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Stone cold sober and in bed in Swindon.

Not smashed and just got in from the SU as normal.
But I am going to the game which i'm excited about for some reason!

2-0 Town.

Good work Suggs. Sticking mortgage and kids on a win

Nice one suggs.....fuck off bogus dave

Madness.

Of course, if we lose this, it's because SWS is sober. Nothing must change, nothing.

Nice one SWS but as we have previously learnt, you need to be pissed to start a match winning thread! I will now predict a 1-1 draw. Sort it out SWS ffs

Not going back to Plymouth till the 8th, unlikely to start a drunken thread till Barnet away now...

Seriously, start guzzling.

Expecting a performance from the players after the 'mild' ear bashing from PDc so it's gotta be a comfortable 2-0 win for me and nice Xmas present with Pox getting beat as well!

Maj

Just caught myself posting "we've not had a 0-0 for a while, have we?" so get all your money on that.

Apart from the game v Bradford City.....whisper it quietly, but we do seem to have a bit of a problem with the dregs of this Div....fortunately Morecambe are going well, so could be a good result.

Can't go today as too busy at work. A mate is using my ticket and bringing my lads though.

We always play well at home when I am not there, so I am predicting a 3-0 win.

Going for a sneaky 2-1 win. Trains at 8.45. Looking forward to it immensely  :pint:

We have to start closing the gap on the teams above us. Imperative we win today to start pulling away from the teams below us too. 2-1 win, last minute from Ferry.

SWS sober...score draw. I'll go or a 2-2 with Kerroosh and Ritchie.

After last week it will be nice to put a performance in.  If we do I feel a nice 2-0 victory shouldn't be too much to expect.  Gutted I can't go today but have a good feeling after the normal match day thread service by SuggWillSugg has been resumed!

2-0 kiss of Death. Not sure if I shall be there to witness this win.

Morecambe are a decent side especially away from home so it will be close. Could be a nervy 1-0.

When I'm pessimistic, we seem to win.

So given the SWS wasn't pissed, I'd better plump for a 1-2 defeat.

Let's just hope Bogus Dave doesn't find some way of fucking it up....

Welcome back SWS.

After last week's Bogus Dave induced draw, confidence is restored and I'll plump for a 3-1 win.

2-1 town
De Vita and Smith amongst the goals

I predict a very tight 2-1 win. Ritchie, Ridehalgh, Jervis and Murray all to start.

Back from uni so first game for me since Southampton in the cup.

1-1 draw.

After Southend and Cheltenham dropped points last night its vital will win. Going for a 2-0 Town win, Flint and Smith with the goals.

I think we will lose

Tough game today against one of the division's strongest away teams.

Our essential match preview

http://thewashbag.com/2011/12/15/match-preview-swindon-vs-morecambe/

Be interesting to see the response from last week.

i dreamt it was a 0-0 last night so i'm going for that....

What an exciting dream 8)

2-0 De Vita, Murray

Luckily i only dreamt the result coming through on Final Score!! That's sad enough though......

We'll win. 2-0 Murray and Margera.

I hope we'll squeak it, but our run has been too good to be true, and PDC's rant worried me.  I reckon we'll lose 1-0 and come back to earth with a bump.... 

4-1 would like to see are strikers get a few today, hope we dont have to rely on a another caddis run cus if we do we will lose 4-1. need to win COYR

I'm hoping a win for the Town today but we need to earn it and give it 100%. Come on You reds.

Not feeling overly confident to be honest. Don't know why. I think there's just an expectation as a Town fan that after a run of 14 games unbeaten it's all going to go spectacularly wrong sooner or later.

2-1 defeat.

2-1 defeat.

sugs is back  my moneys on at whills 4-0 town win COME ON YOU REDS

I really dont know what to expect, maybe i'm over thinking it a bit too much but I really think today could be a make or break day.

Di Canio had his rant - its re-action time now. The players will either stand up and be counted or shy away and roll over. Dont think there is likely to be too much middle ground. We'll see...

