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Haven't got a clue what the score will be, if Byrne can fire them up and get them playing as a team we've got a good chance of getting the win though.

Looking forward to it, it's usually a good atmosphere and it's always nice to see Phillips...............

I just don't know what to think so I'm off to do the weekly shop. I won't see you there.

I'm writing off this game. We will concede, but I can't see where the goals will come from.

I'm more worried about the fact I'm not that bothered by the prospect of losing to Rovers.

Just waiting for gazzas fat mate to arrive then heading down with 3 others, shoudl be a good game

behave yourselves young padawan!

Me?

just joking

 That's the sensible conclusion from the available evidence..well apart from the not being bothered bit. Would our last clean sheet on the road been at Rovers?  Wouldn't mind a 0-0.

Available evidence? We are unbeaten in for they have lost the last 3

Well obviously I hope you are right. I was looking at it from the point of view of our bet player and goalscorer being out, coupled with a defence that is leaky.

 Lost the last 2 away games, without scoring, no clean on the road this season, and Rovers tend to score a few, and ship a few....but we're Coxless.

No Cox, Lambert scoring freely, cant see us getting anything out of this game 2-0 defeat.

I've just done the weekly shopping and got an absolute bargain on a massive puff pastry steak and ale pie for dinner tomorrow. This means we'll win today*.



*we won't, but I'm trying to be positive.

Big up Morrisson, Last time i saw Ben lambert he couldnt even sell advertising boards let alone score. 3-0 swindon.

2-1 us. Joyce brace.

I agree with you.

Hope we are both wrong!!

We've had this conversation before Reg. There is no logic in football. If there was, there would be no Pools because everyone could predict the results. I therefore predict a 2-0 win for us, based on absolutely nothing.

As with the other pessimists on here I don't see us scoring enough goals (without Cox) to win.

Unless Bazza can pop in a late goal or two.

Hoping that we can grab a point from this, but fear we might lose 2-1.

 I'm sure we have, along with many others, I woke up this morning and for some bizarre reason, momentarily convinced myself we'd keep a clean sheet..this random burst of optimism, didn't last long though.

I would fucking love to be wrong!

fucking hell, everyones gone all STFC Bart.

With Cox suspended and the fact none of our other players ever score ever we conceed 6 every game and Byrne waves his arms around too much then I cant see anything other than a 6-0 defeat.

MALPAS OUT!

I'd take a draw.

I'll say I'll take a draw now. But when we either should have held a lead or haven't held the momentum to win from a come back I'll be looking for someone to blame. Blame with fire.

a clean sheet will do me.

Wear a wank sock.

Today is the day that Herthab's 4-1 prediction will come true.

paynter in midfield, corr and joyce in up front.


errrrrr...

Smith
Smith Kanyuka Morrison Timlin
Nalis Pook Paynter
Mcnamee Joyce
Corr

I haven't 8)

Have they said its Paynter in midfield?

Odd choice having Paynter, Corr, Joyce and McNamee playing.

yeah, definitely paynter in midfield for peacock according to RS

Maybe Paynter wide right of a midfield four?

Paynter Nalis Pook McNamee
          Joyce Corr

We'll find out soon I guess.

They just said that Paynter is injuired on Premium tv

They just said Paynter would be in central midfield.

They just said paynter is dead

Paynter Pook Nalis

Joyce Corr Mcnamee

So we have an injured dead player playing midfield?

Wicked.

Paynter is evolving!

Paynter evolved into Payntertronamonator!

Being dead is a pretty serious injury

Not as career threatening as it used to be. Modern medical techniques are marvellous.

"And Paynter  ghosts in to the box..."

He'll be alright.

Pah, I could run it off.

Its ok he is back now they used a reincarnated magic sponge.

soapy tit wank @ Byrne not wanting to hear Rovers singing "Come on Eileen or whatever". Missed that interview in the week.

maybe we're gonna go 4-2-4!

Love shack babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...

Come on you reeeeeds.

Let's have it then!

Financial turmoil.  Off field unrest. Selling players to make ends meet. And it's not Salisbury not Swindon. What a pleasant surprise, except for the Salisbury supporters I guess.

