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Fuck knows what the score will be, but I beat herthab to it.  :D

We'll win 3.1.

I'm feeling confident. Buts thats due to still being slightly merry from the night before.

1-0 to Town, Paynter against his former club.

2-1 to Town.

Don't know why, it just will be.

We'll play really well and fail to win.

Is anyone going to merlin before hand?

me

I won't be.  I got flamed last time for calling the place plastic, so I won't call it plastic again.

DV, have we won a game this season when Peacock has not been playing?

7-1 town

paynter own goal.

Is Tesco open today?

If we win it'll have to be 3-2.2 goals against is now a given

2 - 0 Town, Sturrock and Comminges ;)...

Go two down, then give a stirring finish to the game and lose 2-1.
We were unlucky says Malpas!! :shock:

yeah but i wouldn't park there. they'll close at 5pm and will no doubt shut the gate before that...

Sod the game, I was just going to pop up the road for a paper.  :)

oh. then yes, it will be sir

2-1 either way

I think we could take this.  I'm hoping that today will be the day when any (ie Dell's) lingering doubts about relegation will disappear.

just the one...

Our results when Peacock hasnt played read

Played 8
Won 1
Drawn 1
Lost 6

Going for a 2-1 win. Even in the face of DV's somewhat disconcerting statistics :shock:

Peacocks suspension it up today though, so he might play

I feel a bit better now.

We're going to lose. 0 points from this weekend, one win in nine. We'll get relegated. Malpas out!

3-1 to us. That is all.

No idea what'll happen, but hopefully we'll get them back for a harsh defeat in the away fixture. And that cuntish defender (so much of a nobody that I've forgotten his name) deserves some abuse after last time.

Peter Clark.

They're unbeaten in a few I think, so hopefully we'll be up for this today and get a much needed win.

I predict we'll somehow blag a win 2-1. Cox and Easton to score. It will be cold and wet with sunny spells throughout the day. The half time food and drink will be as shit and overpriced as ever.

1-1 i think.blair to bag an equaliser

1-3 to Southend. Anything else is a bonus.

am i the only person not at the game :| i think we will unfortunately lose 2-0!

no im in bed not listening

does anyone have an online listening link for me?

nope i was hoping to get some updates on here! i would have gone today but really could not be arsed and im working at 7pm! great fan i am! :D are we losing yet?

Here's a good update for you. We're losing  :twisted:

Useless fucking cunts. Town are shit too.

great! :-))(

how we doing then?

I may be a tad harsh here, but the fact that BBC RS just spent the last 10 minutes with live commentary of the Salisbury game indicates we aren't doing too well. Sounds like both teams are equally shite.

Oh, and Corr has done his shoulder in again  :-))(

corrs off injured again, at least the pikeys and yeovil are losing otherwise we could be right up shite street

we wont go down sutton! i can see us finishing about 16th? i just hope we get ourselves sorted for next season!

The longer this poor run goes on, the more worried I get though.

I dont think we'll go down, mainly due to the fact although we are rubbish at the moment, gillingham are worse, hopefully we'll pull back in the 2nd half

'Home fans getting a little more disgruntled'

 :|

Worst matchday thread in the history of matchday threads on the TEF ever. Yeah!  :D

I'm more interested in the traffic news than the game......

Thats it then. Happy bloody Easter.....

malpas is not the man imo.take a decent side on the verge of the play offs,change the succesfull formation about, and watch us drop like a lead balloon.
can we trust that man to build something here?
the jury was out for me.but i'm struggling to find any positives about the bloke

my opinion of today's game:


i'm glad i didn't go.

Me too...............

me three...

we should have scored 3 in the last 15 minutes

just got back, cant be arsed to talk about ti

buy macnamee...late contender for player of the season

Buy him? He's ours for the next two years isn't he?!

Sounded proper shit, but whilst I would have preferred a different manager to Malpas we need to give the bloke a chance! He has not been here half a season, and hell, the players he has at his disposal are shite! Give the bloke some time; what a dick that person was on the radio that just compared him to McMahon! Also, two of the players he bought McNamee and Kanyuka are pretty good too.

left 15 mins early. Load of rubbish

sorry typo

I was all for giving Malpas a chance but now I'm basically just getting worried. Okay so relegation is hardly likely, but one win in nine is that now?

