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So off we travel to sunny Peterborough.

They are nicknamed Posh as their owner really likes that song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The Tap and the Sam Smiths pub (Almshouse?) are well worth going to. Also a bit further out is the Palmerston Arms which does a good range of beer. Lord Palmerston was also Barney Gumble's favourite Prime Minister.

3-1 win, doughty with 2 and Norris to seal it

Live on Sky so I cant see us winning.

2-1 defeat with Norris grabbing his first for the club. Oh, and Moncur getting one for Posh.

Will take a draw

I would too.

Posh have only beaten us 3 times in the last 13 meetings.

We have won our last 2 visits there 2-1 and drew the previous one with Posh only beating us twice in the last 7 games played at the ABAX (London Road).

Pre match checking of ticket stub t&c's in The Drapers Arms.

Nice gothic cathedral.
Hereward the Wake should receive more recognition as a hero of the resistance against the proto frog invaders.

Trips here are normally eventful.
The crazy 5-4 and the 3-3 Nicky Hammond masterclass spring to mind.

Anyway, after the deluge, today's game will be abandoned due to a plague of locusts.

Hope our new Murray will be an improvement on the last one.

Just back from two weeks away.  Woke up this morning to find Autumn in the air and Town on TV in a few hours.  It's good to be back!  :)

I'd also take a draw, but remain optimistic for something more.

Bit early to feel optimistic about getting a result on our travels so best hope here has to be a draw - I am hoping that Power and Williams have assembled a squad of doing well in this division - not an easy task given the cash available. Give them a month to gel and we could see a play off place - but today its a draw at best 1-1

The barge is probably the best place to drink, Charters I think it's called. Good mix of home and away fans and a big sunny garden if the weather is nice.

Score draw today. 2-2. Norris and Murray.

Just hope we don't get thrashed like millwall #coyr

5-1 to Town

 No idea today.

 We've yet to really establish a settled side so far, but have managed a couple of wins at the CG and a draw on the road.

 The loss of 3 to call ups, is something we didn't need while searching for stability. A goal from a striker would be something.

heavy night on the ale? or early start :)

Might pop into the moonies for this one

Feel confident about this game which never usually bodes well. 2-1 Town

Would take a point with Yas and JSW out. Think we'll lose though

TOWN STARTING XI | Vigouroux; Furlong, Thompson (C), Jones; Barry, Thomas, Rodgers, Doughty, Brophy; Goddard; Delfouneso.

TOWN SUBS | Henry, Ormonde-Ottewill, Smith, Murray, Iandolo, Hylton, Norris.


Hmmm  Rodgers again.... :hmmm:

3-5-2 with Furlong at right centre back and Goddard playing up front off Delfounseo?

It's been a shit week so going for optimism.

Not a great fan of that lineup but was critical of the starting 11 vs Gillingham so taking that as a lesson learnt.

COYR.

So my home game, have been to Charters for a pre match tipple, have to say not overly optimistic and would be happy with a draw

Bloody Prutton is one of the commenters on the Sky Sports coverage.

He makes me very aggressive. Stupid prick

Drum Wankers, even at home :(

Any suggestions of a feed I can watch on the lap top while on the turbo trainer?

Tim Sherwood & Brendan Rodgers are here with Lee Power

Try here https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams/comments/50yafk/match_thread_1100_gmt_peterborough_united_vs/

Furlong on the right of the back three, Thomas in midfield

Kodil/Sportsdevil keeps telling me there's no stream

OK, got it

It sounds very, very quiet there.

I don't think anyone is there. All cardboard cutouts

knocking it around really well, just need a bit more in front of goal, still early days :pint:

Short corners? Why do we bother as we just give the opposition the ball back.

Lee Power checking out the TEF on his mobile.

Final ball really lacking so far, which is a shame as it wastes great build up play.

It is


and there aren't many

Oh dear  good play but no end product.....yet

Garry birtles seems to have identified our overplay :sherlock:

And when thwy've been long, they've been straight into the goalkeeper's arms.  Do we not practice corners at all?

Good possession again, but final ball is poor or too much time is taken and the chance is gone.

