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Port Vale 1 up against ColU :)
Mansfield 1 up v Newport  :)
Exeter 2 up at Macc  :(

You missed Northampton one up at Walsall (meh!)

We have The Silkmen A last game of the season too.

Northampton 2-0 up

Cobblers 2 up now. The only games that really matter are Plymouth's and Exeter's.

Macclesfield score v Exeter (1-2)

slightly too early to say that for me

Well yes, the larger gap there is between the play-off teams and the top three, the better.

Some half time ska:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCZN1rU5co

Vale 2 up against Colchester.

Crewe score. Bollocks.

On the plus side, there's a 6 point gap to the play-off positions

Crewe one up.

I was hoping for a Crewe win. Opening a gap from 4th place has to be the priority for me.

Forest Green's capitulation continues at Oldham. Walsall get one back against Northampton.

Plymuff equalise

Luke Jephcott's form has been impressive.

I guess it doesn't matter which of the other 3 fall away, as long as one does.


obviously today isn't going to be a killer blow to anyone.

it's all about what we do

FFS, they could have let me type my reply first!

FVR really are the team that have fucked up. Reg spoke (where is he) about any potential wheels falling off regarding the Town, during this season. He's missed the glaring obvious one. Those at Nailsworth really are on borrowed broken barrows.

In other news Macc equalise!

Go you Silkies! 2-2

What Cooper does isn’t it, as soon as form drops off he’s completely clueless and just goes into denial and the blame game.

come on Mac!

also FGR are 1-0 down to Oldham. Cooper will be turning his phone off tonight if they carries on

Match made in heaven there, especially with Vince.

Spoke to an FGR regular last night and all sorts of stories coming out from behind the scenes. He mentioned Bristol Rovers wanted Cooper but FGR were asking for £100K compensation so went elsewhere.

Muff score

Imagine asking for money for that fraud.

Not so good as they play their game in hand on Tuesday.

bugger. come on Crewe

Crewe usually score in injury time  ;D

15 big mins in that Plym v Crewe match. It's almost becoming as tight as the Championship's chuff in League Two!

Keeps it interesting.

Vale 3 up  :eek:

I still have a suspicion Exeter and Crewe will fall away, they seem to lack in squad depth.

Looking at some of the turnarounds the weather is having a massive impact so I’m glad we aren’t playing.

Walsall equalise.

Good set of scores so far. Just need Crewe to equalise.

check out boo's Twitter and see that Crewe miss!

https://twitter.com/stfcboo/status/1228717678879223809?s=19

Bradford still slipping towards mediocrity drawing now with Cambridge

That is a thing of beauty...

Fucking Exeter with a late goal again!

ffs

..and it was all going so well. All down to us of course, but it helps when the opposition fork it up.

Bradford losing

Cambridge winning now  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That late goal has just netted me £252

Northampton losing again

Some perspective...

Crewe have still to play Exeter, ColU, Vale, Northampton, Newport & Bradford.
Muff have Bradford, Exeter & Northampton.
Exeter have Northampton, Crewe, Plymouth, Bradford.

That's that then Plymouth and Exeter both win.

Not the best of days but still top

I reckon Salford will make the playoffs.

them, Cheltenham and Mansfield away are my pick out hard games.

But truth be told 'on paper' predictions are pointless and become less predictable the later the session goes

Tight as a nun’s chuff at the top now.

Salford's form is quite erratic. Although there's still plenty of time, I think everyone below Bradford are pretty much done now as far as promotion pushes are concerned.

Yes, you are. Had we won 10-2, you wouldn’t have been !

However, you didn’t.

 We've a better idea now of where we are at with gih more or less out of the way except for Plymuff....  and we're in the mix, but still plenty to do. Cheltnumb probably can't be ruled out... a grinding side with a trip to te CG to come, and we know what that means.

you're right. I thought they were on a run, but looking at their results I thought wrong

You just scraped over the line at the end versus Macclesfield  ;)
A tough ish run in for you, muff and Crewe.

Why all the doom & gloom? Bradford, Northampton & Crewe all lost. Games in hand used up, and we're still top. Exeter won't carry on getting jammy late winners much longer. We're fine.

Exeter’s last 3 games have been against 18th, 23rd and 24th so hardly surprising they’ve picked up points, they’ve still got all their harder games to come.