Exactly my take on matters......this is a massive game, unfortunately that sense of importance has to inspired from within, as the players wont get that vibe from the crowd, name of the opposition etc..

I dreamt I slept with Holly Valance

They are on a poor run no wins in the last 5 games BUT an its a big BUT they are good away from home with 5 wins, 4 draws and only 1 defeat so we will lose 1-0.

On my way down, first home game since Hereford. Be a tough game, but hoping the players respond to Paolo's tongue lashing and come away with the three points.

2-1, Ritchie, Smith

Might I suggest a forum rule that future match day threads may contain zero footballing cliches with disobedience punished by a slow and painful death?

Ritchie and Ridealgh back, Jervis and Magera up front.  No sign of Kerooooooosh!

3-3 magera hatrick

SWINDON (4-4-2): Wes Foderingham; Paul Caddis, Aden Flint, Alan McCormack, Liam Ridehalgh; Matt Ritchie, Jon Smith, Simon Ferry, Raffa De Vita; Jake Jervis, Lukas Magera.

Subs: Alessandro Cibocchi, Oliver Risser, Etienne Esajas, Lander Gabilondo, Ronan Murray.

MORECAMBE (3-4-1-2): Barry Roche; Nick Fenton, Will Haining, Andy Parrish; Izak Reid, Stewart Drummond, Andrew Felming, Andy Parrish; Gary McDonald; Lewis Alessandra, Danny Carlton.

Subs: Shaun Routledge, Garry Hunter, Phil Jevons, Niall Cowperthwaite, Jason Price.

COME ON YOU REDS..devita hattrick 4-0 onwards and upwards

Anyone else's Player more jumpy than usual today? Fucking annoying!

2-0 Town, Ritchie & Jervis

Yes :crash:

yes it's fucking annoying

Crewe 1-0 up against Crawley.

Gaol

JERVIS!!!!!

Whoop!

sweet as :)

Back of the net!  COYR

A game so dull that I'd actually turned it down in favour of 100 Greatest Musicals on More 4

Yay.

Brighton down to 9 men after just 12 minutes. Good to see Austin on the bench for Burnley, guess the injury wasn't as bad as they feared.

Can't believe I have been listening for the last 15 mins and didn't notice we scored!

goal =

2-0!

devita

2-0 great timing just before half time.

Just what I was going to say.

Is Christmas back on?

Yay.

Di Canio's madness pays off!!

Sounds like Foderingham pulled off a great save a couple of mins before that goal. Getting him for the rest of the season at the very least would be huge.

not sure how we are 2 up. but I don't really care. would imagine pdc isn't best chuffed with the performance. Morecambe look quite accomplished on the ball. sometimes a little too much so, we nearly caught them in possession a couple of times.

good save by the fods, forward missed a trap in after. think Ritchie at Southend.

i missed the goal cios of the shit connection

He did, not sure how he got his hand to it really.  Not sure how we've gone in 2-0 up either, we've been pretty poor.  Magera and Jervis up front is slightly painful to say the least!

bring murray on if thats the case

Statistic time. Over our last 14 league games every other game has finished 2-0 (though we lost two of them).

this connection is doing my fucking head in

de vita can smell another!!!

pox 1.0 up

yup Murray is coming on. magera having a shocker apparently

woo murray

fucking hell and i miss this goal cos i was getting a beer!!!!

3-0 Murray. Nice little team move involving Caddis, Ritchie and Murray apparently.

What is up with the commentators? A few minutes ago Chris Wise said, "Vic will take you through to half time" and just now Vic said "There's 10 minutes to go to half time".

It's not that hard is it?

great win

Just got back from the shop. Great win lads :)

3 points, another clean sheet, 15 unbeaten. Thank you and a Merry Xmas!!

Great result and only Crawley have a better GD (and that's only one better).

It's weird that whenever I look at the table we never seem to have gained any ground on the teams above us but I know of course that we have this weekend.

What was the crowd ?

Good win.

Was just wondering the same. 72 from Morecambe apparently.

7,116...i think

So 7000+ Town fans. Very respectable indeed for the last game before Xmas :nod:

Great win today given the dropped by Southend and Cheltenham. Just need Crawley to have a sticky patch.

