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Where was he saturday then?

Dropped

good.

reckon i'm in a minority of people who rate him.

i'd say so

I think wilson is very shrewd at keeping players on their toes. Also think dyer would have caused more problems had jpm played and not amankwah

he's good when he wants to be, no pace, doesnt seem to care unless the ball is played to his feed, can't deny he's one of the best crossers we've had in a while

i think he is one of the most talented players we have.playing wide can be a thankless task at times.but it does look like he is lazy,and at times i think he is.not always when accused of being so mind.

I think JPM was dropped purely because of the way Wilson wanted to play. Putting Amankwaah out wide was a great tactical move and Dyer's threat was massively reduced because he couldn't even get a decent run at Jack Smith for most of the game. Playing JPM would have required a totally different approach.

I do think he has the qualities to be a decent player in our team, but the tactics yesterday made him quite redundant

I like JPM and im not comparing myself to a professional but as someone who plays out on the wing you do need to be given the ball to have a positive impact on the game.

There are games or have been games when he just hasnt seen the ball, the same with McNamee.

Like all of our players JPM is an inconsistent lower league player. He looked poor under Malpas, picked up under Byrne did ok for Wilson. He'll have some good games for the rest of the season and he'll have some bad ones.

On form, given the ball and he'll cause teams problem. Off form and not seeing the ball he wont do much. McNamee is exactly the same just favoured more by the majoirty of the crowd.

Wilson pretty much said yesterday the idea behind having Big Kev was to help double up on Dyer and he's been one of Leicesters better players this season.

This worked and Dyer created nothing. Amankwaah was also pretty good going forward. He was more direct and ran at the full back more than JPM does but didnt get as many crosses in.

The amount of times amankwah closed down near their leicester corner flag is something jpm simply would not have done even winning it in the air just made a massive difference

Agree with that. He's a quality crosser of the ball and we don't have better.

He is a good crosser but at the moment we need strong athletic players who will get stuck in.

with 2 quality centre mids i reckon mcgovern would thrive.as you say drs at the moment we need physical players to graft,and mcgovern doesn't fit that bill.horses for courses and all that....

Nothing less than pure hard graft will be tolerated from now on!

Well done Kevin Amankwaah. Well worthy of the shirt on saturday. Im proud of you.

JPM was absolute dogshite at Oldham.

He's got the ability, but seems to lack the attitude.

I'd rather have Kev there.

Kev's done great in the side recently.  If Im honest, didn't realise he even had it in him! 

People wrote off Amankwaah too soon, that's all.

I think I was definitely in that category!

Me too. He has really surprised me lately.

I expected no less from you John. All I hear you do is boo the players all game and you never have anything positive to say.

Positive? I'd go with coherent.

A football team without a "Kev", that's not right.

imo it was the wilson effect with amankwaah,having faith in him and backing him,malpas would never have got KA to play instead of JPM,plus this means that whenerver JPM is playing he will know he has someone biting at his heels, becasue we've learnt that KA is capable! although without the ability to cross or the vision to play a quick ball,but he'l learn...never have thought JPM's corners were any good though.

none of our corners are good and havent been for years.

I think the last time I remember us scoring from a corner was Jerels goal against Walsall on our last day in League Two...

jerel scored from one away at milwall last year

Rovers away?

jerel is a goalscoring amchine. he has cred p[lely,, he scored aty home againts walsaolll wehen we got rpomoted. je is aazing



duh duh da du dhuh jerel ifil

My wife undedrstood every word of that.

She translated it for me.

I love you Dave  :)

Oh dear!

You should see what he writes when he's drunk! ;)

Today is the first anniversary of Dave's finest work...the never to be forgotten, River Ray flowing uphill theory.

I think he was sober...

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,27341.0.html

 :D

Spaz-tastic

He's alive!

J'adore le Dave

quality,pure quality,that is all i needed to look at to give me a laugh whilst i write an essay on rivers. the fun. If any of that river ray stuff was true id be inclined to use it as a case study!

Good work if it was intentional.

JPM missing again today. Is he definitely just dropped?

McGovern and Pook are not good enough-and DW knows it!

our right mid today was awful

What about when Amankwah went off?

McNamee puts in better crosses with his right foot than he does his left.

Both McNamee and Kanu tuesday please.

was better as you had both macnemee and kanu as threats from wide.

I like McGovern's delivery from set play, but that's about it. He doesn't offer anything to the team. He showed at Oldham that he just can't read the game.

Amankwaah offers something different when we're trying to dominate midfield and Robson-Kanu and MacNamee have got pace which McGovern doesn't.

I expect he'll be off in the summer.

Brilliant.

I think McGovern and Easton are history along with a few others - Casal, Pook etc.

