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Swindon Town: David Lucas; Kevin Amankwaah, Scott Cuthbert, Lecsinel Jean-Francois, Michael Rose; J-P McGovern, Jonathan Douglas (capt.), David Prutton, David Ball; Thomas Dossevi, Vincent Pericard

Substitutes: Phil Smith (GK), Callum Kennedy, Charlie Austin, Sean Morrison, Michael Timlin, Billy Bodin, Will Evans, Alan O'Brien, Nathan Thompson


that 11 looks like a potential starting 11 against brighton - if you assume austin was dropped for dossevi to impress... i wonder if ferry or caddis would walk into the team if/when they sign this week.

Ferry and Caddis have agreed personal terms. Nice

Is it definate?.....

It sounded pretty definite. I think Fitton said they would be down on Monday for their medicals.

Looking at that team with the two scots to add its starting to look very decent.

Is this on wiltshire sound?

Yes. But not full commentary.

That's pretty much a first team for Forest too. We might learn something from this friendly.

Oh and that's good news on Ferry and Caddis.

Just wolfed down my first pork and stuffing roll of the season. Closely followed by a beer in the drs now let's see some football.....it's back :)

Fitton is a God.

I assume Austin isnt starting because he will against Poole.

Ferry and Caddis are two quality additions. I also like how not, it seems we only announce deals when they are done.

None of this Theo Robinson shite.

1-0 Town    Trialist scored

1-0

Dossevi

Here come the  'sign him up posts'

Dossevi scores!

sign him up!

sign him up

MORE GOALS IN OPEN PLAY THAN PERICARD

sign him up.

Pericard scored one t'other day, a penalty.

Ha! Got you there Dave.

Dave in 'incorrect statistic' shocker ??? 8)

No  :-[

1-1

Maybe Dave has his 'onward looking specs' on, he might know something we dont about how many trialist boy is going to bag today.

boooo

2-1 forest

Panic Button - Hit it.

2-2    sign the trialist up

MORE GOALS THAN PERICARD

FUCK YOU ALL

Dossevi scored

2-2 2nd for Thomas Dossveni

Forest's 2nd deflected off Rose and went in

sign him up

greer went missing again

JPM cross set up 2nd. Long live JPM and his assists  :D

Pericard having a good game too apparently

hahahaha

Dave's a psychic. What's the final result Dave?

Jebus..this Witlshire Sound programme is utter, utter, utter, utter drosswank :crash:

Indeed it is,  thank fuck the footy is backj next week

Have a feeling we are going to score and concede bucket loads of goals this season.

Dossevi's second sounded like a good header.

The guy can't really do much more.

Cuthbert hits the bar.

Fuck me thats early....surely he could have waited till after the match.

What can I say, he is Scottish!

Not too bad a first half. The trialist looks about 100 times better than Pericard and couldn't really do much more. Not sure if he's fully match fit though as looked a bit tired towards the end of the half. Could be worth a punt, have to see what Wilson thinks. On the other side I'm trying my hardest to like pericard and he's done some useful linking of play at times but he is just zero goal threat and does stupid things, he's definitely not a 1st choice striker.
Other than that Ball is playing on the left wing and looks a like for like replacement for Ward... Fast, direct and likes a shot. The rest of the pitch is much the same as last season, Prutton looks good and rose looks relatively solid. Central defence I'm still not sure at times it looks fine but there does seem a lack of a leader back there and a bit of confusion at times.

Promising on the whole though.

Thanks for the update Robin.

I am worried, I thought this would happen.

Dossevi off for Austin.

Surely he's done enough for a deal? I know its only 45 minutes but still.

Fuck me, why does anyone listen to wiltshire sound when all they fucking chat about is egg production

3799 crowd

Fuck me...West Wiltshire Crematorium is having an open day tomorrow...oh Jesus :suicide:

Does that frighten you???

3-2 town

Allez!allez! Allez!!!! (Sat on my deck in France in 80F sunshine with a cold bottle of Kanterbrau)

Perhaps he'll be playing on Tuesday?

Probably....Austin will be certainly!

Will Wilson want to risk any first teamers getting injured so close to the Brighton game?

yes

Agreed....but its probably in the agreement with Poole......and rightly so.
I am just pissed off its so close to the season and midweek.

Good point. He may give him another 45 minutes to impress.

Was he any good though. I know he scored two goals but.....

second goal sounded class, maybe a six month deal to start

yeah he sounded shit

Hopefully he was that good that DW took him off at half time to sign him up before Huddersfield got to him...

