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Right.

For once in our recent history, we will be the ones who reads this thread and realise we are more up for it than them.

We must remember that we are swindon town and everything we've seen before us has gone.

What we will do in this day and age is fight for the club.


I'm in a toilet inBristol getting the door knocked, and they will be counted.

Viva la Swindon, Viva la SOLIDS

As long as our squad dont do this....

https://twitter.com/ballstreet/status/852507900169900034

I'm away up to Scotland so we'll win handsomely. 4-1

I've got to work.
so I'll see your 4-1 and raise it to 5-1 (Norris 89, 90, 90+1, 90+2, 90+3). he'll score in the last minutes just to piss off the early leavers.

If that happens I'll wear slip on shoes/loafers with tassels and no socks for everyday for the rest of my life.

well Norris, if you're reading this you know what to do.
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this is pretty much a must win isn't it. i don't think 4 points from this and Walsall would be terminal, but winning there will be very tough.

Two games in four days, will we cope physically?

Must win, tight and tense but we will win 2-1.

I think we will beat the fake wimbledon having held the real wimbledon to a draw last weekend

If we win, chances are we will be out of the bottom four. Can we deal with that mentally? Can we deal with anything mentally? Time to find out.

1-0. Ajose pen.

You'll get that bite, one day.

 ;)

Must win game for us, my fear is that our little darlings don't usually cope so well under pressure.

It's going to be 1-0, hope it's to us :) , but could just as easily to be them :(

Never had Tans down as a Franchise lover ;)

2-0 win, early and late goals. Takes us in a stronger position to Easter Monday, where we take 2000 to Walsall

We've already managed to overcome coping with the dreadful reality of a one-goal lead. These lads have turned a corner mentally (insert your own punctuation in that one) and are now psychological giants capable of overcoming any hurdle. 0-2 loss.

There, finished for you.

It was much simpler with Rottweilers and Chiwawa.

Similar to the Franchise game but with fewer chances. AFC will look more organised and stronger than Town but we'll come away with another 1-1.

I'm not so sure. Chiwawa (sic) is a difficult word to spell.  I've always had it down as a sort of Mexican word chihuahua

facking autocorrect.

I'm with the matchday sponsors today - due to meet Luke Williams in about 20 mins...what probing questions should I ask?

Given the desperate need for points why isn't Anton starting. He's even had a " notice me" haircut. What more has he got to do.

Barry in for injured Nathan Thompson today otherwise unchanged.

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Bugger. Can't be helped but...

Look at it this way, makes it less likely that we will go 3 at the back at any point which is a plus!

Would you like a hand packing?

I think over all I would rather Nathan was out than Conroy.

yeah, but I'd rather Nathan play than Barry. Which is what it is.

Barry will be MoM today, mark my words ;)

Listening to Williams interviews today - has he ever spoke one sentence that doesn't include "for sure"?

FFS, the commentary has gone off on FM... come back, come back

Typical BBC, cut off commentary just as we are due to kick off.

They're taking the piss now playing UB40...

Vale 0 Sheff U 1


iiiiiiiits back!

Port Vale loosing

Coventry fans protesting by throwing plastic pigs on the pitch to delay the game..

Breaking news...

"Crap Ref" - Mrs Batch via text.

Vale 2-0 down

Port Vale 2 nil down

Shrews losing

Shrewsbury 1 nil down

We sound like we have just about edged the first half so far.

Sounded, er, controlled.

(not many chances either way).

Thompson - foot injury. Doc didn't want to inject it. See how it goes.

Pretty poor, Wimbledon playing like a team with nothing to play for. We're playing too slow with no urgency, one shot on goal all half against a team there for the taking. Performance summed up by playing with 10 men whilst Goddard had stitches, we can't afford to just waste 10 minutes (or 45) of a game we need to win.

He's not that good to be honest

As soon as we lose the ball they get 8 men back behind the ball.

Reminds me of the Millwall game to be honest, would be happy with the same outcome but don't want to wait until 90+ mins for the goal

Wimbledon aren't very good, but just the sort of team we struggle to break down.

We need to do much better second half. It''s not much good those around us losing if we don't win.

We don't want it to be one of those games where you do all the work and end up losing 0-1.

