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Has this been done? I can't find it...

2-1 Swindon, Ajose & the new lad...

A red card for each team..

I'm blotting it out. can't see past a comfortable defeat - no confidence, big players missing, into the lions triangle.

if the experience doesn't kill us it might make is stronger I suppose

A win, then to go the rest of the season unbeaten, including the FA Cup... win that and qualifiy for Europe.

Bet your house on it..

Poxford banana shafters 0-2 STFC. Eagle-Child & Lamb-Flag to score.
I am sure the town have sorted out their arrival at the triangle where the pox dribblers try & intimidate the players as they get off the coach. Anyone going that early?
One of Oxford's twins in Bonn. They thoughtfully named Bonn Square after it, which became the heroin capital of the south at one stage.

I can't stomach to lose to them again, 2-1 Swindon

@BBCWiltsSport: FOOTBALL: #Swindon manager Mark Cooper says fans must be "realistic" ahead of tonight's game at Oxford Utd http://t.co/MKOp0XFDM2

Good to see he is up for it

Oh, is this today. Wonderful.

To be fair to Cooper that's from Saturday's post match interview. Good spin from BBC Wiltshire to tweet it today and link it to tonight's game.

Got to say this paint pot game away to A L2 team (I didn't realise they were still in the League) doesn't fire me up. However having grown up in Poxfordshire, I will be there up and down Queen Street & The High for a few pints. Anyone getting no. 66 Bus.

Not sure how we would fare with a full team but with so many absentees if I fear the inevitable, 4-1 defeat with our goal coming from Belford who comes on in the 83rd minute as a sub for Ajose who has done nothing all game.

0-3

Obika (2) and Ajose.

Because fuck logic.

Just to lighten the mood, who else was there to watch Steve Robinson's double against 9 man Oxford in 2001?  We bade the Manor Ground a fond farewell that day.

Oxford 0-2 STFC (http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20010134)

Happy days.  Was this really the last time we beat them?  The 4-1 wins are becoming a distant memory now.

Comfortable defeat.

Well this is chirpy... Happy Tuesday everyone  :D

Theres a swindon fan whos daughter is an oxford fan. Treachery!

Yep was there

He has failed as a parent.

For someone to get sent off won't the players at least have to play like they give a shit - cannot see it happening.

We are going to lose!

We will have a player get sent off, just our luck, with the injuries we have etc..

The best for me was 1990 when we were 2 down after 10 mins and still stuffed them 4-2 at their poxy little ground.
 
Was also the day I got engaged.....

If we don't win tonight, my wallet will be a lot lighter with colleagues from work.

The cunts better win tonight.

Yep, I was there, but also at 5-2 (in their end) and 5-0 home wins.

Hmm. This will just be the cherry on top won't it.

Fuck 'em in the ear!

Please play Obika as centre forward with Ajose alongside him as 2nd striker. He is completely wasted playing wide and Ajose only seems to offer anything much alongside bigger guy up front. Ojaama has yet to convince me of his worth but if he plays it needs to be  picking up ball in midfield or wide right and running at people. Brophy can offer us some width on the left. So need Turnbull and Branco to man up at the back and Traore/Bangoura/Rodgers to scuttle around in the middle and try and hit passes forwards every now and again rather than constantly sideways or back to Vigs. Who does that leave? Belford, Boo Randall, Marshall and Tom Smith on the bench? Cupboard not quite as bare as at Newport but with Oxford in decent form its going to be interesting to see who is up for the battle

I'm sorry the day wasn't perfect.

The minnows from across the border will win this.

I fear another lacklustre performance and mounting pressure on Cooper.

He's always come across as a fairly calm and level headed guy, although some may see that as lacking passion or emotion.

There's no doubting the Thompson's will be up for this one, but I don't really have the confidence that the rest of the players can raise themselves.

Having said that, I wouldn't mind seeing Jeremy Balmy pop up with a 93rd minute winner.

I don't think either Thompson are able to play, which is frustrating.

This rain is shit. Been absolutely hammering it down all day here in Bath. What's it like a bit more your way?

Not in the arse.... with a banana?

Nah. They'd see that as a top evening.

It rained last night, but hasn't since in West Oxfordshire.

It's all a bit grim and grey outside though.

Good to hear. My office is like being in a tent at the moment with the noise from all the rain. I think it might be heading up towards Oxford though.

2-0 defeat.

On a brighter note I know a town fan who's dad is a pox fan.

They're having a banner/display.  Bless

Haven't got any horrible genetic problems have they?  :eek:

Hope we play a load of youngsters tonight, players like Tommy Smith. Fight is what is needed in these type of games and these players will know what it means to play against them.

Miserable 3-0 defeat.  :no:

So are we in all honesty.

Judging by the comments on here, I'm not sure the fans are going to either.

Great first post  :)

Cunt.

Fair challenge.  It's up to the fans to transmit some resolve/passion and hopefully confidence to the players.

Rather hypocritical comment on my part as I'm heading to Nottingham this afternoon, but hopefully others will rise to the challenge that I'm ducking.

Arh bless.

Someone tell him the rules...

Now you have been given the official seal of approval, welcome aboard.

Nobody called me a cunt when I came in, I feel a little left out.  :(

cunt

Many thanks!

Can everyone learn how to quote properly?

Thanks  :wink:

Anyone know what the general consensus is with the opposition?

Are they confident?

The 'fans' I work with reckon they will lose. But not sure they are blagging it.

The extreme rivalry seems to have definitely calmed down a lot between sets of fans.

Possibly because we are both pretty shit?

Their top striker is out apparently, due to 5 yellow cards.

Who? Eric?

