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I am going to this on Aug 3rd.....two more from Charlie today in Austria and will make an effort to go though i am really suprised its been agreed four days before kick off....probably a youngish team with Charlie having a half hour cameo?
The man has been immense for us and i reckon he can only get better with a pre season behind him..be nice to see a few fans make an effort to show how much his contribution last season appreciated.....like i said though most will be keeping the dosh for Brighton.

Its a pain it is on a Tuesday, though I probably wouldn't have gone on a Saturday anyway. It would be easier to swing past the Mrs on a Saturday, dressed up as a trip to the seaside.

I don't think many first teamers will play either. Not only is it a few days before Brighton, we have Orient at home on the Tuesday after too.

I know it's a big ask to get down here on a poxy Tuesday night and tbh I would have rather left it until we had our new ground as the one we have now is just a school playing field basically
I do hope we get a good few first teamers tho I realise this is quite unlikely. Ah well as I have the day off I will have a good time
Leefer give me a bell Tuesday morning if you can

Will do....not sure what time i will be there but will let you know bud.

There's got to be at least one beer in there somewhere

I'm going. Yay

Deffo.

Anyone else thinking of coming down?

Nah, soz mate

I was. Until I saw that cunt DRS was going.

I'll be there, as you know, any idea how much it is going to cost, we'll have to sink a few bevvies. Is Tatnum near Poole town centre? I was at the quay the other day, some very tempting establishments there!

£6 to get in. Tatnum near centre

May come down. How far is the train station from the ground?

10-15 mins walk

Cheers.

Come out of the station, turn left past the rather large Barclays building, follow the road up until you get to what was an old pub and is now a Co-Op I believe, it has a road running past each side take the second one and follow it down until you come to a cul de sac road on the right, go down there and you have arrived

Train tickets are a tad expenisve i fear.

No surprise there then. What a shame

Won't be going now, I'm tied up in Corsham all day.

Annoyingly, the following week I'm holding a BII course in Corfe Mullen, which is due to finish at 2.00.

Typical.

I daren't ask......

Is anyone coming down?

Change of plan now, we are coming down! Someone has decided to drive down, saves the expense of the train!

Should be good, a day at the seaside and then the football in the evening!

Just a few questions, is there any parking at the ground?
Wheres the best place to stand?

Brilliant. Parking yes but get there early. Best place to stand is behind the oppositions goal
If you've got ladies then probably Bournemouth is a better bet then you can send em off for some shopping
If you would rather stay in Poole, then it's Sandbanks beach, Arndale Centre for the ladies and possibly the Quay for a few beers

Cheers. Hopefully we will bring down a couple of first teamers and hopefully charlie will get a run out, even if its just for 10 mins, i expect he would get a brilliant reception.

Would be great to see Ferry, Caddis and Prutton as I don't expect I will be up before the Saints game

Yeh, i guess it depends weather Ferry and Caddis play tomorow.

Is there a holiday camp called Rockley Sands in Poole? I can vaguely remember my mum beating a Stevie Wonder lookalike in a talent competition there when I was a nipper.

Your memory has not failed you Bob, just outside Poole in a place called Hamworthy. Perhaps it's time to re-visit

Do you work for the poole tourist board?

If I did I would probably be better paid than I am now.

http://www.pooletourism.com

It's Rockley Park i think, i remember going there when i was little.

I'm going camping to a place called Beacon Hill in a few weeks, i think it's in Poole or Hamworthy.

Not far from either

http://www.beaconhilltouringpark.co.uk/

regards

Poole Tourist Board

Hopefully we should see Charlie as he only played 45 mins on saturday, and maybe Dossevi aswell, i'd like to see him play, after the good reports he good from saturday. You never know, we may even see Ferry and/or Caddis.

Lets hope the weather is nice!

Austin & Dossevi up front could be interesting......

Yeh, would be intresting to see how well they worked together, because Austin and Pericard hasnt really clicked yet (although only after a small number of games)

Will be popping down to this one as the sister in law lives 200 yards from the ground.

I hope we get to see a few possible first teamers and not just the youths.

I dont think too mant first teamers will play, with it being so close to Brighton, put fringe players like Timlin etc may get a game.

Wilson suggested it will be a mixture out of respect to Poole as they have a good relationship and want to keep it that way

I thought we were going to nick their other CF....whatever happened to that?

No we weren't, that was off the site we dont like to mention.

