Thetownend.com

well I might as well give it a try.

Cool! First win of the year!!!!!

Fingers and toes crossed today

so you've not resorted to cutting off and swallowing your fingertips in protest yet then?!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i2o36l7veUdwwXI0_8tmCbU9PWPg

Up and off now, feels very early. Come on Town!

Le Pool 1
STFC 3  (Austin, Ball, Prutton)

Pool 4 - 1 Swindon

Off now. Multimap says 5 hours 47. Yay. Not driving at least. 1-0 Town, Austin. JFL MotM.

Quite a few town fans in the departure lounge at Bristol.

Well done to the dedicated fans making the trip today, do the rest of us can't be arsed fans proud!
A guy at works bird lives in Hartlepool. That's pretty dedicated too.

Oh, and I reckon Mex is going to be a one season wonder 1-1

2-0 defeat.

Good luck to all those going today. Can't see our season taking off today - another 2-1 defeat

Think the knives will come out today if we leave Hartlepool pointless, but it's a tricky place to go.  Isn't this the place where on the radio they just spend 90 minutes commenting on how the wind swirls round Victoria Park?  A dire 1-1 draw, Austin to double his tally for the season thus far.

Stuck at work so will be watching on the BBC vidiprinter....

Fucking win you cunts!





That is all.

I would like to echo these sentiments.

Best of luck to those en-route. 2-0 Town... please.

My favourite OST post for ages.

COYfuckingR

A draw would be nice... think it'll be 1-1 or 2-0 to them

Massive surprise 3-1 to us, don't care who scores today

Smash and grab. 4-0 to the town.

the way things have started this season ill be happy with a point

2-2 draw ball and dossevi

I would like to echo OST's sentiments.

I'd really like to see Ferry come in today, preferably in place of Prutton in a 4 man midfield. 4-5-1 would obviously be another way to accommodate him though.

Wilson's been very disappointed with the players so far and it sounds like he's made it known to them that so far performances haven't been acceptable. Hopefully we'll get it right today. Any win will be a big result, I'd take a draw.

Problem we have is that we have not adequately replaced the 3 key players in Ward, Paynter, Greer. Consequently the midfield looks too narrow, we are light up front and have no leader at the back.

Until we rectify this do not think we are going to get anywhere close to last years position.

dossevi replaced paynter and ball replaced ward, greer is the only one we havnt replaced

i think that's been well discussed in other threads mr bart

7-0, all scored by Dossevi using right foot, left food, head, arse, knee, shin and finally using a Scorpion kick.

Probably.

I do not have the time to read through every thread on here

Yay. Moany Bart's back.

that's not a good enough excuse. sort your life out

No, but this is a thread about Hartlepool vs Swindon. Whilst the TEF has a great tradition of threads going way off track, did it not seem a bit out of place to have a moan about our prospects for the season in a thread specifically designed for discussion about one particular match?

Come on Town...lets get back on track,any win will do me today.

I think we'll scrape a win today. That's all we need to do, just get 3 points on the board.

I'd go:

Lucas

Amankwaah
Cuthbert
LJF
Caddis

JPM
Ferry
Dougie
Dossevi

Pericard
Austin

It doesn't have to be pretty. We just need to stop the rot. In truth i'd probably take a point up there today.

Rot?! We've only played one league game so far FFS.

We're far from the "must win" stage, but matches like this were where we really grinded out results last season, the true mark of a successful team. An ugly win would do me nicely.

Come on Town, do it today and all is good again. 1-2.

First point of the season 2-2.. 

I've got the last two results right and with our fragile confidence and poor mental attitude(at present) I see another defeat.  Can't see where the goals are coming from and can't see any clean sheets with Lucas or Smithy in goal.  I hope I'm very wrong.

0 2

 :badmood:

So our goalkeepers are crap and our strikers are crap???

spot on.
why your valid post got the repsonses it did sums this site up a bit.

I think I went for a 1-0 Town win in the predictor.

So I'll go for that. JPM with the winner late on.

Remember how we started last season off not so great too? It's too early to say if those three players will be missed or not.

I've just challenged rob Hartley to get a reference to Paul the octopus in the commentary. Someone let me know if he manages it.

Come on, 2-1 Town-Austin and Amankwah

Draw!

Who are you Clint Eastwood!

Team 4-5-1 it seems, prob not a bad idea
GK Lucas
RB Caddis
LB Rose
CB Cuthbert
CB Jean-Francois
RM JPM
LM O'Brien
CM Dougie
CM Ferry!
CM Prutton
ST Austin

Subs Smith, Morrison, Amankwaah, Timlin, Ball, Dossevi, Pericard

Maybe a 4-1-4-1 formation, with Douglas behind Ferry and Prutton. Either way, i'm glad Ferry's in. We beat Hartlepool at their place 1-0 last season with one up front, lets hope we get a repeat of that.

Looking forward to seeing Dossevi start a game again, ah well!

