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would be churlish not to start this, will be touch and go if i make kick off, totally dependant on traffic as i cant leave til midday.

Really hope the people of swindon are starting to notice and we get a 10,000 + crowd today.

I'm almost as interested in the attendance figure as what the final score will be. It has to be 10,000+ on an Easter Monday when we've just dicked Leeds 3-0 away and gone second doesn't it? Anything less would be abysmal and embarassing and frankly, not what the players and management deserve.

I predict it will be be tough and possibly a bit scrappy with Trannies 'parking the bus'.

I will go for 2-0..a couple of late(ish) goals from Austin and Paynter (yet again!)

come on swindon public "lets be having you"

4-1.

Paynter hatrick and one from Charlie.

Crowd of 9,679

Any idea what time the ticket office opens?
There's fuck all on the website about bank holiday opening hours, no one's answering the phone and I want to get a ticket next to us for my nephew....

Same as last year 3-1, i've been hearing the woodwork squeaking, will be over 10k today.

This may have been posted already but I was just doing a bit of 'Stattoeing' and since the 31st October (which was when Billy really started scoring, he only got one before that and Charlie made his first start in the next league game on the 21st November) Austin and Paynter have scored 36 goals in 25 league games. There have only been five games in that time where neither has scored. That's a bit special.

 :hmmm: surely we can get 10k today i know a few people going to get tickets this morning i'll say 10,243 & a tough 3-0 win maybe stephen darby to get his first town goal as we're playing tranmere ?...... & the deadly duo getting the other 2 see you all there lets hope its not too nailbiting

It would be easy for our team not to be in the right frame of mind for this today.

They beat Norridge friday, and yes they were lucky. But theyve had an extra day to recover, and their morale will be sky high.

I think we will scrape through this one today. We need to. The competition for the 2nd place is red hot, whoever wins 5 of the next 7 games will be the team to get the automatic spot.

I wouldn't disagree with any of that.

I can't go  :no: Got to work, I very rarely miss home games (this will be about my 4/5th in about 5 years)
Made sure I got next monday off though :)

I think 3-1 Austin (2) , Paynter.
8943 Crowd (267 away fans)

OS says in excess of 8k. Less than 10k would be an insult to the team, so come on Swindon, get out and support your team!

As for the score, Tranmere are crap away from home and have only scored 9 times!!! But then we said the same about Rovers, so..... a very close game and 2-1 to the Town.

I'm bringing a work colleague today who supports the Town but doesn't get to many games, lets hope he catches the bug again :)

I can't see us getting over 10,000 fans. Happy to be wrong though.

We need to be careful in this game, Tranmere will be no easy game, with them comming off the back of a 3-1 win agains the league leaders. Our confidence will be high after destroying Lids, so im going for a 2-0 win. Austin with both

att 8,961

All I will say is that virtually everyone has Easter bank holliday monday off work.

There is no park football.

Surely the fans can generate some momentum now?

And dont forget that a 10,000 crowd is almost a home sell out (unless they have the option of opening up the bank if the rest is full).

Just read on a Rovers forum that they haven't lost an away game that hasn't been played on a saturday (this season).. We'll change that  :D

 This thread needs to be above the Leeds thread....that's history, refocus on a very difficult game today.

 Bump

I'm going 3-0 Billy 2 and Charlie

Sorry Reg. My fault. I just posted in that thread! I don't really think it matters too much what we're thinking about though. It's all about the players and management and they're all going to be focused on today I'm sure.

 KOT.... :cunt:

1-0 to town - with a goal from midfield.

9,500 crowd

3-1 town win, with them scoring whilst we're 2-0 up to make it an edgy second half :)

I think we'll edge it 3-2.

Was looking forward to making a game today, but can't make it. :(

the lads should be bang up for this.
2-0 comfortable win for us

Why can't you make it ben?

I might still be able to. But it's going to be close.

Just hope they didnt have too many saturday night.

A win is important to consolidate second place.

We should be full of confidence after saturday but so will Trannies after beating Norwich.

I reckon there will be just under 10,000.

 Bit of a wind today...I've seen many a game at the CG at this time of year where the wind blows over the top of the TE and makes for a scrappy affair...we've proved we can win scrappy away, but will the mongs manage to keep off the player's backs, if it starts to go a bit wrong?

Answer...no, it was about this time last season that Macklin was abused ,a 17 year old kid playing his maybe second or third game...cunts.

Any win today would be massive....

nervous about today than I've been for a very long time and a feeling i'm going to have every game we're in second. Let's hope I'm a nervous wreck for 5 weeks. 8105 people, 0-0...

1-1 draw with Paynter scoring...after the lord mayors show....9,211 crowd.

after the last few games and our position in the table it would be nice for the moaners to keep of the players backs if things dont go our way today. unlikely though  >:(

be nice to have as much singing as we did at Leeds too.

you reeeeds!!!

9,374

4-0 Town...Austin with a treble....just over 9,000 fans.

hopefully it'll be like after the Horse of the Year show '69 .....3-1 town

I think we will do well today. Solid at the back, Midfield controlling the game and the 2 front boys running riot and generally having a laugh.

