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I can't sleep.

Have to go to work, so won't even be able to listen to this on the Radio. We'd better win and win well.

For some reason, I feel like we could potentially thrash them but now i think that, we'll prob go and scrape a draw...

Scrappy 1-0 win would do me.

Cox hat-trick today.

He's been talking about getting a 3rd-in-a-season for a few weeks now, I have a sneaking feeling that it will happen on this beautiful spring day :)

He better - i want my bet to come in!

I'm going to get my Stand Buy Me ticket today as well.

The club will see a decent amount of my March pay packet today.

Other things I am predicting:

- Blond-haired geezer will be wearing shorts
- 2 or more squawking noises from the Town End
- The Cross Bar to run out of Strong Bow mid-way through half time

It's my birthday today, dragging 10 mates from Cardiff along to watch...so i hate to say it but it will be just my luck that we'll lose...that said im quietly confident!

4-1 Town. Cox 3 and Paynter

Is Bill Paynter fit? He went off hurt on Tuesday.

Mike Timlin looked injured at the end as well.

I reckon they'll both be fine

Happy Birthday! 

Third home game in a row for me.

2-1 Hereford.

we'll win, i wont be going, Unless i get moved in time.

Most important game of the season.

Hope the egg chasing doesnt affect the attendance!

Swinddon winning is what will make my accumalator come in hopefully.

Spot on, we have to show that we can win against teams who mostly offer hard work.

Anything less than a win, and I think it's curtains.

Im afraid seeing as this thread title doesn't have a spelling mistake in it we are doomed to defeat

Massive game today. Just hope the players are up for it.

Play well and we could thrash them, play poorly and we'll lose 0-1 to a deflection off Ifil's ear or something stupid like that.

"Let's fucking kill 'em!" Gary Wackett.

undecided if i'm going.

we need to build on tuesday night's win or as reg says it could be curtains. herefud don't have much to offer, so here's hoping the boys are up for it today

No doubt we will win well today. Hereford in poor form and after Tuesday's performance we will be confident. Predict early goal from us and they will cave in. £2 at 100/1 5-0 win. Cox hat-trick as well.

Living in Hereford, I would fucking love it, love it if we beat em today!  Hereford have been poor all season bar a few brave performances.  I think they'll put up a fight but ultimately our wings should be too strong.  I reckon 3-1, although fuck knows where their goal is coming from!  Really excited about today, got an awesome day of football and drink planned...  what can possibilie go wrong?

With you warlus lots can go wrong.

Sorry Dave, I've ruined everything.

We shall see. Though shall we not be victourious on your head be it

I understand and will accept whatever punishment you deem necessary.

anyone read the adver today.

I only had a quick look but the headlines suggest Fitton has said we'll see a whole new team next year, so if ever our players needed motivating for todays game that was it ::)

You wont be here next season anyway!!

Brilliant.

I see that earlier and thought exactly the same thing.

well ill be fucked, i thought i saw you at the Franchise game

fitton out!

I think the players have known this for some time, hence the lack of effort.

Looks like we'll be stuck with Wilson then, even if he takes us down.

Do you mean in a bowely kind of way? Have you tried a good laxative?


Clutching at straws here, but to save your arse ... there are no full stops after F and C.

looks as if i'm going.

also clutching at straws, we haven't lost when i've been this calendar year (walsall and Franchise at home)...

Would you not even give the man a single summer to rebuild in?  I'd love to know who all these managers are who are (a) better than Danny Wilson, (b) available and (c) keen to come to Swindon.

Anyway, I think we'll win today.  Hope all this talk of relegation will soon start to look more and more academic.

Looking forward to the game. If the same 11 imposters turn up in red shirts again like they did on Tuesday, we'll be fine. If the usual rag bag bunch of gutless tossers turn up then we're in trouble.

Could well be the Adver, as opposd to Fitton though? He could've said that weeks ago. Oh well, it's done now, but the Adver's track record certainly points to them being the brains behind the timing of such stupidity.  :playball:

Also, it's 14:00 and i'm aware we're playing, perhaps i'll make kick off today - although i have decided to go shopping first.

Im missing this-we will win

What time can you start getting pre match commentary on STFC world?

I have it running but its silent.  Yes all volume controls are up to max before anyone states the obvious

Steve Guinan or the man utd lad perhaps?

Yeah Im having same problem

Any luck yet Adje?

Nope

I haven't bothered this year, but last year quiet often then, it never fired up to 3pm on the dot.

Its up and running.

Cmon the Town

I need a Town win and an England win this afternoon.  I'm feeling optimistic on both counts.

Come on lads!

No excuses we have to win today.

are England playing?

Cheltenham 1-0 up

Northampton winning.

Wugbi?

Rugby Schmugby!

A bot boring this innit.

MISSED PEN: Hartlepool 0-0 Millwall: Porter (2)   :D

Fulham penalty,scholes handball.scholes off...awful,makes a good keeper,look out for it on MOTD


and its.... scored

fulham 1-0

crewe are down to 10 men against leeds

Yep.  Best weekend of the year for rugby.  I've just posted a slightly-longer-than-I-intended post on the Other Football Stuff page.

How is it sounding at the County Ground?

Next week would be better.

dull

Sounds like he's is a Silly-Billy.

15:15  Sent off
Red card for Billy Jones.

15:15 Booking
Billy Jones gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Robert Snodgrass. Billy Jones is shown a yellow card.

