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Anyone else here?

Im here, anymore for anymore?.

yup im here, nervously waiting to see if stfc world will start working!

*waves* hello

come on yooooouuuu reds

I am here!

Team

Evans

Collins
Ifil
O'Hanlon
Smith

Jenkins
Whalley
Pook
Shakes

Cureton
Thorpe

Subs: Roberts, Wells, Nicho, Nicolau, Bulman

Come on Town!!

We're off, Come on Town.  8)

right you are edinburgh stfc except i do believe we are playing a 5-3-2 with smith and shakes as wing backs

COME ON YOU REDSSSSSSSS!

I am about to explode with excitement!!!

o maybe 4-4-2, my mistake

Ed Hadwin says Pook on left wing :?

:cry: I am worried already.

I just copied the team off of skysports web thingy. Dunno about formation! :cry:

first shot on goal from thorpe, looking promising

OOOOOHHHH sounding good for us already  :)

:soapy tit wank: i fuckin love the 1st game of the season

Ifil has already made two mistakes, we are only 9 minutes into the season. :(

Ifil mistake  :? Reminiscent of last season

Uh oh!, Jerel up to his usual mistakes. :?

fuck

Bollocks :evil:

Thorpe blocked on the line and then they score.

fuck it 1-0 down  :(

Fucking typical!, Thorpe misses a great opportunity and they go up the other end and score.................. :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

Lucky bastards

Thrope close again.

King Out!  :mrgreen:

:soapy tit wank:

I thought someone summed it up well when they said that we would score loads this season but also concede loads. :(

I cant see us scoring too much for the first few games -  we have 6 debutants, need a while to gel.

Jenks with a good shot from 18yards

:evil:  fucks sake

Penalty :cry:

Oh dear!, a penalty... :cry:

SAVED, WOOOO HOOOO!. :beers:

barnsleyu penalty

FUCK YES!

YESS! Great save.

YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Well done Rhys 8)

SAVED!! PEN!!

ffs get a grip swindon

Feck yeah RHYS!!!  save :)

YES SAVED

Yeovils Losing  8)

ah we really need a goal before half time, it just doesn't sound lively enough to me

1-0 down and they've had a missed penalty. Doesn't sound like the first half has too many positives then!

Is anyone standing out at all according to the radio guys? :-))(

Thorpes done a few good runs that sounds about it

no, not really. no-one playing particularly badly, but nobody putting in a sterling performance  :|

Sounds like a fairly even game, we're unlucky to be losing, had a few decent chances.

Don't think I've heard Cureton's name this half, lets hope he gets involved in the second half.

Nah I've heard Cureton's name at least 10 times but Thorpe's had most of the chances. Evans has probably been our best player so far.

What's up with the official site, they normally have team news but it doesn't seem to have been updated since yesterday?  :-))(

Who is the bird in your Av? Is that Jodie Marsh? :P

I think it is...... :chunder:

:cry: 2-0

for fucks sake.... 2-0  :evil:

not looking good at all. sounds like there are just too many players underperforming. not heard anything of whalley, cureton or shakes. if key players like that don't perform, we will always be in the shit

To be honest I am not at all surprised in the scoreline.

King cannot motivate his players, simple as. That was the problem last season and it is going to carry on this.  :x

I havent heard Wall-ey mentioned at all. Could be something to do with the fact that our pre season friendlies were a waste of fucking time. :evil:

penalty!!!!!

Red card for Barnsley.

YES red card and penalty

barnsley down to ten men!!!!

is it a corner or a penalty???

saved

COME ON SWINDON

fuck it, what the hell is wrong with us

Nonsense, the players just need time to gel.

wanky penalty. we gotta push hard now!

Dear o dear  :x

i think its time to bring on roberts for curo. he hasnt done anything, hes missed a penalty and roberts must be itching to get on. we need someone to really run at their defence and roberts is the man to do it

Fucking hell, Come on town.  :evil:

Still half an hour, a man up, we need two goals. Could still get a point.

That's a fair comment about the players gelling but if you seriously think King is a good motivator of players, you are quite delusional!

bring 3 strikers on I say, gamble.

Not at all, we have made a number of superb comebacks under King and turned round losing runs. We've also made the playoffs with very limited resources. Hardly the signs of a poor motivator.

its there for the taking now, it was close when we both had 11men and we have the strikers to score goals. if we can't get something out of this then i will be dissapointed

Did anybody else have the same feeling i did that Curo was going to miss?.

At least the Pox are losing. :beers:

I think I jinxed us, I was celebrating before he took it. :(

Roberts on for Pook, good move. At least we are going for it.

Roberts on, coem town!

We'll agree to disagree then.  :mrgreen:

We've switched to 3-4-3.

Smith left wing and Roberts upfront?

Yep. Close from Cureton there, we're on top at the moment.

as well we should be with an extra man, we don't seem to be making much of the possesion though do we

Roberts being a silly boy!.

well that was a bit poo. never mind, roll on tuesday.

I am annoyed now. :evil:

What an anti-climax. Lets hope Mr King can sort them out for tuesday.

Anybody know if Miglioranzi will be fit for Oldham?

We need a win Tuesday especially with the visit of Forest coming up.

Defeat as predicted. Shame we couldn't get a goal.  :(

Hope for a win on tuesday to kick start the season.  :mrgreen:

Sounds rubbish really, only positive was a penalty save.

Lets hope Thorpe finishes next time!!

As Ben said earlier, the squad needs a few games to gel.

We could have done with King organising some decent pre season games so they could have gelled in preseason but hey ho! Onwards and upwards! :mrgreen:

Fucking Elton John, you fat cunt. :evil:

33 mins against 10 men with 3 up frront and we couldn't score-that's worrying.

