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I'm loathe to say that we'll win 1-0. Any other scoreline just seems impossible at the moment. No doubt we'll dominate though.

0-0  :(

0-1 sack the board :(

4.0

I like being optimistic :D

I've predicted a 3-1, but my head says we'll probably draw  :(

4-1 town

1-1

2-1

3-0  :D

I can see us winning. Looking at the fixtures, we should expect most if not all of the teams around us to win so 3 points is vital and the players will know that.

2-1

Holy shit, H'pool are on a 17 game unbeaten run :shock:

they are indeed. do you remember they were mid-table at one point. just goes to show that if you keep clean sheets like they do and nick the odd goal how many games you can actually win

2-1. last minute winner.  (Arron Brown)  :mrgreen:

Crazy. I suppose you have to look at the positives and say it will end sometime! And sometimes these runs are ended by a team you wouldn't expect to do it so here's hoping it happens soon!

If they lose one they may have a rough patch and now is the time for us to come out of ours. Give them a kick up the arse Mr Sturrock!!!

Form is temporary,
Class is permenant,
As such,

0-0

and we will all be happy holding on to a clean sheet when we could have been hammered.............................................

I've gone for a slightly optimistic:

Swindon 0-65535 Chester

I daresay there will be plenty of people at the game today who will be hammered.

:beers:

:guinness:  :nod:

Shit that reminds me....I better get myself to the pub

Merlin or CGH Si?

Trust office at 1:30 you slackers.

This looking forward to footy lark is weird

I better get going to the CGH for some pre-game pintage, then the Trust office at 1.30.

we'll go one up....create loads of chance and not take them....sit too deep and conceded a goal with 4 minutes to go and draw 1-1

1-0 Swindon

Sturrock Or Hopper

optimistic but i'll go for it anyway!!  3-1 town  :)

1-0

1-1

Have a feeling its going to be one of those frustrating games....AGAIN!

Lets inject a little bit of optimism around here....

Sturrock will have given them all a mighty bollocking after the Barnet debacle, and they'll all work their socks off and put Chester to the sword.

The game will be as good as over by half time.

0-0.

Team in.

Sturrock and Lukas up front. Roberts on the wing. Pook and Timlin in the middle.
Boob on the other wing.

Sharon on the bench. Luke Hopper also on the bench. Good for him!

Reckon we will win 3-0 today,

Sturrock x 2 and Lucas x 1.

I'd say there will be 0:2 unfortunately . It's worse and worse...

Not heard from you in a while Bartington of Bart Hall....

Keeping well?

Robets aint upfront Bartek, meaning we have a more capable strikeforce   :D

Anybody got commentary though STFC World yet?

Here we go....

Just got commentary on stfc, but its terrible

Penalty to Swindon

Jack Smith to take it

1-0 Town :D

Reckon they might score a second? Hehe

Did anyone hear if radio mentioned the orange banners and stuff?

Still haven't got commentary, but COOOOME ONNNNN!!!!!!

Good start. Nice confident penalty by the sound of it.

Fuck me, Jack Smith almost scored a second this time from open play. Good save though...

Lincoln winning 1-0  :twisted:

lincoln 1 up

1-1 lincoln

Who is Hopper on the bench ?

Lincoln drawing :D

Space Hopper  :soapy tit wank:

a youth player.
Who are Lincoln playing?

walsall 1 down

Walsall losing   :wink:

dons up boo...

McDonalds are winning

soapy tit wank ure always a few secs ahead  :D

yeah Lash 3 - 1 StefPol  :D

Im watching sky sports news online neway, so im gonna be a min or 2 behind  :D

Bah! Keeper makes another good save from Skywalker

yeah i got it on le digital

wycombe 1-1

dons 2 up

Yeh your a good minute ahead of me, as i dont have Franchise being 2-0 up o my screen

* Referee in making a mistake shocker *

I've finally figured out this commentary malarky.

Corner...

walsall 1-1

wycombe losing 2-1

walsall drawing

mighty close that time  :wink:

Funny how Wycombe have fallen away since their run in the cup.

