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Am I drunk? Yes

Can we win? Yes.

Thats about it really!

2-0 Town!

COYR

Have a feeling we'll give them a good hiding today.

4-1 to the Town.

Southend, Cheltenham and Torquay all draw and send us to the top of the league !

 1-O town benson for us. di canio banned to the carpark for waveing his arms in the stands. :beers:

2-1 defeat.

Going for 2-0 Swindon. However in our current form I do think there is possibility of giving them a hiding! COYR

3-1 STFC

Got a bad feeling about this. 2-1 defeat

1-1. Difficult place to go and a team we should dick. So we won't.

Dependant on the state of the pitch for me. If its poor I can see us sneaking it by 1 goal. If its fine we could win by 2 or 3. I still believe that we are going to hammer somebody by 5 or 6 very soon.

A very comprehensive 4-0 away win. Cibocchi to get his first

We will win again. 3-0, another for Benson in there somewhere and another trumped up FA charge for 'kicking the ball too hard' or something similar.

Can't see anything other than a comfortable 2 or 3-0 win with Benson and Bodin among the scorers, PDC banned for 3 games for having provocative sideburns

So many distractions at the moment. But this game could at last see us cement ourselves into the automatic places.

First 20 minutes so important.

2-0 town.

On another note does anybody have a link for that video a swindon fan did when the scum went out of the league. The one that says love it all the time in it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjHSf02-fo

Cheers crispy

I was going to say almost exactly that. We are due to give someone a complete and utter shellacking (6-0 or more). Today would appear to have the ingredients for such an event to take place.

However, modesty and the fact that football is a 'funny old game' leads me to predict..

2-0 Benson, Bodin.

What pub Is everyone going to before the game?

Going to the next 6 games so not allowed to go today  :(

Feeling confident, so despite the ref being against us we'll still manage a 3-0 win. Good luck to those braving the elements.

if we are to hammer someone ,todays the day 5-0 the town"onwards and upwards". t shirt for wembley  "news flash" West country invasion of wembley, led by an italian S.T.F.C.winner or crap?

2-0 Ritchie and Bodin. Think we'll win comfortably but games that have 'spanking' written all over them, rarely end up going that way..

1-0 defeat.

They'll park the bus. They will not score, we will get 1 scrappy goal.

Looking forward to my first trip to Hereford.

Reckon it will be a score draw.

3-1 win. We would have to have a real off day to not get 3 points.

2-0 to us. Just going to a bar to get bladdered then back to my ship in a shitty Chinese shipyard to follow events on TEF. :pint: For your information, there is an Italian Electrician onboard from Sardinia, and he says PDC is all over the Italian press. COYR.

Lets grab the bull by its bollocks.

So do you make Chinese ships? :sherlock:

crap

Sore finger?

Yep

Has the game been postponed yet?

1-0 win with a beautiful free kick right at the death from everybodies favourite Italian cult hero left back

No, I am on a Panamanian ship, working for a 50/50 British/Chinese company and the ship is being converted so we can install Italian power cable for Saudi Arabian oil platforms. Deep deep down I'm just a plain old Wiltshire cider swilling idiot who loves the Town!

 Certainly not your regular 9-5 job then! Good old Johnny Internet, what did we ever do without him?8)

He's due one :nod:

1-1 McCormack to score after a surging foray deep into enemy territory

Bring your coats it is pissing down here  in Worcester

4-0

PdC to get charged with wearing a loud shirt in a built-up area

PDC should stay out of the Hereford box.

There are a few 'boxes' you should stay out of in Shanghai

Feel crap after a nights drinking so will have the wireless on ready for a mighty win, 0-4.

Fancy a pen and a red card somewhen.

I cannot agree more. It is a bit cold here and they tend not to wash in the winter. A bit crusty for my liking.

A draw to bring us back down to earth. For years we've under-performed against supposed weaker teams.

A comfortable 0-2 win for us today

2-1 defeat.

Having a read on the Hereford forum there are some nasty bits about us, they don't just not like Paolo they don't like Bodin either.....





But the nastiest of all......


I think thats a bit uncalled for in all honesty, yes have a joke but a joke about hanging someone....thats not right.

Hope they nuke hereford

After seeing those comments I hope we absoultely smash them.

5-0 Cibbochi hat-trick and Cox (2)

Ok the comments aren't nice.

However, you have to realise that by birth they have been landed with Hereford as the centre of the world,  nothing happens there!  They are miles from anywhere, they are probably all related and if they are not, they are almost Welsh!!

What have they got going for them??

Nil points for them today and the thought of the conference next yr.

The condition of the pitch due to shitty weather may not help us but I'm still going for a 3-0 win, Benson and Ritchie with the goals. Hereford supporters comments are a classic sign of fear  :eek:

Never liked Hereford so hope we smash the cunts, 4-0 would do very nicely

Radio & Gary Rose don't thin Ferry has traveled due to still being ill.

Think Devera might have a slight injury so Boateng may start..

Town: Foderingham; Caddis, Boateng, McCormack, Cibocchi; Ritchie, Cox, Smith, Rooney; Benson, Bodin #STFC

Tadah.

Big loss Devera, hop Boetang is up to it.

Devera is a big loss.

Anyone know what's up with Ferry.
He must be properly unwell, he hasn't tweeted much for a while.

On bench though, so hopefully short term injury.

