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2-1

Corr & Cox

I have a feeling Cox won't score  :?

I'm going 1-0 Grazioli 90th min OG.

:fishing:  i wanted a bite within 5mins, delighted i got it, bit dissapointed u didnt get that Corr isnt avaible to, but oh well

Well done  :clap:

Wasnt sure if the ban kicked in so soon as sometimes it doesnt straight away.

You cheating cunt.

iirc they changed the rules about 2years ago where suspensions were instant

0-1 to Barnet.

i was hoping that Puncheon would have joined leeds before this game

only red cards are an instant suspension, 5 yellow cards etc are delayed by one match.

i'm a little concerned about the comments attributed to our players, it seems they all have an eye on the fourth round draw already. today's adver has a feature on williams' semi-final exploits (again) and the last few times we reached the fourth round...

that'll a 2-1 defeat then

just so i dont look thick i knew this, was refering to Corr which was a straight red  :)

Just so you know, im thick.

Banana skin written all over it-Paynter and Sturrock up front,no chance.

Swindon 2 - 1 Barnet. Ifil and Roberts (if he plays) for us and Graz for them.

People need to lay off Paynter. He's had an unsteady start, but he could still be a good player for us. I rekon he'll score tommorow and we will win 2-1.

The Stevenage 1998 connections are scary though. 3rd round, at home. Graz. Fairclough. Barnet/Stevenage same part of the world. If its rain/howling winds tommorow then Il be a bit nervous.

Plus away at Barnet last year was a disaster.

shit, this games today? fuck. i swear it was tomorrow

1-0

Blair Sturrock 30 yarder.

4-0 town. paynter 2, peacock and hasney.

I'm feeling optimistic. and just so i don't jinx it i'm stating that i could have jinxed it which automatically cancels the jinx.

2-0 to the Town; Paynter will get at least one of them

1-1, sturrock with them equalising really late after we totally dominate. man utd at home in the 4th round, we lose in the replay.

You can't go starting a matchday thread on a non-matchday. Christ, SY's OCD will start kicking in.

2-1 - Easton, Paynter, att 5801

It will be a tough match tomorrow, no doubt. I think we will scrape through, but what do I know.

Actually one thing I do know is I am looking forward to it immensely. It's all about the football at last  :beers:  (well, until next Friday when they won't announce the deal completion until 11:59pm).

A bit of optimism never hurt anyone and I like the fact theres positivity around now as opposed to takeover doom and gloom.  Were easily good enough for 4th round and no reason why the players/staff shouldnt have aspirations for it.

i've spent all evening putting my DVD's into alphabetical-chronological order by name of film. it was really tricky because i wasn't sure where to put my music DVD's - do they warrant a section of their own?

how can you do alphabetical AND chronological?

you should go for auto-biographical a la High Fidelity.

films that form part of a series, i.e. LOTR or harry potter. instead of purely alphabetical, they're sub-categorised by order of release

so Star Wars goes IV V VI I II III?

i wouldn't own the abominations that are the prequels. in fact i don't even own the original trilogy.

how's that for an answer? interesting question though. in my case i would have to order them in plot sequence.

but then it's not chronological!

i refused to buy episode one because of the binks factor.

You ever watched Spaced Andy?

2-1 tomorrow, not going to try and predict scores, just that we'll make harder work of it than we should.

i've got all the dvds ian, love it! i don't think i've seen anything with simon pegg in that i didn't like.

oh and i'm glad someone picked up on the binks factor!

i've got some fucking jaffa cakes in my coat pocket!

it makes me want to join the rough ramblers.

Awesome. I love quoting Spaced cos I'm really sad. My favourite currently is when the gf gets on my back "Get off my back will you, you're like Jabba's little mate!"

you mean Salacious Crumb of course. i would have thought Tim would have known that.

usual midday at merlin chapps and chappeses

or maybe earlier.

"Mine's a pint of the black stuff"

"You can't drink a pint of bovril!"

 :D

skip to the end...

i just watched hot fuzz....i thought i was going to be disappointed.

you Lando.

What the fuck happened to this thread then????

3-0 Town. Barnet suck goats.

Won't be in the Merlin, sorry.....

2 - 0 Town

Paynter, Peacock

6001 crowd

Desite the usual bollocks coming from the OS, Barnet ARE NOT 'doing well in the league' They're 14th and have only won once in their last 5 games.

Which means we'll probably lose...........................................

...and they haven't won away from home in 6 games.

2-1 town.

colchester away in round 4.

Looking forward to this one, if only because it's a cup match and so I can listen to the whole match on BBC RS.

