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Which ever way you look at it, this won’t be easy, but it can be won.

Guaranteed win for STFC - one nil

Jonny smith scores the winner!

It MUST be won !!!.  Win or lose it's going to be a nail biting end of season.

to be honest I wouldn't blame Johnny Smith for doing a Max Power on Sheridan if the opportunity comes

I am not looking at this as a must win, but as someone else said - it's a must not lose if we want to keep them in the mix

I hope we actually go for it. Keep it tight and hope we take the chance before they do is so risky

Question is do we continue with the Iandolo experiment at the back? No idea how Burton play but if they are a team that looks to get down the sides and in behind then I would be more than a little concerned as we know defending against runners isn’t his thing.

Guaranteed win this

well, whatever your opinion of Johnny Smith, he does like running at defenders

Can we organise a piss up in Burton?

Maybe snack on some wagon wheels!

I already have.  Simpler times.  Good day out, too.

I feel sick about this. I just can't see where we are going to get a goal from. But I can see how we might concede one or two.

I'm going to waste my bank holiday watching it too!

 :D

Can see us reverting to a 4 at the back against Burton, playing a right footed player (probably Hunt) at left back to counter Johny Smith cutting back in on his left foot. Grounds to come in alongside Grant in Central defence with Odimayo at right back. Palmer and Missilou central midfield with Garrick and Payne out wide and Twine playing off Pitman. Caddis, Iandolo and Thompson, -who were all fairly poor against Blackpool- missing out. So a 451 or 4231 or 442 however you want to see it.

This, totally.

Burton haven't won in 3 games after a great run but look a way better team than the one we thrashed earlier in the season.

Can't see past a defeat still though, we don't creat enough scoring chances.

Come on Swindon prove me wrong in winning this despite, rather than, beacuse of the tactics.

Burton 3-0 Swindon.

Hope it doesn’t come down to a final day showdown with Wigan - winner stays up, loser goes down.

Not good for my BP, that.

Nope, thats a maximum ticker test with that scenario.

alcohol. dead it with lots of alcohol.

Talking of last day showdowns to stay up, I remember one around 1981 or 82 where we were at home to Brentford and needed a 0-0 to stay up.
it was incredibly tense, but a dire game. in those days goalkeepers could pick up back passes, and we passed back from anywhere within our half of the field - we must have managed at least 50 back passes in the first half. I recall David Peach was at left back for Swindon, and he alone accounted for about half of those. it was also the days fenced sections of terraces, and there were a couple of empty areas between home and away fans. For some reason there was never a ball boy in those empty cages - presumably to avoid the risk of them being the target of missiles from away fans in those violent times - so by the end people stood near us on the Shrivenham Road side were shouting at our players to kick it into the "cage" to waste a few seconds.
Hopefully it won't come down to that on may 8th this year!

The ideal scenario is both teams need a draw to stay up.

Burton are away at Oxford on there last day so let's hope that game isn't decisive for us!

The irony of thousands of Swindon fans hitting refresh on Sky Sports News desperate for Pox to score!

And thousands of pox fans throwing the remote at the TV if they do!

:D

I am expecting it to be same formation as the last few days with Grounds coming in for Iandolo.

We will lose

Remember it well.
A few Brentford thought it would be game to stand in the Shrivvy Road stand and taunt the TE.
They didn’t realise a fair few Swindon had gathered behind them and they soon dispersed.
Was a real nervous tense game.

The following season if we had beaten Newport at home rather than drawing we would have stayed up even though they beat us at their place two games later

I suspect Grounds will come in but Iandolo will be pushed to left wing and Thompson dropped.

That was when Roy Carter missed a penalty with almost the last kick, I think, and that would have kept us up.

Yes spot on! No pun intended ans what I remember Town fans went crazy after the game

No matter how Sheridactyl sets us up you can be assured of another 90 minutes of pure garbage.
Just hope we only have to endure this tedious shite to the end of the season and before we can come back to watch it.
Only knows what it will feel like tracking back from the most outer Northern posts after a showing of everyone behind the ball and hit and hope to an isolated player that can’t move.

Proactive, energetic Brewers 4-0 Passive, we’ll let you dictate the play Robins

Hungry Brewers 3 Well Fed Robins 0

1-1 and another point towards staying up

3-0 to Burton. Set up to play kick and rush and park the bus but unfortunately park the bus on top of a hill with a the handbrake off resulting in disaster. :suicide:

Today is a hard one to predict as we're now nearly in the can't afford to lose situation as defeat today and against a free scoring Peterborough on Saturday will leave us close to the trap door. Sadly 2-1 to Burton

After a pretty decent performances vs Fleetwood and a half decent one vs Rovers we were brought pretty firmly back to earth against a decent Blackpool, a game I didn't think we would win TBH, but after Sheridactyl saying we would take the game to them, as we did vs Fleetwood, we actually did anything but that.

1st 20 mins we did fairly well and matched them and even had a couple of chances, then we sat back and let them onto us without barely a whimper of complaint from us, wave after wave of them outpassing us and we didnt get a look in, inviting them on when we were told we would be the team attacking by the man.

If we sit back today against Burton they will beat us, simple, we don't have the players to sit back and invite teams onto us and hit them on the break. We look best when we press them high up the pitch and stop them having all the possession and all the ball with us constantly chasing it setting up attack after atttack.

Under Jimmy Flloyd Hasselhoff they are playing more of a passing game with a lone striker in Hemmings with 2 wingers and a free role number 10 and 2 defensive midfielders in front of a back 4, again similar to how we lined up with a back 4 before we changed to the 3 CB's.

I have a feeling we will bring Grounds and possibly Missilou back today and change the shape of the team.

If we set up to press them and pass the ball on the ground I think we can get a result, if we sit back then they will beat us, simple.

Agreed, not going to use Blackpool as the yard stick, as they are fairly decent. But it's hard to disagree we had large periods of being disappointing and passive.

I don't think we can afford to lose today. it's not terminal, but we need to keep as many in the relegation mix as we can.

it's going to be hard. going to hope for a draw

Relaxation mix and going to be hard have all sorts of images running through my head.

doh! fixed

A far better option!

Still hope to be able to make the pilgrimage to Burton, the capital of brewing, next season.
Cooper's Tavern, what a great pub, just like walking into someone's house and beer straight from the barrels stacked up in the back room.

Can't see a third away win on the trot.
A point would be ok but there is no reason to show any fear of our opponents today.
Payne and Twine, if selected, will need to be a lot more prominent than they were on Friday.

Don't think that this will feature in the dressing room playlist.
Go on BP you can do it, you've got one job to do so just let the rest of them do the running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXZvnkkF5v4

The other fixtures affecting our position today are.

