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We'll win this one.

Cox and Paynter back in tandem, I'm going for 3.1 :D

Part of me thinks this will be a dull meh probably a draw game, but another part says convincing 4-1 victory.


I don't like the optimistic part and I'm going to have to kill it using aggressive meditation techniques.

We will score 3 or 4 mostly becase im not going.

2-1 Brez saving Mooneys last minute penalty.

Then we go up the other end, and Mooney scores an own goal

I think 1 - 0 Town, Paynter. But there's also the part of me that thinks we could go out and stuff them  :? To be fair, I think that most weeks though.

Draw, maybe 1-1.

i'm going today, so any hopes of a win are gone.

2-1 warsaw

2-1 to the Town.  Paynter double.

2-2 every day of the week, especially this one.

3-1 Town. Cox with 2 and Paynter with the other. Mooney for them of course  :-))(

I haven't thought about it.

Anyone have an idea on what the attendance will be like?

1-0 either way. attendance of 6863

7-6 to swindon with Mooney getting 6 thanks

That would be some performance

A score draw of some ilk, in front of 7023 people

1-1

2-1 Town, Paynter x2, Demontagnac for them

3-1...Paynter, Cox and Easton for us, Holmes for them.

2-2

Not too optimistic for some reason. I'll go for a lucky 1-1 with Cox on the scoresheet

2-1 to us Cox and Paynter.
Clayton Ince will score after a mega long goal kick which will hit the crossbar, then hit the back of Brezovans head and go in.

2-0 Cox and Paynter. with the match being delayed after STFC Bart streaks on the pitch.

i might put a tenner on at the bookies on that happening.

0-0

Smith to start over Brez then, whats all that about?

Fair enough, I'm happy with either of them in goal

Slightly Late kick-off again....

Can Swindon not start a match on time - we always seem to finish after every other match....

I'm in a grumpy mode, so I'm going for a 2-3 loss today...  :|

Bloody told you so....

ah...it's offside

Wahey! Sit down, shut up  :D

There you go - the curse of the former players returns to the County Ground....

1-0 Lee Holmes direct freekick - straight in

Why oh why is Brez on the bench? :| Not that there's anything wrong with Smith, but when you have the option...

Dropped due to mistake against Forest - he shouldn't really be beaten at his near post...

Cox and Paynter linking up well, but the final shot is over the bar.

That does look like the key partnership this season, unless Corr's back ever recovers

Even so, it was Forest! and the strikers are equally to blame really. Seems a bit harsh to me, but nevermind.

At least it's still only 0-1.


wish they'd sort the commentary out!

Sounds pretty crap so far :(

at the game,. What a shambles. Clueless fucking bunch of dicks. Not one shot at goal and mcnamee is fucking bollocks.

malpas out

fucking if mcnamee and ashikodi are anything to go by I'm not to optimistic next season!!!

Malpas makes some odd decisions...I'd rather Zaaboub was playing!
Sounds a really crap match :o

What happened to all this talk of kamikaze football? We've not had a shot on goal for 1 and a half matches!

Glad I decided to stay at home and pack!

They've got half the idea - we're harming ourselves quite well at the moment

God we're rubbish.

2-0 by the way.

Bring back Byrne?!  :|

Just got in. What's going wrong??

Losing 2-0 at home...that's the performance of a team pushing for the play-offs :roll:

great. im sooooooo glad i woke up for this bollox

Afternoon chaps....Oh dear!.... :?

I SAID AFTERNOON YOU MISERABLE CNUTS !  :evil:

We heard you the first time, just ignoring you thats all.  :wink:

Hello.

So....We scored 3 yet then ?

NMH

Hello NMH I'm deaf

I'm sure you wouldnt be if I whispered sweet nothings in your ear !  :D

Did we lose ?

NMH

I don't post anymore.

3-0. We're officially terrible.

Something needs to be done.

Leave Brez on the bench and it's 3-0 :roll: Malpas is a muppet.

Marvellous. Fucking cunts.

So, looks like we drop 2-3 places. Another defeat and we will need to start looking downwards.

