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So i'm actually at home this weekend (managed to pick an away game to come home for cause i'm a knob...)

So i'm not drunk after a night out, but i'm gonna start this thread in the hope my run continues.

Don't see why not.

0-1 Town.

COYR

Good one.

3-0 Town with Jervis starting and scoring a couple,Flint to score again.

2-1 Wimbledon. Run's got to end sometime.

2-1 Swindon. The run had better not fucking end

Some team 1 - Swindon Town 2

Reckon we are good for this today.

Ridehalgh (or however you spell it) back in the starting line-up with Jervis.

2-0 to the Town.

0-5

A great 2-0 away win

If Suggwillsugg keeps starting every matchday thread then we've got the title sown up!
2-1 town. Connell twice from the bench after being 1-0 down.

0-2 will do nicely.

Same 2-0 Swindon and a good day out. COYR!

2-1 defeat.

2-0 to the good guys.

De Vita, Ferry.

Think we proved we are a class above them last week. could of been 4 or5 when they scored a fluke im going for a comfortable 2-1 flint and de vita

My three year old gave it a lot of welly during the now obligatory Saturday morning 'Come on You Reds' at breakfast.  And my one year old joined in this time as well, sort of.  I'm feeling optimistic.

Optomistic thoughts indeed however my recent predications have been way off so if I say a 2-1 defeat hopefully the opposite will endure.

3-0 Swindon. Jervis Kerouche & Gabilondo but also 6 clean sheets in a row in the league.

After the Lord Mayor's Show again? Bore-draw?

P.S. Is there a link that we can watch it on again?

AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Swindon Town

Goals from Kerrouche & Connell for Town with a late scrambled goal from the Wombles.  FORZA SWINDON!

Not overly confident about this one. We might sneak a 1-0 but got a feeling it'll be 1-1.

It's not being broadcast anywhere, so no

Booo! I enjoyed that last week!

I think everyone did

0-1 defeat.

2-0 win, Keroooosh and Ritchoe

2-0, De Vita and Ritchie

Got £5 on De Vita for first goal scorer

Town (4-4-2): Foderingham; Caddis, Flint, McCormack, Ridehalgh; Ritchie, Risser, Ferry, De Vita; Connell, Jervis

Under 1s,students and oap's not being allowed into the ground without proof of ID apparantly

Who the hell is going into the ground an hour before kick off?

Not many 1 year olds carry ID cards

haha under 16s

That's pathetic.

Reaction due to Town fans buying home end tickets?

Wes Foderingham
Paul Caddis
Aden Flint
Alan McCormack
Liam Ridehalgh
Matt Ritchie
Oliver Risser
Simon Ferry
Raffaele De Vita
Alan Connell
Jake Jervis

Subs:
Phil Smith
Etienne Esajas
Jonathan Smith
Lander Gabilondo
Callum Kennedy

 :D

Come on Town! going for 2-1 Town, a Jervis double.

Fucking hell.

foderingham soapy tit wank

Risser fuckup

Bollocks

Only 7 minutes in but it was coming

Noooooooooooo

1-0 down then :(

Bugger....

Pox are losing at Crawley though...

Might have been McCormack according to Radio Wilts. My apologies Risser.

Brown saves from Connell.

it was inveitable given the build up regarding clean sheets

If we lose i blame Willsugg for not starting rhe matchthread when he was drunk, schoolboy error  ;)

now for the comeback please town

This feels strange were behind and we've conceded, im not use to this in the league.

Bloody aerial has snapped off of my radio right on kick-off!!  Can someone give reasonably regular updates on how things are going?  Something more than "Ooooohh that was close" and "Cunty cunt" would be appreciated!!

Sounds like we're all over the place today.

Being put under a lot of pressure at the moment.

Oh dear that was inevitable considering we were going for a club record of clean sheets in the league!  Come on then Town, let's show the spirit from last week to bring us back into it quickly.

Also, not wanting to jump on the criticising Risser bandwagon, but I'm surprised he's started.  I wouldn't have said he's made enough of an impact in recent games to oust Smith, who imo is stronger in the midfield?

Wovers 0 Barnet 1

Got a feeling we'll come out winners.  Not been a goal down and still felt confident of a win for a long time.  

2nd half AFC will start to flag, seen it a few times this season.  Expect the equaliser just before or after half ime.

Connell headed over the bar. Two good chances for him, if he played more would he have scored one of them?

Connell heads over when he might have done better

Maybe that's the reason he isn't starting more

Keeper saves from Connell again

strange how he seems to waste so many chances after being so prolific last year.

Cmon Connell stick one in

Are we on top or was the Connell chance a one off?

God this is frustrating with no radio!!  I'm thinking of going and sitting in the car and listening to it there.   :badmood:

sounds like the sort of line from a porn film

CHECK YOUR INBOX

I wonder whether he checked or whether he is sat in the car?

Gabilondo coming on?

I hear Gabbi might be coming on...

;D  I checked.  The car will be used for the second half.

On for De Vita

That's early

Cos of the yellow card perhaps

Close by Gabby

Good save from a Gabilondo effort. Corner.

Save from Gabilondo (sounded as if Gabilondo should have scored from the corner of 6 yard box)

Smith would've done well to start as he is very good at breaking up the play. For me, Risser only good for coming on in the last 10-15 when we're looking at shutting up shop and need some defensive fresh legs.

low quality from town.  4 good chances though.  they want it more we have yet to string about 2 passes together.   

Bit of a bollocking at half time I would think Batch

Totally agree. Disappointed for Smith, I think he's been good of late.

Sounds like it might be one of those days, I hope not.

