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Here goes for another matchday thread.  2-0 Swindon with Connell and Kerooooosh getting on the score sheet!  COYR!!!

About time we stopped fucking about, got our act together and start giving out a consistent run of good hidings.

1-1

3 changes and Connell to play no more than 45 minutes

6-1

Don't let that cunt Sanchez win.

2-1

i despise sanchex. we HAve TO BEATY HIM. CUNTTT

Is this the day when we finally give somebody a hammering? 6-1 :hmmm:

3-1 Connell hat trick  :D

2-1 (Flint, De Vita)

How's the weather looking?

I dont think Barnet are as bad as some may think. They do have one of the top scorers in the league in the form of Mcleod. I still think we have enough to win though. Flint back, stick with the front two. I would like to see a better option used on the left though, ideally Gabilondo.

2-1 defeat.

3-2

4-1.  Kerrouche, De Vita and Magera with 2 off the bench.

My mate can't make it due to work commitments so against my better judgement, I'm taking my wife. :cry:

A lady once told me "I will go anywhere with you...except a football match"
Shocking I didn't get rid of her!

Our Swindon v Barnet match preview: http://thewashbag.com/2011/09/23/match-preview-swindon-v-barnet/

Easy BTW 4-0

1-2.

2-0 Kerrouche and Ritchie to score

2-1 - and Margera to get off the mark today.

COYR!

4 - 1 Town

3-1 Town - comfortable win.

6-4

Caddis Hat trick and Mark Mashall to get all 4

3-0 Kerrouche hatrick

Connell's day today.  3-1 to us.

I don't think it will be easy, and I don't think it will be particularly pretty, but I do think we'll win

I will settle for that at the moment

Much tougher game than a lot of people expect today.

Barnet have gone to Pompey and won 1-0 in the LC 1st round, won 1-0 away at Morecambe who beat Creepy Crawley 6-0, drew away at Rotherham (then leaders), won 3-1 away at Colchester in the JPT.

A better team on the road than at home.

I am going for a 1-1 draw with a 7,248 crowd with barely 200 from Barnet.

I am liking these predictions.  So much more positive than the usual!  Lets just hope the team don't go and fuck it up!

I have got a mate who has just started taking his son to watch Barnet, nearest local team for him. Plus kids get in for nothing. All good so far, they have been to a couple of games but have yet to see Barnet score. Based on this I am going for a 3-0 win for us.

Words of wisdom here....if we are to do something this season, then we need to get on a long unbeaten run.  If it's going to happen today will be a pretty good indicator...as JJ says it's going to be difficult.

Will we see the return of Mr Whippy the Barnet fan.

Seeing as my predictions have been 100% wrong so far, I'll go for 0-2  :)

Probably going to be 0-3 now then ;)

A tight, dull 1-0 win i think and i'll be happy with that.

As mentioned now we to string some results together, performances are secondary to results

Just setting off for a couple of pints pre-match. 3-1

I fully agree with that, dull or not we need results, especially at home, win your home games and get a few wins/draws away from home and you will get promoted, we did it that way under Sturrock, not overly pretty to watch but scrape out wins by one goal and I will be happy witht hat, not sure all the Town fans would be the same though.

Think this will be harder than alot think, have a lot of dangerous players in attack, but think we will win about 2-0

6-0 to us.

I'm mixing it up by sitting with the stiffs in the Arkells as the old man has gone VIP today. I should probably leave soon.

If you are in the Arkells then dont forget to take the zimmer frame :) or at worst a walking stick to wave at the referee, that seems the norm up there!

3-0 Connell, Flint and Ritchie and about 160 barnet fans bringing attendence to just over 7200 :)

I'm already looking suitably unkempt and smell faintly of tobacco. I'll remember to bring a stick.

It sounds as if Magera will be on the bench then so Flint/Comazzi in for McCormack sounds like the only change. I maintain my 6-0 prediction :)

Oi I sit in the Arkells and don't fit that description, although the little group of old boys who sit in the row behind me certainly do

We ha :Dven't drawn a game yet, so I've a feeling we might today 2-2.

Swindon Town: Smith P; Caddis (capt), Devera, Comazzi, Kennedy; Ritchie, Ferry, Smith J, De Vita; Connell, Kerrouche

Subs: Lanzano (GK), Abdulla, Flint, Magera, Storey

Smith returns, no start for Flint ??!!

