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The Opponent:  Rotherham United

I have to say, my last visit to Rotherham, although not overly memorable for the football, left me thinking the folk of South Yorkshire really do know how to make a good pie, the finest I have experienced at any football ground. Sadly, this ground no longer exists, but the memory of some type of really narrow alleyway still seems to live with me. I haven’t been to the new ground before, The New York Stadium? Great name, shame about the ghastly manager.  I always want to get one over on Evans, especially today as it would give us a well needed 3 points on our travels.

Apart from being a cultural desert and a borough housing over a quarter of a million whippet breeders, Rotherham is also the hometown of the strangely everlasting Chuckle Brothers, Arsenal and England goalkeeper David Seaman, along with World Cup and Premier League referee and Howard Webb. Actors Liz White, Ryan Sampson and Darrell D'Silva also hail from Rotherham, as does current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague. Most famously Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers, who scored three number ones, were based from Rotherham. With help of these number ones, they spent a combined eight weeks at number one and managed to knock off many songs, at the time, favourites for number one including rock legend Alice Cooper with his smash hit "Poison".

The Last Time We Met Away – On our march to League 2 glory a couple of seasons back we made our way to Rotherham and turned them over 2-1, with a Matt Ritchie double, Rotherham’s goal coming from regular thorn in the side, Alex Revell.

They have served us both –  Andy Spunkhouse, Callum Kennedy, Alex Revell, Luke Rooney, Deon Burton, Kevin Watson, Graham Coughlan

Where the opposition gather –

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=450&fid=215&sty=2&act=1&mid=2112059014

Rotherham Last 6 – WWWDLW

The Odds –  Rotherham 6/4  Draw 12/5  Swindon 11/5 Why do I fancy a bit of 11/5, it could be costly. Kasim to open the scoring, it has to happen soon and is priced at 25/1 with Bet 365.

The Son Says –  “Can we go”?  No. In his absence he still thinks we will win 3-1.

The Prediction – This is clearly a tough one, a physical battle where our beautiful passing game is kicked in to row Z, again. 2-1 Town, goals from Massimo Luongo and Danny N’Guessan. 5’332 with 545 from the Shire

And Finally – Over the next 20 years, Rotherham is expected to receive £2 billion in investment from private industry. The town's economy, when combined with that of Sheffield, is growing faster than Leeds and Manchester!

COYR COYR COYR

1-0 sneaky win for us

Going for a one all on this
With their current form and our dismal away results a draw will be a decent scoreline

First visit to the NY stadium tomorrow so hoping am wrong and we come away with 3 points

I've got a good feeling about this! 2-1 Swindon COYR

We have the hoo do sign over porkies teams. 1-0 win

Do they still have Alex Revell?

If so 2-1, if not 2-0.

Just got in from England v Monty....

I fucking hate that fat cunt Evans.....him still in football and Franchise existing are blots on the FA copybook.

C'mon lads turn em over!

Fave chant at Crawley: "paulos a ledge ,you're a cunt!" Repeat.....

I think in the they've served us both bit, you should have mentioned Danny Williams, who history so far suggests is our best ever manager..and used to be Rotherham's longest serving player. Football fate decreed the 68/69 team secured a promotion with Roger Smart's 89th minute equaliser at Millmoor.

Logic dictates our wanky away form must cum good some time so a 2-1 away win

Am I correct in thinking we usually do well against Jabba's sides?

They are a good side currently in 6th with only one defeat at home to Peterborough so far and only 3 home defeats in a year, we have not won away in the league since March away at Yeovil.

Cant see us getting a win but would be happy with a draw there, 6,716 crowd with 437 Swindon fans there.

Today is not a day we can lose on. I swear to god I'll put the entire squad on 'the list' if we do and hunt every single one of them down and them disgusted looks.

2-1 town.

Hope you celebrate your birthday with a win for us Batch.

I work with a Rotherham fan so would be good to put one over on him and Fatty Evans. Can't really see it unless we really click and stay tight at the back. Would be good to give Batch a better birthday present than England did last night.

