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Possibly the latest start to an OMDT ever?

I expect us to win today. In previous years non-league opposition has scared the crap out of me, as we lose far too often, but I don't think Wilson will let them get away with going out there with the wrong attitude. A nice early goal would be ideal.

Yes it is rather late isnt it? I think a scrappy 1-0 will do

Any win please.

Think we'll win by 2 or 3, but for selfish reasons wouldn't mind a draw, as it's only a short drive for me for the replay.

Yeh same with me, only 20 mins away!

has everyone gone today?

No.

nah not today, am i right in believing that becausde its a cup game it will be online on BBB Radio Wiltshire

I'm not going. Saving money and also helps me keep off the beer for another week or two.

I'm not going,  also saving money. Going to Norwich JPT instead.

Talking of Norwich, they are in control v Paulton,which is a shame

I am going for a 1-1 draw with Woking scoring early, but as stated above....any win will do at this stage after the banana skin of Histon last season and a few home losses to non-league teams in the past such as Dagenham at Home in 84, Stevenage at Home in 98, Tooting and Mitcham in 76 Away and Histon away last year.

Yeh it is a shame, he first goal deflated them

I'm going, heading off in a minute. Apparently I have money to burn. Or maybe I just dislike my family more than you lot :)

Haha, just heard "fat cunt!" live on ITV.

ITV were trying to apologise for it! Dont you just love the FA Cup...

Team:

Swindon Town: Phil Smith; Kevin Amankwaah, Scott Cuthbert, Gordon Greer (Capt), Callum Kennedy, Jon-Paul McGovern, Simon Ferry, Michael Timlin, Anthony McNamee; Billy Paynter, Tope Obadeyi

Substitutes: Jakub Jesionkowski (GK), Craig Easton, Lee Peacock, Ben Hutchinson, Nathan Thompson, Sean Morrison, Matty Barnes

No Lucas? Is he injured or totally rested?

Also, what position does Matty Barnes play? Would be interesting to see him and Thompson get some time on the pitch if, say, we managed to get 3 goals up

Matty Barnes is a young midfielder/winger.

Thought Tope wasn't allowed to play. Ah well!

I didnt think Bolton were letting us play Tope today?

Shhhh don't tell them he's starting.

Same for me. Norwich is cheaper and should be a better game. I know they reduced the prices today but I reckon it still costs a bit more than my season ticket does per game, so bollocks to that - they should have even cheaper prices for season ticket holders.

A Rather strong line up but what about Henshall - is he injured?

Merlin was funny. Lots of vocal woking fans. Lots of swindon fans sitting quietly.

A preview of the match atmosphere I'd guess.

how did "the band" shape up?

Ill apparently. LJF is suspended.

And norwich are edging it 7-0

Matty Barnes is an "out and out right winger" according to Bodin.

Tuuuuuuuuune.

Great crosser.

No shocks today then it seems - Paulton lost 7-0 and Bromley lost 4-0 to Colchester and Walsall beat Stroubridge 1-0, that all a bit boring!

Bloody radio's just gone!  Bastards.

But they're saying on commentary that it's available online... wierd.

yeah, surprised he's not on the bench.

Maybe it's supposed to be available and some retard has turned it off when they're not supposed to?! Either way, it's a bit crap not being able to listen.

No commentary at all, not on bbc and not on stfc world....anyone else got it yet?

For any of you who are in Surrey, BBC radio Surrey are doing Commentry on 104FM and 106.4FM

Lucky me!

Nope, not working at all for me. Incompetent wankers.

nope-big fat silence on World

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8347416.stm

It's a Woking link though.

Cheers Chris.

Can we let the beeb know to fix it through the facebook account?

Good work. Woking commentary is better than no commentary.

Boo, it is due to the rights going to ITV.

Samdy questioned it on facebook "Rights issue I'm afraid - FA Cup went to ITV....."

Which makes no sense given the woking link

Nice.  Thanks.

Really? Internet commentary rights are sold seperately to TV rights aren't they? Hence the creation of World...

Woking aren't subject to the Football League licensing rules.

I can't even the the Woking link, "Not allowed in my country".

