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Whats the consensus? Big game for LW, pressure mounting imo.

2-1 defeat. Murray.

3-0 loss. With Williams resigning after the game

2-0 defeat

5-0 win

Luke Warm reads the riot act sending the players into a coma.
This is a game we must not lose. No score bore 0 0

Travelling back from glasgow for this so hoping for an improved performance. 2-1 win with Murray and Obika scoring. 210 away support.

They are like us and don't score many goals but their defence is much better than ours, 1-0 defeat.

2-0 defeat

Agreed. In the time I've supported Town, games away at Northern outposts usually end in defeat. Oldham, Tranmere, Stockport....

That's cos we're a bunch of soft southern jessies.

Can't see beyond another defeat - which is grim seeing as Oldham are favourites to go down.

Keep hoping things can only get better, but . . .

Edit: just realised Jamie Reckord plays for them - 0-2

Think it will benefit us being away from home today.

1-2 Town.

Can't see past a defeat today.

2-0 defeat. Oldham another side who bully us

Going from predicting draws to a defeat which is depressing at least 2-0

Another defeat which will mean Reg bringing out the big red button.

Flying home from Izmir so will miss all the match thankfully!

we are going to win 1-0.

ok , that's not what my prediction league entry says but..

Dont think anyone can confidently predict a win.never thought of us as a one man team but without doughty we seem to be lacking in quality.3-0 (inc a pen conceded by nathan)

We will lose, don't know by how many & after Tuesday's lack of anything from team or management I'm struggling to get enough enthusiasm too be angry about it.

No doughty,no good and now i suppose the inevitability of yaser's increasing disinterest

Pre match lack of expectation in The Paramount.

Usual defeat here coming up.

The great Kenny Rogers name checked our opponents in the lyrics to The Gambler. "You gotta know when to Oldham"

However today's theme tune is "Dragging me down" by Inspiral Carpets.

 Luke needs a point today, defeat and he should go....either walk or be redeployed. When fans are resigned this early in the season, something is very wrong.

Don't see why he should walk away from his contract. He should wait to be culled - if, indeed, he does.

Personal dignity....much better to hold your hands up Kevin McDonald style and say it's not for you.

I have to admit, the 5 league wins since March 1st surprised me in how bad it was (p21 w5 d7 l9 ).

I don't think it's time to push the Williams eject button yet. If nothing else this squad isn't really relevant to anything that happened last year.

But there is reason for concern, for all the reasons already given.

I'll be happy with a draw,which is thoroughly depressing this early in the season.

1-1

He's said we have been threatened with a 25k fine due to the players attitudes to referees decisions

I'll take a point, but then I usually would regardless of the circumstances.

If he (or Power) shows a willingness to adapt and adjust our system then no reason for him to walk yet

Which the players should pay themselves if that comes to pass.

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I've seen us win there with David Duke and Jamie slabber in the line-up so today should be a formality. 1-4

TOWN STARTING XI | Vigouroux; Rossi-Branco, N Thompson (C), Jones; Furlong, Kasim, Thomas, Goddard, Ormonde-Ottewill; Obika, Delfouneso

TOWN SUBS - Henry, Evans, Smith, Rodgers, Iandolo, Norris, Hylton

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oh dear, no brophy or Murray, two of Tuesdays better performers

Injured?

Murphy? Did you mean Brophy? If not then I'm rather confused.

Think he meant Murray.

Suddenly our bench looks week again.

doh, yes! cross pollination of Brophy and Murray..

That's what I meant to write, now he's got me writing the wrong names down.

:)

Didn't Brophy go off feeling sick on Tuesday? Might have been concussion.

Am i wrong but are our players more injury prone than any other team. I can remember back in the late 60s early 70s when we had the same 11 for about 30 games

He was mugged by a Rovers gorilla, so it's a mandatory rest now for that.  Sadly it's all too easy for Div 3 heavers, to injure our lads, the annoying thing is that refs let them get away with it, like Pope on JSW.

Murray just isn't fit....which is probably why he went down the pecking order at Watford, hopefully he's not a sicknote.

Before my time but I bet more minor injuries were much likely to be ignored and played through.

Not like now where they're out for 2 weeks with a stubbed toe or 10 days with an itchy bumhole.

Pretty much part of the point I was making on Wednesday, fitness of our players just is not right.

We don't know why Brophy and Murray are out.

Of the injuries that we do have, at least 2 of them cannot be down to fitness (JSW and Dougherty). Let's not get hasty now.

Brophy chest infection, Murray bruised foot.

BBC Wilts just said it's chest infection and bruised toe respectively.

that's good news then!

Compaired to many of our player injuries it is!

I wasn't being sarcastic!

Hence my reply!

YESSSSSSSSS

that was unexpected. get in!

Only 72 mins to hang on this time

Ruined my bet Town ;) .

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My Player is as far behind the reality as Shaun Hodgetts' wardrobe/use of slang.

My player is lagging well beind too.

1-0 half time.

sorry for the spoiler player listeners...

Not half time here....

Half time now.

