gamble.

i'll take a point away at a team doing well who we have a horrible record against.

hahaha how bizarre

good goal by easton. he looked well pumped afterwards

Yep, didn't seem like the players lacked determination, or team spirit...........

Sounds like a better performance by all accounts, because team spirit has been something we've lacked imo.

Well done to the team and manager, long may it continue.

was that sarcasm? hope not

Eh?

i got confused by herthabs dots, it wasn't aimed at your post

Sarcasm? Never!

24 teams in the league want to mout a promotion challenge, doesnt mean they are good enough and it will happen.

A shame, but true....

Just because we want to mount a promotion challenge doesnt mean we are good enough to.

Thats fine dv i can accept that. Now why are we not good enough in your opinion

We're inconsistent. Ifil is the prime example, he was utter gash last week but we've all seen him have games where you could mistake him for Rio Ferdinand.

We've seen Brez look Premiership class and non-league!! McNamee looked like the best player in the league opening day other games he hasnt even touched the ball

Even your typical steady eddies like Easton have had bad games.

I put this down to the players and the manager. Apart from Paynter and Cox ALL of our players have had good and bad games this season. A couple of good results and some installed confidence and hopefully the mistakes will become less frequent and we'll look stronger.

Its clear we lack a leader in general, not just in defence. Whilst I think Aljofree is a capable CB at this level I am now convinced he isnt a captain.

We need someone in the team with a bit of presence about them, someone who will lead by example and someone who will try and take the game by the scruff of the neck when its needed.

We could do with one of those in CB and CM. Maybe Nalis could do the job but im not so sure.

I think a leader will help us improve and I think some results and confidence will stop some of the errors.

Additional to that, we just dont have the same quality other teams do. Just look at Leeds, they had players sitting on the bench who would have no problem getting into most teams in this league. Prutton and Howson would get in our midfield no problem.

We should and can do better with what we have got but if we wanted to have a serious automatic promotion challenge then we'd need to bring in more quality, spend some money and pay bigger wages.

Aljofree is not a captain he is too quiet and does nothing to motivate his team from what I can see, Nalis would be an obvious choice to me the players seem to respect his rants only trouble is it is his first season and he's not Swindon through and through. Peacock maybe but he cant guarantee a place - I have no problem with players like Paynter I think it would inspire him (I was so wrong about this guy), if not a forward go for a player who has never let us down and gives 100% Jack Smith.
Aljofree no way.

Jack Smith hardly a big speaker is he?

So would you have?

Easton, although i dont have a massive problem with Has being captain

it shouldn't matter who wears the armband, cliched as it sounds you need 11 captains. for years we've lacked vocal players who can get their teammates motivated and the crowd behidn them as well.

Has is no captain, it was a bad decision from the outset.
If you cant motivate from the front you are going to be nowhere, I have not seen him ever do that, you need a nasty hard rusty nail.

When
Word.

Jamie Vincent should captain.

But he's injured!!

So is aljofree

He seemed to get it by default.

Still another thing to put on that glittering 'Championship' standard CV of his.

A CV he'll be touting about in January in order to jump ship no doubt.

Amen, no silly choreographed celebrations.

Just getting together as a team to celebrate a good goal.

let's hope

Easton for skipper is a good shout

Just watched the highlights, from those it seems like we should have won it, Timlin and Paynter missing good chances. 

For what its worth as someone who saw them on saturday for the 1st time this season, we play some really nice football but seem to lack cutting edge, the ball is pinged from right to left through the midfield, but then reaches the edge of their area and ultimately ends up back with our centre half - its just that breaking midfielder we seemed to lack?

At the back especially in the first half we seemd to totally lack confidence, Jack Smith especially seemed terrified of giving the ball away and then played simple passes which he ballsed up! Amankwaah looked pretty poor and one dimensional in the first half, however he was a marauding football god in the second half and terrified them.

Less said about the little argument with the skipper, although I had forgotten what utter crap some of our supporters come out with. The whole shouting about Malpas being an idot and taking Cox  off..... he was so obviously knackered as were most of the playerss on both sides - I think the heat really surprised them!

Oh and much as I admire Lee Peacock, less said about his cameo the better.

I can't even remember if he touched the ball.

Fair play Kev07! Good to hear from someone who hasn't had to put up with a couple of poor home displays and took Saturday on face value.  Not as bad as one of my mates who went up and watched it, he came back severely peeved off.

He had about 5 touches, none of which went to one of our players!!

It was quite funny though, as when we walked into the ground he was stood at the edge of the pitch leaning over the hoardings just chatting to a few supporters. I was with about 10 mates (it was my stag do in Manchester - I made them come to the match) who all tend to either hate football or support premier teams, they honest didn't believe me when I said he was an actual first team player just having a chat - shows the gulf between D3 and 1st div.

Did you sample the finest strip clubs manchester has to offer?

On a stag do, you shouldve...

Didn't do that, they do my head in.

Watched the town, who kindly avoided totally depressing me, went and had a bite to eat then out and about round Didsbury into a club and back to hotel for about 4.30am... which was great! The fact that flights into manchester (hotel right under flightpath) started at about 6ish was less great!