3-0 to the Swindon, Austin, Paynter and Ward.

Attendance 8750 as Tranmere will only bring a handful of fans with them.

I wish I had more faith in the people of Swindon, but I don't think we'll break 10k, which is a fucking travesty after what the lads have achieved this season. GUTTED that I'm at work. I'm a wreck listening to the radio. Gonna be tough today I think, but we should win. Hope the atmosphere is good, calling all of you that went to Leeds: bring that atmosphere today. Show the rest of them how it's done.

YOOOOOU REDS.

just got back from the ground as i wanted to beat the rush and get tickets for colchester.plenty of people about and i had to queue for over half an hour as only 2 people were serving.one of which was a woman who kept cocking up what people wanted which didn't help.
if we make the play offs then i hope they sort something out with regard to buying tickets.

oh and saw charlie austin in cavvy coop on my way back

I hope we don,t end up going behind it,s too light to try the broken floodlight routine.

Yeovil vs Leeds  12.30 kick off

Colchester vs Millwall 13.00 kick off

Let's see how we react as a team and fans to the results from both of these games.

Come on Town! Big,big effort this afternoon.

The ball is well and truly in our court from now on in....win every game and we will go up automatically (only Naarwich can say that too), take each game at a time and lets win them all as they are all winable.

Right mindset and we will go up.

2 teams feeling confident after Friday/Saturday's results, but more so in our case as I reckon Tranny players know deep down that they had a big helping hand vs Naaaarch.

As Reg said with the conditions, and taking into account Tranny's position, I can see it being fairly untidy with us being in control and bringing home the bacon.

Leeds 1 up with a fluke. Wankers.

Damnn Leeds 1 - 0 up..

0 - 2 :@

Yeovil you useless tossers :D

Yeovil cannot defend set pieces.

Leeds weren't that bad in the 1st half and I think they were always gonna beat Yeovil. We just have to make sure we're up for today's game - players and crowd alike.

Sod what Leeds are doing!! So long as we do what we need to do, they stay behind us.

Simple.

Spot on JJ - fuck Leeds, fuck Millwall, it's in our hands to win automatic promotion now. 100% behind the lads today and anyone starts whining or getting players backs, spark em out before the first moan is out their mouths

That's fair enough but it doesn't half help of the teams around us can drop some points and I will continue to keenly follow what's going on with Leeds/Millwall/Charlton etc...I don't know if there is an 'etc' really..but any way...

...you probably won't be in the slightest bit interested that Yeovil have just pulled a goal back :toocool:

Yeovil have pulled 1 back. 2-1 now.

COME ON YEOVIL!!!!

Never thought I'd say that ???

One change for Town,  JFL out Sheehan in

no surprises there :)

LJF back to the bench, Sheehan in.

Feel for the lad tbh, but he'll be ok.

Got the commentary on the radio and just did a little dance, nearly choked on my lunch cheering :)

Ooooh.

Didn't realise that there was a game on today. Fantastic.

BASTARDS!! OFF THE LINE!! >:(

Col U 1-1 Millwall latest

id love a yeovil goal now

I would literally piss myself.

id probably shit myself

Yeovil should have just scored

yep been all over leeds in the last 15 minutes, looks like it could be over now though

It is now ::)

leeds do not worry me one bit! they are rubbish!

Great story about Salisbury turning up in our team bus :)

That did make me chuckle to myself, talk about rubbing it in!

millwall winning

They are???

Win and parity is restored. Don't worry.

Loved that story about Salisbury turning up on our bus. Brilliant!

They are!

Yes they are. Stupid Sky website still hasn't updated ::)

Makes no difference if we win though :)

True of course. Always nice to get some help though!

World still has it as 1-1 as well.

Updated now

Come on Town

COME ON SWINDON!!!!!!!!!!

Don Rogers and Town End both 'packed' according to Hodgetts.

Good.

Got home late from Yeovil, got lost so can't get to the game. Come on Town!

get in! OG!

Own goal 1-0 Town!

Yay.

Own goal.

THAT WILL DO -COME ON SWINDON

Early goal. Just what we needed..and continuing a nice and very welcome tradition of Tranmere OG's at the County Ground 8)

John Salako's reporting at the CG for anyone who could care less

Hope they're wrong about Dougie. If he's hurt, get Easty on.

Stockport have equalised at Norwich for whom McNamee scored the first goal

keep it up lads

This will do so far, keep the pressure up.

Lets hope its just a knock on Dougy.

Quiet on here....seems the rest of the world is there. Come on town. How's Douglas?

Grant Holt has put Norwich back in front from a cross from McNamee!

Yep very quiet, still that's a good sign

'That' Broomes goal was against Birmingham, not Huddersfield.

One more needed to win it me thinks

Indeed it was back in 97 a 3-1 win, fantastic goal, one of the best I have ever seen, as good as Strouds against Everton.

Goota be a penalty

What's this?

