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Im going to ignore daves drunken ramblings as surely that pissed up monstrosity of a thread title doesnt count, Im going for a 3-1 win and 11,200

KoT > Pissed up Dave.

2-0 Town.

town 2-0 win, 10,876

this guess hides how nervous i am!

Swindon 3 Rovers 1, 12,418

4-1 Town, 10,412

Paynter, Austin, Douglas, Pericard

I awake to find this! Shocking

1-2

4-1 Swindon Austin 2, Paynter (pen) Ferry

11,319

I'll reserve judgement on who's pissed up, as surely this is in the wrong area? 1-1 -12,201

Tight game...1-0 to Swindon,Paynter penalty......10,555.

Looks like we need a win looking at the other relevant fixtures.

Charlton v Stockport
Gillingham v Huddersfield
Leeds United v Brentford
Franchise v Leyton Orient
Norwich v Yeovil
Walsall v Millwall

And we would overhaul Col U as well.

That's always true when you're near the top of the table though as the chances are that the teams around you will win their games more often than not.

2-0 town

Indeed. Although I was thinking that today it is top vs mid/bottom as opposed to any top of the table clashes which tend to have more interesting effects.

So we should have a more in-depth match review on the FL show later tonight then. Seeing as its a derby and all that.

5-0 town, 86,453 crowd (453 from Bristol)

i,ll be happy with 1-0

Swindon 1-2 Bristol Dogs ending our good run, being our bogey team this season, 11,134 crowd with Douglas scoring.

1-0 greer.11,178att

Time for some revenge! Come on town, lets stuff em!

Really, really, really hope we totally outclass them today.

2-2, 9892

3-2 to the Town, in front of 10,704

Fuck the draw. Revenge!!!!!!!  >:D

2-1.  Double Billy. 

Anyone know if I can listen to this on t'internet radio?

No, you can't.

Yay, mankys fit and playing.

There's a free 14 day trial of STFC Player on the OS, but you'll have to provide credit card details in case you want to continue ... assuming you are over 18 and solvent? ;)

What's the team?

My guess would be Lucas, Manky, Greer, Cuthbert, SHeehan, JPM, Douglas, Ferry, Ward, AUstin, Paynter

2-1 Charlie and Billy

Nice salutation on the radio ... "Fuck off you Rovers twat!" Deserved for the cunt during Keith Alexander's minute, RIP.

heard that as clear as day. nice to know those cunts are keeping up their reputation by disrespecting a minutes silence.

lets fucking smash em Town

Hit post on the first minute...good start.

Don't tell anybody, but BBC have left the commentary on.

link?

nice one, cheers for letting us know

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_radio_wiltshire/

yeah i didnt even trust telling you lot ;)

chosing to ignore the come on you red chants before that i notice!!! both sets have idiots we all know that!

cheers

Sounds like a great game so far. STFC Player is holding up pretty well as well ???

thanks, i really want to know what the keepers are wearing.

Did you really sign up just to say that?

I didn't hear the start so can't comment.

Sounds like we're on top both on the pitch and in terms of noise from the stands. Keep it up Town!

Clothes

Come on Sheehan

i was just commenting on the comentators giving detailed info on the colour and patterns of the keepers kits.

Dont believe you!

fuck

Balls

Bloody 'ell!

Bugger.

bollocks

No i signed up for this!!!

GET IN !!!!!!!!!!!   ;)

Just as he says ''Bristol haven't been able to get out of their own half'' Bristol Rovers score!!

fuck fuck fuck fuck

6-1 methinks!

That was my fault. My 5-year-old had just asked me to put a pirate transfer on his arm.  :cry:

have we got the bristol commetary here? stop wanking over rovers!!!!

fuck, come on town!

Does nayone else have a very bad feeling about today?

Yes - I did even before the kick off

Hopefully today will be the day that Pericard comes to the fore in the latter part of the game.

FFS!

oh fuck off!!!

oh ffs

SSSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!  ;)

Arghhh

Game over.

They're becoming a bit of a bogey team for us ain't they...

internet crashed, get it back working and we let in another fucking goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF

:/

i'm going out

ive had enough!!!

FFS

This is embarrassing

Ferfexake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

WTF again

Easy Easy Easy Easy Easy !!!! can we play you everyweek?   :eek:

this f%*king shocking!!! was not expecting this!!

yawn!

Drastic action needed .... everybody over to Dave's thread.

Good job I'm off to the Poole game in a mo.

Gutted, first game I have listened to in ages and we are losing 0-3 at half time.  

Come on town!!!!

What is Wilson supposed to do at half time? We could have been 2 or 3 up ourselves and find ourselves staring defeat in the face.

Attempts on target: Swindon 3-3 Rovers

Ridiculous.

If it wasn't for the half time ska, I'd be tempted to switch off.

Hope 'Udders and Millwall have fucking shockers later.

If it's any help, we let Birmingham get to 4-1 before we started our comeback.

Thought not.  :(

4-3 anyone? Ok I'm off to the Tatnum catch you later, I'll be keeping an ear out for the score

@leefer don't worry about the updates, didn't realise it was an early one

I can take no more of Hadwin on BBC Radio Bristol, the fucking traitor......

We looked good for 20 mins or so until Rovers scored and they looked like a poor pub team.

Since the first goal we look worse than the kids who are playing at half time.

In fact it's almost as if we were so shocked by going behind that we didn't know what to do.

If Rovers score again it might be time for an early bath:(

I am fucking fed up, this has ruined my day, I am out at a gig with my band later and 4 of them are Gasheads, I feel I may be hiding away from them for a while.

Theres no way we will come back from this.

Totally and utterly fucked off.

???

I can't pick up BBC Wiltshire, and had to listen to BBC Radio Bristol. No more......

Hadwin has clearly sold his soul......

You know Wiltshire Sound is working on the net this arvo?

weren't brilliant ska tho' was it?

I can't pick up BBC Wiltshire, and had to listen to BBC Radio Bristol. No more......