Chesterfield MkII

Gills winning :(

Simon Cox gets 2 today, how we could have done with taking a punt on him..  About 10 years too old I guess..

Shrews equalise

Not enough effort being put in out there by some of the players.  You'd never guess we're fighting for our lives.

Shrews equalise  :(

oh dear. An obvious statement but anything less than 3 points is not good enough in the relegation flight

Colkett Off
Norris On

Gypos now 1-1
COME ON SWINDON!

Rovers equalise v Gills,

Good lad Bodin

Go on Billy, get a 2nd..

I just can't see us scoring.

Neither can I, but I'm not at the game.

Nearly sucker punched there. Vigs stops it.

Looks like 2 points from the 2 games we should have been picking up 6

Gills 2-1 up

Gills :(


Yup, fine lines but the quality isn't there.
3 points on Monday and its still possible. Anything less and stick a fork in us

Just sums up a Luke Williams team no urgency against a team with little or no interest. Shocking performance and result!

Think its all up now

Unfortunately the fork has been stuck imo...

Whole clubs a joke, owner, manager, players

We need to force Power out as if he stays no way will we come back if we do go down

We don't belong in league 2- but thanks to Powers utter mis management that's where we are heading

bottled it. while it's 70% likely we are done, you never know.

2 wins and a draw...

Unfortunately we do need one more win no matter what and I can't see us getting it versus any of last 3 opponents.

Definately 2 points dropped but as they say every point counts come the end of the season.

Fucking abysmal! They come out all week saying we've been working on a fast start, how we know how to create loads of chances. A game where regardless of how shit we've been this season we can somehow edge close to an escape if we get a result.

Fast start - did they even know we had started?
Create chances - 1 shot

None of them players care about the club, the management don't care about the club. A supporter would have at least made an effort to fire the squad up to perform at half time. Dabo exhausted at the end and I was crying out for Brophy to replace him and run at their injured full back. Then I remembered we have Williams in charge and he see's nothing. To not make the most obvious fibal sub says it all!

Williams- 11 wins in 44 games- failure all down to you Mr Power

Williams and Power OUT

In the context of opposition and importance today was one of the worst performances of the season, says it all really. Fuck knows what formation we were playing for the last quarter, just had Thomas, Gladwin, Norris, Ajose and Obika stood static in there half watching leaving Ince to be the midfield on his own. Dabs was our only attacking threat and was fuckef with 15 to go.

Conor Thomas and a 3 year contract sums it up imo

Fair shout, I'm not sure I've ever seen a slower midfielder. Not sure he did anything second half...

Spot on. What the fuck do they practice in training? Heard on the radio praise because we have only conceded 1 goal in 4 games. Its a shame that we seem happy with clean sheets rather than trying to get a winner. When I say try to get a winner I mean by creating chances not some clueless manager just putting 4 forwards on and telling them to play anywhere they like.

Even if we get a win on Monday were doomed as our players can't handle any pressure at all. Therefore next weekend we'll lose anyway and to be honest we fucking deserve to go down for having those clowns in charge and for a owner to not fucking do anything about it in january

Bang on. As poor as Colkett and Goddard were today, how the fuck they came off when Thomas stayed on to continue doing his "I'm going to stand on the edge of where I might be useful and watch" act is beyond me. Should have been charged £23 because he was a fucking spectator all game.

Sherwood back again today apparently so no wonder we were shit. He's like fucking Kryptonite that bloke.

Irregardless of what division we are in next season, Williams needs to go.
As for Power, I am willing to reserve judgement for another season to judge how he reacts to the situation

We need to go back to being run as a football club not a side project with a proper management team in place both on and off the pitvh. Not sure that that is a route he'd even entertain the thought of unfortunately though...
We'all probably end up with Embleton in charge!

Speaking to Luke Williams pre match he made it clear that there is great pressure on him with regards to loan players and the contracts clearly protect parent clubs etc and will specify things like minimum number of minutes played etc etc

That's a cowardly get out though isn't it. Ultimately in a situation like this you man up and do what's right by the club in giving it the best chance of staying up. He is incapable of making hard decisions, stop making excuses and needs to grow a set of bollocks.

Four shots on target in two home games against mediocre opposition, when supposedly fighting for your lives, sums the whole mess up.