FFS

But, but, but it's the FA Cup. So I'd have thought it would all be separate. Not that it matters I suppose.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/8342422.stm

Live - Carlisle v Morecambe (BBC Radio Cumbria)

Live - Chesterfield v Bournemouth (BBC Radio Solent)

Live - Oldham v Leeds (BBC Radio Leeds)

Live - Torquay v Cheltenham (BBC Radio Devon)

Hang on, t'internet reckons the BBC own the radio rights for the FA CUP...

It sounds like they're dominating early on

thanks Everton

Accrington vs Salisbury is live on BBC Radio Wilts now. What happened to Radio Swindon? I can't even find it online?!

Given that our players are clearly numbered and have their names on the back of their shirts, it would be nice for the commentator to mention some names once in a while.

"Swindon break, Swindon coming forward, shot from Swindon..."

I was just about to comment on the same thing

Yeh, you would have thought he would have them in front of him

World is working now, at last.

Woohoo World is back!

Sounds like Macca has put some good crosses in from the left so far. Kennedy just narrowly missed a header.

Thank God for that!!

Haha Kettering are beating Hartlepool. Jeff Stelling Isnt very Happy!

Ashikodi  skored for Kettering. That isnt Stabby McStab is it?

The scorer one Moses Ashikodi

I believe so, Batch  :D

Sounds like we're catching them on the break nice and often, but we don't seem to be keeping them away from our goal too well

Sounds reasonably even at the moment. Erm, we'll settle when we score a goal :)

And plucky little Luton are beating the mighty Rochdale!

Staines beating Shrewbury

Creating a few chances now. Not scoring them mind.

And as I post, off the line.

Dangerous Free kick... Just missed

Goal. .Offside. Arse. No it is a goal. 1-0 Paynter

yay

Biiilllllllllyyyyyy

Get in!! he's given it!!

Few more would be nice.

No idea what happened there, but a goal is a goal!

It's been disallowed again.

Oh Dear. Sounds like crowd trouble. They say its still 1-0

I didn't hear any crowd trouble. Do I really zone out that much?

According to BBC Surrey, they said the Woking Fans were a getting a bit excited

If we don't get another one before half time we've as good as lost.

Are we playing that badly? Or are you just being pesstimistic?

I've heard Woking brought as few "lads" as it were.

I don't know anymore.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yay. Halftime. Super Exciting.

Is anybody listening to the Radio Surrey coverage?! You can only hear the commentator guy, and not the guy he's talking to, so it's a one-sided conversation. Not making great listening!

If you could have sex with one animal at the zoo which would you choose?

Did the bloke on radio surrey just hand over to someone at a ground called the dripping pan?  Or is my hearing gone?

yes he did and then it went very quiet

Good Choice!!!

We're just hearing his side of a conversation with his producer.  Very professional!

Yes, it's Lewes' ground.

Very funny. And no it wouldn't be a penguin. It would have to be something larger

Did you notice the bloke in the pro masterchef final a few weeks ago looked a bit like you samdy?

No, but tans did. He looks nothing like me!

WTF is going on with this woking commentary. just the odd word, whilst he's eating a kit kat.

He did a bit.

My favourite was the gay ex-actor brighton fish bar owner on an old Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares which looked just like Gary Stanley

I think you'd be surprised at just how big some penguins can get.

Similarly, it is very surprising how big an Ostrich actually is. I mean I know they are the biggest birds on Earth and that but they really are very fucking mahoosive and quite a bit scary. You'd need a ladder to fuck an ostrich as well.

Sounds like a man talking from experience!

I've ridden an ostrich.

Who'd want to fuck something that smells of fish?

:)


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to be fair i wasnt talking about an ostrich but yes they are rather large

Penguins are pretty tight.

Oxford are winning!

Is it still 1-0? I've got the radio on but very little is going into my brain

Is that because you're fucking a penguin.

We are 1-0 up. Oxford are 1-0 up. gateshead are 1-0 up at home to Brentford!

Brentford have equalised

Boooo

Topi off, Hutch is on.

Urgh. Just found out it was a man penguin I've been doing up the bum. I feel dirty.

