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2-1 Town

Cuthbert and Charlie for one last time

Time for our players to man the fuck up and win the battle for a change.

I think we'll win too. Wish I didn't have to work til 1pm today...

I hope we play 4-4-2 and don't just play for a point. Bristol are there for the beating we must play positively

1-1.............under the circumstances i will be happy with that.

First time i havn't been to Rovers for a long time.....my mind and pocket are just not interested at present.

Both teams are desperate for points and in desperate form.

I'll go for a scrappy 2-3 win based on blind optimism.

4-1 with all our january signings on the scoresheet... Frampton, ritchie, pavett, flint

Only a win will do.  We're too close to the bottom 4 for one point to be enough...and all the more so because Rovers are down there as well.  Proper 'six pointer' today.

Pericard to score the winner

3-1 win ritchie cuthbert and caddis  :beers:

Oh well, here we go.

Without much conviction....3-1 (Ritchie, Austin, Douglas - yes I said Douglas)

3-1. Pericard hattrick.

I'm no pessimist but I don't think we're going to win today.

Slight contradiction in terms :D

2-1 Charlie with Captain Flint to head an injury time winner(second bit possibly made up)

Wonder if Smith will come up for a corner again if we happen to be losing in thelast few mins... Hopefully we won't even be in that situation.

hope charlie gets on the scoresheet for possibly the last time

Possibly! I don't think we'll go down though :)

Clean sheet, Charlie hat-trick and a declaration of his loyalty. That'll do...

I thuoght I could make this game, now I can't - bloody kids. I can't see beyond a draw with two useless piles of shit up against each other. If it ain't a draw then its whoever hits the self destruct button first rather than an outrageous bit of skill.

Feeling positive this morning, 3-1 Town, Ritchie inbetween a brace from Austin. Do we know if Flint is in the squad today, as the sending him back on loan things i'm hearing seem odd?

2-0 to the Gashead wankers.

I think 1-0 to Rovers... and the goal we concede will be from rubbish defending like usual...

I'm going to say 1-0. Which way? I don't know.

As I'm not going (For the first time in years) we'll probably win and win with style.

(At least that is my fervent hope).

We need to win this - so we won't.
I bet we're the team to hand Rovers their first win in 13 or whatever their current record is.

0-0 written all over it.

i live 20 minutes walk from the ground, if i go we will lose and if i dont we will win, so im going to stay in bed and feel annoyed. But deep down really happy at beating the scum, 2-1 to the town!!

Don't want to put the kiss of death on today - but I just have a feeling that today's game will define our season.

We're either about to turn the corner, with 1-2 victory today that will kick-start our season; or we'll lose today and confirm that we're properly in a relegation battle.

Being the eternal optimist, I'm going for a 2-1 town win. :hmmm:

COYR!

 Real big game....it's strange right now, on the one hand things look rosy off the pitch, but on it we look like falling apart just at the wrong time.

 Avoiding defeat is crucial to stop the rot.....I'd go for a Charlton style formation, without Austin up front. Trying to keep it tight is pointless, we just don't have the players, so we'll probably need to score a couple to get that point.

and we're going to score a couple with 3 in 18 Dossevi and 6 in 24 Pericard up front, whilst we leave 17 in 25 Austin at home?

Why not, we scored a couple v Gas earlier this season without the traitorous dog?

Just changed my Prediction League guess from 2-0 Rovers to 2-0 Town. Stupid match day overconfidence is running high!

2-0 to rovers

Who scored that day?

That Reading defender and motherfucking Vincent Pericard... Gwan Big Vince!

We'll lose.

I dont think Austin will play

I dont think our players have the balls for a scrap and a fight, so we will roll over die and lose to a shit team who wanted it more.

I think Austin will play tbh. Whether he wants to or not remains to be seen. Anyhow Rovers are pretty shit if you believe their fans. In fact they are probably shitter than us by the sounds of it. That means we'll probably lose then.

Austin looked like he picked up a knock against Yeovil at one point.

Yeah personally I don't think he could be bothered that game. If he does play he has to put in 100% as he has done here for most of his games otherwise i'd not play him if I was Wilson. It's a tough one though. Can you really out your top scorer and your best attacking player by a street in such a big game? I don't really think you can.

Yep, I think he wont play because he's injured.

Which will lead to all sorts of new and usual bullshit rumours about how he hasnt played because he wouldnt pass a certain potential random test than he'd fail if he had a habbit of sorts that he doesnt have and all sorts of falling out rumours etc etc

I'm with Reg though, I wouldnt play him full stop

A clean sheet Nemo, that is confident

6-0 defeat and forum meltdown. Followed by violent protests and season ticket burning on Tuesday evening.

Being serious, I think we'll lose by a narrow margin.

Had to spend my ticket money for this on a new hard drive. Great!

Huge game today, show some fucking passion town!

It's a bit of a confusing time at the moment. I think we're capable of winning but I'm not sure we will. We'll possibly draw or maybe lose instead.

Think I've got that one covered.

Match abandoned?

Floodlight failure...

It could be abandoned due to a petro-chemical fog caused by an explosion at Avonmouth.

boring ground-out nil all will do me

This could well be used as the reason he doesn't play even if he's fit.  This would avoid the risk of people booing and the team being unsettled.

This could end up being a dire 0-0 draw, or as Reg says one mistake could create a winner.  On the otherhand it could be high scoring game due to both defences being crap.  In other words I haven't got a clue which way it will go.

Is anyone actually going?

to be honest, abandoned might be a good result for us.

If Austin is fit he has to play. If DW drops Austin he'll be cutting his nose off to spite his face.

If he does cut Austin's nose off, he'd genuinely be injured then

You know what, I can't call this one. I'm gonna say 0-0 cos i'm always wrong and hopefully this will mean we win 3-0.

