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So what do we think?

2-2 Ajose & Obika

2-1 defeat.

Brad Barry with the goal

Another uneventful Sheff u v Swindon affair...

4-4 having been 2-0 and 4-2 down.

3 - 0 at half time, 3 - 4 at full time

There are plenty of goals in this game.
0-0

Just about to leave, I've never seen us win at Sheff Utd, but fancy us today, 0-1 Ajose.

Has to be a draw 2-2

Sheffield United 4-1 Swindon Town

Just one of those days.

3-1 loss.

more fucking around at the back with the ball, 5.2

With no Total and no FLIC - do I have to follow the match via the Adver? Bloody hell.

Maybe teletext or clubcall....

I was thinking that. The coverage on Twitter has been brilliant for updates.

I remember the club call lines advertised on teletext, always sensationalised to get people to phone up - 'town linked to Premier star!!!'  Etc

This day was always going to come.  The media coverage was too fragmented.  Not sustainable.  My hope was that the outlets would consolidate in some way, but it was not to be.

Longer term, either the Adver will up its game or something/somebody else will emerge to provide updates.  There's a market there that needs serving.

Silver lining...we may just see the Match Day Threads on here become livelier again, at least in the short term.

 I'll be happy if we can stay in the game for an hour.....let's hope Doughty lives up to his name, as apparently he can tackle, but fear an early concession and a sack load for Blades.

2-1 win Obika with both

3-1 defeat.

No fucking idea. It's us. The only thing I'd bet on is us conceding.

That's because you're a born optimist.

Fear we could get bullied today. 3-1 Sheffield 2 from sharp, one from Baxter and an Ajose tap in for us. 431 making the journey

Opportunity for the TEF to occupy that space if someone's prepared to do live updates from the ground! TEF-style honesty would bring the punters flocking to the site.

My only hope lies in the fact that I'm not going out walking in the glories of the Wilts countryside with an old mate of mine.

It's happened twice this season so far, Barnsley away, Fleetwood away. He's one of these smart phone types, with score updates coming in  :(

Why do it? A good walk ruined.

Sleaford Red.......another 4 of us travelling from Sleaford.  That must make a fan club!

:)

I'm with you.  Only became aware of the late, late show last week after returning from a meal out...which I went out to convinced that the game was lost.  Nice to put the phone away sometimes.

Do you have a flag?  Lincolnshire Reds.  Do it.

Last week when I was out in St Lucia we went to the Capital for a potter around (few beers etc) and got back to the hotel where the wifi kicked in and the first Twitter update was about Ajose's winner. Happy days!

On the way down to this - those self-deluded wurzals from down the m4 are up here today; good day to be out of town

5-1 to United. More fannying around at the back and I fancy United to be better defensive than either Southend or Crewe.

That's the spirit :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

yeah that's defeatist. I reckon it'll only be 4-1

Delusional optimism. It'll be 5. Minimum.

new bloke in, traore on the bench

Not happy with that, been one of the better players last 2 games

3-1 defeat

Williams out!

Hope the new bloke likes a tackle because rodgers/Kasim don't give me much confidence screening the back 4

Very harsh on Traore. Maybe carrying a knock or some such.

Hopefully it is not a case of if fit he plays. Traore is very unlucky to be dropped. Still, if the QPR guy turns out to be MOM, then fair enough.

From Power on the radio for those not got radio:

Offers in for Smith expect him to leave - been negotiating with a club with foreign owners

Swansea & West Ham at last weeks game scouting Kasim

Offer made for Vigs rejected will try again

Not talked about Yelko Pino with Luke decide next week

How many penalties have we given away this season now?!

What's happened to Turnbull this season?

Too many...

Cock it.

Good start

1-0 down. billy sharp penalty.

We dont start playing till we're 2 nil down.

FFS....Turnbull yet again.....

Not really under any pressure & we gift them a goal.
Almost another from a free kick

Sounding shaky defensively and gifting goals again.  Clearly we've learned nothing!

Relying on the TEF to follow the match, never anticipated not having someone on twitter for updates. Used to be you'd have Official STFC, Moosehead and ASD making the same comment at the same time. Now Official STFC do the bare minimum :/ .

