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Am i right in thinking he has not conceded a league goal at the county ground since joining.

Tempting fate if he hasn't i know

quick look at the fixtures list says we haven't conceded a goal at home in the league since the 3 - 3 with Hereford... so yes.

Speaking as an ex-member of the centre-halves club, I would like to remind everyone that it is defences that keep clean shets not goalkeepers.

Not taking anything away from Wes, who has been excellent, but felt that an injusice needed to be righted.

You've got a point but he has made a number of unbelievable saves as his own contribution.

Wes has kept 10 clean sheets, only conceded 6 cup goals in 6 games and 6 league goals in 15 games and all of those were conceded away from home.

810 minutes since his last home goal conceded.

Thats fucking good. And of course the defense has a lot to do with it but massive amounts of praise must be heaped on Wes.

Wes has been immense and his arrival coincided with our good run. Having said that, I'd still prefer Smith in a penalty shoot-out!

Mine weren't clean the other night. Awful curry...

Look - I said I was a centre half - are you expecting me to spell ?

Having said that, I think what appears on the thread isn't always exactly what was written in the box !

Too turd!

Not trying to upset the Wes love in as the guy has been immense. However he's only unbeaten at the County Ground in the league. Lee Novak scored the first goal of the game for Huddersfield in the FA cup before we went on to stuff em!

And wigan that is why i said league

Good point. Teach me to read properly. Apologies mate.

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Does the Shrewsbury game not count then?

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0,,10341~59370,00.html

Spoilsport

Haha you just nicked that off his Twitter page didn't you?!

nah because their manager is a prick

Yep

Don't want to tempt fate but Wes has cut out the gifts that were so regular when Lucas and Smith followed up one or two good performances with a couple more "drop me" bloopers.  Think Wes gives confidence to the defenders who don't have to second guess the keeper so much and can therefore concentrate on doing their jobs.

Fair play to Phil Smith - one of the best understudies we have ever had and who will forget Charlton away or, had we won the Paintpot, Dons at home.  A great club servant.

Would I be right in saying Wes will break his on record if he keeps a clean sheet against Vale next week?  :hmmm:

I think you're forgetting the two goals he conceded on Tuesday.

Sorry I meant for home games - I think it's currently on the record of 7 in a row at home

We've had 8 straight clean sheets at home in the league since Shrewsbury

Barnet JPT was one of those - so 7 in the league which was what he equalled last time - only conceded 1 in the league at home since he joined, absolutely fantastic IMO

Without wishing to be pedantic

Accrington, Burton, Daggers, Cheltenham, Torquay, Rovers, Northampton and Plymouth makes 8 straight in the league at home.

Agree with your main point though, his record since he joined is incredible.

Haha you're making me look stupid now!! Let's just hope he can keep it going for next season!

Dont be surprised if he is not playing tomorrow.... along with rooney, cox and devera (naughty boys)

Would PDC further jeopardise the title...?

I'll believe it when I see it.

Just heard the exact same thing.  Thought we'd cleared this up!!!

Cox hasn't been playing, Rooney was poor again and Devera went off injured, so that's three I would have expected. Fods will play.

Fods will play surely. Would be stupid if he didn't.

Should have owned up with the rest of them.  Still, he's too good not to play.

Was he involved then?

I thought Paolo said everyone involved has apologised.

Can we please not start this fucking bollocks again.

Agreed, it is obviously trolling by "theinsider" who is probably a Pox fan anyway.

This sort of bollocks annoys me as well. It's funny that on Wednesday morning after Di Canio's interview everyone had suddenly seen the players out in Town on the Saturday night. 99% of it was bullshit. Why do these people bother?

Somebody with 5 posts to his name pops up with this and people are biting on it?

Have a word

I saw them out, riding unicorns, eating rainbow stew and drinking pixie mix.

I agree totally, while it does bother me that they post it what bothers me more is that some more gullible fans believe it and it starts chinese whispers and disrupts harmony, like the Flint rumours from the weekend and the previous ones of him being decked in a nightclub not that long ago.

He did punch Paolo though, thats fact.

Do my 363 posts make my claims valid? :hmmm:

Is it? I've never heard that before?

This week has been often reminiscent of TEF 2010/11 (Dun-dun-duuuun).

 :popcorn:

Are people just making things up now, will I read that Murray has punched a nun or smith has been mowing down kittens, what is the horrific crime fodders has meant to have commited ?

o and hello

Welcome Frank!

Just bear in mind that on here it's risen from 80% Bollocks to 99%  ;D

Welcome you cunt.

yeah but no but I heard this thing right that no one knows yeah

I don't mind the amount of bollocks rising to 99.9% as long as we keep the football to 25%.

Thanks for the welcome.
perhaps it was felt we needed another lean clarke type incident to wake us all up a bit, or we just like to worry about things

My thoughts exactly.