Hadwin has clearly sold his soul......
Yep, on now. Was eating lunch, so listening on DAB.

Sounds like Rovers have shut up shop.

i must admit this was the last thing i expected we hadnt scored in 700+ mins away from home before this!

no doubt we will fuck up somehow... if you get one back we will start to panic!!

Pericard hattrick please

We dont sound like we will even get that 1 goal back at the mo.

4-0

Attempts on target: Swindon 4-4 Rovers

This is a joke.

fffffff

OMG!!!!!! love it!!!  :bye:

For fucks bloody bollocking sake

Not enough, ffs

Who'd've thought those cunts would end it?

What a load of cunting fuck bollocks.

Unbelievable.

omfg just put on live.skysports.com/ScoreCentre/live.html in preperation for saturdays footy scores to find swindon and rovers had an early kick off AND we are getting hammered!!

Weekend = ruined

now im going to be in a foul mood all week :(

bloody shocking

your fault china ;)

We all thought it would be Saints who would end our run.

I'm driving through Nailsea soon and I'm going to wipe out all the BT lines. Please do one.

This is the worst game we have had in fucking years.

No it's Sonic's fault,first home game he's attended is today!  :(

Did you go to Gillingham?

I gave up smoking nine years ago, like an idiot i started again recently, 4 cigarettes whilst listening, each time rovers fucking score

Gillingham is no longer a one-off.

Just come back in and see its got no better!

So, no goals against LO and none against BR. Does this mean that Paynter and Austin's hot streak has cooled and/or teams have worked us out? Here's hoping that this is a small blip and we bounce back very quickly.

Could be NMH-bound to happen sometime.Trouble is Pericard dont strike me as prolific from what I've seen.

Slowly improved our goal difference and fucked it again.

Don't really know what to think about this game, just hope it gives us a massive kick up the backside.  Colchester had a couple of heavy defeats and then got back on track, let's just hope this is a one off.

Surely it's STFC Dave's fault.

In truth, very little quality to come off the bench to try and change a game.

I think you mean a two-off

Thought that was 5 then. This is no fun.

So today we don't seem to be able to defend free kicks nor cope with a small pacy forward.

Oh no Andy Williams!

Still 12 minutes to go though and it only takes a second to score a goal - So it could be 0-10!

Huddersfield are at Gillingham,Millwall at Walsall,let's hope that neither of them win today.

this is our blip i take it then

Who got man of the match?

Hopefully a blip and not a trough

JPM

What do we have to do to score in this game?! Post, crossbar, clearances off the line. It could all have been so different. All we can hope for now is a reaction in the games against MK, Soton etc

Just get in to find this! Absolute joke!

I am very pissed off - this has ruined my weekend.

ta

Message to Fred - no swearing tomorrow :-)

Clark won manager of the month. Hopefully that fucks them up

Right...We need to get something out of this. The best that could happen now is Pericard breaks his duck.

There is something about us and early kick offs

5-0 at Gillingham and Fuck knows how many today!

A big test for us,the month of march will have a huge bearing on our season.Lots and lots of
football still to be played,they'll be ups and downs all of the way i feel.

Unfortunately, too many downs will leave us outside of the POs.

stop by the white lion and i'll buy you a pint!!!!!    :nod:

Up The Gas!!!

Get a life you Loser.

Oh, and also please Fuck off and die.

Oops.

A bad day at the office it seems.

Hope this gives us the kick up the backside.

If Hudders and Millwall win today,we will indeed be out of the play-off places.

So, 3pm and they switch off the internet radio! Gis a summary of what Wilson says pretty please.

It must be set automatically or something. At least we got to hear the game, although I was 'looking forward' to hearing what Danny had to say

They forgot to reset their timer for the early kickoff. Just so we could enjoy ourselves more.

Seems that Radio Swindon online automatically turns off at 3pm

I've never left a game early in my life until today when the 4th went in.

I've honest seen us play a lot worse and win.  They made chances and took them but 3-0 to them at half time was VERY flattering.

Much as I appreciate the offer of free alcohol, spending time in the company of a gashead this afternoon is not my idea of fun.

So what tans said........

Norwich already 1 up,Shitty 1 down to Donny.

Hudders losing...

You could see how much the Gas wanted it today... A lot more than us. I would go on to point out just how shit certain players were, but like them, can't be bothered.

bit bitter?? its banter mate dont give it if you cant take it!!!  7 nil on agg!!!   :bye: :bye: :bye:

And still below us in the league!

Sheehan and pericard were both poor today.

not for long if today is anything to go by or the game at our place my friend!!   ;D

Hudders and Millwall both losing!

That's automatic over and done with then, dear oh fucking dear.

Hopefully this is the sharp reminder we need to keep focused, rather than starting a shocking run.

Well losing at home to Wycombe won't see you flying up the league!

Come back in May if I were you if you have something to cheer about then, no-one likes premature excitement.

The difference being that match at yours was 14 games ago, and we hadn't lost since - can you say that?

Come on Luci, be a good sport and admit they've given us a couple of proper beatings. Fair play to 'em (through gritted teeth).

Every time Rovers seem more up for these games than us.

i blame the early kick off. :doh:

We'd be giving out far worse stick if we had won 4-0 and 3-0. Accept we were second best both times , and move on.

gk - what he had to do he did badly (1st goal he was flat footed, wall setting for 3rd, palming ball to 4th)
full backs - couldn't pass, tackle, time or judge a run all day
centrebacks - looked very exposed, always looked scared with a fast player against them
wingers - tried hard but the lack of fullback assistance forwards meant they were exposed and had to just lump rubbish balls into the box
centre mid - douglas looked good enough, ferry...not so
strikers - no decent ball, when it did stick with them they were completely isolated.

subs were strange, we brought on ritchie and he did little, pericard looked ok holding the ball up but was again isolated.

how sheehan stayed on is beyond me, how he kept taking our set pieces was a bigger mystery


i'm pissed off but still retain some hope for the season

we wasted our chances early in the first half, rovers punished us by taking their chances and as a consequence we drifted out of the game and rovers took over and played pretty well. in the second half we came out looking a bit livelier and then totally died after they scored their fourth.

a superlative display of piss wizardry.