Edit: Scratch that, Rose got it wrong.

Subs: Oliver Risser, Raffa De Vita, Callum Kennedy, Alan Connell, Ronan Murray

the Wi-Fi obviously doesnt reach the toilet in his house

On the radio they said that Devera was out injured and Ferry with illness, Ferry has had a bad stomach in several games this season, sounds like it could be a bit more deep lying than just a bug.

Bit concerned about Ferry to be honest, it was 10 days ago that he had to go off against Barnet.

Would have thought if it were something as simple as an upset stomach he would be ok by now.

As for Devera, I think it's likely that if we were desperate he could probably have played.

It does seem to get ill quite a lot. He missed the Colchester game because of illness as well.

Hope Boateng is up to it.

Used to be involved closely with hereford a lot of years ago, when Ian Bowyer was 'manager'.  He was a Clough babe and an absolute sh1t.....  It was a good, friendly club which was nearly destroyed by Bowyer....  He is not even mentioned in most histories of the club!!!   Still follow their results, but not wanting anything other than a big win for the Town today!!

Cox looked pretty good v Crawley. Boateng is unknown. Although not ideal, I don't think it will do any harm these two getting games. We've got a lot of games in a short period of time so may be needed again.
I'm going 2-1 Town in a close game but we just have that little bit extra. Her's hoping.

We'll soon find out. Interesting that all the transfer window signings are starting.

I think it's called in the medical profession 'the shits'.

Devera has been excellent in Flint's absence, losing him now as well is a big blow.  Hopefully Boateng is fit enough to last the game, he's being thrown in at the deep end a bit having not even come as a sub?

Surprised Risser isn't playing instead of Ferry, is he carrying an injury, as wasn't on the bench Tuesday either?  Cox looked handy though.

Sometimes bugs can hang around for a couple of weeks, hopefully it's nothing more serious with Ferry.

I'm feeling decidely unconfident now.  Hopefully the changes won't impact too much.

I don't like to stereotype, but I wonder whether it's because, like janaage and Bob's Orange, he's addicted to Heroin.

They're just saying that they're paying a ridiculous amount of money to Magera and obviously getting fuck all back. How long a deal is he on??

2 year deal.

A severe bout of shiquid :D

That thought did cross my mind  :hmmm:

[url width=266 height=533]http://www.jonnyleemiller.co.uk/trainspotting/ts1.jpg[/url]

Thought so. Not good really.

What and hes not playing today as he's swimming in a shitty bog looking for his suppositories?  The thought had crossed my mind as well.  His tweets read like a character from trainspotting.

Shit, beaten to it.

janaage and Bob's Orange are addicted to Heroin?

Ferry did tweet that he nearly shit himself after the Barnet game. Sounds like he needs to lay off the fibre rich diet for a while.

Stereotyplical Scots I think was hinted at :)

Yeah. If they're not drunk, eating haggis or frying their next meal they're probably taking smack.

Glorious sunshine now. 2-0 Bodin and Ritchie.

Here they are about to set off for Hereford...

[url width=607 height=407]http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/images/Rab_C_Nesbitt.jpg[/url]

Come on Town.

Yes.

hear hear

Do these cunts please.I fucking hate hereford

Are we winning yet ?

Almost.

:D

I'm not bloody Scottish!!

or addicted to heroin I should add!!

Fleetwood 1-0 up. I'm off to watch them next Saturday.

On a weekend piss up in Blackpool.

Hereford have two posts on their match day thread, including the 'OP'...

http://unofficialbulls.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=30939

 ???

Not much happening is there.

Fuck that was close.

Letoff. Fods save then off the line.

Torquay winning.

It's unbelievabull

Do we ever start off a game well?

Southend away...

did against Southend.

But yeah, we do often start slow

I think we are like stem cells. We wait and see what we need to do and morph into whatever it takes (to win the game).

Missing ferry linkup in midfield. Get a big diper on and get out there !!

Are they like nappies?

Torquay level now.

Bradford equalise v Torquay

Chelts winning.

Cheltenham winning

Cheltenham winning.

Cheltenham now 2-0 up.

Does Sky Sports reach Luxembourg before Swindon ?!

Not as far as I know. 2-0 now! :(

Are Cheltenham winning?

Torbay losing.

Bradford beating Torquay!

Wow that was quick.

This is uglier than dot cottons face in a bucket of boiling water

might want to think about maybe turning that warning back on.
or carry on looking a twat

it's your call

East fife 2 Forfar 0 early goals so still on for a East fife four Forfar five. :)

 :hmmm:Hope caddis isnt up for a suspension.

Booked?

Think it's pretty close to it  >:(

yes

Oh no

We've got a right Seymour here

He has 5 (6 now) according to the BBC site.

Penalty. TO town.

Penalty !

Thought they are written off in january?

Come on

Pen, come on ?

Up steps Caddis...

Who scores

How's Boateng been playing?

Yes

GET IN!

Not heard his name yet! Will be one for those there to pass judgement.

How many different penalty takers do we have?

Oh well I had Ritchie 1st scorer, come on Town!

Chuffed :-)

Phew - glad we are in front. Now to put them to the sword!

On the basis that we don't actually get many, who knows

That should settle us, get in there !

We're now second with two games in hand  ;D

I think that if you get 5 before Jan it's an automatic suspension.