I'd rather be doing well in the league thanks.

2-2 wycombe

Late consolation for Stef...

Franchise 2-1

2-1 dons

Dons 2-1 up now.

Fuckers.

Lash won that one  :wink:

i mistyped my message then, or i woulda won   grrrr

Skoolboy error  :soapy tit wank:

soapy tit wank west ham losing 3-0   muhahahaha

Booooooob..........

And Roberts thinks he's a striker....

Oh booby, hit the target. Good play by Roberts... :shock:

0-0 ht hartlepool

You know that one doesn't count don't you?

Come on....Perfect time to score here...

Corner for Town,   come on score before half time

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH

Nearly  :cry:

1-0 half time

Off we go again...

Just noticed this.......Sturrock at the fans forum "I was desperate to get McGoldrick from Southampton - but he chose AFC Bournemouth instead."

And the little bugger scored today.

Results so far resonably good for us i guess

Could be worse. Glad Pools aren't winning, they're in danger of running away with it.

Despite out sticky patch (ahem) we're still in with one hell of a chance of winning this league if we put a decent run together.

Well we'd be 4 oints behind with a game in hand -  thats if results stay the same

walsall 2-1

2-1 walsall

lincoln 2-1 u cursed it ppls

lincoln winning

Definitely Stefs fault

I bet we draw

hartlepool winnin

hartlepool 1-0

Fuck me.

Slack Lash, slack   :D

haha they caught me out going to the actual game, what r they playing at!

gonna watch rugby now neway

TRAITOR!  :wink:

Now is the time to move up a gear. They can't risk just trying to play this game out as it is.

walsall 3-1

Leeds losing  :soapy tit wank:

lincoln 2-2

Why are we gonna make this a nervous finish.

Seems like we are playing well, but it only takes 1 mistake and we will lose 2 points

Is it just me or does it sound like they're kicking lumps out of our boys?

Wonder what odds you'd get for Alan Curbishley to be next prem manager to be sacked

Lucas seems to be getting a rough deal...

They won't be in the Prem by the time they get rid of him!

walsall 4-1

Swindon - PLEASE WAKE UP!

Ifil seems to be playing a blinder

Sharon coming on. Should be interesting...

Roberts going off,  so im happy

Wycombe losing

Red card  surely

Dear Lord,

Please let us score from this free-kick

Amen

Wasnt to be :oops:

You forgot to account for the fact Sharon Clown was taking it...

Apparently he has better things to do.

Hartlepool win

Well doe Smithey

dons 2-2

Dons draing, sweet

Dons 2-2!

Really? Like practice spelling?

Thank fuck for Ifil?

We really shouldn't be relying on last ditch tackles!

Blow the whistle

No, but thank fuck for Ifil!

Phew.

Sweet,  Dons and Lincoln drew.   :D   and we win

Is there a brow-wiping smiley anywhere?

A vital, vital victory.

Third now, another big game next weekend.

Massive game next weekend. But tbh, they're all big games now.

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Just got back, still lacking in the strike force tho i think blair and lukas played well,
I'll let someone eles go into the ins and outs all i want to say is Ifil was imense, didint put a foot wrong all day, apart from right at the end when he redeemed himself with a great tackle,

Ifil defo MOTM.

when Ifil sliced a clearance through to their bloke which put him in on goal with 4 minutes to go I feared the worst.....but Ifil got the ball back.......BEAST!

mom again imo.currently my player of the year :shock:
awful game.what the fuck was the team formation?
our cmid players are not creative enough.roberts is fucking frustrating.and if chester were a slightly better side we would have lost!

3 points is 3 points - But new faces must arrive asap to freshen this season up for us.

I said the same thing about Ifil to sonic after the game.

The formation, was 4-3-3 I thought. Pook, Timlin and Zaaboub as the middle three and Roberts, Sturrock and Jutkiewicz as the three striker. Although Roberts and Jutkiewicz stayed very wide.

I thought the middle 3 did alright considering. I dont think today it was their job to create. They were pretty much told to sit, break up the play then let Roberts and Jutkiewicz do the creating.

