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I can't be arsed attending, so will save myself some dosh.

Swindon 1-3 Stockpot
Att: 7,734 (925 away)

Could get ugly this - 0-4.

It will be typical town to win this one, every one gets excited, the play offs are still on, for us to lose the next one

2-2

For a moment I thought we must be playing midweek, as its a bit early to be starting a thread. Especially as many of us want to forget all about football having seen such dire performances in the last couple of weeks.

I predict we will concede from a corner

Can't see past a win

Who for? 😉

My first Town game since the Exeter game pre Covid, taking 2 family members to this for their first visit to the CG the day after my sons Wedding in Swindon.

I expect nothing.

Swindon 1 Stockport 2 Att: 9,050 (820 away)

Current form last 10 games

We are even over the last 6 though Jimmy!

You're right depends on what stat you look at😀

Shade out due to international duty

"Town winger Tyrese Shade has been called up by St. Kitts & Nevis for their upcoming CONCACAF Nations League qualifiers.
 
Go smash it in the Caribbean Ty!

#STFC 🔴⚪️x

We only need another couple to be called up so that we can postpone the game😀

I must be mad travelling back for this one.

What could possibly go wrong ?.

With STFC you just never know😀

94th minute set piece winner for us.

A clean sheet as we manage to concede nil corners and nil free kicks in our own half. 1-0

I recall this being a Hoddle tactic against John Beck’s Cambridge team.
He revealed after the game (which we won) that the team had practiced all week not putting the ball out for a corner or throw in as this is where Cambridge were really good.

So maybe it’s not as mad as it might seem :D

John Becks Cambridge were very similar to the crazy gang!

Beck's long ball playing style, despite its success, was heavily criticised in the media, and by fans and managers of other clubs, particularly Glenn Hoddle then of Swindon Town.[2] Their style of play was similar to that of Wimbledon

Watching the Barnsley and Wednesday game.
Both team loaded with big, physical powerful players.

Would get absolutely battered on the pitch here.
Need to get some physicality without doubt. Weak as piss currently.

All them big players and 6 goals conceded between them. Hardly a glowing endorsement.

Not attending due to family commitments, so expect we'll manage to win it.

2-1 8903 fans with 642 travelling Stockport fans

Hope everything goes well bud! I won't be watching this one which means we are bound to be excellent and take all 3 points!

Good point🙂

To be fair the Duke didn't say that they were decent big and powerful, he was just commenting on their size and athleticism, so his point is still a valid one.  You can't moan that we are made up of too many small technical players in one breath and then look to pick holes in a valid point being made that most people agree with.  I think most posters have highlighted the fact that we haven't got any size, strength or presence in our team for most of the season.

The Wellens promotion side wasn't particularly big, we did OK then in this division.

Clearly not at Rochdale then to witness the mighty Dale, bottom of the league putting 4 past us?
Watching that last night we would have not been equipped to stand up to both sides. It wasn’t pretty but effective.

It's not just about size, it about the power and athleticism as well.  Benda, Baudry, Grant, Yates, Doyle, Lyden, Woolery are a lot more physical and in most cases bigger than Brynn, Clayton, Khan/Cain, Williams, RHM, George Mac, Hutton.  Even Read liked a tackle.

The only real physical players we have available are Austin and Brewitt, and one of those was an after thought and based on circumstance.

McE is small but puts himself about a bit too, but we need more.

Gladders was actually doing a fair bit on defensive duties this season, not that he can head particularly.

Agreed about McE but I was comparing to the Wellens team.  The real point is, we don't want George to be an enforcer, we want him to be a creator - he is getting stuck in because of our deficiancies rather than because that is what he is there for.  If you are not built for getting stuck in, you eventually pick up injuries, as we have seen.

Great point.

Also that season safe to say it helped having the best two forwards in the league with 50 odd goals between them.

And FWIW, the handful of games we lost that season were against  quite a lot of the horrible shithouse hoofing bastards that season, Col U 3 times, Newport twice, Vale away all stick out to me.

But fact is we was that good we didn’t have to worry about size.

Is this Khan’s final game of his 5 game ban?

He's back on Sat - i think

Spot on.
Saturday watched twice in front of me where our players were pushed off the ball in a fair 50/50.