I'll be as glad as anybody if he stays and turns it around next year, but you've got to say that he isn't getting us results at the moment

corr out for six months according to RS

Mmm but at the end of the day we have nothing to play for this season. Might as well let it run its course and start building for next season.

Did we win?

Started to get a bit worried now. Malpas tatics surely not working by playing our best midfielder in Easton on the right hand side and McGovern in the middle. On today's game nothing went our way. 4 chances in the last 15 minutes. Especially that chance by Peacock at the end, i was about to jump. How many times are strikers are going to be bullied by Visting defenders. Cox got dumped to floor some many times by Barratt and Clarke. Also How overweight is Tommy Black.

We played like a team heading for league 2 today.

i think one more win and we are safe from relegation! time to rebuild for next season, not sure MM is the right man to do this though?

good.

Fuck off.

This truly is the high point of match day discussions.

Utter, utter dog shite. And we were even worse.

Call it kneejerk, but I've had it with Malpas. There's only so long you can carry on saying "oh, give him time". He's had time and still not proved himself. He's got a lower win % than Iffy Onoura FFS.

IMO he's clearly lacking tactical awareness. Carlisle was a blip and the 4-3.5-2.5 worked, but it hasn't in all the other games.

Again I have to point out the lack of leadership from the bench. We should have one man, the manager, shouting instructions. Not the manager, his assistant and one of the coaches. It's a fucking shambles.

Like arriba has pointed out, before Malpas came in we were pushing for the play-offs, had a good formation and tactics that usually worked. Now we're looking over our shoulder, playing a laughable "3 and a half, 2 and a half" formation and don't look like we have a clue what we're supposed to be doing.

I said after the Carlisle game that I hoped we didn't go back to playing hoofball once Paynter and/or Corr were back in the team - we did.

We continue to play a right winger in central midfield and a central midfielder on the right wing. And then when the right winger moves back to the right wing he's so slow he can't get on the end of a pass to even attempt crossing the ball.

I don't think we'll go down, but if we continue to play like that for the rest of the season we'll be close to relegation.

martin allen should have got the job.and should be offered it now

Corr is too injury prone, has to go in the summer in my view.

I agree 100%, at least he'd get the players playing with some passion and determination.

Oh, and Sturrock was there watching his pal Malpas today as well.

I agree 100%.

At least he has passion.

Their goal was an absolute gift, he walked through 6 "challenges" with ease. The two players who could say they gave a satisfactory performance were Minge, and McNamee, who is sheer class.

Ifil was shite again, Cox was just chasing lost causes, McGovern was shocking - why the feck was he defensive mid first half? He didn't create, and he didn't defend.

Malpas got the tactics completely wrong again, how many more times Maurice?

Just got back! Apart from the last 10 minutes we were absolute Gash!  Southend dominated possesion without creating too many chances in the final third tbh but if either team deserved 3 points it was by far Southend considering that they were the away team.

We have lost all confidence.  We have a defence that looked solid at the start of the season and looks very poor now, Comminges aside!  Midfield Easton and Mcnamee were our few bright sparks.  Mcnamee terrorised the right back but all of his crosses were not attcked as they should have been.  Cox worked his socks off but got no service whatsoever.  Brezovan was his usual solid self.

Amazing to think that we could have easily come away winning 3-1 as the last 10 mins Southend were hanging on.  One great block on the line from Paynter followed by Paynter putting over the bar from a few yards out and Peacock somehow missing the ball on the line with an open net in front of him.

If we would have won or drawn though it would have been very harsh on Southend who, even though their goal took a wicked deflection, totally deserved to walk away with 3 points!  Not because they were that good, but because we were unbelievably poor!

Roll on next season with a complete overhaul of the team and a manager that will hopefully learn how he actually wants the team to play.  If not next season will be as much of a struggle as it was watching that garbage.

Yes, we were shit. What made it worse is that they weren't very good at all and we definately could have beaten them. Even with that performance we could well have got a point if we could have tapped in McNamee's beautiful crosses.

I wonder if Macca has a right footed brother?

Good call. We need a manager that can kick these players up the arse and get them fired up before they come out.

I'd rather have Radio Swindon than Brunei FM and all that, but did Ed really tell Jack Smith that we didn't play badly?

Sounds like exactly the same performance and decent performers that we had at brighton, I'm so glad i didn't go today. I was going to take my daughter to her first ever match this season, but will now wait until next year i think

Good call!