Macclesfield have an immediate say in what happens at the top with home game against Plymouth on Tuesday and away to Crewe in a local derby next

Their form is pretty dreadful at the moment but hopefully they avenge that Crewe 95th min equaliser a few weeks ago.

Feel like Crewe, Exeter and Plymouth have put in a tremendous run to get back on our coattails but at least one of them can't keep it going.

The Dutch have an expression:

"If my aunt had a dick, she'd be my uncle."

:nod:

We all know those scrapping to stay up are often the toughest opponents, especially at home, and at the business end. 4 relegation battlers to face on their own patch for the run in, won’t be easy for you at all.

I know what you mean, but there's only 1 going down this season and they are pretty much out of it already. Other teams at the bottom won't be as desperate as they usually would.

Now you’ve ruined my evening.

On seeing the 3 other contenders, I’ve got to say Exeter are the least impressive. When 1 falls away, it’ll be them.

Depends when you’ve seen them. Fans of Colchester, Newport or Bradford won’t rate us much.

I’ve seen them play us. What other criteria am I likely to use?

Bet they'd gladly swop places with us though.

I don’t know, the fact they’re second in the league with the least goals conceded. All fans do it, but I’m not sure judging any team purely on your own team’s games against them is a very good indicator of their quality over a season.

It’s called an opinion

I’ve come across these before. They tend to need heavy reality-testing.

It's a bit fucking angsty in here today, innit?

Only among those who’ve just got up and those still to go to bed now.

I’ve got another opinion as well - but you’d probably not want to hear that one either.

On the contrary, but be prepared for someone to challenge it.

Well my opinion is this - Yes, it is as tight as the proverbial gnat's chuff at the top. There are four teams there who deserve to go up automatically but only 3 can.

The good news is that we are at the front of that group, albeit there will only be a fag paper between us if muff win on Tuesday as we have to expect them to do.

You have to think though that the massive effort and investment that went into the squad in the January window will gradually pay off as the season grinds on and we enter the home stretch. I've been convinced since early September that we're the best team in the league and I still believe that.

I am sure this will be reflected in the league table at 5.00pm on the 25th April*



*I'll still gladly take 2nd or 3rd if offered it now!

Understandable 'opinion', considering the other two have beaten you this season, as you've beaten them. That said, no other team, yet, has taken 4 points or more from us as you've done already. The first game quite evenly matched and the second neither side being particularly 'impressive' due to the strong wind, although you coped far better.

By rights yourselves and <spit> Argyle should be a given, with Crewe and ourselves scrapping for third place, but as the man once said. "it's a funny old game, Saint".  :D

I would put you before Plymouth as they've been indifferent throughout the season where you have always been consistent. Crewe have a really hard run in so it may be them that miss out but there's still 39 points to play for. As for the play offs Port Vale have run into some form where as Salford have picked up a little and could make a late run and Colchester and Northampton have started to wobble and Cheltenham have been our bogey team for a few years so can't be overlooked as we play them home over Easter

I have nothing to back up my opinion other than the games I’ve seen of the other 3. That, and the remaining fixtures for everybody. I suppose there’s a possibility it may well be us that drops out of the autos but, again, our remaining fixtures would deem that unlikely.

It’s the fixtures where you play Argyle and Crewe that could give us an advantage - a bit more so with the number of games left diminishing.

I avoided any scores until the games were long over as it would have frustrated me watching the scores come in.

11 points clear of 'Fampton in 8th place on the same number of games.

If 'Muff win their game in hand they will go top on goal difference with 3 teams on 63 point, but they still have to win it! I would rathe rhave points on the board than games in hand.

Still glad to still be top even though we didn't play, could have been worse.

Doesn't get much tighter at the top.

Only if they win by 5 clear goals surely? Their GD is 17 at the moment I believe.

Yeah 4-0 would put them on equal goals scored/conceded/difference as us, I looked quickly and thought it was 2 goal.

I see their game in hand is being played on Tuesday away at Macclesfield, so a 4-0 win is actually possible given their position in the table. Macclesfield have picked up just 1 point from the last 5 games.

With the injuries we've had along with extreme wind recently it's been a great leveler but give Wellens a full squad and decent pitches in March then we become a real force again and will no doubts give one or two teams a hammering

Highly likely, but Macclesfield only lost by a late goal to Exeter on Saturday so fingers crossed.

Yeah they don't ship masses of goals lately but Plymouth are on a high and Macc less so.

