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Lets have it 2-0 Swindon

Seem to do better away from home at the moment so 2-0 to Town.

This is bullshit.

Haven't even been out yet.

Think that with a rocket fired up their Jacksies after Tuesday nights performance think I'll go for a 4-0 win to Town (att:3275)

One of the closest away games to uni so off to this later on today.

2-0 win.

Hopefully Paolo kicked the shit out them the last 3 days and we see the appropriate reaction

1-0 Town

2-2

Just got in,

2-0 us.

Tight game but i think we'll edge it 2-1,Richie with a brace

With no Alan Mac today I can see Ward and Troy using a lot of hoof ball, should just about edge it, 2-0 lead, they will score in the 80th minute and we will just about hang on, kicking fuck out of every ball that comes near us!

2 -1 defeat

1-1 - Another struggling team trying to impress a new manager.
Just hope I don't have to sit through another performance like Tuesday night.

Hopefully a sneaky 0-1

 2-1 win, hope we can build on Shrewsbury and forget Colchester ! Like always would be happy with an away point though.

Will do me.

With Archie and Flint/Ward at the back, I should think it's more hoof ball from the back. 1-0 to Bury.

Hopefully Williams and Rooney up front today.

A score draw for me, 1-1.

I hope Troy has been taught this week to pass to midfield and not over it.

Not going.......been before....

 Cant get any worse than Tuesday night......can it? Performance anyway...

 Is it still on?

Difficult to see how, but lets not tempt the football gods.

Why wouldn't it be?

Really hope Bostock is given some game time today. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 4-4-1-1 like the end of last season.

2-0 Swindon.  On paper this should be easy but paper means fuck all.  With our recent performances and an unsettled side this could either be very easy or very hard.

Is it on TV?

You mean is it being streamed anywhere? Cos it quite clearly isn't going to be on TV

I've got a bad feeling about this. 2-1 defeat.

Foderingham, Thompson, Flint, Ward, McEveley, Ritchie, Miller, Ferry, Bessone, Collins, Williams

Subs: Bedwell, Archivald-Henville, Navarro, Devera, Benson, Rooney, Bostock

Bessone on the wing?

Bessone on the wing

Bessone starts ahead of De Vita, Bostock et al on the wing. Never know, he may surprise us. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with that line up.

So Bessone's gone from a right back to left winger? Or will Ritchie swap wings?

Has anyone else discovered that the inimitable Miss Watts appears to have decided that Player is no longer for her?

Bessone is presumably there to try and nulify a threat from out wide... Although that may be bollocks, I have no idea what Bury's wingers are like.

It'll be a scrappy game, hopefully we'll nick the three points, 1-0 to town Williams to score.

No De Vita today then. Injured? Good to see Thompson.

PDC has a habit of playing players in different positions and making it work. 

2-0 Williams, Ritchie

It's not as thought it's an alien position for him either... He's left footed & not exactly the most defensive player in the world, could work well.

Nope?

1-0 Town, Collins.

Just hoping we play better than we did on Tuesday, can't be that hard surely.

Ah ignore me, I was being overly dramatic.

Jay McEv sounds very simple.

works here

That's because he's scouse

4-0 to Town, williams  is due a hatrick+ritchie bury in for the backlash from tuesday "COME ON YOU SWINDON" "onwards and upwards"

1-0 collins

Yes Collins!

GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get in !!!!!!

1-0 Collins (28 secs)

Yay! That's my score prediction fucked, thankfully!

28 seconds, that'll fucking do! 180-0 please.

had worse starts!!

Nice start...

SKY say Matt Ritchie ???

Listening to the bury commentary. They talk funny.

got it on sky as ritchie

I'll take that to start with!  BBC Final Score have it as Matt Ritchie though!

Apparently it's the Press Association who's given it to Richie. Of course it was the PA who was giving the dodgy scorelines last week.

Don't care who scored it. Get in!!!!

I've had the commentary on for probably 6 mins and they've only just said we've scored!  Blinding start.  Where's McCormack?

hopefully it was neither of them and Miller won me 16 quid!

come on town. build on it don't let it slip

My commentary is 13 minutes behind. This is shit. Chuffing hate player.

Just in, who scored? Radio said Collins, Sky said Ritchie.

COYR.

Get in there, nipped out for a bit and of course miss the goal, but who scored Ritchie or Collins?

Radio/Morsehead/Official says Collins, so Collins it was.

McCormack injured

Right.........

1. McCormack has done a hamstring and didn't travel yesterday.
2. Collins scored from a shot on the right into the top right hand corner after 28 seconds.

mine was, press the circular thing with the 30 in it.

