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 Been having a little think about this one, and have come to the conclusion a Cobblers win is the best result for us...our goal difference is a factor which may yet keep us up, however if it is up against Cobblers, it could take us down, so it would be best for them to go out of the equation and Yeovil to be 2 points adrift with a game in hand.

Thoughts?

Draw seems the most likely result.

agree with reg,i,ll settle for 5th from bottom

I think Northampton will beat Yeovil comfortably, I still feel confident Yeovil will be the 4th bottom relegated team.

Im with Reg-we dont want it to be a straight fight between us and Noton.Thing is,I thought Yeovil looked a decent side with their loan players especially impressive.

Looks like 1:1 and nobody happy, especially if the ref. forgets that a red card is obligatory for a foul with excessive force.

A draw with a massive brawl and seven red cards would be the ideal outcome.

I wish I was shagging Myleene Klass

It's a fixture that makes me nervous - a draw would be ideal but I fancy Yeovil to sneak it.

Is anybody gonna listen to this match, what's the best link?

Got it on FM radio, not a bad reception.

Is it as good as it looks on Ceefax? Three games, no goals and only one booking. It's really going to have to get going soon for the seven to get sent off.

Looks like an exciting night all round in L1

Stevenage are winning, unlucky Pox. :)

Yeovil are going close at times. Haven't heard Akinfenwa mentioned much. Obika is being mentioned a lot!

1-0

Gas 2-1 down  :D

Obika with 11 minutes to go.

Arseholes puckering in Northampton.

It's bad enough in Swindon :)

Cobblers hit the post

 Fuck...very bad news.

How is it bad news Reg? You have to remember that Northampton are losing just as much as Yeovil are winning.

A draw puts both teams up the table, at least Cobblers are no further on.

not much of a surprise

two teams below us playing each other.

it was always going to be a losing 'situation' for us.

We need a pucker rating before each game,

Injury time plus 4 mins

Or a winning "situation" depending how you look at it.

Yeovil's goal difference is worth a point to us...Cobblers is better than ours.

If we end up competing with either of these 2 for the final spot on goal difference, which is a distinct possibility, it would be better if it was Yeovil..

No?

Whatever the result was tonight a team was going to gain on us, thats not good for us.

If one team doesnt gain they still have a game in hand to catch us.

But a team was also definately going to lose/draw a game in hand on is, which IS good for us.
Not that i'm disagreeing with your argument.

Final whistle. 1-0 Yeovil

We have to win our remaining games- we cannot just rely on what other teams do.

Be honest- if we cannot stay up with the games we have left then we deserve to go down

But then the other way to look at it is that Yeovil will now be above us with a game in hand so we should forget about them and worry about the likes of Northampton who we are still above, whom lost tonight and who we also beat last week.

Who gives a fuck what others are doing!!

Really we should focus on getting our games right. We have Crewe and Orient at home and Brighton and Carlisle away before the final two games of the season. God lordy it's going to be a little bit nervey.

Well err, we do if it effects our relegation survival chances Dan.

But Cobblers have 2 home games to make up, one in hand, so a draw sees them above us.

No point in thinking about it now though it's happened...we failed to do the job on Saturday. Can't have any more slip ups.

If we win our games, then I'll be happy. We can't ask for much more. I don't care about other results. We need to concentrate on our games, not others.

To be honest though if we dont finish the job then we deserve to go down! i couldnt give a rats arse what others are doing!

Not being picky but I think saturday's shown that we can't win all the games we need to guarantee our own survival, other results are gonna effect us.  Jesus if you ignore the other matches in the league it'd all be a bit boring wouldn't it?

We're not the only pile of shite down there so we probably could (just) get away with another slip-up Reg - not that it would be acceptable, losing to Crewe a couple of months ago was seen as an embarressment now for the return match it's not an option.

We need to win 3 of our last 6. With only 3 home games left it's going to be fucking close.

It's so tight at the bottom, and I reckon we won't know until the last game of the season.

It's certain nothing's certain.

Well Dan I guess we're in completely different camps then, as I still care about the results in the Championship, League 2 and the promotion race in League 1, what makes the league so interesting, wonderin about who'll be coming to Town, who's gonna miss out on promotion etc.

Firstly, we are that shit we HAVE to look out for other peoples results.

Secondly, best result tonight probably would have been a draw.

Now Yeovil are 1 point above us with a very winnable game in hand, against Hereford.

Northampton on the other hand are 2 points behind us with a tough match against the faltering Franchise in hand.

