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Part of me thinks we should win this easily.

A larger part thinks it's gonna be a very hard game which, if we're not fully prepared, could result in an embarassing defeat.

I'll let heart rule head and go for a 4-1 for Town.

I hope it doesn't get called off when I get there. Raining hard.

Nah, it'll be clear by 3pm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/24hr.shtml?id=4132

I'm confident of a win today.

I'm gonna go with a nervy 2-1 victory for town.

6-0 Town. Cox with 4.

 I'd love to see it....like when we stuffed Kettering 7-0 at their dung heap.

 All the sweeter for those of us who could remember the humiliation of our previous visit there.

 Wet, windy, shit pitch, hard to beat long ball side, this is a true test of the mental strength of our players.   :cry:

 It would be nice to think that the losing to a non league side once a  complete decade sequence, since we entered the FL....only applied to the 20th Century.

I went to that game in Kettering, Quinny getting a couple on hs FA cup debut for us, great day out in a shit town with a shit ground and a ruck with about 200 Norfamton fans......sweet.

As for today, I am going for a bore draw 0-0.

5-1. It's about time we dicked someone.

(and the Brighton fan on Soccer Am blabbing that they'll walk all over us Wednesday has fucked me right off)

Roar.

 I'd love a clean sheet...reminds me of years ago going to Stoke,  festive period, 94/95 I suppose.  We'd been like a sieve at teh back conceding something like 35 goals in the previous 15 games, this of course on teh back of 100 in the Prem.

 Wet, windy at teh old Victoria ground...unusual set up, a terrace for away fans  with a stand behind occupied by the home fans....firstly it was necessary to remove a crack squad of Stoke knuckledraggers from the away end, then the jolly Potters fans showed who put the pie in occupied by raining down an assortment of discarded food and empty bottles etc.

 The wind and rain was horizontal straight into our faces, but we got a 0-0 draw,  :) I was well chuffed....

Iremember going to Dag and Redbridge in the cup...that was scary,probably the most worried for my life ive ever been.

we'll get beat 2-1 a la stevenage borough (iirc)

I went to that game, a week after it was called off for the first time.....it was a scarey atmosphere there, I remember they almost took the Townend on the replay at the CG...which they won.

Am i right in thinking i will be able to listen to this over the bbc wilts radio on t'internet?

 TBF Leefer you don't.  It was just Dagenham.  Redbridge Forest were a completely different outfit who merged with Dagenham in the 90's. Therefore the side we lost to in teh 80's doesn't exist any longer.

 RF came about from an amalgamation of two famous amateur sides....Leytonstone and Walthamstow Avenue..

I have personally never seen the Town against non-league opposition-the prospect of humiliation is too terrifying

I think FGR was the only non-league team I've seen town play. Scraped through that one.

 Its always worth remembering that back then lads such as the SSF, didn't go in the TE, but the far end of the Shrivenham Road nearest to the away fans pen.

 For those not in the know SSF was the South Side Firm....inhabited by South Ciders.

Marvellous.  Radio 5's fa cup fella is at Histon today.  So if we struggle it will be very nicely higlighted by radio 5.

Mind you I think well stuff them 4 nil.

I ddin't go to the away gome but was at the home game in the Arkells. When they got their winner some blokes behind me starting taking the piss out of Swindon. I tuned around and told them to support their club but don't slag mine to be met by what could only be described as a Kray convention. They pissed themselves laughing as they told me to fuck off which I dld as quick as possible.

Todays game 1-1 with Town getting a late equalizer off someone's shin or arse and Histom completely stuffing us. Us to then sneak an udeserved victory in the replay. 

I'm confident about this one. 3-1 Town.

Twas a scarey night at the CG that night, I was in the town end and saw a couple of knife weilding eastenders, glad those days arent with us now TBH.

Kanyuka in for Morrison, only change.

I reckon 4-1 town today, for fans not in the Swindon area you can listen to BBC Swindon over the internet for today's match.