We are simply not equipped at this level to cope in a physical battle.
This has to be addressed pre-season or we will be down here for some time.

Ready and available (hopefully avoiding a card).

Yeah, no shit. I wouldn’t expect us to be equipped to match up against two of the top 4 teams in the division above us.

Size is an issue for us but it’s not a blanket answer.
If we continue to defend corners are statically as we do - we could have Andre the Giant at CB and it wouldn’t really help (as side for the fact he wasn’t a football and has been dead 30 years)

I wouldn't put it past him to get a red card in the pre match warm up!

To be fair Louis Reed got two red cards after the 90 mins was up

Nobody said it was a blanket answer, just that we need more

I think you get it.
We simply cannot go any further at this level with this model.
Just hope those who can make it happen make it happen because I’m getting sick and tired of the same outcome.

I think the majority of fans are thinking the same, we need physicality height & experience throughout the spine of the team mixed with some younger eager talented players to take us forward.

Can only hope now for next season.

Yes hope that Morris is given a free reign on recruitment during the summer and that Oxford have slipped into the bottom 4 when this season ends😀

We also need competent tactics and a decent defensive and/or set piece coach.

Agreed, let's hope that Morris strengthen his backroom staff and proves that he's got what it takes to build a decent squad.

‘ McEachran is alright. I am not sure what happened in the game with his calf, but it is fine and he has trained. There are no new injuries. Tomlinson has taken part in training, we will make a decision on whether he can be involved. FBT has been in full sessions too, so there will be a decision on both.

If FBT can be involved it is a huge lift, the fact we are going to lose a player of his calibre, his leadership and aerial ability. As long as he is fit enough and can play then it is a huge boost. Him and Khan are huge misses in leadership and quality. Missing players like that in this group is big.’

Says he wants to go he’ll for leather and bollocks to everything else!

Going to be windy Saturday  :tumbleweed:

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0LuMwo9_WkU

40mph 7-8am then 18mph.....subject to change😀

Not that bloke again ?.

Not gonna be there  ;)

We will miss the moaning about the bus service😀

Talking of which, nay news on the book launch from out GPZ XYZ ABC Itchyfanny Twat?

Apparently Hanners is on the mic again Saturday, so probably best not to arrive until 2:59pm.

Interesting point from Morris' press conference that the main four defenders at corners when he joined the club (in the zonal system) were Gladwin, Iandolo, MacDonald and FBT. Not a huge shock to anyone, but shows the scale of the change. Not many like for like swaps height wise in those positions either.

Let's hope he's made Sandro aware!

Good feeling about this one.

Piece of piss, 4-1.

It will be interesting to see if the pitch cuts up tomorrow as we've had lots of heavy rain.

That’ll be difficult, he’s not been at his desk for a couple of weeks…..

Is he on garden leave🤔

Not sure about McDonald, but hadn't Gladwin left before Morris was appointed anyway?

Certainly didn't play under him. But I think the suggestion is that Morris hasn't changed how we defend set pieces, that's Steve Mildenhall's job (goalkeeper and set pieces, interesting) but it's been made much harder by the team changes. Total Sport fella wrote an article on defending corners, suggesting that until the last few games, we actually really weren't bad at defending them:

https://www.totalswindon.com/sport/why-are-swindon-town-conceding-from-so-many-corners/

Coincided with FBT’s absence.

👀

Oh yes....please, please be true. Won't solve all our problems....but it would be a hell of a start....

He's probably using up last years holidays before the 31st of March like many others😀

He’s still at club. False alarm

Not sure he is

WFH

They have the internet on computers these days

That'll be it

The Wind Tunnel in operation today.
Stockport won't know what's hit them.

A win would cap off the CG purchase news & storming through the leagues in the Fan Engagement Index quite nicely.

What are we thinking line-up wise chaps?

If he can I think he'll take a degree of risk on FBT and Tomlinson, given it is a must win.

On that basis I'm optimistically going for:


                                                       Brynn

Hutton                     Brewitt                                 FBT                      Tomlinson


                                Khan                                McEachran


          RHM                                     Williams                             Lavinier

                                                       Austin           

Interesting. Decent line up.