It is indeed and apparently we were just lumping hgh balls up to Thorpe and Cureton, i fucking hate it when we feel the need to play the long ball game instead of knocking it about and getting the crosse's in from out wide.

What worries me is  Ricky Shakes, Gareth Whalley, Michael Pook and Steve Jenkins in the midfield . Whalley not seen play but sounds quality, Shakes could be good given time, same with Pook and Jenks is a defender.

I think King already know this, but we need a strong, ball winning, experienced midfielder. Migs is another good option of a different type if fit.

Especially as an Oompa Loompa is bigger than Cureton! :mrgreen:

Crosses into the box will not be the way to work this season. With shorter strikers it will be essential to get the ball on the deck and maybe use Migs and Whalley as playmakers to play the strikers into good positions.

That wasn't how it worked today and our few chances seemed to come when the ball was played to feet.

What should worry you more is that Barnsley with 10 men ran rings round our defence.

They should never have got the ball back but somehow Ifil was given the role of ball distributor from the back and he continued to give it away 9 times out of ten, as he had done all game

King should tell him never to pass the ball more than 10 metres left or right. He should also tell the others never to give Ifil the ball. We'll have a chance then.

It's going to be a lonnnnnggggg season. :cry:

Sounds promising then!  :cry:

I hate Swindon fans sometimes, I really do.

ITS ONE GAME. FFS. GIVE THEM TIME.
It's not all doom and gloom, from everything I've heard we weren't bad at all. Not good either but hey at least we aint bad.

we were pretty poor/average. the main thing that worried me was the constant long balls to the midgets up front. We need to get the ball on the floor and play it about abit.

Still its the first game and we never win first game so roll on tuesday. I can see some positive things but it will take a bit of time for them all to get used to each other.

On the plus side about half the townend were in the mega bowl before the match! We even found Dave M when we got in the ground!  8)

King said in the radio interview after the match that he tells them on the training ground not to do long balls and they practise passing etc, yet when the match comes they do the long ball sometimes, and as he said there's not a lot in the game he can do about that.

First game, we weren't brilliant, but Barnsley weren't that much better. If only Cureton's penalty went in. And Ifil has got to start cutting out the mistakes soon, there's just too many.

Uh, was it not you that posted this at 5pm?  :shock:

'Sounds rubbish really, only positive was a penalty save.

Lets hope Thorpe finishes next time!!'

Yeah lets be positive!!!

COME ON YOU RRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

So the players ignore our manager then? That sounds like a wonderful motivational tool our great manager has in his armoury!  :soapy tit wank:

Absolutely true. Some of our fans are very frustrating. Anyone remember that guy who threw his season ticket on the pitch when we were 3-0 down against sheffield wednesday two seasons ago must have felt a bit stupid, when we just missed out on promotion. :ha:

well, so i don't know anything about how well we played, but shame to lose the opening game obviously!

penalty miss just probably added to the frustration!

90% of Football fans are fickle

What a wonderful use of alliteration!!  :P

Impressive, Mr Jock.

WE ARE GOING UP*






*note, I don't think we will go up, just trying to liven up the mood.

Write this game off. We were shocking. No positives to take take from it at all IMO. We were shite. Well beaten by a mediocre, ten man Barnsley. A good side would have got 6.

Our season starts Tuesday (I hope)

If anyone disagrees they must have been watching a different game. We are crying out for that midfield ball winning hard man I tell you.

Oi, less of the Jock young man!  :evil:

Who was our best player? :roll:

Ifil was only ball distributor because he was the only one getting it off the barnsley players to start with

Im pissed off that we lost but its only the first game of the season people, roll on Tuesday when we can sing our hearts out to spur the lads onto 3 points. :wink:

Shaun O'hanlon or Jerel Ifil. Why, who did Ed Hadwin think was?

I dunno, I can't get Radio Swindon or Wiltshire sound so that was why I asked! :?

I just wondered why the eye rolling?

From the reports from various folk it sounded like we were utter tripe. I just wondered if anyone stood out.

I tend to use the smily faces a lot, maybe I should cut down!  :oops:

seen the erm...highlights on sky
the barnsley penalty was a joke  :x  both barnsleys goals were well taken
cureton was unlucky with the our penalty and there defender trying to claim it hit his chest the cheeky bastard

couldn't really tell much else so will pass judgement tuesday

Edinburgh, use listen live on BBC Swindon/Wiltshire, that's what I do.

couldn't get it to work for much of last season due to contract rights etc!

Got to admit I've only just got broadband so can now listen to it easily. Never heard of contract rights causing a problem before, I thought they covered all Swindon games. What contract rights were causing the problems?

No idea mate. Just when I tried to listen to commentary some recorded message woman told me they couldn't broadcast the game or summat. Maybe I was doing something wrong!

Will try again tomorrow night.  :wink:

Yeh, better luck tomorrow. I'd thought about getting STFC World, but as it's free on the Beeb and works ok (at present) I'm sticking with that.

It's to do with STFC World having the broadcasting rights for league games.

Sometimes they forget to flick the switch to cut the commentary until a little way into the game.

RS can broadcast any LDV/FA etc.. games that we haven't been knocked out of though  :roll:

they did that last season to, i think premium tv have the rights to broadcast it live over the net so bbc can't! bit shit really!

Ok, now I'm confused! I thought BBC local radio could broadcast all games, BBC 3 Counties does all Luton games, is it only over the internet that we might get problems listening to the match by Listen Live to BBC Swindon then as I thought Radio covered it.

Or have I got this all wrong?

Just seen your post Whits, bugger.

Sorry Bedford, I didn't explain that too well -  yes it only affects listening over the net.

If you can pick up RS on normal radio you're fine (which we can't)

Thanks Sussex, that's a bugger. Was hoping to catch some of the games on the internet, far to far from Swindon to get it on normal radio.