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Peterborough United 3 Swindon Town 2 Att:4,560 (550 Town Fans)

Cant see us taking more than 400 for a wet Tuesday cup game that is almost a 3 hour drive from Swindon.

We will lose.

Whatever our allocation is we’ve sold out.

shame it's not on any form of TV

At least if this one is rained off I will be home by 8pm 😢

It's on ifollow...

It's on the dodgy stick then😳

They havent shown any League cup games for 5 years, you sure its on and not just audio mate?

Ah, yes you're quite right PV...my bad!

You got my hopes up for a minute there mate!

Mine too! I was looking forward to watching that after today's disappointment!

Does anyone know if we are getting more tickets for this or if you can pay on the day? I know we have sold out our original allocation.

Thanks

I see Dukey posted in the Adver you can pay on the day and lots available.

Does one need to take a trip to French Polynesia to watch or is it available in the UK?

They've only got it on audio anyway mate... Schoolboy error on my part, didn't read it properly...

There's basically no way of watching it.... Other than going to the game of course...

But, theoretically speaking of course, if one was to take one's computer to say... Micronesia, would one be able to stream it from there? If you catch my drift?

Why are these cup games never available

Thanks Jimmy

No - the EFL sells the rights to the competition as a whole to foreign TV channels.  For example, ESPN+ has the USA rights and essentially shows whatever Sky put on.  No investment in streaming anything beyond those games already televised so they have zero production costs to cover.

😁😁

I totally catch your drift and the answer on this occasion sadly, is no...

sounds like the Beversbrook internet isn't up to press conferences over Skype.

- not sure what he going to do selection wise given Saturday (yeah right)

- would ideally like another 3 in. might only get 1 or 2 (talking to them)

"Jonah got involved with the singing. Then Udoka got tagged in John Lennon's actual Instagram story today.

The noise after from the fans was like we'd won. It was amazing. We need to keep that togetherness, and it will be really important to do that during any tough runs. It will take you a long way and give you a much better chance of success."

Not sure that John Lennon would have the faintest idea what Instagram was, I imagine.

I can believe that. If Colchester went ahead and i could have seen him swapping 3 or 4 players around, and then bring back the first team for Crewe. He gets minutes into people, which makes it easier for the large changes in JPT with their rules as well.

I expect probably the same line up tonight, but depends on new signings fitness for this non stop list of games in the opening weeks, how much you can use Austin etc.

no I get the dilemma, I just thought he'd have made his mind up already
--
I think we'll see a few players get a few more minutes than they would have, but we have a pretty busy August

I see what you did - last sentence  :D

Guilty as charged :)

7.30 KO

I struggle to see why these games can't be streamed in the UK. Outside the 3pm Saturday blackout window. Costs must be absolutely minimal. Infrastructure/equipment is there at every ground already. Fans want to watch. Bizarre.

https://ifollow.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406109800081-Can-I-watch-the-Carabao-Cup-or-The-FA-Cup-via-iFollow-this-season-

I assume ITV say no?

Yep - because they sell the TV/streaming rights as a single package to potential bidders, which makes more money than a bunch of unknown games each year.  When they sell the TV deal for the league itself, they carve out streaming to enable iFollow.  Given the sheer volume of fixtures, the TV companies probably do not chop off any premium as a result - plenty of games to choose from and they can't show 3pm games anyway.  The Cup is not protected by the blackout, so the TV companies want the pick and not to be restricted.

I have a vague recollection of watching an EFL cup game once on the Bet365 app after I had put a small bet on the game, no idea if they are still doing this?

They’ve shut half their ground for the game.

hopefully a sign of how seriously they are taking it (fans and club)

Putting out a strong side apparently

Peterborough always seem to score lots of goals🤣

They’re another in my long list of detested clubs

I expect Tomlinson will start for them…8/1 to score anytime

Jesus! You mean Tomlinson is actually fit?

1-4. Piece of piss.