Good crowd. Gutted I missed this.

Great win today boys. Gained points on all top 3.

I take it Bodin won't be allowed to play for Torquay on Boxing Day?

how strange. i was expecting De Vita to come out with an Italian accent like PDC but is speaking with a scottish one instead. just found it funny

I think he's been in the UK since he was a teenager which is when you really pick up the lingo, hence the Jock twang.

I can't wait till Boxing day now. Glad I bought a ticket for it.

Yeah same. Taken 7 others with me. Going to be great support.

If I were to sum up the first 75 minutes of the game I'd say it felt like:

Possession: Swindon 25% Morecambe 75%
Quality: Swindon 75% Camber 25%

Morecambe had a lot of the ball. Much more than the average away team, tried to play it on the ground, but literally made about 2 chances.

Good win!

After a poor opening half hour, when Morecambe looked a very decent side, I thought we looked great today. Caddis is consistently brilliant at the moment, but there were good performances throughout the side. Magera however, just looks bereft of any confidence. Either that or he just isn't very good...

When will the highlights be up on STFC PLAYER ?

monday

or on the football league show tomorrow on bbc iplayer

In light of the BBC's possession stats (61% to 39% in morecambe's favour), thought Swindon were employing Mahamed Ali style rope-a-dope tactics - let morecambe have it because they weren't doing anything with it - confident in our own ability to hurt them when we did go forward.

2 other things worth commenting on...

1. Jason Price's cameo from the bench was spent trying to hurt town players! he didn't try and play any football.

2. 73 morecambe fans, wow!

Morecambe had a load of the ball, but all they would do was pass it along their back three. They offered very little going forward, though when they did they were denied by two excellent foderingham saves.

We played much better after we scored. Decent header aswell by jervis.

No-one had a bad game. Magera looked very very off the pace though. I'd have probably gone for Smith as my MOTM, bloke was phenomenal today, disrupted morecambe everytime they even thought about going forward

Smith or Ridehalgh MoM for me, but good performances across the field with the exception of Magera, who I really want to be good but just isn't at the moment. Murray and Jervis next week.

I hope you learned your lesson today Bogus Dave.

Dont ever cost us points by being an attention seeking cunt again.

Brilliant

or the football league show tonight on bbc 1 @ 23:45

He lives in belgium or something

I don't think either team were that arsed about it and nor were the crowd. The ref was a complete tit. We scored 3 quality goals and Morecambe looked good on the ball but were nowhere near as incisive as we were. Their no 6 was blowing out of his arse after 10 minutes.
MOM for me was either Smiith ior Ferry. It went to Mccormack and that will make up for one the times he should have won it and it went to Ferry.
As for the players Wes was ace as usual - one excellent save and another decent one but by God does he give you confidence. The back 4 were pretty good, restricted Morecable to 2 chances. Ferry and Smith were both excellent. Ritchie looked like Ritchie - good and crap in equal parts but the good outweighing the bad. Devita wasn't at his best but scored a good goal. Jervis wasn't that great but that was a good header. Now for Magera - this guy either isn't fit or is shit or both. We had a player years ago called David Geddis who was nicknamed Douglas Bader and Magera is the same. This guy cannot run, and although I'm 20 stone I can get higher off the ground. Murray looked really lively when he came on and a good goal. Risser did OK.
We really need to see more movement up front. I'd like to see Magera dropped and Murray given a run. Or alternatively lets give Storey a run from the bench.
But we're up to 5th, 3 goals, another clean sheet and this team can play a lot better - happy days.
Oh yes and what the fuck was Don Goodman doing on the pitch kicking and elbowing everything that got within 10 yards of hom.  

On another note oxfords tom craddock tweeted this:

 Can the guy who's car windscreen I broke when I skied my pen please come forward #noneedtoclaimonyourinsurance

Haha

Pardon? ???

Sounds like they're all off for a Xmas piss up in Cardiff tonight!!

To be fair they deserve it!!