I hate the man but he would have done a far better job than Malpas, Sturrock doesn't seem to have a great track record of recommending managers (friends)  Bobby Williamson anyone

Boring, cold, inept - we looked utterly devoid of ideas other than boot to McNamee and hope for the best.

Our central defence looks increasingly worse, it needs changing. What the fuck JPM and Easty were doing playing in each roles is beyond me, why MM went with that is a joke. Strikers were all dross, Peacock was a colossal waste of space because he couldn't pass a facking football.

Was sat up by DV and he said we need to watch it because we could find ourselves sucked into the dogfight, which I said I don't think will happen. Not so sure now, if the likes of Gills, Rovers and Milwall take points of us then we're in trouble.

I didn't go but McGovern was shite at Brighton and to hear he was no better today annoys me.

What a waste of money.

I've had enough of Barry Corr as well, what a shit effort he put in today. Is the bloke made of fucking glass or what? Get rid.

McGovern is not a defensive midfielder though, not by any stretch of the imagination.

mcgovern, despite looking lazy out wide created chances.why the fuck he's been brought inside and easton pushed out is complete madness.maybe worht a try but for how long?
its still going on now for christs sake!
our form is worrying to say the least

i think he's had it anyway.the blokes injuries will see to that

Or a Right Midfielder or Left Midfielder or a ...........................

Utter waste of money perforemd in the tinpot for Mk steps up and he's out of his depth, whats happened to his so called great delivery.

Nice to see Andy Cryer was watching the match:

BARRY Corr looks set for another long spell on the sidelines after injury forced him off late in a dire Town display at the County Ground.

He went off in the first half Andy.

Agree, Ifil and Hasney looked so nervous on the ball, clearances were shit, Ifil has the worst ball control in football. FACT.

When is Kanyuka back?

was saying that earlier.

we need a right footed mcnamee

I've long since come to conclusion he makes it up as he goes along. I know everyone was spitting praises out for his coverage on the takover - fair enough -  but the man clearly can't write up the basics of a football match, worse than pissin' Ritson.

according to brunell corr "limped" off holding his shoulder   :shock:

Only two players got any credit for today's game and that was McNamee and Comminges, even though Comminges was slightly at fault for the goal for letting their full-back go past him.

The rest...well were crap...and Ifil couldn't pass water.

Even though, we still had enough chances to win the game,and the ref was a cock, giving their diving no.28 a free kick every time he fell down.

 Key result today was the failure of Gillingham to win at Port Vale.....they've a couple of difficult fixtures befroe we play them,  can't see them getting more than 48,  can't see us getting more than 48 at the moment.

  Sarfend, showed the way to get a PO side.....bunch of big buggers, who work hard,   and press players all over the pitch.

The ref was awful, not biased just incredibly picky and slowed the game down.

Brez made a few decent saves, so maybe three players creditable.

To be fair it could have been worse. The ref didn't give them most stone wall penalty I've seen for yonks, after Ifil's handball.

Fuck me. We got what we deserved today. We had chances at the end, but only because southend had decided to sit back and hold on to what they've got. The players didn't look interested at all, couldn't be fucked. Something that's becoming more and more apparant. Aljofree Is shite. Mcgovern Was turf, timlin had an awful game. Only positive was Mcnamee, We look so one sided it's unreal.

Now onto Malpas. I've been one of his biggest supporters, but im starting to loose faith. His 4-3.5-2.5 Formation clearly wasn't working. It was obvious after 15 minutes. Why the fuck did it take us untill half time to change the way we were playing!! Hes taken a team from comfortable mid table to relegation form. I'm still willing to give him some more time, but if we carry on like this we may not even be in this division next season.

Not good enough. That is all i can be bothered to say at the moment. I simply can't see us getting a win again this season at this rate. Just why do we play well for 10 minutes and not 90? What baffles me is that when we do play well we create 3 good chances and fail to take any of them. Grrrrrrrrrrr!

My patience with Maplas is beginning to wain. Not good enough at the moment.

absolute shite. my faith that malpas should be given a chance is fading rapidly :evil:

ifils dramatic loss of form points to his confidence being shot to peices.
why is this?the lad was fantastic last season and started this season very well.i think the loss of sturrocks coaching team is taking its toll imo.

that was utter rubbish.

the players, the formation and the manager. All of it was wrong today.

We never looked like a threat going forward, we never showed any urgency.

Ifil gets shakier every week.

It was bloody cold as well!!!

