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I've got 100% record too this season, you cunts

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Cunt

If we lose, you die...

If we don't win you're banned you cunt!!

All a bunch of superstitious cunts. ...

COYR

 No need to say anything really....we've had 4 pages of stuff about some game a month away v Barnet, and now a match day thread not started by SWS  :doh:

Ffs, we're doomed now. I'll be finding some wifi bar in chiang mai to keep an eye on this and watch whatever prem game the locals will be glued too. I'm going for a 1-1 draw, which I'd be reasonably happy with

Ha, I look forward to the implosion tomorrow, and the pichforks out for Dave!

Shit son.

I come in drunk as per. and find a thread already started.

still, don't see why we cant win.

2-0. Happy days.

We've already lost you massive cunt Bogus Dave.

Create a proper one and hopefully a mod will delete this abomination.

Massive day today.

Nam v Southend, Crawley v Burton etc

3 points will be magnificent but would take a draw if offered now. Having said that we are on such a roll and can see a 2-1 win (Jervis, Magera)

The PDC/JW combo  has got to be the greatest thing to happen to Swindon for over 15 years!

Would take a draw today, we never seem to win at Rovers 'Ground'. As long as the unbeaten streak continues, I'll be a happy boy.  :beers:

Fucks sake Dave. I'm sharpening said pitchfork and looking around for a decent birch.

FFS wake up and find the thread hasn't been started by SWS.  However will remain positive and think 1-0 smash and grab will do, although I've got every confidence we can get more.  COYR

Dave.......your a penis!

I have a bad feeling about this... 2-1 Rovers.  And its all Dave's fault.

I think we'll lose 2-0

Dave 'controversially' started a match day thread a few games ago and we won (as he said - 100% record) so I don't see the problem.

Anywhoo, superstitious bollocks aside...

2-0 to the good guys. Flint, Murray

As long as we don't lose I'll be happy, i detest them ! Hoping for a 2-1 win.

Gone for a nice 2-1 away win

Not impressed with the thread starter tho

If we lose dave is never gonna hear the end of this !

2-1 defeat.

Our match preview: http://thewashbag.com/2011/12/08/match-preview-swindon-at-bristol-rovers/

2-2 ferry and murry for us

happy days  devita hattrick nice tight game town win it 4-2 ....new i shouldnt have skinned up this early

I fear for his if we lose today!!!

We've got too much for them imo. 2-1 Town.

Where's good to drink?

I'll go with this.

We always lose to Rovers anyway, Dave may have saves SWS record.  :D anyway don't really care who starts the thread 3-0 Town, Jervis and De Vita (2).

Not tempting fate but think that Bristol are beatable. 2-0 Swindon. Flint and Connell.

2 0 to Brizzle. Only because my predictions are always wrong.
Dave stop this fuckin about.

Where the hell was Sugg?

Anyways I think we'll lose today, hope I'm wrong but I'm going 1-0 Rovers.  :(

1-3 to swindon

Came up with this god awful chant whilst drunk in Ciren last night, goes to the tune of happy days theme tune.
Caddis Ritchie down the right, ferry smith in the centre, Flint and Macca at the back, that's the Swindon team, that's gonna run, riot all over you !! Paolo is ourssss, he's here to stay , he's ours to keep.
Absolutely awful chant

Haha Good work Dave.

I can see the pitchfork rebellion heading for a student house in Bath this evening.


Prediction: Bristol Rovers 2-1 Swindon Town

This prediction has nothing to do with Dave's thread.

Just off to the game! Drop the kids in Cheltnum, the missus in Cribbs and I'm sorted!

1-1 draw.

For some reason I've woken up absolutely convinced Magera will score a hatrick today.

Will Sugg didnt start the thread so a 2-0 defeat. Yes I am supersticious.

Hahaha

Some men just want to watch the world burn

Will be at the match with a Rovers fan so look for me being evicted should we look like winning. Continuing my useless predictions I shall go for a 1-1 in the knowledge that this leaves an away win option open.

Hardly, with Connell out for three weeks!!  Bit I do like your scoreline!

I never have liked gingers.This confirms it

I think today could be a big sign as to where this team is at. Town teams of the past have often seemed to bring a ray of light and then let us all down within about 2 weeks. If we follow up the Southend win with a defeat today it'll be a case of "same old Swindon", and we'll continue to struggle to reach the top 3 for a while. However, a win today would show the discipline we all believe Paolo has driven into this squad, and would suggest we're tough enough to make a charge on the top 3 even with all the cup distractions.

Hate to say it, but I'm gonig for a 2-1 defeat.

:hmmm: put this in the prediction league COYR

What a daft thing to do?  Superstitious or not, why interfere with a good thing? This together with the fact I'm going, it's not a happy hunting ground and Ritchie's not playing means we will probably now lose! 2-1 Rovers.

You have fucked us you cunt!

Bogus Dave starting matchday threads is as wrong as us wearing white at Wembley.

Lets hope the result isn't the same, or castration should be his minimum sentence :)


FWIW, I think we will come home with a positive result, but fear it may be a draw.

If we don't get a result today i'm gonna hunt down Bogus Dave and chase him with a shitty stick.

However, I think we'll be too strong and win 2-0.

Any ideas on our forward line up?

Gabi taking Ritchies place maybe?
Devita on the left
Magera and Kerrouche leading the charge

I have confidence for today. 3 points in the bag ( i hope)

I'm expecting to see De Vita, Ferry, Smith and Gabi in the midfield, then hopefully Kerrouche and Magera up front, but no problems with Murray starting if that's what Paolo goes with

Redeleagihgagh out ill. Guess cibocchi will start?

