Colchester United FC v Swindon Town FC Official Matchday Thread

[Bob's Orange]

Sorry but I think we might be on the end of a walloping tonight. 3-0 defeat.

[Peter Venkman]

To add to the what they are saying about us I found some nice little quotes on the CUFC forum

You know it makes me laugh when I hear these little whiney girly girls like PDC, cry me a river. In 1959 Nott's Forest played Luton town in the FA Cup Final 1 man short for about 60 mins and won 2 - 1. (Before substitutes were allowed). Now if a manager can't spend a Gazillion dollars on his team and have another gazillion dollars sitting on the bench he goes looking for sympathy. GET OVER IT. Play the hand you are dealt without the fake tears!!!
I am sick and tired of hearing managers mouth off about lack of money, Ref's Linesman and injuries. (I include Sir Alex in that as well) They want more money than God, have the best scouting team, coaching team and medical team that money can buy. Please bring back the Bill Shankley days. You know when men had had a pair. That's my rant for the day!!! I hope the U's smoke them tomorrow night just so I can PDC cry like a baby Wednesday morning!!!


Hopefully the players and manager will be in disarray before our game and we can nick 3 points off them


couldnt be a better time to play them thats for sure!


They look to be very short of players which could be a bonus for us


It seems like PDC though is making it so they don't have many, not allowing players like Rooney etc to play because there loan deals did not go through while they have also loaned out a few players to other clubs.


Have Swindon had a serving of the tottenham lasagne? 13 players to choose from - haha!


I would go further, I think managers with PDC's attitude are part of the cause of footballs current financial difficulties.
Linking player budget to success on the field, lures owners and clubs with more money than sense, into a spiral of financial suicide.

Managers like di Cannio persuade their clubs to part with more money than they should, and the players to demand more money than their skill deserves! Far from guaranteeing long term success on the field, all they actually guarantee is spiraling wages in one direction and spiraling finances in the other!

Whilst I admire PDC's passion for the game, his passion in protest is demonstrating just how far he is out of touch he is with financial reality in lower leagues. He clearly does not understand that it was partly his choice of squad size, wage demands, and player purchases have got Swindon into such big financial trouble......no wonder we lost out on Aiden Flint! Thankfully many clubs with even a grain commercial sense, will never want to compete with clubs like Swindon. In fact Swindon have provided a perfect demonstration of where that attitude will lead!

Thankfully our club and owner have more sense than that.


Could not happen to a nicer guy...


A fascist with a sense of entitlement. Not exactly newsworthy!


Thirteen players or not I think we'll still have to be on top of our game to get a win. Our next five or six games are all vital to us saving this season from a relegation battle in my view and we'll have to be at our best to get as many points as possible.


An idiotic admirer of Mussolini , or even the inexcusable Adar salut when playing for Lazio doesn't necessarily make him an out and out fascist and I don't believe him to be a racist - any more than Gasgoine playing a mock flute in an 'Old Firm' match makes him an Orange Order bigot. It just makes them both tossers to greater or lesser degree. In Di Canio's case to the greater degree.



To be fair, think what anyone may about Di Canio, he can't be blamed for being responsible for the demise of football into vulgar commercialism generally, nor the plight of Swindon Town FC specifically . A club employees him because they think they can see potential precisely because he displays that passion and convinces them of his knowledge of the game and players in a couple of countries - albeit not a passion that's everyone's cup of tea. But if they then to decided to back him to the hilt with naive and callous financial adventurism and then receive the consequences of employing a loose canon to boot , then they have only themselves to blame. Di Canio is Di Canio , and if they think/thought that they could make him a well rounded person ,then clearly it was they (the board of directors) who were obviously blinded by unbridled ambition to become something bigger than they actually are.

[Dozno9]

who were obviously blinded by unbridled ambition to become something bigger than they actually are

Says the team with a new 10,000 capacity ground, can be increased to 18,000 and just achieve over a 1/4 of the current capacity on match days.

[Ralphy]

We will get a dicking tonight. 5-1.

Paolo will explode in his interview with rage.

True story.

[brocklesby red]

Backs to the wall stuff tonight but i still think we are good enough to come back with a 2-1 win.Ward and Flint with 2 set piece goals

[Honkytonk]

If we lose tonight there will be blood. 2-0 win. Please god. I am going to a church today to study the history, so will light a candle for us...

Oh and Flashheart, sex with Madonna would be terrible.

[Barry Scott]

Shaw Rosso, I note you mentioned Damon Albarn in both Orient's and Colchester's match day threads. Is he the match day thread equivalent of Steve Lomas and the transfers thread?

[Gnasher]

Defeat written all over it, so I'm hoping for some of the spirit we showed at Stevenage.

I wonder if Paolo will opt for Navarro ahead of Ferry, if we're playing long ball on a bog of a pitch. Rooney will probably start ahead of Collins.

I just hope this virus hasn't infected too many senior players.

[Bob's Orange]

Thanks for that JJ.

Taking the red tinted specs off there seem to be some some decent intelligent comments in that.

[Peter Venkman]

Thanks for that JJ.

Taking the red tinted specs off there seem to be some some decent intelligent comments in that.

There are some intelligent comments mixed with the usual fascist stuff but thats only to be expected really.

[Flashheart]

Oh and Flashheart, sex with Madonna would be terrible.

I bet she'd give a blinding blowie

[Peter Venkman]

I bet she'd give a blinding blowie

Be worth it to make her shut the fuck up!

[Gnasher]

Good intro. SR and BR. Perhaps we could have Dostoyevsky's Dysentery in the next write up? 

[Samdy Gray]

I bet she'd give a blinding blowie

If she took her dentures out first.

[Honkytonk]

I bet she'd give a blinding blowie

Once she's taken her teeth out, probably.

Edit: DAMN YOU SAMDY