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The home defeat earlier in the season was one of a handful of truly abysmal performances. Can’t believe we’ll be as shite this time round.

We’ve usually done well against the better, footballing teams. This is the sort of game we’ll win to get the PO bandwagon rolling until the inevitable home defeat next week!

I'd like to win. It annoys me that clubs who are always financially fucked like Bolton and Bury, still seem to do better than us when they go down, by seemingly carrying on spending money they don't have.

Even more annoying with Bury is their new owner says he's not particularly worried about going up this season, as although occupying our mid table Div 3 perch is the aim, it can wait.

Interesting. So LV either didn't return in good time, picked up a knock, or is jet lagged?

Happy with that XI though.

Time Bury lost at home and who better than us to do it. We definitely are capable.
2-1 to Town

His flight was delayed and he didn't get back in time to travel up on Friday so hes rested.

Had forgotten about Neville Neville.  :)

Talking of Joe Murphy, he has only ever kept 1 clean sheet in goal against us in his 10 games played and conceded 21 times.

Also he has only ever been on a winning side against us twice ever.

Scramble in the box from the corner, Town have 4 chances and Woolf pulled down but the ref ignores an obvious penalty.

Pandemonium.

Killing Joke ?

We’re playing like the home team.

Mayor is a whingy bastard.

Nice to see us having a right old go at a side second from top away from home!

Nice commentary PV. Kind of makes you wonder why we have not pladed like this all season and if we had what if...

Will need to have another look at that at ht.

None of Anderson’s through balls coming off.

Swindon good going forward, pace out wide unsurprisingly causing us issues.  For me, best team we've played against for a long time, they have good tactics and focused on our weak areas, getting the ball out wide quickly.  Its going to be a hard second half.  Attacking wise  weve only threatened a little, need to be moving the ball quicker and getting Mayor in positions were he can cause damage.

Ok. Half-time video review complete, as follows:
- definite penalty for the foul on Woolfenden
- their goal wasn’t offside
- Bennett dived before the keeper touched him

Mayor is a real handful for them, how Bury manage to hold on to players like that is beyond me (and probably beyond their finances given their continual boom and bust).

It hits the bar.

Our day?

Woolery belter from 25 yards bangs off the post.

  Bugger.  Deserves a hat-trick.

Carroll's a lucky boy!

16 mins left against 10 men.

Sometimes your luck manifests it’s self in strange ways....

We need to defend in numbers and hit them on the break.

Anderson off Dunne on.

The dream is back on!!!!!!!!!!

Forest Green and Exeter both losing.
Playoffs still very much achievable.
Makes the rest of the season more interesting if anything!

Seconded and with £30 at 11/1 Swindon to win and.both teams to score, would love it to happen!

Bury are unbeaten in 14 league games their fans are over confident and probably rightly so, they are 2nd in the table and it should be a home banker. In the home game they beat us 2-1 it could have gone either way and Bury were nothing special at all but we were poor in front of goal and playing poorly under Brown at the time, we had Dunne at RB and a few changes in the side, they looked easily beatable though.

We are a very different kettle of fish now than we were back then.

If we can create chances like we did last week then we could easily beat them, keep Maynard quiet and we will win.

Swindon 3-0 Bury with Anderson, Robinson and Woolf scoring in front of 4,051 with 485 Town fans there.

Win Saturday and the playoffs could be ours to lose.

Big game against Newport Tuesday who are just 2 points behind us on 38 games.

All our remaining fixtures look winnable on paper. Be interesting to see how we do next week against Yeovil as they will likely park the bus.

And it would take a pretty poor run from here for Wellens' stint not to be seen as a relative success this far.

The players have looked "leggy" for a while.  We paid for it today.  Swindon were quicker, fitter and stronger than us.  They also exploited our defensive weakness - Rossiter was drawn out of position on numerous occasions, thus leaving a gap which was duly exploited.  The tackle which led to Mayor's reaction was awful but his selfish reaction could have a significant bearing upon the season.

It would help if the fans who abused McCormick had got behind the team instead.

Swindon looked a very decent side on that performance blistering pace going forward and skill on the ball. Our defence looked vulnerable every time they attacked.  I'm not going to criticize because we have been excellent at home.