They play like a version of us with even more problems in the final third

This is utter dross. Majority of possession but absolutely no clue up front. To much over playing and no one challenging the keeper on corners. Peterborough are shocking but will inevitably score on their first meaningful attack.

NEver a free kick.Shit defending though.

FFS. And from a free-kick that wasn't a free-kick

Fuck sake, from a free kick that shouldn't have been given

Brilliant reffing there, play on till Madison hops a bit then give a free kick

And they score. Ffs.

Shit defending from a free kick that was a good challenge.

Have you got tonight's lottery numbers by any chance?

the ref is a complete cock :crash:

Well well well... Fancy that... Get the ball in the box and attack it and guess what happens.

Piece of shit shit shit refereeing

I say it every week but Barry and Rogers are just not good enough, I really fail to see what Williams/Power see in them

A lot more than you, obviously.

Another wasted corner. So frustrating.

We look somewhat crap up front, but we've also missed a couple of chances to release the ball for Fonz to run onto.

Perhaps we could get spec savers sponsoring next year

Doughty never would have had to make that tackle if he didn't do that lazy back heel to Jones without looking.

The ref having a mare so far.

That yellow was weird

Ooooh, so close from Goddard.

Still struggling to get a feed not covered in ads.....

Mine is just looping

I'm using sportsmania that was mentioned on here recently. You have to pay for a subscription, but it's been pretty much flawless so far.

http://www.edg-streaming.com/skys1-axe.php

This has been perfect so far, whereas I've struggled to find a stream working continuously on Kodi.

http://mamahd.com/sky-sports-1-live-stream-1.html

Pretty much flawless thus far

We need crossing practice.

It's started raining, call the game off.

Ditto. Streaming via Kodi/Firestick. Really good quality and no ads

I got that after Tans' recommendation, it is good.

I also had reasonable joy with this - http://sportlemonline.com/?watch=Y52imJmsY5eVqJmbo6atY52Yl5WomZujpq1jZQ== - before I went with sportsmania

http://www.vipbox.nu/football/412726/1/peterborough-united-vs-swindon-town-fc-live-stream-online.html

Couple of ads to click away (even on adblocker) but once you're past that it's fine and no ads on full screen.

Bang on

How much is the subscription on sportsmania?

Too pedestrian. If we up the pace we'll win this 3-1. Peterborough look pretty average.

Glad to be of service gents.

Mex its 15 quid for 3 months or 50 quid for a year i think

My prediction of 5-1 is still on

Think it was 50 quid for the year.  I'd say it's well worth it

I did £26 for 6 months.

We just need to bring Traore on to change the game like he did last season, ...................oh shit I see a flaw with this plan :(

Its good for 3pm kick offs aswell

0-1 HT

- Do not deserve to be losing this but that was a top quality free kick from Maddison.
- Impressed with our passing and movement up to their penalty area but we haven't really opened them up much.
- Thought Goddard had scored with his shot at the end of the first half. Thought that was the first pass or shot he had with any conviction. Think he's a good player but hasn't quite got the self belief yet.
- Back 3 are defending well.
- Delfounseo makes some excellent runs but hasn't been sent through once.
- Garry Birtles' commentary is appalling.

We have looked comfortable if not threathening, poor movement up front and still trying to walk the ball in.

Poor defending for the goal but shouldn't have been a free kick.

Defouneso doesnt look sharp enough yet but had a few good touches, would like to get Norris on for a bit more movement.....and a shot once in a while.

Posh are there for the taking, they look like the away side holding onto a lead and are very poor so far.

PENALTY!

Yeeeeeeeesssssss DOughty 1-1

Refs evened it up then

Yup, very harsh when its whacked from that close even if it did hit his hand.

karma.

Tough penalty, definitely blocked a shot on target with his arm but think we'd feel it was harsh at the other end. Think penalty and no card might have been about right.

What's happened off camera here then? Yellow for Jones miles off the ball. Some sort of arm drag on replay, Posh lad has looked for it but daft from Jones

Sorry but that pen is in no way harsh.hes dived to his left with his hands out.if anything deliberate hands

He's Branco'd it.

We'll disagree then, dont think his arm started out, more moved out when he's headed towards the ground. To me anyway.

