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I fucking hope we win this. Travelling in a car back with 3 southend fans will not be much fun otherwise. No comical fuck ups, strikers taking their chances and the midfield getting stuck in please

Well up for this one, the sun is out again so should be a good night for it.  Its the first of many must win games and I am feeling strangely optimistic.  I am going for 3-1 to us tonight.

So was our last game, and the one before that...

Come on you ******* bunch of ******* ***** lets have 'em.

I think we'll lose today and secure our place in the league one drop zone.

Its obvious the players don't care so why would they suddenly start being bothered about this game tonight?

wistful forlorn folks

Three!?!?!

warm.

Fuck knows how this one will go!

Got to stay as optimistic as possible and say, COME ON!!!!!!!

Our survival relies on a decent return from the next 4 games and we need to get a run going and along with a bucket load of confidence, so every fucker needs to turn up tonight and give it there all, players and crowd!

Bring it on!

A housemate, his friend and his brother. I sooo fucking hope we win, more than any other game this season

we will win tonight, then lose to Herford.

Fair enough.

So, it's "Do it for Dave Day" at the County Ground this evening. A worthy cause I'm sure.

I want the players to see this thread before the match, and know exactly how much it means to me. No more motivation is needed

Swindon 3- Southend 2

Im bringing my friend from work tonight who has not been to a swindon match since he was a mascot aged 11 - hes now 22!

Obviously caught the STFC bug then!  :doh:

I think he won being a mascot as a prize through cubs or something?

That's almost okay then :)

We badly need a win. I'll take an own goal or a goal deflected of a pigeon. I'll take anything if it means we win. I can see a draw though.

I have been considering the pigeon scenario as well.  On balance, I think it represents our best hope.

I need a spare ST and its not looking likely :(

Town to win 2-1.  Can't keep a clean sheet at the moment, so can see us conceding at least one.

The players need to give their all and we, as supporters, need to give them our support otherwise Div 2, here we come.

After Colchester and Leeds the worm has to turn soon.....

Leave my worms out of it!

I've got my mates season ticket again. Not sure I'll go.

sorry luci my dad is going.

You must be sodding psychic - thats cool mate no worries!

Merlin at half four?

will be there for 5

I'm in charge of tea tonight so I might be a bit late for the Merlin.

argghhh wish you would have said earlier - mines Free Sat if you need one for then?

Cheers anyway hun but don't worry!  Unfortunately other half can only do midweek games as plays on most Saturdays :(

I've got a spare childs one if you can get away with it

I will say hello tonight Berniman!!

Hehe thank you but not sure that'll work :D

It isn't too expensive to pay for just the midweek games then... ;)

Cheeky sod, hes just moved jobs and is poor till next week (as am I!) :D

No Merlin for me tonight. Seriously skint after the weekender in Leeds.

I have to babysit until at least 6. cunts.

i cant go but this game is so important so im internet refreshing at work, a dull 1-1 :(

I Fancy town to win 4-2

I just can't see us winning at the moment.

Nor even scoring for that matter!

Neither can I but I still predict with optimism.

Mildenhall out injured with a groin strain, what a load of bollocks

booo so no-one to oogle either!!

He's a bollock short of a load of bollocks. If anything he is one ball Mildenhall.

Cox has been banging on about scoring another hat-trick for a while now, so I think that he will do it tonight, and endear himself forever more as a true Swindon Town legend :)

I've imagined a hard-fought 1-1 draw. We'll equalise with a Gordon Greer header in the 88th minute. Seeing the form Sarfend are in at the minute a draw in any other circumstances wouldn't that bad a result, however we need to get a run going and a midweek home game is the perfect place to start.

Swindon Town: Phil Smith; Kevin Amankwaah, Gordon Greer (Captain), Sean Morrison, Jamie Vincent; Hal Robson-Kanu, Michael Timlin, Owain Tudur Jones, Anthony McNamee; Simon Cox, Billy Paynter

Substitutes: Peter Brezovan (GK), Lilian Nalis, Mark Marshall, Jack Smith, Blair Sturrock

No changes.

Ifil was on the bench saturday, wonder why he isn't today?

As a punishment for the goal at Leeds :)

not good enough

He has been shit this season though, he's been dropped many times throughout the season but he just hasn't performed well for some reason.

Would've liked someone like Lloyd Macklin in there to prove a point.

He could find himself on the way out this summer like many of them will.

That wouldn't bother me, he's been terrible this season and very unreliable and has too many mistakes, wouldn't blame wilson if he did get rid.

Ah so many soon to be white van men - then wishing they had given a damn  :bye: ;)

Southend line-up is quite strong.