Oh well, gotta go. Apparently I have to go to toys R us and the Jolly Roger soft play with the little one. :(
 

Here we go...

Histon 1-0 Oxford....

the MIGHTY GIANT KILLING Histon are 1-0 up against the scum

We at least lasted longer than 5 minutes

I wish I could last longer than 5 minutes

get in

1-0 salisbury..

have you still got two balls?

Sounds like they are all over us.

I have indeed, it's alot better.

Anyone watching the egg-chasing as well? The 'boks are all over us.

good job, otherwise you'd only last 2 and a half minutes!!

Not sounding good so far

Shitty 2-0 Down at Palace.

Haha, indeed.
I've decided not to play football at all this weekend to make sure.

Is McNamee dead as well?

Oxford, City & Reading losing

All we need now is us to be winning and Bristol Rovers to be losing!!!!

Have Pook or Nalis touched the ball yet?

Is it that bad then? I don't have the radio on.

scum 2-0 down

have any of our players touched the ball?

2-0 Histon :D

Yes

...phil smith

....and one for Lambert, scream by all accounts....

woooooot goal

Great.

Morrison-you look a right cunt now!

oops

CUNT

rickyyyyyyyyyyyy

Oh cock.

GOAL: Ayr 3-0 East Fife: Easton (23) 

malpas out

byrne out

Where?

willams out (of jail)

We'll win 2-1.

We'll do the bastards

hopefully byrne gets sacked at half time and we have a new manager in for the second half.

sub after 35 minutes.

Joyce off?

Why dont the Pirates fuck off back to Somalia

joyce off, jp on.

I thought last night that byrne would make some silly changes for the wrong reason

Joyce off-fuck me that'll do his confidence the world of good

Whoop!

get in Pat

KANYUKA!!!!1

Have ITTT!--FUCKING GOODNIGHT IRENE

pat kanyuka can! woooo

magic substitution

get in

Ha ha ace.

Good.

was it a corner??

I ddin't see that coming!!  :eek:

Irene's a prostitute, Irene's a prostitute (etc)

Fuck it i will ask.. anywhere i can listen online

Might be a stupid question but you're in Swindon right? you must have a radio somewhere?

Nah i am at the mother inlaws sitting on the pc. it is the wifes birthday so they have all the family around

Bah shit...  £100 down the drain last night, missus lost the purse, had an almighty row last night, can't decide whether to move back home or stay out West, and Reading are letting my accumulator down...  grrr.  I think I'd prefer it if Swindon lost 6-0, then at least I'd have a valid claim for the worst day ever.

Yay FOTC are back!

Ace 8)

What's FOTC?

And why's Paynter in midfield?   >:(

Flight of the Conchords

He's not.

Why not?  He might be the next Kaka?   >:(

If it's any use to anyone, the BBC have not turned off the commentary on the website.

Oh yeah. Ace.

COOORRRRRRRRR!

Whoop!

Get in Bazzzzzza!

2-1

FUCK OFF IRENE

Corr! Get in!

corr blimey

OH my GOD!!!!!!!!!

Get the fuck in!

Fucking get in

GET IN!!

Byrne in!

Playing with confidence,.........wow.

Phew!

Pardew out!

I dont want anymore shit managers sacked because they'll be linked here!!!

Hahaha, 5-2.

Sssssssshhhhhhhhhh!

Cool, just got in... it was 1-1 when I was in the car and 2-1 when I turned on Sky Sports News..... now thats a pleasant surprise. Rover wankers.

Get in.

if byrne keeps this up then the job should be his.

I'm still not sure about Byrne. I do think we have better options than him.

Word

He is determined to give AF something to think about

Fair play to the fella

ask me again at 5pm!

Not sure really. With Williams seemingly in a bit of trouble (although he could be guilty of nothing!) Byrne will have to bring in some coaches and backroom staff. If he doesn't have the contacts I'm not sure Fitton will appoint.

Agreed.

He's done a good job thus far though but i just think we need someone with more experience in charge.

if he gets it then he should have the say on who his no2 is.

