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Just got home from a late A & E visit, just the 5 hour wait  :suicide:

Matchday Thread fail means we will win 4-1, Williams with 3, and a late Foderingham header.

Fail.

COYR COYR COYR

Back on track tonight despite the absence of a thread

1-2, Smudge and Turnbull

Interesting to see how much more solid we look with Nathan back. Good chance that Doyle will score so we'll need to get at least two of our own,3-1 Town,Smith,Louis and Reeves

always a first time, 5 all

Shaw Rosso - hope 'the patient' is on the mend.

I think we might need to score 3 to get a win tonight!  Anyone else going?

With Nathan back can see a draw
Would have gone on the saturday, too far for midweek

Think you may be right but this team does have three goals in it at least... as others have touched on, the return of Nathan Thompson to sweeper will be a massive settling influence.

And yes, I'm travelling up with two others at about 1.30pm. Looking forward to sampling some Chesterfield boozers.

Hope all is ok SR?

We've missed N.Thompson recently so hopefully him coming back into the defence and us playing with a 'lower' defensive line should help eliminate our susceptibility from the ball in behind.

Chesterfield are on a poor run and recently dropped their best player (some kid on loan from Villa) which has coincided with them not scoring so much any more. Gary Roberts misses the game with injury.

No idea about tonight so i'll say 1-0 Chesterfield.

I had this penciled in at the start of the season....mate who collects grounds wanted an expedition, as it's a new one for us.

Sadly...mid week is a no no.

Last time I went there, in 2003, we also played 3 at the back, Heywood, Reeeeeeeves, Viveash.  Quite possibly the slowest back 3 in the history of the beautiful game.

Chesterfield were hopelessly at the foot of the table with no win in 14......2 down in 20 mins. Kingy acknowledged his mistake by taking off Adi, and bringing on the lightweight Sebastian Ruster to make a 4-4-2.....it made little difference.

Playing 3 at the back is risky...because as we see, you're likely to concede, but you can create and score.

So overall, I like it, makes for fun football, even if it's a bit wing and a prayer at times.

That was mildly positive Reg. You alright?

 :)  Let's hope it's still the case at 10 pm.

0-1, Nathan Thompson with a 90th minute minute leading to him taking his shirt off during his celebration and being suspended again.

Will have to up there game from the first half at Yeovil performance which shouldn`t be that difficult - like to think a draw was possible but I think we are on a slump so sorry to predict 2-1 home win......

It's odd - we are in a bit of a slump results wise and performances have certainly dropped... But really, we should have won the last 3 games.

If we persist our luck will change. I'd probably take a draw tonight. A tough game for sure.

Saw Mass in Bath Road about 10 mins ago, in his motor....which means either he's not involved, or we're making a late journey up north.

Probably the latter. Can't see Mass not starting, even though he hasn't been playing great recently. Coops is not one to

Lose 3-1

Eh? He was fucking brilliant on Saturday.

I'd like to see Thompson come in for Bell, pushing either Reeves or Louis out to the left.
Bell hasn't impressed me at all unfortunately.

Last time I went to Chesterfield was in the 80's on a Friday night but game was called off due to floodlight failure. Ended up in a pub near Moreton in Marsh that did a lock-in. When we left about 1ish, we were told to go out very quietly by the back door! - happy days.

Three points would be good but will take the one tonight.

Would have been tempted with this if it was still at Saltergate, proper ground that. Open air pisser which was basically a wall if i remember correctly.  The new ground looks a bit Colchester-like which can't be a good thing.

Not really confident about tonight but my predictions have been dreadfull this year so I'm happy to plump for a 2-0 defeat.

So, if Nathan Thompson gets booked (again) tonight he's banned (again).

What's the chances !

Difficult game, think we will come back with a point

Well, I've done 6 aways tonight

WBA
Chelsea
Blades
Swansea
Swindon
Preston

Fiver pays £1700 odd

SWINDON TOWN STARTING XI - Foderingham; Stephens, Thompson N (C), Turnbull; Byrne, Luongo, Kasim, Thompson L, Bell; Obika, Smith #stfc

TOWN SUBS - Belford, Barthram, Toffolo, Gladwin, Reeves, Rodgers, Williams #stfc

Morshead still stuck on mway

not a fan of Bell but prob our first choice 11 otherwise and a good bench which can change any game

Fucking player is dicking me about and sending me straight to a subscription screen (my subscription hasn't run out) instead of playing the cocking commentary. Piece of appalling shite.

Had the same problem. You need to sign out and then sign in again ... hopefully :)

high

Nope, still fucked.