Adver are doing updates

30 mins gone
Game quite even, we look as likely to score as them.
Just get the feeling we will gift them another goal at some point

Cheers

HT: 1-0 down
Apart from the penalty it's been a pretty even game.
Luke Williams can give the same team talk that he gives when we are 2 goals behind and the second half will be a piece of piss (4-1 Town) ;)

Pleased that we sound competitive/still in this. I viewed the Crewe/Southend results as possible flukes so this kind of game would go a long way to relieving those thoughts - especially if we can nick something.

479 away fans, for those that care about such things (attn. 19,012 )

Not bad at all really

Nearly shot ourselves in the foot again from a short backpass. Let off.

Suicidal defending again and we almost concede

47 - Awful play between Lawrence Vigouroux and Raphael Branco gifts Billy Sharp a change but Vigouroux recovers.

Vigs keeping us in it. Sluggish start.

FFS: Penalty...nope offside first. grrr.

Agent Gladwin weaving his magic, 82ers one down at dirty Leeds  :D

Subbed shortly afterwards.

Gladwin just got injured and replaced apparently

Why do we call Bristol City 82ers?

They were founded in 1982.

Watching United v Saints......woeful....

Cmon town......nick one....or two.....

http://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/article/a-potted-history-405403.aspx

Exactly

 1982: Relegated to Division Four, and the club plunge into financial crisis. A new club is formed: Bristol City FC (1982) Limited, avoiding closure by a whisker.

I have an anytime goalscorer treble bet, bully sharp, Bradley Dack and Jacob Murphy for Cov but he's not even on the bench. Will I win on the double?

I just need Swindon to score now in my both teams to score bet.
C'mon you fuckers.

If the player you bet on doesn't make the bench, I think you get your stake back?

There's a mouse on the pitch at Old Trafford......doesn't top our Fox...

Austin coming on for Saints... Cmon....

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss


booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

1-1

YES!

Booooooooooooooooo

That confused me, I initially thought we'd scored but it was offside or something.
The commentary on player is about a minute behind.

Get the fuck in

Billy Bodin scores for Rovers

YES BOO!

Yesssss!!!

Booooooooooo!

Tans' favourite Jordan Bowery scores for Pox

Swift scores for Brentford

nearly 1-2, Thompson shins wide.

Charlie Austin scores at Man U

Ha, Austin netted

Haha, put a £1 on him at 16/1 first goal when he came on :D

Brilliant stuff Charlie!

Austin with a bullet header!!

Manc wanker kicking off!!!!

Is anyone here surprised? Good old Charlie . .  . .

Nope. Scores for every team he plays for...

Austin. Scores. Goals. FACT!

Meanwhile...there's a game on at Sheff United.  90th minute and we're all over them.

Five minutes OT (Old Trafford time)

The stats on the BBC point this out :

61-39 possession to us
11-4 shots to us
4-3 shots on target to us

1-1 FT.

What a fantastic result, would have taken that all day long and we even pushed hard for the win. Nice one STFC/Williams.

Good point. Sounds like it could've been more though.

1-1 FT

Job done.  Nice start, Luke.

Happy to be wrong.

Well done Town.

Luke Williams remains unbeaten.

Very good result.

Good point and a decent performance by the sounds of it! Definitely take that

Yay. Well done lads.

Excellent result for Town and the stats make good reading.

Thought we might get dicked conceding early.

Humble pie eaten....get in Town.

See. Nothing to fear.

Sometimes a draw feels like a win sometimes a defeat, this one feels like a win.

"We play half a game we play half a game..we are swindon,we play half a game"

Happy with a point and what sounds like a good performance. Pleased we ended on the ascendancy rather than hanging on.

Massive...Bramall Lane is the sort of novern outpost where even our decent sides have struggled historically. To come away with a point after going one down suggests the players have the heart for the relegation scrap we are in. It's going to be close, but I am increasingly confident we will have enough to remain competitive towards the end of the season so we should have a fighting chance of avoiding the basement.

-Who am I? Winner gets a prize.

Bloody Tea Kettle. Bet it was never a pen.  ;)

Great result though, I expected a bit of a dicking. Happy for BOO too, deserves it given how hard he's worked recently.  

You're learning Chang....I would add that the fact that Shrewsbury showed unexopected signs of life has brought us back closer to the drop zone than what we were at the start of the day, so still plenty of work to do. Hopefully we may get some reinforcements in during this week.