Cox chance-missed

Cheltenham two-up, we are in a parallel universe.

Cheltenham 2-0 up.Jutkiewicz is not exactly setting Huddersfield alight is he?

leeds up

we score leeds score yyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayy

GET IN COXER!

:)

I fell in to a daze and all i heard was COX scores.

Get in!!!!!

Get in coxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

yet another assist for McNamee!

Well done Coxy

Hartlepool 2-0 up

leeds 3-0 up now against crewe:)

Don't want to celebrate the goal until three minutes after it, if you know what I mean.

Smith has come on for vincent

For some odd reason I am hoping the Dongs score seven.

MISSED PEN:  >:D Yeovil 0-0 Franchise: Tomlin (29) 

Doesn't sound a vintage performance, but we need ugly points.  Happy.  So far.

Was it a bad injury for Vincent?

huddersfield score against chelthnam .2-1 cheltnam now

Scunthorpe winning against brighton

Who is that fella commentating for Salisbury? How did he get a radio job with that dull way of speaking.

Most of the results seem to be going for us.

Makes a change.  The Scunthorpe weekend was frustrating when every other bugger picked up three points as well.

How have we been since the restart?  (And is there a big crowd today?  This thread is dead.)

soapy tit wank 2-0

Offside and it counts hahahaha

2-0   wohooo

I love atwell and his assistants.
he always gets the crap assistants, but whose complaining!

Dodgy goal.

Ah well.

Get coxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy again number 24 :)

I thought the ref was going to disallow it

Excellent stuff, let's go and stuff them. Cox is an absolute hero.

How many times this year have we had unlucky breaks?  (Leicester, Millwall?)  This is pay back.  I don't feel in the slightest bit embarrassed that Cox was offside.  Hereford are dead & buried anyway.  We need the points more than they do.

tranmere 1 up at oldham.

Ref evens things up!

What do you mean for those not listening?

Has the ref scored two for Hereford?

SENT OFF: Cheltenham, Low, Serious Foul Play (61)

Kanu goal disallowed.

Cox 4 yards offside goal given-Kanu clearly onside-goal disallowed

Millwall equalise v Hartlepool

Mentally, I'd given Hereford a goal.  I feel like we've scored now.  Get in!

Ha ha Jeff Stelling is going to kill himself live on tv i think!

Paynter is having a mare with his final touches. Deserves a goal

Bring on Sturrock.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Another 15 mins of that will do nicely.

Paynter 3-0

goodbye hereford

Good lad!!!

yay

Good for our goal difference, well done lads

Super billy paytnerrrrrrrrrrrrr :banana: :banana:

We're back.

Thank you Town.

I have to admit that i had us on a cert to be going down a couple of weeks ago. I love being proved wrong

Northampton 4-0 up

We still might.  But I agree we're no longer a cert.

Think most of us were getting resigned to it.

Play offs????

Scunthorpe 2-0 up against brighton with them down to 10 men

Just back from the allotment :jawdrop:

 Drunk?

That may be a tad ambitious....

BTW is that Crawcrook as in near Ryton?

JAMIE SLABBER FINDS THE NET!!

Yeah ,do you know it??

There are now ten teams in the relegation fight, Hartlepool and below.

GOAL: Crewe 2-3 Leeds: Pope (73) 

3 mins left and its 3 points in the bag. Nice work boys

Hurrah! go me!

Come on Dongs, let's have a late winner.

Look forward to the reports from those who went

I don't think we can have any complaints about the way the results have gone today.  Delighted.

Vaguely, had a mate who lived in Ryton so drove through there a few times. Also did a university project in Wylam.

I lived in Ryton for a while, what was your mate called?

Paul - he never mentioned he knew any Swindon supporters, I was the only one he pitied. It was 10 years back though

Starting to look a little brighter.  As others have said, a few more teams have been dragged back in to the relegation fight.  Good news.

15 Hartlepool 39 7 7 6 39 34 4 3 12 15 30 -10 43
16 Carlisle 38 7 4 7 30 27 4 5 11 17 33 -13 42
17 Leyton Orient 38 4 4 10 16 25 7 5 8 18 22 -13 42
18 Crewe 38 8 3 8 29 32 4 3 12 23 37 -17 42
19 Northampton 36 7 7 4 28 17 3 4 11 19 29 1 41
20 Swindon 38 7 6 7 35 32 2 8 8 21 28 -4 41

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21 Yeovil 37 3 9 5 18 22 6 3 11 14 35 -25 39
22 Brighton 37 4 5 10 26 36 4 6 8 16 24 -18 35
23 Hereford 36 6 4 8 21 19 2 2 14 11 40 -27 30
24 Cheltenham 37 6 4 9 27 35 1 4 13 17 45 -36 29

I was getting carried away-we are still in deep shit.Got to win our next two,then we can think about staying up

You should hear the guy at Supermarine!

The only dodgy bit for me is that we only have 3 home games left, Yeovil have 6 and most of the others have more home than away left, we really need to pick up a win or two on the road quickly

timlin, kanu, greer & cox were class, no one really put a foot wrong, phil smith looked nervous on a few catches but made a great save from a free kick, all round good performance

Hopefully, Peterborough will have been promoted and thinking about their summer holidays when we play them.  The next two away games are looking like the next break-or-break.