Hull (1st) v Northampton (19th)
Wimbledon (21st) v Fleetwood (16th)
Wigan (22nd) v Portsmouth (6th)
Rovers (23rd) v Doncaster (10th)
Rochdale (24th) v Ipswich (9th)

Very little home advantage these days. 2-1 Town

You just know that they’ll all go in our favour and we’ll lose...

Obviously it’s a big if but beat Burton today and results below us have a slightly lesser impact and next Saturday they are away to Pompey. Ok we have Posh but you know at this stage of the season strange results are not the exception to the rule. Also the Gas have to go to the Cobblers when we play Posh.

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Palmer... Captain

Garrick dropped.

odd

Defensive.

Palmers ex club Sheriden going all sentimental 😀

That is the most defensive line up we probably could go with, no outlet on the break in Garrick, hoof to PPP being the only attacking option.

Going to be a long afternoon.

Sheridan doesn't like attacking players does he.

Well, fingers crossed. Not filled with confidence but at this point any win would do.

Don’t need lavender or sleep tea with this bloke :)
Awaiting the 2020/1 season videos. Swindon Town’s 20 best throw ins and 10 best sleeping tips with Sheridactyl.
Can only hope Power fucks off before the Court case and this dinosaur becomes extinct before the start of next season. A real hard slog for all Swindon Supporters.
0-0 open tour bus parade.

Urgh . That lineup is not helping my serotonin receptors

For no apparent reason, I am confident that STFC will win today.

Sheridan obviously not a member of the "Garrick Club". Shame

Corrected.

Garrick will do his thing in the second half

I don't have a problem with that tbh, he seems to have been more useful as an impact sub than a starter.

Has yawn fest written all over that line up, he just doesn't like attacking players. Its like Paul Hart all over again.

I don't see where the goals will come from with that team, thats a backs to the wall defensive line up he has picked. Pack the midfield and hoof it to PPP.

I thought 1st half on Saturday he was easily our best attacking option, he fizzled out a bit 2nd half though.

Obviously thinking of keeping it tight first half. Garrick 2nd half - if we’re not 2 down by then, of course.

This is the all too predictable danger

The dirty niggly bastard John Bostwick starts for them today, will probably be starting as CB marking PPP today, I fancy PPP to beat him for pace!

Agreed.

I just want the season to end - relegated or not. It’s shit in the extreme.

If there’s no new regime to start next season everyone can fuck right off.

Imagine starting next season in league 2 with Sheriden & Power at the helm....

Here is every pre game comment from the Brewers forum....

Would it be less stressful just to switch off from all things STFC unit August then?

Go for a walk in the Greek sun, come back have a beer

I'd formally resign as a fan of the club.

Oh captain my captain

You are not alone.
Completely underwhelmed with everything STFC right now. Just a simple case of seeing it through until we bottom out. No idea to how further we will fall mind you with Lee Power against the ropes.

Trying not to think of it Jimmy, just fills me with dread.
Will hold onto the season ticket money until more transparency and understanding is known.

I fear we are still far from the lowest it will get under Power.

I’m 66 a week today. If next season starts with Power and/or Sheridan, I’m out.

What's worrying is prolonged court cases mean we could be stuck with Power for another season or two

My main takeaway from this season has been that sensible rational team selections seem to go wrong and when Sheridan does something flat out mad it seems to somehow work (once or twice), such as Broadbent up front and Iandolo CB. So perhaps Palmer will have a stormer.

I've paid my tenner, shit all else to do today.

I must say, I've always been quite keen to have JFH in charge here. Mostly because I loved him as a player, but I think he's a decent enough lower league boss too.

They're excited about it then?

They had 3 pages on matchday chat from Saturday!

I know they don't have that many fans and a forum that is not as well populated as this one but 4 comments pre game is at a Salford level.

Sheridan is just throwing Spaghetti at the wall in the hope something sticks.  His default appears to be a football by numbers approach - just send people out in positions and tell them where they need to be, not to hold on to the ball and get it forward.  His results have all tended to look like the result of a panic change - the players have probably received very little instruction as a result and play more on instinct.  You can see this in a player like Thompson who looked a class above in his first game when he was just sent out to play a position.  It all seems to go pear shaped once they work on that for a game or two though.

On the JFH thing, it may be just a bad perception issue on my behalf, but the Dutch players always seem far more intelligent.  Like they are scholars of the game.  Listened to Scott Parker yesterday, after Fulham collapsed, and he could barely string a coherent sentence together in his analysis.

As I have said a few times previously, I think we are winning games despite Sheridans tactics not because of them.

Garrick seems to be a one-half player, so it might be a good ploy to bring him on second half to create havoc.  Hope so.

Oh I wasn't under any impression that Sheridan was playing 4D chess. There's just enough randomness around this season that we can never quite write off a game. Here's hoping for another absolute shithouse win.

Being generous to the dactyl one... gives us more options to change the game if it’s not working out? When we went 1 down to Blackpool it was clear we were pretty out of options

We have a couple of these, for different reasons.  Garrick is all pace and little else, so in a short spurt he can worry a defender but over time they can figure him out.  Payne is also a one half player at best, but a better one.  He has no self control and runs around like a school kid.  It means he can be very good for a short burst but seems to knacker himself out as a result.

Other low calorie hot chocolate drinks are available

Still think our season hinges on the result of this one. Shit or Bust, this is it.  We must not lose.

You’re underestimating the utter  shitness of all the bottom 6 teams.

This is going well, tried to pay my £10 and the system says I've paid. The money hasn't gone from my account and the payment page says I've already paid but won't let me in!

I don't expect anything from the Peterborough game then it's Rochdale & Wombles away the same week

Could plug in my radio ....

Very much so, lots of fuck ups by all will happen before the end of the season, us included.

I still think we will need 47/48 points which means at least 3 wins and a draw or two.

A win today.  Please.

Iandolo injured in the first minute

Dolo down injured.

I presume he will get a berating for getting injured in the post match interview?

He won't come back on now, Grounds will come on.

Man down ffs

Seeing Smith on the pitch I did wonder if RapidFlyer might have come on pre match with his thoughts.

Payne fouled 40 yards out.

Yates scores again for Blackpool

Over the head of Odimayo, not a great delivery.

Grant wins a free kick in exactly the same place as the last one for us.

Shot by Twine from the free kick but its too soft to cause problems, easy save.

Palmer much more influential than usual so far. Enjoying his promotion.

Pitman beats the keeper but we cant get a shot in with the keeper in no mans land.