(i'm most pissed off at paying to watch that, blah)

They have.  But they're a long way off being promotion contenders.  Just injecting some realism!

As long as we go on a good run like we did the last time they beat us i dont care! we are going up we are going up!!!

Poor performance all round, but Rovers weren't necessarily amazing today :/ They basically took their chances, which is what we've been going on about all season.

What is it with Lucas and free-kicks? By my counting thats the third or fourth that he's conceded now, admittedly he isnt the tallest but our walls and defense are :/
Full backs didnt link up with their wide men well, which left us flat and fairly one-dimensional. I thought Ward had a mare, but did show glimpses. Douglas and Ferry were alright, JPM wouldnt have been my MOM though. Austin and Billy were also kept out of the game by their podgy centre-halfs, but we did create chances and probably should've scored them but for some decent goalkeeping.

All in all, a negative scorline, but not the worst performance in the world. We need Milwall and Huddersfield to drop points today, and these next four and five games are pivotal for our promotion push. I'll be happy with five points from the next three away :)

Just got in,I thought we were by far the better side and still trying to work out how we lost that game,had sheehans free kick not hit the post and rolled along the line i think it would have been a different story,they score a goal against the run of play and the rest is history.

Im not to worried tho it was one of those games where everything fell in the oppositions laps and they took their chances.It just wasn't our day and i dont believe they wanted it more either,we started brightly enough but im wondering if we should have played ourselves in rather than go at it like a bull in a china shop style.

Just maybe we was a bit to eager.

We didn't deserve to lose that 4-0. 2 goals against the run of play, 1 free kick that shouldn't have been given and crap defending for the other. We must have had more shots on goal than them. Really strange game that. Started really well. Sheehan hit the woodwork from a free-kick as usual and then Charlie missed a great chance.

After the 1st went in though our heads dropped. That was the killer for me. We didn't clear our lines from a corner and their lad has managed to turn and slot in for the 2nd and then it's an uphill struggle from there. I don't know what the free-kick was for really. Seemed to be given for nothing. Good execution from Lines and it's game over at half time. We still had chances even at 4-0 but it just wasn't happening. We had one of those games where we just defended poorly and didn't get the luck in front of goal.

Douglas played well. Ferry and JP were alright. Sheehan had a really poor game with poor distribution, no support for the strikers, Ward was marked out of the game (Rovers done their homework on us again) and Manks and JP didn't link as well as they have done. First off day i've seen Cuthbert have at CB. He was off the pace today and couldn't deal with Kuffour.

Well i'm shocked at the scoreline but I guess the run had to go at some point. We need to do what we have done after previous defeats and go on another run.

That was wovers cup final, let them enjoy it.

Fair play to you! its just a bit of banter and i would fully expect it back the other way...

personally think we will finsh 8th or 9th & you lot 7th or 6th!! depends on how both teams take thiss result we have some so say esaier games to come ( exeter, yovile, tranmere, southend) .

Bloody odd game that. We controlled most of it, and whilst far from peppering their goal created a few chances. Sheehan hitting the post, Austin's shot being well saved, Paynter hitting the post, McGovern's (?) drive being well saved.

Yet defensively we were a shambles. Greer getting done for pace by Kuffour and no cover on. Good finish though. Ward hashing a clearance. Ferry giving away the free kick and god knows what happened with the fourth. Fair play, Rovers too their chances well, scoring our from six.

Looking objectively it wasn't a 4-0 type of game. And we created a few chances despite not scoring for 2 games now.

But I don't want to look objectively today. We got dicked by Rovers. Again. It hurts.

Season defining spell coming up now. No need for panic yet!

oh one more rant - the stupid bookings we picked up at the end for ridiculous challenges was pathetic.

if you want to show some fight mr sheehan try when we're in touching distance of the other team

Rovers were the better team after the first 20 mins & deserved to win.

Absolute shocking performance, crap defence, crap service to the strikers & no fight in the team.

That was odd.

First half Rovers went forward about 3 times all against the run of play and scored 3 (well taken finishes)

Second half, they naturally sat back and wasted time, went forward for the first time and scored.

They must have scored 4 times from 5 shots at that point

I didnt even think they were that good generally. It was their clinical finisher and that was the difference.

We probably had more possesion, more shots and most of the game was played in our final 3rd.

14 corners ffs

how we react to that awful result is the important thing now.
some of our players were miles off the pace today.we desperately need a commanding centre mid.to piss weak in there today, and we have needed strengthening there for months

How did that happen? Luck just seemed to have deserted us today with nothing going our way at all.

Sheehan played poorly today and Douglas didn't seem to be bossing the middle of the park like he normally does. Mank's didn't look 100% after his injury either, but other than that we didn't look too bad. We've played a damn site worse this season and won.

On a brighter note, Hudds are 2-0 down and Millwall are also a goal behind.

Well that was bizarre. We should have been 2 up and then Rovers score and score again and score again and its half time. We go at them and then its 4. We then piss on them for the rest of the match and it stays 0-4. I hope those giving JFL stick were at the game today to see an absolutely bollox performance from Sheehan with Ward being marginally better. Lucas was crap, the back 4 shocking. I thuoght the midfield and attack did alright and I agreed with JPM for MOM - he kept battling.
Hopefully a bad day at the office.

If it means we dick MK 4-1 again (like after the last big hammering we took) I might get over it quite quickly. Similarly, if we go on another 2-3 month unbeaten run (like after the last Rovers defeat) it won't be all that bad.

Who kept Kuffour onside then? Couldn't see from the town end.

thats what happens when you start two match day threads in the general discussion forum.

a guy around me (hopefully for his sake, sarcastically/ironically) blamed Phil Smith for the defeat, why? because he was on the front of the program!

greer.i was dead level with it

My mate just texted me saying Greers display today was the worst centre-half performance he could remember... is this fair or not?

