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The final away game of the season brings together two railway towns in nothing more than a meaningless game.

Crewe 2 Swindon 2 Att: 4,250 (700 away fans)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jubmy0WOOpU

Crewe 2-1 Swindon
Khan to score
4,455 (651 Town)

Probably a score draw...I'll go one a piece or maybe someone will edge it by a single goal margin.

Limited interest as the season is already 'on the beach'.

Crewe 1-1 Swindon
Lavinier Goodbody
4,656 (565 Town)
5 Yellows
61 combined 'Like I said'/'As I said' quotes from all of Morris' pressers
I think someone like Hutton will get ''injured'' tomorrow. Just some anomaly like a tweaked groin but out for about a week conveniently. Freeing up all important time to meet with clubs and discuss contracts elsewhere. Or just maybe he'll be on the beach...

Morris to receive hate mail after the game, based on a quote somebody posted from a presser, which was then interpreted as him being a spoilt entitled ''Chelwsee Boi''. Kzristian Dzoxy Kzrusti Czock posts it onto Facebook, in which someone interprets it as Morris not being committed to the cause and being a whiny bitch who should accepts tinpot travel and accom arrangements coz ov ''chynees wispas innit'' and quotes out of context. Said Krusto Cock follower and irrelevant sperm sample then decides it's a good idea to send a cold turd to Morris after a ''sesh''.

NB: They would've sent a flaming turd but they are still figuring out how to turn the safety off on that big box of Cook's Matches  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ahh, never a dull moment supporting Town. Ryan Whelan also seen sporting a Crawley Town scarf whilst giving Sdm a hand shandy under the table in the Directors Suite  :D




If anyone takes any of that remotely seriously, please give your fucking head a wobble and please see Mooneyraker so they can wash the sand out your vagina

3-0 town. no problem.

Will be in the directors box for this one trying not to get too drunk.

Expecting us to lose 2-1 with Austin scoring.

For any travelling fans staying the night I would highly recommend Hickory's gretsy green. Had the smokehouse platter last night and it was mind blowing.

Fancy a victory today by 1 goal. I'll go for a 2-1 success.

I’d heard last weekend that we had sold about 200 tickets, so expecting less than 500.

As for the game, based on the game down here think they will be a bit Stevenage & be well versed in the dark arts & will nick a 1-0 win

I was thinking that. But to have any chance of catching you I'll go for 2-2!🙂

Pre match and now the end is near... in The Crewe Dog.

Walking through the town centre and the locals were dropping like flies, writhing on the ground in apparent agony following delayed reactions to zero or minimal contact.
So it's not just the football team then.
Hopefully Crewe will not resort to any of that shit today and the hardy souls in attendance might be treated to a decent game.

Well, it's been a turgid wet fart of a season & I'm glad that it's nearly over.

Hoping for some common sense recruitment in the summer.
In general terms the squad needs a core of 5 or 6 players that will play a minimum of 40 odd games & contain experience of promotion, some strength, pace & flair and topped with some footballing street savvy.
The lads that have shown some promise this season are bound to benefit from having the above group around them on the pitch next season.

That's all folks.

Bollocks I've not played my cards very close to my chest have I? Or am I playing a sneaky game here?

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Harrison Minturn replaces Tom Brewitt to make his third start of the campaign, while Saidou Khan takes the armband once again.

That was before 2pm JJ. Rob H on comms😀

And Wakeling starting instead of Shade .

To be fair Shade has had his chances and failed to take them. He was terrible against Stevenage so he could have lost his spot to a number of players.
We won't see Johnny W again in a town shirt

That makes me very sad

Need to put the pressure on Crewes 18 year old keeper who is only making his 2nd appearance in the league after making his debut at Grimsby on Tuesday when he conceded 2 goals.

Should at least give him a couple of minutes at the end of the Crawley game just to say farewell
Even if he is injured - walking on and off the pitch won’t hurt

I feel it will be some while until we see a player of JW's calibre in our squad

It’s sunny and nice outside. Why am I sat here getting ready to watch this rubbish?

