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My first game of the season so looking forward to seeing the new recruits.

Richards could be back in the squad today after recovering from shoulder surgery quicker than expected.
James Dunne also available for selection.

In the last eight games against Tranmere, we've won 7 and drawn 1 and have won the last 5.

No doubt Paul Mullin will score against us today but I expect a hard fought 2-1 victory in front of 6,700 fans.

I’m also going today and quite looking forward to it.

I think Tranmere are pretty dangerous up front but have issues at the back with injuries a plenty so hopefully we can take advantage of that. Tranmere boast Olly Banks and Paul Mullin and their fans have been very impressed with Banks so far this season.

I’m going for an entertaining 2-2 draw. Taylor and Adebayo and Banks and Norwood for them.

2-1 Swindon

Big spending Notts County got thumped 4-0 at home to Yeovil last night. It's still a bit silly season so very hard to predict.

2-2.

Tranmere have plenty of attacking threat, having re-signed pacy winger Mottley-Henry on loan from Barnsley, with Norwood, Jennings and Banks also likely to start. Mullin will be a sub. Will be more of a test than Macclesfield and Forest Green so the defence better not make any further cock-ups. Cant see Taylor starting at left back in a 4 otherwise he will be targeted. Have a feeling we may play 3-5-2 with Knoyle and Mcgleshan as wing backs, Taylor and Anderson rested, Dunne as advanced  midfield and Doughty pushed up with Adebayo.

Vigs, Nelson, Conroy, Lancashire, Knoyle, Mcgleshan, Toums, Smith, Dunne, Doughty and Adebayo
Subs McCormick, Romanski, Taylor, McCourt, Azate, Anderson, Richards,

If Richards plays I think we will win, if not we probably won’t score (unless we get a penalty) and will probably lose 1-0. 

Seems mad that we are relying on the fitness of a 36 year old striker.
Either that or Adebayo needs a Fjortoft type turn around in form (hopefully before January)

Looking forward to an entertaining game. 

Whether it will be a frustrating one in the end is the $64k question

this.

The good news is I've got family commitments so won't be going today. So it's sure to be nailed on the former.

  We need to see some signs of progress today... keeping a clean sheet and someone scoring from open play other than Doughty.  PB made the point that going a goal up might help...

Bin dippers in the Merlin singing Birkenhead
Is wonderful  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I fear that our defence will let us down again, but hope I'm, wrong. 2-2.

we all fear that!

Your #STFC Starting XI:

Vigouroux, Knoyle, Lancashire, Romanski, Taylor; McGlashan, Diagouraga, Doughty, Smith, Anderson; Adebayo.

#STFC 🔴 https://t.co/lhWybqAMWI

No Alzate! Bollocks to that!

Romanski centre back then? Not he's anywhere near ready for that. Our back line looks even more horrific today.

On the bench |

McCormick, McCourt, Nelson, Richards, Alzate,  Dunne, Iandolo.

#STFC 🔴

Romanski picked ahead of Nelson at centre back. Good luck kid.

Born February 2000. Ruddy hell.

Well, I can’t see it being Tranmere 0

Conroy fucked again

Defending corners terrifies me, do they still have that massive lump McNulty at the back?

Do you mean slightly injured, or proper fucked? not near a radio

Why bring Nelson in if he's not better than Romanski? And how the he'll is Alzate not starting, he should be in ahead of Smith easily.

Alzate doesnt have much experience. might just be cotton wool gloves until he's 100% ready.

Watching our back 4 warming up it looks incredibly lightweight, with the best will in the world Romanski isn't going to win much in the air.

Just got in and it’s noticeable that the crowd looks well down on the Macclesfield game.

Three straight losses will do that. Regardless of competition.

Romanski air shot 1-0 Tranmere

We’re fucked

Hope I’m wrong but that should be that based on our current form.

Dare I even post for fear of it being drivel, but defensively we are absolutely awful.

Usualy when i start moaning we score so Brown out power out :suicide:

 Power out

Are we ever going to get that new defender or have 54 defenders already turned us down?

Well that was quick - and easy by the sound of it - our home attendances will drop like a stone, with no hope of picking up if we carry on like this. Not normally one to be negative, particularly not this early in the season, but -

 :badmood:

2-0 soapy tit wank

This is embarrassing. Arguably the worst defence we've ever had

FFS

Fuck sake our defence is shit :headhurts:

Is it time to implode yet?

