Thetownend.com

Whilst my fellow country men tackle tsunamis I am back to bring you 3 points.

Great news, if I could raise my 15-0 prediction then I certainly would...

All the pretender threads have been locked out as a bad memory

err... 0-0

Oh thank fuck for that.

Well done, KOT.

Here's to 3 points, Andrew to score, Dougie to break his duck and the defence to keep a clean sheet.

It's going to be a win and a big win to boot. 4 1 to the Town and we'll keep winning all the way to the end of the season.

I'm getting on this.

I suspect being favourites might prove too much of a burden for D and R...win  :nod:

2-0 Town - Andrew and Douglas.

4-1 Town. Some early luck will finally go our way and some goals will be scored.

Here's to finishing the season on 65 points!    :pint:

5-1 (Andrew scores 4)

2-1 don't know how we are gonna get two tho

Law of averages say we have to win. 3-1. Phil Smith hatrick.

Heart says 72-0 win, head says boring 0-0.

With the new wave optimism flowing through the thread, I'd be a fool to say it has to be anything other than a 2-1 Town win.

1-1 it is then.

I've said it before. Can't see us not winning.

3-0 (Andrew hat trick)

He will turn out to be our best striker since Marc McCammon.

The Red Army goes marching on 1-2...nice day for it though

I thought that accolade belonged to Kyle Lightbourne...

We're due a vain glimpse of hope.

I think we'll win today.

We will score a goal (Benyon), so will they. Drab 1-1 draw. 6,988 crowd.

A fucking resounding win

1-0 Swindon.

0-0 bore draw 6,234 crowd

1-0 Daggers sadly.

2-1 win in front of 6,204

Stii angry about the cuthbert incident!

A win, a win, my kingdom for a win!!!

Despite my confidence in the originator of this thread I still think we'll get beaten. D&R are on a reasonable run of form and no doubt they'll win virtually every physical battle. Lowest crowd of the season as well I'd guess.
Not sure why Hart has come in for so much stick when he's been here a week. I'm not sure he's had much other options given the complete and utter fucking dross we've got.
I hope I'm wrong.

lose this we are as good as down! Im going for 1-0 to the town

Have we already reached the nadir?No,0-2

Well the five in midfield means we're keeping it tight. I think they're more likely to knick a goal than us though so I'll go for 1-0 dagenham. With the odd chance of 0-0, 1-0 to us or 1-1

But we don't play five in midfield, we play three. Paul Hart said so. 4-3-3 ::)

Paul Hart is talking cuntslop

I think we will confuse ourselves so much up front with the new chaps that we end up confusing Daggers even more and scrape a 2-1 win

1-1.

A surprising air of positivity about the game on the TEF today. I concur, we've got to win again sometime - lets hope its today.

2-0 (Grella, Sheehan)

0-1.

1-0 to us via a dodgy penalty

Andrew will be the big target men we thought we had in Pericard and he will feed Grella for the first and then a goal from Benyon after a goal mouth scramble.
2-0 Town....... We are Staying Up!!

ITS OFFICIAL!! We ae saved (the thread, not the season)

5-0 town

4-3 Town - last minute goal cuthbert

You're a good week late at least

3.0 Town. I know this as I have money on it, so it is a cert.

I have not seen a goal for us since the 1st January.  Today, I am not there as I have to take care of the youngest.

Therefore we will win 4 nil.

Phil Smith, Paul Caddis, Scott Cuthbert, Andy Frampton, Alan Sheehan, Michael Timlin, Jonathan Douglas, David Prutton, Matt Ritchie, Calvin Andrew, Mike Grella

We can't score for toffee (or even Swindon for that matter).

Today will be another dull 0-0 draw, followed by complete silence because everyone will have eventually fallen asleep half way thru the 2nd half.

PS: is it Sunday today? The amount of Sunday drivers we encountered on the way down has me a but confused. :(

Andrew in. Rose out. As expected.

No Ferry on the bench.

Whinge and moan all we like but something is clearly not right with him behind-the-scenes.

A 4-0 win and other results going our way gets us out of the bottom four.  COME ON!!!

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

Andrew sounds to bright to be a footballer

*

By bright, I mean not really thick!

Am fucking hanging after 30th birthday celebrations, a win today will be a good present.

What the fuck is this shit on the radio?

Why were we playing our dogshit national anthem.

There's a tremendous amount of expectation weighing on Andrew today....  We're signing for strikers for fun but can't seem to get a good balance.  I do like a big/little man combo, and am praying this is the answer today.  Anything other than a win and I worry for next season....  A resounding win today would be huge but I can't see.

I'm declining to predict as I always predict a win and we lose.

30 seconds in and were already dropping into a 4-5-1.

Cuthbert now down injured.

Gloom is setting in already

Sorry but this 4-5-1 is really pissing me off.

Rovers 1 down and going down

I've got it on but I'm struggling to listen.;

Me too if I am being honest, just feel a bit "meh" today.

Good afternoon Sadsacks.

We just had a chance. Fun.

Good save apparantly. At least we've had a shot. One every 15 minutes will be a huge improvement on recent games.

When was the last time we lead during a game? i cant remember what it feels like

Come on chaps. A little happiness please.... at least until we concede.

Walsall beating Yeovil.

Walsall winning.

Its all us at the moment.

plymouth one down

COME ON SWINDON - DO  SOMETHING!

We are off the bottom  of the league people.

Going up, going up, going up

We have deffo got to win this

Old man Cureton still banging them in, what might have been

...if he gave a fuck about his time at Swindon.

Ritchie and smith are fighting each other?

Smith and Ritchie having a bit of a lively disagreement. You know you've got problems when...