Possibly the lowest amount of pre match posts ever for a game.

Understandably so.

Here we go LMS vs GWR.

McEachran has a shot from the edge of the box, almost fumbled by the keeper but did end up holding it.

Shot by Crewe from 20 yards well wide.

This must be our youngest back 4 + keeper ever, with an average age of just 21.8 for the 5 players.

And captain Khan is the only player aged over 24 in the whole team at just 27.

I’m hoping we are going to see Brown and Kanu later. Drop the average age even more

Great through ball from Cain to Wakeling in the box there, should have done better.

The Crewe commentator talking about Swindon like he knows about Swindon  :doh:

RHM looks really eager but his touch has been terrible so far.

I go hold & cold on Williams.
He’s clearly got some talent but don’t feel like he ever runs games. I can’t think of any game where Williams took thing into his own hands and (almost) single handedly dragged us to a result by driving us forward, like Payne did.

A player of Williams talent should be doing that regularly in this league imo.

The one doesn’t sound as if he’ll make it through the 90 mins!

Average age of the starting XI about 23, possibly lower. Got to change next season.

Good stop by Brynn with his chest 30 yards out with the striker nearly through.

Indeed, you don't win anything with kids as they say.

Cain hits the bar with the FK from 25 yards then Wakeling hits the bar with the rebound!

Got lucky apparently, if he would have got it wrong he would have been sent off, could have been handball :D

They really said that? looked perfectly judged to me!

Great effort from Cain and a proper spank from Wakeling

Yeah, I don't think they are the brightest blokes regards knowledge of football

Shame McEachran couldnt stay on his feet for the 2nd rebound.

Yeah, just fell over without anyone touching him

Bit unlucky there. Cain free kick hits bar. Wakeling rebound hits bar. McEachran slips over in the area as the ball is cleared.

He does that so often in the box, always looking for a pen rather than staying on his feet.

Crewe player dribbling with the ball and then missing it totally and giving it to Khan sums the game up.

So is it just 3 of us watching?

Looks like it!

Die Hards...

Cain playing quite well

RHM wins a corner after a shot.

He is indeed.

Yippe kiyaa Mfer

Listening! Wish I was there

We’re playing some nice stuff

Die Hard 3.

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Crewe CB off injured.

Crewe comms miles behind

Decent corner delivery from Cain there but we dont have anyone who can head in the box.

Put on the Town comms then?

McEachrans final ball has been poor so far today.

Got no choice on my iptv package. Could watch with Swindon comms but only on my iPad. Fancy the big screen today.

Crewe have a shot from 25 yards well wide.

Ah right IPTV does always cover home comms, I still use iFollow myself.

Jephcott down holding his head.

Entertaining at times but with little quality and few clear cut chances for either team so far.

Easy save by Brynn from a header after a FK.

Jephcott really not at the races today.

Great ball by Lavinier straight through the middle there

Fell asleep again!

Doesn’t look like I missed much.

Crewe comms keep saying ‘Lav-in-er’ ‘He’s caught my eye’

Must have signed a contract then!

Marcel best player on the pitch so far for me

Yep

Cain for me.

I think this is the perfect type of game for Cain, lots of time and space in the middle

Hutton to RHM in the box but he misskicks it terribly.

‘The number 22 Lav-in-er’ and Cain both involved in most stuff.

Indeed, but hes doing quite well on the ball today, he is a 1 in 4 quality player, sometimes he looks great sometimes awful, today he has done very well in the space Crewe are giving us.

RHM low shot from 20 yards just saved by the keeper.

0-1

1-0 RHM great finish.

Hep so strong on the ball

Lovely run from the half way line and beats the keeper in the top corner from the edge of the box.

Brilliant from RHM, he’s been a bright spark in a grim second half of the season

Hep-Burns a hole in their defence ;)

3 mins added.

Brilliant run. Seemed to be a deflection but he deserved it.

Only just happened for me - Looked like a deflection

HT 1-0

Decent performance by Town who definately edged that, everyone playing well but Jephcott a bit off the pace for me.

entertaining half, good hit by RHM

Minturn also doing well.