Slight consallation(sp)
Crawley 3 Pox1

I say swap Risser and McCormack around, if it doesn't work bring Smith on for Risser.

Interesting to see what Paolo can try to change to turn this around.  Are we just poor everywhere today?

no just at Kingsmeadow

It is, but from the other side of the coin, Crawley go marching on!

Connell misses a sitter

Connell for Swindon alone in the area... completely miscues his effort onto the post

Oh dear Connell

What a cunt! Annoyance!!

:crash:

It's my fault. Bet on Swindon for the first time in over a year please accept my sincere apologies....

4 now, Pat Butcher will be pleased

Come on town !!!

Might have had a pen. This just isn't our day  :(

Scum 1 - Crawley 4 now!

And Connell therefore relegates himself straight back to the subs bench as soon as Kerrouche is fit .......

Maybe he plays better when he comes on as sub?

If only Kerooosh was playing, how many chances does connell need!!!

Easyjet's on for Richie

Top 5 all winning. Not a good day.

Get in!

Whoooooooooo 1-1!

It's a goallll!!! Jervis shot, defelcted off Connell or a defender. That came from nowhere - didnt sound like a goal was coming at all.

Come on!!!! lets get a winner.

fortunate!

Either Jervis, rebound off Connell or an OG...Dont care! 1-1

On top of that, so are Gillingham, who will leapfrog us into the play off places  :(

We keep waiting for the teams above us to start dropping points and it's not just happening at the moment.

THat's more like it!!

Good teams win ugly - Are we a good team?

Airdrie Utd 10-0 Gala Fairydean : Donnelly (77)

Fucking finally!

Get in.

Get in!!!  Don't care who or how!!!  About time we scored a scruffy goal off of someones arse rather than having to rely on worldies.

Now let's get a winner.

Given to Connell - Lets hope that it helps his confidence and he 'notches' again!

 :pint:

Ha - just switched on SSN and we score.  Should have done it earlier.  Come on Town, let's sneak a winner and not drop out of the play off places!

Get the fuck in. CMON TOWN!

Alan!

STFCPlayer has died for me, anyone else?

Airdrie Utd 11 - Gala Fairydean 0 (Derek Holmes)

Get in, come on town get a winner !!

Fine for me

Fine with me

whew it's back

Fine for me

I'm predicting an aden Flint bullet header for the winner in the 92 minute

Talking about Ferry becoming more influential now. Wonder whether that is because of fitness or whether it is because Jonathan Smith compliments him better than Risser?

Aiden Flint missed an opportunity in the 6 yard box a few mins ago.

Cmon Town

Free kick to us...

corner

Can smell the win from here.  Keep it together, keep the pressure on and we'll grab the win.

Feels very odd to be listening on a radio again..

Stonewall Pen turned down and Caddis booked for diving

Oh Vic... calls Penalty but it's a free kcik against Caddis

Penalty ? No...Its a free kick to AFC

Cast iron penalty and ref gives free kick to Wimbledon.

Stonewall penalty according to the commentators. Gutted.

Stoppage time - 4 mins

Connell side foot miss.

Foderingham save

End to end

Fucking refs in this league. Would have been harsh on Wimbledon though.

Official twitter, Gary Rose, commentators and people at the ground all saying it was a clear penalty. Oh dear.

or Kingston depending on your view point

Ft yet?

Full Time.
1-1

FT. Will take that but big questions on that penalty decision.

Even the Dons local rag is saying it was a clear penalty...

Paolo on now.

Refusing to comment on the pen as he was "Too far away"

Bum

still could be worse, we could pox fans hahahahahahahahahahahaha still good to get an away point. onwards and upwards bring on the shots next week

Paolo on

- I don't want to comment on the penalty, I was too far away. Someone told me it was a definite penalty. If so, that's the 4th clear penalty we've not had this year
- I have two feelings today: fed up of the players as they approached the game wrong and conceded a stupid goal, but proud of them because we played well in the second half
- There's sadness in the dressing room. We should have won because we had chances to score plenty more
- We have to approach the games like we did in the last few weeks, not like we did today. The poor start cost us the win
- Alan Connell is angry with the chances he missed. He's an important player for us and he works so hard
- We need to score more goals, we should have had 2 or 3 today. Hopefully we can get a new striker in so that we have fresh legs to come on and inject energy up front late in the game
- Kerrouche will be back next week, Magera will be back sooner than expected but not straight away
- 10 games unbeaten is good and it keeps confidence high, but we still should have won!

Fairly good result, considering it sounded like we didn't perform that well.

Is it me or did Ferry get mentioned about fifty times more when Jon Smith came on?

Probably a fair result.. Couldnt tell if it was a pen or not... That stadium is fucking nasty. Not bothering with that again. Was surprised Jonny didnt start we were a lot better with each substitution.

Really insightful analysis of our performance there from Pete... in Singapore

a good away point. 

we played too much hoof ball and have the ball away too much for 65 minutes.  wimbledon were stronger and quicker to the ball.

that said Connell could have had 4.

difficult to see the penalty. difficult to see much at all!

smith > risser

Just got in. Batch has summed it up perfectly for me. Officials were awful and the ground was shit.

Considering the tickets were only avaiable for st holders I wonder how there was a section of town surporters not knowing the names of half of the team...

Did any of the Town fans with home tickets have any problems getting in?

Ferry certainly got hold of the ball a lot more once smith came on PDC should play smith and ferry on sat.

I was down the end where caddis was brought down. It was a stonewall penalty, Cornell missed a sitter as well, his shot was heading for the corner flag before reflecting onto the post.

Nope I didn't.  But I wasn't wearing town colours so they couldn't tell.

