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For anyone who's interested, we happen to have a game today. I know, who'd of thought it?

We really could do with sneaking a win against a side who have not won in the league since the 20th October.

1-0 (Ajose) will suit me down to the ground thank you very much.

1-1.

Confident today. 3 - 1 to the Town. COYR.

2-4. Ajika to find their mojo again.

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Is this a thing?

Branco and Doughty in a comfortable 2-0 win  COYR

I can't decide if it's fucking cringe-worthy or actually quite good.

No question nothing but a win here probably 0-1 but could be 1-2

I like Ajika.  Ajika it is.

I hadn't realised the extent of Colchester's awfulness.  Blimey.  Need to win by at least 2 clear goals.  Let's give them a hiding.

Reminds me too much of this chap. Therefore, I'm out.

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I'm now hearing it in my head like Vic and Bob saying Ulrika. It's not helping my hangover. Thanks, Hans.

2-0 Colchester, because I'm always wrong.

2-0 Col ewe

We might just win today. 0-2.

3-1 win. Obika, Robert and Ajose

Would be each of their 20th goals for the club. Or a score.

We'll lose now

0-0

Yay, welcome back JJ! :)

Thanks G, over the worst of it now :)

Swindon never do things the easy way, hope we win this but have a feeling it might be a draw

0-0 and welcome back Mr Venkman

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Best GIF ever!

Really good news mate, glad to hear it :)

No BOO today, Traore in the squad - think we will struggle and George Moncur to score the only goal of the game!

The ColU manager has rightly identified this as a key game against another relegation candidate. Defeat would be very damaging..

A win pretty please....

1:0 OG

Don't care how we do it but win would be very important

Welcome back mate, glad you're on the mend :)

@Official_STFC
Town starting XI: Vigouroux, Barry, Thompson N (C), Branco, Turnbull, Brophy, Rodgers, Doughty, Iandolo, Obika, Ajose #STFC

Subs: Belford, Marshall, Traore, Thompson L, Young, Hylton, Cooke #STFC

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Interesting...Iandolo...Brophy..

Whose missing? Kassim, and,er. Oh yeah, BOO, Robert.

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Welcome back JJ

No robert?

Id have been tempted to lut hylton in the hole if thats where iandolo is

Hope we win 2-0

Interesting line up, a few changes, some enforced.

Iandolo is an unusual one but Williams obviously thinks hes ready as Traore, Thompson L or even Hylton would have been the more obvious replacements.

Roberts must be injured, he has been carrying an injury for a while now.

Not much cover at the back on the bench though.

Of course I hope I'm wrong but our lack of squad depth is a little worrying.

Apart from Ajose and Obika I think that's a weak side.

Colchester have a lot of experience in theirs.

very weak team, on paper. hope they prove me wrong, they usually do..

Cmon lads!!!!

Must think he's ready, and as for the other three. I'm guessing LT isn't fully match fit, Trarore is a DM, and Hylton is pants. So worth a shot IMO.

We sound like we have started ok but with little killer instinct up front...so far.

who is the co commentator on BBC Wilts,Kevin :hmmm:

Watson. He's been quite good, so far.

Goal!

Ajose!!!

Get in! Ajose.

Get in there COYR

Good old aj.come on ika!

Half time 1-0 happy with that.

Get in and cmon!!

Smith scores for Pompey.

he's the new Storey!

do re me, so far so good

We need to revert back to 4-4-2. Keep getting caught in the left back are as we are playing wing backs.

Him Mk2 !

Today's attendance is 3,269 including 432 travelling Town fans

Ajooooooooooooooooooooose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2-0

2-0!!!

Gaet in Ajose x2.

3-0 Doughty. Get the fuck in

A third!

Wow :)

Yes!!!

I take it all back! Great team selection! :)

Jingle Bells...

Louis Thompson coming on. So not the end of the month after all then. Good.

Obligatory response:
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3-1, two clean sheets in the same month always a tall ask.

Don't be twats, Town.

Cock. Knew it was going too well...

Concurred.

As if we would..

 :eek:

Sounds like we are trying to be after all, still 3-1 though..

4-1, Doughty, I'm feeling confident now.