[pedant]How can he have been good and crap in equal parts but the good outweighs the bad? Does 'good' have a higher density than 'bad' or something?[/pedant]

Wasn't there today but Magera has impressed me every time I see him. Very unselfish, holds it up, obviously has quality. No, he won't score a lot of goals but he must be great to play alongside.

First match in over three months for my but here's my take on it.

Poor match overall. Think we just edged it, though the goal on the stroke of half time was perfect in terms of timing and killing off anything Morecambe had to offer. We were okay today, not our best, but I don't think we needed to be. Foderingham was as faultless as I've heard he's been, the backline were strong - though we did give them a lot of space and a lot of time on the ball. Still think we need another striker as Jervis plays quite deep and Magera, for all of his height and aerial presence, offers us very little. McCormack was my man of the match also, was quite simply everywhere today, so much deserved.

Enjoyable to be back at the County Ground and roll on Northampton away and Wigan home!

PS - Morecambe's support is dire. I'm well aware we're close to Christmas and it's about five hours away, but to not even get into three figures is pathetic. And drums do NOT belong at football!

The BBC are wankers. They didn't even bother reading it out when we scored our first goal yet they were all over it every time Crawley scored. They've also made their unbeaten run of 15 games a headline, yet no mention of our unbeaten run of the same length.

Slow to start again De Vita was cutting inside too much leaving ridelaugh to look after the right channel in first half. We looked much lively when Murray played up front with Jervis.... Magera links the play well, but is not an out and out striker lacks speed or a more aggressive element to his game. Morecambe looked a good team first half without a cutting edge - second half they looked ordinary.

The fact that most people think we can play better (and in agree) just shows how far we've come. Morcambe didn't look great but I think alot of that was down to our own performance. Before today from their 10 away games they had only lost 1 and only conceded 8 goals. A very very good result and glad that Paolo won't have to cancel Christmas now.

72 away fans must be close to a record in the league at our place. I assume they counted the drum.

Not today. For a giant, he's so timid.

Only 8 pages! We must have done well. No time to write anything constructive, but that was Crewe Part 2. Morecambe outplayed us but were poor going forward. That said, Wes pulled off two miraculous saves to keep us in it. We were deadly on the counter and solid at the back. Excellent performances from Smith, Fod, Ferry, Flint and McCormack.

Oh, and the Ref was shit.

Edit, Murray also played well. Megera didn't.

People keep saying we were poor but I don't think that was the case really, we didn't play at our best but we didn't need to.  The reason why they had so much possesion was the formation that they played, 3-5-2 so they always had a spare man at the back and then passed it to the wingers.  But after that play they didn't actual do much with that possesion, where as we chased them down and stole the ball quite a few times.

De Vita came on the radio after the game and said that Di Canio told them it was ok for them to have the ball for long periods.  As we kept up with all the players in our half, once again the fitness played a major part in the win!

Agree Magera was poor, but in all honesty, aside from the goal I didn't think Jervis was much better.  For two big men, they don't win nearly enough in the air, aren't strong enough on the ball and don't put enough pressure on the defence.  The cheers when he was substituted won't help with his confidence tho.

A good win, considering Morecambe looked the better team for the first half an hour.  Foderingham made two excellent saves at 1-0 and 2-0. He really is an excellent keeper and we need to keep him.  Defence excellent again, McCormack deservedly mom.  Midfield took a bit of time to settle, Smith was the standout for me.

Good that we've gained on the top 3.  The next few weeks could be telling.  If we can continue to gain slightly, we've got more home games than away next year, which should hopefully see us strong enough to get into the autos.

It must have included the drum and the stewards. I swear I counted 63. Where did the extra 9 come from ;)

Bet they didn't run out of refreshments in there today

long way to come to get stuffed and the weather is shite up there. Bollocks would i have done it

Maybe the heard that the bar in the away end was called Bar71, and they thought it was only for 71 fans...but someone extra turned up !!!

:)

We seemed quite happy to just them have it at the back. We stood off, and Ferry and Smith were constantly just sat off talking to those around them, keeping the shape. It wasn't a 'home' performance, but the scoreboard says it didn't need to be.