Somebody on here last week stated we will get another 4 points...I agree.

Probably one more win from the last three.

I left early V Franchise and didn't bother today...I just couldn't face it.

No joy from missing it at all but i havent pissed away £50 odd on tickets and beer.

What a dreadful dog turd the whole thing is.

The performance was more boring than a Williams team talk,this bunch is definitely the very worst team/management and chairman  i've watched in all my years as a town fan.FACT......very avoidable relegation in a season of very poor quality opposition. :no:

When the manager openly comes out and says this it sums our season up.

"We played in a similar way that we've played in the last four games to probably be defensive more, more than be more attacking"

In a must win game he sets us up to be defensive when were playing afc wimbledon.

If Power stays nothing will change- the club will be run as it is now.

It's why he has to go in the summer- or a double relegation is feasible

You'll upset the "but at least we're debt free now" brigade.

It's only worth him going if there is a genuine party that wants to progress the club. Judging by the fact there are at least 10 to 15 football league clubs running on a knife edge financially suggests decent owners are few and far between. Need to be careful what we wish for....

I'm going to Walsall. We are going to win. Then fuck it up against Scunthorpe, who to be fair are quite decent.

Unfortunately I can see us going to Charlton still mathematically alive, then I'll have to go, then we'll inevitably bottle it or be reliant on a team losing that doesn't bottle it. Still at least a piss up could ensue.  

Your on a roll Batch.

The last two games have been the equivalent of treading water.
Either swim away from danger or sink, drown and die.

It's remarkable we're still in with a mathematical chance.

Wimbledon were total shit, we were slightly better. The ref was a cunt of the highest ordr and they could have had 3 sent off. The guy who decapitated Goddard and got a yellow. The bloke who went straight through Obika from behind and got a yellow for gobbing off. Then Scun fat cunt reject Barnett two feet off the floor on Ince who did him a massive favour by not going down.
Saying that we were shit and didn;t work their keeper. Thomas and Colkett yet again were fucking wank as was Ajose. Give Starkey a run and see what he's made of.
Conroy impress more and more each game and him and Branco look a decent duo in a flat 4.
Yet again, another game played like a pre season friendly when our lives depend on it.
The sooner this season ends the better. 

He managed to stay on the pitch when two other midfielders who were slightly more effective got hauled off - sums it up for me!!

[gillman]
yeah but Liverpool nearly signed him once
[/gillman]

to be honest his introduction to the team has coincided with us not conceding so many.

happy coincidence I'm sure.

colkett and Gladwin together is equally calamitous.

there​ is no answer. fucking kasim fucked us over this year. fucker.

Totally inept - sums up the performance for me.  No pressure put on their defence until the last 10 minutes, and then we were totally predictable!  No urgency, Ajose was a bad as I have seen him, Obika could hardly win a header, the midfield were totally gash, defence got away with it - a good side would have thrashed us.  The decision making throughout the team was so poor, they seem frightened to play with any freedom, guess that is down to the coaching staff.  Ref didn't cost us a win but a more totally inept wanker has yet to be found.  His decision making was a bad as our teams!

Conroy and Ince excellent. Vigs did what was needed and Obika wasn't bad with limited service. Rest of them were pretty shite, especially Ajose and Thomas

This, just shows what a shit league it is.  I think we all accepted we were down a few weeks ago and then a couple of wins gave us that bit of hope and Williams some breathing space just as the crowd had started to turn on him instead of Power.  The last 2 games, today particularly have just highlighted what we've seen all season, lack of urgency, poor decision making and inability to create chances and score goals.  Today was utter shit, some of the players just ambled around, you'd have thought we were mid table with nothing to play for.  They only stepped up a gear in the last 15 minutes or so.  Pathetic.

Power absent again.  Clearly completely uninterested in our fight for survival. Says it all really.

I believe we will be relegated and I'd rather it doesn't go to the final game of the season. That will be horrible.  It really worries me that Williams will still be in charge next season.  Start badly and it'll be difficult to recover.  

So...

The ref was shit - what a surprise, the man in the middle gets some the blame;
Ajose - thought he was our saviour, but now he's shit.

I don't give a shit either way, but some posts on here make me laugh.