PENALTY

I saw that from here in Southampton

Penalty to Swindon, red card for Tramere, punching Austin supposedly?

RED CARD WOOP

RED CARD FO)R TRANMERE

And a penalty

red card and a pen to Swindon!

Gornell off.

Bit of pushing at corner and he's just punched Austin? Bit odd.

Paynter 2-0!

2-0

Woop

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS COME ON BILLY

I am in a Paynter wonderland!

Get in townnnnnnnnnnnnnnn :)

Lets get another 2-3 to help goal difference

Indeedy dee!

wooop

Very strange..John Salako didn't have any more idea what happened than Vic Morgan ???

Still. Who cares?

get in

Think with 30 minutes to go we should bring on Nouble.  Rest either Painter or Austin.  His pace should create a few chances

Ruck!

Get in Town

Charlton winning 1-0

Walsall 2-0 up

Radio Five Live, commenting on the Charlton score said it was a vital goal with both Millwall & Leeds winning away today!  No mention of any other clubs in the promotion frame who might be in with a shout!  Still, like many of the fans glad we're still not registering. I'd settle for being the 'invisible' runners up in League One & gaining automatic promotion with other much bigger clubs having to settle for the play-offs.

I am happy to be the "invisible team"!

Any idea of the crowd numbers at the County Ground yet?

No mention on the radio as yet to attendance figures.

was like it before the game too. They even managed to mention huddersfield add not us.

Close by Greer from a corner.

They're all challenging for a home tie in the playoffs though, autos are sewn up!

Austin 3-0!

Thanks Charles.

Lovely stuff  :)

Austin is fucking ace! 3-0!

Fucking love you Charlie

We love you town wooooooooooooooooooooo :beers:

like someone else has said, now lets try and sort this goal difference out. we want 6!!

I was off starting a film. What was the goal like?

NICE ONE CHARLIE, NICE ONE SON.

When you've lost at Hartlepool its better then when you have won ??????

Bring on Nouble

Isn't it just.

Well played Billy boy

7-1 on aggregate, for those keeping score at home.

How some leeds still have that attitude is beyond me. They are nothing more than a League 1 club, the sooner they all realise this the better it will be for them

That made me  ??? as well!!

9,495 crowd.

I wouldn't have made it squeeze over 10,000 then

Not unless you got 504 mates ;)

I couldn't agree more!  How can they have a website entitled 'We are Champions, Champions of Europe'.  Even the great Leeds United team that Revie put together never won the European Cup but they are sooo up themselves it's not true.

They are in League One because that is what the results of the eleven players on the pitch deserve.  You don't get bonus points for having big crowds or modern stadia.

Wrong thread. Old news. Bitter cunts.

Johnaton Douglas MOM

Just noticed - at the moment we've got the same goal difference as free scoring Huddersfield!

Will people please stop talking about Leeds ####ing United.

Oh well, that's just about OK I suppose :shrug:

I can't..I'm obsessed with them :headhurts:

Yeah not great but I guess most of them were Swindon fans as tranny never take more than about 100 away.

Announcement to not run on the pitch, if that is counter proudctive I don't know what is!

FFS Vic!! >:(

A little premature, maybe.  Are there hoardes of fans hell bent on celebrating that we're 2nd after 40 games?  Bizarre.

Pox are 1-0 up

It is fucking annoying he gets so excited over nothing.

I bet no one had any intention whatsoever of running on the pitch...since making that announcement it'll be hmmmmm :hmmm:

Think I'll go have a San Miguel or two to celebrate in a mo

Poole 3-1 up against Hamworthy

Yeah, and when we were 3-0 up at Leeds with 5 mins to go he's saying, "Ooooh, it's a funny sort of lead, 3-0" like he's really nervous and we're going to throw it away..get a grip man!

I do like him though in spite of all that. He's a proper fan.

Job done.

A 'routine' 3-0 win..not been able to say that in many a long season. :toocool:

Its good to see Nouble looking threatening, I think it sounds like he's doing well at the mo. Unlucky in hitting the post, dont think it'll be overly long until he bags one for us.

That'll do.

Well played swindon

Yeah I like Vic Morgan. I was shouting bastard! at the radio when it sounded like Nouble scored (hit the post)

Job done today. Well done lads. Hangover? What hangover?

Great result, time for a few now

Looking forward to Walsall now



Check this out guys hope you don't mind me sticking it on here

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,38425.msg808151.html#msg808151

Great result, no after the lord mayors show problems for us today!

Well done Swindon, you did us all proud again!

Salisbury 0 Oxford 1

Booooo! Stupid Salisbury >:(

Meh! who cares really? ::)

good win, on to the next one! well done lads!

Just got back. That was 3 points and 3 goals in cruise control.

Lucas should've brought out a book/magazine to read at half time as he had nothing to do.

And is Nouble the new Hutchison?

Never really got going, all too easy.  Own goal, penalty, sending-off sounds like an exciting match.  Truth was Lucas had only one save in the entire game and try as they may even the Town End couldn't really get going.  A routine, easy three points.

