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Reckon we can push on tonight and continue our run of good form.

2-1, Ajose to continue racking them up with a couple for us and the inevitable goal from Williams for them, probably from yet another penalty

 COYR

This is the type of game we lose... on good form and at home to some crap tinpot northern team... 1-2.

Doncaster have a good record against us at the CG. Willo will score, no doubt.

It'll be nice to get points before a trip to in-form Oldham.

Yikes. I've got Smeeton Syndrome.

best result a no score draw.

Or a win and clean sheet?

We're a happy bunch aren't we...

Completely forgot about Willo. I would miss him if his replacement wasn't in shit hot form right now...

I'm more inclined to think that the best result would be a win, but whatever floats your boat.

Easy win as Doncaster are turd. They couldn't even beat us when we had the kit man playing. Set us up nicely for near the bottom Oldham to worry about an in form Swindon coming to them.

Failing that it will be what Tans says.

I didn't say I miss him, I was simply applying the law of sod.

What did Tans say ?

I don't know but there appears to be an echo on the forum? Perhaps we have accidentally got connected to Player...

Oh and 2-0 to us, taking Mr Ajose up to 21 goals in the league.

Draw wouldn't be too bad for us tonight. Can't see us keeping a clean sheet what with Andy Williams coming back. Going 2-2 draw, goals from Ajose and L Thompson

4-1 spanking.

Obika hat trick and Robert, 2 assists each from Ajose and Doughty.

He said Sutton you are a spanner, as it was actually what tails said...

:D

Easy mistake to make ;)

http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/doncaster-rovers/rovers-news/doncaster-rovers-should-know-how-to-hurt-swindon-1-7760887

Doncaster should apparently know how to hurt us. Coming away undefeated from the CG like they usually do will probably do the trick. Long overdue only our 3rd ever win over Doncaster at home. No memory whatsoever of Shakes and Comyn Platt inspired victory in 2006 but I do remember even in the Lou Macari 3rd Division promotion winning season of 1986-87 absolutely battering them but still not managing a win against them.

I remember that game, Cureton assisted Comyn Platts goal with a sort of back heel volley pass thing. That was the same week he scored that absolute belter against Walsall.

Seeing as how we haven't managed a clean sheet yet at the CG, it would hardly be a surprise if we fail again. Nevertheless, going through an entire season without an opponents 0 in the results column has never been achieved. We even managed 2 in the Prem season when conceding 100 goals, so statistically it is very likely we will keep a clean sheet before season's end.

It will probably be v someone like Millwall or Wigan...something silly and unlikely, similar to keeping one at Priestfield where Gills were the highest home goalscorers at the time  :)

Have to be confident tonight always a dangerous thing to be but there really should be no particular reason why we can`t thrash this lot 3-1

3-1 win.

Sorry but I think we will slip up....usual Swindon style thing... I hope i am wrong.

Not there tonight as away with work but will be thinking of you all and checking my texts.

After the last two wins I am relaxed that we will get 55 points soon and all go on holiday.

Town starting XI: Vigouroux, Barry, Sendles-White, Thompson N (C), Turnbull, Ormonde-Ottewill, Traore, Doughty, Iandolo, Ajose, Obika #STFC

Subs: Belford, Balmy, Rodgers, Marshall, Thompson L, Robert, Cooke #STFC

Robert makes way....didn't have a good game on Saturday.

Another "come from behind" job.28/1 donny ht swindon ft.oh and doughty 6/1 to score at any time.i love status quo

Can get absolutely nothing from player. Same for anyone else?

Surprised about Robert but trust Williams knows what he's doing.2-0 Town,Obika and Ajose

Come 9.30pm, he'll either be an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing or a tactical genius.

I wonder if Bob's ready for a full season, how many games has he played over the last season or two? He might be knackered. 

Not working for me either  :hmmm:

It sometimes doesn't turn on until a few minutes before kick-off.... and then it sometimes doesn't turn on until the 2nd half, if at all.

The Donny comms are working for me, you need to access from their site though.

Fucking STFC player.

I now have sound, but it's so quiet my laptop speakers don't go loud enough to actually make out any words.

It is indeed working on the DR player but we shouldnt have to TBH.

Donny comms "Its strange watching Swindon play the Donny way" what a fucking cock we play better football and over a longer period (3 years) than they have, wanker.

I would honestly not know what 'the Donny way' was if it slapped me round the chops with a wet fish.

Cover the pitch in sand, lump it up to the big man and hope it doesnt touch the ground?

