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Swindon 2 Newport 1 att: 8,780  ( 620 Taffs )

Their left back Lewis is injured until the new year. Some good news for us as think he's pretty handy.

Wildig, Bogle and Evans can hurt teams at this level. So they'll carry a threat.

Got to be winning this one. 3-1.

Feels a bit extreme to be describing any game as a must win in October, but I'd certainly really like a win here.

It is certainly an interesting encounter ahead.

Flynn vs his old team, Newport have started quite well (4 wins which is only 1 less than we have won so far) considering they were one of the pre season favourites for relegation with many.

We will need to keep top scorer Will Evans quiet, hes on 10 goals so far in all competitions and equal with Young top scorer in L2 on 9 goals. The experienced Omar Bogle is 2nd highest scorer on 4 for them. They have only 1 win in the league in the last 7 though.

I will be watching on mobile from Oktoberfest at Butlins so wont be posting anything on matchday but will be watching.

I fancy a draw.

Att: 8,854 (625 Sheepshaggers).

Swindon 5-1 County att:9,384 (588 away)

Piece of piss, 4-1.

Hope that the lederhosen are a good fit. :)

Enjoy. :beers:

I am never out of them ;)

Cheers, looking forward to a few Bratwurst and Steins of beer :)

I shall be eating prawn sandwiches and telling Xav and Hart how much you all love them*.


* might leave that last bit

Will you be quaffing champagne too 😂

Hope you have a great day and we manage to win

I think town champagne is probably flat blue nun through the soda stream

Dan Kemp is a town sham Payne (he isn't)

good punnage Bob

Charlie's next goal tomorrow will be his 50th for the club (all comps).
Recent misses forgotten as he then goes on a scoring spree.
BY ORDER OF THE TEF.

he will score 3 tomorrow in a 3-2 win. This is the word of Batch. Thus it shall be.

His 50th on your 50th (almost). :)

Wildig possibly out after a concussion injury during the week.

Pre match posting is a bit shit on here this season. Game on tomorrow and only 15 posts  :no:

Are we certain the games gonna be on tomorrow?

Concludes the missing of 5 games during my 3 weeks in Greece.

Gone well!

I'd like to see Clayton get some minutes at LCB and FBT move out to LWB. In my mind that is the answer to our problems.

FBT started the season well, offensively at least, but he's been dire for a few games now.

I'd start Young and Austin.

Consider how many log in on match day you would expect more to join in with their score prediction. I never understand why so many log in but don’t contribute any conversion!

Clayton being back in the squad at least adds some depth and gives us a contingency for when our CBs get suspended for 5 yellows. How many is Brewitt on now? I think FBT is on 4. Could see a crowd of over 10k with it being a derby. A few of those who enjoyed the non-footballing aspects of Tuesday’s derby may be back after licking their wounds. From a morale point of view it is essential to avoid defeat and any injuries. We should be aiming for a win. Both teams have players capable of scoring so I would expect goals in this one.

considering he hasn't played since July I'd be amazed to see him on the pitch at any point tomorrow.

Surely he would have had 15 on Tuesday

Just for you Jimmy

3-1

And 4D😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7LVXdnOn9E

Love the comment😏

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Well, we haven't lost pre match😉

Good point  :)

Win 3-2

I think an entertaining draw

I never come on here to put on a score as I am the kiss of death when predicting a Town win which also applies to placing a bet which I no longer do. The same applies to any prediction League as well because the players I select either get long term injuries, lose form and get dropped or even transferred abroad! Just a reader now.

Are you 'unlucky Alf' from the fast show. :)

Just seems to be regarding football, I am in a Super 6 League over the pub as well and am currently 33rd out of 40 entries and being I like to think I know a bit about the game I am obviously not according to those stats!

You aren’t suggesting some posters only appear to post on the match day thread when we are losing / have lost are you?

Best stay away Ticker😁

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Young back, Clayton on the bench. Stronger bench than we've had for a while. Genesini drops out of the squad and Obodo stays with the seniors.

Great news on Clayton.

Shade retains the shirt, Uwakwe must have heavily fallen from grace.