Northampton (A)
Yeovil (A)
Crewe (H)
Brighton (A)
Leyton Orient (H)
Carlisle (A)
Bristol Rovers (H)
Peterborough (A)

we played good. we scored good. we won good.

good :)

After the first 10-15 there was only one team in it.

Thanks to the lino, not sure what he was doing but our second looked two country miles offside.

pah, it was clearly onside. no doubt about it...



 :-[

My brother thought he was about 17 miles offside.  Depending on which end we were attacking, that put Cox somewhere near Abingdon or Bradford on Avon.

Great result. Completely in our own hands now. Win the other games against those teams around us and we'll stay up.

Great result, sets us up nicely for Tuesday night. Cox was miles off side butoh well such is life. It was about time we got some luck! Atwell should only ref our games from now on! Guy is cluless! :)

why is atwell getting stick when its the linesman at fault?

A good Swindon performance but not their best, they were helped out a lot by Hereford being complete shit.

And I still think Phil Smith looks dodgy. He fumbled a few, his kicking was average at best and distribution non existent (ball in hands, player in space, shakes his head, waves them upfield, kicks ball to opposition / touch). Still, he kept a clean sheet again except I just worry about what will happen when a team actually has a shot.

Brez would have done the same. Maybe we should try another keeper. Who is the youth keeper?

Well especially as our away games are against other struggling teams!

There is some prick in the town end who looks like cat stevens who constantly yells PAYNTER YOUR SHIT, PAYNTER YOU USELES TWAT, and keeps yelling BRING BACK BREZ .. yes because he was ace in goal wasn't he?

More points, lovely stuff. Not letting my guard down as there's still much to be done but I'm a happy chappy tonight.

Why is atwell getting stick when he wasn;t the ref?

I thought hereford were edging it untill we scored our first. Then we pissed it. Kanu's best game for us, and timlin is being very impressive as of late

For most of the season we've been generally better away than at home, sadly, this now seems to be changing. I'd say a minimum of 2 points from the next 2 on the road...3 would be OK...anything more and you could see us staying up.

smith didn't have much to do and looked short on confidence. he didn't look any better than brezovan has when i've seen him.

i thought hereford's keeper was pretty good, despite conceding three (or four)

we did what we had to do. we got the points and did alright in doing so.

Cox second goal was well offside but it didnt matter in the end and lets be honest I wasnt half as bad as the Ifil kicks the ball, penalty!

I thought Atwell reffed well as someone said, lino game the goal...

Phil Smith seemed shakey but did alright, same with Big Kev.

Timlin and OTJ did well in the middle, lots of simple passing and breaking up of play. Having two holding in there gives our wingers more licence to attack it still annoys me HRK doesnt get back quick enough.

There is a little gap between us and the dreaded dotted line but there is still a way to go.

It was never a goal. All I can think is that the lino decided Cox was onside because the ball took a touch off the Hereford player. If he thought that, he was still wrong, but I can think of no other explanation.

It wasn't an incredible performance but it was professional. We defended reasonably well and looked to attack down the wings. Timlin did well in the middle (as did Diagouraga for them) breaking up play, and McNamee and Kanu both put plenty of crosses in. Cox had a good game too, and Greer deserves a mention - the guy is class.

Its also much colder in the DRS than i'd thought it would be

were you wearing a technicolour dreamcoat?

I was wearing a rubiks cube t-shirt

It was a bit garish Dave.

crazy students!

I am but a trend setter.

a technicoloured gayshirt I believe is the correct term.

for Cox second goal, it looked like Paynter was onside and abouts to turn and score then Cox back heeled it and my first thought was, what a dick he's offside and Paynter isnt.

Touch without control of the ball = Offside
Controlled first by a Hereford player = Onside

On Tuesday we had 11 imposters in red. They returned after about 20 minutes today. After 20, we were in ciomplete control. Greer is class at this level and Morrison is maturing nicely along side him. Kev didn't have his best one but that may be bacause he's set a high standard recently. Jack Smith did well.
The midfield were very good. Timlin is getting better each week. Paynter had a really good first 20 of the 2nd half. Cox was great apart from one really crap effort.
Phil Smith made a good save from the free kick but was absolute dogshit other than this. his handling, distribution and decision making off his line were pure crap and if we were playing a decent side, we could have paid for it. We need 2 new keeprs next season.
Overall though we were really good. The thing I like is that we#re playing with intelligence. We've got 2 wingers and we're playing balls to them. This starts from the back where Greer and Morrison are very confident on the ball. We're a lot more patient instead of hoofing it but I do get frustrated at some fans wantng us to hoof it like a hot potato.
The first goal came as a result of a short corner and a good cross from McNamee and good header from Cox. Hereford's defence. however, was non existent for this goal. The 2nd was way offside but the lino then made up for it by cancelling out one that was onside. The 3rd goal was just generally good play.
If these imposters keep playing we might just be OK.  

FFS! Clean sheet. Two clean sheets on the run. And Brez has had more flaps than a porn film recently.

You remind me of the bloke who sits behind me - spent the whole first half moaning about/at Smith, shouting at him for even the slightest error etc. Then 5 minutes before half time, turns to his mate, and says in a satisfied voice "Well, that's it, Smith's got to come off, his confidence has gone."  ::)

We did a good professional job today and offside or no offside the scoreline was fair - we commanded the game and were easily three goals better than them. Feel more optimistic now than at any time since the Hartlepool game

Yay, 3 points for us. Thought it was a good performance by us and we fully deserved the points. We finallly seem to be showing some determination. As for Coxy's 2nd I don't know that much about the offside rule but even I cold tell that was off and was just waiting for the lino's flag and the refs whistle but it didn't happen!!! Oh well wr deserve some luck! Aside from that I didn't really think that Hereford looked a threat. 3 points, 3 goals and another clean sheet.  

