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Is Westwood available for selection today, or is he injured?

I'd settle for a draw today, but if the players pull their socks up, a win is definitely possible.

They have won 8 on the bounce, without conceding a goal. So an early goal for us should make it nice and interesting.

Cock and Sturrock up front. Roberts on the right, Brown left. Weston and Timling in the middle. Westwood and Ifil centre backs and Smith Vincent full backs.

Come and indeed on.

Seein as they are on a roll and havnt conceeded for so long i have put town to win on my accumulator for some strange reason! ah well with our team i think we're more than capable escaping with 3pts. BUT this is Swindon and we may jst roll over and die but we shall see

Westwood is in the squad for today.

Wouldn't be surprised if Sturrock drops Nicho, puts Vincent back wide and Westwood in the centre.

But he'll probably keep it as it was, as he doesn't like to change a winning side.

1.0 Town.

We'll get beat today. Best we can hope for is a draw.

Hope I am wrong though

Anyone know what the ticket prices are today?

its ok i found it:

Adults £17, OAP’s £10, Juniors £5, Students & Disabled £11.

they are on the verge of a football league record. teams always seem to fuck up when that happens. im going for a 2-1 Town win today

If we escape with a draw I'll be mighty pleased!

As im going today we are bound to lose, last time i saw us win was Franchise at home, this will be my fourth game since then

andy, have faith. i'll be happy with a draw

Stockport 2-1 Swindon :(

cant see us winning today.

Stockport score midway through the first half and we have no reply, 1-0 loss.

We're going to stick it to them 0-8. All the signs are there

2-0 Stockport. The Ifil getting himself sent off out of frustration some point in the second half

A bore draw. 0-0

Just listening to 5 live, and the Stockport vs Swindon game is the feature game from league 2 on their radio.

I got 100-1 for 4-3 to Swind0n

Nutcase.

We've only scored 3 twice this season, let alone 4!

Smith
Smith
Ifil
Westwood
Vincent
Shakes
Noubissie
Timlin
Roberts
Peacock
Sturrock

There's a pitch inspection, game could be off.

apparently the pitch is playable at the moment but anymore rain would probably mean the game is abandoned.

Another postponement, good or bad?!

According to the Beeb website it should be sunny so hopefully we'll be alright.

Bad imo. Games in hand are all well and good, but i would rather get this one out the way today with at least a point in the bag. 3 would be ace.

Millom

is that the actual team?

I think this has 0-0 written all over it

Is anyone up there near Manchester? Is it raining?

Its a lovely day down here in South Wales.

Be nice to see Noubissie today.

Shakes on the right wing surely? and Noubisse CM

Noubissie will play much more central midfield today I think, apparently he is very fast and fairly fit so he can cover some ground today.

Pitch is extremely boggy in the middle so sturrock has picked team that should be up for a scrappy game - other than Roberts !!

Assume Roberts is going to play on the left of Mid replacing Zabouub

5-2 with Sabin and Invincibile on the scoresheet....   :D

We need to get back on track as since we've had a shot at going top we've gone off the boil....  are any commentary links working?  Am stuck writing an essay on The Tempest so Ed Hadwin's ramblings would make for some good background noise!

Noubissie holding midfield with Timlin the play maker?  How did Weston play at Barnet?  

Big gamble perhapson  Sturrock's part, but Stockport's scouting reports probably won't mean much.

Roberts on the left?!

I have just put a quid on us winning 3-1. Fuck knows why!

I think it will be Roberts on the left.

I dont think Sturrock will be going with 3 central midfield with Shakes included.

It looks 4-4-2 to me. I cant see him going Shakes, Noubisse and Timlin as a central 3 with Sturrock and Roberts as the wide strikers and Peacock down the middle.

Altohugh with the players he could go with Peacock and Noubisse in the middle and Timlin left...with Roberts and Sturrock upfront.

Surprised Roberts even got picked tbh!