Glos Robin said he was 100 times better than Pericard.

We'll see from people who were at the game to get a good idea I guess.

The problem is that although he's on trial, he's played internationally and had a good career in france, plus he's 31. I dont think it'd be a six month, cheap as chips deal, and that Wilson knows that. It's probably more a long the lines of this lad is half decent, worth a deal but lets get him over for a couple of weeks first.

wooo

a win, and Forest score an own goal - theres a surprise!

Shaun Hodgetts..."Well that wraps up Town's pre-season with one game to go"...WTF? ???

Brilliant....worthy of Colemanballs, that one!!!!

Sounds like JPM had a blinder, anyone who was there agree?

£10 for submissions!

http://nantesforum.forumactif.com/forum.htm

Nantes forum. Maybe a French speaker could pop on and get some more info on Dossevi :)

Sounds like DW is pretty keen on Dossevi :hmmm:

Dossevi looked useful, put himself about a bit, chased back and scored 2 good goals, the second one (a header) was ace.

Pericard was off the pace and looked a bit shit really, still hope he comes good.
Douglas/Prutton looked good in the middle and Ball was lively on the left.

Not a bad game really, for a friendly.

I should think Ball will be starting wide left next Saturday.

Fully agree with that summation. The header was top notch. Sign him up.

Is Ball left footed? How did he get on?

was bitterly disappointed that Pericard came out for the second half, would love to have seen Austin replace him

On the thisisswindon site under the match report someone said "just heard danny on bbc swindon and he said ferry and caddis wasnt 100% that they will b coming so bit worried now"....Anyone shed any light on this??

He didn't say any such thing. Who ever posted that is a lieing  :cunty:

What he said is they may not take part on tuesday night as he wsn't sure what tteam we'd take to Poole

I thought he said that he'd put out a team full of fringe players at Poole?

He was very coy about what kind of team we'd take to Poole but he definetly didn't say anything about Ferry & Caddis not signing. 

They both have medicals on Monday

I heard "... not 100% ..." but took this to mean pending medicals the paperwork isn't complete.

They've both agreed personal terms pending Medicals monday

Was a fairly good game. Typical friendly really. My motm would've been LJF. Won everything in the first half.

Was impressed with Lesc today, looked good.

Best things about that game for me were Rose and Ball. (As well as JPM still being fucking ace since his revival.)

Rose seems a much better player than Sheehan. He doesn't aimlessly knock the ball down the channels, but looks to play it to someone's feet and can dribble as well. I thought his play was really refreshing for a left back.

Ball looks like a carbon copy of Ward. He runs around alot, likes to run at people and seems quite 2 footed, he was certainly playing good passes with both feet. I also think he's a better dribbler than Ward and for a striker playing on the wing, he seemed to be everywhere - he works his bollocks off.

Dossevi looks the real deal, but then so did the last frog striker, whose name I've forgotten, that arrived with Lex. He seemed at times to try too hard and chased back alot. I'd be worried about that in the league as his tackles (all from behind) were often reckless. I suspect that was just trying to prove himself though. At 31 he's not really your stereotypical Fitton or Wilson type player, so he must be rated quite highly or something.

razak?

Oh and another thing, I hope Morrison doesn't start at CB. He always looks to play it long...

Yeah, Razak. He really impressed me and he ran around alot with some rash challenges thrown in for good measure.

Dossevi does have something though. He seemed very Drogba like. Strong, powerful and seems to look to find space - be at on the shoulder, dropping deep or drifting out wide.

If that's all some people have got to worry about, then they're doing well ::) As others have said, the players simply need to have their medical and then they can sign on the dotted line just like every other transfer in the history of the game. That's the only reason it's not '100%'

I expect some of the pricks on the Adver forum will be saying something like, "Oh fucking hell Fitton, why do they have to take a medical? They both played the other day, just sign them, you're wasting time" or something along those lines. Pricks.

Agreed. I think he won most things in the air.
I quite enjoyed today, it's nice to see the whole team looking to play the ball to feet.

Forgot to mention, we should've had a blatent pen after 5 mins when Pericards shirt was pulled as he was going up for a header, and Forest's first should've been disallowed as the ball was still moving rom a free kick, when it was taken.

Well the DRS is poo.

Please don't pick on fellow TEFers

I don't, i get picked on  :)

Did you park in the fire station today? really quiet, good for me though

Basically if you care a lot about atmosphere you have to be in the town end.

No, got dropped off just outside though, anyway..

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The new kit looks nice judging by the pictures on the OS.