Byrne should have been given to the job till the end of the season before Malpas was appointed. It would've been a win win situation. If he was rubbish we could have got rid easily, if he proved to be a genius etc etc

Not sure now though.

Glad to hear beryn go 442 when it was obvious the 433 was not working. Glad i'm shit at predictions too. Long way to go yet mind

so far so good............
Got money on it?  ;)

Yes I don't dispute that, but he has most of his experience at Plymouth academy. Will he have the contacts? My gut feeling is he'll turn to the likes of Sturrock. We need to get away from his cast offs imo.

 the Joyce debacle could go either way for him-you could say it was a horrendous mistake to pick him but you could say at least he had the courage to admit it was wrong early on

Histon 4-1 Oxford

Ha ha ha ha ha

Fucking hell -we're living dangerously again.Come on Town-dig in!

England 6 - S. Africa 42

Oh dear.

Where's that scummer cunt gone now? Silly inbred.

Harry Redknapp so far ... not a bad contact

Makes our 0-1 look good...

Thanks OST am listening now...  ooh Rovers miss an easy chance.


Ooohh and Lambert hits the bar....  Eep maybe I should turn this off.

It depends of your glass is half full or half empty.

For example, super happy positive Bart will say Byrne got it wrong, terrible choice etc etc

Histon 5-1 up

Crystal Palace 4-1 up

Shame that scummer who laughed at us for losing 1-0 to Histon didnt stop around

Oh right, I wasn't aware of that.

For fuck sake town, don't throw this away!

Fuck I knew I should have gone today sounds like a good game, if a little nervous.

Right, I've got to go out in the car again, so in the time it takes to leave the house and get in my car and turn the radio on I fully expect to hear a 3-1 scoreline.

Sounds like we are well and truly under the cosh! :(

Smash and grab if we hold on to this.

Fucking hell, we're holding on for dear life. Put another fucking defender on!

What is Ed Hadwin's preoccupation with the word harranged? (sp?)

Wahey!

he heard you Sam!

McNamee off Aljofree on

Macca off for Hasney.

I dont know if thats a good thing or not....

is it 4 or 5 at the back now? wing backs?

Fuck no-Aljofree's on

He's got his BlackBerry in the dugout.

Who was the captain before Aljofree came on?

Timmmmy

Aljofree sub timed at 79 minutes

A good 15 left yet! why do we always seem ages behind everyone else.

Because we take ages to come out for the 2nd half.

We are always one of the last few FT's to be confirmed on soccer saturday

We're winning, when did that happen?

Ronnie Woodwork is our man of the match!

Sky sports has us with 51% possesion

I think the Football League should employ the Scottish system.

Man City 3-0 Arsenal

Wenger Out!

Wenger to Swindon!

Another 5 to go then...free kick lined up.

Can anyone give an update on how long we've got left?

Fucking hell this is nerve racking.

please defend

I cant take any more of this!

Free kick again. Fucking hell.

Another free kick.

this is unbearable. got to turn the radio off

Fucking hell Smiffy! Come on Town!

Fuck.

well that was always on the cards

FUCK WANK SHIT

Disaster

Fuck.

Fuck

cunting wank fuck shit bollocks

Byrne-no luckier than Malpas then

Well i'm not surprised. It's been coming since we scored. Just typical it's the last fucking minute.

Haha, sent off for celebrating. Inbred cunt.

I dont know if anyone else has said this but

Fuck.

last kick of the cunting game

haha brilliant.

thick fucker

I take it they've just scored

Jesus fuck. Cunting cunts.

malpas out... uhhh byrne out :(

Only ourselves to blame-stupid fucking free kicks!

what a shitty way to end

Come on then Ben, who are you blaming?

These commentators are mad, don't they realise you can't blame Morrison for anything.

it must be Aljofree's fault  ;)

I'd have taken 2-2 at 3pm.....  still FUCK

Fucking good point away all things considered.

on a more positive note I said 2-2 in the prediction league

How many fucking free kicks do want to give away. Fucking cunts.

(I'd have taken a draw before the game, but grrrrr)

Did Ifil come on at the end?

