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So here we are, today's the day (just). Possibly our toughest game yet.
Away at Wrexham who've conceded one goal at home and not lost (only 3 games but still).
Perhaps half an eye is on the game on Tuesday against the McDonald's franchise...

News on the team from BBC Sport
Swindon boss Dennis Wise will be without Jamie Vincent (Achilles) and Andy Monkhouse (hamstring).
Captain Ady Williams (knee) is another absentee for the Robins and Jerel Ifil is suspended.


Nothing we didn't know really. Just waiting to see what the defensive line-up is.
Given everything I'll take a draw, back at 3pm.

you cunts keep beating me to this!

I reckon it's not the actual day until you go to sleep.

Todays defence still worries me a fair bit. Hopefully I have nothing to fear!

C'mon Swindon!

got a wedding to go to today, booo. anyway, a draw would suit me.

I also think a draw..... But it would be very sweet it we won again 8)

Come On Town!

I'd be happy with a draw, i guess. Although it would be a shame to see our winning run, end. (Obviously)

if we win the dongs will be crapping it!

On the official site it doesn't mention Williams as a doubt - maybe it's just an oversite, but maybe he's OK...

Williams trained yesterday. Lets see if there is a reaction to that in his knee today. More a slight doubt than an absentee.

have faith it's going to be 7 out of 7!!

3-0, 3-0 3-0 3-0 3-0.

Williams playing and Ince on the bench

Just hope Williams can cope but it's a relief to have experience in the middle.

Brezovan, Smith, Williams, Nico, C-Platt, Shakes, Weston, Evans, Brown, Peacock & Roberts.

Subs: Ince, Caton, Brownlie, Onibuje and Vincent.

Anybody know who the who am I is?

What's the clues?

I can't remember now

Tight game, Ince to come on and score in injury time. Final score 1-0 town.

I reckon we'll come away with a draw. 1-1.

3 points would be obviously awesome. I'd like a more comfortable win to follow today please... Granted it's a tough, tough fixture.

can someone put the audio link up please?

where can i listen to the match on the net? The bbc website is not working and i'm not paying for it!!

http://matchlive.safc.premiumtv.co.uk/mlex/258741/matches/08132005/2528536/match_console.html?clubid=undefined

should work.

http://mfile.akamai.com/6095/live/reflector:21694.asx?bkup=23441

do us a favour and bookmark it though, eh ?!!

Get into 'um

I looked it up on swindon-town-fc.co.uk and it was Tim Parkin.

thanks for that

Walsall winning. Butler again.

Roberts close.

sounds like a very tight game

As always of the radio though.  :|

yeah good point..i will be happy with a draw today to be honest

GOOOALLLL EVANS - GET IN!!!!!!

evans from 40 yards get in..

COME ONN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

40 fuckin yards :shock:

You fucking beauty Evans. Who needs Paul Ince....

Whoop Whoop - That man can strike a fucking ball!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

40 yards !

the lads sound in good voice..keep it going

hooray

:mrgreen:

Sounded like a shit goal. Evans is poo.

Just got up Ben?

Morning gents ! (Bagpuss yawn)

Sat here with my porridge and cuppa.

Hope all is well in the world - 1-0...Ahh, yes !

NMH

Stick the kettle on, I'm dry.

I can't actually remember when I got up. That's weird.

I was going to go out to watch Grasshoppers at half-time, but if it stays like this I might have to stay in. Bit of a shame on a lovely sunny day, but oh well...

Just boiled matey. Won't stay hot long as water boils at 88 degs at this altitude !

So, what have I missed ?

NMH

Harrogate Town 0-0 Hinckley Utd
Abandoned - after 25 minuites due to serious injury

Oh dear.

40 yd screamer from Evans is about it. Pretty even otherwise.

Got any snow yet?

Arsenal currently bottom of the premiership..

The Jimmy Bullard injury sounds awful. Knee bent back the wrong way and all of Scott Parkers weight landing on it. Stretchered off, obv.