Just seen him a few hours ago down the gym with Ritchie, Devera and Connell.!

You're being shunned Dave, SHUNNED!  :)

Foderingham, Caddis, Flint, Mccormack, Cibocchi, Gabilondo, Ferry, Smith, De Vita, Magera, Kerrouche

SUBS - Esajas, Kennedy, Risser, Murray, Jervis

Good team.

Quite surprised to see Kerrouche in the team TBH, he must have shown an attitude that was better in training this week, hope hes up for it today.

We've turned a corner, and Rovers are shit.  4-0 Swindon.

Where's Ridehalgh, is he injured?

Edit : Maybe I should read above before asking stupid questions, just saw what Dave said.

This game is a big test of my newfound strange confidence in Town...we never win at the Mem, so a win here and we'll be flying.

Only 1 win and 1 draw in 6 games at the Mem, and only 4 wins in the last 12 games against them thats a pretty poor run, and Rovers do seem to be a bit of a bogey team for us lately.

Is stfc world working for everyone else?

I can get rovers, but not towns!

I must say, they have one of the strongest sides in the division on paper. This won't be easy, especially given our recent record vs them. This is a real test of our credentials and form.

However, they're up against the best side in the division. Still think we'll edge it

No keeper on the bench, do we normally do that?

Player isn't fucking working for Swindon commentary, only Radio Brizzle.

We've not had a goalkeeper on the bench for 6 of the last 10 league games.

Yeah...yet again, wankers.

And now Bristhole radio link has fucked up FFS.

The brizzle connex sounds fucked

Come on Town!!! Gutted I can't be there  COYR!!!!

Would assume both will be fixed at the same time them?

Twitter says it's kicked off..

They nearly scored after 10 seconds, not a great sign.

Nearly went down a goal or down to 10 in the first 15 seconds.

Lucky, very lucky.

Brace yourselves.

Its back on

This has really fucked me off.

I don't want to listen to the Slave traders vs Derby.

chill out mate, it's working

Put the swindon game on then

Yay it's working

Sounds like we're getting dicked early on

Not enjoying this start, Rovers have freekick 5 yards from our box  : :no:

I do not like the sound of this at all.

Missed :(

....83 minutes to go....

Gabilondo has a good chance.

Now Gabby misses a tap in.

All action.

I'm drinking a Pepsi Max. Might get the Whiskey out instead.

the sound's fucking awful on my computer

Afternoon all. Sounds like this could be a 30 pager before the end of the match!!

Im on the Gluwein, it worked against southend

Most posts having a go at Dave for starting the thread.

Wow, a foul throw. Di Canio won't be too pleased.

Hurry up and fix the vidiprinter Sky you bunch of eggs!

And rightly so.The attention seeking ginger cunt

Can't believe what a difference the vidiprinter and other info makes on that programme. I've had to switch off, gone to the dark side BBC1 red button. 

You've used the words 'trumpet', 'cheese' and 'eggs' as put downs so far today... What is wrong with you?

Because I choose not to call everyone 'cunt' does that make me so bad?

you cunt.

Fallon scores for Aberdeen.

I'd rather be called a cunt than be mocked by the venomous verbal arsenal of a children's television presenter  ;)

meany :(

Sounding better now, thank god making some chances.

Cheltenham 1 up agaisnt Southend

Southend losing. Shame.

'Nam 1 up against Southend

Has Kerrouche been subbed yet?

Thus making our result more important if we want to keep us.

Come on Swindon....

Only 23 minutes gone, give it another 5

Sounds like we are getting a few chances . . . . .

COYR

Is Sky fixed yet? Garth Brooks and Martin Keown are beginning to annoy me!

Adverts right now, hopefully fixed after them.

Edit: Yep, its fixed.

The Sky videprinter is back...

Thanks! :)

McNamee scores for Wycombe.

After an action packed first 10 am I safe to say its all a bit dull now?

GOAL PAUL CADDISSSSSSSSSSSSS WOOOOHOOOOO COYR!!!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.

Caddis again.

GET IN!

NOT AT ALL

CAAADDDDDDDDIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

woot

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadiis!

Sounds like a belter!

GET IN THERE!!!

Is it full-time yet?

Afternoon chaps! Ahem......Yeaaaaaaaaah ! Gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr in there !

GGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL

Caddis !!

tic-a-boo Caddis son.

HURRAY

Nice one Cads.

Always said if you run at teams in this division more often than not they will just back off! Sounds like a great run from Caddis!

Get in, brillll

Caddis played as a right winger for Dundee United on loan so he knows where the goal is!!

I assume it wasn't a crappy goal then :)

we'll still lose and I'll ban Bogus Dave.

Caddis is utter class.




FACT!  8)

Just ban him now anyway.

Why is the sound quality on STFCPlayer so bad?

HT.

STFCplayer is always shite for me, then again I am in a different timezone, and have shite internet where I am at the moment.  Looking forward to getting my Vorizon Fios mega fast internet in the next few week.  Fibre Optic! Nice!

Mine's been pretty good this season.

How much do they sting you for that over there then?

At a kids party, can I convince the parents to switch the music off in favour of BBC Swindon, can I fuck.

Some people are so selfish.