After January that figure is 10 (hence why McCormack got banned after the JPT game at Barnet)

Was going to put Caddis as a goal scorer then changed my mind  :doh:

think that's right, how many is Caddis on ?

I just saw an advert on the bottom of the page which read something like 'Experience a new way of following football' and was some app I think.. Anyone know what it was? I refreshed the page before fully seeing it..

Have we had 3? With 3 different takers?

Cheltenham might get a barrel load today. :(

Cheltenham 3-0 up now. Looks like we'll have to make do with going top on Tuesday night, should we win.

Oh no

We've got a right Seymour here

Sounds like a pretty spirited performance from Hereford.

Wes dropped the ball!!! ???

Foderingham drops the ball and runs 5-6 yards to claim it again. Thankfully all the Hereford players just started running back having not realised his mistake...

Shrews winning :(

SSP nets again

Sounds like Boetang is doing ok...as much as you can tell from a radio commentary.

Surprised Bodin didn't take it, think he would be happy to. Great striker of the ball.

What are you wittering on about man?

He's like Flashheart

We can do no more than keep winning, we have games in hand with Cheltenham and Shrewsbury at home to come.

Boateng is like Flasheart

Another goal would help with the nerves, mine that is :headhurts:

Town yoof being an absolute embarrassment at half time.

Wins arent always pretty, a win is a win wether its from a penalty or from 4 fantastic goals, 3 points is 3 points.

? What they doin' this time ?

????

I can only think we have had four

Crewe          Home (Kennedy Scored)
Port Vale      Away (Kerrouche Scored)
Maccledfield  Home (Ritchie Missed)
Hereford       Away (Caddis Scored)

In what respect?

Scrappy win away to a relegation threatened team. Who'da thunk it?

That sounds about right.

Not us, not that we predicted a 1-0 win to a penalty before the game is it? :D

They both have 3 vowels

Just got in from shopping,
When I say shopping I mean buying Apples, yogurt and Beer pong stuff.

Looking back at this thread it looks like it's been shite.
However doesn't matter when you're winning!

They are doing what they want. They are Swindon don't you know!!

Probably looks better on the radio

Apparently the Hereford keeper is a liability and should have saved the Pen.

That's the difference this season, still picking up points when not being at our best. Teams at the top need that bit of luck too.

Barnet level with Shrews.

Commentators making penis jokes.

Thats how good the second half is..

Barnet have scored.

A lot of penalties missed today. Apart from us :D

Time for Super Alaaaan Connell

Not a good start for Warnock, 0-2 down. Scrub that 1-2 down

Not a very exciting game. I'm sat thinking about what to cook for dinner.

Good job we have a big squad the way sides are beating our players up.

Let's have another one please

Agree, 1-0 is never enough

ref bottled it with evans

Benson 2-0

Yes !!!!!!!!

Yeeesssss Benson

BENSON!

"Come on Swindon " Yes you beauties !

Cheers

 :banana: :wotjump: :wotjump: :wotjump: :wotjump:

Lovely jubbly!

Better, get innnnnnnnnnnnn Benson

League table looks sexy

Had three £1 bets on Caddis first and last scorer and any time at 33/1, 33/1 and 12/1. Only £1 on each. Glad we have the second goal though as 3 points far more important! Wembley ticket paid for though and happy days all round! COYR!

Does that go down as an assist :)

2nd with 2 games in hand.

Oh fuckity fuck

Bastards.


2-1

2-1

shit

Oh dear

Get in! Benson you beauty  :soapy tit wank: Shame we concede a minute later!

Shame Evans has been subbed, deserved a tasty tackle as has been fouling players left right and centre.

I'd almost forgotten what it feels like to concede

Oh shit.

This bloody happened last time!

Ill shut the fuck up.

Risser for Smith.

Get a fucking grip ref. Were getting kicked to shit

Fucks me off when they read the scores out and you hear a roar behind yet they carry on until they finished readind thescores.

Tell us whatis going on you clusterfuck of cunts

Can't see this finishing with 22 on the pitch!

Think you're right.

The problem is, one of ours will eventually retaliate & get sent off.  Rather than the dirty bastards that have spent all game kicking them.

This

Boetang mis-controls and runs the ball out of play :hmmm:

boatang dont sound all that

I'll be rather glad when this is over.

Why can't we keep a clean sheet agaisnt Hereford. Grrrr.

Gonna have no fingernails left at the end of this game.

Cheltenham doing their GD the world of good. 5-0 now.

Not enjoying this but should be :no: Cheltenham five up.

They're getting more chances now...  :no:

Shrewsbury winning again :(

Southend winning now.

Fuck.

Where are our Rottweilers ?

Is it 2-2?

cheltenham doing there goal difference no harm at all today...

Southend 1-0 :(

Not yet.

Please don't do that!!

Risser straight Red I bet. According to the BBC Comazzi still has the worst disciplinary record for us this season.

Haha saying because of the results of the other game.

Get a fucking grip ref for fucks sake.

Did Fatty Evans give them their team talk, dirty bastards.

Header from Corner smashes cross-bar. Phew

I'm hating this.

oh cripes they hit the bar

Can't bear this, Hereford getting back in it....

Ahhhhh   :cry:

Another corner for Hereford

Come on Town. Keep it tight.

Ricky Shakes scores!

Desperate times

Very open game - which is usually a good thing for us.
But we seem to be missing Devera/Flint

We know about the FA charge. Get back to the game you cunts.

