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at least it's on the right day Ralphy  :D

I say 2-0 town.

5712 in attendance.

you wanker that's my prediction. take it back you bitch!!!

Anyway  2-0 town.

5713 in attendance.

I'll go for 2-1.

6,059.

fuck you slaaaaag,

it's mine now mwahahahahah

2-0 to town, that's my prediction, I'd pm'd Axs and he was a bastard and copied me.

What a three letter cun!!!

I'd wouldn't worry yourself, we'll lose 1-0 anyway.

geeeeeeeet out (in a league of gentleman charlie and stella kinda way).  1-0 to them????  No chance. trois points du le Swindon Ville.

oi facking hope so.

were gonna lose , coz im going

I was going to bring back Ralphy's at midnight for him but I forgot.

We always play well if I don't go to home league games (well this season anyway).

I've missed Gillingham, Swansea and Carlisle...

Is this the fans divided down the middle thread?

 In which case I'm here.....I worry about men who change their bed linen every 4 days

3.1.

Or 1.3.....................

2-1 Town. 5820

3-1 Town. 5,200.

0-2. 5,714

You didn't know I was going so 5715

I forgot we had a game today  :|

I feel a drab 1-1 on the cards but I'm not going so probably will be a thriller.

Because I'm not going, we'll win. I say that because I have missed games such as Gillingham and Cheltenham.

Att: 5846

I fancy 4-1 today the players have to improve sometime why not today  :beers:

Hope anyone travelling to the game west down the M4 left in good time. It's fooked.

1-1

We will lose, no chance of a win today, three points off relegation at 4.50pm this evening.

I've got a good feeling about today. We might have won last time I bothered to chip on down to the merlin. I can't remember.

Crewe losing

Crewe now down 2-0. Cheltenham are winning by a goal to nil though.

Just in case anybody cares, the Oldham commentary is about a million times better than the Arthur and his friend.

Port Vale 2-0 against Brighton, scrapping for their lives!

I'm going to the Vale game so pencil in an away win and a terrible performance.

Anything happening?

Shite, Gills just gone 1 up! :evil:

Forest have equalised.

Doesn't sound liek much going on in our game

Sounds like we're putting some pressure on them now.

Goal ruled out, bollocks

This season just petered out in nothing....  Am looking forward to next season already.  Can start going too once I have a car again!  :D

When you back on the road 'rus?

yay!!!

Lee Peacock makes it 1 - 0

May 22nd...  Am starting my car-shopping next week!  Can't bloody wait.  Insurance is a wee bit painful though - £2k odd on a group 6!

Simon Cox made it 2-0 on 53 minutes.

3-0 now, Cox again  :)

Booo, I wanted us to lose so that Malpas would get sacked.  :D

Typical.....The day i don't go (I have work ina bit  :x ), we score 3 goals and therefore look odds on to win......Plus i find whenever i sit in the Townend, we lose..... :|

Oldham commentators are saying how awesome Macnamee is  :mrgreen:

How very pessimistic of you....

 :mrgreen: You never know...This is STFC afterall

Other results going our way at the moment.

hehehe

Parkin just scored for Luton, if anyone cares.

Nope.  Only thing I care about are the 3 points we've picked up.

Malpas tactically outclassed Sheridan in my opinion.  8)

The day I can actually go, I get a bad back and can't go and we win! I don''t mind we won!

We're off to the playoffs - go us.

excelent second half, couty ground was a bit of a morgue mind, and the attendance 5300, they made that up, try taking 1000 off and your closer to the mark.

Why would they make it up?!

Good solid performance today, and Cox should have had a hat-trick really. When he was clean through he bottled it, but for his disallowed goal I am sure there was a defender on the line playing him onside?!

Looked much better today. Super finish from Cox for the third... interesting celebration from Peacock as well. :shock:

Nice to get a clean sheet, it's been a while.

Special mention to Taylor, their number 18.

He spat his dummy out so far that it hit me in the eye.

A win that is most welcome  :D Good performance today. Oldham looked average at best and we looked a lot better going forward. McNamee was superb again. His crosses were just brilliant. Great pass for the second goal as well. Pleased for Cox. He missed a sitter in the first half and can't have done his confidence good with that but he got a nice finish for his first and a better one for his second. Deserves that as well. Above all i am pleased for Malpas. He's taken a lot of stick this week and to get a good result like this will make him breath a little easier tonight.

Excellent second half. Not too bad a first half too really, McNamee really took the piss out of them and put some good crosses in which we didn't get on the end of.

By contrast Oldham only had 1 shot.


Well done Town

i like malpas' post-match interview

"the fans will be pleased that we're unbeaten this month"  :D

ha ha. That's top class.

is that what he said? fucking ace. i love malpas.

good performance, good win.