NMH

3-0 at home to any side in this division is fucking shite! I think we can safely say mid-table obscurity for us this season.

fuck it. out on the lash it is then. beer wont let me down

3-0 final score.. Malpas starting to look suspect.

Looks like the honeymoon period is over - normal service has resumed  :cry:

Yeh, we can all start moaning like fuck again now. Fitton out, cunt!

also no shots on target at home is very very poor. cant wait to here from the people who went

0 shots on target..

Fuck yeah, the TEF has been to dead of late.

Maybe somebody could start a "www.theunofficialmauricemalpasclub.com"

what a load of shit. Terrible. No urgency, long balls to no one. Ifil was awful. They seriously look short of confidence. Malpas looking dodgy and cracks are apearing. Never felt so frustated whatching that and should refund everyone. What posses me off is on Monday we will hear the usual grovel how they had a bad day at the office. We don't look like scoring and our wingers are useless.

back to packing then  :(

That was frustrating to say the least..

:shock:

And they said they wanted to make every match an entertaining experience for fans...

Absolute shite - just got back...

No passion at all -- if between them they had shown the passion that Mooney managed on his own they would have won !

Woeful midfield - neither Cock or Easton looked up for it - JP was pretty crap and if Mcnamee had given the ball away any more than he did walsall would have fucking signed him !

They didn't look great - but any ball through the middle or over the top was undoing us - both Ifil and Aljofree looked slow and uninterested....

Malpas now definately looks suspect - Brez would have saved the first goal (free kick) - defence did not look comfortable with Smith in goal......

How did he take off Miguel - only player on the pitch in a red shirt that looked like he might cause Walsall some problems !

Malpass now on the radio - slagging off the team for not performing - well fuck me who put the players on the pitch ?!?!?!

Who sat there at half time and did not manage to pick the players up and lead them on ??

I am fucked off big style - Was going to Oldham on Tuesday but fuck that - not a chance now !

I got bladdered last night, woke up at 1.15ish this arvo, decided not to go and thank the Lord I didn't.  Sounds dreadful, what annoys me is the players will raise their game for the Leeds match - why not today?

just lisened to Malpas on radio. How can that boring twat motivate anyone. Apart from Cheltenham, we haven't lookedlike scoring in any of our games. In fact have we had a shot on target in our last 2 games???

Comminges was sent off because he was looking dead set on getting sent off.

Cox was lucky not to get send off.

I don't really want to talk about that, it was so bad, but it was summed up by a long ball to (5'2") McNamee. Stupid.

worst we've played in about 2 years....

the defence was awful and literally parted and let Walsall through for their goals.

Smith did well to save two of the original shots...but the re-bounds both went to Walsall players with acres of space to tap it in. Not a town player within 10 yards of them.

First goal was so many errors, letting the ball bounce, then needlessly diving in.

We didnt challenge enough when the ball was in the air and we didnt win enough second balls.

 Billy Paynter....had a shot in added on time, which Ince had to push over the bar....the only shot he had to save.

Didn't go to the Forest game, but in terms of how we played, which was worse?

today by about 3,6,386839740973 million percent.

 Quite......in some ways being so crap as we were today, can be put down as a one off.  If we get much more of that though, can't see the management team lasting the season.

We were shit end of...

cheers. I'd had enough and left by then!!! Ince must have been clapping his hands.  He could have stayed at home and we still woudln't have scored!!!! MALPAS OUT

lumped the ball forward aimlessly for most of the game (when we werent passing it to walsall)

absolute crap - no fight at all

also, does Roberts do anything apart from pick up the ball, run 10 yards forward and lose it?

more than jp the whole game though (ok... nearly)

Some serious morons in the Town End as usual.

Shouting at Paynter (glad he answered back) when he was one of the only ones making an effort and screaming at Ashikodi when he'd literally been on the pitch for 2 minutes and hadn't hand chance to do anything.

I wish you people if you;re on here would just fuck off elsewhere as we don't need morons like you.  That absolutely wound me up a treat today.

All in all. Utter gash.  No motivation, no tactics, no passing no nothing.