If we win this one, Cooper will deserve a lot of credit. However, the nonsense he spouted after Blackpool suggests it will be more of the same. I'm preparing myself for a defeat heavier than the BSE t-shirt-inducing affair.

Shhhh, don't say his name. Every time you say it he gets stronger. Similar to every time someone kills Solomon Grundy he only comes back bigger and stronger*.

* Sorry for the obscure comic-book reference.

Danny Hylton.

Their other strikers are tosh, but then again so are ours.

It has nil all draw all over it.

Would you go for Penalties then?

3-0 defeat and Branco to elbow Cooper

3-0 to who

Your affiliation is open to debate

Ha ha. The avatar made me giggle. 

I'd be happy if we went to penalties. I can't see us winning any other way.

We've been lulling them into a false sense of security with our crap form up to now, we are going to win at least 6-0

You can see us winning on penalties?! Changesque.

Bookies making us 3/1 underdogs to Oxford is a pretty depressing indictment of our season so far.

I thought Audrey's post that you could get Evens on Oxford...was generous, now I'm not a betting man, but I'd have expected odds on Oxford, so would be lumping on that.

Bizarrely Paul Caddis is doing the radio?

That is odd.  Hand-picked for his first hand knowledge of what it's like to get turned over by Oxford?

Currently on coach 6.

Caddis was 50% of that 'Hey Oxford' meme that people loved sharing. Makes perfect sense....

(https://fraserdigbyswashbag.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/20130509-203329.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1)

Have you chucked anything out the window yet?

Are there more Town fans living in Poxfordshire or more Pox fans living Wiltshire?

First option, of course  :doh:

Kicked off already

7.45 surely?

There's some sort of game going on near Sainsburys in Filthville

Some JPT games kick off early, so the kiddies can get home to bed early.

@Official_STFC
Town starting XI: Vigouroux, Barry, Branco (C), Turnbull, Ormonde-Ottewill, Brophy, Traore, Rodgers, Ajose, Obika, Hylton #STFC

Subs: Belford, Balmy, Bangoura, Iandolo, Ojamaa

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Erm, OK, so is Brophy on the wing? Confused, you will be

Guess it will be:
(4-2-3-1)
Vigouroux
Barry Branco Turnbull BOO
Rodgers Traore
Hylton Ajose Brophy
Obika

Its definitely not going to be a 0-0 is it.

Surprisingly lengthy bit on points west with a divided family, whoever put the package together must be a town fan as the only seemed to find clips of Swindon scoring to play in the piece.

The county boundary passes much closer to Swindon than it does to Oxford.  So it is, of course, the former.

Has it got a bit nawty? ,my Facebook feed is full of non football following people who live in Pox suggesting there is some sort of riot going on!

Here....
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/

Seems to have been a few minor scuffles between police and fans.

The Oxford Mail seem to have a hardon for violence potential and have a roving reported tweeting inane sensationalist Adver style crap

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13807053.UPDATE__Swindon_fans_clash_with_police_ahead_of_tonight_s_Oxford_United_vs_Swindon_game/

Be nice if they could guarantee that..

I love they have a reporter on the spot to provide updates....

This is my favourite:

Megan Archer ‏@OxMailMeganA 48m48 minutes ago
"Never seen anything like it before" said Liz Ashton who was walking home from work #OUFC #STFC

She'd never seen anything like a minor scuffle? Outside a pub? On a football day?

Is that what she meant or was there a group of dwarf clowns walking down the street on their hands or something?

Looking at her twitter feed she seems to mainly cover bins on fire so no wonder she is a little over excited. I am just pleased that Liz is OK and gets home from work.

Only to be expected as they are basically the same paper with the same owners and crap reporters!

#prayforLiz get it trending

To be honest that video just looks like an over aggressive horse.  They're trouble those horses.  Wankers.
 

(http://i.imgur.com/fnJd4Rl.gif)

not really relevant but felt it was such a good gif I had to post it.

I can't remember the last time we played the piss stains and I actually expected us to lose.

Please beat these wankers , it's been far too long since we out the fuckers in their place.

:clap:

And we're off.

My prediction 3 - 0 defeat.
Are we losing yet? I'm not near a radio.

Yes - 3-0

Bugger

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQp8LPQWsAEB2tP.jpg)

That poor robin.

They'll bugger anything with anything won't they.

They hit the woodwork.

Must of taken ages for the local primary school kids to paint that.

That banner is pretty cool. Better than the shit we see at our games.

Proper rivalry banner.

Credit where credits due. Any photos of ours?! Thought not.

Is that robin being Julian Alsopped?

Aye, there's nothing wrong with the banner.

Tifo displays are wasted in itty-bitty grounds.

crowd full of minions,you're just a crowd full of minions, na na na nah,

Obika scores but it's offside. Bum.

Is that a banana 🍌 with that Robin? Ha, they're a bunch of plums.

"Ron's on the run"  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

FFS Turnbull off;red card

I think it's ox horns. Next time at the CG, we can do one with Robins shitting all over an ox?

RED FUCKING CARD

You just knew at least one would go tonight.

No suprise there then.

Oh great

Greeeeeaaaaat.

Idiot.

A pink ox?

Whats the red for?

Gives Cooper a scapegoat.

It's ok, we've got load of centre backs who can cover.

Thought so.

Brill.

what was the red for?

And a 3 match ban...FFS

Silliness.

Kicking out, possibly.

Ten men, we only had ten men . . . . .

What a cock

Was just gonna say that but in a less sarcastic manner. Playing for pens now then realistically!  :headhurts:

So that's a left back at right back, a right back at centre back and a left back who was playing as left winger back now at left back together with our single remaining centre back? Right?

Turnbulls been fucking shit this season anyway

thanks

Oh that's okay then.

 ;)

that's the big worry

Isn"t it about time they put a trellis on that fence ... to stop the ball going over.