No wingers in the squad either.

Yeah quite a narrow side, surprised by Flint not starting though.

The way that De Vita and Ritchie are playing as opposite side wingers coming inside instead of taking players on down the outside it does pull the width right in but leaving the fullback to overlap.

Going today, could be my last game at the CG so they better bloody win!  That is all!

Fingers crossed your move goes through smoothly mate. Lets hope its a game to remember for all the right reasons!

Last game? Are you leaving us Berni?

Looking that way Sam, but I will be relying on the TEF to keep me in the loop!  Might have to change my name to TampaRed!

C'mon you Reds, back to winning ways today in emphatic style. Let's roll.

Jammy sod

Nice part of the world. Shame it's full of Americans though :)

All the best.

Poor start by the Town.

You lucky bugger! Good luck - Wish I could swap with you.

Just arrived - Afternoon chaps!

Sounds very, very quiet!

1-0 De Vita according to SSN!!!!!!!

fucking brilliant, now let's dick them

Is Swindon Player down ?

bit quiet in here today

whats happened to gabilondo then and easyjet?

i predict a 1-0 win de vita to score  :D

De Vita scored, then about 30 secs after the restart Richie broke through and slipped just as he was about to put it in the back of the net.

Commentator says that both defences are poor

2-0 Ritchie (after he hit the post and Keroosh missed the follow up)

Get in!!!!!

Would be nice to stuff them properly now

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. Fucking brilliant, what a start!! :clap:

Partying now with curry sauce and king prawns and glass of cola

Trying to pack up for our move south, but each time I go away, there's another goal....I'm going to go away and come back several more times!!!

Pox 1 up and Dougie scores for brentford :eek:

And Torres gets a straight red.

Very quiet on here today

3-0 Keroooooooooooooooooosh !

Did it again......

3-0 Yes!!!

Wonderland - loving it, more of the same second half please :clap:

Barnet are so very very bad.

Just woke up. Think I'll go and sleep through the second half too....

Defensively Barnet sound awful, going forwards they are threatening though, but the game is there for the taking, and by 5 or 6 goals.

Loving this sounds like we're all over them, smitthy sounds like he's playing well COYRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barnet are awful and their players were having a barney with each other on the pitch. We are all over them though and the score doesn't flatter us at all - we could absolutely stuff this lot

Barnet have been out 5 mins waiting for the second half...they look a bit lost bless em

A massacre awaits

Watching from the drs. I am quietly confident. I
Think we may win this one.

Austin scores for Burnley, gets great acclaim from Clarets' fans

Timmy for Southend, Nouble for Gillingham

Its strangely quiet here this afternoon is this due to:

a) a boycott
b) everyone is there
c) as we are doing well for a change there is nothing to moan about?

I think there was talk of a few mini-bus loads from here going down to Home Park to show solidarity for their plight.

Yup. Nothing to moan about.

I've seen two games this season so far - both 3-0 wins... which left me thinking we would give some teams a good kicking at home when the team start to gel.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Pox pegged back and Rovers losing! Gets better all the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxsSzPy6WT8

4-0 Ritchie

Get in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :nod:

Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssss  :D Absolutely brilliant afternoon!

In Di Canio we trust!

More bizarrely Timlin got a brace for Southend!

Loving this.

7,279 crowd, not bad at all only 31 out on my prediction :D

Very respectable

Make my 100th post a celebratary one please Town  8)

can we get a 5th???

No, but incredibly we are only 5 points off the top of the table.

Wow, that's a surprise, nice one  :beers:

I'll be deffo going to Swindon v Hereford in a fortnight. Well looking forward to it. They've somewhat become rivals haven't they?

Guy just texted BBC Wilts to say it was the worst 4-0 victory he's ever seen, no cohesion blah blah. What a misery guts!!

Di CANIO ON NOW:

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

Correction, he's imminent

Very tight at the top.  I think we could be top 3 with 3 wins from the next 4.  I see we're joint 2nd with Gillingham on goal difference behind Morecambe.

Cuthbert's move to Leyton Orient looking more & more inspired.  Not even the end of September and they're practically dead & buried already.

That was boringly easy haha.

Well played Town. Fantastic win and gives us a chance of going on a decent run now. Confidence must be high in the squad at the moment. Bring on Macclesfield.