Mr. Penguin says that Woking will equalise.

What kind of penguin was it Ben.

They nearly just did. Sort it out Town!

I've got a feeling Woking will score.

A kid in a costume.

Doctor Dave had slept with one of his patients and felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he couldn't. The guilt and sense of betrayal were overwhelming.

But every now and then he'd hear an internal reassuring voice in his head that said: "Dave, don't worry about it. You aren't the first medical practitioner to sleep with one of their patients and you won't be the last. And you're single. Just let it go."

But invariably another voice in his head would bring him back to reality.

Whispering......

Dave........

Dave........

..........you're a vet.

Is that whilst you were in a post coital embrace?

Sounds like Woking are switching to 3 at the back. We need the wingers to exploit the wide ares and make the most of it.

Nicolau's revenge-subbed after 67 mins!

LIstening to BBC Surrey.  Sounds like we're all over them (as we should be).  Wish we'd get a second though.  My train home in the evening does go through Woking, but I could do without a replay.

Fucking hell, sounds like we're settling for 1-0. Dangerous, very dangerous.

easton on

What was the attendance?

Im not sure but theyre all over us

4805

Wycombe 4 Brighton 4 sounds a hell of a game.

Jutkiewicz scores for Motherwell. Seems to be having a great time there.

:)

One out Batch! Not a bad guess.

That is impressive

Fucking football. Just finish. I've got to go do things.

4 mins? Fuck that.

Catch you all later.

I think he was taking the piss!

Oh, silly me :)

Charlie Griffin has just equalised for Stevenage at Port Vale.

Why the fuck is it that so many of our ex-players score shit loads of goals.

Phew indeed Phil King.

Hooray, safely in the hat!

Phew, thank god for that

Not as comfortable as it should have been, but a hell of a lot better than last year!!

Sounds like we were poor for a lot of the 2nd half

Woking commentators on BBC Radio Surrey seemed surprised we were playing down the clock towards the end.  I can only assume they're fairly new to football.  Innovative tactic, that, when you're defending a 1-0 lead at home in the Cup.

Not a generous win, but fuck it.  We're in Round 2 of the FA Cup.  Job done.

Dull, boring, cold and we won.

Bring on the scum

thats 50 minutes of my life im not geting back.

dire game and sat near the biggest bunch of morons with some cock who kept making some daft noise(they booed the team at the end. cretins).wokings no11 was the worst player i've ever seen(well almost)a few of ours ran him close.
paynter was mom by a mile,it's a shame he had two clowns playing off him today.
macnamee was poor, as was amankwaa.the others all did ok i thought. greers lack of pace will get punished by better strikers eventually on todays showing.

Only positive is that we won and go through. Other than that it was a terrible game of football and more negative tactics at home even against this piss poor team. They were actually awful. Of course they are a non-league team but it took us a set-piece goal to beat them. Only good spell was just after half time but we didn't maintain that standard enough.

norwich must be quaking

Woking were terrible and we should have won by more. If we'd bothered a bit more we could have scored a few more but ah well, we were never once in danger of losing and a good boost for Paynter and the back four. Thought Cuthbert and Greer did a good job at the back. We weren't great, but we didn't have to be.

That's quite a big positive...we know we're not great at home, and these games are seldom easy.

A good draw v a league side and we can keep our once a decade record intact.

Was that the one that sounded like he was raping a parrot?

The game ..... meh. Poor game, uninspiring performance from most, Billy worked hard, as did JPM and Cuthbert who both played well. But when all's said and done, we won and we're through to next round. I'll take that but we'll need to play better Tuesday if we're to progress in JPT

Couldn't agree more. Mr Sam-Yorke, I commend you for being one of the bright points of an otherwise interminably dull game with how terribly bad you were.

First game I've seen for a few months and blimey it was dull, but at the end of the day, we're through and so are Oxford, so we're still on to meet in the final.

Was he dressed like Michael Jackson? ;)

he won SPL player of the month or something

By the way, does anyone know what the Linesman was trying to flag for on the goal? Probably offside as that's what he was doing all afternoon.