Fucking shambles

How can you say our defence is shit when we don't have one.

Going to be a long afternoon

Lancashire is shit and Romanski so far out of his depth I fear this game will ruin him

Red card Tranmere

Got someway to go but who Knows😂

We'll win this 3-2

Tranmere down to 10. May score now !

ken were going to win 5...2 now

2-1

Good goal that

Here we go ken
 :pint:

I do hope your right, may have to polish my crystal ball and see into the future.

Rock me Adabeyo

Get to car, 2-0 down, glad I couldn't go.
10 minutes later, 2-1 v 10 men and game on.
Its a funny old game.

Not sure about that sub though. Appreciate we need to attack them, but a bit early for me.

Dave taken off to bring on Richards, bizarre change. I'd have put him at back ahead of either of our 'centre backs'

Why won’t our midfield players play a simple fucking pass.

30 yard cross field passes out of play aren’t any use to anybody

How we playing now?

Very disjointed, dominating Possession but defence is still trying to gift them chances.

Oh. Thanks. I guess.

Oh and Tranmere are a niggly as teams come, time wasting to an incredible degree.

What you would expect, up to the ref to do something about it.

Which we know he probably won’t

Just seen the goals, think the second was worse than the fist for Romanski to be honest.

Oh dear.

The manager isn’t good enough. Never has been. Never will.

He should be nowhere near the team, Brown needs to sort this centre back recruitment.

You can't rush these things. He's only had 3 months.

Which one

Why has this centre half recruitment not been sorted?

If so many really have turned us down ask yourselves why.

You can’t blame Brown- it’s time the owner stopped hiding behind managers and accepted the blame.

Well half time. Could quite easily still win this if we show some composure but would paper over the cracks. Defensively I don't remember a worst back line, Romanski needs removing for his own protection and Lancashire needs to retire. Going forward it's very confused and always seems to be the wrong ball at the wrong time.
One ray of hope is that Tranmere seem to be carrying a lot of weight so could tire.

Whilst he's going to struggle with little or no money to spend. His record at STFC is very poor.
He's been worse than Flip flop and that's saying something. Reminds me of DW had a good spell as a manager once but its over now.

Their number 5 is a stout chap

Depends who Brown has gone for, Southend fans said Brown is obsessed with signing midfielders.

The two centre backs are playing as individuals, with a left back who looks punch drunk when defending.

Trying to be too incisive in midfield, need to keep it a bit more simple and pick the pace-up instead.  Anderson is a fucking idiot, in footballing terms, no sense that he is learning.

McGlashan needs to wise-up 2nd half otherwise he will get himself sent off.  He's looked a threat though.

I get why we made the sub, not sure on the player though.  Might have been better to drop him deep and take off one of the back two.

Smith is a nearly player - he tries maybe too many wonder balls, if he could just settle a bit I think he'd be a good player.

Not the best performance on the ball, maybe this time we will be better in the 2nd half - Tranmere look lost in the central midfield area, giving us too much time (which we are wasting) but look a real threat still with our dodgy defence.  Reckon we will go on to get a draw at least though.

Need to sort this defensive gap out though, you can't carry on giving teams goals like we are - nobody looks like they know how to play as a unit.

Ugh. Football.

Yet somehow Town have been given an opportunity to get back in to this...

 :wacko:

You can see it that way, or just as our defenders are making mistakes, so did their player.  Stupid challenge - it is up to us to take the chance.

He couldn't possibly be worst than the 2 we have there and at least has a presence.

Do I console myself by knowing that HMHB will be happy?

It appears that everyone is in agreement that the defence is the issue, so why the hell has it not been sorted?  If 22 players have genuinely turned us down, we've got a real problem. We can't keep being in the position of needing 3 goals to win a game!

if 22 players have turned us down, what the hell will we end up with.

or is it too much to hope it's in hand and Brown is firing chaff to ward off anyone gazumping the real targets.

yes, I think it probably is

Lancashire and Romanski...

Romanski seems barely able to stay on his feet.

We have a lack of investment, just like everyother season. That's why there haven't been any defenders signed.Still we have a club to support, which is run without losses and every year players are sold or let go, so cheaper ones can be recruited.

At least Oxford are going down...

How long will be it be before Okiba is 'injured' I wonder

Splendid. More points dropped over two games...............