Agree with what the majority have said. We were not at our best but scored 3 and their keeper made 2 very good saves. Jervis also appeared to miss a sitter in the 1st half. Morecambe kept possesion really well but, apart from Wes's save in the 1st half, didn't threaten at all. They could have been there until 6 and wouldn't have scored.

I really believe that the only thing that will stop us from gaining auto promotion is our home form in 2012. We now all turn up, not expecting us to batter the opposition, but to at least win the match. It is unlikely that we will win everyone of the last 13 home matches and as a consequence the crowd need to do their bit by not letting their frustration manifest through to the players. I truly believe that we are going to be champions although, at times, it will be a frustrating ride!    

oh a Jonathan Smith was our best player by a mile.

De Vita was quality.....but Caddis was my mom.

A good all round show........UP THE TOWN,

Currently stuck at Reading station waiting for a train. Just like to say Magera is awful, no pace, can't jump, battery on 3% goodnight till I get home

Smith or Caddis for me.  I thought De Vita was fairly poor in the first half but once he scored he certainly turned it on in the second period.  STFC must have lost a fair bit of money today, lot of people wanting hot drinks but unable to get served, only two people serving!

 
 :nod: :nod:

Geddis was a good player and quick....Ten years before he joined us when he was at Ipswich!

Suggs is the bollocks!

Probably did, this is window town.

So  much for Suggs needing to be rat arsed for us to win!

Never seen an away team have so much of the ball but yet do absolutely nothing with it.... We seemed a bit bothered for the first ten minutes when they started pinging it around like Brazil, but as soon as we realised that there would be no end product we seemed quite content to let them have possession.

I was getting quite irate for a while just waiting for them to finally give the ball away (after their sixteenth sideways pass) so we could crack on and attack - their possession really was that bad.

Good header by Jervis for the goal, but seriously, does he honestly think he's good enough for Birmingham? He's barely good enough for us... and Magera, wow, what a strange performance...really really struggled.

Jonathon Smith is an absolute beast, I haven't seen such fine offensive tackling since Chris Kamara last pulled on a Town shirt, on at least 4 occasions his crunchers directly generated a chance on the opposition goal - fantastic stuff from the lad.

On the whole, a good performance, well pleased with 3 points...

Enjoyed today.  Cant be arsed making any constructive points about our performance, just some negative points about the twat of a referee and his linos and whoever that last sub Morecambe bought on was.  So here goes

Officials were shit.  Fussy, inconsistent and frequently just making bad wrong decisions.

Morecambe sub - clearly came on being told to go and rough us up.  Started by elbowing Flint in the stomach a few times, ran round making bad challenges then pointlessly pushing Caddis when he was in mid air.  A disgraceful excuse for a footballer.  Should be ashamed of himself.

Waiting up now for the usual 1 minute 30 seconds of highlights on the FL show taken up by 30 seconds of the teams walking on to the pitch, the three goals and Wes's excellent save.

Roll on Boxing day for a nice day out and 3 more points!

I thought de vita was pretty poor, especially the first half, and it looked like an own goal to me. J.Smith was great today, my m.o.m.

After the first 25 mins, which was as poor quality, from both sides, as I've seen this season we bossed the game.
Pattern has been commented on by a lot of posts in this thread.

Looking at the number of different suggestions for MoTM shows that it was a good team performance.

I can't understand those saying deVita was poor.  For me, this was his best game for us and it was between him and Ferry for MoTM.  deVita was contributing a lot today, offensively and defensively, and topped it with a well-taken goal.

This performance filled me with confidence that the rest of the season should be bright, and if only we can resolve the striker issues (all that needs to be said re Magera already has been!) then we'll march on upwards.

Hammer classic horror on at the mo called The Gorgon, they keep mentioning Magera for some unknown reason

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. How the referee didn't get more abuse was beyond me. He was absolutely fucking woeful. The referee did his absolute best to assist Morecambe in every way he could and must have been annoyed that despite his best efforts, we still won. I hope he put a lot of money on a Morecambe win.

