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Bugger it. I'm going to do this and usher in a new era of dominance for Town on the road.

I do think we'll win tonight. Mainly because its meaningless and Exeter should be better than most of the dross we've played this season.

2-1 victory.

3-1 loss.

1-1 draw, win on pens.

This is a funny one to call. We're shit away from home and can't score. Exeter are near the bottom of the league. Although PDC has stated he'd like to get Wembley, I can't see the fans being arsed. 0-0 lose on pens.

I dont really care about the game even though this will be my first away trip this season.

All I want is us to play some good football and score a few goals and not be embarressed at the back too much, give a couple of squad players a game (keeping inside the rules of the JPT) but I cant see us getting anything down there.

3-1 defeat with The big Czech getting his first for the club with a 1,854 crowd and 185 from Swindon.

2-1 Exeter.

In every other year I've quite liked the idea of progression in the JPT. At least you get to see the fringe players and the chance of Wembley isnot to be sniffed at.

But they are buggering about with it too much with the new rules this year. JPT should not force
any manager to pick players he may not want to.

So sadly I couldn't care less about this one. Would prefer a win and will listen to it, but won't care if we go out.

I'm going to this as I'm down the road in dawlish! Just hoping for a decent game! 2-0 town

2-1 defeat.

What new rules are these?

Your starting XI in the JPT has to include at least 6 players who started the last league game I believe.

Was going....now i am not....too busy with work..

Every year i say we are going to win it...

So...we will get fucking thumped.

Not really interested in the outcome of the game, to be honest - but I hope we put in a good performance and maybe involve a few 'forgotten' players on the fringes.

Feels a bit like a friendly to me.

Think we will go through on pens. Hoping to go but Won't know till after lunch.  Three games from a Wembly final has got to get the players up for it no matter what the cup. As a lower league player or overseas player They must dream of playing at stadiums like Wembley.

I agree, but I dont think that motivation is an issue under PdC the issues seem to be defensive lapses or poor quality at the back.

hello everyone

first post so cut me some slack

4-2 exeter in a tasty match with 2 red cards and a missed pen watched by 213 away fans.

k y jelly is on standby.

I'm not all that fussed by the result.  Shame about the stupid rules about having to play 6 who played the last league game.  This game should still give a chance for the players that haven't been starting recently and those like Magera who are still settling in.

What kit will we wear?

Time to dig out the old blue one I reckon.

Few people saying that they aren't bothered about the result, which I can understand as this tournament is not the priority.

However I hate when Swindon lose so I want us to win, and hansomely.

Sadly, our away form will continue and we'll lose 2-1 despite playing quite well.

I'd like to win, as losing is rubbish.

I hope Paolo's chihauhas enjoy some bark in front of goal.

I'm back in the Don for a week and could easily go to this, but it's the JPT, so I won't. I will listen on the radio, cheer when we score and be pissed off when we concede. But, drive the 2 hours for the JPT, no thanks.

We'll win because it's a cup game and we play better against supposedly higher opposition. We'll also thrash Hereford on Saturday 5-0 (I dreamt it). My main concern is how we play against Accrington and Plymouth, which I fully expect us to lose.

Do chihauhas bark or yap?

let me remind you of this when we get to wemberley!

good point well made. give me two hours to experiment...

Im going to go for a 1-0 win thanks to Flint in the 75th minute :)
Dragging a Brizzle fan from Plym uni for this one so best fucking win.

I'll be listening tonight. It'd be amazing to hear of some epic swallow dives in the box as per PDC's orders.

Sorry has to be said, the Chihuahuas will winalot ! 3-1

Feel free. If we get to Wembley for the JPT Final, then I'm sure I would go. The result of the match, no matter which way it goes, will hardly stick in my mind for very long.

Promotion is what this season is all about for me.

I presume you can pay on day yah?

Nah...all ticket...season ticket holders with club tattoos only

Yay that's me in

I'm sure everyone else is aware but I just noticed this is a 19:15 KO.  :-[

Phew. I would have missed 30 minutes scintillating radio.