McNamee took the piss and their right back must hate him.

Oldham were awful created nothing and defended poorly.

Cox took his two goals well, yet missed the easiest chance!!

Offside goal? player on the line?

Still no McNamee song!!

Number 1, McNamee...?

I tried this with Corr but he spends too little time on the pitch for it to catch on.

FUCKING BANANA SPLITS TUNE YOU CUNTS.

Brunel reckoned the keeper was playing him off

Come again?

thats what I thought at the time to be fair

Basically the last man doesnt count as being able to play someone onside....in most cases the keeper is the last man......hence why if your past the last defender but infront of the keeper your offside.

In a goal mouth scramble, if there is one person on the line....but the striker is behind the goal keeper....then the defender is the last last man and therefore doesnt play the striker onside

make sense  :?

yes!

number 2, McNamee

I was referring to the banana splits song, not the offside law...

Also, I thought that the defender on the line stopped the ball, then Cox swooped in to slot it home, hence me wondering why he was given offside.

But I am willing to accept that I may have that entirely incorrect.

Mcanmee do do do do do
ah mcnamee do do do do
ah mcnamee do do do do do do do dodo do do do do do do do

banana splits theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2se2I70CJ0)

ok i got it fucking wrong cunt off

i meant this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQApFUKHTcg

that's strangely hypnotic

yey we won!!!!
going back to players in their favoured postitions and a 4,4,2 done the trick.shame so many games were wasted with the ridiculous team shuffling but hey ho.
macnamee mom and mcgovern was excellent too.nice to see coxy get a couple(second goal was ace!)
allround  the team they all did their jobs well.
the lad for oldham that got all the stick i thought was their best player by a mile.
looked well under a 5000 gate from where i was sitting

Now that was funny.

He was a big diver, who got Jack Smith booked for nothing, and then tried to get a couple of pens despite just diving in the box. The TE gave him so much stick, we was virtually crying by the end of the game... :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

We've got Ant McNamee... He's fucking quality.

Same tune as we want our Swindon back. Just a suggestion, it rhymes so therefore is instantly better than the Barry Corr song we have.  :mrgreen:

I like it

he likes to take the pee....then cross it into lee

I think it was Hasney who was offside as he was standing on the post before he headed it to Coxy. Lino had is flag up before Coxy put it in. Just!

Quality win. Go on Big Mo!

I believe you are correct sir.

That wasn't too much different from most of our last performances, but today we took our chances. And i dont think the fact we kept a clean sheet with the return of vincenté was much of a coincidence. Very good performance, and more like that should see us build well for next season

Perhaps more importantly though:

Dave has pizza for dinner = Swindon win
Dave doesn't have pizza for dinner = Swindon don't win.

Every game my mums got me pizza for dinner on a saturday we've won o0o0o0o0

I did think that, but didnt Vincent play at Tranmere?

Secondly, our defence was helped by the awful Oldham attack. Their first choice pairing of Hughes and Davies are out injured.

Just got back-only saw the second half-bastard M4!they made me pay full whack to get in at 20 to 4!quality finishing from Cox but what a move for the third goal.McNamee is a class act and his blossoming surely owes something to the manager who has obviously worked hard on him since he arrived.Coming out at the end,I swear some people were disappointed that we won.Heard someone say "trouble is ,keeps Malpas in a job!"What can you do? I thought Timlin and Easton looked a useful combo in the middle of midfield and Jack Smith had another solid game(half!)Vincent looked a bit dodgy though.

McNamee has always been quality, just needed a few games to get his fitness, Malpas hasnt made McNamee the player he is, Watford did

Didnt say he wasn't quality-just saying he's improved since he first arrived and that may be in some part down to the manager.But I know you are strongly anti-Malpas so I dont expect you to give him any credit-but,hey,that's your opinion

i am anti Malpas for these reasons:

1. He took the job accepting the backroom staff here, he couldnt believe his luck getting this job, any manager with a ounce of success bring his own staff in because they have been sucessful together in the past, as we know Malpas has had no sucess.

2. He hasnt brought in any of his own players, McNamee and Kanyuka were Sturrocks targets, Cox was here under Sturrock already, as was Timlin and Malpas openly admitted as part as the McNamee deal Watford said we had to take Ashikodi as he needs games, when the fuck as any half decent manager took a player he didnt even want!!

3. Plays players out of positions too much, finally today McGovern goes back to the right, Easton in the middle a Right footed right back and a left footed left back, hey presto a balanced team and a win!

there is no escaping the fact we have a good bunch of players here, they played well under Sturrock but not under Malpas, that has to be down to how the manager wants them to play, he spouts this shit bout being unlucky all the time, 1 game being unlucky to lose i can accept, 2 games ok fair enought, but 1 win in 10 games was not good enough, even today first half was poor, second half was alot better tho

timlin was gash i thought

2 decent second half performances out of 2-perhaps Malpas' team talks aren't so bad after all.

if thats the case why doesnt he give a better fucking pre match team talk  :x

1. I get the feeling Fitton/Malpas did not want too much change too quickly and rightly so. See what happens next season. Malpas has already started bringing in his own staff (scouts) so he is bringing staff with him.

