Swindon Town v Barnsley official matchday thread

[Gerinthere]

Yeah! I enjoyed that. Brought a cheer from the crowd as well.

[Whits]

What was it. I bought a ticket but missed it!

563 i think

[Batch]

ooooh so close. only 218 away.

thanks

[Bob's Orange]

A few points from yesterday -

* good numbers, 8,000 + but the atmosphere is still appalling.
* 2 pieces of brilliant skill during the match, kasim's pirouette and swifts' kind of draggy thing where he passed the ball to toffolo through the defender's legs in front of the DRS.
* another dismal penalty
* Byrne's frustrating play where he seems to run too fast for his legs. His decision making at times can be irritating after plenty of good industry.
* the dribbling retard at the top left corner of the DRS. He normally abuses Byrne but yesterday made the amazing shout 'send Swift back to Chelsea'.
* Surprised luongo and kasim played the whole game bearing in mind their recent endeavours and the fact we have a game Tuesday and Sunday.
* I know Cooper said he would take the blame for Wes playing suicide passes but against good sides we would have conceded at least twice yesterday. For me not a risk worth taking.

[Bob's Orange]

Also the pitch seemed to be really slippy yesterday. Louis Thompson stretched to keep the ball in only to present it straight to a Barnsley player who could have ran up the wing, instead for some bizarre reason he belted it out of play for no apparent reason!

The pitch is cutting up a bit this season, not as bad as many others in the league but it's far from perfect.

[Oaksey Moonraker]

we got the three points yersterday against a poor side.
i didnt enjoy watching, was pretty slow 2nd gear stuff with some kamikaze fucking about at the back.
we wernt our best, we've played excellently with 3-5-2 all season and we have 4 strikers in the matchday squad... if it aint broke dont fix it IMO.

Will be interesting keeping the strikers happy if we persist with a single striker. They have all delivered goals throughout the season which have given us success so they might feel a bit peeved to now only find one slot. Hopefully it's a horses for courses approach dependent on opponents as Cooper must have learnt from the Kevin McDonald era that trying to switch tactics drastically in February/March doesn't work. Guess we need to give Cooper & Co the benefit as they know more than we do.

[kerry red]

Seems it should be more of an away game set-up.

Possession is the mantra

[Batch]

But our away form is great:
Away P14 W 8 D 3 L 3 , F 28 A 14
Home P14 W 9 D 3 L 2, F 26 A 13

[kerry red]

Tis madness, I tells ya!

[Bob's Orange]

My theory was that we played 1 up front to accomodate more 'creative' players to unlock teams that come and park the bus at the CG.

[Batch]

My theory was that we played 1 up front to accomodate more 'creative' players to unlock teams that come and park the bus at the CG.

Yeah, it could just work too. As long as we don't always play it

[Flashheart]

My theory was that we played 1 up front to accomodate more 'creative' players to unlock teams that come and park the bus at the CG.

Seconded.

[turbotubbs]

A few points from yesterday -

* good numbers, 8,000 + but the atmosphere is still appalling.
* 2 pieces of brilliant skill during the match, kasim's pirouette and swifts' kind of draggy thing where he passed the ball to toffolo through the defender's legs in front of the DRS.
* another dismal penalty
* Byrne's frustrating play where he seems to run too fast for his legs. His decision making at times can be irritating after plenty of good industry.
* the dribbling retard at the top left corner of the DRS. He normally abuses Byrne but yesterday made the amazing shout 'send Swift back to Chelsea'.
* Surprised luongo and kasim played the whole game bearing in mind their recent endeavours and the fact we have a game Tuesday and Sunday.
* I know Cooper said he would take the blame for Wes playing suicide passes but against good sides we would have conceded at least twice yesterday. For me not a risk worth taking.

Sunday? Has the game been moved?

[Bob's Orange]

Sunday? Has the game been moved?

Oops, not sure why I wrote Sunday! Not as far as I know!

[fuzzy]

Should of killed it off a lot sooner and that with one up front....I can never get my head around that at home and doing well.

Williams pen was shit and weak but if the keeper had dived the other way it was a goal and nobody would of been bothered.

I was a bit concerned as wes tried to push the STFC self destruct button and Barnsley looked like scoring.

Crosses weren't great today.

A win is a win and another three points in the bag and six off Barnsley.....can we really bitch about that?....probably

It's 'have'- 'have'.

Three more points and a clean sheet so, despite the moaning points- suicide passes from Wes, Swifty and Byrne dwelling too long on the ball etc. all in all, not a bad days football.

I know he was a bit rusty at the start but, by the end of the game, Mass was playing the best football I have seen him produce. I think he has really benefitted from the Asia Cup experience.

Mrs Fuzzy swears blind that the officials are sightless twats. Apparently Yass got kicked by an opposition player as after's from a foul Yass may have committed. Anyone else see this?