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Getting this in early. We'll be stuffed like the turkey we are.
Need to get vocal about our current plight, great opportunity to do it with a full home end.

Town 0-4 Disney att: 13,635 (2,150 away)

At least Clem will see the shit show for himself.

What he will do about it is anyone’s guess.

0-10

Don't fucking care.

I will be there as I have free tickets etc etc but I really cant be fucking bothered if the players and management cant be bothered too.

0-3 in front of 14,126 (2,221 Rectums).

Swindon 1 Wrexham 2 att: 13,898 (2,088 Taffs)

Anything better than a 4 goal defeat I will be happy with

Hopefully the crowd show Morfuni exactly what they think of him

Happy? Or less angry?🙂

Looking forward to seeing a full CG - but that’s about it. If we can at least make a game of it for a bit and get the old place rocking again would be a bonus. Christ knows how this has sold out with the shite served up for weeks.

Just imagine what we could do with a sympathetic, forward looking owner and a competent manager.

Swindon 1 Wrexham 4, 14200 (2600 Wrexham)

Just what is the home capacity at the CG these days?

Its the Disney factor, some fans want to hopefully meet Ryan Reynolds, nothing more than that IMO.

pretty sure Swindon on boxing day has been pencilled in on his calendar since July

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I think we'd see one of our biggest gates of the season on boxing day whoever we were playing, BUT the bandwagon Wrexham thing is an added distraction to our annual shite. Will be behind Clem on the day, that's in a seating capacity only. Be interesting to see his reaction if our lot kick off.

Roughly...

TE 1,900
DRS 5,000
Arkells 4,800 (plus 1,200 away)
So around 11,700.
Away is 1,200 plus bank 2,100. Around 14,900 capacity.

I can bearly remember them bringing 500 fans here each game, amazing how people crawl out of the woodwork

That’s a bit tetchy. Whatever we think of Hollywoodisation of Wrexham it’s understandable it’s got their fans excited.

If that was us hurtling to promotion backed by Gilbert O’Sullivan we’d be the same!

#PDC era. Just no Hollywood vibe.

Their last 3 league visits
2003/04 - 302
2004/05 - 193
2006/07 - 123

An average of 206.

Those 3 seasons we took 432,750 & 717 to them

Can't see past a thrashing for this, then again I couldn't see us doing anything against Mansfield and we stole a win there. Will the players be able to raise their game as we did against Mansfield and the first half in Stockport, we can but hope.

Swindon 0 Wrexham 9

 One thing is nailed on. We won’t be racing into a 4-0 lead before capitulating.

Could turn toxic if we go down early on.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we beat Wrexham and then lose to Forest Green.

Would be peak Swindon

Oh it will, it will.

My prediction is we are going to get spanked. Hopefully that prediction turns out the same way as my AJ prediction did

Not sure I can be bothered to watch

I’m glad no one has come forward with any spare tickets.

I’m sure if you put the neighbours windows in Wiltshire’s finest would deliver you a Ticket for tomorrow.

I have the same vibe, bah humbug.

Only one neighbour I’d happily do that to. Everyone else is fine.

this is the way football normally works in my mind:

Swindon 2 Wrexham 0
Swindon 0 FGR 2

I wonder if Clem will do a live pre-match interview with Hodgetts just to clarify a few things😁

Santa did well

 Can’t see us scoring,
Can’t see us not conceding,

Overall - Defeat.

With everyone looking for the Young/Kemp farewell wave to the fans at full time.

Remarkably, considering the current situation, this could be our highest home Boxing Day day gate since 1969.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/OnThisDay.asp

Wrexham will be shitting it today trying to work out how Swindon will set up.
How great it is having a tactical masterclass before each game. Just want to thank Clem for saving the club and giving us a Competitive budget.


Load of shit.

Still available for Friday?

Bollocks! Forgot there was another home game to endure.

Interesting standout from that list. Newcastle away 1990, attendance 17,003! We won’t be far off that today.

So, is everyone ready for our Big Cup Final?

There will no doubt be a few, fresh from the traditional Christmas Day family row who will relish the potential for some more vocal chord action today.
I don't know, having thought about it, wouldn't particularly want things to get overly toxic today, season of goodwill to all and all that.

There will be plenty of wise men watching on for sure but not so many good shepherds in the reserved posh seats sadly.

Wrecsam will possibly be looking for a similar trajectory to Luton through the leagues.
Remains to be seen if that involves Phil Parkinson bumping up against his own glass ceiling along the way.
Mentioned this because Luton's visit in 2017 sprang to mind, 0-0 at half time ending as a 5 goal defeat.
Elliot Lee also featured for Luton and scored that day.

Just want to see the team give of their best today but will expect to be trudging home under a cloud of disappointment.

