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Can't see why we can't win this one.

I think we have enough about us to see off Barnet. Just.

2-1 To the town.

Ritchie & Ferry to pop up with the winner.

Plan on watching this in the SU then getting ridiculously drunk afterwards in celebration.

Happy Days.

I can see a 2-2 draw and then the dreaded penalties...

Fuck all this reasonable 'they'll be a threat' and 'it won't be easy' nonsense.

We're gonna batter that dirty Sanchez cunt.

The away fixture was a cagey affair, but we got the draw.

We've moved on since then though.

Cant see them scoring against us.

3-0

Any combo of Ritchie, Cadds and Benson.

2-0.

Devera & Benson.

2-1 STFC

We have to win this and then win at the concrete bowl to eradicate the memories of that horrendous PO Final.

PDC will have them well drilled and up for it so I can only see a win for the red army, 3-0 with that twat Sanchez stropping again.

It will be close no doubt. but 2-1 or 2-0 to us. I still don't know if i'll be at the ground, in the pub in london, or scrabbling around for an internet feed.

Pub watch for me sadly. 3-1 town and mental celebrations abound afterwards.

Finally get to watch us down the SU!

2-0 win.

This is not going to be a game where the opposition park the bus. I think there will be plenty of goals in this game. 3-1 Swindon

Gutted I can't make it as I'm working but the celebrations will be loud so the pox fans I work with will hear every goal

Working in Manchester tonight.  Hoping to find a pub with it on or rely on a dodgy stream.  2 nil win I reckons.  Barnets great run in January hasn't really seen them play anyone good (a post wigan and knackered us aside) Northampton, Rovers, Accy and Crewe arent as good as us.

Its not arrogance its confidence.

Swindon to nick it by a single goal.

Won't be easy, but our extra class will make the difference.

Now, where are those thermals...

I have a bad bad feeling about this. There has been too much talk about Wembley as if we are already there. Things like that come back to bit you on the bum!

1-0 defeat 9,275 crowd with 323 Barneters,

Feeling positive as ever.  Think we will win.  A nice early goal to settle the nerves, then 2-0 COYR

If level after 90 mins does it go straight to pens or do we get extra time?  What about away goals?

I thought I might have been excited about this by now, but nope not yet.  I think its the prospect of going to that soulless concrete dump that isnt enticing me!

I'm feeling like this also. Hoping the powers of SSWS are enough to counteract our bad pre-game karma.

It's going to either be a comfortable 3-1 win tonight or 1-1 and then penalties.

Away goals mean nothing (other than a goal obviously!), if the score is a draw no matter what score then its straight to pens, no extra time.

2-0 with Benson and Ritchie scoring!

£1 a drink down the pub watching the game, laaaavly

Tight one. Barring anything unusual like a sending off or dodgy penalty I think we will edge it 2-1.

McLeod is a threat, but my main fear is penalties.

2-1 defeat.

3-1 win tonight, an early goal for us will settle any nerves ( especially for us fans )  been good coverage on sky already this morning so im getting into the spirit early.

A Swindon Town fan on Popmaster with Ken Bruce as we speak, Paul Smith, bigging up the boys before tonights game to Ken, nice.

Barnet to park the bus and try to nick a goal on the counter.  We really need to get an early goal to settle things down.  If it's still 0-0 by mid-way through 2nd half then I'd fear for our chances of making the final. 

1-0 with 2 sendings off.

I think tonight will be a really tight game. 2 good teams on form. Barnet have made some good loan signings so will be miles better than the abject failures when we spanked them 4-0.

If we are overly complacent, this could come to bite us in the arse. I just hope that it isn't the 250 or so Barnet fans celebrating tonight on TV and we have our spot in the limelight.

not making any predictions but I will be watching nervously as I always do when we are on the box.

Deadman is down as the ref tonight, he also did our home game v Barnet.

Just looking at flights for the final (not tempting fate or anything I hope). Is it the weekend of Saturday 24th March?

tight 1-0 win i feel tonight!

any idea if they will open the bank?

Yes mate its the Sunday 25th March with a 2pm KO, I have been checking train fares from here and found them to be very cheap, under £18 return, but I thought I wouldn't tempt fate either but couldn't stop myself.

You're in Plymouth right?
Poundabout?
I was planning on the SU, but that might be a better shout.