2 points lost. But we would have taken a point before the game.

City Lost, Reading Lost, Oxford Lost, Cheltenham Lost.
We're unbeaten in 5, 2 of those against the top 2. 10 points from a possible 15.
I haven't got to get up for work tomorrow and i'm out on the piss tonight.
I would say a good night and day.
See you all.

wouldnt like to be walking down the gloucester road now.

Histon 5 Pox 2 - they got a late goal too :doh:

And I said 2-1 so i'm even more pissed off now!

Since I haven't been for ages I am not feeling the pain as much as I usually do but I am still GUTTED

We need 2 new central defenders-none of 'em are any fucking good,we have to face up to that fact.(Note to new manager-top priority in Jan}

I don't bloody believe it, conceding with the last kick of the game !!!

Positive : Big Bazza Corr... 2 goals in 2 games...and he hasn't gone off injured...yet !!

I was personalising what I expect the general reaction to be. I believe I may be proved right

Byrne is sounding a bit of a muppet while we drop another place in the league

All things considered a point is a decent result. Sounds like we were getting battered at times and to go out and get 2 goals when so many people said Cox was our only hope of scoring is pretty good.

Gutting to concede at the end like that but STFC4LIFE's evaluation of the whole situation is spot on, we're doing ok lately

Agreed

Fully expected us to lose this especially after we went 1 down.
But still feels a bit like we lost.

I guess we feel how Leicester felt last week

<DV> It's all Stanley's fault, we won when he was not in the country, fuck off you fat cunt</dv>

I cant agree with all this "good point" business,if you concede a 94th minute equaliser due to indiscipline it's a bad point in my book

Sorry


I am going to put my bollocks on the line but


I like the guy

Refreshing change from the last man

Good substitution in the first half (felt sorry for Joyce, but "for the greater good" and all that)

All in all a decent point away from home, so pleased for big Barry as well

hahah who was pretending to be bart?

i'm warming to him more and more too fred

STFC Bart as positive as ever

I dont dislike the guy Fred-I'm just a bit wary of managers who consider themselves "a bit of a character".Im just disappointed we've let another 2 points slip away and are heading down the table.I dont think anyone who knows me can describe me as negative

Credit where credit is due to Byrne. He's doing a pretty decent job. I just don't think he's the full time answer.

I have to disagree Andy, i get the impression he try;s too hard and says what he knows the fans want to hear. The Joyce decision for example, i think he only played him to show fitton he is prepared to give youth a chance.

Dont get me wrong i am happy as fuck with the point but paynter in midfield for fucksake

You mean the same Paynter who set up both the goals?

I like some of the things Byrne has done - seems to have been the instigator of us doing well attacking-wise, but we're a defensive mess - it needs sorting out. Byrne has been a heavy contributor to our team organisation and it's terrible. He ticks a lot of the boxes, but I fear his style is too focussed on raw talent, which won't get us anywhere long term (look at King for example).

I don't know exactly how they scored the equaliser, and like I said, it's so frustrating to concede taht late on. But at the end of the day we've come away with a point when some were contemplating whether or not we'd even score, as though Cox is the only person in our squad who doesn't become physically incapable of kicking a ball within 18 yards of the opposition's goal

Yes the same paynter who set up the goals.Seems alot of hassle just to keep Timlin at left back.

Agree with this post.  Malpas showing up without his own staff should have been a huge red flag.  These days, you need more than a manager.  Luggy showed up with his team, that's what we should be looking for this time, manager, first team coach, reserve team coach, and a new goalkeeping coach to follow.

Some may have,but I predicted 4-1 Town!

I do think its a good point. We would have all taken it before play, just gutting that it was Rovers who got the last minute equalizer. If it had been us making it 2-2 late on we'd look more positivly on it.

5 unbeaten. 9 point from the last 15.

You do raise a good point DRS. Much of the things that the fans have slagged Malpas off for are probably Byrne's influence. I'm convinced he has an eye for player's skills and in fact tries to utilise them in other ways i.e. players in different positions. For players like Timlin, it has worked well, others it hasn't. Unfortunately most of our players are not developing youngsters. They've played in their positions for a long time and adapting doesn't work.

