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Please let us win this one!

Got to go and pick up my lad from his grans in Andover soon, then down the local before heading to the Arrow.

We can win this. 2.1.

herthab didn't reply to my Christmas day text, so quite frankly he can do one.

Think we'll lose though.

EDIT: He's bigger than me, I was only joking you wanker.

1-1 Draw.

0-0 draw, see you all in the Arrow in a bit after the Boxing day fry up!

Please please can we win this one against Yokelvil I want to wear my Swindon shirt with pride in Yeovil and Chard this week :)

3-1 to Town. You lot are so pessimistic  :mrgreen:

I'm getting over a particularly nasty Christmas cold, so my Yeovil ticket is going to be unused.  I'd settle for our first away win at Yeovil in 45 years.

 I remember that one....17 year old Don Rogers playing his second game destroyed them.   Winning on the notorious Huish slope was quite an achievement.   If that had happened today, we'd have sold him for 500K rising according to appearances.

 We have only played there the once since.

I looked it up on soccerbase!  Before my time, Reg.

a nice tight 1 - 0 will do me.

 It was the FA Cup...we got through to play Everton at the CG  in R4....26000+ think Everton won the league that year and they mullered us. 5-1

 It was also the last time we had really heavy snow which hung around for a long time.

 We played QPR around then on  a pitch of rolled snow, with blue lines, the players wore basketball boots and some even wore gloves it was so cold.

Has anyone else spotted that Moonraker is showing at 3pm on ITV1?  I think this is a good omen - we should, at least, have a good 2nd half.

 I don't recall that one being about the recurring theme of Wiltshiremen trying to avoid Customs and Excise, but with our away record, we need all the help we can get.

Reg

Are you implying that - in playing games with HMRC - Diamandis (and Hillier before him) was simply guarding an age old Wiltshire tradition?

3 minutes to go. As there are not many people online is anyone actually listening to give updates?

i've still got the shits :(

i'm listening.

I've got flu....I'm allergic to Swindon.....

part timer!

:soapy tit wank:

I'll take a draw today.

who's the guest commentator on brunel?

have they gone through the team, because Mohammad seems to be playing!?

Kurt Hammond - youth player!

Teddy is playing, Zaaboub is out.

fucking hell that's scraping the barrel

Desperate as Arthur is usually the co-commentator

The team:

Peter Brezovan

Miguel Comminges, Jerel Ifil, Hasney Aljofree ©, Jamie Vincent

J-P McGovern, Lee Peacock, Craig Easton, Kaid Mohamed

Simon Cox, Barry Corr

Bloody "World"-Norman Collier fucking commentating again!

Ifil's committed 3 fouls in the first 3 minutes!

My STFC World Subscription runs out in two days. Thank fuck for that and Merry Christmas to me!

kurt hammond sounds like a mong.

fucking hell i hope we get RS back.

We should send a petition into Mr Fitton  :D

not being harsh but is that guest commentator a bit, well ermm... special.

Is anything actually happening in this game?

Surely STFC by giving the commentary rights to Brunel should technically expect a decent service and so far the service i.e. commentary has been poor, and with them supposedly being "official media partners" I'd suggest they are not holding up their side of the deal.

Have we had a shot yet?

Umm no fairly evenish game by the sounds of it so far - Physio is no now, Arthur got excited !!

dick matick?!?!

Easton had the best chance I think, shot wide after good work from Cox on the left. Gotta love RS updates.

They sell them in Ann Summers ;)

haljofree

is arthur drunk....?!?!

Ricky Shakes?

....its only a matter of time  :(

And you may recall that Ben Lambert conducted a survey of the service earlier this year. I suspect he got a barrage of complaints. He certainly did from me. Has anything been done? You be the judge.....

In all fairness to Brunel FM, its not their fault that the commentary keeps breaking up. Thats Premium TV's fault, and did exactly the same as frequently when Radio Swindon were doing the commentary.

As I said earlier, I won't be renewing my subscription when it runs out in two days.

turn over to the yeovil commentaty mate. Pro commentators and no annoying loss of sound

oh dear  :(

The curse of the centre back strikes again. Nicholas on for Aljofree.

nicho on for aljofree  :(

Noooo Aljofree off for Nicho - not sure who is going to play where, assume Vincent will move to centre

Aljofree seems to suffering with asthma.  That's all I know.

