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As I'm on a roll.

We'll lose 2-0. Both their goals will be in the second half.

1-1. We'll nick it on penalties.

Town 0 - Charlton 3

I think a tight one nil loss.

i'm going 2 nil to Charlton, town get a player sent off.

i agree with ben 0-2

Brez to save 8 penalties - Town through on penalties.
2-2 aet (Town win 5-0 on penalties)

We'd technically win 3-0 on pealties  :wink:

0-3

Swindon 1 Charlton 2

0-3

   FB to sit in the CGH garden and drink Guinness.

   Me to be pissed off about not being able to go in the TE, and there to be a fucking queue for tickets  :shock:

0-3 (h/t 1-0, goals 28, 64, 78).

Going for a 2-1 loss also.

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/preview/0,16374,1772_2658975,00.html

Interesting that Pardew is playing his team from Saturday - in for a good match with some good opposition.

i think we will nick it 1-0.

Lose 2-0

3-0 ifil hat-trick  :D

I reckon Ifil will score an own goal

Lose 5-0.

I think its going to rain tomorrow,that and no TE cheapness means I doubt I'll bother.

I was looking on Charltons message boards and although I can't find any threads on how they think they'll get on, they were talking about how bad the weather is due to be and how the Stratton Bank has no cover!

Reminds me of when Wednesday fans got soaked when we beat them 3-2 coming from 2 goals down with 15 mins to go.  :D

Swindon 4 Charlton 2

Swindon 1-4 Charlton

Brezovan to score from a goal kick.

0.0.

Out on penalties...............

That's actually against the rules. Sorry to disappoint you.

I think we'll lose but we'll put up a fight. Tmorrow our team is likely to consist of people who need to impress to get into the first XI so they will give it a real go. Hope Charlton fans get soaked...unless I've been moved to the front of the Arkell's, cos then I'd get wet too  :(

Didnt Bruce Grobelar do it once? Ok well its gonna take a deflection on the way in so it counts.

2-1 win. they don't like it up em!  :soapy tit wank:

I just checked and it seems I was wrong! You can score directly from a goal kick, but not into your own goal - in which instance the kick is retaken

if its anything like my FM07 game we will win 3-2, Aljofree will score twice and Arrieta will get the other. After 28 games Aljofree has scored 11 goals from centre back :shock:

2-1 loss, go 2-0 down and battle hard to get a late consolation - an encouraging display.

1-5-Arrieta to score and piss everybody off that he wasn't playing on Saturday

Charlton are playing their first team for this.

We're gonna get humiliated!

We won't mate.

We will probably lose, which is only to be expected. but I will be very surprised if they score more than two.

Not that they'll need to.............................

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at least 5 - 0 to town.

At least  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

at least.

0-2

0-2

Each half? So 0-4 then.

2-1 to Town, Brez saving a late penalty

What he said.

0-2 :(

1-3 arrieta

0-1

0-2 Bent & Reid.

God you lot are all such a negative bunch of cunts.

We will win 2-0. :beers:

teams are up tozer plays pook on bench and booby as well so the leg was not that bad. However chalton have a full team out gonna be tough

3-1 charlton :(

what are the teams? im at work, anyone know where i can listen to it? anyone wanna lent me their world password pleaseeee.

Whos ben tozer :?

chubbs - pm me

yoof

cheers, you can remove it now

im thinking 2-0 chalton  :x

2-1 to Charlton tonight, not confident and not a big crowd, less than 5,000 I think.

im thinking we are going to get dicked  :wink:

5000 is well poor i was thinking at least 10 thou not good for an x prem team

Every day is a winding road? This is strange pre-match build-up

what's the starting line up?

i can't get brunel fm

Oh yeah. We're gonna win 2-1, just you watch, all the pressure's on Charlton after their disappointing start and I don't think they're gonna care too much about today it'll be more of a team-gelling session for them.

How good is optimism?

Fucking shit build up to the game .... again

Line-up's on the OS. Some youth bloke Tozer starts at CB

CB? whos on left?

Aljofree at left back

Oooh, I may have got confused, could well be this Tozer chap at LB then.

Yes, Jerel and Hasney at CB

Edit: Fuck knows

Has this become the official match thread? does anybody know how I can get the match commentary online? (I dont have STFC world)

COME ON TOWN!!!!!!!!!!

there are some big names in the charlton line up... moutaouakil being one of them. i cant honestly think of any living person who has more vowells in their surname.

just assumed a straight swap for vincent.

