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It is Saturday now yeah? I've lost track a bit.

Yep. My body clock isn't sufficiently disturbed to tell me otherwise.

Good times


for a change.

 This is your time fB...hedonism kicks in during a recession.

I really want to win this one. Could be a top day out.

Will be a good night as well (As long as we don't lose!) Very nervous about the game, but I always am when we play the wurzels. Everything hinges, imo, on how our midfield performs.

I'll take a scrappy win, I'd even accept a bore draw. What I want though is for us to destroy them.

What sort of weather can we expect in Yeovil's micro-climate today?

It looks like there is going to be a match preview on Sky Sports 1 in a minute...

Forecast down here is for light, scattered showers during the game.

It's pretty windy at the moment.

If you can't play football in those conditions then you should probably hang up your boots.

Match preview currently on Sky Sports 1...

Hartlepool's loss last night was helpful.

Looking forward to this game, its going to be a tough but a draw would be just great.

Setting off in about half an hour! Maybe see some of you down there. 2-1 Town I reckon. Cox and Paynter.

i am confident of 4 wins in 4 today. Setting of in about an hour. 2-0 Swindon. Shame that David Noble is playing Yeovil

I think it's going to be quiet on here today, every fucker is going to yeovil aren't they? With the exception of Yeovil of course.

I'm not - Joe's got a game today and we won't be back in time to get to Yeovil :(

I'm not either, I'm going to watch the England game against my better judgement.

Looking forward to this. We'd better win. Arrow @ 1315 is my plan.

After Northampton Tuesday I have been looking forward to this all week.

Its another big big game, a win today will go a long way to confirming survival.

Should be a large away following and a good atmosphere, has all the makings of a great away day.

Come on Swindon, put them away!

Getting ahead of myself, I think that if we can continue to hammer out wins it sets things up beautifully for next season. Last time we had a really strong finnish to a season was 2002-03, and look what happened after that?

Im sick and at home, but COME ON YOU REDS! (We'd better not be wearing our away kit!).

Townenda, are you heading back to the TE next season?

Not sure yet, I do miss singing all game and the atmosphere from a few years back was great so if it could ever return to that it would be appealing.

Will make a decision on my April pay day on which stand, are you boys heading back Spencer?

C'mon on the town.. Hopefully i'll be back on ere a little later (I'm currently stealing somebody's internet connection so hopefully it'll still be working later)

Yes mate, we are all going back. Ive sneaked in there with my DRS season ticket a few times, and its nice and empty again, so hopefully plenty of room at 2.58pm at the first stairwell.

This season has been the most dissapointing I can ever remmember in terms of away supporters on the bank, which is when you get the real fun of being in the south stand. Just Leeds, Leicester (half full!!?) and surely Rovers on the bank in the league, which is a pitiful turnout. It seems to be the way things are going, so in my view the south stand isnt really worth the half time beer anymore. Plus the side stands are going up to £22 matchday, which wont be popular.

And to be fair, Ive been quite impressed with the TE these last few months, much better support.

From what I remember it was almost impossible to create much of an atmosphere on that open terrace

On an open terrace you think you are quiet, but actually the other team can usually hear you loud and clear.

Bournemouth last season I went in the home end, and you could hear it clear as day from the Swindon fans in the open end. You just have to be persistent.

Classic open end away day - last game v Oxford at the Manor? Problem that day was that everyone was singing different songs all the time. Classic game. Still awaiting that to be uplifted to youtube.

is it too much to dream of four wins in a row?

Yeovil managed 4 in a row, if they can we can!

Noble might take a game or two to get going.  This is the best time to play them before the team gets settled.  Skiverton may be out.

After the win at Northampton, a point will be acceptable.  It keeps the distance as it was at kick-off.

A win today takes us 8 points clear of the bottom. If brighton fail to beat tranmere then i think the only team to be a threat is yeovil. i can't see them making the 8pt gap with the games remaining, so a win today will keep us up. a draw will be satisfactory, and a loss will see us going back in time two weeks to the times where going down was the only thing people could think of.

that being said,im optimistic.

A draw would be a superb result today, for the reasons others have given.  A few weeks ago I was saying only wins would do...but having now put a few together, we can afford a few draws in games like these.

That said, a win would be special today.  It would start me thinking in terms of probably staying up (rather than hopefully staying up.)

PS  And who the f**k are Yeovil, anyway?  We've been spending too long in the lower leagues of late.

Yeovil have Northampton on Tuesday at home.  With today, Yeovil have two games to save their season.  They should be nervous.   

Pook on the bench.

Pook on the bench and you say they will be nervous? :)

Pook looked bad on Wednesday against the old boys, you've got a point.

It's pissing down.

Is there anybody else here?

sort of. not sure I can really be arsed with this though

I'm here. Couldn't get a ticket, but that has something to do with being extremely unorganised, remembering my car has no MOT and not cheking if there were tickets until this morning. Sometimes i'm not a dickhead.

I am, but doubt there are many of us :(

Yes, stuck up here in Nottingham & waiting for the BBC Live Text to stumble into life about ten minutes after the event.