Rovers did a job on us today, defended well and then hit us on the break. They probably only had four attacks/shots and scored each time (I left after the 4th goal so I don't know if they had any more chances). We defended poorly in the box today, but the most frustrating thing for me is we didn't challenge for the second ball. Look at the way we played against Leeds we just didn't give them time with the ball. I think Rovers were there for the taking if we had just battled a bit more. I'm off to the pub tonight  :)

not fair at all.apart from playing kuffour onside he was our best defender.cuthbert was shocking

Just finished work. Sat in Los Gatos. Was the score?

Oh. Oh Dear.

i hate rovers thats twice they made my son  :cry:

Funny because I would have given Phil Smith MOM

It's my fault because I forgot it was an early start and so missed the match.

Sorry.

Weird game

Totally Dominant for most of first half and they hit us with 3 counter attack goals.

Thought we played better today then against Stockport and Carlilse yet we lost

Just hope we can bounce back and get a win on Tuesday.  Some tough games coming up and dont want us to go on a bad run

I've forgotten the game already. Bonus.

Sorry Arriba, I thought Greer was poor today, but no worse than several others, bizarre game really.  I thought we deserved to lose (not by 4-0 though) if only for the fact that we ran out of ideas - and tempo - very easily.  Yet the scoreline looks like the slave traders smashed us, they were only marginally better than us and they had all the luck going today.  Let's hope that was our blip!

Ill take the blame.  Was at work until 2 in a kitchen.  Last time I listened to the match at work in the kitchen was the Gillingham debacle.

Sorry.  

What game?

I don't know what you're on about.

he was deffo below par,no way am i disputing that.but he kept going and it wasn't the worst defensive display as dmr's mate said it was.as below par as he was other defenders were worse.best of a bad bunch i think is fair

I'd agree, he was nowhere near that bad although he (and many others) were below par today.
I'm always a bit concerned when we come up against a pacey striket, and to be fair Kuffour was lively today.

The passing didn't seem as good as normal, to many passes going astray.

Oh yeah, and if someone could let Danny Ward know that you are allowed to run around the full back and not just into him all the time that would probably help.   When he did decide to try and run passed the full back he did look much better.


It's now all about the reaction on Tuesday against the Franchise Scum, if we can go there and beat them we can all forget about this one.


PS  We still haven't managed to score in a defeat this season

Strange game, could have gone either way but fair play to Rovers they took their chances.

Lines is exactly the type of player we could do with - a goalscoring midfielder. Only Rovers player I would have in our first 11, Kuffour and Heffernan were decent for them as well.

I seem to recall Kuffour playing for us at some stage. Didn't he play against AFCB at Dorchester's ground when B'mth were doing their ground, I was a bit half cut that day

Cant believe Ward is getting stick when he had absolutely shit service from Sheehan. Worst performance from our full backs this season sadly. Both Charlie and Billy looked static as did our defence, but most disappointing was our complete reluctance to put a challenge in until making a couple of crap ones for bookings late in the game. A bad day for us was summed up when DW took Ferry off to show he was in the same mode as the team. Hope this wakes us up from latterly a few less than convincing games and get back to what we've shown we are really capable of.

Can't complain really.

Rovers had their tactics set out and it worked for them well. We were bound to have moments where we nearly scored, but after the first ten/fifteen minutes it became worryingly apparent we weren't going to find the net.

Kuffour and Heffernan are decent enough for this level, with the formers pace causing us no end of problems. Douglas needed to sit deeper in midfield to allow Cuthbert to drop off a couple of yards, but it never happened.

Sheehan seemingly forgot how to pass a football today, but he wasn't the only one. MOM was correct I think, JPM seemed to want it more than any of our other players, even at 3-0 down. The thing that disappointed me the most was how we were losing most 50/50 challenges. They wanted it more.

You have to say fair play to Rovers, came to do a job, rode their luck at times, but took the chances that came.

The criticism of Pericard is slightly harsh, Paynter and Austin were just as poor for me.

Day to forget really. I think we're good enough to bounce back at Franchise. Needs to happen now. It's crunch time!

good assessment scm.
i thought rovers front 2 were very good.i've always liked kuffour and he took his goal superbly today.
cheeky bid in the summer?i dont reckon he'd be on top wedge

Cheers. Yeah i'd have him here, if only to make sure he couldn't tear us a new one every time he gets on the pitch.

Kuffour is the type of striker we don't have. Pace and will run at defenders. A bit like Simeon Jackson actually in that respect. The type that we miss at times.

I thought we played pretty good today, were the better side over the 90 minutes and on another day would have won comfortably. Rovers were good at taking the chances they had but in general they weren't that good.

Not sure anyone played badly and the only obvious faults were team wide. The crossing was abysmal, especially in the 2nd half, and plenty of good opportunities were wasted as a result. We can't handle it when we go behind, the team just seem to lose belief and practically give up. There is just a total lack of fight, we see it when we throw games away at the end but its there as well when we go behind.

My biggest criticism is of Wilson. At 3-0 down at half time it was time for a bold change yet he did nothing. We actually had options on the bench so why not use them? Why take Austin off for Pericard? Austin didn't have a bad game and is far more creative than Paynter, though why not leave both on and play 3 up front? Why not switch to a 3 man defence to add more width and players in attack? Its not like it could have got much worse.

This was just a bad day when things went against us, if Sheehan's freekick had gone in (or someone got the rebound) it would have ended differently. Someone said Rovers dicked us today and they didn't, what happened was we got arse raped by a donkey.

wat he said

I blame Lecs - 4 goals conceded and he was nowhere to be seen on any of them.

That was me!