Ah Sunday of course! I can get flights for a bawhair under 150 Euro, which is actually not too bad out of Luxembourg so I am tempted to just book them now before they shoot up in price (which has happened to me recently.

3-1, 9122 Attendance.

Di Canio to dedicate the victory to his Auntie Bellisimo

Town to get 26'600 Tickets for Wembley

30 Phone Lines open for tickets, 2 windows at the County Ground

We would get an initial allocation of 30,000.

This is true, the same as Chestefield have already got, doesn't mean we would sell them all though but I think taking 25,000 to Wembley would be easily achievable for us.

To not totally tempt fate I would wait until after 10pm (GMT) tonight to book them ;)

Haha this made me laugh

They will use those theiving cunts they used to distribute the tickets last time!  Add a tenner on for the admin fee and the postage!

My guess is that we'd only take 15k - can;t see it being much of a draw for some folk having been there a couple of years ago. Anyway, need to beat Barnet first. If we play to our ability - we're through. If we underestimate them then we're probably out. I'm going for a 2-1 win.

We'll take between 20k and 25k.  The day trippers will come out in force just for the day out.  The wont really give a fuck who we are playing.

Chesterfield have only asked for 20,000 of their full 30,000 allocation and wont flog all of that.

If we get to Wembley I reckon there will be about 45,000 there and if Barnet go it wont get over 25,000!

We will win 2-0 and there will be plenty of tickets for any who wants to go to Wembley.
They can impliment whatever ticket allocation scheme they like for that match  ;)

ST holder and people with a reasonable amount of stubs should be left free to buy as normal via the club chosen method of allocation probably ticketmaster.

The daytrippers should be made to earn there tickets ........................ Pick the coldest day between now and final day and make the fuckers queue for hours on end in the freezing cold ................ If they cant be fucked to come and support the club unless we get Wembley, so stuff them ..... The complete and utter bunch of cunts!

Perhaps they won't use Ticketmaster. With the playoff there was a very limited time span to get the tickets sorted, and more chance of a sell out. (this may be a false hope)

"ST holder and people with a reasonable amount of stubs should be left free to buy as normal via the club chosen method of allocation probably ticketmaster"

While I agree (because the day trippers made the whole Wembley event complete shite last time), that would also punish people like me. I've only been twice this season because I now live abroad, but have clocked up hundreds of games over my life.

Watkins on the radio said that old stubs wouldn't be counted.

I don't believe in fate so I have booked them! :) COYR! :)

It will be exactly the same as last time. Season ticket holders will be allowed about 6 each for about 10 days before the rest go on general sale. 

I'm blaming Bob's Orange if we lose tonight...!

12-0, Alan Reeves hat-trick.

On paper, we should win this at canter.  I won't repeat the cliche.

Looking forward to this,no Marshall to haunt us and a tight affair i reckon.

2-0 Town.

Do you have to send your stubs to ticketmaster  first :)

There will be plenty to go round, and most people know a season ticket holder who will have a healthy allocation should they prioritise.

The only thing I have to say, is the same thing I told some prick from London who was swanning around the bar on Saturday with a ManUre shirt on, smerking at my Swindon scarf

"Forever & Ever We Follow Our Team,
We Are Swindon, We Are Supreme"

Think I had to much to drink at the time

It's really not that hard, there's plenty of time to organise this so they shouldn't need to outsource the ticket sales. Just have them on sale every home game from everyone of the match day holes in the wall as well as well as from the ticket office during the week. With over a month to sort it out it should be easy.

Gary Rose just tweeted that we've sold over 9000 already. If that's true we'll easily get over 10k tonight.

The more people who jump on the bandwagon the better. There will still be thousands of empty seats regardless

Thats very impressive for a televised game.  Would love to come back for this one - games under the floodlights are the best!

He has also said that Cox is available, so it looks like the rule of signing after the 1st leg and being ineligible are not valid in the JPT after all, my apologies for being misleading.

Very limited tickets available in the side stands and quite limited in the town end. Slight possibility there may be a couple of hundred in the bank tonight if there's a large walk up figure?

Its a lovely thought.  But aint going to happen!

Yep i am, not sure whether they will be showing it in Poundabout so might just rock up SU! They usually only show Town games in the cafe area at the top which is annoying as its quite small

Think our plan is to goto Poundabout at about half 7, if they don't stick it on will run down to the SU..