Honestly, I have a season ticket and have missed three home games all season in the League. We've won every single one of them.

Could you miss the last 3 please?

Was that OTJ's last game before sheep shagging duty?

Nemo out!

I'm scheduled to work every single one of them I believe, so you might get lucky.

I've also been to three away games from which we've managed to get one point.

Correct. As I said, if he gave it because of the Hereford player's touch, he made the wrong decision

Can't remember the last time I watched two consecutive games which I actually enjoyed, because of good interpassing, lots of chances, goals scored, and generally sound defence (mainly due to Greer's presence). Surprising what can be done when your job is at risk.

DV, Reg,   Please reassure me, we are still going down aren't we ?

I know him!  Sounds like a bumpkin, but he is a good bloke!

Not much to say about today that hasn't been said already except I thought Timlin was MOTM the match!  Quality in the middle, digging in some decent tackles and spraying the ball around.

And...  some of the fans in the DRS seriously wind me up!  On Smiths back from the off!  Yes he had some shakey moments, but even keepers in the prem have shakey moments.  Blimey!  0-0 in a game we need to win and they start having a go at Smith, really sensible!  FUCKING TWATS!  Then thay start going off on one when we ar 2 nil up because we are playing it around at the back and not pushing forward!  WE ARE 2 NIL UP AND KILLING THE GAME FFS!  Some of our fans are fucking clueless idiots and I for one am glad that the season ticket deal is not as good as last year because at least it will get rid of these plastic twats that obviously know fuck all about lower league football!

*rant over*

I thank you!

3 points, clean sheet, happy days!  ;D

 We've come through this week unscathed, so have given ourselves a chance, but there is still little margin for error...the next two has to be a minimum of 2 points, or we could be back in the drop zone.

Well, we are hardly safe are we ::)

Not as good as Tuesday, but thoroughly professional and well deserved.  We played some good football in short bursts.  Cox was definitely offside, but why Kanu's was not given I just don't know.  Nobody played badly although Phil Smith did not fill me with confidence (neither did Brez either).  Once again I felt Timlin controlled the midfield and was my m.o.m.

But it's pretty encouraging to get a crowd of over 7000 given recent results!!

on the back of this game i'm going to northampton on tuesday

hereford were dire, as was the linesman...tee hee!

fingers crossed everyone else ends up being that bad when we play them

Whether they are plastic or not we need them to swell the coffers if we are to progress in the future.

I can understand your rant tho.

i was surprised at the reaction towards smith as soon as he miskicked a clearance, it was as if everyone was just waiting to have a dig.

shame.

It was a shame but tbf we have basically had to put up with inept goalkeeping all year and imagine its pissing people off. I am happy with smith myself just saying i understand why they are a bit pissed off

You could have had my ticket today Dean. I forgot to text you last night though.

I agree!  Though the rant was needed!  I feel much better now!

I agree. He had a great game at Leeds, and has now kept our first 2 consecutive clean sheets of the season. People were a tad harsh today

Yeah, he's let in one goal in three games since he's been back, not good enough I suppose!  But he does not fill me with confidence, but I wouldn't give him stick until he makes a few real howlers!

in the past i've thought him to be better than brez, not seen much of either this season though smith looked better today than brez did in the last couple of games i saw him.

i understand people being pissed off with the poor goalkeeping all season but it was just the way people reacted to a dropkick which he mishit, it was as though he'd scored an own goal - i've got nothing against players getting stick if warranted but i thought it was majorly harsh.

overall he flapped as often as brez, he miskicked as often as brez but he had very few attempts on goal to deal with.

Great result - now lets hope we can keep it up against more challenging opposition.

When was the last time we won 3-0 twice on the trot?

Can we still make the play-offs?

03/04

  Back to back at Luton and Wycombe

That was around this time of the year too if I recall correctly.

Correct.

And we made the play-offs that season so that tells you how good we are now under DW.

Anyone who had Cox at 40-1 e/w to be top scorer is very excited now I'd warrant.

 I seem to recall the Luton game being around Easter time as I was at the ex in laws in Hertfordshire...so went from there.

A couple of weeks out - close enough :)

Reg, it's nearly 10pm on a Saturday.  Thought you'd be out a-wenching in Old Town.

I'll go out later...the night is yet young :)

Is suju still open until 6am or whenever? Can imagine reg strutting his stuff about, showing up the local youth's lack of stamina with his epic staying power.

Used to be a nice highlight if Reg popped in back when I used to spend most of my weeks wages in the vic, drinking as much Guinness as possible in a short amount of time after weekend evening shifts. I bet it's not as cool in there now I'm not in every fri/sat night.

Oooooooooo.

One out.

I went to Suju a couple of weeks back...cunts wouldn't let me in...bouncer reckoned the bird I was with was too pissed. I made a token effort to persuade him to change his mind, but could sense a thumping coming on so gave up and went down the Pink Rooms.

I'm not really much good at the techno/dance stuff....OK I can wave my arms about with the best, but you need the elasticity of youth, to do it justice...and I sure ent got that.