The new manager will have some centre backs up his sleeve.

:D

Turnbull can't be the brains of Britain then, fucking bellend

Score in a minute, they're gonna...

We only need 10 men, we've been battering them. SSP said so.

This is a prayer not a factual post..

FFS

1-0 . FFS

Cooper out.

 :suicide:

Sake.

What a shower of shit

Hylton off Pyjama on.

@andrew_FLICW: 41 - MORE ON GOAL - Roofe waltzes through a porous Town defence and stabs home to send home fans in raptures. #stfc defending like statues

FFS COME ON TOWN !!!!!!

I fear we might get a hiding tonight.

Cooper out

I have a feeling that will be the general tone of the next week.

Should have gone after saturday

Getting battered since going down to 10 by the sounds of it.

Game over then, see you later for the rant filled postmortem

pox hit the post

Also got to question Turnbull, what the fuck is he doing

Ffs sounds like they are battering us

Saved, pushed onto post by Vig :( Come on HT

Let's have some fucking fight  :please:

Am I one of the few who feels really sorry for Cooper in all this?

Brad Barry is barely Conference standard

I wouldn't mind getting we've had youth team defences better than the one that is out there now

We fold every time we play them.  Mercifully, that isn't often.

Not good enough, Swindon.  Not even close to good enough.

Yes

Nope. Especially tonight, the fuckwit Turnbull has stuffed us.

HT.

No ...

Doing well according to the com.

We should have played fucking youth players, they know what it takes to battle and scrap

I feel sorry for Cooper too. Doesn't mean I think it's right to keep him. A victim of circumstance.

I'd be disappointed if tonight's game tips the balance and results in Cooper's demise - too many 1st team players missing, and idiot sending off. That's not to say he shouldn't get the boot in the not too distant future.

cooper out.

not all his fault, but things have turned sour for whatever reason (summer sale, sheff weds interest, pikey budget, having to play loanees) and a change is needed.

Except we were in complete control until the sending off. I know this result isn't in isolation but you can't blame Cooper for Turnbull being a prick. He'd obviously done enough for us to impress both the people I know at the game and Sam Parkin for the majority of the first half.


Yeah, this. For other reasons I can have some sympathy with the Cooper Out calls but not tonight.

The thing is that we can't defend this season, it cost us last season and we couldn't defend the season before. We've had different players throughout Cooper's reign and we still defend like Sunday League players.

In fairness, it seems that most of us have sympathy for Mark Cooper.

If by doing well you mean keeps giving the ball away, can't tackle and can't mark then yeah he's doing great.

Worst back four we've had for years

We have Sunday league defenders ;)

What we really need is a few more midfielders. That'll mend it.

It loses the potential of a decent payday by going out and leaves our season looking pretty bleak very early on.  Don't think Power will be impressed.

How realistic is it to get a centre back in by Saturday or we're fucked again? 

The joy of supporting Town eh.....

We should be getting another one in anyway regardless of Turnbull's suspension. The depth/ability of the current players isn't up to scratch.

Our system relies on us finding young players that can perform to a good standard in lg1 It also relies heavily on getting a good standard of loan players, in both in my view are falling short. Up front I think is where we are strongest but the ball just does not get up there enough.

At risk of sounding a tadge soft. I do have a bit of sympathy for him but its about time he moved on.
We are getting beat by Headington again ffs.

The JPT is pretty shit in terms of a payday, and Power isn't going to care we've lost to Oxford like the fans.

:crash: lets hope he don't get sacked tonight, give those poxford twats even more to laugh at us about

Just caught up with goings on and it sounds as though I should've stayed in the shed on the turbo.

Same old Swindon.

It's half time..

Any chance of sending turbo the to Kassam when you've finished ...

yeah it wasn't even funny in my head

We failed in all the cups last season.

Was it not mentioned after Saturday that they would be seeking a centre back?

Bangoura debut hat trick.

I
I've thoroughy regretted logging on here tonight.....

He might care that the fans care if the terraces turn on Cooper. Which is quite likely as things stand.

I'd guess it's more a case of whether the fans turn up, and most importantly, pay.

Attendances will drop off without a doubt.

Don't think you can blame Cooper for that first half, we sounded decent and with players available, correct formation/tactics. Tonight changed because of Turnbull being a twat, if the 2nd half is anything like the 5/10 of the first, we could get a dicking

What the fuck has happened this season.... :suicide:

0-4 and 9 men is my prediction.

We gave up our season tickets?

 :suicide:

2-0 Game over

2-0 FFS

bollocks

Whatever the situation with the club, Lee Power, Mark Cooper etc.

This is shitty.

Arse.

Tomorrow is not going to be enjoyable for those of us who work in Oxfordshire.

Something has to change before it's too late.

Especially if we get a hammering, which now looks quite likely :(

There's only shit you can be even when you're down to ten

Can't see this finishing 2-0.

God knows why that Roofe is playing for them, he's bloody decent.

Safer for everyone's BP to log off methinks.

This is fucking ridiculous now.

I'm off to do some washing up. See you for the post match "we had a lot of posession, I thought we played well."

I presume they do sing The Roofe is on fire? They do, right?

attendance 9013

4 visits to Kebab and we still can't score (yet)

Time to re think ...... and hopefully make changes before the season is lost for good...

We were doing well in the League though.

Yes it was, because Williams is injured.  Turnbull is now out for 3 games, so really we need 2!

I'm so glad I don't work with an Oxford fan anymore

Brad Barry being stretchered off.

Bloody hell.

If tonight's result hurries along Cooper's exit the filth may well be doing us a favour.

Still cant see Power doing it, though.