Sounds fair, might see you in there! There is usually 5 or 6 other Town fans that go to the SU to watch games that are on sky

Long time reader, first time poster reporting for duty!
An early goal is key for me. Get it and we will be well on our way, the crowd will be right behind the lads and the football will flow.

So I'm saying 3-0 town.
Wembley awaits ! !

Welcome and happy posting you grade A cunt!  :D

SWS, whats your record for threads now?

Must be about 2 defeats in 20 now isnt it SWS?

Looking foward to this,
Town to win 2-0 Ritchie and Caddis.
10165.

Just trying to get the boy to do his homework, then we are setting off

3-0

10k+

fucking freezing

was supruised at the 5k crowds at the oldham and chesterfield games, ypu're one game away from wembley ffs, what more do you want?

Anyway, not keen on predictions...but please, not pens...

Who'd you have for pens?

1. Benson
2. Connell
3. Caddis
4. De Vita
5. Ferry

Not Ritchie because of a few weeks ago.

EDIT: This was stupid as no one knows what the team is yet let alone who'll be on the pitch after 120mins.

Jesus can we not talk about penalties people!!

90 mins, no extra time.

What a dreadful format. Annoying that our extra fitness won't be given the chance to show, I reckon we would shit all over Barnet if we had to play an extra half hour.

That bird on that blog thought given extra time their fitness levels would've shown. She'd have been in for a shock as I doubt barnet did 60 consecutive days of double sessions and train on Sundays!

I agree, lets win the game in normal time!

Hope it's a good one for those going. Brilliant ticket sales given the competition, weather and the fact that it's on television.

YOU REDS

Should we win tonight and I'm going for a resounding 3-0, could we not ask the club for a TEF block, as I presume we'll all be singing

About that.

Only a couple of draws too.

Reckon im on about 20 wins out of 25. Ish. give or take.

Only 2 defeats though I believe. Including cups.

Just looked at the odds on offer tonight. Milan Misun is 33/1 to score first with Blue Square - got to be worth a fiver!

Same price as Caddis!

Sorry who?  :D

What did happen to him in the end? Was he actually meant to be any good?

He was meant to be absolutely top drawer - AC Milan were interested. Imagine a defensive Pericard.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :clap:

Town: Foderingham; Caddis, Devera, McCormack, Kennedy; Ritchie, Smith J, Ferry, De Vita; Benson, Connell

Subs: Smith P (GK), Cibocchi, Risser, Murray, Magera

Swindon Town: Foderingham; Caddis (capt), Devera, McCormack, Kennedy; Ritchie, Smith J, Ferry, De Vita; Benson, Connell

Subs: Smith P (GK), Cibocchi, Risser, Murray, Magera

Looks like Cox and Boateng weren't allowed to play as I suggested earlier in the thread.

Hopefully more than enuf to see of Barnet, just off to ground and it's bloody freezing out there already!

COYR

Good to see Smith back in. Early goal to settle the nerves and a resounding 3-0 win please.

Points West stating that by the end of the game its going to be around -6! I hope it doesnt get too cold to call the game off for the pitch being frozen :despair:

Barnet: Dean Brill; Jack Saville, Michael Hector, Paul Downing, Darren Dennehy; Mark Byrne, Mark Hughes (captain), Clovis Kamdjo, Sam Deering; Izale McLeod, Ricky Holmes

Substitutes: Liam O'Brien (GK), Charlie Taylor, Sead Hajrovis, Jordan Mustoe, Jordan Obita

Getting nervous now.

Beer - Check
Doritos - Check

I think I'm ready to watch Barnet get pulled apart!! I only went for a 6 pack of beer because we'll do this in 90mins.

2-0 Ritchie first scorer

Only 6 in 90 mins, lightweight

They're kegs!

Sky Sports on PDC "The Football League's greatest showman". Brilliant.

Evening all. Any webstreams going for this?

why is Nicky Forster the guest?

Played for neither?

http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/32835/1/swindon-town-fc-vs-barnet-fc-live-stream-online.html

Good stream, actually running about 4 seconds faster than SkyGo!

Thank you!

Scored enough annoying goals against us though. Sure glad he's in the press box tonight and not on their bench.

very true!

thats the only link though. scoring fuck loads against us

Town End in good voice

I was all set up to watch this at work tonight on Skygo but one of my bosses is still here.