I expect Wilson has his ideas about them but with no other out and out right winger I still think JPM has a part to play this season.

Whether he'll come in and do a good enough job to give Wilson something to think about is anyones guesses.

In a way i'd be dissapointed if players like Easton, JPM & Aljofree (yes even Aljofree) left because they were good for us when they first arrived but then they were Sturrocks players for Sturrocks system. So maybe they no longer fit in here. All 3 decent on their day.

Although if we could get Greer in, in the summer I wouldnt give a toss about what happened to Aljofree

agree with DV, wouldnt be dissapointed to see JPM and aljofree go,especially after stockport when aljofree decided to start on the fans, but id like to see easton stay, as we have no solid midfield yet, whenever easton comes on he seems to want to play and want to win the ball inlike many of our midfield players of late, i think keeping him here next season would lead to allen and kanyuka learning how to play the central midfield roll well.

without easton who have we got to "mentor" the new central midfield?



but mcgovern is awful at any form of setplay ive ever seen him play, by all means keep him if we dont keep kanu,but id honestly prefer to see mcnamee and amankwaah on the wings than JPM!

seeing as greer ishere til april,im hopeful we'll have him next season,which is a bonus!

I don't toally agree with JPM not being able to read the game. He certainly spots a pass quicker than alomost anyone else on the pitch, delivering it on the other hand has been the problem. His workrate has been questionable at time this season, but that has improved over recent weeks too.

Don't get me wrong, overall I'm still disappointed by him, but there is something there IF he could find consistency. (all in my opinion, obviously).

JPM and McNamee have suffered due to our Kanu loan coupled with the quest to solid up in midfield. I've no issue with that, it's largely working!  I'm sure there must be something in Reading paying part/all of Kanu's wages if he starts. And you can't disagree the team needed to plug the holes. When we get a solid base we can reintroduce the flair players.

Greer oviously needs to prove his fitness before we even think about signing him up.

Couldn't let this go, and I don't condone it, but he didn't just randomly decide to 'start on the fans' :)

McGovern has had his chance.

He's wasted countless opportunities in a Swindon shirt. He's never had an extended spell where he looked a good player. He cant motivate himself to play for the shirt. Wilson can see right through him and GOOD RIDDANCE. Wilson hasnt improved the attitude and work rate of this side by accident, he wont accept passengers. People need to accept that McGovern is the player he is, not the player he could have been. He will piss away his career.

Aljofree was a crap captain, and he was a fat bastard when he got injured and hes probably an even fatter old man now. Bye.

Easton is the only one I feel any regret about. He was potentially a really good player, but he has let himself go a bit at Swindon. He seemed happy and relaxed when he left yesterday (shared a joke with JPM). If he has given up then thats sad. But Kanyuka, Peacock and Allen are all above him in the new order.

The workrate, commitment and mentality of the team was abysmal for a whole 9 months and Wilson hasnt started to turn it around by accident. The players who are not fully commited have to be axed.

why couldn't easton be rejuvenated under wilson? on form he is better than the three mentioned above by spencer.infact he's our best centre mid.kanyuka was pants yesterday, pook would have been better.

He could be, but it doesnt look good does it?

The key to what you have just said is 'on form'. Only Craig Easton can decide that.

Id love to see the Craig Easton we signed from Orient, the one we had up until 12 months ago. Malpas messed up his game. He put in a great shift against Forest in the centre of midfield, so Malpas puts him on the wing the next league game at Crewe. Since then hes not been the same, got to question whether he is as fit as he was before as well. Weve turned a good League 1 player into a mediocre one, very sad. But inevitable when you hire a shit manager.

Hasnt made a matchday squad since Jan 13th v Stockport I think?

This is true, but when you ask for fans to wait outside after the match,just for giving you a bit of criticism its unnaceptable. its part and parcel of the job to be criticised, you dont see prem players threatening a fight with hanson or shearer when MOTD slates players.

He is not a captain,and im pleased hes ijured so jerel has been given the opportunity to captain and be confident that the boss backs him

I've never heard Alan Hason or Alan Shearer call any player a fucking prick on match of the day though...

 verbal abuse isn't a bit of critism.if someone wants to abuse a player they are meant to be supporting and they get a smack in the mouth for it,so be it.

Cant we put this behind us?

Just shows how much better the morale of the fans and the players is now.

I think the fans felt under pressure not to criticise Malpas too much, and instead a lot of the frustration (ie abuse) got deflected on to the players. So exceptional circumstances. Hopefully weve put this behind us.

Just goes to show how destructive a bad manager can be. Know a few lads who are only just now getting back into it.