XI: Steve Mildenhall, Osei Sankofa, Dorian Dervite, Peter Clarke, Adam Barrett, Kevin Betsy, Anthony Grant, Jean-Francois Christophe, Franck Moussa, Lee Barnard, Theo Robinson.

Subs: Ian Joyce, Simon Francis, Damian Scannell, Johnny Herd, Francis Laurent

He must be wondering what he has to do to get a crack ...

Pretty pissed off I'm missing the game tonight, just got home from Manchester and not enough time to get to the match.
We will win, tonight we turn the season around.

Macklin must be very frustrated, wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to leave, he produces for the reserves as he has done again this week but never gets the chance to show what he can do.

Listening on the old wireless for the time being, until the net feed dies.

Pointless fact. Southend have scored thirteen goals in the last five minutes of games this season. The highest in L1. Doesn't bode well, does it......

Not with our appalling record of conceding late goals no.

We should shake in our boots with that stat. :eek:

Our defence will do well to keep theo robinson quiet tonight he was the kind of player i was hoping we would sign to keep paytner and cox on there toes. :)

...to go along with not winning against them (or drawing) in our last six attempts.

Hereford 1-0 down already

2-0 now

Hereford are crap if we don't beat them on saturday it will be a disgrace.

Cheltenham a couple of weeks ago anyone?

If we fail to beat them like we did Cheltenham then we deserve league two football.

Cheltenham are winning 1-0 against Tranmere.

GOALLLLLLLLLLL

YIP YIP!Another assist for McNamee

Who?

we will still fuck it up!

Robson-Kanu.

Get in kanuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu :banana:

I can't remember the last time I punched the air.

Until Full-Time anything is possible!!!

Brighton losing

Southend fans must have collectively muttered "typical".

Only another 3 now and I can relax

Are we at 90 minutes yet?

To be fair, sounds like we are playing well

CUNTCUNTCUNT.

Forgot there was a game... Leaving now, what a grade a prick of the highest order i am.

penalty!

PENALTY!

Penalty come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cox scores!!!!!!!!

COXER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Get in coxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Now pretty please Town - don't fuck this up.

I second that please

thirded

I would like to say we cant fuck this up - but still think its 50/50 (at best)

Bet they can't...can they...???

stranger things have happened this season (more than once)

Only 2 more now until I can relax

I go read other threads and we score two......

I'm off for a browse of the Boardroom and expect us to have scored another two by the time I return.....

Make it so :)

Walsall 2-0 Brighton.

Go me!

ooh we are winning :)

I refuse to get my hopes up :) But yes so far, so good.

pullen you have a pm

Walasl 3-0 brighton

Am I dreaming? We are actually winning right?

Sounds like we are playing some sexy football out there.

my dads half time report....

we are playing like a premier leauge side, 28 pass moves! no one can fucking believe it! macnamee is excellent and cox for once is playing like a team man!

Lets hope it continues!

I hope we keep the foot on the pedal and not sit back, we sound all over them, long may it keep up!

Mex.....

Your dad must of gotten lost on the way to the County ground and ended up at Highbury by the sound of it...!!!

MacNamee IS excellent

Not likely, Arsenal aren't playing well this evening ;)

Thats a five goal swing on the goal difference bit, its like another point.

Are they talking about the DV from here on the radio?

I like how your obviously his biggest fan and can't spell his name :D

Im going to tune into the game right now,cause aparently we're winning and playing good football.

Making up from the weekend!

I've been avoiding making any comments because I'm scared of jinxing things.  (Don't ask.  I don't know how either.)  But it's half time now, so I'm safe.

Delighted with the performance.  Looks as if the lads have located their cojones.  At fucking last.

Key thing now is not conceding in the first 10 mins of the second half.  If we can maintain a 2 goal lead for a decent length of time, Southend will start to lose hope.

Dare we hope for a 3rd?

Excellent, they are playing my request :) sweeeeeeet

Boo. We didn't score more. Off to read the Other Football Bollocks section.....

its coz i decided not to go. fact

And there was I tihnking it was because I had decided not to go (missed Scunny as well)...

I was intending to go on Saturday but don't want to make us lose... :-(

2 more, cox hatrick.

it's on!

Last game I missed was Scunny-there's a pattern!

Ditto!

If you have a season ticket, kindly burn it.

this sounds boring and the usual pressure and no finish,and now paynter is injured..tv is more exciting

we dont want exciting-we want 30 minutes of absolutely fuck-all!

Kanu off-Marshall on

crewe 1 rovers 0

Could of done with rovers winning

ditto, thought saturday might be a better game.

d'oh!

