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New ground today. Might win.

Rochdale 1-2 Town. (1-0 H/t) Austin 64, Cuthbert 82. Attn. 6247.

No CyberRobins v Oxford matchday thread? I hope the New King of Tonga makes that one so we have a chance at winning...

Back in the real world, Austin will score a hatrick to commemorate his one year anniversary and we'll win 3-1

I really wanted to start a matchday thread you cunting cunt

Boohoo.

I can live with it.

I hope.

Looking forward to this one. We better bloody win!

you going iffy?

Thought the New KOT was supposed to be doing these from now on

Anyhow my prediction head says 3-1 to us. Don't care who scores, three points the most important thing today

1-0 Town.

1-2. A Douglas brace (I can dream...)

don't care, just win

2-0 Austin, Dossevi

1-4 ( Dossevi, Rose and Austin 2)
Reckon it'll all come good today!!!

People are being optimistic again. that never ends well.

1-1

9-0 loss.

1-1 austin for us

I'm going so we better win. 1-2 Austin x2

i'm all done for the season now, out to france tomorrow so not going today.  think this will be fairly similar to walsall which i'd take. 2-1 win, thanks!

Their shocking run must end some day, right? 9-0 might be pushing it though.

There will be some goals. 2-3.

There will be blood.

1-1

1-1 with Cuthbert scoring from a corner, 3,645 crowd with 394 from Swindon.

On the pitch or off it?

Rochdale do have a very active firm of hooligans, one of the worst in lower league football surprisingly.

nah, I keep having nosebleeds

How are you mate?

oh dear,should have let me start it

Not too bad thanks, improving but still not back to normal yet, very weak all the time from the bloody rat poisin injections.

You wanna get that nose bleeds sorted or you will be in for a messy afternoon!

I was toying with the idea of getting in the car and driving up for this...but I bottled it and it's too late now.  This means we're probably going to win 4-0.

Any news on the team?

im going to change axs name

can someone with powers change it back after the game

Just managed to get back in after being locked out. Reception on the m6 is shite.

we'll lose 3-1

It's not that suprising if you've ever been to Rochdale, it's a complete armpit.

I'll change it back. It was the right move yeovie. Tonga must start threads.

I reckon if you get on here and someone else has started one, you delete it and restart it. ;)

I reckon last week was the turning point in our season. We will win 3-1 today.

A brace from Mr Austin and a Douglas thunderbolt.

Just arrived in Rochdale.

Predictions by 5pm:

2-0 to the town
5 pints consumed including current Wychwood Dogs Bollocks

I hope you're right, although I have a feeling it might just be a draw.

It probably depends on how solid we are at the back, as you always feel that we are likely to score

2-1 Town, Austin (pen) and Dossevi for us,  Dawson header for them

Not really hopefull.....a kind of Yeovilly type place to play football is Spotland.
Any win will do me............but it has 0-0 written all over it. :(

I'm going to go with my approach for the last 2 games, can't see us winning!

I also thought The New King of Tonga was going to start the matchday threads the night before after last week's victory?

charlie to score twice in a 2-1 victory

Agree

2-1 win austin a ritchie to score  :beers:

windon Town: Phil Smith; Scott Cuthbert, Sean Morrison, Lecsinel Jean-Francois, Michael Rose; Matt Ritchie, David Prutton, Jonathan Douglas (c), Michael Timlin; Charlie Austin, Thomas Dossevi

Substitutes: Mark Scott (GK), Nathan Thompson, Alan O'Brien, Alan Sheehan, David Ball, Billy Bodin, Simon Ferry

unchanged from colchester match then.   :sherlock:

Caddis injured?

No JP on the bench? And still no Lucas on the bench? A little worrying.

They have changed it, Ferry not on the bench now.

JP is on the bench. Ferry is not.

Not sure :no:

Yeah... The original line-up stated that Billy Bodin was on the bench but it's JP now.

Was Scott on the bench in the last match...didn't notice that?

Official site put Caddis and JPM on the bench with Sheehan, Thompson and O'Brien. No Bodin.  

Yes he was Leef

...and according to his Twitter feed last week, he was dead chuffed about it.

;)

It's a pretty amazing change in fortune for him really, from 4th choice to sitting on the bench for the first team..where's the Polish kid? Loaned out somewhere isn't he?

Poxford City on loan I believe.

Yeah, that's the one.

Thanks....great experience for him.

He wont be available for the FA Cup game on Friday though no matter what as hes cup tied from Supermarine, so hopefully Lucas will be fit enough for the bench or we will have wing it and have no sub keeper.

...or bring back the Polish kid?

only on a months loan so he should be back by then

So, just to clarify. Subs are as follows...

Mark Scott (GK), Nathan Thompson, Alan O'Brien, Alan Sheehan, David Ball, Paul Caddis, Jon-Paul McGovern

Decent looking bench really.

Sorted then :nod:

Just settling down to listen to the game via stfcworld. A bottle of Merlot is sat next to me and we are going to have a happy 90 mins together i hope. 0-2 Charlie and Prutton

I'll tune in when Logan's Run has finished I think

I am going to switch the commentary off now and come back at half time.

Come on The Town, stick it to 'em!

Im quite excited about this   :sherlock:


its a goaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll 38 nsecs ;)

TIMMMMMMAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

its 1-0 ppl more cheering

Blimey! Just heard on R5 - given at 38 seconds- that's fast!

great start, morrison should have made it two!

oh wow. awesome stuff.

Great when you go 1-0 up and Austin hasn't scored yet  :toocool:

Fantastic stuff - sat in a hotel in York trying to find a radio station broadcasting the game.  Keep up the good work with thread updates

three man move down this right hand side but the ball into the penalty area wasn't good enough was it which seems to be the story so far

Just in, what a start  :beers: :beers:

Think we might be in on a complete rochdalerape today

corner...

Rochdale get it away

lets not get carried away just yet

swindon exerted pressure, swindon corner

Rochdale goal kick.

Austin got a sore ankle

please be ok :worriedface:

he's up and limping

Claude Gnapka scores for Luton

Still 1-0 Swindon

Rochdale not being able to play because of Swindon pressure

penalty to rochdale

pentaly to rochdlae JFL hand ball

Goal

1-1

1-1. Have lesbians ready

the curse of an early 1-0 lead. we have been here before.

Ah well, one of those things. Resume pressure!

 :crash: My fault, had a feeling of cockiness, pride before a fall

Fuckity Fuck - come on Charlie

Sounds like Rochdale are getting back into it

Im no football manager but i think we need another goal, quickly!!!