Edit:  OK - he's off now!

I was right..Vincent into the middle

correct.

In my opinion that's jamie's strongest position.

Thats a disturbing reflection of our predicament if Yeovil Town, not long ago a conference club, are more professional that us......even if it is only their match commentators!

With Vincent there to fill in, the loss of Aljofree doesn't worry me as much as it would if say Blackburn was covering  :shock:

You got a good point but it does show we need to stregthen in a few positions though - and get rid of those that are just not good enough

is that gary alexander with a hat trick for millwall  :shock:

....yeah Fat Gazza!

Is this Pook commentating? He sounds as thick as pig shit.

shit off the post

most footballers do

the yeovil commentators are observing a ref bias towards yeovil. apparently a few dodgy decisions have gone against us

Phil Smith was alright last week, I thought.

Any got a username and password for STFC World?

My usual stolen username and password isn't working :-(

u have a PM

Co-commentary was so awful Brunei changed it at half time :D

If I meet you Tans - it's a pint or two from me  - Cheers mate  :D

Ah - what a great accent we really have...
I'm stuck in Carlisle this christmas and I really miss the old wiltshire-twang  :mrgreen:

who is it now then?

did the other guy forget the game kicked off at 2!!

Mark Scott, Youth team keeper. Very monosyllabic.

So its got to the point where even the injured first team players won't go on Brunel, so they have to rope the kids in. Or maybe its a christmas thing, you know, delegate the job to the kids whilst the injured first teamers spend the day with their families.

if I e-mail then nicely do you think they'd let me do commentary next game?

Pelternay the Frenchman? Your making it up Arthur, he's called Peltier and he's English :/

We should get a forum co-commentator. Hanrahan did it for BBC a while back, remember. Rob Tuck might have done at one point as well.

and scouse.

you'd be great as you talk as much shit as they do :wink:

Probably. Seems like the players would quite happily give up the job!

I know Paul Davis and Tony Norris have dome commentary before with the BBC...

 :D

fuck off...

I'd renew my subscription if you were co-commentating Dan....... :mrgreen:

We need an injection of passion in the commentary box

I'd get the Marie treatment. You'd all start to bitch about me  :(

did he just say Millwall 0 Swindon 0?

Whatever hapenned to Marie.

she drove past me the other week....so she is alive and stuff.....

Corr just got fouled and the commentator says "Corr's got to be careful as he's already been booked"-what is he on?

mmmmm Marie(in a Homer-like drool)

I hope they're not paying Scott by the word or he'll have to go Carol singing later.

YES!

1-0

CORR  8)

woohoooo barry corr!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

BARRY CORR
BARRY CORR
BARRY BARRY BARRY COR
HE GETS THE BALL
HE'S GONNA SCORE
BARRY BARRY CORR

Woot!!  :beers:

i was just about to switch the radio off in all.

I just turned it on :D

o come let us adore him !

we are budgie's red and white army...

:beers:  :beers:  :beers:

o come let us adore him,
O COME LET US ADOOOORE HIM,
BA-ARRY CORR!

Oh come let us A-Corr him  :D

just spoke to stfclady she said corrs goal trickled over the line :D

0 0 then.

they only count if they hit the back of the net.

All rightie,

Just got back,

Oooh where winning, and we beat Hatrlepool as well.

That's nice.

yeovil player sent off

eh? i only went for a fag, whats happening?

Yeovil Captain Skiverton sent off.

Nice of Brunel to tell us why.

just because yer losing

just because yer losing

BBC saying that Skiverton lashed out at Barry Corr.

did he just say "the referee singing your not fit to referee"?

Barry off to a nice boo, Paynter on

Yes he did.

corr off for billy paynter

He did. I do try not to sound like a broken record bashing Brunei, but really.

He also said it was a polite way of saying what they were singing when it just plain was what they were singing.

is this coxs' last game for us?

Allen for Momo

P*xford still not scored - must be at least 6 months since their last goal   :D  :D  :D

Bournemouth on 29th I think.