Yay I had forgotten that BR thats cheered me up a bit, bloody Brunel are soooooo amateur.

billy to find his scoring form again.2-0 paynter with both

i do love the fa cup.

some respite from the slog of the league, with the possibility that we may get a sexy tie in the next round.

tonight's match of the day is one of the only ones i watch all season.

is it a retain your tickets jobbie today?
aint heard or read anything but it makes sense

i'd hold onto the stub just in case. you just know it'll be an afterthought if we get through.

When is the 4th round draw?

Monday at 1.30pm Gaz mate.

Well if we can win then this truly is a great chance of fantastic financial rewards, much greater than a lot of people realise.

When Burton went to Old Stratford for an FA Cup replay with Man Ure 2 years ago the cut they took from the game was....

53,500 crowd (nowhere near capacity so 4th round may even be nearer 70,000) gave them gate receicpts cut of £600,000 so with a full house 4th round tie the cut will be nearer £800,000-900,000 plus the possibility of being televised which brings in another £150,000 on Sky.

A grand total of around £1,000,000 for one away game would be a fantastic start to Mr Fittons new chairmanship and may well even let us buy another player or 2 as well as securing even better security for the club finances.

GOOOAAAAALLL!

(only joking, it hasn't really started yet!)

Well Mr Fitton has just been on BBC RS and he hasnt totally made his mind up but is pretty sure on his choice.

It IS NOT a manager currently in a job so that rules out Ling and Nijholt ad it is also a manager who has achieved things so that must rule out Allen.

Phew, glad you mentioned it is on RS, had forgotten it wouldn't be on World.

Come on lads, let's polish Barnet off today and then get us a good tie in the next round. I fancy a nice London away day... or a CG giant killing!

Why has BBC RS coverage cut off?

Not just me then...

refresh and its fine

Me too  :(  :(  :(

It's just where they switched the stream to UK only ...

Bangkok - you won't be able to get it unless you go via a proxy

STFC World is working....

Thats why I have a problem too then.....HELP!

Makes a change

Nicky Nicolau....

Could the curse of the previous players come back on Swindon again?

Just think that Shakes couldn't score usually, but the moment he played for Brentford against Swindon, he was the first on the score sheet!

Ifil injured? He's hobbling around on a sore left ankle by the sounds of the commentary....

Off the line by Barnet - nearly a goal for Easton....

We're on them like a fly on shit

cue the counter attack goal then....

Alllllllll bbbbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyyyy mmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyssssseeeeelllllllllfffffffff

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I had to read that about three times to understand it, but I got there....

How come BBC Wilts is UK only today? I would have listened to the last round no probs. Did something change recently? Unfair to expats!

Here Here!!!

What he said innit.

BOOOOO!!!!!

25 minutes of only me posting - I think that's the lowest amount of traffic the Townend.com's had since it launched with the amount of shit that gets posted on here!

Actually mine cut off last round, but I had the STFC World backup (not a great backup granted). I've since let my World subscription lapse..... :|

I'm trying to get "Hide IP Platinum" downloaded and working. Might do the trick!

Coxy made the bench for Reading v Spurs. Cuptied now ... maybe we'll get him cheaper?  :-))(

The FA Cup commentaries have always been UK only - if it's gone out worldwide before it's been because of a mistake.

Jesus what a boring game ... Phil Smith and his crazy life is more interesting ...

One word. CUNTS  :twisted:

Magic of the FA Cup indeed, there's not much going on today....

Notable magic so far

Blackburn 0 - 1 Coventry
Bristol City 1 - 1 Middlesborough  :|

No real upsets so far then...

Shit! I'll probably end up in Liubianka now. Unless I can edit it in time ...

Not really the BBC's fault ... they're just doing what the contract says :)

Don't care, they're still cunts.....

It's their fault for not making the same mistake!

The thing to do is get a uk IP.  I will have a search for you, what browser?

Let's PMA a goal (for STFC of course!) All expats together, on the count of three chant onnn mannny pobriommmm!

1...

Firefox. Thanks.

Half-time then....

We should be winning I think.... but we've got Brez to thank for still being at 0-0...

and towards the Townend in the second half - COME ON!!!

2....

Have to wait for the second half for countdown to continue.

can u pm me ur msn, i will add it then guide u through it, unless you know how to do it already?

I take it Hide IP Platinum didn't work then BR.....

What about us IE7 exiles? Poshalusta?

Good luck. I tried 'proxifier' when I used to be in the US but it wouldn't work with BBC.

NMH

Sadly, all this shit is more interesting than the game itself, apparently.....