Crewe beating Rovers but,hey,it dont matter!

rovers equalized 1-1 :)

cunts 3 hereford 0 full time

right then are we into the shit yourself last 5 minutes yet?

someone tell me whats happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothings happening. :)

Good, lets hope nothing keeps happening until 10 o'clock

Paynter off Blair Sturrock on.

PENALTY!!!!!!!!!! :D

COX AGAUN!!!!!!!!!!

COX 3-0!!!

get on!!!!

HOORAY!

Get the fuck in! Now...back it up on Saturday!

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Chuffed.

Can we still make the playoffs?

Right, just the 1 more now & I can relax

SPIFFING!

This is for STFC Dave.

walsall 3 brighton 0 ft

now i can celebrate st patrick.

even though i dont know any irish people. good times.

even i'm relaxing now with a minute left!

Have been getting down with the kidz listening to MIA whilst watching nothing happen on this thread! Soon as I turn that crap off and go for a bit of Dub Side Of The Moon we score - Yeah-Mon !

we will still throw it away!

Steady !

Bit of a let down about the Cox hat trick though.

Hope this is a start of us being able to get out of trouble...
Why do I continue to support these pricks....???
Fuck I must be mad. :)

Is it now that we all text in to Radio Swindon saying how shit we are & we should have scored at least 5 :) :)

CLEAN SHEET! :D

go me,lets all text the radio and slag someone off!

Only after Southend's 4 goals in injury time.

Swindon in injury time goal shock!

swindon in not letting a goal in in last 5 minutes shock

Lets hope the floodlights dont fail !

Or have we won?

it finished 5 minutes ago :)

Thanks for letting me know!

What about buying the ref a bunch of flowers and a nice box of chocolates?

Bloody hell. I caught the last few minutes of the first half when I came out of college. 2-0?!?!?!?

Then I hear Phil King going on about the last thirty minutes of the first half being the best he has seen Swindon play 'for seasons'...

Obviously I wasn't there, but for those that did, was it really that good???

Great result. Roll on Saturday  :D

Well happy with the win - just hope we can build on it.

Last 30 of the 1st half was indeed some of the best football in a decade.  The 2nd half was a thoroughly professional job well done to get the result.  They've taken some stick recently, and for good reason, but I can't knock anyone tonight.

Woooooooooo bloody ace! Greer my MOM easily but all were good!

my dad says amwankaah MOM, but he said back 4 was brilliant.

Excellent result, superb play in the first half. If only we could've played like that all season!!
Lets not get ahead of ourselves though, one result doesn't make our season. If anything this makes a win on saturday more crucial!!

What impressed me was that after about 35 minutes Southend starting getting more ball, but we slowed the game down and kept possession, with the 'oles' coming out. We pretty much played out until half time.

I thought Tudor-Jones was MOM, a monster in midfield and got through a lot of work, but Amankwaah and Greer also both had excellent games. In fact everyone played well.

Other results went our way too.

Overall it is a good confidence boosting win, but 3 points today isn't worth as much as 3 points on Saturday.

Wow im not sure where that performance came from but it was very much welcomed.The first half was the best i've seen us play all season.

Everyone pulled their weight and done what they had to do,quite impressed with OTJ not creative but won a lot of headers and broke a lot of their play up.

Let's hope this the start of something good.

Pity HRK signed a new 3 yr seal with the plastics today.

Out of the drop zone on GD.

A new 3 year seal with the plastics?

That conjures up some bizarre mental images, odd pets and dubious silicone implant strategies.

Can someone pinch me.... did Southend even want the ball in the first half? What a great performance. Onwards and upwards!

Well that was a pleasent evenings entertainment. I haven't seen as play as well as did in the first half all season. Some of the passing was simply superb. We won pretty much every ball in the centre of the park as well something i haven't seen us do for a long time. Second half was more even but we defended well and kept it solid. A 3rd clean sheet for the season and well deserved.

Onto the players then. Amankwaah was superb. He got forward when he could and won every challenge he could. Kanu and Macca were dangerous and this time effective probably because the 2 CMs were doing a good job. Paynter looked strong and commited and Cox had his best game for a while. Great start to this 4 game crunch period.

Who are this team and what have they done with Swindon?

WE WANT OUR SWINDON BACK, WE WANT OUR SWINDON BACK :)

Superb. We destroyed them first half, they were chasing shadows.

Second half was not as fluid, but we didn't need it to be. We killed the game, ran the clock down and got the third.

The midfield worked damned hard, closing down and battling. All that was missing in many games was suddenly present tonight.

Not getting carried away, we have a long hard battle ahead. But put that effort in and we'll be OK!