Sounds a good game so far.

Obika misses open goal.

Sounds end to end this, cracking game

Yes! Kasim!

Yes

Get the fuck in . . .

Yes Byrne!!!

Get in

Great stuff.

Didn't expect to be two up  :pint:
Town fans sound decent on the radio

Brilliant!

Swindon are back!!!

Lovely just lovely

Preston 1 up, they are absolutely flying at the moment. Thor will be knocking one out

Byrney the Bolt!

I don't think he needs any encouragement to knock one out

Very good thus far!

C'mon!

Totally forgot we were playing tonight.  Lost track of days, because it's half term and I've got the week off.

Nice little surprise when I just went onto facebook and the goal update came up.

Ha! That's his hobby....I can't wait for him to come back!

He's a tiresome cunt

Just don't concede now, or 15 mins after half time! A good start by sounds of it and 3 points would be very nice after last 2 home games!

Playing this lot at the right time for once, they are out of form and have injuries.

Keep them out and hit them on the break.

COYR

Plan B: Sign out, close player, reopen player, clear all saved log in details for player, click sign in, re-enter sign in details .... if Plan B fails or if you have forgotten sign in details, make cocoa, go to bed.

BTW, sounds like a great game 2-0 to us :)

Obika misses another sitter apparantly

Hit the post

Great sub Cooper, Williams!!

Yay 3

Yes!

371 Town fans, good effort for a Tuesday night.

Can we sort Byrne out a new contract, has been unplayable all season.

Brilliant scoreline so far, decent number of fans for a midweek

Can anyone think of another player who has developed as much as Byrne has over the course of one summer? He's been superb this season.

Clean sheet too please  ;D

Son has gone to this, his first game without us.

He has texted me, and is enjoying it so far.

Surprising.

 :)

He'll have to go on his own more often  ;)

Could be a fantastic 3 points for us here - against one of our bogey teams! Can't remember the last time we beat Chesterfield?!

Just remind him that it isn't always like this . . . .

Oh he has watched us often enough to know that. :)

If he can be coached to cut in and shoot.....he will get far more. Could of got a few at Yeovil..

He's at Uni in Sheffield, so is planning a few midweek local trips.

Should mean we win at Donny :)

Jebus - Our next 4 league games are against MK, Preston, Bristol C & Peterborough. That will sort the men from the boys ???

Franchise about to go into extra time. Will hopefully have a bearing on Saturday's game

Excellent....and I hope the cunts lose too....

With a few of their players getting sent off as well...

Oooopppps Sheffield Utd score in last minute.

Bollocks sheff utd scored in the last minute of injury time.

Sheff Utd go 2-1 up in normal time.

Great result, can we play away every week? Never thought I'd say that after last season.

We are now third, and most importantly, for Reg, half way to the 52 points safety target.

We'll get at least 6, possibly 7 from those. They will all suit us, the only one I would worry about are Preston.

Sort out that recent home form and we'll be just fine.

Sounds like the midfield did well, from the Chesterfield forum:

Yes. We played 3 cms and they absolutely destroyed us through the middle. Cut us apart like they werent even there. They should have won by more, they were incredibly comfortable and I am lumping on relegation

Excellent result...

Now for a run of testing matches....

Getting exciting now...

Keep Nathan on the pitch and Obika back scoring again...and....lets fuck up the shitheads record!

Excellent result after a bit of a dodgy week.  Seems like N Thompson is pretty key?

Four difficult games coming up.  A reasonable points return from them and we're really motoring.

As well as Preston's...just won 8 in a row.

They were on a similar run, when we turned them over last season.

Certainly makes that late Rochdale winner feel like a long time ago.

A very good, unexpected route.

Let us hope that Franchise will suffer from their heartbreaking exit from the, erm, League Cup.

@Robinho2288: Beaten by a very very good Swindon team tonight !! Coops has a good young team there could go all the way this season!

Gary Roberts approves.

Good to have Nath back. I don't like the fact he's hovering 1 yellow away from a suspension, but that's what you get for being a no-holds barred Captain and tough-tackling player.

Clean sheet is important after the run of iffy results we've been having.

We'll need Nathan Thompson available for Bristol City so he had better behave over the next week.

Cooper happier with the nil moreso than the three and at end of his interview thanked the fans for travelling in numbers and for their support.
Nice touch

371 is a decent turnout midweek

I'd advocate Nath picking up a booking Saturday so missing the Num cup tie.