You'd be right about the last bit though.

thats what 34 in all comps for him and Paynter now?

Now quite Parkin and Mooney with 43.

Cox to break 30? first player since Duncan Shearer in 92? 3 more to beat Parkins best season?

Cox is way better than Parkin ever was.

I called this a long time ago to be fair to me and my judgement of both player ability and potential.

Goal every other game too, which even the best strikers don't sniff at.

Don't worry too much about goals scored in cup games...it's the league that counts and I think Cox has 21.  The post war record is 26 shared by Bill Stephens Bob Edwards and Peter Eastoe..6 in 8 is going some, but it would be a major achievemnet.

He's been banging on about another hat-trick for a while now Reg, and I'd warrant that he is due one soon too.

Come on Coxy.

My mate who did manage to snaffle some of that 50-1 each way reckons 23 and believe me he's counting closely - reckons he's got a grand riding on it if Coxy does manage top scorer

He's not a very good counter then.

21 League Goals
Tranmere, Colchester, MK, Leeds, Hartlepool, Hartlepool, Hartlepool, Northampton, Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe, Leicester, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Walsall, Leicester, Colchester, Southend, Southend, Hereford, Hereford

1 League Cup Goal
QPR

2 Piss Poor Paint Pot Goals
Aldershot, Hereford

indeed, i recall it being on the same day that lara notched the 400th run of that epic innings which was the 12th april.

i also recall both the luton and wycombe games quite clearly, fond memories

was that the Luton game with the dead rat in the away end?

Greer was immense. Jack Smith had a very good game playing on the wrong side. Paynter was busy as always. Cox's back heel was my moment of the season because it was allowed  :D  Morrison is a far better alternative to Tescos (with credit to Gary Stanley for that one).

Ace day, sat on the Bank drinking Hobgoblin in the sunshine after we put the flags up.

I think we seemed better going forward today compared to Tuesday. Things seemed to click better between Cox/Paynter, Kanu/Macca, and the full backs/midfielders (depending on where and who was pushing forward). There seemed to be more playing about and drawing defenders away, instead of purely relying on the wingers running down and putting in a hopeful cross. Their defence couldn't cope with the trio of macca/cox/kanu, but I reckon that was partly because we mixed it up a bit more, with some tidy balls coming through the middle.

We looked good on the break in the second half, none of the players seemed scared to play speculative through balls to our quicker players, I think most had an attempt at an assist at some point.

P.Smith had more scares than he did Tuesday, although to be honest, if I had to pick one to stick with for next season I'd probably go with Smith over Brez. Even though they're nearly exactly the same age, I see more potential improvement in Smith, potential improvement whilst playing for Swindon that is - I'm not sure why, but I can see us getting more out of Smith than Brez. Doesn't mean much, I'm not exactly a renowned keeper scout.

Although Hereford never really looked like getting back in the game, they did have some dangerous attacks - even if they weren't clear cut chances. Mainly through our lack of organisation. On the whole I think we defended pretty well through out, especially as we didn't try to just cut the game out, not as much as we did on Tuesday... more on that in a bit I think.

It's a version of a much repeated TEF ditty to say that if the defenders were mistake-proof then they might not be playing at our level. I don't think it's the initial mistakes which are the most harmful, it's that after one is made it seems to take us far too long to get reorganised. There were a couple of occasions today when the original error wasn't as much as a problem as us failing to recover, once one thing goes wrong they all seem to get lost.

On the whole though I thought we were pretty good at not only breaking down their attacks but actually doing something with the ball when we got it back. I think it's this which made today seem like a better performance than Tuesday, there weren't any long periods where it didn't look like could turn play into an attack at any time.

Cox is ace. From what I've seen of him he's way better than Parkin. He misses more 'striker finishes', but he creates more than a hell of a lot more to make up for it. Cox is a much more modern forward in that he plays like a scoring midfielder, I think it's amazing he's scored so many as you'd sort of feel it would be harder to play that role in a struggling team. He wouldn't look out of place in a 4-6-0 formation, which seems to be the way that modern top level tactics seem to be going. He's a mix of Scholes and Henry. So yeah. I think that Parkin's clear cut finishing is better, but apart from that Cox is better at everything.

Oh and I don't know if anybody else has commented, but I though Paynter was good today. I feel a bit bad for him, he's never going to come across as a sexy exciting flair player when compared to an on form CoMaKanu trio. His [getting in the way of their defence : getting in the way of our attack] ratio was very good today. He did a great job and was getting in some good positions. I think that one of the main things is, that although he's not always the best at escaping his man, he doesn't often leave his man with nothing to do. I don't think we would have looked as good today with another CoMaKanu player in the attacks, I guess I'm saying that Paynter did an awesome job in my eyes.

Saying that (and partially disagreeing with myself)... I would have liked to have seen Sturrock come on for Paynter in the last 15-20mins. I've always like Sturrock when I see him play, he'll never be  a great goal scorer, but I'd like to have seen his clever channel runs in overlapping, defender drawing, offside beating combination with the other 3 attacking players (not saying CoMaKanu again - it's a bit fatbury inventing words ish.). It's all immaterial now, so we'll never know, there's a good chance that I'm inventing bollocks in my head.

Reads like you've got your mojo back for football then?

you should talk about football more often ben!

Is that the DV seal of approval on my matchday comment? I'm honoured. Honestly not being sarcy there either.