That will go down well.

fuck off smith you fucking dick

I suppose it shows they care a bit (clutching at straws)

GRELLA GET IN

GOALLLLLLLL!

OH my

Forgotten what it feels like

WE ARE GOING UP

GOOD GOOD! YEY!

Keeping my birthday free for the play off final

Something has happened with the radio? Its gone all wierd!!! People are screaming...has the Japanese nuclear reactor disaster hit Swindon? Im scared  :(

Now let's hammer them!

We've scored a fucking goal.  :eek:

Forgetten what it was like

Start time wasting now i say

Half time.

second half 8 men in defence

Keep it up for the 2nd half Swindon.

I just rang my friend in Japan after the recent tsunami....

Selfish bastard just wanted to talk about his social life.  Just kept going on about a huge rave...

---

Yeeehaaaw!  Get in, long long overdue.  Hopefully the confidence will slow drain back into the players and we can push on and grab another.

We're winning?!

Nah. It's all a con.

We're 2-0 down.

Ironic thing is we haven't played much differently to the last couple of home games. It's just that we have taken advantage of a defensive mistake and scored. That in itself seems to have livened us up a bit & we looked like scoring at the end of the half.

As for the incident with Smith & Ritchie, have to say the keeper needs to communicate with the defenders. Just before Sheehan tried to head a ball back to him that was coming down from a great height, and can only assume he didn't get any kind of shout from Smithy as he was coming out.

Biggest concern for the second half is that we will try & defend this, rather than trying to put the game out of reach.

And now it's back to more fucking shitty bagpipes  :badmood:

STFC in goal shocker!

OMG! Come on you Reds!

My weekend trifecta went down the drain. I had a tenner on 0-0.

Shit! We're leading a football match at half time!!

COME BACK RADIO YOU FUCK~ING SWINDON TWATSW

WTF????

Fucking cuntslops

Seriously, is it that hard?

my cock?

Apparently so.

Get the time wasting on town

Yeovil equalise

Ritchie clears one off the line. Phew.

Douglass good effort

One day he'll score

Douglas hits the target with a rocket, great save unfortunatly

Then we nearly go and let Bas Savage score at the other end.

Grella has Ritchie inside him

hahahahaha

Handball not handball shot from calvin andrew not handball townend up a bum ooh ooh ooh timlin ooh ohohohohoho corner

Plymouth 2 down.

Good. 

Hopefully that'll kill their spirit.

Attendance 7864. I am very surprised. Can't be many from Dagenham either?

337.

Have to say the D&R keeper is a legend.
Getting awful stick of the Town End, but is taking it all & playing up to it

Ritchie shoots, great save. Thought it was 2-0 then!

Another good save from Tony roberts.

making quality saves too  :(

and another one.

twice

I've found the key to happiness

[url width=279 height=496]http://i.imgur.com/7yCAl.png[/url]

It would of been better before the game, we would have been top!

Hart out!

Yeah stupid fucking twats can't even top an upside town table

We are doing substitutions but nobody knows whats going on.

Rose on for Grella. Wait. No. Sheehan. No. Grella.

Afternoon chaps!

FFS

FUCK

The more stick Roberts gets the better he plays. We should ignore him!

oh

1-1. Typical.

Sigh.

:(

I'm blaming NMH

Oh my.

our luck is laughable

Not my fault! I'd spent 10 mins reading through whilst listening before posting! Honest!!!

Benyon coming on. Go go go go go

Benyon coming on. If we don't go all out for a win then questions need to be asked.

I blame Tony Roberts.

Fucking get in, come on Daggers snatch a second and earn Davey a few quid for Cheltenham

Well done on the defensive substitution, Paul Hart.

It's the most common known thing that defensive subs will hit you back in DA FUCKING FACE!!!

I Fucking hate football

Michael Rose, get the fuck out of STFC!

What happened RE: the goal? Was it Michael Rose's fault?

Michael Rose was on the pitch. We were leading when he was at the bench.

His remarks on Twitter etc.

Get the fuck out, you Salford cunt!

It's math, really...

If you need someone to blame look no further than the manager.

Negative substitution & we concede.

If nothing else it sends a message that were not looking for a second goal.

At least we sound like we're going for it a bit

So Rose had nothing to do with it then?

4mins

i dont think we will ever win again

No. A Dagenham player took a shot, it deflected off another Dagenham player and Smith was left stranded.

Looks like we will be visiting Morecambe next year rather than Preston which is a little nearer for me - one bright point

I wonder what Peterboro does, they keep banging in 4+ goals every game. 6 now.

Take some notes, you fucks....

So you say it's Phil Smith's fault, then?

Rose cross almost creates a goal.

I neither said nor implied that.

NR appears to be under the impression that Rose coming on = a change to the back four and therefore was stupid and led to the goal. The fact that he came on for Grella and was therefore presumably playing wide in midfield, and the back four was exactly the same as it was for the previous 82 minutes doesn't seem to feature in his "thinking".

I blame Ralphy...

It just isn't in me to comment.  How are we this bad?

Penalty denied

Should have had a penalty - corner given.

Them or us?

Us

So even if Rose is playing "winger" in Hart's "4-3-3", you actually think Rose is a more offensive player than Grella?

No wonder you're nick name is Lumps!

For us. Players and Paul Hart going mental apparantly.

awww cockfiddle

Give it a rest norway I'm normally pretty patient but I'm not in a good mood.

STFC can fucking do one, I hate football

Oh fuck this. The norwegian season starts next friday. Thank God. So I don't have to focus on the useless cunts at Swindon until the summer when we're re-building for League Two.