STFC player subscription purchased, it better fucking work

no we didnt, we had austin and nouble up front.

It was pretty jumpy on Tues night, usually when there was an attack, which was fucking ideal!

well i must have been imagining seeing him play then as i stood there.

To be fair Red we imagined him playing every match...it never really happened for real.

2-1 Town (Austin, Dossevi)

Nouble played

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20100138

Only in the fact they are here.

Its only early days but Dossevi and Ball have alot to do before they effectively replace Paynter and Ward.

4-5-1 is wank. Guess we are playing for a draw then.

0-0, shit, rubbish and boos

Although we started off last season with a defeat and a draw.

Nouble and his blue boots were on the pitch last season, can't really confirmed he played though, as he was a passenger.

Charlie might as well have been playing on his own up front then.

Looking at the line-up as listed on the official site, might O'Brien be playing in a more advanced role perhaps?  :hmmm:

Three strikers on the bench and one midfielder, better hope there are no injuries

1-Nil Swindon come on town it all starts here ;D

for fuck sake.

1-0 down already, fuck my life.

FFS

Smith should have saved it!!

Well bugger my buttocks what the fuck is going on??

jeesy creesy

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Fucking hell  :badmood:

Just got on here - is there any point in staying?  :(

experienced centre half to be signed then i guess

hva faen?!

What did I miss?

Looks like my £10 scorecast was well worth the investment  :(

This season is not looking pretty grim already....  Though Hartlepool is not an easy place to go.  At least let us bag a cheeky draw....

At least it won't be my fault if we lose

Oh dear! Come on town!!

o brien sounds lively

Get in O'brien found someones head. I saw glimpses the other night of what he may be able to do.

FFS x 2

hmmmmmmmmm

2-0

fuck sake, good business wilson

FOR FUCK SAKE

Sod this!!

another fuck up

What a load of wank.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite!

Just flicked over from the Cricket, bad idea that was.

FFS

Why is it when everyone is optimistic about the coming year, the club we love seem to disappoint?

Guess this could be a cricket score now!

Swindon in missing experienced leader and captain shocker.

what a fucking surprise.

what the fuck is going on?!

Hmmmm. Leaky defence this season??

It's wearing a bit thin now Dave

So thats two efforts from Austin off the line - Guess it could be 2-2

so, is conceding goals and fucking losing.

He could have a point BR

dv you must be chuffed, youve been waiting for lesc to fuck up, you really are the new bart. twat.

Commentary said that the defenders have all played well individually, but have not played well as a team - Not covering eachother.

There goes my prediction... had plumped for a scrappy 2-1 win.

And we never win a game once we go behind  :(

2 games in and the 2nd game isn't even finished yet

Fuck me, let's kill ourselves now shall we.

We did pre season

WTF

Oh happy days!

stop being a dick.

Where have I said I am happy Lesc has fucked up? I've supported him since he has been here, even last season when everyone was slating him. You're just making stuff up now.

I still cant understand how we thought we could get away with Cuthbert and Lesc as the first choice pairing. It wont work. It hasnt worked.

We didn't do it all last season hopefully we start changing that.

Fucking STFC PLAYER gone off now we re 2 nil down What the fuck is going on :hmmm:

Fucking hell!  Some of you muppets need to calm the fuck down.  Hartlepool are no mugs especially at home so this isn't an upset.

Our defensive unit hasn't worked, it isn't the centre back pairing per se.

We're going to win 3-2.

How many did we lose last season? 6? I guess some of our heads are still in last season. It seems to me that the team hasn't gelled yet for what ever reason. They'll come good (I just hope it's soon).

Thats it! I'm coming home and sorting these fuckers out.

Spud you're delusional.  Clearly it'll be a 4-2 win...

Yeah, fucking idiots being annoyed at your team going 2-0 down and shipping 6 in 3 games. How dare you.

Yeah very true we should of expected to be 2-0 after 12 mins.

......in 12 minutes.

Wilson out
We should never have sold Greer
Fitton doesn't invest in the team, he's only in it for the money
Lecsinel is useless
Cuthbert is nothing without Greer
We're going down this season, no doubt about it
We didn't build on last season, sack the board and manager and the players
Austin is overrated
We should never have left Ward go
We'll never win games with Pericard in the team
Pericard and Dossevi are just cheap replacements for Paynter, no ambition from the board

Did I miss anything?

to a team that nearly went down last year.

Got to start winning from behind soon, otherwise we'll do nothing. Hope today is the day. Want to that prick jeff stelling crying by 4.45 please!

What was the last competitive game we came from behind to win?

Im off to support Southend,7 ex-Town bods there already,might as well make it one more!

Oh I'm sorry, I thought we'd started a new season.  My mistake.

Brighton away the season before last.

They went 1-0 then we got goals from Greer, Cox and Paynter - they pulled one back in the last minute I think.

Good question i can't remember the last time we came from behind to win in a league game.