Swansea at home - he has already said he's pleased so he can say goodbye to the fan's properly  - I hope we can extend the loan or buy him though

I think he said on RS earlier that he was able to play on New Years Day. I wasn't listening properly mind, but I'm sure I heard him say something like that.....

how long is left now?

5 minutes

4 mins of added time

Four minutes of added time.

90 secs of ordinary time.  BBC RS are now commentating live if you want to listen there.

Good shout. How do they get away with that then, pretending to be highlights?

ole ole ole ole boooooo ole ole ole

No idea!  Never listened to Brunel, but this is the commentary I know & love.

Brunel are pants, i hate not being able to hear the game here up north, i hope Fitton ditches Brunel and brings back RS.

Ahh decent commentary  :soapy tit wank:

rs commentary is fucking ace :D

Oh Ed, how we've missed you.

Loud singing from Swindon  :beers:

wisemen say :D

:D

woop

get fucking in

Revenge for that terrible home loss to Yeovil  :beers:

GET IN THERE YOU BEAUTIES!

Thanks for that, a nice surprise Christmas present.....

Gents - a career in football punditry awaits me.

:beers: I can survive the inlaws coming round now, safe in the mind that 3 points are in the bag.

Has Comminges clarified his name? Everyone's pronouncing it to rhyme with Blamange now.

FT

supermarine 1 ciren 0. fuck off you northern cunts.

 Fucking magic that....brings tears to the eyes.

great win! thats 6 points from 6 now...

Bynre in?

Fucking great result. Have it.



No.

Will Oxford ever score again?

Thanks santa - three presents in one week  :beers:  :beers:

He's just called Paynter a squad player.

I don't think that's very fair.

 You really should know better.... :evil:

I know.  That was entirely my fault.

On a happier note, if results stay as they are we will go above Huddersfield, Hartlepool and Tranmere - up from 15th to 12th.

City getting a thumping too.

Bormuff are beating Orient....which could be a good thing as their home record is dreadful.  I'd sooner they get a result today rather than Sat.

luton are down to 8 men at bristol rovers, and still hanging on for the draw...

(no doubt i've jinxed them now)

When Cox goes I think he'll be a regular starter-not sure whether thats a good thing though

Well that was a game of 2 halves!

1st half we were crap, they were as crap but hit the post with a good effort.

2nd half we were all over them, well for 40 minutes anyway, we came out on fire and everyone played better after the break.

Brezovan...catch the bloody ball man..otherwise he did nowt wrong at all.
Comminges...got better as the game went on, worked the line well when he got over the half way line along with JPM.
Ifil...Immense
Aljofree...Stewart had the better of him early on and got injured early on.
Vincent...did better at centre half than at fullback, did ok.

McGovern...1st half he wasnt there 2nd half he tore them apart with some trickery and did very well.
Peacock...1st half poor 2nd half did ok, made some good challenges but gave the ball away a fair bit too.
Easton...not the best game I have seen him play but didnt really put a foot wrong in the second half, good passing and moving forwards.
Kaid Mohamed...1st half he was attrocious, 2nd half was one of the best player for us skinning the right back at every chance, improve his corssing and he will be a good winger.

Cox...unbelieveable work rate, great passing and reading the game, great run and crosses, man of the match by far a goal and he would have 10/10.
Corr...did well, took his goal well but too was lost first half. had a lot of niggles with Skiverton until Skivvy thumped him full on and deserved to go, trickled his goal in beautifully!

Nicholas...looked composed and attacked well a good game.
Allen...didn't hardly kick the ball when he came on.
Paynter...looked lethargic but overall did ok.

to sum it up...1st half 3/10 second half 9/10, about 1,000 Town fans there in good voice in the second half outsinging the home yokels and that bloody annoying drum!

Well happy with that result!

PS...great to see Fred and Hertha again and a very merry christmas to you all!

that's two good wins in a row, fair play to byrne. he can still GTFO out though 8)

Just got in, immense second half, McGovern and Mohamed were abysmal and sublime in the first and second halfs respectively.

We absolutely must sign cox, he got the reception he deserved at the end, workjed his nuts off.

Ifil was brilliant, Nicholas changed the game when he came on - a left back who can actually get forward!!! Proof today that we're miles better without that overrated muppet Aljofree.