If you were Danny Wilson, would you put the new lads on the bench for abit of 'matchday experience' ? I'm itching to see them both play.

Will be interesting to see yes, whether Pavett and Flint are deemed to be ahead of Will Evans and Bodin in the pecking order, as one or both usually makes the bench.

I would imagine Pavett is way short of fitness but Flint should be match fit. Alfreton play at a reasonably good standard.

Teams in, Sheehan and Ferry in for Rose (suspended) and Dossevi: Back to the 4-5-1 formation used against Charlton and Oldham, Austin plays.

Not heard the bench, but Adver reckon Flint isn't on it.

Bench is in, no Frampton, no Pavett and no Flint, but Amankwaah is on it.

SWINDON TOWN (4-5-1): Phil Smith; Paul Caddis, Scott Cuthbert, Lecsinel Jean-Francois, Alan Sheehan; Jon-Paul McGovern, David Prutton, Jonathan Douglas, Simon Ferry, Matt Ritchie; Charlie Austin.

Subs: Mark Scott, Will Evans, Kevin Amankwaah, Michael Timlin, Alan O'Brien, Thomas Dossevi, Vincent Pericard

Substitutes: Mark Scott (GK), Vincent Pericard, Will Evans, Michael Timlin, Alan O'Brien, Thomas Dossevi, Kevin Amankwaah

I like the look of that midfield. JP and Ritchie out wide with a middle trio of Ferry, Prutton and Dougie.

Agreed. On paper, that is a fucking class midfield, but we shall see.....

Come on you bunch of cunts! Fucking winnn!

Oh and good to see Big Kev is back in and around the team. Has he only just recovered from injury? Or did he fall off the face of the earth for a bit?

The defence isn't so good. Glad Sheehan is back but still unsure about Caddis.

I like Caddis, and I like the team that's out there as a whole. Not much on the bench though to put it mildly.

Wilson tries to convince us we're playing well. Fucking hell.

Apparently not getting picked by Wilson. Can't understand it myself. He's a great athlete and strong going forward. Caddis seems too lightweight for me.

Caddis has been pretty decent defensively in recent games.

What's Danny going public about not going public about?

I don't know, something about clipping the kids round the ear. I'm only half listening.

Caddis hasn't lived up to the hype though to be fair. I like him, and he's shown glimpses of what he can offer, in terms of getting forward and whipping in a decent cross, but nothing to match the hype that surrounded him when he arrived.

Shocking v Yeovil...pure and simple.

I thought fitton was doing the commentary today?

He was, but Radio Reading matched his buyout clause so we've had to bring Andy Radcliffe in from Non-League commentaries.

Stating the obvious here - We desperately miss the Amankwah/JP combo of last season. That was so good to watch, and effective too. Caddis and JP just don't seem to click as well. Maybe if the team as a whole were performing better, they would. Oh well. Come on your reds! And all that shit...

Who's commentating today ? Just tuned in.

Will Ed Hadwin be doing the Gasheads commentary ?

Vic and Andy Radcliffe for us, no idea about the Brizzle comms.

Amankwaah has been awful when he has played, JPM has not been performing either. I can see both going in the summer.

It's funny that around the time we lost to Peterborough Manks was the team scapegoat, but having been out of the team for a while it seems that it's all been forgotten.

I heard that Manks had been carrying an injury early on in the season, which needed surgery, and due to the fact that we didn't have any cover at RB at the time, except for Thompson, he kept on playing.

To be fair, he was carrying an injury at the time. Caddis was away on International duty at the time too, i believe? Maybe a bit of time out will have done him some good. We'll see i suppose

Is this the first time Ferry, Prutton and Douglas will have started a game together?

Like the look of that team etc.

Do the business please.

He came back from injury for a game or two.

Don't get me wrong, I like Amankwaah, but we're holding on to a false nostalgia I feel.

No.

Hartlepool Away(2-2), Saints Home (1-0)

Ed hadwin for them. I'm going to listen to him and see if he has become a devious little fucker

COME ON YOU REDS!

Oh fucking good your back.

Come on my face

Caddis booked in 3rd minute. Amankwaah fans may yet get their man on.

Anyone elses World/Player all choppy today?

We're going to loose  :cry:

Yep, gonna switch to the Rovers one and see what thats like.

Fuck Will Hoskins for Rovers

1-0 Rovers, Hoskins.

Oh cock. Ball straight over the defence, lack of pace, only person with it was Caddis who couldn't really put a tackle in on a yellow. Fuuuuuck.

Yay.

Cuntfucks

oh poo

It's the BBC RS way

I can't even be bothered to be upset.

this is just un fucking believable

I wish that were true.

shocking  :doh:

 :doh:

They'd better find some fight from somewhere.

It's the lull into a false sense of security ploy by Swindon ...

We will get a player sent off today

Hope it's one of theirs then.

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

Early yellows are never a good sign.

Benyon has scored for Torquay, haven't we signed him yet? :)

Fucking sort it out Wilson.

So for how long is he going to play, Fitton?

I really don't think he can

Well he needs to go after today then if we don't turn it around, Can't keep going on like this it's a joke, I thought we had a chance today but then again i had my doubts.

Ohhhhh we have a corner.

Austin takes it from prutton's toes just before he hit it.

Austin takes it off Prutton's foot whilst he's about to shoot, not quite going for us but we're getting into the game. Sheehan's name seems to be mentioned a fair bit.

The shocking part is that Fitton won't see that, and when he does it will be too late. Either when in May and we're ready for League Two-football or even worse (!) just after transfer deadline late january/february - so a new manager won't be able to do anything but to shuffle the headless chickens we've already got...

 ::)

Well if we lost today and he got sacked there would still be time to get a manager in quickly and sign some of his own players, The board might already have someone lined up this time because i think they would have learnt from the Malpas debacle.