I'm also of the opinion that the bollocks 4-3.5-2.5 formation is Byrne's brainchild, as evidence by the lineups in the last 2 games. It doesn't work and never will.

That said, I think someone like Byrne clearly knows a decent player when he sees one and I think he can get good performances out of players.

Deev,that is the biggest "if" since "if my auntie had bollocks she'd be my uncle".I really felt that we would beat Rovers today and we should have

I don't think that Byrne made the players loose confidence. it took Malpas to do that.  I believe he tried to make the players do things that they were not capable of, violating one of God's (Clough's) commandments.   Yes, accommodating Macca seems to be Byrne's brainchild.  He is letting the players get back into their own way of playing, and building confidence.

Aljofree is not the answer in defence or captain.  

fuck it,a bit gutted but a draw is a good result today.

So then why is Byrne putting players in their unnatural positions too? I'm not trying to slag him off too much as we've got a couple of decent points in the last 2 games, but this sudden 'Byrne is alright attitude' after loads of people were slagging him off two weeks ago amazes me.

Yeah ultimately an okay result. I'd have taken a point away from home but the circumstances always leave you a little bit gutted.

byrne takes risks and i like him for it(whether i agree or not)
he is deffo making a mark on the side.to me it shows what a fucking waste of space malpas was.

i'd give bynre a few weeks to show if he is worthy of the job.there is no need to rush anyone in

I disagree. If Byrne is worthy of the job give it to him now, because if he isn't, by the time the new appointment comes in, he won't have much time to assess the squad and be ready for the transfer window.

The longer it goes on, the longer we'll get a Malpas situation again.

You mean the same Paynter who set up both goals whilst playing up front after being moved up from midfield?

Yes, so the original argument is pretty much a non-entity. It wasn't working, it got changed.

Hows it a non argument? Surely it shows he is not a midfielder. Fair play though its refreshing to have a nanager have the bollocks to change it

Why on god's green earth was he there in the first place?

Well it wasn't the reason we didn't get 3 points. Neither was Joyce starting. From what I could hear on the radio, we were lucky to get anything at all, which in that respect makes it a good point.

Had he kept that position throughout the match I would fully agree with your point. Incidentally, I think that same reason why we were losing to Leicester until the last 10 minutes.

Probably because he'd played there the last game for a large part of it. Although I thought he was wasted there. We're a bit fucked without Cox.

I wasn't there, but maybe some mad experiment of having somebody who could come back and break up play when we weren't in possession, and get forward when we were.

Fair play to Byrne for changing things early when it wasn't working. That's the biggest indication that he might be the man for the job I've seen (heard) so far, pretty strong move.

I'm still not really backing a manger though, don't really mind who gets it. I'll support them anyway and being negative about people just so you might have a chance to say "I told you so" is only clever when you're 7.

With the greatest of respect adje, that's bollocks. Wovers bombarded us for the last 20 minutes and the lads stood up well - without that we could have conceded a lot sooner. We were right behind Phillips' goal so I couldn't say what was the direct cause of conceding it but it looked a good strike and like I say we'd done well to hang on that long. Gutted walking away because if we'd held on for another minute we'd have won but if you'd offered me 2-2 and another strong battling performance when we got in the ground, I'd have taken it. Good game, especially considering it was a derby and a good away point, especially as we were without Cox whereas they still had League 1's other leading goalscorer

Well I wasn't. But surely people are entitled to change their minds?

Just like to add i am well happy with the result just been left baffled with the starting line up thats all

Of course. Although I'd have to say someone who changed their mind after two games probably had a fickle trait.

Incidentally my comment was a general one not aimed at anybody specifically, but comments supporting Byrne were few and far between when others were saying get rid. In my opinion he's done nothing differently to last time he was in charge (so far). Again, that needn't be a bad thing, we've got 2 decent enough results.

2 goals and 1 point more than I thought we'd get. Shame it was a 94th minute equaliser but it sounds like Rovers deserved it.

Did we play with commitment and passion? Did we look like we wanted it?  