Foderingham Still lives in London doesn't he? Not going to be one of the ones out on saturday.

We have so many fucking moronic imbeciles within our fan-base

Yeah I heard Flint punched di Canio while he was drunk.

Yeah, I heard Flint shat on the grave on Di Canio's father, before placing his knob sack on his bald little head.

Players see all this tittle tattle. It gives our club and us fans a bad name. Please shut the fuck up

Not being funny bogus but maybe wait until tomorows team until telling people to shut the fuck up

Yeah, fair enough. If Foderingham isn't about i'll retract it, and issue an apology. If he is I reserve the right to issue further vitriol

Who gives a fuck what players see the forum....the players have given themselfs and the club a bad name....not idle gossipers on a footy forum.
Paolo shows his colours by attending both matches while grieving sandwiching a trip to Italy also....that is commitment and being profesional....unlike the players who went out.
In the grand scheme of things with an apology etc nothing to bad granted.....but dont worry about them reading tittle tattle Dave....they are all on twitter reading and writing the same shite themselfs half the time.

But if people are making shit up about them it's not fair is it? Speaking of experience (which i'm not proud of) bullshit rumours can plague what, for players at clubs like ours, is a short career on an unsustainable wage

Surely if Foderingham was involved on Saturday night, he would have been dropped on Tuesday like the others?

As far as I'm concerned, I would like to see the strongest 11 fielded tomorrow (injuries allowing).  It will be disappointing if that doesn't happen due to matters that are unrelated to football.

If he's injured, fair enough. If this is further PDC sanctions for something bad then on one hand I suppose out of fairness everyone needs to be punished in the same way, on the other if all this shit costs us the league I'll not be best pleased with PDC.

The reactions to rumours on here are daft at times. Unless people get video evidence stuff gets dismissed. Some rumours are bollocks,some aint.

My mate who supports Oxford said our whole team is in meltdown because of the few beers on saturday thing.

Love the bollocks that some people spout and also the reactions they get, funny stuff

Just nod in an understanding fashion and tell him he's completely correct.

Perhaps, but what positive does spreading shit about you own players, true or not, actually achieve? I can only see negatives (excusing someone feeling good about knowing more than someone else). I also don't see why we all want to know (gossip column and celeb excess perhaps?) and then bother to perpetuate it.

I've heard things about players over the years and have seen them as well. My mouth stats shut because there's nothing good about gossipy negative rubbish.

That wasn't directed at you personally arriba, your post just provided a place for me to reply. :)

In the adver about this as well. Livid! This is not how the season should be endig

I'm completely fucked off with Di Canio over this. I don't really care what any of you think, for me he's fucked up with discipline this time.

And yes, the players are culpable for their actions, that's not in question.

I agree. This should have all been kept in house and the players warned as to future conduct and maybe fined. PDC's approach has lost us one game already, hope he doesnt do the same today.

The players screwed up and should be punished but not at the expense of the fans and the club for me!

I'm hoping there is still time for another apology and group hug on the team bus. Self destructing at this stage is ridiculous but wes is the only one I'm really concerned about missing.

So everyone believes the adver now?!

Its not just leaving the players out, its what it is doing to morale.

If this is true why did he say that all those that were involved has appologised and the matter is resolved.I'm wondering if the journo has been reading this forum or picked it it up from thisis.

I can't see Di Canio risking our title chances after all the hardwork everyone has put in over the season,He would't would he ?

Wonder if there will be some apologies on here today to the guys who got so much abuse for telling everyone what actually turned out to be a true story?
Didn't think so
Perhaps next time, wait to see if the guy is right before laying into him

Evidently.

Nah, fair play. I take back what I said, and apologise for calling people morons (in this instance).

I would take our 'meltdown' over their predicament any day

Really disappointing that someone who has been so integral in getting us where we are will potentially miss out on celebrating promotion today.  Not even letting him travel with the team (if true) is bloody stupid.  What happens if Smith gets injured pre match or is ill?

Then Caddis goes in goal apparently. Maybe Bedwell has travelled as well though?

I was feeling really positive when I woke up this morning aboout todays game. Not so much now. I'd of taken a draw before all this bullshit has risen again anyway.

Woohoo

MELTDOWN. Ace. 5 Hours of meltdown to enjoy, will we still be in meltdown if we win?

Of course we won't win though, Paolo doesn't know what he's doing. Were not even going to get promoted at this rate.

I'm dissapointed in Wes. I'd would have thought that had he been involved he'd be on of the first to apoligise. Hopefully he learns from this, apoligises and get's himself back in the team for the last two games of this season.

In PDC we trust - He's proven us wrong numerous times this season, no reason why he cant do it again.

We haven't had a sub keeper for most of the season so nothing is different there.

I think the point is that Smith will have been at the games in case, even if not on the bench. That way, if Wes gets injured in the warm up Smith can still come in. I'd imagine Bedwell (or Scott?) will have travelled.

