Gillingham v Swindon pre match chat and matchday thread

[Peter Venkman]

FT 0-2 to the pikeys.

[Panda Paws]

Really enjoyed watching that. Very good performance by all bar one of our players and amazing to see Conroy back and play well. DJ was a joy to watch and MOTM.

Unfortunately, Curran was a predictable disaster, at fault for both goals (hilariously so for the second...where's he going!) and it's a damning indictment that he's part of our club.  

[RedRag]

Why didn't Shezza make changes earlier?  Wait until we are 2 nil down - frustrating

Yes but which changes.  There was only one team going to score the next goal for me.  May have put Caddis on for Grounds as Grounds had little going forward after being forced by injury into a LB role

Quite satisfied with the afternoon apart from the obvious.  

[Nemo]

Well that was frustrating. We really were good, just two defensive fuck ups and a mix of bad finishing and bad luck finishing.

Not despair, but this can't keep happening.

No game on Tuesday: thank fuck for that.

[Berniman]

A loss with a bit of a whimper at the back and up front..  Bossed midfield.  That about sums up the 94 for me.

[Peter Venkman]

I’m no fan of Curran but if the 2 goals are to be laid at his door it’s a bit much when you consider the out and out horrendous individual mistakes others have made this season.

Almost every game there have been horrendous mistakes by our defence/keeper, he is just 1 in a long line.

[Nomoreheroes]

I’m no fan of Curran but if the 2 goals are to be laid at his door it’s a bit much when you consider the out and out horrendous individual mistakes others have made this season.

I agree. Curran has improved and didn't look as bad as he has in the past. But still not a L1 defender.

[Berniman]

I agree. Curran has improved and didn't look as bad as he has in the past. But still not a L1 defender.

Agreed

[Peter Venkman]

Good performance from 10 of the 11 players today, shit result though.

Not unenjoyable at times but we were unlucky in front of goal and please don't play Curran again, he is nowhere near L2 standard let alone L1.

[JBZ]

Disappointing result

[RedRag]

He seems to set teams up from the start with quite a decent amount of tactical thought - we've played in quite different ways over the last three games and largely, they've worked to begin with.

However he also seems utterly averse to making any tactical changes in-game, even when it's blindingly obvious that there's an issue.

It's an odd one.

Remember last Saturday?

So which subs would you have made that would have changed the game and avoided a sucker punch?

[REDBUCK]

Nobody said otherwise, but without Currans 2 worst mistakes we would have at least drawn the game.

I didn't say they did, it's just an opinion am i not allowed to join in with the gang.

You could also say without hitting the bar at 1-0 we might have got a draw.

[china red]

No idea the game wasn’t on at 3pm today, just logged on to OS to pay for the game and saw the result.......

[Red Frog]

The difference between today's goals against and the others is that until now, our mistakes were made by footballers. Starting with Curran means a -2 is virtually a given. We slaughtered them in midfield, but we never had enough pressure in their box either. We just don't have anyone there.

Lots of positiives from that performance, but two more injuries. Makes you wonder what we could do in this division with a fit first team.

[RedRag]

We were totally dominant.  

Given the bench I don't see what subs would have changed the game.