I can't seem to choose which country I want, just Random IP's mostly in China and Turkey!  :shock:

The game is a shocker to be fair

Lateral Thinking Dept: If all else fails why not conference call on e.g. msn or skype with someone listening to BBC.

3. onnnn mannnny pobriummmmm it's in the back of the net.

Peacock & Sturrock both off the line in the 1st min of the 2nd half

Have you chaps had any luck with your proxy software?

NMH

No, can't be assed tbh.

Nay, my IP is now displayed us a UK ip. But bbc still ain't having any of it.

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was the problem I had with proxifier......Sturrock header just over....SA slaughter WI by 7 wickets

NMH

Sturrock scores

goal sturrock!!!!!!

At bloody last

STFC Manc just tried tha for me, couldn't hear though!

Commentators hope that game will open up now...Hmmm!

We did just score, didn't we?

Ooohhh, we scored. Ace!

Oooh, at least we have the good ole' TEF to full back on eh expaties?

1-0 Town (Sturrock header)

I know what its like so dont mind typing lots when I can.....17 mins gone in 2nd half.

Just mentioned Paynter's name - First I have heard of him!

Free kick 5 yards ontside box onm left.....

Cleared

How nice. A goal. Seems it takes 17 minutes for PMA to travel from Russia to Swindon. I'll try again in a minute.

Bangkocker ... Did manc have his mic near the radio? Don't think you can pick it up if he is listening on line.

Pinball in midfield

Barnet chance missed....Barnet making a couple of subs. Two strikers swapped - No Graz yet.

It's strange being able to listen online - boring isn't it !!

When did Pook come on?

 :wink:

Paynter 'flattened' by keeper - no foul

(Are you enjoying this?)

NMH ... you're doing a grand job.

But FFS next time say whose free kick! You just can't get the staff nowadays  :P

Yes - Phil Smith sounds charismatic doesn't he (Mr Monosyllabic)

Swindon corner (better?)

Cleared (by Barnet)...Boob regained and got fouled. Free kick Town

Take a gold star

JPM crosses - Aljofree heads behind - Goal kick Barnet

1. onnnnnn

2. mannnnny

Im only a two finger typist ! Town free kick on 1.2 way line.

3. pobriummmm it's in the back of the net!

Wait 17 minutes ....

Sturrock off - Roberts on

The times I've 'sent' commentary this way, I've just selected the wave output on the Windows sound mixer to do it -- rather than putting a mic next to a speaker!!!

Phil Smith contemplating getting yellow boots!

Barnet 3 up front

15 mins to go - Free kick Town on 1/2 way .........Sounds shite game...No atmosphere

Great, Shitty losing now  :mrgreen:

Tried that but no matter how much I wave, both hands, still don't hear anything. :(

Barnet chance called back for offside

Birchill scored but the flag was up. Straight aftyer Barnet had another chance. Still 1-0

scum winning 4-0 :shock:

Paynter offside

Boob off for Teddy

Kaid to score in 8 minutes ....

Crowd quiet apart from the odd jeer

Barnet frrekick - Brez drops but reclaims

7 mins left

gay

barnet score birchall

bollock

Bugger - Barnet equalise

10 boring minutes to go - Paynter 25 yard snapshot into keeper's arm -.....

Keeper kicks it out to Birchill who puts it into the top corner - 1-1

Twats ... sitting back, got what they deserved.

Bugger!

Come on Kaid! Vibes almost there ....

Swindon in sit back on lead shock (NOT) :evil:

Bugger  :twisted:

5 mins to go...crowd now come to life - Barnet fans anyway!

Peacock fouls 3 players and then Ifill gets booked for kicking ball away ! Barnet free kick - cleared - Teddy !!!!!

70 yard run through several players - Shoots high - Still 1-1

Aljofree booked - 5th yellow !!!!! Suspension coming up

1 min left -0 Barnet free kick

3 mins of added time

Barnet offside....We're trying but dont seem to be able to string passes together---Barnet 45 yard shot beats Brezovan - goes wide

Birchill offside again

Barnet attack - 'Barnet finishing strongest'...Barnet look the only winners!

1-1 FT

Bring on Pook! :)

Not good enough, frankly.

God, that sounded shite! @nd half all Barnet. Swindon sounded as if they weren't trying. Sat back and couldn't create anything.

Off to rest my index fingers now - They are throbbing like mad after that!!

Hmmm, a reply away to Barnet. Lovely!!!

I'm not commentating on that!

Sounded poor, but we should have a new manager in place by the replay and maybe a new player or 2.

 :wink:

Thanks from all of us Nmh. Hope the throbbers don't spoil your evening  :wink:

Sounds to me as if we don't have anyone either in midfield or up front with a bit of spark.

