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lebowski makes his debut in starting off a match day thread and predicts that it will be a 1-1 draw with duke coming off the bench to score an absolute screamer, bringing back glossy eyed memories of his days here at the town.

o.g., of course.

Isn't lewbowski a her?

KEEP THE RED FLAG FLYINGH HIGH, CUZ SWINDON TOWN WILL NEVER DIE>

Never drinking again :|

Dare I even ask????

Going to games is gay. I think we will win 3-1.

setting fire to your work is much more fun, haha

3-0 to us, robbo, shakes and ifil

1 minute's silence before the game for maurice earl, former town chairman.

today's line up is, in goal, number 25, phil smith; number 2, jack smith; number 3, jamie vincent; number 5, jerel ifil; number 8 aaron brown; number 9, christian roberts; number 10 leeeeeee peacock; number 12, ricky shakesssss; number 15, andy nicholas; number 19, michael pook; and number 34, michael timlin.

on the bench today for town... god knows.

Bench is Lukas, Blair Sturrock, Zaaboob, Stewart & Weston

lee peacock is wearing gloves.

roberts too.

zaaboub is on the bench though so can't report on him.

Get IN!! Nicholas!!!!

1 - 0, nicholas has scored a header from a long freekick taken by vincent

hartlepool are also 1 - 0 up away to torquay

Beers are on Nicho tonight  :soapy tit wank:

Good lad!

GOOOOOOOAAAL!

Nicholas. Great start.

oh soooo close

Roberts is still shit. Under the crossbar you plank  :mrgreen:

Peacock header, just over...

all swindon at the moment.

I know this is stupidly early but if things stay as they stand and then we win out game in hand we go top, yay

would be great if we could score again whilst we're so clearly on top...

yep, hope we dont regret not scoring more later on

might be a good time to mention that the pitch is (apparently) looking grassier than you'd expect at this time of the year

Well, if there is grass on the pitch...

the ref sounds like a bit of a cock

There's only one bill power

ffs robersts!

Don't confuse the ref with the Cock  :evil:

apologies  :oops:

i had a dream last night that jamie oliver joined the board as a food consultant, and that we had "jamie oliver flavour shakers" on our shirts as a sponsor.

leeds losing at cardiff.

Hey, them Jamie Oliver shaker things are fucking awesome. Really.

They look like they'd be a bitch to clean!

Also, could just use a mini tube of pringles and a golf ball.

"I was in my kitchen a few years ago bashing up some ingredients in my pestle and mortar and I suddenly thought to myself that even though I love the old pestle, there must be an easier and quicker way of bashing and grinding your herbs and spices together. Some way that isn't messy and doesn't take as much time. I've never come across anything in the shops that has come close to a good pestle and mortar though. I put the thought to the back of my mind, but it kept reappearing every time I was making a dressing or a marinade so I decided to try and come up with my own invention. It started out as a personal challenge but as the ideas came I suddenly realised that I was on to something

It's probably the time factor that puts most of you off making a nice marinade or rub to go over your meat or fish for supper, so that you probably settle for eating something plain, when you could be rustling up all sorts of quick flavour combos to liven things up. Does that sound about right? Or you just can't be bothered to use lots of energy bashing things up, especially if there is lots of mess to clear away afterwards?"

oh piss off jamie.

As if he's that fucking eloquent.

[reality]This geezer from some company came up to me and said "Jamie, you could really cash in after the school dinners thing, and I know you'll put your name to any old shit, how about this see through tin can with a hard ball in it?"

"That would be pucker" said Jamie, "How much moola do I get"....[/reality]

Yea, you unscrew the two parts and chuck it in the dishwasher. A right pita.

  :soapy tit wank:

NO dishwasher  :(

Not my problem  :wink:

Back to football chat, anybody?

FWIW, IIRC, Darlo are unbeaten in seven. IMHO we need an early goal in the secind half to kill the game,



*I've wanted to get those 3 abreviations into one post for a while  :mrgreen:

halifax are winning 3-1 and whaley has scored 2 of them

not really, doubt he's even touched the ball, but they are winning 3-1

Damn wish I'd gone today....  Whats the team today?