Glad Im not going Tuesday.  Just embarassing.

I am sorry, but I have given Malpass enough of my patience since he was appointed.

But if thats the sort of shite that he is going to dish out on a weekly basis then I'll keep my money in my pocket.

It's ok him coming out and slagging off the players but

he did not motivate them

his starting 11 was suspect to say the least

he could not put it right at half time

his changes were clueless

Ashikodi is not a professional footballer

Macnamee can only play with the ball at his feet so dont hoof balls in the air to him

agreed - ppl even stayed to give him the finger and shout more abuse when he clapped the crowd.

shit performance but he did better than most

Agreed on Town End idiots, "You don't know what you're doing" When he brought a striker on while we were 2-0 down? Genius guys. Less songs about Mooney as well, support the team.

On the bright side, Walsall's biggest attendance in their 20 year history is 10k for a game  not involving Walsall. Priceless.

That is out of order. He did more than most on that pitch today.

That looked like Macca

 :mrgreen:

I really felt for Paynter and if I was male god knows what I would have said or done to those pikey pricks shouting at him.

sadly its nothing new.cretins galore in there nowadays

Thats why we moved to the Nationwide

Fuck me that was a shit performance. Where has the passion, belief and solidity gone? Unbelievable.

I think it's safe to say the honeymoon period is over and maybe it is a bit knee jerk, but Malpas is under pressure already. Certainly didn't hear too many positives about him from the Town End faithful.

I guess the playoffs were always unlikely, so this game just resets the chance to NIL.

Not going to Oldham, but I can guarantee the fuckers will be up for our mid table clash with Leeds.

How many points are we off the relegation zone, 7 or 8 - should still have an exciting climax to the end of season trying to stay up.

I just got into the habit of going in there but seriously thinking about moving now.

Not performing on the day i can cope with but the lack of motivation and effort was fucking shocking today.

ince could have gone off for a cup of tea in the town end and still kept a clean sheet. we were absolutely crap today true relegation performance. fair enough to blame the players but when we were banging it long in the first half with the wind at our backs it was obvious it wasn't working and nobody took responsibility for it they  just didnt seem to have a clue how to change the way they were easily being stopped by walsall.

On a happier note atleast we won the penalty shootout (strange to see swindon win a penalty shootout)  :beers:

most of our fans are fucking idiots....

we've got the spotty teens in the Nationwide chanting loyal supporters when ever people leave early, despite the fact that I see the large majority and no away games what so ever.

When the 3rd went it people infront of me started chanting 'you dont know what your doing' and my response was

'who the fuck are you actually shouting at?'

they didnt seem to know!?!

Funny how when a few of us mentioned about Malpas not motivating the players earlier in the week we got shot down for it.  Perhaps today illustrates it better.

People have a right to moan at shit performances like that.

The only decent player today was Comminges and he was subbed off!

Summed up the game perfectly.

how does today illustrate anything about Malpas' motivational skills?

...and why the hell should a professional footballer need his manager to motivate him to play football!!

Today, showed that we're inconsistent and like most other people/teams we will have some bad days at the office.

That was starting to piss me off more than the 'Tommy Mooney On A Piece Of String' chants.

Did the players look motivated = No.  Thats pretty simple to comprehend surely?

 Definite classic from the Andy King school...our only player who looked remotely  up for it, and he gets subbed....

Yes, but why should the players need the manager to motivate them?

I think we all need motivating in whatever job we do, how many people would work as hard without somebody on at them?

Part of the job is it not?  Everyone needs a push in whatever occupation at some point.  I don't see football as any different.

8 points off the relegation zone with a tricky game away at Oldham and then Leeds to come. Could only be 2 points by next weekend.

Football isnt like other occupations though is it. For starters its a sport and its competitive.

The players should want to go out and win every game, they should feel that way regardless of who they are playing, who the manager is, where they are playing or how much they are earning.

You shouldnt need someone else to motivate you when your up against competition, because you should always want to succeed.

See you all at the Leeds game then. Can't wait...  :D

The players will probably all give the performances of their lives for that game.

