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Spent 5 minutes setting up a radio  to listen and we are 1up. Marvellous.

James Collins goal will be not very well received today :)

What frequency you listening on ?

Shitty miss penalty against Yeovil

Arse. Nipped out the room, came back,  1 1

And this against the 'tightest' defence in League One...

Oh Christ, don't talk about call offs .. stop snowing. Please!

Emile Heskey scores within minutes of his debut..  Who would have thunk it :)

25 minutes left. Do they have to complete the full 90 for it not to be replayed or is there a minimum amount of mins that must be played to get a result?

25 minutes left. Do they have to complete the full 90 for it not to be replayed or is there a minimum amount of mins that must be played to get a result?

Everyone on twitter saying a mixture of result stands after 70 mins or 75 mins. Likely people pulling stats out of their arses though.

Great win. Nine one town

4 teams on 44 points,  then a gap to 33 points.
It's a nice place to be at the halfway point.

Absolute nightmare getting away from their car park after the game.  Took an hour to do the one mile back to J9 of the M6 FFS!  But worth it to see that performance. 

Conditions poor in second half.  First time I've seen a groundsman come on with a broom to start clearing the white lines while play still in progress!  Looking forward to seeing the goals again.  Good turnout from Town fans.  Haven't seen the figures yet.

Someone may want to go on the walsall forum and tell them we don't have any attacking players on loan from spurs and that they are all ours.

Did you turn left out of the car park (if you parked next to ground).
Quicker way and you get the next junction down from all the traffic.

Worth the wait though.....Great finishing.

Thanks.  I'll remember that for next time.  Have always used J9 - in and out.

Someone may want to go on the walsall forum and tell them we don't have any attacking players on loan from spurs and that they are all ours.

They have a forum?!

...I browsed out of interest and I could see only person inaccurately referencing the Spurs link.

Nothing to get worked up about.

, do you think he's likely to be here next season?

I think it will be us and Preston who miss out on the top two, city and franchise have stronger squads and budgets than we do. Preston don't have the quality to be top 2 imo

Just got back to lincolnshire ....10 hrs after the match finished....blxxdy snow, chaos!!!, great result today and good suppoft, although froze to death.  COYR

I have to agree with you.
Need some luck for sure.

Nice 11 point gap between us and 5th place now, a lot of people's predictions of a relegation scrap are beginning to look a bit foolish....

Damn right. Even exceeded my hopes this season so far. At least those same people have the we're "going bust" line to focus on now, as we owe the council a couple of months rent.

January will test us as we'll miss Mass and Yas (who wouldn't). I truly think we have enough in reserve as long as we don't get too many injuries or suspensions though.

Good day out yesterday and a great result. The game itself, despite the score line, wasn't a classic but the atmosphere was good. I was stood directly behind Mex, who thoroughly enjoyed his half time bovril. The car park was a fucking cunt to get out of after the game, but it was just nice to be in the warm! Nice 11 point gap between us and 5th place now, a lot of people's predictions of a relegation scrap are beginning to look a bit foolish....

Yeah I confess I was including Reeves when I said we had enough to cope with losing Mass and Yasser. Hope he stays. Looks a worker and a very tidy player too.

Someone may want to go on the walsall forum and tell them we don't have any attacking players on loan from spurs and that they are all ours.

Some fair observations on their forum with one of them comparing us to the Swansea side that were on their way up to the PL - skilful, big strong players and 2 very good forwards.

I never thought about before but compared to last season we are quite a sizeable team.

So who out of the top 4 are the 2 likely to miss out?

Swindon don't look brilliant but what they are is a very big and powerful side similar to Brentford last season.


Really disappointing that Swindon didnt have to work for any of their goals. I can take being beaten by the better side but we really were masters of our own downfall today.


swindon are decent but nothing special,IMO brentford and wolves of last year would put this swindon side to bed as we did last year at the county ground


Excuse some of our thick fans...............any excuse will do although I note that Swindon are still cheating the league rules regards income and expenditure on players. No surprise there then, the club has had a succession of dodgy financial dealings for many years. I hope they go bust and end up in Estonia.


There's only what two places difference between Swindon and Sheffield but a clear gulf in quality, infact it's a lot like last season when there's a top 4 miles better than the rest.


Swindon were the most clinical team I've seen in a long time. Quick, direct, tricky but tall and strong from crosses too.


Swindon will go up if they play like that.