Yeah, I did try and say that was a good point, especially as people often slagged Malpas off for it, a few pages back, but I think it may have got lost somewhere.

I wasn't there, but would Cox have made a difference? What was the poorest our attacking or defending?

Absolutely yes to both

No worries si. Anyway posh up next another toughy

To be honest Wovers dont look like a bottom half of the table team. They battered us for long spells and we were lucky to get a draw.

We came out after half time and played some fantastic football. Just total commitment. Unfortunately we couldnt keep our shape once we went 2-1 up.

Barry Corr is fucking brilliant. End of. Well done Bazza.

I don't think he's done a lot different from last time either - I thought he did well last time and is doing well this time. Incidentally, if you add the last two games on to when he was last in charge we're 8 unbeaten on the trot under Byrne now.

Excellent. As imporant as the result for me.

 It's a slight curio that at teh moment we've yet to play 7 sides in this league and 5 of them are in the bottom 9 or so. Having said that our record against the higher placed teams, so far, is no worse, than against the lower placed teams.

 Therefore I don't think we can necessarily assume some easier games on the horizon.

 PBoro, I predicted for a PO finish...their away form is average, but they have a potent attack....another game then, where we'll probably have to score at least a couple to get anything.
 

"bollocks" with respect?That's novel!I appreciate that you were there and I wasn't but conceding 8 free kicks in the last 5 minutes when we are notoriously bad at defending set pieces is a bit undisciplined and conceding with the last kick of the game  regardless of how much pressure you've been under  must still feel like 2 points dropped surely?

Yup. Spence sums it up very well, actually. Don't underestimate how hard those lads fought today, and against the swivel-eyed "short man syndrome" ref as well as a very determined Wovers side.

I thought that our defending was poor. Due to his age I guess that you have to say that Morrison shows promise, however, he is prone to mistakes. I do not think that Kanyuka & Morrison together is the answer. It has to be one or the other.

It was meant tongue in cheek. Should have used a smiley
Feels like 2 points dropped, of course it does at the time, but definitiely a point gained. The "bollocks" bit was in refernce to indiscipline. Stroud is a swivel-eyed loon and one of the best arguments I've seen for drugs tests on refs as well as players. He was giving things against both sides no-one else could see. We put Radio Brizzle on on the way home and Wovers fans were ringing in complaining about him as well.

As soon as it was mentioned on the radio it was Stroud I knew shit decisions were coming. I never remember a referees name unless he's had stinkers in the past.
----
I think we will come good performance and result wise if the attitude is right. And it is nice to hear it has been the last two games.
--
We Will beat Posh on Tuesday.

Quite, we got a programme on way in, saw Stroud was ref and I said to the bro-in-law "Shall we just go back to the car now then?"

Ref was awful.

Gave us a goal kick after Smith had blatently turned it round the post.

Could have given anything today at any stage. I think he started off a complete homer, but through a mix of outrage and obsenities we managed to get a few decisions out of him.

Shit ref.

Is Adje the new Bart?

 :eek:

eek-no!

Adje answered a question and therefore cannot be the new Bart.

Thank fuck for that!

That's very harsh. He made a reasonable point, drew a reasonable conclusion from the bald facts which is about all you can tell from the radio. He couldn't have been expected to take into account what a nutter the ref was - you really did need to see it to believe it!

Thank you paul-I was beginning to get a complex!

I'm sure you've got more self-esteem than that. Oh, and bollocks :)

And a respectful bollocks back!

We battled well but I think we played alot better last week tbh as we spent the last half hour camped in our last third. We used up a seasons worth of luck in that second half as some of the stuff they missed was unbelievable and I thought for once it was going to our day but alas it wasn't to be.

One thing I will say and I know it's mentioned in the Joyce thread, but I hope to god the new manager restricts the players comments in the press as Morrison should never have said what he did yesterday as it was always going to see Lambert score.

Stroud was a fucking wanker and I was seething most of the game. I always try stay sympathetic to the ref as I know its a fucking hard job out there, but he got so many elementary decisions wrong it was infuriating! Really ruined the game for me.

