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This is mid-table mediocrity in a nutshell so far more interesting would be a battle of the band's.

XTC or Half Man Half Biscuit? Impossible call for me.

Yep me too. Dead heat for 2nd favourite bands of all time. My profile pic and my tag line

You'd have to go to second most famous musical supporters - Jamie Cullum vs The Coral?

Trouble is, it’s difficult to tell who gets fobbed off with a headless centre forward and a goalkeeper with no arms.

Which team will be playing in yellow shirt with maroon arms?

Arses served to us on a late last season! That was an awful night.

The Coral are Liverpool fans with one blue in there I think. Miles Kane is a fake scouser as well, but also supports Liverpool.

The 4pm to 2am shift has always been difficult for some to get through  :soapy tit wank:

#IKnowYouMeantPlate

Tranmere 2 Swindon 1 Att: 5,670 (345 bank holiday day trippers)

Seems appropriate…..

https://youtu.be/1FR842KUaOw

Brilliant :clap:...and totally appropriate...

Going and can't wait!  23rd vs 24th based on recent form. The battle for 11th-19th place is well and truly under way. A sort of  2023-24  pre-season encounter, although very much doubt that more than 3  of the starting XI tomorrow will still be around the squad come next season, hoping that will be FBT, Mceachran & RHM.

If Austin isn't going to get any service may as well play him at centre half.....can't do any worse than the defenders who've been playing!

The eagerly awaited clash of the, currently, 2 worst sides in L2.

What a time to be alive.

I’m going as currently on a weekend break in north wales, so it’s a nice little detour via Birkenhead. Not been since the 2nd play off leg in the early 90’s. Any parking tips and away friendly pub much appreciated.

 will probably just have it on the radio . cant be arsed to watch

Can’t be arsed to have it on the radio.

As others have said, I think we need to go Mike Bassett on this one. 4-4-fucking-2. Billy basics.

                                            Brynn (because we have no alternative sadly)

Hutton                 Brewitt                      FBT                     Tomlinson


Lavinier                Khan                         McEachran           Williams


                            RHM                         Austin


No pissing about.

I agree, but being a young ‘progressive’ manager Morris wants to hang his hat on a more up to date style - whether it works or not.

Not felt this uninterested in a Town game since Sheridan was here.

Will watch on iFollow only because I have nothing else to do and I have already got the game as part of the season pass.

We will lose.

Lost interest with little hope at the moment.

I'll watch this because, like PV, I've already paid for it. But it's basically a very early preseason friendly. Hopefully see one or two fringe players get a go - no point playing all the youths, but give one or two a chance to impress amongst the senior pros.

If nothing more than to put them in the shop window.

It feels like a game after we've been relegated, pointless and could easily be deleted from the fixture list as neither team has anything to play for and fans should be allowed in for free!

Anyone know anymore on Clayton/Jephcott. Left out against Mansfield but no injured. Jephcott i dont care about, not going to play ahead of Austin and not our player. Was very surprised by Clayton though, with no CB on the bench and Tomlinson playing CB.

Brynn

Lavinier
Brewitt
Clayton
FBT

Hutton
Khan
Cain
Tomlinson

Adeloye
Wakeling

….fuck it!

442 old school like it :clap:

TBF that looks ok to me. Gives Austin and Williams a rest too.

According to Morris in the presser he said he was out of form but ‘that doesn’t mean I’ll leave him out forever’ which doesn’t sound encouraging for his future!

Even tempted to bin Brewitt out and play Minturn.

…or move Clayton in midfield but worth giving Cain some game time because we paid for him, he’s on a long contract and it feels like he’s hardly played

Important people are dropped when out of form, and to be fair he is correct. Would like to see that happen to a few others, Hutton for example, Lavinier deserves a start ahead of him on recent form.

However to not have Clayton on the bench, well thats quite some bad form he must be in.

Yes Cain is one who definitely needs game time, young lad with a long contract.

Using the game as a stopping point on route to Belfast for a few days.

I suspect Belfast will be far more entertaining than the football.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbltF7hAuI

Memories :pint:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6bUJpx6PI

Can’t remember the last time I was so disinterested in a game, good chance I probably won’t even listen to the match commentary.  (But still be there Saturday !!), more for the social side plus the fact I have a season ticket rather than the football !!.

Yup, I’m going cold turkey today.

Will check the score at 5pm.

Don’t need another day ruined by our rabble.

(But I’d love it if we could win… COYR!)

I have a sock drawer that needs tidying.

Brann

Lavenier fbt brewit Tomlinson
Hutton Williams khan Cain
Austin rushin

Bryns distribution has been shocking all season and time to look at our number two.  Hutton has created many of our goals so let’s play him in midfield and allow him to get forward more.  Dropped McEachran as I do wonder whether his arrival unsettled the camp.  After all a bloke who was sat on his arse eating popcorn upto January just walked straight into the team without having a spell on the bench first which I doubt would have done much for morale.

Rumour that austin has refused to travel

Good to understand that yes, it could possibly get worse.

Too big a personality and still think he will be gone in the summer.

Austin has signed a new contract, so I call bullshit on that one.

Interesting to see if/how that pans out!

We aren't getting the ball to him anyway, so probably won't affect the result. However, very interesting if it is a public statement about unrest in the squad.

Hope we aren't seeing another 'Sheridan' in Morris. I think much of the squad need to go next year, but I'm really not sure that Morris should stay either.

It really does feel as hopeless as with Sheridan now. I'm not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel either.

When did he sign that?

Be announced this week at some point.

To be fair we haven’t done great since he’s been back. Maybe Morris said you’re 33 Im going to rest you for Monday but we want you in squad and he said piss off. I can see the scenario.

If he has not travelled then it could be down to his lack of fitness rather than any falling out.

He was in flip flops limping after the Hartelpool game and then came out of the tunnel limping after the Mansfield game too. Saw them both with my own eyes.

If he isn’t in the squad, it certainly won’t be because he’s ‘refused to travel’.
He isn’t that type of bloke.

I do worry Austin next year could be a repeat of Matt Taylor in his second season. Still got it upstairs but without the legs to allow it.

No doubt he will get you goals, but he needs players around him to do the things he can’t do anymore. I am not sure Wakeling or RHM are the right pairing for him in a 2 and possibly only RHM suits a 3 up top alongside him.

Dude, you can’t just come out and say shit like this.

You need to imply you know something but can’t say what it is but you definitely know something the rest of us don’t, honestly.

Then tell us what it is - after it’s announced because of course you knew all along before us.

Ryan Whelan now reporting Austin hasn't travelled after Morris told him he was being rested.

https://therealefl.co.uk/2023/04/10/dont-bother-travelling-swindon-town-talisman-told-to-stay-at-home-exclusive/

Don't really mind giving him the game off if it's as simple as resting him, but hope there's not more to it. Whelan certainly heavily implying that there is in the article and otherwise on Twitter though.