There was talk in the presser of him having a knock. Still ahead of Genesini.

Or Shade has done well in training…

I think we miss the “get to the byline and whip it in” with Shade. You need it in the mixer at this level.

Shade has done well but he’s still a right footer playing on the left. Much more difficult to whip in a dangerous cross for Young / Austin

Get to the byline, sure. Whip it over everyone's head and out for a throw in the other side, more likely

Crosses going in would help, but if Shade cuts inside and runs directly at the defence then that adds something a bit different and gives us at least some threat from the left.

Uwakwe is a decent crosser of the ball.

No surprise that his collapse in form/Shade’s entry has seen Austin’s involvement reduce dramatically.

Don't disagree in open play, but if Shade runs forward, wins a free kick and McEachran whips that in, you still have a crossing opportunity. Lots of ways to create chances.

Going to be a good day!   3-1 Town!

Newport 4 is enormous, Delaney. 6' 5.

Miles behind on the stream yet again

So is their 28

Come on then!

Back to winning ways I hope. Probably the team most of us would pick in the circumstances.

I wonder if Flynn will ever try one of Cain or McEachran at LWB for their on the ball ability…

Only 5 minutes in but we’ve been second best everywhere so far…

Horrible misjudgement by their keeper, cool finish from Kemp. 1-0.

Where's PV?

If Kemp is at Town in February there's been a miracle.

Awful keeping. Brilliant from Kemp though, shaky start, but can’t complain with an early lead

1-0 Kemp. Lovely

First attack!

That’s a really tidy finish!!

I'd give my left ball for us to sign Kemp permanently.

He said he was else where (can’t remember where Octoberfest maybe)

Awful keeping

Love the timing of that goal, interrupting the absolute bullshit spouted by Phil Smith on co-comms!  :D

Think the fee might be a bit higher than that, but depends what Pete Winkleman is in to I guess!

I’ve been married for 25 years so I don’t need my balls so I throw them in also if it helps get kemp.   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

There has been discussion about discontinuing mine - so they might be free by January

My girlfriend is 29 so going to keep mine for a little longer.

Back of the net!

Great finish that!

OH 29.    A peach of an age  :clap:

I struggle with Phil Smith…

I’d pay an extra £10 per stream for a “mute analyst” button

Not much of a tactical bod, but FBT and UGM look to be going forward a lot less than earlier in the season and playing more as normal CBs.

He’s as boring as Hockaday!

He's becoming unlistenable

Not sure Charlie should be playing the midfield destroyer role

If you were only listening to the radio, you'd think we were doing a lot worse than we are.

We don’t seem to be playing very well listening on the radio

I don’t think Hockaday is boring. He’s monotonous and he makes listening to him very difficult but I think he talks a lot of sense.

Phil Smith just bumbles on & on about very little

…at least it’s not Anthony Grant mind you.

Fair point……I’m already fed up with Smith droning on.

So poor thus far. Haven’t got going at all, but thankfully Newport have been wasteful with any chance they’ve had. Can’t imagine that’ll last with Bogle and Evans

Agreed. Hockaday’s miseryguts delivery is the issue. Knows his onions. Smith is man in the pub.

Give me Hockaday over Phil Smith any old time

It’s my overwhelming charisma wotdunit

but then McEachran plays Newport in and they have a free header from the resultant corner.

To my mind we're well below par but Newport are there for the taking if we wake up, challenge more and focus..

Smith is insightful on goalkeeping. But only on goalkeeping, and frankly that doesn't come up terribly often.

Fuck me he won’t shut up today even Hawes must get pissed off listening to him!

A positive I suppose!

I would be finding this a lot more frustrating, but for the score line. They look there for the taking, we look a little sleepy.

Good save there, should have been 2-0. A classic of 'the defender playing the man onside appealing angrily for the offside' genre too.

Another excellent save from Austin's header at the corner.

Where is PV, I'm not the play by play guy...

Keeper saves from Young when 1 on 1

Good save that

Young could have played in McEachran then.