Thinking back to 1995/96, our campaign that year was full of performances like that.  Routine wins.  Three points, & move on to next week.  We have to keep this going.  4 wins from 5 is a decent run.

Target #1 is now restoring our traditional league superiority over Oxford.  (Just one point in it now.)  And then we take this division apart.  We should fear no-one.

But equally being Swindon I would not be surprised if we lost to Macclesfield next week - for as long as I have followe town they have lost games that should be won easily!

I'm probably being a bit thick here, but what are you talking about??

You are, of course, completely right.

21 years on and I should know better.  I'll have a lie down now.

We have a goal difference of +7, as have the Gills.  No one betters that other than Morecambe (on +13).

It was boring but I'd settle for another 30 odd games like that. I think most of the crowd fell asleep half way through the second half, we were that dominant (without much goal mouth action).


Now we have to sort out our away form. I mean, if Plymouth can beat Macclesfield..... 8)

Oh absolutely! I was just coming back to say that I would take that all season long :D

Thought everyone played well after the first 10 minutes, Comazzi had a couple of funny moments in either half, Devera was solid, Kennedy was a beast at set pieces, Ritchie and Caddis were their usual troublesome selves, Raffa had another good game on the left, Kerrouche was his usual self, Ferry and J Smith were hustle and bustle, kept it nice and calm, got back and defended in the box well also. Connell worked hard without getting anything clear cut infront of goal.

Decent lads, decent.

what happend, im absolutly shocked Di Canio OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








only joking COYRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can winning 4-0 be boring as I heard some say. The team is begining to take shape but would always play Flint at this level. Smith now has to have a decent run in goal even if does make occasional gaffs.....I heard Di Canio on the radio afterwards saying he is lookking for another striker....dont really understand that.
Barnet very poor and they are going to struggle this season, without doubt...4 goals can`t remember the last time that happened...maybe someone will remind me.

Our man of the match vote: http://thewashbag.com/2011/09/24/man-of-the-match-vote-swindon-v-barnet/

Things are coming together nicely!...lets hope we can take it into the next 4/5 games and see where we are at the end of October!

Great performance today, first 5 mins a bit shakey but well done to the lads I felt for the rest of the game we passed the ball, knew our strengths and took our opportunities!

4-0 onto Macclesfield...COYR!!!

Maj 8)

p.s-night on  :pint: now!!!

I'll be honest, I thought we played OK in the first half but we were excellent going forward and deadly with our finishing. I think we played better against the Pox and Rotherham. This is a good sign. Nice to see their players having a go at each other, and how come they were back on the pitch so soon after half time, I went to get a drink and they were there when I got back.

Second half we totally dominated. The game was dead an buried but we tried to go forward.

Still think the defence looks a little shaky though!

Nice work STFC, nice work.

Jayohatchenn asking questions in the programme

Flames

Put the programme through your door Tans

Cheers mate

The last 20 minutes were boring, but we're all happy with the performance and result.

Does anyone know what Sanchez was on at half time. Stayed in the dugout until last 5 minutes then went in and 20 seconds later Barnet were on the pitch hanging about for ages waiting for us and the ref to appear, bizarre.

The lucky charm is in the GWH awaiting his train home

Connell didn't have anything clear cut in front of goal??  What about the one on one with the 'keeper when he fell over as he was about to shoot!!  Thought Ferry dominated midfield, Smith had a good game, Caddis was excellent, infact everybody played their part though Comazzi looked a little bit suspect and his distribution was not the best.  The stupid Adver was comparing Ritchie with Mark Marshall - no contest was it?

Saw that. He blanked all of his players as they went down the tunnel first half too. His coaches kept talking during the break but he looked like he'd given up completely.

The falling over was Ritchie wasn't it?

Was it?  Not a good view with my mince pies, apologies if I had the wrong man!!

Definitely Ritchie. Pretty entertaining watching him and Mcleod winding each other up in the first half.

Marshall was the same standard as when he left, one decent cross in five and step over, step over fall over. I did enjoy Ritchie putting him on his arse nearly in the corner of the drs and Stratton bank.

Ha I have no recollection of that whatsoever!

Oh, I see. You meant 'we're second on goal difference' as opposed to 'we're second on goal difference' :nod:

Twas Ritchie

That'll be why :)

Now talking about dodgy eyes did I see on more than one occasion Phil Smith come off his line and win a ball confidently and I could be wrong but did all his kicks stay on the pitch.