Cheltenham 1-0 up at Walsall already

I'm here.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/animal_kingdom/animal_images/Chimpanzee_thinking_poster.jpg

Commentary should be interesting.  We've got a Timlin, they've got a Tomlin.

I'm here and lurking, too far for me, but will be going to Orient and Rovers at home, and Brighton and Peterboro away.

Am here watching the egg chasing......Ospreys are spawny bugges! Are we winning yet?

I'm here. You reeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddssssssssss.

OTJ not starting or on the bench for Wales.

Hello

Nothing on our bench fills me with confidence, if we get an injury or need to chase the game!

Howdo!

Come on Town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

dirty cunt

  Eh?

Greer needs to whack him now!

How hot is it over there?

sounds like we have an injury already - Morrison is down and injured

Studs up challenge on Morrison.  Yellow Card.  Morrison struggling to walk!

I see Peterboro beat Leicester. Getting squeeky bum time at the top!

Morrison off, Ifil on!

Forbes needs to be snapped now!

Jack Smith booked!

Rovers 1 - 0 Stockport

Walsall 0 - 1 Cheltnum

Cheltnum are on a right run at the mo!

I'll just talk to myself then!

If you'regoing to keep talking can you give some commentary on the game?

Studs up should be a red.

Gloucester 3-0 Ospreys HT

That's because you are the only one who has the commentary, the rest of us are sat here waiting for you (or the BBC) to post. :)

ref is a cunt too

tee hee henson's injured!

That was my thoughts too!

good


he's a cunt too

Aah, OK!  I'll try to keep rambling then!

Fred is listening as well because the ref is a cunt!

In this day and age? when do refs in the top 3 flights of football obey the laws!!


try sporting life,its alot quicker than bbc :)

So whats going on?

Some twat has got a trumpet at the match!

Not much happening at the moment except for the ref being a yeovil fan!

Razak is chewing raw meat on the bench

Amankwaah is not playing as well as usual, ref is appearing a bit of a homer at the moment. >:(

Sounds like it could be getting a little tasty!  The ref has lost control already!

Shot by Paynter!

hook is a real cunt, henson's just misunderstood (i'm still glad he's injured)

Paynter just had a shot saved

C'mon Swindon.

Manky has been quality recently tho!

Stupid hot. I stayed in.

Kanu off injured too

if the ref's lost it...and he's booking pretty much everyone - which i think he's doin from what im reading..razak best not come on today 'cause he'l be back for an early bath in 5 min

Kanu Hamstring coming off for Callum kennedy

let's hope they have a really slow set of fullbacks!

Shot from Noble, not far wide

our players are dropping like flies - this isn't good.

i'd take nil nil now please

wont be long before someone's sent off by the sound of it.

Jonathon Davies is a cunt too..'All of the stats say that Ospreys should be winning' Well that aint ya Welsh twat!!!

Kennedy is playing on the wing!  Is Marshall not on the bench?

You'd have thought the players would know how to warm up.

Whats wrong with the ref today then?

Marshall isn't on the bench - i was just about to ask why!!

That will be a big loss for us now if hes out longer :cry:

No,I would have thought smith right back,kennedy left back and amankwaah on the wing...that seems obvious to me.

Makes sense, he's quick and can take care of defensive duties.

Good call

Well Kennedy is playing left wing

Yeovil are playing hoofball by the sounds of it!

Yeovil close with a freekick, just wide

Let them burn themselves out, and we can nick it at the end.

He's being a bit of a div, Div

Sounds like a right scrappy game and the ref is not helping that!

Expecting a reorganisation at H.T.

1-0 to Yeovvil

1 nil Yeovil

fucks sake

1-0 diwn  >:(

Great,even our players are helping them...

Bollocks!

Oh dear.

Hoofball over the top and the defence didn't deal with it!  One on one with Smith and he put Smith on his arse by the sounds of it!

Smith fell over coming out to get it

Bout time we got a 90th minute equaliser methinks (Glos 6-0 Opspreys)

Bad header from Manky and Yeovil close again!

never mind, we were 1-0 down on Tuesday too

The Radio is now off. I'm now in a bad mood. I hate listening to the Radio at the best of times, but now we're behind it must be turned off. I'm going for a fag, then eating some fish, then doing some work. Fun.

I don't see Wilson putting up with this, just keep it close to H.T.

Another goalkeeping mistake yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :doh:

Orient 1 nil down

we were winning 2-1 by this point though!

Was it?

Smith slips over again!  Needs to sort his studs out!

Carlisle 1 - 0 Northampton

Paynter close with a header from a Kennedy cross

Lambert now League 1 top goal scorer

Rovers 2 -0 Stockport

Yeovil close again

Stockport with a point deduction might go down.

are they going into administration?

Leeds 1 nil up as well.

Ive got £50 on them and Rovers. Fingers crossed.

Come on Swindon.

The deadline has expired for Stockport to be docked points this season.

Don't know for sure, have financial problems, just like Yeovil.