Austin unlucky too

Austin getting one on target klaxon

Oh fuck off Phil.

If Young rolls in George it’s 2-0

Not sure there's a striker on earth who squares it from there though.

It’s the sort of thing Son did for Kane for years

Yeah but Kane is a world class striker.

Son wouldn’t square it to Holjberg

Will Evans is not particularly happy with life, been down three times. Think Brewitt stood on his Achilles earlier.

This has been a scrappy affair.

Not sure that was a foul by Brewitt

Yellow for Brewitt who misjudges a jump into Bogle whilst trying to tidy up a UGM mistake. FK edge of box.

The Shade LWB experiment doesn’t work for me.

Collector's item there, a really good tackle from Hutton

Doesn’t work for getting crosses in.
Running at defenders and cutting inside - it probably has some legs

The dip in both FBT and UGM’s form is a worry

At that moment UGM bursts forward!

I think they're both playing differently right? I know UGM just bombed forward but I think they're playing much more conventional CB roles than they were earlier in the season.

Two absolutely bang average L2 teams cancelling each other out to the point that nobody wished they had bothered

A lot of our good stuff has come from their runs forward though. They don’t have to get far to cause some defensive panic.

But that was our USP. The Kevin Keegan era was gold. This is horrid L2 dross.

Hawes captured it well with "Austin back in RB position clears it"

Definitely, we aren’t as open but we suffer going forward for it.

Turgid stuff

An average L2 first half with the teams separated by a moment of quality from the best footballer in the division. If he still is in this division in February I'll be stunned.

That was a grim watch. About 3 phases of football played in the whole half. The rest was garbage.

Half the players look like they can’t be arsed.

Fatigued…?

A bit sloppy but still good stuff.  Need to come out and get a fast goal and things will be good

No chance😁 if they are then it would come down to training methods

Dull first half. One piece of quality by Kemp.

Lots and lots of mistakes.

Strange game, both teams are absolutely woeful and incapable of pulling off the simplest of passes. We’re in the lead thanks to one moment of quality. Our back line seem to have been sucked into a physical battle they are never going to win rather than just focusing on defending.

A big area of concern is the pitch, it seems really slow. The grass seems long, cut unevenly and has tramlines that in it and is starting cut up. Not sure if it’s the poor prep in the summer or rain we’ve had but I can see it struggling over winter. Ironically it helped for our goal as it held the ball up.

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. On that note, not many box entries today…

You’d think a scrappy L2 dross fest is exactly the sort of game Kinsella should be able to grab by the balls.

Good observation. It looked long to me, as it was leaving obvious footprints.

mentioned the pitch while watching, not the best nick it's been in, but it's ok for now

Speak for yourself!

Will Evans coming off at half time.

This is when RHM with 30 mins to go can add some impetus

Great move Town

Something of a score to settle against Newport as well. We have started quite brightly second half.

Another good passage of play from Town

God, the start of Morris’ dismal period. I’d buried that

We look good going forward now

Much better.

Young a bit anonymous

RHM for Young.

Young off for RHM.

Had a poor game

Think McEachran has had a rare poor game

Young should have been refreshed and facing to go having not played for a couple of weeks!

Yeah, not great today. Played an awful lot of minutes in recent times.

Obviously a bloody stupid thing to say, but Newport do feel like they're playing for a 0-1 at the moment

My preference would be 2-1😁

The pitch feels pretty sticky today, don’t think that’s helping us at all.

Lovely Hutton/UGM link up there.

Great move Town

Austin goal disallowed for a foul, which is a fair call

I’d like a second so that Obogo can come on for Austin

Charlie has done a lot of donkey work today. Put a shift in

Great run by Shade,poor shot

He looked shocked by how much space he had!

RHM does look like he’s never played football at times.

It’s pretty awful, again just then it caused the ball to get stuck under RHM’s feet.

Controlled by a 5 year old on FIFA

I've said this before, but I can't remember having a player with such a range between his best and worst performances. He can look Premier League or Sunday League, often in the same move.

Love the RHM comments!

Worried the longer this goes on. We always have a mistake in us. We need a second

Khan hits the post. Beautiful move.