I really want us to win today just so I can tell STFC-4-Life to swivel on it!

I like his hair.

Couple of corners in a row, building a bit of pressure.

Good pressure here from town - just need to test the keeper a bit

Come on, we've not lost this game yet. Positive vibes and all that.

Quiet on here today, everyone gone to the game?

Sounds like we are getting into it a bit now.

Sorry but the way things have been lately i find it very difficult to be positive it's dire.

Really? We'd never have fucking guessed

STFC-4-LIFE and NorwayRed make me happy to be alive.

we aint even half hour into the game yet.have the fucking inquest after eh...

what a surprise

no. If fitton does not sack wilson at half time I have lost all faith in him. rahrahbrahbrah

Are you there then stfc4life or are you just spouting fucking dismal shit. Change the record you prick.

Bristol Rovers striker misses a very easy chance and collides with the post, comedy moment.

Exactly. Sounds like we've had them under bit of pressure, now let's nick a goal before HT

Anyone know what sort of a reaction Austin got?

Plenty of time to go yet, but we need to capitalise on the pressure we're currently putting Rovers under to get anything from this game.  Rovers will be desparate to hang on to 3 points after not winning in 12.  Come on Town, turn it around.

If we can get a goal it might shatter their confidence given the run they've been on. Only one way to find out - come on lads!

Would I be harsh to ban STFC-has-no-life?

yep.no need

A bit, though they do seem to irritate.

Leave him be but he should expect some abuse. Fwiw i agree with him just don't wanna bang on about it.

I wasn't serious. If I started banning people who moan on here, I think the only person left would be leefer.

Fuck me this is shite........... :D

It's okay he's on Thisis comment bit as I type... Bet you can't guess what he's been saying.

I await Norway Red's half time report :D

Was he saying that he is a cunt :)

Northampton 1-0 The Pox

Oh well, I guess it will save Barry money

Why, do you get a good view of the Memorial shed from Norway ;)

He will be BLUBBERING ;)

I'm undecided as to whether or not the crappy choppy streaming on STFCPlayer is a good or bad thing today.

p.s. you probably do get a good view from the top of the ski jump in Lillehammer.

Half time. Meh.

Listen to ed instead sonic.

Norway Red's half time report: No more Northern Irishmen or Scots in the manager chair at Swindon Town Football Club, please! Andrew Fitton, it's time to get real and do the things you need to do even though you have a crush on DW. You got to stay professional and leave the personal stuff aside. We need a manager with IDEAS. With the will TO CHANGE

Thank you.  :bye:

Damn right I will!  :cry:

All a bit meh following town this season, nothing to get exicted about at all, unless you are Gazza of course

It's hard not to type anything negative to be fair. Sounds like we were on top for large periods of the first half but it just ain't happening.

Gotta sling another striker on methinks. But what options do we have ? Dossevi and Pericard. Oh good.

We're gonna win, just you wait. Where's Ben's lesbian filled posts when you need them?

Not even lesbians can save us now

This ...

In space, no lesbians can hear you scream

BBC stats claim no shots on target for us so far!

Surely we've got at least one forward coming in soon...

Now, if we had a lesbian manager ...

Could we still be cunts?

Wish they wouldn't read out the Wilson out texts. Getting on my tits.

For fuck's sakes, complete cock up. Sheehan trying to play football when he was the last man.

2-0

Yay. Again.

Defensive collapse

2-0. Goodnight Irene. For fucks sake bunch of clueless cunts.

Bring back Stfc 4 life

They'll be even more worse now.  FFS.  Sorry I'm totally on the bandwagon now.  Wilson has got to go to give us any chance of avoiding relegation to League 2.  Sorry state of affairs.

Yeovil is trailing 0-1 at home to Rochdale. The green giants that beat us at home last week remember.

ALL OVER GOODBYE-WE ARE SHIT

Hoist by my own swivel stick.

Boooooooooooooo

Don't panic we'll win 3-2

Swindon have yet again ruined a good hangover.

that man kuffour again.
i rate him, and would love us to sign him.

4-2

Lets stay positive.

Er...at least nobodies been sent off!

I've said it since new years.

Andrew Fitton: action, not words

The same goes for that ginger Northern Irish boy!

We never win down there anyway!

Still sounds bad. Very strange how things seem to have changed so quickly. Lets hope they go the other way soon.

Fuck this, I'm off to do something interesting & less stressful. Time to go and wash my hair

I have said that for a few years now arriba.

Cunting fucktards... I've had enough.

I would take a Birmingham comeback now.

Remember the Maskell-show that turned 1-4 to 6-4 in some crazy minutes during the second half.

Now that was football! I still got the game on VHS somewhere - original bought from the club shop!

I've been a supporter of Wilson but he has to go.

Nothing to say.

Just a standard saturday afternoon then!  TEF will be in meltdown tonight

Yeah, but that side had Hoddle in it. Now we've got Prutton!!

shite

Not good is it

I think I'll go cut my toe nails... not my wrists yet

Maybe I'll then cut the crap.

We'll see.

 :eek:

Relegation scrap > Play-off final > Relegation scrap

What the fuck has happened?

And the Pox equalise

I'm back and all i can say is fuck off Wilson right fucking now!!!

so have i.
class act at our level.

No idea, but looks good for next season when you put it like that.

I just don't know what to say...

Not if it's a L2 playoff it isnt

Irenes a slag

Our defending has been shocking. You build from the back. Invest at centre back, if you don't concede goals you dont lose games. Build a base. Simple.

Do you smoke crack ?

Well where are the fucking changes?

They tried to shoot dossevi he say no no no

Every Rovers fan I know (at least 15 of them) doesn't really rate him.

I always though he was a handful.

Dossevi for Ferry.

Fuck me sideways we're terrible.