There’s definitely something there to build on next season.

Yep definitely changed the direction. Odd thing about this season is you wouldn’t bin any of these players. It’s just about who isn’t there. Wonder why Charlie’s experience is deemed surplus to requirements. Seems like a fallout with Morris at this point.

yeah it did feel like a fall out

This is the thing about Sandro. He hasn't necessarily signed shit players, Adeloye aside. He has just put together a ridiculous squad if you want to succeed in L2.

Which = inexperience at all levels.

He signed a bit more experience in Harries and Shade but they’re respectively a lot and a bit shit.

On that first half performance I would say that Minturn and Clayton have done very well so far, but then pretty much every Town player has done well, Jephcott isnt awful he just seems a bit off the pace of the game, could be that hes marked well but for me I would prefer Austin on soon in place of him.

It’s almost as if Sandro has very little experience of league football.

Saying that, Shade and Harries both have played under 60 league games each despite Harries being 26, and Shade only had one season in the league previously.

Allegedly Harries was signed by Garner, so I was generous enough to leave him off Sandro’s shit list.

I’ll give you Shade who looked decent against us for Walsall last season, but that tells you all you need to know about Harries.

Both have been very poor signings, Shade shown more promise at times but both are not good enough for L2 on current evidence.

Poor dive by their striker there in the box, like a dying swan.

Long swerving shot by Crewe but a fairly easy save for Brynn.

Crewe have looked the better side so far this half.

RHM with a good break but falls asleep on the ball and is robbed weakly.

Horrendous passage of play

Why on earth are we taking off the man of the match so far?

Shade on RHM off.

Poor decision for me.

425 Town fans

Bizarre sub, unless he's injured?

Ahem, great ball from Shade in the box there

Jephcott with a really poor finish with just the keeper to beat.

RHM and mcEachran best players on the team today. weird.

must be with a view to see how he reacts to criticism

He didnt look it he also didnt look happy about being subbed.

jephcott should bury that

Cain still my MotM so far, but its still early.

Don't get many better chances than that as a striker. Poor.

Mansfield bottling the last play off place getting beat 2-0 at home to the poor Harrogate.

Northampton could miss out on Autos on the last game of the season again.

Pre-pre-season innit.

Shade beats his man and gets a good shot in that saved.

Sub Shade is a different proposition to starter Shade

Shade’s playing like he’s on a one-year contract. Is he?

Indeed, he always seems to look better coming off the bench when teams are tiring.

Louie Reed sideways passing

Nope he signed on a 2 year contract.

Awful challenge on Lavinier

That was a cynical foul on Lavinier.

I think our players are ok. His signings have been ok.
A lot should kick in year 2 imo.
Massively unbalanced though - which may be all of, part or none of Sandro’s fault depending on how exactly our recruitment was done & under what instructions

McEachran off Darcy on.

Terrible challenge on Marcel - i would be kicking Long in the air now and getting next week off

Can we play all our games away from home? Why are we so shit at the CG?

There were 2 solid challenges on him before Lavinier was assaulted

Been that way for a while now. The Wellens season was the last decent one.

Yep. Is the pressure of the crowd too big for them or what?

That was never a foul by Minturn there.

Never a foul. Sorry for Minturn there.

No, it’s because we don’t have any creative players and play a style where passes need to be slide rule accurate to fashion a chance

or is it because generally home teams attack more and there's more space

I think the home problem has been around longer that Wellens, the Wellens championship season was the only good home season since PdC.

Should have been a foul on Minturn

For six of the last seven seasons?

Kadji on for his cameo

Dan from the LS Pod crunched the numbers. Horrific reading:

https://twitter.com/dphunt88/status/1640316850016776192

Changed

Kadji & Austin on Jephcott and Cain.

1-1

Ouch.

1-1

Mistake by Brynn.

Subs on, goal conceded. There’s a pattern.

ffs

was tricky for Brynn but got to do better

Long shot by Crewe Brynn fumbled the save and the rebound goes to Conor Thomas who finishes. Bad error by Brynn.