Yeah always associate them with scoring loads. Tough place to go for a new group of players - respectable scoreline falls marginally behind no injuries on my wishlist for tomorrow night. Saturday far more important.

Peterborough 4-3 Swindon.

I think it'll be a very very tough ask to get though this

3-1

But you never know

Swindon use to have great cup runs, we are due one.

Anyone know what the ticket prices are for the game?

In his pre-match presser Flynn said he'd never lost a first round EFL cup game.

I suspect tonight might be his first. 3-1 Posh is my prediction.

It will be an interesting challenge given we have yet to have played a competitive game and Posh won their game on Saturday. Will the extra 'rest' work or will we be rusty as fuck? the priority of course is Crewe in the league, but to get into the 'hat' for the next round would be a good fillip.

Always get loads of strange results in this competition...

3-1 to us

2-0 loss. Not particularly interested in the result though, I’m looking forward to see how the squad have gelled

Can’t see Austin starting tonight - chance for Young

Going to guess that we go with something like:


                                              Mahoney


                               Minturn      Brewitt    Ward

                     Genesini                                     Uwakwe

                                        Khan          Cain

                                                Shade                
                              
                                       Young           Wakeling


And get pumped 5-2 as a result!

I’m expecting to see the same 11 as Saturday.

Get some minutes in their legs, don’t see any reason to change it.

Agree, save him for Saturday. Maybe a sub appearance late on if it's level

Pre match taking the EFL Cup seriously in The Drapers Arms.

Hopefully Flynn will be as well.
An opportunity to play the strongest side available with no prospect of extra time (I think) & should still be fresher than Crewe for Saturday.
In theory.
And look after Charlie of course.

Got as far the threshold of the away end on Saturday.
Hearing the fans in full voice has just whetted the appetite ahead of this evening & Saturday.

I think we'll do ok tonight.
Basing that only on Flynn's cup record and the law of averages.
Eight consecutive first round exits, but we did hold our own against higher league opposition in those losses.
Doesn't count for much but cup ties v Peterborough have traditionally been tight affairs.

Nearly 7 years since last visit here (with fans) & always one of the better away days with the barge pub to look forward to later.
A 7.30 kick off and half empty stadium always feels like the hosting club isn't treating it like a regular fixture, we'll see.

Today's fun fact is that Austin scored in the crazy 5-4 defeat here in 2010.
If he nets this evening then the statisticians might be dusting down the STFC record books for longest gap between goals against same opposition.

Anyway, might go and have a look at the very impressive Gothic Cathedral, or then again might just go on a pub crawl instead.

I’d agree, don’t think there will be many changes.

Give that team an hour and see how it is.
If the game is still in the balance try & win it, if not then make a few subs.

Almost use this as another pre season game

Be a tight one tonight I think. I reckon we’ll stick with our full strength XI (minus maybe Austin) from Saturday and Peterborough will make a few changes, game will be in the balance until late on when both teams make changes, they bring on their first teamers and we bring on our squad players. 2-0 loss but more interested in the performance and how we’ve gelled.

That Barge pub is brilliant. There is a cracking Thai restaurant there as well - my mate who is a posh fan was telling me as I said I might be going - I'll ask what it is if you like WB?

Yeah, stopped off in Charters a number of times before.
Great selection of ales plus a beer garden area on dry land adjacent.
Food tends to be an afterthought on away days though!
Have heard that the restaurant might be a tad overpriced but glad that both are still going.

The Cathedral is awesome... has the tomb of Katherine of Aragon in it, too.

And people dare to suggest that football is becoming gentrified....  :D :D

The restaurant is called East, and do food from a number of countries.
Been there a few times and is usually really good

If you are around for a while the Brewery Tap is worth a visit, they do Thai food in there as well

Not bothered if we go out tonight. I just want to see a reasonable performance ahead of Saturday. I suspect we'll play a mix of players that will start Saturday and fringe players, which is fine by me.

