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That's the sum total of all the games I will attend out of our remaining seven: Port Vale and Millwall at home.

The players and management team (Fitton et al included) should count themselves lucky that I will even bother with those games. If someone who goes to pretty much every home game and many away games is thinking like this I dread to think what a fan who picks and chooses games is to do.

I'm going to save the money and use the extra day to chill out rather than go and watch crap like that, which also costs a substantial amount of my disposal income. I don't enjoy it and I can do without being pissed off at standing around for 1 hour 45 minutes for no apparent reason.

After the game the players also looked devastated that we had lost today. It was obvious they had just got a bollocking from the manager half an hour before. Not.

Rant done.

I'm going to 3, possibly 4 more games this year.

I don't know why.

It's a good rant Mr Pie. Think it sums up my feelings perfectly.

I'll do all 3 home games.

Today was shite though. I was freezing cold and couldn't help thinking how i'd wasted £18.

not an over re-action.....

spot on!

trouble is, it is no longer overeacting.
we are a shambles, with a pathetic team shape, that doesn't work.
players are losing-lost form. and some are being played out of position in a system that has delivered fuck all.
fitton has to see he fucked up and should sack malpas tomorrow.

I'll be at every home games because I've already bought the tickets.

Can't imagine I would otherwise.

Think it will be the same 2 games for me, fuck spending hard-earned cash watching that shite every week.
I have no confidence before a game anymore, due to the shite tactics malpas uses and the players "Cant be fucked" attitude. They say all this shite in the papers that the fans deserve better etc, fucking give better performances then you tossers.

Too true.
A few weeks ago they were still going on about play-off hopes. They can hope all they like but its them that's supposed to get us there and I'm not sure if anybody has told them that.

I'm starting to agree with you there arriba but....

Thing is even when we switched to 4-4-2 today we looked no better. The players have to take blame as does the manager as they looked completely indifferent today. The annoying thing is when they did start to play in the last 10 minutes we showed enough to show we could and should have won today but you have to play for the full 90.

my judgement is based overall paul.not today only.
malpas has done ziltch positive so far imo.
players have to take some blame for sure but confidence seesm shot to peices in some cases.they're humans after all

Fair enough arriba. I still say some of them are lazy sods who switch off too easily. But then arguably that's the manager's job - to stop them doing that and get them to play as a cohesive unit. And there's been too many games where they haven't.

agree completely.

You have players out of position all over the pitch playing tactics dreamt up by a half wit in charge. Oh, and does Malpas actually do anything on the sidelines, I think I shouted more at the players than he did today.

Perhaps he's not the touchline raving type. Byrnes barking Instructions out anyway, if Both of them were doing so at the same time they'd be moaned at all the same. I think Byrne still holds a lot of influence in the decision making, which is why he seems so intent on shouting instructions. And throwing paddys when Brez's kicks go out of play

nah.i'd bet my mortage that if byrne was in charge we'd be back to 4,4,2 straight away.this is malpas's team and byrne wont rock the boat as malpas could boot him out.
its just his natural emotions during a game coming through

Byrne sounded quite behind the 4 - 3.71 - 2.19 formation in the Trust podcast.  I know he's never going to slag it off, but the feeling i got was that he still had some input in deciding it

again nah.he said it was malpas's way he wanted them to play.he's hardly going to slate his boss is he?

Gills and Rovers away, fuck the home games.

Hmm agree to disagree on this then. Still, the original point still stands - Malpas will never be on the touchline bawling out instructions, thats by and large the assistant managers job, at any club

I thought we were a lot better in the second half, and unlucky not to get a goal really.

Byrne spent the first half sat behind Fitton, in front of Paul Sturrock, and we were awful. Second half, he was on the touchline up to his usual antics, and we were better. Coincidence? (Perhaps more down to the switch to 4-4-2)

Sofi was quite awful, to be honest, but then he isn't a right sided player. My issue with the change was that we were chasing the game and should be taking off a defender, not a midfielder.

I actually didn't feel like going today, but I've got a season ticket so it'd be a waste if I didn't.

I'll probably do Gills away, mostly just for the craic and for a good day out with my mates. Football doesn't enthuise me any more, so much for the "Swindon experience".

And back on the Malpas band-wagon, my biggest gripe with him is his lack of charisma - in public at least. Wise was a loveable cheeky cockney and told everything as it was. Sturrock was mostly the same, you could tell when he was pissed off and he was charismatic in the way he dealt with the press. Malpas just seems devoid of emotion. All you sense from his interviews is "meh". If he's anything like that in the changing room then you can understand how the players seem underwhelmed. Yes, Byrne's a bit of a livewire, but he doesn't pick the team or decide their contracts.

We need Martin Allen.

I don't think Sturrock has much personality

I agree, I see a lot of similarities between Malpas and Sturrock! Sturrock spent most of the game sat on the bench whilst Blackley and Summerfield ranted and raved!

