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Just to wind him up.

so many choices....

which thread will win...

This one will win. Easy, Easy.

I'd put money on it.

If it's endorsed by the man fB himself then it's a sure fire winner.

Hereford will be fired up for this one, we may be a big scalp for them and is it not a bit of a derby?

I don't think that it'll be boring, possibly Hereford dominating and winning, unless we 'click' and win ourselves.

I will not be participating in this thread, or listening to the game.

Liar.

Is this game still on? I fancy a stress free evening :D

Did we know that this had happened? Not good signs for Vincent.

Hereford have got their first win out of the way now so should be easy pickings tonight.

I am going for 4-1 to Swindon with Cox and Paynter scoring 2 each.

Suddenly  my heart goes booooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooo oooooooooom

Going loco down in ........

slough?

why does everyone keep saying this could be our 3rd away win in a week.

we drew with Aldershot after 90minutes?!

ooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!1

Ok, to keep DV happy this could be our third away success in a week.

What is the match day thread then?

It's all sounding a tad active so far.

Im having Meatballs!

I'm watching the U-21's.

Sounds pretty open so far.

Starting to liven up a bit. Macca has seen some of the ball. We need to get the ball to him a lot more really when we play away.

Or as JPC likes to call it "Barely Legal"

I stayed up until 1.45 to listen to this and you are eating meatballs and or watching the u-21's.

Pfffft, part timers.

i'm eating noodles and hula hoops

Sounds like it good be a good game.

Oooh and Macca is buzzing AWAY.

I've not eaten yet. I've got the bloody sister-in-law round looking at wedding photographs and I'm fucking starving.

Oi don't beeeeeeelieve it.

I had toast and marmite and a bottle of Sagres.

I had some good Dominos. I recommend the "scrummy" pizza to you all.

What does that consist of then Si?

Pas de Posible! :cry:

I had a steak and ale pie with chips at earlier, which was nice.

Cock!

Coxy, noooooo.

Doh!

What happened?

Evening from a very Warm Palma Mallorca, sounds like we are on top

Pepperoni, Ham, Chorizo, Tandoori Chicken, Meatballs & Smoky Bacon.


That's better than posting obscenities   ???

Might have to get me one of those.

That pizza sounds amazing!!

Whats wrong with fuck, shit, tit, wank, cunt.

With cheese?

Either

Shot by Simon Cox (Swindon) left-footed from left side of penalty area (12 yards), missed left. Goal kick taken long by Darren Randolph (Hereford).

or

Foul by Simon Cox (Swindon) on Richard Rose (Hereford). Direct free kick taken right-footed by Darren Randolph (Hereford) from own half, resulting in open play.

I'm guessing though.

Someone please get on the end of McNamee's crosses.

Cheers!

We should sign Kevin Francis.

Unless you like extra garlic mayo with your pizza, then saying wank when you order is probably not advised. Same with shit as well really.

Though you may get lucky with the other three, if they send over a hot delivery girl.

I'm sure you can provide the (knob) cheese.

no no no no no.... not cheese .... or anchovies

This one

It sounds on the wireless as thoug it is all us .

Idiot fans (ours) perhaps threw something at the lino. Cocks.

Our fans?

Don't Hereford have grass?

Yes.

yeah ours.

Don't think it was that bad, the game is on again but even so.

Oh dear.

It was probably just an insult thrown. Or a handbag.

I'm sure you can provide the (knob) cheese.

Touche.

What awesome interference noises there, that was pure Dr Who!

FFS, poxy Brunel FM

Great. Coverage off. Radio Swindon out!

Boo, radio's dead.

Innit. A tad painful actually.

Probably to do with the storm we're having over here.

Weather better improve, off to Mainz tomorrow for the Georgia v Ireland game.

:D

We're back!

Oh, we're back.

I can report my missus is on her way to pick me up a Scrummy from Dominos. Yum yum.

It seems your half time snack will be considerably tastier than mine.

Good work  :D

"Maurice Malpas will be pleased to see that whistle go". Is he expecting the ref to hurl his whistle through the air to indicate half-time?

IFIL!

IFFFFFIL

Beast!

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeast!

Ifilllllllllllllllllll goooooooooooal

woo!

Goal machine :D

JEREL!!!!!!!! 2 in 2 WTF?

get in!

2 in 2!?!?!

It's what marriage is all about.

Get the fuck in.

Beast, beast, beast!

Who needs Barry Corr, if we're ever short of strikers...Ifils the man....

Superb!  :D

I've been waiting ages to see Ifil smash one in the top corner from 20 yards... gutted I'm not there.

Jerel the Rifle?

H/T

Ifil the rifle.

It's what marriage is all about Mk II

Best post-marriage/football thing I heard.

I remember going to Bournemouth with a pal about 4 years ago and at Half Time the announcer said something along the lines of....