If we don't let one in in the first 10 mins then 1-2 Town. Ranger and ImGuessing

Have asked my two whippets and they say 1-0 to their northern brothers  ::)

2-0 Ranger, N'Guessen

Will take a draw though. Hopefully we can get through the first 20 minutes without conceding.

Just about to leave, got to be better than the last trip (Don Valley), shocking place for football.  Parking in Meadowhall, 5 minutes on the train to Rotherham.  We're good enough to win today although I'm going 2-2, Pritchard & Ranger.

Nothing to suggest anything other than a home win here - don`t usually feel as negative about games but today is not a good day - 2-1 possibly 3-1.

Will take a draw, but fatty and the windies could be a difficult side to beat, especially away.

2-1 to the home side today...

Would love us to stuff that fat cunt.

Still, would be delighted with a point.

I wonder what the chances are of us going 352? Might be worth trying something different to try and do something about this away form.

Something like:

Fods

Hall
Ward
J Mac

N Thompson and Byrne as wingbacks

Kasim
Luongo
Pritch

Ranger

2-0 Rotherham

Presume you meant to put N'Guessan or Ajose with Ranger? Unless the FL has decided we're going to be a man down today 'because they can'?

Woops! Yeah one or the other, both been scoring so it's tough to pick... N'Guessan.

I'd happily take a draw today.

2-2

Has my Alzheimers got the better of me, or did I see us absolutely stuff Rotherham donkeys years ago at their place.

Something like 6-0???

We did put 6 on them at the CG in 1980...Andy Rowland scoring 4.  Think I'd remember us scoring 6 on the road...can only think of 2 in the league...at Cobblers in 68/69, and the famous Brum fightback.

I remember the home game where handy Andy got 4 goals (all with his head I think) and we won 6-2 on a chilly Tuesday night but we do have a pretty good record away at Rovrum TBH. We have actually won 7 times in 14 away games there which isn't bad at all and we have won 4 of the last 5 games there.

All games v Rotherham gives us a 72% win ratio which is amazingly high

Just casually watching Ply v Ports and there seems to be a player for Ports called A View To A Kill

Am I going mad?

Yassin Moutaouakil

I think we had him on trial once.

This brings back memories of that game.  Still an apprentice at Pressed Steel, I travelled up to Rotherham with three toolmakers, Les Morris, Tug Wilson and Sleepy Frank (any memories of them from others?). Les lived next door to Town legend John Smith, so we had  complimentary tickets. When we equalised Les threw his seat cushion up in the air and it stuck in the stanchions.  My memory tells me it was Chris Jones who scored for us, well into injury time. Happy days...

Smartie scored an equaliser when we got our first promotion in '63 home to Shrews. I think it was Chris 'Jonah' Jones up at Rotherham - think he came on as a sub. We were behind the goal, the one with the railway line right behind it, surrounded by a little gang of northern thugs, so celebrations were a bit muted.

A few days later we all let rip, that was the famous match when over 20k were at the CG for the last match of the season v Barrow.

Foderingham; N Thompson, Hall, Ward, McEveley; Kasim, Luongo, Pritchard; Byrne, Ranger, Ajose

subs: Belford, Barthram, Branco, L Thompson, Cox, El Gabas, N'Guessan

Looks 442 to me, or 451 with Ajose in a free role behind Ranger.

I would have put N'Guessan in for Byrne but apart from that it looks alright.

it's obviously the same formation as we've been playing most of the season

It's our usual 4-3-3/4-5-1 isn't it? With Pritchard the AM like he was against Chelsea?

I must admit I thought Ajose looks better in a more central role with Pritchard coming in from the left, but its just versatile.

We do have a lot of players that can play in several positions.

3 posts in 5 seconds.

I have no idea how you got 442 out of that lineup

Because Ajose has said his prefered position is striker.

but we've played 3 up front most of the season and Ajose has played out wide more often than not. If we were going to play 442 today why play 352 on Tuesday?

Well they did say they would set up differently for away games from now on. It would be odd if the formation wasn't any different.