Great result. One game closer to the finish line!

And long may it continue! 8)

No complaints about the result and that own goal was hilarious.

Atmosphere was disappointing tho given our league position and the scoreline.

spot on.was all a bit flat really, as tranmere were dire.
still onwards and upwards

It shows how far we have come that people can be a bit disappointed after an easy 3-0 home win.

not disapointed at all.it was just so easy today

Just saw Morrison at the train station...

Maybe he was getting a train...

Wilson sounded like he was pissed off with the attendance when interviewed on the radio. I thought it was very dissapointing.

Routine win, bring on Colchester away.

Three points.  Job done.

It's a shame that none of the competition slipped up, but we're a game closer to the end of the season.  As long as we match the results of Leeds, Charlton and Millwall, we'll be there.

I'm not in the slightest bit surprised it was a bit flat, I didn't really expect anything else. That's just how it goes.

Getting the win was everything. And it wasn't too bad a crowd. Glad it wasn't any lower though.

"Swindon player in using First Grest Western Shocker"

I can see it all over the papers tomorrow..........




 :D

There's not much room for any more, unless the Bank is opened....which should happen for the remaining games, for a tenner...

Maybe trainspotting is his hobby....a noble pursuit for any young man..

Yeah I think they will open for Walsall and Brentford, can't really see either of those sides needing more than the Arkells?

How many do you reckon we'll have at Colchester?

Would like to think we'll take over 1000 but I expect around 6/700 to make the trip. Any idea how many tickets we have for it?

that was routine and easy.

I doubt we will have an easier game all season.

Angry Shouty Man was back today, only the second time I've seen him all season - the other time was Hartlepool.

We won and he didnt even shout any abuse, not even for Jon-Paul McGovern who must have killed his mother last season, the way he went on.

That is one of the most boring games of football I have witnessed in a long time. Tranmere offered absolutely nothing with 11 men, let alone 10, and it was a total walk in the park for our lads. Had we really gone for it and shown some cutting edge I reckon we could have put a few more past them but the play was just pedestrian at times because that was all it needed to be. Thoroughly unentertaining, but a 3-0 win is always a good result so I'll try and say something positive...

Douglas had total control in the middle. Greer and Cuthbert rarely looked troubled. Lucas must have been desperate for a deck chair he had so little to do. Lovely goal from Austin, with a great ball from JP to set it up. We were just far too good for them and that's all there is to it. Their number 5 was alright but the rest looked hopeless.

Oh, and goodness knows what the penalty (and red card) was for but we'll take it.

I was thinking earlier who i'd vote for to win player of the season but I cannot pick one player alone.

Agreed, good post. Let's hope common sense prevails..

apparently Gornell stamped down the back of Austins calf/ankle as the corner was about to be taken.

Not that I saw it myself.

Apparently the sly fucker raked his studs down Charlie's calf. 999 times out of a thousand they don't get given which is why the bastards do it. Fair play to the lino for spotting it.

Result never in doubt. Bring on Colchester.

Very easy win that, Tranmere easily the worst side i've seen this season, and that includes Southend who i thought looked like a pub team.

Surely the ball must have been in play, as a penalty was awarded ? Presumably the ball was in the air.

Was angry shouty man back?! I didn't even realise he was there, we must be doing well.

Was a dull game. We never got out of second gear, and in all honesty never had to. Not sure what the tranny defender was thinking for the oggy. He just sort of ran into the ball from what i saw.

Only one real bit of skill in the whole match was Austins goal. Great touch, great composure, great finish. He's rather good that ked.

The lino flagged as soon as the corner was taken, I thought it was because the ball was not in the D, then I realised he was indicating a penalty.  Didn't see the incident.

sign of a good team that - didnt play great but 3-0 win -take that from now til end of season - never gonna reach the heights of saturday - was always gonna be a hangover day today - onwards& upwards cant wait til saturday !

Who the fook is angry shouty man? I love the description tho

great result today, we were in control all through the game.
they had no chance 10 or 11 players, very average team with no attacking threat.

great goal for austin, darby done well and its only a matter of time before Sheehan and Douglas get a goal!

thought the atmosphere was poor considering 9,500 crowd, TE/DRS wilsons red and white army was poor today  :no: Tranmere fans had a drum which was annoying  :headhurts:
agree with others the bank should be opened. id happily spend a few games there.

seeing the league table come on the tv in the CGH was enjoyable for me  ;D

good times as they say! even treated myself to the blue shirt today! (probably be a tenner next week but oh well!)

looking forward to the Colchester game..........

i got my Colchester ticket after the game and there was quite a big queue with most people getting their Colchester tickets too.

anything less than a 1000 would be very poor imo.

were in a great position now.

I'm still pinching myself looking at the league table..... this is ridiculous!  :beers:

angry shouty man, is a man who shouts very angrily.

he had a season ticket around us last season and would shout the most stupid things, always negative as well. He was never happy.

He missed two games and we won both back to back!! then he came back and we were rubbish again.