Yeovil are the more likely to get a result from their remaining game in hand, which leaves Northampton more in the shit but with a better goal difference

We know we're not good enough to do the jpb ourselves, if it was the case then it would have happened by now.  Recent history tells us sometimes you have to rely on others like in 01/02...when we stayed up courtesy of Rovers incompetence and Wycombe's effort.

Looking at remaining fixtures I think Carlisle or Northampton will go down with Brighton, Hereford and Cheltenham. Well I hope so anyway.

I can understand having an interest in the football world and whats going on in other leagues but to have a thread dedicated to a match between yeovil and northampton on a swindon forum seems quite frankly a little dare i say it, obsessed!?
If we play well enough to stay up then brilliant! If not then we will obviously go down which is exactly what we will deserve!

Well i'm sorry for being "obsessed" by wanting to see if my team is going to go down or not.

We're all members of a football forum because we're obsessed.... or mental.

oh well if we deserve to go down that ok then

it'll still fucking hurt and still be fucking shit and result in us playing fucking shit in a fucking shit league two playing fucking shit teams in fucking shit stadiums who take fucking shit number of no more than 150 to the CG.

Fucking brilliant.

I dont give a flying fuck what we deserve. I want us to stay up at all costs and if that means another team(s) going down because they considerbly fucked up their last couple of games (like Rovers did before) then I wont complain.

Obsessed, of course I (we) are obsessed about Swindon Town and lets be honest here - no one, not one of us wants to see us in L2 again...

Quite clearly some members of the forum, are more obsessed than others.

Obviously.

Sadly.

Cheltenham and Hereford are goners.

Brighton are near goners.

Looking at the remaining fixtures, both Northampton and Hartlepool look vulnerable.  What you want is mid table safers with no chance for the play-offs.

Cobblers

Scunthorpe (H)
Bristol Rovers (A)
Southend (H)
Leyton Orient (A)
Hereford (H)
Leeds (A)

Pools

Hereford (H)
Crewe (A)
Scunthorpe (H)
Yeovil (A)
Leeds (H)
Bristol Rovers (A)

Let's hope Peterborough have been on the piss for a week before we play them after getting promoted.

...and Invincible's miracle strike.

I think Yeovil winning was the best result for us. Northampton have 4 games against promotion chasing teams, 2 games against relegation threatened teams and only 1 against a mid table team. I'd say there is a lot of brown trouser action in Northampton this evening.

I won't be feeling so cocky if we lose against Crewe at the weekend.

but mostly Rovers' incompetence!

If Rovers had won their games, only Swindon could have got relegated on 52 points.  Note the gratuitous inclusion of Poxford.


20    SWINDON TOWN    46    13    13    20    47    65    -18    52
21    Bristol Rovers    46    12    15    19    53    57    -4    51
22    Luton Town    46    9    13    24    52    80    -28    40
23    Swansea City    46    8    13    25    47    73    -26    37
24    Oxford United    46    7    6    33    53    100    -47    27

I think you've missed the point Dan.

There's still time to get away from the drop.

Just imagine if we hadn't gone on the 3 match winning run, we'd be third from bottom under Brighton!

Yeovil still aren't out of it and we're not the only team with games against those around us.

The problem with teams having games against eachother is the fact that they can all gain points off eachother. They are all near the bottom of the table due to inconsistency. Looking over the page at Northampton and Hartlepool I would suggest that they will both get at least 7 points from their remaining fixtures.

Swindon, LO and Yeovil have big games on Saturday that could remove a significant amount of pressure if they all win. While LO and Yeovil can afford to lose, we cannot!

Yeah but it also means teams around us will be losing ground....

Nobody can afford to lose in case the others don't. If Yeovil and Orient lose and we get a draw we go back above them with our better goal differnce, although obvoiously we'd have played an additional game.

We just need to beat Crewe....end of.

My ass is twitching like a rabbits nose already!

Still, better that than your nose twitching like a rabbit's ass :)

Is that speaking from experience?

Yes, very embarrassing and uncomfortable. And the fluffy white tail in the middle of my face wasn't a great look it has to be said

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Looks like Carlisle might struggle to put 11 out, rock on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/carlisle_united/7976066.stm

"Mounting injuries" ?  Should keep themselves under control if you ask me.

Still twitching!

It's the Swindon way though, ennit?

Our heroes have been missing points all season.

Carrots up the arse ?

50 points will keep us up ! (Crewe and Orient)

Genius, dear boy.  Couldn't let that pass without comment.  Well done.