3-0 town

2-1 Swindon

Swindon Town: Phil Smith; Jack Smith, Patrick Kanyuka, Hasney Aljofree (Capt), Michael Timlin; Jon-Paul McGovern, Lee Peacock, Michael Pook, Anthony McNamee; Simon Cox, Billy Paynter

Substitutes: Peter Brezovan (GK), Kevin Amankwaah, Barry Corr, Craig Easton, Mark Marshall, Sean Morrison, Lilian Nalis

No place in the subs bench of 7 yet again for Ifil, I think his time at the town is over now for certain.

Fucking Kanyuka?!?!?!

Iv'e heard, that the abuse his family got the other week really upset Ifil.
Apparently the club have given him time off to sort his head out.

Somehow I think Ifil won't be hanging around long.

morrissey!

Whats this?

A place for Kanuyka but no sign of Ifil - thats pretty fucking crap.

Writing appears to be on the wall for Ifil

I've been told, that someone shouted you useless black bastard at Ifil after he made a mistake in a game. His misses was in the stand and apprently turned around and said you can't say that.
This person then had a go at Ifil's wife.
I maybe wrong mind.

Which is why he hasn't been involved, he took it quite personally apprently.

But he hasn't played for a month or so?

I must admit I did think about you when they played that SY!

I heard that it happened at Udders or Oldham game i think

his family was racially abused during a game, it was in the matchday programme notes from nick watkins.

i believe it was a game he wasn't playing in...

well thats even worse..

we dont half have some thick cunts for fans

Unfortunately Tans you are correct there.

I wonder if this will be Histons record attendence?

In random fact news, Histon have no full time employees and all the administrative side to their club is done by a team of 74 volunteers including the chairman's mother and sister.

I expect songs of "we filled your ground for you" and "is that all you bring at home"

In other non league news, Adie Mings didn't sound too chuffed :D

I was wondering that myself, but apparently if it is then it will only last until 1st January when they play near neighbours Cambridge in the league for the first time ever.

They are averaging around 800-900 a game and are expecting around the 2,500 to 3,000 mark today.

W'hey I win.

Or don't. Don't tune in at 5 past two obviously :D

Who else is going to listen to the histon commentary for this match?

I'm listening.

Whos phone is going off then? :D

Nice one whoever left their mobile on :/

I thought the played last aseason JJ?

not me because i cant get it to work. boo

Tis quite easy Dave, just go to 'listen live' on the beeb Wiltshire website.

nooo i can get the wiltshire one to work, but i wanted to listen to the histon commentary :(

is this on Radio Swindon?

Do they have radios in Histon?

Yeppers

For those lazy ones:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/swindon.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/swindon.shtml)

Sorry Tans you are correct, I was reading last seasons report Lick my Arse Orifice

3,721 was the attendance that day....I dont think it will be anywhere near that sized attendance today.

Cheers IOB.

Brez on for Smith.

Smith's taken a knock to the head and looks like he's coming off.

Brez on.

smith injured

...Nathaniel White-Percival?

What a cracking name.

Poor start for  us so far, most of the attacking sound slike its Histon, they are taking the game to us, and with Smithy going off it may disrupt us a little.

We have to be strong today and very very professional in attitude.

Blyth 3-0 Shrewsbury !!!!

As is Lanre Oyebanjo!

And Erkan Okay.

I bet he's nothing special.

Not sounding good is it.

At least the Ref ain't standing for their shit.

It doesnt sound good at the mo BR we seem under the cosh a bit ala Cambridge Utd a few years back....no surprise with Beck being coach there.....helmets on lads, air raid warning....bombs away!

Shouldn't say this, but I'm bored!

 :zzz:

My sentiments too

Same as Berniman. Sounds shite tbh.

I have to agree with the last few posts...it is dire.

I haven't managed to get together the effort required to find my radio. I probably won't bother.

Are we up for this?

I posted a live link on one of the pages Ben but tbh i still wouldn't bother. Sounds boring as fuck at the moment.