Goodbye!

Wine o clock

Talk about shit luck, we seem to have done alright today.

Cheerio.

We would have probably missed the penalty anyway, at least this has saved one of the players from being a scapegoat.

well thats another shit saturday afternoon. time to start drinking and blocking out any swindon thoughts

Thank fuck indeed, do everyone a favour an kill yourself.

Two points from the big three games.

Huddersfield and Brighton away next.

Gulp.

i like norway as he's mad as fuck.but have to admit he is starting to grate.
slating individual players without watching the games is a bit stupid

But.... and this is big clutching at straws time....

In all the time I have supported Swindon we have always done well against teams we should lose to and lost against the teams we should be hammering!

It's insane logic

I think you were pursuing two lines of argument:

1 - that replacing a forward with a more defensive player in the last tem minutes of a game you're desperate to win is stupid and always goes wrong 2 - that the substitution somehow led to us conceding (I assume that was what provoked the torrent of abuse in Rose's direction)

The first is debatable - but your smart arse post would have been a lot more effective if it had been made before rather than after the goal. Tightening up in midfield when you're one nil up at home with 10 to play in a six pointer is hardly the most controversial of moves is it?

The second is the one I picked up on, as it was clearly bollocks.

Clear now?

Good

that cunting ref has relegated us!   well, and all the shit results, but how that pen wasnt given ill never know!

Followed by Exeter away.

We're down aren't we?

You didn't need to be in Poland in the 40s to slate Hitler, did you?

Why on earth take Grella off in the first place, we need the friggin goals?

Thank God you're not a football manager!

Just. Stop.

I'm an "exile" and I don't point the finger at individual players.

Why? Because I haven't seen their performances.

League Two 2011/12 is ok.

We don't have to keep Hart.

We can let go of half our squad

Bring on august 2011!

  :D

Norway has a point, those of you backing up Rose should have a long hard look at your Nazi views.

I refer you to my last but one post:

"Tightening up in midfield when you're one nil up at home with 10 to play in a six pointer is hardly the most controversial of moves is it?"

I could have such fun ridiculing such an inane statement, but I really cannot be bothered....

I obviously missed the bit when Rose invaded Poland and Norway ..... the swine

I'm not allowed to enter Austria because I firmly believe that Michael Rose's involvement in the holocaust didn't exist.

It's amazing he can cross a ball at all in those jackboots

Worked well then didn't it?

One word disgraceful.  The worst side I've seen at the CG for years, we couldn't beat them.  If Wilson's subs baffled anybody it won't be a patch on Mr Negative Cunt.  Took Grella off, put a defender on, says it all.  And it was a pen, the ref pointed to the spot, linesman flagged for a corner!!  Ref changed his mind.  For fuck's sake Fitton, get rid of Hart now!

...and then what?

I'm not having a go because we are down regardless.

As I replied to Norway, if you'd posted that as the substitution was made I might have a bit more time for it, but the smart arse wise after the event thing is just fucking annoying.

A huge number of managers in the same situation would have done the same thing. It's not like its a totally fucking bizarre substitution, like a few that Wilson made in the last couple of months, taking off a striker when WE WEREN'T WINNING!

It's a shame the moustached one and his snappy brownshirts never got to your family, then we wouldn't have to listen to you.

HAHA Good one, DMR!

The forest for the trees, huh?

I realise what you are saying, if we are going down let's at least give it a go, playing as negative as we do will not bring the fans in.  Taking a forward off and bringing on a defender and playing him out of postition is not the way forward.  I don't mind who manages, as long as we are at least playing with two strikers up.

You have a lot to learn, Lumps. Take a look at T&T vs. Sweden from 2006 for instance...

I was going to but was busy doing something else at the time. I can't multitask, I also stick by the fact that we need goals

That's fair enough ronnie21.

As stupid as it sounds nowadays, I was an advocate for Wilson for the rest of the season. It's most likely that I would have proved to be wrong but I don't believe Paul Hart was the answer to our prayers.

Time will tell. It was a very negative looking bench today.

alot of decisions will need to be made regarding the squad for next year.
if hart is the long term choice(i doubt this very much)then that's up to him.
if not, bringing in a new man now wouldn't be a bad idea.
wont happen though i'm sure.looking like may at the earliest

That ol' chestnut. How could we forget.

Oh fuck off you patronising cunt.

There are fucking hundreds of examples of teams taking off a striker and falling behind. I'm all to well aware of that.
There are also hundreds of examples of managers taking off a striker to pack the midfield for the last ten minutes, keeping it tight and taking the points.
Did you know which one would happen as the fourth official flagged?
No, so shut the fuck up about it.

Well same same old really. We started OK and actually created a decent chance for a change which Prutton cocked up typically. After that we lost our way a bit. Defending was poor and there was little communication and then for some reason Ritchie and Smith started having a pop at each other. At this point I was thinking about going home as it was clear that things were not great. Then out of nowhere pops Mike Grella with a great finish and all of sudden we surge their goal before half time looking for a second.

2nd half we were OK but nothing more than that. Ritchie came close with a good curling effort which forced a decent save from their keeper. then typically we sat back a bit, Hart made a strange sub and took off our best player in Grella and replaced him with Rose. Then they got a crappy deflected goal which for a change was actually unlucky on our part. Then Hart does the right thing and brings on Benyon for Timlin and both sides look to snatch it late. Caddis runs into the box gets sandwiched by 2 Daggers players who dont directly get the ball inside the box.....so the ref gives a corner.....bravo. Season summed up in 90 minutes. At least we scored thoughg I guess.

Fucking robbed.