His kicking was something else today!

Really enjoyed today,i know i bang on about it but Di Canio is the man...five points behind the leaders now and really have a chance of winning this league.
De Vita played well and after his early season critics seems to be getting his head down,the whole team played well and to be honest my man of the match would have been De Vita...good goal and a solid game.
Di Canio will have many critics because of his team selections but i applaud his honesty and passion,however misguidede they maybe at times.

PS....Leefer predicted 4-0 on the prediction league :D

UP THE TOWN.

Just saw the goals on SSN - the first 2 looked to be very good finishes

Our defence still looks shaky but it was like Adams, bould, Winterburn and Dixon compared to Barnets' whose defence was truly shocking. Apart from the first minute, Barnet were pure bollocks.  A very professional job done on them and could have had 7 or 8.
How the hell did Barnet have 178 there - would have guessed half that.
Richie was MOM but he's a greedy fucker.

Am i the only one who thought Marshall played well for Barnet?

Obviously looking for a move but never the less he showed some quality touches.

He seemed to always take on one man too many, and his delivery varied. He shows flashes but isn't very consistent.

Marshall looked pretty ordinary to me. The only one of theirs i thuoght looked remotely decentv was the bald bugger in midfield. Their no 21 was a good laugh though - useless at crossing and Kerrouche got him easily booked.

Good old Clovis Kamdjo. That mis hit cross was genius.

very good performance
good to see ferry back to his old self imo, ritchie was immense

sanchez has to be the shittest manager known to man, didnt see him standup once in the dug out - i for one hope he fails and barnet get relegated, way above themselves at this level, blue square south team at best

Which one - the one on the first half or the one in the second half - both of them comedy gold.

Their #5 (left back?) was fucking shocking although the best moment goes to their right back who went for diagonal ball at the Stratton bank end from the half way line and it spooned of to the right for a goal kick.

Edit: see above for the players name  :)

McLeods shot that went out for a throw was pretty impressive.

All very odd, I felt quite sorry for the team to be honest, they must have felt a right load of twats back on the pitch after about 8 minutes!  My dad commented that he'd be surprised if Sanchez was still their manager on Monday, as he clearly didn't seem interested.

The first 10 minutes we were all over the place and De Vita's goal was completely against the run of play.  Probably justice for Burton last week.  After that, there was only really one team in it and I can't really fault any of the players today, they all played well.

Ritchie was deservedly MOM, but I agree with Chalkies Shorts, he can be very greedy at times.  It's key that we hold on to him through the transfer windows and that might be difficult.

The last 15 minutes or so were rather strange, considering we were winning 4-0, there was no atmosphere.  I know what people mean when they've mentioned 'boring', it was almost too comfortable.  However, even at 4-0, there were still people behind me moaning and getting on at players when a pass went astray.  I'm not sure what more they want?

And a separate moan, especially for Leefer because I know he keeps an eye on the food prices/standards.  I paid £1.50 for a portion of chips for my son at the Rotherham game, today I was charged £2.00 and the portion was pathetic.  I'm not sure how the club can justify that sort of increase?

i had a burger today that was drier than a nuns cunt
wanted chips as well, was told 15 minute wait for chips

what are they doing? peeling the spuds themselves??

haha and my FB profile pic of me in speedos too :)

He's a cameroon international apparently

You are fuckin joking aren't you?

Got to say that the food/drink side of things is poor,price wise and quality.

To be honest it is best to eat before you go in which is a shame because the club need the revenue.
Its not a moan because its not that important,except if you have kids in tow and burger and chips three times cost the best part of twenty quid :eek:

I thought he played well in the 2nd half and seems to have improved since leaving

We always have lunch before we go, but he likes the whole concept of having chips watching the match.  Will be less regular now, which as you say is a shame, because the club loses out.

Now you can teach him the concept of good husbandry  :nod:

Better at crossing than when he played for us, but that's about it.

Pretty sure it was a serious goer  :hmmm:

I've been critical of Magera's effort in matches so far but I thought he played well today. A great touch to put Kerrouche(?) in for a shot on goal. He won a few headers too!

Thought Marshall just got frustrated to early on in the game as he obviously wanted to make an impression, I know he was really looking forward to coming back for today's game but it couldn't really have gone any worse for him. Thought Leach for them also looked quite good. Don't know if we even hit fourth gear today, it was a good professional team effort.