Not 100% sure yet, but they are advertising a decent TV package and Fios for $79.99 per month at the moment (about £50) so not too bad, it all depends on what I will be adding to my package I guess.  I think the Fios gives you 50MB, though as standard and you can ramp it up to something stupid like 120MB if you want.  50MB will do for me I think.

Could do with Southend equalising in the 2nd half I guess.

Looks like Kennedy is coming on for Cibbochi because of an injury.

Swings and roundabouts really. If things stayed like they are we would be 6 points behind Southend in second. A Burton equalizer at Crawley would be very nice.

And Burton equalising at Crawley, wouldn't go amiss either.

Swindon scoring another is more important than any other scoreline elsewhere.

Come on Town, Second half coming up lets do these lot!

Or not...

1,329 fans from town.
7,726 overall.

Apparently Jervis about to come on.

'Nam 2-0 up

Cheltenham 2 up.

Jervis on for Kerrouche.

Di Canio is trolling Kerrouche.

he's in trolling cohorts with bogus Dave.

Crawley 2 up.

We need another

Do they teach throw ins in Italy? Cibbochi with another foul throw.

Gypo Jesus scores for Wednesday

nah.They normally teach diving to get a free kick instead ;)

Shrewsbury losing.

Flinty boy

Another good chance for Gabilondo.

Van Persie just scored a peach of a volley.  Watching it on Fox! MOTD tonight folks

Esajas on for Gabilondo.

I fancy Easyjet to notch one today!

Wonder if that missed made up Di Canio's mind.

Come on Town.

1 more goal.

cmon u redz!

mazy run and into the roof

Come on Swindon lets get this 2nd.

Silly Fod.

Fodders you lucky boy.

Oh heck, Foderingham gets himself in a bit of trouble with no sub keeper...yellow for a push.

:D

Same old Swindon, putting on the Riss

I assume not in the box?

Ball was out of play.

Esajas trying to get himself sent off too, ref isn't going down too well amongst the Gassers.

Ah ok, I get what happened now.

C'mon Flint!

Risser for Margarine

Getting nervous now...

No doubt more opposition calls that we are a dirty, niggly, horrible side.

Esajas for fuck sake!

Easyjet shut your mouth.

Is he off?

Fml.

Bollocks.

FFS.

cunt

Bollox.

Cunts

Fetch the gallows, Dave's being strung up.

For fuck sake, commentators saying wasn't a freekick.

Guessing they scored?

Boo.

Now we must hang on...

Shouldn't have even been a free-kick apparently!

Chemical castration for Bogie dave

Yes, dubious free kick headed in.

Fuck it

Cibbochi!!! LEARN TO FUCKING THROW A BALL!!

4 fould throws Cibbochi. Fucking tit!

ta :(

Someone needs to give Cibbochi a lesson on throw-ins.

Four foul throws in a game from Cibocchi.

Two weeks wages, sorry. If you're a professional footballer, that's a fucking ridiculous error.

can they not take throw ins?

And the Rovers fans have finally turned up.

Why are they continuing to let him take throws?

FFS :badmood:

Ferfexake!

1-1 Rovers score from dodgy freekick. Until then Town had not been in trouble

Town attack and Cibbochi conceeds his 4TH foul throw!!!

4 mins of injury time left

exactly!

Player's fucked.

We needed that second, 1-0 is frigging dodgy

practice makes perfect?

STFC Player has died!

As i post that it comes back on..

agreed, i demand to know what cibo has been practising during training! ROAR

nope

F/T 1-1

 :badmood: Fucking hell, I thought we stopped conceding late goals, should of won, pissed off.

Would have taken it at the start but argh.

I honestly would've taken that before the game. Still unbeaten.

Disappointing.

Will take that.

 Always harsh to concede late, but unbeaten run continues and a draw at the memorial isn't too shoddy.

1-1 FT.

Its very disappointing but not a disaster. True Cheltenham have gained 2 points, but he ho, we'll do them at the County Ground and narrow the gap that way.

what he said

A draw at Rovers is fine.

If it was the other way round (us equalising), we'd be happy.

Circumstances, not great. We didn't lose = Good.

bollocks! shame but i am happy with that...

I cant take any positives from today. The second half sounded like we had some poor discipline.

Feels like a defeat

I had a feeling that we might only get a point today.


However, bearing in mind our poor record against them in recent years it's some what encouraging that we are disappointed with ONLY a draw at the memorial shed

A point away from home and 14 games unbeaten and you can't take any positives from the game??

Jesus wept get a grip ::)

Really?  No Positives?

Got them all to visit the CG except for Saarfend - lots of time to reel them in yet plus the Scum didn't gain on us either . . . . .

absolutely - good result

Points away and wins at home will get us out of this league. Don't fret.
A draw at rovers is a decent result.

Definately take a point at rovers considering our recent record there and the fact its an away game, a point is a good result!

Agree.I said aswell that Southend will take a dip son so that spot is up for grabs.All the top 5 to play at home still bar southend so loads to be positive about

That could easily have happened last week at Colchester. It would have been totally undeserved had they equalized but it's always the danger when you are only 1-0 up.

As has been said though, you can't be too unhappy with a draw away from home, especially at bastard Rovers.

Big game V Morecambe next week.

Rest of the top 6 have favourable fixtures.

OK, maybe a bit harsh but I am pissed off. Gabilondo sounded like he should have buried a few. Poor discipline from our players and we let in a late goal (brings back memories of last year)

3 points would have put us up a notch to 5th and 2 points closer to the top 3

Fine, we didn't lose and we carry on our unbeaten run but I can't see it as a good result like some of you do.