I've really enjoyed the little 3 home games on a trot I've been to, first time I've honestly enjoyed football and not wondered why I wasn't doing something else, such as stayed in the pub, for quite a few years. I think it's because game to game there's been a nice progression of improvements in certain areas. I guess I'm lucky that it seems to have coincided with some progress at home. Let's hope it's not some sort of false dawn, the improvement can be quickly undone if our nasty night-time soul eating creatures turn out not to be dead, but just waiting to take us by surprise for full effect on breaking our spirits.

DV doesn't do seals of approval. It's either ok or a load of old shite.

I think it is better than ok Ben. I think you should oust Dan the Fan and get on the Adver with stuff like this. Or even better, get on Beeb Swindon with Ed as match analyst.

That would really piss DV off.  :D

Cheers Mr.H.

I'm going to read back through this thread to see if I disagreed with anybody.

It mirrored the Southend game really. First 10 to 20 minutes we were a bit nervy and perhaps a bit scared to play. After that we settled down and then caused them some real problems upfront. We could have been 3 nil up at half time with the chances we had really. Funniest bit in the first half (I'm saying that because the Lino in the second half for the second goal was funnier) was 2 people behind me moaning about us taking a short corner and then Macca whips in a beauty for Cox to open the scoring. They soon shut up. We had our flappy moments at the back for a 5-10 minute period at the end of the half but luckily for once they didn't cost us.

Second half was very good. We looked like scoring every time we went forward. That decision for the second goal is probably the worst i've seen a linesman make. Even our players didn't really celebrate. It did even out because Robson-Kanu had a fair goal that wasn't given. I think the lino knew what he was doing there. Hereford huffed and puffed but we defended well. On the whole very good. Greer and Morrison really are starting to look good. OTJ and Timmy are gelling quite well too. Shame OTJ has to go on international duty soon.

So all in all a great week for us. 6 goals, 6 points and 2 clean sheets. Didn't expect that. The real test is next week though and we'll see if we can take our good recent home form on the road with us.

Got him at 50/1 :D

Does anyone know if each way is top 3 or top 4?

top 4 i think.

how much do you stand to win?

it is top 4, looking good :)

And I bet the sod will score against us next Wednesday

Well I put a tenner each way (£20 total) so think if he finishes top its about 600 quid ish but anything in the top 4 will do.

Wish I had a bit separately for him to finish outright top now!

Just reading that yesterday's referee was the infamous Stuart Atwell.

Though to be fair to him he has been stitched up by his linesman again.

BBC reckons we had 3 players offside! They also quote 1-0 as the final score so...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/7937326.stm

That is truly shocking coverage - Im tempted to write and complain..

imagine how hereford feel!

And Hereford aren't bottom either...

I sent them an email :D  How sad am I but I dont think its a lot to ask to accurately report the scoreline of a fixture in the football league or any fixture for that matter!

Just seen the goals on the Championship.

Camara angle wasnt great, but him and two others looked offside!!!

From the tv angle I thought only Cox was offside, the other two were being played on by a couple of defenders.  Maybe the lino though HRK got the touch and that's why he didn't flag?  I would have been annoyed if it had been given against us.

Offside or not, it was a quality finish though.....thats the type of goal I score.

Good win and hopefully we can continue to build on the progress. If we stay up I hope we can keep Cox some how as if Wilson can create a half decent team around him we'll be laughing. Hereford were abysmal and I think that thats them gone so it's 2 from about 8 to go down now, hopefully Yeovil's lack of proper manager will count against them in the end and another will go into freefall.

Out of interests we've got Marshall contracted for another season haven't we? He's looking more and more useful everytime he comes on so when Kanu goes back to Reading I'm starting to think we have a ready made replacement. Doesn't seem scared to make a challenge or do some defending either which is a bonus plus he does look like a mini Mr T. With the Kanu/McNamee partnership working so well at least we know now that playing 2 attacking wingers can and does work.

Think the second goal helped us a lot, meant there were no more nerves we could just get on with the game.

As for Smith, I agree that the fans shouldn't be barracking him as he's no worse than Brez has been this season, in fact last two games his "goalkeeping" has been good.  Having said that his distribution was shocking yesterday, G-g-g-granville should be working on this in training.  Nice to see DW have a word with him after a couple of shocking clearances, telling him to mix it up a bit, go short, think it helped him.

We might have got 7,000 for Hereford, but the quality of out support at the moment is very poor. Fair play to the Town End, they have been getting behind the team, its the south stand Im going to have a moan about.

We got a corner in the first half at 0-0 and I dont think there was more than 10 fans in the south stand who actually shouted come on, just a smattering of applause. From down the stratton bank end I could easily hear the Town End. Absolutely shocking support. Im not even talking about chanting. Weve got 2 North stands now. The south stand has slipped into being a spectator gallery. Seems to me that our loyal fans have been diluted already, with just 2,000 new fans.

I think fans, players and board need to have a long look at themselves in the summer. The Official site has the slogan 'renew the passion' for the season tickets, and I would have to ask what passion is that?

Well done team, put them away quite easily. Big game, and we booked them a trip to Accrington next season. Agree with Glos that I think we can stick the knife into Yeovil next weekend. Then maybe its only 1 place left for 5 or 6 teams. Northampton tuesday looks really tough though.

You don't sit near me do you, 'cause two old codgers behind me said exactly the same thing.