You've got to have Roberts for that bit of spark though....  No one else in the team, with the possible exception of the revitalised Shakes (maybe I'm being nice), has the ability to scare opposition defences.  He's a luxury player - I don't mind him on the pitch for 89 minutes with his hands on his hips looking disinterested as long as he produces something.  When he doesn't score/create, people get on his back.

P.s.:  Could someone PM me the commentary link pleeze?  I deleted all my PM's by accident.   :oops:

im gojng for us to race into a 3-0 lead, then for them to pull it back to 3-3 in teh second half

you havent watched Swindon in a while have you Walrus  :D

Leave Roberts alone I love him....maybe I can relate to him.   :|

I thought you'd relate more to Pook or Nicho  :D

You've got much worse hair  8)

 :twisted:   Cunt!  My rehab starts next weekend...  Maybe I should have done it in Swindon so I could do with those leg ends...

Morning all ! Have we not scored yet ?

NMH

If I could pull off a skinhead I would!

I've got a bit of a Roberts' beard at the moment...  maybe I should shave some slits into my eyebrow again to complete the look...

What's with Weston injired or in the dog house?

he doesn't do well on boggy pitches

dons 1-0 after 3 mins

Franchise 1 - 0 up.

Franchise are winning

Good to see Christian Roberts starting by letting his first touch run away from him under his studs.  :-))(

Noubissie sounds to have started well enough.

leeds are 1-0 for what its worth

They are 1 down you mean.

thats what I said..... :oops:

Fucking East Fife!

How are we doing?  Any early chances?

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Peacock header, good save by the keeper. Corner

Yay, 3 out of my 5 away teams are winning already! :beers:

:cry:

grrrrrrrrr :evil:

Bugger. 1 0 to Stockport.

Fuck

Bastards.... :-))(

Fucking wake up!

playoffs anybody?

lincoln 1-0 down to mansfield

oh dear

Let's hope they get all defensive hoping to break the record.

We sound worse at the back than ever!

Yeah, because we have looked prolific at breaking down teams haven't we? At Barnet they defended a 1-0 lead and we could have played for 10 years and never scored.

remember when we raced into the 3-0 lead up there  :(  :(  :(  come back brian howard.


or the 4-2 for that matter, ahhhh man.

Still plenty of time to go,  Stockport could push for an auto spot with their current form

MK 1-1 now

Hameur time!!!!!!!

Dons 1-1

Franchise 1-1

I'll put it another way, let's hope they get excited about winning the record and do something stupid.

that's better. We sound shite at the moment though.

Peacock wasted a good chance.

If anyone's interested, I think the dates for the playoffs are:


SEMI-FINAL 1ST LEG Sat 12.5.07 / Sun 13.5.07
SEMI-FINAL 2ND LEG Tue 15.5.07 / Wed 16.5.07

FINAL Sun 27.5.07

who wants to drive? :wink:

Your being optimistic aren't you? When is the last game of the season?

Dont worry. we'll piss this division next season :wink:

Corner. Come on!

Traaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnn

good point....do you get discount for booking months in advance?

oh no, got an exam on the 28th

My opinion is we aren't good enough up front with this line up.  I suppose we have fans favourite Brown that can come on and push Roberts up front if need be.

Hartlepool winning   :fu:

might  as well give Hartlepool the title now.


33/1 on them not losing a game between now and the end of the season, well worth a punt

Hartlepool are starting to piss me off now.

dons losing

Franchise 2 - 1 down!  :soapy tit wank:

and Ifil suspended for 2 games FFS!

I am going to listen to the Stockport commentary now in a hope to change our luck.

on a bank holiday Monday? Harsh.

A cheap day return costs £14.60 8)

Next week is Sturrock's 600th game in charge as a manager.

Leeds losing 2-0    :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Noubissie booked for throwing the ball away.

Jesus Christ almighty.  :evil:

Wycombe winning.

naerly blairr

Good move, Sturrock shot straight at the keeper.

Swindon in 'not taking their chances' shock.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Half time. I have given this one up we are shite.

Who are we playing next?

I can almost gurantee you that we'll be shite then aswell.

Accy at home next weekend.

Brown on for Shakes.

Wheeeeeeeee!

shaaron Clown to the rescue...