I was going by the comments from Luke Williams this week that said maybe we have to change things around in how we approach away games.

if we're playing 442 today but used 352 in the week then I don't get it.

The JPT is the place to experiment, the 352 was just an experiment.

Well like the man said we're A.W.A.Y.

I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from the lineup on Tuesday.

Am going for 456 away fans and total 7634 attendance. Tis bloody wet up here know hhat much. Tis more like a basketball court than a footie stadium. Nice tho and some decent touches where disabled etc concerned.

My only criticism of our recent line-ups has been Pritchard switching into Mason's vacated role... I don't like him there, he should stay out on either wing. But I guess if he doesn't play there, we lose some attacking threat by putting just a standard midfielder (Cox/Thompson) in there.

is that an acronym? I don't understand.

No. It's just that your replies were getting a bit, well, autistic.

I don't understand.

In case anyone missed this a few weeks back, Gerry Shilton on Twitter

https://twitter.com/itslove1956

Has STFC World gone silent for anyone else?

I've just got home, logged in and am getting no sound. Standard player really.

Yep.

Can actually view League One games this weekend but can't hear a thing. FFS.

it the same for all matches no sound

Too many f*in Julies again!

Don't matter anyway as theres no sound at all.

It would just be silly to expect it to work.

I should set up a mic near the radio and open a Skype conversation with you poor bastards. I feel your pain

Rotherham commentry on now

Better than silence anyway.

I really need to buy a DAB radio

good FM > dab. I assume your FM is far from good.

Town commentary now on.

On twitter commentary at the moment. Sound like we are under the cost coyc.

Sounds like we're struggling.

Can I change my mind?  :(

Had a txt from a mate at the game, we could easily be 2-0 down already.

I have no radio at all... on days like today when I'm bored and fancy listening to the match I miss it. Will get a DAB so I can listen to 6Music etc. around the house without having to open my laptop/switch Sky on too

Nardiello sounds like hes well up for it.

I have sent an email on the 'contact us' section of Player to complain about the service. as anyone tried this and if so, what sort of response have you had?

5 corners in 15 minutes.  :eek:

All one way traffic

Crossbar saves the Town.

They broke it even more when we all complained a month or two ago.

I'm so sorry I opened that Gerry Shilton link. He's sending Sam tweets every minute - only it's the same crap, over and over and over again. God how I don't miss him.  :doh:

This is when the fans need to get behind the team. Swindon fans can be great at times, but they really do go quiet when the players need them most a lot.

I reckon he's an autist.

I've emailed before, and today to get the sound turned on, and get a polite reply but not exactly bothered. I think we need to make a concerted effort. All player subscribers to email on the same day for example.

Loads of times. Just get the standard "we're aware of the issues blah blah"...

:) Oh you.

Who is the co-commentator?

Christian Roberts

Sat in my hotel in Atlanta, player is working great for me :)  Maybe their priorities are johnny foreigner..

Smash and grab! Pritchard! 25 yard free kick. 1-0

Get in there! Another Pritchard free kick.

Get in

Boom, get in.

Get in Pritch!

Get in!

Only 2 points off the playoffs as things stand. Long long way to go mind..

He scores decent goals this one

Only capitalist lackey johnny foreigners. Usual shit for us commie bastards.

Have officially signed up for Player. I look forward to joining the disappointed masses.

Matt Murray is watching our game on Sky and it sounded like a carbon copy of the goal at Franchise.

Which is no bad thing  8)

Alex P"Ritchie"ard!!!!

Looking forward to seeing that on the FL Show tonight... Oh, there isn't one.

The Rotherham Commentators are raving about Pritchard today (the Rotherham commentary is not breaking up at all compared to the Swindon one which is terrible quality).

Get in! 2-0 Luongo!

Get in there!!!

Have it

Goooooaalllllalexio

Heavily deflected shot, lovely jubbly.

Can't argue with that.

We're finally getting the rub of the green. Excellent.

Haha get in!

Have you been taking lessons from JJ?  8)

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Fucking brilliant. Good work Town, huge result if we can hold on to this.