Williams post match interview:

Disappointed not to win
Took an attacking stance
Got young squad that will make mistakes
expected boys to dominate the ball
Expected Sheff Utd would be happy to sit and defend
Give Yaser time and space he can start moves off tempted to change when they put a man on him but he was still getting the ball
Penalty - player was pushed going into the box turnbull stood his ground going into the box and ref gave penalty couldn't argue
players asked to play in the box not cross from byline as sheff utd mop them up all day
BOO - goal has been coming do his confidence good, he had ability to move ball in tight area
Doughtly has quality and is determined to work hard for the team
Didn't enjoy dropping Traore was difficult being first job as manager
Learning on the job of being manager, was clubs decision to appoint him, told he was best and safest option will give his all until told otherwise, enjoyed the performance
Will talk about new players with chairman - don't need many - got to be right type, got to fit into the group, will speak to chairman and bring in more of less players in

My 30/1 treble became a 9/1 double as the Murphy goal was void.

In case anyone cared.

On train home  & haven't read back but pretty upbeat after that. Thought we bossed the game & 2nd half we were the only team likely to score.  Sheffield are not a particularly good side, well organised and some decent players, but were negative when they went 1 up.  Not sure about the penalty, if anything thought it was outside the box.
Ajose & Obika were well marshaled and I really didn't know where we would find a goal.  Step up BOO, deflected shot 1-1. Nathan could/should have won it for us but slashed his shot wide where he could have taken a touch.  Happy with a draw and a decent performance.
Hope the guy who fell and hit his head is ok, looked nasty

Gritty, spirited performance, never stopped trying and fully deserved the point. boo was great, not just the goal but also the level of his contribution, haven't seen us for a couple of months and what struck me was how he was always making himself available and wanting the ball. Yas at times looked approaching last season's form, launching a lot of our attacks. Obika, didn't get much opportunity today but put in a shift. Special mention to Branco, great watching his battle with Billy Sharp, especially the dirty niggly bits and Rossi got the better of him in the end. As for the "massive" club we were playing, couldn't believe how little they offered. Their whole strategy after they went ahead was to sit back and do nothing. They were so deep at times they looked like the away team. Weird how things come full circle, it's exactly one year since the corresponding fixture last season at brammall lane, today's match played itself out in fairly similar fashion but we got something out of it this time around. We're broadly halfway between the playoffs and relegation, think we should be looking up the table rather than over our shoulders for the remainder of the season. Time to get off the train now, too many moaning blades ha ha!

Thanks WYR.

I'm sure you post things like this just to encourage Talk Talk, don't you? :)

BOO could become our next Byrne.
When Byrne first arrived he was being used as a right back and was pretty useless there to be honest, but he moved to wing back and developed into a great player. BOO is going the same way and with a bit of luck, could be just as effective as Byrne was.

boooooooooooo

pic.twitter.com/FW68kxFxSx

It was always going to take a brand new side a while to gel and hopefully they now have. Who knows where we can finish in the league, if we can bring in some new faces before the end of January to bolster the squad I think we'll do fine.

Sounds like Kasim is somewhere back to his best. How was Doughty today for those that went?

Hah I noticed the potential for filth when I read my post back but thought hopefully no one would notice. Thanks mate :D

Regarding Sheff Utd, I'm sure it was back when Danny Williams was still there I posted something on Twitter about t'blades putting 10 men behind the ball and got a hell of a lot of abuse for it.

With BOO, it's clear he's more of a forward player, but we've seemed bloody terrified to attack down the left at the CG for ages. Be nice if that could change and he could score a few more.

It was the same guy who I saw running around the bar area under the stands at half time singing we're going to win 4-1. Same sentiments from me but reckon he should be ok, he was only a few rows down from me when they were carrying him out on a stretcher. But he was still pointing to the sky singing as he made his exit.

Great finish by BOoooo. Sent 2 men onto their arses and fired home.

I was impressed with Doughty. Thought his vision was good & he fought for everything.  Him & Kasim worked well & Robert looked better late on after Rodgers went off

Danny Willams managed Wendies not Blades...you must be as old as me if you remember that  ;)

Doughty,Kasim,traore and Robert with Rodgers collecting splinters in his Arse works for me.

Doh! I feel it but I'm not  ;) Wilson I meant!

I've seen BOO in a handful of games and he hasn't impressed - delighted to hear he is on the up. I never thought Nathan Byrne would turn into a proper footballer and I was delighted to be wrong.