 :roll:

I reckon we will score :old:

FFS!

We're not winning so complete fuck up the formation and completely change it so no one has a clue what they are doing

Peacock in midfield
Roberts on the left
Brown on the right

Sturrock is your typical no plan b manager

hartlepool drawing

Yes! Hamilton are winning.

oh for fuck sake, fuck off sturrock....

2-0 Elding again

Game over

fuck sake bring in some players Sturrock

We sound so bad.

Board out.

We need a BIG change.

Oh fuckety fuck...game over.

Take of Roberts,  :-))(

My commentary has fucked up, can't believe how shit we have become, we are going backwards!

how have we gone for a top of the table side to a steaming pile of league two shite.

May sound like a knee jerk reaction but im starting to lose pateince with Sturrock.

His dealings in the transfer market have been dodgy at best, his tactics have been fucking shit. He changes it too much too often and it never fucking works.

I would have bet my house on Andy King taking over from Wise and still managing to get us promoted.

Yet we've got worse.

It does look decidedly bad at the moment.

We haven't played consistently well all season, when lets face it, this division is very poor.

We need changes. Simple.

Lincoln losing 2-0

People said that about Wise and were right, only under Wise we somehow managed to make plan a work most of the time

If Sturrock blames the weather I'll scream.

who knows whether Wise had a plan b? we never bloody needed it

Brown mistake, nearly 3-0

11 men Leeds 0-3 10 man Sheffield Wed    :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I'm still not convinced by Sturrock, with his record he should be doing far better than he is.

Losing 2-0 away at Stockport isn't promotion form.

Not sure we've actually gone backwards, more just shit players had a bit of impetus with Wise and Poyet and rode the crest of that wave until they started getting found out.

Sturrocks all round judgement is looking dodgy-Monkfish and Brownlie and CCP should have been given more opportunities and his signings have not come up with the goods as yet

Corner, woo hoo.

Hartlepool winning again.

Pegged back again. 2-2

But Timlin and Boob have looked a different class. Why can they not perform week-in week-out?

If they did, they wouldn't be here.

lack of motovation

Teams we play must wonder how the fuck we are so high up the table. Depressing.

We did lose under Wise though and had some crappy draws.

But yeah, there wasn't much need for it and how I would take a 'crappy' draw now

I've been disappointed with Zaboub to be honest,the new Cuervo!

He clearly has 'something'.

Chlamydia perhaps.

Timlin's young so he's not going to be totally consistent, Zaaboub's run hot and cold since he arrived. Since his early appearances he's done little to suggest he was worth the 18 month contract.

Vincent - Never scored in 17 years. So put him up for set-pieces!

Good plan.

Lukas on Smith off-"sledgehammer to crack a nut" situation.

Huddersfield are having a "Swindon day" at Forest, 5-0 down atm

I think it's walk the dog time  :(

Timlin and Zaaboub played well till they both got a new contract. Since then they've been pretty poor.

I just want to score now to cock up their record.

Let's just hope it hits Vincent on the back of the head and goes in, that record must not stand.

Unfortunately it sounds like Barnet all over again. Not good enough to even get a goal.  :evil:

An an own goal isn't too much to ask for is it?

Proudlock and Elding or any two of our "strikers"-who would I rather have?mmmmmm,let me see.

It's not just the strikers though. I know Roberts has his faults, but the difference between us now and a few games ago was definitely the midfield.

yes bring on pook, that will save us......pook hat trick in 20 minutes

Pook will make everything ok!!  :-))(

Pooooooooook.

He'll sort it out.

Should have been 3-0.

westwood sounds shit.

All we lack is a clinicial striker.  Stockport have created a couple of chances and taken their chances.

I doubt Proudlock and Elding would do much between them in this team

ITS THE MIDFIELD WE LACK....

I still think Weston is our best midfielder-being frozen out by Sturrock

Sign Mark Draycott!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/swindon_town/live_text/5286764.stm

6 shots on target, 3 off target.
4 corners.