11/4/2009

This is where Wilson needs to do something tactics wise get another striker on. I thought this was the formation we needed it clearly isn't.

Don't leave it too late to make changes.

The last time we came from behind to win I was listening to the match whilst sat outside in the sunshine in Norway. Which is exactly where I am today.

Look! A good omen! Cling to your straws fellas!

Its difficult to declare a formation a success or failure after 20 minutes. Just like its difficult to write a team off after 2 1/2 games.

But we are chasing this one. I'd go 4-4-2 and bring on a striker too.

I think matey boy on the wireless has got it spot on, oppo managers know how to play us.....they must have all watched the Wembley game  :(

Pox 1-0 down

I'd go 4-4-4 for the second half and hope the ref doesn't notice

the formation to me anyway, looked like we wanted a draw.

Going 1-0 down after 4 minutes makes this formation completely pointless. I'd leave it till half time at the latest.

That's briefly cheered me up

Really i would say that being 2 nil down after 12 mins shows it is definatly not a success really is it? Don't get me wrong it may be against some teams just clearly not today. Lets change it and give them something to think about.

Not much tho'...they equalised !!!

arghh

Double save from Flinders

Vic Morgan is shit when things get exciting.

how did we not score?

Their keeper seems to be having a blinder.

No, he's just shit.

Austin chance and McGovern follow up saved by Flinders...For those without commentary.

Could have scored 2 or 3 so far.

stfctownenda has text me saying that he doesn't think we'll get back into it and he's concerned with how bad we look this season.

Bournemouth are 2 up against posh

"rode the storm???!!!" FFS we're 2 down!

If they've prepared for 4-5-1 all week, abandoning it immediately is a bit reactionary - like plugging gaps after they've leaked. But it clearly isn't fucking working, so bring on another striker and let's go for it.

Who is commentating with Vic Morgan?

why does he sound more excited when Hartlepool attack/their keeper makes a decent save?

nearly 3-0

No idea about today but it doesn't sound pretty... however I thought we didn't look that bad against Brighton and we looked good against Orient for 65 minutes.

With Vic Morgan commentating, the game is likely to be much different to how it sounds.

The stats on world show that we are on top (aside from the goals)

who fucking cares about blackley and burnpool you cunts

Ahem?

Rob Hartley, I think

Text him Dave

He just slipped it in.

I'm none the wiser (ie I don't know who he is and thought they normally have ex players), but thank you.

someone tell axs he got his paul the octopus mentioned

half time

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :)

Did we have a shot that half?

He's some bloke apparently.

Other than the two saves and the one off the line ? No.

I don't know who he is either, I apologise.

Who someone on here knows

Arbroath 0-1 Annan Athletic : Cox (38)

Annan Athletic, who are they?

he's that super fan who has done over 1000 games in a row.

You forgot Sheehan-whom we have not adequately replaced.

He just slipped it into an octopus? Good man!

Right I'm off to walk the dog. We always score when I walk the dog.

We are currently second bottom

I don't s'pose you have three dogs to walk do you?

dont come back till may!

For fuck sake what has an octopus and walking the dog got to do with our game?

**Tongue firmly in cheek**

See, things could be worse.

SSP scores for St Johnstone

FFS there's an ex-Swindon players where are they now for this type of thing.

Why oh why did we let Greer go.  :suicide:

No subs :(

no changes?

Wilson you twat! No changes??? What the fuck!!

Can we score now please?

We will get a point 3-3

Three times if it's not to much to ask?  ;)

Dunno what the weather is like up there but it's shitty here maybe the game will be abandoned soapy tit wank

Hahaha, we're shit...

now might be a time to bring on a couple of strikers

no, we've got Morrison warming up?

greer sent off soapy tit wank

Greer sent off. ha

Greer's just bee sent off for violent conduct = 3 game ban.

Perhaps I should have called DW and told him about my cunning plan after all.

Gordon Greer sent off for violent conduct!

Sparrow last game and Brighton claimed they werent a dirty bunch of cheating cunts!

Hahaha

teheheheheh@greer

In other news, there is a bit of a shower going on. Sky cannae hack it!

Please please get a fucking striker on.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha cunt
1-1

Ninja kick

Why did we let Greer go?!

here comes one.....and Pericard.

GG must have given away a penalty as well, good cunts!

happy now ????

Bloody hell.

We have an ex players thread for this type of post you miserable cunt.

we're 2-0 down - of course im not happy, what a daft question.

Dave's like the Bart of old, only he posts every 2 minutes.

fuck off.

is vince on? who for?

It sounds like teams have worked out how to play against us this season. We're losing the midfield battles and teams are closing us down and not letting us play. We need to find a way to counter it.

What 2-0 at half time and no changes made? Baffling, Sorry for having an opinion  :cunty:

58 - SUBSTITUTION - Swindon make a double switch with Thomas Dossevi and Vincent Pericard replacing Jon-Paul McGovern and Simon Ferry.