I think Wilson is a bit more dispassionate and probably felt the game was dead 10/15 mins into the 2nd half when we hadn't pulled one back so move on and let it go, whereas we see if from the emotive side and want to go gungho for a miracle comeback. Once the 4th went in he had half an eye on Tuesday and getting players off and rested. He has admitted after both Rovers games that he told the players to only worry about trying to get 3 goals back, get one back and see what happens from there.

kuffour's goal was a pretty good finish. you could see that greer had no chance of keeping up with him for pace.

after that goal - which came slightly against the run of play - the momentum shifted to rovers and it fell apart after that. we weren't great but i've seen plenty of performances far worse than that.

on a positive note, only the second game i've seen this season and was really impressed with JP. he looks like a new player, totally reinvented. ward looks like a very promising player but kept running into a wall today. sheehan looked worse than i've ever seen lecs play.

greer tried to cath him with the offside trap,trouble was he was the one playing him on.if he hadn't tried that then he would have been nearer him.

So is it the same Koffour as I mentioned earlier?

@leefer sit down m8

Totton & Eling 3 - 0 Brockenhurst

yes.we loaned him from arsenal.he then went to torquay for a few years.....

Thanks arriba, confirms that my drunken haze was not as bad as I first thought

I reckon Rovers only touched the ball 3 times in the first half.

4 times. You forgot they kicked off.

He scored for us in our 3-1 at the Mad Stad too.

Awful game from him today. That is far far below his normal standard.

Oh and i lost my temper with rick wakemens mate today, fucking started a "you dont know what youre doing" to wilson, fucking nobber. "Bet youre fucking chuffed having something to fucking moan about you miserable cunt" didnt hear a peep after that.

was that wakemans fat beardy mate?

yes, i feel sorry for his kid who has started copying him.

didn't he used to come on here?

As the founding (and only) member of the LJF appreciation society I would normally jump on a statement like this and use it to further my cause (getting LJF back where he belongs) but I actually think its a bit harsh. His crossing was poor, but then all the crossing was poor, and other than that he didn't do much wrong and he was really unlucky to not score with the free kick.

I still think LJF should be our 1st choice left back. I'm also aware I'm the only person that thinks this.

he's a fucking cock.
i stood right behind that cunt at southend.

It does my head in that people are so quick to pounce and be negative, they are on pericards back from the word go. The fuckers were on paynters back all last year and the beginning of this, sarcastically clapping shit passes, wankers. Im so surprised no one has lamped them. Quite a few of the south oxfordshire reds are sorely tempted and were planning on moving seats because of them.

dont move if you dont want to,go for the violent option.
as for cunts there are plenty of em.i had one twat near me shouting at jpm today to "get forward" when he was hugging the touchline to be an outlet.
we have plenty of fans who have no fucking idea about the game, and the roles of individuals.

i noticed a few people in the TE were hurling abuse at pericard more or less the moment he came on and touched the ball.

i've said it before and i'll say it again - the negativity and moaning of people really puts me off watching the game. i shouldn't let it bother me but it does and i'm tired of getting angry at morons when i can listen to the game at home for free and enjoy it.

that's reminded me of the cock who started abusing timlin today.when the exedous started after the 4th goal, some arsehole was leaning over the barrier to shout shit at him on his way out.all he was doing was warm up!!!

I had a go at Sheehan today. Admittedly it was about probably at around 80 minutes and was out of the frustration of him not being able to do anything right.

Austin's been quiet for a few games. Wonder when people will start getting on his back.

I actually left early, probably about 10 minutes to go.

The only thing that pisses me off more than watching Swindon lose is listening to our fans after we lose. I actually left the game early because I knew full well I was going to lose it and go mad at our fans.

I even shouted something along the lines of 'we're 5th for fuck sake' when we got booed off at half time.

Sure I didnt like the score line as much as the next person, but fucking hell.

The only thing our fans seem to enjoy is moaning.

...as for that fat beardy cunt (not me!) I dont know why the fuck he botheres every week? He has a son? fucking hell, you failed a maths test at school (unless he too old for school, just add work or something) boo, you dont know what your doing, you're not fit to where the shirt, you're fucking useless etc etc

that's different though, we're all guilty of that. it's the people who do it every week, targetting the same individuals, making the same ignorant comments over and over. i've tried sitting elsewhere, over the last few years i've sat in different areas in each stand and wherever i go there's one of them in earshot.

so instead i stay at home and listen to the radio where i can either turn the radio off or listen to mark o donnell mock the wilson out man

edit: oh and the fact i have nobody to sit with at games anymore

Yeah I knew what you meant Sonique, I don't normally like to shout at individuals though, rather at the whole team :)

There's always a spare seat next to me and Rich in the middle of the town end. Probably because he's a bit of a moany fucker :)

From my long distance perspective on things, although other folk go to a lot more games than I do. Things are really looking up at the CG. No one expected a play-off challenge this season and I'd really like to think that Charlie has had something to do with changing all that. Most clubs have one or two iffy results per season, Poole Town, Man Utd, Swindon Town, nothing's different, different clubs, different leagues.
DW has made a big difference and for some people to be giving him a hard time is just slightly rediculous, but I guess every club has it's minority. I've been coming to the CG since the age of 7 off and on and I really can't recall ever being so excited about things, well apart from my first game, but that was so long ago I can't even remember who it was against, maybe Villa
Maybe, I'll finish this post off one day, but there is no need to be getting on the managers back, what ever happens it's been great season so far with lots to get excited by, tho today ain't one of em, but hey ho, who saw this result coming?

I still don't understand why Wilson took Austin off when we're 3-0 nil down at home?? Can anyone tell me?? 

And when we went 4-0 down, why didn't we just put 4 up front and say fuck it?

I don't tend to pay too much attention to other teams players but Kuffour is one I have noticed and wouldn't mind seeing us sign - we could really do with a striker with his pace. He's only got a year left on his contract so they might not want too much for him and he can't be on that much at Rovers.

he was superb here for the gas last season too jonny,and he's a bit different to what we have.pericard is just a shitter version of paynter and then we have nothing else.

Danny ward is a striker.

maybe he should get a go at some point then.