He's had alot of games now and im not convinced. I believe a summer wth Malpas will be a summer wasted, if we give him the summer he'll bring in his own players and what not and be sacked less than 3 months in the season and we're back to square one a new manager with another managers team and players.

Malpas took over a good squad, one that was going well. Its got worse....thats some talent.

Away teams used to view coming to Swindon as a tough game, a battle and if they took away a point they'd be happy. Now they see it as an easy 3 points.

We're not even safe yet and at this rate we wont even finish above Cheltenham.

nooooooooo  :cry:

The shame

One team is gonna go down with about 53 points, I pray it isn't us.

if we go down it wll be the biggest disaster i've witnessed as a fan.
dont think it will happen.
but malpas has to go.

The bloke is just so bloody boring and has no passion.

I used to love Sturrock's cheeky character and he bought the best out of players.

I don't give a fuck if he's boring or not. I'm more concerned about the fact we can't fucking win a match for shit.

A passionate manager brings a passionate team which equals success.

Bollocks. Like Keegan you mean?

passion doesn't always equal success.but a quiet man without a clue is even more worrying.

Bad example there  :)

You know what I mean anyway.

We need someone to fire the players up like Wise did.

Thats utter crap.

Sturrock was a dullard. How is it people have forgotten?

Can you imagine how boring and dull training sessions with Malpas would be.
Fuckinhell today he just stood there watching with no passion and didn't change the formation when after 15mins it was clear his tactics were not working.

And please can we get a defensive coach in, because if we could actually defend, we would have won most of the games in this winless spell. Malpas is just completely clueless and thick as shit for not bringing one in already.

Or maybe he's not been allowed to by the board?
I've no idea what the situation is but blaming Malpas for things that may not be his fault is stupid.

Stick to complaining about the performance and tactics and you're safe!  :wink:

You don't need a defensive coach. You just need someone to force the players to pick a man, of similar height and stature, and mark that man at every set piece the opposition has.

I wonder how we didn't concede from a set piece today, I really do. At one point Simon Cox noticed one of their big players unmarked in our box (around the penalty spot). He was the only player to realise and had to mark him, despite half a foot of height advantage in the opposition player's favour.

:nod: Thought you weren't coming on here tonight? :D

We were absolute shit with the exception of McNamee and the Minge. At the beginning of the season I thuoght our defence would keep us up - now it could send us down. They've got the jitters all over the place. If Vincent was fit I'd make him captain and put him at the centre with the Beast.
The midfield was dog shit - all of them - including Peacock who came on. Corr could not even be fucked to put in any effort.
Now for the tactics. JPM again was useless - a defensive midfielder who can't tackle. I'm also pretty pissed off with Cox taking on the role of target man. Surely he should be playing off the big man not the other way around. Paynter / corr play way too far back - particularly if you're 1-0 down at home. We never got enough men forward. As for Zaboob coming on and playing down the right FFS - move The Minge over and play Zaboub behind McNamee.
Southend won because they hunted as a pack whereas our midefield as usual neither supoorted the front or the defence.
I'm not far off having enuogh of MM. I still think he should have until X mas but each week sees my position weaken.

Sounds like we were crap then? Oh well, on the bright side it's back to work tomorrow, fuck yeah............. woohoo..........

I would give anything for us to win against Tranmere friday.
That would be the best possible game to bring the confidence back in the squad. Sadly I don't think the players will have any confidence whatsoever, and neither do I :(

Surely we'll beat Millwall and Port Vale at home though :-))(

Nah i thought "fuck it. I'm so pissed off i may as well join in the anti-Malpas stuff"  :D

Heh, thought you might

Does Arsene Wenger personify passion? Does he fuck.

Ralphy, you'd do well to read this.

In essence:

http://www.morethanmindgames.co.uk/passion-and-commitment-vs-skill-and-composure/

Ok, not read this thread et, will do so after posting to see if people agree with my assessment.

70-75 minutes, we were fucking shit. The game was like watching paint dry. But the thing that really pisses me off is that there was nothing out there. The players may think they are working hard but in reality they were going through the motions.

Then Zaboub came in. And we started playing a bit. We created 3 excellent chances to an undeserved draw or even a win. I can't work out why things changed when Zaboub came on  because despite the effort he had little end product. But maybe it was the woeful McGovern going off.

Finally saw what people were saying about Byrne today too, flapping his arms around like a spas on acid because Brez took a little while to kick the ball out. In the end it landed on one of our players feet.