Wakeling ahead of Lavinier for me but would like to see him in a more forward role at some stage.

I think Wakeling and Clayton have done well this year but need pulling out of the frontline for now.

Same personnel but in a 352, to match Stockports likely formation. Hutton and Tomlinson wing backs with Lavinier at RCD and Williams in the 10 role behind Charlie and RHM.

Convincing win today, results will go our way and we will be 5 points off the play offs. We will then lose to Hartlepool next week.

Out this afternoon, think it'll be the first match this season I've not watched live. So a convincing win, and a late MoM Thread (unless someone else wants to pop it up in which case feel free)

Good side that

Looking forward to watching it on IFollow live rather than the full match video later. (Can't do the tricky VPN or something stuff to watch live every week.)

Strong side. Think on paper that XI should be top 7, sadly due to injuries, inconsistency and general poor management earlier in the season it isn’t. Probably too optimistic to say we still have a shot at PO’s, but never say never.

Brynn

Hutton
Brewitt
FBT
Tomlinson

Williams
McEcheran
Khan

RHM
Austin
Wakeling

….could also be a 4232 with Khan & McEachern as the holding 2

Or it could be 352 with Hutton and Wakeling as wing backs (I hope not)

Hockaday on comms🤣

Out of the Anthony Grant frying pan and in to the Dave Hockaday fire then.

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Exactly that!

Where’s JJ?

He's at the game today

We’re fucked!

I did think that😀

He's such a morale hoover!

Hockaday,as dull as he is ,is a massive upgrade on Grant for me

I think that's a good summary

I didn't realise Kyle Knoyle was at Stockport

Fuck me

Red card after 40 seconds and a penalty

You can't make this shit up😡

FFS

Saved

Stockport should have gone for a corner instead

Lost commentary

Radio comms have cut out

Looked a pen all day. Fuck sake

Hockaday said no penalty

Feels like we’ve had loads of red cards under Morris.

Probably meant it was a red card then

RHM goes down easily, but their leftback had hands on him. Seems a strong interpretation it was 100% a dive vs not enough contact to go down

He does talk a lot

Doesn’t feel like it - there have!

I mean after the ball ache of Walsall, the next two games have been batshit crazy

Unbelievable!

How can we be caught out of position after 40 secs?

Ball was going to Brynn. Wakeling didn’t need to do anything.

No he didn't, he said it was a penalty and a red card, no complaints

Think the original comment was regarding our penalty shout

On the bright side, his kit shouldn’t need washing.

Yes he did, Hepburn - Murphy at the other end!

What? It was nowhere near going towards Brynn

Ah, fair enough

Got in late.   Who got red card?  Wakeling?

Yes

At least we got the wind behind us in the second half😀

It was after the striker’s heavy first touch

I think they’ve got the wind up them at the mo.

it was a pen
it wasn't a red

ours equally a pen

refs a total cunt

End of?

it wasn't an attempt to win the ball preventing an attempt at goal, so it was a red, sadly
I'd agree ours was a penalty and that all refs are cunts

Hockaday saying he's disappointed Hepburn - Murphy dived as he could have had a shot at goal.

RHM couldn't get to the ball on account of the tugging from the Stockport fella. Not sure Dave's perch in the Arkell's is helping him much there

Fair point as I haven't seen the incident. I doubt Hockaday has access to ifollow either.

Gone to 3 at the back

FBT currently playing in the "every" position

I truly hate keeping possession to pass it all the way fucking back to keeper just for him to kick it forward 60yards and then we lose possession.   Fucking keep it on the other teams side.  

I'll watch it again later. looked it to me but I'm down the other end

This first 30mins shows just how much we have missed FBT

Totally agree.

Game has been ruined as the best we can do is neutralise the game.

Stockport waiting for us to tire.

Has a manager ever had luck like Morris with injuries and cards/suspensions? Throw in the transfer deadline debacle and he must be wondering what he has to do.

Williams winning loads of headers according to Dave

what a depressing afternoon . Stockpot hit the doldrums but seem to be on the way up.  We still don't have the recipe for success

Well, stop getting red cards would be a start.

Some would say that this is Morris's fault as well, even though 6 of our 9 red cards came under Lindsey and 3 under Morris, but it does feel like we have a lot of red cards under Morris, apparently.