Still we can keep our fingers crossed for an unlikely upset.

As a footballing side Crewe and Plymouth are up there with Swindon and streets ahead of Exeter and the following pack from what I have seen of us playing them and in highlights.

I would like Exeter to come up as they are my local league side so easy to get to, but I feel it will be the play offs for them.

I agree wholeheartedly with is comment. We have a team that plays good football, certainly at our level and the better weather and pitches are just around the corner for us to take advantage of.

Spot on and Wellens would be very aware of this hence happy not to play yesterday

I do wonder how much Input into the postponement Wellens had? If the PP was contrived then I’m all for it, a master stroke.

The big question mark for me hangs over Crewe, largely out of ignorance I must admit but do they have the experience to hold their nerve? I know they have youngsters with a lot of appearances but does that equate to the mental toughness of someone a little older for this run in?

Sent from my CLT-L09

Reg Minor here.

If we were the ones to drop into the playoffs, how about being joined by Bradford, Colchester and Newport?

My first reaction to Mrs Taylor on hearing of the postponement was, "Wellens got his way then"... :nod:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/18237849.swindon-town-manager-richie-wellens-insists-strong-gusts-caused-storm-dennis-postpone-games-avoid-farcical-play/

“Streets ahead” ? To date we’ve taken 4 of the available 6 points from Crewe and Argyle, scoring 5 and conceding 1, you must have missed those particular highlights !

crewe arguably play the more attractive football but have a tough run in and Exeter just don't know when they are beaten

I must have, I can only comment on what I have actually seen and I say it how I see it, no offence meant as you obvious think very highly of your own team, understandable so, but we only ever see the highlights on Quest and in the game we actually play, its rare to see a whole game involving the other teams in this league as so few are ever shown live by Sky etc.

Crewe and Plymouth were the only sides to match us footballing wise for me.

Some teams play well against certain teams, we cannot play well against Colchester, Newport or Cheltenham, but we have played well against almost all the rest.

Your boys obviously picked their game up against the bigger sides.

Footballing wise we outplayed Walsall yet you drew with them, you thrashed your neighbours but we struggled against them, you were mullered by Cambridge but we totally outplayed them in both games.

The league is very open and pretty much any team can on its day comfortably beat anyother team.

I still hold my view that for getting the ball down and playing good football Swindon, Crewe and Plymouth are easily the best I have seen.

I'd say the only team we haven't played well against out of those is Newport. We should have beaten both Colchester and Cheltenham as were by far the better team. Sloppy defending did for us.......Newport, yeah, we were shite. Conditions also a factor to consider, though, especially at Newport. Although I think we were pretty awful at home to them as well....

I’d back us in any of our remaining fixtures to be honest. We’ve beaten all the top teams since Christmas and taken apart 2 of the form teams in Port Vale and Northampton so I’ve no doubt we’ll continue in the same vein against the lesser teams. We play in an expansive way that creates a lot of chances so even if the struggling teams just come and sit in the odds of them being able to do that for 90 minutes is pretty slim. As the weather improves (hopefully) it will only play further into our hands.

Beware of Grimsby, unbeaten in 5 and Holloway as manager

We were.  We were shite at Crewe,  too. Bloody belting in a load of other babes, mind.

This, they are on a good run, a real upturn in form, they will probably bring about 500+ and always get behind their fishy team.

I'm going to that game, I'll bring the tartare sauce

I have some lovely Sicilian lemons. A squeeze of juice over the fish will go nicely. The rest can be given to the naysayers to suck on.

‘Squeeze me lemon, til the juice runs down my leg’

I went to the Amalfi coast for a wedding a couple of years ago in August (fucking roasting) and the lemons there were the size of king edwards! Mahooosive fuckers!

Beautiful Limoncello out there.

Bob's lemon  :)

Had some lovely smooth Limoncello in one of the Towns around Lake Garda and then some more "acquired" Grappa!

Conceded 7 in those 5 games though so obviously not great at the back so could be ideal for us.

Absolutely, there SHOULD be goals, neither side have the best defensive record TBH.

Grim have lost 5 games on their travels, the same number Swindon have.

In the away game under the last manager they relied on HOOOOF to Hanson a lot, I haven't seen them much under the Bristol Mr Punch yet. His teams used to play on the deck a lot though.

The Grim fans are very very confident on their forum that they can get a result on Saturday.