What a cunt Hart is. Why didn't he accound for that foul throw followed by a deflection!?!?!?!?!?!?111

Yes, because a completely imbalanced World Cup game is directly comparable to a League One relegation scrap isn't it? I also thought it was a bad move (and I was at the game) but you are just being a bit of a knob.

Dagenham were shit, we were better and should have won. Their goal was a ridiculous deflection and the ref completely bottled the pen at the end but we should have had enough to have closed the game out by then.

On the upsides, Ritchie played well, Grella was bright, Andrew showed Pericard how the "big man up front" thing should be done (working hard, winning headers etc). Prutton on the other hand can fuck right off. Quite how he keeps getting picked is utterly beyond me.

No one gives a fuck about your shitty little supporters club :)

Just back.

First the positives. After a shaky start we worked hard and took the game to Daggers. We were the better team and deserved to be ahead when Grella hassled their defender to win the ball and lob the keeper.

We carried that on in the second half and Andrew was an excellent target man winning the ball and putting himself about. Grellla was working his nuts off too so it was a bit surprising when he was taken off for Rose.

They were indeed spawny cunts for getting there undeserved equaliser which was deflected in.

The negatives. Well can't really fault effort. But for a couple of good saves and what looked like a good chance missed from Benyon at the end and we'd have got what we deserved.

However....what the fuck was Phil Smith on pushing lashing out at Ritchie. OK 'discussions' get heated but that was a total embarrassment of an incident and he made himself look a total twat. Had a reasonable game though.

Fair play to the daggers keeper for going along with the Town End. Not sure getting his tits out was necessarily a good thing mind.

Oh yes and Calvin Andrew did OK IMO. Looks like a better Pericard who actually tries. Needed more support though I think.

The positives....Grella outstanding....Caddis outstanding and thought the whole team played ok especially second half.

Negatives.....why change the team at all?...it was all going to plan.
Rose on for Sheehan good move....on for Grella is baffling.
Great attendance again......but please Mr Fitton get a manager in and start from scratch....Hart is not the answer for the future in my opinion.
A little unlucky again today....but decent teams dont rely on luck every match.
Oh and a good work rate from Andrew up front.....Pericard and Obika could learn a bit from that.

Whats happened to Obika - not even on bench

 :D I'm your biggest fan, Costanza! Seriously!

when has Michael Rose ever tightened up anything?

Not that I think he was to blame for their equalizer of anything like that but he'd be the last player i'd pick to tighten anything up!

Actually you reminded me the equaliser came (indirectly) from a dubious Daggers free kick

Should be ahead of Sheehan though......especially at home.....he can run at players beat them and cross a ball...unlike Sheehan.

Thank God!!

Completely agree. Was impressed with Grella and Andrew. Their work rate was excellent. Thought Caddis did well too.

Phil Smith has some explaining to do. Not sure why he lashed out.

Me neither then everyone started having a go at Ritchie in the Town End. WTF was all that about?

Sheehan was about 100 times more solid today that Rose has ever been.

There is no way Rose should be ahead of Sheehan

I assumed they were having a go at Smith.

On radio now, maybe they'll ask him. As I saw it, looked like he cleaned Ritchie out when he punched the ball clear (which as a keeper is fair enough) then Ritchie had a go at him verbally and whatever he said upset Smith enough to try throttling him

Serious post:

We have the best team on paper for years, but we can't seem to work out a way to win matches.

Problems:

1) IN YOUR HEAD - psychologic aspect. Keep on loosin', keep on getting sticks from fans and shitheads like myself (who abuse them online instead of on-pitch).

2) GROUP - working together as a group of players. They don't seem to have fun when they are playing. Football should be fun. Today Smith and Ritchie had an argument during the game. That's a wake-up call, should be... I remember in the 90s that Middlesbrough once tried to make it in PL, and on paper signed a lot of big names. They couldn't group together and got relegated. David Prutton and Jonathan Douglas are good players on paper, but it doesn't work at STFC. Get rid of them both!

3) FOCUS - just focus a little more on winning football games and playing football than tweeting your broken feelings out to people. You loose, you get stick - you win, you get applaud. That's life, Sons of bitches!

He apologised. Came across quite well.

Well according to Smith, Ritchie had a go at him for not shouting before he went for the punch and cleaning him out, and Smith saw red. Said he was embarrassed at himself and had already apologised to Ritchie and the team and now apologising to fans. Fair enough

No it was Ritchie. Ritchie was giving it back as well mouthing off at a select few at the front of the TE.

This is not a dig at you Luci.

But ain't it incredible how players get praised on their work rate. They get paid to do what they do and they get paid rather well to do it. Working hard should be the bare fucking minimum we should expect from them. 

I didn't go so presumably my post is entirely irrelevant but it's not good to hear about our players still arguing with fans and now arguing with one another.

Was the formation the same as last week?

Just got back from the game.

Two poor teams and a poor game overall.  Last season we would have won that 4-0

Was impressed with the new boy upfront as well as Caddis and Ritchie.  Grella did well first half but looked cream crackered in the second half.  Thought he should have been replaced by O Brien as Dagenham lacked any pace in defence.

Overall a fair result based on the lack of clear cut chances either team produced.

Yes, with Grella wide left, Ritchie wide right and Andrew the lone front man.

Worked better with a target man and Grella playing off him though.

Has Phil Smith ever shouted at his players?

I agree with you BR. Those three just stood out for me as they seemed to give more than we've seen of late! Especially as two are loanees.

There was a good reason Grella was taken off and that was beccause he was completely fucked.  He'd been struggling for the last 10 minutes.  I did wonder why Benyon never cam on as a replecement though.