 :)

yes! 2-2, Richards!!!!!

2-2

Never dull is it

2-2 and then we almost let them clean through straight after. This defence is going to be the death of me.

...as long as we don’t go down too!!

RICO!!!!!!

Two goals in a match and neither of them pens - that's an achievement at least!!

Now to do it against 11 men

Alzate on and assists

redemption for Romanski!

out of jail, 3-2

Romanski scores. Looks like the ball just hit him and rolled in.

Please please don't sing "2 nil and you fucked it up" Swindon fans!!

Hahahaha what a stupid game. Still frightens me to think what would have happened with out the sending off

First player born in the 2000s to score for us?

Well it's going well for us at the moment but I feel we still need our penalty to be safe. The scum are loosing 3-0 to Pompy.

Just seen a replay.  Missed the ball, hit his knee and trickled in.

 :pint:

So "shot" on BBC sport is a bit of an overstatement!

Division 3 summed up in one action

Mullin on. Hardly dare contemplate

Mullin on.😰

Dunne is on, we will be OK  :)

Brown gets a yellow?  :D

Just about wraps up a complete farce of a game. Defence still doing their best to keep Tranmere interested.

All over 3-2 to the Town.

Well we won but I would happily never see that back line again

Thank goodness

Is he a good manager?Don't know
Is he a lucky manager?Maybe

What back line? did we even have one.

Well some how we're 6th in the table.

The Tranmere player has lost them the game.

I love him.

Thought we played well in the 2nd half, did what we needed to do and could have had a couple more.  Richards showed that he may well be the answer - hardly touched the ball, scored one and nearly had another.  Alzate looks classy, I like him and Doughty took control of midfield.

However, Lancashire with a minute to go shows us where our problems lie!  Easy pass shanked into touch gifting them a chance to put some pressure on.

Adebayo looks a good player, needs some coaching but there is a player to work with.  Anderson is frustrating the living daylights out of me.

Can we score goals? Yes
Is our defence shit? Yes
Are we any good? Maybe

15 goals in our 3 league games!

Scum lost 4-1 and Flip flops lot conceeded in the 95th minute to draw 1-1. Even though we played without a defence today I'm realy happy with the results. We must be back in the playoffs.

We are. With a negative goal different - classic Swindon.

 :toocool:

Delusions of grandeur in one sentence.

Why do they do it to us?

I'd just like to say to the one line negative commentators after 15 minutes, with their usual knee jerk posts, say hello to Kermit and Miss Piggy for me later.

 Well we got one of the desired outcomes with goals from elsewhere, but not the other of defensive tightness.  Still an important win, as it would have been easy for heads to go down, and PB would have come under immense pressure for his job.  Especially as 2 away games in a row now at Crawley and FGR, and the defence doesn't look capable of surviving on the road.

Apologies - I'm not usually one of the negative ones, but you have to admit it didn't look good at that stage.
At least I stayed throughout the thread and didn't disappear when we started getting back in to the match. :)

This is a crazy time of the year for table positions. At 0-2 we were 16th, at the end we're 6th!

2 games two 3.2 wins for me this season.
Thought after 15 mins we were gonna get stuffed, Tranmere looked decent up until the sending off. Didn't look that bad after it tbf.
They seemed to need only a couple of passes to get into our box while we took an age to get into theirs.

Adebayos goal was a good one, took it well. Been impressed with him both times have seen him, bit of urgency and he will be superb. Seems to be head down and too casual going forward.
Team improved with Alzate coming on, not scared of running at ppl where it counts.
Richards showed promise when came on but obv still coming back so will improve.

Defence, we need one and soon. Romanski looked out of place and scored the luckiest goal seen in a while.

At least the team didn't cave as in previous seasons but had some belief to win it, albeit v 10 men.
 :pint:

Has Dave taken the piss out of us?

Wasnt aiming at you :) Some people seem to think games only last 10 or 20 minutes before they spout the usual shit. Frustration and angst I get, not continual bile with no backup to it.

Looks like the subs won us that one

My one comment had us winning 3-2 at 2-0 down.  :)
Did ginghino stay in the kitchen this match?

Papering over the cracks until the defence is sorted. We can’t keep giving teams free goals.

This. & Alzate was outstanding when he came on.

what was the att, I didn't hear it called

I’m 4 from 4 this season and I need to rethink my assertion that we won’t/surely can’t keep making these howlers.