Shame work commitments have scuppered a trip for me. I'll have to bear those places in mind for future. :)

from a football point of view in ok with going out.

financially somehow getting a big club could be important for January/Summer windows

Went to Peterborough away with about 29 of us away fans in the pizza cup years ago, the 29 included me, Whits, kinky tom and his dad 😎

Anyone know if the game is being shown on foreign TV?

For goodness sake man, you've been meh-ing your way through the summer, pull yourself together. :)
Hopefully reports of a good performance tonight & witnessing same on Saturday (if you'll be there) will improve the outlook slightly.  ;)

There’s this but no idea if it’ll work

https://www.scorebat.com/peterborough-united-vs-swindon-town-live-stream/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxAIxE5RBrk

Would be nice to have a cup run, but not at the expense of our aspirations in the league. Peterborough away always strikes me as a tough affair, as said before, seems like they are always one of the top scorers in the EFL. Hoping to see a follow-on from the Plymouth performance and further signs that things are starting to come together, a win would be a nice bonus. Cannot believe it has been so long since our last win in the League Cup, from memory, we have had a couple tough ties in that time.

Nice one, worth a try

I doubt that link will work

Only game listed on liveonsat is the fucking Wrexham one - consider me shocked, its not an even an interesting tie

I think these are the games that are live/can be streamed in this round of the EFL cup.

https://worldsoccertalk.com/league-cup-tv-schedule/

I've tried watching a couple of the games being shown as on now and there seems to be no way of removing the adds that stop the stream from playing without paying a subscription fee of $2.99 a month, I'm not going risk it I shouldn't think.

Yeah those things are usually scams. I don't think its being shown anywhere.

Boo

Surely the strongest starting eleven possible tonight after Saturday's debacle,  the team needs games to gel and buid match fitness irrespective of the competition!

Just enjoying 2nd pint in Charters Bar on the River Nene.
Hopefully this won't be the high water mark of the season.
This place is normally heaving with the Pee'a'burrah massive an hour and a half before kick off.
Not so this evening.

With Posh being a bit of a yo yo club between L1 & Championship then that does mean that the home terrace doesn't have to be sorted out.
Have read mention of a new stadium in the vicinity.

Didn't realise that this was also a new town to cater for London overspill.
That's evidenced by the continued presence of Barry Fry I guess.

We can do this.

Good evening Wobbly

Hope you have a great evening and enjoy the football.

 

Good to meet up on Saturday, albeit almost by accident.
Certainly a salutary lesson for me that TEF posters encountered in the flesh are not at all like their online persona's!
Hope that you manage to get to a game during the remainder of your stay.
All the best.

Strong team that. Full of optimism currently, so can’t wait for all of that to be binned by full time.

Who dropped out for Kinsella

McEachran

Mceachran - damn you quaggy.

Strong team, looks good on paper.

Not on the bench either

injured or off hmm

Can’t wait for everyone to claim he’s being sold as if that’s the only possible reason he isn’t involved.

And Batch is right on cue…  :soapy tit wank:

Wasn’t there some transfer gossip, rumour, ITK bollocks about a surprise departure?

Posh have only made 2 changes from their starting line up from Saturday. They've gone strong.

Firestick users, I'm going through various countries trying to find it

Let’s hope it’s a stubbed toe.

Experience tells us he’s off to Franchise for 5 tubs of ice cream and a bag of footballs.

Kudos to us then. Though maybe, if you think about it they know we didn’t have a game on Saturday and would be not so much desperate but certainly keen to get some game time in before the second league game on Saturday.

right.

no Cain either mind

more chance of finding unicorn shit

Covid is coming back😀

Cain is there, photo of him the club have put up. I think it’s him anyway.

Strange that Cain is there but not listed with the subs when we’ve only named 7 out of a possible 9 subs.

Also Adver reckons McEachran is out with illness. Doubt that’s a cover up for anything (cue photos of him signing elsewhere) as everyone I know seems to be ill at the minute

yeah, so why have we only got 7 subs. it's a fair question.