Some also think the crowds going to be 4-5k  ;D

Confidence is one thing, turning up and doing another. We've dropped a couple of points in our last 10 home games. Bookies will have them 3-1 at best. If the boot was on the other foot I'd be worried.

I tend to ignore what their fans think as at the start of the season they reckoned they’d be pushing for automatic promotion. 3 of the games in their unbeaten sequence have been Morecambe, Stevenage and the Vegans so I think we may be overestimating them slightly. If we play our usual game we’ll be just fine.

My major concern is the wind will be a leveller if it is as forecast to be pretty windy again.

The other thing is that Grimsby have only ever won at the County Ground 2 times in 23 matches with Swindon winning 15 of them.

Although both those wins have come in the last 5 meetings since 2000.

We'll batter them, there'll be no breadcrumbs here  :)

Wasn’t it last season they were awarded that ridiculous penalty for a foul 5 yards outside the box?

Aye aye Captain.

No, the away game there was a penalty for handball that was outside of the area, by Preston.

Forecast says 17mph winds on Saturday, that’s nothing major.

Codswallop! Best not underestimate small fry.  ;)

Previous season - and there wasn’t even a foul!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yik0XRY5eyw

Plymouth at Macclesfield tonight,  a win by 5 goals or more would not be good for us.  Come on Macclesfield.

Macclesfield 1-0 Muff att: 1,654 (463 cornish men)

It is what it is. Points will be dropped throughout the top 4 between now and late April.

Love it !  :girlgiggle:

Macc lads 0-3 Muff att: 2,251 (863 pasty fuckers there). Jephcott, Sarcevic & Hardie scoring.

Macc can nick something 1-1

Come on Macc

COME ORRRRRNNN MACCLESFIELD.

YOU CAN DO IT.

Yesssss 1-0

Get the fuck in!

Macclesfield winning at half time.

COME ON YOU --- whatever your nickname is.

Got BTTS, 1+ corners, each team in each half @2/1

Plus Pox game (O1.5 gls & 8+ corners) @evens.

Looking pretty fruity atm.

Silks

or

Silkmen :)

The Macclesfield commentary duo is more like a comedy duo.

70% possession and 1 shot on target. Keep it up muff  :)

I need a Plymouth goal for my bet to win...but we sing want that!

Bloody jinx  :no:

PLYMOUTH MISS AN 84th MIN PENALTY!!!

The stars are aligning boys! This is our year!

They've just scored....

1-1 now....

Come on Silkmen, hold out. (or get a winner)

Yep, they missed a peno and then I checked back.....they scored 87th fucking pilgrims! Bet is in though  :pint:

They scored the rebound to the penalty

They’re going to get a last minute winner again...

Well they should do as they have the best fans, best players, best manager etc in the league as their fans keep telling us.

Weird, my app must've had a hell of a delay. A goal went on at the time of the pen then it was removed. I was doing something else and checked back and it said "Goal Plymouth 87th".

Anyway, they'll end up nicking it. They may already have!

FT 1-1

Decent result.

Well done Macclesfield.

That'll do. Two HUGEE points dropped by the Pasty Shaggers!

All relevant games in hand used up and still top

We *should* hopefully start building a bit of a gap between us and 4th in the next few games.

Exeter have a tough one this Sat and Plymouth could stumble against a team that have won 4 in recent weeks after a couple of weeks of multiple games and long trips.

Plymouth have Cambridge who have won 4 on the bounce and Exeter have Northampton away. Crewe have Macc so let’s hope they can do the same as tonight.

It's very tight, I just hope we start to turn the screw and put pressure on the other 3 who have to play each other (sort of)

Even better.

We *should* hopefully start building a bit of a gap between us and 4th in the next few games.

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Sorry FH,   mucked that post up big time !!.

Definitely a bonus. The wheels looked to have dropped right off at Macc in recent weeks.... if Macc drop out of the league before May it will make the top 4 a mess... as it stands we'd be on 60 with a GD of 18, behind Crewe with 60 and a GD of 20, but above Muff on 60 with a GD of 17. Exeter would be the big losers of 6 points down to 57.

Macc will hold on til seasons end at least. It's not quite a Bury situation. Appreciate the concern but I don't think the scenario proposed above will be relevant.