Anyway. MOM - McNamee. Smith and Minge also did OK too.

I thought Smith sucked today

I thought one option to liven it up would of been to move commingues to right back, and bring smith off for nicho/zaboub. Not that smith had a bad game, though he wasn't brilliant, But it would of made us more attacking down the wings

Very good summary of a dire display. However, I'm not sure about Malpas. Let me play devil's advocate, and blame the players, not him.
Carlisle was the most enjoyable game I've seen for years, and we were very unlucky. Our passing and approach play was excellent, the system worked, and only finishing let us down. Today, we looked like a relegation outfit, sluggish, bad passing, jittery, little combined movement. Have they forgotten how to play in a few days? A big negative factor was Corr. He looked off the pace, argued with Cox, failed to hit the target with a close range header, and it encouraged long hoofballs. However, I would guess that most of us would have played him instead of Sturrock, so no blame there. The bitter cold was harder to bear when most of them "appeared" not to be trying to play football. Thank goodness for McNamee's runs and good crosses, the only thing worth watching today.

The problem today was that we didn't do the basics right. How many passes went astray in the whole game? Southend simply had 3 players pressurising the man on the ball all game. Had we been able to pass it a bit they could never have sustained that level of work rate.

Decision making was appalling. Sometimes you need to just whip the ball in the box and hope someon gets on the end of it. Half the time I think the players didn't want to do that in fear they would fuck it up - passing the buck. Only it made us fuck up even more.

Their keeper wasn't big, how the hell did we not test him more?

This is silly stuff that my mates would have a go at me for not doing in a kick around down the park. Professional footballers? They'd make better careers as clowns!

It's a confidence thing Pie. The have none at the moment. People hide and don't want the ball. They just go through the motions. We had no guts for most of today.

How Ifil is a professional footballer with his ball control is beyond me. Yes, he can defend (until recently), but how many times does he cock up possible attacks every game. Whenever we looked like sustaining any sort of pressure, Ifil/Hasney/Smith cocked up terribly and the emphasis was back with Southend.

We really need taller midfielders, because we lost EVERY 50/50. Southends squad was an example to follow.

How many central defenders do you know with the ball control of ronaldo?

Ifil's control is nothing really shocking, he's just low on confidence. People booing every mistake he makes isn't going to help him

People have been saying how wonderful Peacock is at this lark... today made a total mockery of that when he came on.

Well if they suddenly want some guts tell them they won't get paid if they under-perform, or at the very least be dropped the next game.

I get the impression most of the players think they can do no wrong. They didn't seem too upset at the loss after the game.

I liked it that when McNamee chased down the ball and it got played off him and went out for a goal kick some fans in the town end clapped his effort. Seemed to be lacking today for the other players, with the exception of a couple of others.

Tbh though people saying it's a lack of confidence etc but if it was then why did they play so well against Carlisle and piss poor today? The confidence should be there after the Carlisle game but i guess 1 good performance a month is good enough in the players eyes.

Well Southend's centre backs actually controlled the ball today, like most of the teams we've faced this season, I'm not saying Ronaldo-like, but just with the ability to pass the ball 10 yards, and not overhit the ball every time.

Problem is their midfield gave them passing options, ours went missing...

We were horrendous today, but the players aren't suddenly bad players. Ifil isn't suddenly a bad centre back, Cox isn't a bad centre forward, they just either won't play for MM or are so confused with the system that they don't know if they're coming or going. A mixture of the two I suspect.

Commingues and Macnamee, as already said, were postive going forward, but if we had a right footed macnamme aswell we'd ship even more goals. The guy is a great talent but leaves his full back facing a 2 on 1 too often for my liking, and has to start tracking his runners.

We are so lopsided though. How can a team play without a right midfielder. Easton is not encouraged to play wide, but to tuck in, leaving no outlet down the right and really predictable football.

The biggest worry for me at the moment is the two centre halves. Hasney was appaling today, and Ifil's distribution was as bad as it ever has been. They both gave away countless stupid freekicks, and in comparison to the Southend defenders, just constantly gave the ball away.

I've kind of preached for patience previusoly and I would like to have given MM a summer, but now fear it would be a waste of time and money. You won't find many people in that ground today sticking up for him now, and some of the old guys who go to every game, home and away, and actually considering not travelling to watch it, who can blame them? We need to get in a proven manager, allow him to bring in his own assisstant and coach(es), send Byrne back to the youths and bin off Malpas and Williams.