100% agree. Wilson doesn't always seem to get stuff like that right though

PANIC STATIONS OMG

I am starting to panic a bit.

Corner

swindon corner

Have a masturbate.

freekick to swindon rochdale player kicking theb all away.

Charlie Austin goes down in the box, referee not aroused.

Danny Wilson half hearted appeal for LBW.

Concentrate on the football Danny!!!!

He does get there in the end but it can take some time. As magic as he is, he is no Carol Vordaman on the countdown numbers game.

another swindon corner

We've stolen a corner.

Dossevi sounds like a new player

Rochdale countering...

crawley three up at home to altrincham

get a cross in, corner Rochdale. Tehy had too much space.

Another Rochdale corner

Looping header, just wide. GK Swindon

better get the lesbifriends/catflaps ready...

Ready to hit the post button!

crawley 4-0 tubbs hat trick.

Dossevi caught offside.

2 by Matt Tubbs ex Salisbury - he'll be one to watch!

Pox 0 Pikeys 1

There's no doubt that Rochdale have grown as a force in this game

Sounds like we're starting to struggle to put things together whilst Rochdale are constantly improving.

This has the whiff of the Dagenham's.

Rochdale have a good chance. Win a corner

Got away. Swindon freekick for push on Timlin

Dreaded last mins before half time.

Halt-time

Second half predictions?

2-2

48 mins

FT 3-1, leaving it late, then party time :beers:

Wasn't impressed with that half, Richie getting skinned by their left back 4 times, cuthbert all over the shop. Pruttons been good though.

1-1

I think Dossevi would get one but Wilson will foolishly take him off early on

That i finish this second bottle of wine and then have to go for a tactical puke. 2-1 swindon upon my return from the porcelein god

Good work nochee.

I'm having a day off the drink today. Am turning into a bit of a light weight

It's a bit dead ITT today. Thought it would be busy with not many bothering with Rochdale away.

Afternoon all, just logged on.

How we playing? Hope you have the lesbains ready just incase Ben.

Still think 3-1

Poole game off, too much water, so been watching MU v Wigan. Paint dry

hahaha taking the piss out of scum :)

First corner of the second half. Rochdale

No changes.

I'm going to be quieter second half because my fingers are hurting

i will take over the mantle benjamin

I'm enjoying Ben's commentary.  It's like being at the game.  But warmer.

timlin dossevi linking up well, austin high and wide.

Austin misses.

Putting a good move together. Austin blazes wide.

Who need Vic Morgan, we've got Ben!

Indeed. Far better.

good passing from swindon, good [pressure.

throw to swindon

rose and ritchie pasing well, another throw to swindon

Morgan has upped his game since i called him a cunt. Im going to take the credit for that.

Not taking anything away from ben, obviously.

Harry, Hermione and Ron have just gone into a room they're not supposed to be in and met a massive 3 headed dog.

Or maybe my daughter has harry potter on too loud.

freekick to rochdale, fould by ritchie. corner to rochdale

Push on Cuthbert.

Fair play to vic, he's been really good recently.

 or she has found your porn collection  :D

rochdale player throws ball into ground and gets booked

Is world working?

Wont connect to the stream

Working fine for me.

He is like a breath of fresh air........................blowing across barnfield.

only joking  :D

freekick to rochdale, fould by cuthbert, dangerous position

header away from morrison , swindon break with prutton, throw by corner flag to swindon.

caddis coming on......

Cunting network error

caddis and ball on for dossevi and timlin

caddid and ball on for.................

timlin and dossevi

Caddis wasn't even going to be on the bench... Big opportunity for him to impress.

great tackle from ball, ritchie goes down but ref says no.

Pitman scores for Bristol City

wilson having a pop at 4th official

shot from o grady wide.

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Thought we needed a boost

He went to the press saying he was bemused as to why he hadnt got back in the team.
Well thats what ceefax said

Stupid fucking lesbians

Fuck

Fuck

More. Definitely need more.

Uh-Oh.

Friggin' hell  :badmood:

We are going to break our not coming from behind to win run today. I fucking guarantee it.

Morrison caught beneath the ball again?

Lesbians in backfire shock.

I have said this before and i will say it again.

Why is it when we< start well we finish shit. BUT when we start shit we do alright?

Oh shit

Fookin' hell....


Nice lesbos though !!!

3rd bottle of wine coming out to play.

A cheeky 2005 cChianti Classico

I think I shot my lesboload too early. sorry gang

FFS. Fucking fuckers.

Austin to score a late late equaliser :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

rochdale now all over us.

Season over  :crash:

This really seemed like one we'd win if we were going to turn the season round. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyByKr2CmWs

great save from smith

Also I fucking told Wilson not to take Dossevi off. Fucking changes for teh sake of it

Same old, same old shit from Swindon.

Come on ffs

Shut up

sheehan on for cuthbert

Cuthbert off Sheehan on

Sheehan on for Cuthbert. Cuthbert is no right back. That's obvious to a blind man.

2-1 down need a goal take a centre back playing right back off for a left back and play him right back

what

the

fuck

Absolute fucking bizarre substitutions.

Sheehan free kick to equalise, Charlie to get winner

*Rose

we are currently 17th

Come on.............................................................for fuck sake

yeah but this time last year we went on a run and the league is so tight we arent far off the play offs

blah blah blah usual optimistic crap blah blah blah

Nearly a touch in from austin.

across the face of goal and nobody touched it

  Damn you and your Sapphic jinxing!

MK 1-3 Wendies

How have you made it to 24?

gein in austin!

woo!!!!!!

2-2

now get a fucking winner.

Charlie Charlie Austin
Charlie Charlie Austin
Charlie Charlie Austin
Charlie Charlie Austin
Charlie Charlie Austin

CHARLIE!!!!!

i have a huge fucking rod on now


2-2

CHARLIE BOYYYY


wahwahwah something negative wahwahwah

Get in Charlie!

Get in!  Still not a win yet though and all that pessimistic crap!

I knew it, i just knew it!!!!!!  :sherlock:

COME ON, NOW LET'S WIN THIS BASTARDING FUCKING CUNTING GAME....COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on. Let's fucking win this

I'm not bothered about pessimists and optimists but can we at least WAIT until Full-Time before we go off on one?

How long left?

Currently status quo with the gap to the playoffs.

Keep the pressure on

Danny Ward at the game today.

By being a realist.

....I've also made it past 24.

"You wonder how long he'll be at Swindon don't you"

Sod off Jeff!

Get in Charlie

free kick from prutton stomring run

freekick to swindon on edge of area, come on rose!!

rose free kick.



pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

michale rose get in!

GET THE FUCK IN

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Fucking yes

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal.