Thanks.  

We sound a bit under the cosh from corners.  Need to stay solid at the back.

Yup, Bury sounding on top..

Bury are pressing hard. Bessone booked with strong calls for him to be sent off.

Franchise 2-0 down at home to Pompey

Tranmere winning. Again. Peaked too early ;)

Pompey currently ruining my accumulator!

Strong tackle from Flint through back of Doherty had the crowd fuming.

good to see the commentators talking about the modern game and soft some of the free kicks are :)

just for the record i hate the modern game

Paynter's scored apropos of nothing!

well the modern game is...er,you can,you know its the modern game....and that's,erm the modern game

No foul throws in the modern game...

We've seem to have weathered a bit of a storm. Bessone missed chance. Crowd are quiet again.

I like Modern Family

Need another to seal the deal here

Bessone misses headed chance

1st ep of the new series was last night on Sky, tis still good.

Aren't Modern Family, Malcolm in the middle, The Middle & Married With Children all the same thing but with different actors?

But Modern Family has got that Latino woman - sex on legs

Married with children and modern family shared an actor :)

So remembering the King Edward thread -  the impression I got from the radio today it sounds like Bury haven't done too badly and we haven't created much. Wonder if that matches what those there think.

no tackling either!

Blatter and Platini don't help. They think the game is all about the passing and changing the rules to help attackers score goals. Tackling isn't helpful to the master plan.

true, you can't even racially abuse people anymore which is ironic as the french love a bit of that

this commentary is fucked up. it's 8 mins before half-time here.

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Williams off, Rooney on.

Breaking News...second half about to start

Rooney on
Williams off

No idea yet whether it is tactical or injury enforced.

This. It's 16:06 and I think they're just about to start the second half.

Well, you can, you'll just get a fine. Smaller than that for wearing a sponsored pair of pants.

It has only just started though, 16:07.

if you hammer the fastforward icon it eventually catches up

So why do you bother with Player - every week it's shite

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Putting some pressure on here.

Collins<->Benson

come on benny

up to fourth as things stand. not bad.

Tempting fate, there!

Austin scores again

Adam Birchall's scored for Dartford...remember him ?:hmmm:

15 so far this season, including 11 in the last 6

Quite on here today?

Also has SWS been sacked?

nope? should i?

Come on Town few minutes left now.

We seem to be giving away silly balls and free kicks and can't keep hold of the damn thing.

Connell's scored-remember him?

3 minutes added time

Even at 20% (not that I know the exact % we agreed) I think we're going to make the same as what we originally sold him for at least. With that record he'll be in the prem come February.

I'm starting to think the money those Poole fans had on him playing for England one day, at obscene odds, is looking a bit handsome.

Fully agree,

Believe it is 20% with 5% of that going to Poole

Bored so went and mowed the lawn - I take it that it stayed 1-0 ?

Has PDC been on yet? If not I'll hang around.

still going.

Was supposedly set to sign for us last summer but Gillingham (or Gillingscum or Pikies if you prefer) nipped in to sign him at the last minute. He then did his ACL in his first pre-season appearance. Is only just coming back from that and is on loan at Darford at the moment)

Stirling 1 Rangers 0

FT, good win.

Yay, fortress away ground. FT.

yay

FT, get in.

so we scored then hung on for 89mins

Lovely stuff.

How many Town fans went?

Hoorah :clap:

Should of put a bet on.

Thank fook for that.  All credit to the defence, sounds like they were under the cosh at times.

Back up to 4th, as things stand

400 odd I think they said on the radio.

just over 400.

Shit! I was about 45 mins behind on player!!!!!

you and the rest of us

the service they provide is pathetic - massive delays, shit sound quality.

I've just listened to us hold on for a valuable 1-0 win at Shrewsbury ???

jingle fucking bells-get in!

I'd be asking for money back...

Sorry but this made me laugh.

Striling Albion 1 - 0 Rangers.

Stirling were bottom of the scottish league.

he he, my boss is Rangers, going to have to tread carefully on Monday.

When you bear in mind that, for the same money, fans of some other League One clubs (e.g. Bournemouth) get video of their full matches a couple of days afterwards, it's an even worse service.

Still not got a reply to my email about why our coverage is so paltry in comparison.

Serves him right for making you work late. That was you right?

Not sure if it was me you are thinking of, but it does happen frequently so either way..

Did he just mention something about a transfer embargo?

Thought I was hearing things

Yeah...wtf??

What is Paolo on about, something about contracts.

Williams injured - calf.

Wonder if he means wage cap?