Timlin my MOM.

Can only repeat what everyone else is saying, splendid first half performance, easily best of season, could not quite hit the heights in the second half and did tend to sit back a bit.  But defence dug in deep and kept 'em out, heart in mouth time when Smith fumbled that easy catch but he made amends with a fine save!  For me Timlin was easily MOM, but it is all a matter of opinion!

Our midfield looked the best it has all season it must be added.

So who was MOM the match then?
So far we've had: Timlin, Tudor-Jones, Greer and Amankwaah.
I didn't go today, but I think that must sum up how well we must have played.

One swallow doesnt make a summer. We've all gone enough times this season to know we can put in a performance like that one week and put a totally inept one in the following week.

I'm sure I'll get the usual negative, miserable blah blah blah thrown at me but this result is total pointless unless we pick up a minimum of 4 points in our next two games. Hereford home and Northampton away.

As for the game, we were in total control start to finish. Our keeper caught the ball. Our defender won everything in the air, the middle two won everything in the middle and when they didnt have the ball got it back sharpish. Our wingers were direct and caused Southend problem. Our front two worked their bollocks off as usual.

If the game continuted untill midnight - they still wouldnt have troubled us.

I liked Tudur Jones, thought he did a good job in there with Timlin. Defence was awesome and when we had that long spell of possession we were brilliant.

But it's all pointless if we can't beat Hereford on Saturday!

Amankwha was official MOM, I think.

After 30 minutes up to full time, it was actually surprising that we were still watching Swindon! Great passing, Southend couldnt get the ball, and the crowd was as loud as i've heard it all season.

Just goes to show that when the crowd is given something to cheer about they will.

I hope the corner has been turned. The old addage of we only play well against the top teams didn't ring so true for me tonight - Southend were poor and mostly played hoofball, but we didn't get dragged down to their level like we did against Hartlepool and Cheltennam. We actually bossed the game from start to finish.

If we turn in another performance on Saturday against Hereford then we could just be on the road to staying up.

Quality!

Nuff said!

I knew someone would come out with this line. Shudders me to think of Malpas again.

I missed the game but reading thru the thread it sounded like we played well. Well done the town  :D

I thuoght we looked a bit nervy in the first 15 - Amankwanah left his man unmarked to get in a free volley and then they managed to screw up a 2v 1 down our left when HRK went AWOL. After that we were superb in all areas of the park. The first goal was a fantastic pass by Cox to Macca, a great run from him and a cool finish by HRK. The move for the penalty originated from a great tackle by Cox. The 3rd was a good tenacious run from Timlin who was tripping over the ball but did enough to make the defender do a dumb challenge.
The back 4 worked well as a unit. Smith was good apart from one dropped catch. The midfield were functional. Tudor Jones was excellent. Timlin was overall good but when he admires his handy work he's often caught out not tracking back. Paynter was blowing out of his arse again after 30 minutes. Cox had his best game for ages as did Macca.
Overall, we were superb. We tried to play the ball on the deck and out to the wings and it worked instead of constant hoofball.
I'm really looking forward to hereford now. 

Oh and Barry you're a twat for forgetting the game!

Yes that's true, but thankfully we grew in confidence there after!

Paynter looked injured for most of the second half.

Awesome first half, especially towards the end.

We sat back in the second half a bit too much for my liking, but we were pretty solid. Show the importance of a clean sheet. If we'd conceded during the second half as per normal town, would have been a different game.

Wait that's a bit retarded isn't it? If something else had happened game would have been different shock.

sorry, but i found this post really funny. classic.

The town support was a fucking disgrace. 3-0 up, nearly full time and big chunks of the crowd start moaning that they want 4. No pleasing some cunts.

I have a disabled (mentally) who sits behind me who consistantly comes up with footballing cliches to his fat partner that piss me off as they usually arn't relevant.

Tonight my favourite was "if we score a 4th, this place will erupt"

which reminds me the angry shouty man who sits kinda inbetween myself, tails and stfc dave didnt say a word tonight

didnt find a single thing to moan about, thats how good we were.

They do my fucking head in. How the hell can a team that plays like that in the first half be in the relegation zone? Same players, same formation, same tactics. One game shit, the next brilliant (sort of). If they can play like that against Hereford we could see double figures.

I still think Phil Smith is shit. He missed a couple of crosses, fucked up a few kicks and his distribution was abysmal.

That second penalty was a bit of a joke, sure he was fouled but his last touch just before was on target for the corner flag.

Marshall is looking a lot better every time I see him. Still not quite up to it though.