Don't they still have an outstanding case for not fulfilling fixtures ?,   they had  a 6 point deduction earlier in the season but I'm sure they have another case to answer.   Anyway even with another 6 points deducted they would still be 2 points ahead of Stevenage,  administration is the thing that would change it all around,  but as Bamboo said, hopefully that won't happen.

Pleased for Macclesfield, a massive point in their relegation struggle.

Anyone else who profits from 'Muffs not winning is just a bonus. :D

I think the deduction was 6 points with 4 further points suspended.

The Swindon v Plymouth Twitter spat heats up!

https://mobile.twitter.com/Swindon_Live/status/1229884891883589636?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email

Last summer I bemoaned the quality of Plymouth's pre-season dealings, stating that I envied some signings, and Argyle fans got in an awful tizz over that (misinterpreting what I had posted).

Plymouth need to go up otherwise their fans are going to go absolutely loco... I suspect they will be unhappy if they go up 2nd, 3rd or via Play-Offs too!

Plymouth fans remind me of Liverpool fans. A massive overinflated overinflated opinion of themselves and need everyone to be telling them how great they are. It's borderline insecurity.

Based on a very small sample size, every male who lives in Devon/Cornwall under the age of 30 who has never lived anywhere but their home town is a massive bellend. The whole region suffers from small town syndrome

The Venn diagram of this segment and Plymouth fans would have quite a large overlap I imagine

Yep, way too big for this league etc etc.

Probably the biggest budget in this league, 2nd biggest average attendace and biggest away following average in this league.

Their fans expect to be going up as champions as Rich says, they always have been quite an arrogant set of fans, my step daughters cousins are all Plymouth fans and they seem to think they have a god given right to be in the Championship, their natural home...apparently.

Massive over inflated opinion of their self worth.

I have no issue with having expectations, that's fine. We have them too.

Argyle fans just aggressively pounce on everything.

Positives - FUCK YOU
Negatives - FUCK YOU
No Opinion either way? FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU

Mystic Costanza.

I remember a surfer telling me the closer you got to Land's End, the more likely you were to get punched in a pub. I can see the attraction in punching some surfers though!

I've a friend who is a Plymouth fan from Bodmin and he's the funniest man I've ever met. He's seen the world however, so maybe that's why.

If you say anything on Twitter that doesn't say they have the best away fans for example you get absolutely bombarded. Last week we had more fans at Northampton than they did at Salford and as a result we had days of their fans telling us why their following was better because of distance etc. Even the club itself are as bad trying to mock our away following before the New Years day game. At the same game I said I thought their new stand is a bit shit, because well it is and just received constant abuse about how it is actually the best new stand in the country because its based on some historical design. Other than Liverpool I've never seen a set of fans like it....

I hope you're not being serious? I know plenty of people who live in Devon & Cornwall and while some may suffer from "closed mindedness", they definitely aren't all massive bellends and are some of the most thankless people who will go out their way to help someone.
 
They also understand a good sense of community. Something that has been lost in a lot of larger places. Ironically, a lot of people who move out of their hometown (nationally) become quite insular and have no regard for integrating or becoming part of a community.

Your claim is absurd.

I think the first 7 words of Dave's post qualified his statement well enough.

These days I barely look at any other footy sites, in the expectation that the elite TEF hacks will have covered every result of interest. So I am deeply disappointed that no one seems to have reported on Exeter's tragic extra-time defeat to Portsmouth last night in the Leasing.com Trophy semi-final, having taken the lead in the 89th minute.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51494122

Surely the heartbreak of missing out on their big day out at Wembley will inevitably derail the rest of their season. Poor lambs.

#thoughtsandprayers

Ah, but "the whole region suffers from small town syndrome" comment is pretty unambiguous.

From somebody who's posted over 15,000 times in the largely partisan echo chamber of a local town football club, i guess he would know !

That said, totally agree with all the other well-observed comments re the snot and its support from Cornwall.  :clap:

<cliche alert*

Concentrating on the league now, Froggy. Focus, focus.... !

Well done for putting a brave face on it. Fingers crossed you still get your Wembley day out.  ;)

A good run out for the kids, and it scared the beejaysus out of 'em !

Having been to Nou Wembley 4 times, similar to you I believe, and we usually lose at the soulless dump, very happy to give it a miss ! Argyle would fill the place, best they go.

Salford win on pens. Another Tuesday night game

BUT those Welsh anti football fuckers will hopefully win fuck all again.