We could still win this I think.

If we were playing a Lindsey side I would agree with you

HT

Really good effort since the red. Have to keep believing...

Do like town hasn’t just sat back in a bunker but I have a feeling SC will come out and attack quicker and more often second half

Just need a shot on target

Difficult afternoon.

FBT our best player. I do wish Hutton would stop trying long throws - they're a big old team and we aren't gonna win anything in the air.

Just have to hold on and hope.

We are a decent unit with everyone available but are severely hampered by shocking "Sunday morning" discipline

Crawley are winning!

watched it again. as he gave the foul it's a red

looks soft tbh.
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good effort Under circumstances but so what

Is it against 10 men though?

I'd like to see Lavinier on for Hutton. He's been poor and freekicks like that one at the end of the half absolutely kill me

FBT having a stormer, Hutton has been dire. We looked a lot better after the formation change and grew into the game. Giving them something to think about without creating any clear cut chances. It's far from over.

yeah but it's only Rochdale, who couldn't beat ro..oh

Wakeling got away with a similar challenge last week ( or was it the week before?) Either way, don’t take risks in the box! Even if they had scored, we should have had enough to get back in the game. But 89.5 mins a player down is tough!

Hockaday keeps mentioning the fact that Williams who is’5ft nothing’ keeps winning headers, while Hutton seems afraid to head it.

Austin off
Lavinier on

Playing for 0-0

That's why we don't want forwards trying to defend in our own penalty area!

Strange decision that unless he's injured as a draw dosen't really do anything for us.

Good commentary by Hockaday imo.

He's been spot on so far with his summary

I assume the thinking is RHM has more pace and legs and they don’t want to try Austin out for future games?!

…or it could just be Morris flinging mud to see what sticks

Sensible move - playing 2 strikers when down to 10 is always risky

You could be right on both

Knoyle could've (should've?) been off for that, he didn't start sliding until Brynn had it

I think he talks a lot of sense (…and some bollocks too but who doesn’t)
It’s dull voice and personality that probably does it for most.

Whilst Grant has more personality and vibrance - he’s definitely talks a lot more bollocks or just about stuff that isn’t relevant to the game

Very well put😀

Spot on, it's more Dave's manner of speaking rather than the content

Agree it's sensible but would prefer they left Austin on being he's the natural goalscorer but can see why he was substituted because he can't run.

Also, it might be some what forgotten by some and before our time for others but Hockaday was a damn good player - so obviously knows a thing or two about football

But you take RHM off and Austin is fucked after 20 mins it's a bit of a waste - RHM has more chance of running for 90+

Fuck, Stockport have a corner

Phew!

:D

We’ve done well to hold out for nearly 60 minutes.

(From conceding a corner. Not a goal)

This ref really does not like us..

Not helping ourselves atm

Morris booked

Stockport offering little threat. But we are likely to lose this through exhaustion.

Khan owes us something.

We’ve cleared two corners in a row.

Not with a flipping dive like that!

Williams off
Darcy on

Im not paying much attention but from the clips I'm seeing we are never being given a foul and the ref penalising us everytime one of them falls over?  Is that whats going on?

I love the way that Ifollow shows a replay of Morris getting a yellow card

37% possession no shot on target, no shots, no corners backs against th wall

Not entirely, but let's just say that Stockport are very much getting the rub of the green with regards to decisions

Its as if the ref has heard we have a reputation for diving and time wasting and is giving us no leeway for being down to 10. Doesn’t seem to give warnings, just brandishes his cards

Take a shot every time Hockaday makes reference to Hutton not wanting to head the ball

He ain't wrong!

Nothing from Lavinier so far

Christ! Hussey just left Darcy for dead!

So i would assume that Clayton will probably come on for Tomlinson and Jephcott for RHM at some point

Stockport now committing more to attack.

Don’t see this ending well

0-1

Boo

dicking about with it again

it was our fucking free kick. ffs

Why the fuck would you go short from a free kick with 10 men? Blimey

Morris Out

Kadji, Jephcott and Clayton coming on.

Usually would be sympathetic to concede so late with 10 men, but when it comes from our own set piece, it’s hard to swallow. Just sums up the lack of intelligence within this squad and set up.