"for the attention of Mr. A. Smith, congratulations on your weddding last month, your wife has been contacted us to say that your tea will be ready for Match of the Day when you get back from the pub."

He got a standing ovation.

Getting boring Jerel smashing them in every game.....

So what were the odds on Jerel scoring first!

JPC had it at 66/1 apparently ;)

Who's playing well then?

rate them here -    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hereford_united/live_text/6277149.stm

What formation are we playing?

4-3.5-2.5

Or as it should become known "The Away Formation"

As you can tell from no posts in 7 minutes, it's died down a bit.

Sounds like it's all us at the mo. Just hope we take advantage with another goal.

Paynter had a shot

761 swindon fans

Great turnout considering

Yay, my pizza's here 8)

Gis a summary guys? Are we in control? Is the game crap? Do we look like scoring another or conceding ?

NMH

In control. Look like scoring another. Hope we do because if we don't i can see it biting back at us later on.

sounds like we're in control and i get the feeling we can get another

Reasonable game considering conditions, Hereford are okay but we're a bit better at the minute, 1-0 is probably fair. If there's another goal we should score it. Should.

they've get a wizard in goal

Cheers chaps.

NMH

Gandalf?

Randalph the White (With Black Shorts)

How's your pizza Sam?

Paul Daniels?
Paul Daniels

Although of course, saying that, he's wearing a goalie kit, so not White and Black.

Fucking lush.

what's the difference between a magician and a wizard?

Fucking hell, my missus is arranging Xmas. I know the weather is crap, but FFS...........

Oh Sam, on the basis on the pictures Rachel posted on Facebook, she's been asked to photograph two more weddings............

Sherbert Lemons  8)

this is going in

I don't know any magicians called Roy?

Good stuff. Those photos she put up look ace.

Our spell of pressure seems to have ended and without a goal. Great.

Both in the States as well.......

They seem to be on top a bit now

1-1 cunts

FUCK 1-1

1-1 That's my prediction, lovely.

goal conceded from a set piece, never

Fuck. Boo. Another set piece!

Meh. It was coming wasn't it? *groans*

oh dear

Bollocks

FFS, you wouldn't believe it would you......

All Hadwin's fault. Every time a commentator starts a sentence "I don't want to curse things but..." then a goal against the run of play is imminent.

bollocks was reading the o/s!!!  761 from town there.

Handball from Paynter lead to it. Silly Billy.

ffs all JPMs fault....play Barry Corr.....etc...etc.....etc....

And Cox goes close.

Stupid thing is we're back on top again after a silly 5 minutes at the back.

Nice. Just add on the expenses :D

According to the bbc their first shot on target.

 ::)  ;D :(

That.is.all.

I did say should :p

Mac off, Marshall on

Marshall for Macca, Cox seems to be booked for a 50 50.

Gahhhhhh, it's gone again

Brunelitis strikes again

Macca off and so is the radio (again).

Marshall busting a gut to support Paynter.

I have a bad feeling about the remaining 5 minutes.

I bet you said the same saturdaY!

Cock on for Billy.

we're bringing on Peacock, settling for a draw then....

...which I said on Saturday>?!>!

did they just hit the post?

Oh, not now.

Last gasp corner.

To whom?

Full time, we have drawn a winnable match. I guess 4 points from 6 on our travels is better than I might have though following Colchester/Cheltenham.

Full time. Wank.

Meh, FT. I win prediction contest again :D

Honestly its hilarious going over to the this is matchday thread.  Hereford scores and immediatly they start slagging off Malpas, calling for his head and bitching between each other.  Really the worst aspects of our support.  

1-1

meh, it'll do.....part of me thinks our away form isnt good so any point is a bonus. Part of me thinks we should be beating teams like Hereford.....meh....

Shame - I'd have taken a point before, but we should've won that by the sounds of it.

Up into the play offs!

Thanks to our sponsor tonight, great input all night.

It's a point.  I'm fairly happy with that.

I went over to thisis earlier, took one look and closed the browser.

You have to understand that thisis attracts a disproportionately high concentration of window lickers.

I think you are being rather, er, generous. STFC Romain is a bit special isn't he?

7 points every 5 games would see us hit 64/65 points at the end of the season!

About 8th-10th then. Not bad really.

Funny that, you have 551 posts on the site!!!!

Good point on a shocking night,any point away is good away from home....fair play to the fans who went......bring on the dirty Leeds,really looking forward to that.

Windows taste like sherbert.

just a bit of comparison.

first 5 games this season w2 d1 l2 7pts that breaks down to 1 home win 1 home defeat and a win, draw and defeat away from home. Scored 7 conceded 8.

first 5 games last season w1 d3 l1 6pts that breaks down to 1 win draw and defeat at home. 2 draws away from home. Scored 5 conceded 5

...and just for the hell of it. relegated under Kingy/Iffy

forst 5 games w2 d1 l2 7ptsthat brakes down to 2 home wins and 1 home defeat. A draw and defeat away. Goals scored 8 conceded 8


hmmmm...