He's going on about Wrey and loyalty now, going on about bringing in players...and that the plan 16 months ago changed.

Fuck me Paolo, you've spent shitloads.

We're under a transfer embargo? Explains the Rooney and Coke departures - if we've exceeded the cap. Pure speculation.

I really don't understand Paolo.

NMH...help us out here!

 Sounds like hes on about he wants new players. ::)

Sounds as if the board may have said no to him actually - rather than the FA...

Does he not realise how good he has had it? He is skating on incredibly thin ice here. He's just called himself a "God" and saying unless the purse strings are released he is off in December.

Sometimes I love the man, at others I think he's a bit a nob. Today is the latter. He'd be a walking disaster at a club with a chairman without the patience (and generosity) Wray and our board have.

I think Paolo is saying JW has said he can't have any more players?

Rather than an actual "Embargo"

What the fuck is he on about?

By 'embargo', is he saying the Board have told him we can't sign anyone else??

Idiot. He can pay for them himself then, already spent a fortune of the club/board's money.

isnt everyone?

We have an enbargo. :pint:

Something about Collins and Troy, I'm absolutely confused by it.

Embargo until we pay the tribunal fees?

Get JW on please!

That's what I got from what he said.

Hmmmm....sounds like the Board have finally said 'NO'....... :hmmm:

PDC being a bit over dramatic about our lack of players really isn't he? we have fucktons.

Most managers would give their right arm for our squad ::)

Have I understood this right, we're under an embargo until we pay the fees for Collins and Archibald-Henville?

In all honesty though, he's brought in enough players to have adequate cover.  Now he seems to be saying if the embargo isn't lifted and he can't bring in more players it will be difficult to get promotion!

I'm not sure, but I think he said we have one of these:

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PDC working 48 to 60 hours a day to get us through...

oh this is tiresome

PDC:
- 3 points is the maximum you can get in a game
- Can travel back with a big smile
- It wasn't a joy to watch this game
- We came from a 4 game win streak which sapped energy
- Poor game Tuesday and scrappy game today. But we got 3 points
- If club has desire to go up this year then we need other players. But we can't get any yet because of embargo
- Difficult with 2 or 3 injuries.
- PDC is working 24 hours per day still. Hopes that club and chairman is working to same plan as when he signed.
- Williams has a calf injury. Benson can only play one game at a time at this level
- If we want to carry on using 'hope' as a strategy then PDC will carry on loyally to Jeremy Wray who gave him a chance, but hope is not the strategy that PDC wants to use.
- PDC plan from 16 months ago has changed a little bit.
- Roberts, McCormack, Williams all injured. 30% of main players.
- Ranted about embargo and players having to go before he can get more.
- Talked about embargo being because of timing of tribunal decision. Swindon haven't paid the money yet and so cant buy anyone else.
- PDC sounded v angry. Sounded as if the 'embargo' was by the board not wanting to put more money in yet.
- If board let PDC work like last year then great. PDC is waiting for an answer as to whether they will. He is looking at one player - a top level professional.
- PDC has only found out about embargo in last few days
- PDC doesnt know when he'll be told.
- Its not the end of the world. We are 4th in L1 having come up from L2. We have lots of passion at the County Ground. But, we have to know whether there is still the intention to push for the Championship. He has to know so that he can plan properly, work 24/7 to get to the championship or just carry on and do the best with what he's got.

Pretty sure he said "I'm not god, I'm a very good manager, but I'm not god"

I think he owns a heavily modified DeLorean

Come the fuck on Di Canio, we really don't need any more players. What we have here are more than good enough to get us up.

Jebus. ::)

Trouble up Mill

Anyone else getting a bit worried about how unstable it feels our club is?

Whether they are good enough or not, we have two squads worth of players that could play in the first team. Can't remember such investment in our squad. PDC is lucky.

That said, most managers want more. PDC just chooses to put the pressure on via the radio. Not sure its fair on Wray, but I think most fans are understanding there isn't a money tree in his back garden.

Paolo has an annoying habit of bringing things down with a big bump when we should all be celebrating another win.

He needs to learn that sometimes it's better to keep your gob shut.......

Yes. Must admit, if PDC were my employee, I would have a quiet word about that interview.

Only when Paolo gets interviewed........

So Benson can "only play one game at a time"-Im afraid that's just not good enough!

Not yet. PDC wants to spend spend spend. At some point the board have to say no. That doesn't necessarily mean things are unstable.

Unless you mean regarding PDC. He is unstable by nature. I think deep down we all know it will blow up eventually.

Embargo update: Fee paid, wage cap blown.