I'd be interested to hear a Southend perspective - as much as we looked a bit good for large parts of the game, they just seemed to offer absolutely nothing. Very promising nonetheless, pleased to see the defence looking a bit more solid.

Please win again on Saturday, I can't take much more justified optimism being smashed to pieces the following game.

I would say the opposite about Phil Smith. He fumbled one quite badly, but apart from that I thought he was pretty safe at claiming them. Much less stressful than the couple of times I've seen Brez this season anyway.

I felt a lot more confident with Smith in goal tonight instead of Brez!

Not sure how anyone can knock Smith after tonight (and from what I've heard, after Leeds). One thing that really stuck out for me was the bollockings he gave out early on, after they had a free header and another chance. Never seen Brez do that.

otherwise, yaay :)

Smith fumbled one (which ive certainly see given as a foul on the keeper on many occasions) he tried to claim it realised he didnt have it, went back towards his line and saved it.

As far as I remember he claimed every other cross and corner and caught them!

Timlin was superb today, and greer and amankwaah also put in great shifts.

Cox never stopped running for a second - i love the effort he shows, just wish we could use him more.

Brilliant to have that winning feeling back, roll on Saturday.

As soon as that happened I turned to ibelieveinmrreeves and said it would have been given as a freekick at old trafford. Overall a good performance from Smith to back up his day at leeds.

*I think thats one eyed to say the least. No mention of the save from the deflected shot, I can only remember one duff kick, and no poor distribution apart from that. There were a couple of good catches where we have been accustomed to St Flappy's 'punches'. He did drop one cross I'll grant you.

** so, not a joke then

Agreed on Marshall, although I couldn't work out why he and McNamee were on the wrong wings. There wasn't enough turning inside to make it a valid tactic.

Apart from the first goal, I wasn't impressed by McNamee. too many blind alleys, and he definitely bottled a couple of challenges. He was constantly having to be directed by Wilson and Byrne as well - you'd think he'd have learnt something by now.

I know. I am a dick. Dunno how i managed it. I spoke to a mate at lunch who asked if i fancied poker tonight, i said yeah, but explained i was sure there was something i had to do tonight...


I know, he kicks the ball straight, keeps it in. It's a joke, why can't he place the ball onto someone's head from 70 yards? What i'd give for Brezovan's Beckham esq kicking...

Oh come on Barry, did you even see the game ?

also, I've not seen alot of him (I dont suppose many have) but is Marshall right or left footed?!?

Also McNamee crosses better with his right foot

You're talking crap there DV. have you got stats on his assists to back that up ?

Marshall is right footed.

Half of it. I arrived just after the half time whistle, so i missed the Brazilian part of the game.  :-[

To be fair though it doesn't take much more than about 10 minutes to see Smith can kick pretty well and Brezovan obviously went to kicking school with Evans and Griemink.

Don't bad mouth the Griemink. Probably Swindon's best dutch keeper ever.

My first home game of the season and we win 3-0!  It's alright, I'm there on Saturday so we'll win again no doubt..!  Good game, played like Real Madrid, late run at the playoffs...?!   :D


Southend looked pointless, no threat really apart from the Smith fumble.  We didn't look an awful lot better in the final 3rd, but played some good stuff, "lacking that final ball" (I hate that cliche)...  Tudor Jones really impressed me, great in the tackle and gave us some bite in midfield!

That was a truly fucking awesome performance tonight. Our players took the piss all night and made Sarfend look like they were the ones fighting a relegation battle, not us.

Timlin looks different class now he's back in the middle and Morrison is getting better every time I watch him. Never thought I'd say the words, but with Greer and Morrison at the back, we don't miss Ifil in the slightest.

I presume you mean they played like Real? :)

I said his distribution was shit, in fact non existent. Sure he can punt the ball up field but anyone can do that. I didn't see him roll, throw or pass the ball out at all in the second half, not once.

Other than that he admittedly he didn't do too much wrong, but then he had pretty much fuck all to do all night.

I actually like the Smith fumble for one of two reasons:

1) He didn't go to punch it and the only reason it was fumbled because it was a very closely contested ball.

2) He recovered well and saved the shot that resulted.

Doesn't matter basically, Smith did what he did and it didn't lead to a goal. Stop over-criticising something which does not need to be.

ha, he rolled it out to Vincent once.

Ball was at the corner of the box by Vincents feet, Smith came running out and told Vincent to leave it. Smith then picked it up....and rolled it to Vincents feet. Pretty pointless really

Except for Brez, Griemink, Evans :) Smith's no Shilton but he's done well the past two games and is currently on an upward trend, while Brez was getting worse and worse before he was dropped.