It will be nice of Charlie to be made captain for this game also I think - hopefully it will be a decent squad that travel

In Poole now, gonna have fish and chips and some beers by the sea. Ace. Just drove past the ground, it literally is a playing field but the pitch looks alright. Hopefully we will see some first teamers.

Meeting forum user 'STFC in Bournemouth' on the train at Branksome in 45 mins, then a few mins to Poole Town Centre, no doubt a pint beforehand. Debating if I should wear my scarf.

depends what kind of scarf it is.

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thats a lovely pic of tans and ralphy

But which is which?

It's a choice piece of attire in red & white with dangly bits off both ends

Dangly bits? Go down a storm with the brighton lot saturday then.

they'll kill me once they know i've posted it

Especially when twirled with a limp wrist

Northstandchat could have a field day if...errm...someone brought it to their attention.

Tans on the left, Ralphy on the right.

I wanted to go to this game but the whole Tuesday night thing made it a bit difficult. I don't think we'll learn anything from tonight but I'm sure Austin will get a good run out which is important after only playing 45 minutes on Saturday. Dossevi may also need game time, and it wouldn't surprise me to see Caddis put in just to get to know other players a bit better. Beyond that I suppose Kennedy, Thompson, Timlin and Bodin are all likely to get a run out.

They look very happy in each others company in a gay, back passage kind of way.

Especially when tans realises it's back when he wore eye make-up. Hopefully he'll see the funny side.

Just seen Ferry on the team bus, so I guess he will (and I presume Caddis) get some game time.

Very much a second string side:

Jakub Jesionkowski; Nathan Thompson, Will Evans, Thom Ryan, Callum Kennedy; Josh Parsons, Michael Timlin (Capt.), Abdul Said, Alan O'Brien; Charlie Austin, Billy Bodin

Substitutes: Leigh Bedwell (GK), Seb Broomfield, Matt Clarke, Dan Evans, James Richards

Seems Timlin is destined to be the next Easton by the looks of that.

We're wearing Poole's away kit apparently.

Is Abdul Said a youth player or a triallist?  ;D

Why's that?  ???

Also seems that Dossevi has a clause in his contract that says he isnt playing anymore two bit friendlies...on the bench for Saturday?

A clash of kits. Sounds quite unprofessional.

Just a tad! How hard must it've been to have a quick check to see what colours they wear?!

dont they wear red and white?

what colours are our kits?

We could have taken the blue one from last season I guess.

I think the club have sent out all the old kits to africa or something - the usually do.

We couldnt get last seasons one for worldnet this year. I could be completely wrong though.

A player in the Poole line up called Max Cream, thought you bought that from Ann Summers,

Wasn't the blue shirts chucked into the crowd at Charlton?

1-0 up, courtesy of Charlie Austin.

You would've thought Charlie would know what colours Poole play in...

Anyway, Poole could just play in their away kit and we play in the one we bought with us.

Even if Charlie did know what colour the play in (of course he does!!) our kits would still be red and white.

3-0. Austin x2 and O'Brien :eek:

O'Brien?

GOAL! Alan O'Brien receives the ball on the left, cuts inside and beats two men impressively before rifling the ball home into the roof of the net to make it 2-0

I guess it is Poole Town but still.

Alan! Alan O'Brien! Seems he's peaked then.

4-0 Bodin

It's fucking freezing! It feels like fucking January.

As for the game, o'brien is still as quick as fuck and is walking through there defence, Bodin is having a good game and scored a great goal.

4-0 at half-time.

I can confirm, it is indeed Poole Town.

Which is good reason why perhaps he should start against Brighton's pedestrian like defence. It would also mean their much loved and highly rated (by Brighton) right back, Calderon, will be kept busy with OB rather than trying to overlap.

Bodins had quite a good pre season hasnt he? Any chance he could feature more next season, those in the know/actually seen him play?

he didnt look up to the task against forest, not that im knocking him, but he seemed to want too long on the ball and was not strong enough, but all that will come with game time

I'd say he's at that stage where he needs game.

I'd try and get him loaned out in L2

Don't think he'll make it for us? Another Chris Allen

Youth team

EDIT: Just spotted the smilie, have I wooshed myself again?

4-2 now.

Wilson out.

Undefeated pre season, no injuries - bring on Brighton.

on a side note, alan o'brien has the most 'footballer' car out of the players i've seen, a fucking great big white range rover sport (i saw craig easton driving a vauxhall astra. wouldnt surprise me, seemed a bit of a tree hugger!)