Aggressive

Can't stand this.

......................Hammer Time

Seems alright now

Come on Swindon, come on Swindon.....

Come on Town, another goal needed.

Time for Connell to score

Come on.... I hate this.

Calm down. We're Swindon.

Come on you Reds. Do the business

Macca is immense

McCormack the man.

Thank fuck for McCormack.

Yea thats the problem.

Let's score a third already.

New pants please!

Another fucking corner for them

Fuck this is horrible.

I don't want to listen

Ask Simon,  I've heard he has a new supply

Man alive..blow the bastard whistle

:D

Come on a minute to go.

Why am I still listening to this?!

Nerves are totally frigging shot.

Your user name is most appropriate at this time.

Four mins added

about 3 mins to go...

Jesus.

This is unbearable

Any chance we can get the ball and keep hold of it?!

It might as well be 4 hours.

Its like listening to the last 10 mins of every match of last season, apart from when we weren't losing. If this was last season, we'd be about ready for Pericard to come on.

This country is becoming too Americanized. I've saw someone type diper earlier and some time back someone typed douchebag. 

No, it will just feel like it

A foul throw. Sweet Baby Jesus.

Is it over yet?

Awesome.

Cibocchi?

Douchebag.

60 seconds to go...

Fucking hell blow the whistle

If it helps with the nerves, the cricket is going very well in Pakistan

60 seconds, keep the ball please !

This is fucking unbearable.

I felt a little bit inside me die when i saw the word diper and douchebag.

And a feeling of rage.

:D

This is better.

Don't do this to me Town. I'll have a bloody heart attack.

BLOW THE WHISTLE!!!!

4 mins are up...

Thank god Benson scored a second

I noticed that too.

Don't know what was harder for me to resist biting on. The Americanism, or the spelling.

FT 2-1

YES !!!!!!

FT

Yessssssss

THANK. FUCK. FOR. THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :wotjump:

Thank fuck get in there!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! COME ON!!!

Thank fuck for that

Easy!!

HURRAH!!

Get in.

Get the fuck in

Thank Fuck for That

Oxford drew

Woooooooooooo

Thank fuck for that. Yeeeeees, Cigar time  :clap:

thank god :headhurts:

Thank fuck for that

thank fuck thats over, beer time

Too much soccer!

Were third now, with two games in hand.

Shame all the other results didn't go our way.
Torquay lost though.. But I like Torquay.

They end their 7 straight win run. And we just got our 7 straight win run. Let's kill this league now

Rubbish game, rubbish ground, fantastic 3 points!

Thank fuck for that!

Massive relief, massive result.

You're quite happy with the 'Where there's blame' culture tho tans?

So why the fuck are you not on their forums? I only like Swindon.

So how do you stop Swindon winning. Well you start by kicking lumps out of them.

Can't believe the 'best team in England' are losing at home to Bradford?! Shocking stuff!

It's in our hands, Oh when the reds go steaming in .............

It still didn't work...

What. Am I not allowed to 'like' another team? Jesus.

3 Home games now.

Haha

No.

Never in doubt.

Onwards...

Twat

When you're at the top its extremely rare if all the other results go your way. You're doing well if 1 or 2 go your way. One went our way. That's good.

 :cry:

Still a tough one on Tuesday

Sorry  :(

Exactly.  As long as we keep winning, it doesn't matter what they all do.  We WILL be champions.  :beers:

Obviously all our games are massive, but Tuesday's is crucial for a bit of breathing space if possible.

I don't think we'll be top on Tuesday either though

Even if we win, both the teams above us are playing Tuesday as well.

9,000 + crowd on Tuesday ?

Yeah Aldershot v Southend and Cheltenham v Wimbledon.

One of those two are going to win their game at least.

Thanks Sir SWS for the win again.

I'd like to hear from those who went, how Boetang did. I heard a few negative things during the commentary but I don't know how fair a reflection that was.

Oooh...Paolo's on...

Every time I see SWS written my brain says Sir Seton Wills :D

Pikeys gave away a penalty in the 90th minute :D

Don't those kids know the king is talking >:(

This.

They're not even in the top half any more  8)

Phew! Sounds like we were a little lucky but wins like that win promotion.

Next 3 games...

Shrewsbury
Accrington
Burton

all at home...got to be looking at 7 points absolute minimum from those.

i'd probably take 6 if i'm honest!

Agreed. Shrewsbury on a great fun and we'll need to play very well to take 1 if not all 3 points. Not sure about Accrington but Burton appear to be on freefall. I would expect 7 points.

But nine would be really nice, pretty please :)

Did Di Canio really say promotion means nothing unless we go up as champions, or words to that effect...?

Think he said 7 wins on the trot means nothing without promotion.

Stanley got whacked 0-4 at home to Plymouth today.

How many 'big' games do we have to win before people will get some confidence that we are going to win the next one? After Southend, Crawley and the JPT Semi-finals, I have confidence that we will beat Shrewsbury. This is at home for goodness sake and their form is nothing like ours!!! Okay the run will end eventually but hopefully not this season ;-)

I just checked and I see our home record is W10 D2 L1...I would say this side is good enough to go through the rest of the season without any more home defeats.

Commmeeee onnnn you reddddd!!!very great performance today.we are a team that is always willing to fight

Cibbcohi twitter  :D

Agree with that, win or at least not lose at home. Think that along with a few points away would be enough.