Roberts was good, for the first 30 minutes....then didnt seem to bother after that.

Having said all that I thought the defence was solid and Chester never looked like scoring.

(I haven't read through the thread apologies if it's been mentioned)

So is Ricky Shakes the player who will never play for the club again (according to Sturrock after Barnet)?

One got a reprieve I know that.

looked more like 4-1 4-1 to me.luckily chester like you say never really threatend.sturrock was shit imo(backed him as first scorer) :-))(
we will need to improve big time if we are to get promotion

saw matty heywood,shakes,brez,and dave hockaday today in the arkells.
useless info but i thought i'd share it

injured bruised foot apperently

Timlin sat deeper that Pook and Zaaboub....who were sat deeper than Roberts and Jutkiewicz


so, 4-1-2-2-1 then :S


Anyway I thought Sturrock played well, good hold up play. Good use of the ball....some good touches, some half decent crosses. Still doesnt look like the natural finisher we miss. However their keeper made a good save from him first half

he should have scored the header leading to the pen though.the cunt  :)

You could always simplify it to 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 rather than be a cocky arsehole VD!  :D

I think the important thing today was 3 points no matter what. And we got it. According to the stats, Chester had one shot, and it was off-target - indicating some sort of defensive competance from our boys. Ok it sounds as though we should have buried a few more chances but when confidence is low blah blah blah

We need to move on quickly and get some sort of run going now, starting with putting atleast a couple past Stockport, which may not be easy but I think would do us the world of good in terms of morale and ambition

Good game.

If Sturrock had scored his two good chances (Both forcing very good saves from the keeper) We'd all be a little more upbeat I think.

Deffo deserves to keep his place next week (As does Lukas).

Roberts (As usual) was a bit hot and cold, but he'd did put in some great crosses.

Timlin looked more like his old self and Pook was reliable.

Zaboub was good, really good in patches.

Nicholas and J.Smith were both good.

Vincent was very steady.

Ifil was IMMENSE!

P.Smith did what he had to do well (Which wasn't much).

Thoght roberst did ok today, but was a little frustrating at tmes. What did piss me off though, was the midget's behind me insitence to slag roberts off every-time anything bad happened.I can understand it at times, but it was only roberts who this man shouted at, even though others were making similar if worse mistakes. What Really pissed me off though, was smith misplaced a pass, straight to one of their players. And suprise, suprise, it was a case of "fuckin hell roberts u lazy useless cunt". I got so annoyed i got in a huff and moved. :evil:

For lucas - He has talent, his shot in the second half proved that. I dont think he's cut out to be a left winger.

We deserved to win, they didn't have any real chance, typical game for us this season.

Whats that all about?  Cheering Roberts being taken off and having a go at Brown.
I know Robbo can be the most frustrating player at times and his mannerisms make it look like he is not trying at times but he has the pace and skills to damage most defences in this level and above.  Far more effective today as a winger and deserved to be subbed when he starts trying to do fancy turns when we are holding on.  As for Brown he has acted like a right tw@t beginning of season and Tuesday.
At the end of the day they are both valuable members of the dwindling squad and we all want to see success this season.  Why turn against our own?  I cannot understand it?  Let the manager make his mind up on these guys.  We need to get behind them not slag em off!!

I thought that Town played alright, but not great. A win is what we needed and that's all that really matters at the end of the day.

Pook was wank, chasing shadows most of the game and his first touch in crucial positions was fucking awful.

Roberts was great, and then terrible, then great, then terrible. Really annoying, but worth it for when he's good.

Sturrock did very well I thought. Harried and hassled the defenders and held the ball up very well. He;s not the biggest but he's got a lot of fight in him and won't give up easy. Well played.

Lukas looked absolutely knackered by the end. I really think he's wasted out wide though. He did some good things and should keep his place I think.

Man of the match for me was Jerel Ifil. I was away for the best part of 2 years and he looks a completely different player now. His distribution is poor, but then he shouldn;t have to whack it every time, if one of the fucking central midfielders just came back and took it off him then his job is done.