Thats how it always used to be when you played Donny thats for sure!

Anyone got STFC Player working yet?

Or do we have to listen to the whippet worriers commentary all game?

Sounds like their keeper is playing a blinder so far.

Nope, I have both tabs open waiting for a clash of sound. Can only hear the northern men currently.

Ditto.

I don't mind listening to their comms, it gives a perspective from the other side.

To a point I agree with you...but I like the option to be getting "our" commentary that we are paying for.

Nathan injured doesn't look good.

STFC comms are on.

Tempted to stick with the north though!

At least on the STFC comms we have a bit of crowd noise, it sounded like the Donny comms were sat watching it on tv with the sound down!

Sound didn't drop out once though, which it has twice on STFC comms so far!

Yeah I was thinking the same, withing a minute or two mine was cutting out on the Town one.

Nathan carrying on when he's clearly injured.  Bloody stupid, because everytime he runs or kicks the ball, he's making it worse.

One of his worst traits (and there aren't many). Heroes don't work in football.

No options on the bench unfortunately though.

Get in! Beeks!

Doughty.....I think (it cut out as we scored!)

Edit: Obika then!

We've scored a goal. Yay!

hahaha  shit ref gave a corner that wasn't, we break, score, lino missed probable offside - late touch. need to see it again.

Its all good!

Where's the beaker gif?!

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Did I hear right . . . Chalky said the word "bender" :girlgiggle: about 30 mins in.
Think it was something to do with the Donny keeper ?

It was onside according to the replay.

Anyway... I've switched back to Donny comms because Town comms keep cutting out

Cheers, Pete.  :D

Did Chalky just say "fuck me"?

Iandolo getting a lot of mentions in the Adver Twitter comms.... It'll be interesting to hear how he's getting on. Williams must rate him to play him ahead of Louis and Robert.

FLIP :girlgiggle:

Ah :)

Beaker! 2-0

Obika again!

Red card for Chaplow :)

Two yellows or straight red?

2 yellows.

Chalky just said Tyson got an attitude & needs sorting :toughguy:

Chin up.

Ft. 2-0.

Great result. Annnnnd a clean sheet!

4 wins on the bounce, 2 defeats in 10 games, 11 wins and only 4 defeats in 18 games.

That aint bad, even Reg has to agree there!

3 points from safety ;)

Woot woot!

A win, a clean sheet, 2 goals for Obika, up to 11th and 4 points off the play offs....
A good nights work.

Promotion form. ;)

Also worth noting that except Barnsley, none of the teams keeping us out of the play-offs won tonight

Sheff U lost to Burton.

Yikes 4 points from the play offs. Thats pretty amazing stuff. Kudos to Barsnley as well, you dont normally get 2 teams coming like a train from the bottom at the same time.

Yep, just realised that. Wasn't listed in the FT scores so I missed it!

Good news.  And to think I was resigned to us going down earlier this year...

Carry this form on and we have a mirror image of last year - could we end up at Wembley again? (shudder...)

Hats off to Luke Williams, and Martin Ling before him. Something is clicking.

Coventry (A) could yet turn out to be a massive game...

get in, another good 3 points. delighted with the HOME CLEAN SHEET, first of the season. we can dream right?

Sheff Utd did play ^^ lost 1-0 to Burton at home

I think we're relying to too many slip ups for the POs but I hope Town keep their focus and take them all the way.

Good to see Gillingham wobbling too.

My mates a Gills fan, we were saying how we've both copied each others seasons from last year.

Good result tonight. We are hitting form at good time, although I think it's far too late to make anything of this season it could at least bode well for next season.

far too late?, still 12 games to go, 4 points off 6th

Obika robs me of 35 quid.....couldn't care less!

Strange game, easily on top in the first half but the dirty northern bastards came at us hard in the second and we struggled to get into their half, great breakaway from Obika and a cool finish.  We just didn't seem to concentrate in the second half, gave the ball away too easily or tried the glory ball which failed to come off.  Twice lost the ball from our throw-in!!  Chaplow rightly sent off, fouling from the first minute!!  And please don't get me started on these short corners, lost the ball on so many occasions.  Everybody put a shift in tonight, a win is a win and another three points safely in the bag!

Ian looks a right player

Doncaster were shite

Deserved win

I saw on the donny forum, the penny might be dropping why we got rid of Willo. Far better money spent on Beeks and Ajose for half the price in wages..(probably)

Be fare please. This game had all the thrills and spills of a nil nil draw. A turgid game split by two goals executed by the good old kick and rush break aways and not the pissing pointless passing game we love. (to hate)

Piece of piss. Donny are shit at the moment. Couldn't cope with our pacey breaks. Offered fuck all themselves. Once they realised the ref was weak they tried to disruopt it with persistent niggley fouls.