I wonder if Fitton has been doing the half time team talks for the last 2 games. We seem to have played well in the 2nd half for both of them  8)

we used to play better in the second half under sturrock as well.

often teams use the first half to have a look at the other side.

it's a bit like a music festival, you use the first 3 or 4 songs to get the sound levels right.

that doesn't make any sense, how can a left-back improved the side in the absence of centre-back?

aljofree is a solid centre-back, disagree entirely. he's been playing all season with a succession of injuries as well so fair play to him.

byrne said on the radio that aljofree is still poorly.

poor hasney  :(

get well soon.

Because Vincent was excellent when he moved inside, looked more solid than Aljofree, he's quicker than Aljofree and he doesn't always hoof the ball straight out of play (OK he's a hoofer but not as bad as Aljofree). It also meant Nicho was at LB and he's more effective there than Vincent on his day as he gets forward. Nicho was superb today as were our back four in the second half - a direct result from the catalyst that was Aljofree's departure.

That sounds like I've got a huge downer on Aljofree - I don't - however I think we look better without him and if Williams was 100% fit he shouldn't play.

Just got back from the morgue that is Huish Park!

Agree with JJ's sum up!  Also agree with Sonic, Aljofree is a quality centre back and when fit we are most definately better with him in it!

His problem today was that he was struggling to breath from his illness!  Needed to keep taking stabs from his inhaler! Unless it was a mini bong they had going on the side!

Anyway, 3 points! Onwards and upwards!

fair point. however, vincent has as much composure as a bowl of jelly whereas aljofree is the complete opposite, he knows when to hoof it out of play but is equally capable of slowing the game down, taking a touch and using the ball properly.

vincent is horribly one dimensional when he plays left-back, he can't get forward and his distribution is shocking. not only that but he's error prone and his positional sense is questionable at times.

my only complaint(s) about aljofree is that he can be a little cumbersome at times, his communication isn't brilliant either but that's a theme throughout our side.

in summary, vincent's shit, nicho's decent, aljofree's ace.

byrne said he's suffering from a chest infection as well. combined with his asthma i'm surprised they took a gamble on him to be honest

that was a good second half and a good away win. we weren't convincing for the first half but we deserved to win over 90 minutes.

First half was woeful against a decent team we would have been in big trouble luckily Yeovil were far from decent.

Their sending off was bizarre to say the least......the ref gives them a free kick goes up field ready for it to be taken, then runs back to speak to the lino, who then sends him accross the pitch to speak to the 4th official. The ref then runs back up to our box (by this time I'm thinking Corr is going to be sent off) but to my suprise the ref sends their captain off. Then to finally make it all the more bizarre he reverses the free kick award and gives it to us. Was truely one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen and am still not sure what he was sent off for.

Second half was much better with a good goal from Corr after a good through ball from Mohammed (who unfortunately is way out of his depth in this league). Should have got a few more and were almost punished at the death when Owusu almost got his customary goal against us. Good win and good day out but a new manager is a must though as can't afford to keep starting games slowly.

 :soapy tit wank:
That would be his Yorkshire accent.

aljofree is probably the first name on the team sheet.and rightly so imo.

No Simon Cox should be. Oh he isn't our player. Fuck.

if yeovil had a decent center mid they would of gone in ahead at half time imo. we gave them too much space too often, they just never really capitalized though. Second half on the other hand we were different gravy. cox was full of running and mohammed actually got past his man and looked threatening, instead of passing it to the nearest green and white shirt as he had done all through teh first half

Commingues motm for me, closely followed by peacock. And we still continue winning on boxing day 8)

and it was agony waiting for that ball to cross the line!

it took an absolute age to go in.

i had time to say 'is that going to go in?' and look at my watch before it actually got there.

He gave Bazza a slap!

I can't be fucked to sum the game up, but other points of note:

- Yeovil is a shit hole
- My sat nav is crap
- Thanks to R4E for the Hoi Hoi Hoi hat, I'm still wearing it
- Fred didn't get let in (John Moorhouse is a dead man walking)
- I started the Simon Cox 'sign him up' chant at the end of the game

Fucking brilliant day out.

Cox - Superb gives 100% - first man to applaud the fans and last man to leave the pitch.  Should be playing for us on a permanent basis.