Why wouldn't you just send it in with the wind?! Madness

He has nothing to do with this.  He was given too many shit players. Too many injuries.  And 10 men 40sec into a game.  

Player quality is to blame.  Player’s lack of knowledge and quality is to blame for the season.

Loadsa goal threat there!

Put Austin back on😀

Our midfield options are shocking, Darcy? What is the point in him? He’s done nothing but give the ball away.

…our recent games we’ve shot ourselves in the foot with the way we defend corners and the insistence of playing it short.

That tactics and that’s Morris.

He isn’t blameless in this shit run.

Wonder if there’s a less threatening team from a long throw than us?

What a load of rubbish! What a load of rubbish!

I agree.

thankfully the squad circumstances meant we were never going up anyway.

I don't know if he'll be a long term success or failure, just not got the best out of what we have

The sad fact is that 10 men have competed pretty well against one of the best sides in the League for 80mins. Just another bullet into our own foot after 40 secs

What a waste of a season.

All about polishing turds

actually enjoyed the game ..

What a mess of a season

It's our lack of discipline both tactically and temperamentally that costs us every week.

Writing was on the wall when Sandro appointed Lindsey and then subsequently spived his way through interviews on the subject.

Has he fucked off yet can anyone confirm? Was he there today? I need cheering up after that.

Thank God for Nigel Eady, the only positive to take from the season (and a very big positive to be fair)...as for everything else :suicide:

Game was ruined in the first minute.

It was all about Stockport tiring us out and waiting for a mistake. One came and that was it.

At no point in the game did we look like winning nor even scoring!

The subs were probably right but weakened us.

No one can control the ball and take it past anyone in the final third.

Let's forget and move on to next season and get our transfer business done early in the summer.

Thank god we have 50 points!

So even though it was 10 against 12 we had fuck all shots? Very bad. Stockport were terrible,  so at least they won't be challenging.

Massive overhaul needed

Positives:
FBT and Brewitt look a decent pairing. Would like to see us keep the latter. One of the only players with 'bite'.
Tactically Morris did a good job for the large part. He got undone by another brain dead bit of play from us with the free kick.
Plenty of effort from RHM, Williams, FBT, McEachran, Brewitt, Kahn

Negatives:
Wasted season and goodwill burnt with most fans due to shocking squad management and the Lindsey debacle.
Lightweight in midfield.
If I never see Kadji again I'll be delighted.
So many overhit goalkicks straight to their keeper. At least send it out for a throw and apply some pressure there.
Hutton just isn't a defender.
For a man of his pedigree, Lavinier needs to be doing a lot more. He was anonymous.

Stretton? Never heard of her.

Potentially good squad, just never got the best of a team. Ref was about as impartial as the Salford (manc) ref.
Season is done for me, be back in August.

I will grant you I think if I were the coach my tactic would be a bit different with the type of players he has.  But I’m not sure how much it would matter when some can’t dribble a ball more than 10ths without it flying off their shins. 

agree with what you say except this

Darcy in a game like that was baffling to me. It was too niggly and physical.

I guess if you really think the playoffs were on then you have to go for it, and there wasn't much to do that with.

Hope Austin's injury isn't too bad

Lindsey had a better record here than Morris has!!

…and I see Crawley picked up a win today against Rochdale.
…but probably doesn’t really count. Everyone beats Rochdale.

Pretty much true for Darcy in any game, all he does is give the ball away. I swear if he didn’t look a bit like Modric no one would rate him.

Angus dodges the 'youth ' question and expects Sandro to be here in the future

Lindsey had his own players, or that is what we were told.

They are the same players mostly & we have got worse.

However much he ran hot and cold, everyone said Gladwin was like having another coach on the pitch. We have missed that.

So you are expecting to hand a poor group of players that he had no input on to a manager, having let 3 or 4 of that squad leave, remove about 6 or 7 of those players through injury and allow him to sign a couple of OOC players but still expect him to improve results?  

I know you love to troll to get a reaction DV but even you are pushing it with this repeated bollocks.