Rant Over.....

....apart from one thing, Zaaboub can piss right off, what a fanny

Yeahhh, but Ifil has had this problem throughout his career, its not a new thing.

Bob Holt - there is no midfield.

He did get better at one point, but i think that was down to Blackley when he was here, and playing with Ady. Now he is with Aljofree i think he is now trying to model his game on him now, hence the shitness.

Ifil distrubution today was pitiful. I counted 5 or 6 misplaced passes. Which were very simple. Think tans could of made though passes

You trying to say im a spaz then Scot?

no.  :mrgreen:

cunt.

Smith was the worst player on the pitch today IMO, and I usually rate him!

If anyones interested :-

http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=2036

When your in lge 2 you get league 2 players.....ware we were last year,not many of the new lads are up to scratch ime afraid its as simple as that....ime not knocking Fitton and co as the club are moving forward but untill we get a major injection of new players we are going nowhere...its time for a fresh start next year.....today was shocking but booing players while the match is on is bad in my opinion,Ifill was superb at the start of the season and the people booing him have short memories.

You're all wrong :mooney:

:)

Wow, that's some record Malpas.

I'd like you to back thay statement up.How many times did the guy smith was marking get past him.How often did Smith give the ball away/Answer to both questions is very few.Smith is the one defender who can pass a football and who tries to play the way out of defence.I cant agree with your assessment,sorry.McNamee is a class act and overall you cant blame the manager for missing three ABSOLUTE SITTERS.Southend,a top 6 side,did not create a single clear-cut chance.Yes I agree Malpas made a big mistake with his team selection and formation(Corr instead of Paynter ffs?) but he did at least change it at half-time and the fact is we should have won the game-I dont agree with all this "Southend deserved to win"stuff.How can you deserve victory when you dont create any clear cut chances-their goal was a complete fluke.The one thing that does annoy me is the feeling that if it was us who were 1-0 nil up and Southend had those three chances at the end we would have lost.Mac mom,Smith close,Easton half-decent,Aljofree and Ifil horrendous,McGovern-total waste of space.I wonder if Paynter will ever miss two better chances-the sort you cry out for at that stage of the game and Peacock's,unbelievable.

I still don't really see what Sturrock did wrong to get dropped, the lad's run his heart out in the last 3 matches, scored too, and looked to link up well with Cox.  

Corr comes back for 40 minutes, does nothing more than Blair's been doing, then Paynter comes on and in all fairness if I were BS tonight, I'd be pretty fucked off at not being in the first team.

I thought Easton was poor.
Those 3 chances at the end were probably the only ones we had all game.
75 minutes untill we start playing isn't good enough.

I thought Southend's best player was easily their left back, who, apparently, is on loan from Wolves anyway.

i don't understand why people constantly mistakes allen's incessant ranting and petulance for passion. the bloke is a clueless cunt.

the stats say otherwise.

What stats?  Play off with Brentford, play offs with MK?  Promotion with Barnet???  Is that it?  

Serious question Arriba, not being arguementative.


I'm with Sonic on this one.

What stats are they?

Lawns mown?

Dressing rooms painted?

He has had a lot of spare time this season though hasn't he?

i dont mind being taken to task jan.
the above alone you state would point to a bloke who gets results. would it not?

i wouldn't want a knee jerk sacking but please tell me anything postive malpas has brought to stfc thus far

he's got absolutely no loyalty - walked out on barnet and brentford - and has three play-off semi-final appearances to his name and nothing else. even king has one play-off semi-final on his CV.

i'm not against change but i'm reluctant to jump to conclusions over malpas this early. if someone better was available, then go for it - so long as we don't fall in a trap of never-ending managerial replacements.

aside from everything else, i find the man absolutely detestable and i'm not keen on having a man i dislike manage STFC. basically, i'm not pro-malpas, i'm not anti-change, i'm just anti-allen

King had a play-off semi with mansfield didn't he?

Anyway, Malpas isn't going anywhere soon, like it and lump it

I actually think there are positives to be taken from MM's first few months.  You could see against Hudders, LO and Carlisle that he likes to get the ball down and play decent football.

Yes there have been too many matches where the players have played with no confidence, but that may be down to certain "spine" players losing a little self belief, Cox (lack of goals) Brez (not back to best) P Smith (scared of making mistake due to crowd reaction??), Ifil, Aljofree.  But I don't think you can just put the blame down to MM.