Both of the crowd getting a bit angsty with the ref it seems

Murray time. Rodgers off. Mint.

Moncur's hair, jeez

Moncur on so he'll score.

Also who the hell keeps taking our foul throws?

Dream debut :( 2-1 posh

Oh

Fucks sake.

Probably a penalty, but an awful dive nonetheless.

Dreadful defending

fucking about with it at the back again

Bloody Rodgers fault, getting subbed off.

Not sure he was trying to, just a horrific first touch

If stepping someone's toe is a pnalty then fuck me every game around the country should finish 45-47. Fucking awful decision.

That one was clear cut, crap control, attacker nicked in and got took out

Eh? Stonewall pen

Goddard<->Norris

Yep goddard looked our biggest threat in my eyes

Not one but two players keeping delfonso onside there.that lino is fucking shite

2-2 OG

Gooooooooooooooooooooalll.

An Oggy.

Marvellous.


2-2

See, put good crosses in and get results.

Doughty has been superb today. Apart from his one shitty back heel.

Blimey we've finally scored more than one goal in a game!

Shows how much opinions differ, I think Delfouneso has been excellent and Goddard poor.

Michael Doughty has done well today. New favourite.

Glad we didn't get moncur don't like him seems a bit Billy big bollocks

oh dear

That was much more a yellow than the one the Peterborough fella got yellowed for. Jones pretty lucky.

On the few occasions we've got a decent early ball into the box, it's caused them problems.

So close from Norris

good result, but could have won that :pint:

We looked better with Rodgers in midfield

Good result

Decent point away from home especially having been behind twice.  Could have nicked it at the end.  We need to start turning our dominant possession into goals.

Doughty was immense

Doughty, Thompson and Thomas were superb today I thought. Goddard looked good but looked a bit tired so good decision to bring him off.

Not convinced about Delfouneso. He looks like he could produce something but its not happening for him.

Could've won but without Kasim I'll take a point

Goddard was pretty good, started giving the ball away though just before he got pulled. Doughty was mom, but Thomas, and Thompson weren't far behind.

Fair result, thought we played quite well without every looking overly dangerous though.

Thompson, Jones and Furlong looked gooda at the back.

Delfouneso needs more touches than he should be could well come good.

The weather played a big part but over all we did ok against a fairly poor Posh team.

Better crossing would be good and lets not walk the ball into the net and have a few shots.

Decent point, happy with that

Thought we were excellent. Well done town.

We all agree (do we?) Doughty is better than Gladwin (dont tell QPR tho')

Home from football at 20 to 3 on a Saturday seems weird.

Happy with a point, especially having been behind twice & with a makeshift defence again.

Thought we played ok to be fair and deserved a point

Doughty is easily Championship standard. Very impressed with us today. Slight tinge of disappointment that we didn't win it.

Though we were OK today, didn't create enough though.

Peterborough were certainly no better than us.

Its early days for this squad, its quite encouraging.

Why is Nathan Thompson still playing for us? Of all the players in the shop window for the last 3/4 years that have been sold. I don't think we appreciate him enough, immense and our current longest serving player

Although very good today,makes too many mistakes to step up a grade in my opinion,also poor disciplinary record may have something to do with it

Reasonably impressed with that.

Delf up front was isolated but did challenge back.

Goddard and Doughty outstanding, Brophy good but faded.

Dare I say it by Rogers was a bit unlucky to be subbed off and Murray won't forget his debut in a hurry....looked off the pace and I was surprised he got that much game time...early days for him.

Happy enough with a point away.

Corners were dogshit today...we need to make them count.

Birtles on Sky was spot on....all very nice with pretty play but sometimes you have to shake it up a bit. He said the same last season when Wigan served up our Arse on a plate.

vigs unlucky with a superb pen...glove or not that is going in!!

He's inherited the mantle of Shaun Taylor.  Not sure I expected ever to see that.  Swindon through & through.

Actually - to be fair to NT - he's probably more Swindon than Shaun ever was.  Shaun was simply loyal - very loyal - to us when he was with us.  Nathan has STFC in his DNA.

So do we all to be fair

Thompson was man of the match without any doubt.
Not sure about Jones, looks a bit similar to another Turnbull who I thought was a total carthorse.