Cannot agrre with the kanyuke comment Arriba, yes he was not great yesterday but he is playing on merit. In his last 4 games i have seen more from him than any other midfelder we have had this season. Also i dont think its any coincidence tht Timlin had his best game playing alongside him, So did Nalis and so did Allen

do you think he played well yesterday then drs?

doh! :-[

:)

i take peoples words for it that he's done well recently,i'm sure he has.but what i saw yesterday was a poor performance from both him and amankwaa in particular.if we had gone on to lose the game(which against 11 would have happend)the pair of them would have got pelters on here.

But we didnt.

Both got a healthy round of applause when they were subbed?

They are still learning their new positions. Playing at home (and being expected to attack) is different again.

The team comes before individuals. You must have been sick of the same players not putting in proper effort? We might well have lost yesterday if they hadnt been so reclous (sp), but we are 10 times better than the shit we were putting on the pitch 4 months ago.

So where is JPM?

Didnt he have a kid recently?  I dont want to start spreading rumours that are totally without foundation but could there be something wrong with his kid hence his recent total absense from the 1st team and reserves?

Possibly, but then I thought the most recent birth was of Phil Smiths child?

JPM had a child earlier in the year didn't he (or rather Mrs JPM).

Lets all hope its just he's been dropped or has an injury. I mean Easton has lot his squad place to Chris Allen so it's not totally unreasonable (but the ressie fixture absence was odd).

he was carrying the child up the arkells steps on sat to take seats

Looks like he get another month of paternity time too since Kanu Robson has signed up for another month...

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1532794,00.html


ROBSON-KANU AGREES LOAN EXTENSION
Posted on: Thu 26 Feb 2009

Hal Robson-Kanu has put pen to paper on a one-month contract extension to remain with Swindon until Wednesday 25th March 2009.

The winger will be available for what will be a busy March, up to and including the away trip to Northampton Town.

The 19-year old winger who came through the ranks of the Reading FC Academy.

Suffered two long term cruciate injuries while in the youth setup, but bounced back to show great courage and professionalism.

Had his first involvement with the first team when he travelled with the squad for the Peace Cup in Korea in the summer of 2007, and started against River Plate. Later in that season he was on the bench in the FA Cup.
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Spent a loan spell at Southend in the tail end of the 2007/8 season, scoring his first professional goals and helping them to the play-offs.

He signed for them again on loan at the start of the 2008/9 campaign and spent three successful months at Roots Hall, scoring twice in fifteen appearances before returning to Reading in November.

Robson-Kanu made his debut for Town against Walsall in a 3-2 home win and scored his first goal for the club in Saturday's 4-2 win over Scunthorpe United.

DOB: 21/5/89
Height: 6'0
Weight: 13st
Previous clubs: Southend United (loan)

his wife had nice maternity jeans

it quite scares me that someone would take a newborn baby to a football match though?

Got to be 4-6 months old now though.  I'm sure the baby is fine.

Please come back JP, All is forgiven!

I saw Jon Paul and his special lady friend in Tesco's a few weeks ago.

Had a nose through their trolley, as you do, and most notable was that it seemed to be at least half full of dog food, with hardly any baby food at all.

Now, I am not a parent so perhaps am not qualified to comment, but I would say that they have got their priorities wrong here.

Think i put it somewhere , he has a ankle injury.

Maybe they're feeding the nipper on a dogfood/babyfood mix to encourage it's semi-feral side. ROOOAAAARRR!!

I look forward to JPM showing his Pedigree, chum.

Maybe then we'd start to win a lot

I am stupefied by these terrible puns.

if we start winning again i might come and have a butchers.

Do we have to be winning for you to come and Caeser town play?

Wouldn't be too bothered if we never see him in a Town shirt again to be honest

Come on PAL thats a bit harsh.

Surprised no-ones mentioned the influence of the WAGs

you mean bitches?

Mind you, he does splay some good passes round the pitch.

lets not hound the poor lad out of the club yet

Good shout arriba, we should paws for reflection in case we go barking up the wrong tree

maybe-but its how I feel.Im not violently anti-McG but I couldn't really care less.Sorry

he gets ruff justice by some

You lot have made a dogs dinner of this thread

Although at least we didn't feed it to our kids. There'll be a sting in the tail

This is all like...erm...Lamb chunks with rice and carrot. Why does dog food have fucking rice in it? It's a dog! They don't want rice, and they sure as hell don't want carrots! Pasta! What proper dog wants pasta in their food. The sooner dog food makers stop trying to make pet owners go " Oooo, that sounds nice" The better. A dog likes meat and chasing trains. Stop with the veg and shit.

It'll take some time for a baby to learn how to send messages by waving flags around though, don't you think?

mine has rice in his diet.after doing a bit of research into dog food i wouldnt feed mine pedigree-bakers etc.it's full of shite. if dog owners knew the facts about it they wouldn't feed their mutts either i reckon.

i'm surprised neville hasnt commented yet,he would be proud of this thread.