Which is plain odd.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

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 8)  :mrgreen: hooray

No, not yet. Had a bit of rain yesterday (just enough to dampen the roads for an hour), which was a bit of a shock ! Weather is on the change now. Gonna be low 70s with 40% chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon - Typical autumnal weather. Must be pretty pleasant where you are at the moment ?Humidity should have evaporated and the wearing of snorkels outside outside to breather is not normally required after August is it ?

NMH

Always wondered what happened to Parkin. Just seemed to disappear overnight. Couldn't get a look in when Gittens joined.

NMH

where are you ?  We had a bit of snow in Switzerland last week down as far as 2000m - bodes well for the ski season (although pity I'm leaving )

:D Cos I wasnt here when we scored.........

YESSSSSSSSS EVANS YOU BEAUT!

fantabluss!

74 at the moment, nice clear sunny day and humidity decreasing nicely.

bloody forum just cut out for ages for me. Wouldn't connect. I got cross and killed some small fluffy animals

F'in hot here,even a fan is useless as it just blows hot air at ya!!!

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/637/untitled1xw7.jpg

I'm going to send that graphic to my glory-hunting nephews  :mrgreen:

tis ace.

Brown getting pissed off, probably lucky not to get sent off. Wise set to replace him with Caton.

Does anyone have a commentary link that doesn't keep breaking up every 5 fucking seconds?

Denver

I wonder if Incey will come on

Caton on, Brown off.

Only if need be I guess.

Your in Swindon listen on the radio.

I haven't got one believe it or not!

The only time I listen to the radio, is in the car....

go sit in the car.

go and sit in the car then :D

haha I won

:shock: noooooooooooo SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

:|

Oh bugger !  :?

:x OHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

D'OH!!!

Crap.

Oh dear. The end of the 100% ?


NMH

:( Superman is having an off day.

bloody hell, nothing has happened on stfc world yet !

No

i dont understand, Brezovan always saves penalties doesnt he?  :|

WHAT????!!!!!

What the fuck just happened?

fuck off

FUCK A DUCK, Whats going on?

we're shit and going down

Paul Ince is coming on?

:(  :(  :(  :(  :(

Christ. Not good.

i think we just scored an own goal.  We were going to get in trouble sooner or later though, make these welsh tossers shut up !!

Ince warming up

we will win 3-2, Caton & Roberts

Raped  :(

Meh. Well in 1995/1996 our first defeat was away to Wrexham in September but we went on to win the league anyway.

Still unbeaten to English teams in the league  :D

Wise out

How could Wise possibly stay after this embarrasment? WISE OUT!!!  :mrgreen:

i think he's already been replaced, kings back

KING IN.

on your own.....

Ince Out  :soapy tit wank:

Brezovan out as well, liability  :-))(

Peacock can go too because I feel he isnt scoring enough. Razor back and stevenson back NOW.

Sabin and Opara IN

we need a prolific goalscorer ofcourse, van der linden and reeves i say.

Heard that we are trying to convince Sabin to return to the game with us.

brownley out!!!!

Marko Tuomela and Juan Cobian and Kim Heiselberg all return.

Rumour has it also that jamie cureton was seen around the county ground yesterday. He misses us.

Funny how James Constable flopped at Walsall  :P

It had to happen sooner or later , heads up, lets dick MK's on tues

Humph.

Still top of the league. This is weird, we lost but we are still class  :D  Bring on the MK at home.

Fair point.

Sets us up for a cracker on tuesday. It's now a true test of Wise and the players ability... That bouncebackability Dowie went on about.

It had to come. Have never ever liked playing Wrexham !

NMH

Damn drat and blast  :(

Perhaps there are some decent teams in this league and this result may bring us back down to earth. Disappointed but not downhearted. NEXT!

I'm dissapointed (and will get some bloody awful stick tonight from my mates) but we are Swindon Town and we're going up, so fuck it. Bring on Franchise 8)

well, we had to give the rest of the league a chance

really hope we fuck McDongs up though

Meh.....Had to lose eventually.

