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Surprised one of these hasn't been started already...i'll go 4-0

5-0.

6 - 0

7-0

8-0

I'm not joining in

Neither am I.  I am in Bangkok as well.  It smells.

Is there a pub here showing the live feed from the big match flasheart?

Where abouts are you?

Metropolitan hotel.  Wherever the fuck that is.  Sathorn?

Marine are as weak as they've been for years.could be embarrasing for them.

Ha...

I though you were on about the Olympics for a mo. Unfortunately, I doubt any places will be showing the clash of the two Swindon titans.

Off topic, but do they still have that perspex box in the airport where you can have a fag?

yeah

Walked past a bar earlier showing some nobodies called chelsea against some yankee crap.  Cant believe they wont show the Swindon derby!

Give me a shout when you're up for a few bevvies sax.

7 pm kick off isn't it? Damn early, but an excellent excuse to cry off work early too..

Surely SSWS must be at the official written warning stage by now?

Yep it is, even though the BBC says 7.45 the OS says 7pm, nice early one.

I see they hiked the prices up to 10 quid this time...

How much was it last time? Although I didn't go there was way more demand than space, so it makes sense.

I thought Saxondale was another of Rich Pullen's new personas. God I'm confused.

I think it'll be a scrappy 2-1 win.

Saxondale is Mr Nash I believe.

Im giving this a miss.....Will be taking in Salisbury on Friday.

Guilty.

Setting off shortly. I'd walk if it wasn't for the fear of being wiped out on the Highworth road!

With the first choice 11 starting this will end 8-0 to the red half.

Will do.  If you have no taste in music and fancy coming to the show its on Wednesday at something called Moon Star Studios Wangthonglang.  I swear someone is making that shit up.

Town side to face Supermarine: Foderingham, Caddis, Arch-Hen, McCormack, McEveley, Ritchie, Miller, Navarro, Roberts, Williams, Benson

Subs: Thompson N, Smith, Flint, Devera, Risser, Rooney, Thompson L, Collins, Storey, De Vita, Bedwell



Arch-Hen?

That pic of Benson in the Adver - when I first glanced at it I thought

Nicky Summerbee

Interesting to see Cibbo still not part of the squad, he is next out of the door, seems to have really upset pdC.

Hopefully he's made to keep him, rather than yet another contract pay-off.

Troy Archibald-Henville

yeah, I got that...

I just wondered if this is the officially sanctioned shortening of his name or if the journo was just being lazy

And there was me looking forward to it.....

Where's Ferry?

Oh, sorry! Think it was to fit the starting XI on Twitter.

I think we'll get double figures.

2-0? :D

Probably will be now I've said that ::)

We haven't started that strongly by the sound of it.


His missus just had a baby so was given the night off.

1-0 Miller

Famously putting my foot in it....in a good way!

Miller 1-0.

Typical preseason friendly. Not bad in build up, not quite getting final ball right.

Sounds a bit like a yawnfest, but that may just be because of the commentary.

Pretty poor that. Good performances from Williams, Archie and McEveley but that was about it. We looked good at set pieces but were let down by the final ball in attack.

Still unbeaten during the pre-season lads...seem to remember us winning every game a few years back and we got relegated, can't remember the year though!

Not a fan of friendlies but that scoreline is surprising.

Not brilliant but I'm not gonna start panicking just yet. Few individuals done well, liked Tory, liked Williams and collins. That's about it for me

Was very impressed with Williams. Rooney tried to inject a bit of pace. Archie tried to play the ball out from the back, didn't really work for me and didn't look better than JdV or Flint - just on what I sawn tonight v what I saw last season so not a fair comparison..

Noone else really stood out. But its a pre-season friendly which are sometimes tough, not the end of the world.

We could/should have had one or two more.

I enjoyed the evening. Thought the crowd was a little bit down on last season but still healthy.  Troy looks a decnt player and Story has bulked out and got even faster. Benson looked a bit rusty.

Oh yeah, during sub warm-up

little kid "Roooney", "Roooooooney".
Rooney to Risser "I'm going to tell him your name next".

that is brilliant

That was fun..... :zzz:

Not the best game and not much to take from it. Need to step it up for the season. If FGR was us at 60%, I'd say that was us at 10%.

Sums it up really.

I know it's only pre season but only scoring 1 past Submarine is quite poor. I'm assuming the players weren't really too bothered about the whole thing?

I don't think that was the case CF, I think it was just a collective off day. Especially going forward.

And credit to Supermarine, they were well organised and made it difficult.

I found a negative with us getting out signings sorted early. No trialists to cast our eye over and disagree upon!

Few things.

Result did not matter, its what the management gleaned from the workout that is more important.
Marine played well in as much as they contained us to a degree and we as alluded to did not quiet click in front of goal and as expected they did not threaten much.
Crowd was down on last year.
Salisbury Friday will be much the same i expect in terms of the team having a useful training exercise.
Palace will be the acid test, hopefully like last year when we played Reading it told me we were well on our way to going up in terms of preparation before a ball was kicked in anger.
Already in a way the pressure is on as I feel the Brighton game is not necessarily a must win game but an important one for two reasons, confidence and a money making exercise which will be important going forward if we need to strengthen the squad.

Assuming Palace take it seriously.

I remember the Todd pre-season where we put in good displays against the Saints and West Ham, and we nearly got relegated. Then there was the game against Forest where Dossevi scored two...

Sometimes the lesser teams are more up for it.

Palace have a very busy build up to the game with us. They beat Dulwich on Tuesday 3-0 and then they have Margate, Aldershot, Cray and Welling playing Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday then the Wednesday against us.

They will almost definately only play their strongest side for one half I would have thought but it will give us a better gauge of how we are coming along as a team and fitness wise.

We will beat them and Wes will have a blinder and keep a clean sheet.

The game was all rather forgetful but was a bit surprised at PdC's lack of animation during the game. I stood over by the dug outs first half and apart from a couple of odd comments he spent most of the time sat down. Second half I moved right over the other side and it was even more obvious from his body language that he was pretty disinterested. I see in the Adver. he was in one of his slating moods, just hope it was blip all round!

 :hmmm:

All wins are good wins, even in friendlies, it all adds to the winning mentality.

Look at Coventry City (who are in the top 5 favourites with the bookies) who were thrashed 4-1 at Wrexham last night despite playing the full first team and they didnt even score the one goal they got as it was an OG.

Addmitedly pre season results dont mean a lot but it builds a winning mentality and togetherness in a squad.