Fuck off fatty.

Remember all those seasons when we couldn't buy a goal from a midfielder?  :clap:

Another 3-0 against Evans would be good.

Asked the son this morning who will score first and he said Pritchard. I ignored him and backed Mass.  :no:

Still I'll take losing the bet and getting 3 points any day.

Meh! Back to Jeff Stelling for me ! :-(

Another superb free kick from Pritchard. But I thought he was shit?  ::)

Think I will back the draw or Rotherham in play if it remains 2-0 ten minutes into the second half.

Christian Roberts refers to Luongo as N'Tonga.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

King of?

Behave, nobody said he was shit.

In any case its a shit way to make a point, Rose was good at free kicks. That didn't make him Pele.

The Rotherham comms call him Leon goo.

How the fuck are Preston losing 2-0 at home to Crewe?

I was just going to say this league is wide open.

3-0 Ajose!

Whoop

Rother poor.

Sounds a cracker get in there!

Haha, this is ace.

Fatty, what's the score...

Is it going to be a hat-trick of 3-0 wins against fat boy?

Have that Evans you fat cunt!

Up to the heady heights of 7th.

Realised earlier I can get radio Wiltshire on am which is not to bad from Worcester on a crappy radio, good name to discover that.

 :beers: :beers: :clap:

Evans  :smugfu:

The last time Fatty got a stuffing like this was...

well, actually most evenings but that's not the point.

"Fatty, fatty what's the score"  :)

This is delightful.

Huzzah Swindon.

Evans must be even more red in the face by now than usual.

Who did Ajose come on for?

8,103 crowd 540 Swindon fans.

Not a bad turnout.

Nice, very very nice. Now lets just keep a clean sheet  :nod:

Eileen?

He started, didn't he?

I do believe he started

I can almost hear the steam coming out of Evan's ears from here.

Close by Pritchard.

You can hear 3 seat backs clattering, as Thor leaves the ground

Apparently Rotherham hasn't had a shot on target...yet.

Listening to Sky and Megson must be the dullest fuckwit ever to appear on the show

I was only just thinking how appropriate it was for him to be commentating on a dull 0-0 :hmmm:

Close call on offside for us, could have been 4-0, sounds all us now.

Swindon have been excellent and will win 'at least' 3-0 according to Matt Murray  8)

Nobody said he was shit, just some people not creaming their pants over him like you. You don't just spout shit when it comes to transfers then...

Currently up to 7th as the scores stand.

On me way to a mate's housewarming on the train and have started early  :pint: :pint:

Glad its fatty's team we're dicking, what a great way for the lads to get their first away win of the season!

I need to predict 2-1 losses more often...

Peterborough get a late winner at Port Vale. Bastards.

4 mins added time to go.

Fat boy what's the score... 8)

4-0

DNG!

Great result.

haha class

We're just taking the piss now.

Hard to believe that we hadn't won away in 7 months.

 :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :D :D :D :D :D :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Have that ya bastards!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Easy, easy, easy.

Superb

Get the fuck in I hope that fat slug is crying into his chips tonight "your just a fat Bobby Davro"

That's 3 league games against Fat Boy's sides, and the aggregate score is currently 10-0 !!

Whats a brilliant result, away at the team that beat Brentford at Griffin Park last week....fantastic.

Superb. Well done Town! Nice to give our travelling fans some cheer at last.

First away win in the league since Yeovil back in March, lovely.

Salisbury winning again as well. Good day.

While I still believe the seasons objective of a title charge is a little too optimistic, the 'i'll just be happy to stay up' brigade should well and truly keep their mouths shut now and raise expectations a little.

Plays offs should be the minimum that is expected.

And Revell finally didn't score agaisnt us!

Well, if that doesn't kick start our away form nothing will.

It's been odd, cos the way we play seems to be ideal for playing away from home.