Another point towards promotion. Draws away are good results, even if we should have won.

No problem getting into the ground, the Stfc fans I saw kept it low key so no problems. I found it hard not to celebrate the goal but even harder not to moan about rissers inability to trouble the ball.

What he said.

Since September: P13 W8 D3 L2

Sorry it's a bit late but I'll go for a 1-1 !

I got in fine. I was 15 minutes late in all fairness but that has nothing to do with it..

Enjoyed the game today, regretted taking my big coat cos the body heat alone was over powering!

Caddis looked a stonewall pen - thought their number 22 got away with a big shove in the box on Connell earlier on too. Big Wes kept us in it with two brilliant reflex saves, Risser was anonymous and Smith needs to be back in the starting line-up. Wimbledon had a defence of donkeys and relied on hoofs. Officials were shocking today, absolutely baffling.

Oh and Ritchie was poor today. Sulked when he came off.

Just got back, no problems at all getting into the home end, even though we were clocked by a couple of supporters early on - friendly bunch of supporters. As expected no checks done at all to ascertain if we were Wimbledon or not.

Have to say embarrassed by the behaviour of some of our own after we scored - the chant " we are Swindon we do what we like" as they try to 'kick off' is fucking embarrassing to say the least, especially when Paolo turns round from the dugout and tries to calm them down. Grow up.

As for the game glad to take the point, but we should have scored at least 3 in the first half, we were refused 2 stonewall penalties especially the last one - there was a deep intake of breath from the dons fans at the last one when the 'tackle' was made which says everything.

Another thing that struck me was in the last 15 minutes our fitness definitely showed - we were 1st to everything and should have wrapped up the game - do we need a fucking striker or what?

Anyway in summary I have had too much beer to make much more sense but a decent point, a nice away ground and a great day out.

Our terrace reminded me of Barnet or Hereford in that I couldn't see a thing on the left hand side in the second half.

Onto the game. Summed up in Two words- Risser & Connell.

What is Risser doing in the team. He adds no value and missed the ball completly before it went to their fellow who scored! The team improved so much when Smithy came on.    

Connell. This guy is just not a player. Nobody can fault his effort and he appears to be a very nice chap, however...

This season, before today he has scored 3 goals, one of which was a featherlite touch @ Crawley. I doubt that he has troubled the keeper more than 5 times before today, however, he had 2 half chances and 3 gilt edge chances today and fluffed them all. A pathetic side foot in the 1st half when he only had to put he foot through it and the scuffed effort that hit the post.

Having said all that we have to take this as a point won when we equalise with 20 mins to go. Sometimes we have to say that a point away from home is a good point. Remember we have 13 home games and only 10 away in 2012.  

Connell gets sporadic run outs in the team and scored shit loads of goals last season when playing regularly. To say he isn't a player is unfair.

Agree

Agree with everything you said except the ground it was absolutely shit.

I guess I have a reason to moan though as I was in the home end behind the home dugout with a 4 year old who wanted to go home after 10 mins and he had to sit on my shoulders for long stints !!
Anyway happy with a point.

Plenty of Town fans in the home end, standing next to another 4 but I couldn't make out why it kicked off. Was it when we scored and a problem with the stewards ?

Anyway the main takes for me Connell's miss and a stone wall penalty and maybe another.

Interesting that the general opinion of those at the game is that Risser once again offered very little and Smith should have started.  Strange decision imo, why break up the Smith/Ferry partnership that's been working so well in the last few league games?  I do hope Di Canio is not going to start chopping and changing players around too much again, as one of the main reasons we've managed to put a decent run together is due to a reasonably stable side.

In terms of Connell, I really feel for him.  He never stops working and a large proportion of the supporters (myself included) have felt he's been a bit hard done by constantly being down the pecking order.  It's a vicious circle though, because when he's been given the opportunity from the start, he's not tended to play as well and missed a number of chances hence he's dropped agin the minute someone else is fit.  I'm starting to think he might end up being another Chalky White, who has more impact when he comes on as a sub.

Got to give the dons credit, they did a great job on caddis in the first half, and put mac and flint under lots of decent pressure. But we still created loads of chances. It us obvious that ferry and smith are our best midfield pairing at the moment. Dons pressured the ball well to the extent that risser hardly got a kick. What concerns me is that ferry has to cover for risser too much, which in turn takes away his ability to hurt the opposition.

Thought our fans were brilliant today so I disagree with people saying its 'embarrasing'...not at all I'd lighten up if I were you...didnt see many of us around LDN town but plenty in the titty bar so happy days...good result down there and roll on next week #STFC

Was my first experience of watching the Town away in the home end, and can't say I enjoyed it too much. Half the fun of going to footie is surely to be able to vent your anger/frustrations from the working week so to have to watch 90 mins in silence, biting the lip was agonising!

Satisfied with the point but could definitely could have taken all 3. Risser had a mare for their goal and Smith was so much better when he came on (Although he did attempt to decapitate one of the Dons players but luckily missed).

Fodringham looked solid and Ferry was class throughout imo. Connell should have scored no doubt with his chance but no way would I place him with Risser as underperforming - thought Connell put a decent shift in.

2 pen shouts - Caddis' looked a clear pen to me and all the Dons fans were shitting themselves as if it was a pen - can't say for sure as it was the far side. Connell was a blatent pen in my eyes. He just got smashed in the back and there's no way in the world that wouldn't have been a foul in the centre circle.

No offence meant but from the John Smith's home stand I couldn't hear much singing from our away section til after we scored. Might just be the acoustics though!

Smith must start over Risser next game.

That is bloody heresy - burn the witch

atmosphere in the away end mirrored the performance on the pitch.