Wes has travelled.

Isn't Scott on loan still at Salisbury?

He didn't travel with them yesterday though

I think he came back a couple of weeks back. Might be wrong.

The club do keep information about the loans to lower clubs fairly quiet, you could be right, I have no idea though I just didn't know if he was back here or not.

That's also true. :)

How do you know that mate?

Secret sauces. Feel free to ignore / slag off, it is second hand info posted in a FACT statement for effect.

This is the case, the BRS reporter at their game a few weeks ago mentioned that he was MOTM in his last game in his loan stint for them.

Surely he would have stayed at home in London last night because of the location of the game and the knowldege that he wasn't playing?

I didnt think he lived in london, he always tweets "off to trainning at like 9;30 or so. (i don't know what time trainning starts tho....)

I'm quite sure I remember Wes asking about houses in Swindon about the time he signed permanently

I would think he still has a place in london as he sometimes tweets about heading back to Swindon etc.  Probably in digs in Swindon.  A few of the players stay in those cabin places out at the Cotwolds lakes.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8229010/England-Under-21-goalkeeping-coach-Martin-Thomas-has-hailed-the-current-crop-of-goalkeepers-at-his-disposal

Nice to see him gets some recognition. A few injuries and he might get in the squad in the near future.

This is another benefit of having a high profile manager....because we are in the public eye more then the media take more notice of us and our players become better known.

Its good to know that Wes is in the frame when it comes to call ups.

Wes is one of the weakest areas in the team, he is constantly instigating hoof boy. Whenever he receives the ball in space he very rarely looks to pass it to one of our players to set up play. Usually he collects the ball then waves his fucking arms gesturing everyone to push up. Then boots it long, usually towards Ritchie or Ferry as of late, which get gobbled up by the opposition centre back who is towering over both of them.

I know this is old news, but I only signed up here recently.

I'm pretty sure that if Paolo wanted him to roll the ball out to a full back he would do so, it's not a complicated thing to change.

Your first statement is ludicrous.

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Who is this  hoof boy you talk of?

You're a fucking moron. We had the most clean sheets last year in the whole football league and broke quite a few records along with it. We have the most clean sheets in League One this year so far.

I fully agree. Bring in Bedwell. Better still, bring back Rhys Evans.

I don't think we should have a goalie at all. Just stick another striker up front and win 25-20

Rush goalie, worked in the play ground.

Aint he a bit old now?

Words fail me. Please go back to Thisis.

1st bit: Are you on a wind up? 2nd bit: Not sure if this has been said yet, Cunt!

They're entitled to their opinion, I just don't get where they were coming from.

The only thing I can think of: There were a couple of time Saturday Ritchie wanted the ball thrown out to him from Wes, but Wes held on to it. I think it was the correct decision, Wes had spotted the midfielder in motion towards Ritchie. Better safe than sorry in that scenario.

I'm sure he'd never aim for Ferry. Ritchie is not bad in the air, and would never be marked by a Centre back anyway. I'm pretty sure he's following orders.

If he's one of the weakest parts of the team, we haven't got much to worry about

And the other thing is Ritchie was up against their smallest defender so Wes was pretty accurate picking Matt out, of course I'd like to see it played out from the back but if it has to be long it needs to be constructed hoof ball  :)

Agree completely but could i also add Twat?

I partly agree that Wes does seem to favour the long punt over a roll out to a full back. This may be due to Caddis' absence as most of our play seemed to start with the Cad-Ferry-Ritchie triangle last season.

Presumably this is under instruction but I have also been frustrated at some of the apparently aimless punts that go through to the opposition keeper or out for a throw or goal kick.

So wrong to say Wes is the weak link but agree that distribution could be improved.

But if it helps, I'm willing to call the poster a cunt as well ... ? :-)

wouldn't imagine it matters too much what Wes favours, If he's kicking long its more than likely that's what Paolo has instructed him to do.

He'd bloody sub him if he hadn't!

How anyone can criticise Wes Foderingham is beyond me! If he's kicking it long to Ritchie over and over again, it's because he's been instructed to by the manager. Also, it works remarkably often given Ritchie's stature at 5 foot 10/11.

On Foderingham, he's now got 33 clean sheets from 65 games - better than one in two! Great record for a previously inexperienced goal keeper.

I am sure that PdC reiterated that we were going for a more "direct" style of play, hence not too keen on the short ball out
which probably means that Wes is under instructions to get the ball forward or heaven help him!

 :nod:

I thought he was doing less of the "kicking it Ritchie" than he was last season.
Last season a high proportion of his clearances missed Ritchie and went into touch.  I think this aspect of his game has improved.

ever since preston, wes has been under instruction to kick first time every time. its a shame because he's not a bad footballer

To be honest, the day Wes is our weakest link is the day we have a fucking awesome team.