Oh yeah. I forgot they didn't turn it off for cup games.

A shot on target. There is life.

in other news i saw ian holloway outside the roman baths yesterday. Rumours sugesting he is set to take over management of the baths have as yet been unconfirmed.

i heard that rumour too

corner

they've scored from a fucking throw in?!

arsetits

Oh lawd. Goal direct from a long throw, which shouldn't count.

This is embarassing.

what the fuck?

Oh dear.

Oooh. No goal?

2/1 Bryne gets sent off.

You don't know what your doing! ::)

Or maybe you do!

Disallowed :D

Who said referee's don't change their decisions if you moan enough.

Good.

sit down shut up

haha disallowed. this is farcical

Not allowed Yeeesssss

How long did that decision take? Or non-decision take?

The game hasn't restarted yet, put it that way.

I think Histon are much mor eup for it than we are today.

Crazy stuff. Couldn't believe it when they said he'd given it but fair play to him for changing the decision

Begs the question, where was our 'keeper?!

off injured!

Likely we are nervous JJ, they (Histon) have nowt to lose really.

The way its sounding I will be fairly pleased to come away with a draw today.

Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss!

Half time! 0-0 :)

Has the beeb feed stopped for anybody else?

nope still going fine.

They're allowed to keep it on for cup games aren't they?

Works fine for me BR

it went off for about 15 seconds, but now its back and dandy. Will the jpt game be online?

Yes-just,oh no its come back again

Got it back now.

I am thinking that we'll get through on a moment of quality from Cox or McNamee. They sound dangerous but lacking in quality. I reckon that Marshall might be let loose on them later.

And what cock just texted in to complain about too much football on a football show?

Mine is in glorious tinny mono but that is probably just a buffering thing...

Tuuuunnnnneeeee!!!!!!!!!

They're playing Gary Elkins' song!

 :dance: :dance: :dance:

I'm not sure i fancy a cold midweek replay at the CG.

size of a cow!!

Come on Town-second half blitz!

jesus

Fucking hell come on.

Off the line.

Have missed much? i fell asleep after about 30mins into the game. Way to boring to stay awake.

Go back to sleep

Well you may have missed the goal that never was. Other than that just a few Histon corners and that's about it.

Cheeky Fooks!

Can't blame them though I suppose!

Cox booked= suspension,shit!

Cox booked 5 times already? Bugger. Does that kick in for Brighton or Leicester?

I might just do that. someone wake me up if we score please  :cloud9:

Hopefully Brighton.

Not sure if Cox is suspended, I heard it as it 'contributed' to yellow cards.

I could be wrong though.

A bit ahead of themselves on the radio, only Cox's 3rd booking this season.  Timlim with 4 is the only player facing a suspension for his next card

its his forth booking, but only 2 of them have been in the league

have we got a plan b?

I think it's called the Johnstone's Paint.

well that was coming

Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick, we're terrible and going out.

Mark Clemmit just orgasmed.

Oh no.......

FFS

Doh!

Oh Fuck

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Fucking hell dont sound so excited!

Does that mean we are losing?

NMH

Oh FFS.

What a crock of crap. 

MALPAS OUT

This is embarassing tbh.

 :oops:

Corr, Marshall ON
McNamee, Paynter OFF

I cant take humiliation

reg will be pleased

Chin up lads, we're still on for my 5-1 prediction. Sort of.

We sound totally gutless.

On the up side, we will probably be on MOTD tonight. Do we get paid for it?

bart will be more pleased!

Its official-it dont matter who plays,our defence is shit!

FA cup highlights are on itv tonight batch. 10.30-12

The majority of thisis will be even more pleased!

edit: thanks Dave.

I don't care what anyone says, we should never lose against the likes of Histon

Are you Oxford in disguise      grrrr

Marshall will score from a mazy run.