After the third goal Swindon went into cruise mode. Actually they were very kind to us as if they wanted they could have scored another two or three goals at will. Tippy tappy short passing(?) was not the tactic for the snowy conditions. Thoroughly outplayed by a much superior team, alas. Not seen us collapse like that for some considerable time.


PNE, Franchise, Bristol City and Swindon, those four are a cut above in terms of resources and player recrutiment as Swindon have that wierd deal with Spurs. There is no chance of competiting with those teams, they'll have their own automatic battle and one of the losers will probably win the play offs.


Swindon are a very good side at this level so I didn't compare them to Swansea lightly - a team who waltzed into the prem with some style and class. This a team that are obviously serious championship contenders.


Swindon were probably as good as any side that we have played this season. It was a case of tit-for-tat after we gave them a football lesson at the County Ground, last season, and now they have done exactly the same to us at Bescot, this season. Ignore the reasons/excuses. This was a thoroughly deserved away win.

Who remembers the doom laden comments after we lost to Eastleigh pre-season?

Wherever Williams go he will have to take a big pay cut so he may as well stay here.

Top 2 MK and us

There were none, other than a few pointing out we probably needed some reinforcements before season's start.  There was one poster calling for Cooper's head.....you.

Fair play to Reeves if he does end up going elsewhere to play week in week out. If I was him I'd ask for a deal until the end of January, see what happens with Luongo, and then see if it is worth staying. That said, none of us know who else we have lined up.

There were none, other than a few pointing out we probably needed some reinforcements before season's start.  There was one poster calling for Cooper's head.....you.

There were none, other than a few pointing out we probably needed some reinforcements before season's start.  There was one poster calling for Cooper's head.....you.

Bloody hell, Reg. Talk about taking a post out of context.

I didn't particularly want Cooper before he was appointed, but I have never called for his head since he was.

I like to think I have never been critical of him at all.

Fucking me the irony is flowing a tad here innit. Reg criticising another person for being critical of Cooper? Cooper even managed to blame Cooper for poor performances when MacDonald was manager once.

Just got back to lincolnshire ....10 hrs after the match finished....blxxdy snow, chaos!!!, great result today and good suppoft, although froze to death.  COYR

TBH the car park was bad, the rest of the trip back to Lincoln should have taken 2 hrs, just as well the lads got 3 points otherwise it would have been a classic bad day.  Stuck in snow drift for 3 hours.. not my idea of fun...got home just after 3am.  Just as well my lad and I had a sence of humour!

Why was Kasim dropped?

Why was Kasim dropped?

Good day out yesterday and a great result. The game itself, despite the score line, wasn't a classic but the atmosphere was good. I was stood directly behind Mex, who thoroughly enjoyed his half time bovril. The car park was a fucking cunt to get out of after the game, but it was just nice to be in the warm! Nice 11 point gap between us and 5th place now, a lot of people's predictions of a relegation scrap are beginning to look a bit foolish....

Oh I see...Mex gets a special mention and yet I put myself out to say hello in the Saddlers club and nothing!

Cracking away day, fantastic result, roll on Vale!

No FLS tonight  :badmood:

Just got back to lincolnshire ....10 hrs after the match finished....blxxdy snow, chaos!!!, great result today and good suppoft, although froze to death.  COYR

Disgraceful isn't it....especially when you consider the attendances at FL matches were in aggregate some 30,000 more than PL matches.

That's an awful lot of licence fee payers being short changed by what is supposed to be a public service broadcaster...

Disgraceful isn't it....especially when you consider the attendances at FL matches were in aggregate some 30,000 more than PL matches.

That's an awful lot of licence fee payers being short changed by what is supposed to be a public service broadcaster...

I was in Woodhall Spa, and it was a few inches deep by Midnight

Disgraceful isn't it....especially when you consider the attendances at FL matches were in aggregate some 30,000 more than PL matches.

That's an awful lot of licence fee payers being short changed by what is supposed to be a public service broadcaster...

It's on tomorrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfmt9

Does that cover both matches over the festive period?

I was in Woodhall Spa, and it was a few inches deep by Midnight

The through-balls for those goals are just so sexy.

Shame the official highlights cut in a bit late for that last goal, it looked even more a thing of beauty from the "bloke holds phone up to Sky Sports on TV" footage I saw.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:

Can you remember when people used to say that Smith offered nothing up front apart from his ability to finish?