See now when Wilson bought on Ritchie I though he was going to put him left and push Ward up top and go 4-3-3.

But we put him right and stayed with 4-4-2.

I though Ritchie was MOTM he controlled it twice and beat the first man with both his crosses!!

What will end up bothering me most about today is Wilson starting with the same 11 players next week. No matter what the result or how bad a game someone has, at present the 11 he started with today will start every game. We do have some other options now but by not using them you risk players becoming complacent.

I'd drop Greer for Morrison, Sheehan for LJF, Ward for Ritchie and Paynter for Pericard. If only to send out a message to the players that their places are not guaranteed and that a shit result will have consequences.

At minimum Ritchie should be given a start as he actually looked pretty decent when he came on.

no no no no no.ritchie did well but no way shoukld those players be dropped.
it's 1 game we've lost in 14

Let's be fair those players have just gone 13 games unbeaten.

They deserve to be cut some slack and at a minimum the chance to put it right.

The four changes I listed is overkill but I reckon some change would be good to stop players becoming complacent and to give some of the others a chance to see what they are capable of - Pericard and Ritchie in particular. Bar Ward I'd say the other 10 players are all untouchable at the moment and could take a shit on Wilson's desk and still not get dropped.

As I said before I don't think anyone was particularly bad today, but you need to change things once in a while.

totally agree.

Question. Against who did we last lose to in the league before our 13 game unbeaten run?

Question. How many games we got left?.

keep the faith

basically Danny knew it was all over so took Austin off to rest for Tuesday night. Wise move

I raised this point with my brother at half time.

Couple of quick obs on today:

Sheehan looked like was hung over. Fucking awful peformance.

Granted, Pericard hasn't had a decent run in the side yet, but he's been a perenially poor sub for Austin so far. He needs to start earning his wages, let alone repay the faith Wilson showed in him when he signed him.

Looks like Austin has hit a brick wall in terms of his confidence in front of goal. Dont see that being a big problem for him or us long term, just something that he'll have to learn to cope with and iron out.

Surprised that we didn't go three up front 2nd half. Maybe that's Wilsons experience kicking in at a crucial part of the season though, as someone else alluded to? If the game is out of sight, why chase it? Shit happens, as they say.

DW's post match comments were very good. He effectively protected the players for a crap result and then just moved on. The long term game plan will hopefully pay dividends at the end of the season :nod:

Had a bit of time to reflect on this game which is a good job, as I was feeling pretty livid/downbeat all avo. Fucking wierd match. If you had said after 20 minutes that we were gonna get dicked 4-0, I would have laughed in your face.

Still, my take:

Maybe they're just one of those teams we can't deal with? Remember playing John Beck's Cambridge? We don't have to play them again, and last time we got preoper tonked we had Franchise away... look what happene then.

Defensively we were poor today. Their front two, especially Kuffour, were lively as fock. A rare off day for all four at the back. Our distribution from the flanks was particularly abysmal, from sheehan and manky.

Douglas was poor today, and I didn't agree with Ferry coming off. Thought he was one of the few bright sparks.

Crosses: we have to lift the ball over the first man - fucking infuriating. Think only Ritchie managed this all game. He looked pretty tasty when he came on I thought.

Ward running into players has been covered, so I won't dwell! I thought he would have had enough to rinse their full-back if he's just gone around them?

Rare off day for the front two as well. Had Austin scored it's a different game but I'm not gonna criticise. However, from what I have seen I really do think Pericard is pap.

That said:
You have to treat this game with some perspective. It's gone now, so what matters is what happens Tuesday. Win and no-one will remember this. And seeing as though Hudds and Millwall both failed to win, we haven't actually lost out too much. As long as we better them between now and May we're in the play-offs. And it's good to see all the teams bar Nowrich looking as capable as throwing points away as each other. I would have had Leeds, Hudds and Millwall down for a win, so they're all gonna drop points too.

Thought Wilson spoke very well after the game.

Thing that fucked me off most today? at half-time I overheard someone say: "this is why I don't come very often". I was speechless.

In fact today has left me pretty speechless in general.

Roll on Tuesday.

I cannot bear away fans taking the piss like that. Reminds me of that season we kept getting dicked at home. Rovers, stoke colchester...00/01?

anyway, onwards and upwards. I'm still believing...

irene can go amd fvck herself! Sttpid cunt

Well, if you too that game in isolation without knowing anything else about our season you might be forgiven for thinking not much has changed since last season. Soft defending,limp strike force. Not sure how its possible to miss our entire seasons results though )


I disagree with this.  I think he's had one good chance (yesterday) and two half chances since his scoring 'stopped'. I think that's the issue - we've created less clear cut chances. The rest of his game looks OK to me, still wanting the ball.

don,t panic,don,t panic

All over? It was virtually the start of the 2nd half!

It was all over at half time... Did anyone think we'd rescue a point, as I certainly didn't?

If we got a goal in the first 5 or 10 of the second half then I thought we had an outside chance. It was just that we had not played too badly in the attacking sense.

But that thought was put to bed quite quickly.

I'd start Pericard for Austin on Tuesday.

Let's be honest, the thing that hurts the most is that it was f***ing Rovers (complete Scum).

They've done us twice now, Seven goals for and none against...

That's the bit that hurts....

But for them to only bring 1400-1500 to our place shows what a f***ing useless second rate club it is...

Now let's move on and get 3 points on Tuesday and we'll be back on our way...!!

U Reds......

Meh it's annoying but look on the brightside. We're still 5th. I remember the season that Cheltenham dicked us twice and it felt awful and embarassing but we finished 10th and they went down so I didn't really give a shit in the end. I don't think Rovers will finish in the play-offs.

But you only bought 1,231 to Bristol...

Cos it's a bugger to get to, at least we have the decency to put the ground in the middle of town.

we've lost 5 league games this season

1-0 against norwich
2-0 against hartlepool
3-0 against rovers
4-0 against rovers
5-0 against gillingham

spooky

I'm not looking forward to the next loss.