Pre match pondering the pitfalls of unrequited love in The North Western.
Well, they don't go to see me when I'm bad do they.

Not sure why all of the locals are wearing Air Jordan 4 Retro Eminem 2017 trainers when only a few pairs were ever made available.

Don't think I could live here.
The audio visual onslaught of the plethora of cheeky chappies & chapesses would be unbearable.
Miserable scousers must exist as well.

Was chatting to a friend the other day who made mention of Mallory & Irvine.
Turns out Andrew Irvine was born in Birkenhead.
Also turns out that an attempt on Mt Everest, albeit a failed one is looking like a much easier proposition than STFC winning a football match.

But, like climbing Everest it will happen one day.

Anyway, enough of this bollocks, valuable drinking time is going to waste.

‘ Austin is a legend at the County Ground and his return was celebrated by fans of the club. But according to a source close to the player, new manager Jody Morris has told the player to “not bother travelling” as he “won’t even be in the squad.” This is reportedly due to being “rested” for today’s game against Tranmere Rovers. Morris is in desperate need to turn around the poor form and leaving out his star striker may be considered a strange move by some fans.

The veteran striker has been put on ice, this Easter Monday. He won’t be in the matchday squad, and will use the time off for extra recovery at home.

Morris’ tenure has got off to a disasterous start with poor form, poor performances and some fans becoming disillusioned with the disasterous displays on the field.’

3 games in a week must be his logic

Adeloye to score a hattrick today soapy tit wank

No idea why you wouldn't have Austin on at least the bench? 70 minutes and the game is 0-0, who would you want to be brought on?

Morris has got a lot of self importance from what I’ve been told. Has very poor man management skills and barely speaks to the players.

It’s getting very messy. I don’t think he will see out the season.

Have been told ref the same ref his interaction with the players, particularly those not in the starting eleven. All managers are different, but it doesn't sound like the best environment to me.

You can see the logic in resting Austin, but surely having him on the bench makes sense?

So 40% Gossip 40% Bollocks 20% ITK

Before Hartlepool someone told me he was definitely staying and sounded very convinced. He said it was due to loyalty to Clem more than anything.

Yea, he will be here next season.

I think it’ll be under a different manager and DoF though.

Are Tranmere still managerless🤔

Just another day ain’t it.

Pathetic club. Clowns running it.

Huge respect to anyone giving up the bank holiday going today - the club don’t deserve you.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Austin is manager by the end of next season

The players adore Austin, even if you just want to go off the way players speak about him post/pre game and the impact he has. If he wants to stay, he will outlast any manager imo.

Or this season.

Fingers crossed. At this stage I wouldn’t mind a few defeats if it helps clear the managerial cobwebs.

Fair play to all of those travelling.  Not just another probable wasted day, another fortune spent on tickets and fuel plus the usual bank holiday traffic to contend with.
Big round of applause from me - loyal supporters.

Agreed  :clap:

Oh please be right :hmmm:

Pretty poor management dropping the captain and then telling him he isnt even travelling. Surely would be beneficial to have him there even if not playing?

I wonder if Jephcott has traveled

To be fair if he’s signed a new contract I’d give Austin the rest of the season off definitely in terms of away matches and give him a personal fitness program so he’s in the best possible shape for next season. Pointless risking any long term injuries with him now.

Alternatively, good management to let him stay at home, rest & get treatment on an injury rather than sit on a bus for several hours for no reason.

I have no idea which is true, I guess it just depends on how you want to frame it.

I would question why a source close to him would need to mention it to Ryan Whelan.

Chucking it down here.
Just found shelter in pub that has Wobbly Bob on draught.
Hopefully game off or a case of relying on muscle memory to get to the ground.

Dulled senses are probably good for watching Swindon at the moment.

I can imagine us not playing him if we have decided we aren’t signing him next season

That is absolutely right if that is what has happened. Do You think that is the way it would of happened?

I would love to see loads of changes today, play players who are likely to be here next seaon. My main worry is he is week by week leaving people out the squad, even as poor as Williams has been he didn't bring him on with the other 3 subs saturday so fuck knows what is going on

Expect a few more surprises then!

Yes, rumours and innuendo possibly but heard similar from a group of people who were in the with the players friends/relations area prior to the Mansfield game.

Have they? It'll be the same person who has been leaking stuff the Whelan all season. Won't be the player

It’s all about context, though. Morris could have said ‘I’m giving you a rest tomorrow, Charlie. Take it easy and don’t bother travelling up’

Excellent ale, had it in our local weatherspoons for a couple of days. Looked but never found it since.

Just wondering who the scource is😀

Don’t want to play Austin? Fair enough, but not taking your captain with the match day squad sends out a pretty poor message. Not like we have anyone on the bench (or the starting XI for that matter) who offers anything more

Sounds like everyone from top to bottom has given up already.

We don't exactly travel on private jets, so I can well imagine a player being told to avoid the 8 hours of combined coach journeys.  However, a properly functioning club would realise it's not just some youth prospect we are talking about and sign post the missing player well before the game if that was the necessary decision.

Bizarre way of doing it though.
Morris has done a pre match presser. He could have just as easily said there and then Austin won’t be travelling because with three games in a week and him being 33 he needs a rest and / or he’s got a slight injury.

This information coming out via a ‘journalist’ a few hours before kick off - smacks of someone not liking Morris and / or question the legitimacy of the alleged reasons.

You don’t suppose this was pre determined coming into the Easter schedule and therefore no need to tell him something he already knew?

Why would travelling to this game and not even being on the bench be beneficial? It’s Easter, the kids are home from Skool. CA & JM are seasoned pro’s their level of communication doesn’t need to be the same as everyone else’s.

I don’t think anyone likes Morris in all honesty.

And just maybe a journo making a non story credible?

Sandro?

To be fair a lot of people seemed to know about this before Ryan Whelan reported it. So someone had obviously got wind of it.

Someone at the club does seem to play politics through Whelan though. If he reported on multiple clubs like Nixon or was a local journo I would understand, but I still don’t get why he is the chosen one.

I do agree with DiV, this could have been mentioned very easily by Morris yesterday, as it was obvious it would cause uproar.

Maybe a parting dig from Sandro to his mate to report on, putting a negative spin on it because he wasn't a player that he signed.  Who knows, and in the grand scheme of things, who cares.

To me it makes sense to give him a rest, and if you give him a rest he should not travel, it should be complete rest.  Most fans have been crying out for plenty of changes once we are out of the running, it surprises me that these changes over a bank holiday weekend have surprised so many.