Lets go stick a few past MK Dongs on tuesday, to make up for it  :D

This is a proper example for why 40yard freekicks should count for 3 goals.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 :mrgreen:

So I assume that Dennis will be given the MK game to turn things round then it's bye bye.

Who do you reckon will take over? I guess Ince is the obvious choice.

Not ince, our record with him involved on the pitch is fucking awful.

It was always going to be a hard game - they gave it a shot.

Putting this behind us, we look to the slightly more important game on Tuesday.
1st against 4th (realistically the best bet for the championship title). It's a 6 pointer and all that.

Sorry for starting the thread and buggering off, went to see Carlisle vs Northampton (1-1) as it was nice sunny day up here.

Interestingly there's only one league game I haven't been at or listened to on the radio - Hmmm I'll be listening on Tuesday without a doubt  :D

Ah well, we deserved to lose today. Wrexham got the ball down and passed it well, got it out wide and their two wingers (no idea who they were) were very very good today. No complaints about the actual result. Fully deserved and their penalty was a penalty no complaints.

A few things though....something that really really grates me is...defender are aloud to use Lee Peacock as a ladder, all the do is climb on him, foul him and pull his shirt yet they seem to get away with it....the minute Peacock dares challenge them the ref seems to blow up for a foul, it wasnt just today. Its been every single ****ing game

The ref was usless and 2nd half was doing everything the home crowd wanted. In my opinion Wrexham should have a player sent off...Lee Peacock turned their number 2...and got pulled back when through on goal and number 2 was the last man...then a few minutes later he went in over the top of the ball and got Aaron Brown in the shin...should have been his second yellow and the ref bottled it....things like these change games...but I am a bit shocked he stayed on

Our 2nd 'goal' right before half time....Chritian Roberts never offside in a month of sundays. I guess Lee Peacock also ran in to the box....and I think he was offside....but Roberts took it on and Peacock didnt get a touch...depends if you class him as active or not....

Too much hoofball and not enough midfield from us today, we never looked like scoring.....only shot we had was a must be close to 40 yards free kick from super Paul Evans...however saying that, like Hartlepool despite alot of possesion and getting the balls out wide Wrexham didnt create that many chances....if we hadnt of had a mental two minutes I think we could have held on for draw or even won.

Still good luck to Wrexham this season, first team we've played that wanted to play football this season.

Also it was nice to see Paul Evans and Darren Ferguson getting stuck into each other, proper hardman tackles flying it...they both got up shook hands on got on with it, real men.

Minor setback, but one defeat in every 7 should see us through.

Still believe we'll do it....

the ref was welsh

we were better the first half and should of went in 2-0 up

wtf happend at half time,second half we lost are shape, dissaplin and our minds,

CCP had a mare at left back(i thought)got found out,

i hate goin to wrexham 3 visits 3 loses for me,

theres tthe rant outa the way

but,

WHAT A GOAL worth goin just for that

i aint that down just because we had 1 shit half dont take away we just won 6 on the bounce,

keep the faith n bring on MKD

and ince looks overweight

and the balti pie gave me a proper dodgy stomach earlier :(

i had a crap burger at the services a crap burger at the ground

football food is  wank

yea the bugger king i had was shite, triple bacon cheeseburger my arse, its got the same fucking meat as a normal single burger, they've just cut it into 3. fucking arseholes!

Pretty much spot on there, DV.  I'm not sure their right back deserved to be sent off, that's about it.  If we'd have carried on the same way in the second half he probably would have done, as he looked constantly harrassed the first 45.  

First half was scrappy but we gave as good as we got, not sure about the offside, didn't think Roberts was off either.  After that we were just second to everything, ince was unfit, and we looked pretty impotent.  Would have rather seen Fola come on than anybody.  Their left winger did have a good game(Jack Smith saw to that more than anything), and I would have had Ferguson as MOM.