So we're creating chances, just not finishing them

An injury prone CHESTER RESERVE. what a signing  :roll:

hahaha Ifil's off

fucking hell Ifil off

cunt

Ifil sent off

 :shock:

so we're not playing well so he's completely changed it all over again...

Brown upfront

Ifil off......FOR FUCK SAKE TOWN FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU CUNTS

Our best defender out for 3 games now?

Ifil off soapy tit wank,  idiot

Ben's fucking psychic

Hooray! Jerel off.

He always does this when we play badly.

Burn the fucking witch.

fucking hell.  :shock:

dont worry we can play CCP next week

OH NO WE FUCKING CANT STURROCK GOT RID OF HIM

dont worry we can play Leigh Henry

OH NO WE FUCKING CANT STURROCK GOT RID OF HIM

ifil off just great

soapy tit wank hes back to 9 yellow cars though

So he will miss two games, come back, get a yellow card, and then get another 2 match suspension

I'll have whatever Ben's drinking

I can't remember any clear cut opportunities.
Although we seem to shit all over the pitch.

Bang goes the defence !!

Oxford better fucking get promoted now

 :jaw1:

Who is going to win the 5.05 at Lingfield?

What a great day  :mrgreen:

the board have got their wish.

we've cut the budget, weakened the squad

We're not going up, so they wont have to pay the bonuses, which will all be written out of the contract next season.

ace.

Why didn't we bring Jon Stewart on? Everybody knows that goalkeepers always score!!

Give us a smile Daniel  :wink:

DV in gloomy post shocker!

Everything is going to be ok though, we are trialling a player who has 11 goals in the Vancouver summer league, he will save us.

we're losing 2-0 to Stockport fucking County.

Its hardly party time.

I'm not going to bother next season if we're still in this division. I'll go watch Supermarine instead

Thats just plain scary
 :shock:

He does have a point though.

Regardless of the reason(s), the squad has become smaller and smaller and our performances have got worse.

dons 2-2

It's alright, I'm sure that they will score another one to prove me wrong.

fuck sake im starting to miss Fola Onibuje for christ sakes!!!!

Franchise 2-2

Haha Jew boy was wrong

 :shock:

I don't disagree either, just trying to lighten the mood.

I'll just fuck off then, can somebody else turn off the lights. Ta.

This board have ruined our club and nothing is happening with regards to the takeover, i remember the trust saying they were waiting to hear from the clubs solicitors within 48 hours, that was almost 2 weeks ago, our squad is suffering, we need to make our feelings really known next week, these players are not good enough and we dont have any backup players.

Deary me! :shock:

Woooooooooooo

fuck sake

Yay! 3-0 down.

Oh bugger  :twisted:

What a load of bollocks

3-0.

Whoever posted that we were the only team to have not conceded 3 goals yet this season needs shooting.

Three nil away at Stockport.

It's like 2005/2006 all over again.

Westwood is having a nightmare as well.

I'm waiting for the "Westwood wasn't fully match-fit" excuse from Sturrock.

Obviously, he shouldn't be playing if thats the case.

Sturrocks tactical changes today have made Andy Kings look sane!!!

I predict the following excuses from Sturrock:

Poor weather.
Injuries.
Poor weather.
Suspensions.
Poor weather.
and poor weather.

Thank fuck for Westwood's amazing talent and ability, he's our only fit centreback now

Why the fuck has Sturrock signed an injury prone player from Chester Reserves?

fucking dire. stockport county away from home. deary deary me. shit.

Better get used to that as he is our only Centre Back now Ifil will be suspended for the next 3 :cry:

"Changes will be made"

Hmmmm...... :doh:

because he appears to not have a clue

The silver lining is that Accrington who we play next week should be worse than us.

Jeez, nearly 4

Smith
Smith     Evans       Doe      Vincent
Shakes  Weston     Whalley  Zauboob                    
             Sturrock    Jutkiewicz

My team for next week, fucking joke.