Quite agree, though they are doing well and it was always a tricky one. It's more we sound gutless again, though it's impossible to tell from the radio.

aljofree injured. down to 10

Fantastic.

oh hes back now. woop

Will anyone notice?

Sounds like we're shit.......from what I've heard......

we're gonna equalise. guaranteed.

Taxi for Aljofree and Kanyuka!

if its any consolation Southend are currently 2-1 down to AFC Telford.

Will Barry Corr get a shot on goal this season?

why, when we are losing, has malpas not made any change to the system at all, and taken off a striker?

cue change of system-3-4-3

I'm off to get drunk!

 :harshfunny:

Miguel has been sent off for Cardiff

It could be worse. We could be 1-0 down at home to Grays.

comminges sent off...

umm who is Oiyourabanjo he sounds ace

bugger carlisle equalised

sounds like we are getting   :a2m:

southend hav equalised as well...so we're the joke of the day

keep the faith.

Is Roy Keane gonna get the boot-would they dare?

I hope they're embarrassed

Fuck me, Louis Saha's scored twice. The world's gone mad.

blyth spartans beat shrewsbury 3-1
curzon ashton are 3-1 up against exeter

second one finished 3-2

us and Exeter

and shewsbury...

Rovers lost to Bournemouth, who are only a few places above Histon!

We've suffered more than our fair share of humiliation-thats why I never go to cup games v non-leaguers

What a crock of shit

Game over this one. Embarrassing.

Humiliation and embarressmant pretty much sums it up.

come on brez

fuck sake, i'm off to get pissed

Well, that was shit.

Total shit. As long as that fuckwit Malpas is in charge we ain't going anywhere.

Corr shot on target Dv!

Hopefully this will put more pressure on Malpas.

Swindon are going nowehere fast under Malpas

So only hope of a cup run now is the JPT. Don't fancy us at Brighton either.

thats a first this year it seems.

MALPAS OUT etc etc

Here we fucking go again......

oh well. live and learn

radio just said our game plan was to sit back and defend and give nothing away, we are playing FUCKING HISTON!! and we have the best striker in our fucking league, fucking attack the cunts

On the bright side: At least we will hear from Bart tonight, offering us his lyrical prose.

you can tell we played a non-league side, because we only conceded 1 not the usual 3 (it's the magic number oh yes it is)

So did someone else concede the other one then ?

NMH

Oh leave it out!

thats embaressing

It was offside love.

fucking hell, these texts makes we wonder why I bother.

The tactical nous of a one prick tony :D :D :D:

Well Histon did have two chalked out......

Useless fuckers. Looking forward to Wednesday.

Malpas is a cunt and he needs to go now just about had enough now. We are the laughing stock of football cheers Muarice

The only problem with criticising bart, is that inevitably he is proven right.

Malpas is shit, we know he''s shit, the players know he is shit and the board probably know he's shit. Pathetic

sounded like we were a load of shit today. Mind, it's notoriously difficult to play football against some of these non-league sides in the FA cup as we've found out before. Malpas must be fucking fuming tonight, but maybe we would of been better to match the cunts with a hard battle rather than trying to play football?

I'm pleased that MM at least took the round seriously, but it sounds like he got the tactics wrong today. Either that or the players let him down. Anyway, that's yet another fucking cup run over and done with before it even got cunting started!

Fuck off Malpas.

Fucking inept useless deaconoid cunt.

Edit - Tad of an overreaction there. Ive had my KFC Bucket meal and have now calmed down  :D

 Au contraire...there have been many well observed and structured posts to prove Bart mostly wrong about the key issues.

 It's also quite pointless to base a view of MM on a one off game, we were always going to struggle in, despite those who viewed it as only Histon.

 In such games you need players with mental toughness...we don't have many.

Dont have any more like!

This bloke on the radio now is a numpty.

Depends what you consider key issues, and that's not me supporting what he says, just asking what you have disagreed with...

Generally from what i've seen of his posts, he's negative - which could spill over to passionate, quite irksome but appears that he only has the best interests of the club at heart - not that he can do much about it.