This worked for a while but came unstuck and thereafter it was nothing more than comfortable. 1-0 though never enough, well usually, so Beaks second, power pace and calmness made it game over.

Vintage Town, no. Professional and clinical town - yes. And a clean sheet.

Interestingly, only 3 players from tonight played in the reverse fixture.

The problem being of course Louis, Doughtey and who knows who else won't be here.

I'm enjoying it right now. That'll do me.

Someone said landolo looked good, can anyone elaborate?

Its his dreamy eyes.

Ok, he looked good going forward in the first half. Picked some good intelligent passes, used the ball well and even nearly scored after a drive into the box (or was that Doughtey).

Anyway, started to fade a bit in the second half, and replaced at the right time.

oh and Robert was shit tonight !

Impressed with him. Looked assured and creative. Also got stuck in and won some headers. He was taken off after 60 mins for Robert and the midfield looked worse for it.

Cheers not suprised he faded, what is he 17?

I love Obeasta. Outstanding every time I've seen him this season. Stays composed, works for 90 minutes every game and defenders just bounce off him. Started the move for the first goal tonight by showing great strength and bringing the ball out from a corner we were defending.

The great thing is Ajose is completely the opposite type of player, defences just can't cope with the pair of them. Most teams have one stand out striker, this season we have 2.

Don't think we're complete enough to end up in the play offs but if we somehow squeak in we've a good a chance as ever with our strike force.

obika was onside for the first

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Well deserved win v Donny finally. They look very poor but at 2 nil up we got a bit slack and complacent. Chaplow had his sending off coming from virtually the first minute. Obika man of match by a country mile though Landolo very impressive for an hour and Nathan Thompson has made real difference after his return.

Othe than the assist for Obika

Coventry form:
DDLDWDWDLLLDWLL

Still all to play for this season.

Nice screenshot Dave. After the jitters of the first third of our season I'm beginning to get a little nervous and, dare I say, excited. Oh, by the way, despite the poor picture quality, have you always looked like Rowan Atkinson and do you have any more pics of the missus ? I like a neat fringe.

The fact that they're still in the play off places after that string of results proves what a shit league it is.

Good performance tonight.  At times we played some really good football.  Nice to keep a clean sheet.

I'm surprised more hasn't been said about the ref - absolutely useless, although the corner he gave to Doncaster after the ball blatantly came off one of their players ended up leading to our first goal. There should have been several bookings for Doncaster before Doughty waa booked.

4 points off the play offs.  FFS!!

This season is in serious danger of becoming interesting again....

highlights here
http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10188475/swindon-2-0-doncaster

Special mentions to Iandolo and Traore, they look to be real finds. Traore reminds me of that Kante at Leicester, only 23 as well so plenty of time to keep developing.

When you look at the squad now we are probably a 3rd front line striker and maybe one centre back away from a pretty balanced squad. Spoilt for choice again in centre mid with Doughty, Traore, Louis, Robert and now seemingly Iandolo as well. (Plus of course Kasim and Rodgers). Amazing how things have turned around in the last couple of months....

It's always been interesting.... good to beat Donny, especially with Darren Ferguson in charge, and a clean sheet to boot  :)

Doh. Wrong striker. I knew it was one of Obijose, Ajosebika or something  :)

It's too late at night but there must be anagram potential from obikaajose

I really enjoyed that tonight. Great entertainment. Ref was a serious unrelenting masturbator but thanks for giving the corner the wrong way and the resulting goal for us. Cunt

Beaker's celebration in front of the Town End was ace

Pretty disappointed that we didn't go one down and then go on to win  :wotjump:

Excellent result..get in..

How the fuck are near the play offs?

Shit league and all that...

A win and a draw and I don't give a fuck what happens after that!

The floodlighting looks a hell of a lot better  ???

Iandolo looked good as well, as much as you can tell from a few seconds of highlights.

It'll be interesting to see what Power does next - hopefully dip into the market and get a striker in. One injury to Obika or Ajose and we could lose any momentum.

Well done for making Kasim a midfield footnote. He'll appreciate that.

Just watched the highlights,  some lovely counter attacking football,  always way more exciting to watch than all that possession based stuff.