1-0 up due to us changing to 4-4-2 and going direct today?

No, 1-0 up due to us scoring a goal and them not scoring yet ;)

So far so good.

Nice controlled performance so far.

Any small errors have been covered by a team mate.
Very good.

2-0 BOO.


Yaaaaay!

2-0

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Get in.

Sell him

Fucking yeeesssss!!!!

Boo scores

2-0 town

I know Oldham are not very good but I am shocked, in a good way!

3,403 crowd, thats poor.

Not surprised to see us flourishing away from the nagative glare from our own fans.

That, combined with playing well against a shit Oldham.

I would take that every match

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We all would Only Me!

2-0 FT.
What a great away victory, very much needed and should settle things a bit in advance of Tuesday. Credit where credit is due.

3 pts from play-offs

As pleasing as it is unexpected.

Never in doubt.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Expectations for this were palpably lower than usual, so the victory is all the more surprising, but no less sweet.

Was not expecting that result. I reckon Tans should start the match threads from now on

The new training pitch has started it's magic.

Hodgetts on a wild Luke chase...

 Well done Luke, had to get something today and did. OK Oldham may well be shit but a win is a win.

Just got up from my obviously lucky kip. Who got the first?

Obika

Cheers. Fickle me will be watching the footie show tonight then.

Apparently we passed the ball around a lot for the first goal, which they may not show on the FL highlights.

 Good performance and an away win with the bonus of a clean sheet. Hopefully gives us a boost for Tuesday

Who cares? We won :) I can visualise that bit

This will taste better tonite  :pint: :beers: :pint: :beers: :pint: :beers: :clap: :clap: :clap: :zipped:

Cobblers look a form team...we've had problems with the other Div 4 new arrivals, so getting something would be a bonus.

Well happy with that.
First win here on seventh visit!

Commanding performance, albeit against limited opposition.

Brophy & Murray not missed today, well done to BOO & Goddard who both did very well.

Didn't expect that, well done!!

Anything on Williams post match interview of note?

The players & management were rightly criticised after Tuesday's performance & result.

So it's only right that they take the credit for an excellent result today.

And for those that say it was only Oldham & they are shit we have to remember we lost to Rivers and they were also shit

Unexpected.

A win is a win.

Bit of relief.

Onwards to Tuesday.

Good result. Will be interested to see what the people who went thought.

well fuck me.

 :pint: Cheap cider night. Let's make sure we go in great number to Scumsbury next week. The gauntlet has been thrown down:

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/thread/93426/away-fans-pub

Good on that chap for holding his ground.

Cider X

Dossys back!

Wow Scumsbury, what a fucking genius.

That took me ages to even work out.

Just call them Welsh, winds them up enough.

https://youtu.be/5OAu5UHjE5M

Only 1 point below the yellow peril who according to their (and many of our) supporters are the best team in the league if not the world...... we are thus obviously going up....

Much like Southend. A load of fans were going mad that they signed Ranger and Cox, look at how that's going for them....

Most of it was good stuff about this helping the players grow confidence in the way we're supposed to play. One thing I noted that was slightly concerning: he said the players were getting fitter, which seemed odd.

 :gay:

Maybe he was referring to the likes of Thomas. According to comms he ran his socks off today, he hasn't 'that' much game time so far.

New training facilities?

any links to the goals anyone?

Didnt realise Oldham had been so solid at the back. Makes the result look a bit better!

Sky sports website

Is it just on my mobile or does it start with our first goal which is 2 passes? They waxed lyrical about it on comms so hopefully the full build up will be available on the OS

Here:

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11719/10591558/league-one-round-up-scunthorpe-stay-top-with-sheffield-united-draw

Oldham were poor, we were good.

Thomas had his best game in a Town shirt, played the second half as what I would describe as an advanced enforcer, won plenty of ball high up the pitch, showed good awareness and played some good football.

Goddard and Delfouneso were both very good, great movement from the two of them.  Branco was faultless, Nathan picked up a needless booking and Jones did what he does.

Must have been 30-40 passes leading up to the first, mostly the passes that people moan about but was a perfect example of what we actually try to achieve, keep the ball moving across the width of the pitch and wait for the right time to play the right, incisive pass to open the opposition up.  Second was another great move, more direct in that it was an attack from conception and was brilliantly executed through great movement down the inside left channel.

Can't say anybody had a bad game, loads of positives to take and hopefully that will give the team the belief they need to go out and actually do what they are good at.  Really showed the benefit of working for each other toward a common goal.

Oldham were poor, we were good.

well that was brief!

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Pretty much sums it up Tom

Had a feeling we'd benefit from being away from home today.

Cracking result. Hopefully kick on now.

As always on a Sunday morning I like to read what our previous days opposition fans have to say about us, good or bad, so here are some comments plus a match report from Oldhams perspective.


https://joeoafc.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/oldham-0-2-swindon-the-post-match-verdict/

Sounds like we were a different team to recent performances. Funny old game.

