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Every time i start one of these we win, so here we go....

and yes there is another thread but this is the official one :bye:

You tell 'em Tonga.

It should be a good one tonight... I hope it goes in our favour.

1-0 to town

1-1

im going for 0-0 :cry:

2-1 us.

Swindon Town 1 - 2 Southampton

Swindon 0-2 Saint 9,787 crowd

3-1 Town

If it is correct that Southampton are bringing over 3,000, then tonights game will be at least 11,000.

I am banking on typical Swindon fans apathy after the last 2 league games :D

southampton has just sold out there allacation of 3200 seats go away support for a tuesday night

I'm not sure I'll be able to make this as I've got an eye infection which has made my eye swell up, half shut and constantly stream - I look like a pirate that's been fighting and lost. fb, can I borrow your eye patch? :(

Go as Captain Juan Isiah Dandy Uvva ...

Are you constantly shouting "Aaaargh!" for comic effect?

town 1-3 saints

1-0 Lambert own goal

1 - 1

Only when I put the eye drops in, and then it's more of an involuntary reaction to pain, although the missus seems to find it funny so I guess it does have some comic effect. I might see if I can find a stuffed parrot and an eye patch for tonight, go as a Rovers fan and start chucking seats around

Sick as a parrot ?

Is it conjunctivitis? Real bugger, I had it a while back in both eyes, and half my face ballooned like the Elephant Man. :(

1-1

good atmosphere

atmosphere will be good tonight and it'll help the lads win the game.

3.0
Greer, Paynter, OG

1-2

10,107

We'd better make some noise tonight. I'm not in the mood for standing there all evening listening to the away fans outsinging us for 90 minutes! The Town End should be pretty busy so it'll be up to loons like Fred to get the DRS joining in ;)

0-1 defeat for the town

I might stay up for this as still no work for me tomorrow, what time is kick-off?

7.45pm our time

Just brought a couple of tickets for mates tonight in the DRS, the only tickets left were high up on either side. The guy in the booking office reckons it will be near sell-out, tickets are going very fast this morning.

Hmmmm, that's a tad late actually

you could get up early for it?

think we'll battle out a draw.

1-1

When we were at the ground this morning. There were a fans queuing up at the Townend ticket area. Obviously it was Southampton fans trying to get tickets, but didn't notice you got to actually go in the ticket office.
I guessing home end will have at least 500-600 away fans dotted around.

Great. Well as long as they keep themselves to themselves I don't mind anyway. Hopefully we'll get a few more Town fans in as Saturday's attendance was shocking.

No doubt that Lambert will score against us tonight ! , but i also predict that we will be off the mark too ! . Think it will be a hard earned 1-1 draw .

Morrison to grab one I reckon.

Any team news?

If you compare Saturday to the rest of the league, it wasn't too bad at all. I expected a lot less, and fully expect  < 6000 crowds to be the norm this season.

At Swindon or in League One in general? Finances are getting ever tighter for many so I agree that attemdances might slump - but personally I'll be disappointed if we can't keep an average of atleast 6,500. Last season we had 7,000+ for most games didn't we?

Should be a good crowd tonight?  It's my mates 30th birthday tonight, so he sent around an email inviting mates along tonight and 9 people signed up as they were keen to see Southampton.

A defeat tonight 0-2.

3-3 paytner hatrick

Your amazing, a real whizkid.

Also 7.45pm in Lagos.

Who are you, why are you acting like such a cock and what do you have against R4E.

Or are your spacey or somebody on a wind up?

At Swindon...we had 10 sub 7000 gates last season, games like tonight especially early season, will get a crowd in, because of the travelling support, but with little prospect of value for money this season, it's inevitable that gates will tail off.

The gates for the big games, of which there are a few this season should keep the average up, but I can't see too many turning out for run of the mill stuff like HPool Carlisle Stockport etc.

No I don't think we did. Think it was just under 7000 but as a mean average we were over 7000 due to a few high gates like Leeds and Leicester. Our average should be boosted even more this year with Saints, Norwich etc...

Ok, should have checked my facts really!

Have lived in Southampton all my life but my dad came from Swindon and brought me up to support Swindon.

I hope we beat the Southampton cunts tonight.  All those years at school when i'd take abuse from my mates for supporting Swindon and not Saints.  At least i can say (well for the next 2-3 weeks anyway) that we are higher then that scum in the league


I'm just hoping tonight isnt a big let down and that we win !

I have 3 close mates that are Saints supporters and they have been winding me up terrible in the last few weeks, saying they still think they will win the division despite the 10 points penalty, their fans really do think they are better than what they actually are.

Actually they sound a bit like Leeds fans just not quite as arrogant.

I so wish we could wipe the floor with them tonight and send the 2,500+ Saints fans home in a miserable mood :) and that I can send out 3 gloating txts later!

Hopefully we can exploit them at set pieces as they cant defend them for shit (conceded two goals from set pieces on Sat against uddersfield and one against Millwall on first game of season  + shit load of goals when in championship)

  You've got that seriously wrong JJ. Proper gloating would involve about 9 texts.