Goal
Goal
Goal
Goal

10 to go.

2-3....

REAL.

Get the fuck in!!!!

Ha ha, don't you just love football!

Get In!!! Now hold ON

There's somebody on the pitch

GET THE FUCK IN !!!!!

SNRLKRFHBLJGBJGBJB;GSBWIFVBW\UIGVH\LWIEBFDAUISFVLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

somebody on the pitch

who are ya who are ya

didnt mr bournemouth call that...but...the other way round.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees  :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

FUCK YES!!!!!

COME ON YOUUUUUUU REEEEDDDDSSSSSSSSSS

Fucking brilliant!
 :sherlock:

currently 13th 4 points off play offs

lets go fucking mental lalalala :beers:

ive shot my load

Close he said Sheehan free kick

Oh yes

I am smashed!!!!!!!!!!

Nice one stfcinbournemouth. It's San Miguel time  :toocool:

Come on. I don't trust Swindon until we get another or the whistle goes or we get two more.

In lesbos we trust.

Can't believe it - fair play Town.  I'm not turning the radio back on!  I've been out for most of the afternoon, but during travel between my house and the town centre managed to listen to both Rochdale goals.  

Something made me not turn the radio on when I entered the house, I've faffed around for 15 minutes and now we are winning.  I will continue to be updated through TEF rather than jinx hearing another Rochdale goal!

fuck 3-3

Fucking hell not again!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

3-3.

Bloody leaky defence.

for fucks sake

cunt

Cmon Charlie another please

cunts

fuck off

indeed

DTS

Dont Trust Swindon.

Oh dear  :crash:

Come on Swindon. Anything could happen now.

Well that didn't last long then did it?  FFS, why can't we bloody hold on to a lead? :(

hahaha

Can't remember if it's been said before...but think we might be missing Greer this season.

Fookin hell !!

Cox concedes pen for WBA

un -tactical puke has just happened.

Our defence is so shit it's beyond belief.

I think Dave mentioned it once.

Seriously though, that is something like 31 league goals conceded compared to Brighton's 12.

Can't believe it

Ooooh Prutton. Corner

swindon corner

Rochdale corner

rochdale corner

I wish we had last years team this year  :(

Crawley 6-0

think that's it. draw away at Rochdale isn't too bad, fucking frustrating though.

me?

you must be thinking of someone else :)

he gave away silly free kicks away on the edge of the box that were never converted, clearly worth binning off.

Why the fuck cant we hold a lead. Getting really fucking frustrating now.

In our last three away league games, we've scored 10....and we've only got 2 points !!!

7

We're letting in far too many goals, its fucking ridiculous.

Crawley 7-0

Cheers for the updates

No Vic, it was NOT terrific, it was NOT wonderful. We lost the lead twice. What for a Swindon fan is wonderful or terrific about that?

Top result.

To avoid defeat against this league one powerhouse is a positive.

Not only can't we hold a lead but we can't come back from behind to win either. For fucks sake.

That is a very stark fact :eek:

Third time we've scored 3 goals in an away game this season and we've failed to win any of them!  Not sure exactly what that says, other than we can score goals, but our defence is shite!  Disappointing to have twice led, but again we fail to hang on.  It's becoming increasingly irritating now tbh.

Hmm. Well. No one can ever say it's dull being a Town fan.

Get this defence sorted and we'll be fine. Scoring plenty of goals. Just get it sorted at the back.

I know... we've being saying it all season wah wah blah blaaaargh.

It is bad when they've lost 6 out of 7!

Bit of a rollercoaster that one. Busy week ahead.

Don't take it out on vic. He was generally quite good today I thought.

On the bright side the pikeys won their first away game for 8 years against the scummers

I expect the other teams eagely await their fixture against Swindon Town.  If they're on a losing run it's guaranteed to end when they meet us!

It seems I had a point.

Definite improvement on last time I listened. Managed to follow the game and work out which team had scored.

ever since we had the massive commentary slag off after the Daggers game Vic has been alot alot better.

Shame the results havent.

In other news, Oxford are having a good crack at trying to leave the League again at the first opportunity.

The majority of League 1 is pretty poor defensively this season.  Peterborough and Franchise both had 4 put past them again today and there were quite a few other teams conceding 3.

Wilson being interviewed on the radio talking about naiviety with the defending and 'not shutting up shop' after the third game.  Heard it all before and slightly bored with it.  Anyone else think that Peter Shirtliff is doing a pretty poor job as defensive coach this season.  Maybe he needs to be replaced?

Defensively we are an absolute laughing stock, a complete bag of shite, and frankly if (when) we lose Charlie in Jan, we become relegation candidates if we keep leaking so many goals because we're not gonna get goals to bail us out every week.

Massive massive problems.

Did Wilson just say the defence will get better with more games?! How many more games are they going to have?

when is Frampton due back, anyone know? has his loan finished already? is he still injured?

Maybe on tuesday night from what I read the other day.

Sounds like Notts County are in a mess, hopefully 3 points on tuesday night.

Yes, No and No in that order.

Yes I am bored with the "naivety" talk.

No I am not sure Shirtliff is doing a bad job and no I'm not sure he should be sacked. The problem for me is the personnel. As a trio Cuthbert, Morrison and LJF aren't good enough. Cuthbert was good enough last year, but hasn't been this year. Lack of form or lack of Greer?

The latter.

It's very disappointing isn't it

Ah well soon be beer time, that'll cheer me up

We can't keep playing with this reckless abandon, much as it's been our hallmark down the years.

Partially. Mostly even.

Last season we only had two scorers and Ward banging them in. This year we have added a bit of attacking flair but at the expense of being solid.

I guess what I am saying is the problems aren't all down to Greer leaving, but also the 'balance' of the team isn't the same.

Also wonder if team spirit is the same, heard a couple of players had handbags at training the other day (I bet that happens most weeks though)

Cider time  :(

On a brighter note Charlie is climbing the goalscoring charts. So if you have a bet on..................

Wright-Phillips   Plymouth   10
Austin   Swindon   8
Mackail-Smith   Peterborough   8
McQuoid   Bournemouth   8
Pugh   Bournemouth   8

Text in on Radio said the timing of Greers departure left us with no time for a replacement - he left in early July didn't he?!

we havent replaced greer and we lack a leader at the back. This is reflected in the goals conceded. 2pts away from dagenham,yeovil and rochdale games aint an acceptable return for a side with playoff aspirations

Was I hearing things or did some one text in and say we needed a manager with more experience???

:)

I dont feel there are any issues.