And another injury, another defender out. Ridiculous the amount of injuries we have

Do we have enough players to field a team Saturday

Bangoura on. Which Gillingham fan cursed our centre backs?

Yeah but not all is lost. There is an equadorian that we have been tracking for years and is going to sign

He will be as shite as all the rest.

About time Power did another phone-in. That may be interesting.

3 at the back on saturday then I would guess, 2 of which will be full backs with Branco our only available centre back?

The injuries we've picked up this season seem crazy. Should questions be asked? New training maybe causing problems? Is our prep correct.

We train?

Bangoura goes to CB

Bangoura to centre back.

In all seriousness we are in big trouble this season. This optimistic view cooper has that everything is going to be alright is complete tosh. Can see what we can do to get out of this the players just are not good enough as a unit and the system make them even worse.

Was just about to say this. The lack of pre season too perhaps given that our squad has been "assembled" (or thrown together, depending on who you ask) so late on.

Meh. I'm off to the pub.  :pint:

Strains and pulls could be but Barry's head injury, Hylton's broken bone aren't really down to anything but bad luck. Thomas getting a pull is probably fitness..

I could do with a pull

Spot on - I too feel that this is a major issue for the beginning of this season. Have to say that the feeling in my bones is not good for this season...

This thread would likely be so much more positive had Turnbull not been a tool.

Have we even got enough money to sack Cooper?

Reg was right.  As recently as a couple of weeks ago he put it out there that our target this year should be to stay up.  I told him that he was being unduly pessimistic.  But he wasn't.  Sorry Reg.

On the plus side, it looks like I might get a game this season.

This is fucking horrible, isn't it.  None of us deserve this.

You do have to wonder why it was all done so late?  They knew which players would be going back to parent clubs at the end of the season, Wes and Williams were off and Luongo and Gladwin went not long after season's end.  It's not as if we held on waiting for top knotch players is it?

balmy on 

Subbed the sub.

It's a symptom. When club's have a shite spell such as ours, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

Balmy army

Sub the sub.

Ok then

Ojamaa who came on as a sub, has just been taken off.

That's what Parkin has suggested - an impressive performance until the red card. Since then it sounds like it has been all Pox. A decent side should be able to cope when down to 10 men. However...

Sub being subbed now. Jim Jams has not impressed.

I haven't been impressed by Ojamaa at all in the matches I've seen

Subbing the sub , is ojaama injured ?

No, he is just shit...

None of us deserve this - Fucking hell bit drama queenish

As for Reg being right Well it was a 50/50 punt which after 11 games is showing small signs of being right. He's hardly got a crystal ball.

Same here, but the same could be said for most of the players this season!

I should have plastered my post with emoticons to signify dramatic irony.

remember when all those people were so happy when we were pulled out of the hat with these cunts.was always a disaster in waiting

I can't remember being so 'meh' about losing to Oxford in all my time following Town (~30 years).

All of them other than Robert in my book.

Posh 8/5 to win on Saturday. Licence to print money.

Right couple of wankers in the crowd tonight - Cotterill and Timmy Mallett.

I'm afraid Power's policy of rounding up any old player who is free and will accept a few buttons in the hope that if you trawl enough dross you may find  a gem is going to be the ruin of us this season.

Some of us probably do deserve this in fairness.

About 8,000 of them surely?

I'm actually considering giving the game a miss.  I'm not sure I can face such dross again and the atmosphere is going to be tense from the start.

I'm pissed off as much as the next man, I'm also in the 'we need a new manager' camp. Some of you need to reign it in a tad though. It's October FFS. PLENTY of time to fix things. Take deep breaths.... in..... out. in...... out.

That wasn't the policy to begin with. We paid good money for Luongo/Byrne/Smith/Obika and with the first 2 particularly you got what you paid for. Luongo was a class above the league as his Australia exploits proved and we made decent money on him. Problem is this year we didn't bother re-investing the money we made in a couple of similar players. We pissed around and trying to sign other league one clubs best players for buttons and then scraped together every trialist and freebe we could. I said right at the beginning the lack of quality in the squad was alarming. We had to hope the loans worked and they've all got injured!

I think while the game is still in progress (within reason) people should be allowed to be as over dramatic as they wish. It's fucking annoying.

It's the people that come out 2 days later and bleat on pure emotional, factless bollocks that need to wander into a river.

He's been awful. I'd have left hylton on tbh, he's raw and needs a lot of work but I'd rather him playing than ojamma atm

I think Hylton may have been injured.

I've finished the washing up, are we winning 3-2 yet?

I think you may be right. I was so optimistic about Ojama when I saw that YouTube video of him but he looks like he has some inherent limitations, particularly with regards to his passing accuracy which is probably about 25%. He shows glimpses of promise but larger periods of looking like a player who is unfit and lacking in terms of his final ball. I hope he will prove me wrong but I'm not too optimistic (about anything) at this stage.

I'd love it if we end up winning. Moreso to see the fickleness than actually winning the game.

Ah fair enough, thought it was as a result of the red card.

10 minutes added time? Fuck offf

Glory hunter!  :)

We've been shit before, we'll be shit again at another point in the future. It is all cyclical.

The only successes this season have been Vig and I think Brophy may well turn out to be above average.

likewise. I was as resigned to defeat in this as a new Wembley final. they still gave me hope in the first 30 though, wankers.

time added on for barry injury

You're the daughter of a Swindon fan batch? Where's swindon1975 when you need him?  :sherlock:

go and sit in the naughty step and think about what you've done..

Get the feeling that if Paddy McMidget had stayed he may well be playing.

I have enjoyed Beaks' equalisers doubly due to this. I think expecting a win now is not so much pissing in the wind though but shitting in a hurricane  ;)

Oh i know, just rather not play the 10 mins!!