To me it's a non story carrying an injury, meaningless game and told to rest end of.

I have heard similar from friends at the club, he seems to have upset pretty much every player.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtWsvcGWAAQ4Tx5?format=jpg&name=large)

Hutton dropped

Morris is definitely doing ‘ip dip dog shit’ to pick matchday squads

Good. Been woeful

Would like to see what Tomi can do today.
Strange that he only got one start at Harrogate & that was it, unless he picked up an injury straight after?
(I'm doing my best to forget this season).

Might make sense to give Cain & Clayton a go, particularly with family & friends in attendance.
Cain in particular needs some game time.

Team selection will be out by the time I hit the Post button, so expect none of them to feature!

Probably off in the summer

Adeloye's strangest moment was scoring with his first touch as a sub and then being binned off from the matchday squad the next week.

At least this side seems to have Wakeling up front rather than lwb.

But still our most likely source of a goal which says one thing ...or another

The same person who told me Austin was staying also said Tomi is our top paid player on over 5k per week!

….you say that with certainty

I reckon it’ll be the awful 352 again.
Lavinier & Shade as wing backs.

But then, who is up front with RHM, Williams? It has to be 4 3 3 surely.

I bet that’s probably 1k basic and 4k appearance bonus!

Brynn

Brewitt
FBT
Tomlinson

Lavinier

Williams
McEacheran
Khan

Shade

RHM
Wakeling


If I had to guess

We signed Tomi from the Scottish second division, if he's our top earner I'll eat my hat. Which for the purposes of clarity will be one of those nacho dip hats.

I'd be sort of interested to watch DV's 3-1-3-1-2 in an odd way.

I wasn’t convinced either - just passing on what I was told! If he is our top earner we have had even more of a shocker than we have had by signing him in the first place.

Crossed wires surely. I could probably believe that were paying more for Jephcott than anyone else in the squad, but not Tomi.

Absolutely no chance he will be a top earner. Be surprised if he is on over £50k a year

I hope it is nothing more than crossed wires. Hopefully we can find some suitors for him in the summer.

Sounds like a late April Fool🤣

Ha would be interesting. Obviously the Lavinier & Shade are suppose to be wing backs. In a 352

Now McDonald has gone, I believe Adeloye is certainly in the top 3 earners. Its remarkable how much Sandro fucked this season honestly.

Didn't we pay a fee for Adeloye?

edit, nope, thank god.  Free Transfer.

further edit:  Good lord, sometimes the other people are just right.......

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/people-gave-im-showing-them-040000102.html

Christ! These Tranmere commentators are going to drive me nuts!

Calm down! Calm down!

Dey dont doh dont dey doh

If Adeloye got a two year bumper deal off the back of 11 goals for Ayr then his agent deserves a serious pay rise.

Anyone worked out the formation yet?

Looks like 2 poor teams

They aren’t pressing us.

We don’t seem to be able to pass to eachother

4-2-3-1 I think with Williams ahead of McEachran/Khan in midfield and Wakeling central?

Some quite neat passing so far, nothing much from it yet though.

FBT does very well against Hemmings in the box there.

Has PV been rested?

Binned by Morris

The presence of Hemmings aside, this feels a bit like playing our mirror image here, patient side, trying to play a bit of football but low on confidence, making mistakes and not putting much pressure on possession.

This is shit.

It sounds it on the radio

Indeed he was, his childhood home was derelict and fire damaged until very recently but now converted into apartments, with a great team working on getting it planning permission. 😉

As for the whole Austin situation and it leaking out, Team Austin were very good at getting their (very complimentary) side of the story leaked out when the whole 'will he won't he' farce was going on before he signed so I suspect we may be seeing the same again if its down to an Austin v. Morris briefing process.

Just realised I’d dropped off!

Did I missed any paint drying?

Not seen Tyrese Shade take a free kick before, and I'm not sure we will again.

Players just going through the motions, that FK from Shade summed the game up.

Lovely ball forward from Tomlinson to Shade, who seems to have no real idea of what he's meant to do with it in the box.

1-0 Tranmere  - Morris Out!
2nd bottom of league form table last 12 matches,
12 matches 2 wins 3 draws 7 losses and now this.  Abysmal and he will take us to the national league no question.  

 :clap: :clap: :clap:
It didn't take long shocking defending again

Awful defending

Oh for crying out loud.

Didnt take long.

Brewitt poor header, then Lavinier tries to cover for him, loses his own man, cross into the fox and FBT is the wrong side of the scorer. So a standard Town goal where you can blame 75% of the defence.

Would anyone like a debate on Brewitt being a good defender?

Lovely cross from Lavinier, although Jonny Williams being the man on the end of it is... not ideal.


That certainly wasn't a good moment - tough as I imagine half his family are at the game, being a local lad. I wouldn't mind him being a squad player next season, but he's not what I'd hope would be first choice.

No way he’s better than Clayton or Minturn.

Ah well,going 1 nil up hasn't done us much good lately

Don’t think we’ve won a game with Brewitt playing have we? Starting to think he’s actually pretty poor and the only reason he’s looked half decent is due to how god awful the other players are.

Yeah at least we don’t have a lead to throw away. Morris has got to go, it’s becoming farcical now.

Better by Shade

 I’m not sure any Swindon player has earned more than 5 out of 10

I'd maybe argue Tomlinson has been alright? But I'm not shooting for more than a 6.

The thing that bothers me about our passes backwards is that we play that ball even if it's *more difficult* than the forward ball. I'm not a "Forward!!!" guy, you can pass backwards if it means retaining and recycling possession. But we turn down perfectly simple balls forward to backwards over and over again.

What a ball by Williams

Certainly nobody more than a 5.5 for me, very poor. Some nice passing but no threat and powderpuff defending as always.

Tyrese Shade: where attacks go to die

Corrected.

We always seem to get the first yellow

Brewitt is awful.

It's not just Shade.....when the ball is with any STFC player the attack dies

Looking ahead to next season for me.....

Future may be brighter

Chalmers somehow remains unbooked despite having fouled Williams about five times already.

Swindon are awful

It's not why we're losing but Tranny should've had at least 2 yellows by now

Khan has been okay.

Really?

Thought he’d been anonymous

That should have been a goal for us.

Another great ball by Williams. We should be level

Swindon are awful under Morris.

Runs sideways a lot, like a headless chicken really!

Never looks forward, awful!

National league player on his best day

No composure in the final 3rd. Miskick from Tomlinson and a poor effort from Wakeling

Khan just passed it out under no pressure. Commentator’s curse!

As I said Awful player

Their keeper looks shite.

Awful performances all season - as a club and a team

Have we got any game changers on the bench?

Aren’t they all under Morris?

Khan looked pretty decent till Morris got here.