I heard that too. What a cunt! (not you, the mong who text in)

Whatever anyone thinks about it, week after week the conversations on here return to the fact that Greer hasn't been adequately replaced.   Unfortunately should we achieve nothing this season, which is looking increasingly likely, the majority of people will point to that as the main reason.  Whatever the circumstances behind his departure, the management have to take some responsibility for not replacing him.  IMO Caddis and Ferry haven't particularly added anything to the team and that money would have been better spent on a decent centre back.

I genuinely thought I must have mis-heard that...but apparently I didn't...sweet baby Jesus ::)

I bet it was Fatbury.

Speaking of fatbury, hahaha top result for the gooners today

a draw away from home is a decent result.
look,we are not as good as last year and will not go up or down.
either get used to it, or call for the managers head-chairman to buy quality.i'll go with the former and have been used to it for months now.

The king is still unbeaten..

Yay.

I agree with arriba this season is to build try a couple of the young lads after Christmas just would like a good cup run(wish i had not said that) :doh:

Carefully arriba you might provoke an outbreak of common sense on here...probably unlikely. We had our unbeaten record v Rochdale on the line and kept it despite being 2-1 down...so a indeed a decent result.

Board have to take some responsibility for not even offering him a new contract and actually accepting the bid.

Good point for me.....its a long season and i think a draw away anyware is good news.
Yes we were 3-2 up..........but we came back from 2-1 also.
Still think we have a great chance of the play offs.........and a good cup run is still a possibility.

Onwards and upwards..

As for Greer its history..........i dont miss greedy bastards who forget that Swindon Town gave him a chance when he was rotting in Doncaster reserves.

In reflection I guess an away draw is always good result. Isn't the formula for promotion 3 points at home and 1 away? That averages out at 2 points at game and that comes to 92. Minus 15 for our shit start and you still get 77. Playoff material?  :)

Now to win every home game....  :cry:

In the same way that soapy tit wank is changed to soapy tit wank, and Franchise is changed to Franchise. Can Gordon Greer be changed to something? As Leefer says it's in the past.

Must be so frustrating for the forward lads, but the club are getting exactly what they deserve for thinking JFL and Morrison are both good enough now to be promotion winning CBs.

This league is shit this year and there for the taking, but we cant defend to save our fucking lives and that will not change until we bring in an experienced, or just a good, CB. Boring? yes. Correct? yes.

Touché

Gangrene Rear

I like it. Rolls off the tongue.  :)

I did hear that Danny wanted him to stay, but Fitton wanted rid

Ive said it before.

Bring Ifil back.

Leefer, said greedy bastard might have stayed had we offered him a new deal in july when Brighton were interested, instead of telling him to wait till October. Yeah its the past and all that (so is everything else) but we still miss him in our team.

Question why do we have more responses when we draw or lose  :hmmm:

Because there is more to talk about, pick fault with, slit wrists over.

The Greer situation certainly highlights that Fitton's approach of every player we sign being an investment, who's value will increase more than the wages we pay out, can't always work. Sometimes you need to sink money in return for a footballer.

Maybe Fitton can use his approach to sign a CB, watch him grow and sell him.

Please...?

He wants to run the club as a business, so success will be slow. This develop a player and sell him on for double/triple approach will frustrate fans, but will secure the club's finances. For example, the inevitable sale of Charlie in jan/end of season will cover a season's debt. It's just how it is nowadays.  :(

Both Morrison and JFL are good center backs. We have a good team. We drew away from home- It's an alright result. Let's see if we get something from Tuesday.

Isn't he already trying to do this with Cuthbert, Morrison and LJF? They've all been bought cheaply and are still young.

greer didn't want to leave.it's not his fault a 3 year contract was on the table and his current club wouldn't even have a conversation about a new contract.he was right to leave for his own best interests.fuck all to do with greed....

Morrison has the potential to be a good defender, but our goals against tally and shocking errors would suggest you are wrong.

Two good centre backs dont always make a good centre back pairing. Even more so when those two centre backs are both young.

arribba....theres no way the Town wouldnt have offered a new contract when the club felt right...its not down to players and there agents to demand when a contract is set before them...fact is he showed no loyalty to the club who rescued him from the scrapheap...incidently Brighton let in two today,two in the week and three the week before at fucking Hartlepool.....anyone who thinks one player makes a defence is deluded.

Last three games they have conceded 7 goals....good player he was no doubt but to sugest he would be the player stopping these goals?...not for me.

but we didnt offer him a new deal, which blows everything you said out of the water.

There was a lot more to the reasoning behind Greer leaving and from what I have heard it was inevitable that he would go, he had pissed a lot of players and staff off, Cuthbert being one of them.

Instead of harking on about the reasons Greer went we should be harking on about a lack of adequate replacement.

IMO the right decision was made with regards to him going if what I have heard is true, but the fact that the money recieved wasn't invested back into getting a decent replacement is a major failure in regards to the board/manager/club.

Whilst I agree with the comments about a replacement. If we didnt sell him we wouldnt have needed a replacement.

Why should we when he had a year left.......fuck off harking on about Greer,,if you like him that much fuck off and watch him....people forget his shocking challenge at Charlton that nearly cost us...if we had lost at Charlton you would all be calling him a cunt...as i said good player but good riddance if he can't show a bit of loyalty.

Changing the subject.

Who is out of contract at the end of the season? And if we havent tied them down are they free to talk to other clubs in January?

Got back half hour ago, living in Manchester this was my first proper look at the team this season, bar the rovers game on the tv. Pretty disappointed to be honest. We seemed to be content with lumping it forward for large periods of the first and second half. When we finally got it down and played football we looked a decent side.

The penalty - LJF goes down to stop the cross and the ball strikes his hand. The ref seemed to gesture it was a penalty because his hand was in the air - I'm pretty sure its a natural thing when you go to slide along the ground that your arm/hand stays in the air, not tucked in to your body?! The lino gave it anyway. It wasn't deliberate, but its one we would have been disappointed with if we didn't get the penalty.

Our defending - the second and third goals were extremely poor. Morrison won a couple headers today but not enough. Their guy backed in and was stronger. I don't think he judges the flight of the ball well, as seen for the second goal and LJF wasn't strong enough and let their guy turn easy.

Charlie didn't have his greatest game I don't think yet scored a well taken goal, Prutton made Rose's third goal and took some pressure off us with some strong runs.

This point away from home is a decent result if we go to Notts County and win, especially seeing we should have won today. I'd even take a draw on Tuesday for the sake of a decent result on Friday. Plenty to work on in the meantime.

Why should we when he has one year left? ummm thats exactly the time you discuss contracts so they arent in danger of running out? You leave it too late and other teams show an interest and its too late. Would Paynter be here now if we'd sat down with him in July instead of waiting till October?