They are very close but apparently brighton gave them 125 k for the dicker loan which has staved it off for a bit

Roll on half time and a lecture from DW - we are nowhere near as good as we have been in the last three matches

Carlisle     40   45    -13    
Swindon    40    44    -4    
Crewe    40    44    -17    
Hartlepool    40    43    -11       
Leyton Orient    39    42    -14    
Yeovil    38    42    -24    
Northampton    38    41    -1    
Brighton    38    36    -18    
Hereford    38    34    -26    
Cheltenham    39    33    -35    

Isn't the deadline an all depends?

I think Northampton could peg Carlisle back.

That's changed now berniman - northampton have equalised

Not true, if a points deduction would send them down it can still happen this season.  Decision is suspended I believe.

Northampton have equalized now 1-1

 :doh:

Yes, there we go.

Ive also got a 5er on a draw treble,

Morecambe v Luton, Brighton v Tranmere and Carlisle v Northampton.

Pook on for the second half?

I hope you lose just for the gayers result!  I would love it if they got beat

A defeat today would be very bad. Would be happy with a draw though. Although from what has been said and whats on live text, anything other than a defeats seems unlikely.

HT  Sort them out Danny

OK, sounds complicated. I thought any deduction went on next season from 25/3 thursday of this week.

He wont make any subs he cant really in case of another injury. anyhows how would that help?

Bet with your head.

3 draws is always tempting for the odds, but always hard to get. I doubt it will come in.

Pook on after H.T. would mean that Wilson is having a nervous break down.

I may be talking out of my arse but I believe the decision is suspended and it can still happen this season, it was to stop a Leeds happening again.

Maybe we are being complacent? If so lets hope that DW sorts them out for the second half.

If Yeovil don't go down this season, they will next season. 

Com' on Town send the dirty ##@$%ers down.

Swindon    40    44    -4    60    0-1    v Yeovil
Crewe    40    44    -17    54    0-0    v Millwall
Hartlepool    40    43    -11    56    
Carlisle    40    43    -14    49    1-1    v Northampton
Northampton    38    42    0    51    1-1    v Carlisle
Leyton Orient    39    42    -14    34    0-1    v Oldham
Yeovil    38    42    -24    33    1-0    v Swindon
Brighton    38    36    -18    42    0-0    v Tranmere
Hereford    38    34    -26    34    0-0    v Huddersfield
Cheltenham    39    33    -35    46    1-0    v Walsall

Com' on Trannie.

Glos 9-0 Lamb d/g

2nd Half - COME ON SWINDON!!

Glos 12-0 !

Has the defence been reorganised, with Smith at right back?

Town fans in good voice!

Whoever is blowing that trumpet needs it ramming up their arse!

Apperently I've got to stop hiding in my room listening to the football and have to get dressed and be sociable. bye tef. Hope we win.

Yeah, do as your told Ben!

Balshaw! Great interception!!!

Cant you do a rugby thread?

Who the heck is Wahbals?

Tudor Jones not even on the bench today for Wales!

No

Not quite Spence, it was automatic up until Thursday 5 pm, after that it is at the discretion of the Football League.  If it wouldn't relegate a particular team by applying it now, it would go on next season.  If it would relegate them it goes on this season.  The same goes for promotion spots as well, ie if they still got promotion after a deduction they would start with a minus figure next season.

Thats a bloody joke ::)

Swindon picking up the pace with no end product at the moment!

Anything happening?

Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Anthony McNamee

Don't get dressed and go be sociable. With any luck you'll be sent to your room for scaring the W.I. ladies or whoever it is that mum invited for tea.

Thought it was something like that!

Long range shot from Yeovil, saved by Smith!

   
Neither team can gain control of the match. Key player: Anthony McNamee

How do they know he's a key player?

Beckford has banged 2 in for Leeds today.  Cmon Coxy!

Long Range shot from Cox, well off target!

If theres no team in control how can there be a key player..i tihnk they just pick out of the hat on those things :)

leeds/beckford scored 2-0 mcdongs

Oxford 1 nil down, looks like they are going nowhere!

I think it implies that McNamee is very much involved in play, currently.

Doesn't sound that way on the radio

Perhaps the Sporting Life geezer had just read the match day program.

Sounds like all Yeovil at the mo

What's the live table link? Apologies if it's already been posted.

Close from Cox!  Corner!

oh dear!!

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/tables/cc_league1.html

Save from Smith, Yeovil on the break!

Shot from Cox from the edge of the area!

Sounds like Phil Smith is under fire a great deal of the time

Cheers. In my favs now

Orient 1 - 1 Oldham

Blair has just scored for torquay

Sturrock equalises for torquay..didn't know he could score goals.

Recall him.

Cox close

Walsall 1 - 1 Cheltnum

Cox close with a header!  Should have scored

Should have - not his day today obviously - or Swindon's  :(

Come on town keep the pressure up

How long left?

Hereford 0 - 1 Huddersfield

Maybe our only hope of an equaliser is with a penalty?

20 mins

We'll score in another 21 mins

Effort from Yeovil well wide

Barn door springs to mind

Or conceed :cry:

Ifil fooked up!  Shot well wide!