Should yes of course they should but thats not always the case is it.  When they don't perform thats where Malpas comes in and kicks them up the ass.

If the pre-match atmosphere in the dressing room is shit then surely thats down to the manager, not saying it was but they certainly didnt look up for it at the start.

Doubt it, Im going!

Oh shit......... :(

So, in that case the poor performance today isnt soley down to Malpas' motivational skills then.

The players werent up for it enough and thats their fault.

Malpas certainly should have kicked them all square in the balls at half time....but if you cant motivate yourself then its difficult for someone else to do it.

to put it mildly if its about motivation and the management then malpas could get man united relegated. how can he blame the players he sounds to much like macmahon blaming the players under sturrock we would have battered walsall in the 2nd half today or at least put up a fight.

Im not saying everything is down to Malpas at all.  Im saying that to a degree he should be contributing to their motivation overall.

Malpas isn't the motivator anyway, Byrne seems to be the one barking the orders all the time.

What the fuck does Malpas do then?

Sits and looks glum.

Plays eye spy

I agree - however I personally think the players look shakey playing for him - exactly like the Andy King dys, where he used to publicily slate the players. Jerel Ifil and Hasney were immense at the beginning of the season, but lately have looked a wee bit shakey at times.

When was the last time Phil Smith started for us... the 3-0 home defeat to Brighton. I'm seeing a pattern here. Smithy out!

I listened to the Malpas interview myself, with the intent of knowing wether or not he will blame the players. And I seem to remember him using the words "We" and "Myself", and he even appeared to question whether ot not it was his fault.

I also used to have an intense dislike for David Byrne for the way that he used to put the blame solely on the players but I think that most would agree that he won us over in the end.

I agree with D.V. to a degree that a pro footballer playing in a pro match should be enough motivation in itself.

As Malpas said, if we go to Oldham, play well and get a result then it can be put down to a bad day at the office. But too many performances where the players dont seem to know what their job is then the blame will have to lay with the manager surely. It doesn't matter if you are managing a football team, an office or a fucking oil rig the if the players/staff turn up not knowing what is expected of them then there is a problem.

My cup is half full.

Along with 5800 others!

On a more positive note they cant get any worse :D

Funny!!

I wonder what grovel we will hear in the Adver on Monday.. Same old shit, different Monday!!

The crowd was shit today as well perhaps we should bollock ourselves for not being motivated :wink:

Crowd was pretty crap actually but then its a vicious circle as the crowd normally gets going if we start brightly and create chances etc.....

Why are people haveing a go at Malpas? The players always do this. It's not MM's fault. They decide what games they can be bothered to put the effort and sadly it has always been that way with STFC for the last 6 or 7 years.

We showed no urgency at all which was a great shame. Our problems lie in the midfield. Easton and Peacock were non existant today and they just don't create anything. It doesn't help when both your wide men have a piss poor shocker either. I don't understand why people got so pissed off at the decision to take Miguel off? He was probably going to get sent off and it wasn't like we had any other options was it? I'm sorry but you have to put more men forward and try and change things to get back in the game and if that means taking your best player off you do it. That is exactly what MM did.

2 defeats in a row but it happens in football. We won't go down which is all i care about anyway tbh after all the shite before Christmas.

Don't just sit on the fence Fred, say what you mean!!

Agreed though, that was utter crap today and the buck has got to stop somewhere - Huddersfield, Northampton, now Walsall.  Lack of organisation and a severe lack of motivation.  What the fuck do they do on the training ground? Tuesday night is now a massive game.

I don't know what went wrong. That was pretty much our strongest 11 and they looked fucking awful...

ifil and mcnamee were absolutely shocking.

cox was unlucky not to see red. paynter was the only decent player on the pitch.

i didnt see malpas do anything on the touchline today, i get the impression byrne does most of the work!

What about Minge?

i thought minge was ok as well, i forgot about him.

Agree with most of that, but who would your starting 11 be?
I thought that was out strongest.