"Well Vic, how disappointing, miss ten one on ones and lose to a penalty in the last five minutes."

Would have gone if it wasn't for 7.15 kick off.

Hopefully a few fringe players get a game, not overly fussed if we lose, as long as we put in a decent performance.

The players seem to be mentioning the away form a bit now so it would be nice to get a win just so they don't start worrying too much on away games.

Couldn't give a fuck. Play Storey, Chibocchi etc - pay the fine and hopefully no cards or injuries. Fucking tin pot pile of wank.

A fucking trophy is a fucking trophy and a Division 4 club have got fuck all chance in the FA/League cups so I say, fucking go for it.

Town 1-0

Town: Lanzano; Caddis, Devera, McCormack, Cibocchi; Ritchie, Smith J, Abdulla, Gabilondo; Connell, Jervis
Subs: Bedwell, Risser, N Thompson, Magera, Kerrouche

No Flint again - you would think they would want him match fit in case he is needed for saturday. What has the guy done wrong ? Or is he injured?

This is the main aspect of tonight game for me, if we can nick a win then hopefully it will contribute to getting our away form back on track.  In saying that our best performance of the season was at the slave traders and that didnt make a difference to the league.

Couldnt give a shit about the competition but the fact is i want us to win every game we play so i'll be pissed off if we lose, i'll just get over it quicker than an important game.

Not overly fussed about the game or result therefore we'll win.

No Easyjet

So is there no coverage on bbc radio wiltshire?

ahhhh apologies, just heard it's coming up

Be happy with any sort of win tbh, just to give them a bit of confidence

I believe it could go to pens, hateful for anyone having to drive back if that happens!

I personally would love a run in the JPT look at what it did for shitty, a great day out for all and they retained more fans after the win. Anything that could bring a trophy can't be a bad thing can it!?

Hang on, the coverage on bbc on-line's just stopped, what's that all about?

They always cut off just before kick-off. Online commentary contractually belongs to STFC Player.

Yup, he's right. That's the reason I bought a cheapy DAB radio!! Can listen to games I won't be at for free then without paying every year etc.

Forgot my prediction.... 2-0 loss

I said I don't care about the result but the way I am feeling indicates I do.  COYR

Great shout, I do have DAB on my mobile.......game on!

2 - 0 Swindon

Sounds like a banging atmosphere!
Started ok..............it's not really how we start that's the issue though is it?

This exact fixture a few years back Andy Nicholas scored a absolute screamer from about 30 yards.

I just randomly remembered that

Not seen since the Clarkegate......

Flint MUST be injured.

Jervis scores  ;D

err goal?

1-0 Jervis. Nice.

YOU REDS!

Get in!

C'Mon ! Lets break this away habit ! Never know... If we win, Paolo might keep the same lineup ;)

Yessss get in      come on Swindon :beers:

Great cross by Gabby apparently

Great start, come on Town!

What forward line-up for Saturday if Jervis puts in a good performance...hmmm

I'd read somewhere that Esajas was supposed to be best muckers with Clarke - Are you just guessing that his disappearance is linked with Clarke, or have I missed something?

No, no inside info or linking - there was the story that went round he kicked off in the players bar which was complete BS IIRC.

Just meant it has been a while since we've seen him.

Anything happened in the game apart from us scoring?

Jervis 2-0

2-0 Jervis again!!

I like Jervis 2-0

Yes....See above!

Yessssssssssssssssssss  

Saturday will be interesting selection wise up-front! What odds were a Jervis brace tonight?

Yipppie Skippy!

Me too, great stuff

Why we only play well away in the JPT

Game doesn't sound that great. Two defensive mistakes from Exeter have resulted in goals.

Commentators say that it hasn't been that great a performance from us.

Thompson and Risser warming up

Take Ritchie off at HT

Makes a change then. When on top we never score away!

Burning new screens with the wireless on.....cmon lads!!!!

Odd isn't it.