It is Easter so palms and stuff

We look alright. Twine and Payne both winning lots of Thompson-esque shove in the back fouls.

Garratt looks like a Beatle.

Combination of that and playing at a ground he played many time at before. A point to prove to the Burton staff and fans.

A dung beatle? :)

Has Missilou added a weave during his trip to DR Congo? He looks very different. Actually he’s playing well too. Have we engineered a sneaky swap?

Bad header back from Caddis nearly cost us a goal.

Real let off there, Akins should score.

Gas losing 1-0

I was thinking the same thing, on both counts!

Bloody hell! Awful back header from Caddis. Thought it was 1-0!! Should have been.

Massive let off. Poor Caddis header

These are two pretty poor teams, means we have a chance today it looks like.

I reckon we’ve got this. Just need to not concede and also score

Burton seem to be going in hard a lot.

Ever thought of a job in management?

I'm sure they'd say we're keen to highlight that and are going down fairly easily. Ref seems more of the let them play variety which favours them in these circumstances you'd think.

2nd for Yates

I think the ref is letting a lot go but over all hes doing quite well.

Save by Camp.

Good save Campos

Is anyone enjoying this?

Refs shit, mostly in our favour :)

I've seen much worse this season.

I’ve seen a lot worse. So have you.

Why should today be any different?

Its an open game between 2 well matched teams.

Can't say I hardly ever actually enjoy watching us at all under Sheridan TBH.

Ffs

0-1 to them,

I can't really watch it as I've got work to do.

The moment I look up, they score.

Sorry.

Height at set pieces always looked like a weakness.

Johnny Smith took the free kick, hopefully that's his inevitable contribution against us done.

Grounds barely jumped for that cross, easy header for the scorer, Camp little chance of getting to it.

Grounds beaten for the header and Camp rooted to the floor.

1-0. Game over?

fucking hell you fucking fuck faced fucks. fuck off

They are physically stronger and we can’t play football

If they’re that much bigger than us, why do we keep playing long balls?

Easy to say in hindsight but this feels like a Broadbent at the back game.

Well Sheridan says he would never tell his team to play long balls, so why it happens so much every week is an absolute mystery.

Both Conroy and Broadbent should have least travelled.
Still Curran always the preferred option.

Why the fucking fuck the twat ever says that is beyond me.

That is EXACTLY the way we play almost every week.

Since the goal we've gone to pieces. Need to get back into this game sharpish.

still out bottom 4 on goals scored.

Rovers are losing

that's the positives

Our defending from throw ins and corners today is fucking appalling.

Well, we are now making a complete pigs ear of this game.  The result of having no plan at all to get control of the ball and a team that has figured out we can be bullied.  They have had 4 good chances, we have had one free kick that bounced 5 yards in front of their keeper.

saw that episode last week

not the goal, but play on for 20 then totally fold for 20

Maybe through the haze of a vat of red wine it looks like we’re actually Barcelona. Footballing beer goggles as you were.

The half way line is really "on the piss" as they say.

Great ball from Grounds to Thompson.

Who says

Wow we did a shot. It was wide.

Miracle !

House of Payne is in effect

1-1 Payne

Get in, Payne. :)

What a goal

Lovely from Payne.

What a goal!

Whats a fucking finish from 25 yards.

Great goal by Payne!

1-1

Playoffs back on

Now that was a decent strike.
Superb.

Haha, cracker from Payne, shows they are just as bas as us, their midfield pressure is non existent.

That was a blatant foul on Grant from Akins there in the build up to that attack.

Jack Payne scores some absolute pearlers man. Somehow we're going down and playing shite and we're going to have the best goal of the season shortlist we've ever had.

Probably because wonder strikes are our only real plan.

See we have gone back to comedy defending!

Hoping it continues.

yessssssss!

fucking fair fucks payne

come on town

Missiliou looking like a player today.

I don’t understand how this can be Missilou. Now he’s playing trick flicks on the edge of their area.

Adds some bite.

Numpton losing.Wovers drawing.

A week away from the supportive positive influence of sn1

He’s like Samson in reverse. Added hair for extra skill.

Both teams look terrible out of possession.  Their midfield is passive, letting us do what we like in some unknown fear of us getting the ball forwards.  Our defence looks like it will be beaten to every ball into the box.

Akins is absolutely shit but hes a fucking handful for Odimayo today.

BBC 61% possession, surely can't be right ??.

The ball has been in the air a lot!

2 mins added.

Grounds down injured now.

Missilou a revelation. Fair play to Sheridan for that selection

I guess they measure it from when it left our boots  :)

Has anyone ever noted how Lee Camp looks like Lovejoy?

HT 1-1 pretty even if not overly exciting, haven't played awful but not a lot of quality other than the goal.

shit, but still in it.

not much else to say really.

Two bad teams creating a match in the balance.  Someone has to get the word out to stop playing balls out when clearing - their main threat is from long throws or balls into the box.  For this game you are better of just lumping down the middle.

Someone needs to tell our team to get the ball down and play through the middle - they are letting us have the ball and dropping off when we do that.

Missilou played well. Went through a period of looking very strong and winning everything then tricks and flicks and precision passes. But, is spending a lot of time playing with his weave! He and Palmer were dragging the midfield too deep to defend towards the end of the half.

We're probably the better team in the middle of the pitch. The bad news is the ball has barely gone into the middle of the pitch in the second part of the half.

agreed

certainly looks like he has a proto-mullet

More of a handful for Caddis. The fact we haven't got Garrick playing right wing means Skins can spend his time attacking rather than defending. Bring on Garrick for Thompson, push Twine left and we might carry more threat.

Not unhappy with that half. Caddis struggling but Payne and Missilou holding their own and Grant and even Grounds looking pretty solid. Bit wary of their attacking down the flanks but really no reason why we can't sneak a win

Agree with this. I assume they must be going through a bit of a slump as I don't see where that incredible 10-match (or whatever it was) run they put together came from on the basis of what I've seen so far. Although they're a lot better than they were when we beat them back at the start of the season.

It's definitely "series 1 Frazier"

As said, looking quite good in the middle of the park but lack the player with movement up front to pull defenders around and create something in the box. Cannot blame B B B B Pitman as that is not his game but would like to see Tyler Smith play alongside him.

last 3 = 2 losses and a draw

Camp gets a punch to the cross to clear it, good job he connected!

Didn't come to much but what a ball from Twine wide on the left onto the foot of Payne in the box there.

What the fuck was Twine doing? there was no touch.

Payne shot 25 yards just over the bar but soft.

Very odd passage of play there

Need to go shop to buy fags and booze. Guaranteed goal next 6-7mins

Wigan losing

Yeah. Everyone was looking round in disbelief it seemed.