Gotta feeling Southampton will provide the next score in the sequence  :doh:

I left at half time.

if i was to take both games i've seen this season in isolation (warsaw away being the other) i would think we're in the relegation zone.

Would I be correct in saying we haven't won all season when we've conceded first?

I don't know whether it's managerial naivety or player mentality, but we just don't seem to have a plan for turning a game around when we go one down.

Bristol is a shithole, thats what puts most off going Mr Gashead.

Something Wilson said post-match was that the players may have an expectation that they will always grab the first goal, so tried to force it and hence left themselves open at the back.

We have not won once conceding the first goal, although this has only happened 8 times. Those 8 games resulted in 4 draws and 4 losses, so a total of 20 points dropped from maximum. But we've dropped another 19 from maximum when we've scored the first goal/not scored at all.

So I don't think it's much to do with the not being able to come back from conceding first at all. It's worth noting that most of the time (6 out of 8 games) it's been away from home too.

Late goals seems to be the problem, which we all know. These odd freak results are just that.

A lot of fans are put off by the trouble the other year.

This is my input for what its worth.
With attacking fullbacks you are going to get exposed to pace...Cuthbert and Greer were left on there own against Kuffour....thats the gamble you take when Amankwah and Sheehan are bombing forward.
We didnt play too bad but there defence blocked everything.
A draw on tuesday will suffice as MK and Rovers are running out of games...you always get blips,Saints played Norwich off the park two weeks ago then stuffed Hudders...they got beat at Tranmere yesterday.
This result is History though fair due to Trollope as he must love it when he turns us over after we bombed him out as a youngster.
We are in a great position for a playoff place and even in defeat yesterday we played some cracking football..i am happy with that.

True. Not a nice place to take your family.

Over at half time, of course not. It looked bleak but its been done in the past.

I'm glad Andy King didn't have that defeatist view away at Port Vale in our last play off season.

In was that 3-3 draw that kept us above Port Vale come the end of the season.

We should have gone for it yesterday.

Seems yesterday was a bad day all round..Burgurs were cold and a ten min wait for them at half time!
I dont eat them but being three down and no cooked burgers was pissing alot of people off in the Townend cafe of dreams yesterday.

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There are 2 issues here. First of all its our allocation of tickets. Secondly its probably got something to do with the fact you are shirt battering scum who indiscriminately attack anything that isn't Rovers. Your fans do not abide by the code of conduct of most nutters who have rules about beating up families. Your Bebo warriors will always ensure you are classed as scum, not hard, not nasty, just short battering scum. 

Any adult wearing a replica playing shirt does deserve a good kicking to be fair. Especially those with a players name on. Even more so one with their own name on.

I have only walked out of one Swindon Town match early and that was when we got dicked 7-1 at Nottingham Forest a few seasons ago.

That was until yesterday, after the 4th goal went in I said fuck it and headed back to the County Ground Hotel.

Having all those 14-15 year old kiddies chanting "loyal supporters" got on my tits a bit, where the fuck where they when we got relegated a few seasons ago?  Any way I left for 2 reasons, a) we were shit and weren't up for it in a local derby, b) I had seen enough and hope its just a "blip" on the radar, the gutless performance up until that 4th goal pissed me off enough to say, see you later I'm off.

Let's hope normal service resumes at the Franchise!

Gutless? We had more shots than them Gaz. I really don't get this whole "we weren't up for it" bollocks. Sorry but if that free-kick from Sheehan or that Austin chance goes in we go on to win the game. We were well up for it before the scored and it knocked the stuffing out of us. We never gave up either. We still went at them but it just didn't happen for us. I stayed till the end just in the hope that we may see a consolation goal or 2 but sadly it wasn't the case.

Somebody already mentioned that it was an odd game and it was. Thought we were excellent for the first 20 minutes or so and had we been 1 goal up the game would have been different. Then Rovers scored with their first proper touch of the ball and the game changed. I actually think that we could have been accused of being 'over confident' as we kept playing the ball around, even deep inside our own box. (which led to the second goal eventually). 3-0 its game over really and was goal of the game.

Second half we huffed and puffed and how many times did the ball hit a Rovers player throwing themselves at the ball. Unfortunately I think Rovers players wanted it more, what summed it up for me was when their keeper tipped a JPM shot round the post and his defence were congratulating him as if he had won them the League.

Player wise, Sheehan was woeful, Ferry was busy, JPM probably deserved his man of the match and I liked the look of Ritchie when he came on.

Lets hope that this is merely a blip and we can bounce back against Franchise.

Only funny part of the day (when it shouldn't have been) was when the fan who chanted RED ARMY (Twat) during the minutes silence for Keith Alexander and everyone telling the twat to shut up and for the Town End all in unison keeping quiet for the remainder of the minutes silence giving the wanker sign to the Rovers fans!

Actually I thought we were far from Gutless, and that one of the few positives from the game was that the players didn't give up, unlike me as I left with 5 mins to go.

The problem was that we simply didn't play very well, too many players just had an off day, not really shite or anything, just a bit off form.

The passing just wasn't as good as it has been, and that was all over the team from the defence through midfield up to the front two.

Our defensive game was extremely gutless. Clearly hadn't done their homework or didn't listen, Luckily though as I said, I left before I got pissed off OTT about it and look to Tuesday night!!!

If Sheehan's free kick is an inch the other way it goes in and we win easy. Did fear the worst when they got a breakaway goal, because Rovers always have a determined defence in the last few years.

Swindon fans are getting used to being a bit more philosophical about it. Its not all just about players slogging their guts out anymore. We try and play football and sometimes things just dont run your way. Losing one game 4-0 wont send you crashing down the league, losing 3 games 1-0 will.

Having said that, I have heard Wilson went completely apeshit in the dressing room after, which is what was needed in my view. There were too many passes behind the man, too many loose balls. Too many fans devastated.