Would be exactly the same in your shoes, no interest in going to Wembley for anything other than an FA Cup final (which Town win, obvs) or England games.

So unless the EFL let us bring the game forward the only date we will be able to play it would be Tuesday 21st April

So this will be our last home game. So until this is played it may leave us lower in the table!

You have just summed up everyone I still know in Oxfordshire who voted for Brexit.

I had a quick look at this last night it seemed the earliest opportunity, was the Tuesday after the weekend of final.  I thought, it would impact on the next Saturday game however.... so wondered what was that..... shoiuld have known Cheltnumb  >:(

I don't think they'll make Salford play Sunday, Tuesday, Friday, Monday, so I can't see it preceding the Cheltenham game.

I think it'll get brought forward into late March. 31st would be nice, as they'll have their eyes on the final the following weekend.

We've got 8 games before that date, I'd like to think we'll pull away over that time so won't be an issue.

Champions by then  ;)

If the Macc lads fold it'll be the last game of the season. Imagine a scenario where it's close at the top and all the other teams know what's needed beforehand because we've played all our games.

If it’s the last game of the season then all the other clubs would have played all their games too.

If Macclesfield don't exist by then, our last game will be Orient on 18th April, a week before the last gameweek of the season, which is 25th April when we're due to play Macclesfield, who won't exist so we won't have a game, but everyone else will and they'll know what they have to do, which is unfair.

Won't matter,  we'll be crowned champions before then.

But all points for all teams gained against them will be expunged

Would crewe not lose 6 points? 3 more than we would?

That difference could leave them unable to catch us on the last day. Not sure about the others.

Maccclesfield won't fold before seasons end. So all that speculation is irrelevant. They may get some more points deducted though.

Crewe play Macclesfield on Saturday at home

I think the League will try to keep Macclesfield going for the season,not that I've heard any further developments why they shouldn't. Remember when there were doubts about Bury at the start of the season they made them call off all their early games, the last thing they wanted was them to play and then have to take out their record

I think Macc will see the season out at least, and then give Stevenage a reprieve (who probably feel like they're owed one after being denied a promotion to the FL due to their ground in the mid 90's)

Good scores atm, draws all round

With the Numb now winning its possibly going to be a battle between the top 5 as opposed to the top 4.   

FT Numb win 2-1,  could make the game at the County Ground a bit more tasty !!.

fucks sake!

They may actually bring a decent following for once. On second thoughts, they don't have a following  :D

Cheltenham coming into will probably work in our favour as it will pile the pressure on the others below us first.  I still think we'll have to fuck this up not to go up from here.  Hard work has been done, recruitment has been spot on (we have a lot of forward options now) and we have fixtures where we win if we perform to anything near our best on most occasions.  It's not about the others now.

Are we really worrying about Cheltenham now? This is shaping up like the Di Canio season so it’ll be a Crewe v Cheltenham play off final again.

Nope, not worrying about anyone the way we are playing,  but does make it a lot more interesting and puts more pressure on the other three top teams.

I think Numb will contend...for the POs. I don't think they'll be part of Town's  battle. We really don't need to concentrate on them.

Big crowd at the pox tonight for there push towards the play offs  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

If I were a Cheltenham fan, I'd be saying that going up as Champions is doable.

But I'm not a Cheltenham fan. I'm a Swindon fan, and I'm saying that going up as Champions is even more doable for us than it is for them. Or anybody else in this league for that matter.

I would be more comfortable with more of a gap, though. Especially over 4th.

Plus they have ColU, Vale and Cambridge as their next three games. Let alone Exeter, us and the big Glos derby

Exactly.  The remaining fixtures for the other 4 teams mean they are highly unlikely to all be picking up enough points for automatic promotion - they'll be pinching from each other and the teams they play around the play offs are not going to be walkovers either.  Our fixtures leave it in our hands - we should be looking to win at least the majority of them, and that puts us in the top 3.  We've done the hard graft already and set ourselves up for a good finish, over to us to deliver now.  The others will either scrap it out below us, or a couple will break away from the other two once they start playing each other.

This.

Whilst not thinking we should concentrate on Numb, a cursory glance will tell you they're very much in the mix. Back at end of Jan, I reckoned there were 8 clubs in the mix of which we were one.