I get more nervous waiting for Di Canio's post-match interview these days than i do waiting for the end of the bloody games.  :headhurts:

Disloyal knob.

Fees paid just over wage cap which is why we have the embargo.  Looks like we will have to sell

Ah, ok. My deciphering wasn't quite up to scratch.  

The post match interviews and announcement of the line-up is as dramatic (or in Tuesday's case, more dramatic) than the game itself nowadays! 3 or 4 changes per match (not enough options Paolo?), potential national news....

A good win, 5 wins from 6, and thank God Tuesday is now a distant memory.  

We can only bring in loans at the moment anyway, so he can't do much till January. I expect it to be sorted by then, we will get by.

Embargo is not because of not paying the tribunal fee, its because of the FA rules w/r/t wage cap and transfer fees. The timing of the tribunal did not help the club.

PDC said something about another player that he wanted to get in to cover injuries. He commented on the fact that it wasn't a lot of money and the club are getting big gates both home and away that would cover the cost (from context)

Missed all of that game today, very pleased to see we got the 3 points.

Glad Collins got his first league goal.

What worries me is the board don't know how to say No to Di Canio. We have more than enough quality on our books to do well in this league. This win or bust scenario with a loose cannon running the show is more than making me a bit nervous about my club.

He doesn't appear to understand the concept of a budget does he.

time to hide out and wait for this to all blow over.

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:)

Aaah further details on embargo.

Club thought we needed to pay Collins and Troy fees over 24 months, but we had to pay immediately. Hence budget blown.

It's hardly a revelation that we have a large squad and salary.

This news is nowt to worry about, stop your fretting peeps. Whether we are spending too much is a genuine concern but this embargo is not. 

I agree with you there, but the news of an embargo surely indicates we are spending too much, right?

Looks as if the club are looking into ways of juggling the figures so that the embargo is lifted.

Radio are trying to get clarification from Wray. Hopefully he'll be on soon.

Wray:
- Tribunal finding/ Up front payment takes us over wage cap.
- Board must address what they need to do
- Several clubs under embargo.
- Situation introduced so clubs can only spend certain amount of money
- 65% of money on salary & transfer fees
- Normal transfers then 50% of Collins and Archie Henners would have been deferred for a year. Tribunal hasnt done that.
- There are several ways to address this. During the transfer window they could sell to buy.
- Winning against Villa would help and bring in more money
- If more money comes into the club then the embargo will lift
- Loaning players out may help
- STFC were the ones that highlighted t his not the league. Club seems to be running very openly
- Its not Wrays understanding that PDC will leave if no more money is available
- Wray says that what PDC is saying is that its not easy to get promotion to the championship. This is made harder if players are injured.
- Loan players who are not playing could be sent back to free up cash to get others. But this is not necessarily something that the club will want to do.
- Wray cautions that PDC isnt in a strop, he's just being honest with the fans.

So, bottom line is - Panic over I guess?

Not sure there was any reason to panic, just Paolo acting like a cock in post-match interviews as usual.

Listening to Jeremy Wray a moment ago I am a lot less concerned than I was listening to Paolo, but bless him, he does get excitable and with English being his 2nd language it is a recipe for "interesting" interviews.  

I had assumed that tribunal fees had spread payments like normal transfers, so hearing that is not the case I am not surprised we have hit the 65% limit.

So did the club :)

freddies ferret, please read this and have a breather.

You can come out now it's blown over

OMG, we are doomed  :suicide:

Orange beanie out, protest outside the Arkells

Paolo out, Ronnie Moore in

I'm not going back until all the players are sold....

Disgrace!

Buying a player in an embargo is like buying a house.

D  I   Canio    E   M  B  Argo  repeat till bored

Thought Embargo was the capital of some 3rd world African country run by a despotic president.   :D :D

This

Overall a pretty dull game.
Absolutely cracking goal from Collins within 30 seconds, hopefully he'll push on and get a few more now.
For about 75 mins we were clearly the better team and seemed under little threat.  We should really have made it count with further goals but real chances were few and far between.  One top class save from their keeper denied a goal that most of us were already celebrating.  last 15 mins I was keeping one eye on the clock counting down as we were a bit backs to the wall.  At the end of the day Bury's performance was high on effort but low on quality so a deserved win and we could go home happy.
Can't say there were any stand-out performances today.  Thought McEveley was solid at the back, Flint was winning everything, Ritchie was much better than on Tuesday without hitting highs, am getting more impressed with Rooney and Ferry put in a good shift.  Poor Bessone looked even more out of place at left wing than at right back and consequently we didn't really pose much threat down that flank.
Home to see the furore over the transfer embargo - hopefully just another blip for PdC to rant about for a day or two and all will be forgotten in good time.