Didn't go to the game as planned but sounds like we ground it out and it wasn't pretty. You have plenty of games like that, and when you have 3 points in the bag who gives a shit.

What's the club record for league wins in a row? 7 in a row with 3 home games to come. Be dissapointed if it's not 10 the way our form is right now, especially at home.

Jeff Stelling said it was our best run since 1987.

I think it's a combination of superstition (i.e. people don't want to jinx things) and the fact that Swindon have had a tendency to 'bottle it' in the past in certain situations.

As far as I'm concerned, I've been convinced since about October that we're going up. Since the turn of the year I've thought we would win the league and since the Crawley game I think we'll win it by 10 points at least. Today has done nothing whatsoever to change that view.

Saying that has not 'jinxed' us, nor is it arrogant or complacent. I'm merely judging on what I've seen and comparing it to 35+ years of watching football in general and STFC in particular.

We're a very, very good team at this level. Simple as that.

Lets hope this run doesn't end on March 3rd.

No chance

Just got in from a whore bar and missed the commentary. Who scored?

Benson and caddis.

Did you get a ride?

No, they asked for money. I'm Swindon nor Crawley.

Glad its not just me then!

Just read back through the thread and seems it was nervy listening.  I caught around 10 mins in the car while out and about and we were a bit under pressure.  Absolutely delighted to get back to the car and find we'd won.

Hard fought away wins shows the team spirit and resilience we have.  It's totally in our hands now and I'm with OST.  Unless something truly awful happens, I can't see us not going up automatically.

Still won't stop me feeling nervous and negative before a game though  :D :D

I fully aim to have that changed by the end of the season..

I might actually add up my record now, I'm thinking about putting it onto my CV.

Obviously going for Lordship, then !!!

LSWS does have a nice ring to it...

I think KSWS looks even better? It has a k-swiss ring to it

Started: 23

Won: 19

Draw: 3 (One went onto win on Pens)

Loss: 2


This season is going pretty well isn't it?

I hope this isn't complacency setting in...you can always do better...I mean two defeats...defeats are for losers  :hmmm:

True, I will be doing my upmost to prevent any more.

Maybe those two defeats were because you weren't dunk enough...just a thought..you always have to look at ways to improve :hmmm:

The two defeats were actually whilst sober at home in Swindon...

Next time i see you start a thread sober i will come find you and get you pissed, the SU or Cuba will still be open im sure!

Heard that the Pox are designing a fucking huge telescope so that they can spot us as we disappear over the horizon . . . . .

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

There you go. A lesson learned I hope.

I have not been home since.

Well done to all those that went......any bother?

I watched a Noel Coward play at the Salisbury playhouse with the old mobile shaking away in my pocket.

Dirty bastard.

Well my stats since I left the UK & came back twice & watch us suggest I should stay away:
Cheltenham & Torquay

On March 3rd, make sure you are fucking bladdered.

 ???

Any good?

The play I mean. Not your trouser vibrations  8)

I will be at the waterfalls on this date, we better not fucking lose otherwise it might be too tempting

In line for a championship winners medal at this rate!

Too skint?

If needed, we should all chip in to get SWS rat-arsed. I pledge a fiver (paypal)

Have they nicked the telescope from Wenger?

Typical Noel coward play....lots of dialogue round and round and circles and then suddenly it kicks up two gears and you feel quite pleased.

na, he always sees fuck all

Not quite as good as Hereford away I'm guessing?

Not much on the Hereford forum apart from us being a bunch of 'cheating so and so's' Sour grapes? Interesting to get feedback from people who went.

 :) I always thought Wenger's myopia was selective depending on what excites him...

Hereford were awful the first half, we tried to play football but on that pitch was a no go.
Apart from one wonder strike & hitting the bar they never bothered us at all really.
We certainly didn't play our best but if you can play crap & still win....

Just got back a great 3 points from a game that we never really got any of our passing game going and just had to grind out a result against a very poor hoofball team. The ground looks even more run down than the last time I was there and the temporary stand is so difficult to get any atmosphere going. Boateng looked a bit shaky to start with but got better as it went on, I thought cibochi looked dodgy at times and Risser / De Vita failed to get into the game when they came on but Alan mac was a rock again. 3 home games now where we have a decent surface and we should be looking at 7 points as a minimum .

Poor game, very average Town performance and could have come away with a draw today. The pitch was abysmal - up there with Rovers. You simply can't play decent football on that. What struck me was the complete absence of any enthusiasm from their fans. In a small ground like that, with a decent home terrace, you should be able to create something, but their support just didn't seem bothered.

Not much to say on the game - Cibocchi improves all the time, Benson and Bodin, without being constantly menacing, did their jobs well. The game bypassed Cox as he watched it sailing over him for 90 minutes. Boateng looked nervous and a bit shaky, but it's his professional debut and he may as well have been playing on a cobbled street, the bounce was that bad - not fair to judge him on that.

Are Hereford bitter or what? FFS


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Blimey.

I wonder how many wanted PDCs autograph though...

Pitch was more akin to a field than a surface for attractive, passing football. You could see from the way the ball bounced that it must've been a real challenge to control the ball and complete passes.

So although we didn't play hoofball like Hereford, our performance was worsened drastically. It seems that, apart from pitching the ball long onto their strikers heads, the other part of their game plan was to try and break our players - Will Evans could well have been sent off, duly subbed after the ref bottled it.

