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I beat SWS to it!  :D

I'm not going to the game but predict a decent standard of opposition and a close 2-1 win, Roberts and Ritchie to score.

Swindon Town FC ‏@Official_STFC

Town: Foderingham; Caddis; McCormack, Archibald-Henville, McEveley; Ritchie, Navarro, Miller, Roberts; Williams, Benson #STFC

Ferry and Collins out of favour then  ;)

So how do you get the commentary then??

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/articles/20120724/commentary-forest-green-rovers-v-town_2264290_2858176/0,,10341~2858176~1,00.html

Fucking beaut! 8) Never would've thought they'd be commentary, so wouldn't have checked the official site! Cheers!

Perhaps one of the betting websites has a feed?

stefpol might know...!

Welcome :) the feed at the moment is just some bloke chatting and moaning that hes only getting paid £40 for doing todays commentary....classic gaff moaning with the microphone on!

It was mentioned on Official STFC Twitter yesterday that commentary was free for tonight, but looks like you have to subscribe now.

Cheers JJ - That page wasn't coming up for me just now.

I will be disappointed if we don't win by 2 or 3 goals today.

It's nothing more than a work out. For me, the result (and this applies to any friendly) is irrelevant.

The result is indeed irrelevant but a good performance with some goals and not letting more than 1 goal in for me is what I would be looking for today.


And the way Di Canio strives for perfection I feel we will take a professional stance in these games rather than just a run out for the players.

He'll post the link after the final whistle ;)

Wish they'd got on with it! These commentators are bloody annoying!!

Al Bangura has had a interesting life.

Are we winning yet?

They are indeed.

How many of us are listening tonight?

Did he just say his co-commentators name was Crisp Pants? :D

Chris Panks. I went to school with him.

1-0 Archie Henners

All we need is Arcibald-Henville, Archibald-Henville...

Nice one Archie, nice one son....

A previous chant for TA-H was to 'Seven Nation Army'.

"Troooy Archibald-Henville (repeat until bored)..."

Do you reckon he'll take over from Capn' Flint?

Penalty

2-0 Caddis (pen)

Well this isn't the difficult game that the FGR fan was claiming it would be.

There's still time for the second half team to fuck things up  :)

That FGR fan was way to up for this. I had images of he or she putting face paint on and tying a silk scarf around his wrists.

The bravado was a bit misplaced considering their previous friendly results, a 2-1 defeat at Ciren, 0-0 at home to Wycombe and a 5-1 win against Shortwood United (who? ).

And as stated above the whole game changes when several changes are made inevitably at half time and beyond.

I'm bored. Why can't our strikers score?

Who's the commentator?

By the sound of it fucking Hugh Grant

Shouldn't that be Hugh 'fucking' Grant?

I have to admit the new ISDN link on STFC Player is about the clearest and least broken up I have ever heard.

Shame about the commentary still :D

It's amazing, it's not cutting out at important times! It's almost like it works properly! Heaven forbid.

Commentary's awful. My mum'd do better. Shame as I like the Washbag.

Mate of yours Steve - sits near us usually. I can't believe you don't recognise his voice.

That's why I asked...he's trying to be a posh on the radio!  Good old boy.

You good?  Provided I know who you are?!

To give Forest Green's Eddie Ashodi his real name...

Edward Abdullai Mobalaji Olatunji Afo "Eddie" Oshodi

And there we were thinking Troy's name was expensive to get printed!!

I quite like the commentary, I think they're doing a good job. The only things.....
a) They should turn off the mics at half time while discussing how they thought that went.
b) Their listening audience is probably made up of 99% of Swindon Town fans, so their is no need to mention the background of the players with the club, who won the keepy up competition etc.

Yea. It's Strugs.
They're both doing it for free, and Neil had to bring his own ISDN kit too, don't know where the supposed £40 came from!
Don't know about posh, but he's certainly sounding a lot more restrained than he usually does at games.

 :D  He'd have to be...otherwise there'd be no need for a mic...on or off!

3-0 Roberts

Simon Ferry on and we immediately start creating chances again.

Ferry looked excellent last week at Weston, a lot of our best moves came from him.

Interesting he keeps playing ferry WITH Miller. I thought it would be a case of one or the other.

Good to hear you like The Washbag, although I'm not doing doing the commentary for tonight's game...

Chris Panks hosts our podcast and he's doing a great job on co-comms duty tonight

Ferry makes it 4-0.

Can you hear the veggies sing?!

Top Boi Ferry gets a goal.

feeeeeeeeeeeeryyy. Blood hell.

Andy Williams -->
Miles Storey <--

Alan Mac -->
Aden Flint<--

Miller--->
Risser<---

Caddis-->
N Thompson <--

Attendance: 1,517 (731 from Town)

People love their Swindon Town at the moment.

F.T. 4-0

Sounded like a decent performance.

:D

4-0 then. Whilst its only a friendly it sounded like a hood workout and good win.

"There's too many decent players to keep an eye."

That for me was the boldest statement of them all.

Haha they spend some money on some players and reckon they are heading for the football league.

Deluded jokers

They might compete and as long as Dave Hockaday is in charge then I want them to do well.

I'd have said the same about us after 6 games last year :)

Notice Ciobochi was not involved at all tonight

A win is a win and these boys will look at it that way. Sure fitness is the priority at present but starting as you mean to go on is never a bad thing. If they get to the Brighton game unbeaten the team will consider the preseason a worthwhile exercise and a springboard to better things..

These friendlies will obviously be important to the players and especially Paolo, no surprises we beat FGR but I'm sure the Gaffer would of demanded nothing less against a lower tier side just like Palace will be wanting to put on a proformance for their management team who will be expecting them to beat us. Long may these wins continue.