I thought he was trying to bring the referee's attention to his unfamiliarity with the rules of football.

I stood next to him at Yeovil (away) last season  :(

I wasnt there..

You spent most of the afternoon playing with your phone  ;)
Yes, I was secretly amongst the recognised TEFers.

And was he doing bad things to exotic birds to produce that extraordinary noise?

Checking the scum score!

Let's be honest it was never going to be a classic and some of the mongs sat around me today were fooking plain irratating.

I thought there keeper made some pretty decent saves for them but Woking were woeful in the final third which was lucky for us.

Amankwaah & Timlin were pure shite today and both were guilty of giving the ball away and puttimng pressure on us.

Paynter & Cuthbert were my MOM today but JPM deserves recognition for  another solid performance. Credit to Smithy too he did well and looks a lot more confident now we have a new coach.

At least we're in the hat for the 2nd round and that's what counts.  

Does anyone have a record of our progress over the last 20 years or so?  Until the late 1990s I know we used to get a bye until the 3rd round and, I think, the furthest we have been during my time as a fan has been the 5th round.  Which round was our televised tie vs Aston Villa in the early 1990s?  (I remember catching the coach from Oxford just to buy the tickets for that one...they were like gold dust.)

I was sitting near the idiot making strange noises as well,what the bloody hell was that all about,think I'd prefer a trumpet!(It's called care in the community!)
 It was a performance that got us into the next round enough said. Cuthbert was excellent again.

I've seen him at Speedway (on the gate) if it's the same guy

I was a row behind you just across the aisle (in front of Mex  :( )

I thought we did more than enough to win, should have been a lot easier though.  Woking were pretty poor, although I felt their back four and keeper were good.  The no. 11 should be able to find a career in panto somewhere!!  What happened to the incisive play from last week, early crosses for the strikers to feed off?  Macca should have been supplying them, but he was poor again today.  Was in the members' suite today and a couple of us were ranting about Hutchinson after the game.  Didn't realise that the players come up there to grab something to eat, first player up was Hutchinson who sat down at a table right behind us.  When he got up to go a young lady went with him, she must have heard all our rants and wishing he would fuck off back to Celtic!!

I was sat near them too and they ruined that game for me. Sure, it was boring, but fuck me they're the biggest bunch of miserable annoying cunts i've ever seen waste carbon dioxide. One of those cunts shouted at MacNamee that he wasn't good enough for "fucking Penhill" when he didn't try to head a shit cross that was nowhere near him.

If i had bollocks or an ounce of machismo in the real world i woulda loved to have smashed that guy's face to paté.

Smash it to Pate, i love it Bazza :)

A crap game but we're through and in the hat. Woking were crap apart from the first 20. Their set pieces were pure comedy.  As stated elsewhere their no 11 was priceless.  As for us, Smith came and caught everything - what a change from when he was trying to punch everything. Unlike others I thuoght Manky did well. Kennedy was OK. The middle 2 were very good. JPM was a bit patchy but more good than bad. Ferry drifted in and out of the game but looks a good prospect. Timlin was pure shit. He has sod all presence in the centre and his clearances towards the end showed pure panic. Macca didn't do much. Tope I feel sorry for. He took a load of stick from the fans around me. I don't think he had a good game but he's a young lad starting out. Paynter for me was MOM by a country mile.
All in all a crap afternoon but a job done. Now Scum away - put them in their place on their turf.  

yeah that's the morons.
at first i laughed a bit at their stupidity.in the end it started to grate me. the abuse they gave macnamee was ott.
my daughter didn't know what to make of them(she hardly ever goes to matches)

Dull. I almost fell asleep until Fred found the urge to hurl expletives at the Linesman, which was akin to the sound of concorde taking off......

That was possibly the most depressing game I've witnessed. Only Paynter & Smith (because he did what he needed to) emerged with any credit. The rest were shit/lazy/disinterested * Delete as appropriate.

My highlight was Fred spilling pie juice down the back of the kid in the next row.