It was an action replay of the first game. Were the better team, but the game just ran away from us after the first goal. By the way, I was in the home end for that game, and I know a few others who were, and there wasnt that many Rovers there either. Certainly not 5 figures anyway.

We'll bounce back. Weve got the class. They havnt.

I don't think we were gutless in the traditional sense. We tried and didn't going hiding. But it needed someone to nail Kufour early on, even at the expense of a yellow, and we didn't really mix it up that way.

Still as said, one game isn't a concern even though its gutting it was Rovers. Tough month still to come, we will now more thereafter.

Nail him or not it seemed to me that Greer was generally against Kuffour (in the first half at least) and I would have been happier to have had Cuthbert's pace up against him...

On another line, did anyone see the exchange that seemed to take place between Sheehan and one or two "supporters" in the DR second half? 

the allocation at ours is 1700 odd . . . . we didnt take as many as we hadnt scored for 7 away games and also the police make our visit to you horrendous  1 hour wait at station escort to pub with to many people in it and then escort to ground then another escort back to statrion that takes an hour for a five min walk. . and as fothe idiots every team has a minority ive seen some of yours before behaving like idiots on the trains as i worked as a train guard in the past! every club has them !

Bit of useless information, but we've lost 5 games all season in the league and the scores have been:

1-0
2-0
3-0
4-0
5-0

Lets hope we dont get dicked 6-0 at all this season

I wonder who is to blame for your huge police presence you fucking thundercunt

To be fair, it's probably not him personally.

The policing did seem a bit extreme mind, got to the train station and there were a good 40 officers, 6 dogs and 2 horses. I've never got what use Horses are in policing- all that's going to happen is that they panic and kill someone- anyone know if they're for anything other than intimidation and giving the Pony Club something to do?

cause a horse running at you will make you run away.unless you're a daft cunt

They use horses in crowds because they are 1) intimidating 2) Gives the police an elevated view of large crowds 3) They can go where a panda car can't.

remember the horses charging us in the poll tax riots in trafalgar square, was fucking mental knocking people left right and centre.

It is true that by using animals the police are able to excuse injuries to the public that they wouldnt be able to excuse if they used a machine or a taser instead of a dog.

Seemed to be more younguns than usual in the Rovers end. In the past their support has been proper old boys. Its always a more volatile fixture because the Brizzle fans seem to have more knowledge of Swindon. Just knowing the names of parts of Swindon, or a backstreet pub can make them a lot more slippery. Most fans dont have a clue. They come here and think all the rest of Swindon looks like Manny road. Even a team like Reading, you would be suprised about how little they know about the Town.

God help them if they think all of Swindon looks like Manny Road.

so many football grounds are in areas like ours.infact most i've been to are

Playgroup

Oh how you must have chuckled !


Someone should have smacked the cunt

Hmm 1700 seems a little too high, according to your site:


AWAY allocation league matches: 1203, cup matches 1444

http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/MemorialStadium/0,,10328,00.html

And yes all clubs have nutters, but not many have nutters who deliberately attack 7 year old kids with sections of wooden fencing.

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I think a fair few were ready to until he finally shut up.

Why did they have a minute's silence - I thought it was now common practise to have a minute's applause exactly for the reason that it's hard to keep everyone silent / they don't agree with the occasion / or you can't hear on the tannoy what is about to happen.

Applause would have been better, also it was all very sudden - i expected the players to stand around the centre circle too?

I think plenty were ready too.

Doesn't help when the tannoy doesn't work either.

Drove around the New Forest with my daughter muttering bollox everytime a text came through on my mobile...

It has to be a blip!!!  Please......

See you all at Dongs on Tuesday.

WOW Sounded like a heap of poo!

My dad was in a right stress when he came to collect us from the airport

I missed some pretty random results when I was away

So far this season I have still not seen us win, or even score. In fact I haven't seen us win since we beat Tranmere on the opening day of the 08/09 season.

This makes me unhappy

Plastic cunt. Go to more games and stop moaning.

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GAS!

OIL!

I've taken my nephew to 3 games this season including this one, they haven't won once.
I ain't inviting the little cunt again, he's a bad omen.

Please. Stop. My sides are splitting.

Stop? no no my inbreeded friend

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well done on winning your cup final now fuck off we have promotion issues to deal with.

Not a native English speaker I assume, then? Fuckwit

What else would you expect from somebody involved in the slave trade!

A suprisingly right wing stance from you there Davis

Oh dear, you're not too bright are you fathead99  :) No surprise really  :bye:

I bet if Rovers had scored 6, Jo Kuffour could still use one hand to count the goals.

Or gashead99's IQ

Please. Really. I can't take it any more.

 ::)

paynter - bar - oooooohhh.

Confusing.

Deja vu

I'm bored.
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Ha ha ha

Ace Samdy

Just rememebered something. When Rovers scored their fans did that 'easy' clap thing. I thought that went out with the dinasaurs when Lovejoy left Soccer AM?

^ Plenty of Swindon fans still do it, it's cringeworthy.

I do the funky chicken...does that count?

Don't forget they come from Brizzle..they're at least 5 years behind the times there !!!

We were all doing it against Leeds and noone had an issue with it then.

I didn't...I've seen us lose three goal leads before !!!

I wasn't at that game.

Just hadn't noticed anyone doing that for ages is all.

I think it's a quality chant. In fact, I think it's even better now we've had it done to us by Rovers. I was fucking livid to see them loving it after the first goal on saturday, and that must be the effect it has on other fans.

It really wound me up too, so it must be the same for opposite fans when we do it.

Especially brilliant if the game is anything but easy I'd imagine.

Its a better chant now people only sing it, when the game is easy.

Before it was sung all the time.

Its best run out was when Trevor fucking Benjamin scored against Nottm Forest.

Am I the only one who thinks of Floella Benjamin when I hear that name?

For some reason her name just makes me think of the properly gorgeous Mariella Frostrup. And i'm serious.  :wtf:

she could talk dirty to me all fucking night