Groundhog year

Crewe havent really troubled us too much either.

He used to play for us. Unlike our ex players to score against us

The Kadji effect. (Yeah I know it wasn’t his fault but the number of points we must have given away when he’s come on must be eye watering)

thought we'd got past the last 10 minutes being shit...

How many mistakes has Brynn made that had cost us goals?
It can’t be many over the season can it?

2-1

Same old Swindon

Reading well in the shit now  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That was woeful...

Conor Thomas too. One of the worst midfielders I've ever seen at STFC.

Swindon fans, leave now! We all know what comes next.

Just time for us to revert to losing in injury time then :(

Ffs 2-1

Please, and I cannot stress this enough, get this fucking season over with.

1-2

Same old Swindon, stop at 80.

fucking hell.

fuck off

Good finish that TBH.

Don't need injury time  ;D

Who thinks Kadji, Shade and Darcy are better than Hepburn-Murphy, Cain and McEachran today?

It just reinforces the football IQ in this squad. Never seen a more naive, stupid team in my life.

Away to Huddersfield next week :pint:
Thames Valley Derby awaits next season.

Not me.

Morris

Definitely the Kadji effect!

What the fucking hell is going on?

Minturn off the line as Brynn goes AWOL.

Nothing out of the ordinary🤣

Dear, dear, dear!

It’s the 80-minute meltdown. Shambles.

Win 2 games then go to shit for 2 months, repeat. Season summed up.

I see you leave Austin out of this statement ;)

It’s happened too often for it not to be noticed surely.

We crumble like a crumbly thing.

Is anyone bored and angry enough to calculate the Kadji effect in terms of points lost when he's on the pitch?

We must be going for an all time record of losing games after the 80th minute/from winning positions.

Has any team in professional football ever thrown away so many points from 85 minutes onwards?

Genuine question.

It seems to have happened in at least 1 game in 2 since January.

Yes, because I don’t think he’s a downgrade on Jephcott today.

We looked very comfortable for the first 81 minutes too, Crewe never threatened us really.

Ho hum.

See Austin’s Mrs is seemingly celebrating our defeat, controversial opinion maybe but I hope he doesn’t stay. Not worth the drama.

Since Lindsey left!

7 mins of added shit.

You’re always going to be on the back foot when teams are probably happy to be 1-0 down to us going into the last 10 minutes. Genuinely do not understand how we concede so many late goals. Has to be a mental thing

It’s a sub thing

100%

Which is a manager problem.

Kids eh?

Even when we’ve had young sides in the past, such as 2014-15, and that is not me comparing the quality of those two sides, we didn’t concede so many late goals. But yeah, having a team where a 27 year old is the most ‘senior’ player does not help.

Nobody obviously, but what do you suggest, not make any substitutions every week?  Everybody knows that the squad recruitment wasn't good enough, but you can't blame the manager for making subs surely?

u16 Football is only 80 minutes isn't it. explains a lot.

I look forward to Lindsey inflicting equal worse points total on us next week

I can’t be bothered to watch that

A 0-0 draw will suit both teams next week.

Crawley are safe

Morris out

Finished

As am i

7,500 v Crawley as they won't bring any

Happens to often to be a coincidence for my liking.

I hope we blood some kids next week, Brann in goal etc.

Utterly pathetic.

FT 1-2

Masters of our own demise again. Zero backbone in this side, can think of one proper ‘backs to the wall’ performance all season and that was Northampton away, which was led by MacDonald - the biggest indicator of our fuck up this season. Letting him go was fine, but not replacing him was criminal. Thankfully with certain players like RHM, McEachran and a couple others, there’s a platform to build on for next season, but the vast majority of this team is absolute shite and sadly, still on the books for next season. Any money we can get for Hutton, cash in on.

Exactly, so a 0-0 draw will suit both sides.

Apparently they are bringing quite a few, at least 3 coach loads

Coming to watch those that Lindsey wants for next season

I’m so bored of this shit show

Given what we know happens, yes. Isn’t that supposed to be one of the advantages of playing kids? It’s not as if the alternative has been working well for us. To answer your question directly, you could have changed Jephcott for Austin and Khan for Darcy, but all the other changes were downgrades.