Team for tonight...

Lucas

JFL
Greer
Morision
Amankwah

Macca
Douglas
JPM
Macklin

Paynter
Daboo

Yayy Yapitee is starting....woooo!

Loolks like quite an attacking line up, two wingers, JPM and two up front.  I like it.

Swindon Town: David Lucas; Kevin Amankwaah, Gordon Greer (Captain), Sean Morrison, Lecsinel Jean-Francois; Jon-Paul McGovern, Jonathan Douglas, Michael Timlin; Tope Obadeyi, Billy Paynter, Anthony McNamee

Substitutes: Phil Smith (GK), Lloyd Macklin, Craig Easton, Nathan Thompson, Scott Cuthbert, Callum Kennedy, Alan O'Brien

Anyone elses world feed sound 'fuzzy'?

Evenin' all... I gots bad feelings about this one. Here's hoping I'm wrong...

Check your ears aren't full of mash potato. That happened to me once.

No spuds in my ear. It sounds like everyones holding the microphone too close to their mouths

Actually louder and clearer than its ever been for me....so far.

And Rich yeah I too have a bad feeling we will get tonked tonight, I fucking hope not though.

It's just that we're no good against the "bigger names" (not better teams) in this division - Leeds United would beat us if we were top of the league and they were bottom :)

cocking prediction thingy is fucked, i reckon 1-1

  I wish people would refrain from using silly text slang. It's actually 'mashED potato' !

Lambert up front twice!

Saints: Davis, James, Thomas, Lancashire, Harding, Schneiderlin, Wotton, Mellis, Lallana, Lambert, Lambert. Subs: Bialkowski, Perry, Gillett, Rasiak, Thomson, Gobern, Saganowski.

Could be that you don't have enough mash potato in your ears. Try that.

We are fucked then! :D

For mash get smash. Come on you reds.

COME ON SWINDON!!!!!!!!!!

Lets get at them from the off.

It's meant to be Paterson though.

woot

Glad I stayed up.

Who said Morrison would score first?

NMH ... got your PM?

Crickey are we winning?

Temporarilly, yes.

Love the loud chorus of "you're not singing any more" after we scored :D

To quote Penfold, "Crumbs"

I'm a wreck when we score too early ARGH :)

Still on BBC Wilts .... for us overseas listeners

Got it now. Cheers

So...We're 1-0 up? Who scored?

Tell me about it! Nerves are us!

Sounds quite loudish

Morrison ... keep up NMH

'Lovely little triangles'

Danny Wilson's style, a style that could rip this league apart if done properly. And that saint's ain't having a good night tonight innit.

(Touches wood)

Sorry, was busy replying to your message at the time!!!

Toppy tiddy doo seems quiet.

how are we playing tonight?

sounds good so far.

71% - 29% possession to us.

Ooooh!Wanky!

McNamee doing a good defensive job??

Me too.  One of my all time most terrifying football experiences was our first Premier League win at home to QPR in 1993 when I damn near hyperventilated on the Stratton Bank.

Did they say if it was almost a full house? ....

TUVM Lucas ... Morrison out!

(For 70 minutes.)

I doubt it.  It can look quite full though with 11,000 or so in the ground.

TUVM ?

Thank you very much

RTFM.

I'm a bit worried about the second half, surely they (Southampton) are gonna get a grilling from their gafer,

My brother says we're dominating.  When I have more incisive match commentary to share, I will let you know.

Kieth Scott came over to me and gave me a high 5 after scoring.....I got a fuck off bollocking as I was stewarding at the time!

A sad story before the kick off some old bloke had a heart attack and died in the North Stand half an hour before the game, sadly he never saw us win a game in the Premier League :(

RTFM ? Rolling on the floor masturbating?

That is sad.  Mind you...16 years later and the rest of us have only seen it happen 5 times.

Arse 1-0 Celtic

Harsh but fair mate.

Jammiest goal you could ever see!

WTYO ....

Read The Fucking Manual.

you just ain't geeky enough NMH!

I didn't know what MEH meant until I looked it up earlier today.  I need to get with the kids.

And I so wanted to be down with the kids!

P.S. At this moment in time nothing could turn me on! (I knew that one)

Hope for you yet ...  :D

Half time. 1-0.

Could have been 2 except it sounds likes Davies made an excellent save.

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Obby dabby got close.

I like the sound of Douglas. Is he the new Nijholt?

Are you Michael Jackson or Gary Glitter ?

I switched to Southampton commentary for half time.

They say we dominated the 1st half.

Its did sound that way too, lets keep it up.

Has everyone given up and gone to do something less boring instead?

No. Still here.

The trick is to do something that can be done whilst listening to the game.

Sitting serenely in the background - all got a bit nerdy  :eek:

Like what Ben?

Sounds like their keeper is keeping them in the game.

Dont like the fact that we are having this many chances and Soton are still very much in the game.

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Ooh

MEH

We're not going to win this

... surely he means a little less brittle jawed?

dick

11,673

11673 ... good crowd

e=mc2

I'm going away from the radio for 5mins. When I do that there's normally a goal.