Our fan base won’t get toxic.
Firstly, today it’ll be too diluted with part timer/casual fans & secondly our fan base only does toxic online.

I actually completely agree. Apart from pockets of booing, I can’t say I’ve particularly seen it get overly toxic

…and just for the record that wasn’t a big as specifically our fan base.
I think it’s a nationwide change in society.
So much easier to save the vitriol & hatred for online - behind the keyboard with little to no consequences.

Wellens’ first game was fairly toxic from an anti-Power perspective

Since when have we had town tv?

https://m.youtube.com/live/ozxxqvnuFwQ?si=DLEgjRoXFMOiHEBZ

We are so fucking tinpot

Strange, I was far more concerned about the Barrow game than this one. Perhaps I have become numbed to it all?

FFS buses again  ::)
Online says 12.45, so I get to the stop at 12.38. Board at bus stop says 12.29  :crash:

Town TV may be OK if Vic was asking the questions😁

You always have problems with buses🤣

Hopefully there will be a half & half scarf seller outside the ground.

Wonder where the band is in the legends then? Mate says it is not there

Clem is stood behind me. Anybody got any questions?

What's his favourite Ryan Reynolds film?

Can he point us in the direction of who really runs the club?

Any closer to a club sale?

I am sure you can ask some very relevant questions yourself?
Just look him in the eye when he is answering them

This is going to be double figures.

Exciting Phil Smith on comms😁

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCR2CHzXgAAfHYP?format=jpg&name=small)

So that's er, Brewitt into the back three, Khan into midfield and Shade er... just around?

Brewitt is on the bench.

Not really if Brewitt is on the bench

Christ I can't read. So we continue as we were last week. Lordie.

Lordy won Eurovision Song Contest. We’ll win the wooden spoon.

Flynn said Dokes was back…

1-4 Elliot to score 40/1 £2 stake
1-5 Mullin to score 70/1 £1 stake

Won’t break the bank if neither come in. If either do then someone’s Uni account will be enriched.

band was supposed to be after. singers (Carol?) before

not a sign of them by 2pm and apparently the tweet has been deleted?

UGM. Food poisoning wasn't it? That usually clears up in 24 hours doesn't it?Perhaps being over suspicious

Get fucking spanked and they’ll be playing to an empty venue. Or it could be carnage like the scene from the Blues Brothers film when they hijack the gig by the good ole boys.

Min 48 after last symptom (evacuation) having just completed level 2 Food Hygiene for manufacturing. If it is an airborne contagion then he is well advised to stay away for a lot longer.

So much for massive Wrexham, there will be 1500 of them tops as only about a quarter of the bank is open. They have been a bit overhyped.

Newcastle going all "Swindon"

I thought similar. I mean, a very good following for a long travel on Boxing Day, but with all the hype, I was expecting more

Now that Wrexham have increased their capacity to 12,500ish with the temporary stand behind the goal I wonder if they will let away teams have more than 1200 tickets.

Hardly  a sell out.

I'm Peroni-Ed up. No band in the Legends. Funking shit. I'm  bit bolloxed

It’s all a bit weird to be honest. I’ve got people sat next to me filming Wrexham players like they are Man City superstars. Just don’t get it.

Wrexham fans in the DRS according to someone on Twitter. Unsure why, the away end is hardly sold out

Rhys Evans on the bench?🙂

Redman, the best STFC first name for a while. Since Robin Hulbert anyway.

Have a weird feeling we'll do okay today. Probably as half our team fancy playing for them next week!

Decided not to go to the rex ham match to day. got the radio on for a bit

They are far from superstars. Baffling

Don’t understand why we haven’t made more changes from Tranmere. I get our hands are tied but considering the lack of CBs I’m amazed Brewitt hasn’t gone straight back in

Flynn doesn’t want to rush Brewitt back!

Oh good.

Concede a goal like that and none of the players look like they give a shit

Rubbish defending again.

Definitely not playing up for the Wrexham this lot.

Momentary second of hope from Phill Smith.  :doh:

Any semblance of atmosphere killed stone dead there.

We’re getting very good at that

Is the Bank full?

It is amazing to me how small most of our players are compared to other sides.  Wouldn’t be a big deal if that had any speed to their play but first pass is almost always backwards so getting bullied in our matches.  

Not even close

Hodgetts blaming it on the train strike.

Firstly Happy Christmas to you, your family and friends.

Sadly you are on the money with that observation.

Ta.

Typical Tory

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Another observation I have is when we do get the ball moving forward.  Our advanced players just stand on a line with the defenders waiting to run instead of moving across the defenders and making themselves available for a pass or through ball.  Wha type of coaching is this?  

1 pass forward….3 passes back.   FUCK OFF!!!

We’ve completely lost the ability to attack and create

Flynn  just isnt good enough manager in my opinion.