Ferry

Message to axs

please go and shoot that cunt Morgan


many thanks


Fred

Pericard replace McGovern
Dossevi replaces Ferry

The problem is millwall work this out in the play off final IT WAS LIVE ON SKY were fucked!!!

dont be such a twat

Joke TWAT

YEsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

hahahahahaha

oh how I laughed

Comeback time  :)

Yes. Nice one Dossevi.

get the fucking ball!

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!

There you go you fucking miserable twats.

2 more togo...

aha!!!!

Dossevi dossevo oh la.

Oh la la

Very good :)

Dossevi - First hatttrick for the Town?

Now I feel like posting! Get in there Dosser.

You are not a manager. You are not even there. If you want to call Danny Wilson a twat fuck off to an Oxford forum.

Well played come on lads :clap:

yes!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

come on!!!!!!!!

 :beers:

Fucking quality. When we have a go at teams we score goals. Maybe we should be a bit braver from the off.

GET IN THERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Charlie Charlie Austin
Charlie Charlie Austin

get in

we want 3 we want 3 we want 3 we want 3

Get the fuck in Charlie!

Good dog.

yessssssssssssssssssssssssss come on

hahaha yes Austin you fucking beaut.

Brilliant  :D Now snatch all three pts!

Please can we start with 3 up front next week?

get in, lets get another!!! well done town

Nicer one Charlie let's have another one!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking Greer!

blackpool 4!!!

Big Vinnie's turn now ?

fucking yesssss boyss!!

GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!

 :D

mint !

Big Vince to get a 92nd minute winner

THIS

I really hope so!! go BIG V!!!!

I wanted us to go 4-3-3 by half time.

Now is it co-incidence or do you think Wilson waited till Hartlepool took off both their strikers? then went 4-3-3.

He's either had a bit of luck on his side or played that one perfectly.

Whats happening? I dont have a radio :(

Hes not bad for a bricklayer is he.......... come on vincent get the winner big man :D

can we sing "we've gotta togo international" next week please.....(to the old your so shit its unbelievable chant.....in case that needed clarifying)

bury 2-1 up :)

Tramp

Pox now 2-1 down

Bury 2 - 1 Pox

I'll start it ;) see who joins in :D

I've worked out Danny's game plan this saeson

Lose a few games, let everyone in our league think we're shit, then we come back and win the league

:) I use internet radio

Vic reads the TEF?? ???

Maybe you should borrow one of Barry's horses to walk next time.

It's 2-2 freddie. Austin and Dossevi

super thomas dossevi

Flicked back over from the Cricket, this is a bit better!

Vic has a little dig back at Dave there I think!

This is like the bad old Brunel FM days for me.  Refresh, refresh, refresh!

Was it noted earlier that Greer's been sent off on his Brighton debut :D

Closer...

Ohhh close

arghh

we close to getting a 3rd?

really thought that might have been it

unlucky Charlie :clap:

3 mins added time

We've had 57% possession so far

3 mins.....come on!

3 mins added time

what happened?!

my sky score centre on my iphone still says 2-1 to pool.  That'll be that cunt Jeff Stelling not updating properly soapy tit wank

AND IT'S PERICARD!!! Fuck sake Vic.

come on town we can win this!!!
come on vince get it in!!

corner to Town

This commentary is fucking woeful, no idea what's going on and random screaming about things

I might as well be following the game through a clairvoyant

FT 2-2

Happy with that TBH

meh.

Not bad in the end, good point

Phew! That's about it really. First point of the season at least.

No complaints really - alway a tough place to go to.

Think that could be the kick start to our seson, good morale booster from coming 2-0 down

City and Rovers concde late equalisers

Fantastic comeback. Well done lads

Well played lads :clap:

Well done town a bit of fight is what we want. Get the defence sorted and we will be fine.

Another late goal against shitty!

Can we put Charlie's ghosts from wembley to rest now?

Great that Dosser got one.

It's just not gonna happen for Vince is it?

I'll take that. Look forward to hearing the thoughts of those who went.

Sounds like the defence really is a problem. I thought Lucas would make a difference but apparently not.

Dossevi to start next week?

That will do nicely..... everyone would of took 2-2 at half time   ;)

2 goals in 3 games, not a bad way to start a season :)

And Blackpool are top of the Premiership - or am I not supposed to put that in this thread?  ;)

Well done lads, great spirit. Now let's kick on. Would've taken a draw before hand, so things panned out eventually.

Very happy with that, good comeback.

Should give us some confidence.

Thats the bad patch out the way lets go on on with the belief that we needed. well done.   
 :clap:

Fine by me but more importantly Pox lost at home, 1-2 Bury

I wonder whether Dossevi and Austin are similar player, who need a big lump like Pericard out muscling the defence to give them a bit of room to work their magic?

We get a point away (somewhere near the north pole), Greer gets sent off and the scum get beat at home, happy with that !