And to add salt to the wound, the Pox are as good as safe from relegation, although MKD are still very much in the mix.

Huge job for next season, try and get rid of those not wanted who are still contracted, lets have a real decent clear out rather than trying to polish a turd

Not remotely bothered about giving Morris a pre-season. If it’s financially feasible/possible, I’d get rid now

pick the names and positions out a hat gets my vote

I don’t put this on Morris. What was he supposed to do with an Academy squad?

I didn't think we were that bad. Just didn't take chances to make it 2-0.

The subs are far below the level required. Every time Shade, Darcy or Austin are on the pitch they offer absolutely nothing.

I still think we have a core of players we can use next season. Just need 3-4 experienced pro's to blend with them.

I disagree

Lindsey will really want to put one over us.

He could not play Kadji?

I also would jettison Morris.

Yes he didn’t inherit a great hand- but our form under him has been nothing short of disastrous

…not lose every week?
Maybe win a few games?

Morris has had 17 games 4 wins 4 draws and 9 defeats.  The squad is not as bad as he has managed.  If he repeats this next year we are relegated.  This cannot carry on

He doesn’t seem to like managing us, and as a fan base, in general, haven’t really taken to him. He won’t walk if he has a half decent contract, so I suspect we’re stuck with him.

Cain is a bag of mostly shite, so taking him off is usually an upgrade, however Kadji must have been eating the stuff since birth.

That was his record before todays game.
Another played. Another defeat.

I do!

Its all very well saying that we have an unbalanced squad, but I think a decent manager would have been able to get a tune out of this lot. Especially when you think that we have taken the lead in several games and then conceded at least twice to lose.

Yes, we need more experience, but we also need someone who can motivate them.

The best we could have hoped for was Lampard doing a great job and getting the Chelsea gig full-time and taking Morris with him.

Cain was MotM today.

He is quite good when given time and space.

We haven't taken to him because the results have been awful.

I'm torn - he's clearly underperformed but there's many a manager who have adapted in their second season after a poor first stint.   I'm not a fan of rookie managers, at the very least they need an experienced number 2.

See my previous comment

What’s your point?
You asked what we think Morris should be doing with this squad.
I answered.

I don’t think it’s unrealistic to expect him to get this squad to win a few games. Lindsey managed it ffs

Any decent manager would have got more out of these players.

Promotion a step too far probably with the squad we have but he should have done better than 4 wins in 18- that’s sackable form

I agree he was my MotM today.

The problem is us fans will be expecting promotion again next season because we're one of the big teams in league 2 just like Pompey, Sheff Wednesday & Derby etc in league one. There are no guarantees in football so with an average squad, average budget and inexperienced owner & coaching team I'm expecting much of the same again

Agree with above posts. This is by no means a good squad, however 4 wins in 18 is absolutely criminal. Some absolutely shocking sides such as Rochdale, Harrogate and Colchester have won more in that time. This certainly isn’t a top 7 squad, but it isn’t one that should have relegation form either.

Morris:
- Weren't great for the whole game
- Few and far between opportunities
- Element of control in first half. There were a couple of opportunities (Jephcott) but we were poor
- Goals disappointing. We need to react as defenders
- Sol hasn't spilled hardly any shots since Moriss has been here (Yes he has!) but defenders have to anticipate. Thomas was in acres of space
- All too familiar feeling. We were all over the shop
- For their second there were 7 of our players and only 2 of theirs there!
- Typical of how we are in conceding goals late
- Why aren't we learning? Experience is vital. Need people who are used to it and have character. Until we get more experience, personality and character when teams are coming at us at the end of games, then we are going to give games away.
- U23 teams vs L2 teams. Thats what the U23s do. We havent got experience
- Can you coach it? You would like to give time when you have maybe a few young lads. But when you are all young lads. Its not something you can coach instantly.
- Its not just age and experience. We could still do better with the lack of experience we have. They have had enough opportunities to have learned from this season
- Individuals? Clayton did a few good things. Elements to Khan and Cain too. But not enough for Morris to say anyone did well
- At 1/2 time Morris said they were below par. They had gears to go up to make in more enjoyable. But we didnt get going
- Crewe changed formation a couple of times, but we could have dealt with it better on the pitch
- Do you rip the squad up? Can you do that?: Made it clear where the squad needs to be changed and more experienced. Whether we can do that is up in the air.
- Good to have young players to develop. But need a better balanced squad with experience and physicality
- At the moment its an element of them learning on the job
- Are you talking to Sandro?: You need to talk to those who are in charge of the club. Not Morris's place to say anything. If the club feels there is something they need to say they will.