Is it the players not caring and being lazy or is it the manager not coaching and adapting.  Being stuck in the possession game?   It doesn’t seem like the manager can inspire the players or players at this level don’t respond to a coach ?

Not a lot to talk about is there?

Not a lot to read either😁

When you are all ready for the ted lasso effect I can bring over a few coaches.   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Not sure the players would like our yelling tbh.

Oh, an injury. McE off, Brewitt on, Khan to midfield.

McEachran off, may as well not turned up to be honest.

Too bad.  McE was one of the few that had energy today.

Mixed reviews for George then.

I thought he was ok.   No worse than anyone.  But if he can walk off like that how hurt is he?

I bet Scott Lindsey can’t wait for New Year’s Day after todays win at Gillingham.
Forest Green winning at Newport 2-0😁

Where exactly is Austin playing?

Just nodded off for ten mins . couple of cans of Stella haven't helped

It's not terrible. It's not good. It's not a lot of anything really. Limp.

Parkinson’s sides have always been boring so expect them to create very little

We’ve just become so boring to watch. There’s no fluidity, no positivity in our play. There’s literally nothing there, no spark nothing.

The quietest I’ve ever seen the CG for a ‘sell out’. Can’t blame the fans either, there was genuinely nothing to get excited about. The moment where Kemp had held the ball up and there was no Swindon player above the half way line summed up that half. Insipid first half. Would be nice to have RHM on the bench, not that I think he’d completely turn this round, but would be nice to see someone have a run at their back line. Their left back also looks to have Hutton in his pocket completely which nullifies most of our attacking output

At times it’s looked like a 3-4-2-1

   Minturn, Brewitt, Kokolo

Hutton Kinsella Khan Shade
       
           Young    Austin
                 
                  Kemp
     

Kemp was playing ahead of the two strikers a lot last week too. Our formation is at best fluid and at worst a performance art installation.

I don’t think we’ve been particularly bad but we haven’t been particularly good either.

We’ve been exactly what we are. A pointless team just there to make up the numbers. Not good enough to challenge at the right end of the table. Not bad enough to be looking over our shoulder (yet!)


It’s just fucking boring

HT
Not much in it to be honest but we aren't known for second half rallies.Not many of ours impressing to be honest.
 but apart from a powder puff challenge on the first goal,Minturn's looked ok. Thing we've improved a bit with the change and,like DV I don't see why Brewitt didn't start if he's ok to come on after 30. We've looked toothless further up with Young,Kemp and Austin complete nonentities so far. Shade and Hutton and Kokolo have had their moments but Wrexham are nowhere near outstanding but of course they haven't had to be

The annoying part are, like many of the ‘top teams’ in this league, Wrexham aren’t up to much, just highly organised which is even more frustrating. A clear game plan, and some attacking intent and there’s no reason why we can’t compete here. Probably asking for too much though.

Agree if we had the players and the managers vision to compete.  Just seem happy to pass the ball around instead of quick play

Why has my feed just switched to the wrexham coms?  Oh hell.

probably  cant pay for our own comms now .

Doing our best to finish the game off.

Lost mine

Nice run from Kokolo but we've just seen a CB as the furthest man forward.

Me too

I lost mine under ifollow but got it to work under ifollow 2 but I’ve got Wrexham comms

We've woken up a bit

(who are an upgrade on Phil Smith (obviously) and not too bad tbf)

I’ve got IFollow 3 on mine that has home comms

Good save Ward and Hutton of all people reacts fastest to stop the tap in.

Away comms are a lot better!!

My ifollow 2 is not working for anyone, currently we are the only match not working on ifollow

it was after allowing the Wrexham player to steal in for a header though...

To be honest I expected to be loosing by many more goals right now so guess that is a positive!

Khan has been absolutely abysmal today....

I mean going a whole second half without conceding would be a rarity

My god that's stupid from Jones. Opens the door for us.

I think as of now, either team could get the next goal

What did he do?

Kokolo off
Cain on

…what formation are we gonna play now?!
Khan back to CB?

Ah. Second yellow.

Will we capitalise  on this we havent in the past. :pint:

Two yellows inside four minutes

Shade gone forward well today. Not added much defensively but hardly alone there.

That was the chance

Jake Young is crap!

Answers on a postcard as to when we last improved out of sight in a second half

Should have scored

Not sure he is crap but I will say in my opinion after his fast start he has seemed to let it go to his head and not working as hard as he had to score those early goals.  A lot of standing flat footed

Keep giving away stupid fouls that stop us getting any kid of momentum. Not a single brain cell in this team.

Khan't. Wonderful chance.

Leftie isn’t he.
Would have been better with Shade there.

If Wrexham want Khan they can have him

That sums Khan up......!

Jesus wept Khan!! That’s pathetic

Does Khan realise he’s left footed?!