Cheers then Danny enjoy your impending life of leisure (surely?!)

Fitton needs to act.  There's absolutely no point running the club successfully off the pitch and planning a new 19,000 seater stadium if we're going to be in League 2 next season.

Sorry, I'm sounding like STFC-4-LIFE now, but quite frankly I've had a gutsful of this.  It's 22 January, we're brought no new players in apart from a defender who's not even made the bench.  We're on course for our third successive defeat, two of which have been to teams who were below us.   4 points out of 18 tells enough of a story.

If Wilson can't get his players to give their all in a game like today's, it's not going to get any better.  

Yes they changed it just as I clicked post.

Anyone think that as Wilson is being backed in the window he ain't going anywhere.

Mediocracy for Mediocracy you mean Sie......even i am starting to feel that only one change is needed.
Like Wilson...but fear for him now.

who would replace Wilson if he was to go then?

Yes si

I don't think Wilson is going anywhere.

I wouldn't say he has been backed that well in the window, Flint is a player for the future he hasn't really brought anyone in and Frampton is only on loan, Maybe the board haven't fully backed him in the window as they are waiting to see how results pan out?

I'm afraid I have to agree with you

Thing is Si he is being backed but only with players that fit the way we are trying to get players. He hasn't been backed in the sense that he has been able to bring in players who will make a impact now.

Paul fucking Trollope seems to be most peoples most likely. Jesus fucking wept, I think I'd give up totally.

Yeah that's possibly the only thing which might mean it doesn't matter.

I too could see Trollope being appointed, Fitton likes him apparently.

I dont know...i dont care.

Feel for the fans who went there....glad i didn't go.

JPM!

Still think we may snatch something here

JPM. We are back in this. COME ON YOU REDS

A complete change is needed.  The only players in the current squad that I would like to see here next season would be Lucas, Cuthbert, Ferry, Douglas, Ritchie and Austin.

Even if JPM has just scored a screamer

Get in.

Im inclined to agree

Someone that is out of work that has been sacked from their previous job because of bad results.

theres one back, told ya we'll we win 3-2

Come on let's have two more!

Quite honestly any of us could do a better job at the moment.  Tranmere winning as well.  It just gets worse.  :(

Hang on, we've pulled one back.  Great strike by McGovern.  Time to stand up and be counted!

Under 200 Wigan fans at the Emirates. Jeez  :eek:

Buck up now Town, fucking work for it.

Yes!........25 mins.

Cobblers 2 Pox 1

C'mon.

Poxford losing now

This thread needs more nuns

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As we are chasing the game surely it's time to bring Timlin on

If the replacement is Trollope, I would rather stick with Wilson.

I should have gone to Bmth Brighton. Box, three course meal and free bar. Instead I decide to follow Town on here. Not a good choice

Looking att naked nuns is a bad Habit

Bring back Ossie

You stupid twat

Fool!

Same. No improvement with that change at all.

What kind of a masochist are you?

It's incredible how many times I've heard the words "good football from Swindon" in this game. I'm not sure I can believe it.

Ashley Grimes scores a hatrick for Lincoln

A Bournemouth victory over Brighton would be some scalp with all the recent happenings :nod:

Sounds like we should have started 4-4-2?  

Why has it taken going 2 goals behind for the team to realise they need to actually show some fight?

Is it too late to ask for a doggy bag?

Jack Smith scores for Millwall

I'm going to look on the bright side. I wouldn't have been able to drink much after three courses anyhow

3-1

Fooking Shite

false dawn

Game over.

Cock.

ok we'll win 4-3

Well that optimism was short-lived

Atmosphere should be interesting on tuesday night!

nearly 4

Fuck a duck  :( :crash:

Wilson  :bye:

Drink before eats.

3-1 now :-[

3-1.

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Our defence:

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I managed to re-arrange working in London so I could make the game. Not sure I should have bothered now.

These cunts havn't won a game since fucking october the 16th. Get fucked you fucking wankers fed up of this bullshit now.

I blame Morrison :D

Especially if we go 1 down!

huh?

:nod:

I might hand in a fan transfer request on Monday.

oh, Rovers. I thought by 'these cunts' you meant Town...which is what I call them now.

Thank god that I have a daughter, a missus and home made pizza to look forward too, cause this saturday has been dire footballwise...

 :clap:

Corrected :)

Now that was a brilliant idea!  :gay:

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arty nuns

Thats illegal in this country !

oh well.at least a relegation battle will see if we have fight in the team or not

Is she straining on the bog?

In a urinal?

I see Danny Wilson is keeping his cards to himself and awaiting more subs at 1-3. Of course. Danny's the man!

I think I can answer that question without the relegation battle.

Its a question I'd rather not ask of our current shambles.

We don't arriba that's evident already. We didn't last time either until wilson came in funnily enough

I think we've seen what fight we have after last Saturday and today

haha! Brilliant humour!

off topic but kaid mohamed has a brace for bath city today

im looking forward to the post match interview..............

And Revell just scored for orient again!

well if there is no fight,then something will have to change.
either new players,new manager,or both.....

Revell grabs his 13th ::)

Austin sounds quite lively today. Which is good.

Poole 2-2 St Ives, FA Vase

I bet he says we were unlucky and played well apart from the defensive errors. May be true but it's hardly fair to take no responsibility for the defense being shit.

As much as it irks me, I'm starting to agree with the Wilson out collective...

I hate to say it as I like giving managers time but this is at the point where Malpas had to go to save our season and it's looking like Wilson's time is up too.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Me too...

Ditto

Problem is the defence has been shit since day 1 of the season. What can Wilson say that hasn't already been said. We don't need talk, we need new blood in the team. Frampton isn't the answer if he is always crocked.

This is one occasion when I don't like being right.

would any one swap this shit to win divison 2 next season  :hmmm:

This. This is the problem. We really miss Greer.