Stealth mode enable!

Listening to this on BBC Radio London, bit of an odd experience.

Anyone else think Sanchez looks like Gadaffi?

How's that not a penalty? :hmmm:

Hooray!

 :D :D :D :D :D

Der der der der Alan Coooonnell

Alaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn

Thought Benson was gonna tap that in and then be flagged offside!

Caddis is the worst for hoof ball...irritating!

busy at work ,whats the score?

That REALLY should have been two......

1-0 town (2-1 agg)

fuck me that was close!

Tweet on BBC site:

Adam Brindle: "Swindon v Barnet is like watching old, drunk men in a back garden after a BBQ."



wat

Quite clearly a bit of a fuckwit

We need another just to pile the pressure on a bit more

Fighting the urge to reply to that twat on Twitter, typical ignorant Premier League supporter.

At the risk of sounding like a song...who the fuck is Adam Brindle?

Probably a bitter Wigan fan.

He got that tweet put up on the BBC football live text.

Go on, go on

Nearly twooooooooo

Crawley 3-1 up

Good half Town keep it up

Comfortable half but at only 1 0 too tight to be confident

Only just saw one of the Line'os is a bird!! Wheres Big Ron when you need him?

Init.

Good half. If Benson's effort had gone in just before half time it would have been game over. One goal's never enough though.

isn't the away goals rule really weird and backwards in the JPT?

At the risk of putting my foot in my mouth later but.....McLeod is a fucking donkey.

No away goals, no extra time. If agg score is level at 90 mins, straight to pens.

I mentioned this to some mates earlier but they thought i was crazy. Glad i'm not alone.

DE Vita needs to clear the first man at the corners. It's so frustrating!!

I think he has been by far our worst player tonight

Not sure he's having the best of games if truth be told. If only Rooney was eligible, he'd be all over their LB.

Lads are doing well. Di vita taking too many touches and not getting enough on the corners is my only gripe

He wins a surprising amount of headers though!

Just got back from work. How are we doing?

1-0 up, played well the first half

Barnet having their best spell now

Not looking good for Ferry, looks a tad ill. :puke:

Yet still brilliant.

I dont think there is a better midfield in the bottom 2 division than the top boi

What's the attendance?

Now is a good time for Risser, just when we need to look at sureing things up and parking the proverbial bus.

Our fans sound fucking ace

does anyone else think Benson looks a bit like Monty Burns?

Att: 10,406

Not sure 1 goal is enough

Cibocchi on - Italian left back - short sleeves and no gloves - class!

Risser subjected to GBH

taylor=dirty cunt

Haha that was mental

Tiger Knee!!

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Risser has been in some apocalyptic challenges this season.

From the Barnet match day thread:

Fuck Off Mcleod, Fuck Off Sanchez ,Fuck Off Taylor and Fuck Off TK, you are all a waste of fucking space

Aren't you supposed to be in the pub?

Oh, and 5 fucking minutes?

I've been at home all day, coughing like a hag.  Beer has been swapped for Lemsip.

no fuck off Di Canio?

pitch invasion, how tinpot!

What a fucking circus!!

Que fucking sera sera...

Love it. Que Sera Sera... :pint:

Reminder to book train tickets tomorrow

Deserved the result, scrappy second half

McCormack immense my MOM

 :toocool:

Now Daniel, given this is a tinpot cup that you've derided in the past, would it be fair to assume you won't be going to Wembley?

LOVE IT!!!

Yey us.

The TEF's resident member of the ground staff will not be happy.

GET IN THERE!

Only saw the second half because of work. We played some good stuff, particularly down the right. Commentators were loving Ritchie and Caddis. Didn't really create much in the time I was watching, bar a few long-rangers, but we were good at the back and one goal was enough.

Que sera sera...

Woohoo, flights booked didn't tempt fate. I can breathe again!!

McCormack was against Leicester, too.

Only one team in it really. Not much up front from Barnet and we could have had one or two more. Barnet definately look improved from the team that lost 4-0 though.

Ffffffffffffucking get in there.

Paolo interview - I just love him!

wife just said 'mad as a box of frogs' - But he's our box of frogs - what a man!!

whats he saying

Paolo - very proud of the way players have adapted their mentality. Focus is still the league!!