This is the sort of thing that can happen away from home. That linesman gave one dodgy throw in to us, and the Wrexham fans in that main stand got on his back straight away. I cant believe that Roberts goal was off, it took an eternity to get through. So in some ways the home fans saved them. And Roberts should have gone down for a pen, same as their player did.

Then second half we got absolutely battered, so no complaints there. A 2-2 draw would have been fairer.

Was getting sick of some of our fans singing ' we are invincible' and champione shit as well. Made us look a right bunch of idiots when they stuck that winner in, and didnt they celebrate it. Hopefully get better backing for the lads on tuesday now our fans realise we're not invincible.

On a big plus note, really enjoying the big games that being at the top of the table brings us. Teams and fans looking forward to play us, big attendances from home fans and good support from Swindon. Ive got to say, those Wrexham lads to the right went fucking nuts when the winner went in, the bastards! Hope our stands look as mental as that when we score against Mcdons on tuesday!

the goal was amazing yesterday

just seen it again

and it looks even better :mrgreen:

i knew it wasnt offside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fucking lino!!!!!!!!

Just seen the 'Championship' on ITV.

What a cracker for the first goal - Evans is god.
The second 'goal' - Roberts was a mile onside, Peacock was mile offside. Peacock imo was active as he was running for the ball and was beaten to it by Roberts. If Peacock hadn't run it would have counted.

Penalty was a penalty, second goal took a wicked deflection off our defender, which meant Brez was wrong footed, he seemed to have the original shot direction covered.

Peacock is surely not active. He did not touch the ball, he did not stop anybody else touching the ball....
Roberts ran through and whether or not Peacock went for it, Roberts was going to score. Which means Peacock's actions did not affect the game.
Well, not until the lino gave it offside

The Championship - "Some goals need no commentary". ACE  :D

Sorry I disagree, if Peacock is running towards goal, towards where the ball is going, a defender has to cover him, which makes him active. Thus offside.

Any neutral fan would say offside.

Not seen it yet (recorded Championship so will check later) but if as NR says Peacock is running for the ball, he's spot on, Peacock is active for precisely the reasons NR says. Don't suppose you fancy signing up as a L2 ref do you NR? You seem to know a damn sight more than most of them at this level!

I'd love to be a ref, but it takes about 10 years to get to League level, and the first 5 years is expenses only, no wage. I might do it one day, when I've made my millions  :)

Having just seen the Roberts disallowed goal it's one of those things. Some Linos/refs would have let it stand. The whole offside if 'active' nonsense makes it too subjective to gain any consistancy.

Great goal by God. Wish I'd seen that one live. Can we have another Tuesday?

when are the highlights gonna be up? i wanna see.

I disagree purely because he wasn't being properly marked. Otherwise you could use that excuse for every "inactive offside" that isn't given

At the end of the day the prat should've realised that Roberts was onto it, and put his hands up to say "I'm inactive" and stopped running. He's to blame here, the lino did his job correctly. That's one of the few times I'm taking the lino's side.

Peacock was about half a yard away from the ball when Roberts scored, it had to be offside. Peacock's like McDermott was, it's like watching someone run in slow motion

watching the highlights, roberts was definitely onside. i still wonder whether peacock was actually offside as well

watching the highlights I noted.

Roberts never offside, perfectly good goal

Both their goals came from our left and Adie Williams was too deep for both of them, for what was the eventual penalty he was about 10 yards behind everyone.....

 :evil:

stupid goals to give away, plus we should have been 2-0 up anyway

Looked a goal to me too

Their winner wasn't as soft as I thought but still poor

oh and the wrexham player who won the penalty was funny as fuck, it looked as if he was rolling downhill

Just watched the highlights...although its academic now, Peacock wasn't interfering with play - the defender was tracking Roberts and Peacock was unmarked at the backpost. The lino wasn't at fault really though - there was no way of telling who would put it in and Peacock did run in as if he wanted to finish it off - it may be instinctive but he has to take some of the blame. But the ref should then have consulted the lino and let the goal stand.