We started last season with a loss and a draw in the league too, so let's look forward!!

Hopefully we can take the momentum into the next game. We need to sort out the defence though before it really sabotages our season.

late injury time equaliser by 'Dale too

Haha, who text in to BBC Wiltshire saying love all from the town end forum?   ???

KOT/Mex to start next week's thread I think.

With Pericard Dossevi & Austin up front i would have imagine Pericard's presence would have caused them to focus on him while Austin & Dossevi score (maybe)

oooo was so close

Dossevi's pretty big and definitely not lacking in strength

I see Millwall hammered Hull 4-0.

People on the adver website want DW out!  :eek:

i think they was saying that well we was 2-0 down

We were dogshit first half, no connection between the midfield and forwards. When we went three up front we stopped worrying about the wings and just went for it. This dragged their defence to the middle and allowed aob to become useful and he put in a number of good crosses in the last half hour.

good to hear that i think he will come good once he gets a few more games

What the fuck? Adver site = meh

Good point to kick start our season (i hope) come on Vince you need a goal against Brentford infront of the TE.

6 goals against in 3 games is a worry.

Great point...2 down away from home and come back for a draw is a good omen,Brentford lost at home to Walsall so shouldn't be scared of them.
Can see Austin getting thirty this season if he stays fit.

no worse than last year tho'

If we had lost 2-0 then the pressure on next saturdays game would have been terrible.

As it is weve turned it round. We can look to saturday with a bit of confidence.

Shame we didnt get that third goal, get that comming from behind 'monkey' of our backs.

Job done. Mentioned in relation to the Octopus not being able to predict the Blackpool score.

ITV seem to think it was a 0-0 draw  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

kevin blackweell just been sacked at sheff united

I think the way we got our point today could prove to be very important. The players could of started doubting themselves so hopefully we can kick on.

Same here.

The commentary likened the pairing of Cuthbert and LJF to Ifil and O'Hanlon 'both good technically, but shipped a lot of goals'.  Defence definitely seems to be the key issue, we can't afford to keep going behind to silly goals.  We also seem to have a problem with taking a decent corner or free kick - schoolboy stuff really.

A good point, which most of us would have taken before the game and taken ten times over at 4.15pm.  Hopefully this will give us confidence and be the kick start we need and give Wilson an idea of the formation that works best (not entirely sure what that is to be honest?!)

Great point, was getting really worried at 2-0 down, even had to post a WTF on my poxy Blackberry Pearl, what a palavva.

Hopefully a goal each will give Charlie and Dossevi confidence for the next game which I fully expect to be three points. Notice O'Brien started did he do anything of note? Or did he get taken off?

Went to watch B'mth Poppies v Abingdon Town in the FA cup. Not a bad game at all, Poppies won 1-0
Listening to 5 Live on the way back, all they go on about is the fucking Premiership, do those cunts realise there's three other leagues and not everyone wants to hear Premiership this and Premiership that. Gets right up my nose

No, they are a bit like Sky, and there is only one league, despite Sky and BBC covering the FL as well.

I've got a good mind to text the fuckers and remind em

Agree with that.

The players deservedly took a bit of stick at the final whistle on Tuesday night and another poor result today would have piled on the pressure ahead of Brentford at home. If we can grab a win from that, we'll be well on our way.

I still don't understand the LJF and Ifil comparisons - Lecsinel is about a hundred times more composed, more intelligent and he can actually control and pass a football. Ifil & O'Hanlon was never a good partnership because neither took control and that is the only comparison that can be made between them and Lecs and Cuthbert. LJF will never be a vocal leader but Cuthbert could be.

How did your nephew get on playing for Poppies?

Looking at the stats on todasy game it looks like we had close on 60% of the possession, had 7 attempts on target to their 3, and 9 corners to their three.

Away from home that's not bad going.

I'm refusing to panic.

a decent result from 2-0 down.
if we are still shipping goals in a few weeks time then i'd like to see some money going on a centre back

Call yourself a Town fan....

Dont diss the premiership-arriba will hurt you!

I'm sure arriba knows where I'm coming from

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Summed up exactly. People only make the comparison because as a pairing they looks similar (one black, one with a skinhead). I think the comparison is verging on insulting such is the gulf in class between the individuals.

yes i do.unfortunately more people are interested in the prem or bigger clubs.

We've played two league games, generally bossed both, but have been caught out a bit at the back.

No need to panic, it'll probably take another 3-4 games for the team to really gel, during which we'll drop a few points, but nothing which will ruin our season.

What's important is that Charlie is still scoring.  That was something I was worried about, what with him losing his partner and being in his second season. 