And again!! Nearly over the townend!

Awful game. But he's not hidden, tbf

Khan today feels like the definition of trying too hard to impress.

It’s a shame Shade isn’t naturally left footed

Times ticking. :doh:

Only feed I have working is at the 85 min.  Guessing that is way behind?

About 5 mins behind yes

Mines just hitting the 90

Well shit.  Guess I will keep watching until you all say game is over

Should've sewn up the points here

I think over the 90 we’ve been the better team.

Means absolutely nothing if we still lose!!

Ultimately another game where a team hasn’t had to work to score, we gifted them the goal and that’s it.

We're such a poor team.

All down to the manager.

We are usually but we've actually looked quite good since Wrexham decided to sit on their lead with 10 men. A creditable defeat rather than an abject one, but it's still not any points.

Let's guess the copy and paste post match interview from Flynn

But not as poor as you thought we were gonna be🙂

If we can’t beat FGR next up we really are in the shit.

I think we are lacking a complete group of players. But I have to say I’m not seeing any innovation from the manager to find ways to win.  Just same shit each match.  I hate to put it on him since the quality is t on the field but he needs to try to find ways to use those players as well

Better finishing and we could have won that.
Once Brewitt came on - I thought we were the better team.

Part of that was aided by Wrexham sitting back (which they wouldn’t have done at 0-0) and then going down to 10 men but part of that was still us playing well.

I thought we were shite until the sending off.

Will reserve further judgment on our predicament until after FGR. Wrexham decent side and without Ward, could’ve won by a couple. Yes we had chances (what the fuck was Khan doing?) but I honestly didn’t feel we were value for a point anyway. We get in good positions but there looks to be genuine fear when we going forward

Agree with that. 3 chances at the end which were clearer than any they had

We really owed them a late equaliser so that's annoying.

1 goal in 4 games, 3 wins in 18, it’s a good job we go off to that good start to the season!

Not much Christmas cheer this afternoon

Not trying to be argumentative but In what way,can I ask, were we not worth a draw?

No I know mate, no worries. Honestly, apart from the Khan one on one, I can’t think of any other clear cut chances for us. Wrexham, on the other hand, forced two excellent saves from Ward and went very close from a corner too. Lee also had a good one in the first half IIRC. Until maybe the last 10, I don’t really recall us having a proper chance. I don’t think we were abysmal, but don’t think we did enough for a draw. You may well see it different, which is fair enough.

He didn't look rusty,or not fully ready which makes his non start even more baffling

Setup shit
Gameplay shit
Home fans shit
Anti board chant shit
Wrexham fans shit for 85 minutes.
That shit McLean scored.
Just shit.

That's a generous interpretation.

I've seen us play a lot worse than that, think we probably deserved a point with some of the chances we had.
Wasn't as bad as I was expecting, they were extremely average for the majority of the game I thought.

As we know, we're crying out for reinforcements and if we had them we could have run them down towards the end.

Young missed a decent chance and hit the bar from another

Yep and Cain right at the death

I think Disney were just above average on teams we have seen here this season, their left back was decent but the rest average. We are such a shambles anyone looks golf decent.

I must be getting old as I can’t remember the Cain one, but yeah, maybe upon reflection we did have enough chances to grab a point. Frustrating to see such a free flowing side early in the season go in the complete opposite direction. The lack of potency in attack, despite having Young and Kemp, is a big worry

Felt we were unlucky to not have got a draw. Wrexham's goal was an absolute gift and the rest of their chances were either from set prices or just punts from outside the area. We were wasteful with our chances and really should of found an equaliser.

Wrexham probably going up this season, certainly look to have done their research into league 2 and taken a page out of Steve Evens handbook with constant little fouls, time wasting and throwing themselves to the ground at every opportunity. With a budget fit for the championship, they'll probably strengthen further come January as the media blush at the "fairytale".

Atmosphere crap from their goal to the red card but much improved after, Wrexham fans made less noise than Barrow. 12k isn't a sell out

It was deflected and gave the keeper a fairly comfortable save,but he was in a good position on the edge of the 6 yard box.

Doesn’t matter what type of defeat it was, it’s 0 points on the board and that’s the main bit. Debating whether we were as shit as we expected to be is wasting time, although my take is we were crap until the sending off and then marginally better afterwards. Looked better with Brewitt on which you’d obviously expect when subbing on a CB to play CB instead of asking a midfielder to do it, unsure why he didn’t start, not like our back 3 looked good against Tranmere.

Fair play to Shade at least for having a go and getting some excitement going, Ward seems more vocal than Mahoney but unsure if that’s just because Mahoney had given up trying to organise that defence.

Rinse and repeat until change comes in January. Whether that’s good or bad change is yet to see.