To be fair to sam-yorke he was playing out of position today (usually plays up top). He usually works very very hard but definatly had an off day today.

he was awful.
i liked your no7 and 8.and the keeper was decent

I had to sit in the Don Rogers / Intel / Nationwide / Kingswood / not the Town End stand. Please Mr Fitton, never do that to me again.

Poor scrappy game - Paynter was my MOM ....ot much else to say.
If woking could pass in the final third then no doubt we would of been in trouble.
Tope was shite ...again....hopefully he will be on his way as it just isnt working for him.
Kennedy struggled a bit, especially with his passing.
Sat in the DR - If Fitton is saying he needs a band because the atmosphere is poor then why close the Town end.......Fuck knows what the Woking fans thought..

See you Tuesday....

I'm quite glad I didnt go.

Was going to go tuesday but might not ater hearing the TE is closed.  gay.

Steve Froggatt cracker of a goal. I couldn't see anything in the Stratton Bank, as you know. Prem and Champ don't come in until the 3rd round and never have....

I can't remember us going beyound 4th or 5th...Everton away, and Southampton at home one year...round Horlock time. Hazy, very hazy

amankwaah, jp, cuthbert, the stand out players. timlin was pretty shite

i saw fred elliott walking the drs concourse at half time. he had a coffee or something similar, lord of gay

ps. their number 11 was hilariously bad

Job done,can't really remember any shot they had of not.Tbf it was a shit game but can't be easy against that sort of team and it was a shit atmosphere.

Must say Macca and Timlin were shit,you can forgive macca as at leat he has shown a bit lately but timlin has been fucking woeful.

That lino flagging to disallow Billy's goal was almost as funny as Woking's no 11 Sam-Yorke.

Phil King said after the match that the flag had been raised for offside (as you guessed Nemo) with Tope being on the goal line....but as any Town fan could have confirmed, even if not at the match, Tope was most unlikely to be interfering with play  (even if he does interfere marginally more often than Hutch).

danny wilson said the lino thought there was an infringement on the keeper, to which the ref said nah i had a perfect view- it's a goal

ferry showed some nice touches but doing the running and work for two seems a bit unfair on the lad. i hope timlin gives him his wages as fuck knows he didn't earn them yesterday.

annyoingly we played quick long ball to two isolated strikers and then seemed surprised when the second balls dropped to the woking midfield.

when tope did get in down the channels (in the first half, before being replaced by someone even less effective) he had BP in the middle to aim at or our midfield just inside their half

very poor show but as has been pointed out, we're through to the next round!

Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, when the BBC were making a big thing of their coverage of the cup, they had some decent all time stats on the cup and in terms of % of games played to wins ratio. STFC used to come in 9 on this list.  Basically it meant historically we were good for winning 2 or 3 games, before going out.

Apart from the odd blip, right up til the mid 90's, we would get the occasional decent result or performance....since then though our record has been quite disgraceful, and daresay we'd no longer feature in that top ten.

I think your all being a tad harsh on us considering you are league 1 and we are conf south. Our players worked very hard, but as the case has been through the whole of this season so far we cant score, and in yesterdays case get a shot on target. As far as your goal was concerned I felt one of your players was interfering with play whilst in an offside position. After talking to our keeper after the game he said he was blocked from seeing the ball properly http://www.wokingfc.co.uk/gallery/images/woking_2009_10/swindon_1_-_woking_0/swi34.jpg (http://www.wokingfc.co.uk/gallery/images/woking_2009_10/swindon_1_-_woking_0/swi34.jpg)

never, you can see in the picture he's crouching down so the keeper can see it! :)

I thought it all panned out as expected to be honest. Woking fans made me laugh booing the ref at the end like they'd been hard done by  :doh:

I'll give Woking some respect. Great support. They also played some neat triangles in the 1st half and kept the ball very well. They worked hard, and kept themselves in the game right to the end. But it ends there.

The number 11 was the worst player Ive ever seen at the County Ground for a competitive match. He dribbled the ball out of play with his first touches, there wasnt even a Town player that near him! The number 10 was also woeful. The 2 free kicks were an absolute joke, especially the one that bounced off the Town End roof. Mouthy Nicolau was an average player for Woking and even got subbed, just another player with no consistancy and no humility. The linesman is a total twat, they had two defenders on the line, and it was a corner so the ball travelled backwards anyway. Shocking.