Yes

They can make the team worse?

He looked average every other game , Awful the rest of the time!!

Khan has been pretty meh all season, along with the rest of the midfield - we should be looking at better caliber of player if we are serious about getting out of this league.  George Mc has shown glimpses, but that is about it for me.

It's not terrible, but it is uniformly quite bad.

Positives... Tomlinson has looked alright, decent outlet, largely blameless defensively, but miskicked our best chance of the half. RHM is trying and has caused them a few issues, Williams has had a few moments of quality. We've played quite a few nice balls over the top that nobody has got onto the end of. FBT looks dominant defensively in the air, less so on the ground.

Shade - I get why managers see something in there, he's got all the athletic qualities, but he really does look like he's encountering a ball for the first time whenever it goes near him. He just doesn't seem to try do anything with it. Brewitt is having a torrid time defensively, but has pulled out a few very nice long passes. Wakeling hasn't really been near anything. The defending for their goal was... consistent with what we're seen over the last few weeks.

Their keeper looks dodgy, need a Newport special "shoot at all times" plan for the second half. That's the one thing Darcy can do, some maybe get him on.

Personally I think Williams is our best player today. Kept possession,won free kicks and set up our best chance. FBT has won a fair amount of challenges but the rest pretty average. RHM came alive at the end of the half. I find it ironic that without Austin, we've put more balls in the box in that half than the previous 2 or 3 games put together.
Once again though,a piece of rank bad defending has cost us

Khan has had a few good games, where he drove with the ball.  He's also had a fair few where he is literally all over the place, in a bad way.  He spends a lot of the game having to make a dart to get close to their players when defending.  He's what you might expect one of our project players to look like - good career lower down, some hints at talent that can be refined.  Have him around as a sub, get a few games here and there to cover injuries, let him bed in and grow.  Unfortunately he's the best centre midfielder on the books!  McEachran is fast becoming a poor mans Reed.  Think he has to played in the Williams role, or he's wasted - so that's an either or decision.  He's dropped back onto the central defenders the past couple of games and as a result has no influence on the games.

Overall this is powder puff stuff.

I've asked for Lavinier to be given a go, he's not doing much to warrant it.

Let's be honest,we are the better footballing side out there of two average sides,but... nowt to show for it as usual
.

I know you love Williams - he has had some nice touches, one good driving run and some peachy passes.  But he mixes that with 40 minutes of being absent (like when he watched a ball played out from their box bounce over his head and let the defender run free beyond him).  He's an asset when you have two central midfielders who can run for him, cover for him and generally boss the show.  We don't have that, so Williams is as much a liability as he is an asset.   In fact, we have several players exactly like him - Shade (much worse by the way) who does nothing, RHM who runs around a lot, McEachran who flits around with nice touches but tackles players shins, Khan etc.  None of them can be "trusted" to dig you out.

No he hasn’t.
He’s good enough for this league. We have plenty worse players.
It’s a competent manager we need first and foremost.

not aimed at you specifically

I'm not even sure what 'footballing side' means any more.

we pass it around but create little.

Yes I get what you're saying but he is our most creative midfield player by a long way. Not disagreeing that he could do with more quality around him

Williams has only ever shown what he can do in flashes in all his time at the Club. Very, very disappointing...

Showing what he can do in flashes comfortably puts him in the top quartile of this squad though.

Top one I'd say🙂

Which is why he worked well last season when rotated with Gladwin, for the most part.  Both luxury additions with experience and shared the load.  Payne did the running, Reed held the middle and controlled the ball.  That combination was good, not great, but good.  We should have been looking to improve on that for this season.

McEachran and Williams would work, if you rotated those like we did with Gladwin.  Khan is not as good as Payne, and then we have nobody where Reed would have been (so end up using a Williams mkII, asking for trouble).

Khan has been as bad as the rest of the midfield which has been rubbish.

He is not good enough for League 2.......

aside: Duncan disorderly really making no impact at fgr whatsoever.

in fact he may have an even worse record than Morris..

one local game next year, though I'd happily live without going back to their shitheap ground again

If you think Khan has been our stand out midfield player, then maybe that just shows how far we have fallen with regards to quality of our squad - we are now happy with mediocre players.

Flashes yes, but our most influencial midfielder this season left in January and polarised our fanbase, all of the time.

Mate, if the senior management are serious about the clubs long term future along with the stadium development then getting out of this dire league is and has to be their No.1 priority. The fans are not going to come through the turn styles and advertising is going to dwindle. Those two certainties will make going forward even more difficult.

When crashed and burnt at Vile Pork the cogs, wheels and gears should have been turning in a forward motion bring promotion this season along with debt reduction adding the ground purchase as a cherry on the top.

Someone, someone at the top has made a monumental fuck up. I have no idea what they were thinking of. It may well transpire that they knew this season was going to be a shitshow in which case with a little bit of foresight that could have been communicated to fans in a way that there wouldn’t be the backlash there is.

not glad all over then Bernie

personally think khan is ok. But is ok good enough as a starter for a promotion aspiring team?

nope

Yeah this is fair, lots of players in our squad want to play very similar roles - Williams, McEachran, Cain, Darcy, Aguiar are basically five diminishing returns version of the same player. McEachran can be a bit more of a wasp off the ball, he certainly was in his early games, but less so recently. A couple of those alongside a few stronger ball winning and retention types, and I reckon they'd perform a lot better.

Another flaw in sandros spreadsheet then

Ref catches the ball, which is more than the Tranmere keeper has managed all game.

Khan has been our best midfielder this season. He’s perfectly good enough for this division.
They’ve all been crap under the current manager. He’s a fucking clown.

MacDonald was the only January loss.

Tranmere don't need a goalkeeper against us

It is eminently possible both to be the standout player in our squad and not be particularly brilliant.

Agree

The best of a shit bunch😀

Haha, have you been drinking?

Town on the counter into their half, men breaking forward all over the place and Shade slows down then picks out a not particularly simple ball backwards to our left back. Ffs!

No yellow. I'm incredulous

No, which bit is wrong?
Whose been a better midfielder for us this season?
Morris is fucking clueless.

I am apathetic pleased to meet you :)

Agree. But Gladwin and Reed are losses also (yes they’ve got injured at new clubs) but both are far better than cain. Don’t get me started on Kadji.

I think we've actually got worse since half time.

I wouldn't be upset with losing any of these players - I like FBT (played in the right position) along with Lavinier (played in the right position) and potentially George Mc (played in the right position).  Obviously Austin is a quality striker at this level, but unless we play to Austin's strengths, then there is no point in paying the big money for him - you could say the same about Williams.

Out of a large squad of players, that is not much of a glowing reference for the squad we have cobbled together.