No

Maybe it isn't just about the personnel though Batch.

fuck me,how the hell is dean windass still employed by sky sports?
his stupidness amused me for a while,but after weeks of his blundering reports he has become an annoyance.thick cunt..

And an effective midfield pairing (Ferry and Douggie) and I'd argue Paynter added to robustness.

Never

I don't think he will, but surely Fitton must be at least considering making a change?

Here you go,turn off the radio here is the aftermatch interview main points from Wilson

We played well in parts.
Got caught chasing the game.
Same defensive errors.
We are looking at players.
May get some next week.
Lacking confidence.
Will work hard on the training pitch like we always do
Austin going nowhere unless the right offer comes in.

He's shite. He's supposed to be watching the game, but he's caught out so many times.

Maybe. Maybe I'm wrong. Wilson has to take responsibility either way. He signed the players.

Duh  errrrrrrrrrrrgh...someone scored.

When was the last time we even kept a clean sheet?

Boo

We are now pretty much the most embarrasing team in this league!

let meltdown begin

Peter Shirtliff needs to take his share of the blame for the defending, being an ex centre back and all that.

New manager please.

ps i have no idea how im going to change things around, might have lost the dressing room, fritton loves me so im going no where

Wilson has to go now surely?

I get the feeling this thread will be 35+ pages by 8pm

total dross  :no:

nah more like 40

Fritton?.....has he converted to being Chinese. ;D


I so solly.

As long as you all vote for sonny keep moaning.

We just need 1 result to "go on a run"

Offensively we're strong imo. The problem is that you need a strong and confident backline to give confidence to the players in front of them. At the minute we're too inexperienced at the back, we're nervous, we're making mistakes, we're conceding goals left, right and centre. It gives no confidence to the players knowing that when we go and get a goal were most likely to concede at the other end. Confidence is a big thing. We're not a million miles away.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Relegation battle it is then. On the bright side again it's nearly San Miguel time

Fuck off wilson

Salisbury 2-1 Bashley

Better now.

disagree about being strong offensively.we have 1 forward who knows where the net is,and he wants to leave.
the whole team is a mess from back to front

Stephen fucking Hawkins has got more chance of going on a run than we have

Our form and inability to defend getting v worrying now. I'm off out on the piss, look forward to reading the next 20 pages of this thread when I get in.

In my opinion we are a striker away from that. But I know what you mean.

And Stephen Hawking has more chance of going on a nun.

What just like the Charlton game :hmmm:

I agree, we are a player short in EVERY department.

Exactly. Less than two weeks after that result he was saying how one big result could change our fortunes. I'm no Wilson hater, but that was a stupid comment.

Nothing to lose now by bringing Flint in

Smithy makes it 3-2 to the Dolphins

Internet access to BBC Wiltshire has just kicked in

He might add steel to the team and cause us to spark.....

Ta shady

Say something someone. This silence is getting awkward.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haven't we had enough of The Pirates for one day?

Death of a TEFer?

  A crisis no doubt....my worry is that a knee jerk...will leave us worse off. Danny got us in this mess, he can get us out.

I just saw the league table, fuck me. Dont think I could handle another season in division 4

My wife once had a gay flatmate in Glasgow, who was nicknamed the Pirate of Men's Pants.

Just trying to lighten the mood.

Listen to  Player and BBC at the same time ... it sounds like we're in a deep hole .... oh!

So he had a cock on his shoulder...not a parrott.

you really still believe that? I feel the only way is down with wilson at the helm

A knee jerk reaction would have been sacking him in November, After losing to Yeovil and Rovers, Two teams in the relegation zone in a week and after so many other dire performances i don't think anyone can defend him any longer.

This

Deep shit.

Bleugh. Wilson in for now, although this is all starting to get very worrying. I'd give him until the end of February, see who he brings in/sends out and how this affects the team. He seems to work quite closely with Fitton over transfer targets, so just getting another manager in won't improve things imo.

I'll be there to witness the dross myself on Tuesday. Perhaps my point of view will change after seeing it first hand!

Agree with everything except for the second volley of full-stops...

How can he if the players don't seem interesting in playing for him?

I think these last 2 games prove he's lost the dressing room, If there's no fight against 2 teams in the relegation zone what hope is there? Until he goes i don't think things will improve.

He wont be fired by Fitton. I dont see how changing him and rebuilding again will do us any good. We're only a couple of players off, CB and SC with some experience and potentially a keeper and the side looks good again and i'm sure it will turn around.

My concern is Fitton seems to insist on just buying young players, fingers crossed for something different next week.

Couple of wins and its mid table again.

All very depressing.

Not a cockatoo? Just the one, like.

Loving the Mark O'Donnell in text! Raised the only smile of the day.

I don't think it's as simple as that. Most of these players were happy enough to perform last season. Plenty of them are out of contract soon, if they don't want to end up on the footballing scrap heap, they'll sort themselves out pronto.

I honestly feel that if we could sort out the back 5, the rest would follow.

Dont see how amyone can still want dw here? Hes put us back toin the form he found us in he has obviously lost the dressing room time to move on

Your optimism is good, but we've been a couple of players off since the start of the fucking season and now 3 weeks into the transfer window of January, they've still haven't been brought in.  

A couple of wins will only improve our position if teams above us lose and we've been saying it will turn around for months now.  It hasn't and it's getting gradually worse.

That and Ardiles' "Pirate of Men's Pants" gag. That was superb

I didn't think I'd ever find myself agreeing with you, but the evidence indicates that he may have lost large portions of the dressing-room. Where you and I part is that I blame the spineless players when they do this. I get sick of players who mentally bail out when the going gets tough and think it'll all be better if they can get their manager sacked. If they are doing that, I hope they'll be playing in League Two with or without us next year. Pathetic.