However, I would say most fans will concede that Malpas will go sooner rather than later, and god knows what this result will do! but the other most prominent issues i've seen him talk about over the last couple of years, he seemingly gets proven right.

I've been quite prepared to give him his chance, but it doesn't look good for him now.

I think there will be a new manager in early January, if not before because I can't see him being able to get a consistent run of wins out of the team.

If he can, fair play, just doesn't look like he will.

The clock is ticking.

We can concentrate on promotion now. Thats if we pick up a single point in the next 3 games

 No, trust me on this one, Bart is wrong on most key issues...


 The above being his most recent offering...see just wrong.

 

are people really surprised we got beat?

didn't listen or trawl the thread but did brez start?he was on when i caught the end commentary comming back from the dire marine game

 Came on for PS, who apparently got kicked.  How did marine get on then?

Smith was injured in the first half,I lost interest shortly after that.

Not sure what all this Malpas out over reactuion is for,its the FA cup,league teams get beat by non league ones hardly a massive shock if you ask me

lost 4-1 and never looked like winning.justin mackay was decent for them though.

i aint gonna slate malpas for today.fa cup has results like we got.
it was on the cards

Well said

No throwing wobbly's or knee jerk reactions from me

It happens FFS

Lets get over it an move on to Leicester Saturday

I have seen enough in the last 3 games to satisfy myself that there is a way forward.

Those that are calling for MM's head again are quite frankly boring the shit out of me

Im gonna try and get next saturday night off work so I can get drunk and fight some Leicesters.

i'm sure they will be up for some of that yeovil.always had a good mob have leicester

Fuck this 'shit happens' bollocks. We were playing a team 33 places below us in the leagues in a competition that can bring rich rewards in round 3.

It was never going to be easy. And if you go down, then at least it is palatable to go down fighting. We had 2 fucking shots on goal against a non-league team.

The management AND players should be fucking embarrassed, I know I am.

I hope this doesn't derail the recent upturn in league form and subsequent improvement in atmosphere at the CG.

The JPT is the only thing we fans have left  to look forward to now.

er but it does batch.malpas doesn't convince me at all but today isn't a fair marker.the fa cup has always had results like we have had

Remember when they came over the Bank and charged the Shrivie rd?

ha ha that was ace!

I'm not saying one bad result makes a disaster. I'm merely saying it isn't acceptable to me.

i only listened to 20 minutes but wasnt it just a case of us getting "done" by some Long Ball merchants?

Shit happens :D

oh yes i remember that.

   
Inswinging corner from left by-line taken right-footed by Lanre Oyebanjo (Histon) to centre, goal by Daniel Wright (Histon) right-footed (bottom-right of goal) from left side of penalty area (12 yards).Histon 1-0 Swindon. Assist (pass) by Nathaniel Knight-Percival (Histon) from left channel.



Danny Wright

Danny joined Histon in March 2007 from Dereham Town and quickly adapted to goalscoring at a higher level. In his first full season Danny scored 18 goals including 15 in the Blue Square Premier to win the team’s golden boot award. Danny has the ability to achieve anything he sets his sights on and during this season will be sure to write many a headline.

First team debut: Histon v Cambridge City, 03/04/2007 as a substitute.
Full first team debut: Histon v Sutton United, 17/04/2007.
First goal: against Farnborough Town, away, 28/04/2007.

Histon career:
Season       Apps (as sub)       Goals
2006/7      3 (2)                       2
2007/8      37 (11)              18


Nathaniel Knight-Percival

Nathaniel enjoyed a wonderful 2007/8 season, becoming an ever present member of the team. He has progressed through the Histon youth ranks and his performances were recognised by Paul Fairclough, the England non-league team manager, who awarded Nat with his first England C call up.

First team debut: Mildenhall Town v Histon, 11/01/2005 as a substitute.
Full first team debut: Histon v Cirencester Town, 22/01/2005.
First goal: against Leighton Town at home, 25/01/2005.