Spot on. He needs time to learn, be that with us or out on loan.

Can't be arsed to post tonight, going to bed in a mo

Ditto, suffice to say O'Briens goal was bloody awesome, but 2 minutes before that he missed an easy opening.

Bloody chilly out there tonight, a good run out.

It certinally didnt feel like August!

Solid performance really, gave away 2 sloppy goals in the second half.

Charlie played 60 mins and got the goals im sure he really wanted, first one was a great finish and the second one was a tap in. He also walked around the whole pitch when he was taken off to see everyone and do autographs, which was good off him.

I was really impressed with AOB last night (i know it was only Poole) but on more than one occasion he ran through there whole defence, and scored a great goal. He also did a similar thing in the 2nd half but he squared but we couldnt finish it.

Billy Bodin had a very good game, took his goal excently, and held the ball up quite well.

Number 7 Josh Parsons also look like a handy player, has a good delivery on him.

Both full backs kenedy and Thompson had good game, despite Thompson hobbling off towards the end, didnt look too serious though.

Timlin had a solid game, nothing special just did what he had to do, that Abdul Said showed a few good touches but agian just a solid performance, nothing special.

The keeper with the unspeallable last name had a very good game, i was impressed with him, he always telling the back 4 what to do.

Overall a solid perfrmance, with some promosing individula performances aswell. It was a good run out for them.

I was also impressed with the way Poole, didnt give up and got their reward with 2 goals in the second half, and their number 5 CB was a huge unit!

I also met DW, had a chat with him and i now love him even more that i did before!

Yeah pretty much agree with Langers.

Nice to meet stfcinbmth, shame about the tickets but hey ho mate can't be helped!

Great goals from Austin & O'Brien, Bodin took his well too, a couple of sloppy bits of defending but by a very young defence, Thompson was caught out at the back on a few occassions and is not ready for the first team yet on that showing, good going forward though.

Bodin had some good touches, Timlin was typical Timlin, could play a killer ball but chose to play it sideways much to the digust of DW who time after time kept on telling him to play a killer ball...which he didn't.

Kennedy looked solid with a few good passes thrown in. Abdul Said started slowly but got into the game and played quite well in the end, the only thing being hes quite lightweight, much like Bodin who got bundled off the ball a few times, needs to bulk up even more than he has in the last year.

Both Centre backs did ok against much older players, and Jakub in goal made a few very very good saves, couldn't really do a lot with both their goals, just needs to command his area a little better and catch some crosses when he decided to punch them, but thats confidence I think not ability.

Overall a good run out against a side that only made a couple of poor challenges and that were up for the game and played some excellent passing football, matching us for a lot of the game.

750 attendance.......ok, but looked more like 300 to me!

Roll on the new season.

Was quite surpries how may town fans were there, Looked like over 100 to me.

It did look like about a third of the crowd were Town fans.

Nice to meet you too JJ. Hope you and Langers enjoyed yourselves, I'm still hungover.

Good game throughly enjoyed it. Swindon certainly put on a more impressive display than Poole's near neighbours. Charlie seemed to have a good time, and took his first very well
O'Brien was like shit off a shovel and a real handful all night, if he can stay fit then he will be very handy to have around. Bodin had a good game, and the center backs also did very well, blocking a lot of the Poole efforts if the first half

Second half Poole came back into it and scored two neatly taken goals which tbh they did deserve

No niggly or dangerous fouls, in fact hardly any fouls at all, the ref did a good job, which bodes well for Poole and Swindon to do it all again at the opening of our new ground when that materialises

All in all I think everyone had a really good time and thanks for coming

Yeh, was very enjoyable.

Is it always that cold in Poole!?

It was pretty chilly, but it's pretty close to the sea there that always has a bearing on things

Thanks for the reports. Glad O'Brien has got through pre-season injury free. What were his deliveries like? We know he can run, but so could Forest Gump :)

On a couple of occasions he good into good positions and wasted it but more often than not he either had a good effort on goal or found a teamate. He scored and got an assit, i was impressed with him.

Photos with thanks to Andy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHQZxqvJew

i nearly cut JPM up at the magic roundabout after forest soapy tit wank

cracking number plate too

....which was??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWQAoonHQ8&feature=player_embedded#!

Haha that interview is jokes. But at the same time, you can see how determined he is and obviously is taking this pro football lark very seriously.