I think Connell's performance was just one of those days. also just remembered flint's miss too :-)

Oh yeah, forgot about that - complete air shot from Flint from 6 yards out.

Connell should have scored his chance though after Gabi gave to him on a plate.

Only saw up to their goal... what was ours like?

Went out with £100, came home with £170 absolutely wankered.
Good day.

How come?

Friend of mine who I went up with got kicked out when they scored, so I left with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-302n8NCR8

good work

so you travel all the way to London to watch 6mins of football bacause your mate got kicked out?!

well done you!  :doh:

bugger me, the ref in the southampton game looks to have been even worse than our one yesterday

turned down about 3 stonewall penno's, but did give two when fonte was brought down outside the area and one where the fat prick lambert dived...

A few things I remember from yesterday.

Being behind the dugout in the 2nd half, Di Canio punching the dugout about 30 times.

Still can't figure out how THAT Caddis challenge didn't result in a penalty. Maybe Di Canio's comments about diving a couple of months ago are biting him on the arse.

That whole ground stunk of shit

I'm not too bothered. Sort of loosing the love and the best part of football days for me are the piss up before and after, so it was just extra time in the pub  :)

i find myself commenting of ref's and their "assistants" far too much during games and afterwards. the bastards in black yesterday were clueless and failed to control a game that could've got a bit naughty.

he booked ridhaulgh for throwing the ball into the ground, yup fair enough. but didn't do anything about jackson pushing someone in the back after the whistle a second before after giving one of many irrational decisions.

the penalty shouts - connell got bummed when the ball was in the air, ref ignores it. caddis goes down, no idea if there's any contact due to the fucking view.

the lino on the away terrace was a bobbleheaded cretin. he gave jervis offside a few times when he was 2 yards onside, with a defender on his arse

we probably deserved a draw, their keeper made three great stops in the first half and connell just wasn't going to score, or flint. but then foderingham made 2 great stops.

we did well with ten men, then when we subbed smithy on for the missing man we got a bit of pace and fight about us. i wonder if the players rate risser as little as i do, as they seemed to perk up a bit once smith was on...

as a money saving guru you could buy an extra 4 pints instead of buying match tickets

you're welcome

They showed Connell's miss on the Football League Show and it didn't look as bad as it sounded at the time. He perhaps should have done better but Vic made it sound like it was virtually an open goal on the commentary which it clearly wasn't.

so why bother with going through the hassle of going to the match at all, the ticket cost the same as 5 pints of pints of lager.  This makes no sense at all. Also if pdc has not enthused you, I don't think anything will.

It was horrendous to say the least!Stinky cunts!

The first half was quite possibly the worst view I have ever had at a football match therefore can't really comment too much on the football played.

Risser was useless - would like to have seen Smithy start and he must be in the first 11 v Aldershot next weekend.  I am not sure why PDC persists with him.

Ritchie is getting far too greedy for my liking.  PDC's reaction after he attempted that long range shot said it all and resulted in him (rightly in my opinion) subsequently being hauled off.

Jervis doesn't really impress me i'm afraid.  I have to question his work rate and on far too many occasions he seems to wait for the ball to come to him.  

Connell was unlucky.  Put in a decent shift but think he'll play better with someone like Kerrouche alongside him.

Gabilondo looked good when he came on - I'd quite like to see him start Saturday.  I rate De Vita but its clear Gabilondo has bags of technical ability therefore like to see him take his chance and cement his place.

Ferry was my MOTM - thought he had a decent game seeing as Risser was absent for most of it.

The officials were absolutely diabolical too. 

I think the smell was due to one of our fans letting off stink bombs, the funny fucker.

Good day out and on the whole our support was top notch. I did have a minor disagreement with one though, who thought it was a good idea to bait the Wimbledon fans by chanting "Franchise, Franchise, Franchise....". which was frankly embarrassing and fucking annoying.

I threw a few disgusted looks at the ones singing "you're just a shit M K D o n s"........ embarrassing.

you had a bit of a mardy face on for most of the game to be fair

Thanks mate!  :smugfu:

I think I spoke to joteddyred at full time... Also had a.go at some little prick for dropping the n bomb...

Good on ya! It's just not needed, although just a hand shake would've sufficed, apparently.

A deserved point methinks...a win might of been a tad unfair.

I was tempted to go yesterday but i kept my credits for the Rovers game,frankly i am glad i did as reading the posts tells me it really isnt/wasnt a great awayday.

Looking forward to Rovers away.

I couldn't see, or hear, the majority of Town fans from where I was but I have no doubt they were brilliant, as we always are. I was specifically refering to the 'smallish' number of Green Street wannabes near the segregation point who were kicking off with stewards, Police and trying to kick off with non- antagonistic Dons fans in a stand with families in. Perhaps perceptions are different when on the receiving end and can view things in the 'cold light of day' as it were, but in no way did I think that particular section's support was 'brilliant'.

Anyway it's a minor quibble, I'm more pissed off over the officials, just when you think that they can't get any worse in this league...

I still feel ill from the smell of the toilets. And i doubt if I saw more than 10 minutes of the actual game due to the crap view. I should have took your offer of the space in the cab Hertha. 10 past 3 ours turned up! So i saw a 1-0 win :)

That's fair enough and in terms of brilliant I mean the numbers that turned up so point well made mate! :D Best Fans in the League IMO!

Was in the Paul Strank stand and have to say that Ritchie put in a lot of very energetic defensive work on the left flank in the second half but quite agree it wasn't really working for him (as well as many others) offensively.

I fully agree that Smith on for Risser made all the difference as I felt we had been overrun in midfield, especially in the first half and Ferry ended up the most influential player for the last 20 when we looked the likelier winners.