Good point but should have been more.

Well, my 'critical' thoughts were:

Vigs: Didn't have anything to do

Brophy: Has a left foot and nothing else. Defender he was up against kept showing him inside and had him in his pocket.

Barry: Good outlet at times but couldn't cross

Thompson: Calm and assured and didn't lunge in today. Looked very good.

Jones: Big lad. Caught out of position and baited too easily. Looks pretty good and an upgrade on Turnbull.

Furlong: Played his position well I thought. Safe but unspectacular.

Rodgers: Thought he was tidy. Didn't take any risks. Solid display.

Thomas: Liked the look of him. Ran around and got the ball back lots. Played nice simple passes.

Doughty: Lots of energy and spark in midfield. Bit one footed and a little wasteful in the final third. Thought he unsurprisingly tired towards the end. Worked hard all game.

Goddard: Thought he got in lots of good positions, but his touch seemed poor and he took too long on the ball.

Delfouneso: At times I felt sorry for him in the first half. Thought he made lots of good runs and kept indicating where he wanted the ball, but noone passed it for him to run onto. But, I wasn't particularly impressed with his flicks and hold up play. Also, I'm not sure he is a predator in the box - Always seemed a mile away from the ball. Was that because he didn't take up good positions or because the service was poor?

Subs:
Murray: Looked very slow and rusty. Didn't see anything of note. Would rather he had a week of training before making his debut.

BOO: Looked lively but very small! Seemed ineffective after taking a clattering from one of our own players!

Norris: Ran around and tried hard. Shame his one chance didn't go in the back of the net.

Overall, I think that we looked a bit more organised and self assured at the back. We also looked quite disciplined when we didn't have the ball. However, I thought we offered little to no threat in the final third and needed the help of the Posh defence to grind out a result. Having said that, before the game, I thought we would lose quite comfortably. So battling back to 2-2 was a good result. I don't think either team will be challenging at the top, nor will they be struggling at the bottom.

They say people see games differently, but the above is exactly how I saw each player. Murray did look ring rusty, but at least he didn't let the penalty let his head drop, he was solid enough after, without doing anything spectacular. High hopes for him once he gets match fitness, and settles in.

He should have been fit, did a full pre-season and played regularly in their development squads, played for Watford on Tuesday evening!

Still not the same as 5-6 L1 games. He'll be good, mark my words!

Agree, he'll ooze quality .. Only going to get better

The most positive thing for me today was the fact we started without Kasim, Obika, Sendells- White and Branco, yet we put out a decent team and we had good options on the bench which we never had last season.

We should have won today and I think we will do well this season. Our final ball needs to be better.

Looking forward to us scoring four or five goals next Saturday !

Agreed. Think we are missing Ajose (or any true goalscorer) hugely, and this may be more of a problem later in the season. But the squad looks much more balanced to me with better options/cover in most positions.

Hopefully the 17 attacking midfielders can share the goals amongst them to keep us scoring enough to be competitive.

Acid test will come on the proverbial cold February night in Oldham but promising that this young team hasn't let their heads drop and now recovered something from losing positions a few times already.

Jones is twice the player Turnbull was already

A few quotes from the Posh forum on the game....

I agree there, he has a bit of pace and is a solid unit, worked well with Thompson I thought, he will get better and better.

I like the two at the bottom.

They created nothing, compared to they looked a little more dangerous than us in attack :D

Just goes to show that whoever you support, everyone sees the game differently.

Having watched the game again on TV those two efforts (one at the end of each half) by Goddard & Norris were fucking close.

At the time I thought Norris had scored

I must admit I thought both Goddard and Norris has scored watching it on tv, they were both closer than a gnats nadger away :)

I thought some of the Posh fans made fair comments. It was a fairly dull and pedestrian game at times and neither side really looked anything special, both relied upon errors to score.

However we are lacking our two best players, had only one and a half natural centre backs on the pitch and some players who still need to settle in properly.

Absolutely spot on, I think if we had JSW, Kasim and Obika playing then it may have been a different result, but we can only speculate on that.

The weather played a big part in the game, forcing errors on both sides.