Tozer at left back  :oops:

The commentator just said it about 18 times in a row

Tozer def at LB then

so is tozer LB or CB?

oooo, another town player with a z in their name. we lose lucas and gain ben.

i wonder if he's related to...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/images/2005/05/26/faye_tozer_150_150x180.jpg

wonder if he's related to...    i hope so shes mighty fine bosssss

LB, I had thought originally Comminges would be at LB.

Comminges sounds really funny on the commentary, although they've started to pronounce the G like a G instead of a J

i think it's fair to say that the test of time has well and truly proven that faye was always the connoisseur's choice in steps.

Didn't she used to have shit hair? Like some gash blonde dreads?

seem to be pretty confortable, roberts and cock seem to be having good games.

tozer not so much.

Shame... It's nothing that can't be sorted with Vincent on the bench.

Not a Viveash debut though is it ;)

Paul Walsh who is watching the game on Sky says we've probably shaded it. Peacock, Roberts and Comminges having good games but our final ball 'awful'

Beeb reported bar that incident young Tozer has done well.

See the poison dwarf Cureton has bagged a brace  for Norwich at half time..

...and as I mentioned in another thread - Sam Parkin went off after 43 mins... An injury, Shirley?

anyone eles' world gone down?

Birdy just text me to say Cum in minges hasn't had a good game. She is a woman though.

Yep, as usual. I've given up, just listening to radio swindon now.

back

Sounds like Ed may have some news in the morning regarding the takeover.  Meeting in London today that apparently went well and he has a meeting post game.

So it is. It'll probably crash again in a minute.

SLOVAK NUMBER 1 SLOVAK SLOVAK NUMBER 1!!!!

would you think that in advance of a takeover being announced, that a press conference would be announced?

if that makes sense...

Was a bit sketchy but it came across as if something could be announced for the morning.

Ambrose has scored for Charlton. :evil:

Must admit the Beeb highlights are fairly good and I've got a bit of Bruce born in the USA rather than the normal chit chat to listen during the dull moments.

Sturrock out :D

Shame - I was beginning to BELIEVE! Not over yet.

i tell you what dazzza, you just cant beat a bit of The Boss

2-0 now.

fatman andy reid i see

i was boooooooooorn in the pmh

from what i can figure, we have played well, i've got no quarms abuot that, concentrate on the league.

I will believe it when i see it just another fob off. :x

2 out of 2 for Mystic Ben!

We await Saturday's result oh-mystic-one

:D

Thought we were poor today. I didn't expect us to win really but we didn't play well, especially in the second half. We didn't create much and once Roberts went off we were never going to score. Thought Easton looked ok as did Aljofree. Brez played well and showed some signs of old.

Why did he take Roberts off t 1-0? To rest him for Saturday? Easily our best player tonight. Wank substitution.

Zaboub was dogshit.

Tozer looked out of his depth in the first half. Came into it in the second half.

Why keep Sturrock on the pitch so long. It would have been nice to see Arieta for longer. We know what Blair can do.

No Blackburn or the Prophet. Thought that strange.

Easton did OK, didn't rate Adams that much but he is still gaining match sharpness. Didn't like that pairing though, no attacking flair.

Played alright in patches, should have scored at least one, particualrily in the first half. Charlton controlled the second half but we had a couple of half chances.

I must say I am suprised with the lack of Blackburn (injury?). He didn't look at all bad against Exeter.

Meh. First half we were probably the better of the two sides, second half charlton stepped up a gear and we looked lost in the final third.

Referee was a bit of a tosspot.

Young tozer did ok i thought, commingess showed some nice touches one moment, then looked absolute gash the next.

Izale Mcleod wins a dodgy lookng penalty, suprise suprise  :-))(

Can't be too disheartened, we certainley didn't embarress ourselves, just proved we need more imagination in the final third

The MInge was gash tonight (excuse the pun). Probably our worst player.

I thought the cunt was offside for the penalty

A good account of the game.

We played well today I thought, some of the passing was superb. We we are really toothless in the final third and despite some neat passing we just have no cutting edge.

Pook seems a bit sharper, and I was really impressed with Easton. Peacock gave the ball away far too often.

Aljofree looks a very, very good signing.

Taking some positives from the game, I thought Jack Smith did well especially towards the end, Aljofree looked good and Brez was solid.

Roberts was doing well until he got subbed off, certainly looked our most potent threat going forward.

At least it was a good competitive run-out prior to a potentially very hard game against Luton - last time they were here Fallon scored a cracking own goal.

What the hell happened to Pook and Comminges between Saturday and tonight? They were both absolute fucking dogshite.

went out sunday you see   :wink:

Pook didn't look that bad.. Did a few good things. Was dissapointed with Minge.