Don't worry the game in hand is at Rochdale - 4-1 up today................................................... :-))(

'Its a very windy ground'

Hmmmmm. :wink:

We've got 27 registered squad players (i.e. they have a squad number)

Seven of those are injured, suspended, out on loan or frozen out (Brezovan, Ifil, Williams, Whalley, Evans, Holgate, Caton)

We've basically got 20 players for the next few games...

Phil Smith saves us.

dons winning

Would you say this is out strongest 11

..........Brezovan/Smith
Smith.....Ifil.....Williams.....Vincent
Shakes..Evans..Weston...Zaaboub
.............Peacock Roberts

you didnt add Brownlie to your first list?

Pook is on the pitch?!

Westwood=Brownlie

Brownlie?
Or is he at Chest permanently?

no.

Who else is there?
Someone in for Roberts?

we're down to 4th

Brezovan

Smith
Ifil
Williams
Vincent

Roberts
Evans
Weston
Zaaboub

Peacock
Jutkiewicz


Roberts is only there because we have no one else. Shakes, Roberts, Pook & Brown can fuck right off

That was pathetic

Hahaha angry Dan

damn right, the players better not be out getting pissed tonight. Im in a foul mood  :x

I'd have them out running at 5am tomorrow morning  :twisted:

Bad form and a loss of confidence is one thing. Injuries to Evans and Williams have not helped because we have no strength in depth.

But unfathomable formations and a lack of players - well ones able to come on and change things for a plan B must be put on Sturrocks shoulders. His decisions to get rid of players, his game plans.

I have every confidence that with the right players (his players) he will get us up. But these aren't his players and they don't seem to be able to play his way.

Someone confiscate all the ropes and knives in DV's house tonight please.

BTW, I agree with pretty much everything you've posted today, despite how depressing it is... :cry:

I think we should sign Mark Draycott, two hattricks today and three goals disallowed too

Have I missed something?

Was Nicho injured or suspended?

Why was Westwood, who couldn't have trained with the team, chosen to start?

I've been one of Sturrocks staunchest supporters, but that game sounded like a triumph for tactical ineptitude..

If the commentators couldn't work out the formation(s) the team were supposed to be adopting, how the fuck were the players supposed to?

I wonder how much of this dip in form can be linked with the talks (Or lack of) concerning new contracts?

What a fucking disappointment............

I think we have just about enough points and winnable home games to get a play off place but we can kiss good bye to any idea of an automatic place. Sounds like Westwood was a shrewd signing :doh:

I have to agree with you Steve, poor selection and poor tactics.

SHIT

I'd generally agree....and no they arent his players. Yet early season shows that despite not being his players they are (were?) more than capable of getting results in this league.

The radio and Sturrock keep claiming, our achillies heel is set pieces and has been all season. Well I for one dont remember us conceding sloopy set pieces when Wise was in charge? I cant be the only one of this opinion.

We dont look as organized and once Sturrock has done his magical change everything the players sometimes dont look like they know what they are doing. Something Wise never did. A player knew their position and they played that position.

We've got worse, I know there was alot of talk pre-season about Wise' training methods and fitness methods. I expect Sturrock has dis-regarded all of them because he is much more old school.

Sturrock took over the best squad in the league, one that was clearly going place and looked solid.

He's slowly let players go and we've got worse, we play worse and we dont look as solid.

It might be knee jerk, but if he cant get us promoted with the squad he inherited...then some serious questions needs to be ask. Mainly what the fucking hell happened?

a few of those set up by young David Pratt. Earning rave reviews for Supermarine, has scored a fair few this season, loads of assits and a right winger.

Worth a go surely....

All the teams around us are having a good run, it may have come too early and ours may come but I cannot see it. The only really good run we had was under Wise.

fuck off Ian Longdon

"what a load of rubbish" in response to someone's text. Utter cock.

TBH we are going to struggle to go up this season, i think hartelpool and walsall will definitley go up, playoffs is the best we can hope for and i wouldn't be confident going into them considering our lack of firepower.

I thought Sturrock would easily get us up with his record but i'm not convinced by him.

1 bright point, Noubissie sounded like he did ok.

I still think we can sneek 3rd place, we have been crap for a long time now (the last time we played well as Walsall away) and are still in amongst it so all is not lost.