Histon career:
Season       Apps (as sub)    Goals
2004/5      8 (4)              3
2005/6      26 (16)      3
2006/7      20 (eight)      5



Lanre Oyebanjo

Brentford’s loss is Histon’s gain! Lanre joined the club in July 2008 and has immediately made a positive impact. His call up to the Ireland under-19 squad is a mark of just how much potential this young man has. If he fulfils his ambitions with Histon FC it can only be a good thing for him and the club.

First team debut: Mansfield Town v Histon, 12/08/2008 as a substitute.
Full first team debut: York City v Histon, 16/08/2008.

 :clap:

I've had a shit day. I had to work all day. Then went to Morrisons for some beer and pranged the car next to me and left a lot of my paint on his now flattened wheel arch. Town lose to Histon and if it couldn't get any fucking worse X Factor will be on in an hour with that all time fucking awful Mariah Carey bint. My wife will want to bloody talk to me now - what's the betting.
What's the betting histon get the Scummers next round.
Beer is my only refuge. Oh - apart from wine that is.
 

Have you only got 1 telly?

drivers like you are the reason i park as far away from others as possible.

The problem is...it happens quite a lot.  I'm struggling to see where this fits in with 'promotion to the Championship within three years' or what ever the current master plan is.  If we were performing strongly and consistently in the League, you could forgive a result like this more easily.

Sadly, it feels indicative of a team that is simply making up the numbers in the lower leagues.  And we have to be aiming for more than that.  A town the size of Swindon deserves more than this.  We've just been beaten by a village side, for fuck's sake.

No, but my bratts will want to watch it downstairs. Even I'm not sad enough to sit in a bedroom on my own with my beer watching somethnig crap. Actually that may be a good option. Or the Moonies sounds a better option.

Pressure's on for Wednesday night.  If the team in the Andy Pandy stripes wins, then it's no more more cup dosh.

Cup dosh is extremely important and the Town today just blew some significant wedge.

I really didnt care about the game today for a number of reason but when most teams go on good runs (no matter how minimal) the important bit is how they bounce back once they lose.

I really hope for just about everyones sake that this defeat doesnt set us back into the confidenceless shakey side we looked about a month ago.

If we bounce back with a positive performance against Leicester then no harm done in my opinion.

Also, again just the radio but do we lack a plan B? It just seems our game plan is 'Cox will score' or 'McNamee will create chances' when it wasnt going our way we didnt seem to change it.

I really do wish for once, if we are losing Malpas will leave all three of Cox, Corr and Paynter on the pitch but I cant remember if we were losing before or after Corr came on.

Did we miss Morrison, Kanuyka sounded alright on the radio.

Good shout. It was all my fault - the only one for about 10 years thugoh. Not like my wife who drove the car into the fucking house - massive repair bill as part of the front of the house was rebuilt. If she wanted an integral garage she should have said something.

did you do the right thing and give your details?

What you do is leave a note saying "Look at the positives".

Yes I did. I was having a shit day - no need for him to have one as well. I spoke to him and he was a bit pissed off but quite relieved when I gave him my insurance details. I've been on the receiving end of some fuckwit pranging my car when parked and just fucking off.

well i suppose it is if you're not counting mssing out on all that money we could earn from gate receipts, prize money, tv money and merchandise.

so have i and good for you.karma bonus points for you today

at least we should get a good tv slot on itv's highlight show

 It's a bonus that ITV now have this...easier not to watch.

What a horrible result. Congratulations to Histon and good luck to them in the next round.

What can you say? Blyth Spartans put 3 past Shrewsbury today, a fine result against a tough team to beat (we could demonstrate this soon) and are doing well in their division - thus suggesting that these things happen. There's not a lot of logic in football.

However, another set piece and another shocking performance (as I'm reliably informed)

I could huff and puff and I'm sure those who went will and that's fair enough. But I'm hoping, nay, praying that on the basis of this being such a breathtakingly awful result which was complimented by an awful performance that maybe, just maybe, this could well be the result that gets things sorted.