Full time 2-0 absolute shit

you've lost me there, in sure it's a miss spelled word comment but I really can't see it, and frankly literally don't care.

ft 2-0, could have been worse tbh. injuries though :(

Sean O'Driscoll getting the boot from Liverpool, too.

Anyone?

At least it's only th....

Pitiful really.

I don't think the local branch of Halifax will have enough pennies for Turnbull to pay the fine he is going to receive
after tonight.

a jpt game ended Maurice Malpas' reign

No thanks.

Here's hoping, then.

COOPER OUT

I was in the 'Cooper out' camp before this game. I have more sympathy for him now though. We sounded good before knob-head got himself sent off, I'm sure that Cooper didn't instruct his players to get themselves sent off.

Can I be the first to say 'well at least now we can concentrate on the league'

Thought we would lose before hand
Turnbull's lunacy meant it was more likely
Score line could have been worse
Can't comment on the performance but I'm sure Cooper will say we played well considering.

I'm sure we will lose Saturday because it's the one game l desperately want us to win.

God this season has been shit so far :(

you can't say that until we do our usual trick and get knocked out of the FA cup by a non league team

Unfortunately can't see many fans not getting on Cooper's back even though i agree that this result was in no way his fault.

:)

thank God you posted that, was desperately trying to remember if we had gone out the FA cup already!

Cheltenham away anyone

More sympathy after a defeat to a League 2 side? WTF?
Add indiscipline to Cooper's repertoire as well

For those who went tonight, did Barry play well (I've never been impressed when I've seen him) and did Ojama deserve to be taken off?

not going to use it as an excuse for the loss, but 10 men and injuries/suspensions would normally be mitigating circumstances.

don't let the fact this was against the yellow filth cloud judgement

So what players do we have available for Saturday then?

We get it, you having saying this 10 times every day for a least a week now

10 men do not necessarily lose.shit excuse.

The ones who aren't injured or suspended

indeed, but it's not just 10 men, it's the missing players.

that said, not sure things would have been different with them available.

Barry in hospital, unsure what happened, header to the back of the head most likely, was knocked out.

Generally teams with 10 men though sit back and defend, leave no space, use a couple of quick players to attempt to hit them on the break and hope to take advantage of set pieces and get something. Or they are so good at passing and creating space they still look like they have 11 men. Last season a sending off at this point wouldn't kill us as we had 65-70% of the ball every game.

However as we cant defend for shit and our so called great passing game has been equally awful we were always fucked when down to 10 men.

Has Cooper done his post match interview yet?

Cooper seems to think it wasn't a sending off.  Convinced we would have won the game if Turnbull hadn't gone.

Barry knocked clean out.  Will be staying in hospital.

Bit OTT saying ' the boys have had to put in a hell of shift tonight'.  It's not the first time we've had a player sent off and it certainly won't be the last.

None of the inured players will be back before 4 weeks, some nearer 8.  Oh dear me.

Silly me  :sherlock:

I think that perhaps adje was being a tad sarcastic?

think the sarcasm filter had been bypassed tonight.

oh and flash doesn't sound happy in his BBC wilts  text!

Cooper just said everyone back in on Thursday- so they are given tomorrow off then after that. Absolute disgrace.

aah,thats the reason,we train in Calne!Football graveyard

With the amount of injuries we have it's probably for the best. I don't think I remember an injury situation this bad in all my time supporting Swindon.

I don't think I've seen it this bad in all my time of playing Football Manager, either.

I think SSP said on the radio that there's 10 (ten) first team players out for the next game.

It's a shame we can't postpone a game due to the amount of injuries.

Anyone know the away attendance?

9013 (1179 away fans)

The injuries are surely a confounding factor in the "Cooper out" debate. As certain people have suggested there appears to be more going on behind the scenes than meets the eye. I feel like Cooper may have lost the dressing room. I'd like to see Barmy start a match. He impressed me against Colchester and looked bright on the Blackpool highlights.

As long as ojamaa doesn't fucking play

cheers

At this very moment yes, however, there is also the form of the last 20 games last season which is a major contributing factor. Tonight was not his fault with personnel available it would have been a nightmare for any manager to get a result. I wanted him gone before tonight though

Edit: wrong quote! (Re injuries- molepar)

Ojamaa has been a bit of a let down...probably because the YouTube video made him look like the Messi of the Polish league

Has anybody been as good as they're supposed to be this year? Turnbull, Ajose, Kasim - all key players, all playing noticeably below the standard they're capable of. That's my main gripe with the coaches.

Thank f*** Vigs has come back would have been a real hiding without him. Presuming that Turnbull must be due a fine for blatant stupidity - wondering how much loose change he has to pay it with - bit of top banter to lighten the mood. How can Cooper and Power have mismanaged things to such an extent that Rossi Branco is the only central defender at the club available for Saturdays game?

True....Most people have disappointed. I now wonder if Turnbull was actually any good last year or if his defensive mishaps were perhaps not noticed then because of our decent attacking threat. Until recently he has always struck me as a passionate player who is vocal with the officials because of his desire to win for Swindon, but maybe he is actually just overly aggressive and petulant as a defence mechanism for his own shortcomings on the pitch.

Turnbull is good, without doubt.

I'd agree, hasn't helped him playing at full back for a number of games

How do you think he compares to Jack Stephens or other centre backs of recent years such as Greer, Ifil, Cuthbert, O'Hanlon etc? It's always hard to directly compare players when they aren't playing in the same team. I think Williams looks like our most solid centre back this term...Typical Swindon luck that he's injured for a few weeks.

bring back Di Canio

Great ball player, fairly composed for a centre half. Not nasty enough/commanding enough at times. Good player.