Also just watched the Oldham highlights,  they love a long ball,  have a very flappy keeper and their pitch is an absolute disgrace.  Will mean we might have to change our style up a bit,  let's see what Williams does next because his ability to adapt the team to suit the opposition/conditions seems to be working a treat so far.

Just a thought, everybody has praised Williams/Ling for turning our season around - anybody got the stats since Nathan T. has been back?  I am sure he has made a big difference since his return - played through the pain barrier tonight!

Well i think we lost on his return but only once since then.may be wrong

How would you now assess this season's comments to the effect that our team / squad is barely of Conference South standard, and that we were set to be all but relegated by Christmas time?

Never say this again.

I know it'll go down as a Doughty assist for the first but really, another assist for Barry. How many is that now?

Also - what in god's name is their keeper doing for the second.

Avoid defeat at Oldham then it's Millwall, Coventry and Wigan - the only tough spell in our run in. Come through that with 6/7 points and I might just afford myself a glance upwards....

It's no Ajika I'll give you that.

Woken up in a fine mood. We're getting better all the time while every team above us bar Wigan, Burton and Millwall are seriously starting to crack. Anything is possible!

Win or even draw at Oldham and it's game on heading into  Millwall, Cov and Wigan. Not used to seeing boring mid table finishes at Swindon which is probably why I'm expecting some sort of dramatic end to this season. The quality is dire this year.

We could actually end up finishing the season strongly for a change as opposed to recent campaigns where we've tailed off at critical points such as last Easter or conceding our automatic promotion spot under Wilson (or have I imagined that?)

We did. The loss to Millwall in the last few games was the nail in the coffin which led to them beating us in the PO final.

Out injured for the foreseeable future and completely uninterested this year when he has played. The Midfield has looked much better of late than at any time with him in it this season.

If you made them, then a bit wide of the mark.

If you're implying I made them, then you're mistaken. Think you'll find early on that I said the alarm bells were ringing for a relegation scrap, after a 1/3 of the season gone and 13 points from 16 games we were well and truly in that scrap. Think you'll find I also said that such was the hole we'd dug, that it would need PO form to dig ourselves out....happily we've managed that.

As for the squad, obviously the plan for the season, was to get something out of the 2 Liverpool lads, that Stewart has been given a long term contract at the Scousers, and Williams was called into the Wales squad bound for the Euros suggests they must have something about them.

Unfortunately, as Cooper acknowedged at the time, this meant we were having to bring in the likes of BOO, Barry, Brophy, Balmy etc a bit too early and for too many games, and it showed in the results, with a historically bad sequence of home defeats, which cost Cooper his job. That the likes of Ojamma and Bangoura were off loaded pretty sharpish suggests te management didn't see much in them either.

Think you'll find I also predicted that Lingy wouldn't last past January, and that Power might take a more hands on role, with Willams and Embleton in a day to day holding capacity, with a review at season's end.

Can't get them all right, but I believe the management duo are only in place until the summer. Williams rightly stated on taking over his aim was to keep us up, so he has just about done that, now we enter into somewhat different territory. As I said in the earlier post it's been an interesting season so far and promises to continue in that way.

I was thoroughly impressed with the performance last night, LW seemed to alter the style so we were more direct and broke with pace. I enjoy watching it compared to the usually tippy tappy stuff.

JSW - I thought he was excellent, composed on the ball and snuffed out a couple of dangerous attacks. The defence looks much more stable with him instead of Branco.

N.Thompson - Same as above, solid and good on the ball.

Obika - Class, he deserved his goals for all of his unselfish work over the past month or so.

Iandolo - Very impressive, composed on the ball and had a trick or two up his sleeve. Early days but we could have a player on our hands, the chipped through ball to Ajose was class.

Our recent form and style of play reminded me of the Cooper team in the first few months of his tenure, it's been much more enjoyable to watch.  LW & the players deserve a lot of credit for their recent good form.

Love listening to LW talk.

Great post, can't disagree with any of it. Especially about Beaks. I said before the game it's about time he started scoring cos he deserves it, and because Ajose keeps drawing attention to himself ;) (too late on that one, I know.)

Interesting people said NT playing through his injury would be to our detriment. I know it was at Wembley, but he was great last night. The man's made of steel.

Loved the way Turnbull, BOO and Traore passed their way out of Donny's pressure in the first half. Everyone around me was having a fit.

Me to, plenty of shouts of away and get it forward.

It's amazing what a bit of confidence and a few wins will do but it only takes  couple of missed passes and a goal given away to bring back the boos.