Viprow might have a stream

Cost cutting...saves on the laundry bill for this week :)

:) that's solved them

Are we winning yet?

Only two games being streamed and we aren’t one of them.

One of them is Jaxon Brown as well, youth team midfielder - if there is no injury/illness to Cain that seems like a bit of a slap in the face.

My iFollow is only giving me option of home comms, anyone else having this problem?

No. Get back on your bike.  :)

Odd for Cain to travel and then miss out. Perhaps he tripped off the last step on the team bus.

Updated on Twitter, he has a slight knock

Jake Cain is at the Weston Homes Stadium tonight, but won't be involved due to a slight knock

George McEachran misses tonight through illness

As per the club twitter.

Just got off it! It’s wet out there!!

Ooh, their formerly terraced home end has now had seating put in.
Looks like a slightly bigger version of the Town End except with blue seats.

BBC Wilts just came on

Phil Smith on comms🤣

Yay football is happening

Listening on my phone abroad for a 22.30 kick off is weird..

BBC Sounds app is playing the game bizarrely

Didnt think it was online?

Isn't that only Saturday at 3pm?  I am on Sounds as well

I thought it was night games online also?

Boo

1 down

Season over after 6 mins!

Well at least we have something genuinly worth moaning about again now..

Sounds like just a moment of quality rather than a major fuck up at the back.

Yeah, top of the range L1 finishing.
Other than that doing ok.

Fuck me Phil Smith likes to talk!

And Sounds has gone - bollocks

Cunts.

Bbc sounds has stopped now

They've just remembered to turn the feed off on Radio Swindon.

Yup, that's me gone too!

Squad Goals! Great program....NOT !

On a timer for 1945 Kick off. The 1930 clearly allowed you to listen to 10 mins.

Just woke up to listen to the football. Didn’t realise it kicked off at half last opposed to quarter too.

1-0 down after 7 minutes.

Flynn out!

BBC radio Wiltshire has just lost the stream - what's going on ?

Excruciatingly bad...

Sprinklers stopped play...

Is twitter admin not doing any updates? Or is it just a boring game? So far it's only reported that there has been a goal after 7 minutes and a sprinkler issue on 18 minutes.

Just had to pay £2.50 for iFollow audio ! :badmood:

Typical, the one night we need PV's updates and he goes on holiday

PV out!!!!

I didn't even get the starting lineup today...

They tweeted it

25 mins in and a goal down but generally quite pleased with how we are playing

Not much of an atmosphere on the radio no idea how many Town fans are there.

Don't know why I didn't get it then...

Even less on Squad Goals!

https://twitter.com/Official_STFC/status/1688965806460178437

Not many fans here at all.
Hard to tell when you are sat in the stand but I’d say 400-500 Town fans

Cheers Posh, I predicted 4,560 with 450 Town fans😀

It was white text on a red background - if that helps

I'm off to bed since I can't listen - enjoy the silence peeps

It was also slightly different to the one we apparently ripped off at the weekend.

God, Phil Smith is soooo bad

https://gyazo.com/08de67358801f812886012cc042b2066

Looks like we’re well in it…

I'd take Hockaday over him😀

Swindon genuinely the better team this half, the goal was against the run of play. I don't like to say it, but it looks like we're missing a 6'7 carthorse of a striker. So far, FBT, Kemp and Uwakwe are stand out for me, RHM also gets an honourable mention. Austin seems to be marked out the game and pretty absent

Looks reasonably positive so far.

We've held our own.
UGM has demonstrated pace & recovery and not averse to joining in attacks.
Tariq looks comfortable in the advanced wing back role & can get the ball in, but reliance is still on Hutton on the other side.
Kinsella's work has largely gone unnoticed which is a good thing.

The 2 absolutely key players are Kemp & FBT though.

Austin should probably come off if not now, then after another 15 or so with Saturday in mind.