No doubt the vast majority of which hardly ever go to a live game. There's a few of them at work so called Chelsea and Man U fans. Rather than go and stick some dosh in their local non league sides pockets they live for MOTD, Sky Sports and football streaming. I keep pointing out it's much more fun to go to a game but it falls on deaf ears, think they think that they are being disloyal to their club, when in fact the likes of Chelsea, Man U etc couldn't give a toss about their supporters even their armchair ones

Very pleased, to draw 2-2 after being 2-0 down at half-time away from home is a good result. OK you can question why we were 2 down in the first place because it sounds like they were awful goals to concede, but to come back shows a lot of character and fight which is really encouraging.

The stats show we were probably the better side again, so we just have to cut out the silly goals against and we'll be fine, we carry plenty of threat at the other end.

Looking forward to Brentford now, hope we can get our first win.

Happy with that result!

Just read this thread and some of the posts early on are embarrassing, bordering on thisis at times! 

Some people need to get a grip, even some regular posters were verging on mongness today, don't turn into Leeds/Brighton fans people just because we had a day trip to Wembley last season.

Just seen the goals on SSN. Cracking finish from Dossevi

For punching an opposition player!

Just got back and have to say that but for a weak header from Lecs for the 2nd and a you kick it, no you kick it moment between Scotty and JD we were much the better side.Caddis looked sharp, O'brien had one run in particular in the 2nd half when he went past at least 3 of their players got to the byline and finished with a good cross. They seemed to panic when Pericard came on and we appeared to have more room to play.Dossevi  :clap:took his goal well and Charlie was pure class.Not sure if you can play Ferry JD and Jesus together though,seemed a bit flat and improved once Ferry went off. Must mention the Cross dresser in the blue dress giving dogs abuse to Hartlepool, goes to all matches in the away end and slags off Hartlepool.Good to have characters

Got back about an hour ago - we dominated posession today and carved out a few decent chances, we'd have won it comfortably if we didn't gift Hartlepool a 2 goal head start.  I can only remember one chance that Hartlepool managed to create themselves (when they hit the bar in the 1st half).

Thought Caddis looked good again, and O'Brien seems to be beginning to show something - got a fair few crosses in today after beating his man, just needs to work on his delivery a bit more and he could set up a lot of goals this season.  Dossevi looked good when he came on, fantastic finish and Austin took his chance very cooly too.

Worrying thing is obviously the defence - both goals came from hesitancy (JD & Cuthbert left the ball to each other for the first one, and the 2nd one LJF let it bounce before trying to head it back to Lucas and got no purchase on the header).  Definitely needs someone at the back who talks to everyone - having Lucas back helped a bit with that today.

My other slight frustration was everyone's reluctance to shoot.  A couple of times near the end someone had the ball on the edge or just inside the area with a decent chance to let a shot off and decided to either pass it to someone else or piss around with it and the chance was gone.

Overall though I'd give the performance a 7 out of 10, and hopefully the comeback from 2-0 will finally kick start our season.

And my favourite part of today was when Monkhouse when down softly for a free kick and Lucas shouted to JP (who fouled him) "next time just fuckin hit him"!!  :D

Got back to Swindon about 45 mins ago. agree with most of this post, although I will say that we looked devoid of ideas going forward playing 451 and looked immensely better after the subs

Thought the same in the two home games, afraid to make mistakes?

Good report thanks.

I thought we looked reluctant to shoot against Brighton last weekend, at times we wanted to take an extra touch or make an extra pass instead of just having a pop when the chance came, I wondered if it was confidence related perhaps. We looked more adventurous against Orient in the first half and the players took a few more attempts which came to nothing.

Dead chuffed with 2-2 in hindsight. It's obvious we're missing a gobby leader at the back. Ironic that Greer went 2 and 2 on the red card front today!

Tough challenge coming up with Brentford. Anyone seen their team on paper these days? They have quality (make no mistake) and will be no push overs.

I'm begining to see brighter horizons. Looking forward to seeing TD's strike. Sounds like a cracker.

Well done to those brave souls that got up there. Brilliant effort.

People get a bit over-excited in the heat of the moment, bearing that in mind, I don't think the comments were that bad to be fair.

Good fight back and signs of great character in the lads.

Something to build on and I'm really pleased to hear positive reviews of O'Brien and Caddis. Cut out the silly errors and hesitancy and the season is really going to be a good one..!

Having said that....

I'm not going to 'name and shame' here, but this was definitely a 'Thisis' moment...have a word...you know who you are :contract:

Can't disagree much with what has been posted already by those who went. I'd like to single out two players though, one good, one bad.

David Prutton - utterly pedestrian, second to every ball, looks a yard off the pace and lacking ideas. On the bright side, a very good pass to put Caddis in in 2nd half.

Alan O'Brien - Really good performance from Alan today. I singled him out against Orient for his performance and today was more of the same. Frightening pace and the delivery is getting there. Could be a big bonus for us this season if he stays fit.

Good post new guy, puts a lot of the garbage posted on here to shame. I'm with you, we've not played badly by all accounts, just need the back tweaking a bit, and then we'll be on another 15 game unbeaten run.