I sort of agree with you...alas we had two decent defenders in Greer and Morrison.

Seems half a million pound for the pair was more important.

Its not that simple though.....other teams would die for some of the players we have.

I have to concede this down to management .

Here goes

Wilson on the radio. That was quick.

I totally agree with you, but unfortunately we're not in a position to oust two thirds of the team.  The buck has to stop somewhere and someone has to be accountable and that is the manager.  If my team were consistently underperforming at work, I would expect it to directly affect my end of year appraisal.

What did Wilson say? I switched off.

Awaits the "one win to go a run" ...

Definitely going to have to change it at theback and that we played well. I fell asleep then.

'There's no danger, no danger at all'

Leefer my man, i could not have put it better. It is down to management and any one who disagrees is just kidding themselves

Maybe Lesbian nuns in the dressing room would kick start our season?

It just all seems too simplistic to say he's lost the dressing room when the team isn't performing. I can't pretend to know a professional footballers psyche, but I just can't believe they'd play poorly just to get him sacked unless something serious has occurred that we aren't aware of.

He needs the whole window to bring in new faces, not three weeks of it. Judge him, and his signings after he's made them and after they've had time to settle in. Teams get rid way too quickly these days.

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Yay, finally! The radio have asked him why he hasn't done anything about it. "Because the players aren't out there" apparently. Well that's OK then

Says it al really - absolute cop out. 

We are not far away... FUCK OFF

Bristol's only 40-odd miles away

Wilson:
- Another display marred by defensive errors
- Will be changing faces at the back.
- Cannot continue defending like this
- Been like this all season.
- No danger outside of the goals.
- We can't get the players in- answer to the question "Why haven't you done anything about it?"
- Need signings in the next week
- Fair to say we haven't replaced Greer, knew what we've needed but not been able to get hold of it. Frampton should have helped but injuries are frustrating that
- Tuesday is huge. This was huge. "You've seen what we are capable of doing. We shouldn't have conceded three today" same again Tuesday, got to go in with the same attitude (!) and cut out the mistakes.
- Hopes for people in before Tuesday, defensively. Striker the other key area. Very proactive but players not been available so far, difficult to buy in January.
- On Austin: did alright, tried very hard and been unlucky. Not sure if he'll be a Swindon player Tuesday or onwards.

Poor interview in my opinion, can understand not wanting to offend him but seriously tip toed around the issues.


I'm sure a game of Post Match Interview Bingo would be very, very easy.

Spot on Deano.

Offer received for Austin then.

not far from relegation, fuck off wilson

That's the exact comment which I kept reading/hearing which made me want Wilson out.

Sorry but Wilson is deluded !

To say we are "nearly there" after being done 3-1 at Rovers is a fucking disgrace !

You could replay any post-match interview from Sept onwards really and it would be the same. In fact, I'm not sure that's not what they do sometimes

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I sensed a few veiled digs at the board in that interview.

So how is Wilson planning on bringing players in by Tuesday or this week if the players aren't out there?  Those two points completely contradict each other.  Another bullshit interview, which sounds remarkably similar to those that he was giving in September.  The bloke is living in cloud cuckoo land.

I'm convinced that all those saying "every interview is the same" are either not listening properly, or just choosing to ignore certain bits. Wilson said a lot more than he has done in the past. He basically blamed the defence for our position and said we need to make changes there because it's not good enough. He sounded pretty angry when he said we gave the ball away in stupid areas, and he said our defending is killing the team. I've never heard him come out and be that frank about how bad we are at the back. I don't doubt him when he says the only problem is finding the right players to bring in but he's really got to get something sorted soon.

The only real positive thing talked about was that Charlie put a shift in.

I still think we can win on Tuesday. It's going to be a far cry from our home game against Tranmere last time though, when we won 3-0 without ever stepping out of 2nd gear.

Dougie on Twitter "Another shit day at the office"

That isn't a popularity contest Wilson's going to win

Indeed. Perhaps Fitton could show him how Peter Reid (Peter fucking Reid mind you) is doing with a side that's having its best players sold right, left and centre. Compare that to Wilson and Danny has a right cushy job.

It's probably not the most sensible thing to do when you've failed to meet any of your yearly targets.

Indeed. You wonder if there is a defender that he wants but it's a older player and we don't pay money for those.

Like Samdy says, sounds like a good offer for Austin might be in.

Wilson: "There are no players out there"...

Strange! Everybody else is finding new players, but Wilson can't find none...

Maybe you have to look at your scouting staff then?! I'll be happy to scout in Norway  :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

I'll be happy to ban you if you don't stop posting videos of stupid fucking norwegian players aswell

Didn't quite catch that bit due to screaming child.

Hear the "don't know if he'll be here on Tuesday" bit, id he say an offer had been received or that he didn't know? Thought he said something along the lines of not being party to things like that (which is probably what the "thinly veiled criticism" post above was about.)

Be very interesting to see the 'highlights' wonder if they will show LJF at fault again. But then saying that on here is equivalent to supporting Wilson on Thisis.

He was asked if Austin will still be a Town player on Tuesday. He said he didn't know. Samdy read between the lines and may be right... but may also be way off the mark. The way I interpreted it was that Wilson didn't want to go out and say "Yes, he's staying" just in case an offer comes in. Who knows!

Second goal was Sheehan's fault, first one difficult to tell from commentary but lack of pace across the back four seemed to be the problem, third I'm not sure.

LJF was getting a lot more praise from Vic and co-comm than the others. He's not great, but nor is the sole problem.

Cheers mate!

I distinctly heard Wilson say an offer had been received. Very last thing said in the interview.

As captain, surely he has to realise he has a responsibility to do something about that? In a real office, you have the staff, who come udner the responsibility of the supervisor (team captain), and then the management team. It's no good Dougie as captain (or any of the other players) moaning about how crap things are, as it's entirely down to THEM to sort it out.