I like Turbull. I thought he was the better defender between him and Stephens with Stephens more suited to midfield. Williams looked like a very good CB in pre season and i was hopeful that Turbull/Thompson/Williams would have been a better back three than we had last year. Its never happened and doesn't look likely to with injuries now.

Ideally, I'd like to see Cooper succeed, however, if we were to change manager soon it would be great to have him back. He's certainly preferable to someone like Sean O'Driscoll.

I just can't see it happening though. He'd have to work under very different circumstances to last time - wages, players, owner. Having said that, it is an assumption that he has not evolved as a manager/character in the past couple of years, which may be completely wrong.

DiCanio, the ultimate control freak, work under Power, with no transfer budget ? I reckon I'm ahead of him in the queue!

Best years we had at the club, regardless of the circus it was at times. I'd have him back in a flash.

At the time it did seem great but he was rumoured to be dishing out contracts worth 14k per week in league 2. I prefer Power's more measured approach, but admittedly would like to see a slightly less fiscally conservative regime!

Which would be about as long as you'd have your club.

Yes because we are in a great state now. Let's be honest we could get a winding up order next week and no one would be surprised. There is still little transparency at the club. Di Canio would put bums on seats and you never know maybe he would do it for less money and embrace what Power wants.

Yes, as soon as we've be knocked out of the FA Cup by Chippenham.

Yes, because compromise, humility and a willingness to put ego aside and work well with others really were the hallmarks of his regime.

Look, I enjoyed it at the time as much as the next Town fan, but he worked because the circumstances aligned perfectly for him. It wouldn't again, not least because it's never going to happen.

Any photo's of Swindons Banner last night?

DiCanio under Power?

Bwahahahahahahahaha. That's a good one. Thanks

If there is to be a change I don't think many fans would now accept Williams as head honcho - he must be equally as tainted as Cooper.

If Power sees a new manager in the same way he does players I can only see a young novice type coming in.

Mind you, it wouldn't surprise me if Power just lets things play out.

Possibly one of the Youth Team players being promoted to manager..

I am slightly bewildered by this idea of Paolo (for Nev) Di Canio coming back, it seems to almost be that people would prefer a bankrupt club rather than a poorly performing one.

It was great for him here, suited us as well when we had the money to humour him - but when the shit hit the fan and things got tough, we couldn't afford him and he stormed of in a huff so possibly an acceptable parting of the ways.

Be interested to see how our display compared with theirs - which I have seen repeated via social media over the last 12 hours - they are jolly proud of it! Do we know how they paid for theirs?

Talking of youth team players. How come Randall/Marshall/Smith don't get near even the bench this season?

Ours:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQsmxEWUsAAakUW.jpg)

Theres:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQp8LPQWsAEB2tP.jpg)

There's is much much better. I don't care if it costed more. If you are going to do it, do it right.

I have already got into a dispute with one of them for pointing out that it was a good job they included the corner with two stands in the image...

However theirs does seem somewhat better sadly....

Di Canio in would be ridiculous. Might gain us some short term success but with his scatter gun approach to signings and the fact he's a complete loose cannon, it will always end in tears one way or another.

Cooper is on the brink but I'd be surprised if there's anyone better who could work 'under the thumb' has he appears to have to.

They could have at least got the blood on the pitch to spell out STFC  8)

a billionaire + di canio, fine. not going to defend his alleged bullying. but those were the best town supporting days for many a year to me. that's why it's been mentioned I guess.

di canio + loose change down back of sofa would be more pointless than our current setup.

Spent 30 million at Sunderland, built his own squad and didn't last long.

Was awesome while he was here, of course.

Ha ha, that's class. Does smack a little of cup final though, rather than JPT 3rd round.

People really need to learn this lesson. Wanting to get Dux back is like blowing all your wages on a Friday night, then remembering you haven't paid the rent.

it's more than that, we haven't got any money left this season, it's all been spent. so he couldn't bankrupt us  , and wouldn't be allowed to under power anyway.

but he wouldn't have a team to field within a week, we have what - 16 available players? he'd have fallen out with 6 of those by Friday!

good to hear Barry is out of hospital

concussion means footy is a no no for a week or two to avoid a second blow I'd imagine

Can someone who actually went to the game actually confirm how he played, we seem to have veering opinions that he is a conference player then other say how well he has played?

Just a pity that I look at the Bull and the first thought I get is why do they have a banner of Monty Burns?

I was big fan of Di Canio, but anyone wanting him back or think he would even come back is an idiot.

That's like wanting Sam Parkin, or Rory Fallon back.

Oh.

*Theirs

And while *theirs* clearly is better, easy to be a critic - look forward to seeing your amazing effort at the next game

I'm not going again until Cooper has gone...

I'm not taking away anything anyone has done, I'm just saying THEIRS is much better.

xxx

Fuck me this highlights make it even worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNId5CDErHE

Slightly dodgy sending-off. If Turnbull had gone down like the Oxford player did after barging into him, it would have been a penalty.

I'm still none the wiser as to how that's a sending off offence.

Great keeping for the 2nd, even worse defending for the 1st

Di Canio would come in, do a brilliantly bizarre press conference about how happy he is to be 'home' and looking forward to working with the squad. Making this point would take several hours.

He'd then take charge and  fall out with half the squad, for a variety of reasons, they are not fit enough/ willing to work hard enough/ they don't do exactly what he says at every second of the day/ one of them has a new born baby they seem keen on.

Some of the 'reject's would be so psychologically scarred by him, they'll take years to recover.

He'll then let Power know, via the local media he's been expressly forbidden from talking to, that he needs a whole new team, Power will refuse and he'll storm off in a huff, taking more from the back offices than those Channel 5 bailiffs ever managed as he goes.

This whole process would take less time than the Press Conference.