We started well at both Burton & Macclesfield & couldn't score, based on the commentary we've not been very good so far tonight & are 2 up.  :shrug:

Every time I stop listening to the radio for a minute we score, if I switch it off now we could win 47-0!

2-0 HT

I'm off out now. Bye everyone.

League Two Yeovil  :clap:

We're in the wrong league, that's the problem!

Sounds pretty dull so far in the second half

If we're 2-0 up dull's good

Exeter corner found its way into Lanzano hands

Connell missed a chance just before that

Now looks like Kerrooooosh is getting ready to come on...I guess for Connell

Lanzano makes a save from McCorrmack slip

I hope that's livened it up enough for you ;)

Keroooooosh on

Risser on for Smith

2-1.DOh

1-2 Bowser

Boooooooo.

Long 20 minutes to go....

Thompson on for Cibbocci

Devera point blank save from keeper (from corner)

coyr

Oh dear

Think Exeter have gained heart and are on the ascendancy.

Fast break culminating in weak finish from Ritchie

Sounds like we are on top now

Town freekick central position 22 yerds out

Dangerous free kick for town....

Kerrouche's effort well saved.

Kerooooosh....Keeper tipped it round the post - Corner

Risser over the bar from the corner......And Risser injured!!!!!

....or maybe not! Bloody commentators!

Att 2627

Accrington v Tranmere called off, Tom Bender, on loan at Stanley from Colchester United has had a serious injury with at least one report suggesting a broken neck.

:eek

Sounds quite an interesting game, never expected anything from this game nice to see if that were winning away couple of minutes to go.

Also, scum are two up at Aldershot.

Not good. Must have been awful

Oooh! Not good!

Udders vs Bratfud 2-2 and on to pens

Down for 25 minutes, stretchered off on a drip. He's only an 18 year lad, hope he makes a full recovery.

Sounds horrible.

Yessss a regional quarter final appearance beckons.

Get in Town!! Let's hope it gives us some confidence away from home now.

Will the draw be split into 4 sections again on Saturday? Basically is there a good chance we could get Oxford if they win as it looks like they will?

Get in! Away victory very pleasing. Lets now win a league game away

FT. Very happy with that, got to be good for confidence and hopefully a good draw on saturday.

Split South/North for the draw. So a tie with Pox on the cards.

Well done STFC

Good stuff.

Oxford in the next round please.

Isn't the draw on Soccer AM on saturday?

Yes

Well done chaps. Be interesting to see who plays up front on Saturday...

Get in!  :D

Echo all the Oxford comments, what a draw that'd be, let's get 'em at home again and set the record straight!

Aldershot 1-2 Oxford Utd : Hylton (76)

You bloody dare.....

The thundercunts, WE WANT OXFORD!

Oh no, Cheltenham are through :(

Don't want oxford, its bad enough playing them in the league

Any chance to snatch back our head to head dominance is welcomed by me!

Agree Tans, although it could be a record crowd for a JPT quarter final.

Great result, great that Jervis got off the mark, great that Gabilondo got a game... hopefully we can get an away win in the league some time soon! If we get drawn at home to Oxford I may just have to find my way back to Swindon that evening!!

The Southern draw is really open. Most of the sides who have made it through are in League 2

Maybe playing away in the next round would be 'third time lucky'...past 2 seasons out on pens at home in the area QFs!

This could be good for the side, especially over the winter months...more game together, more wins and the carrot of a day out at Wembley...Paolo has the cup fever...We are STFC!

Manager Paolo Di Canio confirms he is looking for cover in goal with Phil Smith set to miss three or four weeks of action

On club twitter

Only two out of the eight teams left in the Southern section, are in League One. These are Bournemouth and Charlton or Brentford.

Paolo says Smith goes to specialist on Monday. He had surgery on double hernia 3 years ago, Paolo sounds pissed off nobody told him. 3-4 weeks out or more...

Yes he looking for another keeper on loan.

I guess BBC are replaying this interview if this has already been tweeted.

