Swindon v Exeter pre match chat and matchday thread

[Robinz]

One comment where is Anthony  GRANT
Thats right he has gone

[4D]

The manager has done pretty well if you compare with some of the awful managers we have had in the last 10 years. Would take this season over a Sheridan, Brown or Flitcroft one!

Perspective chaps!

Today was fucking crap though, as were the last 2 weeks!

The whole season at home has been shite. What have you been watching?

3 wins out of 14 is Sheridan material. Fucking terrible

[JBZ]

One comment where is Anthony  GRANT
Thats right he has gone

How is he getting on at Scunthorpe?

[tans]

You cant have a McKirdy and Barry playing alongside one another, its like having a couple of kids up front. No strength or hold up play

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

The manager has done pretty well if you compare with some of the awful managers we have had in the last 10 years. Would take this season over a Sheridan, Brown or Flitcroft one!

Perspective chaps!

Today was fucking crap though, as were the last 2 weeks!

How has he done well? He’s shown zero tactical nous, relying on the mantra of his academy credentials. If it’s not apparent to him now then we’ll never get out of L2. But I honestly can’t see him changing tack and I can’t see Clem binning him off any time soon.

I feel the feelgood factor is about to drain away.

What a waste!

[JBZ]

Football is a fickle business

[Frigby Daser]

Losing the love for Garner and Garner-ball. For a team that is supposedly based on possession football, the quality of our passing is really poor. And that’s when our approach is to play the easy ball, not the purposeful ball. Countless Town sides passed the ball better than this one, and they knew how to play with pace and purpose too.

Garner is the beneficiary of what happened in the summer. If this was a normal season, the patience with him wouldn’t be there from the crowd.

On the plus side, a good ref.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Reminds me of the King era where we had some decent players with a manager with fuck all clue tactically. Difference was that unlike Garner, Kingy scouted and signed said players in the first place.

[Nomoreheroes]

Garner:
- 65 mins we were very good
- Good game. Exeter played well
- We went ahead and then took a backwards step and dropped off
- Defend poorly for 2 goals which cost us the game
- Combination of things. A young group overall and a turn over of players with little training time.
- Frustrating past 3 games
- 65 mins it was good. Would have liked us to push on.
- Exeter played very well second half
- Dropped off physically and mentally
- Have to stay brave. Tried to sit on the result
- Enforced changed, which we didnt want to do. Studs fown Lyden's leg and Davison's hamstring
- Changes the dynamic without a big CF. Davison did well holding the balkl up
- Barry and JML have different strengths
- Lyden and Davision off: We lost a lot of power and presence
- Needed to find the right pass in the final third
- Great goal. Thought we would push on and try and score another
- Frustrating to drop out of top 7.
- Ahead of schedule where we thought we would be now.
- Turnaround we have had and number of games. Can't ask more from them without training time and telling them what we want they to do.
- Need to get a win quickly to turn things around
- Can change formation at any point. The formation we used was due to the players we had and those we have recruited.
- No magic wand to change formation without getting on the training pitch with the Tuesday turn around.
- Today they finished strong and we dropped off.
- We haven't got bags and bags of experience in the squad to grind out the game
- Conroy sore achilles
- Exeter didnt play midweek and we did. Changes the dynamic a bit. Maybe thats why we dropped off and they stayed strong.

[4D]

We have decent enough players, shame about the management. We got the goal, but never looked like we'd hold on. Exeter were average at best but still did a job. I'm done for this season.

[DiV]

Reminds me of the King era where we had some decent players with a manager with fuck all clue tactically. Difference was that unlike Garner, Kingy scouted and signed said players in the first place.

…and Kingy got by on signing some extremely good strikers who could get goals.

We couldn’t defend for shit but we always had goals in us.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

How is he getting on at Scunthorpe?

Who cares. He'd have been a decent sub to help see the game out today.

[Peter Venkman]

I am not even angry or upset, it felt inevitable that we would throw it away.

[4D]

Jbz loving this.

[Nomoreheroes]

The whole season at home has been shite. What have you been watching?

3 wins out of 14 is Sheridan material. Fucking terrible

Yes, but, Sheridan lost away games too!

We are not bottom of the league. This season was about survival.

I am as disappointed as the next man. The last 3 performances have been very poor. But, I wouldn't send all of the players and management team to the gallows!