Oh. Must have missed that!

Our squad is proper shit  :cry:

That was the bit I missed, couldn't make out if he said 'had' or 'had not'. Thanks. I think.

Missed that totally. Shit.

The Police Squad would probably do better...

and I'm not talking about Metropolitan Police FC

Get Thorstein Helstad out of retirment

 :clap:

Useless cunt on the radio, right at the end of the broadcast..

"Full time Bristol Rovers 1 Swindon Town 3"

 :doh:

Anyone who actually went to the game back yet with an opinion?

I went. It was shit. Did you want more detail?

yes.but spare us player ratings

Topic has taken a turn for the worse.

Where are the nuns?

Here.

 ;D

Was there anything positive about the way we played etc or am I just clutching at straws?  Actually, it doesn't matter is there was, we still fucking lost!

We lacked tactical nous and defensive strength. Story of our season. Oh and it's easy for a team to defend against us when they only have to ever think about one striker.

We were still putting in effort at 2-0 down and got the reward to go 2-1. At least that showed a bit of fight. That's the most you can say.

The good news is they probably won't need to think about him for much longer reading between the lines

If you looked at the official stats without knowing the score you might have thought we'd won the match!

Possession
    * Bristol R 49%
    * Swindon 51%
Attempts on target
    * Bristol R 6
    * Swindon 8
Attempts off target
    * Bristol R 3
    * Swindon 2
Corners
    * Bristol R 4
    * Swindon 10
Fouls
    * Bristol R 12
    * Swindon 12

Yet another negative 4-5-1 formation, playing for a point against a side who haven't won in months before today.

Smith 6 - not sure what he could have done about the goals, made some straight forward saves and didn't do much wrong apart from a fumble near the end.

Caddis 6 - impressive going forward but always looks shaky at the back. Linked up well with JPM in the second half.

Cuthbert 5 - Found Hoskins hard to deal with but got more solid as the game went on.

Lescinel 5 - fairly dominant in the air but like Cutbert struggled a little with Hoskins.

Sheehan 5 - Huge fuck up for their second but got forward ok and tried to make amends.

McGovern 6 - below average first half but picked up in the second and put in some good crosses. Took the goal very well.

Douglas 7 - easily our best player, always working hard and played some superb balls in the second half. Has to be one of the best midfielders in this league.

Ferry 3 - by far his worst display in a Swindon shirt I thought. Was a spell in the first half when he gave away the ball about 4 times in a row, looked well off the pace. Rightly subbed off.

Prutton 4 - What does he offer? Not creative, not a holding midfielder and all he does is give away the ball and commit silly fouls. Won't be dropped, though.

Ritchie 5 - Tried to beat his man without having much luck, at least he gave it a go.

Austin 6 - put in a decent shift and came close with the headers, maybe should have done better? still, our only goal threat and we are fucked if/when he leaves.

Dossevi 5 - ran around a bit without actually doing much at all, not a goal scorer and will surely be gone in the summer when his contract runs out.

Why didn't Wilson throw on Pericard at 3-1 down? At least make an effort to get back into the match. Most managers would throw up the big boys in hope of salvaging something, but not Wilson. Clueless.

Rovers weren't great, but deserved the win as they were on top for most of the match bar the spell of Swindon pressure in the second half. Both teams are going to end up down the bottom of the table come May I think.

At least 2 players needed by the end of the month or we are heading for League 2.

I played football today, didnt go, didnt listen, didnt care at all.

Those who went I only have one question to ask was it as bad as Yeovil last week?

No, we actually looked decent for a 15/20 minute spell at 2-1 down then they went straight up the other end and finished the match off.

Can you get a game just like that-fuck,you must be good!

Only 6 teams have scored more goals than us this season.

Obviously if Austin leaves we need replacements.

Priority is at the back without a shadow of a doubt.

Yes I am.

Ok, no im not I've been playing every other saturday this season and the team I play for have lost all but one game this season and have a single point - so not the best team in the world!

I've usually at least got someone on the side line checking the score, I'm usually straight in the car with the radio on as soon as I can - not today, I didnt want to know.

Honestly? No.

Not long got back.  1st goal we conceded to be fair to Rovers was a pretty good goal and left our defence flat footed. I can't see Hoskins being at Rovers much longer.

It took us about 20mins to start stringing any decent movements together but like the last few games we just lack any imposing threat in the final third playing 4-5-1.

Ritchie was marked out of the game completely, every time he got the ball he was closed down by 2 or 3 Rovers players.

Austin worked hard but without any decent service he was always going to hit a brick wall.

Dougie did ok today but the rest were poor Ferry being the worst.  I don't know what it is but to me when Prutton plays in a 3 man midfield or next to JD he looks lost and it's hard to understand just what role is meant to play or what he brings to the midfield.  I don't think he's a bad player but Danny needs to make a decision on what his role is in the team because at times he looks like a lost sheep.

Sadly for me it was our fullbacks that let us down today defensively, i though LJF did ok but we seriosly need some one in defence to organise the back line.  Greer wasn't a great defender in my eyes but what he more than made up for was it leadership qualities and he bossed the back four.

Wilson was far too slow changing his tactics and should of gone 4-4-2 at after half time because in my eyes 4-5-1 just wasn't working.  Sure we huffed and we puffed but no end product which sadly is the story of our last few games.

Their defence easily coped with most of our attacks because we're just so predictable and the sad thing is i genuinely now believe Danny doesn't know how to mix it up.

LJF ok? Honestly, he was abysmal. So one sided he doesn't even tackle with his right, let alone pass. Ok, so we had the measure of Hoskins in the air, but he was clueless otherwise. No communication, shocking distribution, no positional sense, no confidence. We cannot carry a player like that in our side.