Great break from a superb Brewitt block and Khan hits the post.

Jerel Ifil.

That's League 2 for you

Fair call, although with Ifil it was more predictable - if he was man marking someone, he was Franco Baresi. Any system play, useless.

What a ball from Shade

Kinsella for McEachran

Shade shows he can be a danger if he uses his left foot

Shade looks like a really good player when he has some confidence and takes a man on. So frustrating when he goes for the safe option

Very nice from Shade, should try with his left foot more often.

2-0 RHM, picks up on the rebound from a really good save from Khan. Shade integral - case for him being MoM you know.

We fucking deserved that for a great second half performance

Really good from Shade again there, good reactions from RHM. Not been a brilliant performance, but we’ll take that all day

2-0

Should be done

Thank God for that!

When Hollywood saves go wrong. Good finish though.

Unsure if I’m confusing him for someone else, but feels like Maxted has had a few poor games against us

Cannot believe the nonchalance of RHMs finish, having looked so donkey several times already!

Get the fuck in COYR

Brewitt has had a great game today, he's been in the middle of anything good defensively

Phil Smith said it was an easy finish but it’s coming at him quite rapidly and he’s taken it first time on the left foot volley. Definitely some good technique needed there…

Shade has had a great 2nd half

But crucially, no time to think about it!

You’re not wrong.
Not unlike Jerel Ifil!

Yes, RHM with time looks exactly like his effort one-on-one with the keeper just then.

Mooneyraker clearly match sponsor, Brewitt gets MoM :D

Brewitt done very well, considering he’s been on a yellow since the 30th minute. Won his aerial duels and kept Bogle quiet

I’m guessing Phil Smith would have saved it then😁

Haha, up against a big old L2 warhorse too. Brewitt has done brilliantly so far.

When it comes to commentating,Phil Smith has been an absolute troll today. Fucking useless

Think I agree with the sponsors thus far. Brewitt has had a good game. Didn’t deserve the yellow

My Brewitt evangelism has succeeded. The scales have fallen from people’s eyes. 5 year contract please!

He can’t get a sentence out and when he does, it’s usually utter tripe

Spawny Wrexham at it again. They were losing 1-2 then score in the 86 & 89 minutes to lead 3-2

Brewitt had been solid all season thus far.

So when no has a really stand out game (like today) he’s almost the default MotM. Kinda like a keeper in a poor side.

Vomit inducing

Exactly🤣
It’s not all bad Walsall 4 Pikeys 1  :pint:

Garner will be under threat soon Colchester getting thrashed 5-0 at the Vegans

That sums up Newport's afternoon

Does P Smith not like Swindon or something? Newport have looked their league position today. We, have not been great, but off the back of 2(3) defeats in a row, you would expect nothing different.

Win by two seems about right to me.

Ruined my bet the cunts.

Anyone know what the attendance was

5 home wins in a row

The first half was not great but nowhere near as bad as some thought in my opinion but that second half performance was outstanding. Back to our best in creating chances. Great performances in that half from Austin and Shade and in both halves from Brewitt

9600 ish

Even PB must surely admit Brewitt was very good today

Cheers Nigholt, just saw it come up 9,628 (716 Taffs)

Think Mooneyraker will like the LSPod rebrand over on Twitter.

Flynn:
- What do your take? Three points!
- Second have we were more professional. First half we were sloppy
- 1/2 time talk was to be careful as we were going to let them back in. Wanted shade to take on his man
- Can't give Bogle space.
- Responded well
- Newport are a tough team who work hard. We knew they wouldnt roll over
- Stepped up everywhere in the second half.
- Really enjoying watching us. We are making good strides.
- Cain is nearly back. Clayton back and Miles made his home debut
- We are a good team. If we took our chances at Bradford we would have won. We should have scored more today.
- Cain 'might' be back next week. He's been running today, but its an odd injury
- Concentration was so much better today. Educated decision to bring on Clayton when we did
- Trialists have done well and are smashing lads, but we aren't doing anything yet. Flynn doesn't just want to bring players in (for the sake of it, from context), so will just have to keep monitoring them.
- Salford is a tough place to go. Know they have lost today, but that's off the back of 3 wins. We need to keep plodding on and not get too high or too low after individual results.
- Wish Newport nothing but success. Its a club I love.