Sanchez - Swindon are the best team in the league. Game over at 10 men. A massive improvement on last time when lucky to go away with a 4-0 defeat.

How can Sanchez say that wasn't a 'red'..?

Just watched in local, could only hear our fans - they're immense. Fantastic

He'll change his mind when he sees the replay, def red card, awful challenge.

A knee in the facial region is unnecessary and dangerous. It was a red.

He's kneed rissers head. don't care if he didn't mean it, it was a red card.

Comfortable win. Barnet are shit. Better than they were, but still shit. That Madjo is stealing a living.

Onwards to wemberlee bitches

Congratulations on getting back to Wembley lads and lasses, very impressed indeed with the way you played, oh, and it was a definite red card, shouldn't even be up for discussion!

It was a red card.

"Paolo you lad" - Kids these days.

If its an accidental knee to the face when someone is stooping or something fair enough.  How tall is Risser?  6ft 2 or something and the geezer kneed him in the face.  Id say that a dangerous challenge and a red card Mr Sanchez.

First half we occasionally sprayed the ball to the flanks nicely. Some quality balls in from the right. De Vita was wasteful on the flank but worked hard and did well elsewhere on the pitch.

Scrappy match though. I think that's to Barnet's credit because every time a town player had the ball, they were surrounded by Barnet players. Fortunately for us though, hassling our players was all Barnet has to bring to the game asides from thumping it up toward McLeod.

Their guy that got the red. What the fuck was he thinking?

FUCKING BUZZING.

it's going to be a good night..

Great result, great attendance. Is it just me or were the celebrations a bit flat? It would have helped if PDC had come out. Still, we're going to Wembley so who cares.

I can't see us getting more than a draw on Saturday, Barnet are a horrible side, but good at what they do.

It's only the JPT! Great to get to Wembley, but hardly compares to Charlton away when we reached the play-off final, so was never going to be a huge party!

I can't help but think that Taylor came out to fuck someone up.. I mean 10 minutes on and a red? Seems a little fishayyy..

Did what we needed to. Second half Barnet got back in it, but might partly be down to us playing less football. They seemed quite a dirty side at times, and Lawrie Sanchez is still an absolute wound.

Brilliant result and happy to be off to Wembley not the greatest performance, very poor by our standards but got the win and thats all that matters.

I wouldn't describe the performance as poor by any means. In hindsight it was a very comfortable win although at the time you never know what's going to happen i.e they could have flooked one in or the ref might have given a pen for nothing etc...

Sanchez is quite right, we are the best side in the league.

Watched it down the SU, very good result against a much-improved Barnet side.

Didn't really seem to get out of second gear all night, yet still dominated. For all their improvements on the last match against them, Barnet were a dirty, niggly hit and hope team and offered very little apart from a few bursts from Holmes. Defence looked a bit handy though, shame they're all loans!

On to Wembley then, let's rectify the wrongs of 2010!

Listened on Radio Barnet, interesting perspectives: they were shit scared of Ritchie, referred to us as the best side in the division several times and were all over McCormack's nuts.

That was one of the most comfortable 5 minutes injury time I've experienced with Swindon.

It was wasn't a great performance and it's the sort of performance we cannot afford to do at the big shiny stadium in London but it was enough.

Di Canio knows it wasn't the greatest but he's got Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to sort it out because Underhill won't be an easy place to go.

Let us enjoy it.

Barnet fans seem to think we are a couple of leagues above.

Interesting considering it wasn't a great match. Perhaps they just stifle the opposition week in week out and we rose above it more than the others?

Those runs out of defence are becoming a bit of speciality for McCormack, they cause abslolute havoc. He has to be in the top three for POS.

Incidentally we're now 4th in the league as Crawley beat Cheltenham 4 - 2

And a bit of racism chucked in as well


http://www.onlybarnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2204&start=30

He did get banned for that

Lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce.

Apart from a few nice touches by Ferry, Ritchie and Caddis I thought we never really got going. We seemed to sit back a little in the second half and invited them on to us but they had absolutely fuck all to offer. McLeod was awful.

I thought Smith went about his business well in midfield. Benson and Connell were both full of running (again). The only week link for me was Kennedy, some of his distribution was pretty wayward.

Hmm.  A bit rapey there Rich.

I think Caddis best described it when he said... "It was a cup tie!"

