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I'm back for this one so we better win.
A quick look at the Grimsby forum and their match thread is 5 pages of moaning about prices.

Swindon 3-2 Grimsby att: 8,845 (132 of them)

Yeah. The cost of travelling and booze and they moan about an extra £2 on a ticket.

My first of missing 4 games. Piece if piss, 4-1.

£27 is too much for a ticket to be fair, especially for away fans. £20s plenty.

It is, but people will also spend on £5+ a pint

The overall cost of a footballing day and they moan about a couple of quid.

It’s cod all!

 :fish:

I’m a dab hand at puns!

Have they seen the price of fish and chips down here? Give the fuckers something to moan about.

Grimsby since their return to the league travel in very good numbers for L2, last season they brought 565, they took 1,064 to Wrexham last week and 675 to Walsall a few weeks back.

For those who wish to read about the cost of our ticket prices its all here, a few are understanding but so many saying they wont go because its a couple of quid more than other grounds.

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1694457001/s-0/

The ironic thing is that a season ticket at Swindon is £359 and at Grimsby its £420!

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/all-efl-league-two-teams-in-order-of-season-ticket-prices-ranked/#tranmere-rovers---pound-440

Also many clubs charge more than we do for matches.

https://www.football-stadiums.co.uk/leagues/league-two/

But also I do agree £20 is more than enough for L2 matches, but to moan about us specifically is a bit pathetic, like Walsall fans last week.

MKD, Crewe, Colchester and AFCW all charge more for match day tickets than we do.  

Walsall, Sutton, Morecambe, Gillingham and Accrington all within £2 of that price and some of those offer uncovered seating/standing with a poor view.

Away fans probably aren't buying a ST mind.

A lot depends on what you get as well, Morecambe was £25 but it was seated (not ridiculously tightly unlike some grounds) and under cover, pretty sure when we went to Barrow a couple of years back it was over £20 on a tight terrace where you couldn't see the whole pitch?

I am aware of this just stating the fact that at home they pay more than we do and are in the top 2 for charging their own fans the most for season tickets.

Stick them on the Bank. Charge them £20. Let the weather Gods decide.

This.

I'm finally making it home for a game, my first attempt at a match since the Colchester fiasco so expect defeat.

Swindon 2 Grimsby 1 Att: 8,910 (580 Mariners)

.......or a postponement

I'm dragging a Spurs fan and a Liverpool fan to this one. Any recommendations for a pub to watch the game after and get a bite to eat? Nearer the train station the better.

Legends Lounge had been opening after games and lets be honest, you won't be out the ground till 5:05 at least the way things are going.

Failing that the tap is about half way.

Poor bastards.

I was thinking of the tap but wasn't sure they did food. I suppose almost everywhere does these days. I don't care if we miss the start  ;D

Cheers

The drink valley opposite sir Daniel. Good microbrewery pub that does sports and decent curry.

+1, if you arent able to get to Old Town for the Hop Inn of course.

Yeah heading towards the station definitely limits the options.

Doesn't have to be that near the station really, I just know what I'm like with too much fresh air after a skinful!

The Drink Valley looks a good option, thanks molepar.

The drink valley is very good. Quite a few town fans head there before games now. Prices are reasonable, I drink Paulaner (German Pilsner) which is excellent & costs £4.20. The owners are very friendly & can recommend other beers to drink, he does brew his own. I can't speak highly enough of the place.

If we can get through Saturdays game undefeated then we equal the all time Swindon record for longest unbeaten starts to a season, this dates back to 1995/96 unde MacMahon when we went 9 games unbeaten.

A Hull City    1-0 w
H York City    3-0 w
A Carlisle Utd 1-0 w
H Oxford Utd   1-1 d
A Brentford    2-0 w
H Chesterfield 1-1 d
H Bradford C   4-1 w
A Bristol Rvrs 4-1 w
H Rotherham U  1-0 w

A run that saw us sit 4 points clear at the top of Div 2 on 23 points.

Before we eventually lost 3-4 at Wrexham which was our only defeat until the 25th November a 0-1 defeat at Shrewsbury.

That was our last defeat that calendar year, in fact until mid January, a run of 13 wins, 8 draws and just the 2 defeats scoring 39 goals and conceding just 15 in the process which included, Wrexham accounted for 27% of that total.

We won the league that year on 92 points, 9 points clear of 2nd place Oxford and suffered just 4 defeats all season (another club record).

On a more recent run. When was the last time we won 4 homes games in a row?

We managed 5, twice, in the Wellens season, not got beyond 3 in any season since then as far as I can see.

5 wins in a row twice in the Wellens covid season.

EDIT: beaten by Horlock :)

Grimsby sit in 17th place, their leading scorer is winger Abo Eisa on 5.

Results so far
Grimsby   0-0 AFC Wimbledon
Mansfield 2-0 Grimsby *EFLC
Notts C   3-2 Grimsby
Grimsby   2-0 Salford
Grimsby   1-1 Mansfield
Walsall   1-1 Grimsby
Grimsby   2-2 Man City U21 *EFLT
Grimsby   2-0 Gillingham
Barnsley  2-0 Grimsby *EFLT
Bradford  1-1 Grimsby
Wrexham   3-0 Grimsby
Grimsby   2-3 Crawley

They have yet to win away from home in 6 away games in all competitions so far this season, picking up 2 draws and 4 defeats, in the league its 2 draws from 4 games.

In total games between the clubs Swindon have won 23, drawn 10 and lost 17 of the 50 games played so far.