Nearly

B.A.D.

The frenchy Francois lad sounds magnificent tonight

magnifique ...

fucking hell

That is a lot of people.  Hoping most of them go home happy later.

My brother has provided more incisive match commentary.  Apparently, we need a second goal.

unlucky paynter.

I'm scared

were safe














Till the last 5 mins  :nod:

No goal? good good.

Another corner. COME ON YOU REDS!

What's going down guys? Are we up against it or are we still doing well. I am on the worlds slowest internet connection right now and checking back through the thread is not going to happen!

Swindon having chance after chance. Phil King has said 'You're joking!' about 10 times!

We appear to deserve the lead and have been pressing for a second.  That's about as much as I know.

Sounds like we're all over them, listening to the wireless. We're bound to throw it away.

Polish striker coming on for Soton...Wait for it.....

Morrison strained groin!

Its ok, We've got Ifi......... Oh shit

Parkin has scored again for Walsall.

Soton having chances now.

Haha, Lambert......

Lambert ... pah!

Phew! Lambert missed set piece.

Cheers guys. Come what may I was worried we couldn't be creative this season, and it at least sounds like we were that.

Do we know how much longer?

Macklin to come on, McNamee off

Macklin for Mcnamee.

Morrison struggling though, which is a worry

about 5 mins ....

Oh dear!

Haha

"hes NOT offside, hes NOT offside mr referees assistant"

Ed hadwin doing his best 7 year old girl impression

Lucassaves!

The man with multiple christian names is booked

5 mins added time. wtf?

5 extra mins!!!!!

Obladi-Oblada off and Kennedy on

5 mins of added time

Raziak on, defender off

I'm going to clean my teeth and have a wee wee. If we havent won when i come back i will be fuming

Im about to do a little wee!

tena lady for NMH

Lucas saves again...Where was the defence ?

fighting.

How do you know about that?.....Actually, dont answer!

yay

Huddersfield dicked Brighton 7-1

Yippee! 1-0 FT

What a great result. Get in there!

pleasant dreams

That is a brilliant result.  Well done, lads.

Should help foster a bit of a rivalry with Southampton as well.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss

woooooo

WOOP!

Great result, and sounded like a good performance too. Well done Town.

DO THE MESS AROUND

Do the mess around

Apsolutely chuffed to Fook GET ON SWINDON!!!!!! and Sean Morrison u r the bizzzzzzzz :D :) :bye: :nod: :soapy tit wank:

Did hudders really do brighton 7-1?

Yeah. Brighton had there keeper sent off in the first half

Yes. Greedy Theo Robinson got at least 2 as well

Great result tonight, well done town.

God Wilson is dull. Bring back King.

I'm off to watch Telly, Brooker is on in a min. Bye Tef.

Just got back.

Performance 100% better than Saturday. Back 4 solid as a rock...and that includes Lescinel.
Without Davis, the score would've been 3 or 4-0.

And Ricky Lambert is a fat,diving cheat.

Do I get a sticker for staying up late especially to listen to the footy or not?

Regardless, we won.

Which was nice.

Good work Bangkok :)

Davis made some quality saves both from Paynter but his kicking for a keeper was woeful. also how the fuck did Wayne thomas stay on the pitch the cheating bastard.

No idea. He elbowed Paynter in the head in the first 5 mins, with the lino looking directly at the incident...and did nothing. I think Thomas must like our new home shirt, as he has a hold on Paynter's for most of the match !!

I agree their keeper kept them in the game.
No one had a bad game tonight, all played well, especially Douglas, McGovern & Jean-Francois.
I thought Wayne Thomas was probably their best player tonight in all honesty, OK, he wound our players up, got away with a few things, but he won everything he went for and was a fucking beast.

Great atmosphere, enjoyed that!

That's the sort of game we needed early on, a victory against a 'bigger' team in front of a decent crowd and an atmosphere to boot. Hopefully it won't take another 'big' team to come along to recreate half of that atmosphere, buzz and performance.

Get in! That's exactly how i'd thought we would be in pre-season. Tight at the back but not giving a lot of chances away in open play. Getting one from a set piece and then holding the lead for the win. Great stuff. Have to say our midfield trio bossed the game tonight. Douglas had a great game. Simple passing, good awareness and challenges when needed. Think we'll be sticking with this formation for Oldham and Wolves. We're getting used to playing it now I think.

Also, great atmosphere tonight. Was fantastic being in the Town End amongst it. It's exactly what I have missed over the summer. Just a shame that we won't see it again until Leeds are in town.

Fuck a doodle doo!  Great match, great performance, that is what we will need to do more consistently to finish nearer the right end of this league!

I thought Douglas was class, as was Greer and Paynter but every man in a red shirt played well, and one in a blue!

Atmosphere was the best I have heard at the CG for years as well!

Get in!

Where is that effort every week?  Midfield three were excellent, as were the back four, though a couple of those through balls towards the end were living on the edge!

Lescinel made a horrendous error of judgement early in the second half when he let Fatty Lambert run behind him, but in general they were excellent and didn't give the Saints a sniff.  That "tackle" on Lescinel in the second half was awful and should have been a red.