Not really. Sounds like Oldham weren't on plan from recent games and didn't really press the ball when had it. We always find it easier when teams allows us time and space.

Northampton won't let us rest on Tuesday and will put our defence under a lot of pressure I suspect.

I prefer to focus on the Swindon side and would like to think that we made them look bad by playing better than them rather than focus on the negatives and think the opposition played badly making us look good.

But then thats just me with that opinion it would seem.

Right.

So when we lose it's because we're shit and when we win, it's because the opposition were shit?

It seems so doesn't it.

There is an element of truth in this....it's early doors, but we can see that 2 of our 3 wins came v Cov and Oldham, both of whom have only scored 4 goals so far this season, and have one win between them, which suggests they might not be very good.

We need the evidence of a decent run before we can tell if this squad has turned some sort of corner....certainly Tuesday night will provide a better idea.

Or maybe we just played well?

Now there's a crazy thought!

According to Luke we were no different to the games we lost....of course it helps, if the wankers in black don't give phantom pens, don't disallow perfectly good goals 2 mins after they've been scored and give the requisite cards to opposition players who assault our young bucks.

Highlights would suggest Goddard had his best game in a Town shirt. Or Oldham let him, whatever.

Belated report. Good decision to plan trip to Boundary Park -first visit nice enough ground -on way back from week's holiday in very sunny Scotland. Thanks to all of you who gave useful tips on where to visit by the way, would thoroughly recommend it as a holiday destination, weather dependant and we were lucky. On to the game, which we completely dominated from start to finish - bar 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half just before Boo scored. Collectively and individually bar none we were very good. Thompson, Kasim, Goddard and Obika particularly impressive. 100% commitment good pressing  and clearly determined to get the win. Sense of togetherness and Thompson, Jones and Branco had their own little group hug at the end to celebrate the clean sheet. What was the difference from the Bury game? - I missed the Rovers rematch due to holiday, good choice.Oldham were poor, didn't press us and clearly lacked belief when we went ahead. Against Bury we were always chasing the game and the incorrect offside decision went against us. Bury were also a more confident outfit than Oldham and pressed us but even so second half we should and could have got a result. It is really small margins, such as taking chances, an example being Clarke missing an absolute sitter for Oldham at one nil yesterday just before Boo scored. That might well have changed things, as per Obika's disallowed goal. We are as good as anyone in this league when we get the breaks and as weak as any when we don't. Points to a mid table finish, although if we keep key players fit - Vigs, Thompson, Kasim and Obika are the spine of the team and could all play at a higher level - we will have a chance of a shot at the play offs. If we lose 2 or 3 of those for long periods it could easily go the other way. Forgot to mention but felt that Furlong, Boo, Goddard and Thomas all had their best games for us. Team had a good shape to it, wing backs got forward well and crossing much better. Well done to Williams on team selection and motivation -I am sure players play for and respect him.

That pretty much sums it up, Kirky.

when our football works it god damn works.

when it doesn't, we carry on regardless.

Poor Oldham couldn't deal with us.

I think there was 17 passes for the first goal.

A team that stands still and let's us knock it about are fucked.

A team that shuts us down and gets in our face and goes direct....and we are fucked.

Delighted with the win, I hope we can string some results together now.

Big test on Tuesday night.

Flash is spot on. I suspect Northampton will be more the pressing type of side so a far more difficult game is likely. Dealing with that style is the problem that we have struggled with for a few years. We have enough combative players in defence - Jones and Branco won every header yesterday - but lacking an enforcer in midfield. I would have Furlong, who was very combative yesterday as well as quick, and Thomas as part of midfield 3 with Kasim for the more bruising games and Norris and Obika up front to add physical presence, although I thought that Delfonsoe was good yesterday particularly 2nd half and Norris offered little. Just think we should change certain players for certain games and use our more physical players when needed. Rogers on the bench for both types of opposition please!

If, as has been reported by those that attended, we reverted to actually pressing the opposition players, I'd say that has been what's missing from those 3 losses.

I didn't attend the Rovers replay but the Bury game didn't have much of it - more interested in trading niggly fouls.

Get back on board with the high pressing and the points will follow.

Are we doomed yet?

Ray of hope, on our present form we'll get 56 points, easily enough to stay up, (but not without some scares along the way)

Was speaking to my old man about that. 2 assists and involved in everything else that made the highlights

Think we got carried away. After the refs report the score has been reversed.

http://www.skysports.com/football/oldham-vs-swindon/358766

Late tot he party here, but agree with comments from those who went. Absolutely a combination of us playing quite well, and Oldham pretty much leaving us to it. We could have played until Christmas and they wouldn't have scored.

Furlong did very well at RB. Oldham's main (only) tactic was to lump balls out to their winger so that he could win the knock downs. I think Furlong won every header. Thompson played well bar a silly yellow, Goddard was very impressive, and overall there was a confidence about our play. Take that into games against teams who press us and we might do ok. It's the nervousness that leads to mistakes.

That was my first live game of the season, having watched the Posh game on Sky. Tempted to go to Shrewsbury now and maintain my 100% record.