Oh great. I turn up to see us fuck up two winnable home games for the kids' STFC initiation, and as soon as I turn my back we're storming the division again. Typical bloody Swindon.  >:(

This result show that N Thompson is obviously the key to our team. One of our best defence display this season apparently.

Fucking hell....at this rate I'm might start liking his personality!

It's a shame that Cooper didn't manage to find a solution to NT's absence, because as sure as eggs are eggs he'll get a yellow soon...Kasim is only one away also, so we don't want that happen in the same game...although I suppose if Yasir is suspended and then goes off to play for Iraq, it would carry over and miss NT's.  Either way, it doesn't help.

On to Dongs on Sat then...going to be an interesting one this, as they'll be trying to play a sexy game also, 5-5 draw then.

Not wishing to drop a fly into your ointment here chaps but may i draw your attention to the huge five point chasm between yourselves and the two really really good teams in the auto places.

Yay he's back.  :D

 :)  I thought it was Dongs before PNE, or is Thor getting prematurely excited?

Make sure you have non staining shreddies on when you see our midfield ;)

I'd go further, that's a fucking great turn out from the guys who went.

Less so from the ones who didn't.

I don't understand what you are saying

its only this season they've really played him consistently in his proper position.

imagine what was wasted last season in having him left back  ::)

He was good going forward at LB, and don't forget he's a wingback now, not a right back. I think we'll really struggle to keep him in Jan.

Great evening watching the Reds on the road. We started a little tentatively then Yass and Mass got going, Byrne too. Fods made a good save halfway through the 1st half and that seemed to be a turning point. Game seesawed a bit in the first half, two sides who wanted to play attacking football. Anyway great goal by Byrne to put us 2-0 up. Twat commentator on Peak FM after the game - said we took our sole chance in the 2nd half. Must have had his eye shut and missed the other six or seven chances we created. Obika's header hit the post from about 2ft out, really we were much the better side in the 2nd half though. Thought Nathan T had a great game as well, Turnball and Stephens looked solid enough at the back and clean sheet a bonus going into the next few games. A mention for Smith, went close on a couple of occasions with difficult chances, not his night but he kept on working. Good to bump into the Duke of Banbury at half time as well.

Well,that was a fantastic game if you were a Swindon fan.Obika missed two chances that he would normally gobble up,Williams and Smith had good chances and 7or8 goals wouldn't have flattered us.So impressed with Smiths work ethic and Byrne,Yasser,Loungo and Louis were irrepressible and cut through Chesterfield at well. Nathan was my mom with the only weak link being Bell although I'm sure there's a footballer there somewhere.

Fantastic game with 2 teams going at each other.
Our attack tonight was immense with spaces created.
Mom was Masimo for me with the whole team a close second.
Wonderful game and many teams will come unstuck at Chesterfield, no mugs.
Well done Swindon.

Fucking superb result tonight. Missed kick off thanks to a blow out early on the M40 and it taking the "rescue" 3 hours to change the bloody thing. Had to watch us beer free (until half time anyway) for the first time in ages. Didn't look too promising at the start but we soon slipped into gear and were a joy to watch. Decent turnout and good noise from our fans and we don't need a drum either.

Nah sorry, that's unbelievable. No way you lot never had a stash somewhere.

Haha. We did get towed to Beaconsfield which has the only pub in a service station in the country I believe. Not too bad for most but I was driving the fucking thing up there so was unable to partake. Funnily enough we've just gone past the scene of the crime on the way back. Why the hell they don't have spare tyres in these things anymore I will never know.

Agree with the reports above by other attendees.  They were all over us like the proverbial cheap suit at the start but we then settled down and had the better of most of it.  We could and should have scored more goals.  Obika missed two sitters, Williams could have had a second and Reeves also had a good chance at the end.  The defence looked much more secure with Nathan in there and the midfield was stronger as a consequence.  Thought Smith struggled a bit today.  His first touch was like it was last season!

A decent turnout by Town fans (371), including a few northern types supporting the Town.  There was even a couple who live in Exeter, who drove to Gloucester and picked up the supporters' coach from there!  Fair play to them.

All in all, a worthwhile trip for me and another ground ticked off. 

And what exactly is that supposed to mean ? Some of us had to move up North to escape the influx of Londoners into Swindon. Oh....and Vic Morgan lives near Exeter. Nowt wrong with that. You silly owd southern softy get !