Pitman off the line.

Huge chance Pitman, on target but weak enough to be clearable

Good piece of football between Payne and Caddis. Pitman chance cleared off the line.

It Pitman actually connected to that cross from Payne rather than let it hit him then it would have been a goal.

Great move and great chance. Payne prominent

Twine offside from a good pass by Palmer, great pass before it from Missilou too.

Burton for all their bulk and height have little pace at the back.

Burton fan not happy with us today...

Caddis playing much further forward this half and looks better for it.

Definitely six of one half a dozen of the other on the physicality front. They're a very big team and not shy about using it, we're happy to go down when they do.

Our "old heads" winning us a few free kicks

Missilou shot deflected wide for a corner.

Great stuff Town

Good spell of attacking for Town there.

Payne has pushed up into a far more advanced role this half so far.

No threat on the left. Thompson anonymous. Can Garrick play that side?

Worth the risk for sure, cutting inside on his right foot. Thompson has been poor the last 2 games.

Think it's semi deliberate to focus our attacks down the right. Chicken and egg though for sure.

Rovers winning. We need 3 points!

We're suddenly playing tiki taka. Do not adjust your sets.

Aarrrgh.

Twine shot saved and Pitman heads the difficult rebound wide.

Fucks sake iFollow.

This.

Massive chance

Pox loanee Clare goes off. Shame, he was shit :)

I think Garrick could turn this for us

Fucking queue at the shop. What I miss?

So do I but not sure who I would replace.

Great save by Camp.

A nearly goal.

Jesus I thought that was in

Thinking about it if we can keep it at 1-1 until the last 10 mins I would take off Caddis and give Garrick a run at them.

Payne falling cleverly there.

Yep. My thinking too

Lots of aimless hoofing up the pitch by both teams.

Twine goes over like a child. So frustrating.

Best 20 minutes or so I've seen from us at the start of the second half. Bit more end to end now. Need a goal.

Burton aren't an overly dirty side but they are very niggly and leaving the foot in all the time in challenges especially in the middle of the park.

A part of his game I am always bemoaning.

Can't stress enough how important a 2nd goal in this game could be for our season.

Fucking loan him back to Newport. Ineffectual

If I could hit a free kick like him I'd be very keen to win them too!

Playing so well but final crosses not good. Caddis stitches Jonny Smith though!

Missilou jumps for a header and actually ends up with it hitting his shins! thats not great timing!

Decent short spell for Burton there well defended by Grounds though.

Christ. Grounds is defending like a Trojan

We’ve been the better team this half. But that guarantees nothing.

Garrick would definately have the beating of the poor Burton LB if he came on.

Game over

And there we go.

1-2 to them against the run of play, another header.

Fantastic ball, fantastic header. Fucking fuck.

The question is why isn't he on as Sheriden said that he was going to attack teams

2-1 Goodbye league 1

Fully undeserved

Yep. Ta ra

Can’t defend a fucking set piece.

fucking cunting cunts

Caddis has been brilliant second half playing much further forward after a shaky first half.

That's disappointing

Can we make a sub FFS?

Sub coming on... for Burton

Fresh attacking legs pleeeeease

Why the fuck hasn't Garrick come on yet?

Town unlucky here. On the balance of play a draw would be fair result. Swindon struggling again against direct teams

we've kind of controlled long periods of the second half.

and yet created nothing.

Sub the goalie in the 88th minute knowing that clown

Anyone who renews a ST next season with Power still in charge can have no complaints from now on in.

8 wins in 30 in charge says it all

Make a sub you clueless twat

Tyler Smith coming on with seconds of normal time remaining.

5 mins added.

We should have taken the game to them.
Make a sub earlier you useless twat.

exactly

Curran in upfront please.

Thank god Akins is a fucking donkey.

This.

He's clueless fucking clueless

Yay, Fleetwood scored

Too little too fucking late Sheridactyl and one of them isnt even Garrick FFS.

He is so fucking predicable.
Clueless.

Subs should have happened as soon as they scored. Any cunt can see that

Gas under the cosh

Extremely predictable which makes the outrage all the more bizarre.

A decent manager would have seen their lack of pace at the back.
But no the same predicable hope.

Palmer fouled 30 yards out.

Twine time?

Not really, we created at least 2 great chances

Don’t think that was a foul.

Poor free kick by Twine, last chance.

How is it that we can all see it and that useless twunt cannot. I despair.

Ft meh

FT 2-1 to them. Deserved at least a draw IMO Payne my MotM.

Just needed it on target. Keepers handling is poor.

Immensely frustrating. We've played much, much worse than that this season, but it's another loss. We were probably the better team in open play, but always looked vulnerable at set pieces. Easy to say in hindsight, but today was a Tom Broadbent game.

Payne, Missilou and Twine all looked good in the middle of the park and Caddis looked much better second half playing almost as an old fashioned inside right than he did in a more defensive role in the first half.

The first 20 minutes of both halves I thought we played as well as we have done for ages. But we're past the point where good performances are worth clinging to - today we needed points, we got none and we didn't make a single substitute until injury time. We don't really seem to know what kind of goals we want to score, other than occasional Twine/Payne brilliant long rangers. We simply don't score "system goals" - it's all one player's brilliance or a mistake from the opposition.

Need six points from Wimbledon and Rochdale, no negotiation now.

Joel Grant man of the match for me

A complete waste of an opportunity - it as obvious that they were sitting off our midfield yet we continued to knock it long to Pitman who never had another Swindon player within 15 yards of him with a wind behind us so it was impossible to control.

For the second half, given the amount of space they were giving us, and Caddis was able to play right wing as they feared the wind and just wanted to get into a shape, an early change was needed.  You didn't need three centre halves to mark one forward, get a bit of pace out wide and start playing the ball through the midfield.

played ok, just need to be a bit bigger and heavier

unlucky that. decent enough away performance that didnt deserve a loss. the style of play has definitely changed for the better, some good pass and move football and we created a lot of openings today. shame about the 2 goals conceded, almost the same as the sunderland goal.

again the same as last week, the fact that everyone else seemingly lost (except rovers- who have the worst fixture list)  is a positive. cant be too disappointed with today did their best

I sort of praised Sheridan for the selection of Missilou but that defeat was 100% down to him. Positive substitutions in the last 20 minutes would have brought us at least a point. Undoubtedly

Sheridactyl should have made subs earlier and also should have brought on Garrick against their awful left back who couldnt even handle Caddis's lack of pace.

Caddis played his best game in ages against him, Payne ran the show for me with Missilou playing easily his best game in a Town shirt.