Nope. Today I feel that it is our turn for a 91st min equaliser - Leaving another 3 mins for the winner!

Manky is having a mare today!

Jerel had a shot :eek:

Pook is coming on!  For Nalis

No, he lost the ball which allowed a Yeovil shot!

OMG things must be desperate.

Oh god help us all

Yeovil sub!  Luke Rodgers on!  Tosser!

Whats the bet that idiot goes and scores now

Smith save!

Can't be long to go now?

Still 1-0?

yes

Its not gonna happen, is it.

Corner to Swindon

Another corner

Wanker's gonna score 91st min...Mark my words!!!

We don't sound like we are gonna do anything today!

6 mins left

Orient now winning

Just out of interest does anyone know how many other League 1 teams have had 2 matches a week for the last month?
They must be fairly knackered right now.

I gotta go!  Fingers crossed!

Ta ra

Finland 2-0 Wales

Leyton Orient    39    45    -12    36    2-1    v Oldham
Swindon    40    44    -4    60    0-1    v Yeovil
Crewe    40    44    -17    54    0-0    v Millwall
Hartlepool    40    43    -11    56    
Carlisle    40    43    -14    49    1-1    v Northampton
Northampton    38    42    0    51    1-1    v Carlisle
Yeovil    38    42    -24    33    1-0    v Swindon
Brighton    38    36    -18    42    0-0    v Tranmere
Hereford    38    33    -27    34    0-1    v Huddersfield
Cheltenham    39    31    -36    46    1-1    v Walsall

Cmon Town!

Macca pushed forward in behind strikers and remaining mids moved in more central for a sort of 4-3-3 apparently. 3.5 mins left

Looking at the positives, we still have a better goal difference than all the sides below us apart from Nhampton

There's still time for the equaliser

90 seconds of normal time - got to be 3/4 mins of et surely?

4 mins added on.

Here we go!

Barely been out of our own half in et according to RS

Doesn't sound like it's going to happen

Still time

Can I just be the first to say wilson out?

Probably not.

Run out of time now :(

Send everyone forward!!!!

Bollocks. That's it

It's your fault paul.

at the end of the day the injuries really cost us, we were beaten by the better 11 on the pitch

end of

I hope the boys staying over tonight rip the fucking place up

 >:(

Ah well........

It's not the end of the world - yet - thanks to last three matches

Just hope the injuries aren't too bad.

I was certain that we would score an undeserved equaliser!

How will anyone tell?

We're going to have to do this the hard way.

The Rovers game will be my third of the season, and all I ask is that we're safe by then.

Boo

good point well made

Never mind mate next weeks game is now a must win  :(

Well at least most of the other results went for us.

Yes, things often are I find. Meh, we're still a damn sight better placed than I thought we could possibly be by this stage two weeks ago. Erm, as in what I would have expected two weeks ago. You know what I mean

I hope the injuiries aren't too bad.

Milwall have JUST scored against Crewe

Northampton and Yeovil's games in hand are starting to worry me, although still think Yeovil will go

Still think Hartlepool are goners.

They play on Tuesday night at Yeovil, methinks 1:1.

Nah, they're monkey hangers

To be fair, weve got another chance to put things right on saturday.

Of course if we loose then its brown stuff again.

Just shows how many points we needed to get to stay up and how dismal we were up until Wilson took over.

Not having a midweek game will help, get some of the injured back, and give them a bit of a rest.

Today proved that without certain key players we would be rock bottom.

You could say that about half the division though

I get the impression that stupid texts are now being censored, or is it just me?

I think it shows without the loan players we wouldnt be good enough to stay up.

The team assembled in the summer was not League 1 standard.

Thats fairly damning on the board and Malpas and our own players, and its something that we should not brush aside. We need better players this summer, whatever league we are in.

DW has slung his fucking hook

Ed's looking for him.

Fair enough, certainly damning of Malpas and players. Not sure about board tho - we all thought the team we started the season with should have been good enough to finish mid-table or even push for play-offs. I remember some pretty high hopes at the start of the season, and a load of people slating Malpas (probably fairly) because he wasn't getting us in the top half with a team that should have been challenging for play-offs etc. Truth is the players weren't good enough in the final analysis, but I don't know that I'd expect the board to spot that any more than we did

Perhaps he knows he's not allowed to say "fucking useless arseholes" on live radio and therefore doesn't see much point in doing postmatch interview

I think the board would argue that their outlay was proportionate to the outlay of the fans.  If the take up of season tickets had been higher (the failure to hit the 6,000 target was obviously a disappointment to them), so would the spending have been.  Fits in with their desire to run the club on a commercial basis.

Luckily, they will have one year more experience of running a football club this summer compared with last summer.  They're on a learning curve.

Bollocks, it was evident at the end of last season that we were in deep shit.  We got some points against teams that had nothing to play for right at the end.  