Now down to 5, for 3 like Cobblers, ColU and Bradford, who were all above Numb, there wasn't much wriggle room their chances resting on good run of wins, Cobbs perhaps, falling foul of FA cup involvement, ColU a couple of untimely defeats and Bantams well and truly fucked by the grenade we bunged them.

There's still a long way to go and a lot of games to be played in a short space of time, a couple of poor games can derail any of the 5.... sort of thing that happened to Mansfield last season happily sat 2nd with 5 to go and didn't make it.

Numb need to win a bit more on the road, but their obviously defensive way of playing on their travels may serve them in good stead, when grinding out wins matters.

Yep. Confident, not complacent. And rather be us than Cheltenham. Keep coming back to what Hunt said post match a few weeks back "I'd rather be where we are in the league than anywhere else" (or words to that effect)

it does bother me a little though that it is so tight, I'd like to see the gap between 3 & 4 opening up though, I'm happy that our goal difference is superior though which is as good as another point which helps

Indeed, points on the board are what counts! I vaguely recollect that there was a season a few years back where either we were near the top or near the bottom an we had games in hand so there was a lot of thoughts that we would do well/survive (as I said its a bloody vague recollection) as we had games in hand, we failed....

At the end of the day a couple of the top five need to fade away or have a bad run. Let's hope it's not us  ::)

Plymouth one down at Bradford

Creepies up at Exeter

Crawley one up at Exeter

Dear Santa - Please can I have defeats for Crewe, Exeter and Plymouth today. Promise I'll be good for the rest of the year. Thanks, NMH

Cheltenham one up at Colchester and in the top three as it stands

..Plymouth down to ten

Can you add Cheltnum to the list!

Plymouth 2 down

I don't want to be greedy. I'll wait until we play them before asking for the impossible and for us to win a 6 point game against them!

Crewe one up, and top!

We can't shake those buggers off

We can't but maybe Morecambe can...

1-1

Get in Morecambe.

Come on morcambe!

Scunthorpe lost both of their strikers to muscle injuries, may be good for Tuesday.

We’re all honorary Morecambe fans today.

Cheltnum 2 up now, and only 3 points from us.

Win on Tuesday and we’ll restore it to 6, they still don’t worry me and I’d back us not to lose to them if we are at full strength. We didn’t have Grant or Doyle in the cup games.

Maybe a 11000-12000 crowd over Easter if they bring a few

They’ll maybe scrape 1000, their away following is pathetic.

Exeter equalise

Can't shake those buggers off either but I would take a draw now

I think they did not even have 3,000 at home in midweek

Exeter vs Crewe on Tuesday.

2nd red card for Plymouth, bless

Excellent and a lovely 330 mile drive home to chat about it!

Morecambe down to 10

Let's hope it's not a penalty conceded

Finishes one all.

As does Exeter v Crawley.

Good news! Your updates were quicker than the live score I was watching. Good day for Town apart from Cheltenham

And still top :) bloody marvellous that is! Big night Tuesday....

that could have been worse

Good set of results that.

Not playing has worked out quite well for us again today. Of the chasing pack, only Numb pick up maximum points. Could go three points clear with a win on Tuesday.

Happy with that.

...clear skies and no wind forecast for Tuesday evening - yay!

Well those results could have been far worse.

All in our hands, big game Tuesday

Crewe v Exeter on Tuesday as well

Way things are going, if we were to give the Stratton Bank to home fans for the Chelters game we might get a higher gate than for the Exeter game.

No way. We could give every away fan a fiver and they still wouldn’t turn up.

There will be around 1500 from Cheltenham - 500 in the away end and 1000 supporting us  :D

Great set of results for us.  Couldn't realistically have hoped for better.

Now effectively perm 3 from 5.  Ours to lose.

Beware John Yems' Creepies, no pushovers away from home.  :badmood:

Yeah, we really struggled there.  :D

(Ah, you mean when they play away. Thanks for the scouting tip. We'll be sure to take note.)

Even if we wanted to im not sure we can as we have to give so many seats under cover

So far the two postponements have worked out well. Two very, very winnable home games coming up. Today may just be one of those key defining moments in a season to look back upon.

Now your hard games are stacking up and points will be dropped with our promotion rivals when you all play each other

Exactly, that’s why I’m suggesting we give the bank to our home fans.

Very true, you’re undoubtedly in a very good position right now, delaying all your games until early springtime ! Another energy sapping heavy pitch likely for us on Tuesday, tho conditions were not ideal either up in shrimpland for Alex, and then there’s all that travelling.....