Massive turning point for me - rubbish first half but Byrne and Williams clearly sorted it out at half time(as they did against hartlepool) so deserve credit.

We actually defended a lead as opposed to sitting back on a 1 nil lead.  Havent seen us do that in ages.

Kaid did well in 2nd half, good pace.  Nicho was good when he came on and they adjusted very well when Hasney came off - very pleasing.

Ifil was Ifil, immense as usual.  Vincent did well as well, happy with him in the team now.

Peacock and Easton worked hard and Allen looked sharp when he came on.

Absolutely chuffed with 3 points and 6 from 6.

WELL DONE THE REDS!  :beers:

what happened?

True story

First half was shocking and I couldn't believe our players got clapped off after such an inept performance. The only positive was that we'd restricted their shooting opportunities.

Second half we were much better. Good goal and Corr should quite blatantly have had a penalty for a late challenge from behind. Kaid got into the game more and we actually put them under pressure in their own half.

Referee had a shocker. Gave dodgy decisions both ways - Corr should probably have gone too as he got involved in too many little scraps having already been booked, we should have had a penalty, and quite how he gave that as a corner to Yokel instead of a goal kick I will never know. Apparantly Skiverton punched Corr so I guess he got that one right!

I expect Fred was off his face, so they didnt let him in........just a guess like.

Correct

...and of course its because he was part of the trust, has had dealing with moorhouse and its personal....nothing to do with him being off his face.

Who is Moorhouse?

if it wasn't for john moorehouse, today's game wouldn't have gone ahead.

only if its written in alphabetic order!

eh, why

You what?

Fred was no more pissed than me, yet they let me in and not him.

I thought he'd disappeared in 1974!

i thought he was in iraq  :?

i saw him at a game and asked him how iraq was. he then lectured me for about twenty minutes about life, the universe and everything before proclaiming that the only reason yeovil allowed today's game to go ahead was because the STFC stewards agreed to help.

in other words, we must bow before him and kiss his feet.

i suppose thats to do with it being a catagory A game. i felt really initimidated in and around the ground, so all that policeing and extra stewarding was worth it, just to make sure it was safe  :-))(

Has he apologised for that yet as I find that quite sick to be honest

no, he insisted he was stitched up.

How can he be stitched up when he admitted the ID was his and sent the message from it..........what a dumbass

Yeovil come across as a pathetic non-league club, complaining about the cost of policing, trying to ban us from the match initially. OK the cost were high but every other club has to fit the bill.

i don't know. it's none of my business and not my problem.

he's obviously got some sort of superiority complex, i'm sure that in itself will be his downfall.

Back to the match. Cox and Corr are fantastic, loads of hard work, determination, running the lines, and class to go with it.

I think Kaid had the match of his life! Its interesting to watch him, but I cant see him making it still. Hope he proves everyone wrong.

Someone mentioned clapping the players off at Half time. Im a bit sick of our crowd booing at HT. It should be reserved for when they are 2-0 down at half time. Not 0-0. Away!

Didnt see any police apart from in the away end, so Im not sure what the x thousand pounds was for. Plus Swindon were half asleep.

I didn't say we should boo, I just prefer to reserve my applause for times when we look like professional footballers. In the first half, we rarely did.

Just noticed that someone said Aljofree is the first name on the team sheet and another said Cox. It's worrying statements like this that leave me concerned that our most consistent and dependable player of late will be over looked again for player of the season.

There's only one player who continually gets called things like immense and fantastic and seems to have been strangely (based on the early years) consistent and excellent for the whole of last season and all of this one so far.

it was a travesty that he didnt win it last season....

......he only didnt win because all the woman want the cock!

i know, sturrock is class, i can't understand why he didn't get it either.

Nobody (even myslef here) has said how amazing Ifil played. We would have been in a lot of trouble had it not been for him.

Cox was man of the match in my opinion, but when Nicho came on he had a very good game as did Vincent (who moved into the centre- this guy is a central defender surely).

Obviously big Baz had a really good game and Mohamed was poor until the second half where he suddenly realised how to take a man on. I'm not sure he was better than Allen though. Quite how the adver gave him 8/10 is beyind me.

I'd give teddy 8 for the second half but 3 for the first half.