Maybe he feels threatened? Perhaps we have hounded him out of the converstaion?

Of course he has. He took the lead early on.

That's a choker..

I do apoligise,i didn't see this one.

I don't know why people want JPM back in the side.

With him in the team did we Winalot more than now?

I've already done that one. In fairness, when he gets his crosses right, he can put a decent ball into the mixer

He does have the ability to whippet in the box when he has the mood.

Problem with JPM is he's a little scottie but he's not the midfield terrier we need.  Okay so it's not like he's misses setters but he doesn't really score enough, he's needs to whippet in the box a bit more often.  Having said that he's not by any means shih tzu, if he could just retriever bit of form of corgi he should be selected.

I should've read the whole thread! Sorry pal.

JPM, Chow

That one's been done as well. Not that adje realised it.

You lot are barking mad.

To be fair I think Awankman also puts in a lot of good quality crosses too though.

Woah, jan's gone whipped up a punstorm! Flea, flea

i wonder if wilson gave mcgovern a ticking off?probably had a flea in his ear.
maybe if he found our number k9 with his deliveries, he'd be in the side still? i still think he's had a rawhide deal though.it takes the biscuit really.

We've accused him of being bone idle at times

But he's a collarful character, not like some of the basket cases we've had here

i think he'd be good with a bit of grooming.but he shouldn't treat games like a walk in the park

They think it's all Rover...

It is Chow.

stop hounding me Shorts! 'f I do have a fault,it's stupidity

I don't think JPM is where the problem lies, you're all barking up the wrong tree

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ooooh Bitchy

I think he's a pile of shit.

Traditional brown dogshit, or 80's white dogshit?

Definately white.

Option A. I apologise.

Fuckennel, you lot are full of wisecracks aren't you?

without wanting to tempt fate.

what a difference a new season makes. long may it continue.

This is 1 player i would love to prove me wrong. Ability always been their just the effort i would have questioned

I'll happily admit I've slated JP in the past and thought he was too lazy but my god from what I've seen of him this year he is easily one of our best players, if not our most consistent this season already.

I would never have believed anyone if they had said he would come this good.

always have seen he is talented,nice to see him delivering now

Like everyone has said, he's definatly got the ability, and i wouldn't have really questioned his efort either - even when playing badly he's still willing to track back. He's a massive confidence player though, and was made a scapegoat at times last season. I'm glad to see he's ramming the words of his critics back down their throat.

lets not kid ourselves he was shit last year and he is on a good wage....has started well this year and looks fitter and is willing to put challenges in. we hunted in packs on tues night, timlin, jd, and jpm and never gave soton time to play and it paid off...if he puts in at least another 30+ performances like that then he will be player of the year...simples...if he doesn't then he'll be on his way

what if he puts in that performance for 29games?

he's a poor mans beckham.

You used the phrase "simples" and therefore I cannot take you seriously :)

I think it's encouraging that McGovern is performing well like most thought he potentially could. If he falls back into the old routine then he'll be slated again - for now, lets give credit where it's due.

Exactly.

consistency is what its all about and if 75% of games he puts that level in, then he'll do for me....if 29 games is 75% then that ok with me  ;D

I wish people would stop using the word 'simples'

Not having a pop here but this stinks of Grant Smith all over again.Got the ability but hasn't shown it then new contract time comes round and the performances arrive. Hope he keeps it up though as when on form he is a quality player

100% agree-that is one of the most annoying adverts of all time.Fucking meercats dont even come from Russia!

i wish people wouldn't pick out one word that was posted just to seek attention

Hmm Im not so sure.

Grant Smith didnt really get given a chance before hand. It wasnt like he suddenly started playing well after being crap - it was just he suddenly started playing....

I think everyone knows I've been a JPM supporter and I think apart from when Malpas was boss he's performed well anyways.

Whatever his motivation long may it continue...

that anyways sayin is so annoyin  ;)

I'd agree with that. A very poor mans beckham mind!

Absolutely spot on. I think this is the longest run of decent performances he's had at this club already and when I say decent I mean really, really good.

I didn't go today but it sounds like he is just getting better and better.

never rated him, never liked his attitude and his comment in the matchday programme recently about franchise being a "great club" make me want to choke.

not seen him this season, would love him to prove me wrong. god knows we need him to...

Sonic Youth whether you like him or not he is one of our best players at the moment. Very much on form.

Best player in league 2

the feller behind us states he's the best crosser of the ball in league 2

Stop stealing my quotes.........

I'm glad he's found some form, and long may it continue. Credit where credit is due.

didn't realise it was your quote? never mind it was better from me ;)

Always liked JP. Glad he has found form this season