What was the attendance all about, 12,200 odd? We were supposed to have sold ours (11,750) and Wrectum brought 1,500.

Michael Flynn. Maybe starting with an available centre half may have prevented the first goal. Maybe not but, I don't understand why Brewitt didn't start. Flynn himself said we were better when he came on

Hodgetts said they may have brought another 1000 but for the train strike. Hope we pocketed their ticket money anyway.

There aren’t ever trains on Boxing Day, are there?

Mahoney out for the rest of the season

Since October 3rd

L Notts 1-3
L Bradford 0-1
L Reading 0-5
W Newport 2-0
D Salford 2-2
L Gills 0-1
L MK 2-3
L Aldershot 4-7 (7-0 down)
L Colchester 1-3
L Stockport 2-4
D Harrogate 1-1
L Exeter 0-1
W Mansfield 2-1 (last minute winner)
W Accrington 4-3 (almost threw away 4-0 lead)
L Wimbledon 0-4
L Barrow 0-3
L Tranmere 1-2
L Wrexham 0-1

P 18 W3 D2 L13 
F 22 A 45

Well of course the number of points is the same ,fair comment but are you saying if we'd have been thrashed(by double figures as some predicted) you would have felt the same? I think personally a performance like that second half,(one of the best 2nd half performances for a long time) surely gives a little cause for optimism?

No one told north Wales.

We were definitely worth a point and I think you could make a case we were good enough overall for all 3

However, I think if any point we’d scored sooner than the 96th minute Wrexham could have shifted up a few gears and got back in front.

thinking we were worth a draw is a bit irrelevant. only points win prizes

I think for where we are, trying to make myself feel better by debating over whether we played as shit as I thought we would isn’t going to make much difference to me, each to their own of course. If we’d have drawn or won then different story but I’m not going to take much optimism from a defeat on the basis of us looking better when the opposition went down to 10 men and sat in protecting their lead, especially when those won’t paper over the squad depth, players making the same mistakes consistently and lack of defensive ability cracks that will continue.

Although not much makes me optimistic about STFC at the minute so take whatever from that

An improved performance, especially the second half where we were obviously aided by the sending off.

But it's another loss where we deserved a draw.

I'm truth I expected us to be up for this one, Forest Green a truer test

Hopefully Brewitt came through that ok. doubt we'll see him Friday but we were so much better with him on

I can't see that we were worth a draw

The season's gone unless relegation is on the cards. Based on previous seasons to get in the playoffs we would need another 42-45 points from 22 games which isn’t happening with the squad that we currently have.Clem you’ve fucked it up and you’ll be lucky to see another 10,000 crowd again this season.

flynn should be gone end off fucking terrible.

At any normal club he’d certainly be on his way out, but nah he gets a new contract here.

This was going to be my last game until the regime is gone, but I might go Friday for one last piss up.

Flynn must be at Sheridan level by now? Also, there seemed to be fuck all animation from our bench  ::)

Heard somebody say in the DRS at half time that RHM is refusing to play with Kokolo (presumably because of the rape allegations).
Whether there is any truth in that, who knows?

We haven't got a big enough dressing room to split ffs.

not quite yet, but it's not exactly a chasm

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Managers.asp

reckon it's more likely he's been sold myself. not based on any evidence

Funny you day this, I saw someone else mention this a few weeks back. Also Khan, but he had a change of heart with AFCON coming up. As you say, who knows if there is any truth in it

Any previous STFC manager who had won 3 out of 18 at L2 level would be gone or under serious pressure.

Flynn is absolutely tanking our season.

He was happy to play along until he got his contract extension. It’s been an embarrassment since.

All very odd and doesn’t smell right.

Did he not have an atrocious run with Walsall last year too? Wonder if there’s a common thread?

Won once in his last 21 I believe.

Absolutely not itk but wasn't Kokolo training with the club most of the season? Seems a bit odd that they'd train with him but not play.

I dont know, was he? From what i read it was more to do with the signing of him?

Either way, dont know if its true or not anyway

I was going to say the same . I think Walsall’s defence was pretty porous when we played them.

Moved up a gear when Wrexham went down to 10.
Ground full of tourists today, like a library. Honestly people looking around in bewilderment when a few of us were singing and shouting.
CG atmosphere is shite, away days always better.

Going to miss Kemp massively, what a superb player.

The most notable moment of the first half, their goal aside, was when Brewitt came on and got a cheer for breaking into a sprint. The sheer lethargy and disinterest from our lot, whether it was to chase a ball down, go into a tackle with determination, or to get the back line up and out at more than a snail’s pace, was staggering. Hutton and Khan were chief offenders. Absolutely ambled through the game.

Wrexham tried harder. They closed down. They committed to tackles. They won second balls. They wanted it more. They had the balls to actually talk to each other and organise a defensive structure that for 70mins was tough to break down.