I think we'll see a lot this season of teams marking Charlie very tightly, him not appearing to do a great deal, but the fact that they're focusing on him creates a lot of space for RHM, Kemp and others who will really, really thrive on that. He's almost a decoy striker... except when people do realise that and try to defend against our whole attacking unit, that should bring him more chances.

1-1

RHM

Permission to enter into "Smug mode"

Sublime.

RHM seems to be a different player so far under Flynn. He did say he wanted to give him a lot of one on one attention coaching wise.

Are we gonna win this?

The League Cup?
Probably not…

"53: Inches away from taking the lead! 🤏

Kemp finds himself with just Bilokapic to beat, but drags his effort just wide."

Fucking come on lads.

Flynn out!

I’m sure that is what people said in 1969  ;)

Promising signs.

 :nod:

indeed. cumon Town

Brewitt playing well

Kemp should have put us 2-1 up

The Peterborough commentator has called him Browitt all game for no obvious reason.

Wakeling on for Austin.

How we will miss "Eye and olo" on the comms.

 :D

The stats point towards tippy tappy shite being firmly in the rear view mirror and I couldn't be happier.

Sounds like it's getting tasty on the pitch

Tasty as in handbags or playing wise?

About 5 mins left?

Strong tackles rather than handbags😀

20

We might lose this but I'm weirdly looking forward to Saturday.

We have an actual football manager and not a youth coach and we actually take shots. People on here will swear I'm negative but it honestly doesn't take much to put a smile on my face sometimes.

I'm still smiling at seeing tippy tappy football in the rear mirror😀

Ward and Young on, RHM and Uwakwe off.

Sounds like Ward is playing LWB. Seems he’s flexible along CB, LWB and midfield so perhaps there still is room for that big experienced CB we want

I feel the same (although cannot attend on Saturday). Under Morris and Lindsey we hardly took any shots and it was absolutely infuriating as well as being dull as hell.

I pull your chain as i know you away from here so hope you know i am messing half the time with you mate. Sounds good tonight doesn't it tbf

On a side note i wonder if we will see Minturn out on loan soon as if he doesn't get minutes tonight it's a shame. If we see the new lad as a better option i have no problem with that i just hope we do something with Minturn and not leave him on the bench doing nothing

Some prioritise entertaining football, some just want to win. Under Lindsey and Morris we failed spectacularly at both.

Yeah Minturn better off playing than sat on the bench right down the pecking order. Ideally get him to a National League Club, but if not National League South and playing.

All subs on now with players out of position but the missed game Saturday means we have to. Played well tonight so whatever happens,happens.

talk of the devil, another double sub Minturn and Genesini for Godwin-Malife and Kinsella.

I bizarrely ended up chatting to a German football manager recently who agreed that 'Pep worship' has ruined many lower league teams. The style simply can't be successfully implemented with waifs and strays in L2, and when it is implemented badly it is absolutely unwatchable.

Ward playing wing back & Genesini in midfield

Agree. Go for the win in normal time too if possible, even if it leaves us open.

Straight to pens if it’s a draw

RHM Goal for those with twitter

https://twitter.com/i/status/1689003386346029056

Oh well that is good news.

Have heard the words Brewitt wins his header alot tonight which is good

Beautiful touch there on the edge of the box to send defender and keeper off in the wrong direction.

Gutted I can't make Saturday now as will be travelling back from Cornwall.

Late winner here would be delicious.

Anyone know how many we've taken tonight?

Thank you!

Brilliant finish from Rush. Direct run and composed in the box.

Yeah proper quality. The opposite of his wastefulness last season.

"An audacious long range effort from Wakeling nearly steals it at the death, but it's tipped behind for a corner."

Will be interested to see the highlights of this game based on some of the tweets.

8 mins added time

We have definitely discovered the ability to shoot!

https://gyazo.com/99a0c05b81c95dd1c520ec342dc9925b

providing no goal in the next 4 or 5 mins....this is the first shoot out since that night McKirdy skied it, isn't it?