He was no worse than the others in the back 4. The worst player in our side was Ferry by an absolute mile.

Granted, Sheehan was poor today, again, incapable of kicking a ball with his right foot, and Caddis, as we've come to expect, is strangely slow, turns like the QE2, doesn't close down and loses the ball too easily. I felt sorry for Cuthbert, he isnt to blame.

But LJF hasnt got the ability or mentality to be even a half decent centre back and if we think we can start him and stay up we are completely deluded.

There is a reason he was fourth choice CB before Morrison left, he's not the Messiah, he's a very average L2 CB

ljf got slated for last weeks conceeded goal too,but i thought cuthbert was at least equally to blame as he miss judged the first ball like ljf did,and then didn't react quickly enough when matey followed up to score.

lwI see Pericard doesn't play so you've made LJF the scape goat today.  LJF was no worse than the rest of the back 4 in fact our fullbacks should bear the biggest brunt of the blame

Bollocks. I didn't go, and nor did I mention today, goats, goals or blame.

I just don't rate LFJ particularly highly at all, he's a bit shit I reckon and he definitely was fourth choice CB up until last week.

he was more than good enough in a promotion chasing team last year.

LJF has the best passing ability out of all the recent centre backs we've had. He can pick a 50 yard pass at times with ease. He often gets caught behind him and is maybe better suited to LB but he's no worse than the others at the moment.

Realistically in every position this season we are only 1 player short. we have 3 of the 4 defenders 3 of the 4  midfielders and 1 of last seasons strikers. unfortunatly wilson bought the wrong players in the summer but has decided he has to justify them by keep playing them. I think his fuck up on signings is whats holding us back getting the players we need now.

I like LJF but he is a bit Ifil like. When he's good he's damn good but when he isnt, well he isnt.

Southampton away and Charlton in the play offs he was a fucking beast and played a huge part in us winning those games.

No idea how he played today but against Yeovil he was solid for 99.9% of the game then cost us the game in the other 0.1% sadly.

Although he must be a bit rusty before last week he hadnt featured in ages. I dont think either Rose or Sheehan offer him much, both a bit shite really.

Other than defensively I think we played reasonably well, the problem is (as much as I hate to say it) LJF just seems to shut off for moments.
If we don't sort out our awful defence we will go down

Totally agree. He has filled the squad with some absolute shit and has taken up transfer money and wages on players simply not good enough.

Just got back. Yet another game where we weren't awful but certainly deserved to be beat. I still think we have to stick with Wilson but he is really worrying me now. Can't face the prospect of relegation but I can't deny that this has that sinking feeling of seasons past when it's all gone tits up. No idea what the answers are and I'm tired of thinking about it all so just gonna get the Whisky out and hope this is the low point of the season. The darkest hour is before the dawn and all that. Where did I put that nun porn.......

Never mind there's always Tuesday to get over it...

just seen the goals again and after McGoverns goal did Charlie make a rude gesture towards the female official whilst celebrating??

yh he deffinatly made a gesture.

Just seen the goals. 2nd was comical, third was very poor. Lescinel to blame for both (to differing degrees)

I want him to be good, but so many times he plays he's at fault for goals

Anyone know how many town fans were there?

1028 Town fans made the trip.

Thanks Mr Mayes.

It look like a fanny licking gesture!

Add 1 to that. I was in the with the Wovers lot.

Is it me of Did Prutton have a poor game. Besides the obvious defensive faults we offered little up front either. To be expected I guess with 1 up front.

I agreed with my Wovers supporting friend who said after the first half they didn't deserve to be winning & we didn't desreve anything other than what we got (Both sides were crap).

We both saw it as a 1-0 to them as a fairer reflection on the play

i dont want to talk about it.

Certainly did. He was mouthing off at her a fair bit 2nd half.

Players are in training today apparently.

Meh, they can Sky+ their cartoons.

just seen the goals

what the fuck was that, 3 really shit goals to let in. Douglas completely ball watching for the first lets Lines run behind him so he has loads of space to pick out a pass.

Second was fucking school boy shit

Third was a piss poor header.

my sauce tells me this is to do with him snorting coke off the womens fannies he is screwing behind his beaten mrs back.

you forgot sacrificing goats to Satan

Yep, I heard that to.

The police caught him and tried to arrest him but he got out of it by telling them he was Charlie Austin.

I thought we played well yesterday, Douglas played some tremendous balls.  The defence looked shakey, but I think even Wilson could see that.  Was surprised he didn't try chucking Pericard in as well at the end, as we were getting plenty of crosses into the box.  From what I saw yesterday, we have enough about us to turn it round.

Well i had a great weekend in York...again.

This was marred by my bberry informing me that we were shit.

Text after text.

I was not there so unlike alot of others i will not comment...

However....lose on Tuesday and the axe might be swung!

Did my favourite player Prutton play any good.....he normally does when all the rest are shit?

Over a 1000????  I salute you, one and all!

Being in York you couldn't quite get away from it all as they have an area called the Shambles

I'm up to York for the pantomime on Friday, then back to Swindon for the...oh you get the idea...

The odd thing is that for parts of the game we played alright, but it is just the school boy defending and just standing around while the ball goes past them, from everyone not just the back 4, we knew that Hoskins would be tricky player but had no plan for him if we had managed to keep him quiet then maybe it would have been a different game as he was very lively and always a threat.

I do wonder about Wilson's tactics though, he's rarely preperared to just go for it when we are losing badly and put 3 up top for example, with Rovers not having won for 12 games if we had got another back then perhaps they would have started to panick and it would have helped us going forward, I Know it is all if's but's and maybe's but it does annoy the hell out of me that Wilson rarely changes tactics or formation during games to do something different other than going from 4-5-1 to 4-4-2 and you see other teams doing things that clearly work to stop our play having done their homework on us.