Malpas sucked the life out the team as soon as he showed up.  Signings over the summer were just not good enough.  The opening game against Tranmere gave a totally false impression.  Teams learned it was easy to punish us.  It has taken Wilson some key loan signings and moving Heaven and Earth to give us a chance to stay up.

 

I wouldn't disagree. But that wasn't what most people started out saying at the start of the season, which was my point.

We didnt spot it Paul, Malpas didnt spot it, but I think a decent manager (like Wilson) Would have spotted it. The bookies also spotted it, they all had us down as the 5th worst team in the league.

Ardiles, in the summer we payed around £70,000 for a total waste of money called Yinka Casal. We also signed Nalis (probably on half decent wages) and his legs have gone. So there has been a waste, its not as if we havnt spent.

The bookies didn't think so.  I couldn't understand why the panic button wasn't hit after six weeks of Malpas.  The guy was delusional, and had already nearly destroyed Motherwell.

All true.

If Wilson hadn't shown up Manky was heading for the scrap heap.

Yes and that's where the board did go wrong but I don't know that I'd necessarily expect the board to spot the team wasn't good enough having got that wrong. Any board has to rely on the advice of the manager they've appointed.
They also offered 50-1 on Cox being top scorer and at least one, IIRC paddy power, was offering 25-1 on Tommy "Playing in Spain this season" Mooney being top scorer. I still maintain that at this level most of the pundits and the bookies do little more than look at "Big club/money to spend = will go up; Smaller club/financial trouble=will struggle" then stick a pin in the board for most of the rest.

Byrne didn't have much to say.  Glitch , bad day at the office, will prepare for the next game.

Wilson must have told him to clam up.

we were due a defeat and today we got it.
a mass clear out is required regardless of todays result.
fitton has ballsed up with the season tickets for next season. so i expect him to say funds will be limited due to low season ticket sales.
we are shit and will be for the forseable future

It wasnt even the first time the team had looked totally destroyed on his watch.

They were an utter shambles just 5 weeks after he took over at home to Walsall, the team had been totally ruined.

The board ejected him because of the lost revenue from defeats in cup competitions. But that pressure should have been put on by fans not turning up for league games. We were played off the park at home in successive weeks, had a captain who said he was 'scared' to play at home. If that had happened in other seasons we would have dropped to the 5,000 fans mark, and it would have put pressure on from the top. As it was no pressure was exerted and we slid further into the shit.

The board are clever to see that season tickets are a way to avoid being held hostage by the fans. But in this case the fans were 100% right and the board were wrong.

Paul, if Cox was 50-1 that was very early in the summer. By the time I went to put a bet on he was 16-1 and I didnt think it was worth it!

There was still at least 1 offering 50-1 and 2 or 3 bookies offering 40-1 a week before because I spent that week "meaning to get round to it" and have been kicking myself ever since.

I know someone who has £100 on at 33-1.

Did anyone get bigger odds than that.

Bloke who sits next to me has £20 each way at 50, or maybe it's 40 e/w. He's on for a grand if Coxy comes out top I know that. And he lumped on about week and a half before start of season if memory serves

I got 50/1. Gutted I didn't put more on it now, I was a bit skint at the time though.

Just got home from Yeovil. Utter Wank. So pissed off, wasnt even sure whether to go or not today because money is tight, thought fuck it ive gotta go - all i can say is like most people there today i wish i hadnt bothered.

What a lacklustre display, you would never have thought we were trying to fight for survival in this league. No one could control the ball, we couldnt string 2 passes together - played like strangers in fact. Goal hmmm Greer's fault or smiths? Harsh to say smith as he slipped when coming out.

Too many players on that pitch today looked substandard - how after looking good in recent weeks? Do they think they've done enough already?! If so told should be a rocket up the backside, Wilson was on the side spitting feathers just like us on the terraces!

Amankwah - is SHITE. 2nd half gave the ball away up field...Paynter bust a gut to get back and defend in the right back position, Wankbag just jogged back?!

McNamee - doesnt look interested. When will he realise when we're losing his dancing around the ball isnt what is needed? Just get the ball down and cross it. DOESNT/CANT tackle or defend

Kennedy - Looked miles out of his depth.

I cant even be bothered to do the rest

Despite being on the other side of the world I reckon that I can some it up in one word:

COMPLACENCY.

they play in league 1 for a reason-ie they aint all that.all of em have good games,but play at this level as equally they all have shite games too.anybody consistantly good will step up a level.
getting them to be more good than  shit regularly will bring success to a club at our level.

Just got back. We were pathetic. I'll read through this thread and make a proper comment later

Fucks sake. That was wank.

Paynter had a chance, but didn't place his shot well enough to beat the keeper with the pace he shot with. Cox had what looked like a good chance with a header and headed high up in the air. That was about it.

To make matters worse, Robson-Kanu looks to have fucked his hamstring, that resulted in leaving us with the midfield that was gash and prompted Wilson to bring in HRk and OTJ in the first place.

To make matters worse Yeovil plain just wanted it more and without a few smart Smith saves we could have conceeded 3 or 4.

So a bad loss, injuries to hrk and Morrison and not much else.