Looking forward to Friday night v Notts County and the leap into the play-offs

Eh, I wasn't ever expecting us to be relegated but I'd certainly have taken mid table. I'd still take 8th if offered I think, we could certainly do better if things go our way, but I'm still a little worried that we may have a bad winter (our style+shit pitches is a little worrying) and of course, Ranger's court case could derail us if it goes a certain way.

However, so far we've been brilliant and if we keep that up, I'll be delighted.

Cooper will be gone if we fail to reach the play offs.

Of that I am certain.

Don't talk shite

I knew Coops team talk of "do it for Batch" would fire them up.

I'm still happy with mid table.

Lovely win on my return to England! Happy days!

Me too.

I like how Roberts refers to us as 'we' during the commentary, I like listening to his co-commentary. It's been far better this year with Chalky and Roberts, didn't Parkin do it the other night?

I'm happy being entertained every week (well, nearly every week)

Whatever happens, happens

How about we strike a deal, they agree to keep their mouths shut, and you stop talking shit.

Blimey, not only did Crewe beat Preston, Stevenage beat Brentford.

I dunno, Brentford have been a bit shit this season

Very shaky first 20, should have been a couple down but once we got ourselves into the game there was no looking back.  Love seeing fatty boom boom get beat : )

Edit - think it took the team as long as it did me to realise we were playing 3 at the back this afternoon

Not as good as last year, but only 2 points behind us.

Just seen the goals on Sky

Real quality, too. To have someone who can take free kicks like Pritchard, we will always have a chance of scoring.

Pity the same cant be said for corners!!!

 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRlmhsYUuw

Thanks for putting this up. Good free kick.

Blimey our last 2 look very offside-but what the hey?

Haven't read through this thread since SR write up this morning, so apologies if I repeat things.

First 20 mins we sounded ropey, but after the first goal we kicked it up a gear sounded really good the travelling fans were great.

Coincidently last we beat Rotherham earlier in a season we went on an unbeaten run and eventually won League 2.

I was not expecting that result I expected it to be a scrappy 1-0 win/loss. 4-0 will do it for me. Very impressed with the goals saw them on SSN.

We'll be up there at the end of the season. Onwards and upwards.  :clap:

Best win of the season and maybe the most important so far. Happy days.

Chang, you are a prize twat.

Kapow! Take that Fatty Evans.

 Well that's broken the pattern of losing away to top 6 sides...as soon as Revell missed and they hit wood, and Murray opined it was only a matter of time such was their domination, you felt we could be on to something.

Loving the love we're getting from opposing fans. Can't remember the last time we got this sort of respect.

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=450&fid=215&sty=2&act=1&mid=2112049616 (http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=450&fid=215&sty=2&act=1&mid=2112049616)

Most of their fans seem to be blaming the ref. Jeez, how many times at home have we had a cock for a referee in the league since February and still manage to remain undefeated. Great win and when your 1-0 down at home you can still come back as we have proved twice in our last two home league games.
Class today.

Edit: Just had a look at the BBC stats and apparently Rotherham didn't have a shot on target all game. Did Wes not have to make any saves then.

Get in there...and Cooper was up beat and nearly chirpy in post match interview.

Wish I went...just to see the fat cunts face at full time......I hate that Jutty.

Roberts was the bollocks on the wireless and should be signed up.

Yes, thanks indeed. Great free kick by Pritchard..

Just back. Haven't read through the thread but here goes...

We started poorly. Very poorly. It took me and KT about 20 minutes to work out we were playing 3-5-2, and it seemed to take the players even longer. Thompson was constantly unaided defensively on the right, and Rotherham had numerous chances to score. One they skewed wide, another was hit straight at Foderingham (who did well to save on to the bar) and then, when they broke through 4 on 2 their midfielder inexplicably struck a shot from 25 yards, high into the town fans.

However, we grew into the game. Byrne started to find space on the left, Luongo made the odd foray forward and Pritchard was being given the occasional opportunity to run through the centre. It was from one such run that the first goal came. Having beaten two out of the three defenders around him he was chopped down. Yellow card, no question. Up he got, and curled one over the wall and into the top corner. Minutes later there was nearly a repeat. Pritchard ran forward, and was either going to shoot or get taken down. He was tripped, it was always going to be a yellow. For some reason the home fans took exception to this, much like they took exception to Nardiello being constantly flagged offside, when he was in fact, quite clearly only a yard or two off. Shocking from the officials.