So it's a par for course start then.

No doubt about it we can do Leeds next week if we are up for it.

So we're going down? Or is the Malpas era better than the Sturrock era?

I think the stats clear say dont judge after 5 games.

Our play off season first 5 was w2 d2 l1 so only 8points.

So....for example our relegation season after the 5 five we lost 8 in a row and went 12 before we won again, against Bristol City on TV!

I'll do that same thing after 10 games gives us a better idea

Of course I didnt include the League Two but we all know how the first 5 went there WWWWW

Lets face it 5 matches in 6 days all away is tough to expect to win all 3....ime happy to win 2 and draw the other...very happy.Ime no manager but maybe playing such a strong team at Aldershot took its toll tonight.

Barry Corr must surely be in contention for bench place for  Leeds... What a return that would be!

Be nice but cant see it Rich,he hasnt played enough football,its going to be a real tough game.

Again, whilst it would be nice to have the option to bring him on. What right now would Barry Corr add to the team?

Probably a bit more than Peacock.

A last gasp winner in front of a big-ish crowd to get our fans smiling... Then we can wrap him back up in cotton wool until the next game we need him in.

He's fit for match practice in L2, he can't be far off for L1.

fair play we should have won that tonight

Just got back.............

First half good, should of been out of sight as Hereford utter gash.

Second half shit tried some funky formation 4 5 1 with Paynter going on the right wing and Cox up top on his own. Should try Macca and Marshall on the pitch together as Timlin aint a winger and neither is Easton.
All in all should have beaten a poor side, Eastons not a right winger, Smith stop fucking punching crosses, we need to stop giving away silly free kicks, Marshall looks a find and Nalis MoM again.

Well done for going mate,as i said earlier 3 away matches in 6 days,2 wins and a decent draw.....bring on the dirty boys!

he was on the pitch? didn;t notice him touch the ball to be honest. in fact the midfield didn't touch it as the defence kept on hooofing again

poor game

He kept things simple even had a few shots tonight after mazy little runs through their defence when he was given the ball he ran the game and did his fair share of defending and organising too.  Should be captain me thinks as at least he doesn't bugger off straight down the whistle as soon as the final whistle goes.

Its strange,a couple of my mates think hes been brilliant,my point of view is that he will be our trump card in the BIG matches,IE Leeds when he gets abit more time on the ball...i dont think hes performed to his best yet.

Care in the community, be afraid!

If it wasn't for him I think we'd be incapable of passing the ball tbh he's our link man and any move we make pretty much goes through him.

i must've been watching a different game cos i didn't notice him one bit!
as long as aljofree isn't captain then i don't care who is...!

drawing with aldershot in league 2 and hereford who will go down are both poor results. we need to improve

thought cox was very inefective tonight too
i think he should start with the width of mcnamee and marshall on either wing against leeds

An average game really, pretty typical of a shit home team hosting a midtable away team. We were alright and they were utter shite but we spurned numerous good opportunities and they scored the obligatory set piece goal. Cox had a quite game by his standards, Nalis looked good, as did Paynter. No one had a real shocker, we were just alright.

On a seperate note, good support for the most part but the knobheads who booed the Marshall substitution and sung "you don't know what you're doing" need to take a fucking reality check. Macnamee was clearly tiring and little more than ineffective as the second half progressed, Marshall looked really lively when he came on. They shouldn't play together away from home, we would get massacred.

And finally the referee was an absolute homer

McNamees only had one good game all season anyway....

did ok tonight when he was actually given the ball........he spent all game hugging the touch line but rarely got given the ball.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/7588503.stm

Bradley Hudson-Odoi scored a second half equaliser as Hereford secured a point at home to Swindon.
Swindon went ahead on the cusp of half time when Jeremy Ifil shot home via the underside of the bar from close range.
Hudson-Odo could have levelled for Hereford straight after the break, but shot wide when clean through.
But after Billy Paynter had gone close from 25 yards for Swindon, Hudson-Odo struck, reacting first after Kris Taylor's free-kick hit the post.



It appears we've signed a new player ...

Shocking.

Good player, but the more i see he's a homer, bit like Moss, barnes,anderson et all, nothing wrong with that, we just need to accomodate. Hopefully Marshall will compensate, now and again  if they click there will be fireworks, it will just take a bit of time for it to pay off.

I thought all in all it wasn't a bad performance considering its the 3rd away game in a single week with almost the same XI.

Ball was played on the ground far more (unless Aljofree got hold of it) and some nice passing at times.  Thought Nalis was good tonight, looked calm in the centre and made some great passes.  Also thought Macca had a good game.