It’s all very well Morris saying his young players need to learn and stop making the same mistakes.

Look at yourself, mate. Clearly your sub making with 10-15 minutes to go has been the harbinger of doom.

Not read back, but not many pages of torture to plough through this time.

Well, that performance pretty much sums up the way it's gone, since January anyway.

Last rites next Monday. Can't come soon enough.

History shows that we don't tend to linger in L2.
Quietly confident that we'll all be as happy as pigs in shit at this time next season.

What did Austin’s missus tweet then? (now deleted apparently)

She has never been the brightest…

…and if his young players are struggling shouldnt he be talking them through it from the sidelines as best he can.

He just seems to want to blame the make up of the squad & take none of the responsibility himself.

Along the lines of “the nobber deserves that” straight after Crewe took the lead. Then deleted it.

That answer to the Sandro question obviously means he has gone.

Get the feeling Morris’ oft repeated comments re experienced players is direct st the STFC purse strings for next season.

undoubtedly a message to those upstairs. Not that unusual for managers to do that, but it's every interview.

worrying

They will say we can’t afford experience due to poor ST sales blah blah blah

Those at the top need to look in the mirror this season has been a shambles. If they don’t have the money to invest in the playing side then find someone who can

League one, Cheltenham, Exeter,  Fleetwood, Shrewsbury all comfortably stayed up on small attendances love to know how they do it.

Yeah, but have they partnered with Karachi FC?

BECAUSE ATTENDANCES DO NOT = INCOME OR BUDGET.

More intrigued to know what financial backing they have compared to what Clem can offer.

Sad to say but The Return of the King has been something of a damp squib, and she’s clearly an absolute nightmare. A fond farewell on the pitch after Crawley please.

My guess is he starts against Crawley then gets his farewell applause early in the second half.

When we sub on Kadji to make sure we go from 1-0 up to 3-1 down.

Kadji must just make my all time shit XI. He’s Jeremy Balmy bad. Worse than Anton Rogers. Makes Bobby Howe look like prime Iniesta.

Cue the mass exodus and no lap of honour at full time🤣

Certainly doesn't seem like Austin and Morris have a great relationship. As Austin is very much Clems man, and i was told Austin was staying next season its going to be interesting to see where we go from here. He doesn't seem to be a player Morris wants.

I was told today that one of those club’s budgets is so small, that next season, the plan is to not have a reserve keeper, because the cost of having one is not worth the three point risk of losing a game if the keeper gets injured. They simply get an emergency loan. It is not unfair to suggest that their budget is lower or comparable to ours. We have just used ours appallingly by comparison. I don’t accept that we shouldn’t have a better budget that the club suggests with our gates.

It's certainly an eye opener if what you are saying is true about one of those clubs mentioned losing a reserve goalkeeper. It also highlights how shite we've become from top to bottom and can only finish mid table.

Steady

I’d ask you to envisage Kadji attempting the Anton Rogers free kick…

Now imagine you also have a smart new car parked in the Town End car park or a newly launched satellite in low-earth orbit… They are getting smashed!

I wonder what the Bristol City scouts saw in him🤔

here's the thing that worries me most.

We have had 9k crowds last 2 seasons. We have moved external debt to Clem. We run an absolute shoestring operation off the pitch, or at least it seems like it.

All that we are still losing 500k a season.