Pritchard blasted the free kick over and that looked like it for the first half - a deserved goal but perhaps an ill deserved lead. But then , out of nowhere, Luongo finds a yard of space in from the left wing, and hits a peach of a shot, deflecting it perfectly off the covering defender to send it over the keeper and into the far corner. You can't teach that.

So, half time and 2-0 up. I was far from confident, although my jokey pre-match prediction of another Swindon 3-0 Evans score line wasn't looking far wrong. We'd have to defend well though, and ride out some pressure. Rotherham wouldn't roll over. In fact they came out in the second half with such vengeance that they managed an incredible zero attempts at goal for the whole 45 minutes. In truth they fell to pieces. Swindon started finding space, making runs and creating chances, pass after pass finding feet and long cross field balls being placed on a sixpence for their recipients. One move saw 20+ passed from Town, accompanied by olés from the away end, and culminating in a neat back heel from Ranger to split the defence and send Pritchard through. He didn't miss by much.

However, further goals did arrive. First the home side were torn apart by a move that saw Ajose slot home into an empty net from all of one yard out, then in the dying moments N'Guessan latched on to a loose ball after the centre back failed to evade a challenge, slotting calmly past the keeper and signalling to the Town fans that they'd got the four they'd been asking for.

The home end began to empty after the third. Apparently they'd been robbed by a disgraceful display from the officials. It would seem they were watching a different game. Having managed one shot on target all game, and having spent the final 20 minutes playing long balls so far from their intended targets that the away end burst into renditions of "try to keep it on the pitch", it was clear why Swindon had won. Rotherham didn't take their early chances, Swindon grew into the match and eventually took control. A local journalist suggested that Rotherham had been taught a footballing lesson. He wasn't wrong.

One pie for the fat one in the pink tie please mate. Chins up Steve, at least this year's manager knows who you are.

Fan-bloody-tastic.

Nice write up reevesy

The rest was good, this was epic.  :clap:

You can't see your cock, you can't see your cock, you fat bastard you can't see your cock."

Now I enjoyed that today.
First 25 mins all over the place and reminded me of Shef Utd away last season but we weathered the storm and started to play. Kassim what can I say, unbelievable.
2-0 up at HT flattered us but second half the confidence and counter-attacking was fantastic. More direct but still with the passing.
Rotherham fans were complimentary of our football.

Loved the "olay" and the dogs abuse that fat bastard got.

So wet feet, smiles and a happy journey home for once. Been a while.

Even got to see my eldest lad hit a hat-trick this morning.
So a good day all round. Pity the scum won but a great day.

Looking forward to Friday now.
Well done you fellow Town fans who made the trip. Credit to the Club.

Is this the first time in the 10-odd games since he left us that Alex Revell didn't score against us?  No longer our bogey player!  (Happily, we still appear to be Fatty Evans' bogey team.)

Well, well, well, what an absolutely fantastic result.  I went off into town shopping and decided to avoid checking my phone for score updates, so was completely unaware until I got back to the car at 5.45pm.  Both games we have won away this season (QPR as well) I had no idea of the score until after the game.  Clearly I need to steer clear of radio and tv during all away games this season  :)

Always good to get one over on fatty Evans again as well.

 :D :D :D :D :D

I thank you...

One of the best away days for a while. 

540 in great voice, watching Evans steaming up and down the touchline & quality keepball with the finishing..... perfect.  I'll forgive them the first 25mins when I thought we were going to get battered!

Despite his obvious talent, I have been a little disappointed with Pritchards end product. So its nice to read to opposition viewpoint that they gave Pritchard too much space and he ran the show.

I may be doing Rotherham a disservice, but when did they start attracting crowds of 8,000 odd?  Certainly never remember them getting that many in the past.  Is it a new ground thing, or have they maybe converted a few Blades/Wendies?