Superb second half run by Caddis into the box that had me on my feet celebrating the penalty rather than shouting for it - no luck there at all.

Pleased for AC that he got a goal - he should have scored several more but he worked his socks off and got into good positions so even if he's not been clinical his goals return stays solid.  Mehdi has a groin strain (I presume that was what he was pointing to when I asked) and hopes to be back next week - think we missed him but on yesterday's evidence.

Smith for Risser would be the first change to make

Sorry to hear about the small minority of STFC fans - AFC is a lovely club and other than always beating them you've got to admire what they have achieved.

What state did my brother get into?

Sorry to disappoint, but it wasn't me.  I was nowhere further than my PC yesterday afternoon.  What gave you the impression it might be me?

Her name was Jo and she was carrying a red teddy  ;D

I was fucked yesterday

And the view was fucking shit. And the titty bar was crap. But I was allowed to smoke in the ground so all was not lost

As were we all. I was laughing to myself walking back to the station last night as i caught a view of us in a window shuffling along like something out of the walking dead.

Wasn't a bad game yesterday. Thought a draw was probably the fair result. In the first half we were very poor. Just didn't get anything going at all and it was like watching us back in August where our defending from set pieces looked so dodgy. At one point I felt they were going to score every time they got a corner. Despite all of that we still had a few good chances. Connell should have bagged 2 in the first 45 to be quite honest but their keeper did make 2 decent saves.

In the second half we looked asleep for the first 15 minutes and they were all over us. A 2nd for them would have killed it off but we managed to stick it out and eventually we got going. Not sure how Connell missed that chance that seemed to trickle towards the post/wide. After our goal we were all over them and I thought we could have gone on to win it but it wasn't to be.

2 penalty calls turned down. The first I think is a penalty. Connell is running for the ball and clearly he's going to get there first. The Wimbledon player just clattered into him from behind. I don't think anyone would have stayed on their feet for that as the momentum would naturally knock you over. If that's outside the box it's a free kick. It really frustrates me when refs don't have the balls to blow for a penalty when they'd give the foul anywhere else on the pitch. The Caddis one I didn't see a lot of because of the view but it looked as if he was ready to shoot or flash the ball across goal so can't see why he would have gone down there. A few Wombles fan at the train station after the game even said it should have been a penalty. The ref was pretty shocking all round though and I lost count of how many times Jervis and Connell were pushed only for the ref to play on.

Di Canio's subs were spot on. De Vita was having a mare of a game and Gabilondo was very good when he came on. Smith changed the game. I think PDC should have made that change a bit earlier. Risser seems to go missing a bit too much and Ferry seemed to come into the game more when Smith came on and you can see it's a partnership that seems to be working so I think we should have those 2 starting in CM next week. Connell is much better as an impact player. His hold up play is very good and puts himself about but his finishing is pretty poor at times. We really missed Kerrouche yesterday. I think it showed how important he really is to the team.

And finally the ground. Tiny and the view was very poor. Had to tip toe to see anything in the 2nd half. It wasn't far off being as bad as Supermarine or Ciren. You can see how far AFC have come in the past few years and what a great achievement it has been.

I don't remember going home

Yeah it's ok he apologised to my mate because his emotions got the better of him... silly little boy.

There was a gobbly little cunt to the very right hand side of the away "stand". I bet it was him.   He was an embarrassment.

I saw that guy your on about, what a cunt

No doubt my day would have been far better if I was able to join everyone on a proper LDN away day, but personally thought it was shit bar the hour in the pub before hand.

The ground is shit, if it was anyone but the fairytale that is AFCW then it'd be slated. Couldn't see fuck all, half the away terrace with no cover and not a great atmosphere due to it being long and shallow.

As for the game, we done more than enough to win it. The front 2 were rank in the first half but improved massively after the break though, to be fair. Risser had a mare, and Smith was quality when he came on, really showed up Risser. Al Mac and Flint were awesome again, they compliment each other so well and McCormack in particualr is really impressing me at CB.

Probably in the minority in disagreeing in a big way re taking Ritchie off. Was far from our worst player on the pitch and always likely to create, certainly more then Esajas anyway.

And, just to clarify, they were absolutely shite. Like proper shite. We had more than enough chances to win the game but didn't, and Connell alone missed 2 great chances and another 3 or 4 half-chances.

But the run continues, and it's an ok result so long as we back it up with 3 points next week.

I'm happy drawing our away games as long as we keep our good home form up. Someone pointed out in this thread that we still have 13 home games left to play in 2012 and only 10 away. That makes things very interesting. A few decent results on the road and keeping our home form up would result in us being high up the league come May.

As for Ritchie I thought he was getting into good positions and making good runs with the ball but he was always taking the wrong option at the end of it. He's not going to score from 30 yerds every week. Think it was the right choice to haul him off. He needs to know that he's not invincible.

;D

irony being there weren't any stink bombs in the Paul Strank Stand...




Just this bloke, Paul

Early on I had to tell a bloke behind me, who must have been twice my age, to button it singing anti-Dons songs, slagging the ground, their fans, and calling them tinpot. There are some very simple people around.

One of the reasons i've stopped going to away games this season is because there is a real knobhead element recently that go just to cause trouble or sing abusive songs which basicly gives the decent town fans who are there to support the team a bad name.

Completely agreed

Some of our so called "fans" are a fucking embarrasment

I was in there too and I disagree

Fucking embarrassment is an understatement

The future of our fanbase looks pretty bleak. A certain element of it, at least.

Strange thing is, as an over 40 fan I thought the same thing 5-10 years ago.