 How can almost 19000 home fans make such little noise? having to watch that crap presumably. Went 1-0 up and then most of the game sat back to protect what they had. Really impressed with Doughty,got his tackles in and never stopped chasing. Boo took his goal well and was always available. Kasim was immense, back to his best. Comedy moment was Turnbulls effort from 30 yards but satisfying day out and good listening to blades fans on the way back to the car wishing they played football the way we had

Great result if we can get Stephens in on loan a wide player and another striker when smith goes we should be looking at the top 6 not the bottom 6.

http://www.skysports.com/footballleague/championship/video/10141566/sheffield-united-1-1-swindon

We aren't far off being a rather decent side at the minute, get in a CB, CM and a striker to replace smith and things are looking peachy

Someone on the Sheffield forum liked Rodgers.

Can't argue with any of that, Billy my MOM though, usual 100% effort from him. Done ran miles and touched the ball about twice.
 For the opposition, I was chuffed when they took off Anton Rodgers who I thought was mightily impressive, but look what happened. I have to say they were much better than I expected, and probably the best side I have seen this season, though we make a lot of sides look better than they are. Outplayed by Swindon fucking Town, outplayed by Shrewsbury Town, the list goes on. At least we got a point though, which was more than we deserved if I'm honest

I don't think we need much for the rest of this season. Striker like you say, backup CB and maybe an out and out winger to mix things up a bit.

Think we should wait and see who else goes before the window slams shut, before knowing what else we'll need.

As much as I'm pleased by all this positivity, you lot do crack me up at times. It was only 1 1/2 games ago that many had us down for relegation.

Cracking result. I think we'd all have taken that before kick off.

That is the assumption no one goes obviously. If Vigs is recalled then we'd need a goalie as well

Was too busy going mental in the away end when we equalised, but Boo's celebration with Branco looks pretty dodgy if I'm honest....McEverley looks pretty fucked off judging by his reaction as well

Same.

Stuff like this really fucks me off. Blades on the whole seem to be decent fans and accept that they are where they are because they deserve to be, but being outplayed by a team in the same division (with the odd exception like Crewe) isn't that flabbergasting.

There's a decent player in there, just a shame he's so slow and can't tackle for shit.

Without having seen him play, I wonder if he might fit better at a higher level that's less physical?

I've moaned about Rodgers with the best of them, but I thought he played well last week too. He picked out BOO on the left flank repeatedly and put more of a shift in.

In any case, no matter what I think of him, a succession of managers has now thought he was worthy of a place. Better get used to it I suppose.

Love Bramall Lane.
Great team performance today and optimistic to build a team around the coaching model.
Only one cock up today, apart from that we looked good.
One in the eye for the negative, moaning wankers.

I warmed to the Blades fans in the days of The Robinettes....the only visitors who seemed to be genuinely excited by the hotch potch of barely pubescent girls, who gamely tried to do a cheer leading dance routine, at half time but just weren't very good.

I couldn't quite work if the Blades like them barely legal....or that the women of Sheffield are particularly grim, that being something of which I have no experience.

Bang on the money as usual  :bye:

It must be quite depressing to be so persistently wrong, over the course of several years.

Was Phil with you.
Sat at the back row right behind the goal with my lad.
Never saw you. Always enjoy Bramall Lane.

It must be more depressing being his shadow.

Fitted in nicely, has a physical presence and works harder off the ball than Gladwin.
Good, stable debut.

We stayed in the game for an hour, Doughty by all accounts added some bite, and we had an early concession, I make that 3 out of 4....but do carry on, nobody gets it all right.

You do seem to attract stalkers on here, don't you?
First ekarot, now this nutter.

He has to stay in hospital overnight for observation. Thanks for your concern.  Those of us with him were willing a 4-1 as he had money on it! 😃😃

I don't do "a bit of a dicking" Ells  :toocool:

There ya go Ginginho  ;)

and incredibly dull for the rest of us

I happen to think its nice that regardless of the regular hypocritical shit-or-bust attitude, or the antagonistic positing of the rose-tinted, that Reg remains chronically and unwaveringly pessimistic. It's not only utterly predictable but it's relatable. He's a bit like Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh, there's that side deep down in all of us.