We probably only deserved a draw. Happy with any point away from home and 14 unbeaten isn't bad!

Someones just text in to bbc Swindon saying bring back Wilson.

Sorry but that must be someone taking the piss.

No one can be that retarded shirley?

What a disappoint to concede so near the end but to be honest we were under pressure for the last 15 mins or so.  The free kick from which the equaliser came was a good challenge, crap refereeing.  Too many weak links in the team today Gabilondo, Cibbochi, Magera.  Jervis did nothing when he came on, but strange decision to take off Kerrouche when Magera was the poorer of the two.  

Don't understand why Di Canio upset the balance of the team so near the end by bringing Risser on either.  It was him getting in Ferry's way that led to the free kick they equalised from.  Gabilondo missed a sitter to make it 2-0 and we should have had a penalty as well - blatant handball off the line.  We missed Ritchie today and we also looked more knackered at the end than normal.

 Tinpot shithole of a ground, it's fucking freezing and now our coach has been stopped because there's some disorder outside the ground.

I wondered if that first texter had actually been to the game  :hmmm:

Theres always one town fan.

Same old BBC Wilts.

Sure, show some objectivity but there's genuine criticism and then there are wind-up merchants.

Pissed off....fine, so am I.

But to say you can't take any positives from the game is a bit silly. The fact of the matter is you can't win every game. That's life. We'll concede a few more late equalizers/winners before the end of the season (not too many I hope of course) but we'll get some ourselves as well.

That, as they, is football  8)

We looked toothless on both wings without ridehalgh or Ritchie, caddis had to do it all. Thought Jervis looked good but didn't get a lot of service once we started hoofing it for the last 30. Gabilondo was poor, magera could win the ball but didn't seem to work well with anyone else. Ferry and flint were good as usual, ref was random and appalling, gave us nothing in the second half.

Cheers axs.

A few weeks ago I recall that a few TEF'ers wanted to see a Swindon Town line-up without Matt Ritchie. I hope today has satisfied their curiosity.

Caddis is on 4 yellows so let's hope they don't ask the same question for him.

I think we'd be better off without Caddis myself. He's very overrated.

Be interesting to see the "penalty" incident. PDC has done well but made a right fuck up with that diving statement. I know this wasnt a dive but if it was a pen that would be about 5 turned down since he said that, and none given.

think you've been wooooooshed there

Fuck me, Paolo's not happy  ???

Paolo Di Canio's interview can't be broadcast because it has so many expletives in.

Wants 4-5 new players in January or he'll resign. He also said that Bogus Dave needs to have a strong word with himself.

Steady lad.

Well I predicted a defeat so have to be happy with a point!

Shame we couldn't hold on though. I checked the score as I was walking back home to see we were 1-0 up with 5 to go, whilst Southend, Shrewsbury and Burton were losing. It was a great moment. Shame it went to pot when I refreshed the page...

Understatement of the century

I missed that, I heard the word "resign" but I didn't hear the context :) Sounds like he had a bit of anglo-saxon in the interview :)

Cheers...good point to add to the band wagon.

I hoped that my overuse of the letter 'o' in the word 'no' suggested that I was playing...

The statement remains regardless  :)

Oh ok.

Sorry but he's had a shit load of players this season. We have a budget and a wage cap. I'm sorry, I don't support him on that IF he was serious.

No, I think he got it  ;)

Agreed on that, he's been backed to the hilt by the board and he has absolutely no right to complain about it.

I think Morgan and Longden are going a bit OTT over Di Canio's 'threat' to resign if he's not able to get 4 new players.

FFS...it's just after the game's finished, emotions are running high Di Canio's Italian so he's going to be even more emotional....come on. It's heat of the moment stuff and not necessarily a bad thing.

Even in jest I don't like the phrase "I'll resign" after a 1-1 draw.

Exactly right. Yes, Di Canio has done well but at the same time the Board have been outstanding in their support for him. He won't get better support anywhere else.

I am sure he will realise this in the cold light of day.

One of these days he will have one of these outbursts and that will really be it. I don't believe that time is now though.

Missed the interview.

Worried after that.

Heat of the moment Ralph.

I'm sure of that.

Don't listen to him Ralph.

Graham Rix was in the stands....

Some post match PDC views are up on the OS

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2541860,00.html

Sounds like DeVita got a PDC tongue lashing according to Chris Wise. And others.....

With Sheena Easton I believe.

I always get them mixed up.

Anyway, I think we're all missing the point. The point is,

KILL BOGUS DAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Typical. You can never find an angry lynch mob when you need one  ::)

Devita was by no means the worst.  Cibbochi deserves a tongue lashing for not being able to take a throw in correctly and Magera for not being able to win a ball in the air. Gabilondo  had his when he was subbed after his final miss.  Di Canio was going mental at him as he came off.  Felt a bit sorry for him to be honest, it was right in front of everyone.

Changing the subject, any scrapping outside the ground?

I was thinking about this and was wondering if he was actually doing anything any different to normal. I see what I think are foul throws in every single game I watch (not just Swindon games) but the refs don't bother penalising them. I wonder if we came up against an official today who had actually bothered to read his rule book and realised that in fact quite a high percentage of throw ins are foul throws?

Just a thought :hmmm:

Bound to have been.

I do find his hot headedness worrying, but Di Canio isn't going to change his ways. Hopefully the players realise its his way or the highway and just knuckle down and get on with it rather than sulk.