The sending off put a gloss on that result as for 70mins we were so poor.

I worry that Flynn just doesn’t have the stardust to get teams out of a run like this. There’s a pattern, first at Walsall, now here. He looks and sounds broken, in a way that Scott Lindsey did after Gillingham away last year. I have some sympathy given the lack of resources he has, but this run stinks. Both there and here, he has managed underperforming squads. But, 3 year contract…. There’s a commercial deal you can’t blame on anyone else Morfuni.

Not sure any manager should survive that whatever the circumstances

Christ, Flynn's calendar year is AWFUL.

Played - 51
Won - 11
Drew - 19
Lost - 22

Win rate of 21.5%

Oi, don’t go nicking my tweets  :D

I added the maths element. Let's call it teamwork!   :)

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPYVmp0XsvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5QV2uMwCNc&pp=ygUPc3dpbmRvbiB0b3duIGZj

 :girlgiggle:

I do think it’s weird RHM can be out indefinitely with an unspecified knock to his knee. Seemingly only coming back when he says he’s feeling ok. Surely the doctors, physios etc can figure it out? I noticed Allison Willetts back on the bench today.

Not sure why time wasted on post match interviews when he could just repeat the same one used the last 3 months

I didn’t listen on Wiltshire Radio, but the link above sounds just like the last 3-4 I’ve transcribed.

RHM has played 14 league games this season.
I’d suggest it’s much more likely 15 is the trigger point for an automatic one year extension (…and / or a pay rise?) that either he and / or the club don’t want…

Just got back from our day/night stay in the joyous delights of Swindon.

1st game of the season for me in person, took my eldest son who hasnt been to a Town game in 20+ years and I cant beleive how quiet our fans were for there being nearly 11,000 of them, the TE hardly raised a song until the last 5 mins when we put the pressure on them.

My thoughts.

1st half fairly poor but more effort, 2nd not as half poor but didnt come alive until the sending off then we put more effort in but lacked quality in or around the box.

Shade ran their fullback ragged all game, Hutton barely took his man on, Ward made 2 great saves, nice to see Brewitt back with heavy strapping on his knee, he played well, Khan put loads of effort in but was woeful in front of goal and some of his passing, Kemp not great, Young the same.

Austin ran around a lot and won some headers, mostly in defence, otherwise average. Kinsella did well but is not as strong as a ball winner as we need, Wrexham out muscling him a bit and Kokolo had a fair decent game as did Minturn, other than for the goal.

McEachran runs around and looks so lightweight, his early promise under Morris is fading away. Cain looked ok when he came on but didnt contribute much.

Wrexham are a bang average side that have a couple of decent players and a lot of padding, but they are massive and strong and know how to waste time when they are leading, we never really looked like scoring despite the extra man advantage and the amount of chances we created late on.

McClean is a cunt and he knows it and revels in that but ran the show in midfield for them, if only we could afford a player on his alleged £10k+ per week.

For me it was a better performance than in recentl weeks, certainly for effort, but the quality and tackling strength just isnt there.

Massive hype around the sheepshaggers but they barely sung all game and had far less fans that I was expecting listening to their forum, pretty poor turnout by them considering.

Havent read back.

Another frustrating day at the CG.

Tourists boosted the gate no doubt.

Did we have a tactic that we were playing to? I couldnt fathom out any of sort of pattern!

The goal we conceded hurt....you shouldnt get turned like that playing Chippenham Sunday League!

Conceded then huffed and puffed.

We woke up a bit at the end and then fluffed the chances we made....hitting the bar meant it wasnt going to go in....like Gills all over again.
Worrying that we suddenly cant seem to score.

Ward deserves alot of credit, they would of been out of sight without his saves, not bad for a Keeper that has'nt played very much.

Anyway...Friday night has just got bigger....there wont be any Tourists there for sure, just alot of hardcore with huge expectations.

The team is mediocre but made to look worse by a lack of tactics or any sort of plan - and that lays with Flynn.

We need to play more like his Newport teams. I still can’t get my head around on how he has gone from that to the powder puff stuff we’re seeing now.

We’ve seen it often enough this season. You don’t need fancy Dans, you need some muscle and strength and stamina. I’m not a huge fan of Hutton but he chucks loads of crosses in which, to me, cry out for a big lump to get on the end of - with, maybe, a smaller player playing off him. Basic stuff, but in L2 it works. Evolve as you progress.

Another one I’ll miss, this time due to a prior engagement being rearranged, cest La vie.

An established practice in sport is that when it isn’t going well for you, strip it back to the basics and make yourself hard to beat.

Build confidence from there and the rest will come.

The trouble is, a lot of the roll neck wankers in management these days think that that is beneath them. “Pep wouldn’t compromise his principles” etc.