There's still enough games to go up automatically.

But with the way the players are performing...............................

I think we need to go back to basics. I know Sturrock wants the team to play his way, because in the long run that will see us supposedly rise up the league a lot easier. But with few games left if we grind out the basics over and over we will fair better imo.

Our next 6 games (apart from Accrington) don't inspire me with confidence either.

Accrington (H) should win
Grimsby (A). Don't fancy anything from this
Lincoln (A). They are stuttering as well, draw
Shrewsbury (H). They are playing well and have games in hand that could get them in the playoffs.
Rochdale (A). Good run, don't fancy this midweek
Hereford (A). Don't fancy anything from this.

angry youth comment   :twisted:

Oooh he told me!

Good job youthster

All he is doing is reading out the texts from the fans, leave him alone!! :wink:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

come on where are these bloody excuses Sturrock, get on with them so I can moan on here some more about how bloody clueless you are.

dont get us promoted and I want you out.

Passionless

Back 4 abysmal   :D

all the first team players reporting for the reserves

soapy tit wank all first team players to play in reserve friendly on Monday

Same team for mondays reserve game :D

Luggies pissed off!!!

Get em running up sand dunes...that will do the trick!

Fuck me. He's angry.

Some strong words.

There are certain players who show a lack of passion  -   Roberts  :wink:

I can't understand what he says.

He sounds pissed off agreed

didnt he say the same after barnet....infact he said some would never play for Swindon again....yet they all have.

He said he thinks you're ace Ben.

He sounds VERY, VERY pissed off.


But not as much as me....................................

They're being paid too much. That'll be Devlin's fault then  :-))(

Embarassing and pathetic efforts

Players are paid too much for what they achieve

Roberts Swindon career is over by the sounds of it

If they put their heart and souls into it, I'd have no issue with Sturrock picking half of the Youths next week.

I would be very surprised, judging by his comments, if Roberts plays next Saturday.

the likes of Doe, Evans, Allen, Morris & Hopper are well worth a go

At fucking last,   its just a shame it has taken too long

TBF to Sturrock, he's taking responsibility.

No real excuses from him this time.

Sounds like it might happen

Roberts won't play Saturday.

He can say as much as he wants but he's got fuck all in reserve to replace these players and he's entirely at fault for that.

Words are cheap.

Yes you fucking panic buy you idiot.  Buy a bloody striker you idiot

:nod:

Williams out for the season.

can you say fucked?

Williams is out for the season, fucking brilliant!

Adie out for the season :shock:

Ady's out for the season.

Apart from the word 'brobdingnagian' which costs £3.99 + VAT.

Maverick's on the radio

Did he injure Evans, Williams and Caton then?

Agreed a portion of the blame is his, but to say he's entirely to blame is a bit harsh.

I wondered if that was Mav...

He sounds like....a councillor  :shock:

This isn't the first time we've been massively angered by Christian Roberts displays, lets be honest he's really only play well in a hand ful of games in the three seasons he's been here. He has to go.

He's shifted players out and frozen others out, so in that respect he is to blame. The players he's bought in have been mostly disappointing.

Of course it's not his fault x is injured.

mav thinks wrong, we arent 3rd

Which players, that he's bought in, have been disappointing?

Zaaboub - good till he got a long term contract

Timlin - good till Fulham gave him a long term deal

Sturrock - not match fit, looks ok....but not ready for 90minutes every week and we cant afford to have unfit players

Westwood - sounds wank

Biggest problem has been losing Ady and Evans, both leaders on the field.  Losing Peacock for a few games didn't help either.  Absolutely rignt about lack of old heads on the field.

Zaaboub - inconsistent, form has dipped dramatically since the new year.
Timlin - incosistent, often drifts out of games.
Sturrock - only seen him once but hasn't had a huge impact on the side, not the goalscorer we require to attain promotion.
Noubissie - not seen him yet, supposedly a right-back but played in midfield so far?