Rightly or wrongly, I've always found it very difficult to warm to the mercenaries who turned up at the County Ground in early 1994 as our Premiership season was fizzling out.  Brian Kilcline. Frank McAvennie, Lawrie Sanchez...none of these names have any resonance with Town fans these days.  They turned up, they left.  It was all over by then anyway.  Wish they had never bothered.

Enjoyed that today, mainly due to the most comical defending I've seen in ages.... it was spectacularly bad. Barnet must have really worked hard in training on some of their coordinated defensive mix-ups.... fantastic fun.

The bit in the first half when two defenders converged on the same loose ball was stupendous...the drama was palpable when they ran towards each other - are they going just flatten each other? Everyone in the Don Rogers were on the edge of their seats.... and the defenders didn't disappoint by one of them simply smacking it against the other (pinging the ball out for a throw) - truely awe inspiring stuff...

All this plus the halftime pantomine was almost too much for my splitting sides to take...

Barnet, can we play you every week..?

 

Terrible opposition but we totally dominated in every position for 85 minutes.

Comazzi is unconvincing, I swear he used his shin to clear the ball at least two or three times during the game. Ferry and Smith controlled the midfield.

If Ritchie is still here in February then I'll eat my hat.

Do you reckon Ritchie will want the move or do you think the club will cash in come January? Surely if we are that serious about promotion we need to keep Matt on board. Ritchie is getting better by the game now and could really be the difference between going back up or not. He has stayed loyal to us after last season unlike most others who took the easy option out so I'm hoping he will see the season out. If we do get promoted he may well decide to stay with us.

Hooray, what a win - I'm a little drunk. Goodnight

Me too, we don't lose when I come up :pint:

I thought we had the game well and truly killed within 25 mins hence why the fans rested on their laurels... Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Barnet were one of the poorest sides I can recall pitching up at the CG so it was great to see us put them to the sword emphatically. Ritchie was utterly sublime today and I didn't blame him for the odd bout of greed given he was on a hat-trick. Thought Mehdi Kerouche was top drawer both up front and when deployed wide right. Special mention for Phil Smith who played like a man with a point to prove. Nice to also see Magera back in action albeit it very rusty.

A good weekend to be a Town fan. COYR!!!!

Wouldn't surprise me if Ritchie is kept here because of the "Di canio factor"

I'd rather be playing for him and winning this shite league than not and playing at the foot of a league above..

Also I after the last 2 weeks i've realised just how good Gary Rose & the official club twitter is.
I've been in the SU watching soccer saturday but their tweets have kept me in the loop.

Also we won. YAY!

Just seen the highlights and what a ball from Comazzi for Ritche's second. All top finishes for our goals although Medhi's goal was seemingly thrown into the net by their keeper.

Did everyone else see the size of Barnet's 'Fitness Coach'? Fuck me sideways, what a fat bastard! How can players take the bloke seriously when it's obvious he'd get out of breath running a bath!

Easiest win we'll ever get in the league yesterday and yes, it was pretty boring towards the end of the game, looked more like a practice match!

Yep could not believe it when I saw him, the bloke must have been at least 20 stone.

Perhaps I should enter the prediction league? And bring my lucky charm wife more often. She is after all better looking than my mate and I could have easily kissed her four times yesterday. Have to keep myself in check for the Hereford game.......

Haha, he was quality.

Thought we played well, Barnet were awful and we could have easily had a few more goals.

Not too much more to say really, a good win, and hopefully we can get a good run going. Just need to start picking up a few wins away from home.

This is an excerpt from the match day article on the Barnet site...........

"Kerrouche the Swindon striker seemed to have problems with the wind at the County Ground. Like a leaf from a tree he fluttered to the ground on numerous occasions, apparently unaware that association football is a contact sport."

.......Bitter much?

Hahaha amazing. If only Lawrie Sanchez cared about Barnet F.C. as much as the person who wrote that.

He's got a certain charm in his writing style too, Mehdi Kerrouche = poetry in motion!

I enjoyed it. All the positives have been said.

Never have I witnessed an easier win watching Swindon or anyone else. Barnet were atrocious and we were really good at times.