It’s a farce. I imagined Flynn would be pragmatic. He’s been anything but. If Brewitt was fit to play yesterday, start him. He’s one of the few players who would seemingly run through a brick wall for the team. Hardly anyone else has a defensive bone in their body.

I just hope that if any CBs come in it isn’t at the expense of Minturn. Looks as if he has great potential.

I agree pretty much with that but there is one reason why we dont play that style and play arty farty flicky passing rather than tactics, much like Wrexham and Gillingham for instance.....

Because teams from higher divisions dont sign grafters and tacklers and players who can win headers, they only sign youngsters that can pass it around with fancy shit.

Grafters have no resale value.

We have built our entire premise upon the moneyball system and signing young players for little money or for free and selling for a profit.

Teams in higher divisions wont pay money to sign 27 or 28 year old experienced limited footballers even if as Stevenage proved last season, it can win you promotion.

Thought their keeper was decent, seem to remember him having a good game against us for Crewe last season too.

There was one moment near the end where we got in down the right, had a great opportunity to put the ball across on the floor and he sprung out into danger to claim it. Reminded me of Benda, the last keeper we’ve had who would give confidence to the defence that he could come out and claim crosses to take pressure off us, especially late on in games holding onto a lead. Those sorts of players win you promotion.

That sounds feasible. But it then begs the question. If Clem really does want to sell up he’d be better off getting the club into L1. If he’s still after making money from player sales he’ll probably be staying.

Tbh, you can see the logic. Being in L1 with Clem’s finance would be a struggle so why bother. Cheaper to run in L2.

You are preaching to the converted, I dont agree with it but I am 100% certain thats the reasoning behind it.

I would get in an entire team of experienced L1/L2 players if I were in charge, pretty much as Flitcroft did and get in a manager who can get the best out of that type of squad and style, then reassess if and when they are promoted.

It’s all short-termism - and that’s not just directed at Clem but almost every owner we’ve ever had. Whatever success we’ve achieved over the years has never been built upon.

Oh, btw, we had a bigger crowd than Bournemouth in their PL game yesterday.

That may be the logic, but it’s so counter-intuitive, as those players can’t thrive without the balance that the workmanlike, physical players provide. Take Minturn or Clayton. I think both have good potential, but only if they develop next to a 30 year old seasoned pro. The same would go for Cain or McEachran. They’d be different players if Jonathan Douglas was next to them. The strategy, if you can call it that, shows either that the intended direction is not upwards, but “towards one’s wallet” (and if so, that’s flawed in itself) or it shows a complete lack of football knowledge.

Absolutely agree with that. Ferry with Douglas alongside him being a good example.

You get no arguments from me or 99.9% of all Town fans I would think, but its the owner/management team you need to convince.

100% plus just natural instincts any player/team is going to be more noticeable/get more coverage if they are winning games…

Ferguson had a rule of never signing players over a certain age.

He broke it to get van Persie in and promptly won the league.

Our dogmatic approach is as ludicrous as it is ineffective.

Indeed, I feel he has been badly advised by certain people as to the probable wealth of riches that such an approach can bring. What they have neglected to tell Clem is that these players need to learn from far more experienced players on and off the pitch. Just having 1 (Austin) is not sufficient.

There has to be more leeway in the recruitment process than it being to recruit pretty much all youngsters when even a blind man can see we need experience to help the young players learn and progress.

Christ. They'll be getting the buckets out again!

There is an interview with Kokolo in the matchday programme yesterday and he listed one of his best friends at the Club is Khan. So that puts that one to bed :)

Yes. It doesn’t stack up.
Surprisingly, our biggest number of Town fans through the gate this decade (so far) seems to have been for the Barrow game in ‘22.

We may have sold 11,750 but I’m assuming the attendance includes season ticket holders whether they turn up on the day or not.

I don’t think cash sales are recorded 😉

I left at half time and went back to the pub and that'll be the last time I step back in to the county ground without a free ticket.

I could just feel myself getting more and more pissed off watching players just walk around the pitch. Kemp looked like the only player who wanted the ball.

Dead atmosphere, just total apathy around the ground. Fucking depressing.

We are in free fall.

Otherwise a good day out?!!!!

Was good seeing people I haven't seen for a long time.

Should have gone with my instincts and not bothered at all. I just don't enjoy being there. Was some nice nostalgia walking in to the town end for the first time in a very long time (I think man city game being my only other since the early Jed days).

I've put up with worse football or at least football as bad following Swindon but with everything off the pitch on top of it, it just winds me up.

Break needed.

Ah.  ;D

It’s like going back to the 80’s😁

Watch out for the bales of straw for protecting the pitch in frosty weather in the accounts expenditure column.

