Swindon v Mansfield pre match chat and matchday thread

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that. Tense even game and Mansfield looked good.
Second half tactical master class from Garner and suddenly some spaces started to appear.
The goal simply superb counter attacking football with a sublime cross from Williams and a bullet finish from Simpson. The instant roar not heard for a long time. Decent crowd again.

Could have thrown that away with repetitive unnecessary fouls, played into the refs hands.
Cracking result which makes the weekend. On to Stevenage now.
Finally, made up for Simpson. Reed and Conroy immense with Wollacott once again so reliable.

[RedRag]

Is it down to me to complain about the ref again?  Free kick if a Mansfield player had his feelings hurt.  Wrestle us to the ground, go through the back of us, elbow and headbutt our player again and again - play on.  Somehow 7 minutes of stoppage time.

In short I was not impressed with him.

But then again the Mansfield fans probably were not either.

I thought the ref had a good game for the first 60.  He was letting a fair bit go, but consistently for both sides.

But I shared your view for the remaining 30 - or 37 rather! - when he continued to let a fair bit go from Mansfield including even wrestling but then chose to blow up every scrappy tussle or borderline-late-ish foot in initiated by us.  I wondered if he was feeling guilty about the mistake over the goal (which to be fair was a shocker even if mainly the assistant ref's fault)

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

They see it at pitch level. I can see why they’d miss it.
Lino would have Crichlow & the Mansfield player in his eye line. Whilst trying to also watch the lines for offside...

VAR would have given it

VAR didn’t give it thus irrelevant.
Not seen any evidence to say it crossed the line. Unless somebody can prove otherwise the officials clearly thought they had called it right and that’s what counts.
Tense affair and another team played that will be in the top half of the table.

[RedRag]

Is it me but I wasn't especially impressed by Mansfield.  They set up well and pressured us bringing the ball out.  Admirable tactics and resolve.  Clough clearly edged Garner imo.  But they had plenty of attacking opportunities and made very little of it.  They were however missing players, and I suspect that with VAR and average luck they would have emerged victorious.  So I agree top half is a fair bet.

Loved the spirit in Town and, as some have observed, it wasn't a poor defensive performance at all.  Wollacott does give th defence a degree of confidence.  My player of the season thus far.

[JBZ]

Another very enjoyable day out.  Mansfield's followers will no doubt feel that they woz robbed.

[DiV]

VAR didn’t give it thus irrelevant.
Not seen any evidence to say it crossed the line. Unless somebody can prove otherwise the officials clearly thought they had called it right and that’s what counts.
Tense affair and another team played that will be in the top half of the table.

I saw it cross the line.

Is it me but I wasn't especially impressed by Mansfield.  They set up well and pressured us bringing the ball out.  Admirable tactics and resolve.  Clough clearly edged Garner imo.  But they had plenty of attacking opportunities and made very little of it.  They were however missing players, and I suspect that with VAR and average luck they would have emerged victorious.  So I agree top half is a fair bet.

Loved the spirit in Town and, as some have observed, it wasn't a poor defensive performance at all.  Wollacott does give th defence a degree of confidence.  My player of the season thus far.

I felt we played ourselves into trouble more than Mansfield carved us open.

[Oaksey Moonraker]

Mansfield will moan about whether a goal should have been given but they missed a 2 on 1 in the second half and that cost them the point or maybe 3.

[LucienSanchez]

What was the attendance? Didn’t hear it in the DRS.

The DRS p.a was worse than ever today. Surely it can’t be that difficult to fix?!

[JBZ]

Sitting in the DRS offered an interesting change from the TEF. It was very quiet though (as it was around the rest of the CG this week).

[Quagmire]

The DRS p.a was worse than ever today. Surely it can’t be that difficult to fix?!

Ironically, the only thing I heard from the PA today was when they said they were doing the roll call again because people in the DRS didn’t hear it last week.
Then didn’t hear if they did or not.  

[Quagmire]

Ok another note, Grant was very poor today wasn’t he?

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Most of today's attendances Oxfords is laughable and Huddersfields unbelievable😀

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/fixtures/_/date/20210828

[RedRag]

I like the way we play the ball out of the back.  But Mansfield closed us down hard from the get go.  When we were bringing it out.  Slowly.  And then again in the middle of the park.  I don't think we need to abandon our approach against sides like Mansfield but we need the flexibility to be able to mix it up.  Continue as planned, because we believe in it - but also short spells where Wollacott or Conroy simply play long to Simpson with the likes of Payne and AN Otherspeeding up behind for any misplaced defensive headers or loose balls resulting from Simpson tussling with defenders.

[Boeta]

If we’re going 4231 there is lots of competition for those 3 attacking midfield slots.
Payne, KKH, Gladwin, McKirdy, Williams, Iandolo(?)

On current form Gladwin is definitely not in the top 3.

We've played 343/5221 last 2 games.

[Legends-Lounge]

FT 1-0!

great ugly win.

They and Salford can form a support group.