Wise bought in some excellent players - Brezovan, Smith, Williams, Evans - and some useful squad players - Vincent, Weston - as well as improving the form of players who were already at the club - Roberts, Shakes, Ifil. Of course, it's easier to bring players in at the start of the season but not one of the players Sturrock has signed would get into our team at the start of the season.

We're moving backwards, players who were playing well earlier this season have become anonymous, squad/reserve players who provide competition have been moved on and players have been frozen out.

It worries me, we're slipping down the table as the season draws to an end. If we go into the play-offs in this sort of form then we're going to be looking forward to an away trip to Dagenham and Redbridge next year.

Keeping the same back four as last Saturday would have made sense.  Dropping Roberts to the bench would also have made sense.   Keeping Timlin in the holding position would also have made sense.  Starting eleven against Bristol Rovers will be interesting.

Timlin has as many good games as bad.

Zaboub is (As you mentioned in a previous thread) our most creative player.

Sturrock. IMO better than what we had (Brownlie and onion bhaji)

Westwood. After 1 game? Give him a chance to train with the team!

Players on the piss...Theres a surprise! :guinness:

Changing the back four was absolutely absurd, they kept a clean sheet last weekend and Ifil was immense.

How many games will Ifill be out for?

2 for the red card
he is also on 9 yellows, get one more and thats another 2 game ban

so probably 4 out of the last 11

3 according to Sturrock.

4, then.

Just back from the game, we were poor all game.  Westwood looked like he had potential although he looked knackered after 20mins and he seemed to duck under the ball for the third goal.

Noubissie had a reasonable game until it came to passing when he struggled to find a man in red on a regular basis.

The second goal was a bit unlucky as i think jerel headed a clearance against westwood and it just dropped nicely for Elding.  Elding was a cock all game giving it the gestures to the away fans.

My motm would go to peacock purely for his hard work rather than any particular quality play.  

Shakes and roberts were both poor in the first half, roberts was totally in the pocket of there right back and it took an hour for him to be switched to the right hand side.  Brown looked ok when he came on but compared to shakes that wasnt hard.

Jerel prob had to go, bit of a pointless lunge.  Im not convinced he saved a certain goal by it and we were already 2 down and not really looking like scoring.

All in all very poor

The text said that our board were literally forcing our players to lose.

So Ian's right, utter rubbish and if you disagree with that then you're the cock, I don't think this board has the clubs interests at heart but fuck me what a ridiculuos suggestion.

Having feared an away game at Stockport, and fearing Rochdale away to come,  Team for next Saturday:

Smith
Smith
Westwood
Vincent
Nicholas
Timlin
Pook
Zabooub
Peacock
Sturrock
Lucas


or if Luggy gets really torqued at the piss artists:

Smith
Smith
Westwood
Peacock
Vincent
Timlin
Pook
Zabooub
Sturrock
Lucas
The new Frenchy

Agreed Andy. Westwood seemed off the pace/unfit so fuck knows why he was put in having only coming to us yesterday.
There is little we got from that game, partly other than Noubissie guy who put himself about in the middle of the park (although couldnt pass) Timlin and Peacock giving what they could (Peacs looked injured at the end).
They were just hungrier for it, and that was shown at the end with their celebrations. it meant more to them than it did to us.

I looked at the line-up today and thought it wasn't good enough.

I think it's also time for fans to stop hoping that Blair Sturrock will do the business - he's showed effort but he won't score enough goals (same as Peacock and Roberts). I'll put money on that.

You what? Westwood was possibly the worst defender I have ever seen and I include people such as richard dryden in that conclusion. He didn't open his mouth once, didn't win one header all game and generally had no footballing ability. We've landed a shit player with personal problems, a big well done to Mr Sturrock.

As for the match it was shit and all the players were shit, the stadium was shit, the pitch was shit and all in all it was just SHIT!

The biggest shit was sturrock though, his tactics were wrong, the substitutions were worst and his choice of players was laughable. See he's now frozen Weston out by the look of it. I don't rate Sturrock at all, this isn't a rash decision I said similar the other week, he makes Andy King look sane. Was speaking to a Sheff wed fan on the train home, it appears they only liked him as a man, but didn't think he was a very good manager. Apparently he used to play a left winger on the right wing there and vice versa....where does that sound familiar.