Meanwhile Ganerball Colchester Utd lead Crewe 4-0
Their be overtaking us soon😀

12 fouls by Tranmere, no yellow cards. It's not why we're losing at all but it seems like Tranmere would have to actually commit murder to get a booking here.

Khan is not an upgrade on any of last seasons midfield

Hutton on for Lavinier
Darcy on for Khan


Not the starters no, but he'd have been a good option off the bench, better than East, Aguiar and post-injury Lyden.

Jephcott for Wakeling would be another I reckon

Good! Darcy will add some bite to the midfield!

Makes you wonder why he was dropped🤣

As long as we don't see Kadji

Just in terms of actual quality, I think this game has had more misplaced passes and overhit crosses than any other this season - from both sides. Both these teams are very bad indeed.

Watching this is like watching one of the many Town sides that have had stacks of possession, without chances. What the f*** is the plan?

I don’t care how average the squad is, Morris has to get more of them than this.

For sure. Did anyone notice McEachran corner that went out for a throw? Morris has been coaching all the talent out of him.

This isn’t football as I know it.

Not a patch on the 93 play off game!

Bloody crap this is. Utter gash.

It’s pure nothingness. Like going to a strip club where the ladies keep their clothes on.

Let's guess the excuses in the presser after this appalling display

This is about as depressing as it gets.

Well, I thought we’d be 2 down by now.

Not sure we will score again in April

Quite tempted to do a reverse MoM thread where people vote for the player who was worst and the votes come off their season totals. Red Frog kept taking it seriously all through the Sheridan period, which is the only thing making me question it.

Should be 2-0, good move to be fair. Brynn and Hutton do just enough to put the striker under pressure and he puts it wide.

It’s like they’re drunk (maybe then they’d show some character). Zero endeavour. No professionalism.

Good to see Hutton defending well again! Their number 11 should have scored

If the players are, indeed, not playing for Morris, that’s some achievement after so few games.

Again, they could just be crap.

Lovely cross from Hutton. I know he's not a very good defender, but he's our best attacking outlet by a million miles. If we had a 6ft+ striker, he'd have 15 assists. As it is he has 9, more than Gladwin, Williams, Darcy and Khan combined.

We do have a 6ft 2 striker.
He’s currently watching Hungerford Town.

My stream is behind you. But no way did Hutton do anything other than get turned and caught out of position

Or Morris came in, saw they were crap and not good enough and told them straight....

Another good cross from Hutton which Shade fails to meet at the back post.

It wasn't meant as high praise, I was just 100% sure he was going to bring him down and get a red card and was pleasantly surprised that was not the outcome!

Would like to see him played as a winger.

Shade did well not to head that cross from Hutton into the back of the net.

My initial reaction to that bed sheet up at the county ground was, well that is obviously over the top. But fuck me at least it might give Clem a kick up the ass.

Exactly. Which is why I said the other day I can’t wait till our dead rubber of a season is 100% a dead rubber. Then those that have so far decided against a ST renewal or a new ST can decide based upon the direction and intent of the club whether to get new ones. For me it doesn’t matter. I won’t renew until the DNA has finished Uni. The occasional walk up will be my preferred option.

As for the players, well, I doubt many here will lose any sleep.

Shade didn't look remotely determined to get on the end of that. And that's unforgivable

Not Spartacus?

Fuck me, absolute comedy scenes in the six yard box from - you guessed it - a Hutton cross. He's MoM for me and he's been on for 15 minutes. Perhaps being dropped put a bit of a rocket up him.

Are you? Not Spartacus?

Hang on. We have left Wakeling on the pitch  and taken off RHM?

🙂

These scouse commentators are really struggling with Jephcotts name.  So far we have had Joycott and Jeycott..

Wish I’d watched County vs Deadpool

Just checking in. Has the 10th game in a row planned comeback happened? Oh.
Wish they would stop putting that bollocks up.

We are doing them a favour by not playing it to him.

I think I hate this team more than Sheridan's. It's just so bad.

I think I’ve had enough of this. Not going to bother tuning in to any more games.

Smart save from Brynn.

I am quite enjoying it knowing it would be very hard for us to get relegated and each second of this dross that we serve up is bringing us closer to parting company with Morris the Muppet.

There are still six games of this. Six!

I feel sorry for the fans who have travelled all that way for this shit

Cain fails to find Darcy with a five yard pass, Darcy fouls the man who got it instead and gets a yellow.

That was a superb pass by Williams folles by utter shite by Wakeling

on the plus side my stream packed up 20 minutes ago

Commentators saying about us not having a single chance in the second half

It’s a good job that we have a good manager who was wanted all along by Clem, or we’d be really shit.

Not a single shot on target, sure, but there have been at least 3 crosses we should have done something with.


I was thinking earlier about how disgruntled we all were when it seemed like it was going to be Bircham. Could it have been worse?

We are limping to the end of the season.

Only three at home?

I just saw Jephcott touch the ball!

What a load of shit since morris took over .

It only takes a century to score a goal!

Noooooo!OMG.

Our seasons well and truly over what a blow out how have we become so crap.

3 points handed over with a whimper..

Pointless saying it’s not good enough. Do we keep Morris or go old school. Can Clem accept the plan isn’t going to work in L2. Can we afford to pay Morris off. Can he afford not to with redevelopment of the CG in the near future.

Are we in terminal decline.

It's madness, we had a semi decent side to a complete shambles of a mess. You think it can't get any worse, but it does. It's utter dross.  :suicide:

This is the worst Swindon side I've ever seen. Been supporting since 2005

A good start would actually be saying something and acknowledging the situation..  all you hear is ST's are on sale.

The club feels non league currently and if something doesn’t drastically change that’s where we’ll be heading before long!

We never had a semi decent side, it was shit.
It’s just even shitter now.

Iffy's relegation side of 2006 come to mind. But they were mostly trying, they just weren't good enough. Maybe the Sheridan side were worse, but no crowd took the edge off that a bit. These are certainly up (down?) there though.

Yep

Unfortunately, there is only one person to blame for this. He publicly said he took advice and then he alone made the decisions.

This is entirely down to Clem.

I'm with Roker now. Get the Cowleys in and go agricultural next season.

The buck certainly stops with Clem - he needs to get on Zoom and start talking to communicate what we are going to do about it - even if the message is we are going to moth ball the team to focus on ground redevelopment - at least we will know then and people can make their choices

Good decision leaving Austin out then ::)

It was a fantastic game. What football's supposed to look like...I'd almost forgotten...

Scunthorpe relegated to NLN.

Unless drastic changes are made, could be us in a couple of years..

Pulling pints in a bucket hat isn't going to cut it now

It wont be us, cant ever be us.