WHY did smith decide to stand slap bang behind the wall for their 1st goal, leaving the entire left side of the goal open.
WHY cant macnamee keep the ball in play
WHY is aljofree our captain. hes shit
WHY did mcgovern try to take a touch with that chance of his
WHY do our fans feel the urge to boo and moan at the slightest chance. and then all bugger off 5 minutes before time.
WHY, when a win would of seen us right in play-off contention, did we not look interested.
AND WHY DOES CHRISTIAN FUCKING ROBERTS TAKE EVERY FUCKING FREE KICK WHEN HE'S NEVER FUCKING SCORED ONE IN HIS FUCKING LIFE


mid table mediocraty becons

Because we're Swindon thats what we do :x

another thing that cheesed me off today was when Walsall attacked, they were quick and had an edge about them, I remeber Roberts having the ball, running past the defender and onl Cox and Paynter were in the box, with Peacock and McNamee casually jogging forward to help out, needless to say we lost posession, but should they not be busting a gut to get in the box??? We were 2-0 down that stage. All this Kamakazee talk from Malpas... Kamakazee my fucking arse hole.

No chance.

I'm sure BR could sort you out with somebody though  :wink:

While I'd agree that we've now pissed our chances of the play-offs, I think some people need to get a sense of perspective - talk of relegation battles to come is just knee-jerk overreaction to what was a shocking performance. Points off playoffs = 9. Points off relegation zone = 8. Get a fucking grip people.

A P&P charge would apply though.

Malpas didn't have a clue today. His tactics were just utter shit. He never looked like wanting the players to stop the hoof ball game even when it was clearly not working. He blatantly can't motivate the players.

The one thing that pisses me off is he says the same old shit in the paper about "working on things on the training ground" I'd like to actually see their training sessions because they must be pretty shit.

Malpas reminds me of Andy King so much with his tactics and substitutions, they completely baffle me. I think Malpas has a lot of learning to do still tbh.

That may be the real reason why Andy King was in the stands, not too scout for Plymouth, but on the phone to Malpas offering him 'Hints and Tips'

As long as he learns this season, and we have a tilt next year, that's fine with me, think everyone myself included thought money=play offs and it's been proved a hundred times you have to build to it. If however there has been no improvement come October, then that will be the time to think about change

NO I WANT IMMEDIATE RESULTS NOW!!!!!! GRRRR

Do you want a cuddle Dave?

 :D

:D just pisses me off the hypocrisy. one minute its "ooh were new in this division, lets settle for consolidation", then its "aaaah we're going out of business, lets make sure we still ahve a club" then its " wooo we have new owners and are going to splash the cash, lets go for the title" we play badly and suddenly everythings shit. grrrrr

Were we gash? 3-0 says we were

Yes, much worse than last week.

Paynter and the Minge the only players to emerge with any credit imho.

dave mate you generally speak alot of sense but you can fuck right off here kiddo, a fucking hammering at home against some pissy bunch of midland inbreds that were in the same league as us last year, that's totally and utterly unacceptable, they deserve all the flak they take after todays result.

We played very bad today yes, no-one played well, the players deserve every criticism they get and malpas got it wrong, im not denying that. What angers me is how people seem so upset that we have fucked up our playoffs chances, when just months ago we would have been hapy to have a football club

Because, Dave, it's nice to be able to talk about football again rather than CVA's and winding up orders.

yes but that doesnt mean we should just forget what we went through. We're a new side in this division, and very few get back-to-back promotions. Solid mid table this season, play off push next.

That is just going back to the past, you can't keep using that quote every time we lose because it is basically being used as an excuse. We have to look at the present and the fact is we have play off hopes but we're fucking them up.

 The point here though is now we've got our club back....the players can't use the...oh we haven't been paid,  squad is too small type of excuse.

  Today large  numbers of our players, with a couple of exceptions just had no interest in bothering....that is what pisses fans off, always has, always will do.

lets be honest here, its not as if Walsall are doing badly this season. In the play offs for a reason

i think stfc dave generally has a pretty good opinion on football matters.certainly more mature than his tender age.
no offence dave its a compliment.

er thanks, i think  :D

ive been thread digging, and just found this beauty: http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21715&highlight=pre+season

Seems as if the popular consensus is mid table, which we are on course for. Considering the shite we've been through this season the predictions were pretty much spot on. Interesting quote from mystic tails:



the first three have hapenned. We're half way through the fourth, just need the fifth now!