 Doughty x2

That must be that.

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Phew! Get in! Phew!

I didn't realise until the other day that Doughty's dad was the former Nottingham Forest owner, Nigel.

72 goals conceeded by Colchester already, seventy-two, in just under 30 games. Wow.

I didn't realise until 2 minutes ago that Nottingham Forest were owned by somebody called Nigel Doughty :D

Good to have you back, JJ.

 ;)

I think they are going to concede more than 100 this season...

Bloody hell, last time I checked it was 1-0. Bit of a shock when Sky just said Doughty had made it 4!

Nice to have you back JJ.

Cmon....smash em....get that zero goal difference...

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Oh dear, Ajose nonplus about being taken off. I'm sure he'll realise later it was job done and hatricks don't matter.

Thank you (and to all those who said welcome back) :) its good to be in a back, and in better place health wise now.

Beaker nearly gets a deserved goal.

Good day at the office today, great result (hoepefully) against a team that we had to beat really.

Good win that. You can say "its only Colchester" all you want, but its 3 more points away from the relegation zone/into mid table.

Very very good result. Very happy with that.

Others have games in hand but points on the board and all that.

Lee Marshall didn't get a game again then.

Coventry 6-0 up against Bury.

Posh have been demolished by Bradford, at home. I guess midweek must have taken its toll.

I'll take that.

4 from 9 is a decent haul from a triple header away from home. Beat Blackpool next week and we can start to look forward to a boring mid table finish  :clap:

These are the games we need to win, points against teams at the top are a bonus.

Early in the season we were losing these games.

Well happy with this result

Yep. A bit.

Blackpool at home next week so good chance for more points.

Very happy today, cracking squad of players we have!

Hooray for JJ our returning lucky charm :)

:D lets keep it up next week, unfortunately I wont be listening though as I am away for my 50th birthday :)

Ere ere.... Well earned four points and as Posh says, we were losing these for fun early in the season....that defeat at home to Colchester will haunt me...

Nice win next week and our arses will start to relax...

50!? Fucking hard paper round!!

I am gonna poke you in your porkpie hat when I see you next! :P

That is a great win.
Eat your words Keen you may have matched us shots wise but quality counts.  
We have goal scorers who are hungry to stay in this league. Concentrate on your own results, not on ifs buts and maybes with regards to dragging sides into your relegation scrap.
Great result town fucking well done  :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :puke:
Maybe one pint too many!
 :doh:

What was said after game?

Any news on Robert?

We needed that. Don't think anyone mentioned that Chesterfield were Burtoned last night and have now dropped into the relegation zone....when Wilson came in they had a bit of a bounce, but if you lose 3 or 4 in a row it's easy to plummet.

Bury and Rochdale could be making a case for late season sinking.

Very happy to be proved wrong again!

Oh dear oh dear oh me. Time to listen to the nice men who know what they're talking about?  :clap: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Meh, I'll settle for 4-1 8)

That was pretty enjoyable in the end. First half was extremely frustrating until we scored. We passed it around very well in the middle third but were really apprehensive in the final third. We started the second half at a much better tempo and were far more incisive. A great run from Turnbull and finish from Ajose for the second, an absolute corker from Doughty for the third and it was pretty much game over.

Louis coming back is a massive bonus and I have to say, I've not always been Vigs' biggest fan but he's growing on me. I hope we can sign him in the summer.

Just listening to the local radio up here and it's fair to say the locals aren't happy. Kevin Keen's post match interview was so awkward it actually brought back memories of Paul Hart *shudders*

Agreed. Welcome back JJ

Did you go? If so, how did Llandolo do? I barely heard his name on the radio.

Yes I did FH. Maybe I'm not very observant but in the time he was on the field I can't remember seeing him do one single solitary thing of note apart from one potentially telling pass just before he came off. Maybe he did a lot of good work off the ball or something...

Edit: It was his first start / it must have been hard / he needs time to find his feet etc...

Sounds like somewhere in Wales....

Yes, welcome back Mr Edmunds.

This?

We score 4 or we score fuck all

Yes, think that's 5 times now.

