Thetownend.com

Wow must be the latest matchday thread ever started! 25mins before kick off

Brez

Blackburn
Ifil
Vincent
Nicholas

McGovern
Easton
Peacock
Zaaboub

Cox
Corr

Subs
Sturrock
Paynter
Mohamed
Pook
Allen

where is everyone?

right lets kick things off then the town to win 2-1 cox and easton

1-1.

I won't be here for the whole game....better half's birthday  :beers:

At the game by the sounds of things!

After last game's youth team debacle, poor old Arthur Hunt has no co-commentator at all today it seems.

15 minutes left at work then leg it home for the com.

Explain...I wasn't here....

Poor Arthur. Shame my subscription has expired and I can't listen to that sour old cunt any more....

Micky Pook (At least I think it was Pook, they never actually mentioned who it was) commentated the first half, spoke a bit but sounded incredibly thick. Got replaced at half time by Mark Scott (Keeper) who spoke about three words in the whole half.

Wrong. It was Kurt Hammond first half with his delightful monotone Yorkshire accent....

I stand corrected. Kurt Hammond sounded as thick as anything.

I'm reliably informed that a number of people can't log in. Rich and DV being two....

For those of you refreshing at work, nothings happening.

I couldn't get on until I switched browsers. Must be something to do with the browser's cache

I haven't a clue what's going on as Birdys wireless dongle thing broke when the laptop accidently hit the floor. And this buggers got no sound. Marvelous.

Soccer Saturday it is then.. Are we losing yet?

Im sat down on my phone while my girlfriend shops for shoes. The fun!

As much as I want Blackburn to be good, for the Jesus/Buddha connection, he just isn't and every time Hunt says his name I half expect them to score.

Oh god, Kurt Hammonds back.

Haha, he sounds really thick!

Arthur - "Mark has joined me from Swindon...."

Kurt - "Uhhh....Nooo, its Kurt. Duh..."

He just stops randomly in mid sentence.

I did try to warn you.

Its Ok.

He's my new hero.

Kurt for the first team!

He's hardly likely to be Einstein if he plays for our Youth Team, now is he???

thats if he sticks around! Good player few prem clubs looking at him

I don't know how much we spend on our academy but it must be reasonably profitable at the moment: Sol Davis, Matty Collins, Lukas Jutkiewiz, Leigh Mills and Ben Tozer all within the last five years or so have gone for a reasonable amount of money.

Sol was well established in the first team though.

One of my favourite players actually.

and Kurt and Lloyd Macklin are prob 2 of the most promising out that list

what list?

On the other hand, we did manage to let Theo fucking Walcott go without a sell on clause. And then Rupert Lowe had the temerity to moan about people stealing youth players after he'd got 12 million for him.

nemo listed what youth players have moved to bigger clubs

and the two you mentioned weren't on it  :roll:

You reckon Kurt and Lloyd are better than Juggy and Mills then?

That's pretty impressive. I know Macklin is lightning quick, but don't know much about them really.

Bit of a close call there, Bourmuff are definately getting on top.

no i compared the 2 i mentioned to his list

Yes!

BARRRRRRRYYYYYYY

Yes!!

Considering Corr's got a broken back he's playing brilliantly at the moment.

Awesome.

I do the washing up and we score.

I'll take it mind.

WOOT!  :beers:

"We are Fitton's red and white army" ringing out very loudly  :D

Damn, equaliser.

Arse.

It had been coming  :(

Kuffour always scores against us.

Now we need another.

Actually...phew.  We were perilously close there to having to consider Byrne for the manager's job.  (Smiley thing, winking. etc etc)

I was thinking that, but would never say it out loud  :?

Leeds losing :)

Just in case anybody is interested, we're getting hammered at the moment.

Bugger.

Yep, it was coming.

2-1 muff.

This kid, Mark Scott, like, y'know, makes me want to kill myself.

Text from Fred: JP is a cunt. Fact

Jason Pearce?