Hmmm just looked at the stats on the Southend official site (we dont seem to have any yet)

Apparently we had 2 shots on target (but scored 3?) whilst Southend had 4 shots on target?! Southend also had 53% of the possesion

Really? I thought he was involved a lot tonight and worked hard at getting back into defensive positions. Moreso that Robson Kanu in fact.

Oh well.

Face. Bovered.

blimey charlie.  first half we were a bit good (although i thouht the Ole's were asking for a southend comeback) we could have done that to MK dongs as well though

2nd half much more even, and fucking dull frankly, but i'll takre that with a 2-0 lead.

jut seen the goals on SSN.

Macca seems to have an epileptic fit just before he passes to HRK.

Paynter 100% fouled for 1st pen

2nd pen still looks a bit ropey to me.

The miserable sods that sit behind me were pretty quiet all night too, except to shout at the linesman for offside every time Southend had a goal kick.

I suppose I could have pointed out that you cant be offside from a goal kick, but it was funnier to listen to them berate the linesman for "not knowing the rules"  ::)

I actually thought Southend were a decent side. not great by any means but Ive seen far worse than them at the County Ground this season.

Calling it a save is pushing it a bit. He was getting up off the ground and the ball landed in his hands.

But as I've said, distribution of the ball is a major part of a keepers game and in that regard he was shit.

just leave it jonny. you are wrong. he played well, fucked up once and got away with it

What a fucking stupid club we are.

Pick up points against the good teams, play shit against the shite teams leaving us in the relegation zone and then we go and beat Southend 3-0.

Was a fucking stupid stupid football club, ridiculous.

Oh, and: "Yay"

Fair enough Batch, I might be harsh, HRK had a good first half and disappeared after that. McNamee responded to the bench in getting into positions but didn't form much of a deterrent, much of the second half it was happening right in front of me and I was looking to be a bit picky.

(fb, I'd just like to stress this is only my opinion)

What's the point in deliberately trying to criticise him when he had a good game? There was no point in him urgently spraying the ball everywhere in the second half as it was pretty clear we were trying to slow the game down so Southend couldn't get back into it.

But whatever, you were quite clearly a bandwagon jumper back at the start of the season and are now to stubborn to admit that Smith isn't actually that bad a 'keeper.

Aha, he was our side first half. Clearly a McNamee of two halves. :)

If I have to be picky, why was Marshall on the left wing when he came on when Macca was on the right? Is Wilson deliberately looking for his wingers to cut inside or what?

i'd like to add that even when southend had the ball and were trying to apply some pressure we didn't end up on top of our penalty box. we kept shape!

it's was lovely to see

at a guess- yes.
they seemed to have a centreback at left back so i can understand that a bit-he'd hopefully be easier to get past being less mobile

Only fuck up in the game. Would have been far more affective had they been in their rightful postions.
Wilson does seem to be clueless with his substitutions.

Forgot to say, saw a slightly miffed looking Jeril walking down County Road about 6:45. I assume he was plain dropped not injured?

From captain to zero in sixty seconds. Bit harsh on him, but I can see why we'd go with a more attacking player in his place on the bench.

Their Rw had more pace than the Lw i would imagine it was so marshall could track back with him

I guess Marshall and McNamee didn't swap because McNamee already had their lump of a No 6. (also their only goal threat) pretty much beaten every time and so it made sense to let the fresher midget have a go at their fresh left-back.

I didn't always agree with it but I guess that was the idea.

Worked though didn't it.

No pleasing some people eh?

That is what I should have written.

Marshall isn't much of a footballer (yet), he can't see or make simple passes, he's often on his heels and he's really just a push and run merchant. But he's highly effective when the opposition are tired and his crosses are pretty decent too.

Apart from the positive things noted by others, it was a joy to see us keeping possession so often, and my MOM, Greer , was such an influence with good distribution from the back. We have usually had to put up with hoofers, like Ifil, O'Hanlon, Haywood, Reeves, but it seems that (hopefully) Morrison also likes to place his passes somewhere near a red shirt.

Back to Smithy.....IMO it was a foul on him which resulted in the fumble.  Think he would have had it safe otherwise and I was waiting for the ref to blow for a free kick.  Fair play to him reacting fast to claim it back.  Yes he didnt have much to do but how he can be criticised is beyond me.  One player you never see slagging off the fans, never moaning, just getting his head down and doing the job and taking his chance when hes been given it. A model professional IMO.

Greer was also my MOM although every player did their bit, including Smithy. Nice to see Mildy again with good rapport with the Town End as usual. Particularly nice of him to let in 3. Play like this on Saturday then Hereford are in the shit !