All changed when ferry was taken ill, after he went off I think we more or less decided to shut up shop.

Wem-ber-ley wem-ber-ly.....

Thought we played very well in the firs half with the caveat that we only scored one. But what a sweet move and goal.

Second half was scrappy, we went long a bit too often but we defended manfully and didn't really let Barnet have a sniff.

Will read back through the thread but was Ferry ill or injured? (edit: and as if by magic, Sutton answers it above)

Anyway, not sure about the pitch invasion as it denied the players a celebration. But at the same time nowt wrong with a bit of passion.

Saturdays game could be a bit tasty if on.

Woo hoo.  We're only at bloody Wembley again!

We fully deserved it tonight and the game should really have been out of sight had we taken our chances and De Vita hadn't been indecisive on a couple of occasions.  Good all round team performance and the defence looked solid, Devera seems to have grown in confidence since earlier in the season.  Anyone know what was wrong with Ferry?  He came over to the touchline a couple of times and went straight down the tunnel when he came off?

I thought Barnet were pretty dirty and the red card was a complete no brainer from where I was.  Anyone else think Mcleod looked decidedly uninterested?

It was a shame we didn't really get a chance at the end to applaud the players and PDC, but can't really blame them for not reappearing in that cold.  Also, it was packed where we sit in the Arkells, but absolutely none of the season ticket holders who sit around us were in their seats.  They were all complete strangers - very odd!

Said Ferry had to take tablets at half time.H e looked as white as a sheet and was struggling.

I saw Ferry sprint straight down the tunnel when he was subbed, I guessed at the time he either went to puke or had the trots.

Ferry had the shits judging by what he's saying on twitter

I look forward to deciphering he Twitter analysis of said illness.

As Aiden Flint says

Also I'm buzzing @Siferrytapboi shit his pants 5mins into 2nd half haha

It was right on cue (the tweet, not the trots).

Absolutely comedy gold with Ferry.

Comedy from both ends!!

Confirmed that we got the West Side again at Wembely.  I just hope to fuck there is a better atmosphere than there was in the play off final.

Scrappy game tonight neither team really looked comfortable tonight think we had more chances but wasted far too much possesion.  Why the long ball 2nd half??Dire

Just got home and very very proud. !

Been allocated 36,000 tickets.

Didn't personally think we got out of second gear for a lot of that match. Was a professional enough job though, don't get me wrong, but whilst it was 1-0 there's always that little bit of doubt.

Still we've got another soul-less Wembley appearance to look forward to. Gate receipts will come on handy no doubt.

Would be pleasantly surprised if we sold out that many.

What a stupid lot of stewards we have.  Watched from the DRS as some of them tried to trip up the invading supporters on the running track, could just have been a compo claim there!!  Well done to the Town, this season certainly is a bit of pay-back for the crap we endured last season.

Comfortable victory in the end. A second goal would've killed the game off. McCormack or Caddis MoM for me.

Just booked my rail tickets. Found it cheaper to book to Wembley than just to Paddington for some reason, but I'm not complaining.

Ritchie must fucking hate this division with the amount of fouls he draws. Mustve been an easy dozen in that match. He has a bit of a moan but gets straight back on it.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2602836,00.html


 :D :D

Can anyone confirm the Kickoff time for the final? Is it 2pm? Would there be extra time then pens or straight to pens?

Quite

The wonder of Google - kick off is 14:00

http://www.live-footballontv.com/live-football-on-sky-sports.html

Extra time is played in the final, but only if it's needed, much the same as penalty kicks. If it's not, then we can all go home after the 90 mins plus the appropriate amount of added time.

They were absolutely gash. We just played our game comfortably.

Nick Hammond and Brian McDermott were sat just a bit behind us - there to watch their player on loan on there to scout some of ours??

The move for our goal was top class, but Barnet harried us all night and prevented us from playing too much flowing football.

Wembley in March, on a Sunday. Just not natural.

Deserved the win tonight, looked dangerous on the attack and comfortable in defence...Ritchie looked a little jaded towards the end, but hopefully it was down to the conditions!

Looking forward to a day out at Wembley, hopefully we'll wear Red, win this time and create an atmosphere!!!C.O.Y.R!!!

Just back after a few sherberts at the Moonies.

Enjoyed the game and or me Devera was outstanding...especially first half.