Bollocks! I really don't think I can listen to that twat commentating any more he sounds msometimes like hs's happy were losing! :cry:

Good God, I go upstairs to be the ill wife in bed, and Bazza scores again!


Cox to sign off in style with the winner?

What a time for TEF to crash! Get in, come on lads!!

Red Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarmy!

A few observations from today...

Man U losing, and Spurs beating Reading 6-4!

Arthur Hunt just told me Kaid Mohammed was trying to strip the defender.

Dear lord.

2-2 by the way, and Barry Corr is a deity.

Reading and Tottenham have scored 10 goals, 6 of which have been in the last 10 minutes.

Tape set for MotD then!

Full time. Crikey that was dramatic.

2-2.

I'll take that. And it means that Budgie doesn't have too much ammo to be the next manager!

7 points out of 9 over christmas so far. I would take that.

Agree Ultra,considering we're played two away on the trot as well,and Bournemouth beat Orient on Boxing day as well.

Have to admit i questioned the signing of Corr,not for his ability but for his fittness.Hope he continues making me look silly  :D

Meanwhile Paynter looks like a steam train with no fire. What the fuck has happened to him?

Yep, you've got to be happy with 7 out of 9. Similarly, I would have gladly taken 4 points from the last two away games on the basis of getting a draw at Yeovil and a win at Bournemouth. It just so happens it worked out the other way round.

Bring on the Taffs. It should be a corker 8)

probably the more Match fit he has got the more poor he has played.

apparently we were shit and got lucky today.

Just got back from the game.

Bournemouth are probably the worst team i've seen Town play against.

First half we bossed the game, but just lacked that creative spark in midfield.  Bournemouth had the best chance of the half, but that was due to Swindon's defenders misunderstanding eachother

Second half we started brightly, and Corr then scored a sublime goal. Then we scored a second which was ruled out  for some reason.  I think it was either offside, or a foul.

From then on, Town decided to sit back on their lead, and let Bournemouth attack them at will.  Bournemouth duely accepted this invitation, and scored 2 goals.  Town then realised they had let their lead slip, started controlling the game like they did in the first half, and Corr scored his second.

Al in all, a draw is a crap result, as Bournemouth are definately a bottom 4 team.  

Also some swindon fans had a fight with the police, and the police won  :x

Secondly i wouldnt be surprised if a championship team put in an offer for Corr, as he as well as Bournemouths black player (number 10) were a class above the rest of the players on the pitch

Let's be honest, that was a crap Matchday thread.  :D

I thuoght ifil was a class above the rest, bar his distributions, im in a rush to get out, so i'll post more later.

Cox's goal was disallowed due to a foul which to be honest I don't think was a foul. Seen goals gven in worse circumstances.

Ifils distribution was shocking today moreso than normal (although hes a class defender and I would never replace him) and Zaboub was a lazy bastard.

All in all 7 points from 9 is bloody superb and they all should be very proud of themselves.

Yeh i couldnt see how that was a foul.  I thought both players were tussling each other, Cox won the battle and then scored the goal.  

That was the crucial moment of the game, as after this, we sat back and gave Bournemouth too much respect.  If Cox's goal was allowed, we probably would have scored another 2 for sure.

it was definitely a foul.

i was behind the goal, and it was about the only thing in the entire 90 minutes that i had a good view of.

i thought the referee had a very good game actually.

although having said that, he didn't really have anything to do, other than pluck 4 whole mysterious minutes of added time from the sky.

Did you have to wait in the stadium after the match ?.  I was gonna stay right till the end, but after the problem the Town fans had with the police, i was worried they were gonna keep all the Town fans in the stadium for 30 mins or so.

I left just before extra time, and watched the last 4 minutes outside the ground.

Why did the police and swindon fans have a fight in the first lace as well ?

well the police tried to keep those behind the goal back, but everyone else was let out with no delay.

and as for the the incident during the game... don't know for sure, i think it all started up after someone walking behind the stand got a bit gobby, and some fans tried to go round the side of the stand to continue the conversation.