We can't dwell, Brighton in the week is very important.

Sigh.

I just got back... We were incredibly shit but then again it was a shit game in general. The football was atrocious. Hoof ball. Their players dove a lot.

Some good banter with their keeper though. Chants of "are you a plumber or a builder" and "back to work on Monday" to which the keeper replied "No tomorrow"  too bothered and probably though ne really looked too bothered and probably thought "we will win easily" oh well shit happens and we move on.

Some kids started chanting for Malpas Out after the match (predictable) and there was a lot of abuse aimed at the players who came to clap the fans. 

I can't be arsed to read back though pages of comments:

* Shit game, really shit. We were awful and didn't trouble their defence. Did they trouble ours? As much as we troubled theirs.
* We should have beaten that shit. Instead we were just as bad and they got their break. Their game plan was not as good as people had made out pre-game.
* It matters, it was a long shit journey and I am annoyed I went. Don't regret it though, I've neglected away games recently, so it's good to see how we really are.
* Larwood's bloke was at the game  :D

HUMILIATION!

A nail in Malpas coffin!

But will it be? If we go by the L1 trend of late Malpas would have been sacked long before today.

Fitton has indicated that nobody is getting fired - why will it be any different now?

 Nah, just enters the roll call of shame of STFC managers who've lost to a non league side....Bert Head, Danny Williams, Lou Macari and Steve McMahon.

 Who incidentally outside of Glenn Hoddle are the only STFC managers post war to have won anything.

 We never played a non league side under Hoddle.

If we can bounce back then no. Tough game next, players need to show some respect to the fans.

I think Fitton's general thoughts will come by league form which hasn't been bad as of late. Today was shit however if we get a win or a draw even against Leicester next weekend its quickly forgotten.

Ah the days of starting in the 3rd Round. Ossie and Glenn's saving grace. McMahon on the other hand...

McMahon won us the div 2 title.

Isn't that what Reg is saying?

Unless I've missed something by not trawling back through pages of posts, he said Hoddle.

just got back from the game. As Gazza said in earlier post. it was good banter with the Histon keeper. i was not impressed with the performance. Only a few players can hold their head up after the performance and that was Smith, Timlin, Kanuyka, Brez and Peacock. The less we talk about the ref the better.

Nah, he was saying Hoddle was the only one of our managers who'd won something not to have lost to non-League opposition but that was because we didn't play any non-league sides under Hoddle

Just got back, we were shit and they were shit. Their goal came from Aljofree not organising and the guy was completely unmarked 6 yards out. I can understand the point that things like this happen etc but today was beyond bad. No application, no talking, we haven't a had a good chance all game, unless there was one near the end (I couldn't really see). It was the first time I had been since Leeds at home and nothing's changed as far as I can see...I was praying that he had turned it round and looking at our recent results we've been doing alright but today was shocking and could prove to very costly.

Fair play to Histon and their fans, but I pray to God they get no where near the football league or any further in the FA Cup. Truely horrible football, 6'6' lumps from back to front and didn't stop kicking us for 90 minutes, not that the ref was that bothered.

What Scot said. Fucking dire. And I'd probably single the same players out for (faint) praise. One thing we noticed being right behind the goal was how Aljofree abjectly failed to make any effort to organise the defence at set pieces, but instead spent the time far more profitably by bitching at his colleagues. Well done Hasney, another real captain's performance to be proud of. Shame you weren't so focused on marking the bloke who scored from enough free space to have pitched a tent, set up a calor gas stove and made us all sausages.

And as Gaz said, fair play to their keeper. Good sense of humour, earned the respect of most of us I think with the banter and doing well what little he needed to do.

And hats off to Reg - he got it bang on. Histon were the better side today, played better and they wanted it more. Thoroughly deserved to go through and we thoroughly deserved to go out.

i blame Andy Mutch

Oh right, a real worthy point then. Let's all bow down to his immeasurable football knowledge.