I notice "Berkshire's Finest" has disappeared since we were pushing the play-offs and Reading started staring back down into the Football League again!

and give us an s.

i thought we played really well and were unlucky with the goals. another day and we could have walked away with a 3-0 victory ourselves.

we had chances. just defended like retards on an ice rink

Spot on. Lets see what Malpas can do with pre season training and a transfer window. October would be a good time to review.

Wasn't there today-was it really worse than Brighton?

no

Yup, as far as I remember Brighton at least had to work for their goals and have some creative input.

we created chances today though. we could easily of scored at least one today

we had one shot on target and that was in the 90th minute.

I suppose we looked slightly better going forward today than Brighton, but defensivly we were worse.

A few beers later and i think (hope) that today was a one off bad performance. We are much better than that.

No doubt, we are way better than todays shit performance against Wallsal suggests, so I'm not going to get too lairy. Talk of reaching the playoffs was always bollocks. Too many gaps in midfield and an inconsistent / non existant front line usually= either a relegation season or a boring mid table finish. We'll end up fizzling out in a boring mid table position I think, which is progress of a sort.

Malpas worries me. I think he could potentially do a good job for us - Fitton must have seen something in him to give him the chance to manage us - but he's not done anything to endear himself yet. I get the impression that most are indifferent to him so far, hence the absence of Malpas chants?

He got the job while Byrne and Williams were doing well in temporary charge, so he was up against it from the off. I expected his appointment to move us up a level though and i'm still waiting.

In the big scheme of things he's had no time to do anything meaningful, so I'm not going to slaughter him. He's going to have to win over the doubters soon though.

He could start by insisting that ALL first team squad players stay at the ground to watch matches, regardless of whether they are injured, suspended or dropped. I've lost count of watching non-playing squad players walking away from the ground before kick off on match days this season. If they don't give enough of a fuck to hang around to watch their own team mates play, what message does that send out to the players that are picked, let alone the fans?

He doesn't log on here anymore but went to the game yesterday.

Probably the worst Town performance for a very long time IMHO.  Players (with the exception of Paynter and Minge) looked about 5 yards off the pace.  

Walsall closed us down and exposed our lack of control of the football to feet i.e. McGovern, Roberts, McNamee...........well, when the ball wasn't flying over their heads and both Paynter and Cox were challenging for the same ball.  Hoofball must be all the rage in Wanborough these days....

Defense has gone from being solid to being v. shaky indeed.  Summed up by the 3rd goal, where Ifil misjudged the path completely and then seemed to be jogging back to tackle, rather than the speed that we know he has.

Best tackle of the day....? Cox on Holmes in open play, on our 6 yard line FFS.

I have never left a Town Game early before today but felt cheated by a team who really did not try.

To the collective team today....hope I don't see anything like that again in a very, fucking long time..... :evil:

Malpass out.

He's fucking boring with no passion at all.

Zaaboub should be playing as well. Mcnamee is shit. And a lightweight.

I thought McNamee's crosses were the one or two times in the game we looked threatening. Some of his control was poor, but long balls to 5' players if never going to be a good idea.

Just looked on Wikipedia.

McNamee is 5 foot 6 ins and was given his professional debut by Gianluca Vialli in 2002.

It was shocking...the worst ive seen for along time,took my brother in law,hes not been in 20 years,last time he went was in the shrivvy road stand!....he wont be going again in a hurry.

Paynter and Comminges were our two best players, really looked up for the game. Cox did as well, but he had an off day.

The freekick was a poor one to give away and Smith was nowhere near it. Little wonder when he's stood behind the wall, thus not being able to see.