Oh and for the record - Greer's mistake for the goal, but not having ago and Amankwha looked lethargic and shit.

Just back as well, what a major dissapointment after the recent improvement in form.

Our players thought we would just turn up and win, they didn't bank on the other team wanting it more.

Showed once again that most of these players are gutless wankers who don't care enough.  

Agree with the sentiments that Callum looked out of his depth on the wing, Amankwah's first bad performance in a while he was poor today, Jack Smith should go in the summer hes terrible, Greer was shaky for the first time, Timlin back to inconsistent after a poor display, Nalis invisible, Paynter bit sluggish and Cox quiet apart from a massive sitter he missed second half.

Only player to come out with credit is Phil Smith who kept the score down with some key saves.

We need Wilson to work really hard this week on getting there heads back in the game as we will have to beat Crewe now.  Its very tight down the bottom and we are still in deep deep shit.

Still confident we have the right manager so hope we will have enough to take us over the finish line.

Quite a few of us got 40/1 and 50/1, myself included so can definitely vouch for that.

We were absolutely shocking all over the park.  Very difficult to pick out anyone who cared.

Kennedy is a long way off the first team and making a substitution in the 2nd half - why oh why Pook?  I know Nalis had to come off but I'd rather he'd thrown Razak on in place!

So disappointed, especially in front of so many fans - shit as our fans were - although I suppose most will argue "they had nothing to sing about".  Bottom line is that a smaller contingent further away from home is far better.

Surely the loud and proud boys helped raise the crowd?

I would say most of that was down to no roof, the atmosphere just kept falling flat when ever anyone tried to sing as you could barely hear it.  If it was a proper stand you would have probably heard people more although to be fair the players gave us barely anything to sing about.

 We were always going to lose this game...given Yeovil had never scored a league goal against us at Huish...they're just about the most shot shy home side in the league, and had only won 3 at home all season.  Throw in about 20% of the crowd being Town fans, and we've seen it all before.

A performance of the utmost incompetence, that puts us right back in the shit.  We've taken a point from Cheltnumb and Yeovil...terrible.

A good day for Quiet and Ashamed though...a very solid showing, 99.9% easily overcoming the efforts of L and P.

And I didn't miss the Castle...so not all bad.

There was nothing Loud and Proud today in my opinion.  There were streamers at the beginning but that was it. 

Gazza and Alan should have gone dressed as cowboys

I could hear Swindon much more than I could hear Yeovil on the radio, so dont beat yourselves up too much about it.

Sounds like not too much to cheer anyway.

My highlight of today was meeting STFC dave for the first time. I picked him up from within the prestigious walls of the University of Bath with high expectations - so when he came to me at half time and showed me how he'd managed to stick his hands together with a piece of chewing gum, I despaired somewhat (only joking Dave, but I had to tell this :D).

Otherwise, yeah, very shit. Very disappointing, probably best not to linger on it.

At least the bookies still believe we have the best chance of avoiding the drop!

Cheltenham 1/100
Hereford 1/10
Brighton 4/9
Yeovil 11/8
Crewe 5/2
Hartlepool 3/1
Leyton Orient 7/2
Carlisle 7/2
Northampton 7/2
Swindon 9/2



 
 
 

We had a chance today to keep a nice little gap between us and the drop line, and blew it....Yeovil v Northampton midweek, so somebody has to get points.

9 points from 12 is better than most of us thought we'd get.a loss today isn't a disaster

 On a similar note a highlight for me was the second half burger bought by ISOB...which seemed to consist of no bread roll, two burgers, sandwiching a bit of bacon, smothered in the contents of a small bottle of brown sauce. Hardcore.

Ok, now I've had my dinner I'll post a proper review...

Two players looked interested today. McNamee was running all over the park with no support and crap service, and Cox was doing something very similar. They both seemed to want the ball constantly, but the rest of the team were incapable of making space or playing an accurate pass.

Every time we got the ball forward we got stuck and had no options, we lost the ball, and somehow managed to find ourselves getting caught short at the back. I have no idea where the midfield was today.

Kennedy had a poor game, but I'd argue that Wilson should have played him LB, with Smith RB and Amankwaah on the right wing. Amankwaah was probably the worst player for us today. He looked lazy, apathetic, and generally like a Sunday League player.

We were hit hard by injuries early in the game, but that's no excuse for the lifelessness of the team today. Yeovil weren't very good, they just looked like they were actually willing to tput some effort in and for that alone they deserved the points.

Dont agree with that at all! He got the ball a fair bit and gave a shit ball to someone else or wasted it, or danced around the ball then lost it. Looked interested? You've got to be kidding

Yeovil were poor and we were worse.

Players were largly shit.

Phil Smith had a few decent saves and Ifil was well, Ifil. Come good tackles some quality defending and then hoofs into the corner which went to no one.

We gave away too much possesion.

Timlins had his 5 good games now its time for him to be utter shit for 5 games.

I hope HRK injury isnt too long term, we clearly missed him. We also missed OTJ in the middle.