Very impressed though with our speed of thought for the second goal though, the quick free-kick, excellent delivery, perfect knock down and cool finish were very pleasing to watch.

Good result in hindsight, three points from the last three league games and SEVEN goals, yes seven goals and not one win.
We have a problem Houston and it aint upfront.

We all know Ricky Lambert is a decent striker at this level, he's scored a belter against us before today. Did Lambert even look in the Swindon Advertiser? Maybe, maybe not. I doubt very much that it made much difference to his game apart from maybe a cheeky little grin as he windmills in celebration.

Ultimately it's up to Morrison & co to prevent the goals going in whether or not you've "psyched up" the opposition.

TBF today I don't think the defence was helped by how far we were sitting back in the second half it was doing my nut and just inviting pressure.

I was only pulling his chain!

Oh and I didn't know facts could be bald! :D

No manager, top striker out. Easton injured and paynter in midfield against a team who have scored for fun this year. All things considered a very very good result no matter when the scored

I think my favourite one was us getting a free kick when Kanyuka and Phil Smith collided with no Rovers player near them. Truely laughable.

overall a good day, great fun with our fans were well on song.

Ref was cack, some truly astonishing decisions.

If we'd got the equaliser in the dying seconds we'd love it. Same result, different mood. But we're building a record against wovers of them not beating us too recently which is good.

2 vicky pollards, there's only 2 vicky pollards!!

The funniest was the abuse aimed at the fat bloke - "Even Irene turned you down"

We should have pushed on after scoring our second. Instead we tried to defend and went further and further back. I was disappointed that one of our main outlets, Macca, was subbed for Aljorfree as it meant even when we got hold of the ball the options were limited.

Byrne's doing ok, but he isn't the answer long term...

Phillips must have filled his piggy bank up yesterday, the amount of coinage he was given.

Is there any particular reason why people keep referring to Rovers as 'Wovers'? Is it some bizarre show of support for Jonathan Ross or something?

And in other news, I'm still not sure if Lambert meant the first goal but I'm leaning toward a yes. If he did, it was an absolutely brilliant bit of skill and probably one of the best goals I've seen in the flesh.

Lamberts goal was amazing, hate to admit it but one hell of a player

 You may recall we tried to buy him....think it was Wise time...Rovers had more money.

Yes,strong rumours from their end (wherever he was playing) we HAD done the deal. Then nothing. Then a bit later he went to Rovers.

My take was we didn't have any money to seal the deal, Rovers stepped in. I think it was around the time of the Bill Power/Bopards row over transfer budget/authority.

We thought that - the ball was spinning in the air all the way into the net, our first thought was that he'd mishit it. If it was deliberate, he's a lower league Beckham/Ronaldo. So my vote is it was a mishit :)

Just seen the goals on the chumpship. I'm none the wiser.

Ahem... not guilty :D

he mishit it

I went with a Wovers fan & was stood on their terracing. (tad dodgy, but got away with it). The Wovers fans thought that their defending was shite & that they were lucky to get away with a point. I 'd love to know where the ref got his watch though, by my reckonoing thge game should have finised at 10 to 5 & they scored at about 2 minutes to 5.

we were late out in the second half and there were a lot of stoppages.

Thats was all rumour started by Tails. No truth in it what so ever....

Whoever comes in needs to make this the number one priority. If we take a lead we dont loose our shape, we keep going in our formation. Obviously its not helped by having someone like Pook in the middle (who did OK and won some tackles) but he's no midfield general. I thought Jack Smith tired badly in the last 20 minutes and they had acres of space donwn the left. Obviously Barry Corr tired as well, but he ran his heart out for 60 minutes, chased down every single back pass.

Did he pose as a Rochdale, that's where I heard it from. Odd thing for Tails to do.

We just gave away silly free kicks though, although the ref did give most things when they dropped to the floor, the central defensive partnership is not right though, Morrison was making a few silly mistakes at times and I'd possibly put that down to no real experience in the back line to tell him to 'leave it' or put your foot through it' etc, both him and Pat are vastly inexperienced and coupled with Timlin new to the LB role as well, the defence in itself lacks experience.