Seems silly for the thread to be in this tone, we just got a point in a traditional graveyard and we are 14 unbeaten!

So sounds like you were there, do you think we deserved 1 point or all 3?

I agree with that. When the Board appointed Paolo they knew there would be days like this (they must have done). My view is that in Italy, this kind of reaction is not in the slightest bit unusual and that it's a clash of the hot-headed Latin and more prosaic northern European temperaments.

It's not necessarily a bad thing. It's pretty clear that a number of players dropped their standards today and are going to be left in no doubt about that. Hopefully things won't go too far because they certainly should not.

I reckon Jeremy Wray has a key role to play at this point in bringing Di Canio back to earth. Di Canio has to manage the team, JW has to manage Di Canio.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9413334.Di_Canio_threatens_to_quit/

Ridiculous. We must have by far the biggest budget in the league, with the majority of the squad signed by him. Only got himself to blame if they aren't performing as he wants. We've got too many players as it is, certainly don't need anymore.

Well all we can do is wait to see how it all unfolds. All I can say though is that if Di Canio were to end up resigning - which I can't believe he will at this point - then he will never make it as a manager.

Guess what? When you are a football manager you get the odd set back and you have to be able to bounce back from it. And let's face it, as set backs go, that wasn't much of one really was it?

It's based on one emotional comment, all will be well by Monday.

A draw was probably a fair result.  We were the better team in the first half, but lost our way in the second and were under pressure for large parts of it.  Saying that Gabilondo could have put the game to bed in the second half and we had a strong penalty shout.  Would have taken a point at the start, but can't help feeling a bit disappointed at conceding so late on.

I didn't hear the interview and have only read the Adver story. It's difficult to tell if the Adver are being sensationalist or whether Di Canio's comments have been taken out of context but if he meant the comment regarding discussing his contract then the board should tell him to make do with what he's got or fuck off elsewhere. Di Canio's been given free reign to overhaul the squad and cannot hold the club to ransom. It's not as if we're doing badly, is it?

Out of the first XI today only Flint, Caddis and Ferry were not signed by Di Canio and they are arguably our three best and most consistent performers.

To be honest I'm not sure who has been more stupid here: Di Canio for not holding his tongue or the Adver for running an utterly moronic sensationalist article.

Worrying.

His mad rants can't be having a good effect on the team. They are 14 unbeaten for fucks sake !

I agree. This is why I say JW needs to step in, steady the boat and get Di Canio to see things in context.

I do hope so, couple of players have made comments on twitter,
 wes, Absolutely fuming! Word can't describe the rage I feel right now.
 jake, Not happy!!!
Wonder what paolo said to them after the game....

Foderingham has already stated it was because we drew and he was being pelted with lighters and coins

It always comes across that PDC and JW have a very good relationship so I'm hoping a quick meeting on Monday morning will clear this all up.

But that rage could have been because they threw away two points, or because the ref wasn't too hot. Not necessarily because of PDC. It would be worrying if it were mind.

edit:

Or that of course/

We have supposidly been here before though with his apparant rant at half time against Shrewsbury. All seemed well not long after that. Probably just annoyed at the late goal like all the players would have been.

Only have ourselves to blame for the result. You can't keep giving stupid fouls away and expect not to be punished by one.

Shit game, we resorted to hoofball (which we're shit at). No real standout players, apart from caddis. Absolutely fantastic today, up and down the wing no end. Great goal to.

Have to say that, despite all the talk about our superior fitness, we lagged visibly towards the end. I'd hope that a lot of that is down to playing 3 games in the past 7 days though.

I know he wasn't on for long, but seeing him at close quarters today Risser looks in now built to be a professional footballer. Looks fat.

I'm not sure what was worse about the chibocci incident. The foul throws, or the fact we kept him on throw-ins.

Have no sympathy for di canio at all.

Still Unbeaten xx

The pitch was also wasn't the best, bit difficult keeping the ball down.

Risser fat ???

My guess is that this will blow over and in time this sort of thing is something we will get used to every now and again. Di Canio is a passionate man but he is also an intelligent man. He knows he is in 'a good moment' to use his terminology and it would be extremely stupid to walk away from his current situation.

Maybe fat Risser plays for the Swindlypoopers?

Yeah. Rhys Evans was saying during the Southend game that Risser was a near-perfect physical specimen.

Fat ::)

That's what it looked like to me. I'm sure he isn't (i've never seen him in the shower), but given his startling lack of mobility his bulk certainly doesn't help him

Without sounding like a 'Rhys Evans', have you seen Risser up close ?

He's packed with muscle.

Being absolutely stacked would also restrict his mobility though. There aren't many top footballers who are absolutely massive.

Although I suppose that's not the debate.

I read somewhere he is the fittest at the club

ooooooohhhhh  :gay:

Risser is a tank!

One of the most disjointed and lacklustre performances since the end of August. When we got the ball down and played to feet we pissed all over them, unfortunately a lot of the time the ball was in orbit.

Magera hasn't come good yet, his control is dire. Gabilondo drifted in and out of the game, more in than out though. Kerrouche is most definitely not on fire and Easyjet did fuck all apart from lose the ball when he came on.

Glad to get a point though as they did put us under some pressure towards the end. Oh and the ref was fucking clueless.

Still on our unbeaten run and still have class in our team, but if we play more games like that we will get beaten.
 