Today was the pits. Romanski was shitting himself every time he got the ball. Need a fit Conroy plus new CB and Taylor really has to be binned. He’s lumbering around and is the weakest link.

Problem is, now the defenders expect to make a mistake - you can see it. Self fulfilling implosion.

Thank God for Doughty. Really pleased for Adebayo, too.

As I said they would (lose 3/3) last weekend. Home to A Stanley in midweek who have W1 D1 L1 so being generous that kind of looks like it (using Plowman, sorry, Smeetons rule) could be a draw or a home win, hmmm, maybe an away win.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :D

I really hope we get the defence sorted because with a solid base behind them our attacking players will decimate teams in this league.

Sent from my SM-G930F

with a solid base and a laser show. Superman, batman going all nite, on a rocket ship it’s outta sight.....

PB himself said the first 45 was unacceptable... what is somewhat confusing is that our inadequacies have been obvious yet still nothing has been done about it... maybe there will be a jobbing centre back out there, who will be clubless after the 31st, that we can pick up.

I'm sure the rules have changed whereby you can't even sign unattached players after the 31st. I may be mistaken mind.

Highlights. How the hell did the 3rd go in?

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11476024/swindon-3-2-tranmere

Clinical placing.

Until the red card I thought we were at sixes and sevens. Romanski made a mistake for the first and then more weak defending from a long kick left Tranmere two up and us facing a huge battle. Thankfully their lad decided to make a stupid challenge and we had a lifeline. We scored a good goal after good work from Doughty and a nice finish by Adebayo. That said, despite the man advantage Tranmere looked dangerous on the break.

I though Brown changed the game with the subs, Rico for Dave and Alzate for Smith. Rico scored a beat equaliser expertly picked out by Alzate and then Romanski scored an absolute fluke to give us a win. Yes 3 points are very welcome but God only knows what would have happened had Tranmere not had a red card.

For us it’s evident that our defence needs an overhaul. Romanski is nowhere near ready for first team football at Centre back on that showing and Olly Lancashire needs to be replaced as well. We are so weak in this area, PB needs to strengthen there and quickly. I wasn’t massively impressed with either Diagouraga or Smith, Dave didn’t get involved much and Smith despite looking busy and wanting the ball gave it away a lot. I suspect he is better as a defensive midfielder as he seems to love a tackle.

Clearly in Doughty and Alzate we have 2 gems at this level. Alzate’s assists were excellent, picking out Richards and Romanski instead of just whacking the ball into the box. I thought McGlashan worked hard but was well controlled by their monster number 6 who I hoped would be clownlike but was strong as an ox. Rico scores goals, pure and simple.

Not perfect but get 2 decent centre backs and I think this side will do well.
A

After my criticism of the attacking play and defensive play last week, it's only fair to say how good that looked going forward. Somehow, however, the defence looked worse. I'd be embarrassed if I'd played like that and I'm 44.

I thought you could, provided they were unattached on 31st, i.e. can't sign a player that was released on the 1st Sept until the Jan window.

Well, well, well.

After seeing the goals, and some in match comments here, every criticism that was leveled at the defense after 20 minutes was valid then and remain valid now.

We've seen 3 home games, and 5 cock ups for goals. That isn't bad luck.

But the 10 men allowed us to paper over the cracks. And I'm delighted about getting 3 points. Its obvious we have more work to do recruiting wise to be competitive in the race for promotion.
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Did anyone say how long Conroy is out for?

That would seem more logical tbf. Hopefully it's right.

We were a shambles at the back and have to be grateful to their player that got sent off, because had they have kept attacking us we would probably have been 4 down at half time.

Once they sat back and tried to defend their lead we got back into the game, that’s not going to happen every week.

That said, hopefully Brown can sort out the defence because the midfield is good & with Richards back we look decent up front

Nah, I actually went today :)

Thoroughly enjoyed that.
Luckily they had a player sent off which completely changed the game as we were dead and buried even at 15 minutes to be honest.
Lancashire is awful and Romanski, did OK for the most part but isn't anywhere near ready for first team football.
We need at least one decent centre back to come in on loan.

Thought the substitution was a bit strange but worked really well, Richards was excellent when he came on and hopefully can stay fit as he will be our main goalscorer this season.
Alzate looked really good also when he came on and attacking wise, we looked really good and should've won comfortably.