This. I'd absolutely love an option just to hear the crowd noise.

Sent from my XQ-AD51

How long are they are trial for🤔

Haha, brilliant. I’m genuinely pleased for him and McEachran to have done as well as they have from a standing start. They’ve barely missed a game between them.

Brewitt edging towards cult hero status…? His post match celebrations are great.

This is not hindsight but Brewitt was fine from the very beginning

Correct. In his first game (Carlisle?) he looked exactly the type of defender we’d needed. Never bought the “limited” argument. Look how much play goes through him.

It would hard to drop him now

Don’t think Brewitt has ever looked particularly bad but last season looked like a player who had been without a club & hadn’t played in a while when we signed him.

A pre-season was always going to do him a world of good…

Nice moment with Shade where the crowd were urging him to take on his man and then he eventually did do, skinned him and put in a good ball. Ran back to a good reception. I know the home atmosphere gets stick but there is support there to be utilised.

I’m with you on that. A few people made their mind up about him straight away and he is gradually proving them wrong. I’ve always thought he was quite decent but appears to have improved vastly and his passion is endearing himself to the fans.

Loved his roar toward The Town End after the second goal

I don't know. Hawes has been asking about them for the last 3 weeks. His question today was:
'Last week you said you were going to make a decision on the trialists on Friday. Is there anything going on there?'

Flynn basically said that they have done well, but they don't improve the team at this time. He is not offering any of them a contract, but is going to monitor their progress - Whether that was in training or as they develop their careers elsewhere wasn't said. But it sounded more like the latter.

Cheers, odd situation all round and have to wonder why the players are hanging around as you would expect them to have other interests.

Realistically if we navigate this mini injury blip and get Cain and Clayton fit we are basically just short a striker… for now.

I agree, but I think it would be harder to argue if Chazza hadn't missed so many this season.

He has missed a few but today he was back to his best in terms of endeavour and link up play. He has a good few assists this season.

I think Austin has been pretty good this season apart from his finishing.

Completely opposite of his first spell here where even if he was playing dog shite and couldn’t even control the ball properly he’d still pop up and score twice…

Bit like Ward then
(it's bollocks isn't it)

He left a goalscorer and has come back a player
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few sloppy passes but sweet set up for the first and was much better second half.
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not trying to stir the pot, but do we think young is reverting to the Bradford player

Think he's a confidence player myself. Not saying it's wrong to sub him on 60 but maybe not helping his confidence.

it's not like he was terrible or anything

Young was absolutely anonymous other than that chance he had.
We are screaming out for another striker.

Young has really gone off the boil recently hasnt he

we do

has anyone asked Flynn if he's tried the free agent market?

:)

was never going to sustain the start,  but he isn't really getting the chances (big one today).

can't work out if he's doing anything different, getting marked more closely or the supply is slowing up as we settle to normality.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RaROsOGrvc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXV_6Ycdac

I think Young has obviously picked up more attention from opposition. Partly because of his good start &  partly because now we are 10 games into the season opponents are going to have much more data/footage to analyse before playing us - where as first few games we would have been a complete unknown.

We’ve definitely been pressed a lot more last few games. Dokes & FBT are playing more disciplined but have also been pinned back by the opposition.

All part of our style of play being more familiar to the rest of the league now.
We were never going to play gung ho all season.

It’s like Football Manager and we’ve gone from ‘all out attack’ back down to just ‘attack’

Clean sheet and 3 points, lovely. Brewitt fucking brilliant. Had him as a squad player this season but he’s clearly the most important defender. So aggressive but effective in the same way. Shade a frustrating watch at times but showed one or two glimpses of what he can do and crowd were loud in praise for him when he did. Young really shoulda squared that chance to mceachran as I’m sure it was 2 v 1. Austin could tie his shoe laces and people will say he had a good game 😂 was full of praise for him at start of season - recently been poor. Good  assist today- yes, but his control was awful, majority of passing off it and was letting balls run and struggled to chase them down. RHM poor untill the goal also- but if a striker scores/assists then I guess we shouldn’t moan 😭. Today was a must win i thought so job well done, hopefully get a good tie tomorrow.

