Swindon v Exeter pre match chat and matchday thread

[Crackity Jones]

Start of second half, Town upped the tempo, thought uh oh, now on the back foot. Then the Tomlinson goal ( what a prospect you have there ). As Garner observed the team seemed to switch off, physically or mentally, to sit back on the lead. Change of shape helped our cause, and had Man City scored our first the pundits would have been purring. Think we deserved it on the day, but Town away at ours on a Tuesday night will be a whole different prospect undoubtedly. Hope you all make it to help boost our coffers, as we did yours, should be another cracker.

Your manager made substitutions that positively changed the game for you. Our manager made baffling changes (necessitated by injury?) that had the opposite effect.

[reeves4england]

Start of second half, Town upped the tempo, thought uh oh, now on the back foot. Then the Tomlinson goal ( what a prospect you have there ). As Garner observed the team seemed to switch off, physically or mentally, to sit back on the lead. Change of shape helped our cause, and had Man City scored our first the pundits would have been purring. Think we deserved it on the day, but Town away at ours on a Tuesday night will be a whole different prospect undoubtedly. Hope you all make it to help boost our coffers, as we did yours, should be another cracker.

Lovely finish for your first, but enabled by the Town midfield sleeping on the half way line. Your guy’s run literally from the half way line without a red shirt getting close enough to worry him. All the best for the rest of the season.

[ibelieveinmrreeves]

So? Who asked you?

Not a bad Nadine Dorries impression.

[Batch]

FGR will go up on attendances of 2500.

+ Dale Vince's financing.

Clem doesn't have that amount of money. and neither does the club itself while we are paying off debts

[theakston2k]

Out of interest - who would you drop for Conroy? Despite conceding 2 goals I thought we strangely looked good at the back yesterday, the issues were in-front of the defence.

Agree with this, the defence were largely faultless yesterday and Cooper seemed to do a fair bit of organising back there. If Conroy ever gets back in he certainly shouldn’t be the central centre back again, Cooper has already made that his own.

The problem was the midfield we had for the last 20 minutes, everyone could see it bar the manager. Iandolo, Williams and Gladwin were never going to see the game out, all 3 of them are scared of making tackles. Even with our lack of options Garner needed to do something more clever to shore up the midfield. Also it doesn’t say much about East that he can’t even get on the pitch when we have no centre Mids on there.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

+ Dale Vince's financing.

Clem doesn't have that amount of money. and neither does the club itself while we are paying off debts

Thats what i was eleuding to a wealthy owner is more important than a few thousand through the turnstiles.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Out of interest - who would you drop for Conroy? Despite conceding 2 goals I thought we strangely looked good at the back yesterday, the issues were in-front of the defence.

We haven’t actually looked bad all season at the back, sure one or two nightmares, Orient being the stand out.
Conroy is the best passer of the ball we have, him and Reed compliment our style and the players that we have brought in to play the “5” that we are comfortable with.
Tough call to drop anyone to be fair.

Did you notice yesterday with the Exeter press we ran out of ideas and went diagonal to O’Brien very Wellens style how he deployed Woolery. It wasn’t working.
Not knocking Cooper, as looks a good solid player however he was responsible for the second goal.

Will keep banging on about the same issue, it’s our midfield.

[Peter Venkman]

Football is a fickle business

Grant was voted MotM in both games hes played so far for Scunny.

[4D]

Can't wait for the next attendance update.

Sent from my CLT-L09

Sad. Nice you don't post often.

[theakston2k]

We haven’t actually looked bad all season at the back, sure one or two nightmares, Orient being the stand out.
Conroy is the best passer of the ball we have, him and Reed compliment our style and the players that we have brought in to play the “5” that we are comfortable with.
Tough call to drop anyone to be fair.

But what you’ve just said there is our problem all over, in complimenting him you don’t mention what should be his core skill….defending. Conroy is a non-league centre back with a league 1 passing range, one shouldn’t negate the other. Conroy should either be in the team as a deep lying centre midfielder to utilise those attributes (but he isn’t mobile enough) or not at all. Instead he’s shoehorned into the team and it becomes an issue when his defensive frailties are exposed, I think we’d all agree with one thing for sure though and that is that he’s not a captain.

We then have the same problem in midfield where we are constantly looking to shoehorn Gladwin, Williams, McKirdy and now Barry into the same team and as a result you end up with the last 20 minutes yesterday where we arguably had our worst midfield ever because there wasn’t actually one.

[JBZ]

Grant was voted MotM in both games hes played so far for Scunny.

Good to hear. Having seen them recently, that's not a huge surprise.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Sheridan has picked up 4 points from two games!

[oxonrobin]

Managed to turn all notifications off yesterday, so didn’t know the score and watched the whole thing on ifollow today. I thought it was a fairly good performance and big improvement on the last couple of home games for the first 70 mins.

Then, we seemed to be so lacking in fitness more than anything. It wasn’t just Gladwin (who I know many don’t rate, but thought up till then was one of the best on the pitch) and Williams (not a good performance) but they were clearly spent by then. It was only from that point we seemed to struggle with the wind. Did it get worse, or was that tired bodies?

Liked the move for our goal, but we gave them far too much time and space to shoot. Lucky deflection in the end. Again, though not many chances created by us, without a 9 we look blunt at best. Hopefully we can turn it around, hard to see how though.

[Peter Venkman]

Good to hear. Having seen them recently, that's not a huge surprise.

TBH he hasnt actually stood out apparently just that hes blatantly far better than the players around him.

[theakston2k]

TBH he hasnt actually stood out apparently just that hes far better than the players around him.

The Grant situation remains one of the main concerns I have with Garner. To quote an earlier poster with Garner having ‘weak as piss’ management skills I can’t see him ever signing strong personalities or proper leaders who just want to win. I don’t think Garner would be capable of managing this type of player or risk a player having more influence than he does and that will remain to our detriment.