We were some much better than them all over the pitch, but just couldn't convert that into proper golden chances. Got into dangerous areas though, and played some good stuff down both wings. A decent home performance, but a win is a win. Just need 10 more.

I thought Roberts started well but was totally anonymous from midway through the first half until he was substituted, gave the ball away, was lazy, selfish and greedy. If only he could play consistently for 90 minutes.

Otherwise, everyone did pretty well - Ifil was a rock and I thought Pook and Timlin had very good games. Chester played some very quick and short passing football and considering the conditions we dealt with them with ease.

The system was fluid but disjointed as well, time and a consistent starting 11 will help this.

Deserved to win by two or three goals.

Very happy.

Pook played?  :shock:

his lil spinny-turn-type thing with the football by the arkells tho, IMMENSE! if only SoccerAM knew how shit he was week in, week out, that'd replace the Kanchelskis showboat as the best one ever.



roberts was toss the entire 2nd half.

sturrock worked his bollocks off but looked a lil ring rusty still

lukas is the way forward

ifil was MOTM this week, and probably next week too, purely on his performance today. immense.

Pook was really good in the first half but didn't get involved for the entire second half. I know I hate him and also hate him because fatters loves him, but he was out best player in the first half imo

Plenty of people seemed to go off at Roberts for that.  Just goes to show how blinkered people can be when they decide they don't like someone.  

The way the Arkells reacted when the no.9 went up the the board, I thought something had happened that I wasn't looking at.  He's frustrating as hell, and he can be very poor but he doesn't deserve that.

I think 1-0 from a penalty sums it up. It was poor all round.

I think we played better against Darlington a week ago, which worries me. I didnt think we created anywhere near enough chances and there was no real pattern to our play.

Reception Brown got was just sheep following the herd. Dont think anyone behind that goal at Barnet will forgive him. Besides he plays better when we are on his back, the only thing I can remmember all season was that free kick after he came back.

Explain that one? Thats like the people who say the trust members are just sheep following the herd...

On the train home on tuesday we all said that Brown would probably be greeted onto the pitch with raptures of applause from the people who werent at the Barnet game.

The Adver and the club have glossed it over, he's lied about what happened and issued a halfhearted apology because he was given a dictat. Guess they had to, because everyone can see how feeble the board are being in the transfer market. We arent getting any new players. People believe what they want to believe.

All the while, Aaron Brown totally gets away with showing a total lack of respect to the club and the supporters again and gets away with it. Slimey cunt.

The whole thing disgusts me.

I would suggest that this is a passive support (dont rock the boat, hence the sheep reference) whereas the Trust is now about change (aggressive I guess). Cant really see the point of getting into that one anyway.

Brown got booed when he came on and rightly so.Some idiots went over the top and even to the point that when he lost the ball to a chester player they cheered .Now thats just fucking stupid

Another thing aswell but there is a bloke in the town end who is such a cunt i came close to walking over to him to smack him.The fact that he seems to be a bit spasticated stopped me from doing it though

I booed him when he came on and did nothing else, went down the front by the tunnel and applauded the players off the pitch but made a point of telling Brown he was a disgrace, he just stared at me and so did Lukas.

It's out of my system now, I won't enjoy seeing him play for STFC again but I won't boo him again.

not even close, Darlington had the whole of the second half last week and deservedly got a their goal.

We didnt let Chester get in once this week and they didnt have much of the ball either, unlike Darlington did.

After we went 1-0 up there was no chance of us conceding. Where as last week it was obvious Darlington would get back into it

Agree with this post.

I thought we played well. We weren't brilliant but then we didnt have to be.....Lukas was really good and i thought Sturrock linked up well with him. I'd say Ifil just edges Lukas out for the MOTM, due to being immense all game.

I hope that wasn't me  :oops:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: What was he at then macca?

I thought Chester were absolute dogshit. Whereas Darlington were alright.

We created a lot more against Darlington. For me the game on saturday was very stale.

ermmmm

I was in Spain