He said he'd make big changes after the Barnet game and didn't so I doubt he'll keep his word and play them in the reserve game!

Longdon's job isn't to pass judgment on what anyone has to say, especially considering his refusal to discuss any non-football related issues on the phone-in yesterday evening.

I think it's a crock of shit as well but it pisses me off that a man who tries to distance himself from boardroom matter on a show which allows Town fans a rare platform to speak publicly on their views then rubbishes others views.

Agree. Sonic.

Longden is lame.

Ed's got some balls as has Shaun (within their remit of being objective but not completely pissing the club off so they can't get interviews any more).

glos_robin got it pretty much spot on. 3 hours each way, got trashed 3-0 and not one of the players were up to the standard needed.

One thing pissed me off almost as much as the result...the reaction Brown got when he came onto the pitch. He got the biggest cheer of the day, everyone around me clapped him onto the pitch, and not just a normal quick round of applause a fucking standing ovation! What's that about for christs sake!? Two weeks ago he told us to fuck off and called us all wankers, but now he's 'apologised' (if you believe the drivel on the OS) and has recieved death threats, all is forgiven? Either our fans have very short memories or are the most gullible bunch of idiots about.

bloody awful ... big questions marks over Sturrock

Swindon Town FC - We can have a positive season where we win more games than we lose and we're still a total mess!

Sturrock gets tactics wrong - fair enough. But his track record cannot be ignored. He got Plymouth and Sheff Wed out of lower divisions... Sure, that doesn't automatically mean he will do the business here.

Simple fact is that Sturrock doesn't seem to rate the majority of the players he's inherited one bit. Is there a possibility he's losing the dressing room?

Whether we go up or stay in L2, there will be loads of changes.

I rate Sturrock and feel he will move us forward... I just hope it's this season!

I was going to mention that but it would of just added to my rant. I made a point of putting my arms behind my back and turning my back on him. I couldn't believe he got a standing ovation, other than be a total cunt what has he done this season.

You'd hope not. Not after he's redecorated it so nicely and all

That might just be the reason why

Can we make big changes in the summer? I severely doubt it, I've said elsewhere that I think the board will do more cost cutting in the summer which didn't happen this season due to Power being around. I think we could be in an even weaker position next season so like it or not Mr Sturrock should be making sure these players get us out of this league. He might not rate our players but I don't rate him based on the mess he's got us into. We were almost 20 points inside the play-off zone before, what are we now about 7? If things don't pick up quick we'll miss the play-offs too!

Looking forward to Lincoln on the tele!  :|

I think Accrington Stanley next week will be make or break when deciding whether our season is going to end in tears.

Because frankly we're still in an "okay" position. Not ideal but okay to recover from.

I just looked round in disbelief...

Another negative to pick up on...the Bovril. £1.40, it was cold and the weakest I've had all season...cunts.

I had a bovril and a hotdog = £4.10 wasn't impressed.

Couldn't believe the seating arrangements either was the worst view and away experience of the season

I HATE LEAGUE 2!!

rubbish obscured view in away end & peat bog pitch. what a gutless performance - barnet part 2.

we now have a threadbare squad - lightweight midfield & a strikeforce that couldnt score if there life depended on it.

the big thing for me is none of the squad has improved under sturrock & some players seem to being going backwards ... sort it out :oops:

Not a bad guess indeed.

Cost cutting will occur, expect youth teamers and eighteen pros. with experience  max.  Bonus will not be like this season.  Finally, I don't think we are going up, unless a striker is brought in on loan who knows how to score.  Given that getting a player like that is next to impossible unless Carson tearfully begs Sir Alec for someone, we need a miracle, such as converting a defender to a striker, who didn't know he was a striker.  This is the sort of think A.K. used to try.  

Sir Alec, the chairman, manager and the defensive coach are all Scots, can't you lend us a future star and pay his wages?

Nothing more to say about results than PATHETIC