What a lovely pre-xmas gift, shame Pox won but you can't have everything!

3 more points, gap closed on 2nd place to 4 points and 15 unbeaten! Great stuff!

Maj

I don't get the fixation. Why worry about something that is not even entering the equation

To be honest I though he poor but wasn't the worst we've seen. His decision to book Ferry was baffling, but he was just a bit rubbish otherwise.

The lino on the DRS side needs a special mention though. I know you have to let play go a bit for offside before deciding whether a player is interfering with play. But when there is a single player who is sprinting towards the ball, why wait 10 seconds and only raise your flag when he gets there. He was hardly going to stop mid sprint and say "only joking".

The only reason the Ref isn't getting a massive slating across the board is that he didn't have a big decision to make, he got most of the less important decisions wrong, missing an obvious handball and then a push right in front of him in quick succession, giving a goal kick when one of their Centre Halves had clearly knocked it over their own bar etc etc.

As most have said, Morecombe played some neat football with no real end result. They made us look very ordinary first half and Morecombe must have wondered how they went in 2 down.  I don't know how much of that is down to their lack of a creative spark and how much is down to the quality of our defence, but on the back of a 15 game run you have to give the back 4 and Wes the benefit of the doubt on that. We seem to have been winning ugly for some time. Heaven help League 2 if we start turning on the style.

Second half I though we were well in control and could have put them to the sword if we'd really wanted to. If we had a decent pairing up front we'd be tearing the league a new arsehole.  Get that sorted in January, keep Wes and Ridenhalgh for at least the season and we're going places.

After much debate during the game and having slowed it down on sky+ on the football league show, I maintain the first goal was an own goal. One thing for sure is it didn't come from Jervis' head. Did anyone else notice this?

I think in Jervis' post match interview he said it came off his shoulder?

Wes made quite possibly the best save I have ever seen.

I propose a statue of Suggs is erected outside the Townend should we win the league.

Where we sit in the DRS is more or less directly in line with the incident, everybody there was convinced it was an own goal!

Magera is a lazy useless cunt. Get rid.

Great result.Easy to forget they had only lost 1 away all season.We actually allowed them to have the ball so much.The amount of times i heard the players shouting let them just play tells you how happy we were to let them do that.Have to say aswell i think that was the best save i have seen in the long time at the cg.One last thing is i think Jervis gets a bit too much stick,ok he doesnt do the work of someone like Austin but i wouldnt mind betting his goals to game ratio is not as bad as people probably think

I think it's still the rule that if you stand in front of a free kick to slow it down and the free kick is taken it's a bookable offence. However, most pro's don't deliberately get their opponents booked as it's probable they could every time a free kick is awarded!

It is technically a yellow card offence, but it happened another seven or eight times in the match without a booking.

Great win yesterday. I thought our defence was superb. We were so well organised and composed Morecambe didn't have a clue how to break us down.

I thought first half they were decent enough but knocking the ball about and not creating anything doesn't get you very far. Probably wasn't our best performance but getting the 2nd just before half time was a big boost for us and in the second half we played a lot better, got stuck in and the third goal was a great move and finish.

Was impressed with McCormack, Flint, Wes, Smith and Murray yesterday. Caddis, Ritchie and Ferry weren't at their best but even when they aren't they still cause teams no end of problems. Keeping all 3 of them in Jan is so vital for us. Wasn't impressed with Magera. I think the "he needs games" arguement is starting to wear a bit thin now as well. I'd like to see Murray start soon.

Onto the next 2 away games. How long can we keep this run going for? I feel the more points we get on the road the better as at home I can't see us losing many games at all between now and May.

Good, solid performance. They had a lot of possession but did Absolutley nothing with it. Foderingham made a couple of brilliant saves but apart from that they offered nothing. I thought Ritchies service was brilliant today. Would like to see Murray start at Torquay, Magera looks like he is struggling to get into games.