Good game today. Vigouroux did well as at times we rode our luck. Good to see l Thompson come back. The score in the end matched the performance. One player of note I thought was Elliot lee playing for Colchester on loan from West Ham I thought he was the best player for them by a country mile. Nearly home now.

Sky highlights are up

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10166502/colchester-1-4-swindon

Some cracking saves near the end from Vigs

On the radio Williams said something about a nerve problem. Also mentioned a hamstring, which was part of the nerve issue but I'm not quite sure how that works as my daughter was climbing on my head at that moment. Said Boo would be back soon though.

Whats the craic with Kevin Watson as co commentator/pundit on BBC Swindoncestershire today ?

Played a nice 1-2 with Turnbull for the 2nd goal from the highlights.

I'm not sure what the question is? Why wouldn't he be invited like most ex players?

Perfect choice,played for both sides

Nothing sinister ,thought he worked for Sky.

Nice run from Brophy just after their goal. And beautiful finishing from Doughty.

Scoring 4 or more  5 times in a season, is reasonably rare.....I remember the 66/67 season as being a bit similar, then we did it 8 times, but had a couple of terrible runs where we lost 5 in a row and couldn't buy a goal.

PdC's Div 3 part season was 7, and even 85/86 was only 6, in fact we never scored 5 in a game under Macari.

I think the score line flattered us today to be honest. Vigs had to pull off a couple of good saves and Nathan's mistake nearly cost us. Colchester were poor at finishing and lacking confidence but actually looked more dangerous around the box than we did for large parts of the game. Their final ball was lacking though. Great 1st goal from Doughty. I thought Brophy and Iandolo did well. For those who said Iandolo didn't do anything, I would disagree, I thought he looked tidy in the ball with good vision. Rodgers was guff once again - he reminds me of a very poor Joe Allen. I think the only time he played the ball forwards he tried a 50 yard cross field ball that went out for a goal kick or a throw in. Drissa did much better when he came on. Barry and Branco were okay but probably would have been shown up against better teams.

Barry tried some stupid skill on the halfway line when we were winning and ended up giving the ball away and Colchester broke. That kind of sloppiness will be punished by most teams in the league. When we were 3-0 up we looked quite comfortable and were good value for a win overall but that margin probably didn't reflect the game fairly. Had a good chat with Obika's brother who was there in the crowd watching him and also saw Lee Power driving out of the ground in a black range rover.

When a young, stylish 20 something black guy walked past us, he was so far removed from your stereotypical Town fan, I said to Mrs Taylor (just as a throw away comment) that it was probably Jon Obika's brother. Turns out, I was right.

I rule.

Oh. It wasn't Reg?

Well now you mention it, maybe I was being a tad presumptuous. I'd always assumed Reg to be a white, left wing leaning, unattached male of a certain (slightly advanced) age. Perhaps I was wrong all along  :hmmm:

 :D
I can't imagine ever having that idea of our dear Reginald :)

Out of interest, what do you class as a stereotypical town fan?

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That looks like a big black guy to me.

don't be daft, that was dexito

Think I'm about to admit to a whooshing?

Can see why Col U have let in so many but we were never really in control of the game. Think we will miss Kasim in this regard. Some great forward runs from Turnbull today. One to set up Ajose's 2nd and another great surging forward run and shot that their keeper did well to save. Considering it was Nathan T who set up Ajose's first some good creative contributions from Central defence today.

Decent highlights.

Brophy deserved a goal after the run and Doughty looked decent.

Well involved in all highlights too... looks like the player we signed...

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He blew hot and cold here, if he can get the consistency into his game he'll be a good lower league player.

Racist!!

Oh yeah agreed... I just mean, when he first signed here he looked decent and interested etc..

I felt his biggest problem was that he couldn't control the ball when it was fed into him, therefore he couldn't bring other players into the game, which is a critical part of the style of play we use.

Spot on, his strength is attacking crosses in the box not like Nile Ranger where any ball kicked up to him would stick like glue. The ball more often than not would bounce off Smith in various directions.

An impressive count of 6 glove wearing outfield players in the second half yesterday.
Probably some very sound sports science theory behind it.
All well and good if it helps to get the job done.