Is he injured again, or the new Connell?

Said on the radio he was taken off in one of the friendlies after 10 minutes as Paolo didn't like his attitude.

Oh. The new Kerouche then.

I wish PDC was slightly more mellow sometimes. Not taking any shit, but not cutting people out after 10 minutes.

Still, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes and in training.

I suspect the latter.  He is one player that I thought would be moved on in the summer but is still here.

Well I enjoyed that.

All played well although I commented that i thought Roberts looked off the pace, just before he scored.

Fish n chips was good.....but no pies?  Fuck off!

 

Shame really, I like Cibo. Thought him and Kennedy were cracking in the (admittedly probably not as many as most people here) games I got to see last season. Good attitude towards the fans too, and slightly surprised to see Kennedy go for free tbh. However, in Paolo we trust.

  

I should probably have been more specific, and for that I apologise. I thought Chris Panks improved as the half went on actually (got to be honest, I went to the pub after the first half, too nice a night not to). They said they're booked for another one, which I'm presuming will be the Crystal Palace game? Just felt a bit like they were prattling on about various things too much instead of describing the game, in the same way Radio Wiltshire are apt to sometimes. Stretches went by where I had no clue what was going on. And pre-match and half time mikes being left on is a little amateur (if funny).  Kudos for the quality though, particularly if it was his own equipment. Better than anything I've listened to all year!

I assume that was from outside the ground?

I don't understand the criticism of radio commentators 'not describing the game'. Most of the time when they do that there's nothing happening in the game. I'd rather hear some vaguely related anecdote or observation, rather than how the left back, center mid and center back are passing it amongst themselves.

Solid performance last night, thought we looked a bit more creative once Ferry came on, Troy looks like a decent player as he did as the game went on against WSM. Thought Roberts was a bit off the pace in the 1st half, not sure if anyone else noticed but he seemed more interested in repairing a divot in the grass that he caused rather than chase a ball that he really could have won? Saying that i thought he looked much better 2nd half. Williams looks decent, possibly what we were missing last season.

Forest Greens number 15 was a great defender, dealt admirably with what we threw at him, I would imagine they will do well to keep hold of him.

Have to say arriving in Nailsworth (after coming down some mountain), i wondered where they would actually fit a football club. The ground was nice enough, very much a family type atmosphere, but the food and beverages on offer was absolute shit. We had a choice of water and chips, eventually they ran out of bottled water and were filling up cups of it from the tap, after a bit of encouragement they produced a kettle and the world was a better place, despite the lack of Bovril  :no:

Apparently 713 Town fans made the trip last night, it looked nearer 1000-1200 through my rose tinted specs, FGR fans numbered around 500 ish. Not sure if i was alone on this but there was no 3G coverage whatsoever, which kind of seemed consistent with the area in general.

All in all a good evening out, good performance and on the FGR Forum one chap said it was the 'best away performance he had ever seen at their ground', although considering the away teams at FGR normally consist of such footballing powerhouses such as Histon and Tamworth, i wont read too much in to that.

Very encouraging, cant wait for the long trek to Hartlepool, 8/10

It's in the middle of a valley, what do you expect?

There was a PDC interview aired on BBC RS this morning. In it he said some of the players are expectedly pretty tired both mentally and physically because of the hard pre-season (double session day before FGR, single the morning of the game, double today).

I wonder if Roberts is plain cream crackered.

Things will settle once the regular season gets under way.

Masts on the hill tops ;)

Felt for Hodgkiss but he took all the ribbing pretty well tbf.

Had my first ever radio interview as well :D

Regarding the criticism of the pies, or rather the lack of them, isn't FGR the club being bankrolled by a wealthy chairman who is a vegetarian?  He took all the meat products away when he took over!!

Dale Vince - he's an eco-mentalist, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Vince

In the 21st century where you can write a letter on a computer and click on send and Auntie Sheila in Melbourne can read the letter seconds later, i expect 3G coverage in outbacksville, perhaps a mast in the locality would help?

Yes, think i would be after a PdC pre-season to be fair to Roberts, the guy has an abundance of class, no doubt about that.

But I don't have an Auntie Sheila in Melbourne, or anywhere - FACT! :bye: :bye:



I'll get me coat!!

but the masts give you cancer

So do Lambert and Butler but you can buy them all over Nailsworth

Bizarre, my mother-in-law lives just up the road in Woodchester and I get a full 4 bar signal on Orange. Go up to Minchinhampton on the common mind, fuck all signal....

Winston's Butterscotch Crunch ice cream is lush, but I guess its a bit too late to tell you lot that now

 :clap:

Some good pics from last night are at this site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443160@N07/sets/72157630743906788/

Liked the ball they played with last night - really 1970's

They had the same on at Weston last week, very much like the World Cup 74 ball. Not sure if its the official Football Conference ball for this season or whether we will all be playing with it.

I hope so

It is. It was last season as well.

Made by Fila

I'm surprised with PDC's attention to detail he didn't make them play with the official league ball that we'll be using, as part of the deal for playing with them

hahahaha "off side" (in a very high pitch lady like voice"

best jokes of the day

Paolo was complaining about the ball at Weston, he said it wasn't up to scratch.

I wondered what that was.  Bloody hilarious.

Players didn't like it either, they were trying to get it changed just before the match started.

I was disappointed by the high pitched monkey chants.

No need for this in the modern game!

They weren't monkey chants targeting the black players. They were a pisstake of their right back Hodkiss' extremely high voice.

Hahaha are you serious?

Oh, only taking the piss because of some poor sod's voice and not the colour of someone's skin - well that's alright then, isn't it?

 :(

Yes. It's not only alright but funny.

He took it in good spirits, you boring fart!

I'm the most serious poster on here.