Agree with Stef, Bournmuff are definitely a bottom 4 side but we made them look good by sitting back.  Why do we always seem to do that whenever we take the lead; it just invites pressure.  Once their 2nd goal went in we decided to attack again and thoroughly deserved the equaliser.  I sh*t myself when that header hit the post at the end though.

On the plus side Ifil and Corr were superb.  On the negative Zaaboub was absolutely gash. Makes me laugh that he plays in his lucky gloves - imagine how crap he'd be without them.

Tried being the word! They kept us in for a few minutes but as soon as we started shouting they let us out.

Stewards today were excellent: friendly, polite and helpful (All except the twat who tried to stop us smoking around the back of the stand)

I can't say I really agree with stefpols summary I don't remember us dominating the game at all really....

I've came to the conclusion that Byrne/Williams are incapable of getting us to play a first half. Similar to Yeovil the first half was utter gash we didn't string 2 passes together and bar his distribution Ifil was pretty much single handedly playing them. Zaaboub wasn't fit following his injury so carrying him for over an hour didn't really help matters.

Corr scored a scorcher which should of been the catalyst for us to go on and score more but we just stopped, let them play are they scored twice following schoolboy defending. The ref had blown for the foul by Cox about 10 seconds before he scored so can't judge what would have happened about that.

Luckily we managed to scramble the ball in and equalise but lets be honest it was a god awful performance but luckily Bournemouth were THAT bad they couldn't capitalise.

I guess it depends what you mean by the word dominate.  We certainly did not create millions of chances to score, but neither did Bournemouth.  But for 70-75 minutes of the game, i thought Swindon controlled and bossed the game, and were the team who looked more likely to score.  

Bournemouth did well from the time Cox's goal was disallowed to the time they scored the second goal.  But for me, i think Swindon had a few more gears in them and should have comfortably won.  When Corr scored the first goal, i fully expected Town to get another 1 or 2, as Bournemouth had to take chances which would leave gaps in their defence.  However the whole team sat back, and allowed Bournemouth chances to score.

Hopefully Fitton will appoint a new manager soon.  Whilst the results from the last 3 games havent been bad, we haven't exatly played tough teams.  Todays game (as well as Brighton at home), would have been the kind of games which if Mr Sturrock was in charge, we would have got 4 points minimum from.

Will be interesting to see how we do against Swansea on Tuesday

Should have made it 2-0. I thought Cox used his body well. I thought the ref penalised him unfairly 3 or 4 times.

They had more chances, but their finnishing was woeful.

Barry Corr, top man. Goal of the season.

Peacock - the best game I've seen him play for us in a defensive midfield role.
Zaboub and JPM - give us absolutely nothing.
Brez - kept us in it.
Corr- fucking class.

Thats about it really, everyone else was average.

We did well first half, as bournemouth had one bloke up front. When they changed and played 442, it was totally different.

Bournemouth were a bit negative.

There was a matchday thread when the game was on yesterday? The site was dead i thought?  :shock:

it was dead all day yesterday for me.

Me too. I'd never been so bored.

well i say all day, i was out from 10am to 8pm.

If Corr doesn't score for the next few games we'll all be calling him useless again.  :D

http://www.football.virginmedia.com/page/leagueonevideo/0,,12555~1202409,00.html

What a goal  :D

that was never a foul by cox, we should have had 2 in the first half. :x

you missed out ifil, thought he was immense

he's always immense - that is his average!

Superb goal.

Still can't see why Cox's was disallowed - Ridiculous decision!

Disappointed not to win, as I thought Coxys goal was legit, although dean court is a bogey ground for us, only one win post war apparently, 4 points from 6 is good though, I though Muff's subs changed the game we were cruising until then IMHO.

their no 10 was good

Just watched the highlights on stfc online, and corr's goal looks better and better every time you see it,

Cox's disallowed goal was a joke, as he didnt foul the player at all

 i thought Vincent was excellent-specially first half

Having seen it again on TV I think the Cox decision is even worse. The defender should have booted it clear and Cox picked his pocket. Nothing wrong with that goal.

I concur Spence