Greer was our captain, off the back of a good season (team and individually) he has one year left to run AND had interest in him from another club. How is that not the right time to sit down with him and discuss a contract with him? That is exactly the time to do it and we didnt.

You put a new contract infront of him in July and he signs it great, none of this happens and we dont get into November having not replaced him. He doesnt sign, right we know he doesnt want to be here and we sell him but at least we fucking tried.

Where as we just gave up and sold our captain because we were too stubborn to open contract talks with him. I said it then and I'll say it now - thats a fucking ridiculous policy and has possible cost us the services of two players.

Loyalty works both ways - we showed him how loyal we were by refusing to discuss a new contract.

...oh and I'll hark on about whatever the fuck I like.

Good post...how was Smith in goal?

He let 3 in, so evidently shit ;)

Smith's distribution from goal kicks wasn't great - a couple of occasions it went straight out for a throw. But to be honest he didn't have that much to do - only had to make a couple of saves but didn't look too convincing with one of them. Thats not to say he had a bad game though, your keeper is only as strong as the 4/10 in front of him.

How many Town fans there cib.....good atmosphere?

DW indicated that last week. Greer was also offered more money, and a longer contract that we couldn't match, so they took the money and let Greer leave.

Maybe we knew we couldnt match the sort of contract Brighton were offering?

Lets not be naive about this, Greer and his agent would have been well aware of what was on offer from Brighton well before he made the move. Unless we matched their terms he wouldnt have signed anyway, and if we did smash our wage structure to keep him you'd have a queue of other players banging on the managers door wanting similar pay rises.

Last season our defence was better than it has been this season, but it was still the weakest part of the team so changes were needed anyway. We havent found the right formula yet but if we do we're as good as anybody in this league.

for a player that pissed people off(allegedly, not my view)he did a fucking good job of organising the defence and leading the team.
some of you need to look at the reality and take the blinkers off.

leefer.put yourself in this position....imagine you are on a grand a week guaranteed for a year, and you get offered double that for 3 years from a new company.you go to your boss and say this is what is offered can we sort soemthing out to stay here?your boss says we will not discuss anything.what would you do?

I understand what Dave is saying....but my feeling is that there were off field problems...why else would you sell your captain.
As i keep saying if you have attacking defenders....Rose,Sheehan,JFL etc you will always concede goals.....i like Morrison a lot....i know others are unsure...fair enough.

Still think it could be a good season for us.

Ref arriba.....if is a big word........why wouldn't the manager put an offer on the table for his captain?....the club had there reasons for letting him go........good player yes.......our saviour a deffo no.

A fair few - 300 or so?! Not sure as we were spread over 3/4 of the length of the pitch. A decent turn out for a northern side, even if there are only a few of them this season.

Atmosphere was poor, "the dale" only had 2000 and only sang when they went 2-1 up and 3-3. Town weren't too bad, some lads tried to get things going - especially when we got back to 2-2 and then ahead at 3-2, but tempted fate by singing 2-1 up and you fucked it up.

Well fair play to you and everyone who went.

no way with greer in the side would we have conceded 31 goals to date. I say again until we get a leader at the back then mid table is the best we can hope for

wilson wanted him to stay.fitton thought it was good business and wouldn't discuss a new contract.

we sold our captain to make a profit on him.

why wouldnt the board put an offer on the table, because it wasnt October.

He was great, right up until the end. Then he pissed me off.

Where is the fun in just accepting averageness? If everyone did just that, then this forum would be pretty dull, i think anyway.

Because the offer Greer had was more than we were prepared to offer, so we took the £250k.

i accept it as it's what we are getting and will continue to get this season.that doesn't mean i like it...

Just got back. Have to say a draw was probably fair. Wasn't much between the 2 sides. I thought that perhaps if we stepped up an extra geer we would have won the game without much hassle. The goals we conceded were dissapointing. It was handball for the first but wasn't really anyones fault. We were just trying to block the ball into the box and sadly it came off a hand. The 2nd was poor. I don't know if LJF slipped or what but he let their man through and it was on a plate for him from there. 3rd goal was a real shame. We showed great fight to get ahead when 2-1 down but we lost concentration for their 3rd. I don't know where Rose went but he certainly wasn't where he should have been. We allowed them to get a ball in the box and anything can happen from there.

Deffo not a bad performance though. Same old story really. We scored 2 good goals and got a bit of luck with the rebound for the first but we gift the oppostion goals every week. If we cut it out we'll be winning games very often. The football is getting a lot better from us. Oh and Danny Ward was there apparently. Or at least a bloke that looked like him.

I think we need to remember that while Andrew Fitton is a very experienced and astute business man, as a football club chairman he is a rookie. He is on a steep learning curve and it may well be that he now thinks that selling Greer was a big mistake (or maybe he doesn't) and if a similar situation arose in the future he may handle it completely differently. However good you are as a business man in the 'real world', I would imagine that nothing can prepare you for the world of football. In that respect, Mr Fitton I would suggest is still finding his feet. He's only going to get better though and, considering he's not done a particularly shabby job so far, this is yet another reason to remain upbeat about the club's prospects. It may be that this is one of those seasons where thing do not quite go our way, although I'm not even close to giving up on this season.

This is not like past seasons under past regimes though. The current management is light years ahead of anything we've had in the past and my faith in them at this point is totally unwavering.

We're going to be fine. Trust me 8)

Great post - fully agree.

We need to get over the fact we sold Greer. Yes it has affected us adversly but we need to let it go because living in the past will not do the fans nor the team any favours.

We should never have sold Jan Aage Fjortoft for so cheap.

just got back, thought we were ok today, nothing special though.
interesting to see danny ward sat with our fans when bolton were also playing at home, clearly just a coming to watch though.
i thought the game itself was a cracker, end to end stuff although we created the clearer chances.
none of our goals were anything special mind, neither were theirs. i thought the only preventable one from our point of view was their third (which from where i was sat looked like a morrison own goal but we shall see a bit later on) as i think either ljf was trying to play their bloke offside or was caught out of position as he had acres of space on the edge of our box to cross it in......
prutton looked very good today with dougie playing a little better. ritchie was quiet appart from when our fans were singing wardy chances, you could tell he upped his game!
charlie was quality as ever although had very little to work with until the last 15 mins or so. should have done better with numerous headers. timms was good again and thought he deserved to stay on the pitch for the 90 mins. dossi was ok, couple of good touches but nothing to shout about. rose is getting better and better every game and his freekick was always going in! ball looked good when he came on and created a chance almost instantly. caddis did nothing special though..... re smithy i dont think he could have done much about any of the goals today but as someone said earlier his distribution needs to improve.
interesting to see scott on the bench, obviously we dont rate jesionkowski very highly??!!
all in all it was an average performance but entertaining to watch

I see we're back on the Greer subject again.  :emo:

We weren't that bad and on reflection 3-3 was a good result. If you'd actually gone to the game you would realise we're not that shit. We're a decent CB away from being play-off contenders again. It's all well and good sat behind your keyboard making generalisations about players when you haven't actually seen them play or the mistakes they've supposedly made.