Taylor was my MOM, he was excellent today and his legs have not gone judging by today as on more than one occasion he prevented a one on one with chasing back and tackling. He was spraying the ball about with ease, spreading the play and looked good today.

Anderson was anonymous first half but was much better second half, thought Smith was good too, put a lot of effort in and broke up play well.

An enjoyable afternoon and a great result.

Top scorers in L2. I shall conveniently ignore goals conceded :)  We'll get someone, just hopefully sooner than later.

Skills evolve. Maybe he's perfected deflecting off both shins to confuse the goalie?

This is something brought in this season, two yellows in a match and he is out of the dug out!  He could also receive a straight red if the ref deems it - possibly for swearing (and Brown does like to swear during a game!).  He got it today, I think, for kicking the ball away at a Tranny throw-in!!

As regards the game, our own worst enemies today again!  The player that frustrates me is McGlashan, looks to have all the skill and certainly puts a shift in but rarely is there any end product.  We were undone with their two goals by the pace that they used against us, whereas our build-ups are much slower.  Inject a bit of pace, get a commanding centre-back (or two) in and we'll have a decent season.

Some horrible defending there.
Horrible ‘tackle’ by the Tranmere player.

Good finish by Adebayo - think we’ve got a player on our hands there.
Two fantastic assists by Alzate, great vision. Again looks a player.

Our winner has to be one of the worst goals we’ve ever scored.

Also, why the fuck were Tranmere wearing blue?

The build up to Romanski’s goal was pretty good though.

True, perhaps worst ‘finish’ rather than ‘goal’ would have been a better fit

And "Swindle".  Not sure if a ref to the playoff disallowed goal or the floodlight failure earlier in season.  Either way, really time they moved on.

Pleased we won.  Even more pleased that they lost.  Their left back was a turd.

One positive re looking good going forward and awful at back is that shoring up a defence is easier than building an offence.  Over to you Mr Brown.

I like the look of Smith, although today he always wanted an extra touch and his passing was off. If we are going to persist with a midfield three I don’t see us being able to accommodate him and TD, at least not at home anyway.

Thought Dunne had a good cameo when he came on, tackled well and played the simple ball. Certainly don’t see McCourt getting any gamer time soon as he must be at least 6th choice.

According to the Tranmere forum, Harris (the player that was sent off) has received 127 yellow cards and 11 reds. What a proud career!

I don’t imagine he was mr popular on the coach on the way home.  Cost them the game.

Good comeback.  The Adebayo goal straight after the red before they had time to regroup was key.

Didn’t they the day Steve Vickers opened the scoring for us with his bullet og?

They did

One of our goals in 1969 is equally scruffy and that from a forward

I liked Luke Norris's winning goal v FGR last season..... proper sexy build up, gets ball into the box, and Luke falls over in a scramash, and some part of his anatomy puts the ball a few inches over the line... slowly.

I'd very much settle for the equivalent next Saturday.

536 Tranmere fans at the CG. Why have we stopped giving out attendances? Infuriating.

That was great entertainment yesterday.
Always good fun to win from 2 goals down, not so much to be on the receiving end.

Much better from Taylor.
He's like a vintage motor that has been left in the garage over the summer and takes a while to get going again, but still a decent runner.
He did very well against the pacy winger that they brought on.

McGlashan persevered against a difficult opponent.
There looks to be a good understanding between him and Knoyle.
I liked their no 6, although the pantomime villain, big, strong and quick and not bad going forward.

A game like that should do Romanski a lot of good in his development if he can learn from the mistake(s).

I like Smith as well. He did spray it about to no one in particular a fair bit but it was always positive.
Maybe needs to settle down a bit and just play it quick and simple.

Tranmere should be ok this season. Look like a top half team.
Their cocky keeper might think twice in future before getting involved with the home end.

Too early to predict where this team are going to end up.
We could still be waiting for the first point after three games under slightly different circumstances.
Good teams can do the play badly and still win thing, but they also seem to benefit from a more than average share of good fortune....

Do we know what the total attendance was?

Agree with all of that.  Felt a bit sorry for Romanski as he was out of his depth.  Lancashire was poor too.  The first 20 mins was one of the worst centre back pairing performances I've seen at Swindon.   

Still think Rico for Dave that early was a stupid risk.

Thankfully paid off though.

