Port Vale v Swindon official match day thread

[Reg Smeeton]

At least there is no shortage of cups & saucers here if Wellens fancies throwing some crockery around in the dressing room.

 

What's the weather like WB... it's proper slate grey miserable in Swindon.  Just the stuff for a game v the Burslem Boys.

 

[Peter Venkman]

We have a pretty good record against this lot in recent years some great wins against Port Fail a 6-0. 5-0 and 5-2 win at home.

In the last 13 games between us we have only been beaten by them twice and both by a single goal.

Away in the last 12 games since the turn of the century we have had 5 wins 3 draws and 4 defeats, each defeat was by a single goal.

Today will show a lot of character from Wellens and the team if we wish to avoid defeat after they were booed off last week by many.

Its still too eary for Wellens to put much of a stamp on tactics I think so as reg says its a free hit for him today. If we do manage to score then who knows but if we concede early then I fear the worst with heads dropping.

Port Vales last 5 games has been a run of WDWDL.

On their forum they are super confident with a couple of their fans commenting on how they hate us after the Swindon v Hartlepool draw on the last day of the season in 2004 when a draw meant us and Hartlepool got into the play offs at the expense of PV. Yes I had no memory of that either but they certainly do!

2-1 defeat with Anderson scoring and 425 disappointed Town fans in a crowd of 4,274.

[Wobbly Bob]

What's the weather like WB... it's proper slate grey miserable in Swindon.  Just the stuff for a game v the Burslem Boys.

 

Unusually for here the sun is shining.
A far cry from the train pulling out of Stafford and finding out that the game has been called off which is what normally happens.

Anyway, avoiding defeat today is at least assured.
Just discovered Wobbly Bob on draught here.  
What could possibly go wrong.

[Reg Smeeton]

Unusually for here the sun is shining.
A far cry from the train pulling out of Stafford and finding out that the game has been called off which is what normally happens.

Anyway, avoiding defeat today is at least assured.
Just discovered Wobbly Bob on draught here.  
What could possibly go wrong.

Sunshine on Burslem..... the Wembley of the North at its finest.

[Panda Paws]

Positive after hearing Wellens pre-match. Expecting a score draw today but no matter what, we've got to give him time.

[Peter Venkman]

Wembley of the North at its finest.

is it 1950? because since then its has crumbled down more and more the more often I visited.

My last visit there was in 2007 and it was a state then, hopefully they have repaired it a bit better now.

[REDBUCK]

Positive after hearing Wellens pre-match. Expecting a score draw today but no matter what, we've got to give him time.

Did you look into his eyes though

[Panda Paws]

Did you look into his eyes though

Ridiculously I chose to listen to what he said instead.

[DiV]

Port Vale nearly got relegated last season.
Will be a stern test to see whether we’re relegation fodder.
Anything less than a 5 goal defeat and maybe we’ll only go down by a few points. Maybe even point.
On one hand Reg will be happy but also disappointed we aren’t worse.

[Legends-Lounge]

May have missed this if it’s been posted already but I was told that Wellens punched the dressing room wall in frustration before his post match interview last week.

[swindonmaniac]

Surely something must have been learnt  from last week's hiding,   start of the turnaround today 1-1.
If nothing has been learnt then 0-6 and the conference beckons.   But this is Swindon,  we can do the impossible !.

[swindonmaniac]

2-1 defeat with Anderson scoring and 425 disappointed Town fans in a crowd of 4,274.

Can you be a little more precise please.

[Peter Venkman]

Can you be a little more precise please.

It will be windy, Wellens will make another hole in the dressing room wall, Hunt will throw a tea cup which Vigs will decide to punch and miss it as it hits him in the face...any more?

[Nijholts Nuts]

Who fucking cares?

[DiV]

Surely something must have been learnt  from last week's hiding,   start of the turnaround today 1-1.
If nothing has been learnt then 0-6 and the conference beckons.   But this is Swindon,  we can do the impossible !.

I have no doubt things were learnt.
The real issue is whether they can / have been sorted.