Paynter was very good, and Macca was brilliant when he turned it on and got the ball where he wanted it.  The new boy worked hard and got into some good positions with some good runs, but didn't seem to have the confidence (skill?) to actually drive it on tand either go past or come inside his marker.

Crowd were good, but where are all those people when we play Huddersfield? What a difference it makes when the crowd are singing for the team, and not picking out particular players or moaning.

I was stewarding at that match too JJ! And I was in the vacinity when the supporter died.

Ended up standing front of the Stratton Bank near the final whistle trying to stop the town fans coming on the pitch!

Forgot about that, awfull 2 footed tackle!  If that wasn't a red then I don't know what is!

fucking cracking night, we deserved to win 4 or 5, there keeper made some brilliant saves, douglas timlin and mcgovern bossed the game. every player in a red shirt gave 100%. more of the same please.

you should really let me start more matchday threads :)

better performance, every one played well and we created a few chances but Kelvin Davis to the rescuse for Southampton.

only time they looked like scoring was when Fatty Lambert stepped up to take those free kicks but I forgot he was fat and rubbish. £1million my arse.

That was the biggest 1-0 thrashing I've seen in a long time. Southampton weren't that bad, but we just totally bossed them for pretty much the entire match. 3-0 would have been a fair score and I doubt many Southampton fans would have felt hard done by if it was 4-0, though we could have thrown it away at the end.

How the ref got 5 minutes injury time at the end is beyond me, as is how he then managed to extend that to nearly 7 minutes - I'd say 3 minutes would have been pushing it. Not sure how experienced the ref was but it came across a bit like this was a big game for him (the mighty Southampton) and he went out of his way to do a good job.

Lucas is looking better and better all the time, another couple of excellent saves tonight. The new bloke on loan looked a lot better tonight and has potential - I can see him staying the rest of the season as he really needs the games, there is no way he will be ready for the Premier League this season.

I'd imagine a lot of Southampton fans are realising just how big a challenge this season is going to be for them. That's 3 games gone and they're still 10 points adrift, if they don't get some wins soon it could be a really bad season for them.

what a cracking game it is long time since we can say that are midfield bossed a game Douglas is going to be our key player this season. Got a bit nervy last 5 minutes but we should have been out of sight by then.

VERY happy with that performance, thought we were excellent all over the park.

As others said, the midfield three absolutely took control tonight, each were superb.  The JP from last season is long gone and we have a superb player on our hands now.

The back 4 were brilliant, Lescinel much improved and I'd be happy with them as my first choice back 4 if I were Wilson.

Lucas - great performance tonight.  Made some excellent saves and really commanded his area.

Everything is really echoing the sentiments of others !

Thats a good three points but fuck me Soton were woeful. They were absolute dogshit at the back, it didn't matter if the ball was in the air or on the ground. As already said their no 3 was a complete cunt - gave it but ouldn't take it and should have been red carded for his first elbow on Paynter which was in the box. he should certainly have walked for the 2nd elbow. also agree about the 2 footed assault on Lescinel.
I thuoght every one had a good game. Great header by Morrison. Douglas MOM - he looks as thuogh he could be the midfielder we've been waiting years for.
Althugoh its a win I'm still quite cautiuos. Soton were there for the taking - their players were getting on each others tits and their fans got on their backs a few times. A decent team would have ripped them apart. I think if Paynters header had gone in we would have won by 4 or 5.

When did we sign this McGovern lad?  Cracking little central midfielder, lets hope we don't waste him on the wing.  Seriously, I've never been that down on him, but he immense tonight and was pretty good in an abject performance on Saturday by the team.  Probably helps to have Douglas in there who seems to be exerting an influence.

I think Lucas could be a very good signing, he doesn't necessarily command his box but he controls it with confidence and doesn't let any little slips get to him.  If he misses a cross, he's out giving the next one a good 40 yard punch.  Must give the back 4 a good deal of confidence.

Thought Morrison and Greer did pretty well tonight and Lescinel is growing on me.  He could develop into quite a handy little left back, sort of blossom like Comminges did.  Manky has made the right back spot his and I'm beginning to think this formation is suiting us, maybe just a single striker needed.

Overall, a good old night supporting the Town.  All over them at times, but never far from your thoughts that we could slip up at the end.  Looking a little more positive than last season I think.

Some saints fans make me laugh

That was fucking great.  My 6 year old daughter's first visit to the CG.  She didn't like the first half but filling her up with chips, capri sun and fruit pastilles meant I managed to persuade her to stay for the whole game.

Any comment would just be an echo of everyone else.  We played superbly.  Should have been 3, maybe 4.  Paynter had 2 close range headers excellently saved by their keeper.

Great atmosphere, great to see their players getting well chippy.  Should have seen red a couple of times, but whatever.  As Johnny 72 said, the biggest 1-0 thrashing in years.