But whichever stick you want to beat Malpas with...

I hate to say it but i actually agree  :(

And I was shot down in flames when I dared to suggest Martin Allen would be the best choice of manager after Sturrock left. But meh  :shrug:

I'm not fond of him but to be fair he would at least be able to motivate the players. Something MM doesn't seem to be able to do.

But he certainly has more than Malpas IMO.

Martin fucking Allen, have you all gone insane? (no offence Pumbaa)

You want a manager with personality?  Is that it, ffs fella's get a grip, all this slagging off MM is starting to piss me right off.  It's like now that Diamond Mike has gone everyone's out to find the new anti-hero.

If MM did go I wonder who'll be next on the hit list?

lets not kid ourselves Fittons not going down the stupid money route in the summer at least half of todays starting line up will be 1st team regulars next season so if he cant get them to play for our survival in this league what are the chances of him getting them playing next season. All chairman make mistakes so maybe Fitton should just admit he has and start again as MM has done nothing to suggest he is the right man for the job.

Results have gone to pot, performances have gone to pot and most telling of all the team spirit has gone to pot.

I thought Sturrock was a boring porridge-gobbling dullard, just like Malpas. The difference being PS was a bloody proven mannager, Malpas seems to be, for want of a better word, an idiot fuckspack.

I was thinking clueless cunt to be honest Dave.

Fittons a winner, he will know he needs to change things a succesful businessman like Fitton will be ruthless if he has too, this will probably happen at the end of the season when he has a new man ready to take over the reigns and giving him a full summer to build his side.

Well I would agree to an extent, some of the things people are slagging him off for are downright stupid.

If someone has said we are playing shitter football, losing more games then you can't disagree. I've said from the start of his reign that I hope things are going to improve once he's settled. Unfortunately I've been mega mega wrong so far.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I'd fucking love it if Martin Allen was in charge and kicking some arses into shape at the CG. No offence Jan.

I'm sure you've got a very nice bum.  :D

no he didnt, but he told it like it is.

if he said the players werent good enough you know full well they'd be in the next morning being worked extra hard.

if a player played extremely rubbish you know Sturrock would have then straight at the team for the next game, replace them with a like for like player and keep the system the same.

Regardless, I dont see why it bloody matters.

Don't forget that Sturrock also had his own (ie personally selected) defensive coach, a offensive coach, goalkeeping coach....


Malpas has not only inherited a team, he's also inherited the coaches and that can't be good.  Can it?

i agree with you on this jan.and its making one hell of a difference imo

Sturrock had a glib a personality much the same as Malpas though he had the confidence to make light of things and crack(dubious) jokes because of what he has achieved in the game.To be honest personalilty really means nothing if it did Wenger,Sven,Mclaren would never have managed at the top.Come to think of it there are probably only a handfull of managers who arent boring cunts.

As for games I'll be going to...dunno I didn't even bother listening to the games Saturday and today.I lost interest some time ago as I always do.Usually I have a crisis of conciense and force myself to go,cant really see that happening at  the moment.

im not going again

I've been not going for ages. You part-time non-goers.

the coaches like Blackley and Summerfield....

...oh

Not going to games is the new black. Cheap too.

Sorry?

I was actually saying that Sturrock had his own men with him Summerfirld and Blackey (and the goalkeeping coach - can't remember his name) and MM has Sturrock cast off "2nd rate coaches", whom he hasn't personally chosen, probably had never known before arriving at the CG.

Sorry DV but what was your point, I don't really understand.

Should we change the name of the forum to NotintheTownend.com or athomeinthewarm.com

 :grin:

well you said MM has inherited Sturrocks coaching staff, when he clearly hasnt because Blackley and Summerfield dont work here anymore!

No mate, Bryne and the gk coach were on Sturrocks coaching staff, maybe not his main men, but they were part of the set up.  And Williams was all but a coach (due to injury) during PS' reign.

MM has none of "his men" if indeed he has any men of his own.  He'd have had to spend time getting to know his new coaching staff, instead of getting his own blokes in.

That's what I meant, I'm well aware that KS and JB no longer work here.

I will be loving it,loving it I tell thee when we hammer the final nail into the Gillingscum relegation coffin(altho' that's the only remaining game I'll be attending!)Also I dont really give a fuck who the manager is as long as it's not Martin Allen-cunt.

Ive missed the last few Home games now as i can't justify paying out a good £30-40 (beer money inc obviously) a Saturday to watch that crap.

Im going to Port Vale and Millwall at Home and that's only because im borrowing somebodys season ticket off of them.

Carlisle wasn't crap.

When did you stop going, just after the Leeds game? That wasn't crap either, from what I remember.

I've been a bit out of it as I've been on holiday, and as a exile in the north haven't seen a game for ages anyway, but weren't you all posting that the team was playing the best football in years on here after the Carlisle game a couple of weeks ago.

WTF happened?

We went shit again for the last 2 games  :(