New ground after playing in Sheffield for a bit, plus decent start to the season. It'll never last! ;)

Let's not forget the pull of the mighty STFC too :)

Promotion last year as well. They have thrown a bit of money at it. Pre Fitton we never got close to 8,000 either really.

Rather amusing seeing some of their fans react to the defeat on twitter today. Always nice to get one over on Evans as well. Great results which puts us close to the play-offs and we're almost at the 1/4 way stage. 2 home games coming up to keep trying to push on.

After the first 25 thought we were going to get hammered
How they didnt score is a mystery - defensively we were awful and they skipped thru us with ease
Still if you dont take your chances  :smugfu:

Superb free kick from Pritchard ( my MoM ) set the ball rolling for a long overdue trouncing of someone away and nice it was the fat controllers lot.
Being down the other end to the free kick am not sure if deffo was a foul or rovrum fans just bleating
Mattered not as sailed into the net.

Only one team in it 2nd half and they rarely had a sniff
Town attacked with pace today and that made a difference.
Nice little stadium,nice pies, nice stewards shit fans and of course the bell end evans

Damp cold but deffo worth the schlep up north
Roll on friday now

Hmmm!! fatty losing it in the tunnel?
 http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=450&fid=215&sty=2&act=1&mid=2112048773

Ha ha

Hehe, Spurs second team. All three loanees in the squad. We can't move for Spurs loanees. Fucking twat.

He's not going to make it to 60 is he?

Stone?

Some of you Jabroni's get way too worked up about Steve Evans.

!4-0!

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Wish I'd been there today, Adver text and twitter is not the same.

But thanks to reeves4england, a brilliant report, it made me feel like I had been to the game. (Well, that may be OTT, but it was a great report. Keep em coming!)

COYR

God's Country

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Town fans today

Got to admit, from what you can see of it, stadium looks decent.

If you want to read a funny thread:

http://www.thefootballforum.net/index.php?/topic/221173-rovrum-v-swindon-town/

The rovrum fans have been giving it large all season on there and it seemed everyone wanted to congratulate them on the result... :)

 :I'm a complete mofleakin DeakBloody top notch ! Karma for the Jive Bunny association. Actuaully maybe should have won by much more ?                

Happy Days - COYR  :pint:

Somebody has had a good night :)

Steep steps reminded me of lutons terracing

Had some decent ideas for the disabled tho rather than being slung around the touchline under sheds

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Am sure with a decent crowd you could get an atmosphere going - town managed it
Did sound quiet when we werent tho

Even Gillingham fans seem to be pleased that we beat them - very touching

Whoops

Good Day as it happens !

Haha. good man!  Fair play.

I think you are...Rotherham first appeared in the FL in 1893..

I think I get an award for posting the most cringeworthy link ever!

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=450&fid=215&sty=2&act=1&mid=2112773140&page=1

My mate came with me to get ground 73 as Leeds weren't playing. He said to me in the ground he had seen someone pull Cooper away from Evans as they shook hands.

Not sure I understand.  ???  My point was about attendances.

Rotherham averaged 3,583 at home in League 2 in 2008/09.  They seem to have more than doubled their fanbase in the space of 5 years...which surprised me.  That's all I was saying.

My point was that Rotherham are a long standing lower league side, whose crowds have always fluctuated , depending how well they're going....bit like us. So no real surprise in their crowds now.

All things being equal, we'd expect to up our fanbase if we got to the championship to one level and kick on from there if we became moderately sucessful to boot. Also a plus or minus for them is the proximity of four other clubs, a shit ground situation turned around.

What a fantastic result,take my hat of to the team and the manager.
Let us hope the team can grind out a result on Friday and take a step into the play off zone.

Really shoddy of the BBC not to produce an edition of the Football League Show just because there were no Championship matches.  The grassroots of football in this country run a lot deeper than the top two divisions.  They should know that.

On reflection, I actually thought the stadium was pretty good, we generated a fair bit of noise & thought it was one of the better new grounds we've visited.