Anyway people really need to stop knocking the players if there is even a faintest chance of us staying.  Rose did nothing wrong when he came on and put in a few decent runs and a great cross for Benyon.

Norway you really are becoming a boring monotonous cunt, you've been to fuck all games this season and yet you think your some kind of expert.  Please stop because i'm sure your a decent bloke really

Cheers DV. What about the penalty shout? My old man said it was a stonewall pen.

Paul Hart has been delighted with the performance after all of his three games in charge. I'm baffled!

It was

I thought there were two players around Caddis but he actually stood on the ball!!

Only seen it once in real time obviously.

I've seen them given. 2 players basically clattered into him forcing him to fall. Will have to see it again to make sure but seemed clear cut from the Town End.

We're shit out of luck, aren't we? I honestly can't see us winning again this season.

So what was the score when pen wasn't given?

1-1 with about 3 seconds to go.

It was a pen.

Cuntslop ::)

The usual 'sit back and defend' tactic in the second and the goal was was only a matter of time. As good as down now.

Whats with the 'I can't work out where it all went wrong' bollocks that has been on here and I heard a few people saying today. It's fairly obvious for fuck sake.

As for 'having the best team on paper for years', as Norway Red said above - it really isn't.

Feeling pretty hard done by to be honest.

They offered no threat whatsoever and we were in control.

So.


Care to enlighten us? Cos I'm utterly fucked if I know.

I had to laugh when Vic and Phil both said how that decision going against us will cost us our place in League 1... I think the damage has been done already gentlemen...

Still, it's good to hear that we've finally managed to take the lead in a game and were somewhat unfortunate not to get all 3 points thanks to a combination of an unfortunate goal and a poor refereeing decision - even when we perform, luck goes against us. Sadly anything less than 3 points at home feels like a defeat at this point in time.


It's obvious that some bad decisions have been made but you can't seriously attribute those to the cause of this entire abortion of a season.

Not just the bad decisions but the equally poor solutions to those bad decisions.

Going into the second half of the season with forwards who have 5 league goals between this season and still no centre half replacement being the main ones.

Another good attendance today...........also the half time draw was fiddled...457 won it....with 456 second :D

yup, case closed. Nothing to see here.

What a vast improvement!

Andrew looked up for it and got stuck in...what we have needed all season.

Cuthbert shut his big jock yop and let his feet do the talking...and..played well.

Probably deserved a win but thats the story of the season!

Grella for rose? What was hart thinking???   He may of been bollocksed but rose??? Fuck off!

Looked a cert pen at the death but i thought they had one first half.....however i thought the ref pointed to the spot??

See you at hudders.

For the first time this season I felt we were genuinely unlucky as opposed to whinging, bleating unlucky. Calvin Andrew had a great debut - chased everything, good in the air and a decent touch on the ground, a little bit of pace and best of all clattered their goalkeeper a couple of times. When was the last time that happenned. Grella was also very good as was Caddis. I thuoght Cuthbert's distribution was Ifillesque and Sheehan's delivery was very dissapointing.
Fair play to Roberts who along with Clayton ince show how goalkeepers should take the abuse. I particularly liked the salute to the soldiers - good sport, sir.
I really can't see the abuse thrown at Hart. I thuoght his line up today was as good as it gets. Lazy fucker Obika not on the bench again. Rose and JPM dropped - two of our most consistently useless players this season. Grella was fucked so he put Rose out at left midfield. I would have gone with O'Brien but we're 1 up and it wasn't a bad substiution.
Ritchie and Smith was much ado abuot nothing and should be forgotten.
Thier goal really was very unlucky. The player the shot hit knew jack all about it.
As for the penatly, the ref gave it, pointed to the spot and then changed his mind when the the lino flagged for a corner.
For once, we were unlucky and i really can't see what else Hart can do so lets give the guy a fucking break.  

On the note of clattering the keeper, it was nice to see the keeper not roll around, play for the free kicks but to just get up and get on with it! you can tell Roberts is old school!

Andrews was pretty good, never looked like scoring but having him up top made Grella alot more threatening as Grella could get the ball deep, play it forward, then carry on running and get the ball again. Andrew was certainly more Chief than Trevor fucking Benjamin.

Though Ritchie was poor on the right because all he wanted to do was cut in. Keep him on the left.

Can see what Hart was trying to do re: Grella for Rose but didnt think it was a great idea at the time as I know from experience we dont really do 'seeing out games' or 'keeping it tight for the last 10'

Poole beat Totton and Ealing 2-0

@leefer Alton Town 1 - 0 Brockenhurst
Second from bottom, bit of a shame

Oh well........thanks anyway Dave.

Broken cheekbone for cuthbert apparently.

There number 6 was a cunt and shouldve been carded when grella got booked. He ran across and put him in a head lock ffs!

Broken cheekbone would presumably put him out for a few weeks at least?? As if things couldn't get any worse...

He played the rest of the game with it. He'll play on won't he? Just needs a green lantern mask.

You can wear a mask. If he does is a different matter.

People always seem to blame the ref. Yes we've had shit refs, but it's our own fucking fault for where we are.

When you think a year ago we weren't too far off Leeds, Norwich and Millwall, all of who have a sniff at the Prem, while we're on our way to Div 4 it's  :(

Exactly. It is a sad state of affairs, and yes at times we've been unlucky, but we've had so many chances to win games an just haven't taken them.

Shit?

There's no way Millwall will reach the play-offs, let alone win them.

But it's still a good point. If we could have nicked a few more points from games like Exeter and Wycombe at the end of last season we could have had a good go at the Championship this year. I think that's what makes our current plight so hard to take.  Relegation happens, but it's not often you find yourselves 2 divisions away from where you'd hoped to be.