Sometimes Swindon Town footballers need to unleash their inner-Sofi Zaaboub.

Welcome to TEF, Wobbly Bob.

YOU CUNT

Dexito used to post on here.
People thought he was black. He ran with it and said he was black.
He wasnt black and still isn't to my knowledge.

 Some of the teams around us have games in hand on Tuesday...

 Blackpool v Oldham.  Draw would be good with Blackpool getting a couple of reds.

 Bury v Sheff U.  Bury in freefall, got to see a Blades win

 ColU v Chesterfield. If Chesterfield don't get the three here, they're in major trouble. ColU looking a bit terminal now though.

 Rochdale v Crewe. Rochdale need to halt their slump, but Crewe seem to do this every year, look as if they're doomed and then pick up a bit in the new year.

4 away wins there.

Perhaps he was a shade of grey and featured in a trilogy of women's fantasy wanking novels?

Bugger off JJ, it's been nice and quiet without you here...

Bloody plastics, turning up whenever they feel like it.

Damn right! coming over here knicking our posts....fucking immigrants.

What you do to immigrants is your own business.

So, Bury winning a surprise, but the others decent results.

Blackpool v Oldham desired draw....no sign of red cards, but you can't have everything.

ColU v Chesterfield, Spireites scraped a point with 10 men, but they needed to be getting 3....now in trouble as Crewe are starting to put their annual late run together.

Rochdale v Crewe....Rochdale looked to be on for a win with 2 in first 6 mins, but it's 6 unbeaten for the Railwaymen, which may go back to the game at the CG.

It's a shame we've been so shit this season as that last playoff spot really seems up for grabs.

Suppose we can always dream of a 15 match winning run  :toocool:

Poxford lost to Northampton last night too. Big result for Northampton who go 17 points clear of 4th. Poxford have opened up that last automatic spot to Pompey/Accrington

The top 3 in that league will stay the same I imagine. Oxford have a good side, with probably one of the best players in the bottom two divisions. Will be interesting to see how they fare in league one without him, as I think he is to them what Bradley Dack is to Gillingham.

Even if Oxford fall into the PO's, that would still be remarkable as they've never before achieved that in the just about 30 years they've been going.

Fans often declare that there's 'never a dull season supporting Swindon.'

I kind of think we're in one now.

I wouldn't say so.. Two managers leaving, fans up in arms about Power despite not knowing the first thing about how the club is run.. It's definitely felt a bit dramatic at times!

 :nod:

I've really enjoyed this season so far, and still plenty more excitement to come.

I love a good post-sacking rumour mill, neither offered that.

Power being Power isn't new and neither are fans kicking up a stink about it.

The season is only 2/3rds through, plenty of potential for even more excitement.

I get the impression that we'd be running away with it by now if some of our fans were in charge. They know it all, ya know.

Yeah with Nile Ranger leading the line and top scorer in the league on 110 goals so far.

.... with Miles Storey just behind, and Belford in goal.

Thats the one, with Michael Smith playing too.

Simon Ferry as captain

More like CAPTAIN OF BANTER lolz!

And a cheeky bid for Matt Ritchie (with the money we got for Byrne, Luongo and Gladwin ;) ).

Distinct lack of ambition there, surely with all the money that's been stashed away we'd have paid that 4 million for Austin, he'd have scored 40 in the last 3 weeks

I'm quite looking forward to all the keyboard warriors not renewing, it'll make the match day experience far more enjoyable, unfortunately about 90% of them don't actually have season tickets so it's a hollow threat!

So you enjoy watching football in a more than half empty stadium?

The atmosphere is bad enough as it is so why would less people at matches be a more enjoyable experience? Unless you count having a smaller queue at the food outlet or something.

Not the food outlet BO, the beer one.

To be honest a half empty stadium would be preferable to a lot of the nonsense that gets shouted during games such as the 'forward' gang. But really what I'm saying is a lot of the people saying they aren't renewing aren't actually season ticket holders anyway, they say it for dramatic effect.

Fair enough on both points. FWIW I am a season ticket holder.

Yeah, having even less money for the squad would be the best thing that happened to this club.


But yes, you are probably right, the reality will be far removed from the fan noise.