However (I may get stick for saying this), but Sturrock must have given Roberts a huge kick up the arse pre season because he's looking fucking good at the moment. We lost the plot a bit when he went off.

I was impressed with some of our passing though. Despite what some say, I rate Adams and Easton really impressed me today aswell.

Roberts was our out ball all night, then we took him off and got penned in our own half.

roberts was quality, then for some reason sturrock swapped him with comminges, thought that was very odd, as comminges looked wank after that, although saying that i recon once he's bedded in he'll be a class act.

zaaboub looked crud, shame.

tozer looked able with both feet but seemed totally incapable of playing the simple ball, instead choosing to spank it over the top to sturrock.... who is shit.

considering peacock is now a central midfeilder therefore 'makeshift' up top, that surely renders sturrock our first choice striker while corr is out. that's very worrying... we looked almost totally devoid of ideas in the final third throughout and i really couldnt see where a goal could come from.

main positives for me was steve adams (my MOM) and aljofree who was superb tonight.

What the hell did Sturrock say to them at half time, we got worse and worse as the game went on.

Once Charlton took the lead we clearly had no interest in winning the game and took off our only player who looked capable of doing something which wasnt hoofing it up the field.

First half was good, second half wasnt

The best moment of the night for me was when Charlton played the ball back to Weaver and as he kicked it some bloke behind me yelled 'Shouldn't you be cutting hair?'

I found it  :soapy tit wank: at the time.

Did you really think Adams was MOM?? I thought he was poor 2 be honest, liked the look of Easton tho. Aljofreeeee looked good as well.

Comminges was poor, especially once he'd been booked.

Roberts i agree looks like he has a desire to play again, looks in the mood, cracking balls, shame we have no striker to nod them in...

brez - much of a muchness

smith - muchly much of a muchness
ifil - caught out of position a couple of times, something i thought he had eradicated from his game
aljofree - a footballing centre-back, not much use in league one but had a good game. may struggle against more physical sides.
tozer - played well, although looked a little lost at times.

roberts - finally showing the sort of form that we saw when he first signed. sublime.
adams - effective, good in the tackle, works hard.
easton - anonymous.
comminges - woeful, not interested in taking players on, terrible crosses.

sturrock - nothing needs to be said.
peacock - looks like a central midfielder trying to play up front. not good. why did he keep moaning at gesticulating at his teammates? it was like watching igoe again.

arrieta - oh...
zaaboub - lively but mostly ineffective.
pook - touch of a rapist.

What game were you watching?

can't remember.

Easton, was better than Adams, until he got shoved righ handside...which isnt his position

aljofree looked solid whilst defending but seemed to lack any vision moving forwards.

I thought Adams did a good job - just sat in front of the back four and soaked things up - we were difficult to break down and v organised, especially 1st half - and that was down to his positioning. 2nd half they came out and realised that the best way through us was down the wings, attacking Tozer (who did well for a kid) and to a lesser extent Jack Smith who got little cover in front of him.

I was expecting Easton to get on the ball more and be our playmaker - an Orient fan I know said he ran the game for them last year - but saw no sign of that at all. Hard working enough, just didn't see enough of it.

Dissapointed with Commingues, but he'll be learning. Aljofree looked the business.

We'll go down unless we sign some proven strikers - probably with the lowest goals conceded of any relelgated side

I though pre season was suppose to be finnished? That was a dull game.

If we dont score in the first 20 minutes against Luton we will loose again.

Personally, I think the reason people are having differing views over Adams and Easton is that they kind of look a little bit like eachother, and neither have lumionous pink boots, or a ridiculous haircut. Basically, I found it hard to say one was good/bad, but their definitely looked a hell of a lot more effective in midfield together than we have done for the last couple of seasons. Adams had a lovely left footed shot in the first half that went just over. The only issue is, neither will really run with the ball, so we are very dependant on the wingers.

Brez was good apart from one missed catch

Aljiofree was very good. Didn't look out of place against higher league opposition. Looked to bring down the ball when possible, and put his head in when necessary.

Ifil was quiet, didn't do anything too daft. Nice to see Aljiofree taking a bit of a leading role instead of Jerel.

Tozer poor in first half, but got better. Some poor distribution though.

Smith was ok.

Roberts was brilliant. I presume he was rested for the weekend when he was subbed.

Minge was pretty poor. He looked like he liked to run at a player against Exeter, but showed no signs of this and mainly punted the ball about 4 feet above Peacock, or attempted an outrageous cross-field ball that ended up at the feet of a Charlton player.

Sturrock. Terrible.

Peacock. Almost as bad.

In conclusion, we need a striker, and some more black players. Reid, Ambrose and Weaver were the only white guys they had. I hope thats not racist. Just an observation really.