He seemed to have a deep hatred for all things Jon-Paul McGovern, on occasions McGovern was out injured and still getting stick from this man!!

Aljofree was another one of his favourites, once moaned at for not getting the ball back to centre quickly enough (!!) whilst the Huddersfield players were still very much celebrating in our half anyway!

He didnt come back this season, great - then we saw him for the Hartlepool game and we lost. This is the first time I've seen him since and I was worried!

He also looks a bit like shrek!

Easiest 3 points we will get this year but you still have to put the performance in which is exactly what we did.

Be interesting to see the match stats for today (Dave)

More than happy with a 3-0 win to seal 6 pts from the Easter weekend without getting out of second gear. Savage must be one of the most hilariously bad forwards I've seen in a long time. And having skimmed the last couple of pages, whoever said "Is Nouble the new Hutchinson" (saw it, but can't be bothered to go back and find it) is a tit.

Testify 8)

Haha he does!

Looking at the run ins for Leeds and Millwall, we need Huddersfield to take points from Millwall, and Charlton from Leeds.

How ironic would it be if a Rovers getting a result at Elland Road on the last day sorted us out....?!

What an odd game today was. We looked comfortable without the front two being their normal imposing self. Then they score an own goal, and the lino gives a penalty and sending off for ??? and the game is over. Nice take by Austin for the third too then it was a training ground match.

I have just about started to believe we will make the playoffs now. To be in the automatic places hunt is unreal. Long may it continue.

i,ll take 3 more training sessions

at home that is

If the weathers nice it's a great place to be, can remember being in that end one year think it was against Leicester, anyhow Kevin Poole was in goal for them and think it was 0-0 or 1-1 and the sun was out, fantastic, but my memory ain't so great.

Angry shouty man hysterical, tho the San Miguel could be the reason I find it so funny

I cant remember a more routine win, and the fact that no one got out of second gear can only be good thing with 4 games in 9 days

Ideal game after the Leeds high...we've now reached the magic 40 games and the PO's is mor or less certain...for the next 4 after Norwich. Bit surprised that Charlton have managed to regroup.  Udders have a big pressure game tomorrow....lose and they open the way for possibly Soton and Rovers.

2nd could now go to any one of the 4.

 :nod: after 1st game gills away this was more than a  pipe dream &  its fuckin brilliant aint had this much fun 4 ages - dont u love being the under dog -i do !

Absolutely the perfect game! I'd settle for another 6 of those dull easy victories!

Charlton have hardly had a mention recently, but in truth they are just as dangerous as Milwall, and possibly more so than Leeds in the automatic chase.

Regarless of what we do (which is all that counts) there are some interesting games coming up amongst the top 6

Friday, 16 April 2010 - Huddersfield v Millwall, 19:45
Sat 17th April Charlton v Norwich, 15:00
Sat May 1st Charlton v Leeds United, 15:00

Possibly the worst game of football I've seen this season. The sending off and penalty / 2nd goal totally killed the game off and for some reason seemed to take the atmosphere out of the ground as well - it was like a morgue after that. In the 2nd half we weren't that bothered about scoring any more and were happy playing keep ball while Tranmere looked like they had far better things to do with their time. If we lose out on goal difference at the end of the season it will be due to games like this that we should have won by 5 or more goals but failed to finish the job off properly.

Having said that, it was another perfect professional display and we're back to 2nd so good times. But its just weird, having gone to the Leeds game and been on top of the world ever since, having gone today I now feel a bit meh.

Very disappointing to not get over 10k at the game. Though I'm sure it was partly due to the win at Leeds and ending up 2nd surprising a lot of people and with it being a bank holiday weekend they didn't have much of a chance to get their arse in gear to get to the game. Pity our next game is live on TV as that means another crap attendance.

A 3-0 win can't possibly be the worst game of the season

Charlton have a very experienced squad and Shelvey only came back into their starting eleven today.

Saints vs Charlton at St.Mary's next saturday could be very interesting.

A 3-0 win can't possibly be the worst game of the season

A 3-0 win can't possibly be the worst game of the season

As we know some people are never happy  :badmood:

Pretty certain the ball doesn't have to be in play. I'm sure I saw something similar a year or so ago on TV, the ball had gone our for a goal kick then for some reason the keeper runs up to someone and decks them - red card and penalty.

Though today the ball was in play, I thought the linesman had flagged for the ball going out of play at first until he put the flag across his chest. I swear to god the only person in the entire ground that saw it was the linesman. There wasn't the slightest reaction from any of the players - Austin included. Very strange. Will be interesting to see the highlights.

I think we've discussed before, jonny has expectation challenges. Probably from watching too much prem/CL on his super-big telly with his super-big virgin/sentanta/espn subscription

Neither is Dave's Blackberry by the look of it again  ;D

I think he was hoping if he posted three times in front of a mirror, he might be able to "summon" jonny :)

"Who is the fairest of them all?"  :)

Me too, I feel like we've lost! Leeds was such a great game and our fans were superb. I felt embarrassed by our support in the last 20 minutes - not a fucking sound! And if you start singing they look at you like you're an alien. They should ban everyone over 50 from the stadium, old moaning fuckers  8)

 :nod: reckon johnny 72 is right about exeter att be surprised if its more than 7k

If an alien had watched the 2nd half they'd describe the game of football to their alien mates as "21 humans stood around scratching their arses for 45 minutes". Either you lot didn't go to the game or you were too pissed to take in the 2nd half properly (I had the same problem at Leeds).