Thomas doesn't even look like he knows how to be a human let alone a footballer. Never seen a player look more clueless on a pitch. Add that with being totally feeble and lightweight, we're more or less down to 10 men with him in the side.

so you can't call somebody who had a shit game out?

i didn't go, but I'm not sure what your point actually is.

Ajose was shit today but isn't a shit player. The man in the middle didn't make us play like a bunch of fucking poofters but if they were down to 10 or even 9 men then maybe the fact we were carrying players would have evened it up a bit.

All this shit is contagious.

Today was the first time I've ever taken a bag of granola to a game.  I do like the Tesco honey and almond one, so that's something to look forward to: all is not lost.

A man a couple of seats down from me watched the second half drinking a bottle of carling. A good move considering how shit we were

Ok, I get that and in NO way is this a slur against you as you are relaying info that a lot of fans won't know believe it or not. However, why the fuck are we so reliant on loan players which hamstring us in so many ways? Clearly the last two seasons have shown the 'Swindon Way' is flawed and the season of the playoff defeat to PNE was fortuitous in so many ways. It is like buying a property, freehold or leasehold? Even with leasehold you don't own the land and are to an extent beholden to your landlord. However you dress this up, Power is using the club up as a minimum investment maximum return investment vehicle.

my view is he thinks he'll get better players on the cheap.

personally i think we end up trying to bed in academy reject crap  that are a couple of seasons off, that's​ if they even make it.

then we need bailing out by 'better' loans in January.

false economy

However you dress this up, Power is using the club up as a minimum investment maximum return investment vehicle.

This comment is spot on- exactly what he is doing. And his "model" looks like it's gonna cost us dear

He will not care however- if he remains next season whatever league were in don't expect to see any changes to the recruitment policy and how the club is run.

Power cares not one jot about STFC is only using us to service his bank account

He might have done better to have drunk a bottle of vodka, ideally laced with arsenic.  Poor Christy must have endured a torrid afternoon with his granola.

Waterford FC are top of the league so it is not all bad  :pint:

All on at Waterford at the moment- until Power realises his Europa dream won't come off and he will sell them down the river as well

Makes a mockery of the fit and proper persons test

Ajose and Thomas were utterly useless. Thomas, in fact, was a complete liability. Branco and Conroy both did well and I can see these two being useful in L2 next season. Regardless though, we should have won the game. Wimbledon were absolute turd. Barnett looks even worse than Norris!

What injury does Nathan have ?

Heel i think

Also, and sorry if this has already been mentioned, but why were we wearing red shorts?

Couldnt afford the daz stain remover for the white shorts

Interesting debate about loan players, I guess the key is getting a good balance.

How do you think City would have done this season without Abraham's goals.

To me the key is to loan players that you may be able to sign if they are decent or get a quality player that can have an immediate impact that you couldn't afford to sign otherwise.

I can't imagine anyone would have complained if we had signed Ince on loan for the season

if we had the squad we have now from august i think we'd be lower mid table.

if we'd have kept doughty we'd be even better.

Barnett looks even worse than Norris!

Tyrone has certainly piled on the pounds - if they want a fat immobile target man they should have stuck with Akinfenwa.

Talking of Norris. If he had anything about him at all he would have set up the winning goal for 1 of the 3 men waiting in the area for a decent cross rather than produce a completely useless effort that was neither cross nor shot

decent away numbers from Wimbledon btw. 300 more than Franchise brought.
In the circumstances a pretty decent attendance. Only 200 less than the week before after the whole #letspacktheCG campaign.
If we don't win at Walsall hard to see Scunny at home being over 7K. Will our esteemed leader make it for that one I wonder or are Waterford at home?

I see they have reduced prices for the Scunthorpe game

What on earth are you on about? There plenty of owners who make a mockery of that. Ours is not one of them.

How do you know though?

That's the problem total lack of transparency.

There are much better and or worse owners out there.

One things for sure- if Power stays unless he changes the model and recruitment policy our league status is at stake.

Next season will again be loan and non league kids whatever league we are in

That doesnt make him a crook though. I know shit all about you, shall I assume you're a rapist?

Gladwins breakaway was worse

Gladwin has been absolute wank since he's come back

I'd rather we did postpone the 'inevitable' if it's all the same.