Although for reminding me of the travesty that was the robinettes he can go to hell ;)

Yaser's farewell today as we won't make a penny on him if he doesn't leave in the next week. Could be off to the Championship or joining Wes at Rangers according to Yaser's dad apparently. Unless a Championship club pip us to him Louis T will be back to bolster the midfield.

You've never met Reg then Ells? He is actually the spitting image of Eeyore. But walks upright on the back legs, obviously.

Sadly I never have. All I want to know now is who attached that pink bow to his arse?

There's an old boy who goes swimming at the Post House that I chat to regularly, he's an avid Town fan called Reg, it's not you, is it, Reginald?

Fuck me, this is hard work. His forum name is taken from some 60's radio play, the tobacconist I seem to remember. HIS REAL NAME IS EEYORE VALIUM

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End  :)

Viv Stanshall rings a distant muffled bell

If only all usernames were that esoteric.
Some lazy twats just use bits of their names.  :gay:

super :gay:

Come on, I know that your are Mr Bat from Switzerland really

stalker.

When I am chairman, I'll bring back the Robinettes...

... I'll also bring back the Westler's hot dog stand and smoking in the Town End (because that's what football is supposed to smell like). I'll ban mobile phones so you have to buy a programme to look on the back to see who might be playing (Shaun Close on the bench, again..). I'd bring back the Shrivenham Road stand. And Jerel Ifil.

Other than that, good draw today. Feels like a win. Hope Doughty works out - feels like it's the right time for him to move. Have read some interesting interviews with him, mainly concerning his Dad (Nigel, the Ex Forest Chairman) dying and the impact that has had on his career - sounds the sort of personality any club would want in their squad.

The mobile phone idea is great. There's a girl I've sat with a few times (I hop all over the ground these days) who is constantly snapchatting pictures of the pitch and chatting on her phone. And it's usually turned up to a ridiculous brightness, so at evening games I can actually read her Facebook messages, or I would if I cared enough about Darren Beezley or whatever simpleton she's chatting to. Go away.

But the robinettes, noooo...

She's messaging the ex Watford right back?

I sat next to some fella the other week who spent the whole match checking his bets on his online account, and telling me all about them.
Fuck off mate! Check at half time if you can't wait till the end of the game.

I'd have thrown my shoe at him

Honestly, anyone who does anything other than watch football at a football match causes me an indefinite amount of (largely illogical) rage. It's not like tickets are cheap. Get your money's worth!

Ah man As soon as I saw the post I thought it would be one of ours, Is it doing our email rich? Or do you have to pm me and let me know ? (I think I can guess though)

I suspect it will be on our email by tomorrow, but you can guess who it was.

JW 😉

No, that's probably the Steam, Reg. A decent pub, now sadly gone to pot...I liked the way the Polish barmaids would feed him and fret if he didn't turn up of an evening.

So you are the " brown ebony shag" Reg then ???

He has a hex on him at the moment

No, solo trip yesterday, got a couple planned with Phil though - Oldham coming up and maybe Cov. Agreed, it's a good trip, none of this 4 miles outside the town centre multiplex bollox. For future reference the boozer in Sheffield station is fantastic if you like your real ale, microbrewery on site.

Highlights up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBIZFk8kHw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBIZFk8kHw)

1 It was BOO with the initial foul, not Turnbull.

2 It wasn't a penalty.

(https://photos-6.dropbox.com/t/2/AAAvOV_sDIntuk9fIAvYDSO3y0hRcmrsw1iD8l-g4Us1OA/12/266238185/png/32x32/1/_/1/2/Screenshot%202016-01-24%2016.29.13.png/ELXQmvoBGMUQIAIoAg/xGWQ-0trPKsyKh5AgottqTcYEsZEtmlP1vW9jejPZq0?size=640x480&size_mode=3)

You can understand why the ref gave it though. We'd have wanted the offender burnt at the stake if the other way around

Yep. Turnbull was naive to stand his ground and offer a leg to fall over. It was all Sharp was looking for. The way he kicked the ball, he'd given up on a chance on goal. BOO nearly spoiled it for him by fouling too early. Bloody kids eh?

Bully Sharp needs some boots with studs in so he doesn't fall over all the time, but it wasn't him that fell over for the pen

Shame the highlights didn't show Branco's header back to Obika that I thought he was going to score with but just didn't get in the end of, wasn't sure how close he was to it

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Shame the highlights didn't show Branco's header back to Obika that I thought he was going to score with but just didn't get in the end of, wasn't sure how close he was to it
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Or Nathen's slice at the back post, reckon he could have taken a touch he had that much space

Both in the official highlights, the one to Nath came at him very fast and took a deflection. Reckon he'd have done better with that one if he was match fit.