Undone by headers in the box, as always, against a stonger bigger team.

Deeserved at least a draw but thats football, especially when you have a fucking clueless cunt as manager.

I am struggling to criticise any single player out there today.

Meltdown avoided, everyone else is just as shit as Town, except for the anomaly result of Barton Rovers who had the audacity to beat Donny. All that does is bring them back into the realm of "tight as a Nun's Chuff" territory.

The biggest winners today are Burton - who instead of potentially getting dragged into a relegation scrap (had Town won), now look like they have allayed their own fears and secured their L1 (Div3) status for next season.

I've said it for a while now. It's going down to the last day. It's going down to GD. IF Town do manage to score one more than about 4 other teams, can they in future walk out to "Vindaloo"  :hmmm:

PS: Special mention to Johnny Smith, he played very well. Who would think a creative midfielder could bring something to a game?! Shame he got injured. 7.5/10

Really? I thought he was very very poor with no end product today.

Completely agree. Just because his dad used to comment on here doesn’t mean that he was any good

Johnny Smith was completely anonymous for me. Overshadowed by every single one of our midfielders. Just bamboo being provocative in my opinion

Camp 6
-   I thought he could have moved quicker for the first. Just before that he seemed to stop and watch one go out of reach. But then in the second he got down to one that was similar. Pulled off a decent save from Smith in the first and another in the second.

Thompson 6
-   Defended well and saved us on a couple of occasions. Whipped in a couple of crosses in the first. Didn’t offer much up front in the second half and was offside when he could have.

Grounds 5
-   I thought he kept playing us into trouble in the first. His headers plopped the ball in the middle of the park for Burton to pick up. He was soundly beaten by his man for the first goal as he didn’t jump!

Grant 6
-   Looked untroubled. Didn’t seem to do much wrong, but didn’t see his positioning for the second goal.

Odimayo 7
-   I thought he played well. Defended well in the first half and looked solid at the back and offered a threat going forward in the second

Caddis 7
-   Was in trouble playing deeper and defending in the first. In the second he was a revelation playing further forward. Offered so much threat, but started to tire towards the end. If only he had Garrick to link with towards the end

Missilou 6
-   A game of two halves. Played really well in the second, with flicks, tricks and strong challenges. Must have tied his weave too tight at half time as he seemed back to normal in the second half

Palmer 6
-   Frustrating player as he promises so much at times, but never quite delivers. Played a couple of glorious balls, but didn’t grab the game by the scruff of the neck, other than for very short periods.

Payne 6.5
-   Fantastic goal! Got in some good positions and ran his socks off in the first half and the first part of the second half. I thought he tired towards the end.

Twine 5
-   Frustrating game. Some gorgeous balls, showing excellent vision. But, went to ground too easily as normal and wasn’t going to get anything from the ref who was letting play flow. Didn’t really get into the game enough

Pitman 4
-   Didn’t win a ball in the first half. Had 3 clear chances to score – Headed wide, no connection for an open goal and a third that escapes me from the first half I think.

Subs:
J Grant & Smith: One touched the ball once and the other didn’t!

We generally see what we want to see

He made a sub after 3 minutes! Can’t get much earlier than that

(I know that wasn’t what you meant)

Yep, liked him when he was here but he made little to no impact on the game today

Think today proved that Sheridan’s subs and tactical changes in the past are nothing but baseless punts that have yielded the occasional result. Today was crying out for Garrick second half and not bringing him on just shows he generally doesn’t have a clue.

I think we will go down as I don’t believe Sheridan is capable of keeping us up due to a combination of his tactical ineptitude and petulance in selections.

He was shite?

Hartley:
- Defending at set pieces cost us today
- Had opportunities to put Burton under pressure for 20 mins in second half
- Pitman, Missilou and Payne efforts could have resulted in goals
- But didnt take chances
- Gave away one too many freekicks in second half.
- Should have learned from first half as both goals were very similar
- Finish from Payne was cracking. Ball that led to it from Twine was superb.
- Quality of passing in midfield was as good as it has been for many a week
- Crosses and final balls were poor.

Exactly the same as when he was here, ran a bit but ultimately doesn’t contribute much. If you took away his pace you wouldn’t have much of a player as he has no end product.

Sheridan just said we got undone by a long throw for the first. Wasn’t it a free kick?

Yes, taken by Johnny Smith, which presumably doesn't count as end product...

(On Smith, I can't quite get why people are so determined that he's either an underappreciated Messi or stealing a living. He's a perfectly average L1/2 winger/attacker. He'll have bad days and good but there's some talent there.)

Absolutely, no disrespect to him as I think he is a decent player who could well improve a fair bit but he had a poor game today.

 :D :D Theakston, your always sour grapes 🍇 ... We won't say anything about the first goal assist that he did .... :smugfu:

On the whole I thought a draw was deserved,  you played quite well in patches but set pieces on 2 other occasions could have been goals... Still, I don't want to see Swindon go down and hope you make it...  That manager has been a disaster ...

Sheridan
- Usually disappointed. Massive opportunity to take 3 points
- Something that we have worked on (their goals)
- Should deal with it a lot better
- Totally dominated the game after Payne's goal
- Beaten by 2 goals where players should know how to deal with it
- Massive 3 points lost
- Passed the ball, took care of the ball and looked after it
- We defended well other than the two goals which were diabolical
- Other than 2 goals we played well
- Tired of explaining himself. We told them what to do. They went out onto the pitch. Gave too many cheap free kicks. No hunger to defend properly
- It was their strength. Sheridan could see it coming
- Cheap free kicks result in balls coming into the box
- In the final third we should be creating more
- Massive 3 points weve given away
- All games are massive games
- Thrown 3 points away. Could have gotten closer to Burton
- Disappointed
- Throw in when clearing the ball. Too many free kicks. Sort fouls
- Subs: So on top of the game, we were controlling it.
- Basic defensive mistakes. People should do better. They know who should do better
- We did defensive training. Told them who was a threat yesterday
- You can blame the manager, but we told them who would be the threats and they were the 2 who scored goals
- Will take good things out of the game. There were a lot of good things. But, its the same old story, you are going to lose games if you keep conceding goals
- Overall we were in control of the game
- If we didnt win we should have got a point
- Iandolo injury? Hamstring.
- Will have to assess him. Looked a bit sore.
- Pressure? We have ups and downs. We've lost the game but the performance was good
- We will have up and downs. It may go to the last game
- We should have won the game and took 3 points.

Thanks that is appreciated, and yes other than a few posters on here like JBZ and Chang you will not find many disagreeing with you on that.