All in all the keeper has gifted us the game, with his general, all-round, atrocious play. Were he not so prone to errors, I could well have seen Hereford being tough to break down, and it would probably have ended 0-0.

A tricky match overcome. Onwards!

This was actually a massively key result today. When Di Canio took over like most, I wasn't sure what to think and didn't know what we were getting. That said, I was confident that he would build a team around the principals of playing good passing football, who were disciplined and very fit. One of my doubts (admittedly I had many at the time) was how we would do in the middle of winter on horrible, rutted cow pastures with the opposition trying to kick our players 3 feet in the air at every opportunity. Would we be able to grind out results in those circumstances? The answer to that question today is most assuredly YES!

A massive win. Make no mistake.

Read that some oxford fans attacked some swindon shirters or something. Not sure if thats true?

Apparently they stopped a train until they were caught??

Wouldn't surprise me and will be a taste of things to come at their place.

Reading their forum before kick off they were going to do this and do that to Paolo, when it came down to it they asked for his autograph!

What a bunch of bitter tossers.

 :hmmm:

Not the best performance but 3 points on a ploughed field that's all that matters.

Hereford are a poor side but to be fair the last 20 minutes went direct and caused a few moments of concern.
Macca was again superb. Boetang had a few nervous moments but came through it.

A physical battle but we came through it. Ref looked very nervous and kept on giving out the yellows and I was surprised that a red was not forthcoming.

That win showed me that we can come away from a physical battle and win.

COYR'ds - Massive Tuesday.

I can see Macca ending up as POTY.

What have we done (apart from beat them) to have Hereford calling us cheats and worse than Crawley?

Did Di Canio celebrate a goal? Did he wave his arms around? Or was it because Paul Benson (best bit of January business in the division by far btw) had the audacity to be fouled inside the box when he was just about to shoot and score anyway?

Seems to be every week that opposition fans are saying the same things about us. Whether we play them off the park or grind out wins like we did today.

At the end of the day, we are the best team in this league and some people seem to find it hard to admit this!

Hereford were fooking awful btw, could not watch that week in week out!

It's still Ritchie for me, with Caddis and Alan Mc close behind.

We did well to grind that victory out. It was always gonna be a tough game on that pitch, can't ask for any more really.

(PS We only won because me and my mate gave Bartlett an unbelievable amount of stick)  :nod:

It's just great to be able to have the debate 8)

Did she used to be in crossroads ?

Paolo is a very clever man who has spent most his football life defending his words and actions, simple folk from division two find his words and actions to much so find it easier to attack him and whilst he is with us we will just have to accept being unliked. It's not all bad as a lot of neutrals think he is a breath of fresh air to the lower leagues.

Did Kerrouche play for the scum today?

Not the best of games, pitch was one of the worst I've ever seen - it was like playing on a cobbled street.

Fully deserved the 3 points though, Hereford were very negative in the first half. We really had to get stuck in and try to nick something and we did through good persistence.

We're always going to be sniped at by opposition fans, because we're winning, because of our manager - who to be fair, sat pretty motionless throughout the game, until a foul went unpunished and he went mad - and got some serious grief from all around him.

Hereford we're a bunch of fouling bastards though, Will Evans had to be taken off before he was sent off - and at least two others could've had their marching orders.

Away crowd was good, but the noise was poor, we were all so fragmented - our bunch on the terrace, another load in the seats above, more in the two temporary stands.

I was right in my post in the Hereford Away thread, the exposed temp stands were atmosphere destroyers, it was hard to generate any kind of noise in that enviroment.

Macca was MOTM for me, an absolute colossus at the back.

Yeah played the first hour

Hereford were terrible but brought us down to their level today. Opposition fans go into games ready to hate Paolo and he doesn't dissapoint. They hate for the reason we love him: he is passionate, fiery, aggressive. If an oposition manager acted in the Arkells as di Canio did in the stands today, I'd be pretty unhappy.

This shouldn't be compared to Evans, who is a arm-waving, sweaty thug who plays ugly, base football.

Did he score ?

It finished 0-0.

You do the maths.

Too right! We haven't even mentioned Flint or Foderingham, honourable mentions to Ferry, Benson........it's too early for this isn't it....

Heh! heh!




did he score? 8)

Considering Pox drew 0-0 im gunna guess he didnt  :DIts more the cheating thing that appears to pop up, I dont see how we can be labled this especially today when Hereford seemed determined to put at least one of out players in hospital! All that Evans proved to Di Canio is that hes a dirty bastard!

Not been back long.

Pretty poor game but very relieved to get the 3 points. It was an awful pitch, we had absolutely no chance of being able to play football. Hereford are shite, horrible dirty team and they could quite easily had a couple sent off.

Macca was a rock again at the back and I thought Boetang did alright. Rooney was always going to struggle on a pitch like that and up against such a physical side.

Hereford is a shit hole and we had no chance of getting a decent atmosphere going with our fans spread out all over the fucking place. Very happy to get out of there with the win. Next 3 games are huge.

You've just gotta love it and savour every moment  8)

From the Hereford forum...