If anything I think they will have a good effect on the team. Firstly it will show that there are no places at STFC for passengers and that players have a standard they are expected to meet. In most of our real world jobs it would classed as Quality Checks or something.

If last seasons bunch of wasters had, had the same manager rants aimed at them some of them might have bucked their ideas up.

Di Canio is a perfectionist and he wants his players to be too. Drawing 1-1 with Rovers is not perfect.

I hope all the fuming and pissed off twits from the players are because they dropped two points today and they share Di Canios desire and enthusiasm to win every game.

Good post Davina. Couldn't agree more.

Sounds like Paolo got a bit emotional!

Agree with this though.  Paolo has been backed to the hilt and more by the board.  You look at our team and see that the main 4 players in Ritchie, Ferry, Flint and Caddis where already here pre PDC.  

Lets all assume that Timlin, Bodin, Clarke and a couple of other will go in January, in addition to all the loans that will expire.  This I am assuming will free up the wage budget for these new players PDC wants.

Then look at PDC's additions during his short reign .....

Hits - Foderingham, McCormack, Smith ....

Misses - Risser, Comazzi, Atiku, Lanzano, Montano,

And then all the ones inbetween ....

I just am not totally confident in PDC and his transfer market approach that does resemble a scatter gun ...... What if he gets his new players in Jan and we fail to go up?  Will we get a similar rant in May demanding more funds in the summer?

Ok, he isnt happy but considering this is a team that 14 unbeaten I dont really like him coming out and blowing a casket on live radio.  I know everyone is going to type in saying he is just being passionate, but I would like to see him being a little more professional.  Certain things should be kept behind closed doors.

....and I think the whole 5 players or I resign (not the exact quote obviously) was more in the context of I wont tolerate under performing players and I will kick them out the door and get new ones in rather than anything relating to Di Canio's position.

I could have read between the lines wrong though.

The problem isn't our run, it's that the top three keep on winning...

He didn't. The BBC record the interview and play it back shortly after. This time I the language was a bit too strong so they have an editing job to do before it can air.

So all we heard was the BBC reporter telling us this is what was said.

Fair enough ... But I still dont think he has anything to moan about!

Wasn't exactly great today but why he was brought off for Jervis instead of Magera was a baffling decision. Magera was woefull and once Kerrouche went off we resorted to hoof ball and the ball wasn't sticking to front two at all.

To the few saying he doesn't have much to moan at the same can be said of us,14 games unbeaten and a team that gives a fuck.Are these just not the type of comments we expected hence why we all said it will be a rollercoaster.All managers moan they want more funds,fuck me both mancini and harry did last week paolo just does it differently

We have been a bit spoilt of late I guess, beating most sides that get put in front of us. In that context dropping two points in the 88th minute is a disappointment

we dropped 2 points today!

And the performance wasn't upto scratch. Every reason to moan if players aren't performing.

I just think it was a little OTT!

I thought that was a good game of football, a bit feisty and end to end stuff. For me it was a definite penalty and red card in the first few seconds. The ref gave us most things in the 1st half and fuck all in the 2nd.
Rovers should be higher up the league than they are. We didn't play that great today but we got a point. We've had 3 difficult away games in a row and won 2 and drew 1.
We was very good as usual. Caddis was MOM for me. Flint and McCormack had very good games. cibocchi wasn't at his best and I didn't see much wrong with his throws.
Smith and ferry did well - Ferry more so in the 2nd.
Gabilondo and DeVita were shite with Magera and Kerrouche being worse. If Gabilondo had a left foot he'd have scored 2. DiCanio went apeshit at him after the second miss and subbed him for Esajas who did fuck all apart from get a silly yellow and then gobbed it off at the ref. Jervis tried but he had no support.
Watching the game at Rovers is no better than watching a game at Supermarine.
The penatly incident joteddyred is referring to, I thought it hit Flint on the line.
All in all a decent day out that could have been better but Rovers deserved their draw. Thier support is total wank both in terms of numbers and support.

But he's Italian. That's what Italians do! We all knew he was passionate before he arrived.

In all honesty no. I didn't expect to hear that he had started issuing ultimatums to the board, who have backed him to the hilt in my eyes. Particularly when we are on such a fantastic run.

But we don't actually know the context of his comments. Whether he was serious about what he said, or whether he was using it as a stick to beat his players, or whether he just said it without any thought whatsoever.

I'm still happy with a point, even if we were close to 3.

Whilst disapointing that we conceded so late on I do agree with the majority in that we would have taken a point at the start. My marks:

Wes 7.             Not his most assured today
Caddi 7.           Played well but not as effective as normal in that their FB played him well
Aden 7.           Poor start and new that he was in a game today. Improved well in 2nd half
Cibo 5.             Poor. Missed Ridalgh
Rafa 6.            Thought he actually played well in 1st half but like most faded in 2nd half
Topboi 7           Thought we didn't use him as much. Was class when on the ball
Smudger 6        Not as effective today
Gabi 4              Terrible.
Mehdi 5            See Rafa, only less time
Lukas 5            Disapointing. Thought he improved when JJ came on

Easy 4              Worse than Gabi and thats saying something
JJ 7                  Thought he did well
Risser 4             Did he touch it?

Thought that the pitch was awful and had deliberately not been watered. Rovers played to their strengths (hoof ball).

Not overly disapointed by Paolo's comments as will all be forgotten come Monday.

Was it a ultimatum though batch?

The reported "get 4 or 5 players or I'll quit" ultimatum. Maybe those aren't his words, maybe he didn't mean it, fair enough, that is how it was reported.

