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I'm still ill so I'm missing what could be one of the best games of the season :/

anyone confident?

nope

not confident at all. I've resorted to bet a swindon/wrexham double result at 40/1, cos i'm rubbish at betting and always lose. Therefore if my bet is rubbish, hopefully the game will end in swindon's favour

Not sure bout today, serious gamblers have Wrexham down as one of the picks of the day which is always a tad worrying.

THat said I think we may well pull a result out of the hat.

We should win which probably means we won't.

Unsure of the team King will be playing today, although the interview midweek had resonances of our own players being picked ahead of loanees.  Proctor goes back tomorrow and Slabber is out of favour, so I would imagine Parkin and Roberts to lead the line, so we should score.  However, with Ugarte in their side, it will be difficult to prevent them scoring.  Brian Howard could also be in a shout, and would certainly be a game to test him in, but more likely Holmes will start, although he too is due to be returned shortly.

Last season was a boring 1-0, with a great strike from our once influential and invaluable captain, Andy Gurney, obviously sold for nothing to an ordinary Welsh League Two outfit.  

I predict an optimistic 4-2 to Swindon Town.  Parkin, Roberts (2) and Howard coming on as a sub for Town, Ugarte and Lleweylen for the sheep shaggers.

Today's team

Steve Book, Sean O'Hanlon, Matt Heywood, Steve Jenkins, David Duke, Sammy Igoe, Stefani Miglioranzi, Grant Smith, Lee Holmes, Sam Parkin, Christian Roberts

Substitutes: Evans, Hewlett, Howard, Ifil, Caton

Rhys dropped for Book, Proctor makes way for Roberts and Ifil switches with Holmes. Nice.

That will be Rhys Evans destroyed then.  Soon Ifil, Howard, Evans and Nicholas will be so alienated we'll have lost them for good, to the place where Gareth Edds is.  Let's hope King brings in some quality next season.

Book certainly deserves a chance but what a sublime idea of Kings.  Drop your goalkeeper after a bad match then sit back and watch his confidence grow.

The chap has been in good form this season to drop him after last week is a tad harsh.  Still a young goalkeeper in the scheme of things I can't really see what he's going to gain by sitting on the bench.

If this precludes to him leaving come the end of the season it will be a travesty I tell ye.

Bloody hell this is appalling.  After last home game you'd have thought the priority would have been not conceding an early goal.  What the bloody hell is wrong with Swindon.  Oh yeh, they're being managed by a clueless idiot.

Fucking Ugarte.

How can I watch or listen to the game for free from abroad ? I normally rely on looking at your posts, but you dont seem to be posting today !

NMH

Simon Pieman someone's has a link on the BBC website, but it sometimes they turn it off (legal reasons).  Or you can get STFC world for 19.99 a season...   8)

You don't want to be listening at the moment.  1-0 and the team riddled with problems.  Book sounds nervous as hell, Roberts hasn't had a touch, Holmes is playing like a 17 yr old.... want me to go on?!

OH FUCKING HELL!Parky seems to be playing up front on his own according to the commentary.

Lita -fucking hattrick already!Bring back Graz!

I feel hopeless-Book apart,this is probably our best 11 players and we're playing shit.

KING OUT For fuck's sake.

2-0 to a relegation threatened side.  I know they've got Ugarte, but one player doesn't make a team, and we should be able to defend against this.  Bye playoffs, bye respectability, bye Sam Parkin and any promising players we've got - and it's only fucking 3.30pm.

Fuck this, I'm off to the pub, bye.

miserable cunts

Parkin just scored his 20th goal. Yay!

Nice one Parkin! 2-1, now lets get going.

Woohoo a consolation.

2-1....

Okay I'm being cynical.  Let's hope this kickstarts a revival, we need a win today purely for self-respect.  If we miss out on the playoffs this season, we at least want to be close - hell if a team slips up, we wanna be there to collect the accolades.

GET IN THERE PARKY!20 UP.

Apathy rules!

Cmon the Swindun!

Are we not 3-2 up yet ?

I take it we are murder! Just back from an 8-2 horsing for my amateur team to find we are 2-1 down at home to fecking Wrexham!! FFS King, sort this out you useless barstool!

Caton's on-COME ON SON!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! 2-2 come on!

COME ON Swindon! 2-2

Parky is GOD!!!!!

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS

Shame he'll be a god for some other team next season. Without him, we would be struggling in the lower half of this table :cry:

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! Get in! Great comeback! 3-2

Smithy Free Kick 18 Yrds

We are. :D

Say's Brian Howard scored on the BBC score thingmy - corrected now. Gaaaaaan Grant Smith!!

Did you ever doubt it ?  8)

NMH

AND SMITH MUST SCORE-HE FUCKING DOES!!!!!!!!!

We would have missed the penalty anyway!

Yeah that confused me too but it was definitely Smithy!

Is it over yet ?

Was the Caton substitution a contributing factor or not ?

NMH

Come on The Town!!We're sounding a bit Iffy at the back

Penalty! Foul on Steve Jenkins

5 minutes added time. :x

PENNO-AT LAST!!!!!!

Parkin hat trick??

Parkin Hat-trick 4-2!
Come On!

wicked :D

GET IN!!

 :D

4-2 up, good comeback.  Certainly changed my mood, though we should never have gone down!