I can't decide whether Jonny's just a massive cock or if he's doing it for a reaction.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  still dont really know wot happened now - take it tho - very confusing         

How about both!
It wasn't exactly Arsenal Vs Barcalona, but I would much prefer to go and watch us tonk a team 3-0 at home in what is being described as a "routine" win, then watch a great end to end game of football that we lose 1-0.

we did a thoroughly professional job today. Any team who wears a kit like that deserves to lose. Any bunch of fans who have a drum and gather around it like a bunch of gayers deserve to lose. Any team who play us deserve to lose.
We got 3 points, no injuries, a clean sheet, no cards and a goal each for Paynter and Austin and a classic little og to boot. 
Not avery exciting match but we all moan when we shade it hanging on - today was over by half time.
Nouble put in an interesting cameo - he really could be the new Onion Bhaji.

BBC Radio Five Live's sports report headlines for League 1 at 5pm.

"Leeds Utd are back to winning ways with a win at Yeovil.Wins for the other sides at the top as well"

We still seem to be under their radar when it comes to coverage.

Good, may it continue until we've finished the job.

 Personally I love routine, stress free, 3-0 wins.  I thought today  was ace...now for  :beers:

Very similar to Barry Corr's sending off a couple of years ago against Swansea for 'raking' but I think that time the ref spotted it.

Completely agree, i cant understand why anyone would think any different.

I look forward to the 5live headline when we seal auto "Fuck me, where did they come from?"

On the way into the ground I heard Vic Morgan interviewing Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes (prefer Jacqui Oatley myself) off the BBC's Football League Show at the game so be interesting to see what is on there tonight. John Salako was covering for SSN. So we are getting a bit more attention gradually

Nothing wrong with that-stress free games are good for me.JPM MOTM for me and Nouble looked a bit shit,I thought.Another unbelievably top class finish from C C Austin(so good they named him twice)

We had that on Soccer Saturday when Jeff Stelling went through the tables.

It was...'And second is....Swindon !!!'. All shock and astonishment.

i agree with this

I will take own goals, easy penalties, ten man opposition and walk in the park games each match until the end of the season to be honest.

Fully agree TT.

I've still not forgotten or forgiven Jacqui Oatley for her reporting of our league cup game
against Wolves.She described it as "totally boring".

As a self confessed Wolves fan,she had been expecting them to smash 5 or 6 goals past us.

Or "Championship relegation favourites Swindon promoted to the Championship".

Like we care.

In the Legends Lounge before the game today I've never heard another team's goal cheered so much as when Yeovil scored!

I was chatting about football with a non Town fan today who said,"Wouldn't it be good if Swindon could get
to the Championship".I agreed,but had to point out that we had been an established CC side under Macari,
Ossie and Hoddle and had won 2 Wembley play-off finals.How quickly people forget.

The last 10 yrs have done so much damage to the name and reputation of STFC.At last we're putting things right
on and off the pitch and at such a fast rate.Onwards and upwards!

The first three seasons that I watched saw us as a 'Championship'/Division Two side...so I still tend to think of that as our natural home.  Naive/plain wrong...yep.  But that's the way I still see it.

Good performance today. Tranmere looked like they may have had one too many beers over the weekend after the Norwich result - aside from the first 5 minutes they just didn't want to play.

Bit of a shame we couldn't get more goals for our goal difference but I don't think that would settle a position at this stage. Glad we didn't have to over-exert ourselves and Austin is clearly up to the same fitness levels as the rest of the squad :)

I started watching Town in 1990 so I also think of us as a 'Championship' side, equal to the likes of Portsmouth, Watford and the like. I guess it's called Leeds Syndrome  :D

Jeez! Keep up will you?? 8)

yeah, I know. But my brian (sic) won't accept it. I keep thinking we'll balls it up somehow. But now we have an 11 point gap with 6 to go. And this team seems to want it.

A win next week pretty much confirms play offs as we would have a 14 point gap with 15 to play for

Talk about under the radar. I think we are actually fucking invisible. Great.


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I think they're doing for autos what we're doing for play offs Talk Talk, wouldn't read that much into it.

Ah ok, I see what you mean. On the other hand...

http://www.youtube.com/user/STFCxCrispy - All 3 Goals

Right, if the corner hadn't been taken it couldn't have been a foul.  The ball would not have been in play, a requirement for a foul.  If that had been the case the red card would have been awarded for misconduct with the start of play an indirect free kick where the offense took place.  All that said, who gives a fuck, the Tranmere player tried to hurt Charlie.