Miserable day weather wise, but encouraging that it didn't affect our style, some of the best football I've seen us play away from home for some time.

I don't understand why everyone is so surprised given that the BBC have done this for a couple of years now

Everyone is surprised because we won away.  They haven't really noticed until now.

That's a very good point!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nUiKSBh5io#t=42

Better quality version of the youtube video that was posted earlier:

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/swindon-town/8970168/rotherham-v-swindon-murray

I find it funny that one of their stands is sponsored by Pukka Pies, as Evans probably ate them all...

Abusing Evans for being a corrupt cheat and a man with the temperament of a small child is fair enough but to single him out solely because he is overweight is unfair, unnecessary and discriminatory.

We'd have been in more trouble had Pringle been more crisp in his finishing early doors.

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It's good fun though

And if Revell's volley had been a bit sweeter

He had a few options

Great result for the Town yesterday, was buzzing to see us win away for the 1st time this season in the league and yet again put another one over Fatty Evans! Bring on Notts County on Friday!!! C.O.Y.R

Evans takes defeat on the chins

http://www.rotherhamunited-mad.co.uk/roll/ed61/evans_takes_defeat_on_the_chin_810076/index.shtml (http://www.rotherhamunited-mad.co.uk/roll/ed61/evans_takes_defeat_on_the_chin_810076/index.shtml)

So I take it you are a fatty then

Reminds me of "banter" with some Leicester Fans in Covent Garden before the play off final a few years back.

"You can stick your cheese & onion up your arse..."

(for the younger readers, they played in blue, with Walkers on the front)

This is exactly the type of discrimination that I'm talking about. Is it any wonder that society is failing?

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Drove up and arrived in time to hunto down some Parking cake and a decent pork pie in the market in the town, then off the the ground which, for a new build, was not as 'flatpack' and samey as many.

A cracking game that, for the first 20 minutes looked like it was going to be a bit of a disaster. This seems to be a bit of of a theme for us, taking 15-20 minutes to get a handle on the game but, once we did get a grip, it was all about us.

Once again, nobody had a bad game. Jay mac maintained the improvement he showed last game. Wes did bloody brilliant at one point in the first half when he kept out a close range effort (deflection) close in to his left post. Nathan and Nathan ran the channels well. Pritch did the usual- sublime excelence with the odd moment of exasperation. Luongo was fairly solid in the middle as was Kas (though he had trouble staying on his feet- needed longer studs?). Hall and Ward were pretty solid. PowersRanger held the ball up well despite getting gripped up left right and centre. Ajose ran hard and took his goal very well.

Cooper looked well pleased when he came over with the team to take and give applause. I don't know what went on post final whistle but I saw him being 'escorted' from the tunnel by one of his staff and I think that made the plaudits all the more enjoyable for him.

The travelling support did us proud.

All topped off by a nice Italian meal and bottle of vino collapso in Rotheram post match courtesy of SWMBO employer :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

What's a Parking cake?

Aaaaggghhhh- fecking spell check thingy :doh:

Parkin (Super Sammy Parkin Cake) :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/rotherham/rotherham-united-millers-0-swindon-4-1-6143593


Quite a good report on the game here

They still can't get the number of Spurs loanees quite right...

Or the scorer of the second goal.

They managed to write "another Spurs loanee" in front of both Spurs loanees, after already citing an over-exaggerated number of Spurs loanees. Shame they suggested that Spurs-loanee Kasim scored the second rather than Spurs-loanee Luongo, pretty rookie error really when a quick look at any online results Spurs-loanee facility will Suprs-loanee tell you the Spurs-loanee who scored.

Just seen on the official site-

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/article/performanceoftheweekaward-1117507.aspx

Nice.

There is an award for performance of the week. Really?

Deserved winners though.

Can we have a poster of the week award on here?  ???

Well, perhaps the mods could start a sticky topic for 'Post Of The Day' or similar, where a particularly stunning post (for whatever reason it's stunningness manifests) is quoted within for all to enjoy.

Not knocking it, but it was only out of 20 odd games to chose from.