You even blamed him for the red cards today :D

Let's be honest, the whole season has been a shit show.  Even most of our wins have been lottery wins.  We haven't really been blown away either.  It's all just been shit from top to bottom of the club.  Last season we punched above our weight in the signings we managed and sorted the off field mess.  We laid some sort of foundation and then built a house of sticks on top of it.

Recruitment has not been good enough.

Player sales have seemingly been approved without replacing the game knowledge some of the exiting players had, let alone immediate ability.

The management has been meh.

The club seems to trying run on fumes.

All very poor for a club getting 9k+ attendances in the bottom division without even selling them for peanuts like Bradord.

A failure on every level bar ground purchase.

Amen

Neither have been good enough.

Spot on Rob

Thought they'd got rid of the double jeopardy of red card as well as penno?

The positive is that the revenue they've been receiving is well above anything for years, if ever.  If they sort the recruitment out and let Morris build quickly, those foundations largely remain.  Need to recruit a spine who know how to get out of this league or have talent beyond it.

Can still be a red if it's not an obvious play at the ball

Again, spot on

Considering everyone else thinks Lindsey was a rubbish manager (fair point) and that Morris is a good manager (based on nothing) then yes, I’d expect to see what everyone considers a better manager getting better results from the same group of players.

Discipline has definitely got worse since Morris has been here. Is that a coincidence?
We’ve had more injuries since Morris got here, is that a coincidence?

Honestly, I don’t know the answers and I don’t know how Morris will fair long term. I really don’t.
I’m just genuinely baffled as to why fans are so certain of him already and why he’s getting an absolute free pass for what is now 3 wins in 11 games.

We weren’t a great team before he got here but we aren’t bottom feeders. We weren’t 3 wins in 11 bad. We were 6th. Again, yes the players aren’t the best but the tactics we’ve employed have been game costing on serval occasions which is mainly going unsaid.

We could have quite easily got a 0-0 today but we’re that focusing on playing passing football that we won’t even lump it in the box at 0-0 80 minute with a man down, that’s fucking scandalous.
Whether that tactics or individual player decision or both - it’s fucking school boy stuff imo.

yet apparently we are losing 500k a year. So revenue isn't high enough, or costs are too high.

Cannot see Morris hanging around in this set up. Anyone who cannot see that the recruitment has been an utter shambles shouldn’t be in football

only if you make an attempt to play the ball

Yep,agree with that

I mean Angus wouldn't just say "yeah he's going to get the boot", so we'll see.

Morris must have asked what our recruitment will be before he took the job. either it's changing from what it is now or he's happy with it

Morris is inexperienced at this level and needs to learn fast.

It's not the same group of players though.

No Reed, Gladwin or McDonald. That's a lot of game nous, and presumably day to day good at driving standards, gone.

Morris:
- First 40 seconds: First to him getting a sending off so soon. Element of luck, with defender slipping allowing attacker to get through on goal. Wakeling trying to do his defensive work. Could have set up better, but bad luck in Tomlinson slipping
- Huge blow having spent days in preparation, and it all goes out of the window
- Tough one to take for everyone (players, staff and fans)
- We saved a penalty, which gave everyone a lift, but the fans came to see us win. It then became a dull watch rather than an exciting battle
- Fans could see the shift the players were putting in. The fans were class
- It was a must win, but that went out the window
- Proud that they worked that hard. They didn't look like they wanted to concede.
- We then concede from our own set piece. There is a disagreement from a couple of players. If we are going to play it short, we need to set up better
- Fourth game in a row were we aren't coming away with what we deserved.
- Morris then criticised the ref. Saying we should have had a penalty, but noone in the ground could work out what the ref was going to give in certain situations all game
- It was more of an entanglement by their defender than ours was with Wakeling
- Half time. Morris said we weren't good enough on the ball
- Only way to get rest is to look after the ball and move it around.
- Austin: Wanted to use RHMs pace in the middle. Had to sacrifice Austin. RHM used his body well today. He was on the receiving end of fouls that weren't given
- Our GK booked for wasting time, but they got nothing for booting the ball away and kicking our players when they were on the floor
- Minimum constructive things this season: Improve in all areas game by game. Not looking further forward than that. Moments for more players to get more minutes on Tuesday.
- Nullified a good team to not too many chances.
- Disappointing
- Asked players if they had spoken about the freekick where we gave around the goal. Some had comments about it. Morris then told them why it shouldn't have happened.