No offence intended!  It was great to see them there. I know from previous trips to games 'oop north' that quite a few Swindon exiles look forward to attending these games.  I remember having a long pre-match chat to a guy at Morecombe a couple of years ago who had moved to Cumbria many years previously.  Actually, a couple of us apologised to some who were sitting nearby last night when some Town fans chanted "You dirty northern bastards" at one point.   :)   

It was probably Vic and his wife who picked up the coach at Gloucester, then.  I didn't say there was anything wrong with it.  Quite the opposite, in fact!

You can relax and go tend your pigeons now.     ;D

Ignore the dirty northern bastard.

Always have a little read what other teams and found some good comments and a thread on the Spirites forum.


A whole thread on it here too...

http://www.thecfss.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=32c746a4ce535edab5ab51e4db4986e6&showtopic=52217

Everybody has missed the most important aspect of this fantastic win . . .

Achieved without a proper matchday thread opening post

and I bet there was no stew in sight at Chez FH!

Reading through the chesterfield forum and seen a few say that to get the quality we have you need a large budget. Dont we have the 6/7th smallest budget on L1?

£1.8m isn't it? Probably middle of the road as far as budgets go for this division. Franchise is £3m for instance.

371 is a fantastic away support for Chesterfield away on a Tuesday night - well done to all those that went! Having traveled back from Sunderland on Monday afternoon I know how shit the M1 currently is with 50mph from Derby up to the Sheffield area.

Should take over 1k to MK Franchi$e Saturday?

Our budget is smaller than Oxford's in Div 4....their new owners have chucked money at it, so they've a massive squad of big name players, a big name manager and a shed load of back room staff. The owner admits they'll lose £2 mill this season....whereas we should just about break even.

The chucking money at it route is OK, if you can trust the owner....

I'm not going to say that I didn't enjoy the PDC/Wray season of spunking money up the wall, but to achieve the same on a sensible budget would mean so much more.

Sad that Cooper won't get much recognition for it. Certainly less than Eddie "hasn't he done well Steve?" Howe/PDC/Ferguson and other managers who have spent big to get results in the past.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28993015

The 'updated' table here is just idiotic

We're currently not operating at a loss, that much has been made clear by Power, and is fantastic considering what has been going on over the past 12 months. We should (should!) make a profit this year if things keep on as they are barring any kind of disaster, which frankly will be very impressive indeed.

It's probably worth waiting until we see some accounts, before getting too excited.  When I say just about break even, I mean a loss of maybe < half a mill.

Good turn-out from Chesterfield aswell (6100) for a Tuesday night. I always had them down as a 3k fans sort of team, good on them.

Chesterfield have always pretty decent support, certainly not too dissimilar to our recentish numbers, plus of late they've had a new ground bounce, so this season, they're averaging a tad higher than us.

They get bigger crowds than we do.

Generally,  they don't.

Promotion factor, lots of local games this season and our crowds down on previous years.

I noticed they were advertising a half season ticket but £255-£300 seems a bit pricey.

Odd that we didn't have a single corner last night

As I said before, in recent years their crowds have been more or less comparable to ours. When taking into account the place is half the size, what it shows, is that our fanbase is to some extent based on the "traditional" Swindon of the Works, a bit of London overspill, and the out of towners. The more recent agglomeration of say the last 20 years, seemingly contribute very little, unless a trip to Wembley etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0WEmpUpLw

Highlights. Keeper has had a mare for the first one it looks and Obika's miss is awful.

Look beyond the last four years Reg, it's around the 3-4k mark. Don't they have a new ground too?

I thought at the time that it must have taken a deflection but I can't see one on the video.  

That miss of Obika's is truly awful - more so when you contrast William's finish for the third. The camera angle is a bit low - but he's not even that far wide! :no:

Morshead said it did last night, would explain the keepers action.

 We were sat right in line, Yasser looked to curl it into the left corner which the keeper went to cover.However,the ball then took a small touch off the wall and went straight into the centre of the goal with the keeper left floundering.

Yep looked liked a pretty big one at the time when we were right behind it. Seeing it again there doesn't look to be any deflection, think Yas just put some wicked bend on it. That's what Byrney's saying anyway.

Reminded me of the one similar that Rochdale missed at home to us last week! Easier to score than miss as they say?!

Byrne's finish and assist for Willo... Both beautiful!

Initially read that as 'Byrne's finished...' and nearly spat my coffee out.

Paul Cook said we're the best team they've played this season, got beat fair and square.

Very humble lot, Chesterfield. Most oposition fans and managers usually bitch and moan!

Always had respect for Chesterfield and its fans....proper football club.  Unlike the pile of steaming dung we've got on Saturday.