Joking aside, with the budget Di Danio has had I think he would have got similar results.

But I think that the point is that PDC has got funds because he has drawn publicity to the club. That drawing of publicity has put bums on seats and Swindon constantly on Sky. I suspect at least 2 of the live matches on TV have been due to the DiCanio factor.

Has our income increased by much with him as boss? Dirt cheap season tickets which most fans hold and loads of money splashed on players makes me wonder. Gates aint gone through the roof.
 Granted he is a big draw for the media and i'm not anti Di Canio at all but he does come with a price. He's had a huge budget from the outset.

Great to get the win, not much else to say on the performance apart from the fact I felt we defended well when we had to. They didn't offer a lot and I think we were good value for the win. Ward had his best game for us today IMO and marshalled the back line well.

Hope the embargo stuff gets sorted!

There was a lot of interest in off the pitch stuff (marketing, sponsorship etc) when Paolo was appointed. Don't know how much revenue that turned in to though, definitely an improvement though - companies want to be associated with high profile managers such as Paolo.

how much is it?

I suppose Paolo has brought a little bit extra in but I am guessing he is the highest paid manager in league 1 by some way and has also needed the club to make a large investment in his coaching staff as well as the playing budget.

Also Saturday proved to me PDC is some way off being poached by a champ/prem club.  I hope Wray give him a real slap. It's not his job to announce the club are under an embargo and shows he does think he thinks at least in his own mind is far bigger than the club.

I haven't been to a game yet this season because of work commitments, and haven't even heard much on the radio.

I am curious to know if the fans are still doing the "Paolo di Canio" chant, or are the fans tiring of him?

I don't know exact figures. Last seasons was high an:that will have increased significantly this season

No one really knows. All we know is we have a fairly competitive budget. This is based purely on the players we've signed since Paolo's been here. Even so it's still on 66.5% of our turnover and was presumably less than the magic 65% last year. Some people are making out that it's like the biggest budget in the club's history. Maybe it is but with these new(ish) rules in place i'd suspect we've overspent by far far more in the past.

An enjoyable trip to Bury capped off with a 0-1 win.

Chicken jalfrezi with popadom and nan plus a pint X 2 = £11.30. That was lunch sorted.

A walk round Bury market which resulted in a purchase of a bag of oven bottom baps (big bread rolls) which will be the wrapper on a heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuge bacon bap to go with a plate of chips for me tea tonight along with a couple of Hot Pot pies which SWMBO and I had for dinner last night plus my first taste of black pudding- acceptable fayre.

On to the ground. Gigg Lane is a tidy little ground. Good sight lines from behind the goal if you avoid the stanchions.

Wes looks a little self conscious when getting young fan adoration. The look on his face when he turned round during the warm up to wave at the little lad down the front shouting WES!!!! Made oi larf.

From where I was sitting , the shot that resulted in the goal had Matt Ritchie written all over it and, until I saw Collins celebrating, I thought it was Matt that sored. This might account for the vidiprinter/ Sky cock up.
The rest of the game was OK. Some cracking challenges going in and Flint was on good form, which was a relief to see after his time out.

The noise from our end was pretty much the only noise during the whole of the game. Bury fans were woeful in their support. The 'Hard Men' in the corner near us were a bit laughable too, although I did hear that a mob of them jumped a young Swindon kiddie prior to the game. I don't know if anyone can back this up?

Ginger Steward got a bit of banter her way as did the Old Bill, all of which seemed to be taken in good spirit.

Overall, 3 points and good scran. Not to be sneezed at.

Only just got back from this. Missed my train yesterday due to a ridiculous hangover from the Saturday night in Manchester so had to stop off in Swindon last night as i missed the last train down to Plymouth.

The game itself was ok made all the better by the 1-0 scoreline! Away support was decent although Bury were a lot quieter than the CG is!!

Good result, roll on Coventry

we don't need to know figures to know it's alot. I don't see this as a problem as long as we keep the same board and investors.

To be fair though the budget needs to be decent if the plan is to challenge for promotion to the championship.

I'm a bit concerned though that PDC feels the need to bring in more players due to Williams, Roberts (who I thought was said to be taking a fitness test before game so cant be far off) 7 McCormack we have decent enough cover at centre half and we have strikers that are probably itching to prove their point and get a full game, ok so we have no proper cover for Roberts but what about switching Ritchie to the left or De Vita started the season well how about he get's another chance.

If PDC actually worked with the players he had he may be able to improve them instead of jumping into the loan market everytime something does not go right