When's Vincent fit ?

I thought Corr was excellent, full of running and rarely played a poor ball.

Why did Timlin hand over the capn armband when Aljokefree came on, surely if he's captain for the game he should keep it unless he's subbed.

I think it maybe time to rest Morrison, but a partnership of Ifil & Big Pat would worry me.

Aljofree, like it or not, is the club captain. If he's on the pitch he'll wear the arm band

Its not hard to register on a Rochdale message board start the rumour and watch it run....

Also, is Aljokefree the worst insulting name in history? it sounds so retarded and lame

Fair enough DV. The person I heard it from was adamant he 'knew somebody' at Rochdale and that the fee and term were agreed. If it was Tails it turned out he wasn't far wrong after all!

Tails did the same with Steve Gillespie in the summer as well.

 What a wag.....

Hughesy started the Lambert rumour. I thought it was real at first!

Vincent won't be playing for us again.

Exactly what I was gonna post!  Seems like too long without news tbh. 

he wont play for any league club again, same boat as Roberts, will get his pay out then if hes still able to will play, then will play non league

I thought he was due to play for the stiffs last week. I assume he broke down again?

Shame if he is proper fucked.

Not unexpected is it.

Been out now for 4 months now and doesnt even get mentioned. Was surprised that he actually on a mention on the old teletext pre-Rovers as an injury doubt.

I wonder if he could help coach the defence. If we're paying him we might as well have him doing something.

I am quite disapointed. No one has done any player ratings.

I wonder how fit he was when we gave him the year.  If he knew he was struggling he would have snapped their arm off.  As solid as he was last year, surely some of medical should have taken place at his age?

He played in pre-season!

To be honest, its not a bad time to have an injured senior pro around.

With Williams gone our backroom staff must be down to next to nothing.

has williams gone? he was in the dugotu on sat

Ive decided I refuse to go again until Rovers have a stable stand that doesnt feel like its collasping!! its scares me too much

We've signed a new Nigerian player then?

no, i just can't tyep

Having just watched the highlights on virgin, that cunt Phillips running most of the pitch to celebrate!
COCK!

he turned round and made a sshhhhhh signal after they scored

Id never tire of punching him

i wonder if the young rovers gays were looking for a pub to steam this time...

And his wanker sign as he walked to the goal in the second half. Fair enough to some extent - we gave him bucketloads, he slyly gave some of it back.

didnt we come close to signing him at one point?

isnt he peacocks closet lover or something

we nearly signed him in 06/07 preseason, or we were interested in signing him. we ended up with brez and smith instead.

i think we got the better deal

youre not wrong

I'm not sure.  He might be a wanker but phillips has always been a decent keeper

Agree and FWIW, I think it's a classic case of you love to have him on your side, "our wanker" and all that.

No I just hate him full stop - hes weird and creepy and wanted me and my friend to have a 3some with him once - bleugh! Id rather podge Malpas!

he didnt sign for Swindon as apprently "none of the players respected him enough" whatever love

Erm, all that proves is he is a red blooded male!

no but hes like proper weird ... like a bit mental - I cant describe the weirdness

Phillips has just gone up in my estimations after that revelation.

Watching the highlights on virgin media, lamberts goal was so good the had to show it twice! There second was a good finish too.

which friend?

Me

it was a girl I know through ITV

go on try.

NO! you lot are supposed to be like my big brothers - looking after me - instead you just try and pimp me out to any old scummy 3rd division footballer in exchange for a bit of tittle tattle!  :nerner:  ;)

even my own father was laughing and waving at GFM on Saturday as he sang a song about wanting to fuck me and Zoe!!  :eek:

Theres something about that paragraph which is a bit scary?

It's a little bit ambiguous in a rather sketchy way.

It came out a bit wrong but you know what I mean - my dad should have been telling him to shut up!!

your dad is on a percentage from your videos.

stop that thought immediatly!!!  >:(

I wish I had a real life brother - well I do have a step brother but he only likes golf!  :cry:

I'll stick up for you JFW!!! :D

I noticed from the program that he got married last week. Poor woman.