NMH

Nah! Use the thumbs on the remote control - I'm too old to get the opportunity to use the 'throbbers'!

NMH

what a contrast compared to swansea. When will we learn that we look so much better not playing long balls to slow can't jump paynter and always offside sturrock. We n
missed corr badly and bring back cox.

what a contrast compared to swansea. When will we learn that we look so much better not playing long balls to slow can't jump paynter and always offside sturrock. We n
missed corr badly and bring back cox.

bah, that was poo....again we played so great football but cirtainly showed we missed corr and coz upfront.

sturrock worked his bollocks off as usual,

kaids run was amazing, even when he missed everyone stood there with this shocked grin on their faces.

i can be arsed to say anymore, shuold have could have blah blah

Just got back. Why do teams sit back on 1-0 leads? It never ends well.

Plenty of negatives but to take the positives, McGovern and Comminges seemed to understand eachothother well and Mohammed's run was the best thing I've seen him do in a town shirt, and the shot wasn't far over.

very piss poor game, well done to Our idiot fans booed that blair sturrock as he went off despite scoring, Sturrock was brilliant IMO today and ran his balls off. Zaaboub was awful. Jerel looked injured. Paynter should have went off instead of Sturrock although I understand why he stayed on, Once he scores he will likely keep going then and build up confidence. Mohamed's run was great and was unlucky not to score. Comminges looked great again along with Brezovan.

I really don't fancy going to Barnet, last seasons match there was the worst game I have been to in years. I fancy us to get a great draw in the 4th round and then lose at their place now!

And why is the draw on a Monday out of interest? Its much better to have it either on the Saturday or Sunday at 5.15.

Im in a bad mood now  :cry:

Agreed, Sturrock didn't deserve and grief for his efforts today. Minge and JPM seems to work well, agreed on that.

Not sure what Brez you were watzhing, the one I watched had a bit of a poor game.

Those morons who booed Sturrock and slated him all game despite keeping us in the hat for round 4 deserve shooting.  At least the lad gives his all and puts in effort.

Zaboub also getting slagged off when I though he was far better than JP today.  

Paynter was poor IMO.

Hasney and Jerel were ok, nothing outstanding and Peacock and Easton didn't do much wrong.

Mohammed as Ive said enough times has potential and today he made the most of what he could and looked impressive with that super run.  Like to have seen him come on earlier to see what he can really do.

Roberts looked up for it today but again, like to have seen him come on sooner.

If Mohammed had scored from that run then it would have been absolutely mental.

Sturrock had a decent-ish game but both our strikers missed a couple of sitters today.

I thought Paynter did his job. He isn't quick and that's his problem, but he was getting his shirt pulled and climbed on at seemingly every challenge yet he still won the ball many a time.

HOOF!

What a pathetic performance after such a good showing against Swansea. We got dragged down to their level which was a shame. It brought back memories of last season which i had up until now just about managed to get out of my system. We looked good for patches but most of the game saw a return of the hoof ball style.

Sturrock did OK. I wouldn't say he was amazing but he did a good enough job and put the effort in. I didn't hear anyone boo him but then i was probably half asleep when he went off as the game was that bad. Zaaboub was a joke today. The more i see him play the worse he gets it seems. I can't remember the last time i came away from a game thinking he'd actually played well. Mohamed's run was great. Best thing he has done since he came here and he was unlucky not to score.

So a replay and tbh it smacks of Boston 2005/06 when we drew at home and lost the replay 4-1 at theirs. Hopefully history will not repeat this time out.

we should of been out of sight before they scored. paynters free header in the first half, zaboobs chance in the first half and sturrock hitting the bloke on the line from 2 yards out. After we scored though we just sat back, and the defence started looking shakey. No-one really took control of the long ball by their keeper, and birchal scores what looked like a pretty good goal. JUst so annoying, becuase i doub't we'll win the replay either.

And never agian am i sitting in the kingswood, especially stratton bank end. full of 13 year olds full of too much sugar, having a competition to see how fast they can sing. got on my fecking tits

Of course it'll be just our luck that we'll be drawn with a big name team and that will motivate Barnet like it did when we played Notts County a few years back and we'll lose. I can see it happening now.

i thought brez's postioning for their goal was poor.ifil,aljofree,peacock and easton were pretty good as was vincent and comminges.we badly need more forward options,sturrock is lacking quality and paynter is a shadow of the player we signed. jpm tackles half heartedly but threaded comminges through for the goal.zaboob was mostly shit with the odd flash of good stuff.
was back to the dross served up in the last round really without the result

the midfield just wasn't there today, we had no control on the game. we either played stupidly risky balls from the defence to the strikers or we got the ball down and passed the ball, backwards

grr

our best attacking player was our right back!