I think Luke Williams summing up was pretty spot on however even as an involved spectator it was incredibly dull and I thought the commentary that highlighted our final play as being dreadful was spot on - early season so hoping this team will get better as a unit - I would like to see BOO thrown on as an possible impact player as he looked like he was trying to get something going by attacking with the ball - not a great advert for League 1 football and any independent watching that would have gone for a walk - onwards and upwards....

I thought it was a decent advert for league 1 football, good technique, not a lot of diving, no hoofball, no stereotypical big lumps kicking the shit out of eachother. The only thing that was missing was real pace and finishing. Depends what you're into though

I may have been a hit harsh on Jones, he can at least attack a ball in the area without letting it bounce.
Was at fault for the first goal(free kick), but he has not many games behind him.
I have only seen him twice, and on both occasions he has not impressed me, quite happy to be wrong.
Turnbull was bloody crap, best news this season was hearing he had signed for another club.

The game against posh had far better quality than the shit being dished up by England v Slovakia.

I'd have liked it if we'd got a 95th minute winner  :)

Tbf, I think that was more down to Slovakia than England. 

But England had fuck all quality. Goddard had better movement than any England player today. England are just a load of dogshit players sometimes replaced by other dogshit players.

Forget England, I remain undefeated as a Matchday thread starter. :-)

you'd better
 a. start the next one
 b. remain undefeated
or there will be trouble

I got stripped of a knighthood because of it!

All over it for Saturday.  :toocool:

This is a big undertaking Donkey. Before taking this on you need to ask yourself honestly if you are really and truly prepared for the challenges ahead.

Live or die, death or glory.  It's a large undertaking, but what's left for me if I walk away?  I'll have nothing.

El Burro's gotta do what el Burro's gotta do.

I'm sorry but I still will not accept that people think Turnbull is shit.

Agreed, he was generally seen as decent enough but suddenly turned shit this season apparently without playing a game for us.

Not the first time opinions dramatically changed on a player as soon as they leave, either positively or negatively

Because some people think it, it doesn't make it a fact.  It would be fair to say that Jordan made a numnber of erors last year and wasn't as good as he was the previous year....nevertheless very young for a centre half, where players usually get better with age. I'd have been happy to have had him as a full signing rather relying on another loan.

Its like the Storey effect in reverse, I bet theoretical physicists have a name for it?

I call it the Heiselberg Uncertainty Principle.....

Good shout..

Probably think that because he went to a rival!

:D

See the Adver is really behind the times - again!!!  Back page there is a picture of Doughty scoring his pen but the Adver has in large white print - Barry goal ensures Swindon secure another County Ground success!!  Bet Power is laughing at them again!

This coupled with the fact that employing ASD as press officer has been an extremely shrewd move by Power, the amount of news articles and tweets coming out of the club has never been as good.

The commentators insistence on calling Doughty "Dowerty" really bugged me.

Is it dow or doe?

a female deer

It really shouldn't have, but it annoyed me too.

I don't know. But I do know that the 'werty' bit can fuck-off.

Its always been the case,perhaps because as a town supporter i notice it more.when we were in the prem,motd could never pronounce nijholt or on occasions, fjortoft and even horlock was regulary called hurlock

I'm obviously grumpy today.. What does it matter? We know who they mean, its not as if they were calling him Murphy or O'reilly so we dont know who they are on about.

Disgraceful comment.  You've spoiled the whole thread for me.

Good

Sent from my SM-G935F

So let's get this straight it was pronounced do.....like Do Do Do The Funky Gibbon, then werty as in qwerty keyboard.

Once introduced as Nij Lucholt by a matchday announcer.
Think it was away somewhere.

Be nice if the PA people could do a bit of research on how to get the pronunciations right.
Attention to detail and all that.

At least our one doesn't rattle through the opposition line up in less than 5 nanoseconds anymore.

Dough-er-tee is how commentators tend to say it. Which basically makes them cunts.

nijholt, pronounced knee-jolt

;)

There was at least one TV commentator who kept calling him Nige Holt.

A section of Town fans favoured knee-jerk.

Do you use a VPN when using sportsmania Tans and, if so, which one?

No need to use one for that mate,

when i need to use one i use private internet access

Cheers Tans, thanks