Not sure what the issue was - if anything a yellow for both and get on with it!

We are bloody awful defensively and seem completely unable to press the man with the ball.

Branco's fault losing his man for the 2nd. Vigouroux kept it respectable.

I refuse to view the 'highlights'

Me too, you are all braver souls than I.

Unfortunately something tells me I've seen it all before anyway. After all it's only been 4 days since our last "performance" :suicide:

Still a shockingly bad attempt at a save

I thought it was a pretty good reaction to a point-blank header. Should never have had to deal with it.

love the little oxford "low fives" after the sending off,very endearing.

Soft sending off, but he has pulled him after provocation. Stupid, shouldn't have done it, but the ref has also got caught up in the occasion.

Looks like Vig could have done better with the second, but its happened in the blink of an eye. First was comical defending. Again.

Diego Costa would be permanently suspended at this level....

Meh, no different to this:

(http://the72.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Swindon-Bristol-City.jpg)

Bit of an OTT reaction to being shown a pink card. Especially dressed like that

But I don't think many town fans thought that was a sending off either

it was, he swang his elbow

Alright, one or two then..  In that case Branco should be banned from football :)

thats equally cuntish

Up until the sending off we looked comfortable, Turnbull's cost us big time for the next few games. It was always going to be tough with 10 men but I was disappointed that we didn't 'have a go'. There's no point sitting back and playing defensively in a knockout game, particularly against your rivals. The only players for me that came away with any credit were Vigouroux, Branco and Balmy; the rest were dire. (Shout out to Ojamaa with one of the worst individual performances in living memory)

Thought our fans were pretty poor vocally, when the chips are down we go quiet and feel sorry for ourselves. Credit to Jay for trying to improve the atmosphere at games but you can't polish a single turd, let alone 1200 of them.

Keeping our fans back at the end for so long was very OTT. Me and a few others decided to just go the other way and walk around the ground, the police/stewards advised us not to and said that the police would stop us at the other end of the ground but there was no one there, all the Oxford fans had gone too. Our players were stood outside the main stand, next to the team bus chatting away and there wasn't a single fan in sight.

Perhaps since Darren Ward's début in the same fixture?

Has anyone looked at the Oxford Forum ?

All they talked about leading up to the game was how they were going to kick the shit out of Swindon fans.

After their town centre was taken over wholesale, and shut down by Swindon fans, they haven't mentioned it once !

Take a look I'm not joking

http://yellowsforum.co.uk/thread/21993/2015-oufc-swindon-match-thread?page=10

Hold on I'll go build a time machine and get myself back to 1980 so I care...

 :)

I was just pointing out how they'd changed their tune that's all

Yeah I know. I cant help myself sometimes. I'd be a great (self) gravedigger

Haven't read back...

Raging last night...

Pissed off this morning!...

Annoyed now....

We did ok, until sending off....ok... Never really threatened but not overwhelmed...

Red card....disaster....looked instant red to me.

On the ropes....goal down...lucky not to have conceded more..

Second half....fucking woeful...no fight, no battle, no spirit.

In my book the following get a clap: Brophy, Branco, Obika and especially Balmy who really did want to try and do something.

Pyjama: sub being subbed says it all
Vigs: fucked about and nearly cost us a goal
Rogers: fucking hinderence most of the time
Turnbull: village kid footballer reaction gives Cooper a get out clause

I stayed to the death and a slow painful death it was too.... Could of fucked off early but stayed and suffered the needless kettle that plod had in store.

Three shots on goal...three fucking shots all game...NONE on target...none...not a fucking carrot and then I get home and read that Cooper feels that we were the better side until the sending off.
Fuck off! Did WE hit the bar and the post until that point? No...no where near a shot on goal...

What hurt me about this latest skullfuck, is that those cunts never even had to sweat to beat us.....didn't even have to try...if they had, it could of been worse.

Second half a pathetic 'going through the motions' episode...

I did clap the players that came over at the end, it was more out of pride that I didn't want to see those fuckers see us hurting....most had left.

I noted that Cooper never even bothered to come over...again...

That's it...I'm fucking sick of it....

Lose on Saturday and I'm sure it will get nasty...let's have 60% pocession and lose 1-0! And Cooper will tell us all that we were the better side....

if he goes will it improve.?.....nope..

It's a big shit sandwich and Season ticket holders like me have to take a great big bite of it and apparently be thankful....

Well at least you're  not too needy and let it dominate your life.

good to get an opinion from someone who was there...

No chuckles from flash this morning  :)

Why?  :wtf:

Well said. We left as the extra time amount went up because our car was behind the Oxford main stand and didn't want to get caught in the middle of that.

See we are appealing Turnbull's red card. Extra game ban or maybe ruse so he can play Saturday

Or maybe they don't think it warranted a red. I know I didn't.

Yes it is.  Direct contradiction to what Cooper said both before and after the red card.  He is really seeing a completely different game to the supporters?

Having seen the sending off, I think it was a harsh red.

To be honest I think Cooper knows exactly how we played, but tries to take the pressure off.

The alternative is he's clueless. Eek!

I'd hope so. We'd all be looking askance at a manager coming out and slaughtering the players in public. He has to defend his team (even if they can't!), even if he privately agrees with all the criticisms fans are making

Appeal rejected. Quelle surprise

I can easily see how the red was given. He reacted, that's always going to draw attention no matter how soft his actions might actually have been. Hopefully he'll learn not to do it again.

This isn't the first time Turnbull has reacted. I've seen him do far worse and get nothing, or a yellow. Needs to keep his head focused but come on, it's not a red. The Oxford player gives him a shove before and makes contact, by the referees logic that's at least a yellow. At least!

Does that give him an extra game's ban?