Prutton seems to me to keep trying to play 'exotic' passes when there are easy balls on.  One example today in the first half when he had the chance to slide JPM in for what could have been a chance, instead playing a cross-field pass to.....no-one!!  There wasn't a Town player within 20 yards of where the pass went so not sure who / what he saw!!

As with any player who pulls on the red of Swindon though I'll give him time.  Met up with a Leeds fan before today's game who said Prutton was a quality player for them - I think he's a good player but for whatever reason he hasn't quite showed it yet in our first 3 games.

I've no doubt Prutton will come good for us. I couldn't believe some stuff I was reading in various outlets this afternoon. 2 games people! TWO games!

Was very happy to get back in the car at 4.40 and hear it was 2-2, having previously got out of the car at 3.25 with the score obviously at  2-0

Just seen the goals on BBC iplayer Football League show.  Great come back by us and looked as if we could have nicked it at the end.

Great goal by Dossevi and a nice little set up by Pericard for Austin who finished it cooly.

I'm as desperate for Pericard to come good as the next man, but it looked like it bobbled off his leg and Charlie nipped in to score!

Anywhere I can see the goals other than iPlayer? It doesn't work outside of the UK

Not sure if Virgin media player still has them??

Two well taken goals, I'd love to give Vince the assist but I don't think it was!

Can't get enough of Austins movement for that diving header. The way he just left his marker and appeared in the right place was top class.

Good result after being 2-0 down and nearly won it at the end if we tighten up at the back we will improve need 3 points next saturday as we have some diffcult games after that

if that was a set up i am pele

How's the old pecker?

Do you not have an STFC Player subscription now?

No highlights on there yet, I'm just being impatient :)

Try a proxy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/swindon_town/default.stm....
it will be on here in a couple of days!

What has happened to Hartlepool's attendances?!

2900 for their first league game of the season after they beat Sheff United in midweek?

Surely whoever is bankrolling them cant go on forever?

In the third tier I can only remmember ever going to a game with a lower attendance than that. Wrexham away about 2002, and they went terminally downhill after that. Dagenham will be a new low though, cant remmember a club as small as that being in the 3rd tier for years?

Reading their boards a mixture of disliking the manager, high unemployment, and they have 3 three big northeast teams on thier doorstep, cant be easy being there. Strong possibility most sides going to D&R  the away fans will outnumber the home fans .

Hartlepool doesn't stand a chance up here, likewise Darlington. It relies on Hartlepool residents because Co. Durham is Sunderland territory with a very, very strong Newcastle following.

I thought Hartlepool must have lost a load of fans, but accoring to this their verage last season was only 3299

http://www.mikeavery.co.uk/Attendance%20Tables%20Median%202009-10.htm

If you go back ot the late 70s then Chester and Tranmere regularly used to get crowds of less than a thuosand in Div 3 and palying us wouldn't tip it into 4 figures, particularly as we'd only take 50-100 to these games.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: he missed controlled it and it was lucky Austin was there to score.

Highlights http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/8916152.stm

County durham is 100% Sunderland and norff of the river Tyne is 100% toon army whilst Jarrow/Hebburn/Felling/ Gateshead is split 50/50

Having seen the highlights Pericard takes the ball down himself and although it gets away from him a bit he would have had that, but he stops when he sees Austin there.

your'e right

but if Austin would have let him have it, it would have been a Hartlepool throw

Big Vinnie really is fighting a losing battle isn't he?

Old cunt.

that will be me then !

But the bloke has hardly played 90 minutes for us yet.  I am not convinced he will come good but am at least willing to give him a chance.  When you are getting slated even before you a stripping down to come on it's got to make your job that much harder.

Sometimes i despair with our fans, i had a right pop at a couple of 'fans' at the orient game for giving O'brien grief, he made 1 miss pass and the torrent of abuse they dished out was incredible, then when he pulled off some nice control and moved the ball on it was all "bout fucking time.....er yeah one off..." etc. I fucking despair with some fans. Both pericard and O'brien have only a handful of starts to their name, match confidence is a fragile thing and takes a while to achieve, something that will never happen if people are constantly on their backs. Sometimes i think the term 'supporter' is so wide of the mark. If both have a good run in the team but are still out of their depth then fair enough, but for fuck sake give them a chance before the witch hunt starts and its normally by people who weren't even at the fucking games!!!!!!  :suicide:

Whilst i'm at it those gunning for Rose need to have a word with themselves, the lad has played 3 competitive starts for us but has suddenly become the weak link. I fail to see how our defensive frailties can be laid at his door. I'd go as far to say that some of the goals we've conceeded are just a tad unfortunate, and more down to our defending as a team than just our defence. I'd love for just one game to have eveyone in attendance being positive and loud and getting behind the team and seeing where it takes us.... 

It's always been the same....and will stay so.

Rose took approx 50 mins to become a target by the failure to deliver decent crosses from a variety of promising positions.....then a few goals going in from his side don't help. Personally I think he will come good for us.