Im a little suspicious, whats going on?  Where are the usual 'we were crap and swindon were just less crap', 'they were diving and cheating' and 'Dicanio is a disgrace' comments from the the opposing sides forums?  Maybe the 72 fans haven't got back to slag us off yet.

The weather may be shit in a lot of parts of the north, but it isn't so bad in Morecambe to stop then travelling - bit icy here (lancaster) this AM but not yesterday - its only 5-10 mins from M6 anyway.

I am not sure what there crowds are like (haven't been for ages and not since they moved to the new Oxfordesque ground) but there isn't a huge amount of noticible support for them and any they do have is shared with the mighty Dolly Blues (Lancaster City).

Anyway cannot wait till the away game as I will be able to walk to watch Swindon play for the first time since the Newcastle away game in the Premiership season, and we all remember what happened there! Can I suggest to anyone coming up for the game and wanting to make a weekend of it, stay in Lancaster rather than Morecambe as there is a little more to do!

He did have a bit of a go at someone on the Morecambe bench, didn't one of them get sent off.

It was quite good actually. It got the crowd going.

Jason Price was their last sub, been around a bit, Swansea, Doncaster, Millwall and a few others. Used to be half decent but think he spends a lot of time injured now so probably playing at the right level.

Just had a laugh out loud moment over my cornflakes at The Washbags match report. The bit about Jervis having "the grace of a tossed caber".

Great result, but doesn't sound like I missed much by staying at work.

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. :-)

Our in-depth look back at Swindon v Morecambe:

http://thewashbag.com/2011/12/19/swindon-3-morecambe-0-3-goals-for-39-possession/

Any pictures going around of the players party in Cardiff Saturday night. I know they were supposed to go dressed as older players and heard Ferry went as Savage, got to be worth a look.

They are in one of the threads on here. can't remember which one though - possibly the make you smile one.

Yeah there was a group shot with Ritchie, Connell, Kennedy, Ferry, Devera and 2 others I think. Can't remember which thread though. Will have a look.

Ah - have a look at SWS last posts in the 'things that make you feel good' thread.

http://yfrog.com/es3a3tj :)

Cheers,

I remember Price and his dodgy hair from when he was playing for Tranmere, and he was diving around then.

Thought I recognised him whilst he was warming up, had to look in the programme though to get his name.

Remember Danny invincibile breaking price's leg at the cg

Was that also when he was at Tranmere arriba ?

Think so but i aint 100% sure

I thought he also had a few run outs for forest but can't see anywhere that he did, maybe I'm thinking of the player they called pineapple head, can't remember his name either !

Just remembered, the pineapple head I think was Jason Lee ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8HIoaM99Xs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vlPDt_YH8&feature=player_embedded

That's the one Batch, even had pineapple head songs for him!

Last time I saw him being interviewed he was still bitter about all the abuse he got, reckoned it destroyed his career.

Fantasy Football should have ruined the carrers of Baddiel and Skinner - what a load of utter shite it was

used to be a keepr from Crewe with a similar hair style.  Remember going there, beating them 2-0 (?). stopping off at motorway services on the way back down and he walked in.  Fair play, we were singing about his hair cut, he smiled and came over and chatted for a few minutes, congratulating us!!

Baddiel was in the crowd for Brian Cox's Night With The Stars, saying he looked like shit is an understatement. If you didn't know who he was and bumped in to him in the street you'd think you were being mugged by an alcoholic tramp.

Yes, there is a quick reference to it when talking about a dutch move (it was "he's got a pineapple on his head" to the tune of "he's got the whole world in his hands")


well I liked it.


He did, but it should be Skinner that looks like an alcoholic tramp given his past.

Mark Gayle.

I remember the 'pineapple ' chants when Lee played for Peterborough at the CG. 

Completely OT, but who is the lass on Fantasy Football with Danny Baker on the clip Batch posted -I recognise her but its doing my head in!

Susan Tully

Best known as Michelle Fowler in Deadenders.

Her career has gone well since 'Enders then. I guess she could be doing stage work.

He got some stick at the TE , then miskicked and the song then stated he had a pineapple on his foot!

I reckon him being shit destroyed his career.