Who got the yellow?

Let’s hope Flynn doesn’t go to Wolves!!! 😂😂😂

FBT

Ta

Let’s hope their penalty taking is better than the game at Cambridge season before last.

Have looked under more pressure since the subs, especially in midfield without Kinsella

300 plus walk ups I think

Well that is 8 mins....

Great save from Mahoney to deny Tomlinson, the quisling traitor.

Won't get the classified football results at 4.55pm on Saturdays anymore!

No chance, in to 11 mins, fucking hell,

And another great save Mahoney. Good signs from him.

Two great saves right at the end by Mahoney

1-1 FT (A good result no matter what)

Shame no stream of this tonight.

Cracking result. Compare and contrast with last year's First Round abortion.

Great result regardless of what happens next.

I notice that the numbers and names on the players ' shirts which caused some distress to some people, actually look fine...

Warning: Lettering may cause distress

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

They’re 2-1 up on pens after 2 each

FBT missed, 2-1 after 2 each.

Tomlinson scores. Boooo.

3-1 after 3

Would have been nice to go through but actually pretty unbothered that this isn't looking great. Positive overall.

encouraging but also bollocks

4-1 and we’re out. Very respectable though.

FBT and Young missed pens. Kemp scored.

Shame, but good early signs after that performance.

Very encouraging.

Bollocks!

We are really bad at penalties historically...

Hopefully no injuries picked up.

Cambridge all over again.

happy with the overall performance shame we didn't progress but with tonight's display very encouraging signs

Apparently Mahoney made a couple of good stops right at the death in 90.

Chin up. Lots of things to be positive about.
Just take a second to reflect on how far P’boro finished ahead of us last season.

Yep, we certainly didn't deserve to lose that night either.
Oh well encouraging signs and a good performance.

Seems like we held our own tonight and coulda even scored another. Very decent squad/side are pboro so lots of positives to take into Saturday. RHM took his goal brilliantly.

Ghost of Tijane Reis missing pens against pboro in cup pen shoots outs continues to haunt us. Fuck you Tijane.

No we didn’t. Mind you, I was walking out with my son and I said we’ll do well this season, and we did. Hopefully, it’s the same tonight.

Seen people saying we looked fit. I'll take that over fatigued.

Also sounds like a good debut for Mahoney.

If we can play like that most weeks we will do well in League 2. It may be that the Plymouth game wasn't just a pre-season performance in a game where the opposition weren't that bothered.

Fuck me there is a name I’d forgotten.

Key features from tonight:
Defence looked solid, the 3 CBs all had good games
Wing Backs looked dangerous, both put in decent crosses and were confident on the ball
Midfield looked a little lightweight, but full of flair
Austin was anonymous for most parts
Mahoney had nothing to do for 94 minutes and then pulled off two blinding saves
Town were the better team for large periods
Flynn IN
One million percent better than last season

Guessing we weren't doing keepyuppies in the first preseason session this year.

 :pint:

Some good feedback from this game. Pleasing to hear. Let's get the squad finished this week and smash this season

Darn. Really good effort.
Undone by superior technique in the shoot out.
Our record must be pretty abysmal since penalties were introduced.
And it's over a number of years covering many different Town sides.
Very strange.

In addition to those mentioned at half time, Khan put a really good shift in & Brewitt very good as well, unsurprisingly.

Hopefully those that haven't seen the team in action yet will be pleasantly surprised on Saturday.

But… we did (I think) win the important one in the Anglo Italian Cup in 91/2 v Oxford, based on VHS memories…

Really encouraging to hear we played that well. Some much needed positivity. Let’s hope it translates into 3 points on Saturday. Flynn could even be in that rare group of Town managers to have his name actually sung by the fans…

Many positives, especially in defence. Bodes well for the season but,yeah, we must have the worst penalty shootout record of any team,except perhaps England

Did they release any attendance figures inc away fans? Sounds like a good effort all round with plenty of positives.