Makes next weeks game with Crewe a must win. We still need 8 points and I wouldnt fancy us to pick up more than one on our travels. So have to beat Crewe and Orient.

also, Wilsons choice of subs and the use of those subs was wrong today.

Kennedy the left back at left wing
Smith the right back at left back
McNamee the left winger on the right wing
Amankwaah the right wing back at right back

To me Smith to right back, Kennedy to left back, Amankwaah to right wing and McNamee to left wing made more sense.

Odd, that we've had Marshall on the bench alot recently and the one time we need a sub winger he is no where to be seen!?

....and when you're 1-0 down with 15 minutes to go in a relegation 6 pointer and you can only use one sub out of the following 3. Peter Brezovan, Michael Pook and Hamdi Razak. Michael Pool is easily the most illogical choice of them all. Seriously, what the fuck? The kid is non-league standard and a midfielder. That was fucking pointless, just like the whole of today really.

Personal highlight was Jayohaitchen suddenly realising Rich and Si are brothers....

i thought we missed OJT today as well. Nallis does not seem up to pace. Yeovil were there for the taking and we did not turn up today. Amakwaah was the worst player on the pitch. Also Dv walked past ya earlier in the ground. liking the beard.

I can't really add much than has already been posted. We were shit - clearly didn't want to win and Yeovil did.

Personally I thought that Paynter and Cox gave their usual effort but the rest of the team shouldn't have bothered turning up. Good turn out by the Town fans, although quiet but then it's rather difficult to raise any kind of noise for a bunch of cunts that clearly showed they couldn't be bothered.

Yeovil though not great, fought for every ball and should have won by more. I'm so pissed off

Ahhhh one of those games (we've had many of them this season) where we simply didn't raise our game enough and show that we wanted to win. We badly missed OTJ which is what worried me before the game if i'm honest. Losing HRK and Morrison was also a huge blow and we showed nothing throughout the game really. Just goes to show that when Cox and Paynter get the service they will do the job. Today they didn't get the service and although Yeovil were just as shit in some ways we deserved to lose.

I won't be losing sleep over it. We have to win 3 of our last 6 and 3 of them are winnable home games. Today was just one of them games. Still think we'll stay up.

what a total let down today was. we were shit, not one player had a decent game. amankwaah shouldnt be playing professional football, he simply cant control the ball, the very basics of the game. i still  cant understand how jack smith gets near the first team, an average conference player at best. nalis looked totally dead in the middle, and although played a few decent passes around, chased shadows for most of the game. i feel sorry for cox to be playing in such a poor team, he got no service today at all. if he leaves over the summer, then fair play to him. we really missed kanu going off, as he looks like the only bright spark we have. macca is too lightweight and is obsessed with stepovers and has little end result. phil smith kept us in it today with a few decent saves. i was also totally disappointed with us fans today as well. although a good turn out, we were silent from the first to the last minute. dont blame it on the lack of a roof or the shit performance, we all stood there numb for the entire game which really disappointed me. what a total let down, i was really looking forward to today.

It even got its own song in the pub!

people are beng critical of our fans today,but you guys were part of it.
i might go next week, but if the weather is alright then i probably wont bother.i think i may well drift away from the stfc experience in the near future like i did in the mid nineties for a few years(only attended the odd game during those years)
i find it rather shit at the moment for a variety of reasons, and the motivation has all but disappeared to go to games.

Some of us were trying but its an open roof so everything just goes up.

Hard to keep an atmosphere in there.

Anyone got the number of fans we took?

we must have taken a fair few...i think the away end holds 1800 or so, which to me seemed fairly full. but out of that id say only 100-200 tried to make a go of it. today should have been OUR day, on the back of 3 good wins id expected a display full of confidence, but it seems we are back to square one

We're not back to square one at all. We've won 3 of the last 4 FFS. Get a grip.

Phew, I thought it was just me feeling like this...

I would rather just completely blank that 'football match' out of today's activities.

The rest was a great laugh.

Its alarmingly common.

I do think next season will be better though.

I really hope that was just a bad day at the office.

Phil Smith - I don't really know whether he slipped for the goal or not, but he was left totally exposed by Greer not dealing with a long ball. Made some decent saves second half. And if the grey haired cunt in front of me slagged him off any more, I would have twatted him. 7.
Amankwaah - utter utter gash today. Should have worn a green shirt. I would have red carded him to get the fucker off the pitch today as we'd have been better without him. 0. (and that's generous).
Jack Smith - only slightly better than Wanky. Offered P Smith no options when playing from the back. 3.
Greer - mistake led to the goal, and he suffered for it. Poor game. 5.
Morrison - crocked by that cunt Forbes early. We were OK up till then. Hope its not too serious.
Nalis - who? jogged around a bit, but fuck all else. Shoot him and use him for dog food (its the French way isn't it?). 3.
Timlin - couldn't pass to a red shirt today. Poor game. 5.
HRK - didn't really do much, but we looked completely useless after he went off injured. 6.
McNamee - ran around a lot, lots of stepovers, quick feet, no end product. Playing on the right meant he was cutting inside all the time. Can't tackle and left Wanky exposed all the time (which they exploited big time). 5.
Paynter - little service, couple of opportunities, touch of a rapist at times which meant the ball kept coming back. Tried hard, little output. 6.
Cox - missed a glorious header with about 10 to play. Ran around a lot but nowt came off today. 6.