However, most of the young twats that supported us then seem to have turned out OK  ;)

It does seem a more frequent occurrence this year for away fixture matchday threads to be littered with comments about our idiot element... I can't remember it happening in previous seasons.

Obviously a lot of morons have reached puberty this year...

So some of our fans were a disgrace again. ::)  i have nothing but admiration for Wimbledon. Any real football fan would agree. It wouldn't be a bad thing for some of our own to teach a few of these cretins a lesson. Surprised they don't get a slap to be honest.

I'm not gonna lie - about 5-8 years ago I was getting absolutely cunted at home games - Savoy at 10 a.m - turn up 5 minutes late singing all sorts of ridiculous crap. I don't recall being a mouthy twat who thought he was Danny Dyer mind. I remember one game we were all screaming shite at Andy Liddle only for him to score 2 goals, but I mostly just sang more because I was less bothered about being the only one when I was completely trolleyed.

Agree - this used to be self policed. The biggest fear the Town fans had was being thought of as a bunch of wankers, pretty much what most people agree an element of our fans are. There's a good chance they'll get sorted at Rovers. Its one thing taking the piss at Wimbledon, Accrington etc ( decent clubs who shouldn't have to put up with some of the shit we export ) but at Rovers, Scumland etc then they'll be fucked.  Of course, they might just turn out to be gobby l;ittle cunts when the police are around and scared shitless little bottlers when it comes down to arm to arm combat.  

B3nny, what you have described is what going to football is all about when you're that age.

These dicks think it's funny to sing songs about raping cats and start fights with stewards just for shits and giggles.

Green street has a lot to answer for

Come on chaps...little over the top eh?

Blimey we all were one of those scally's once wasn't we...a fart bomb and some silly chants :gay:
Course it is embarasing to watch and hear but we all have acted similar especially with a few beers in us surely.

When our younger fans start abusing old woman or beating up pensioners then it is time for a good clip.......in the main we have got some good young fans.

After three,1-2-3...........Swindun,Swindun Ra,Ra Rahhhhhhh! ;D

Wasn't aimed at you in particular, it's just some of the people who want to have a pop at our fans seem to forget that they were young & stupid at some point.

The problem is that as each generation come along they have to be more stupid to shock the older generation(s).

I guess I have just got to the point where I can ignore the fuckwits without getting too wound up by their idiotic behaviour.

Ha that did come across slightly defensive! I know it wasn't aimed at me, I guess I was just trying to balance out me criticising them with my own experiences. I wondered what that whole cat raping thing was. There was a group behind us at the Dons JPT game talking about how they got that going, my mates and I just looked at each other completely bewildered.

They are pretty embarrassing. Reflects badly on the rest of our support.

No it dosn't......all away fans bring an element of young pissed up idiots.

Wimbledon fans are not stupid......most will be saying what a great away support we have...not reflecting on the actions of a few young fuckwits.

Very rarely i hear any negative things about our away support. Actually i read more about it here than anywhere else

I spoke to a friend today who went in the home end with his boy. First thing he said was that some of our lot were an embarrasment and deserved a slap. The fact that alot of people are talking about conduct of some of our fans means it is a bit more than the usual odd pissed up twat. These cockheads are too comfortable in their surroundings it seems,and as Chalkies pointed out,if it came to it at a club with an axe to grind with us they would do fuck all. These gobby morons will walk around the wrong corner one day and will get a fucking good hiding.

You didnt go

You didnt witness it

Stop trying to defend it

Anyone would thing you were fucking Swiss

And half the time it'll be Crispy getting the blame when it wasn't anything to do with him.

That said, I can understand if people want to have a go at idiotic behaviour, but I don't think posting about it on here achieves anything.

And thats the way of the world arriba.....they wont get a hiding because they wont act like that at Rovers or Bradford.
Its all relative....the little gobshites of Leeds and co wont be shouting of at Millwall or West Ham....they will do it at Peterborough or the such.

Oh and Fred....not defending fuck all...just stating facts.
You need to grow a pair if a few youngsters are winding you up........i went so i know it all bollox :D

Are there a load of posts missing or am I going mad?

I actually think the older fans need to take a look at themselves tbh.When i was younger i was a lary cunt and like arriba says would be told when to shut the fuck up and a few times given a clip.

Nowadays people just seem happy to pop on a forum and have a moan about it.Take crispy for example,you all seem to see him acting a prick but no one says it to him at a game do you?

 

Also lets not forget that at these much smaller grounds the few fans who show themselfs up stand out...at the bigger grounds maybe they wouldn't be noticed so much.
I would say on the whole our fans will be praised by our rivals.....if not by our own.

I understand the points Fred/arriba are making and agree that it is an embarasment if you can hear it....but there is nought you can do so dont let it ruin your day there...its sods law you will get the trouble or ban if you start on them.

If people want to give it the bigun and gob off etc then it doesn't bother me generally. But it's doing it at clubs like Wimbledon that show them up for what they are.
When i was a teen at football there were loads of us who went together. We looked up to the older lads and didn't step out of line. We joined in with them singing, had the odd scape after games and drank beer,smoked spliffs etc but i never saw the sort of liberties taken like they do today. They would have been battered outside the grounds back then for sure

Am I right in thinking that yesterday was our first away draw this season?

Yeah our other two were at home to Hereford and Bradford.

Surely that cant be much of a surprise - what with this being a Swindon Town forum and all that?

I dont think our away support gets much of a mention positively or negatively from the other teams.

I dont want to be negative but after experiencing the idiocy at that game I feel the need to post on here.