Get the fuck in a 10 fold improvement on the previous league matches, the midfield worked properly and bossed the game and the wingers were always an outlet. Paynter ran his bollocks off and by the time he gets a strike partner he's gonna be super fit.
The back 4 are getting better and JFL was finally the player we saw in preseason today and showed he's more than capable of being a league 1 left back. Amankwaah and JFL could prove to be a good full back pairing as both are well built, strong in the air and pretty quick and obviously offer a good threat at set pieces along with Morrison and Greer. With the height we have it must be quite hard for the opposition to choose who should mark who at set pieces I would imagine.

Also there's nothing like losing with dignity and Southampton today showed no dignity whatsoever. Constantly whinging, back chatting, throwing elbows, late challenges they were just a bunch of cunts tbh and even tried to have a fight at the final whistle.

On a side note anyone who's slags our fans off needs to look at the Southampton fans, they were abit of a joke. OK a fair few came but what a bunch of nobs, after about 15 minutes they were booing the team, and in the second half even started singing 'make a sub, make a sub' etc. I wouldn't like to be Pardew, as it looks like instant success or the chopping board for him.

I can't say much that hasn't been said already...

Really enjoyed the game tonight. It was a fairly solid performance with plenty of creativity going forward, and a huge amount of determination to win every ball from the midfield. The crowd were fantastic too - the Town End was rocking and the DRS got involved. It really makes a difference, so hopefully we can replicate that in the coming weeks against lesser opposition.

chuffed as fuck. that was ace. Their fans were comedy, the constant booing. To be honest, I thought they were attrocious.

Douglas, JP and Paynter were all mustard.

great atmosphere, great performance, awesome effort. Thoroughly enjoyable night!

Southampton remind me a little bit of Forest and Wednesday when they came down. The reason I didn't say Leeds is because they're not quite that bad. They expect to go up even with that deduction. They should know better especially after the last few years they have had. They can count themselves lucky that they have a rich backer and are no longer in danger of going bust.

To be fair glos robin, there has been a fair amount of booing our own team at the County Ground over the years.  Wish I had been there tonight though sounds like it was a great night.  Spoke to my old man earlier, he said it was a really terrific performance, and was raving about how Douglas controlled the midfield.  We've not had a player who can do that in years.

I thought douglas and JPM were superb, and macca. couldn't really fault anyone.

Oh this was to a whole new level, you had to be there to believe it

All players played well but my motm was Amankwaah.   Very composed on the ball, make solid tackles and played a great game.

He also played very well against Franchise.

If he performs like this on a regular basis then i can see a championship side signing him.

Douglas was class too, another player who was excellent on the ball

I'm still getting over the shock of us scoring early and not conceeding....

Just home..very pleased...great performance...Morrison was superb...been a big supporter of him since day one as you all know great goal and for me came of age tonight.....Douglas,well the best midfield performance for us in a long time by anyone.

I'm won't repeat everyone elses praise, just comment on Macca - He showed some amazing close control tonight and most of his dribbling was just impossible to defend against.

Fair enough mate, you were there, I'll take your word for it. They have had a crap few years though - FA cup final seven years ago wasn't it?  That a hell of a drop.

Great performance from them all and must say that may have been maccas most complete performance imo.

Also thanks to morrison i am 130 quid up 25/1 1st goal.

Take nothing away from town tonight it wasn't so much southampton was shit it's just we (Swindon) never let them play the way they wanted.

We closed players down and generally hassled them when they had the ball.  JPM is like a new signing at the moment and long way he continue in this role whilst he's playing at the effort levels he is.

Douglas is vastly becoming the signing i expected. Great intelligent player.  Lucas too fills me with confidence in goal.

The new lad felt a bit sorry for him tonight think he's trying to hard but i still believe he will come good for us.  The potential is there to see.

Overall great performance from all the lads

Keep it up

you n all? think deano's up as well isn't he?

Haha i am deano :-)

ha ha, what a clown. always getting you and steve mixed up. silly bollox.

just got back.

that was fucking quality. we played very very well. Timlin, JP and douglas were emense in the middle and even though Paynter is the only striker we have he don't half put in the effort. top draw and also great to see some old faces (not just yours adje  ;) )

and thanks Charlotte for the ticket. Was appreciated.

i'm having a mare of a night at work and missed out on a corking match.glad we woon but am a bit gutted i wasn't there.
nice to hear jpm is playing well,always have thought there is something about him.

nice to meet your magic. And Dave wasn't nearly as pessimistic as I thought!

yes you too Nick. Maybe we caught him in a good mood?

Thought you enjoyed not going to games?

Good post summed up a lot of what I wanted to say.  Great tempo to our play tonight, constantly in there faces hassling them, some slick passing as well.  Good performance, atmosphere and result.  

er no.that isn't what i said

Really enjoyable game ...
Some of the one-touch football especially in the first half was brilliant.
We could have easily walked away winning by three.

Question: how the hell did that header from Paynter in the first half not go in, I had a bad view low down in the DRS this evening, what did the keeper stop it with.

Good atmosphere, to be truthful I thought the Saints fans were OK, especially when they were telling Pardew they needed a sub. Now that is something to copy, I thought it was hilarious seeing all the Saints supporters giving the rolling arms bit.

their keeper had a blinder. paynter could have had three

we seemed to have corner after corner tonight.

we looked really threatening and had a few chances cleared off the line.