For us I thought Paynter, Ferry, McGovern, Cuthbert and Smith had good games. They approached it in exactly the right way and worked hard. Greer didnt have a bad game, but seemed strangely off the pace (has he got a flu or something). Timlin's confidence looks shot to pieces and he lacked composure throughout the match. But the biggest dissapointment for me was Amankwaah and McNamee. Amankwaah wasnt bad, but he didnt show any endeavour, despite being up against the poorest player on the pitch. He needs to put this Harris thing behind him and get his confidence back. At his best he is a match winner, its not often you say that about a right back. McNamee didnt seem interested at all. I think Mark Marshall would have done better. Probably saving himself for the visit of Norwich on tuesday which is totally unnacceptable. If O'brien is fit then I hope he comes into the team, because some of our players are picking and choosing their games.

Half our team played well and it was only just enough. Same old problem, the team seems unprepared for playing with a 1-0 lead.

I'll give Woking some respect too. 

Worse performances have earned 0-0's.  Worner in goal looked sound as did the defence as a whole including their Hutchinson.  Arter, and Thomas when he came on, showed some enthusiasm and bite and Anane on the right showed good skills early on.

Although Smith in goal had to show good alertness on a few occasions he didn't really have a save to make.  Woking were very unthreatening up front however and are one of the few teams not to have scored against us in the last 10 minutes all season.

The Woking Fans were a disgrace too.  Really proud about the way our fans observed the full 90 minutes silence for Remembrance day.

Cuthbert is our best player now isn't he?

And incidentally, the squawking noise has been a feature of Town games both home and away for several seasons now.

:D .

I've never been so fucking bored at football before.

It's normally in the TE though, probably the first time a few have heard it.

I didn't think Amankwaah was that bad?? Nor Greer either, they weren't at their best but as said before, we didn't need to be close to our best really as Woking were poor.

amankwaa kept playing clipped balls over the top which their defenders dealt with every time.apart from short passes an 8 year old could have made ,he lost the ball time after time.
very poor performance from him.

To be fair Arriba when he had no cunt bar paynter moving in front of him it must be hard

When he gets going he really does ravage defenses (Amankwaah).

We were only just good enough.

I think Charlton's exit to NV shows what a fine line there can be in the cup, even if you are half decent.

The free-kick wasn't give offside straight from the corner, that's kinda obvious that the lino wouldn't be that stupid. The offside was given when the player was in front of the keeper as the ball was headed. We will have highlights tomorrow so might be easier to tell what actually happened.

Yes but even then there was no other contact from any player so the ball was played from the corner and therefore the player in question (Billy) simply cannot be offside regardless of whether he was infront of the keeper or not.

Saw the goal highlight, wasn't at the match. Topi was offside when the ball was headed by Billy. He was standing very close to their keeper and rushed out after the header. Whether or not he was 'interfering' is subjective I suppose. I'm glad it went in our favour.

Anyone not intefering with play when they are on the pitch should be subbed.

Ref was going to disallow it and then realised that it was Tope and he hasnt interferred in any match since he came here!!  Goal is good!

i thought he played well for them,as did hutchison.

Approx 10 mins of highlights from the game...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JcA7D6RNsM&feature=player_embedded#

Nice highlights - cheers

fuck me looking at those highlights how many chances did we create? we should have scored 4 or 5.

Yep. And every Wokinng attack seemed to end in either a tackle or a routine catch for Phil Smith. If we'd actually played well we would have slaughtered them!

I went to school with woking's Mitchell Bryant.

Fun fact #31

At about 3 minutes in I thought the Woking commentator was going to cream himself when Anande was dribbling his way through!

He is on loan from Reading. I work with his Aunt's boyfriend.

what number was he on saturday?

11 I think.

Nooo! 11 was the big lad on the left who was a joke. Must have been 9 surely?

yep that's the one!

My workmate is mate's with his brother. Never met him.

He once spat slush puppy on my face :(

I'm either very tired, or been conversing with Riddel too much, as i read that as "shat"