Swindon Town Vs Southend - Official Match day Thread

[DiV]

What the fuck is Di Canio on about? 

this is how I translated it.

Flint was injured with some bone problem - that apparently is long term and has always been there but its the first Di Canio has heard of it? or its been bugging Flint but he's been playing through it for a month.

So, Flint has spent the last 5 days in bed resting, or not at training anyway but said he was good to play today.

Di Canio wont play players who dont work for 5 days then declare themselves fit.

Even if you've got a broken leg you turn up to training, you dont train your legs obviously but you do something else - you keep going. That not his opinion but that of experts.

I think...

[Batch]

So is he pissed off with Flit for not turning up to training , or just explaining why Flint didn't play?

Please not anther spat Paolo

[Saxondale]

I was listening to the radio but had no idea what Paolo was on about for most of the interview.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

All I really got was the fact that it wasn't Flint's fault  

I think Di Canio has quite a flamboyant way of talking (as do most Italians) which makes it sound like he's having a go at someone when that may not nescessarily be the case...or something. Who the fuck knows?

[reeves4england]

Anyone else still got the radio on?

is Flint done then? Paolo doesnt seem happy with him right now.

I listened to that - couldn't work out what Paolo's point was, whether he was unhappy with Flint, or with the injury situation, or if he was just making a point about training (badly)

[ronnie21]

Just in, poor side Southend.  Thought we coped well in defence and they only had two chances, one of which hit the bar (we had one as well).   Very impressed with McCormack today, thought he played a stormer at centre back.  Caddis was good as well, overall impressed today.

[Batch]

.  Caddis was good as well, overall impressed today.

Good to see him constantly talking to players too.

[Gnasher]

I was also confused with what he said about Flint. Was he unhappy that he was lying in bed instead of working his non-injured parts of his body? Seemed that way.

[Luci]

I was also confused with what he said about Flint. Was he unhappy that he was lying in bed instead of working his non-injured parts of his body? Seemed that way.

Yes.  He said he should work on other parts of his body.

He apparently could have played but Paolo said no as he hadn't done enough work this week!

[Benzel]

I think he was more unhappy with whoever advised Flint? But he stressed it wasn't Flints fault.

[Gnasher]

I think he was more unhappy with whoever advised Flint? But he stressed it wasn't Flints fault.

But who advised him to lay in bed? Must have been his missus 

[cheltred69]

I thought it was an entertaining game today; we played good football for most of the match and dominated far more than the scoreline might suggest.  However, we did have a few dodgy moments where accurate shooting from Sarfend would have seen us concede and also one where Lanzano pulled off a top save.

The defence wasn't too greatly troubled and like others I was very impressed with McCormack, though Risser had looked dodgy in his 15 mins cameo.  Devera looked a lot more confident today.

Ferry showed he's too good for league 2 and Ritchie was excellent for most of the match.  Smith looks like he'll be a good back-up to McCormack and hit a cracking strike for the first goal.  Was again impressed with Caddis; some his final balls were a bit wayward but I think he contributes so much to the team.

I thought DeVita looked a bit out of it and for someone who should have been playing wide drifted into the centre too much I think.

Connell put himself about well and looked good.  Kerrouche is a bundle of energy and put himself in some great positions but must improve his finishing.  He must have missed about 5 good opportunities before finally putting one away.

If we play like this every week we should soar up the league but I guess consistency is the key to success.  I still think we need to convert more good chances.

[joteddyred]

Came in on the end of the interview and wasn't even sure who Di Canio was talking about.  Thought he mentioned the word 'bump' a few times, but could have been 'bone'.  

On to the game,  which considering we ended up with a fairly makeshift defence, I thought was a pretty good performance.  Although Southend weren't particularly good, at times we played some really neat passing football, which was nice to see.

As mentioned, McCormack probably just shaded man of the match, but there were a number of others not far behind.  Ferry looked more the player of old and would have been nice to see him finish the 90 minutes.  Considering, Devera has been out of the picture, I thought he did well and even De Vita looked better.  Caddis and Ritchie really are too good for League 2 and we'll do well to hold onto them both until the end of the season.

All in all, we seem to be playing with renewed confidence and as more of a unit.  Just need to start picking up points on the road now.

As an aside, the level of injuries this early on in the season is a worry.  Is it because players weren't fully fit when they got here and can't cope with the training regime?

Also, why has that flaming board not been sorted?  It was a farce everytime a substitution took place because nobody could read the numbers.  It was like it last week as well.

[ibelieveinmrreeves]

McCormack was excellent at the back, Devera his best yet (although as Jayo pointed out, he was only playing against "No Goals" Blair). Decent performance but some work to do still (Southend were rubbish). Step in the right direction.

[stfcinbmth]

Please not anther spat Paolo

Apparently worse goes on at B'mth. Their scummy chairman got on the PA half cut at the the end of the game and offered the North Stand out. I'm only hearing this 3rd hand by the way