2. Timlin may have been here under Sturrock but how the hell was Malpas supposed to know how well he performed? Byrne wasn't Sturrock's assistant then either so I think that is a false argument. It does appear that McNamee/Kanyuka weren't Malpas' doing but at least he saw they (well McNamee, dunno about kanyuka yet) would be good acquisitions and had the brain to go through with the deals. McNamee has been our best player since Malpas' arrival - that speaks volumes imo. Also, if Malpas didn't sign Cox, with the money there to do it, most of the fans would have been disappointed, would you not agree?

3. Playing people out of position has been a shortfall in this team. However, you can argue with the likes of Peacock and Roberts, it's worked out in the past for Sturrock. It has sort of worked some games and not others. Hopefully it's Malpas testing things out.


I think the last point is your only valid one. The rest of your arguments are almost non-sensical. It's what makes the Malpas argument so frustrating, because people make these rediculous points just because they don't like him. For the record, I'm not yet sure of Malpas, his tenure so far has left me unconvinced - but it's the football we have (not) played and the results which make me think this.

I really fail to see why this is such a big issue. He isn't playing, and he came in at a time when we were short of strikers. He hasn't stabbed anyone yet, so you can't say he's had a negative impact. Its just another stick to bash mighty maurice with

Sturrock took 3 at the start of this season that he didn't want and I;d say he is a half decent Manager.

hence the reason Sturrock ended up fucking off the 1st chance he got

If your suggesting sturrock left purely because of the three foreginers then your very naiive

of course that wasnt the only reason, it was the interfeering, he had 3 players on huge wages stopping him  from bringing any1 in then the embargo

Those three huge wages didn't stop him bringin in Mcgovern, Paynter, Cox in. I dont think it was the massive wage bill, more to do with the uncertainty over the future of the club along with the fact he loves plymouth. The fact he had three players forced upon him at the start of the season was probably way down their in the reasons why he left

no cos BEST were still involved when he signed them 3 players

I semi realised that whilst typing, which is why i put down many more reasons suggesting why he left for plymnouth

JPC82 is just trying to be a wind up

 :D

 :D

I really fucking enjoyed today. first time in a long time.

Ha ha Taylor - proper hissy fit courtesy of the town end, love it.

I don't 100% agree with JPC82, but you zan I both know those signing were enforced on him.

doesn't mean he's not a half decent manager.

Ha ha, yep! He certainly seemed to react to the abuse. And the more he reacted, the more abuse he got!

made me laugh i tell thee, not seen a reaction like that in a while.

Teeeeeea Toooooowellllllllll was the last one to really bite, though the Leeds keeper wsa close. Abusding the opposition is big and clever after all.

To be honest, for all the shit Mooney gets he is a good example of how to react to it properly.

as is Clayton Ince - and now he's a legend.

Taylor was given the opportunity to make it all OK, the TE sang - Taylor give us a wave - had he done so I think he would have got a good reception, but he didn't and the abuse continued.

Jack Smith appeared to be consoling him throughout the second half!!

I like to think he (they) were taking the piss, "never mind mate, worse things happen at sea", etc, etc,

I think that was Rob's point

and i'd like to say, what a fucking superb pass by mcnamee through to cox for the second goal - split the defenders perfectly. genius.

Actually he seemed OK when he was getting the abuse, it was the long slow Taaaayyyylor he couldn't handle. Players are well used to the "Wanker" stuff but that just fucked with his head, much like Sodje.

Does anyone else think Mr axs is a bit happy?  :mrgreen:

so so chuffed - it's great to enjoy matchdays again after all the doom and gloom. i fully admit i am a happy clapper - just enjoyed the day so much.  :oops:

martin allen didn't take it well when we did it to him as well.

hands up those who couldn't be arsed and now regret not going?

:(

I don't regret not going. I'm more relieved that we have all but secured our league one status though.

second half was so much fun though, you should regret not going.

asx is  right, despite being ginger. Second half today it was great fun being a Town fan again - our lot doing the business, them losing their way and us playing a part in tipping them over the edge (of sanity in Taylor's case). If you didn't go, you'll never fully appreciate the sheer joy you missed out on. Which is, of course, why we all keep going back even when it's shit. That nagging feeling of "well sure it's been crap for the last x games, but if I don't go today, this will be the one when we [Danny Dyer voice] smash the gwanny out of someone".