Dossevi looks like a fucking tank...

i thought lescinel and cuthbert were great today. Gordon who? Togo man looks the bollocks. Rose was at fault for there first goal as he backede off. We look decent and i think we are in for another great season! In other news brighton beat aberdeen one nil

I enjoyed today's game. There were lots of positives and some negatives. Prutton looked very good in the 1st half, less so in the 2nd before he got subbed. Ball looks a tidy player - definitely more Ward than Hutch. Dossevi looked a good player - in the right place for his 1st and a cracking header for the 2nd. LJF looked bloody good in the centre. JPM and Douglas were good. Now for Rose, a great cross for the 3rd but I thought defensively he looked shaky and easily beaten for their 1st, which was a carbon copy of an earlier move. He does offer a lot going forward and I think he'll be a good signing but defensively I'll reserve judgement. Thats one negative. The biggest negative thuogh was the stick Pericard was taking from fans around me - give him a fucking chance and if he's no better in 3-4 months time then fair enough. Also their no 12 was very good at running thruogh our midfield and defence.
Overall thuogh well worth a tenner and I'm feeling good about this season.

Pah, Forest are a far better team. 8)

I'm excited about Brighton now, really excited. I hope they miss Greer and Brez, although if we sign Dossevi, I'd have loved to have seen him against Greer and Brez with JP's crosses. I think Doss' would win by a large margin!

As they improved hugely after signing Ifil I think that's a fair point.

I found today's game quite enjoyable. Okay, the atmosphere wasn't there, and some twat had decided to bring a drum, but i thought we played reasonably well against championship opposition.

Lescinel was outstanding today, especially against Adebola, who is a bigger unit than Pericard, and much more of a force. Lecs won near on everything in the air, and some of his tackles were superb. Cuthbert likewise coped well with that little cunt Earnshaw. Special mention to Rose who i personally thought was motm, defended well, got forward and played to pass rather than succumbing to long balls up to Pericard.

In midfield we were okay, Douglas was his usual self, and Prutton looks a quality aquasition. JPM was also very good, but we've come to expect that of him now. Ball played extremely well on the left, even more so for a little front man. He was calm on the ball, and i particularly liked his effort to keep a stray ball in play early on in the match ... with it only being a friendly and all that!

The trialist looked rather good, a Pericard-like player, but with seemingly more skill, and he was definitely more desperate to impress today. Took his second goal, the header, very well indeed. Pericard disappointed me somewhat, althought probably deserves a penalty in the first half. Aust also looked very sharp when he came on.

Overall, a decent friendly performance against good opposition. Lets hope for more of the same next saturday!

Thanks for that processed beats. Very helpful indeed.

Are you an oldie who has rejoined or an utter noob to the TEF?

He changed his username from Red Is The Colour, Mr Red.

Lescinel was the best player of the game, won everything moer aless, and one of his tackles in the second half in our penalty area was pure class, i think he will definetely come good, and he is well deserving of the Haitian being out up. Dossevi looked the real deal, fast pace, good head, bit of an allrounder, i think he can flourish with Austin, fingers crossed we sign him up !

Can anyone who has got STFC Player upload the goals??

I haven't managed to get any flash grabbing software to work with it.

Danny said...


Just tonight?  ;)

Oooo you bitch

Looking forward to seeing the fringe players, not

I could.

Well I suppose he'll play Austin, Ferry, Caddis and Devossi...that's no too bad four days before the start of the season. When they announced when the game was going to take place it was never going to be a full first team squad.

I quite agree, tho considering the quality of player Town got, although they didn't realise how it would go at the time, a Saturday game with a decent squad should have been the least they were thinking of. I'm not complaining and I'm really looking forward to it, but think a bit more thought on selecting the date might not have gone amiss

Totally agree...i cannot go now because of work and also 4 days before kick off is a really cutting it fine with players,my feeling is it will be a very young squad with Austin maybe getting a 20 min cameo someware during the ninety...will be amazed if he plays more than a half,which is a shame really for the Poole fans on his return.

Aye I was looking forward to few beers leefer

Still a squeak i maybe there.....lorry n all.

Can you give me a bell on mobile sometime Tuesday if you can make it. Working till 1.30 am Tuesday morning ::)

No probs....PM me your number mate...think i lost yours when my computer blew.

I enjoyed it,took my God son and found out that 45 minutes of football is quite enough that paticular 4 year old.:D He couldnt understand why he wasnt allowed to play.

 :D :D :D

Anywhere we can see footage of the goals... without paying?

How do you think Craig Easton felt last season then!
I am sure he will remember it for along time Yeo.