And as Dell said how the hell did paynters diving header not go in. Must of been a supurb save

 Proper old skool tonight...

I think The keeper gambled, and it paid off with the ball coming straight back off him. I think it hit his leg but I'm not 100% sure.

Yeah he basically went the wrong way but stuck his leg out. Good save really.

As for us the battling for every thing was superb, and yes same as all have said could have been a bigger win but for their keeper. Well done Town !

No wonder Leeds were pissed about Douglas leaving...............ha ha ha !

Had a neutral with me tonight who was very impressed with the way we got the ball down and played football.

Macca was good, but JPM and Douglas were different gravy, with Douglas holding it gives Mcgovern licence to run around like a nutjob, something he's bloody good at. Not overly impressed with Tope, he's played too much Prem reserve football, always looking to do to much. The sooner he realises that he's got a split second to make his mind up and do something the better, he overan the ball on so many occasions.

Our work rate and tempo off the ball, both defensively and attacking, was the biggest difference I noticed between this season and last though, unreal hassling and so lively up top and out wide when we've got the ball deep.

Atmosphere was top notch, their fans were absolute dogshite though.

Well fuck me sideways, is that a positive pot from our Reg?

KOT hereby nominated as the (twisted) thread starter.

poor ol billy, if we were playing a team without an awesome keeper he'd have had atleast 3. his link up play was awesome and generally pissed off their centrebacks which was nice to see.

soton's cheating annoyed me immensely. Thomas going down under a challenge on the touchline where the ref gives BP a talking to for er closing him down.

obadeyi's late run in the first half he hurdles their feller and the feller stays down with a magical injury. the ball breaks out, he gets up and is suddenly fine.

what an brilliant performance though, i just hope this is STFC of 09/10 and not a blip

went to york road chippy and there were some soton fans saying how they'd paid £1million for thomas, which seems a lot for a footballer who seemingly can't pass or do much but head a ball. to an extent i think it shows that people moaning we should be "emptying the coffers" (as i heard someone moaning to the same fan) and we'll hopefully be a lot more secure and it doesn't always pay off

Aye, he actually turned up didn't he!  Makes such a difference.

Pretty fair summary from a Saints forum:

 :D I actually remembered you'd said this after he scored (I thought you'd said 1-0 too but nevermind).

...and I thought of this just before Morrison scored.

Morrison's throws are stupidly long now, he doesn't even need to lever himself into the throw that much.

Something Wilson said in his post-match interview makes me think we'll work on this in training. We absolutely need to because we're not putting that throw to good use at the moment. I think we'll see a few goals come from it before too long though.

Players that stood out for me...

LUCAS (I'm so glad we've got him in goal now. He's does dominate his area and reads the game well. Very focussed and can already see him becoming popular with the crowd)

Morrison (good again, great to have a consistent performer at such a young age)

Amankwaah (exploited the space we had down the side and like others pressured Southampton when they had the ball)

McGovern (good attacking, continued form from Saturday, a lot of effort)

MacNamee (great runs as usual, a nightmare for defenders to play against)

Greer (solid, so glad he's captain now not Aljofree) and Timlin also deserve a mention.

Like others have said I'm chuffed with how we were focussed and held on to the lead. But also we didn't just sit back. We were still attacking and putting them under pressure without getting stupid and leaving ourselves exposed at the back.

Atmosphere was great. My favourite bit was when we got ambitious and tried to get the Arkells involved, saying Arkells give us a song then trying to get them to do the Wilsons Red and White Army call and response thing - then when they everyone singing "WAKE UP IN THE ARKELLS STAND"  :D :D :soapy tit wank: :soapy tit wank: priceless.

hehe, I started both those chants. I don't think it was THAT abititious!

I wonder if Mark Morrison-Marshall got to pick up in the end.

Awesome display, Midfield worked well, zipped the ball around, was pleased the way we basically outplayed them.

Oh come on, trying to get the Arkells singing is pretty ambitious. How awesome would it have been to have all 3 stands singing in turn tho?!?  ;D

The problem is that - for years - we have been consistently inconsistent.  It would surprise none of us if the same team played against Oldham and had a dog of a game.  If Danny can get the lads performing at this level most of the time, we'll be OK.

While I wasn't at the game, I will add one comment regarding a player.  JP McGovern has had a cracking start to the season, by all accounts.  He showed so much promise when he first signed, and then drifted.  Now, he seems to have recaptured his form.  We need to keep him playing like this for the rest of the season now.  He could be a key player for us this year.

:D

Imagine if it had come off though!

That's two clean sheets in a row.

I think we didn't get two clean sheets until March last season !!

We only got 3 in total last season.

Great game, great atmosphere....

Overheard some Saints fans moaning like buggery whilst walking back to the car, general concensus was that if Kelvin Davis hadnt played it wouldnt have been unfair if we had scored 5!

Fair enough I thought, I bet Billy is still scratching his head this morning wondering how he didnt score at least one last night.