It looked like it took a deflection though. It seemed to loop over Brez. You can't really blame him it was awful defending to say the least.

not blaming him, but he looked too far off his line to me

and zaboob frustrated me the most of all of them.when vincent had the ball and needed options at numerous times, he kept tucking in, near one of their players. instead of giving him a wide option.he would have seen so much more of the ball if he did that today.

he was. good finish though

i thought the barnet fans were good though.

decent numbers, vocal throughout (even when losing) and an inventive repertoire of chants.

9/10.

Barnet had pretty much their whole home support there soapy tit wank. It reminded me of last season and I never want to be in League 2 again.

utter gash, 200 mile round trip to watch that tripe, paynter and sturrock about as sharp as a pair of doughnuts.  fair play to barnet they never gave up and as above very vocal fans,really surprised me

I actually didnt think we were that bad, most of the team did their jobs to at least a reasonable standard.

The problem was up front - the ball very rarely stuck, sturrock makes good runs, but ha s no pace or skill to do anything when he gets the ball, paynter cant head the ball and is slow as fuck.

Fuck me we are going to miss Corr & cox in the next couple of games. We would have won today with them in the side.

Agree, not the best overall performance by a distance, but without Corr and Cox it was about what I expected, Sturrock runs the channels well and reads the game, just struggles to execute.  A one-nil win and no one would be complaining, I felt pretty much everythign good about about Barnet came through Puncheon, who I believe Leeds want.

i thought we played well but lacked the killer touch.in fact i think we'd have won by two or three goals if we had cox and corr up front. the build up was good but we couldn't finish

I used to go to college with a guy called Pete who followed Barnet home and away every week while in teh lower parts of the conference.  Need to look him up as he was a fan I respected.  Barnet have done it the right way, lot of respect for that club

There were a fair few Barnet fans on my train heading back after the game, one of whom wouldn't stop going on about how Barnet had been robbed.

I've nothing really to add to what has already been said, other than to say that today has reminded me why I never want to see us in Division 4 ever again.

Hmm, true of the first 30 mins or so where we did some lovely build-up play (had some really neat triangles and pass-and-go stuff going on to the extent that Ken and I discussed complaining to the League about football being played at this level) but then as all the neat build-ups faded into nothing the spark seemed to go out a bit. We should have been comfortably 2 up by the break, but we weren't and shoulds don't win games. If we'd held on to the 1-goal lead, I'd have happily put it down to a bad day at the office/tiredness from Tuesday; as it was we never looked comfortable about holding on and once they equalised I was a lot more worried about losing than I was in any way confident we could get a late winner. Meh. The consolation I'd take is that the players do seem to have their pride back, they know that wasn't good enough and hopefully will know they have a point to prove for the replay, irrespective of who we draw. I know the comparisons have been drawn with Notts County a couple of seasons back but this is a very different team with a different morale

Nice to see the goals on MOTD today.

literally just the goals though, i wanted to see teddy's run again. :(

hell of a run, forgot that, 'Blair Sturrock is an extremely important player for swindon' or something like that  :D

couldn't agree more.

they missed out the word reserves from that sentence

Fitton needs to sort the fucking takeover out once and for all. We can't fanny around much longer with the basics of a decent side that so obviously lacks a cutting edge.

Only good to come out of the replay, which is thus far unmentioned is that big Bazza only now misses one league game for us and two cup.

That's the only good thing to come out of yesterday, so Corr will be back for the Forest match.

phew, i'm now glad again that we clapped corr off for his red card.

what part of january the 11th dont you understand

As I said to Ardiles yesterday at the game (good to meet you btw), it's a waiting game and I'm sure Fitton will concede to HMRC at the last minute if he has to.

He wants this to be a long term project, so rushing about is never going to happen. In fact it sounds like the work in finding a new manager has been done in the interim.

If it all goes tits up then we should get angry, but not at Diamandis et al, but in fact Fitton for fucking around. Not that it has happened and not that I will expect it to.

How about only 20 days being left open for us to sign new players after the 11th Jan?

I don't expect Fitton to go throwing cash around on paying off our old debts, but I think the begging-bowl mentality needs to be fucking ditched. Even if he's doing deals like this in the background, I don't want to hear about it. Thats all we've had to listen to from Diamond mike and the cunting Wills family. I thought all that shit was supposed to be behind us!

Fitton probably could just wipe out all the debts with a couple of hefty cheques. I understand why it doesn't make commercial sense for him to do that, but I don't want to contemplate a future of more financial engineering and rearrangement of our perenial fucking debts.