S'what it's all about.

indeed, I think this was my 42nd game of this season and it's up there with one of the most enjoyable, alongside Gillingham, Millwall away, Walsall away, Swansea home and Forest home.

in my defence, i also need to save money. football is generally not condusive to this

I can't really be arsed to go to any more games at all this season. I think I've just got to the stage where I've had enough. It's been an eventful season with a rather tame end to it.

I'm not going to Donny, other than that I think I'll be at all the games. I just enjoy it still as a relative newbie to going to games.

Meh. Everyone has their different reasons/relative priorities. Me, it's what I do on a Saturday. Otherwise I'd have to spend time with my family  :shock:

On the subject of Malpas being in a 'no win' situation  (apart from today's win, but you know what I mean), as i was leaving the Arkells, the bloke alongside, with his young son, was moaning about Malpas substituting Cox thereby denying him a chance for a hat trick.

I pointed out, politely in the circumstances, that Cox had missed his best chance early on, to which the 10 year old (ish) piped up with "that's what I said to you Dad".  He shut up after that.

Good win, I'm very surprised but very pleased, must all be down to Malpas going to Dundee for two days and of course players who want/need a new contract for next season.
Form went completely out of the window yesterday - Swansea 1 Bournemouth 2, Brighton 2 Port Vale 3 and Swindon 3 Oldham 0.
No result is predictable at this stage in the season as yesterday showed.

There's one young lad who got sent to bed without watching Dr Who. Hope you feel guilty neville.  :D

Why did the Taylor ribbing start in the first place?

he had a hissy fit with JPM.

Really good light entertainment. Oldham played as though they didn't really give a toss and we played a damn sight better than of late.

Bloody M4 (coming into Swindon... f@cking 3 hours sat twiddling my thumbs and burning my fuel in Reading... of all places) threatened to ruin my day as I missed the first 20 mins despite leaving London at 10am, then turned up as the sky opened and got soaked running across the car park in the rush to collect my tickets and not miss any action, then took my seat as Coxy had his goal disallowed... could the day have got any worse? Short answer, nope! We notched soon after, went on to score two more crackers, kept a clean sheet and I enjoyed a great evening out with the fajitas piled high and the beer flowing! Nearly wrote the car off driving home in the snow today but that's a different story!

That was a fucking great crack. Thoroughly enjoyed the game for so many reasons. First half was a little tame and uneventful, but that second 45 minutes made me realise why I enjoy football so much, and even more so watching STFC.

The first ten minutes of the second half, I swear I was watching a Swindon team from about 15 years ago. The football was free flowing and it looked like we could tear apart any team in the world, let alone Oldham. I'm still not convinced about our back 5 though.

Brez's kicking was OK in the main, although he had a couple of wobbles in that department; commanded his area well though.

Smith and Vincent did OK, although both had their moments of concern. I still worry about Jerel, too many silly little mistakes which on another day may have been punished by a better team; he looks short of confidence, but hopefully the win and clean sheet yesterday will help. Aljofree was just a bit meh. But between them they kept a clean sheet.

McNamee was different gravy. First time I'd seen him play and I thought he looked out of place to start with. But he grew in confidence as the game went on and as balls got played to his feet, and second half he took the piss out of their fullback and sent in half a dozen or more top quality crosses. Definitely MOM despite Coxy's brace.

I'm still concerned with JPM - he's like an bankrupt man's David Beckham and IMO a luxury player - why oh why can he not run with a football at his feet? Some good touches and passes (and of course he wound Taylor up a treat), but I still ain't convinced. There's a good player in there waiting to come out I'm sure, but will he ever show it in a Swindon shirt?

Taylor was a classic big time charlie. Good player, but as soon as he started getting abuse, he tried to silence it by taking on the whole of our team, and it didn't work, which wound him up even more. Funny as fuck.

Oh, and don't plan a date with Fred Elliot. "I'll be 45 minutes" - 3 Hours later we still hadn't seen sight or sound of him. Git  :wink: Rachel said you better make it up to her at the Port Vale game.......:mrgreen:

Oh and Herthab, Rachel also asked if you could stop tickling her arse with your foot......

jpm had a very good game imo.linked play well, created alot,put his foot in and started moves.i wish he played like that week in week out.it was nice to have two decent wide players yesterday

She told me she was enjoying it :wink:

Fucking cunting buses. Got changed then decided meh !

She doesn't enjoy it when I do it  :cry:

Fred, you should have asked for a lift  :wink:

Why is it that when I miss the odd game we always win?  I missed the Gills at home game as well.  I think I may be bad luck  :(

Both of Cox's goals are fucking ace  8)

http://www.football.virginmedia.com/page/swindonvideo/

that ball from macca for cox's first was superb and coxys strike on the second was bloody brilliant.