As for the game, Morrision looked off his game and missed a fair few headers by jumping under the ball. Cuthbert got turned inside out by Adams all afternoon and Charlie didn't look sharp after he took a knock on the ankle in the first half.

I'm blaming the defeat solely on the dicks who started the "2-1 and you fucked it" chant. Bunch of stupid cunts.

On a positive note, Steve got a fucking AWESOME parking space.

We should never have let Fraser Digby retire.

Jakub is out on loan at Poxford City.

think he's out on loan to a non-league side

that would explain it then!

the offer he shouldnt have received until we'd agreed a fee?

I agree with Sam. In fact I said it in the pub before the game. Why the fuck are people still harping on about Greer? Yes we know he went but get over it. Seriously. It's the same old shit rehashed week after week from some people on here.

i.e. Dave.

:D

Hell, we should never have let Don Rogers go to Crystal Palace.

Yeah but its all still relevant isnt it. If we'd sorted the issues I pointed out in July then they wouldnt still be outstanding.

Its not rocket science - but I didnt go today so I'll sit in the corner and be happy with a 3-3 draw at Rochdale with the same obvious reoccurring problems we've had for 4 months.

The rate we are going we might even finish 10th this season :)

 :D

Not these days with agents around...

regardless, we still refused to even enter negotiations.

It's relevant but it's hardly constructive. What you really want to be doing is looking ahead and thinking how can we rectify the aspects of our team which are causing these performances. Getting Greer back is a solution but not an option. We've burnt that bridge so we need to forget about it.

It's a bit like an old boy in my day speech. Things move on and turning the clock back is not possible unless you invent a DeLorean time machine.

It's also like people moaning about Dossevi, Pericard being crap etc. We're scroing a lot of goals at the moment and our attacking game has really come on. A month or so back we needed a consistent centre forward to solve our woes. Turns out we don't. Wilson is starting to find a system and the personnel to fit it, I'm sure January will throw some interesting possibilities into the mix.

GREER has gone lets move on

Just got back as well.

We need a talker at the back. Disappointed to draw that one after getting back in the game. Defence found their centre forward a handfull once again we struggled against a big lad up front but I am sure in time our young defence will get better. Not sure about Cuthbery at right back to be honest.

Prutton looks better game by game and was the player to get us back in it. Town MOM by a mile today.

Rose free kick worth the journey and loved the celebrations running over to the Town fans. Sadly once again we let it slip with Sheehan lapse of concentration.

But hey ho not out of the race and anyone can beat anyone in this league.

Wilson Out - Fuck off and let him manage the team as we will get there.

Great vocal support from the Town fans today but my 7 year old now knows that Cunt and Fuck are football terrace words that Mum's should not be told about.

That was Cuthbert by the way. :)

And if your mum and dad hadn't done that fateful deed one night 25+ years ago, there'd be one less moaning git in the world.

It's all relevant.

Good point, well made

You immature fat cunt :)

3rd goal wasn't Sheenhan's fault...he was playing LM and was in position. It was Rose that went missing and LJF who failed to get over and cover in time. That left JD having to cover but because it was left late he had no time to stop the cross going in.

RE: Greer

Whether you're of the pessimistic or optimistic persuasion, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that we needed to replace Greer adequately (regardless of the events surrounding his departure).

Danny Wilson, for his sins, decided to keep a little faith with his current squad members and it unfortunately hasn't paid off.

...It's a case of "over to you Swindon Town F.C." (and please sort it out soon) because the toing-and-froing on this subject is dull.

:D

Buggeration. Couldn't go to go so was listening to game while doing some early Christmas shopping and having made something of a spectacle of myself in ToysRUs when we took the lead with Rose's free kick, was gutted to concede just after I'd got thru the till.

Clearly we should NEVER allow a ginger to start a matchday thread, whether they're hurriedly crowned retrospectively or not. That's our real problem this season - we haven't adequately replaced KoT

Just finished my chips!  First of the day, didn't fancy the Rochdale ones.  Did though have a choice between watering holes called 'The Church' and 'The Cemetery Hotel'.  Not classy, but ok.

Haven't read through the whole thread, like the highlights later, I might stop when it gets to 3-2 to pretend the outcome was different.  Only read views from the Duke, DRS and few others.
 
Definitely had Prutton for motm, two great runs into the box, pity we couldn't capitalise on those.  Worried about Ball coming on, but thought he did well, ran at the Rochdale defence and probably should have scored with shot across the box at 2-1 down.   Rose and free-kicks, how does he do it? On the money every time.   In short, loads of chances, Charlie could have made it 4-3 with a header past the post in about 90+4.

But oh our defending.  I guess Danny knows like the rest of us that you can't concede this number of goals every game and be hope to be challenging for promotion.     Not sure what the answer is though.  thought Cuthbert did ok on the right, but Rose gets/or allows himself to get pulled into the centre a lot, leaving us exposed on the left - see their third goal.

Ouch.

Samdy's not immature :)

That's debatable.

Thought we did ok today, look a real threat going forward. But unless we sort out our defence we aren't going anywhere this season, such a shame because we look really dangerous and have a lot of goals in us.

Few things I noticed

LJF - liability, I'm sorry I really want to like him but i can't, he is far too error prone and he exerts zero confidence as well, but he does do some things well, but he needs to cut out the mistakes, we can't afford it.

Morrison - Seems to struggle with most aspects of defending which aren't aerial. And he wasn't that good in the air today...

Cuthbert - not a right back, but the best CB we have

Rose - Top quality! Heavily involved in a lot of our build-up, so good going forward....what a stunning free-kick as well! Sheehan must be wondering how he's ever going to get to take a free-kick again, never mind get a game!

Ritchie - Great wee player, narrow pitch didn't suit though.

Dougie - God

Prutton - Great 2nd half, driving force in midfield. Could be a big player for us this season.

Timlin - Didn't put a foot wrong, nice to see him get a goal. Unlucky to be taken off, but we needed more dynamicity going forward

Charlie - God

Dossevi - struggled at times, but I do like him, he has a lot to offer I feel. We needed a Pericard today I think because they were physical at the back



Whoever started the "2-1 and you fucked it up" please don't do it again, fuckin hate that song, we always concede after it as well

Town fans in good voice tho, they're support was woeful!