Hmm, the adver have the quote:

Not sure what to make of it...

You could see how frustrated Di Canio was with our performance and the referee. I wouldn't read too much into his comments, he is very passionate and was extremely frustrated after the game.

The ref was shocking, they should have had a penalty in the first 20 seconds and he didn't get much right after that, he never let the game flow.

Very poor performance from us, we were lucky to get a draw, we gave away too many stupid free kicks in the second half. Caddis was brilliant as usual today, and a great goal. We definatley missed Ritchie more than I thought we would, we lacked width. De Vita comes inside too much and Gabi didn't have his best game for us.

Ferry had a good game, he hardly wasted a ball. I was impressed with Cibo's long throw that I never realised he had but it's not much use when he keeps taking them illegally.

Magera didn't offer a great deal and I was surprised when Kerrouche came off instead. Jervis looked decent when he came on but had no service. We played too much hoofball and it wasn't very effective.

We were lucky to get a point, but any point away from home is a good point and the unbeaten run continues.

Went to the Wellington and had a drink with some good natured Rovers fans. Then sat in the tent behind the goal with a post and drainpipe blocking my view!

You just know how things are going to go from the first 5 minutes with Town, and we were all over the place. Fuck knows how they didn't score in the first minute. Caddis is our best player by far and his goal was outstanding, but he really missed the link up play with Ritchie today (I guess you could argue that's why he scored that goal!). We were very poor up front and only improved slightly when Jervis came on. No idea how Cibocchi gets in the side, he's dog shit. Some half decent performances from the likes of Ferry, Gabi, Flint and McCormack I guess.

I didn't know anything about Di Canio's comments until I got home but I can understand why he was so upset. Rovers deserved a point, if not all 3.

I'm a bit pissed and saw this news on my mobile on the train - I'm not happy and nor were anyone else on the train. I think I'll try to sober up first before making a comment. Btw we should have fucking stuffed Rovers.

Any more news come out about Paolo's rant?

We should wear masks! Saylight fucking robbery today, delighted with a point because we were shocking. Caddis and Ferry were shithot as usual but a very poor performance overall.

Good banter on the terrace today. There were 4 blokes stood behind me in Christmas jumpers - they were are fucking ace, hope it's someone off here.

WE'VE GOT A JOCK CALLED CADDIS YEEAAAAAHHH-EEE-YEAAAHHHH!!

Respect for PDC on the gas forum.

http://www.brfcforum.co.uk/index.php?/topic/100923-di-canios-veiw-of-the-match/

I don't suppose there will be until Monday.

In a way, his outburst is quite refreshing. It's almost like something that some one would post on here after a game when we've dropped 2 or 3 points.

How often have you come away from a game wanting to bang your head against a wall in frustration, only to read the usual platitudes in the manager's post match comments....i.e 'this is never an easy place to come, we had key players out injured/suspended, we'd have taken a draw before the game'...and so on

That sort of attitude - and the fact that we've not had a pot to piss in, in living memory - is probably why we have been mired in mediocrity since I don't know when. Di Canio's response, whilst not being exactly what we're used to and perhaps appearing to be a bit OTT could be exactly what the club needs to take it to the next level.

I'm sure he will sort things out with JW over the weekend. It is in everyone's interests for that to happen.

It's certainly exciting.  :pint:

I'm still bemused as to why Gabilondo didn't play on the right with Ritchie not playing?  It is clear he hasn't got a left foot but yet every game he is played on the left?  Today was the perfect opportunity to play him on his natural side but yet again he was stuck on the left having to cut inside every time he gets the ball and when he does this he runs into traffic and due to his size gets shoved off the ball.  It can't be too hard to play your right winger on the right can it?

Just reading some of Paolo's comments from after the game and he is unhappy about some attitudes and that some of his players aren't used to playing over Christmas and they would like a winter break as they are thinking about shopping and having a few days holiday.
That has to be non British players he is referring to.

Danny Wilson comments would have been some mediocre shit spouted after game, after game, after game. With PDC it may be slightly edge of the pants stuff but at least its not media/crowd friendly shit.

I noticed those blokes at half time.  They stood behind me at Millwall the season before last.  Absolutely hilarious and kept everyone around us entertained with a succession of ridiculous chants and comments.

above, fairly obvious why rdv played right ahead of lg.... defensive cover... we have to play a rm who defends well to protrect caddis' attacks

we offered nothing from out wide today

magera played a limited role, but everything he did was class

bringing risser on lm invited them on. should have been murray to stretch it

wf is a class keeper, as are af and am in the middle

first half - we were shit and scored. second half - they were better and we got their just rewards. if gabi had taken either chance...

excluding pdc's hissy fit (got to love a manager who has v high standards), it is another away point in the bag

Can we change everyones forum names to initials like 'B' has done with the players?

Especially when De Vita plays on the left all the time anyway! Although Boeta makes a very good point.

We huffed and puffed yesterday and got a point we probably didn't deserve on the balance of play. I don't recall being that threatened by them though, even when they did create. Other than Harrold in the first minute. 

I think we missed Ridehalgh more than Ritchie yesterday.


Point away from home is good though and if we win our home games then we will achieve our goal. No problem!

meant to say we were the better team for much of the second half, but im just staggered that that post is as coherent as it is for that time of night

agree we really missed ridehalgh yday, but equally ritchie

need a left sided winger in jan, a centre midfielder (smith is good back-up/last 20 mins player) and a striker that wants to get in behind (murray?) to win the league

This - I love the fact Di Canio is so pissed off because we've dropped two points.