I can remember the bales of straw around the pitch v Wolves League Cup Semi Final 1980😁

see you mate , I'll miss you, I will keep going (hopefully)

It’s certainly not enjoyable.
Ground like a morgue yesterday, atmosphere flat.
Better away from home but even then it’s not good.

Whole Club needs a complete new start.
Can only hope for a brighter future and only the loyalty card for me now.

Easy for me to say - I've lived away for 35 years.

But I think things have been worse.

It's Swindon isn't it ?

At least we aren't Cowley United

(no, I don't have a season ticket so what do I know)

Can't think of many times in my 40 years supporting that we have been mid table in league 2 and only looking like going one way

I think it feels like we aren't as close to the wall as we've been in the past (winding up petitions etc) but on the pitch we are as bad as I've ever seen at the moment. Considering we're in League Two with a paper thin squad, very few senior pros.

After 15+years as a season ticket holder I stopped going towards the end of Power regime as the football was poor. The early promise and optimism of Clems  reign has long gone for me, I am struggling to justify renewing my season ticket next year..... Flynn/Hatswell have been poorly backed in the transfer market, but appear to be unable to coach a defensive unit and all the bullshit coming out of Clem and his trusted personnel. Maybe away games and BBC WS for me next season.

I'm afraid I can't share your confidence on that score...

I mean we've literally been in administration multiple times, we're not as close to the wall as we have been. That doesn't mean we're in a good position by any means.

The one positive is that most of the money we owe is now to the chairman (or maybe the people funding him), so putting the club into administration is not a good option as they potentially lose money. Obviously Power always had that card up his sleeve.

Agreed, I go back a long bloody time and thought I had seen it all but the current situation is just heaping more manure on a larger rancid pile of it and there is not one thing currently I would wish to be continued. Just get it sorted for all the Town fans sakes.

it's the worst state on the pitch that we've been in since I started watching in 89-90. I've never felt we were as close to non league as this.

off the pitch is speculation based on observations, but it's not looking stella.

There was a period before Macari took over that was similar in terms of the football, however it was before automatic promotion from the conference so we didn’t have that fear hanging over us.

Yes under Beamish it was terrible to watch, very similar to how we are playing now quality wise. We dabbled with the bottom 8 all season and the crowds went down to sub 2k.

It was dire but strangely far more enjoyable than it is currently, I went to evey game that season home and away because we had zero expectation back then I guess.

It had its moments mate with Quinn and Mayes banging em in and we also reached the 4th round of the FA Cup!

In the cup yes totally, but in the league it was pretty shit.

I would swap our entire team from then with the team we currently have though! at least they tried, they were limited quality wise but Town fans love a trier.

Would certainly rather have Jimmy Allan, Charlie Henry,Quinny,Mayes and Andy Rowland for sure plus as you say the "trier's"

Enderby was a very underrated keeper too, liked Batty but he was too small and Emmanuel had a good season that year in midfield, would also take Hockaday and Nelson too alongside those you mention.

Yep,Nelson and Emmanuel were 100%ers

Gary Emmanuel, cracking midfielder did he go on and play for Bristol City or did we sign him from them🤔

He did. Think we got him from Bristol Rovers

Cheers adje I couldn’t remember.

A swap for Animal Williams plus £50k in our pocket.

Loved Animal, the two fisted salute to the TE.
Built like a Hyena 😀

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/ZEYNG37lh4AAAAAC/animalmuppet.gif)Great player.

You can buy a matchworn shirt for an extortionate price now

From a match we lost, absolutely laughable. Money kept by the club as well, doesn’t even go to charity. Anything to rinse naive supporters for minimum effort.

Link?

https://x.com/official_stfc/status/1743391927020782003?s=46&t=zTEFtfTXjK-SAydvgY6uiw

£93 for Sonny Hart’s shirt  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Looking at some of the bids it has attracted, it’s hard to blame them!

Do they do that when we've played other sides? It's only Wrexham, no different to many other small clubs.

They have a few times I’m sure, I think earlier in the season they did it after the Salford match

We have done it a fair few times this season.

It doesn’t suit the agenda though so no one jumped on it at that point.

Ah, nothing to see here then.

There has been derision each time but, yes, it's been louder since things have gotten a bit choppier

I did sir.
on Twitter sir. now X sir

I think we first did it after Northampton away that time we dug in and won 2&1

...and there was the one where they listed shirts and some players weren't in the squad.

This is the one that sticks out to me.  :D

There is a lot fucked with this club at the moment, selling a few matchworn shirts is very low on that list.

I can’t remember us doing it for a league game we lost…

The whole Wrexham thing has been nothing short of an embarrassment, the clubs acted like we were playing a big Premier League team. Personally losing to an average league 2 team isn’t something I see as worth celebrating.

Does it really matter if we won or lost? No one is forcing anyone to buy them.