A lot of generalisation in there.  I don’t consider Morris a good manager, I consider him to have been handed a pile of shit and then had an injury/suspension crisis thrown at him for good measure.  The jury is out until he gets his own players in and can put his own mark on the team, but to constantly blame him for everything that is going on under the circumstances, and spouting Morris out at every opportunity is absolute bollocks.

Angus was asked. He not committedly said that everyone was trying their hardest and hoped to be there doing the same next year.

Didn't see the game today, but have seen a few Twitter highlights.

Truly remarkable that our defensive shape was bad enough for Wakeling to be the last man after 34 seconds.

After weeks of conceding to opposition set pieces, conceding from one of our own is at least variety.

Looks like the ref was a bit of a Herbert. It happens. Never seemingly as much for us as against us, but I'm sure that's STFC tinted glasses.

And Morris said it wasn't Darcy's (from context) fault that Hussey was faster than him. It was down to whoever called Hutton over to play it short and the rest of the team for not setting up properly to ensure a counter wasn't on.

However you may like to coat the turd in hundreds and thousands, he has taken us from 6th and in the playoffs (when SL left and Mad Gav maintained) to 11th and 10 points outside the playoffs.

Far from saying he should go or any such nonsense, but the excuses and free pass he is getting is odd, whatever happens he is gonna need to hit the ground sprinting next season.

I am not sure at all where we go from here on in as it is all but certain that we are in Divvy 2 again next season and do not really see that much has changed from the omnishambles of last August. We have a manager that still has to convince me he has enough about him to get a team to compete at the level we currently are, and a set of players who in many areas do not have the experience required. Major rebuild needed once again hopefully with JM being able to put “his” squad in place when the dust settles and prove he can do what we all want. What I do not want is the possibility of us being in the exact same position this time next year repeating the same points as I am getting too bloody old to want to see that happen.

I can't see how anyone could blame Darcy for the goal.

Stupid free kick and a literal slice of luck from their defender did it

I like others have thrown in the towel this season. I know how positive I’ve been this season including recently. Just goes to show, that after last season we should have been fucking promoted by now. But no.

My thoughts tonight (I didn’t go btw, I just couldn’t summon up the enthusiasm to do so) are that the jury is still out on Sandro (I understand he did ok for Wigan) and this moneyball model. So I conclude that as Lyndsey had the final say on the players Sandro put in front of him. That the brief Sandro had to work from was flawed and that Lyndsey didn’t have the experience to pick apart the players presented to him. Seeing as none of us are on the inside we just have to hope that if Sandro is still involved in getting the players that the matrix he uses is of a better calibre than used this season and that Morris is experienced enough to give the nod to a more rounded team with more of what we need to get us out of this dross league at a canter next season.

Did Sandro do ok at Wigan? Sandro thinks so.

But yes, the recruitment model isn't necessarily a failure. Our use of it so far is. As demonstrated by the keys table.

Not every player is terrible. Some are good. But what point is there to that. Are we going to keep enough of the good to build on?

Great catching up with Venks today after such a long time.
What a legend.

yeah, also saw Venks.

and meet posh red

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPHTOBDG61c

I haven't enjoyed the results but hard to remember better interviews. Always honest and one generally gets the sense he's watched the same game! Lets hope the results come next season.

Nice to meet you both

Hard to be critical of any of them to be honest, they all put a shift in. Albeit we didn’t create anything

Special mention to the ref, who gave an excellent impression of somebody who was in for a Stockport win bonus, either that or he’s an Oxford fan

Did he do anything at Wigan? Their fans don’t seem to even know who he is and he was only there a few months. From what we’ve heard he was just mates with their owners son or something like that. There’s nothing in the public domain other than ‘head recruitment analyst’ on his LinkedIn page to show he did anything there.

Thats what he said. Something like: You can’t blame the player who was trying hard to chase back after Hussey, it was because we didn’t set up properly if we were insistent on playing it short

Wouldn’t blame him for the goal but he was beyond awful when he came along, gave the ball away with every touch rather than helping see us through.