I have to agree about Gladwin. He's been very disappointing. Williams also said (when talking about loan players) that there is great variability in levels of commitment; he gave the examples of Ince and Doughty always giving 100% while he said others can't wait to get out of here. Wonder whether he was talking about Gladwin? When we asked him about Kasim he said he's the best player at the club technically but said he's been ill and when he's ill he is no use on the pitch. He didn't sound all that l convinced when he said he's been ill though. I got the impression he really doubted his commitment as many of us do too.

I don't think we will see Kasim in a Town shirt again.

TBF to Gladwin he has been carrying a an injury for the last few weeks.

of course we won't see kasim again, 'he needs a new start' and there are only three games left :)

To really cheer us up, I see that the scummers are playing Vale tomorrow and then Shrewsbury on the last day of the season.  They've already taken 6 points off us, what's the betting that they gift some points to those around us - McGuire own goals anybody?

Or they try to keep us up as they know it's a guaranteed 6 points for next season if they do

 :D :D :D :D

 :headhurts:

Never thought I'd say this about the club I love, but we're doomed as a club with Power in charge.

Leyton Orient are royally fucked with someone who's (arguably) of high net worth. Power is a minnow in comparrison with most club owners at our level, he wont invest, he openly and regularly trousers profits from player sales and treats fans like mugs (Timothy Sherwood as DOF for anyone with a short memory) yet he gets away with it.

While most decent owners would have ditched a boring, clueless pair of cunts like Williams & Embleton months ago, Power buys another football club and concentrates on that, rather than put right the fucked up project that he presides over back here.

I'm not sure what has to happen before Town fans wake up and start recting in the time-honoured and traditional way that supporters of badly run clubs usually do...

By the way, anyone heard the reason 'He's one of our own' was dropped on Friday? No, me neither.

We all know the stories about Lou Macari having spies in all the bars around Swindon and getting them to report players who went out on the piss when they should have been at home, yeah? A great way of managing wanker players who think that they're above everyone else and that club rules don't apply to them.

He'd have had a fucking field day with one or two of our so-called players.

Sitting on your arse in an Old Town Juice bar while everyone else gets on with trying to gain a vital 3 points at the county ground = Priceless. You useless, arrogant, over-rated cunt.

Thank Christ (it is Easter after all) for the ignore button.

Thompson was injured

Name and shame, ritaon, name and shane

Juice bar, juice bar, eh,?

Wonder if he is on about Kasim? Rumours going round friday that he is no longer training at the club. Williams said he had a hip injury a few weeks back, now he says he is ill.

Or Ritson could be on about Lloyd Jones also, rumours flying round about him too

You mean other than being announced an hour before kick off with reasons from Williams (his foot injury is not healing as well as it should and was ruled unfit to play by the club doctor) and in this very same thread on page 2?

Allegedly Jones was being a typical Scouser after a few beers and words being spoken at Tree. Think Ritson is talking about Williams being the one in Juice. This season has been a fuck up. Hylton allegedly smacking Nathan before the Northampton game. Players allegedly on the piss and scrapping in Tree. The same players bar one (who may have been otherwise engaged) allegedly being at Cheltenham races before the Sheff Utd game. All of these unconfirmed rumours.  

Fights and drinking go hand in hand with footballers, you don't have to be doing badly for arguments and fights to break out between players on and off the pitch, if you don't like someone then no amount of team bonding will change that.

Look at Flint being floored in a nightclub by one of the youth team....in the play off season.

Footballers are not known for their intelligence and they almost all drink and gamble, this happens at every club every season, nothing to be seen here.

Well, that's a new one on me!

There is something to be seen if a) one of the fights is a police matter b) gambling trip interferes with match prep.

The second one certainly affected matchday selection, have we seen Jones since the alleged first incident (1xsub I think)?

Most of our present lot will be plying their trade in non league football before too long.  I hope the club isn't.  However we will need to see some resolve from Power in the summer, to prevent that happening

The club is probably in its most parlous position ever.... this article about Torquay's demise, should fill all Town fans with dread.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/16/torquay-fans-fear-relegation-losing-home-96-years-plainmoor

They may have been in Cheltenham - but it was on the Sunday night!

Any reason why we wore red shorts yesterday instead of the usual white when at home?

Cover up the blood from the players fighting each other.