I'm willing to allow MM have a bit of time to impose his style on the players.  Maybe having so many ex-PS players isn't good for him, MacNamee (a non PS player) looks full of confidence.  

I just don't think bringing a bloke like Martin Allen in is going to take us in the right direction, we've already had one self opinionated a-hole in charge of us in the 90's.

oh the old loyalty card.it doesn't exist in football.
you not liking him is fair enough. but i reckon he'd win people like you over pretty sharpish.i bloody hope he gets chance to too

the thing is, I thought we were pretty shit all game....yet the game was pretty much decided by two blocks!

When Ifil I think it was got in the way of Southend seemingly only shot it looped over Brez and In

When Paynter took a shot it cannoned off of some big bald bastard and clear....

Didn't King get Mansfield to a play-off semi once as well? Which means he has two.

Not that it really matters.

boo I was beaten. Bloody slow tinternet.

i don't think loyalty is irrelevent. it does exist, admittedly not on the same level many of us would like but it'd be nice to appoint a manager who would see through the job he started and not walk at the first sign of a better job - especially after wise and sturrock...

fair point though, loyalty isn't key in a new manager. but his record still stands - nothing but three failed playoff appearances. that may suggest he can't motivate players in "big matches", an accusation levelled at malpas by some.

to be honest i really detest the cunt so it'd take quite something to win me over.

Colin Calderwood will be out of a job in the summer  :D

whoever gets us success would be gone eventually.every single manager i can think of who was at this club and brought us success left for what they thought would be a bigger and better challenge.
maybe allen might be shit. but if we want to be a succesfull club it will come at a price.i dont like it that way, but its just the way it is.allen left the above mentioned jobs as he took jobs he saw as a step up

Hee hee, if you think some of MM's decisions are a little strange if Colin gets here those issues will go on and on.  Northampton and Forest fans often talk about how baffling (and negative) CC can be at times.

Surely you lot have had enough of Scotsmen by now anyway? :wink:

Nothing wrong with Scotsmen that this wouldn't sort out if they don't have it already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charisma

Billy Connolly would be a great manager for us.

I'd like Uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey, he'd be a cracking manager.

I disagree, we play very aimless, long balls up to a striker whose key assests are apparently finishing and guile. All we do is hoof!

Sorry Panda man, but you cannot say we played hoof ball in the three matches I chose there.  Okay towards the end of the LO match we did, as AM had been withdrawn, but for the majority of those three matches there was very little hoof.

That's why I think we might play better football with Blair and Cox up front, instead of a big man like BP or Corr.

I can only judge on the games that I've seen, and I wasn't there for the performance of the season against Carlisle or at home to Huddersfield for that matter. The games I have seen under MM, we've had very little going forward, and do appear to play aimless long balls, a theory that I feel was epitomised today. Very rarely did I see one of the front two or a central midfielder drop off and receive the ball into feet from the full back.

It's like when we play a big guy up front the players hoof it up to them, when we play shorter front men, we play the ball through the middle.  Same used to happen when Fallon was here, not the striker's fault, but the other players seem intent on taking the easy option.

I liked it best today when we were playing the long ball up to 5ft 9 Simon Cox to flick on for Barry 'I cant and wont run but Im actually 6ft 4' Corr

Genius!

Maybe McNamee has two brothers who are strikers. :mrgreen:

which reminds me, need a McNamee song and I think the classic 'team of McNamees' work

Number 1 is McNamee
Number 2 is McNamee
Number 3 is McNamee
Number 4 is McNamee
Number 5 is McNamee
Number 6 is McNamee
Number 7 is McNamee
Number 8 is McNamee
Number 9 is McNamee
Number 10 is McNamee
Number 11 is McNamee
and Number 12 is McNamee

We all dream of a team of McNamees
a team of McNamees
a team of McNamees

I still think singing the celery song with mcnamee would be better

Like it DV!

you sick fucker dave.ooh ducky :wink:

true, but we dont really want to tickle girls bums with McNamee but we really wouldnt mind a team of McNamees

Mines funnier, ner ner

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton :P

Spot on post.

...and which song is that?

cant say it was heard on the radio!

Nothing was heard on the radio!

banana splits :D

No you are!

 :shhh

WTF was that all about, you wanna try breathing!  I'll try to work it out!

Loads and loads is the answer.

Pass to anyone wearing light blue!