I stood near where the home fans were. felt very embarrassed at the dickheads mosh pitting in our end, think it was after our goal, causing one of our own fans (old boy) to fall over and need medical attention, at the same point when Di Canio turned round to try to calm the twats down.
I hope some of the idiots read this and realise your stupidity has caused that true football supporter to probably consider not going to any away matches any more. Nice one!! As long as you had fun thats all that matters.

As for the obese ginger who tells Ritchie hes shit within ear shot, which caused Richie to look up. well done, thats the way to show your support. When I pulled him up on it he said "he can play much better than that".
Judging from how he played after being 'G'd up' by ginge, I'd say that motivational technique is not conducive to the cause.
When it came to fuckwits shouting advice to Di Canio I just despair.

On a brighter note the majority of fans that came to support the team sounded gd from where I was.

The match is one to forget for me, we got totally hustled out of the match, ref was mostly to blame, should be dominating teams like this.

Same every away game now.

Plenty of dickheads at Plymouth when I went.

Our match report and reactions to STFC at AFC Wimbledon - http://thewashbag.com/2011/11/21/afc-wimbledon-1-swindon-1-town-draw-after-being-denied-blatant-penalty/

You have just posted what i said anyway.Well done.

Most of the matches I manage to get to are away matches, and I have to say that I have never seen so many embarrassing twats in the away end as there are this season.

I'm not a regular poster, and haven't gone back over all the previous posts, so not sure if this has been mentioned....

On saturday, a group of our fans thought it would be hilarious to chant 'there's only one John Terry' at a black steward. I assume that's the same people that have been mentioned on here? Utterly utterly moronic, and there's no excuse for it however old you are.

Myself, and others, shouted them down, but the whole thing left a really nasty taste in the mouth.

Used to go away all the time 10-15 years ago (before the family came along) but made a rare trip on Saturday.
Might just be my hazy memory but I'm convinced we never had such a large contingent of embarrassing supporters way back then. It wasn't just youngsters either on Saturday, we were stood near some older blokes presumably from Highworth (given the "we are Highworth, we do what we want" chant  :doh:) and they seemed to think it hilarious to sing "one Sepp Blatter" / "one John Terry" to the black steward stood in front of them, fair play to him he laughed it off but it was cringeworthy.

Apologies for duplicating posts, looks like someone beat me to it with the "one John Terry " stuff

I was in the home end on Saturday.. I heard plenty of embarrassing songs from Dons fans, including racist stuff (aimed at Italians and Scots) they also had some weird song about Paedophiles which was just as cringeworthy as "we do what we want.."

After the game, 6 or 7 of their "lads" trying to goad Swindon fans into a reaction at Norbiton station then thought it would be more fun to sing "Steve Evans is a cunt" in front of a group of pensioners who were nothing to do with the football.. very much a shake your head and look at the floor moment.

It's not just our fans.

Did a football match break out at any point by any chance during all this anti-semetism?

I was unfortunate enough to be stood near the 'supporters' mentioned all to often on here, and can only endorse the criticism levelled at them. It tarnished a good day out, and made me ashamed to be associated with them.

Many of the chants were appalling, but the abuse shouted at some of our players, Ritchie in particular, was unbelievable. The Town bench was only  8 feet away, and Paolo had plenty of 'advice' hurled his way - he can't have been too impressed by our 'fans' !

They weren't all youngsters either, plenty of middle aged pissed up prats !

Pretty poor performance apart from the last 20 mins.

Highlight of the day had to be the Blue bar after the game - wow !   Def be going back next year......oh bugger........ if we get promoted - will miss it !!

I was in the home end with my Mrs and 2 young boys at the back of the stand behind the home dugout which of course was next to the Town fans.
Stood next to me were 4 of my Mates, all Town fans.
To be fair I couldn't here many bad chants etc but my oldest lad knows bad language and I have to tell him to ignore it. Sadly it goes with the territory I'm afraid.

As always I love the away days and meeting up with the majority of Town fans. (Fred as always ;) )

Made me smile 2 minutes into the game with my 4 year old on my shoulders giving it "come on you reds" ....... Apart from an awful ground I have lots of respect for AFC Wimbledon and recall a few visits in the 70's and 80's to Plough Lane.

That train back to Waterloo was packed.

Anyway booked tickets this Morning to Torquay and Northampton so those t**ts won't be putting me off.

25 minutes to Northampton for my house so this is a home game. A few Cobbler Mates I know will be there and already are are giving Swindon an away win.

These are probably the same dickheads who made all that shit up about Charlie Austin and Dave Lucas's wife. Utter fucking pond life.

I was only down this end in the second half, it was pretty mental. I didn't hear most of the stuff being mentioned on here although I did hear some nob shout at Ritchie when he came off which someone has mentioned.

The one thing I will say is, the ones I did see acting prats were middleaged. Putting it down to some sort of new bread of idiots just won't work i'm afraid, as none of the usual nut jobs that kick off were even there....so I think people have got to look a bit closer than brushing it off as the young and dumb.

At Plymouth a few weeks back, there was a group of lads in their late teens/early 20's with a few middle aged blokes who I assume were the 'top boys'  ::)

I'd put money on it being the same pricks. They are more interested in fighting with the stewards than watching the game and getting behind the team.

As for abusing our players, this is the sort of thing that will drive players like Ritchie away from Swindon.

That, and a bigger pay packet and playing a a higher level :)

Personally I don't think it'll make much difference on that side of things.

Does my head in when fans really go after players. They just seem to let out their frustration in a very selfish way, having a go at the players who are the ones who can turn it around.

In general 'humour' on TV has got more offensive and more vindictive, and some people cant see the difference. They think anything offensive is funny. Thats just immature.