Only difference was that they didn't shut up then, kept moaning about every little thing throughout.

spencer is spot on (as usual) with his assessment of the support.

as for cox's offside goal, my old man was sat dead in line with it and said it was clearly offside. you only have to look at cox's finish to see that he thought he was offside as well...

I didn't get him at that, but had him at about 25/1 i think. I've got Lambert at 54/1, which looks pretty nice as well.

Centre of town end, above the exit?

I sat there in about 1996/97 I think.

I agree with you spence, but I am not a chanter, is that wrong?  I shout encouragment and clap along etc. but don't join in with the organised singing because I like to concentrate and study the game if you like.  It tends to be different away from home, but at home I would rather watch the game and enjoy it that way.  If I intended to join in with the singing I would probably sit in the Townend.

Are we saying that it should be prerequisite that you should join in with the chanting if you are to be proper fan?  Not having a dig, just interested in what everyone thinks that is all.

Just wanted to re-iterate too that Timlin was ace IMO yesterday, and even though he is capable of being pants, I don't think his workrate and quality is noticed as much when he does have a good game.  Critics would be wetting their pants over a display like that yesterday if it was Carrick or Scholes or someone of that level.

He admitted he knew he was offside in the post-match interview and said he'd only tried that flick because he knew he was off. If he'd thought he was on, he'd have tried to turn and slam it home.

Haven't seen the highlights myself but from where I was sat, we thought there were 3 Town players offside - "offside in depth" as we called it at the time

Just good to read a fresh opinion...

Every week you get the same people, some who apply the same line of thought to every game and some who have made their mind up on a player and dont change that no matter what said player does.

Also, with you having not been a regular for a long time then your probably less biased than someone who goes every week. Almost neutral like.

Is there a blue plaque there now saying so? Think there should be

No of course it isnt. But weve got to the stage where a stand with 3500 people in it and when we get a corner it might as well be 50 fans in the south stand. A handful of shouts and a smattering of applause. Fans are totally morose. The support is pitiful.

Not pointing the finger at anyone. But overall, you look at the ground, and only the smallest stand in the ground is actually offering any support!

Well done everyone for turning up, but surely a 'come on' when we get a corner isnt too much to ask?

Not healthy signs at all.

I liked it when Macca took the short corner to Big Kev and the whole ground growned before Big Kev played it back to Macca, he crossed it and Cox scored.

"No!!!  It'll never work" said the bloke in front of us, just after I said to my mate "macca to whip it in, 1-0 town" (and I never get it right).  smiles all round when Coxy nodded it home!!  Good day yesterday.

to be fair though, in everyone elses defence our short corners are usually awful.

Well it must be our first succesful short corner of the season. 

Morrison's throw ins looked a little more dangerous yesterday, flatter stronger. 

There was one bit of play were we passed it around for ages, crossed in and cox missed a relativley easy chance. People were complaining that we were passing it around in a measured fashion as opposed to humping it into the box

Our first succesful short corner in years I expect.

Remember the Manchester United/Chelsea/Giggs/Rooney corner that sparked off all the debate once, I remember we tried it at home. Miglioranzi went over rolled the ball forwards then jogged away. None of our players re-acted and the opposition just ran and got the ball. Best corner ever!!!

Our set pieces look a hell of alot better under Wilson. More movement from throw ins, people going short, better corners and better positioning in the box and no more stupid like jig!

Yeah there were a couple around me complaining about it going back and forth between OTJ and Timlin. Didn't see the problem myself. We still had the ball! It's good to see us being calm in what is quite a high pressure situation.

Solid. That was yesterday, solid and professional. I cannot endorse Danny Wilson enough. The bloke has been here 3 months, and pretty much 1 month of that we couldnt train properly due to adverse weather. He inherited a team with zero confidence, no zest for the game, clueless and inept. He has in a relativley short space of time seen where we needed strengthing, gone out and got players in on loan and as back up. But most importantly made the players believe in themselves. Think back to before xmas and the performances we saw, hoof ball, no assurance, panic stations. Yesterday the team played with a measure of confidence and dare i say it skill alongside fluent passing moves and players wanting not shying away from the ball.


Timlin was my MOM yesterday, he looked hungry, always making himself available for a simple pass and constantly breaking up Herefords play and getting in their face. I have to say he was helped by Tudor -Jones whom i think we have to look at making a permanent signing, the bloke has hardly played for ages so imagine when hes fully match fit. He was a perfect foil for timlin and i can see them getting better and better together.

Greer is another player we need to get to put pen to paper. This bloke is commanding. the bollockings he dished out to morrison and jack smith, the way he and morrison combined to mop up after each other. fucking superb.

There is still a relegation scrap on our hands, getting 6 points from the next 2 games would be superb, play like we did in the last two and its not a pipe dream.

No we sit in the Don Rogers (I'm too old to stand up now  :().

I guess we have more than two old moaners then   :nod:

Yeah that's what I metioned in my earlier post. It's funny because they soon shut up yet when we did again they still moaned despite the fact we got a goal from it the first time. Bizzare. It's great that we can actually score from corners now.

I've been slating our short corners for a while as we've never done anything good from them before yesterday.

I just hope we don't now take all short corners from now on, i think they only work against defensively shite teams who don't man mark anyone in a crossing position.

I think the short corner is effective to mix things up. You either catch the opposition of guard when you whip the ball straight in instead, or when you've been whipping it in you play it short.