PDC says:
- Happy with start. The team is still a work in progress and there are lots of areas to improve
- Thompson is a utility who he wants to develop
- Recognise its difficult for players if the manager keeps you in the stand. But they have to be professional and ready to play when asked.
- Phil Smith injury. Double hernia
- Smith had surgery 3 years ago for the same problem. PDC angry that he wasnt told by people at the club when he arrived (Hinting at Cady no doubt) or he would have got Smith fit in a different way
- PDC looking for another goalkeeper to push Lanzano while Smith is out.


Christ PDC is difficult to understand!

Did I imagine it, but when moaning about Smith did he also make reference to squad rules too. I couldn't work out if he was pissed off at not being told, pissed off at himself for not reading the rules, or not pissed off at all and completely aware of everything?!

1st half- we dominated a crap Exeter side! Their keeper was a bit mental and gave away a crap 2nd goal!
2nd half- they pushed up and we sat back! Dealt with a fair bit of pressure, scored a bit of a worldey goal but never looked like threatening us too much!
All in all an enjoyable game and a good win! Night x

Ritchie got the ball just inside our half on the RHS. Hit a terrific crossfield pass to Gabby who cut inside and crossed to Connell on the back post. Connell heads back across goal and jervis volleyed into the top corner. And thats a defensive mistake?   

I think that he was lamenting the fact that people at the club weren't giving him the support that he, as a new person to the club, needed. He then seemed to talk about trying to fix some of the internal problems.

That was how it was categorized on the radio commentary.

Just got back, Exeter were awful and we barely got into 4th gear and should have scored a couple more goals!
I thought Lanzano was excellent all night, came for crosses, made good saves and the goal they did score he could do nothing about!

Jervis looks a real handful, hes tall and has lots of pace and an eye for a goal! Interesting to see who starts up front for the next game!

Must admit i only expected around 100-150 Town fans so was pleasantly surprised that there was just under 300 :)

COYR

Well done all who went...what a great result,winning at Crawley,Bristol and now Exeter gives me great hope.
I have said it once and i will say it again............Mr Di Canio is just starting his ride on the Swindon Express,jump on because i believe it is going to be fun filled.

B'mth away would do me nicely

shame we can't get results or even a single point at places like Burton and Macclesfield - definitely not promotion form.

Exeter were poor last night, but they tried to play the ball on floor, which suited us. We won the battle in midfield all night and Abdullah was very effective, nothing flashy but continually breaking up their play and laying the ball off, I only counted a couple of times where his pass went astray.
We do have a tendency to go 'off the boil' in the second half of games and last night was no different.
Jervis looks like the player we've been missing; quick to spot opportunities and always looking to run onto balls. He was blowing out of his arse towards the end, but maybe that's because he hasn't had the benefit of a Paolo pre season?
Not convinced with the goalkeeper yet, the few saves he had to make he did (Couldn't do anything about their goal, which was a bit special) but his kicking and overall distribution was ropey as fuck.
All in all a good team performance.

A bit of a letdown that the terrace wasn't open. The stand we were in must date back to the 1920's!

Well I must say I was left dissappointed by the signing of Jake Jervis, but Im happy to be proved worng by this opening account of himself on his full debut. Nice one. Can't be dropped for the next game on this performance, Karrouche and jervis up front then? Im looking forward to the game against Hereford

A good case in point of why people shouldn't judge a player based on Wiki/You tube/FM etc. Anyway hopefully he'll carry this on and be better than any of us hoped.

Anyone know if the draw on sat is still split east and west as well as north and south???

For those that havent seen it yet, the first goal from Jervis from an Exeter perspective, fantastic crossfield pass by Ritchie and good cross from Gabi with a neat finish....nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0OBgi42rY

Great goal. Well done lads and fair play to those that went.

Time for my view :)

I have read back through this thread an fuck me there is some wierd stuff in here, someone typed get Ritchie off....WTF he was the best player on the pitch by a country mile, he drifted in and out of the game as normal but when he had the ball the guy is class, has a few shots one saved well by their keeper who is one of ths shitest keepers I have ever witnessed in 40 years of watching football! atrocious keeping.