I would also say that football has 'gone for broke' in terms of fan behaviour. They want everyone to be perfect, and its never going to happen. They have blurred the lines of whats really out of order by going after things like standing in seats.

Sad to see Crispy earlier on in this thread saying that 'hes lost the love' already and all this. Shows a lack of class. If you are not interested in the football anymore and are just there to fuck about then you really should save yourselves the effort.

It does look like it is being tolerated though. People are saying how out of order some are but aint doing fuck all about it.

hehehe...

In fairness quite a few of us shouted at them to shut up

Sorry leefer, got to disagree a bit here. I will echo what football not longball said. I saw 3 fans being escorted away by the Old Bill or stewards. The frist was from just inside the home end I think, after they scored. Sounds like one of ours from what was siad earlier. The second was one of the young element who was arguing the toss and looked like he was back soon after. The third was the older bloke whe was being helped away by two of the Old Bill after he got caught up in the fuckwittery our fans instigated after a dodgy decision. I can understnd the anger over the decision because it was atrocious but, some of our fans just don't seem to give a flying fuck about how their actions impact on others. "We're Swindon Town and we do what we want"? Whoopee fucking shit.

As for the game-

Very poor and disjointed first half and a clear error by Risser leading to their goal. Not that Risser was the only person not up to speed. Many of the class players of recent weeks had poor games, or starts at least. McCormack, Ritchie, De Vita were all off their game to start with. McCormack pulled it back together and Ritchie had good moments. Bringing Gabilondo on for De Vita was a really good move and made a big difference to the game as did the switch between Ritchie and Smith. Connell worked hard and had some good moments but his poor finishing let him down badly. Foderingham was the dogs bollocks and if we were ever able to keep him, I think he could develop the legendary status of Saint Fraser of Digby (though I saw him put a kick into touch for the first time ever).

The two penalties looked stone bonkers to me. Connell gets flattened by a body charge from behind and Caddis is about to work his magic when suddenly his legs are out from underneath him. Hardly a surprise they weren't given though. Wimbledons defence must get training as a troop of acrobats as they spend a lot of time climbing all over the opposition. Jake spent most of his time in the final quarter of the pitch with someone climbing on his shoulders.

The BBC stats say it all-

Possession
AFC Wimbledon 41%    Swindon 59%

Attempts on target
AFC Wimbledon 5      Swindon 4

Attempts off target
AFC Wimbledon 2               Swindon 8

Corners
AFC Wimbledon 8        Swindon 7

Fouls
AFC Wimbledon 12     Swindon 6

It was ours to win......

As for the ground, I was with SWMBO in the front row behind our dug out. Yes the view was restricted. This could have been helped by Wimbledon sending someone out half an hour before kick off to run a squeegee or chamois leather over the plastic. The biggest obstruction to view was the condensation. Another ground with the fans tight to the pitch. The way I like it. A really ace view of the PdC show :D Watching his reactions to misses, fouls etc was priceless. He wears his heart on his sleeve. As to not seeing the Caddis penaltey, the greif he gave the 4th official suggests he was being holding his toungue in the post match interview. Every time he thumped the dugout, those inside got showered with water dripping off the roof. All kept schtum though :D As did the substitutes as he educated them on the errors of the ways of whoever made a mistake on the pitch.

Overall a good experience with a few negative points.

Wow, sure didn't feel like we had 59% of the possession. I'd have gone with Wimbledon 30%, Swindon 20% and pigeons 50 %.

That said, we did pile on the pressure for the last 25 minutes.

Still delighted with an away point give i felt we weren't really at the races, now lets consolidate with 3 points at home - that would make a great 7 days.

Juat watched the highlights for the first time - the reaction of the Wombles defenders suggests that we should have had a penalty for the trip on Caddis.

Hint to referees, if a defender turns to look at you as if he is afraid that he/one of his team mates is about to get sent off, it normally means that they really did commit a foul.

Thought at the time is was a stonewaller despite my judgement being clouded by a few jars and a crap view. I was happy to be proved wrong but the highlights just show the ref up for what he was all game. How can you book a player for that i'll never know either.

I caught a glimpse of Millwall v the Slave Traders on the sunday. Darius Henderson ran through, couldn't quite get on the end of a through ball and embarrassingly threw himself to the ground to try and win a pen/sending off. Shitty defender quite rightly told him to get up (and probably should have lumped the cheating shit). Ref did naff all. And they wonder why we want consistency.

Just watch the highlights on player. For anyone who didn't go I think a couple of Connell's first half chances are missing and Flints air kick as well.

Great save from Fodders on 1:24ish. Good tip over in the second half too.

Looking at the highlights Risser really should have cleared the cross that went in for their goal.  Certainly a clear cut penalty as well.

Even i could have cleared that

Sign him ^^^^ up :D

Not an excuse bit it looked to either bobble or take a deflection. These things happen. I was more concerned about the lack of "bite" in midfield until Smith came on and Risser went off.

We lose what Ferry gives us when he's busy covering Risser... Jonny gives him the freedom to run forward.

In my original post I completely forgot to mention the PdC "Come to Papa" moment when we scored- he turns to the crowd, arms held out pouting the "I am the God of Football" look he does so well, walks towards the barriers beckoning the crowd in and he gets mobbed :clap:

I e mailed Wimbledon re this the other day and have just had a response-

Thanks for your email including your kind comments and feedback. I will
pass your comments about the shelter on to the Operations team so they
can try and sort something out for future games. We know our stadium can
do with some other improvements too and we will be doing as much as we
can within our budget to improve things in future.

Thanks again. See you on 2 January.

Regards,

Chris Atkinson
AFC Wimbledon