What you need to do is something memorable on debut or early doors, and it buys you leeway.

Look at Brez...wonderful debut and a fair bit of shit after, but he never got the sort of treatment that Phil Smith gets.

I work in Co. Durham and I assure you, it's certainly not 100% The majority support Sunderland but there's a massive Newcastle following.

Either way, Hartlepool don't stand a chance.

Completely agree with you and stegen. I actually thought Rose was one of our better players for long periods of the Brighton game - hardly surprising that his understanding with the rest of our very young back line may not have been spot on having only played with them for a few weeks.

Considering some of the signings and quality of football we've been subjected to as fans over the last decade or so i think everyone would be in agreement that Wilson knows what he is doing and has proved himself a good judge of talent.

OK, he's not going to get it right every time but as has been noted its hugely unfair to write these players off and get on their backs after so few games.

Lets just put things in perspective and see where we are come christmas eh?

Well said that man! 

Well, yes

Maybe if he actually scored a goal or two.

that's about all he's ever scored aint it?
his goal tally is poor to say the least

Yes, im not overally fussed about what record he has in the past but the fact is, he hasnt done it fr us at all.

Not even looked like scoring and those claiming he set Austin up saturday really are straw clutching, he miss controlled it. Thank god he did!

He's still not shown enough and still seems to be carrying a knock, forever!

Well he's had shots blocked, cleared off the line and I've seen him hit the post twice. Could have had a handful of goals if he had a bit more luck.

If he'd tucked that infamous header away from 3 yards it could have gone so differently.

Will surely go out on loan as he just doesn't cut the mustard technically or athletically.

I'm still convinced there is a player in there somewhere, but how long do you give him? I'd say at least 1/2 this season - but we have options so he may be on the bench and hence still hard to judge.

Has he played much for the reserves?

But he has hardly played, which is my point.  And he isn't a goal scorer, his history and feedback from Carlisle fans back this up.  His strength is bringing other players into play and setting up things for them, similar to Billy until last season.

Look, I'm not saying that Vinnie is the answer to our prayers, all I am saying is we are giving him little chance to impress because we are on his back even when he is sat on the bench, which has been the majority of his time here.  If it doesn't work out, then fine show him the door, but at least judge him after he has had a run of 3 or 4 full games rather than a run of 10 substitute appearances.

Dave, you get pissed off with everything being Smith's fault in everybody's eyes and you are quick to point that out to people, but everybody is doing exactly the same thing with Vinnie.  At least Smith has had a few full games for us to judge him on. It just smacks of pot, kettle, black.

No, it doesnt.

Smith gets blamed for things that arent his fault - or things Lucas (or any other keeper) wouldnt have saved either.

Big Vince gets stick because he doesnt score goals because he doesnt score goals. He is a striker and even before last season Paynter still hit double figures both seasons for us.

Rory Fallon did the whole coming off the bench thing and managed to chip in with about 7 goals. Whilst its not ideal Big Vince minutes are slowly adding up - and still nothing.

On the subject of Pericard, his stats must be approaching Shaun Close levels.

Shaun for the uninitiated was nominally a striker who made 40+ appearances for 1 league goal..inevitably scored v O*ford.

Ardiles liked Shaun because he had decent touch and brought others into play....nevertheless if you're up front you must score some goals.

I've a mate who played a decent standard of non-league football, who was convinced Shaun was a better bet than Steve White in terms of team play...I thought otherwise, which made for a decent pub argument.

The crowd never really got on Shaun's case, there was more of a feeling, that if he got one he'd be up and running....eventually he scored on a memorable LC night v Darlo.....but it made bugger all difference. Fact was Shaun was a bit crap and I suspect Vince is too.

Pericard has only been a backup player for us anyway. Perhaps this will continue to be the case. If the fans' comments about Dossevi are to be taken at face value then he and Austin should be our main stikers and there is little need to worry about Pericard unless he suddenly needs to become the starting player up front. Let's not forget Ball is a lively player who will also cause defenses some problems too which means we have adequte backup up front, probably better than most of last year.

My cause for concern would be if Austin got sidelined for a spell, but I think that would be a concern even if our other strikers were scoring plenty of goals. Without an in form Austin last year we'd not have been nearly as good, even with Paynter knocking plenty in.

Did Austin get booked on Saturday ? - when I saw the highlights with him celebrating his goal I thought he may have been.

No think Dossevi was our only booking Saturday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/8897990.stm

I want Pericard to come good just so I can sing the French national anthem with the words 'oh aah ooh ahh, Vince Pericard, ooh ahh Pericard'

Team was doing well then....its when the team are losing that the crap players bare the brunt.
As for Pericard its time for the management to tell him what they want...a striker who along with Austin will score the goals we need...or a player just to meddle along not quite knowing what position he is playing....he drops to deep to hurt the opposition in my opinion.

Shaun Close didn't come with a Juventus pedigree.

Tottenham.

I wonder what close is doing now