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THE LIST: 17 Swindon Town one-game wonders
           
           


  SWINDON Town's history books are littered with accounts of players who have represented the club for years on end. This lot haven't. For good or for bad, here are 17 Swindon Town one-appearance wonders.

           

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Will always remember the Bakalli game, pretty much a party day out where the result was thankfully totally irrelevant.

Don't know who writes that shit, but Bakalli is Belgian.

No 6 about Dean Casserley is wrong as well Reg, as they've written that we got knocked out of the FRT after losing to Brentford in Jan 87 whereas we all know (and remember) Aldershot knocked us out in the semis after Fraser was sent off.

He is actually dual nationality......Finnish not being one of them! He is Albanian/Belgian.

I gave up reading it after the Bakalli effort.  However we did lose the game, I can't remember the detail, but there must have been some sort of group stage, and we were already through maybe? 

Getting through against Bormuff was a cracker, 2-0 down in extra time, then pull it back to 2-2, and win on pens. Charlie Henry scores the winner with 10:30 on the Deacon's clock and the pitch covered in thick white frost.

Ronald Macdonald?

Are they taking the piss?

Mysteriously, it's now been changed to Belgian. If we had another Belgian, and I don't think we have, then Bakalli could be swapped to add to the growing list of different nationalities to have turned out for us.

Macari was keen on a Belgian lad called Paul op de Beeck, who came over having been with Club Brugge, but we couldn't match his terms...or he wasn't happy with a brown envelope.

Wasn't the Stoke game in May 2001 away conceding 4 goals? Seem to remember it didn't matter as we stayed up the week before and taunted the Stoke fans we'd see them next season as they'd fuck the play offs - something they did!

Rovers fucked it to keep us up....lost to Wycombe at home.

Must admit I don't remember Paul op de Beeck, but I have heard of the family who have strong footballing connections in Belgium.

I know we didn't offer much money under Macari but had certain "ahem" bonuses paid upon crowds/program sales etc.

We had a lad on trial, played a few reserve games under Macari in the 4th division, Steve Tobin, who scored 4 goals in one game for the reserves and 7 goals in 3 games but we couldnt get anywhere near his wages (plus his P/T football wages) as a bricklayer or something and chose to stay non league, i expect he regrets not signing as we went out and signed Colin Gordon and he took us to the Championship of the 4th.

Yes, we even saw some banners on the motorway from Bristol City thanking us for sending Rovers down ;D

Didn't Rovers somehow lose 2 home games during the midweek between our games against Posh and Stoke?

The importance of Invincible's wonder goal will never be forgotten.

Bedminster down
tottereown
rovers down

Yeah, they had games in hand, lost to Port Vale on Monday and Wycombe on Wednesday  :) a single point as it turned out would have kept them up at our expense.

I know Lawrie Sanchez isn't liked by many on here, but I was always grateful to him for that Wednesday night, sending out his side to do a professional job, in a game which didn't matter to them. 

A sharp contrast to our friends along the A420, who a couple of games previous basically threw a game at the Mem, and went for 6, in a game which also didn't matter to them as they were already down.

Remember and was at the game, don't recall Bakalli at all!

Not forgetting Clifton Down.

It's only when I read threads about games/players of the fairly recent past that I realise how pissed up I was at nearly every one of them.

I don't remember any of the players mentioned and I used to go to every home game and about half the away games.

Either that or the Alzheimers is kicking in

I remember bakali and how shit he was. The side kingy put out that day was an insult to the travelling fans.

It was. Think we started three at the back too.

Wasn't there that keeper who played that day. McKinney? Got him from Man City. Did he play more than once?

Had to cheat and look it up, Mildy started and Farr was sub.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20010146

Forgot we won the second half too. T'was Van Der Linden's last game wasn't it? Have a vague memory of some spat between him and Kingy? 13 years ago, fuck me.

edit: McKinney was the year after: 2002. His only game.

Durdham Down

Yeah, seem to remember Van Der Linden went to sit in the side stand, far away from the dugout after he was subbed.

Number 15, apparently is Christian nameless....it's obviously Late Night Thread Pearce

I was at that Stoke game. Good away support and 4-0 down at half time. The fightback in the second half was led by Rockin Robin who beat their pink Hippo mascot in a length of the pitch footrace thus giving our team the belief to go on and win the second half 1-0.

Remember the well done banner from Bristol City on one of the motorway bridges en route to the ground?

I was in the pub at half time with loads of Town fans ;D

Stoke only had one turnstile open and It was a right crush.

Yup, and a cardboard effort on a lampost somewhere en-route.