I don't know how anyone can say that wasn't a penalty. Come on, really?

I can say it wasn't a penalty. You can actually freeze-frame the point where the contact was made, and the contact was made outside the box.

Can't be too harsh on the REF though, he doesn't have the advantage of being able to play it back.

On closer inspection. I think it's 50/50.

Don't know why anybody would be incredulous at the suggestion it was not though.

The initial foul was clearly by BOO, BOO pushed him. Play should have been called back for that........ except maybe the ref 'played on'. Considering they had the advantage that would have been the right thing to do.

The next contact I can see after that was with feet literally ON the line.

Don't we have a resident Ref here somewhere?

I refer the dishonourable members to my freeze-frame above, which clearly shows the striker falling before he got into the box.

Not that it matters. Our boys screwed up; it was easy to see how it could be given.

Watched it 10 times, all 10 I've thought it was a penalty. More so than Ajose, but I've seen those given 8/10 times as well.

Ten out of ten Suttons thought it was a penalty. You really should start your own TV comedy show

Your freeze frame isn't working. I checked the URL, seems you have hosted the picture in a secure location. You'll have to use an image sharing site or change the permissions for us to see it.

Ah right. Didn't realise cos I could see it fine. Here is the evidence for the "defence", m'lud. Striker fell before he got to the box:

(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj571/frenchreds/Screenshot%202016-01-24%2016.29.13.png) (http://s1268.photobucket.com/user/frenchreds/media/Screenshot%202016-01-24%2016.29.13.png.html)

As we said, it's not as if there was a blatant miscarriage of justice though.

Pen for me.

They bought it off an old Wiley fox.

Knock it long, wait for the sandwich.

It was a penalty, but goes back to a conversion on here a few weeks ago.

Play the ball (doesn't matter where it goes) run into a gap between two defenders which isn't there (and the defenders have nowhere to go) and fall over theatrically - penalty!

Who would be a defender these days?

True.

(But literally speaking, it wasn't a penalty.)

You win some, you lose some re. the penalty. The best bit was suddenly everyone turning on Turnbull on twitter!

I don't make it to many away games these days, but was pleased that based on Saturday the moaning & booing at home games doesn't appear to have infected our away support, at least not at games that are a bit more of a trek

"People say that you shouldn't boo the players because it doesn't help them, but it bloody worked today. I think the fans should boo more often"

Iffy's Onion Bhaji - 16th January 2016

If BOO starts doing so well that people start chanting his name, Reeeeeeves-style, it's all going to get very confusing.

Agree re Turnbull trolls.

Sheff Utd player blatantly runs into Turnbull: Free kick STFC but beforehand Boo fouls, so pen or free kick Blades (no freeze frame option for ref)

Yes but we all have our own definition of "money's worth".

For me it's an excellent chance to catch up with my work emails whilst keeping one eye on the game.  That way I see the key bits of the game, avoid the dross, whilst getting a head-start on work for Monday morning.

Definition of sad.

I saw a couple of women have a scrap once, when the door staff restrained one whilst the other made her escape, the restrained one took off her shoes and threw them at the escapee (out of the pub entrance).  :) Class.

For those that wondered, the guy who headbutted the terrace celebrating the equaliser was released from hosptital at 5am yesterday morning! Got the first train back to London and is still sobering up today judging by the emails ;)

I think you've posted this on the wrong forum - 'head-start on work for Monday morning' Are you for real? I bet you wear slip on shoes don't you?

She started it.

.. I mean how awful!

What the hell is a Monday morning?

No I'm not for real.  It was a joke.

  ;D but you're still side stepping the footwear issue...where do you " stand " on slip ons?

I go for calf-coloured ones so they blend nicely with my lederhosen

Good news! I never saw him fall but he looked quite bad.  Tbf it was always going to happen, not sure he'll remember a great deal

Living up north, I get to more away than home this season & there is rarely any booing or moaning.  Atmosphere created away has been pretty good.  Went in the Town end for a couple of games before Christmas & found the whole ground subdued, with the exception of the booing.   