700 for them is a piss poor turnout imo, easy trip down. Up the cunting 3 point reds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXV_6Ycdac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXV_6Ycdac)

The man himself

Chuckle chuckle

Desperate to make it to a home game soon. Following on livescore and radio when possible has been strangely relaxing and satisfying so far this season.

2nd in the home league table (played a home game less than 1st- Crewe) and 16th in the away- also a bit distorted with games played. Most years it's the opposite way round but it's pleasing to see home fans get rewarded

Enjoyed that, even if we made hard work of it. Taff's had spells of noise but they were a bit sheepish against our boisterous antics up in the arkells  :D

Was your bus on time after the game😁

Brewitt was first class. As for Newport, they should really be playing the likes of TNS.

Have to say I enjoyed that today. Second half could've been a thumping if better decisions were made and chances taken. RHM needs to just shoot, as does Hutton but they seem to want to find Charlie. Brewitt clear MOM but thought everyone contributed well. Nice to see Shade show us the player he can be, and a great appreciation from DRS after his run and subsequent tackle/foul.

Shade indeed had a period of inspiration where he belted it on a run, put in a good ball and then legged it back to go for a tackle. That little moment of freedom shows how he could be a much more useful and dangerous player, he clearly now needs to learn how to utilise that much more frequently as he looked like lightning. Over to Flynn to properly unleash that.

Shade can becomes twice the player he has been if he attacks the touchline and uses his left as much as he cuts inside, as he did once in the second half. If he learns to do that, he can start to frighten full backs. I’m glad to see Flynn find a position for him. I’d written him off earlier in the season, but he can be like a new signing in a new(ish) position for him.

Was there any trouble after the game, we didn’t see any but there was a shit load of Police outside, including a load of vans from Devon & Cornwall so assume they must have been expecting something.

Marginally the better of two poor sides in the first half with the goal aided and abetted by some rather suspect keeping. Second half far better by us and improved the longer it went on.

I thought that Young looked totally out of sorts, did not seem to get involved to any degree and RHM was the obvious replacement which proved right although he can be chalk and cheese in one move. I really want him to come good but consistency seems to elude him, possibly a run of starts might help.

Tom Brewitt is a class act in my opinion, one hell,of a signing.

Shade proved that he is another that with a run of starting games he will be far more beneficial to the side than the odd sub appearance.

A little ray of Welsh joy on an otherwise black day

Time to put a bid in then !

Does the club foot the bill for all that policing🤔

Argentina have really come on in recent years😁

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnZoGhaH3Vg

Yes

Cheers, not good considering we’re skint!

Get your hair cut son! That way you won't have to keep pushing it back into place!

And of course the stewarding too.

Thought that Newport pressed very well and that contained FBT & UGM to a degree.
Created some problems for ourselves in the first half and looked like an away team at times.

Played on the counter very well in the 2nd half and unlucky not to score one or two more.
A determined defence of the clean sheet and with a quarter of the home season gone we are looking strong at the CG for a change.
Need to get a win or two on the road now.

Very happy with the first team but an Omar Bogle type striker could still be a very useful addition.
The man himself looks to be out of contract in the summer so could be worth a go and still a good age at 30?

Didn't see any which was a good thing. We must have  ended up in the Newport escort after the game as we headed back to the Tap, which was unintentional. As we cut down Broad Street a copper shouted oi, this way. We explained we were town and on our way to the tap  :)

As for the game I thought Newport made things difficult for us at times.

I thought that was just for police presence in the ground or on land owned by the club and anything outside of that it's taxpayers money?

yeah, i thought there was some cutoff between club and public funding too

I'm of the understanding that we only pay for police on our premises as well. There were court rulings on this a few years ago

I don’t want my council tax going up anymore 🤣

Only for what is necessary inside the ground, I believe.