"Best performance for a month? Best performance all bloody season I've seen! First time we truly played football and out-footballed the "Barcelona of League 2"

I'm sorry, but no, just no

This bugs me a bit I must admit. Opposition fans will have a pop, that's bound to happen. But at least base it on some vague semblance of fact. This team clearly does not cheat and dive. I would not defend them if they did. I speak as I find. I am far too long in the tooth to do it any other way. People have preconceived ideas about STFC and PDC I suppose and are just looking for any excuse to reinforce those prejudices. At the end of the day, this is football and not the European Court of Human Rights. Football Club forums are generally not the place to go for balanced, reasoned debates I guess.

Haha, that's fucking hilarious. If that was 'football', then I would hate to see them play when they don't play football!

So are we going to call him "Boetang"..?

I think we should if that's his name. Is that his name?? I think it is...what do you think?

Seeing thats his name probably

Unfortunately his surname is Boateng, not Boetang. Sorry to disappoint

For fuck sake


we're the Real Madrid of League 2 - at least get it right

But I think they've got pre-conceived ideas of what we're like because of the general rep PDC has. We pass well and draw a lot of fouls - look at todays foul stats - I think their whole midfield was booked today and Evans was lucky to stay on the pitch. Added to that, we have a couple of players who go down easy: Ritchie and Caddis - to that extent, yes, we cheat - but no more than other sides (not that that makes it right). We're certainly not dirty in the Steve Evans / Martin Allen sense  -we're a bunch of midgets. They're bitter. I've never seen such a soul-destroying club in 21 years of going to football. Their club screams 'Life on Mars', and not in a nostalgic way - in a "this is the best we'll ever be and it's still shit" way. Poor ground (non-league grounds are great - but only when the have atmosphere - Barnet, Wimbledon etc...not when the fans are half-dead in their seats), shocking pitch, poor pubs (anybody else go in the Herdsman?! Jesus), poor team. One of those clubs that add very little to the beautiful game.  There - I have risen to the bait.   

Personally i wouldnt say going down easily is cheating as such, if there is contact which would stop them from continuing on a run or something then I can understand them going down. Not that I agree with it as I think football is becoming too soft but i think cheating is a bit strong. I cant think of a single dirty player that we have, Macca and Smith probably the worst but only because they like a challenge! Hereford is a shithole make no mistake

Well done Bob................hook line and sinker

Cannot take Hereford fans seriously after thy beat us 17-3 on fouls and call us diving cheats!

 :smugfu:

Well there are a number of utter plebs on here (pericarp springs to mind) who seem to ask a load of retarded questions that it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility that you weren't being serious.

Oh dear.

I have only seen the Town live 3 times this year (cue abuse) (but I live miles away, and have served my time in previous years), and I don't see us as a diving team at all. And this is a big thing for me, as I hate the "new football" where diving has started to be considered acceptable.

The statement above "Personally i wouldnt say going down easily is cheating as such" really annoys me as it shows how cheating has become in some way acceptable.

What is "Going down easily" if it's not cheating ?

Even commentators on MOTD say things like "he should have gone down"

Maybe I'm just an old dinosaur, but it really annoys me.

Just to make it clear - I don't think the Town are particularly bad, it's just a rant about the state of the game

You go down if you can't stay up. Anything else is cheating. That is why I can't get my head round  the ridiculous claim that players roll out that they 'felt a touch' as if that is an excuse to go down.

Anyway, the point is, we're no better or worse than other sides.

affirmative

Did anyone see the Oxford score today ?

Unfortunately, nowadays this isnt cheating because everyone does it. I only now accept it as i have exhausted myself arguing with mates who believe that this is part and parcel of winning a game of football (idiots). As i said, Id much rather seeing players stay on their feet and compete for the ball but can you expect that now with the likes of Suarez, Nani etc who dive around after getting poked and win free kicks/penalties for their teams? I dont think you can really

The issue has been rather exacerbated by the fact that PDC did say after the macclesield away match (I think) that he would instruct his players to go down due to the shit ref turning down a stonewall penalty when Richie didnt go down and tried to keep on his feet.

Gives other teams a stick to beat us with wether we are any worse than any other team or not.  
Fwiw In my opinion we are no worse than any other team and as previously stated we draw fouls because we have skillful ball players.  Not common in this league.

I've really not considered that our players have been diving but don't like the fact that a number of opposing fans seem to come away from the matches complaining about us cheating.  Usually the fingers are pointed mainly at Caddis and Ritchie.  This is probably because the typical League 2 player can't cope with them and end up bringing them to ground.

Today I noticed that in the last half hour or so the Hereford fans seem to take exception to any of our players lying on the ground after being felled by their cloggers. Cibo and Macca seemed to get the worst of the stick - in both cases they were hit so hard I could almost feel it on the other side of the ground.  The neanderthal fans must think that League 2 football is all about hoofing and kicking lumps out of the opposition so we're going against the spirit of the game to try to pass the ball and not join in with the thuggery.

I also think the ref should have done a lot more to protect the players by using his cards sooner and more consistently.
Just glad we came away without any serious damage done to any of our players.

The thing is sides have recently tried lots of different formations and tactics to try and compete with us but now it seems managers are quite happy for their players to try and kick us off the park. Evans and alike was aloud to get away with it by the ref and it took their manager taking him off to stop him, and that was certainly not for our benefit.suppose getting kicked up in the air is part and parcel of league two football.

Stop giving me shit if you don't even know his name. I thought people called him Boetang just has a play on word(s). I guess reading was a difficult task. I get a lot of unfounde (open for debate) unless stupidity is a sin.