Defensively we were poor. We need to work on this in training it seems. I'm going to specifically highlight Jamie Vincent, perhaps unfairly but HE IS FUCKING SHIT. I don't care about his 'organisational skills' or 'vocal ability' where the fuck have they been since his return? About one or two games he had an impact, but has since been shit. Is he physically not able to play a ball which is not a hopeful punt down the line? He doesn't even look to see what's outside on the left half the time. Once all game I saw him play a pass to the left which wasn't a hoof. McNamee was free more than once. Comminges looked good though and it is also disappointing that we play the ball to Vincent most of the time and not down the right. Why?

Midfield, again poor. Wingers had an off day, McNamee managed to put in a few decent crosses though. Centre midfield is a worry. I personally would have taken Peacock off and put Pook on around the hour mark, because they were never in the game and went missing half the time. McGovern is another player that I don't understand why he is rated so highly. A player who can't tackle, cant run and rarely is able to put in a delivery. McNamee looks a bit lightweight compared to Zaaboub. At least Sofi dives and wins free kicks :wink:

Strikers worked hard, especially given the fact the rest of the team was so shit. I thought Cox tried but he had a bad day at the office. More of a fact that his touches and passes didn't come off more than anything. Paynter played really well and was unlucky to be so poorly supported.

We need to work on the basics because we can't seem to get this right. Our style of football under Malpas has not changed and neither has our inconsistency. I'm not going to jump on the anti-Malpas bandwagon because I think we were limited as a team before he took over. I do want him to get the players doing the basics right though. This is something Wise paid proper attention to and something that perhaps Sturrock took a little more for granted.

We need a defensive coach in quickly, I've not seen us this bad defensively since we got relegated.

Pretty much echo Si's comments. I hope they were in for training today, some of them need to be dropped as well.

quite ironic, considering how 2/3 of our managment trio were international defenders!

Got to get this off my chest.

That was absolutely appaulingly dire, but the signs have been there for a while. What the fuck was that?

Cant believe how shit that was. Was in shock after the game, but now just totally PISSED off with the lack of effort and mental strength from the players. What was all that FUCKING BULLSHIT in the papers about eh?

For fucks sake, go away and have a long hard look at yourselves.

Exactly. Monday you will hear 'bad day at the office', 'some of us didn't play well and need to perform on Tuesday', blah blah blah... fucking cut thie shit and do it cos I'm fucked off with listening to their shit when they dish out the crap they did this weekend.  If i performed like that at work, I would be fired.  

All this 'we shall be working on hard on the training ground', well as far as I see it, since Malpas has been working hard on the training ground it looks like th players havent trained for months and don't even know each other.  It took us 90 mintues to get a shoit on target, following on from Forest when we had er nil shots in target.

I'm hardly inspired by Malpas' new arrivals.  If this is anything to go by, then we're in for a cracking summer. He can't have too many contacts in the English game??? Give him til the end of the season, but if they are goin to dish that crap out over the next few games, I think he should be fired.  Not sure Fitton would be the sort to fire managers though.

 Fitton appointed  Malpas if he can't see his error then he needs to go as well....what has changed since he came in...nothing....still no red seats, still no chicken wings in the TE ....still blown bulbs in the floodlights.  At least when Diamandis was running the club, we could have a decent protest.

 What's Bill Power doing?

i think we even looked shit in the pre match warm up.

i demand 3 points tuesday and at least 2 shots on target against leeds.

lets hope the opposition score a few own goals for us then!!!

I think the whole idea about passion not being there is spot on, but also about organization and commitment that were there when Byrne was on charge. Malpas needs to start doing something pro-active instead of bleating in the press before how we need to do stuff and after how bad we were.

However I always give our managers time to work with the team but I don't much like the way we're playing right now.

Don't worry, we'll win. Always won when I've attended this season  :wink:

I think this section should be renamed Match Day Action/OverReaction

What a rubbish game. Swindon Town didnt perform as good as they should have.

Thanks for that great insight.

And welcome to the TEF  8)

Class :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

im not going to another STFC game, im cursed i tell thee.....

I dont go to games and we win 5-0 3-1 even 1-0 a wins a win.

I go to a game and we get dicked.

same here seb.

and me