Cheers Chalky, imagine what the bill would be if Oxford or Bristol city are in Town.

This seasons phrase of the season:

If the opposion were any good we would have been hammered.

Just watching the highlights.

Absolutely brilliant assist from Austin. He's stumbling but manages to play it with bend and backspin perfectly for Kemp as he is falling over. That's the Premier League quality he has that can make such a difference. Outstanding finishing from Kemp too.

Their keeper has then made two unbelievable saves from the Young chance (he should have squared it...) and the Austin header.

It is a very smart first time finish from RHM. He does veer between the sublime and the ridiculous but he's fast becoming a great Solskjaer-style super sub.

It's insane technique on the pass from Austin - honestly think some are taking him for granted. We were crying out for experience this time last season. He is it.

Premier League quality. Wow, that's a statement.

I'm not saying it is a level he achieves week in week out in everything he does, as evidenced by some woeful finishing in recent weeks, but it is still in there and when it happens it can make all the difference.

Some of his passing at times was very uncharacteristically off, but the hardest pass he got spot on for Kemp's assist. I suspect his experience is vital for the side and he's really playing for the team, despite probably not scoring as many as he would want to.

And it's a pointless ridiculous phrase in my opinion

He has the joint most assists in the league with 5 (together with Kemp and some fella at Notts County) and more than anyone other than Wakeling and Hutton managed over the whole of last season for the Town.

8 'goal contributions' (if one includes his 3 goals) over 12 games is a more than decent return, even if we all agree he should have banged in about another 5!

Just watched highlights from Notts County and Mansfield. Well will need to have CA at his best and FBT Brewitt at their very best to counter Manfields tall timber..

Massive result required in a game that could of blown up in our face.

We got it.

Kemps finish was superb, i was worried he would dwell on it.

I notice that we sometimes dont see attacks to the bitter end and dally at the final third. At the start of the season we were going for it....score or fail and restart.

Thanks for noticing my absence :D

I was indeed at Butlins for Oktoberfest and watched the game on my mobile with 3 litres of Helles lager while an oompah band played a random selection of 80s and 90s hits, it was fun.

As for the game, great goal by Kemp, pretty bad miss by Young but that was the highlights of the 1st half, which seemed pretty poor and fairly split possession wise (I didnt see any stats etc).

2nd half was a vast improvement with Town totlaly dictating the play and nobody not putting in a shift, Brewitt easily my MotM in the end, Mohoney not overly threatened all game other than a couple of Bogle shots early on.

Shame Austins shot was disallowed as that would have given him some confidence.

Newport not a bad side but never looked like getting anything from the game, their keeper made a couple of good saves too.

Good day at the office.

That's what I saw too.

Someone posted earlier that the reason RHM was able to score was because he didn't have time to think. I think there is something in that. I also think that this might have been the one time out of 10 that it hit the back of the net, while the other 9 times might have ended up in the Town End or hitting the corner flag.

At home, have all his goals come at the TE?

Ditto, is that really the way to pronounce Shade's name?

One's in Stoke
One's in lederhosen

Is what I would have said at the time.

Exactly what we said after - he's great to run and do, just don't give him thinking time

Agree. No one is denying he has missed about 8 or 9 absolute sitters this season though.

Newport fans not very impressed with us it seems.

It certainly wasn't one of our better games, but we still beat em 2-0  :D

They called Phil Smith correctly!

To be fair though,he had plenty of time to think about the one v Sutton. But that's him,enigmatic!

1st half was very poor but I thought we were pretty much totally in control all 2nd half and Newport looked a very poor side, in the 1st they showed a lot more though and I was concerned when it was only 1-0 as I still thought they could get back into it.

Only about 10 more pages to go to equal the last 2 league games threads!😉

the last one had about 10 pages that consisted of trolling. Pretty embarrassing to be honest.

A strikers version of Ifil.

TBH on matchdays I often contribute about 6 or 7 pages on my own! rather than just 6 or 7 posts in total.

Ah yes,forgot about the "PV factor".
Much missed!