Hartley part 2:
- All have the same feeling
- Opportunity wasted
- Passed the ball well
- Possession stats were good
- Used the ball well. But couldnt get it into the box
- Physically they were strong defending
- Sheridan name checked someone who did their job wrong twice and they scored both times (Grounds I think)
- No team in bottom 6 who have as tough a game as us on Saturday
- Need to go to Rochdale and win. That would make Wimbledon game crucial
- Getting something against Peterborough would be a bonus.

I think Jonny thought better of saying something to Sheridan after the first goal. He seemed to run up towards him.

Unfortunately, we all think we are going down. Today's result was another nail in the coffin.

This in a nutshell.

I always enjoy your insight and analysis  :clap:  :girlgiggle:

Grounds:
- Disappointed
- Worked on it yesterday
- Knew set pieces were their main threat
- We have been good between both boxes but haven't been ruthless enough in each box
- How come 2 similar goals were conceded? Gave away too may cheap free kicks and throw in.
- Need to stay on our feet. Clearances should go longer and higher! (What???!?!?!?!?)
- Not mentally and physically strong enough 1 vs 1
- Dealt with throw ins ok, but not the wide free kicks
- Only positive is the 80 yards between box to box
- Moved the ball well but not got enough people in the box.
- Payne lovely finish
- Talked at half time about moving their block around
- Today was a massive opportunity missed.
- In the ascendancy at 1-1
- Have to go to Peterborough and try to get something
- Then a massive week against Rochdale and Wombles
- Quiet in the dressing room
- Young dressing room
- We have let people down by not doing what we were told to do yesterday.
- So everybody in that dressing room need to ask if they did enough today. Only individuals can answer that

We already knew this.

No end product, that's seems a bizarre assessment mate...he got an assist and made a bit of a nuisance of himself. Not lots more you can do as a midfielder in that sense. He did his job as a lower league midfielder.

Also those saying it is to do with his Dad posting on here. What a bunch of cunts you all are. Once again, taking one part that I wrote in isolation and using it to say i'm being controversial. Get over yourselves.

Midfielder gets assist = TEF definition "hE dIdN't CoNtRiBuTe".

As I've said before, several people on here respond purely to the account posting rather than the content of the post.

Laters.

Hartley part 3:
- Likely 4 from 6 go down.
- Burton probably out of it. They only need the odd point
- If you take Pitman off you may gain something attacking, but you weaken the team as he is important for set pieces at both ends
- Final ball was missing
- As Grounds said, 80 yards between boxes was good
- Garrick is not an out and out striker so isn't a good swap with Pitman

Yeah, on reflection it may be fair to say that Valid Pint didn't get a fair crack of the whip.

Hawes:
- Hamer and Brayford cards marked: Not every team can defend
- Manager exceeded Mourinios efforts yesterday saying we prepare players!
- Ground said that individuals could only look at them selves. Seemed odd. Very interesting. Evading whether he thinks they do or not.
- A bit of a concern if the players dont think they can look at themselves
- Bad goals to give away.
- In terms of throwing on subs. We've seen Garrick up front and it didnt work
- Could have put Hope up front. But, when in control of the game, why would you?
- Iandolo injury. Grounds was one of the better performers today.
- Rediscovered passing game today
- If we play like we did today they that might be enough to stay up
- Deserves to be a mighty inquest on what has happened this year. Recruitment, management etc
- How does Paul Jewell work? Are there plans for L1 and L2 next year?
- Should we have had a succession plan for Wellens going? Yes, we should. You can never trust managers to hang around. When they do well they move.

Hawes has gone a bit potty if he thinks Grounds was a top performer today.  He was defensively weak on multiple occasions, not only was he constantly heading the ball less than 10 yards away in the middle, he even managed to jump under one ball in the 2nd half.  At fault for one of the goals, maybe the second.

Knowing who is a threat and where the threat may come from is one thing, having a plan to deal with it another.  I saw nothing other than marking players going on, nobody stood in front of the throw in taker, nobody pushing the line further out, nobody double marking that threat etc.  There wasn't anything you could see that was out of the ordinary - none of those may have worked, but just using it to show what bollocks Sheridan talks.  Shouting at people to defend, not give away a free kick, get it forward, move etc. is hardly adding much.  He's basically Captain Obvious with a foul mouth.  Every week it's the players fault - different players, different positions, but always them.

Another day closer to Shexit with that defeat, still worst manager in our history for defeats and adding to it with each game.

Come the end of the season he will probably say he wants to stay and turn things around😀

Meh...

I feel like its done :(

We have gone from a hopeless side with a clueless keeper to a mediocre side who will always concede AND now we seem to need eight chances to score and Twine has lost his shooting boots.

Really needed something from today.

I think Sheridactyl thought we were getting a draw and decided to stick and not twist...Epic Fail.

How far away is Barrow?

Shexit!

Genius!

To misquote a previous Prime Minister, we're all Shexiteers now.

Agree with general consensus that we could have got something out of todays game but we didn't.
'Being in control of a game' that we're losing doesn't really help in the grand scheme when you lose at the end. Would we have created more with Garrick brought on as has some have suggested (I personally think yes) we'll never know because our manager and his assistant didn't roll the dice until too late. They really do not have a clue.
I have seen us play as bad or even worse over the years but this season has to be the most frustrating. The two games won most recently we pressed more than the whole of the rest of the season but Friday and to a lesser degree today we go back to defending ten yards too deep giving opportunities for the set pieces we do not seem to be able to cope with.
Don't know why but we'll probably against all expectation win next week just to ramp the frustration up. Then we will have to beat Rochdale and Wimbledon, and we'll need to take them on as oppose to just trying to live with them. Will we do that ? We're capable but will the manager let us ? I have my doubts. Even now God knows how but we still have a chance.

Can’t believe we’re still out the bottom 4. The bottom 6 are awful and burton aren’t a lot better. Still expect at least 1 team to go on a run and surprise everyone, but it just hasn’t been happening. Could be one of the lowest points ever in League One to stay up

What’s really depressing is if this is the standard of league 1 this season then what is the average match in league 2 like to witness. Paul Mullin scoring 29 and counting in the league points to the standard being far worst than last season and it was pretty dire then so I dread to imagine what we will be subjected to next season.

Playing the likes of Colchester again is so depressing

Decent Managers have a sense of game changing decisions.
Second half for 10 minutes we were technically better and what did Burton do, they changed it as could sense we were on top.
At that time we could have exploited their defence, they looked ponderous but we did nothing.
Could have made 2 changes. The lump up top was not influencing the game in any way.
Garrick and even Hope if we were brave may have changed it.
Both free kick goals defenders and keeper have to do better.
Yes we have played worse which makes today even more disappointing.