I take everything back I said about Jean-Francois, the guy's obviously a defensive collossus.... Ignoring the Gills debacle, thats only one conceded in 3, and that was a penalty.

Great performance. This is the midfield weve been looking for. But it only works if everyone keeps at it, 100%.

Our crossing was absolutely fantastic. Should have won 3-0. Their keeper played a blinder.

Lambert should have been sent off for the tackle on Lescinel. Their right winger did the worst feigning injury/get up again I have ever seen at a Swindon game (cheat!).

Every player gets a good review.

Fans have to remmember that just because Southampton brought 3000 fans and have spent money, it doesnt necessarily make them the best side in the league. Its a big crowd and its easy for our players to get up for it. On the flip side, they cant stand losing to us, but we were a far far superior side to them. Just saying that smaller teams like Leyton Orient, Colchester or Gills may well have good sides this year and fans have to patient sometimes.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, what a cheating bastard, I couldnt help but laugh, it was soooo comical..... The chap who sits behind me said, "thats his game finished, hamstring I reckon.."

We looked great last night.Like we did at the franchise last week.Just makes such a difference when the players really work hard for each other.Makes me feel proud of them when i see them play like that,instead of looking like they don't give a shit.

Southampton looked like a team that have come down and think they are too big for the league they are in.The petulance and whinging from them was very annoying.Also i have never seen supporters singing and making hand gestures for a substitute  :)

All in all good night.If we can keep putting in performances like that we will be fine this season.

I thought Paterson did the two footer on Lescinel? I could be wrong as anger took over - it was a terrible and needless challenge.

I was in the arkells as it was my kids first match and I thought she might be a bit overawed by taking her into the townend (where I usually sit).  It was pretty quiet.  Missed being in the TE.  And I couldn't swear.  That was tested when that right winger did his miraculous recovery.

Anyway.  Wank, fuck, shit, bollocks, cunt.

I feel better now.

A good performance all round, fortunately Lambert wasn't able to take advantage of Morrison's cock-up in the first half, but on another day we could have had 4 or 5 goals - some good goalkeeping by their guy.

Wilson's right though, it won't mean a thing if we don't carry on that level at Oldham. Any news on Morrison's apparent injury ?

i can't get over pardews comments on the saints official website.

Bossed in parts?
Had numerous scoring opertunities?
On top in the second half?
if you'd scored you could have won?

Pardew seriously you were watching a different game.
you had ONE chance where Morison cocked up and Lambert couldn't beat Lucas. that is all you had.

We had at least 3 goal line saves/stops. Your keeper simply kept the score down to one when it could so easily have been 3 or 4.

And for your fans to say there better than us and thinking we are one of the crap teams in this league? well it's another example of big club lower league syndrome. Leeds had it and look where they still are!

Good results and performance, Paynter should have got at least one but oh well we still won...

Lucas very good

ammankwaah played like usual, looked good coming forward
Lescinal did okay, good in the air and cleared his lines well
Morrison and Greer were solid at the back, apart from morrisons mistake in the first half which lambert amde a mess of

Mcgovern worked hard again like always, putting in great tackles, great corner to set the goal up, he is the key for set pieces
Timlin was good all round i though
Douglas won man of the match obviously for a reason
Mcnamee very good on the ball, put some good balls into the box, very good!
Paynter worked hard chasing up front again, should have scored at least one header, but good saves
Obedayi quick, sometimes had a dodgy first touch put was okay

Atmosphere was great also (townend)

Pardew's comments smack of a man shitting himself over the possibility of becoming the second managerial casualty this season.

   :fear:

taken from a Saints fans site

I still have a smile on my face from last night! :D

all Swindon fans should have i think :)

gutted i missed this, oh well.

i think a lot of credit needs to be given to danny for the way the side have bounced back from the gills game...i haven't seen us yet this season and won't until the wolves game but there seems to be a lot of promising stuff around (if you ignore the doom merchants on the adver site)

This has been a great read...my hangover is subsiding, too.

I bought 3 mates who support Chelsea, Liverpool & Brissle Wovers. All well impressed, & the Rovers supporter reckons on that performance we're a cert for the play offs.

If we play like that all season we probably would be. However, I'm not booking my Wembley hotel room just yet :)

I must confess I went into the game with a certain amount of trepidation, as I took two work colleagues along - one a Saints fan who couldn't get tickets in the away end, one a neutral, Indian guy who's recently moved to Swindon and me a Rik (the Saints fan) told him he had to come and support his new town. And Rik brought along a mate who's a Liverpool fan. So I was a bit nervous that we might have a mare and that the atmosphere might go flat, as I'd then have months of "You pay to watch that?" etc etc

Needn't have worried, all very impressed. I can only repeat what's already been said by others, but the comments from my colleagues were interesting:
Rik - "Your wingers tore us apart" "We couldn't pass wind" "I wish we had a midfield like yours" "You should have scored a hatful" "Very disappointed with our supporters but yours were great"
Brahmesh - "English football is brilliant. Can I come again next time you play a team as bad as Southampton?" :)

And as it's school holidays, took Joe to see his first competitive evening game. He was ecstatic.