Lawrie Sanchez sat throughout the game with his arms folded probably dreaming of his days at Northern Ireland. There's no way that his team talk could have been affective as they were stood in the tunnel a good couple of minutes before coming on to the pitch (which was also significantly earlier than Town).

Other than Ricky Holmes coming on for them I didn't see any other Barnet substitute warm up other than their half-time punt the ball into an open net from 10 yards out.

... and back to exile I go.

Like this from a Barnet Forum

I thought he might just have been the sub goalkeeper!!!!!  Would have had trouble getting round him!!  Did anybody see Devera give him his Town shirt at the end of the game?

Loved the way that Barnet, after starting in a 442 that mirrored ours, went to a 451 with seemingly no plan beyond keeping the scored down. Once we'd worked out to double mark 22 at the back post as all their set pieces went there they had nothing else. Well, except to get the ball to Marshall and we could all work out how that was going to go - most over the stand.

The players came in the pub last night and I was on VIP bar. Ferry is a fucking legend, loves a drink. We had a Jagerbomb together and I told him that I love him a little bit. Alan Connell is funny. I was surprised by how many of the new lot weren't drinking at all. Ferry was the only one who was smashed.

Kerroooooshhh hasn't gotten used to English money yet, I told him it was me that started the On Fire chant and he loved it. So fuck you Samdy hahahah

haha quality, who was out?

DV will go off on one ;)

Bastard :(

To be fair, I did start it.

I didn't recognise all of them but it was Ferry, Raffa, Connell, Kerooooosh, Easyjet, Abdullah and about 10 - 12 others. They might not all have been players.

bloody disgrace the lot of 'em

I felt a bit flat throughout yesterday...

After last season im not going to argue though.....make every home game a dour 4-0 win....thankyou...

I was exactly the same. It was a straightforward, effective win, where the opposition couldn't be bothered after 20 minutes. It was like winning a 100m race by strolling to the finish. There wasn't any champagne football, but we can't expect there to be. There was no tension,  but that's because we were markedly better than them, and there was little atmosphere, because it was like a training match at times. We were a little bit spoilt yesterday - in a bizarre way, I'd rather an end to end slog for 90mins and an injury time winner for 1-0.

I expect a full apology from Swindon Town for dragging us through yesterday's ordeal.

Barnet need to get rid of Sanchez ASAP, the bloke clearly doesnt give a shit. Their fans do deserve better, fair play to them, staying to the end and still clapping their team off! Very loyal. Think there were quite a few Town fans who had a 4-0 Swindon bet, because the atmosphere went completely flat for the last 15 minutes, and that meant the players were happy to take an early warm down. It should have been at least 6 nil (not complaining, but we cant get over confident after this result). Barnet were up there with the worst league opposition I have ever seen at the County Ground, and the fact that they are not in the bottom 2 to me shows that the quality of the bottom half of League 2 has slumped in the last few years since our last season in the basement. As have some of the attendances. I did raise eyebrows when I heard Mark Marshall was Barnets best player. Some of the crosses booted into the stands seemed almost deliberate they were so unbelievably bad.

Hereford could well be simmilar in 2 weeks, and this time I hope the fans transmit to the players that they should show Hereford no mercy at all. Would love to see us put a few past the cunts.

The real test is friday. Burton was unlucky, and we cannot afford another and lose out on the points. We need to be hitting the top 3 in the next 4 weeks.

It was a strange feeling for the last 20 mins or so. We didn't really look like scoring loads more and it just became a bit of an anti climax. Looked like most people were just waiting for the final whistle. We can't have it all ways though. Fair play to the Barnet fans who probable deserve better.

strange atmosphere for sure...but very happy with the 4-0 win, a bit peeved I didnt make it on the footy league show highlights down the front of the TE celebrating Ritchie's goal...prime position meaning my 3 week run ends!

oh yeah almost forgot. Who was the bigger git yesterday, the person who turned on the sprinklers as the Robinets performed, or the person who made them stay there until they finished?

It made me laugh all the same.
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As did Fred Elliott, who first of all I thought was a homeless tramp slumped outside the DRS eating fish n' chips. He also proclaimed the opposition the worst at the County Ground this year - he does that every week!

He was right though. Barnet were shocking.

Excuse my ignorance, why do we have Friday night fixtures ? Is it the clubs choice or is it something to do with to many teams in the same area also having matches on the Saturday. Can't see how it can help either home or away teams in regards to supporters getting to the match. How long will it take to get up to Macclesfield Friday from Swindon, I can't leave until after 3 pm. Thanks in advance.