Bloody great to see that fine man Danny Ward as well. Sorry for the long post!

After the world's longest trip home, I agree With Belfast's post bar Charlie didn't do too much today, bar that cracking goal, but I think that may have been to do with him getting kicked early on. Cracking day out though, bar having too sit with a train full of clueless man u fans all the way home that live in the suburb of manchester called  london. Pricks

I agree that Charlie didn't have a great game today. He didn't put himself into tackles and about as much as he usually does and his build-up play was not as tidy as it can be.

But then again maybe we have just come to have such high expectations for him, cos at the end of the day he scored a great goal and got us back into the game.

Today just shows, that even when Charlie ain't on his game and gettin the required service he still has the quality and predatory instincts to get us back into games.

Charlie took his goal really well, but apart from that looked a little off the pace.

Prutton was imperious! How Flash can even liken The Great Man to Owain fucking Tudor Fucking Jones is close to blasphemy!

We all know the reason (And I'm sure DW does too) but it is our defence that's costing us points. We are scoring goals from everywhere but lack the ability to keep it tight at the back. If this can be rectified we'll fly.

Excellent parking space today, literally right outside the ground! two delicious meat and potato pies consumed and a couple of cheap pints quenched in the snug at the Church Inn. 3 points would've made it perfect.

500 plus miles round trip was worth it though just for Rosie's free kick! 

"dynamicity" :)

LJF - liability, I'm sorry I really want to like him but i can't, he is far too error prone and he exerts zero confidence as well, but he does do some things well, but he needs to cut out the mistakes, we can't afford it


I like Lecs too, but  for yesterday his CV will read. First goal, fell on his arse and handballed it. 2nd Goal, fell on his arse and gave their stirker a free shot. 3rd goal deflected into the path of Jones/Morrison to head in the equaliser, not his greatest series of events. Coupled with the slip against ColU that led to Smith almost fumbling in,  someone should make sure he's actually got studs in his boots.

If I was going to be ultra picky, I would have to point out that the Swindon suburb of Sutton was one I was previously unaware of.  Point taken about the pricks though.   ;)

I realise the irony in that, but It was comments like "where's Blackpool"? and "What's it like being the only Swindon fan on the train"? 3 hours with a bunch of gibbering morons tested even my legandary placid nature i tell you! Never had a clue about Football or Manchester for that matter.

I was just thinking thats probably the first time I have read that word on this forum, and certainly in a match report! sweeeeet :D

What was Rose like defensively yesterday? He's been defensively appalling every time I've seen him and not worth the positives he brings going forwards given that Sheehan is a great attacking full back as well, but can actually defend. If he can sort that out, fine, but otherwise, free kicks or not, we should have Sheehan back in there.

Once we can get people fit and we can have Amankwaah, Cuthbert, Frampton and Sheehan at the back, we'll be fine. Morrison, Lescinel, Rose and Caddis pushing those four.

Was out of position for the 3rd goal. Can't remember anything else though. Have to say I thought he was pretty damn good yesterday bar that. Deffo keeping Sheehan out of the side. I think our bigger worries are the 2 current CBs in Morrison and LJF.

Frampton wont be back..hopefully,nothing against him but what did he bring to the team at Yeovil?
Makes me laugh really because most wouldnt have Sheehan and Amankwah starting...just shows how we all see it differently.

Sheehan was filling the left back position for the 3rd goal. He got caught out by the ball to left.

Frampton is supposed to be back on Tuesday night isn't he? Or at least available. And he only played 1 game for us. Bit hard to judge.

True Onion.....though i still think it was a rather panicky signing.

That's a bit harsh. 1st goal he was trying to block the cross, ball hit his hand - shit happens. 2nd goal he slipped. 3rd goal he takes none of the blame, he did his job covering the left back who was on a walkabout and didn't quite get there in time to block the cross. Who was on their man that scored? Looked like Morrison. Why the fuck did he try to head it clear rather than put his boot through it?

I was looking at our stats this season compared to last. After the same number of games (17 league, 5 cup) the goal differences are the same at +5, the difference is last season it was F27 A22 and this season F39 A34. The real damage this season has been the last 6 league games in which we've conceded 17 compared to 6 in the same games last season.

Makes me think part of the problem is that we've been pushing forward a lot more, resulting in us scoring more but leaving more gaps at the back and conceding more. Fuck only knows what's happened over the last 6 games though.

Greer or another experienced centre back may improve things a bit but it won't solve the real problem - our defence going in to twat mode and forgetting how to do their job. Could just be confidence, which needs a bit of luck and a run of good performances to put right. Or for Wilson and the coaches to start doing their job.

In my opinion Frampton is not the answer.

Consistency of personnel is key to the success of our team this year I feel.

Both LJF and Morrison have the ability to be a good centre back pairing.

They will get better with game time and a few harsh words from DW and Co.

Its more the style of play....how about the midfielders and strikers do more attacking....and let the defence do just that...defend,the third goal yesterday really proved the fact about our defence always pushing forward...all out of position miles upfield.

Catch 22 though. If we'd sat back yesterday we'd have let one in. We always do, and Wilson/the players would have been slaughtered. We were trying to put the game out of reach and it did look at the time if that was the right way to go, as Rochdale had been on the ropes for 20 minutes previous, Unfortunately for us we got caught with a sucker punch. Talking to some Dale fans in the pub after, they said they thought we'd be near the top as we are shit hot going forward, but not so good at the back which we already know. Yesterday I thought might tell me where will end up, but I'm still none the wiser, still need a CB and a Striker which is obvious I know.

We don't need another striker, we are scoring plenty of goals

I think we do. Pericard is injured a lot. Still not entirely convinced by Dossevi, and Ball doesn't look as though he'll score many, Charlie's one game from a suspension and if he get's injured we'll have problems. Besides a lot of our goals are coming from other areas, not from whoever partners Charlie.

Agreed. However isn't Rose the only one pushing forward at the moment? Cuthbert seems to be playing defensively.

The problem seems to lie in away games predominately, surely this can be rectified with the right coaching, as the ability is there.

Well jb on that third goal yesterday all four defenders were miles upfield....i just wish we could have got two up in the Yeovil and Rochdale game...may/probably would have won easily.
Same at home in a few matches...just can,t seem to put teams to the sword when we are well on top.

Fair enough, didn't see that goal. Yeh we've got issues if our centre backs are trying to attack!

Still a good point yesterday though.