We would be in the NLS :D

Would have made zero difference, except possibly agrivating the knocks he is carrying

Omg you poor child. Those of us stalwarts have seen much, much worse than what has been served up this season.

Disagree...

We'll be NLS ;)

Edit: JJ beat me to it, the bastard :)

You know what i mean!

Swindon’s only just South of Gloucester….

I was very against having Bircham. However, he would have come without the fallacy that having worked at Chelsea, he would be a good manager.  Whereas with Morris, there’s a temptation to think there must be something in there…

Fuck me.  What a Mother Fucking bunch of Cunty Twats - every single person in this shit show of a club.

How on earth can a club manage to fuck up such a position of strength for Div 4 - 6m-7m in Revenue from 9k+ crowds, two seasons in a row.  It's impressively bad.

Have we ever played a more Candy Floss of a midfield than we ended up with today - Cain, Darcy and Williams.  Bloody hell, Mike Wazowski would have an easier time scaring an opposition midfielder.

Can the following please exit the building in an orderly fashion:

C Kiely
Z Austin
AR Di Michelle
J Morris
Every player bar C Austin

There is absolutely nothing worth salvaging.  Nothing that is irreplaceable.  The problem is, we've shown over the past 12 months that you can indeed replace not quite good enough players and management teams with even worse.  I don't trust anyone to put it right.

Morris has managed to do the one thing nobody should have done, and that is come in and play a bunch of Academy footballers with an Academy style.  It's L Williams the sequel, only with shitter quality.  if we could take anything from the free hit two game period under Gunning/Mildenhall, it's that this Division rewards a trier and has teams willing to provide errors on demand.  To play around without any desire to penetrate just opens you up for counters and doesn't do the one thing clubs at this level can't handle - having the ball near their own goal.  Just another nail in the naïve coffin.

That would be impressive considering we’re on track for our second, potentially worst, ever finish

Second! Pah!

 not surprised by the result. utter dross. the tide is out and the boat is sinking fast

What is our lowest ever finish?

To be fair it’s the worst I’ve seen - can’t see us finishing above 19th (been supporting the club since 1990)

Look on the bright side, if Tranmere win next weekend then we will be officially safe from relegation, because let’s be fair we may not get another point this season

If you look at Stevenage, you have the perfect example of how things can be turned around.

Two of the last 3 seasons they’ve been 21st and 24th.

This season under a manager everyone hates, but a Manager who knows what he’s doing, they’re in the playoffs as it stands.

Personally, I don’t want a Manager to cuddle at night because he’s a lovely guy. I want a bastard of a manager prepared to say it as it is, and take the appropriate action. It’s not a BBC popularity competition it’s league football.

At this rate you may be right

17th on 58 points in 1984.

the jury was unanimous on the current Stevenage manager . everyone didn't want to see him here

We ain’t beating that!

If you factor attitude, effort and mentality into the equation this is the worst Town team ever without debate.

Yes, yes I am!

Of course we know it just brightens up a shit footballing afternoon what with Wrexham winning too so we wont hear the end of that for the next fucking year from gobby Taffs and wanna be American Taffs from the Netflix following. Not jealous at all! :D

Likewise it was pretty unanimous that people were happy that Morris was the best choice that Clem could make.

Morris:
- First half got ourselves into decent position, but didnt exploit them
- Didnt chose right passes.
- Didn't get set up in the right position
- You'd like to cause a lot more problems
- Made unnecessary passes to stop threatening
- Lacked a bit of a punch there
- When teams get a lead, then they just want to be organised and wait for us to break them down
- Players were taking themselves into positions right next to eachother than into threatening positions
- When balls go into the box you have to get onto t hem
- Still think we had chances
- Morris thought we were the better team for large spells
- They scored from one touch after a goal kick
- You'd like to think we'd have created more chances
- Conceding wasn't from attitude. It was that we didn't take responsibility. You have to win headers
- Poor judgement not going to meet the ball with a header.
- We were in better positions in the first half.
- Austin: Always has a problem a couple of days after a game. Wasn't going to start him anyway. So just said to him to get rest and recuperation for the weekend.
- Hawes: Why leave Austin behind?
- Morris: Just cos I chose to do it.
- Hawes: Well you didnt do that against Walsall?
- Morris has no problem with Austin. Talked to him after the Mansfield game and said that he wanted to play players who can run across the defence. Had been told by medical staff that Austin always has a reaction a couple of days after a game. So when he decided not to start him, he told Austin to take the day off to recover for the weekend.

If Reg was still around, I'm sure he'd find something to undermine me here, but I am sure I kept my counsel on his hiring.  Nothing there to suggest why he would be a good Div 4 Manager.  I didn't like the Garner appointment, I wasn't at all sold on Lindsey (gave him time but it smacked of panic) and Morris is just another trying to coach a bunch of misfits that need Managing.  Build a foundation, get out of L2 then start the project.

He also said him and Austin discussed other things apart from this game

My personal opinion is that we are:
Worse than under Sheridan
Worse than under Jimmy Quinn
Worse than under Iffy
Worse than under Paul Hart

I respect Hawes for probing here. Not convinced by Morris’ answers about Austin situation.

It may gave been a unanimous vote at the start of the season. I bet they’re not so bothered now.

My vote was Artell, but Morris seemed a bit inspired at the time.

Worse than under Gav

Nope, would have gone for Artell.

That said, wasn’t unhappy with the appointment of morris at the time.

Were they? There were quite a few voices on this site that weren’t convinced.

 :D quote of the day.  :soapy tit wank:

This

I know it's subjective, Paul Hart was frustrating as he surrendered our league position by trying not to lose.

I think Morris is at least  trying to win, just can't.

An insult to the structural integrity of candy floss.

Yeah, I couldn't be arsed to type that. He said:

- Lots of people suggest there is more to it: There is nothing to it. We spoke really well at a meeting we had. If I'm not going to start you then I might leave you behind.....Absolutely no problem. We had a chat about other stuff as well, which me and 'im were more than on the same page. Like I said. I just wanted to look at something else with people who could go in behind and across the top. And him to make sure he is ready to train when we get back
- What can we do to halt the slide? Defend better. Not gift goals away. And add a bit of quality in the final third. We created chances that we should have scored from. If you are not gifting goals then we could have knicked a 1-0 away from home, which would be much needed. We've had more than enough ball today to use and cause teams problems. We've just not used it well enough.

We were great under Gav.

4 points and 8 goals in two games.
Much better than the 0 points and 2 goals from our current last two.

Yippee! All is not lost. I’ve just had an email from a dear friend, who I’ve never heard of, in Africa telling me that he has $80,000,000 in a bank account for me.

All he wants is my bank details.

What shall I spend it on??