The flag was waved as soon as Sheehan took his kick. My first thought was he had looped the ball out of play (which would have been clever considering he's left footed and the corner was taken from the right of goal); the lino then put the flag across his chest, I didn't see what happened in the box though.

Ball in play, end of...

Correct

Just the way i like it...but unbelievable all the same!

Anyway....

Good professional performace today.

Roll on Colchester ...im going.

Met Charlie Henry pre match...he told me that they would win easy!

Sorry, but that's wrong. If the ball isn't in play, no free kick can be given, at all. Free kicks can only be given during active play, not at dead ball situations. Red card would stand, but the restart would be the same restart as before, in this case a corner.

But, the lino did the crafty thing and waited till the ball was kicked before flagging pretty much assuring the penalty -  and who said referees wern't cheats...

Boring game, and Nouble needs some new boots. Some black ones would be nice, otherwise he's this seasons Macklin.

I'd like to request 6 more games like that please. Fuck exciting.

I think today was a case of saving ourselves for Saturday. It was always going to be a stroll in the park and at half-time DW probably told them to slow down the tempo, to prevent any injuries

"Impressive all season, Swindon are peaking at just the right time"

I enjoyed this quote from the football league show summariser of our game. Seems only now one or two people are recognising that we've been there or thereabouts all season long.

Surely Macklin is this season's Macklin?

Yeah but Claridge and that maneesh feller completely blanked us-brilliant!

To be fair, they're usually the only people to give us a mention. Claridge did at least get the opportunity to get hot and bothered over Austin though  8)

Lizzie to the rescue - she was at the game and raised the point that they had been talking about Austin before the show - Claridge likened Austin to Philips and tipped him for England...

Yes, correct, the restart would have been a corner.  I also think the lino was crafty, the Tranmere player would have wanted to have whacked Charlie while the ball was out of play.  Also, who wants to give a red card for an offence in the box then restart with a corner, except Andy fucking Hall.

They didn't catch the incident (or at least they didn't show it) on the highlights. But they did show all the Swindon players walking away after the linesman had flagged as though it was against them - nothing from any of them to suggest something had happened. Very strange.

Piss easy game for the lads today. The stroll in the park attitude on the pitch against shite opposition transferred to the terraces, and the atmos was understanderbly muted.

I dont think anyone was under any illusion that we had a few more gears to shift up to if we ever found ourselves under any kind of pressure today though, and the players seemed happy enough with the applause and respect when the subs were made and after the game.

The real pressure test starts next Saturday at Colchester. Regardless of that result or how we do during the run in though, I believe we have big enough bollocks to cope with a must-win match at Milwall on the last day.

Cant fucking wait to make the trip to the New Den to watch our lads tear them a new arsehole.

  

 

Not much to say about this game, & what there is to say has been well & truly covered here, ie we started the game in the ideal manner, good things came our way - o/g, red card, pen, game was over, we just conserved energy & made sure of the win, no oppo to speak of, was just a case of run the clock down to 16:50-odd.

The perfect scenario, today could've been nervy & ultimately frustrating. An entertaining end-to-end ding-dong is nowhere near the top of my list. Points points and more points please.

Shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with the great Don Rogers afterwards - he was buzzing. Also chatted with John Salako for a little while - he was very honest, he was at pains to say how impressed he was with us but he seemed pretty convinced that we would miss out, and described Millwall & Leeds as "stronger". I told him that I was "perfectly happy for you media people to carry on ignoring us". Sky had got him a personal driver, he jumped in the back of a big BMW like Lord Posh-Bollocks.

Based on yesterdays game, purely due to the circumstances of being 2-0 up and on cruise control, you can see where he is coming from. Carry on media (ooooh maaatron).

Almost afraid to mention it, but has anyone looked at our goals against since Franchise?

Yeah we've conceded one I believe?

You should've said '6-0 on aggregate' !!!

And anyway Salako is a plastic. He mostly covers Reading matches as a former Reading player.

Easy win for us. Didn't need to get out of 2nd gear or even 1st after the break really. Training exercise which was fantastic after the Leeds game took it out of us no doubt. I think Saturday is the biggest game of the ones we have left now. Win it and we're on the final stretch with 4 games we should be looking to win. If we win our next 5 i think we are as good as up and won't need that last game at The Den. Can't see any of the other 3 teams winning their next 5 games. I guess they're all saying the same thing though.

The Times yesterday covered our Leeds game very well. The article/match report was all about us doing well rather than Leeds fooking up. They gave Billy the League One player of the day aswell.

Funnily enough, my missus watched the fl show with me last night and got really irate with us being skipped over! Im quite used to it, but she wants to  write the bbc a letter!

Found the story...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article7086830.ece

I've just been reading Waccoe and they still think this is a shit, tinpot league with shit teams.

One guy said ''Even Swindon were poor on saturday, the team now 2nd in the league''.

Who gives a toss what leeds think

exactly can we now stop talking about Leeds fans and WACCOE.

Their results I can understand but this obsession with WACCOE is sad and pathetic in my opinion.