Well that`s the end of the slump - didn`t see that coming, brilliant result - sounds a great game. Really looking forward to the next few weeks - its been a while since we have been in the mix with a good group of talented players put together by Cooper and Power or Power and Cooper - whatever...good stuff - just need to get the word out there but football`s not cheap any more - what is.........?

Red fucking Army indeed........ :nod:

468 sold as of yesterday afternoon for mk on sat. Be very surprised if that doesn't hit 1000

No price difference in advance to paying cash on the day so I would imagine a 1000 or more will be in attendance a few will not go because of the history of mk franchise but I am supporting my club so I don't give a fuck

Looking at that and from what I've read, Byrne is on fire.

looking at the Williams finish again, he definitely gets lucky when rounding the keeper. He looks like he shoots left footed which gets blocked and it then pops out in front of him.

Still finishes more calmly then Obika

Yaser's def didn't deflect. I cant work out how he did it though, he must have been putting some hours in to create something that different.

Wasn't that pretty obvious?

Toe poke.

My toe pokes used to go 20 yards over, maybe he's perfected a lost art.

Same technique Christiano Ronaldo uses.

Bale does it as well. You aim the valve to where you want the ball to go, hit the ball on the valve with a flat foot. It's fucking hard to do but if you get it right....

I'd rather this seasons Byrne than Pritchard.

this

Admire the optimism but I think you are trying to overcomplicate "shit goalkeeping"

If you can/are interested, check out the way Peterborough's Marcus Maddison takes his free kicks. He scored free kicks at home to Barnsley and Oldham that looked to be inch perfect and his goal away at Cov last weekend looked to go straight to the keeper, however he seemed to dive past it. Pretty sure he has some technique which causes the ball to move stupidly in the air. Presume Yas did something similar.

Cristiano Ronaldo, has shown that it is possible to get a modern ball to wobble about, like a Shane Warne zooter.  I'd like a bit more evidence though before being convinced the Mesopotamian Pirlo, is on to something.

Against Rochdale he was taking corners with his left foot, so it does look like Yaser has been putting in the hours on set-pieces.

The Mesopotamians were a clever people. I prefer Babylonian Pirlo though. Bit more precise geographically.

Where does Yaser Kasim keep his CDs?

In Iraq.

Don't worry, my coat is already on.

I could live with it...but would worry that Babylon is nowadays a bit tarnished by Marleyesque rasta association, with corruption and decadence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixGrA0dQKeI

Asked by his father whether or not he'd win player of the tournament for Iraq at the Asia Cup...

Yaser replied, "it's in the Bag-Dad"

I will also get my coat!

Is that in the section next to shit wumming, Dave?   ;)

It wasn't as bad as they make out. Fight the rasta power.

Like supporting Assad's regime against IS, I find myself unwittingly aligned to DMR.

Hi, I'm a Chesterfield season ticket holder and aspiring sports journalist.

I thought you might be interested in my match report from Tuesday night. Any feedback is appreciated!

http://ryan147.com/2014/10/30/chesterfield-0-3-swindon-town-league-1/

At least you got everyone's name right, that's better than our local paper usually manages.

decent summation of the match and very impartial too.

Thanks for posting.

Yess get in, 3-0. Another great away result.

Or the scoreline !!!

....and you got me on the picture :)

Me too.  I don't look especially happy.

I'm standing on the back row right under the left of the scoreboard, I wondered why a new stadium never had a score board, honestly never knew it was there.   ::)

Saw a fascinating baseball documentary in the States a year or 2 back about an old style of pitching the ball. Called a knuckleball, the idea is to throw the ball without imparting any spin on it at all. Seen in slow mo, the ball just doesn't turn or spin at all as it goes through the air. What it does do is swerve, drop and do all sorts of weird things, due to some sort of aerodynamics that it seems no-one understands, least of all the pitcher. Crucially these balls are pitched at 50mph or thereabouts, rather than the 90+ of a typical fastball.

Just like Drogba and Ronaldo, and maybe Yas, do to a football. That Yas free kick seemed to float into the net, it wasn't a rocket.

Feedback - very fair summation. One point from pedant's corner though, for an aspiring journo, appalling grammar mistake in the para dealing with Obika missing a sitter. You'll probably be ok for a job at the Daily Mail though.

Took good for the Swindon Advertiser though!!

Just looked at the fixtures for November...interesting big games..

4th Swindon v Preston
15th Swindon v Shitty
22nd Shitty v Preston
22nd Peterborough v Swindon
28th Peterborough v Shitty

I know its still early in the season but thats some big top of the table games.