He's not even playing.

youd be correct hes not in there 16

Smith
Smith
Vincent
Ifil
Nicholas
Timlin
Pook
Brown
Shakes
Roberts
Peacock

we seem to be playing well 2day.  Fans sound loud

Cheers Cox, I think I'm getting withdrawal symptoms from the County Ground...  I haven't been in 2007 yet.  I must be the worst fan ever... :|

Seconded.

I haven't been to the CG since September 2004, but I do have a good reason for that :oops:

attendance 5,570.

Franchise winning now as well. we must win this.

Pook just wide - when he should have scored - and great save from a Cock header  :evil:

oh ffs

Timlin just wide as well.

FUCKING HELL THEY'VE FUCKING CUNTING SCORED

ffs, it's pook's fault for not using his flavour shaker.

don't panic, blair's on the bench

not for much longer though...

roberts off, lucas on
pook off, blair on

Is there any text commentary anywhere?

Ffs, come on, this is a genuine chance to go top....

Why can't I get Swindon World commentary? I have had to sign in through my mate's Hearts World account but surely you can listen to whatever match you want?

Sounds like the back four have fucked off. SORT 'EM OUT LUGGY

omg sounds like weve gone to pieces

i predicted a 1-1 draw at the start of this thread so there's no way it'll finish like this.

zaaboub stripped off and ready to come on (for aaron brown). is it just me or has he been rubbish since he shaved his beard off?

Theoretically correct. Can you get Darlo commentary?

I can't get any fucking commentary!! I managed to listen to the Peterborough game this way.

Hmmm, don't know then. Mines fine, but I'm logged in thru STFC World. Sorry mate..

The console loads up but under the club's badges there is no option to listen. And I can't seem to flick the audio from off to on! Cuntyballs! :evil:

Those cunting protesters have clearly put off the players.

Franchise drawing now!

please save the anti-protest protest until the end of the game

I'm gonna have an anti-anti-protest protest protest.

Hartlepool winning, Franchise drawing, Wycombe winning. We could do with taking maximum points!

hurrah, I have commentary!

Full time. 1-1

Sign us a fucking goalscorer Sturrock.

sounded like we should have been out of sight long before darlington even had their first shot on target

Stupidly tight at the top, Hartlepool won again, Stockport and Wycombe won to claw their way back into it.

3 'easy' games in a row and we've started by not putting Darlington away. Hopefully we'll get a decent response at Barnet and Chester at home.

3 games without a win would suggest we're in a slump, but we're only 3 points off the lead and have a game in hand.

it will be interesting to hear what those at the game say about the strikers' performance - is it time for lucas and/or sturrock to start, or for a loan striker to come in?

As I said, I reckon we need a goalscorer. I reckon with a 20 goal striker we'd be pissing this league.

Completely agree.  I was thinking towards the end of January that Sturrock was cutting things a little fine in signing a goal scorer.  It was a no brainer...I simply assumed that he would be signing one.  And now we haven't, I think we're paying the price.  There is now every possibility that we may just come to regret not signing a striker come May.

We missed Williams today commanding the back 4. The Ref and linesman was a joke. My final point would be why was not the gate open to let the fans out and a the steward was a right cocky cunt to my dad and to others then some bloke rarred up at him and he got defensive.

We can't score blah blah blah. Should have scored a striker in the transfer window.
Roberts is crap. And lazy. And crap. And lazy.
Pook is crap. And crap. And crap.
Shakes can't cross.
Brown is a cunt.
The referee was crap. And to think we painted his changing room as well.
 :wanker:

Expect to see a series of posts of this nature over the next day or so...

 :groan1:

Must-win game midweek now?

Gutted. We should have thrashed them first half, some really decent chances. Second half we were rubbish, deserved all we got. Peacock had a header cleared off the line when he really should have scored then minutes later Joachim comes on and sets up the equaliser. :x

On the protest front, bit of an anticlimax. Couple of chants of "One Bill Power" nowt else, unless it all kicked off after the match outside the Arkells.

Must win on tuesday.

Michael Timlin gets worse ever game he plays.

Pook is pretty consistent when it comes to crapness

We clearly can't score enough, Sturrock should have got us a goal scoring striker in the transfer window.