Utterly fantastic night, one of those nights that reminds you why you love football so much, if only I hadn't succumbed to some kind of lurgy to add to my pirate eyes so I could go into work and assert my bragging rights!

Admit it, you're at home counting your doubloons aren't you ?

Aaaaaarrrggghhhh!

Brahmesh is sounding like a potential convert.  And once you have achieved this, he should set to work on his 1.1 billion compatriots.

Hands up whoever thought we would ever have a midfield to be jealous of again?

That's the plan Ardiles, one step at a time. Good job we took him to his first game last night and not Saturday. So, I fall on the wisdom of the TEF, which game should I take Brahmesh to next to continue the deceit that "It's always like that watching Swindon"?

loving the sky sports take on the match


apparently JPM is now a winger

Wolves away would be a good one! We'll have a decent following and nobody will expect us to get anything from it. As long as he understands the whole underdog thing you can't lose. We'll have a club shop in Mumbai in no time!!!

take him to brentford away.

Or that. I'm hoping to get some mates from uni along to that one.

I think by Dave you mean Dan....

Shut up Dave

i noticed that but didn't want to correct him. Would have gone into the programme as Dave

That made me laugh!!! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=nKxZSwASrHM

i can't see what video you have posted but can only guess an only fools and horses sketch

you guess correctly

so has the beard gone?!

Hello Dave.

[url width=383 height=282]http://blog.project76.tv/papalaz.jpg[/url]

Rodney it is then :)

not yet - any time soon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=3mG8bH6h-RQ

And a club helpline no doubt.

I like the sound of McNamee's 'twademark twickerwy"

Oh my.That was so funny coming back from Gillingham on the train.I was literally crying with laughter  :D

did you not say you were gonna shave the beard off when we scored DV?

I did....

not the exact second obviously...

Your beard reminds us of the Twits :)

Who are the twits.

Have I missed out or were they before my time?

Its a Roald (sp) Dahl book???

Thats not old fashioned is it???

They kept food in there beards and ate it later!

And they didn't have windows because they didn't realise windows are for looking out of, as well as looking in. Or something.

Yeah that rings a bell

My primary school headmaster always used to read his books to us in assembley as he shared the same name as the guy that did the illistrations (sp)

Georges Marvellous medicine was ace!!! he fed his gran loads of drugs and grew really tall and poked out the top of the house! ace!

James and the Giant Peach was my favourite. Closly followed by Matilda and BFG.

I made a clay model of the BFG at school! my dad still has it!

You only live twice.

Isnt that a bond film?

Matilda  8)

Dahl wrote the screenplay i assume?

Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay. He also did another screenplay of an Ian Fleming book. for 10 points, can anybody tell me which one?

Quentin Blake...

Chitty chitty bang bang?

Well done, that puts you in the lead at the end of round 1.

How exciting! Shame its such an upsetting film.The child catcher is a figure of absolute evil menace.

My youngest loves that film.  Including the child catcher.  She loves running away when I say 'chil-d-ren' in a child catcher voice!  I also have to sing her the song hush a bye mountain to get her to sleep at times.

I used to like running up to random children doing the child catcher voice and now I'm not allowed within a 1/2 mile radius of schools.

It's good to be in touch with your caring side on a football forum.

Yeah, sorry about that.

Um, birds, football, fighting etc etc.  Did you see that cage fighting on sky? 

There that feels better.

That made me laugh out loud.  :soapy tit wank:

I've had a spring in my step all day courtesy of last nights result - it's been a while since I could say that.

I hope we don't lose Sean Morrison for an inadequate sum anytime soon. 18 and looking good in a League 1 team while scoring aswell.

He is out of contract at the end of the season.

As a comparator, Danny Graham went to Watford from Carlisle when his contract expired, with the tribunal fee set at £200k (further £200k with appearances).

Good to see you Magic(big game Charlie!)I think a lot of people(me included) overestimated Soton.They'll be lucky to get out of the bottom 4,no quality whatsoever(keeper excepted).Every single one of ours was up for it inc Macklin who must have done 80 yards in about 5 seconds at the end to close down their full back.Any significance in DW replacing MacNamee with Kennedy and not O'Brien ?Best Town goalkeeping performance since Brez's first season and Douglas looked Championship class.Paynter is a fucking tireless worker up front on his own and Lescinel was unrecognisable from the Gillingham game(as was Morrison).McNamee,obviously,was brilliant first half and JPM whose no1 critic I have been,will win me over with more performances like that.Boo to Mex for not introducing me to Jamie'sfuturewife in the Legends!

Ha-Ive just noticed we're above Gillingscum-I can go out tomorrow!

Kennedy is a defender, O'Brien is an attacker. Simples.

Who said ?

That's the impression I got from his interviews, seemed to be the sort who likes to take defenders on and get balls into the box

He's no David Duke

Don't we all?

Kennedy played in front of Lescinel though

More defensive minded and with o'brien carrying a knock i doubt  it was worth risking it for the sake of 5 mins.

The BBC did well to include any Southampton highlights at all.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/8210799.stm

We were brilliant. Ave it!