Ifil - well, just Ifil. Some good moments, some bad. Generally did OK and was better than Greer today. 6.
Kennedy - lost on the LW and offered no threat. A lot of the crowd got on his back too which IMO was off.He was poor though, but to pick on a young lad thrown in was not on. Wilson got it wrong with the positioning, and someone made the point earlier that it was an odd formation (DV I think). 4.
Pook - not on for long thankfully. Ran around a bit, did fuck all. 3.

I have to say I was expecting much more. The fans weren't all that today - poor effort IMO, very few songs, no sustained chanting and all I heard after 15 minutes was moaning.

Good to meet a few of you yesterday (jj - sound geezer, talk talk and I think STFC Dave in the pub, and probably more). Just feel disappointed today.

I'm 0 for 3 this season, and the good news is I'm not going to any more games this season.

agree with everything you say here!

My head hurts. I made lots of new friends.

Sorry about that.

I think a few of us agreed that the only positive of yesterday was being able to smoke at half time. It was very reminiscent of Histon actually, because the fans were also quiet and the team couldn't string more than 2 passes together at times.

I just hope Wilson gives the players the bollocking they deserve and they bounce back to make amends.

I loved the fact he thought it was a big joke on him.

Your right. we were shit, we made the tactical decision which failed miserably, knew there was a few singing on the left side of the stand so we went to the right, but no one sang. So we tried starting songs and it died a death, Along with no roof. In all was probably a watered down version of a few yeras ago with the streamers etc. Accept any criticisms. The performance on the pitch didn't help.


Anyway a good day away on the mini bus including singing (or killing) some classic songs on the way home. Went back into the arrow pub after the game to watch the England match, had some food and a kick about outside, was a good day apart from the football. Few people saw my tattoo and said it was better than the picture made out which is true IMO.. Only downside from what I am told is Alan's back window got put through on his car after he dropped the mini bus off. Not sure of the details where it was parked but.... still a shit thing to happen after a good day with mates.

I quite enjoyed it.

Yesterday just shows how poor our fringe players our imo

haha, not my finest hour.

The match was awful. The abuse amankwaah is getting is a bit out of order imo, he's been one of our better consistent players over the past few months. Yes he had a very poor game, but he's league one for a reason. And as bad as the players were, and they were, a lot has to rest on wilsons tactical decisions, in particular his blind faith in a rigid 442 that didn't look like working all match.

It was always going to be a struggle to get any sort of atmosphere of that terrace, just like it was last time.

I really don't know how the fuck I managed to drive home today, I still feel a bit pissed now. If I'd stayed out with you I'd probably be nearly dead.

Ummm, I probably wouldn't advertise that on a football forum. Bit too late now though.

nice quote for prosperity too Si

Why? I know it's wrong, but if you mean the OB could read it they'd be pretty hard pushed to prosecute without any evidence.

Just thought you may get a lot of negative reaction. The Dell Boy threads spring to mind and of course my infamous one.

Anyone know why they had a flower display in the bogs?

I think it was all to do with the "Loud and Proud Gay Pride" thingy

Good to meet you at last too, Coxy.  :thumb:

Only got updates by constantly updating my blackberry in Madrid, much to the ire of Mrs Flash.

Disappointed...i expected a draw to be honest.

Will we ever do things the easy way?

(Except the Div 2 Championship season)

Since when did that L&P happy-clappy bullshit start up again then? I thought those plastic cunts had fucked off ages ago. Please don't tell me we've got to put up with their tamborine banging and Cliff fucking Richard playing on the sound system for the rest of the season...

Twas a shit game indeed on Saturday. I don't think any of our players covered themselves in glory against a truly cunting awful bunch of Wurzels who deserve to be in the fucking basement. Mind, despite our recent form and results we were just a shite as them, which is a major fucking worry with only a few games to go.

Six more points should be enough. Gulp.

I don't think I've ever heard Cliff on the PA. But Dylan and a bunch of tambourines would be sweet as. I might even ask the club if they could do it for the Rovers game.

for posterity too!!

I can't imagine how bad Dylan's harmonica would sound overr the PA at the CG.

What rubbish highlights-dont show any of Cox's three missed sitters!Highlight of the day-Herthabs mugshot in the programme,"44 you're having a laugh".

Would the Byrds version of Mr Tambourine man be an acceptable compromise?

That would probably work better, easy to clap along to, although we'd still manage to do it out of time with the song.

I think "Desolation Row" might be more suitable

I know. I'm often told I look years younger............

Or perhaps " Not Dark Yet " ? - i.e "it's not dark yet, but it's getting there..........................

....or "Everything is Broken" as in our dream of lge 1 football next season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvV2ALV0bg

35 to 42 seconds probably sums up the way a Town fan has felt for a while.