We are driving to sustainability. ok Clem hasn't any money, fine, that's the way it is.

So what happens when we lose 1000-1500 off the gate, which is historically not a stupid alarmist value.

where are the cuts for 500k + whatever we lose in fans coming from other than rent savings? Playing budget?

And why are we fannying around *at this time* trying to get the women's team to academy status*, and pissing around with Karachi which even if you believe Zav pays for it is optically a shit sandwich.

*can't work out how they can be self funding, maybe I'm wrong

Sandro confidently suggested he’d turn out to be better than our #1 midfield target that we missed out on in the January window. I can only assume that that was Jesse Starkey.

kadji is young and nowhere near ready. He may be great in a year or two. who knows.

I'm not interested in throwing him under the bus but he's not our player, why bother paying him.

financial?

It has been suggested that we are chipping away at his loan fee by playing him, yes.

0.86 ppg average. Over the course of a season thats 41 points, which is less than Hartlepool

I’m guessing you’ve got that off Whelan’s tweet?  Hopefully we are approaching the end of him having any sources within the club so won’t hear much more about the club from him.

It is very odd how much time he spends on Swindon. I guess it could be that he gets good engagement on those posts as we have a biggish fanbase but the guy is evidently a turd.

where are we going to hear about the club from now?

Not fussed, he’s not exactly always been accurate and has always had an agenda. As bad as Nixon.

When was the last time anyone found something out in the Adver? What do they actually do?

fair enough. I like the rumours even if they turn out to be shit/agenda driven

they don't do journalism now. the days of Andy Crier and Sam Morshead are long gone. It's mostly lots of stories picked up from a single press conference (or Facebook).

BBC wilts seem to be sidelined or under resourced too.

even Hanners is stepping away from the STBL!

Overly large squad that jettisoned any experience and replaced it with too many shit players.

Inexperienced Manager.

Inexperienced off field team.

Recipe for disaster.

Morris can rightfully point to the fact the squad was worse after he took charge, but he has no obvious idea how to use what he does have either.

All in all, fucking useless, the lot of them.

Lost so many games this season where the opposition make changes and we make changes.
No shit Sherlock our squad on the whole is shite.

As soon as Darcy and Kadji came on I said to my lad we will end up losing this.
Ffs we have some shite in this squad.

Thought the STBL were quiet, I’ve been blocked by them. The season has one positive then. Must have come from daring to say their pre match stuff wasn’t great. Ah well.

The priority should be Swindon Town FC.

They are fanning around with the woman’s team because a major sponsor and member of the AB has a vested interest in it.

so it's self funded through sponsorship? if so fair enough

Richard Starkey

Kadji was Morris’ pick, so he can’t be pinned on Sandro (but the failure to secure our first choice target probably can!). Batch was spot on, not his fault he finds himself playing above his level at this stage in his development and he’s clearly getting a run out now so we can avoid financial penalties. Fuck me, Bristol City being able to hold us over a barrel, how times have changed…

Re. Hanners, he’ll be back no doubt once he needs some attention. I’ll wager he’ll be back on there before the opening day - I just hope we are spared the drunken pre match karaoke. Gone right off that outlet and they are looking very silly after some of their early season drivel.

No MOM Thread :eek:

After a bottle of Chimay Green not sure if these stats are correct, but looks like 12 points lost from winning positions under Lindsey and 14 under Morris.

One of the many things on the pitch that needs to improve next season.

Beginning to wonder if JM's poor record is even recoverable to something like a min 40% win rate.
Still in the give him the summer & start of next season camp at the moment.

Blimey, was that Wakeling cross really our only attack of note 2nd half?

If the stat shows anything, it supports the fact we just have no know how.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4StVCiNs8I8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aHBX62pmQ

Fuck me. Just seen the Sky highlights, or lowlights.

Like watching one of your parents dieing in hospital. I’ve seen both of mine BTW.

Regurgitated bollox.

Same old shit every week.