Swindon distributed well, and fast.

it wasn’t disgraceful.  It was actually the best we’ve played in the last three games.  Sometimes you have to realise the opposition are good, I haven’t seen every match this season but for me they are the best I’ve seen against us. In the second half we were the better team until they scored, had we put away one of the two or three chances at that point if would have been a different result I think.

Bad day at the office, but Swindon were worthy , and comfortable winners.  As well as they played though, all 3 goals conceded were very poor.

Swindon deserved the win and how they are not up at the top end is somewhat baffling. Their number 22 caused us problems all game, one of the best forwards I’ve seen at Gigg this season.  

Well played Swindon though, Woolery was immense.

Swindon had pace and exploited spaces in our defence on the counter. You have to wonder why they are not higher up in the league - like top - after that performance.

Fair play to Swindon who were excellent on and off the ball and did the dirty at times to frustrate us. Kicks and chops and pulls. Enough to send anybody over the edge - and it did! It was a nasty challenge on Mayor but he's had a fair few this season and handled them well for the most part. Don't think he would have reacted like that had we not been chasing the game or been offered more protection. Still, Swindon needed absolute gifts to twice get into the lead they deserved.

Beaten by the better side.
We tried today, as we always do, but we were beaten by a decent side.

mistakes and us being forced to be second best by a decent, improving side. 
Swindon did their homework and decided just to basically attack us. They had at least 5 if not six players in the box on most attacks.

They did a great job on us, helped by quick players suitable for their tactics. Not every side between now and the finale will have those strengths though.

most teams have come and defended but they didnt. I think if we had one up front today and danns as an extra midfield man we could have won but who could predict that? just one of them games!

Out-thought, out-muscled, out-battled and out-played.

Indeed, his results have been LWWWLDDDLWDWLWWDWLLDWW
10 wins 6 draws 6 defeats in his first 22 league matches a win ratio of 45.5% or 45.8% of league and cup games.

Certainly Welens has improved results somewhat, but interestingly your list breaks down handily into 7 game segments and we've 7 games left what it shows is that over 7 game segments we're good for 11 points, which would finish off on 68 points the same as last season.

Interesting.

At the same point last season we were on 61 points (4 points better off and 1 place higher in the table than now) and 3 points off 7th place with no game in hand.

Last season though we only won 4 of our last 17 fixtures and were more on decline than we are now.

perhaps it would be fitting to get 69 points.

There is a sequence of 7 games in those 22  that gave us 14 points.

Woolery 10 today.

Two things stand out for me today:
1) I think that's the first time we've beaten 10 men all season - we've previously had 4 games where the oppo have had players sent off and drawn all of them
2) There's signs that Wellens seems to be finding the player in Woolery. If he can sustain that, he could be a real threat next season, especially if we can keep Robinson (or replace him well)

Some very gracious comments on the Shakers froum after the game.

Sometimes you have to realise the opposition are good

At the very worst its impetus for next season. I think we've beaten the top four away now which is pretty amazing.

Unfortunately not,  got beat 4-1 at Lincoln, drew  0-0 at the donkey's, but have won at four of the top six - still not bad.

Unfortunately not,  got beat 4-1 at Lincoln, drew  0-0 at the donkey's, but have won at four of the top six - still not bad.

It's very good.... however offset by only beating 2 of the current bottom half of the table at the CG, we've still got 3 to go.

It's one of those things... teams often can win a game when the pitch is good, weather is good, and they're focused by playing a top side in the league.... but can't grind out that win when things are against. That's Wellens' challenge for next season, graft a bit of win dirty onto what we have.

3 of the top 6?

Nope,    won at  MK, Bury,, Tranmere  and FGR.

Thanks PV.  Have been out.  Harboured hopes but reading through the thread input has been a fantastic pleasure.  We have put in some really big performances away from home - the team seem to have taken a real step forward under Wellens with so many individual seeming to grow into their potential.  A beautiful club and a beautiful read everyone. :pint:

All fans of all teams in all sports would do well to remember this but seldom do.

I'm with Zorbrey - 3-1 to us

The more I watch those the more it looks like a pen in that scramble. Woolfenden has his legs taken while about to shoot.
Great result tho and typical town to lose to yeovil's now

Yep defo pen in there, maybe two.

The foul on Bennett looks stonewall too.

If you’re going to get there after about twenty past two, then Tesco parking is free for three hours

Oh nice... that's a possible then..