I didn't need to go to the game. I already knew the result.

Agree with you there, although I thought Easton looked a lot more composed than Adams and produced some very neat passes.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/matchreports/season0708/display.var.1617986.0.swindon_town_0_charlton_athletic_0.php
The Adver have rewritten the score
To be fair to Tozer he was playing out of position and their right winger was tricky and fast.  At least he could pass with both feet and trap the ball which was beyond Sturrock.  The Cock worked hard again but I wished Barry Corr had been on the end of the chances he had in the first half.  Roberts was quality, liked the look of Ifil and Aljofree in defence.  Didn't really notice Adams or Easton (apart from his shot) - we had our hands full coping with Charlton's movement and control in midfield. The Minge was good and bad and Jack Smith had a fine last 10 minutes but looked utterly indecisive for the rest of the game - why doesn't he read what Roberts is going to do and overlap more? .  A great double save from Brez more than made up for the dropped cross in the first half.  I didn't think the Boob was that bad - he provided a bit of a spark when Roberts had gone.

I think J Smith deserves more than a 6 TBH.

My marks ..

Brez 7 - some great point blank saves
Smith 5 - poor crosses
Tozer 6 - good enough for a youngster on debut
Aljofree 7 - looked a good reader of the game
Ifil 6 - didnt dominate as usual
Comminges 5 - didnt impress on debut unlike Sat as a sub
Easton 5 - pretty anonymous
Adams 5 - likewise
Roberts 8 - set up some great chances for the Cock looked up for it
Peacock 6 - worked hard but missed best chances
Sturrock 4 - looked unfit and very poor indeed

Subs - Pook 6 - never really got going but did more than Easton and Adams
Arrieta 5 - hardworking but ineffective
Zaaboub 4 - awful AGAIN! really out of sorts lately

He was starting to make me nervous whenever the ball went to him.  It seems to take him ages to make his mind up what he's going to do.  This might be because other players aren't giving him any options but I need a bit more convincing

Easton and Adams anonymous?

What game were you watching Fatters?

Zaaboub was OK, makes some good runs but is a bit frustrating. I think him and Roberts have swapped bodies in pre-season.

I think it was more a case of charlton being cack first half, much better second half.

Fats your adoration of Pook is starting to wear a bit thin-both Adams and Easton are far superior to your idol-for a start they can both control a ball

no i disagree .. Pook is looking our best midfielder right now

Case closed.

Pook is noway our best midfielder and will never be at this football club with the current options we have.

Last night when he came on demonstrated that.

yeah and he was crap on Saturday too wasnt he?? thats why the adver gave him man of the match ... I expect him to start against Luton for sure

I thought Pook played well again last night. He is obviously not better than either Adams or Easton though. Been impressed with his contribution so far this season.

I predit Sturrock Jr will be the new Pook.

No, no, NO!!!!!!

Pook is not a good player, and certainly not a first choice first teamer.

He won't start that many games this season.

Read the post properly.  I said last night, no mention of Saturday.

I still wouldn't have given him MOM Saturday anyway.

I think he looked terrible last night and Im certainly not changing that opinion for you or anyone else.
One good performance does not make him our best midfielder!

I am one of Pook's biggest detractors, but i will freely admit he played like a League 1 midfielder on Saturday, and wasn't bad last night.

brez - Wasn't worked too hard but did make a few good stops and almost saved the penalty. Shame about that one missed cross

smith - I think he did okay, and the main reason he wasn't getting balls into the box was the lack of bodies in there to pick out
ifil - Fairly quiet but made a couple of important challenges
aljofree - Pretty solid
tozer - Had good and bad spells but did pretty well considering it was his first game

roberts - MOTM. Made runs, put (mostly) good balls into the box and would have been lethal if we had a decent striker for him to pick out
adams - Did a job quietly and effectively
easton - Same as Adams, they are quite solid as a partnership
comminges - Looked lively and exciting to start with but as soon as he got the card he faded

sturrock - Wank. Gash. Crap. Drop him now
peacock - Should have put us 1-0 up, was a bit out of sorts

arrieta - Need more time to judge his attacking abiulity but he certainly pressured the Charlton defence
zaaboub - Made a few good runs in a short space of time and I think people are being harsh on him
pook - Came on and gave the ball away on several occasions. Made one good touch to set up a shooting chance but taht was about it


Overall we did ok considering Charlton have some very good players. We probably edged it in the first half but there's no denying we looked completely lost up front, especialy towards the end. Hopefully the new investment will see that sorted out

there only being legal and making sure a spacker gets one :wink:  equal opportunities and all that