And for 3 minutes it was brilliant, the reason why we trudge up and down the country to watch football.

Fair enough, we all see it differently. I hope Rose shores things up defensively, because his delivery and free kicks, to state the blindingly obvious, are exceptional. But Sheehan (in my opinion) is a safe bet going forward and at the back - comfortable on the ball, overlaps, just more solid.

As for Amakwaah, this years version hasn't been up to it - but this years version also hasn't been fit. We miss his threat down the right going forward - he's big enough to handle himself as well.

Someone said it earlier in the thread - good individual defenders - not a cohesive unit. A good young CB needs a leader with him. We've 3 youngsters, and no combination of them has been good enough. Fingers crossed on Frampton getting back.

Well done to all that went.

My Blackberry going mental in Liverpool all Saturday...with Yay! and Boo!!

Perfectly true Sutton.  Worth the trip for all that.

Nice beer in the Cemetery too, then?

Took my daughter to the game...cracking day apart from 1) getting caught in first class on the train and 2) too many Man Utd "fans" travelling home to the Home Counties...

Great to meet Sutton Red on the way to the ground....we tried to walk there but got lost so ended up in what looked like Basra High street and getting a cab..
Nice pint at the Church Inn..

For anyone who didnt go you missed a great performance by Prutton....great hair!! Ritchie...and Caddis.

It may have been said several times before but we have a strong squad and each performance each player is starting to show glimpses of quality....all odd signings by DW...a dodgy penalty decision cost us badly..

Had one more beer in there after before heading back to Manchester. Was so glad we got that cab guy. It looked about a mile to the ground on Google, but in reality was probably nearer 2 ,2 and a half, probably would have finished me off..

suspect everyone who meets Suttonred will say the same.   Me too!
Shame on anyone who dishes out abuse in his direction (hope not tempting fate).

Not boring Greer talk again? Our big problem at the moment is our lack of options at right back. Cuthbert is wasted out there. Caddis clearly isnt Wilson's type of right back, which does beg questions of why we bought him? Phil Smith is adequate, but an on form Dave Lukas will always keep more clean sheets, and he is a real leader. We need the old Dave Lukas back.

Rochdale is a real alien environment. Mountains! People were friendly though. Got cabs there and back to the ground, good call. Would have been a long hilly walk.

Another brilliant Rose free kick. We are getting better. Fridays game at Crawley is critical. A bad performance could de-rail our season again.

It was a 25 minute walk. Hardly a trek. Even some old fella managed to half walk/jog back.

Everyone saying about LJF being at fault for the 2nd goal - I thought Morrison misjudged the ball coming from the back and jumped underneath it (again - Colchester?). He was out of position and got caught. The lad took it well too.


It's called the North.

I'll have a bigger head than humpty dumpty at this rate..

As things stand, think you'd have to say Crawley are probably favourites for this.

As no-one cares about the FA Cup anymore...going out shouldn't make any difference to the league campaign.

When it comes to the FA Cup Swindon fans are mugs! They say things like, 'I dont care about the FA Cup' and then we get so excited we take 6000 to Fulham on 3rd round day.

I care about the cup. Especially when we could end up going out to fucking Crawley. Not that I think we will.

Highlights are up now on the OS. The penalty looked harsh. I don't think LJF could've moved his hand away.

Noticed right at the end that Cuthbert was hobbling down the tunnel so I guess he must've pulled something. That'll be interesting for Tuesday.

I still love the FA Cup

Nice one Sutton Red....A hell of a yomp with a ten year old who has already walked across Manchester with her dad warning her against the perils of becoming a Manc glory hunter like her classmates!!!!

Got to say the guys at the Dale were really kind when my girl fell over over cut herself outside the Church,,,programme seller sent us to First Aid and St Johns were really good.

That was a nice pub and wish I stayed longer!!!

Me too...would love to be in the third round in the New Year.

Did she slip on the leaves? I nearly went over a couple of times myself walking to and from the pub. The Cemetery was really good also, and another lad I know went to the Baum said that was excellent, seems to be a proliferation of good pubs there.

@leefer forgot to mention Brock lost at home to Christchurch Friday night 2-1
They did have a good away win at Laverstock 7-1 during the week in the Wessex League Cup

Cheers bud.

The best thing about The Church was it was a stone-throw away from the ground. That and the reasonable northern drink prices.

A Dale fan has just facebooked that he thinks we're one of the best sides he's seen this season.

I assume he meant attacking wise.

I'm not sure why, but that really seemed like it was worded like the second bit was going to be a punchline to a joke. I suppose it was in a way, but I think we can do better.

....
36 Years in Division 4 will do that to you.

Yours is better to be fair.

I have much to learn from you guys.

Played at Laverstock many times!!

Nice little ground they have there

Well just about recovered from a pretty boozy weekend with a nice trip out to Rochdale in the middle of it. 1st game I've been to this season being from a few miles down the road from Rochdale and whilst I enjoyed the drama and the goals it was frustrating to see us fail to do the basics properly, and that's what cost us.

Contrary to popular belief I thought Prutton had a poor game, yes there were two surging runs from midfield but aside from that he gave the ball away far too often for someone with his experience. The goals conceded were soft without anyone in the back four doing anything fundamentaly wrong. Rose looks a real threat for us down the left and Ritchie's work rate and technique is what we've been missing since we lost Danny Ward.

As fair a point as you'll see though, neither side deserved three and both deserved something out of it, roll on Oldham away on Dec 10th, I bloody love Boundary Park in December! Oh and hello to Sutton Red who I bumped into whilst having a smoke outside the Cemetery after the game.

Thought that might be you when I saw the first line. Bet you had a better trip back than me. Almost midnight before I got through the door!

Yeah, I was in my local for 6.30pm and settling down to a nice curry for 7.30. One of the perks of being a lazy fan and only travelling to games within a 30 mile radius of my house!

Well same for me friday. I should be home 25 minutes after the final whistle. Swings and roundabouts etc.

As soon as I heard some twats at the back singing 2-1 and you fucked it up, I knew we would concede.
When will they EVER learn?  ::)

Me too!

AND Fogster i bet.

Didn't do any of the pubs but found an interesting takeaway in the town centre. I sat on a bench scoffing bap filled with lovely garlic butter chicken and a sizeable portion of minted spicey potatoes. Lovely grub :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

Prutton was MoM for me and Rose's free kick was exquisite.

Danny Ward was sat just in front of me. He was obviously in training as he was munching on a pie and followed it up with a Yorkie before kick off. Good man! He was up and down like a yo yo and cheering along with every Town goal. it looked like he was having a pop att he ref for some of the dodgier decisions as well :D