Last season we had two players who were scoring goals.

Now we have none.

If we had a game like today last season we would have scored three goals & their lucky deflected goal wouldn't have mattered.

FWIW, we have scored more league goals from midfield this season already than we did in the whole of last season

Millwall 7 points off PO...3 points off 7th....just about a sniff.

It's a funny old game.

That is a mad stat!

Cuthbert has a mask to wear apparently so he should be available.  At least he admitted that it was down to his own shocking first touch that he got injured.

I thought it affected him today because he was poor.  Andrews was decent, Ritchie not at his best, Sheehan improved us and Grella was good.  The Stick that Rose is getting is undeserved, it was the manager that made the sub not him, he's hardly going to disagree is he?

Oh and for those fans in the townend giving verbals to the players while the match is still going on, Fuck Off!

Amen to that.

As for the substitution, it was very much in keeping with our general tactics, very negative.

As much as anything it sends the message that we are settling for what we have.

Yes you're right, though that doesn't negate the fact that it was a 'cast-iron', 'stonewall', 'certain penalty' at the end.

A couple of points.

Same shit different day. Yes we played better, yes we finally scored but once again we concede.

People having go at the players in the TE should be ashamed of themselves.

It looked like a pen, however those saying that it could cost us our League 1 status are miles off, what will/has cost us is the fact that we have been conceding stupid goals game after game after endless fucking game.

Michael Rose is never a defender in a million years.

Michael Rose is never a midfielder in a million years.

Hart isn't the future for this club, a good coach, but not at this club at this time.

I'm hating football at the minute.

I'm dreading the next two games, let's keep the scoreline respectable lads.
 
:suicide:

I agree, i wasn't keen on Hart's appointment in the first place but i'm guessing a lot of people on here feel that way? People on here questioned Wilson's tactics but Hart seems very negative with his approach and we should have gone all out attack against Walsall and again today but i just think he's not a good enough manager and hasn't had the impact the board were expecting.

He is a very good coach especially as a youth coach but he's not really management material his record clearly shows that too, Ok as a stop gap but nothing more i still think we should have gone for someone else but i'm guessing he won't be here next season regardless of what League we are in and it's looking more and more like League 2.

Even if he performed a miracle and kept us up i would want a more modern younger manager in for next season.

To clear it up,may I just point out that the ref initially gave a goal kick and not a pen before giving the corner.
Gutted is an understatement.
Nite all.

Smith deserved it for his dickheadedness. Though people tell me it was aimed at Ritchie.

The ref was one of the better ones we have had this year, 'penalty' aside. But  the penalty decision was huge. It happened a bit quick for me, if he got it wrong it was a blunder. That said Daggers had half a shout in the fist half. Seen those given before.

Punching well above their weight.

That cunt Claridge saying its never a penalty.

Just seen it on Football League Show - Claridge calling it as a corner makes it case closed. Definite penalty. Claridge is always wrong. FACT!

(actually, Claridge being wrong is more like a law of nature or something)

I thought the ref pointed for a goal kick. He then changed his mind when the lino flagged for a corner. I was too far away to have a view as whether Caddis was fouled or not, but from where I was sat, the ref did well to give us the corner.

No rose-tinted specs, but we were unlucky not to win today. It was a shit deflected goal to concede and we had more than enough chances to avoid the draw, but, as always, we didn't take them and suffered for it.

We are where we are due to us being shit all season. Not looking forward to a season or more in the basement of the FL, but that's where we'll be come the back end of this summer.

I was in the Town End and was incensed at people having a go at Ritchie. He is a very important player for us now, what the fuck do those handful of fans think they are doing? Smith and Ritchie rightly made up at half time.

Andrew and Grella would both be very good permanent signings.

Looked like a penalty to me at the end. The Dagenham player on the right looked like he might have got the ball, but the one on the left only got Caddis' legs. Same old.

Next day and I'm still gutted.
The second that the Daggers lucky ricochet settled in our net I was crestfallen and the only other time I've felt like that was Newport County away all those years ago.
After yesterdays performance I wish some of you here and on Thisis would cut Paul Hart some slack.  This is a whole new team under Hart, really impressed how he's got these players going.
I'm not going to give up hope and see 4 points in the next 2 games swinging our way.

Yep, Hart did pretty well yesterday. He has rightly booted Obika into touch after his dismal show of effort last week. I think we did have good enough forwards to play 4-4-2 yesterday, but I thought the actual team selection was the best we could have put out.

I didnt notice the ref that much, but he did make one other terrible decision. A Dagenham player commited a bad professional foul on Grella to stop him breaking towards goal, after which another Dagenham player grabbed Grella in a headlock to make it look like Grella was out of control, when Grella had hardly reacted at all, very very snide gamesmanship. Of course this meant Grella and the Dagenham player were booked, when in fact it should have been 2 Dagenham players.

How disappointing was that... :cry: The team appeared to be up for it yesterday lots of effort going in from everybody. Andrews settled in well, hopefully Vincent was watching to see how he could change his game...perhaps Palace wil ltake Vincent in exchange. Hart has instilled a postive approach so lets get off his back for a bit.

Great interview with Phil Smith on BBC after the game....I thought it came acroos that the players ( well Smith ) do care about us the fans.....

We`re going down but if we play like yesterday in Div 2 we`ll come back up quickly.

i've just seen the goal we conceeded.
what a flukey, cruel blow.

That was there number 6, Arber i think.