Or if they're shit, just like axs says.

Once we work out how to use Morrisons throws, we could be very potent at set peices, all we need then is someone to take free kicks and get them on target from the danger areas round the box.

Great result.....wasnt there!

Looking forward to Tuesday!

They seem to be getting better. Morrison put a couple in which were lower than normal, we're getting more players around the six yard box for him to aim at - Greer was starting behind the goal line and running in as the throw came in. OK, it might not be working too well but it looks like they're working on it at least.

Though they are using it less, Morrison looks to Wilson for permission to take it each time and doesn't always get it. Wilson does a lot of in game coaching - not sure if its good or bad, good that he's making changing and giving instructions but bad as sometimes the players don't seem to know what they should be doing without being told.

Just seen the highlights......Offside call is one of those which has made me fume this season..

Just saying that 'it equals itself out' is not good enough in my book!

Like I said, I agree!

Whilst the Town End is improving but still seems to be lethargic, the DRS concerns does concern me just as much as Spencer highlights. When many were pointing the finger of blame on fans moving stands for lack of atmosphere I disagreed with that sentiment. Sure it may have caused it, but it shouldn't. It seems to me that there is a psychological thing where you can only chant if you're in the TE and even then many will only join in if many others are, which can lead to points in the game where nobody is brave enough to get anything going.

I think as a collective we've been very sub-par in the support department this time round, each and every stand. I've heard the odd moment in the DRS to suggest it could provide an awesome atmosphere and the TE is getting better and I think it will continue to do so, but it is worrying because I think most people who renew will stay in their respective stands and the atmosphere won't improve in the DRS. I've written off the Arkells because you'll never ever hear a peep from that stand.

I know there's been quite a bit of debate about the pricing structure of the TE season tickets and there's no incentive for people to move back to get the atmosphere going. But if tht part of the ground could somehow get some chants going on, then their ticket and matchday experience would be amazing value for money.

Totally agree too. The only thing 95% of the DRS consistently do is clap along to red army/barmy army. And now I'm stuck there.

I was surprised that on both Tuesday and Saturday a lot joined in with the clapping to "Danny Wilson's Red & White Army". From where I was sat you could hear it going right round the ground and it was ace.

There are a few lads up the back of the Arkells who do chant, mostly on their own because no one else joins in.

I liked it a couple of seasons back, before the Rovers incident, when you got a decent group of 30 or 40 up the back there and had a good bit of banter with the away fans.

I was sat next to a lad on Saturday who was coming to his first game for about six years. He was surprised how small and quiet the crowd was.

I guess it just shows how people have been ground down by years of shite on and off the pitch, but that shouldn't be an excuse IMO.

Maybe somebody should bring a drum!

 :cunt:

I'll get my coat!

 :banging:

 :doh:

Sitting in the Don is annoying for me as i want to get involved in singing or whatever, but there is such a throng of folk who insisnt on speeding everything up (even just the clapping) that it seems like a lost cause - i usually give up mid song.

Oh and the kids who would rather sing songs at the stewards get on my nerves.

i miss our little mob in the arkells.

Why aren't they there any more? Were the stewards giving them too much hassle?

If there had been a real financial incentive to swop to the TE next season I probably would've done.
As there isn't, I'll stay in the DRS. I'm halfway up and just off the middle of the pitch so the view's fantastic.

With regard to supporting the team, I think I'm like a lot of people. Away from home I'll be standing at the back and singing all the time. At home, surrounded by people who don't chant, I tend to shout encouragement and clap. Chanting when you know 99.9% of those around you won't join in is a painful experience (Just ask Fred)

I tried my best on Tuesday and Saturday


Gave it up as a bad job


I'd get more response shagging Wendy Richards

Same here-looking forward to not being there tomorrow!

I think the suggestion of a drum, which was made on the previous page, is a good and valid one.

We are one of the only teams in the whole entire football league who do not have a drummer. It feels like we are being left behind :(

Fuck that, I'm glad we don't have a drummer.

really? who in our league has one?

MK Dicks
Yeovil
Southend

Can't think of any more.

Dont Cheltenham have one?  If some twat with a drum sat next to me, he'd soon be following behind it onto the pitch, horrible things.

Colchester had one, and I've a feeling Peterborough do too

The colchester one wasn't out at their place 2 weeks ago.

Are you sure, I thought they had one.

That was about the only noise they were making, both of them :D

Please anyone who may be thinking of bringing a drum home or away...don't as I will get banned from all grounds including the CG for life after what I end up doing to the drum and it will involve you !

If one does turn up you take his arms,and i'll take his legs and we'll see if we can land him ontop of the dugout!

Done !

Im more concerned as it was Berniman that mentioned it and he sits right in front of me!

Ill whack you with my Heat magazine!!!

No to a drum!! Imo its seems a pretty desperate and unecessary way of drumming up an atmosphere (see what I did there?). Also, they can be pretty annoying! Altho not quite as annoying as a whole band eg. the England one.

Its all about just having really loud chanting\singing. And we need a variety of songs too.

To be fair, it was a tongue in cheek post and I would just like to put everyone straight that Drums should not be allowed at football, especially at the bloody County Ground, hence the reason I added the smileys.

As much as the idea of JFW chasing me around and hitting me with a magazine intrigues me, I am not sure I fancy putting it into practice just yet!

Drums are bad!