Swindon Town V Northampton Town Official Matchday Thread

[nevillew]

Slightly disappointed with the attendance - lower number of home fans than recently, still, 4200+ season tickets are a good sign.

I thought Ferry was MOTM yesterday, although the back four put in a good shift as well.

[Ardiles]

We had the highest attendance in League 2 this weekend, and there were only 3 attendances in League 1 that were higher than ours (and 8 that were lower).  There are also only 6 teams in League 1 with a higher average attendance than ours; of the other 18, most are substantially lower.  We're doing OK!

[Peter Venkman]

Even though it wasn't a bad attendance for this league really I too was a little disappointed with the crowd figure, but also I had expected Northampton to have brought nearer double what they did considering it was a bank holiday game not too far away. They always used to bring a much healthier following in the past, often well over 1,000 even when they weren't doing too well in the league.

[ronnie21]

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Slightly disappointed with the attendance - lower number of home fans than recently, still, 4200+ season tickets are a good sign.

I thought Ferry was MOTM yesterday, although the back four put in a good shift as well.

On reflection this could have been one of the games that could have had a special promotion on, say £20 match day ticket.  It's been a very expensive few weeks following STFC and a small offering may have gone down well.  Also would have probably brought a few more visiting supporters as well.

Ferry had a good game, as did quite a few on view yesterday but I thoughht Devera should have been in with a shout of motm, he has really matured into a useful player for us over recent games.

[Gnasher]

I was disappointed with the attendance but not surprised at £25 a pop. The last few games of the Sturrock promotion season we were getting 10k plus, with £10 tickets to watch the game on the Bank.

This board are the best we've had in years but they could do better on ticket policy. I'm sure PDC was disappointed to see so many empty seats yesterday.

[Anteater]

Ferry had a good game, as did quite a few on view yesterday but I thoughht Devera should have been in with a shout of motm, he has really matured into a useful player for us over recent games.

Agree with this. PDC will have a difficult job selecting his preffered back four when Caddis is available again, nice problem to have though ! Alan Mac back in midfield ?

[Bogus Dave]

I'd move Devera into the middle and drop Flint. From what I've seen this season, Devera at his best is better than Flint at his best in my opinion

[Gnasher]

If Ritchie remains sidelined I'd be tempted to play Caddis as a winger and keep the back four as they are.

[Batch]

I'd llike to see caddis and Holmes played if Ritchie is injured longer than caddis. He may benefit as much as Ritchie does from extra overlap.

Who to drop is a difficult one. Devera is more composed on the ball, flint better in the air. Good though decision to have.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

I'd move Devera into the middle and drop Flint. From what I've seen this season, Devera at his best is better than Flint at his best in my opinion

I'd agree, but also would say that Flint has played better for a consistant length of time so it is a bit of a headache.

[Notts red]

Great to see Kenny and Jimmy back at the County Ground on Saturday. Read in the programme Jimmy was the first professional to refuse to play on a Sunday because of his strong Christian beliefs.  I still rate Kennys goal against Everton as one of the best ever at the County Ground. I was in the lower tier of the Shrivenham stand and watched it all the way into the top corner of the Town end ( except for a second when a pillar blocked my view   )

[Reg Smeeton]

Great to see Kenny and Jimmy back at the County Ground on Saturday. Read in the programme Jimmy was the first professional to refuse to play on a Sunday because of his strong Christian beliefs. 

Shouldn't believe everything you read in the programme....Harold Fleming also refused to play on Sundays or other religious festival days like Good Friday and Chritmas Day.

[Notts red]

Shouldn't believe everything you read in the programme....Harold Fleming also refused to play on Sundays or other religious festival days like Good Friday and Chritmas Day.

Thanks Reg, I know what you mean about the programme as they have us down as losing 2-0 away at Barnet last Tuesday with a big L against the score.  

[Navyred stfc]

I was disappointed with the attendance but not surprised at £25 a pop. The last few games of the Sturrock promotion season we were getting 10k plus, with £10 tickets to watch the game on the Bank.

This board are the best we've had in years but they could do better on ticket policy. I'm sure PDC was disappointed to see so many empty seats yesterday.

I thought it was a good attendance, nearly eight and a half thousand town fans is good in this climate plus the crap weather, wembley hangover. Our attendances will improve next season no doubt in L1. We will get 11+ thousand on Saturday I reckon, they will bring at least 1500 I would imagine.

[Peter Venkman]

I was disappointed with the attendance but not surprised at £25 a pop. The last few games of the Sturrock promotion season we were getting 10k plus, with £10 tickets to watch the game on the Bank.

This board are the best we've had in years but they could do better on ticket policy. I'm sure PDC was disappointed to see so many empty seats yesterday.

Under Sturrock we only had 3 attendances over 10k, one of those was before Christmas against Bristhole Rovers a crowd of 10,010 and the other 2 games we only opened the bank to Town fans for the Mansfield game (10,472 crowd) and the only other was the last game of the season when we had 14,731 against Walsall and they had the bank that day.