Blame goes to one person today for me, the dinosaur.
Did fuck all and paid the ultimate price.

He could have went brave and put on Garrick, Hope and Smith with 25 minutes to go!

About three and a half months.

But as observed above, STFC might still survive.  All is not lost quite yet ...

If Sheriden walked now I may be convinced

If Sheridan stays he basically needs to come up with a batshit crazy formation with players in random positions. Catch teams off their guard, get a few results then change to another batshit crazy formation before teams work us out.

Who know she what players would want to sign for us if he's here next season

Our game in hand on Rovers could be a right liability. At the moment we are ahead of them on goals score as both teams goal difference is the same.

Lose our game in hand and we’ll drop below Rovers. If we get thumped against Posh it’d be like losing another point, too.

Not sure if we want Northampton to beat Rovers or if a draw is better

This is the problem with games in hand when you're at the wrong end of the table, you tend not to win them. But the teams around us are just as shit and look at what a vast difference two wins made a couple of weeks ago.  We may yet still do it but the time for "not a bad performance just didn't get the points" is long gone.

Cobblers v Rogers? He’ll run rings round them.

Always check your spelling before posting otherwise the iPad can make you look foolish😀

We should have got at least a point today - Burton are a poor side, and had no threat apart from free kicks, corners and long throws. Unbelievably as it doesn’t normally happen under JS we played the better football today, but didn’t defend well enough and didn’t take the few clear cut chances we have.
I think the wind may well have impacted today - their keeper’s long clearances were creating problems for us in the first half, in the second we over hit some balls and their keeper barely reached half way.
Contrast Yates on Saturday with Pitman and you see the difference a decent budget makes. Yates has pace and movement and holds the ball up / links play. Pitman is ponderous, can’t really press the opposition, and today missed the clear chance he had.
I’d also agree with those who would have brought Garrick on at around 65 mins to go for the win at 1-1.
It’s looking tough now - with Peterborough, Portsmouth and Ipswich at home, I can’t see us getting more than 3 points there, and probably less, so we’ll need to take a minimum of 7 from Rochdale, AFC Wimbledon and Wigan and something from MK.

Practically sums up his entire performance when he played for us. He still can't cross a ball for toffee

Apart from when he put that ball into the box that they scored from...........

I didn't think he was that much of a threat today, but he did set up a goal, you know, one of those things we rarely look like doing.

The fat lady ain't singing yet...

Let's not forget it wasn't that long ago we were bottom of the league. 2 wins on the bounce and we were flying. We've lost two matches and back to 'the inevitable'...

C'mon, we've all been here before. Look at the bigger picture, there are plenty of games left to go!

I see have Swindon surviving with 45 points... Wigan, Northampton Rovers and Rochdale going down in my prediction table. IMO, it's between Wimbledon and Wigan for that final relegation place. It's going to be Alex Ferguson squeaky bum time though!

Peterborough - Draw
Rochdale - Win
Wimbledon - Lose
Portsmouth - Lose
Franchise - Draw
Ipswich - Lose
Wigan - Win

He can do set-pieces OK, but can't cross the ball in open play.

Peterborough draw!!?

Yep. Call me mental and I know Peterborough are flying but got a feeling about this one. The team will want to bounce back after the losses for a massive scalp so we’ll either a draw or we’ll win it.

Peterborough - Loss
Rochdale - Draw
Wimbledon - Loss
Portsmouth - Loss
Franchise - Loss
Ipswich - Loss
Wigan - Draw

There you go.

I had a feeling about the last fixture.  That went well.

he's also got good reviews while they were in their excellent run out of trouble.

agree all he did was set up a goal yesterday though 😠

Peterborough - Loss (We are doomed)
Rochdale - Win (ok)
Wimbledon - Win (gives us some hope)
Portsmouth - Loss (Oh)
Franchise - Loss (No)
Ipswich - Loss (We are fucked)
Wigan - Draw (bye)

we'll get more than 2 points from those games.

fuck me, how critical is Rochdale and Wombles now.

pressure building, thankfully on them too

I usually spend my Monday morning's (obviously Tuesday today) reading through the matchday threads as the comments during the game (with my hindsight trousers on) always make me smile. So I'm going to offer my thoughts on the game before reading back.

*sigh* can't remember it happening much this season but I think we deserved at the very least a draw yesterday. Taking out the fact we couldn't defend throw ins or set pieces very well we were much the better side I thought. And unfortunately because we couldn't defend properly was why we lost the game, and possibly why we'll maybe get relegated.

I think the players will have been gutted given the effort they put in yesterday in playing a very ordinary Burton side off the park for large swaths of the match. Unfortunately it just wasn't happening in the final third, either poor delivery in the box, or a Pitman who just wasn't at the races. (I thought that misses aside he was disappointing yesterday) Payne and Missilou did their best to make things happen but it just wasn't to be and 2 really poor goals to concede defensively.

Couple of other things - What's with the ridiculous substitutes 2 minutes into 5 of injury time? Way way WAY too late. I'd have tried Hope for Pitman on about 65/70 as he was barely winning a header and his movement is just non-existant. Granted we were dominating and so you don't want to change things too much, but I think we should have made at least 1 if not 2 changes and then surely after going 2-1 down you get your subs on immediately??
The other thing I've noticed is how much of a little bitch Scott Twine is becoming. Every time he is fouled he goes down holding his leg as if he has been attacked with a hacksaw. Granted in football these days you have to make it obvious you have been fouled but it's starting to irk me how much he does it. At one stage in the second half he got tackled and went down holding his leg but saw nobody was paying any attention to him and so stood up and got on with it. I hope he can learn to balance out his gamesmanship.

Positives to take out of the game but with Posh up next it's looking grim. If only we could transform our away performances into the CG, we'd be nowhere near the bottom.

now that sounds much more stfc.

of course a win at Wigan will keep us up, so we'll play defensively, somehow nick an equaliser then go ultra attack in the last 5 and hit the post after camping in their half.

we will be left wondering why we didn't go for it sooner.

twine will leave to go to reading for 3.50 and a bottle of Glenrednose.

season ticket prices will be frozen for 7 days early bird.

it'll rain all summer

good summary Bob.

for our dominance we didn't look much like scoring

You missed off Pox getting into the play offs.  :)

Yes, and how is that inconsistent with my post this morning?  :hmmm:

Just quoting for posterity the only time you admit to being wrong.

Again didn't watch as watched the racing instead, assume we have reverted back to shit again.

Decent performance for no return.