Can someone help me remember the Floodlight failure game in the 90's and what the score was when it was replayed ?
Is the general feeling that we did in fact break the floodlights?
I seem to remember them always being dodgy in the late 80's early 90's
I was only 13 or 14 so i was naive to know the ins and outs of the sage.
I know Tranmere then hated us for appealing in 90 which sent them back down to div 3 but my memories of Tranmere have always been at prenton park when we were singing their name and applauding each other at the end of the play off game in 93

here here.

Agree with that

I love waccoe

In the floodlight game, we were 2-1 down with 30 mins to play...we won the replayed match 2-0.

Im obsessed with TEF, KOT and DRS.  Whats your opinion on that?

I also concur with this.  It does seem a bit odd that the nature of many posts seem to be along the lines of "we don't care about Leeds, they are not important to us - I've been reading their forums for the last sixteen hours and...".

It's natural to want to see what fans of other clubs are saying.

I regularly browse Waccoe, MISA (Millwall) and The Pink Un (Norwich).

 I can't help think of this WACO (http://WACO), an object lesson in the dangers of obsession, and a few more things beside.

It makes me think the same, Reg.
I wonder if there is a user called David Koresh on that forum?

Actually 3 of us were chatting when he came along, and one did shout "What about Leeds you cunt!" as he climbed into his car.

I personally couldn't care less about what Salako's opinion is, I was purely sharing my little matchday encounter with all of you good people.

Salako is allowed a opinion, he clearly doesnt watch us often anyway.

Also, is it just me or hasnt he aged since 1990?

I'm with the Ralphmeister..I can't see what's wrong with it.

No, not changed one bit. Wish I could say the same.

Longer Beeb highlights now up. Nice one Charlie! It seems to me when looking at everybody else's attempts on goal (Ward, Nouble etc) that Charlie is nearly always just a stride away from being in there as well...

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I'm pretty sure that no-one is saying that he isn't allowed an opinion.

People are allowed to have an opinion of his opinion.

Ha, was thinking the same thing when I saw him comment on the town last week. He's also been at Sky Sports since they started to broadcast!

Took a Chelsea fan with me on Monday. He's never seen us in what I'd call a good game. But he's never seen us lose either. Anyway based on Monday his opinion of Charlie was "he's a bit like Kerry Dixon, comes alive in the box".

To be fair Charlie has more to his game than he showed on Monday, but it could have been a worse comparison.

it is quite a good comparison, though Kerry Dixon had poncey died blond hair

I've heard a few girls around town say the same thing

And Charlie hasn't fucked his life up in the casinos.

Both got Reading connections though.

Austin reminds me of Steve White....always hungry for goals,something about his stature as well.

...not to mention the offsides!

I reckon myself and 10 mates could have given Tranmere a game on Monday, a couple of their players should have been arrested for impersonating footballers. Utter dross. We were professional and did our job playing in neutral.

Atmosphere was hopeless as well.

I thought the same. They looked like they'd had a good night on the beer followed by a kebab.

Dont be so hard..they dicked Norwich and we had just dicked Leeds....we battered them and on the back of there result v Norwich it was an outstanding result for us.

No Tranmere I'm on about. We looked class.

It was a potential banana skin which was a walk in the park really you have to admit. Austin's goal was the highlight of a pretty dull game. Ian Goodison literally did nothing right the whole game and Bas Savage, if he's a footballer, then I am a courgette.

It was, but that's because we spent the best part of 2 hours watching something akin to a training session. There was no pressure, no tension, and no real excitement once we were in front. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just isn't conducive to making fans get behind the players.

On a different note, Huddersfield have just won 2-0. Might put extra pressure on Colchester.

I agree, good result for us.

Football is an entertainment business and I for one derived a good deal of entertainment from Savage's hopeless lumberings. He was quite hilariously bad

Not just that, they play Millwall at home on the 16th. We need Huddersfield to still be right in the mix and fighting for every point against them by then, so this is good from that point of view as well.

Was tempted to say you were talking Ratatouille Bob....but know what your saying.

How very marrow minded of you.

I wont have anyone saying anything bad about Big Baz


He was fucking awesome

I strongly suspect the rumours site may say later, that Bas Cottle will be signing to replace Paynter later..

I saw a lad in a Town shirt with 'Painter' on the back. I hope for his sake his surname is Painter and he didn't get a Dyslexic to put Billy's name on his shirt.

Or it could be his occupation I suppose but he only looked in his teens.

Even if his last name iis 'Painter' then surley you stil wouldn't get on the back of a town shirt due to similarity.

He must get some funny looks.

You can fuck right off with that idea! Me and the Mrs are both 3 year season ticket holders and both on the wrong side of 45  :smugfu:
Re the OG, don't overlook the absolute defensive mayhem inducing ball in from Shehan!

The 3rd and 5th words of your very first post were "fuck" and "off".

Welcome.

The number should have been a giveaway?

Old git  :D Luckily, I'm the right side of 40 (by a few months).

it was a random number, can't remember what, think it might have been 27.

i guess it was the kid's name then

Thanks very much :D