To be fair he has shown he understands the problem and responded to the criticism by taking the innovative step of actually playing the players in a little more like their best positions.

So, how many games does he have?

Listening to him reel off the length of time the injured players will be out for it looks like the middle of next month before they will be available.

Could be 6 games or so. Carry on as we are for that number of games we'll be rock bottom.

Surprised the matter of Cooper's job wasn't really brought up on the phone in

This!

I know red cards are being given out far too readily these days but if that's a red then there would be more than one in every game. I'm still not sure what he actually got sent off for which says a lot.

Doesn't say in the report. Appeal has to be regarded as frivolous/vexatious I think to get the extra game ban. I remember Douglas getting an extra game ban though when the original decision seemed harsh so you never know

You are right....I wish it didn't matter...but it does...

I'm a bit meh now.

I dunno if I can be bothered to go Saturday and that's unlike me.

Having reflected since Tuesday evening, to not have a single shot on target in a local derby is disgusting, an utter disgrace. The scum won't have an easier victory over us.

Injuries, 10 men, we should still have enough to trouble a League 2 outfit and I think we were all resigned to defeat as soon as Turnbull got sent off (a blatant red). We folded there and then.

You need to speed up your reflection reflexes...Tuesday night took me all of 30 secs.

People loved it when Di Canio did it

I know the feeling, I am beginning to question whether it's worth spending 6 hours in a car for 90mins of shite football

Yes, of course it is!

And in the words of the Butthole Surfers:

'It's better to regret something you have done
Than to regret something you haven't done.'

You never know, it might not be quite as shite as we all expect it to be.

Nice work. I never thought i'd see the surfers quoted. A bit Of Bloodhound Gang in context and my life would be complete.

I saw / witnessed the BS at the Reading Festival many years ago - I'd never heard of them and did not know what to expect. They opened with Sweat Loaf and my jaw dropped. Being a fan of the Doors and Black Sabbath, it really was a 'I can't believe what I'm seeing and hearing' moment. 11/10.

I was there..

sorry, I missed your post somehow. read it now. thanks

 :)

Great point and get ready for the regret

Can't be arsed to read 30 pages. Been in Cannes all week, just got back and watched the highlights. Looks like we were shit after the sending off, which seemed exceedingly harsh.

However, If I don't go & we are amazing & win, I will still have the comfort of the fact that we have won. ;)

Back from holiday and missed all of this jollity

Top post!

 :clap:

WTF - this is the most childish thing I have seen in football for a long time. Cringeworthy (the Oxford banner)

Oh god.

They have made mugs regarding this game

(http://i67.tinypic.com/716alj.jpg)

I guess there will also be a bib and plastic bowl and spoon option available.

Bless.

Coasters are quite cool.

Ha ha. Supremely parochial.

It is all very parochial isn't it.  No one really gives a shit outside a very small area. 

I used to live in Northampton and remember getting the late pisshead train back from London where a group of lads were singing of their hatred of Tring. 

It's almost that parochial.

Someone was busy in pottery class. Fuck me that's embarrassing.

They are so fucking tinpot it's unreal.

I see the banana has grown a pair of horns.
Can you imagine if a colleague turned up at work with one of those? May as well attach a dildo to their forehead :idiot:

Do they have foreheads in Oxford? I didn't think they had evolved that far yet.

while times change and we may swap places,  you have to remember that this is their biggest achievement in a decade or more.

it's literally the only thing they've done of note for their fans.

whereas we've (fucked up) playing at Wembleyx3, got relageted and promotedx2, won a league, had a fucking brilliant but nutty time under pdc, etc, etc.

Good to know that even after 5 consecutive defeats we're still not the biggest losers in the A420 derby. 

Er.. you ever been to Swindon mate?

That has to be the shittest name ever for a local derby.  Nothing else comes close.

If we start playing them again regularly, we'll need a new name for it.  The White Horse derby, maybe?

Corrected for you!

I like the way it has the time turnbull was sent off and the attendance on it 8)

That gave me an idea. Perhaps someone with Photoshop skills can improve it.

(http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj571/frenchreds/OUBC.png) (http://s1268.photobucket.com/user/frenchreds/media/OUBC.png.html)

Now THAT is fucking ace!  :clap:

Perhaps we can get some mugs and coasters made up  :suicide:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That is beautiful.

Good work sir.

I am sure JayBox can do some stickers and a banner.

He can't, he's concentrating on the clothing brand of things.

Now that is cringeworthy.

Is that irony?.. (I haven't been on here much recently)..

Foamhand island

Get fucked, you miserable cunt. Bored of your constant digs. Every time I come on here you're chatting shit.

We are hoping to have our own scarves etc to sell to raise money for displays etc. All the stuff we did at Wembley and in the play offs costs money. We put in the hours, we're not putting in hundreds of quid to do it, too.

We're just supporting the team how we want to. Don't like it? Don't buy any of it or contribute.

Just go back to moaning about how we're going down and don't do anything to help us get over the line ;)

Don't rise to it, Sippo doesn't even go to games.

Does he not? Oh, I thought he was a supporter. Nevermind then! :)

I'm just a glorified 80's mullet loving cunt.

 :girlgiggle:

Can't do that any more as according to a wurzel on Twitter they invented stickers.

They invented the concept of waving flags at footy, too. Incredible.

Can't be true, I'm sure I saw flags at football before 1982

:clap:

I quite like the A420 El Clasico :)

http://metro.co.uk/2011/04/27/an-a420-el-clasico-will-mean-just-as-much-to-the-fans-final-third-653788/

 :starwars:

Misquote hell Flash. See you tomorrow after the match for ritual misery  :bye:

Halftime...for Vape/smoke rant fest.

Ooooh yes, two downers. Better than barbiturates  :D