Roberts and Pook are crap. Shakes can't Cross and Brown's a cunt

The ref's shit. cast iron penalty.

Must win the midweek game now.

the ref was terrible.on another day we would have won 5-1.
we didn't take the chances, end of.

Yes it was a cast iron penalty and not only didn;t he give it he gave them a goal kick!

The Ref was a complete cunt today, just for a change.  :roll:

GUtted about today - feels like a loss. Played well for thirty minutes just about sums it up. Should have been out of sight, we really had enough chances too. It was an absolute stone wall penalty too, if it wasn't it was a corner at the least - somehow a goal kick was given.

Thought Roberts played well today, was influential in our 30 mins of good play. Peacock really good in the first half and shakes ok too. Second half forget any good appearances from a town player - it was bollocks. Apart from a good cross from Roberts and good header from Peacock that was well saved. Thought Brown was fairly useless.

I was thinking this game would be a draw. Just had a feeling it would be tricky and I think we've just started to fall apart a little in the last 4 or so games. It seems that the 3 or so major promotion chasing teams (with the exception of Walsall) appear to really be kicking on now and I don't think we have enough to compete with them.

And why does Sturrock completely fuck up the system when other teams score? The players look lost when he does that

Without giving too much away (you can see for yourself when TUMDFC is back up) there was never anything 'organised' this week. It may be somewhat different next week...

the club put a shit load of extra stewards in the arkells, fooking nightmare to get to my seat...and they all seamed to be quite angry for some reason

On the protest front, it looks as if numbers are starting to choose the stay away boycott method.

5600 today wasn't it?? not looking good at all

and after that result its going to drop further

and results could dip. There's not much doubt that more fans in the county ground spur the players on more.

We had less than Oxford today.  :oops:

Done it for the last three games and we have completely lost our shape each time. He's got to learn that moving Peacock to midfield does not work and isn't worth doing just to get  Blair on.

Score in a brothel,
We couldn't score in a brothel,
Score in a brothel,
We couldn't score in a brothel.

Nuff said  :-))(

They knew there was going to be a group of fans meeting up at 2.45 in the Arkells concourse, I heard a few of them talking about it. Hence the extra stewards and checking everybodies tickets trying to go through one of the doors up that end. Had a quick look back through some threads on here and it was only mentioned once...by Fred Elliott :roll:. So much for keeping it all hush hush. :wink:

did we lose 1-0 today?

1. Played well 1st half, should have scored 3 or 4.

2. Right from the word go in the second half, we seemed content to just sit back, and to defend our 1-0 lead. This was a mistake, because darlington had nothing to lose from then on, and we were trying to play defensively with a patched up back 4.

3. I know it is often said many times, but that referee actually was THE worst ref i ever did see. Gave endless free kicks for invisible fouls, and then when roberts lunges in at their left back, knee height, he just plays on. Beaggrs belief.

4. Sturrocks tactical changes baffled me again. We needed a goal, and so we took off what i thought were our 2 main attacking outlets, brown and roberts :? . It was then a repeat of the hartlepool game, with the ball coming straight back at us, because the only player who can win a header, was sent to wander aimlessley around midfield. How does that work??? :?  :?

5. Andy nicholas' marking is woeful. At fault for there goal today.

Sounds like we started off well.

People are saying Darlington should have been an easy game but they were on a roll before tpday. I think the fact that we shook them shows we are still a strong side. Just think, had Roberts hit that shot 6 inches lower we would probably have won and everything would seem different.

A win at Barnet and we are fine imo and I will remain optimistic about promotion as long as we stay in the top 4

More like, if we got the penalty it would have been different! We would have won with an adequate ref from the first half alone, wouldn't have mattered if the second half was shite!

When is the game against Barnet ?

Roberts long range effort, Brown firing wide from the angle, Peacock's penalty, Pook blazing wide  :doh: , goalie saving from Peacock's header...another day they go in and everyone's happy.  I didn't think Darlington were up to much particularly the striker who either shot 20 yards wide or completely missed the ball - he made Peacock look like Rooney

Tuesday night.

anyone got highlights of the game.