See what happens when you play Howard?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! PARKIN HATRICK! This is great! 4-2. What a game! :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

king outers out!


aaaahaahaaaahaaaaa

2-0 and you fucked it up.

:P

We were still 2-0 down to a team in the bottom half.  We're still a long way off playoffs.  We're still inconsistent.  We still lost 3-0 at home to Bournemouth and Colchester.

Don't mean to be pessimistic on a day like today, but we're a long way from where we should be.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick

Boo!

king outers  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick
 
Boo!

 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

Walrus who gives a toss if we were 2-0 down!

We fucking won! It just makes the win all the sweeter!

Great win today. Wrexham would be mid table if they hadn't had the 10 points deducted and are scrapping for their lives making them a very tough team to beat. A mid table side in a relegation fight is a tough game for anyone. They're also on good form and scored six away to hartlepool a couple of games ago.

All in all, a well weapon win.

4-2 up now :)

Walrus, sorry we didn't lose. Don't cry please!

So baby Ference Pushkas to you, to you !
Baby Ference Pushkas to you....with boots on !  :D

NMH

Ferenc Puskas ;)

So just because Wrexham are in the bottom half they have no right to go 2-0 up??? They scored SIX at Hartlepool FFS!

NO, we're NOT a long way from the play offs (There's no room for error though, granted)

Yes, we are inconsistent.  Luton and Hull are the only teams in this league who are not.  That's why they are top.

Yes, we lost 3-0 at home to Bournemouth and Col U.  So?????

Get a life Walrus you manic depressive :evil:

Spot on that. We're only as inconsistant as most teams.

Bournemouth beat us 3-0 away then lose 4-0 today, Spurs lost 6 in a row earlier this season and then won their very next 5 etc.

There are very few consistent teams but football wouldn't be half as interesting if it was predictable.

Just got back..in my opinion Howard really helped the midfield he was running foward not backwards like Igoe and looked really confident running into the box. He should start against Franchise as should Book he's much more vocal than Evans and his kick is much better..got my ticket for next Friday..come one Swindon!!!

Is it all ticket v MKD or can we pay on the day?

You can pay on the gate adje.

Cheers Sonic-Im definitely going-closer than Swindon for me

I think we can sell that out, only 1000 allocation.

You did. Do you wish you came now?

Can i just say you are the most depressing swindon fan i've ever listened to.

Yes we were losing 2-0 to wrexham who would be a mid table side if it wasn't for the -10 points, you should remember that and also the fact they have scored 5 and 6 in previous matches. they are a high scoring team nuff said.

If you had actually bothered to turn up today you would have probably been singing king out after 30 mins....when will you learn, hes done a fantastic job for us and he will have to do it again next year with a completly new squad next season

I'd just like to agree with Whits..
I've found it as tough as anyone coming to terms with the possibility of not reaching the play-offs this season (although I'm far from resigning myself to another season in League 1), especially following the expectation generated by last season.

I look at the 4-2 today as a spirited comeback against a side in reasonably good form who are fighting to overcome the injustice I'm sure they feel they've suffered.

If we had gone 4-0 up and then conceded two late ones I bet it would have been put down to loss of concentration against a side in goal scoring form rather than anything else. I admit it was hard to stomach at the time but is that not alleviated totally by the final result?

When some people surgically remove their cock from King's arse they might see what I'm say - yeh today great result, am very pleased - well done Swindon.  But people are treating it like we've turned a corner, but looking at the league table, and seeing Bristol batter Torquay 4-1, is just bloody depressing.  That is all I'm saying, yet immediately people leap to King's defence....  did I touch a nerve?!  8)

Okay City battered Torquay 4-1. So what?! Did they batter Sheffield Wednesday?(although it was a cup game) Hull? Brentford? Hartlepool? Stockport?!

All teams have had good results and a few bad ones. If people looked outside of Swindon then they might realise that everybody (bar Luton and Hull) have had a few strange results.

Hell even Port Vale and Luton have had dodgy results, but at this stage we are directly competing with City etc. for playoffs.  I meant that it was frustrating to see them win and win easily, as we're chasing them.  They do play Bournemouth in a couple of weeks, so that game will be vital for Swindon.  Not really sure what result we need, but a win or a Bristol victory would probably be favourable!

Bournemoth are away at Blackpool on Tuesday, and Blackpool are on a fairly good run. Hopefully they can pull another performance out of the bag.

Bristol City's wage budget dwarfs ours, they've also spent more than us and their youth budget alone is similar to our wage budget, yet we are on the same number of points. If we've underachieved this season, there season has been disastrous.

I think we turned a corner in december. Since then our record has been P 16 W 8 D 3 L 5  27 points from 16 games is a decent return and easily playoff form.

Are you serious? That is such bollocks.

It is indeed utter bollocks.

That I'm depressed that we're not in the playoffs?

Sorry...  I'll try and be more optimistic in future.  Must be withdrawal symptoms from Supersonic....

Unless I'm very much mistaken , the season has not finished and the play offs therefore, have not started and at this point NO ONE is in the play offs.

If you supported Stockport you would have grounds for depression. But you don't so PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!

And COME ON BLACKPOOL!

Finally Walrus has withdrawn himself from supersonic!

"Pull yourself together"  sounds like Walrus is having a nervous breakdown.  To be honest I've given up on the PO's but I'm just gonna enjoy the rest of the season.  Roll on Friday!!  Gonna get trollied at MK.