We kept the ball well and played with some style when the ball was on the ground and not hoofed up front by Lanzano, who had a good game, if a little theatrical at times and he does have woeful kicking, almost every kick went right through to their keeper, otherwise pretty solid, they scored an unstoppable goal that would have beaten any keeper.

Lanzano, surprisingly solid, came out and caught the ball a few times, juggled the ball a few times but didnt do a lot wrong, he just scares the bejesus out of me at times!

Caddis, god leader, played really solidly, barely missed a pass and his distribution was very good, even though most of the game he had no one in front of him as Ritchie was wandering all over the pitch looking for the ball.

Cibocchi looked very solid, got forward a couple of times and linked up well with Gabilondo on the left, defended well and was only caught out of position a couple of times, which was covered by Gabilondo and Devera.

Devera looked solid too, didnt give their strikers any time on the ball and nearly scored with a cracking header in the second half, solid.

McCormack looked like hes always played at centre back, reminded me a bit of Calderwood, got beat in the air a couple of times but looked excellent at CB and barely put a foot wrong.

Gabilondo, the guy is an enigma, does the simple things quite badly at times but when he has the ball at his feet man can he shift, and beat his man for speed every time, looked very good on the wing, just wasnt given the ball quite enough.

Ritchie played excellent, passed theball well, ran with the ball and had a few rasping shots, hes a class act and probably overall MOM for me.

Smith, good a bit of pace tracking back, made some good tackles, found a Town shirt with almost every pass he made, looked a little reckless in the tackle at times, will come good if he can time his tackles better.

Abdulla, brilliant, pressed Ritchie for MOM, ran around and has a great engine, can pass the ball well, can tackle, always looking up for options, played in quite a defensive role sat in front of the back 4 but never put a foot wrong all night, worth playing alongside Ferry any day.

Connell, wasnt too bad first half early on, set up the first goal with a good head back to Jervis but otherwise was totally lost and out of his depth, was the poorest player on our side, should have gone off at half time.

Jervis, excellent all round play, led the line well, has bags of pace to burn but just isnt quite that good in the air despite his size, the first goal he took well the second was a brilliant tackle on the keeper, absolutely brilliant, pressed Ritchie as MOM as well.

Kerrouche, looked lost apart from one pretty average freekick that was on target but soft which their keeper almost fumbled into the net, otherwise wasnt at the races.

Risser, fucking terrible, rifled every pass as hard as he could, dived, argued with the ref, utterly shit, get rid of him ASAP.

Thompson, did ok when he was on, slotted in at left back and didnt do anything wrong at all.
Running through our side.

Overall we played well, very well first half, not so well second but Exeter never even looked like scoring, their goal was so out of the blue, no one saw that coming!

Good game, good night, good turn out byt Town fans.

Good report JJ, agree with most of that to be honest. Bit hard on Risser mind, thought he played alright and got involved in some good passing moves when he came on. Did dive embarrassingly a couple of times though, but then so does Karroooooshhh...

I assumed at the time they meant give him a rest as we were 2-0 and we could save him for Saturday. Not get him off as he's rubbish.

Thanks for the reports all. Sounded a littl edull on the radio once we got to 2-0 - and I mean that in a good way because we were killing the game in a professional manner.

Didn't think he was that good !!  :clap:

Good report tho JJ

Oopsy :)

Here is our 2nd goal from the same Exeter fan in the home end....enjoy......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XGZmiDnSB8

And for the full set......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdMe0HEbgE

W'ere not going to be able to get a loan keeper in of any sort to sit on the bench it may very well be Rhys Evans on a week to week contract as cover which as emergency cover would be fine until Smith is fit again

We need to sort out the Physio situation though surely as the guy we have is only doing the job part time so surely we need someone in full time to work with players rehab

It was me and that's exactly what I meant. We found ourselves comfortably ahead in fairly pointless game, I would always take our best player off in that situation.

I notice it was Byrne who told wray about getting Jervis in.Hope birmingham don't want ritchie in return(that's a joke)