It's still too tight for my liking

Yep, but win our game in hand and we're 6 points clear of 4th - a bit of breathing space.

It's far from over, but you have to say that we've had a decent recent run.  Take a look at this Form Guide (https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-two/form-guide).

Bradford, Plymouth & Northampton are no more than mid-table.  In the last few weeks, we've moved from being top but with several teams below us able to go above us by winning games in hand - to top with games in hand over them.  It's quite a shift.

From Tuesday we should start to pull away from the rest. It's all in our hands.

All about points on the board. But as donkey says, it's in our hands. We'll drop points between now and end of April, but it's nice to see our rivals also doing so, and increasingly more frequently.  Aside from the results though, which couldn't really have gone much better for us, Plymouth getting two players sent off won't do them any favours either. Assume the first one will miss 3 matches as it was a straight red, second bloke was two yellows.

This, as mentioned the next two games are at home and the one after that is away to a team Mr. Wellens has a point to prove against.

March is looking a big month with 21 points to play for with 4 at home and 3 away. Could do with getting a bit of cushion from the next two home games with two away after that.

Caddis interview in the Adver today quoting the old adage that players prefer playing games than training especially with the training ground issues and 30 plus games in the players legs.

Hopefully its play, win, eat, sleep and repeat for the next few weeks.

Will all the Tuesday games be on ifollow?

yup. only the following clubs opted out...


Birmingham City, Bristol City, Cardiff City, Charlton Athletic, Derby County, Forest Green Rovers, Fulham, Hull City, Leeds United, Leyton Orient, Middlesbrough, QPR, Salford City, Stoke City, Sunderland, Swansea City and Wigan Athletic

I’m still hoping we can secure promotion at the Cheltenham match, that would be pretty sweet after the FA cup and what not.

Not knowing anything about it who does the commentary is it BBC Wilts and can you subscribe using an iPad?

So how come I watched the games at Orient, FGR and Salford on iFollow?

I dunno. Perhaps I misunderstood. and it just meant season long subscriptions


https://www.efl.com/iFollow/

They weren’t on Tuesdays and you’re not in the UK?

I assume you need the Swindon Town app, I'm not sure 100% as I've not used an iPad.

yes it's bbc wilts comms

I guess so but was assuming you needed a laptop or desktop computer

I've watched it on my android phone through the app (not browser). But not used Apple, no idea if the app is available/works on iPad.

yes desktop/laptop browser works on Windows pc  :)

Cheers batch I wil also give it a go on my android phone so the next question how can you subscribe etc

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/ifollow/subscribe/ (https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/ifollow/subscribe/)

you are looking to subscribe to a (video) match pass... if you expand the + you will see only Scunthorpe and Stevenage have this available (Tuesday games).

then it's a case of clicking the link and following through to purchase. you'll need to create an ifollow account if you don't have one...

there used to be a way to get it cheaper than £10 too. use a (not blocked by ifollow) VPN to buy it in Euros . you used to then be able to watch Tuesday games without the vpn - not tried for a while.  got to watch out for  card fees, etc

how you watch watch if using the app I don't recall, was fairly obvious though "live in ifollow.. watch match"..

Thanks again

Been ours to lose since we went top, no other team in this league was/is capable of winning every game left now other than us IMO. Exeter, Plymouth and Crewe have shown that. All of those have lost and drawn several games recently.

Yes I know we have drawn some games and lost3 times since we went top but nobody so far has got close to capitalising on our dropping of points and nobody has so far knocked us off top spot despite many having games in hand to do so.

Now we have at least 1 game in hand over every side in the top half of the table making it look even better at the top.

We have 12 games left and our form has been a little patchy recently but if we recreate our form from the last 12 games, patchy in places as it is, then we will pick up another 23 points which would put us on 89 points which was more than Lincoln won the title with last season and only a couple of points behind Accringtons title winning total.

Our form over the last 12 games has been wlwdwlwlwdww but that was against a lot of teams near the top of the table vying for play off/promotion and (on paper) our run in is against teams in far lower position in the league. Every other team vying for autos have a much harder (on paper) run in than we do, now we have an almost fully fit squad it should ease any fitness issues a bit.

Just watching Coventry v Sunderland

Jeez, not much to worry about next season!

If only that's how football worked...