Sheridan was worse, but we didn’t have to suffer it first hand.
Paul Hart was even more dull, one isolated up front but we could at least defend

The other two were respected former players, who were in a terrible position and given a bit more leeway so we look back with less ill will.

But it’s certainly in the same ball park now, it’s definitely a real shit show

Under hard and Sheridan we were at least in league 1. I thought the Phil Brown season was pretty bad. Iffy and Quinn did good jobs under difficult circumstances. Could do with football people with affinity to the club like them when times are tuff.

Tom Blewitt:
- Massively frustrating
- The amount of ball we had throughout the game. We didnt create the quality chances we needed
- There was a reaction from Saturday, but not enough to win the game
- Hate conceding. Really disappointing
- We had enough to take 3 points
- Always difficult wjen teams put 10-11 behind the ball
- With the quality we have in the team we should have created something
- Goal came at a bad time, but we responded well
- When we win 1 we will likely win a couple
- All on board with what the manager is trying to do
- We are all together as a team
- We don't fear the opposition. We should be winning
- Nice to play in the NW and have family here.
- Form: Great to come in but frustrated that we haven't won any games. We should be winning
- Nice to come in and be a mainstay of the team!

Come on Clem prove you are not a front for some dodgy character owners and are a genuine STFC owner and want to put the current shit show right.
Forget developing the Bank and use the funds to remove the Academy coach, his mate and the laptop data wizard.
Eat humble pie and give Artell free rein as a proper league 2 manager and get him in.
Failing that give it to Charlie Austin with Gunning until the summer,
Bin off the released kids and injury prone youngsters- this is men’s football not snotty nosed prima Donna teenage football.
Get out this shit and year on year getting worse division by buying a spine of men (not kids) who have been there, brought the t shirt etc.
Fill the remaining squad places with young talent if need be but not the injury prone show ponies.
You must be totally blinkered if you think the “saved our club” goodwill remains - numbers will rapidly decrease and the atmosphere will become very toxic unless you act now!!!
Next season would have been my 45th consecutive as a season ticket holder - I want entertainment for £4 not the shit we have put up with all season and you now want £400…….

Cain, Darcy, Williams midfield is a very tough watch. Williams pulls a few good passes out every now and then to be fair to him but from a battling perspective it’s so lightweight, McEachran is the only midfield player I’d be keen on taking into next season. Less said about the RHM, Wakeling, Shade front 3 the better. I’m probably being harsh there on all mentioned but tired of watching the same performances every week. You knew exactly what was coming when you saw that front 3, a lot of running, not much quality or composure and prayers for a RHM moment somewhere.

As mentioned many times on this forum no spine throughout the team, experience, height & physicality needed along with a couple of younger prospects

We have a team of Moon Jellyfish.

Exactly that!

Hawes wrap up:
- Austin: Clearly it seems like a conversation was had. Morris was clear to insit it was amicable. It just doesn't quite sit right when Morris didn't do that at Walsall. But if you aren't going to put him in the squad then as a senior pro then dragging him up might be disrespectful. Don't know if you couldn't use him for 15-20 mins if needed. Can't quite get that to sit with everything. Although there was no flare up or defensive look from Morris
- Brewitt picked out himself as partly responsible for the goal. It was a ball that was let bounce and not defended afterwards
- There wasn't the energy or ability or confidence in the team to get back into the game after that
- Morris: People enjoyed his interviews to begin with as he doesnt have problems diagnosing the issues. That's more than you get from some managers. But the problem lies with not being able to implement solutions (or get the players to do it). The football seems to be getting worse. Maybe with his own squad there will be greater clarity on what he wants. Much of the squad who didnt play well today are under contract next year
- Assume Austin back against Barrow
- Lavinier didnt take his chance. Hutton came back and looked better than him
- Shade not laid down a case
- Suspect there will be more shuffling around against Barrow. Dont think they are that bad a side
- Lowest league position was 17th in L2 in1983: Ken Beamish cheap free transfers. This team isn't supposed to be that. For this team, that will be a worse achievement than back then

That season.             
17th   Swindon Town   46   15w   13d   18l   58f   56a   2gd   58

This season so far.
12th   Swindon Town    40   13w   12d   15l   52f   50a   2gd   51

That season we were playing some awful hoofball direct football, we had brought back to the club previous top scorer and Swindon hero Alan Mayes who scored a goal every other game.

The football we played was dull as dishwater, we blooded Jimmy Quinn as a striker who managed 15 goals in his first full season that year yet still looked poor despite 2 strikers in double figures.

Nobody put more than 3 goals past us and we had loads of sub 3,000 attendances too including 2 sub 2,000 attendances.

Points wise we are in a very very similar position but that season had the feeling of being the worst ever, the whole club was in the doldrums, no bright spark.

This season although similar is by no means as bad as that season was for me.

The Sheridan team was worse, the Hart team worse but only just, we just seem to be ambling away to the end of the season, not really bothering and no impetus to improve either. Some players are playing out their contracts it seems ready for a move in the Summer.

The football even now at times is nice to watch, but, its not entertaining to watch and we just dont look like scoring more goals than any team we come up against and always look likely to conceded goals.

I hope that no matter what we sign some better defenders next season and a holding midfielder in the mold of a young Grant/McHale who can protect the defence rather than 3 lightweight midfielders we now play.

We also need a more commanding keeper, I like Brynn and think hes a good keeper but he doesnt command the area enough as Benda did and his distrubtion needs to improve.

We need a strong spine, keeper, 2 CB's and holding midfielder, start by bolstering and strenghtening at the back 1st and get creative players in when you have that backbone.

Just my opinion.

Austin is a 33 year old with a family.
If he isn’t able to play 3 games in a week (which he can’t) there is absolutely no need to drag him up to Tranmere for a pointless away game with nothing on the line for either team.

No doubt Austin is a professional but he’s also a man with a family.

Reason Morris probably didn’t do similar at Walsall was because there was probably believe that with a few decent results we could have still had a go at 7th place.

Anyone know how many Town fans travelled today🤔

More than the team deserved, looked a decent following to me.

…a side from that every other decision Morris made today was completely wrong.

It does make sense.

Only thing Morris has done that has!

Cheers JJ hope the club appreciates them as they won't be there forever if things don't improve.

Marginal improvement over recent performances, particularly in first half.
Hutton did some decent work when he came on.

Overall just no spark in the play at all. Lifeless almost.
Tranmere were pretty much the same but made the most of their opportunity & we didn't.

Away support was very good given the circumstances.
Some exasperation at the end was understandable.

We might finish higher than we did in 83/4, but that’s more a factor of the league being more spread out. I can’t see us beating the points total

Worst season ever, bar some re-election bids in the 50s

The worst since the fourth division was created is on the cards, as you say we finished bottom of Div 3 South & had to apply for re-election a few times.