I hope the players share his pissed-off-ness.

Yeah that was us clowns...beers on board always makes for acting a bit silly :-)

yes, i also liked the relegation caculators out already :D

Judging by twitter yeah they're pretty pissed!

Magera was really disappointing. I really struggle to see how the man has international caps with a country like the Czech Republic. If you consider how the ball would stick to Paynter, or even Austin, when they had their backs to goal, it makes you realise what we're missing up front - we just don;t retain possession as well as we should in the final 3rd. Jervis did a much better job when he was on. I haven't seen enough of Benson to know if he's that type of player - isn't he more a front to goal, poacher kind? I think it's absolutely crucial we address it in January or see a serious turnaround in Magera's performances. Preferably the latter, because we can't go on throwing money at signings that don't come off.

....and echoing whats been said above, every game I have ender watched there has been utterly ruined by the pitch. Rugby or not, it is apalling. How often did you see the players get it stuck under their feet - including Gabilondo's second chance. They players are constantly battling the pitch as well as the opposition. Thank god the CG pitch it decent, because I'd really struggle to watch football on that each week - no wonder Rovers went long, they had to.

Just got back from Bristol after staying down for a few nights...and on reflection really delighted with a point!!! Still unbeaten in 14 and I feel other Swindon sides over the past few years would have got beat 3-0 and 3-1, but I have to say that Aden Flint was a fucking beast yesterday and had Ron Weasley in his back pocket all game and he won everything in the air!!! Deffo my man of the match! Not our best performance at all during this stretch we are on but I would have hated to lose to those gas bastads again down there!!!

Cibocci needs to learn how to throw a bloody ball though!!!!

Witnessed some proper yokel stand off after the game, it was absolutely hilarious. We were waiting for a taxi outside the car park (once you'd gone uphill) and a load of 40+ year old gasheads came down the street to face up with their equally buck toothed Swindon counterparts. Could'nt really understand what was being said by either party but the funniest part was when a bloke came down the street with his no more than 8 year old son shouting "fucking get into 'em Gas".

Oh and the guy on Rovers PA system was a total utter knob as well....'COME ON ROVERS...I SMELL GAS' had people around me in stitches and shaking their heads!

Has our photographer gone awol, was looking for photos from yesterday on O/S, didn't see any after the Southend game either.

why so little chanting yesterday?

Didn't get to watch the post match entertainment as used the SAS Travel but thanks to the old ladys fighting in the street our buses had to wait for half hour in the car park til we could move. The game was very poor and there ground is a shit hole and that Cibbochi shouldn't ever get the chance to take a throw in ever again !

Did anyone else see Kerrouche come off the bench to show him where to plant his feet?

Made I giggle.

....or Colchester

And them your right. Have had regular photos up until recently though.

Hi

As a supporter since 1962 (jeez is that 50 years coming up ?!)  I dont now get much opportunity to see the lads these days but caught the Rovers game, so this is my first sighting of PDC and his ways.

What I noticed was that the G man was doing especially well in spotting opportunities to get behind the Rovers defence,
most of which were missed/not taken up by the team. Thus the occasion when he got through to take the shot in the 2nd half was for me creditable, and I didnt feel that his failure to score was particularly reprehensible, nor did I feel he blew an opportunity to pass to someone better placed.

However, what I did then notice was PDC's reaction which was so massive that I knew he was going to take him off right away. (I also noticed that the miss early in the first half produced what seemed to me to be an excessive reaction from PDC).

Taking him off was for me a big mistake, as it was clear that he stood a good chance of getting behind the defence
again before the end of the game. This was particularly important because we needed an outlet from any pressure that would be put on us without forcing Caddis to have to go up the other wing too many times. (And given that Magera seemed to be a pretty hopeless donkey, the middle wasn't much of an option either).

Sure enough, his replacement, the E-man, showed none of that defence-opening nous, and sure enough our outlets dried up and we got caught out in the end.

I also noted that each time our goalie got the ball, the G-man hared up to create masses of space on the left which was wasted because the keeper didnt seem to have the nous to aim the ball at him.

So for me, while it's all well and good saying 'ah PDC he's Italian and emotional', that doesn't mean it's a good thing that he gets into a red mist and fails to see the 'obvious' ie. the above. To me, that ultimately doesn't bode well.

Would be interested in others' views on this. Apologies for the language used to write this - I coudnt find a way to do it differently.

Esajas was utter dogshit when he came on, Offered nothing and was lazy plus he almost got sent off!!

Wray's reaction is a good attempt at defusing any potential situation (which has pretty much blown over already thanks to the Independent) but the comments do not refer to any specifics - no mention of the number of targets or budget/wages.

I did like this bit though:

"I would rather have that every time over a manager who gives bland comments and does not seem to care in any way."

I wonder who he's on about...

Morning Lander. :)

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/Gallery/0,,10341~2545061,00.html

Lander's agent I reckon. Disagree. Both chances should have been taken , especially the first.

No roof. There isn't usually much at Rovers.

Looking at our next two fixtures, they look to be the real '6-pointers', both Morecombe and Torquay sit just outside the play-off places 3 points below us and if we can win both games then that will start to cement our place within the top and start clawing our way towards the top 3.

let's be honest, gabi did fuck all except miss two sitters. esajas did less. pdc right very critical of both wingers as they offered us absolutely nothing in terms of build-up play