Marshall - my god that boy is quick.  Id love to see more of him as really think he isnt far from contending for a start.

I dont think we should be too critical at this stage as we did well and showed great character to get a win vs the franchise, ok Aldershot was a bit dodgy but I think they'll be a team that do relatively well this season and the difference between L1 and L2 isn't huge.  Plus were never going to be as consistent as we'd like but thats why were league 1!  Tonight was much improved and improvements are still a step in the right direction.  We had numerous chances to win it and at the end of the day luck wasn't on our side.  Thats life.  Onwards to Leeds United next weekend and continue our unbeaten run.

I went along tonight....

Ground was odd looking and the facilities were laughable. And the terrace was strange...but great support and atmosphere,  and felt good to be part of that again, which i think only a terrace can do.

Average match....thought we did well first half, and first 10 minutes of second half. Then as soon we conceded (from a free kick that i didnt think should have been given), we collapsed a little bit. I'm not gonna batter Aljofree as he played ok tonight, i just wish he would take his time a bit. And we look good when we pass it along the floor rather than the hopeful knocks up front. Marshall looked very exiciting tonight, some great runs.

Other highlights....Nobby down the front. Ive never seen him before and ive been to a fair few away games but his general behaviour was quality. I have a video of him on my mobile now....

And when someone threw a napkin and it landed perfectly on some old blokes head, and just stayed there! I almost cried with laughter for some reason!

Shit journey back in the rain though, was pretty scary and also had some cunts trying to ram up my ass on the a419 on the way home.

ifil goal was an absolute peach of a goal. 2 in 2 he is on a roll.

Hilarious. 

Forgetting the end part to the "give us an S" chant :D

If there was a praying emoticon i would add it!  You should bite the bullet and post that on this is!

I meant the bowing and scraping thing..genufluction??

that was ace.

You should see who got booked for Hereford! Muamba, Andrew Taylor and Cattermole. I think they've just copy pasted Brum vs Boro from last season.

They didnt really pose our shaky defence any problems at all. We should have won that 2 or 3 nil but never mind.

Malpas made a good point that it makes a change to come back from an away game dissapointed at not winning. Ok, it was only Hereford, who mustered the sum total of one attempt on target, but in previous years we'd probably have gone away to a crap Hereford side and lost. Probably.

Cox looked a little off the boil. I'd have put my house on him scoring that chance in the first half. If I had a house. I actually thought Nalis was MoM too, some of his passes were sublime. I do wonder if its time to put Easton back in the middle at Timlin's expense though.

Hereford didn't play midweek and so had no disruption to their preparations for this game. After hard conditions on Tuesday night and more of the same last night then a draw for us is definitely a good result, even if it could have been better on the night.

Sometimes it is better to look at the bigger picture.

We have got Hereford away in Round Two of the JPT now!

Looking at the goals a few times again today, i can't understand why Phil Smith didnt dive down for the ball when their goal went in? I said it at the time - but looking again, i reckon he could have easily got his hands to it if he had dived, rather than just watching it.

hereford will go down
their keeper made a grrrrrreat save second half from payner i think
cox should have buried his chance in the first half
great finish from ifil
nalis had his best game in a town shirt
weather was rubbish
how the hell can a proffesional football club not have any burgers or hot dogs
would have brought marshall on for timlin myself
nobby was hilarious

I think I went to a football match last night....  quality night, great game, very unlucky not to win.  I feel sick.

They shouldn't be allowed in the football league with that shit hole. The toilets could just manage two people in and for disable people, it is a joke. Why didn't they let the two wheel chair fans moved in with the home disable area, they got wet and couldn't see much.

The police/stewards were just asking for trouble when holding back Town fans to video them.

The game was all right, I take any points away. It's just annoying when defence mistakes every week, wake up.

....and some hereford fans think we're doomed and will finish below them

have to agree about smith,did he think it was full time as the free fick was taken, it looked like he was running back to the dressing room.whats happened to our goalies?

That's simply laughable.

Agree with all of the above - enjoyed the game apart from only getting a draw out of it.

Paynter was mom for me-McNamee at last performs away from home,quality crosses in the first half.Marshall would have won a medal in Beijing,one time he made it from the edge of our box to the edge of theirs in about 3 seconds flat!No real end product from him yet though but promising.Jack Smith has solved our left back problem in my opinion.I was entertained-and that hasn't happened at an away game for me for a long time-just about worth the 6 hour drive from Kent.We were so superior to Hereford that it was disappointing to come away with one point but there were positives.Cant help feeling that Brez would have saved their goal though.Good to see Lady and Fred-top fans!

who is nobby?

no idea, but he was entertaining.

I can just imagine Nobby at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert going "give us an L"