Nice to be home from a game within half an hour.

Out on penalties but very happy with the performance and plenty of positive’s going forward

.....and defending

just back from snooker. Didn't listen but a 1-1 draw with a strong Posh team based on the official tweets is very encouraging indeed.

Let's take out Crewe

Sounds like the squad performed well in their first competitive fixture, against a team in the league above us who certainly wanted to win. We’ll done Town

That was the worst penalty I've ever seen. I started walking to the aisle as soon as he stood at that ridiculous angle to the ball.

Didn't know what to expect tonight, with the new faces & style, but my God it was refreshing. The back 3 were solid & all of them looked comfortable coming out with the ball, both wing backs looked dangerous, which gave us options on both sides, not just the right. Kinsella & Kemp have given us what we've been missing in midfied, grit & flair, if I'm honest only Charlie looked a bit off the pace. The performance was typifyed by the goal, last season FBT would have looked for the sideways or backwards pass, today he looked forward played a quick ball through to HM, who finished brilliantly.  I like the Flynn style & filled with optimism after that, really enjoyable! Oh & Tom Brewitt is a good defender, my MoM

Lindsey did, quite a few times.

Flynn post match with Andrew Hawes:
- Take a whole lot from that.
- Thought we were the better team over the duration of the game
- 23 shots away from home against a very, very good League 1 team who didnt make many changes from Saturday
- Very proud of them
- Did everything well apart from for their goal
- Went 1 for 1. Picked up second ball. Pressed them. They had to change formation
- Wish we'd taken advantage of more chances
- Changes weren't pre-planned, but several players haven't had a pre-season, so was being careful
- Got a small squad at the moment so common sense had to prevail
- Those who came on gave a good account of themselves
- They all stood out today
- Been sending RHM videos of left foot finishes. Don't want him turning down opportunities on his left.
- They are all in tune
- We are going to play football
- We found ways to break lines all over the pitch
- Thought we were brilliant today
- Mahoney is a keeper with a bright future.
- Didn't have many saves to make but made 2 brilliant ones
- Thats the standard to maintain
- Better tonight than vs Plymouth as it was a competitive game
- If we play like we did against Plymouth every game then we won't lose a game
- That won't happen as players do have dips in form etc
- McEachran was ill this morning. Didn't want the illness to rip through the squad
- Cain had a back spasm
- Genesini: Done well. Got him at the right price. Can play a number of positions. We might have a little gem

Phil Smith post match:
- Wouldn't imagine too many more signings unless Flynn wants a particular player. Squad has depth
- Pleased Mahoney did well with a couple of good saves
- RHM and Brewitt played well and were MotM contenders
- Kemp best of the debutant. First half was fantastic. Should have scored in second half when 1 on 1 with keeper.
- Jake Young caught the eye with quick feet and good touches

I think we had more shots yesterday against Peterborough than we did in any game last season, including the two games in which we scored five. Shows the style change.

Thanks for the quotes NMH.

Just watched the highlights. Coupled with the reports it all seems really positive. Still a couple short but hopeful we can be in the mix this year. RHM could be our break out star I think.

Surprised watching the highlights, as they don't seem to back up what Flynn said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmwuQJ9CbA

Small sample size though. I see the full match replay is up on the O.S. Will be interested to take a look at that later...

Watching the highlights, if Mahoney had been beaten like their keeper was for RHM's goal we would not be happy!

Yes, that was woeful positioning. Fair play to RHM, he spotted it and capitalised.

Attendance: 3,440 (366 Swindon)

funnily enough I watched this a few weeks ago. (no idea why really) It was like he approached the ball to deliberately bend it like a free kick into the top corner. Needless to say he ended up looking quite ridiculous.

I've woken up pissed off we are out.

that's a good thing I think

Scott Lindsey would be positively glowing about our box entries given last night's performance by the sounds of things. It goes to show, that whilst there is more than 1 way to skin a cat, Flynn's way sounds more enjoyable.