It's because Man City and Man Utd are playing at home that weekend I think.

Macclesfield have done it for a while now, as have Tranmere... play a few of your home games on Fridays to attract people who would otherwise be watching the bigger clubs down the road.

We had to do it at Hartlepool (3-3 Cox hat-trick) a few seasons back.

Would be interesting to know if playing fridays does bring in bigger gates than a Saturday fixture. I noticed Rovers and Rotherham is also a Friday night fixture so can't imagine that attendance being any bigger either.

M5/M6 on a Friday? You'll be cutting it very fine.

That might have something to do with me landing on you followed by Eddie.

Thanks Samdy, that's what I was worried about but wasn't sure just how busy it gets. If it's going to be that much of a close call I'll not take the chance.

3 hours from swindon on a clear run.  Friday on the M6 is generally not a clear run.  As Samdy says, it could be tight and go all wrong.

Their keeper was Brill.

Mixing of local traffic and long distance traffic flows never works.  One of the worst junctions in the country.  I do have an environmental conscience but, where omissions in the network are as glaring as this, you have to do something.  Build the Western Orbital Motorway (http://pathetic.org.uk/unbuilt/western_orbital/)!

No chance of this happening before Friday, though.

My daughter not attending is the reason we won. She's been to two home games this season - Scum and Soton. She has a 100% away record - Slave Traders. The next home game she is attending is the Pikeys.

  :no: :D

Just watched the highlights, some fantastic goals there.

Barnet were the worst team I have seen play at the CG for a long long time, even worse than the non-league sides we've faced in the cup. But I suppose you can only beat what is in front of you and we certainly did that, very comfortably. For one reason or another, that was my first game of the season (apart from Rotherham on the box which doesn't really count) and I have to admit I was quite impressed. Ritchie was head and shoulders above everyone else, and apart from a few dodgy moments from Comazzi at the back, everyone else did alright. Got the feeling that we had another gear or 2 to go into as well if needed.

So what exactly happened at half time ? I rushed off to get in the queue for food/drink and by the time I came back up, both teams were on the pitch. Did notice Sanchez sulking the entire game in the dugout, and then one of their players came back on to the pitch at full time all on his own and sat down sulking. Really cant see anything good happening to Barnet this season, seem to be a club in a bit of a mess

I'm glad i'm on holiday then, a nailed on defeat.

Our match report on Swindon v Barnet: http://thewashbag.com/2011/09/26/swindon-4-barnet-0-can-we-play-you-every-week/

I did the reverse journey for about 9 months working in Manchester and I would say you would be lucky to do it in 5 hours leaving at 3pm sorry.

Indeed,

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I was working in a company down here that allowed us to leave early on a Friday. M5/M6 is an absolute pig of a journey. You'd need to be extremely lucky to make it leaving that late - do ya feel lucky, punk?

Took us fooking hours to get to Chester for that friday night game in League Two.

Probably just shy of 6!!

It's a no go for me then, will do the Plymouth game instead.

Was her name Claire?  Tall, skinny and of Irish descent

She was of Irish decent, but no :)

Anyone else notice the lack of Pies in the Town End? I had the last non balti pie at 3.20pm, and then the Chicken Balti Pies ran out before half time. Just not prepared for a bigger attendance with the ticket offer?

Not improved then? There was barely a chip left half way through the 1st half against Crewe

Who ate all the pies? Crispy?  :)

Barnet's fitness coach by the sounds of it.

Anyone know his name ? I wasn't at the game on saturday and wanted to see a pic of the jelly belly.

Utter shite from start to finish.

I see in the League 2 team of the week we had had Ritchie and Smith.  Now Ritchie I understand but Smith?  Really he did what he had to do but that was bugger all.

Are you talking about Phil Smith? I thought he was more commanding in the area than he has been and was less 'flappy' at crosses than normal.
Saying that, he wasn't really worked much.

Agreed,
The Barnet 'keeper, on the other hand, was out of position for the first goal, threw the third one in, and went down too early for the fourth.

Yeah, it was Phil Smith.  Just seemed some keeper must have had something more to do over the weekend.  Maybe he built a good shed on Sunday and they're taking that into consideration as, commanding as he was on Saturday, he wasnt exactly tested