I agree. At the time I thought it odd but to be honest Dave had barely touched the ball in the first 20 minutes, he is still finding his feet.

I think PB is still unsure of how best to utilise our midfield. Personally I think Smith would be best sat in front of the defensive line winning the ball back and giving to Doughty and Alzate to dictate play. Not really sure if you can utilise Dave as presumably that’s what he was signed to do?

Anderson continues to frustrate, he works very hard but consistently makes the wrong decisions, running down blind alleys etc.

Alzate is going to get barrel loads of assists this season. Doesn’t do anything massively fancy on the ball but seems to have a great eye for a pass. His 2 assists were very clever, patient and picked out Rico and Romanski expertly.

Alzate needs to play instead of Anderson.

As others have pointed out, it suddenly seems difficult to find out attendance figures. Not online or in the papers today. Was the same after FGR. Any one know why?

With Doughty and Alzate both being able to pick a through ball, I reckon Woolery could be a gem.

2 keeper punts upfield, 2 goals for them. Pathetic. I’m on edge every time the opposition have the ball. It’s like there’s a collective acceptance that a cock up is just around the corner all the time.

Brown's job was pretty much on the line, epecially with back to back away games, and we look ill suited for on the road.  The crowd looked to be perhaps 5K at best maybe fewer, could be why the figure wasn't released.

When you can't defend the keeper's punt in Div 4, you'll not win too many games.

This for me....nail biting every time a ball goes near the box.

I would take their number 6 or even the grey haired Cb any day to shore up the defence!!

Its amazing we've won 2 games with no defence. Glad we did but it could easily have gone the other way.

Fuck defence, it's over-rated.

Win every game 5-4 and we go up.

Your a tatical genius Flashheart. I like your style.

It’s tempting to say it’s what we did under Hoddle on our way up to the PL. So i’ll rephrase that and do a Plowman and suggest that is what it seemed like at the time. Otherwise he’ll have a sore arm from his obsessive keyboard research and a wankfest over the stats to prove otherwise.

Plenty of us have met Reg

He isn’t Plowman. Move on.

...and I’d play Dave at CB next game. What’s the worst that could happen?

Same, would be some going to be worse than Lancashire or look more out of place than Romanski.

Tranmere's number 6 (Monthe?) was/is just what you need in div 4. No skill but a physical presence. I think he played for FGR?

Number 6 was playing left back was he not? Other than being a lump I can't say I was that impressed, he seemed to be blowing after about 30 minutes and just spent the rest of the game trying to time waste. I would say we actually need an out and out centre back.

I have not, all you see, half what you hear 😉

I may have been whooshed but why is Diagouraga referred to as "Dave"?

Because nobody can spell Diag . . Digor . . . Dave

10 out of 10 who ever changed the filter so my post about Reg makes no sense.

Flip flop in next please, ta...

Good con artist too, got our guy booked when he couldn't get within a foot of him!!  The TE chanting "you black bastard" may just get mentioned in the ref's report sadly.

Fat, it was fat

You calorifically challenged bastard or maybe sun tanned bastard?

Surely a calorifically challenged person would be underweight?

Their No 5 (McNulty) was the fat cunt

He's been bigger...

Thought he had a good game.

Possibly. How about over calorifically challenged to be sure?

Jordan Edwards anyone no if he's injured

Know idea.

😂

 ;D

Avgree - But he was a solid fat cunt - stopped almost every thing at the back,   would be more than happy with him in our back four.

He's lost weight since he was at Luton though. There was a few of their team who looked like they spent more time at the sweet trolley than the salad bar.But they all did a solid enough job tbf

Fuck me Romanski made the Football league papers team of the day  :eek:

https://twitter.com/TheLeaguePaper/status/1031562172978130945?s=19

#Narrative

I have finally seen the highlights, what on earth is their lad doing for the red card? What an idiotic challenge that basically lost his side the game.

We are getting some luck at home!! :)

Why are the 'Extended Highlights' free on ifollow, yet the 'Highlights' are under the paid for or premium content? Seems odd. I'd rather *watch 10-12mins than 6-7mins of highlights. Even when we've lost.










*cringe my way the
through the current state of CB pairing

Just proves these are put together based on the result sheet not how someone played.

You should read the description of Adebayos goal!"Tap in at the far post" indeed

Still no official attendance for this game?

What is this obsession with the attendance.

