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what an absolute baffoon that fella is,cant even pass the ball when under no pressure whatsoever.
awful.

:nod:  :(

Hes brilliant at what hes good at though.

As is Rhys Evans! does he not realise the wind effects where the ball goes!!!

Yes he's ace at tackling and pace wise but he cant pass for shit.

yes looking a complete baffoon

special mention must go to one of most inept performances in a swindon shirt ever from mr aaron clown, i mean brown.

I usually stick up for Ifil, but not today.....100% pass compeletion....to Hartlepool....I dont think he even realised we were playing in red

....and id use a much stronger word than plonker

A fundamental of management is  not asking players to do what they're not able to do.

   So don't ask Jerel to play out from the back like a Rio Ferdinand (I use this analogy not because he''s that great but peeps will have heard odf him unlike Ruud Krol).

 Don't ask Aaron Brown to play left wing back.....he doesn't know what is a very specialised role and can't play it.

  Today especially with a difficult wind cried out for a simple 4-4-2 formation.

and also not hoofing it forward when playing with the wind because its just going to go straigh to their keeper :roll:

At least we didn't lose our record of never having lost to HPoool at the CG.

    Lost our last 2 v Stanley though.

Brown cross for the goal was ace. At least he can cross the ball.

But apart from that he was awful, didnt put any fucking effort in whatsoever.

And the others did?

Toumani and Whalley did.

what did people think of ccp? i didn't think he looked very interested and seemed to get in the way of Whalley alot!! He also seemed a bit clueless on who he was marking!!

I cant believe he stayed on instead of Whalley.  :shock:

Felt abit sorry for ifil , he had a really bad game. First one in a while.

When he went off, he went into the dug out and punched the side of it, made a huge bang! He was pretty pissed off with himself, atleast it shows he cares.

I thought Evans was alright, maybe could have dived for the goal but he was stranded otherside, wouldnt have got it....how the Hartlepool player was credited with it I dont know.

Whalley had a poor game because we wouldnt pass the thing to his feet, for Whalley to be effective we need to get it into his feet we didnt do that at all today....then we took him off which I didnt understand.....HIS FEET, HIS FEET PASS IT TO HIS FUCKING FEEEEET.

On another note myself and Village did decide it would 1-1 before we entered the ground

why only play shakes for 5 minutes? he was our best player and then iffy left him out (typical King decision). i do think that french dude looks a good player though and good to see the cock get a goal today

I dont remember Shakes being good?

:hide:

two words: absolute shite

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: it wasn't that bad

I've always thought of him as a sort of a Kwiksave John Gittens; quick and hard tackling, but not brilliant on the ball, and with a tendency to take someone off at the knees on the edge of the box for no obviously apparent reason.

However, as far as I know, he doesn't have the same habit of yelling "Time! Time!" in a high pitched, slightly girly voice at randomn intervals throughout every game.

Jon and Jerel are very similar.....with Jerel, he should be coached in the basic of passing to the nearest player in a red shirt  this is what Ardiles had JG doing.

except for the fact the cross came from smith, not brown.

ifil was atrocious, although there are no surprises there.

felt a bit sorry for brown, he spent half the game stood on the wing in space waiting for balls which never came. mind you, when he did have the ball he did fuck all with it.

 The original cross came from Brown.....I was abit surprised that JI didn't get a run out on Tuesday....he hasn't played a game for about a month and it showed.

he defended well and played well but his passing is awful.

Jerels great..

the new Glen Hoddle 8)

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

btw, everyone knows ifil can be crap, so don;t know why this is coming up all of a sudden

today he had plenty of time on the ball,which is rare.he showed what a player he is.fuckin shit

I thought the defence looked shaky today everytime the ball came near them! Whats the point in having three centre'halves if they still cock everything up?

Midfield was always way too crowded to get the ball down and do anything. Besides, they tended to play hoofball up to shortarse Cureton, completely bypassing all the midfielders.

Brown made some good forward runs in the second half, but spent most of the first half as a full-back, and hoofed with the rest of them. Iffy undoubtedly told him and Smith to get further forward in the second half.

If we play like this on Tuesday, we will get destroyed!

 :shock:

I thought the problem was having Platt centre midfield. With the wind and trying to control it, surley Pook, Migs have better control.