I think we are being conned. Jody Morris has only ever done one post match interview and the I.T brains simply put a different background up and play the interview again and again and again……
Same shit, same excuses, different week.
No wonder there’s no motivation in the players - when’s this clown going to man up and take some blame instead of griping about the players and lack of experience.
Sol Brynn doesn’t drop shots-:take your blinkers off…
Seven defenders in the box to two Crewe players so shouldn’t get first touch- why shouldn’t he? It’s happened all season and frankly got worse since you arrived - who is coaching the defenders all week - nobody looking at this shit show of a season.
Ask yourself Morris why we had 400 supporters at Crewe yesterday and not 1000+ as most seasons - it wasn’t because the rain had stopped and the sun was out.
Not bothering with last home game- bank holiday - take family out or do jobs at home - enthusiasm completely shot.
Thanks a lot Swindon

Was one of the daft 400.
Season a complete shambles both on and off the pitch and sadly without any competent and experienced football people running the show I sadly don’t have the confidence it will get any better.
Glad to see the back of this season.

The club should be extremely worried that attendances are likely to fall.

Don't disagree with the sentiment, but if you are going to use facts then at least use ones that are true

Our last four visits to Crewe before yesterday, not once close to 1,000
2015/16 - 417
2017/18 - 315
2018/19 - 218
2019/20 - 551

Thank you for putting me right on the away following (the info was given to me by a fellow supporter yesterday).
I also was one of the 400 and bizarrely when the substitutes were introduced everybody around me said en masse we will lose this game now….
If we as supporters see this why don’t the management team?
I partially sympathise with Morris as not his squad but he has also failed to get a tune out of them and if they are not working to his game plan (what game plan?) and the season over play the youngsters simple as.
I would rather lose with the youngsters working their bollocks off than know we are going to lose with the half hearted shower that Sandro put together.
I didn’t like Lindsey but as Sandro was selecting the side from the players he had got into the club can understand him jumping ship and yes this was told to me by a club employee ….
Clem (if it’s Clem) Angus etc. have a massive start of summer coming up. If changes and player incomings don’t happen fairly quickly then season ticket numbers will stay low and attendance figures will plummet for start of next season

Why are you always so personel with what you say? Even on Twitter you are having a dig about someones weight yesterday. It takes away from some very valid points you make when you just end up being a cunt

Didn't we take around 650 in the FA Cup 2019/20 season

Presumably you mean 2021/22, where we won 3-0. Not sure how many we had, but total crowd was only 2,300.

TBF I only looked at league games as a comparison to yesterday.

That's the one! I vaguely remember being impressed with how many we took and sure it was around 650

Edit: just read back to the Matchday thread and 653 was confirmed.

Fair enough, just one of those things that annoys me, a bit like when people say “this is the worst ever” when talking about players, games & seasons.

The one thing that’s clear, we don’t have a team that can see out a game, you just know if we let one in late in a game that another is coming soon after.  Even last weekend at Wimbledon at 4-1 up you feared if it went to 4-2 then 4-3 wasn’t far behind.

The substitute thing has also clearly been a problem, people believed for a while it was Austin (and his experience) going off but it’s obviously more than that

fail to get a point Monday and it'll be equal worst ever:)

:D

We want Lindsey back chants echoing around the stadium🤣

Followed by Scott & Sandro doing a lap of honour I presume ;)

And breaking news that Clem has sold out to Lee Power🤣

was hoping for a scooby doo "Clem is Lee Power" type reveal.

More chance of shaggy😀

We took about a 1,000, nearly half the crowd.

You're forgetting how good your original guess was😀

My one concern is every time we see these players on the pitch there is nobody that looks any better, I would guess that Morris remit when he came in was to improve the players so they would then be sold one, and now he has his feet under the table he is realising we have a poor bunch.

But the one thing that gets me, is we have a player of the quality of Austin, who has shown since he has been here he will still score goals, he needs crosses into the box to attack, but we never seem to try and do that, surely you play to your strengths and having austin in one of them.

Do I believe Morris right for us ? I really am not sure, but it looks like he will be here next season so the jury is out and he has got the first 10 games to make an impression before all hell break loose I'd suggest.