Ssh paul you can't make players scapegoats.

Well that was crap indeed. Has anyone else ever seen a fourth official recommend a goal disallowed after it's been given by the ref before? I certainly haven't.

Your Brother in law? was a laugh on the radio as well!

anyone see the arguement that Aljofree and Smith had just before the histon goal.

Neither Jerel Or Sean enjoy playing along side Has, cos they feel he blames them even when he himself is at fault

My point was about him as a captain and not as a player. And if he stops making other players scapegoats, I'll stop pointing it out.

Yep, that was just one example of the "leadership" I was talking about. If he'd been concentrating on marking up and organising the defence, or even organising his own marking, he might have kept with his man who then scored

I hate the FACup-its lost its magic!

Mc Moan was a cunt - we should never of gone down the year before!!

Ossie"won"the play-offs

Nor me. But give the man credit, it takes some cajones to reverse a decision like that. Obviously I'd give him more credit if he'd been aware of the rule you can't score from a throw-in and/or been paying sufficient attention to notice no-one had touched it on it's passage through, but he does deserve a brownie point for character for that. Apart from that he was a swivel-eyed loon

I blame Macca for the goal, he decided to come back with the ball on a break and then try going back forward thinking he could take on three Histon players. He got subbed after that.

It's a bit sad seeing Ifil frozen out, they all made mistakes, but not even on a bench of seven. mad.

 A debateable point...although we never played a non league side duroing his time either.

 I was told by a very reliable source, before the Sunderland game, that the club had been informed we would be relegated come what may.

not the impression myself anda few of my mates got from chalky white before the post match parade reg.
as a 16 year old i might have read his joy wrong.but having seen the 93 docu i dont think so as his joy seemed the same to me.we had a chat with him and his mrs with tiny child in tow that day and he was over the moon

Maybe the players hadn't been informed

But reg was?

Yes, poor Jerel.

I think Malpas freezes people out as a way of imposing his authority over the squad.Which is a bit mongy to be honest,what a cock.

yeh, that must be it.

I've said all along that Malpas dropping or freezing out Jerell Ifil is a fucking disgrace. Mistakes aside, he's an honest and committed pro who should be playing first team football, not being hung out to dry and treated like a scapegoat for some shit results. 

Aljofree's antics today sound like par for the course. Pointing fingers at others in the vacuum of conceding a goal is the mark of a bully, not the actions of a motivating captain.  He's performed well recently, but he wont do himself any favours by blaming others when he's at fault. I wonder if Malpas and Fitton are too scared to drop him?

That's the only thing I can cling to with any hope.

Every one of the players should be kicked squarely in the plums...and the only one who should complain would be Timlin.

Walsall lost today as well, so maybe 2nd round day would be a good time to re-schedule that game for?

Oh i fucking hope so

We weren't very good

They were better.

We lost.

I went out and got pissed.

That is my summary of yesterday.

Oh, me and Whits sang, "Same Old Swindon, Taking The Piss."

But it didn't really catch on..............

:D

If we are looking forward to a 'bounceback' result against Brighton to repay the fans i predict the following:

Malpas strolls into The Arc and puts £500 behind the bar and tells us he is resigning ,whilst the so called players serve the drinks.
Arjofree stands on a stool with a dunces cap on while we all shout abuse at him - how does it feel?
Club lay on a fleet of Limos to the ground.
We piss it 6-0 - all overhead kicks from 30 yards out. :beers:
We all riot at the end and try and invade the pitch but after ten minutes of running we still havent reached it and pull up with stitch.
All go down to Brighton for another giant piss up............. :D

Can somebody buy this for me please? An early Christmas present?

Well i plan to down a few in The Arc before and i will buy you a drink! happy christmas :jester:

I just remembered Nobby starting a chant of "Lou Macari's red and white army"  :soapy tit wank:

Sounds about right