Barnet gave it a go and for me the performance of the night....the refereee,outstanding and let the game flow so well done him.

UP THE TOWN!!

Just got in.

I'm VERY drunk and still buzzing1

watched it in a pub there was 2 Swindon fans there but we did us proud.

Loving life!

Twat!!  FFS don't put a downer on the day before we even buy the tickets. Revel in what should be a fantastic day. Just think about it:

1   No "Wall" and all the shit that entails
2   We are favourites and will probably win "well"
3   Will be in our red kit

Any others?

Still getting to grips with being a 'cup team'. Very alien. Great effort by the club. They really are doing us proud at the moment. It's important that we win on Saturday and keep the pressure on those above us. Temperatures look ok between now and then...hovering between minus 2 and plus 3. That should be good enough to get it on, shouldn't it?

I would think we'll have a fair few more there than Chesterfield, get served quicker in the pubs this time, won't get drenched, excuse for a Monday off....

Devera and McCormack were outstanding. Was dreading loosing Flint, but I'm not as worried now. Not only did Devera win the ball afterwards he kept in simple and mostly gave it to the nearest standing midfielder.

Wes was commanding and snuffed out any hint of threat.

Caddis is a championship player.

Kennedy struggled a bit at times, but he's still learning. Ciobocci looked good when he came on.

Smith did what smith does, good game.

Ferry - a lot is said about our right hand side. But Ferry links with the attack really well. Shame he got the trotts. Risser was good when he came on.

De Vita was steady. Had an opportunity or two that he's capable of burying.

Ritchie - see Caddis, a real threat in the first half, faded a bit more as the game went scrappy.

Benson - Worked hard and got a ton of flick ons. Didn't really have his best game and his legs looked to tire. But he still lead the line well

Connell - At last he stayed on for 90 minutes, and deservedly so. Worked really hard tonight and his goal took us to Wembley.

Murray - Not enough time to really impress, but kept the Barnet back line honest.

And hopefully their fans are not as mongtastic as Milllllllllllllll....

Let's hear it for the wankers on the pitch, meant no Paolo/team celebration and could have fucked up a perfectly good pitch.

Cunts...there I've said it.

This.

I thought the team played well last night. Barnet are not a bad side at all and i can see why they have had a decent run. We are a class above them though.
Richie is the best player in the league by a mile and Caddis and Ferry aint far behind. I think we play better football than in our play off season. Very happy with the side at the moment a proper footballing side.

Big piece in the FL paper on sunday, that Readings top target for the summer is ritchie.

Half a million, Simon Church and Hal Robson Kanu might just make Watkins think about it!!

If Tubbs is worth 800k then Richie is worth a million

We played some excellent football last night, McCormack's ball to Ritchie with the outside of the foot was just sublime. McCormack has been a revelation at centre half, my player of the year so far.

also, the little flick that took ritchie past his man in the first half,  well which led to him being crunched to the ground was quality...

nutmegs for fun!

Barnet were a typical Dirty Sanchez team, they tried to pass it on the ground a bit, but in essence just tried to stop us playing, hassling us and harrying us off the ball, 2 players on each player when attacking trying to pressure us into losing the ball.

Also they were a pretty ruthless and at times properly dirty team, lots of fouls and chopping down our players and it sums it up when a sub was on the pitch 10 mins and did his job in trying to hospitalize one of our players, almost like he was told to do that, really? well possibly, I wouldn't put it past Sanchez.

McLeod was a fucking donkey with the touch of Jack the Ripper crossed with Steven Hawking, glad we didn't try and sign him on deadline day we have better players in Connell and Benson already at the club.

We did a workmanlike performance, never excelling but never looking like we would concede a goal to a weak attacking force in Barnet, Caddis, Ritchie and McCormack were outstanding, Devera also had a great game and the rest looked comfortable on the ball and off it when chasing them, we ruled the midfield for 80+ minutes, the only player a little off the pace for me was Kennedy but he didn't do much wrong really I just would prefer Cibocchi there.

Can't fault anyone in the team really. A good overall, if unspectacular, performance.

Wouldn't mind trying to sign Holmes who was their one good player showing a few glimpses.

Worst hangover in a LONG time this morning.

Totally worth it.

Booking tain tickets.

I love Swindon Town.

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The moment Ferry knew something was wrong.