I have been wrong about results on many occasions this season.  More than happy to acknowledge that- of all the things to get butt hurt about, that's pretty low on the list.

This, not great but far from shocking, just can't defend crosses and struggle to score, 2 basics of a team TBH but it was between 2 evenly matched teams, both pretty shit and lacking in quality.

That said we didn't have many really poor performers, I would probably suggest Thompson was the only sub par performer for most of the game. Pitman led the line well but missed a decent chance 1st half which probably would have changed the outcome.

You have indeed been backing Sheridactyl to get us results, but this was the first time you openly admit you were wrong, milestone.

Butthurt  :girlgiggle:

Nice riposte but I suspect that previous posts will indicate that I suggested that a number fixtures would result in defeat.  :nod:

Bit like my betting performance on the racing.

Bookies still think we are in with a shout of saving it, my cash out offer on the relegation bet is still much lower than it was a couple of weeks back.

Wait a couple of weeks....

Are you a rocket scientist?

That don't impress me much

No, I must be psychic

Mystic JBZ  :)

The biggest couple of issues, which are pretty fundamental and why I lay them at the Managers door, are that we don't really look like we have a "way" to score goals, but we have several ways where we look likely to concede them.  Aside from some random changes in personnel and formations by Sheridan when under the kosh, we've rarely looked like solving either of those issues.  When you layer in the lack of possession we seek in most games, it's a recipe for disaster.  That is the frustration with yesterday because we actually did get possession thanks to playing a team being just as cautious as us and Grant in defence brings a bit of desire to play out at times.

None of our goals look like they come from a system of play - they tend to be one off efforts.

Every goal we concede seems to be down to a just a few route causes - either balls into the box from wide and we lose markers, route one bullying, or through balls in behind/down the channel with a defensive line that is not a line.  Two of these are made worse by our lumping the ball forward in most games and losing possession, plus little to no press on the opposition once they get the ball back.

I'll keep coming back to it, but that smacks of a team not being coached well.

Sprinkle in a lack of confidence, a few players not really up the the standard and you get individual mistakes to layer on top of just being badly set-up in the first place.

With yesterday specifically, you would ask why change it when we were dominant - well, because we were dominant and they change it by adding a ball play in midfield to try and get possession and counter us a little.  At that point you could make a change to put more of a press on them, either replace Twine with someone more mobile/pacey or remove a defender and put another body further up the pitch (given they were no threat outside of set pieces).

Yup, I said this a few pages back and the more I think about it the more I think that's the root cause of the dissatisfaction with Sheridan. When we score it's either Payne/Twine doing something brilliant or the opposition fucking up somehow, or just a lucky bounce, we simply don't score "well worked goals".

There’s no mystery at all. We’re just fucking shit. Hopefully there are 4 others that are slightly worse than fucking shit.

Which is a distinct possibility.

plus, what the fuck is the point in Omotoye?

No point at all. He was Tyler Smith’s replacement when he was yet another loan Sheridan wanted to jettison.

Now he’s got another 2 players he doesn’t want to pick.

He really is a clueless fuckwit.

^^^ to be fair it's not clear who cocked up there - Sheridan, Jewell, Power or an other

The whole season has been an absolute clusterfuck and there's not many people involved who are blameless.

I've obviously got less tactical nous than a professional football manager but continuously prevailing with a lone target man that can barely get about the pitch is surely so easy for a team to defend against. Garrick and Omotoye have pace to burn so given his insistence on going long, why not utilise the option to get these players in down the channels, forcing defenders to have to think differently?

or at least use them as plan B when plan a fails

Are there many teams at this level who score "well worked goals", admittedly only from watching highlights but the vast majority we have conceded seem to be similarly in the "fucking up somehow" genre....

Exactly!

To be fair to Sheridan he did just that yesterday and reverted to Plan B, albeit after 93 mins and 10 mins after we had gone 2-1 down.

Do we have a Plan A?  ???

Deja vu  :)

https://youtu.be/51Vi5uwX3jw

Burton scored two yesterday, albeit from set plays. But you're right, there are plenty of shit teams this season. It's why we still somehow have hope!

Even though he never gets off the bench!

I've just noticed we're STILL not in the bottom four... amazing.

by a gnats dick!

fuck me this has to be one of the most depressing match day threads iv seen in a long while and all off the back of a game which we didn't deserve to lose, created the better opportunities and knocked the ball around well for large periods.

I need to watch the highlights again (genuinly) as we did play well in knocking it around and the effort was there, I don't recall making and missing many actual chances

Looking at the run-in, we seem to have the easiest of all the bottom 6
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyS9e10VcAMMte1?format=jpg&name=small)
But that's because we play more of the bottom 6 than the others which is of course very much a double-edged sword

Looking at the fixtures of other teams around us - I reckon we've got the 'easiest' run in.

My predictions are a tad rudimentary - going by the opposition's league position and where the game is being played. You can expect there to be more wins for others than I've predicted. But I've not given us a win either - which is rather conservative methinks considering we have 3 of the bottom 6 to play.

(https://i.imgur.com/lGITJlN.png)

                           

Ha.

Mine's better because I did (probably incorrect) predictions ;)

As I said earlier, Rochdale and Wombles away in succession ... pressure

twine had some efforts, one rebound which led to pitman missing a tough but open goal header, the best chance in open play for the whole match was some brilliant overlapping build up down the right and pitman just didnt connect 3 yards out and was cleared off the line.

Total shots
13 v 13
Blocked shots
6 v 5
Corners
4 v 4
Throw ins
33 v 17
Passes
307 v 464
Passes completed
193 v 337
Pass success percentage
63 v 73
Crosses
17 v 14

compared to the majority of the football played under sheridan this was completely different. we had a decent element of control and i dont think i would have made a sub before the 82nd min as we were pushing and had the ball. we didnt at that point really need to change anything but the 2nd goal completely changes everything and its almost too late in the game to effect it when burton then put every player behind the ball to hold out

i think a season of shit and stress has made everything think this match was a normal result and performance

How many others around us can you see getting anywhere near that, considering their fixtures?

Ipswich at home is a very possible 3 points. Rochdale haven’t won at home in 17 games - that sounds foreboding!

Wimbledon away = 3 points

I reckon we’ll get 8 more points

I've just realized the Ipswich game could easily be a dead duck for them by the time we play them.

Yeah, fair play. Although mine looks nicer. But then I did steal it off someone else on Twitter. So I think you win on balance.

The problem with this is that teams play each other. For example, we're drawing with Rochdale, but Rochdale are losing to us! I'll take it....

preditction malfunction.

Ooops

I think that was the only such error, and it would still mean Rochdale finish below us.