Sounded all good.

I did expect a spanking.

On to Saturday, which i miss through holiday.

Pens again?...

I can only remember Charlton in the Poffs as a success. I dont watch them, cannot bear it.

just watched the very abridged highlights and there was some worrying defending based on that.

But our fans say we defended well so I'll assume they showed every posh chance and the rest were thwarted.

Good finish by RHM.. The keeper would be annoyed at himself but was probably expected it to go across him

The ever brilliant Rich Banyard gave out this stat last night.

I'll be honest, we've won loads more shoot outs than I thought. I could only remember 4.


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It's actually 11 wins and 14 defeats in shootouts... BUT...

1 out of 4 in playoff matches
0 out of 1 in the FA Cup
0 out of 6 in the League Cup
10 out of 14 in minor cup competitions

Except for Charlton, we only win the crap ones!

I guess the minor competitions are far less likely to stick in the memory. I think we've beaten Oxford twice in minor comps. (maybe more) Once in the ZDS cup and once in the Johnstone's paint. (to break the 7 in a row)

Nope. Didn't count, apparently.

Always makes me laugh when they say this.

Then they sell out when they get to wembley in said competition

"They were more aggressive than us"

Not sure of the last time an opposition manager said that about us!

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/23711113.peterborough-united-a-bit-off-it-league-cup-victory/

Genuinely years. The Wellens side could be aggressive at times but going back past that I’m struggling!

Just watched the full game back and i agree with Flynn, we looked very impressive and frustrated Posh throughout the majority of the game.

Also just watched the full match replay and we looked a very decent side. Would have been nice to have won the penalty shoot out so we could actually say we won a cup tie but it ultimately doesn't matter and everyone should feel very positive going into the first home game of the season on Saturday...

Is there a link to this chaps?

It is totally laughable, but do you honestly believe our fans would not be exactly the same were the shoe on the other foot!

Probably, i wouldnt be there, boycotted that competiton for years

Just log into your ifollow account via the official Swindon site, (or register if you haven't already) and click on latest videos. There are highlights, extended highlights, or the whole game.

Fucking hell Mahoney looks mustard. One of my big concerns this season was if we were going to get a loan more in the BFG/Brynn mould or another Kovar and we seem to have landed on our feet.

Fair play to Wakeling, nothing on and almost scored an absolute wonder goal.

Just go here and register...

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/ifollow/

You can then watch extended highlights / full match replays. You don't have to pay anything for those*

*Someone may correct me but I'm pretty sure I don't!

The issue is, they count the very same competition in their wins. They do mental gymnastics and say it doesn't count after B teams were introduced even though its the same competition.

In short, they're fucking moronic cunts.

Ah great, I'm registered and it seems to be good to go. Many thanks.

Lovely finish by Posh on 7 minutes from a very slack pass from Charlie. Shame as we had started the game really well.

30 minutes in - Randall just missed a gilt edged chance to make it 2-0. So far it's been a really impressive performance, A couple of times when we had a really good chance to break into a good position a heavy touch or a poor decision has just hindered us. The whole team looks comfortable. Godwin-Malife is handling the pacy Jade Jones very very well. He looks a superb player.

That Kemp chance... Great defensive header from Brewitt to set the move off but how has he not he the target?!

Certainly had my doubts about Hutton this season defensively, however UGM looks like the perfect man to back him up. RH  can certainly hit around 15+ assists again - just hope there’s no beach posts 😁

Just seen that. Pretty terrible miss you have to say. Just before that Brewitt (sorry Browitt) made a superb tackle/interception in the box. As others have said, the back 3 have played really well.

Is he very left footed? It looks like it would be a more natural right footed shot but he hits it with his left.

We know Brewitt has a tendency to over-commit, which should be mitigated by being in the middle of a back three. I think he could prove the doubters wrong this season.