Peterborough United v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[Trashbat?]

Benson hasn't got the legs or the physical presence to spearhead the attack anymore, anyone that saw him play for Cheltenham in the play offs could see that.

As an option off the bench with 10 minutes to go perhaps, but nothing else.

[JanTheMan]

I saw someone else asked the question yesterday, but couldn't see a response - How many made it up from swindon? Didn't look loads on ssnews.

[herthab]

Benson hasn't got the legs or the physical presence to spearhead the attack anymore, anyone that saw him play for Cheltenham in the play offs could see that.

As an option off the bench with 10 minutes to go perhaps, but nothing else.

Which would make him a very expensive impact sub....

[DiV]

Where's this belief that Benson would be our saviour come from? He struggled at the start of last season in League One and hardly pulled any trees up while on loan.

He's a natural finisher. He started off last season alright.
Never claimed he'd be our saviour but our striking options are limited and neither of the other 2 offer what Benson would do as a loan striker.

Do I think his inclusion in our squad would be a positive, even as a bit part player - yes.

[suttonred]

About 700 I reckon

Edit damn it didn't quote, that was an estimate of away  fans

[jayohaitchenn]

He's a natural finisher. He started off last season alright.
Never claimed he'd be our saviour but our striking options are limited and neither of the other 2 offer what Benson would do as a loan striker.

Do I think his inclusion in our squad would be a positive, even as a bit part player - yes.

But you don't know how much it would cost us to put him in the squad. Is it still positive if playing him puts us in a transfer embargo for example?

I wish people would stop second guessing without all the facts. The simple truth is we don't know why Benson isn't playing, but he isn't and there is fuck all we can do about it.

[DiV]

I've said plenty of times that in my opinion he isn't playing due to goal bonus, apprence fee and potential fees to Charlton.

He won't play for us again.

Put all the financial guessing aside, purely on football is he worth including?

[Bob's Orange]

Someone earlier mentioned about Jimmy Davis, just spotted a piece in the Guardian that may be of interest -

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/05/jimmy-davis-danny-webber-united-watford

[sonicyouth]

I've said plenty of times that in my opinion he isn't playing due to goal bonus, apprence fee and potential fees to Charlton.

He won't play for us again.

Put all the financial guessing aside, purely on football is he worth including?

Unfortunately we can't put the financial stuff aside but I don't think he's the man to be relied upon for the entire season. Not at his age and not as a lone striker.

[Tails]

It was. Although I heard nothing about it till afterwards.

Of course his mum gave a speech before our next home game against Notts County. Heart wrenching stuff...

That will always live me.. especially the "Come on Swindon!" at the end. Seemed to give the crowd and players a lift.

[jayohaitchenn]

Put all the financial guessing aside, purely on football is he worth including?

I'm not convinced. He was shite for Cheltenham last year. That said I would at least give him a few games to show what he is still capable of, if money was no object.

[Bob's Orange]

I know they (Caddis, Benson and Rooney) are on a decent amount of money and the board are keen to get them off the wage bill, but whilst here we may as well use them, even more so if they are getting paid so much to do feck all.

The concern of course is if they have contracts that have large appearance fees/win bonuses that they are just too fucking expensive to play, especially for 10 minutes at the end of a match!!

[Batch]

I'm not convinced. He was shite for Cheltenham last year. That said I would at least give him a few games to show what he is still capable of, if money was no object.

Is 4 from 14 (6 from 21) shite? And he looked OK to me on the Sky playoff game. Not checked Cheltenham's forum to see what the fans thought though.

Williams is 11 from 34, not massively better. #

The concern of course is if they have contracts that have large appearance fees/win bonuses that they are just too fucking expensive to play, especially for 10 minutes at the end of a match!!

Its the only reason I can come up with that makes any sense to me.

[inept and tiresome]

I've been saying for months we will struggle with this side and while 90 minutes doesn't make a season, I was really impressed with the football we played.
A special mention for the referee, he was truly shocking and can the Town supporters cut Williams some slack. He's not the guy to play in That position, we know it, he knows it and management know it but play there he must. Please accept it.

[manc_red]

A special mention for the referee, he was truly shocking

He was dire, surprised it's not been mentioned before.

Not a lot to add on the game that hasn't been said really - encouraging signs and there are clearly at lot of very talanted young players in that side who are comfortable on the ball and creative going forward. We played some lovely football at times and always looked to get it down and play it, I can barely remember us putting the ball in the air the whole game (Wes aside - but even he looked to play it out to the full backs first).

Early days yet and whether they're up to [insert northern shit hole] on a Tuesday night in December remains to be seen, but we could well surprise a few people this year. It won't be boring anyway, that's for sure.

Also, and I'm not saying this is a bad thing necessarily, but I'd find it incredible if Spurs didn't have an influance over our style of play this season.