Dirty cunt

The problem with Grella may be the formation we play. I see him as a great player in the hole, not an out and out striker or a winger. But thank God we've now got two players upfield that can hang on to the ball and battle for everything.

This season weve ended up playing Dossevi in about half our games, and you could say exactly the same thing about him. The difference is Grella can play football.

I said to my mate, that Andrew and Grella are what Vince and Doss should've been.

100% agree but will our system allow us to get the best out of him?

Dagneham manager says in The Sun that it WAS a penalty.

Impressed with Grella and Andrew. They worked well together and are just what we need. Grella - someone who takes people on. Andrew - physical presence who wins every header.

Andrews looked a good player ! Which surprised me as i was under the impression he was going to be shit ! Still pissed off with the Dagenham number 4 for the way he celebrated to our fans when they scored, He should get punished by the FA for it as if he did this in the prem he would be fucked.

Was 4 Scott Doe? We released him as a youth teamer. Went to Weymouth before Daggers.

certainly was.

he always looked pretty good as a youngster, think we released him but gave Leigh Henry a years contract - wrong way round.

Scott Doe was the player that Phil Cannon was watching with a view to signing when he saw and signed Walcott.

What did he do?  I had my head in my hands, so didn't see.

Austin used to love mocking the opposing fans when he scored for Swindon.

We all loved it.

football is shit

You're not wrong.

Football is great. A shit season doesn't test my support of Swindon Town in the slightest.

I'm not happy with the season and I'd rather it didn't happen they way it has but here we are and I'll be on here next season whether we're still in League One or struggling in League Two.

If people are eternally unhappy with the lower leagues then I suggest they snuggle up to Sky Sports and cheer on the big boys.

Where's the fun in that?

Gobbin off and punching the air in delight, Anyone would have thought they had just won the league when in reality they will be coming down with us.

Well that makes me feel alot better ! Not  :smack:

I wasn't trying to make you feel better.

So he was delighted at his team scoring a late equaliser, and you think he should be punished by the FA, basically?

You dont get the pleasure of watching us every week!!

Wanka

A very fair point but I feel and endure the same pain and annoyance.

What next, players getting punished for having their heads in the hands after conceding a late goal?

I dont wish to sound like a patronizing cock - but you really dont!!

Well did Gary Neville not get punished for it ! Yes he did ! and that scenario you have just stated is a bit different.

a late equaliser against a team that released him as an 18 year old as well.

It gets worse !

Neville ran in front of the away end and started going mental, against big rivals, hardly a Dagenham player punching the air in delight against Swindon Town!

You sure you not a Daggers fan ? You seem to be defending the guy a fair bit !

Of course not, I just find that you getting pissed off because a player celebrated a late equaliser by punching the air, just a little bit laughable.

all Doe did was celebrate a goal for fuck sake!

wacko stop being a fucking twat.we get your point.
a pathetic overeaction on your part

Yeah your right next time i might get up and punch the air with him no wonder we are going down with support like you lot makes me sick !

Not patronising at all but I'll disagree on the basis I have been to many, many dire matches (and a few shit seasons too) in the 20 years I've followed Town. Sure, this season I've missed but that doesn't mean I don't feel it.

Suck my cock

Yeah arriba...

Late night Wacko?

I swear coming on this forum is like walking into a village pub ! I just aint in the click  :smugfu:

What with my change of shifts in July I have no made a single away game this season. Listen to us get beat on the radio whilst posting on the TEF, more me anyway - its half as frustrating as watching us get beat at the County Ground.

At least when you arent watching you are never 100% certain what is actually going on/what is going wrong.

Probably worse for me though being the typical 'beat seat manager' if you will because when sat at the County Ground most of the time I can see the glaringly obvious problems and find it really frustrating the players/manager cant see it!!!

You probably feel the same pain maybe not the same level of annoyance!

Folk are a little tetchy at the moment, obviously.  Has to do with being gash at football.  There's not much out there in the way of love...so don't take it personally.

You should try being Norway Red!

Jesus fucking Christ, so what do you do when we score a goal? do you celebrate our goals? do you get annoyed at our players when they celebrate their goals?

If you do celebrate our goals why are you allowed to celebrate them but not the away team?


Its nothing to do with being in the 'click' its because you're successful portraying yourself as an aggressive fucking idiot who is gettingly major pissed off over absolutely nothing.

If a 'click' member was banging on and on and on about something as stupid as you are, he'd be getting called a fucking idiot to.

Fair enough. I'll settle with that :)

I think you'll find the majority of us operate outside the clique.

yeah there's a clique.i aint fucking part of it though.
a twat is a twat,and wacko you are a twat.

Who are officially in the 'clique'.

I just find it funny when somebody disagrees and they follow it up with a retord along the lines of "suck my dick" is all.

Compelling stuff.

Nor am I, but you are being a twat.

If he had run the length of the pitch so he was right in front of the Town End, and stood on the six yard box celebrating I could see you point, but punching the air on about the half way line isn't quite the same.

Didn't stop me calling him a cunt at the time mind, just don't see way the FA should even consider any punishment.

I'm not agreeing him at all (cos he's a twat) but Doe did turn to celebrate at the Don Rogers.

Well when i joined this forum i was under the impression that being a twat was compulsory ... Nevermind got the wrong forum. As for being aggressive I'm typing on a keyboard so can't see how that's being aggressive now if i ran up to you in the townend windmilling then yes call me aggressive. Also the answer to the question "what do i do when we score a goal" i get my fucking cock out ! Plus i said suck my cock not my dick you moron ! and the forum states 80% bollocks so just doing my bit.

 :) Amazing.

Plus I said "along the lines of" ... I didn't directly quote you. Calm yourself down.