Bad news travels fast plus they can't forget the past🤣

https://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/220180-swindon/&do=getNewComment

City fans are just jealous that we made the Prem on a shoestring, and they haven’t after spunking so much money at it.  

The West Country's underachievers😀

I thought it was a good performance to say in the game after the early red card - obviously we had to move to 1 up front and hence why Austin was replaced at half time (he isn’t quick enough to play that role when we are a man light).
Some similarities with the Hoddle coordinated masterclass at Griffin Park when we got a 0-0 after being reduced to 9 (2 red cards in the first half hour) and Paul Bodin almost snatched a winner at the end.

We thought the RHM simulation decision was ridiculous - before the defender clipped him he was holding RHM’s shirt.
The disappointing things - delivery of set pieces was poor - we had very few chances as it was and hence needed to make more of these, also not taking any wind assisted long range shots in the second half. Taking the short free kick which led to the goal was madness.
The referee was appalling - it felt to me that he was trying to avoid any suggestion of him “trying to even things up” - hence Knoyle’s assault on Brynn getting a yellow and his subsequent ridiculous challenge on McEachran going unpunished (should have been yellow) were the worst examples, followed by the melee in our left corner where one of our players was kicked several times while on the floor. 

Everything else aside, Knoyle's challenge on McEachran was a blatant second yellow card. The yellow for Brynn for timewasting was a joke, when their guy got no punishment for punting it into the stand. Williams being rugby tackled off the ball, also ridiculous. Their striker then handballed it twice in our box just prior to Williams' booking. Dogs*** referee. The linesmen at this level should be replaced by robots. They NEVER have the guts to make a decision, even on whether it is a corner or a goal kick. Total cowards, and the only reason I have any sympathy for the refs. They get worse than no help.

A valiant effort, but to no avail in the end.

We've seen in the last couple of home games that teams going well seem to make their own luck.
We are a million miles off at the moment.

Hopefully Morris is rolling with the punches & embracing the current difficulties with a view to turning things around in the summer & a positive start to next season.

A few comedy refs this season.
This one's card arm looked to be operating on auto pilot at times.
Brynn's booking was just laughable.

Then again, being switched on at the start of games is just as important as at the end.

Highlights if not seen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gvVPZmYoc

Thank you gentlemen, was great to catch up with you both and Posh, enjoyed hating the ref even if the game was not the bets, thought Stockport were poor but big, the ref could be the worst I have ever seen.

Didn't hear Stockport fans in the Town End, very quiet until they scored and even then made little noise for a decent turn out. Town End was pretty vocal for 50% of the game.

Stretton was lucky to not be attacked for gobbing off in front of the Town End, cunt.

A good day out spoled by football, ok a referee.

Cant fault the effort of Swindon just the quality was lacking where it mattered.

fiiiiiiight

https://www.totalswindon.com/sport/frazer-blake-tracy-revealed-the-players-had-a-bust-up-after-defeat-against-stockport/

probably in every dressing of every club tbh

Some things need to stay private.

Good that this happens imo

I agree. A marker needs to be set down. Thinking he’d make a better captain than Charlie.

A good captain for next year for sure. One of the few highlights from a year of bilge.

They still seem to think that players clapping the stands at the end of a match was us celebrating winning the league. Still salty their thug of a player got sent off as well, they were lucky to not be reduced to 9 that match, distinctly remember one of their striker lashing out

I think this game saw an end to City's 21 game unbeaten run which is why the in was celebrated rather more than a routine win over Hartlepool. I celebrated big-time on my sofa in Stretford, and not in a sexy way!

I can't remember if we knocked them off top spot with that win.

No, but we moved up to second and closed the gap to four points

Cheers, excellent memory!

I’d like to take credit, but I just looked it up on the excellent http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20150117

Was that the game where their most dangerous midfielder saw red after about 2 minutes? I think they were super miffed that Toffolo celebrated the red and then Nathan Thompson celebrated in front of their fans at the full time whistle which bizarrely seemed to prompt some to warrant the police being called. We won 1-0 and I was there but remember very little about the game overall.

I remember flares being thrown and Michael Smith scoring, that's about it

The atmosphere after the red was brilliant. A proper cauldron!

I miss local derbys. They are equally a pain in the arse though.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2TcjAe05U