Hartlepool players played to the conditions. We didn't.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Not sure bout that Pook comment ^^

It annoys me when professional footballers can't control or pass a ball. It is their job

Let's clarify something. Yes Ifil had a bit of a mare but prior to this he'd been doing very well. Yes he can't pass but I didn't see Sean or Smith or Jenkins swinging 50 yard passes around.

Jerel looked fucking gutted yesterday. He cares. Too many don't.

But O'Hanlon had a good game that's the main thing, i couldnt agree more with the comments about Smith and Jenkins though.

Spot on davey boy  :D

Brown never received the ball! When he did we looked dangerous.

Ifils distribution is embarrasing. I don't see why we just don't play a 4-4-2 and let the players do what they are good at.

Evans
Smith O'Hanlon CCP Nicholas
Shakes Whalley Diagouraga Brown
Cureton Peacock

Brown and Shakes both give us pace, Brown is dangerous whenever we get forward plus he has Nicholas overlapping. Smith gets forward a lot aswell. O'Hanlon and CCP are both decent centre backs.

This 5-3-2/3-5-2 bollocks is doing my head in.

Does it matter. Were not managers. Move on.

 :roll:

So?

you're right, in fact i'm going to delete all of the football related discussions and close the forums as we're not managers so can't discuss football.

knob

calm down

:D indeed

so ifil had a bad game, we all know he cant kick a ball straight (I'm not trying to defend him, he is crap) but i'm surprised no one has picked up on the shit substitutions onuora made during the second half.

for the 10 minutes or so after we scored we started getting the ball wide to brown & smith and getting crosses in & winning corners. cureton hit the bar after some good work on the left. whalley & diagouraga also started looking for the ball more & were creating chances, playing through balls etc.

so no we've found the width & are starting to play well & actually looking a threat, why the fuck do you take whalley off & stick 3 up front?!?!?! it meant the 2 wide players had to tuck in more & we went back to hoofing it long again, when its fucking obvious that it hadn't worked all game before that. nelson was winning everything in the air for them so we just give it too him on a plate.

and then after he took ifil off he put jack smith, one of the smallest on the pitch, at centre back! he was doing well on the right in the 20 mins prior to that. surely you put CCP at the back & shakes through the middle???? CCP's not a fucking midfielder! every time he had the ball in the last third of the pitch he looked clueless.

i accept iffy had to gamble to try & win the game, but it was a bad call with the subs made in my opinion. its easy to blame the players but the managers got to take some of the shit for it as well.

Personally I thihnk Iffy has proven to be a very average manager.

He just stands by the dug out, looking out of his depth.  There's no motivation or encouragement from our management team.

Saturday's performance was the most spineless, coward like display I have seen for a while.

 Were you at the Tranmere game ?....much worse.

Yes Reg I was there, but I have deleted a hell of a lot of football I've seen this year from my memory.

I don't even mind going down, as long as we go down fighting, not playing like that.

 That's a good idea...I've got whole seasons largely sent to the mind's recycle bin.....I'll be glad when this season is over,  so it can be dumped too.

There was a time when I could have remembered all our results for the last five years or more. I could have said "Oh yes, I remember that game, this happened, so and so got yellow carded, the weather was really nice/crap etc...." You get the idea. Now though, I look at that really good Swindon web site with all the stuff on there from previous seasons and I see games on there from two or three seasons ago which I have no recollection of whatsoever. I think it's a kind of post traumatic stress disorder kind of thing. My mind just wants to blank it all out.

It could just be the early stages of senility though I suppose :shock:

Did we play Saturday?

There was a time when I could have remembered all our results for the last five years or more. I could have said "Oh yes, I remember that game, this happened, so and so got yellow carded, the weather was really nice/crap etc...." You get the idea. Now though, I look at that really good Swindon web site with all the stuff on there from previous seasons and I see games on there from two or three seasons ago which I have no recollection of whatsoever. I think it's a kind of post traumatic stress disorder kind of thing. My mind just wants to blank it all out.

It could just be the early stages of senility though I suppose :shock:

Did we play Saturday?

 Did you forget you'd already posted it?

The double posting was accidental but it kinda works :D