Well, he can certainly remember chatting to a stripper before he got the train home! He'll live.

I wish I could go to more away games. But every home is an away game to me and I just can't afford it. Fucking Northern league 1.

I'm glad that guy is doing OK though. Always positive when an injury becomes an anecdote :)

Haha! :)

Tell him he owes me a fiver for that 4-1 bet. He doesn't but he'll never remember. :-)

Seriously though, great news he's ok. Suspect he's still moaning about having to pay another train fare home.

 

 :nod:

I take no responsibility. I led the horse to the water but I didn't make it drink. :-)

Think our support has dramatically improved over last year or so. Not in terms of numbers but in terms of noise/chanting etc

Get yourself car sharing, works a dream!

Atmosphere away has been really decent all season, even during the shit run we had it was much better than the CG

I'd agree with that, pretty much no negativity on Saturday in the away end, really got behind the team. From what I saw on the road of the shit run, ok there was a bit of cooper out etc, but then if 700 people travel 100s of miles each, it's understandable. It was mainly gallows humour anyway (the bloke at Blackpool pretending to warm up as a sub infront of the away end, at Millwall singing we're going to win the league). Wigan in October, first game where there were signs of recovery but we were still 2nd from bottom, fantastic atmosphere. Hope for the best, expect the worst, so anything other than nothing is a bonus seems to be the attitude. Hence the mental celebrations on Saturday for the equaliser (not least the bloke who managed hospitalised himself....). When it works, there's nothing better than watching us away.

This.

Apart from Rochdale in the cup. That was bad. Really really bad.

Generally the away atmosphere is better. I dont go to that many aways because of work, although I yypically manage 10 or so in an average season - the only iffy one recently that I went to (and remember) being Colchester last season. Typically the moaning brigade don't come out on away days but for that I was sat behind some cunt who griped the whole match through.

We do have good fans amongst all the dross and when they are concentrated into a small area we can make a hell of a racket.

I don't know about that, just less of them, but because there are less fans anyway they seem to be noisier.

You've always had moaners, often they don't realise they're doing it, it's a kind of psychological release from their lives, but generally the travelling support does try and make a bit of effort.

you are all in it together away from home. siege mentality to a point, especially when faced with 18k partisan home fans.

I'd managed to erase that from my memory, that was pretty bad I must admit.

 Quite a few matches in Div 3 tonight....including Barnsley at Bradford, 1-0 to Tykes so far, hopefully they'll get some injuries or a red card or 2.

 More encouragingly Oldham one up at Shrewsbury.

 So, Barnsley have won 5 in row, and go above us.  Johnson knows what to do against us  :hmmm:

 Shrewsbury back to losing, which is handy, Fleetwood's game was postponed so no damage done as Blackpool only got a point.

Two form teams (on paper) to clash on Saturday then. Hopefully Winnall will have been snapped up or tonight's booking is significant (straw clutching).

The great thing at the moment is that there are several teams above us that are within three points. Despite dropping down, there are still five teams between us and the relegation zone, with three of them having played a game more.

Yep we've got a bit of breathing space, and our fate is in our hands. We've  got to play 7 games v teams currently below us,  that's 3 at the CG and 4 away, need to make sure we do better v the likes of Oldham ColU Blackpool and Fleetwood than we did earlier in the season.

Mawson went off injured tonight so hopefully that potential kick in the teeth has been eradicated.

Tough game Saturday, they're flying and we've picked up. No stupid mistakes at the back this weekend please boys and as always we stand a chance with our attacking threat.

Barnsley have had a funny old season, a steady start, stuffed us in mid September and backed it up by beating Gills, then lost 8 in row in the league, with added cup defeat to Altrincham lobbed in for extras.

They have now won 6 in 7, including the 5 in a row, the only defeat v Wigan. No idea why this has happened, maybe a lot of young players?

Maybe it's time we kept a clean sheet at home.

Madness...you need to go back 80 years to 35/36, to find a comparable season, then we finally managed a home clean sheet v Luton on March 21st.....rather like London buses we then had 2 in the next three.

That season we finished 4th bottom, fortunately being Div 3 South, only 21st and 22nd applied for re-election.

What stand were you in for the Luton game ?

Hotel End...rubbish if it rained, the roof was 2 years away.

Based on our form over the last 10 games I'm more interested in teams results above us

 Barnsley are above us.