I almost posted something about this before but thought I would be shot down. Some people appear to be obsessed with attendances, fans of statistics I guess.

I don’t even think that’s the reason, I think they just want to use it as a way of having a go at Power.

Yeah that as well!  ::)

Well I'll happily shoot you both down. :rocket:

I've never known an attendance not to be released and I demand to know. I don't want to use it against anyone, and I can cope if it's poor, but if clubs stop releasing attendances, what will they start hiding next for heaven's sake? Will swindon-town-fc.co.uk be forced to leave blanks in their records? Will average attendance statistics stop being available? It's the start of the end, I tell you.

 I always look at attendances not only of us, but of teams in the rest of the FL.  You can spot patterns and trends.... who's doing well, who's gone pop etc. Further the state of the game itself, below the Prem.

 With us it's usually the case that you get a bit of enthusiasm at the first game if at home.... then attendances drop off when it turns to shit.  PaulD thinks it's because of holidays.... I'm not so sure and no real easy way of knowing.

 This season we have an exciting start then 3 defeats in all comps, and it looked like the crowd was well down on the opener.

According to the Tranmere program it was around 6100.

I a not sure people will be able to cope if they list as "around" a number, would seem a bit like guesswork instead of a formal headcount.

They are meaningless these days with everyone counting season ticket sales regardless of showing up or not.

Pretty much this. I made the mistake of going on the Facebook group, they just jump on anything to bash Power, you can't reason with them and if you ask them to justify themselves you just get abuse. Unfortunately sums up a section of our fanbase even at games unfortunately.

Under FA rules, home clubs must publish the ‘official attendance’, which includes everyone who bought a ticket whether they went to the game or not.

But, for safety purposes, Police keeps its own record of the actual number of people who pass through the turnstiles.

It is strange, though. Last season we had, I think, 7800 first home game against Exeter, then dropped dramatically for the 2nd. Exactly the same this season. About a 1500 drop in a matter of 2 weeks.

You do know about the GWR connection and statistics/numbers ;)

Attendance 6106 Away fans 541

Having missed this game due to being in Holland/Germany at the time I have just had a read of their forum, my word they are a bitter bunch still about the floodlights going off in 93.

I have been keeping track of them for a number of years.

I find it interesting to see where we sit in relation to other teams in our league and how the number of home fans fluctuates from season to season.

It's odd when you consider the fans reaction after the play off semi final game, but the programme that night did include a whole section moaning about the floodlight game! - if my memory is not playing tricks on me.

Speaking of attendances, I looked up a Home game yesterday vs Huddersfield in March 2008 (to see if my memory was correct about us winning with 9 men - it was) and saw we had less than 5k at that game. By my reckoning probably the last Home league game to be sub 5k. Shows the step change brought in by fittons (failed) season ticket offer. Sadly that does look to be waning now on the face of it

I went to that Huddersfield game.

Champions League night.

It was cold.

McNamee looked like a world beater... vs. Frank Sinclair.

The referee was nuts (yet the two red cards were correct)

I remember that night. Easton got 2 & we brought Moses Ashkodi off the bench who proceeded to strut around as if we were 5 up playing against 9. We were 2 men down & clinging onto a 3-2 lead if my memory serves me correct at the time.

This was when Stabby Ashikodi got subbed 15 mins after coming on wasnt it.

Billy Paynter also made a worldy of a save and got sent off

In the Merlin on Saturday they were still whining away about the floodlight failure.  In their place I would have been much more angry about the playoff game at the end of the season where the bizarre disallowance of John Alderton's perfectly good goal was arguably the turning point of the whole two legs.

It's a long time ago but my recollection of their programme for that 92/93 second leg was that they were primarily moaning that they had been the potential beneficiary (along with Sunderland of course) of our two division demotion in 89/90.  I think they lost the Div 3 playoff and hence would be the next team to go up when we went down to Div 3.  They were therefore 'cheated' of their 'rightful place' in Div 2 when the punishment was reduced to a single division drop.  A classic example of totally unjustified whinging scouser victim mentality.

I always thought Alderton was at his best as Mr Hedges in Please Sir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtHaeaMPb8

A very clear shove in the back from the Scummer.  Rightly disallowed. (ahem!).

They were pure class up at Prenton Park at the end of the second leg.

One of my fav away games. Good few ales in The Clipper beforehand and a curry somewhere I can’t remember afterwards.

Quality day.