And the response to the rest of your ramblings is, I didn't comment on Malpas at all!

Like I said, I am a fan of Smiths but he was piss poor today and looked the shadow of the Smith I saw before he got injured.  He looked off the pace, was ripped to pieces by the left winger and his distribution was poor!

Only saying what I saw and just because you were watching a different match is not my fault!   :face:

Where the rest of your rant came from fuck knows because I haven't even commented about the rest of crap that you were spouting off about.  I just posted Malpas's Managerial record in case anyone was interested!

If you don't like seeing it don't click on it!

JEEZ!

 :roll:

It is about time we got rid of this narrow midfield, Easton is not a right sided player he is better suited in the middle.

Our tactics at the moment seem to rely on getting the ball to Mcnamee which is fine until teams mark him up with 2 players, like they did at times yesterday and he's not able to run with the ball and cross it, we look devoid of ideas then and just hoof it.

We need to go back to basics, 4-4 bloody 2 everyone knows there job and what is expected of them, and we have 2 solid banks of 4 but we will need to get a right sided midfielder as JP is shit (I think I've only seen him have 1 good game) but we only have until Thursday as the window then closes for the season.

I think 1 win should see us safe from relegation but we may have to wait a while for it, the team we have player for player there is no way we should be fighting relegation, we should be mid table at least.

MM needs to show that he has a clue on how to deal with this and quickly.

If Sturrock was at the game, I wonder what he would have made of it as most of them was the players he left behind and we were not playing this badly under him.

I thought Southend dominated the game completely in the opening stages. Once they scored they sat back and tried to kill the game. I always thought that if we had got an equaliser they would have come back at us. Basically they were a much better team.

One plus was that we did try and get the ball down and pass it. But our plays werent good enough and we would have been better off just trying to work the flanks and cross it. Malpas completely changed the team at Half time, Easton back in the middle. Which to me says he didnt back his own judgement of the starting line up he put out.

Just thought the whole team were very frustrated. Completely disagree that the players arent good enough. McNamee has come on leaps and bounds and has proven me wrong, looks a class act, hands up. Gutted about Corr, is that the end?

Still think another season with this management set up is a complete waste of time. Very relieved Jills lost at Port Vale.

Three words to describe STFC yesterday.

Gutless

Clueless

Pointless

Need i say any more!

And it was very good.

You definitely wouldn't have heard much of anything on the radio as the stadium was completely non atmospheric.

I certainly don't want to be going there again!

that should be "stadium", cos it's not really one is it. more like a bitty amphitheatre.

And at Orient! By about 3 of us...  :D

Although he has scored three goals in half a dozen games from that position, a better rate than our strikers. He can play on the right of a midfield three, and can play well there but he clearly doesn't want to.


I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Too much pressure on McNamee if everyone else doesn't play their part fully


From what Malpas is saying in the Adver this morning, we probably will be. But I don't think it's just (if at all) down to players not knowing their jobs - some of them are just too complacent by far.


He was at the game but personally I don't give a fuck what he thought - if he was that bothered, he could have stayed.

Is it rag week for you or something?  You want to learn to chill out Adje! :doobie:

I didn't take it as a personal attack, but if it makes you feel better ranting and raving at me then you carry on, sounds like you need to release some pent up frustration!

Have you tried wanking?

 :porn:

Oh, and where did I insult you?  Was it the bit about spouting crap or the try breathing bit?  Try reading your original post again, it does tend to ramble on and is hard to make sense of.  The spouting crap bit was more to do with the manner of your post rather than the content.

If you are taking that as an insult then you must be a fragile thing, and I apologise!

 :sorry:

As I said,the only bit relevant to your quote was the bit about Smith.The rest wasn't directed at you.I've been married for 30 years-course I've tried wanking!Who isn't frustrated watching Town?

i think you're both a pair of cunts

I've been called a Cunt before but never a pair!



 :)

i know adje and yes he is a right cunt

I've met adje, but I don't know if he's a cunt or not.

Mex is definitely a cunt though..................

As Oscar Wilde said,"there's only one thing worse than being called a cunt and that is...er....not being called a cunt"-or something like that.

i know both adje and berniman and i can safely say they're both cunts. however, berni once gave me a nosebleed whereas adje has better taste in music.

okay?

How do you know what my taste in music is though?

Apart from that, Okay!

 :thumbs:

Ive never met Berniman

I feel incomplete