  Although Macca is a leftie and Marshall is a rightie, both are proficient with their other feet, in fact every time i've seen marshall when he's on the right he'll try and cut in and cross with his left. Seen a couple of comments about macca a little negative on here, looking at the southend boards they were raving about him and couldn't work out why he wasn't mom.

You got a link - would quite like to see their comments.

http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/

What a relief!

All played well in MHO. :nod:

Even Timlin wasnt shite and Tudor Jones looked solid.

Southend were poor and i expect their fans were not happy with their display.

We must string some results together with Hereford and Northampton coming up.

I am missing Hereford but got my ticket for Northampton last night.......two wins????  now that would be a proper result!

I can't believe people knocking Smith last night.  His save in the first half, a blinder, meant their best attack ended in a corner, which we then broke from and scored.

His distribution was what it needed to be, safe.  He threw the ball out and passed it out (from pass backs) a lot in the first half.  In the 2nd we changed tactics and this was not needed.  Plus his goal kicks are much more contestable than Brezovan's.  It's like the guys behind me moaning in the 2nd half about throw ins going backwards to the free man - we are winning chaps, it's all about keeping that lead now.  If we were 1-0 up in a tight game I can understand people wanting more urgency or to keep the pace and passing going, but at 2-0 without a win for an age and in the relegation zone the first thought has to be to keep hold of that once 2-0 and cruising.

If anyone listened to Wilson after the game they should have been impressed.  The team were sent out 2nd half to keep turning the defence of Southend.  He told them how demoralising it can feel (and we should know) to be 2 down and keep running back to goal to defend rather than being able to face up the play and push us back.

As a self confessed Smith "basher" (well I have this season) I have to say the bloke did nothing wrong last night, kept goal as well, actually better, than Brezovan has of late.  I am praying that this is the sign of things to come and that the lads realise the potential they've got.

Loving the defensive line up at the moment too, Amank, Morri, Greer and Vincenzo, fantastic.  OTJ won a lot in the air last night, Timlin was the Gattuso style player we need right now.  HKR and Macca had good games and Billy and Coxy put a decent shift in too. 

No complaints!!!

The players obviously saw my first few posts in the thread. I had the best car journey ever on the way back

Were their excuses?

Would have worked better if Macca was crossing from the left and Marshall from the right using their stronger feet.

And then we'd have won 7-0 quite obviously

  So what was their take on the match?

I think Marshall and mcnamee were content with their respective contributions

Actually, to be fair rather than "people" you should probably insert my user name.

As I've said my main complaint last night was his distribution, other than that he fumbled a cross and that's about it. But one performance doesn't make you a great player and I still think that over the season that Brezovan is the better keeper.

The way Malpas changed the keeper every time they made a mistake at the beginning of the season caused both keepers to lose all their confidence and play shit. On that basis I'd prefer Smith to stay in goal at present, if he goes with Brezovan again he'll be worried a single mistake will cost him his place.

I'd just like to see Smith getting the ball out to our players rather than punting it up field.

Based on recent performances Smith has been better thats all that matters. When you are 2nil up surely its best to hit to the corners making them work rather than fucking about on the edge of the box.

Seen this on that Southend site??


 :eek:

Where as Southend is top of everybodies seaside holiday list. Oh.

No it wouldn't.

To be fair it's probably higher up the seaside holiday list than Swindon.

I've had many a excellent seaside holiday at coate water.

Not forgetting ashton keynes which is better because they have a beach.

Ashton keynes water park kicks arse.

Why not ?

My Dad's review of last night's game

Yes the second half of the first half was a joy to watch as we pinged the ball around.

Going through the team, Smith was competent without a lot to do, he did drop one cross which i'm sure other teams will concentrate on.

The back 4 are solid, Greer and Morrison work well together, Vincent is the best left back we have and Amankwaah is the revelation. His two assets over Smith is his height (i think Wilson likes height)and his engine which seems to be an asset with a lot of black players.

The midfield is still the main problem. Timlin was excellent and broke up many attacks to start our own. OTJ is a monster but mainly with his height. Put a light on his head and he could be a light house. To be honest he didn't do a lot apart from giving away free kicks. He is a beanpole and not that strong in the tackle. I guess he is still settling in.

We then have Mac and Kanu on the wings. Mac creates but doesn't score, Kanu scores but doesn't create, between them there is one very good player.

Up front Cox and Paynter run themselves into the ground, although it looked as though Paynter took a knock as he struggled in the second half.

A worry is our strength in depth as we had Marshall (a poor mans Mac) Smith, a good cover at full back, Nalis all hair not much else, Sturrock, a good runner of channels but not much else, Brez, who usually drops the soap in the shower, and Ifil competent cover at the back.