As for Brownlie's miss at the end......

...and I'd assume Ady Williams has been instructed to sweep up behind Nicho, who goes to the ball.

On the first, if the ball had been down the middle then Williams would've been there, and for the second notice that the first ball in Nicho went to challenge - so Ady Williams had to be deeper in behind.

Offside. If we weren't Swindon fans, we'd definately be saying Peacock was offside, good decision.

Peacock didnt touch the ball

Peacocks run didnt obstruct the keepers path to the ball

Peacocks run didnt obstruct the defenders path to the ball

Plus look where the linesman is standing, edge of the box....and Wrexham took the resulting free kick from Roberts starting position.

Perfectly good goal....

at that point in the game the lino was getting some stick of the crowd behind him and he took the easy option and stuck his flag up.

i agree with the above

hmmmm.. this could go on and on.
End of the day, some agree, some don't. Goal wasn't given, we lost.

yes but it should of been given because.....  :D

My first away game of the season and our first loss :( i'm blaming myself!

Have to say though that it was probably a fair result,we just couldn't get the ball in the second half,the boyo's were all over us,bastards!No problems with the penalty,the bloke was looking for it but it was a easy decision for the ref,Brez was lucky to stay on the pitch.
Evans goal was absolute quality  :D As for the Roberts off-side goal,i'm pretty sure the lino was bullied into it by the Wrexham fans behind him,cause it looked ok to me[admittedly from behind the goal]..but not a lot we can do about it really.The run had to end sometime,wish it hadn't happened when i was there though!
I was sat behind Rudeboydreas 8) and i hit his mate in the back of the head :oops:

If his mates anything like him i'd have run a mile.

My gut feeling is that the offside decision was correct so I'm gonna keep the ball rolling...!


Interfering with an opponent means:
Preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or movements
or
making a gesture or movement which, in the opinion of the referee, deceives or distracts an opponent.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/trebblej82/1-1.jpg

I think at this point to claim that Peacock isn't distracting the goalkeeper would be ludicrous considering either of them could have knocked the ball in..

Absolutely correct decision in my eyes.

i think it would be best if we just terminate peacocks contract

he obviously just gets in the way

Its offside.  End of.

how on earth is Peacock obstructing the keeper, he's not in his line of sight between himself and the ball and he isnt blocking the keepers path to the ball

If anything, he's obstructing Roberts.... :shock:

Think that's sort of the point. It's much harder for the keeper if he doesn't know which one of them is going to do something. He has 2 players to read and not one.

That picture shows it perfectly. 6 inches from the ball is active. Thus Peacock is offside.

i thought that the rules now said you cannot be given offside untill you've touched the ball. Peacock didn't touch the ball, therefore he wasn't offside. Then again, they change the rules as often as i change my boxers.  :-))(

4 changes in 12 years - you smelly cunt.

how verry dare you :wink:

this offside rule is a joke, i went 2 wrexham n as u lot r sayin peacock was offside but roberts clearly wasnt. It cost us that game n if ur gonna give that as an offside u gonna have 2 look at the cisse predicament. These refs in this league r a joke :fu:

Yes Peacock was offside.. and peacock was interfering with play.. therefore the goal was disallowed. Rightly.

no he wasnt, he didnt touch the ball...which last I checked was the rules....linesman arent supposed to flag till the ball is touched.

Even Wrexham fans thought it should have been allowed!!!

He doesn't have to touch the ball I'm afraid:

A player in an offside position is only penalised if, at the moment the ball touches or is played by one of his team, he is, in the opinion of the referee, involved in active play by:

    * interfering with play
      or
    * interfering with an opponent
      or
    * gaining an advantage by being in that position

interfering with an opponent

Interfering with an opponent means:
Preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or movements
or
Making a gesture or movement which, in the opinion of the referee, deceives or distracts an opponent.