We need another Macari type renaissance

The difference this season we've had great crowds

Looking at those re-election votes, we were never even close to being relegated. Back on board with this being the worst season ever 😎

Some players in that 1983/4 team who are very fondly remembered by those who watched them play... why were we so bad then?

‘On track’ but not there yet. Though and I’m being careful, even if we do end up in the. Worse league position ever. The quality of football, shit as it may seem is certainly better than it was back then so count your blessings.

You do realise that to apply for re-election means you are in the relegation spots.
One of the two in the 50’s we finished bottom, the other season 23rd.

The irony was we finished in the top half of the last season of Div 3 South for the first time in several years so got into Division 3 instead of Div 4

Yeah I get that, but the margin of the vote was so big and the process so corrupted (I assume) that I doubt we were ever in any real threat of being relegated

Havent read back.

Well IMO we werent shit.

knocked the ball around ok without causing much trouble for Tranmere. Shit defensive lapse costs us again. Toothless up front.

Johnny a highlight.

A dead rubber but we probably deserved a point from it.

A bit meh...i dunno where the next point is coming from...

I see, it’s true that hardly any teams ever got relegated that way (same as from Div 4).
Teams were wary of voting for others, as it could come back & bite you if it happened to you.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/12854583/tranmere-1-0-swindon-league-two-highlights

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TBxahiGGdAA

Not sure why I just watched that again!

In case you missed something when you fell asleep the first time🤣

Why don’t we just go back to basics and play 4-4-2? A system where everyone knows where to play…

Brynn
Hutton Brewitt FBT tomlinson
Shade Khan McEachran Williams
RHM austin

^ they should be good enough to win some league games. Everything is far too over complicated

I wondered the same but that formation seems out of fashion these days.

Could easily be that the players aren’t understanding the tactics Morris puts forward… on top of it changing so much. Whenever I’ve played football and in a bad spell, always been taught stick to the basics and do the easy stuff right first

Hmmmm! Wish I'd slept through the whole 90 mins!

Have had a message from someone who went up on the coaches to today’s game, apparently they pulled into the services on the way home and the team coach was there, the team saw them arrive so left.

I know someone said this happened last week as well.

I can understand that they want to avoid the chance of some conflict, but it’s not a very good look.

Honestly at this point if I saw the team coach arrive I'd get straight in my car.

I was there from ‘56 onwards and in all honesty cannot really say now how bad we really were but it was definitely the old pals act regarding re-election until the Divvy 3/4 split. Gateshead were the first to be demoted in 59/60 under the new setup which brought Peterborough into the mix.

‘Like I said’

‘To be fair’

Shut the fuck up

Please please please accept that Morris, and Sandro are huge mistakes.  Take the medicine and accept the loss and heal the wounds.  I expect no more than 6500 Saturday and I for one won’t be one of them as Jody has totally lost the dressing room and it’s clear to see none of them give a flying f@@&.  Whatever the reasons I do not see how any coach at any level of English football can be allowed to carry on.  The guy may come across well in a job interview but he is a million miles out of his depth.  Clem wake up and smell the coffee as the first season miracle is d3ad and buried and now you’re stuck with a dead loss.  You can be stubborn and try and tough this out with Morris and potentially lose half the fan base in the process and risk relegation next year or get rid now and rebuild with a leader who has half a clue.

can we even afford to sack Morris. I can't see it

it's a difficult one. getting wins out of the squad might be tricky for anybody.

not impressed with the way Austin, Williams and Clayton have been treated from the outside. might be reading far too much into it though.

he deserves the chance to assemble his own squad.

This for me, let him get his own players in before we decide he’s a bust.

Obviously it’s a bit of a gamble, as he may still not be very good but surely he deserves a chance

I thought I read somewhere he was the brains behind Lampard at Derby. Unsure how true it is because surely if that was the case he would have him now again

If we'd shown any signs of improvement in any way shape or form since he took over then that may be true. But as it is, we have only regressed in every way imaginable so he absolutely does not deserve that chance in my opinion...

I reluctantly agree. More than a few players have gone backwards, the defence looks even ropier if that’s possible and we’re not creating fuck all up top.

The midfield mismatch is down 100% to Lindsey, though, with his penchant for small, technical players.

Agree with this. Had plenty of games but we have gone backwards.

I also agree, he's now had over a quarter of the season and hasn't shown any sign of improvement.

Didn't seem to be for Mad Gav Gunning?


I would normally agree, but its been such a shit show do we risk another summer of chaos and then also writing off next season, like so much its a bloody difficult choice for someone to make.

I know win %'s only show so much, but....

Morris 15.38%
Lindsey 33.3%
Onuora 22.5%
Quinn 23.7% (not 100% sure of this one)
Brown 31.3%

Two reasons mate.

Ken Beamish and his style of football. For me he is still the worst manager I have seen at Swindon, other than possibly Sheridan.

Beamish was a Div 4 clogger of a player, never really played higher than Div 3 and only knew the hoofball style of football, he bagged a goal every 3 games in a 650 game career though.

He arrived the previous season, took his coaching badges when appointed and was assistant to Trollope, when Trollope was sacked Beamish stepped up to the manager position.

To say Beamish was a limited player and coach was an understatement, he carried over his playing style to being a manager and we played awful long ball football, pretty much for the first time in Swindons long history we had a manager who prefered kick and run rather than footballing quality, hence the huge drop in attendances that season to their lowest ever.

Ah you reminded me, I meant to include Sheridan on my list above...

Sheridan 24.24%

402 Swindon fans there apparently in a crowd of 5,654.

Chatted to a bloke in Lanzarote a few years back..

Ken Beamish brother...

I tried to change the subject.

Apparently Ken did a load of stuff with Blackburn Rovers.

Very well regarded up there.
Think he had a spell as their Commercial Manager.

Brother and sister in law told a story where they had the Premier League Trophy in their house.

Forgot to put my predictions in, what a fucking lemon!

I'm a few days behind and haven't read all the way up to date yet but this report came from Ryan Whelan (or ''Rylan'' as I like to call him) - SdM's Press Liaison guy. It just feels like it has a bit of Alan Nixon vibes about it. Maybe Whelan is backing his informant Sandy by turning the screw on Morris, in order to divert attention away from and somewhat protect/buy more time for SdM?  :hmmm:

Excellent news Bob you give me a glimmer of hope! Only joking😀

You never know Jimmy, just takes a strong finish and you'll be up there. It's very easy to predict Swindon results recently unfortunately.

please can someone start a barrow thread? when I do it I can't use my app to reply

Still not made it home from this game yet and the Belfast to Liverpool ferry is delayed by nearly 2 hours so- hope I make the game tomorrow!