I guess we could give Macklin who scored 2 more goals for the reserves this week a run out but we have a load of injuries.

My worry would still be midfield, Southend allowed us to play in the first half but not the second, and we didn't create anything in the second half.

Or, our attacking play in the first half pushed Southend back and in the second we defended a 2-0 lead comfortably.

Much more positive.
 

My old man is never overly positive, that's quite a positive review for him!!

Though Ifil wasn't in the squad last night.

Interesting view from a southend fan:

The best thing about last night was the Roast Pork (with apple stuffing) bun's. They were an absolute treat. And apart from the opening spell, we were dreadful. It was like watching 11 strangers play football with each other. The first goal came from OUR own attack and the truly brilliant McNamee sucked THREE players out to him and he put a lovely ball into RHK who, as ever, glided the ball home beautifully into Mildy's bottom right hand corner. What we could do with him back at the club and he rightfully got a standing ovation from the Southend fans as he left the pitch.

The second goal should have never stood. We (once again) are attacking and the ball gets played into Grant who was literally wrestled to the ground by Cox who ran up the other end of the pitch, gave it to BP and Clarke gets the right side of him by Sankofa STUPIDLY comes in from behind/at the side and gives away a needless penalty. I would have subbed him then for such stupidness. After that, we created **** all for nigh on an hour and it was only when Scanell came on we looked half dangerous. They were quite happy keeping the ball and whenever we got it, we gave it away time and time and time again. I'd love to know how many times we passed the ball to them or our lack of control gifted them the ball. It was embarrassing. They better be in training today and i hope Tilly/Brush are reading them the riot act. The third goal, well, a penalty!? You have got to be kidding. As a previous poster alludes to, he went down like a sack of ****, but to be honest, the 6 minute added time sign was the most annoying thing about that minute of play as we could have been there till 6am and not looked like scoring.

The subs?! Too late. How Grant stayed on!? Pass. How Barnard went off instead of Robinson?! Pass. NO-ONE played well and no-one can have a mark above 5 as it was that bad. Even Dervitte started needlessly hoofing the ball all over the place when he had plenty of time on the ball. Swindon were a good outfit, with HRK, McNamee, Tudor Jones, Cox, Morrison and Amankwaah. Them 6 alone, would get into a Southend first eleven. But the most annoying thing was that we gifted them the goals on a nice silver platter. They didn't even have to work for them.

Kev

I can tell him why Barnard went off, because he was shite and must have touched the ball about twice.

He did throw out a good number of elbows and little kicks though.

DRS How were those comps you got were you well looked after sitting in with the big wigs

- When discussing which of our players they've been linked with in the past.

Hmm.

Just wanted to say, fuck me is Marshall quick. I like the way he can play with both feet as well. Give him another season please Danny.

Haha Very well looked after thanks think i must of been sat next to over the hill though as the cunt didnt stop moan

I know i could here him from where i was in the DR where you should have been.

I've come to the conclusion that Garry flippin Parker is not a scout, just think he bought a half season ticket and is too embarrassed to admit it!  He was there again last night, he can't get enough of the club, or the gammon baps!

Either that or he had to keep on coming to matches until he saw Coxy have a decent game.

Was a good performance.Seemed as if all the little things went our way for once.

Can't help but think that Saturday is going to be completely different though.Hereford will stick 11 men behind the ball and we'll have to break them down.Wish i was going,its a massive game.Still last night will surely have given them a bit more confidence.The fuckers can do it :)

He has another year yet, signed for 2 in the summer.

That game in the JPT at Brighton (Malpas last game) he was utter shite.

But he did well at Colchester and last night.

Unfair to single him out at brighton, they were all shite.

Yep, its probably the one thing Kanu and McNamee both dont do.

Just knock it down the line and chase it. They arent as quick as Marshall but they arent slow. Every now and again I wish McNamee would just knock it and run rather than the step overs, just to mix it up a bit.

Spot on Larwood...last night kind of fitted the pattern of playing well against top 8 sides.

So far we've yet to beat any of the other strugglers in the league...not completely sure why, but if we can eek out an ugly win v Hereford, then it might just show a glimmer of hope.

We beat Leyton Orient away

You did realise that was me that said hello to you last night didn't you?

You looked a bit surprised! :eek:

But LO were at the giddy heights of 17th at the time.

sorry yes I did - I was in deep conversation! soapy tit wank

After I said hello I felt like I hadnt said hello nicely enough then I felt bad

hehe, no probs!  You said hello nicely, just looked like I had caught you unawares!

I know you women can't help gassing anyways!