You live upto your name, don't you?

That i do !!

It's nothing personal to any of you but just pissed off with things and that guy fucked me off, next week I'm going to target that fucking robin !

Has anyone seen this on the BBC?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/03/paul_hart_-_footballs_fire_fig.html#286004

wacko - get a few beers down you and chill. We're all a bit fucked off with the Town and we all fuck each other off on here all the time. Its a bit of a bear pit on here at times but its all the better for it.

That's what i intend to do and i have also enjoyed the banter.

The further we slip down the league, the more this will happen.

The likes of Revell and Monkhouse celebrated like it was an FA Cup final against us. Thats because they are probably clever enough to realise Swindon is the best supported team they have ever played for, or will ever play for. Doe probably feels a bit the same, he knows he is now up to our level and has got one over on us.

Players should be encouraged to celebrate goals as much as possible. Football needs to see players with ambition excited about winning.

Charlie Austins celebrations were legendary.

Usually works for me, but even I can't face any tonight

I know you posted this last night so were probably still fucked off (or you might still feel the same) Smith may have deserved it, but the "fans" can still fuck off in my opinion.  In the middle of a game that we desperately need to win, there is absolutely no benefit in slagging off the players verbally, one to one if you get my point, and certainly not Ritchie who is usually one of our few bright sparks.

Fucking Morons!  Boo, run on the pitch or give them the wanker sign after the game, fine!  But not half way through a game we need to fucking win!  Not that I agree with personal abuse after the game either.  The shit that happened after the Plymouth game personally or on Twitter hasn't exactly improved the attitude of the players and therefore our chances of survival has it?

All about opinions Batch I know, and yours I respect, but you are wrong you miserable old match day opinionated bastard!  :smugfu:

BTW, well done Wacko for cheering up everyone's Sunday afternoon with shit all (decent) football on TV!  I did see that smug fucker giving the DRS the finger and telling them to fuck off after they scored, and would have loved to have run on the pitch and smacked his teeth down his throat, but if I was in his position I would have done exactly the same!  Used to love ramming it down spectators throats when I was playing, even if it was some random bloke walking his dog at the time!

Peace out!

Welcome back Eric Cantona! :D

A mate of mine was on the adver site.....someone was rather irate with him and threatened to punch his lights out.......even asked for my mates phone number so he could launch abuse on the phone....my mate left the number.

The call went something like this...irate adver forum man says....right you twat,you didn't think i would ring you you fucking big mouthed dick.....wait till i find out who you are ....you will be fucking history....(long silence)...speak then you mouthy prick,not so hard now are ya!
The reply went something like this.

I so sorry...this is Sinbads curry house...if you have had a problem with one of our curry's please come in and we will refund you! :D

Quality !

The way you do it is a bit more like walking into a village pub, kicking half the tables over, peeing in the remaining pints, taking a dump on the bar, then standing there going "What? What you all looking at?"

And it's "clique"

Not Boo by any chance?

What the fuck ,are you turning gay? Man the fuck up and get the beer out you pussy

  :nod: :nod:

Don't come on here acting all educated we are Swindon Town fans we are far from educated.

speak for yourself!

 :toocool:

He's a nice chap. And I've changed my mind about the beer tonight, I now fancy a few

I can understand people are frustrated and pissed off this season but why is there so much fucking aggravation on here lately? There's a few people who seem to come on here solely to antagonise others and it's become quite tiresome.

Furthermore, who is in the clique? What is the clique? What does it do?

Good man

Just sat and read through this thread because I couldn't be arsed last night.

I agree with what most have said already. Grella and Andrew really impressed me alot. Andrew is like a much better version of Pericard. He's mobile, strong, wins headers and works hard.

Have to say, i'm not Phil Smith's biggest fan but on a few occasions, he saved us big time. Had a decent game.

Frampton still causes a few 'heart in the mouth' moments and I wish he wouldn't piss about with the ball so much and just clear it!

Lastly, Norway Red you really are becoming an irritating twat on here. I'm not sure if it's just a 'forum persona' or you're really like it?

Poor old Norway  :pint:

Norway Red is fine by me.  Personally, I love the fact that there's a Norwegian nutter out there who's unhinged enough to want to follow us.  Also think the forum abuse he's been getting is a little OTT.

Not that it matters...because he clearly doesn't give a #### what people think anyway.  Good on him!

Absolutely agree. Norway Red is the kind of eccentric I like - absolutely barking - but as a Town fan in Norway he's got to be pork pie short of a picnic . Keep on posting feller.

Norway Red:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rEiVl_0hA&feature=related

NR is the best thing thats happened to TEF since Spacey in his heyday

I wish mate!  :D More like Erik Thordsvet!

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team clique.

I know where they are...

I got kicked out of the clique

Exclusively for sonicyouth.

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

Thats all we want on the forum, another fucking spelling / grammar nazi. Fuck off with your educated, smart-arsed spellchecking bollocks, you cunt ;)

After sifting through the bitching, the last few pages made me remember Coxys goal celebration when he punched the corner flag in front of the Rovers fans at their place.

Loved it and their reaction was worth the yellow card he received!

:fishing:

Spellchecking bollocks? That'd be great, I could be a Viz character - "Pauld and his spellchecking bollocks"

Fuck off hippy :)

FWIW, I think wacko's just on a wind-up and as everyone else said, although NR's quite annoying sometimes, he's basically just a couple of elk short of a herd. Delightfully so

"just a couple of elk short of a herd."
That made me spit my coffee on the floor! Love it!!

I live further away so I feel more and endure more pain and annoyance therefore I'm a better fan than you. The closer you live the poorer you are. QED