Nice to see on the FLS that Torquay's 'outstanding' run gets quite a few mentions whereas our form which is even better, gets absolutly nothing. You'd think people didnt like us wouldnt you?

 :smugfu:

To be fair, we've equalled their run of 7 straight wins, so it has the potential to be better, but isn't yet. Although our overall form has indeed been better

I'd personally go with Foderingham over Benson..

fair point, kind of forgot about Fods because he was here anyway...

Tough call though.

I thought the pitch was OK when I got in the ground. Then as I sobered up during the game I realised it had huge ruts in it.

Do Hereford fans honestly expect STFC players to let them kick them? They were very lucky to keep 11 on the field the entire game. To be fair, they gave us a real test. The last 30 minutes in particular, they were picking up the balls in midfield and going forward. Saw in a match preview that a Hereford fan wasnt sure if they played long ball or not, and I could see what he meant. Some of the long balls didnt even go in the right direction at times.

I didnt think the temporary stand was as bad as it could have been, because pretty much everyone stood up. How come the away end failed the safety certificate but the home end didnt? Someone said they didnt understand why Hereford fans had no enthusiasm, but Ive got a lot of sympathy for them. They are hoping on a miracle that some money will pop up from somewhere so they can do something with the ground. I did notice the car park had been tarmacked. In 2007 we went through that car park and it was an absolute dust bowl.

Great 3 points. Glad we scored down our end. Tough game tuesday.

3 points all the matters when we go to teams down the bottom of the table, so great to come away with them and get back into the top 3!

Hereford: Shite pitch, shite ground, shite fans (it was like a morgue from their end!)

Onwards to Tuesday...3 home games now that will hopefully equal 3 more wins  :D

Just had a look at the thread on their forum (both pages!) and most comments seem fair.
Their fans seemed to think that they battled in the last 20 mins and were disappointed not to come away with anything but are worried about their general lack of quality. Fair assessment I think.  They thought we were nothing special - probably right yesterday but as Paolo said its winning on days like this that gets you championships.

The only 2 comments on cheating were the ones posted earlier in this thread.  One said our players rolled around after every tackle - they must have their own definition of that word in Hereford. Had to laugh at the assessment of the Evans / Cibo encounter as a 50/50 that was a good tackle - that was one of the worst challenges I've seen all season.

Does the booking for Caddis yesterday take him to 5? If so, it' ll be interesting to see who plays right back on Tuesday? Devera, Thompson, Kennedy?

Caddis will play, amnesty for five bookings kicked in on 1st Jan.

Had a pretty nice day before the game. Hereford seems like a nice enough place and we stopped in a pub for a quick pint, then the yoof showed up so we moved on down to The Imperial, had a lovely Texan Chilli burger and another pint. The day got rather depressing once I took my spot at the back of the temp stand though. Jesus what a fucking shit hole that place is.
A horrible, ugly game caused by the "pitch" and their inability to execute a sliding tackle. A win's a win though and that's all that counts on days like that.

Benno and Macca were my top 2 performers with Cibo not far behind - he fucking loves it does Cibo.

Evans only stayed on the pitch due to the refs incompetance - he knew what he'd done judging by his reaction, yet to my utter astonishment the ref didn't even give a free kick let alone the deserved 2nd yellow!

It's games like that, that win you leagues. Huge HUGE game on Tuesday and I am absolutely gutted that I'm missing it.

Our best league runs of consecutive wins so far -

7 wins in a row in 68-69 in the old Div 3
7 wins in a row in 86-87 in the old Div 3
8 wins in a row in 85-86 in the old Div 4
7 wins in a row in 2011-12 in Div 2 :)

They really fucking hate us at hereford don't they!

I know I should be used to everyone hating us but this is a new low and I just see it as jealousy...

Fuck 'em. They thought they played better football than us. Which epitomises what a bunch of clusterfuck retards they actually are.

It's the usual boo fucking hoo response that we seem to be getting after every win.

I didn't got to the game yesterday, but it seemed that apart from the last 20 minutes, we were never in danger.

Not really no, they had the chance early on that Fods saved and Ritchie cleared the follow up and then the pressure towards the end, which you'd expect from any home side chasing a game. I was more worried about a bobble catching Wes out than anything else.

What you have to understand about Hereford is they are pretty much part of the Forest of Deane. Anyone who has had to play football there knows that a "fair challenge" is anything below the neck.

I'm just glad none of our fans got told to  "squeal like a pig".

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I'll be honest, Caddis does a captains job and often moans at the referee. I don't think this helps with away fans perception of us.

I don't care if we don't make friends. As long as we go up.

Just got back.  What an awful game of football, just glad we got the points.  Don't really remember there being too many chances for either side, although the ref's performance was pretty woeful.  I did think Hereford on balance perhaps deserved a draw on the number of chances, and they did cause us one or two heartstopping moments at the end.

Shit club, with nil aspiration and no hope.  They'll be lucky to stay up this year, and their fans seemed equally depressed afterwards.  My friends in the Hereford end left after Benson's goal.

Ruined myself this weekend.  Never again.

Bloody hell

Must have been a legendary sesh

It was.  It was.  I'm a shell of a man this morning.

Darren Styles was DJing in Hereford Saturday night, so began 11am Saturday...  It all goes a bit hazy after the game, although I do remember smashing my face on the pavement....