In games at the CG its 17 wins and 6 draws with just 2 defeats, Town scoring 55 goals and conceding 18 times.

Swindon have won the last 2 meetings at the CG 5-0 last season and 3-1 the season before with a draw in the previous game.

Could go either way.

Att: 9,145 (352 Grims)

It'll be just our luck to get promoted, with Pox going up and Reading passing us  :D

1st or 2nd round of the FA Cup v Pox live on TV again😀

The fact they couldn't even score 1 against Wrexham's defence gives alot of confidence for Saturday.

Sent from my XQ-AD51

Spoons have just put the Sir Daniel on the market so won't be a Spoons much longer.

Don’t know if any of these are any good, but they’re out Saturday

Ainley out for months, Maher's still out for this weekend too and Conteh's suspended for five bookings, but Danny Rose should be back in the squad.

Dont know much about Maher and Conteh but Ainley was born in Swindon.

We all know about Danny Rose who had a great scoring record of a goal every 4 games at Mansfield a few years back and has scored a couple against us thro the years for a couple of clubs.

Weird that, as allegedly everything heard about McMahon's attitude both on and off the field at that time was negative, but obviously the team played well for him, professonal footballers at their best I suppose just getting on with it.

we had players that had played in the prem in the third tier under McMahon like Ling, Bodin, Horlock,etc. Plus a goalscorer in Allision. If you couldn't get promoted with that squad you've got no business being in a dug out.

That season we played some of the best football I have seen in my 50 years of following Town, I was lucky enough to work at the club at the time and did security for the players home and away and they were a great bunch who loved working under MacMahon, until things started to go wrong.

He fell out with the fans by getting rid of ex Town favourites and making stupid comments in the press pre and post games and was undone by a pathetic performance vs non league Stevenage (how times change) at home in a strong wind.

He knew how to get the best out of players namely Allison, Bodin, Culverhouse, Finney, Horlock, Seagraves, Allen and MacMahon himself who was still good enough for the Prem as a player, we also had a great player in Peter Thorne.

That season we dominated team and our defence was so solid with Taylor, Culverhouse, Seagraves and Robinson and had Digby and Talia in goal (as well as a young Shay Given on loan), we only conceded 34 goals all season but the football played was fantastic at times and gets overlooked because MacMahon was a twat of a monumental scale.

Teams used to come to us with 6 at the back and 1 up front so it was hard to break them down, but we always did pretty much with just 4 defeats all season and got to the 5th round of the FA cup, the last time we did that I think, getting beat at Premier league Southampton in a replay.

Anyone know what our ticket prices would have been, say, 20 years ago.

It would have been about twenty years ago that the side stands went up to £21, if memory serves me correctly. I can remember it being discussed on MOS and I think at the time it put us at about the same level as some Premier League clubs. £27 currently is a steal :D

I've kept all my old tickets, for 2003-04 i was paying £19 to sit in the Don Rogers stand.

Think they went up past the £20 mark to £21 after the play off season (03-04) particularly due to Sandy Gray’s massive tax fuck up?

3 points vital as I can see the unbeaten run coming to an end Tuesday.

Don’t forget many didn’t rate Williams let’s hope he doesn’t come back to haunt us. Also Bradford away next week end will be another tough match.

Well, Flynn saw off Lindsey easy enough and his previous club, Walsall.

A treble of Williams, Garner and Newport would do nicely!

That would be nice :clap:

Cheers. Will be my first game of the season

In fairness Williams left us as manager 6 years ago.
He spent 5 of those 6 years outside of management before taking over at Notts County.

Not massively out of the realms of possibility he’s studied, learnt and improved in 5 years. I think we all knew he had something about him but i think the consensus here at the time was he was pushed into the job that he didn’t want / wasn’t ready for. I don’t think there was ever any hatred or malice for him when he was here.

That ‘3 draws is the same as a win’ quote is still legendarily stupid though.

You may be right he may have learnt his trade during the five years since managing us but looking back not many would have predicted he would become a decent manager

http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=56836.0

It's up there with Paul Hart trying to convince everyone we played with 3 strikers.

Or multiple quotes from any Scott Lindsey interview.

Took some awful abuse from our fans.
Witnessed some venomous verbal attacks on him.

Clearly has matured and put together a decent footballing side.

I also witnessed some of the abuse when sat in the Arkells, stitched up by Power and Sherwood and no wonder the guy was showing signs of stress towards the end. Fair play to him for giving it another go when it would have been easier to carry on coaching.

That's a shame, because he always came across as nice, probably "too nice".

But by god the football served up nearly sucked the football supporting life out of me. Obviously things have changed now as its actually successful.

Off piste. Is today the last round of FA Cup qualifiers?

Nope 1 more round including the National League before we come into play.

I’m out of the UK atm. The TV has iPTV but individual games in the EFL aren’t listed game by game. It’s just listed EFL1 thru to EFL35. Does anyone have the same and if yes which number is our game.

I'd imagine it's service specific but my friends is efl34 and EFL l2-11 on set 2.

They also say are you are sure there isn't some sort of playlists refresh/update you need to do to get the actual listings

Cheers, Batch. Guess I’ll have to trawl through and hope to happen across it.

I'd start with 34.

You can always ifollow outside the UK.

Mine is 70 fwiw.

Being a tight arse I don’t want to pay a tenner!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7Rn6wmWIAA-DAS?format=jpg&name=medium)

Cain in for McEachran. Only 6 subs.

That squad depth though.

Less Than Bare Bones.

I thought after signing Kinsella he’d be a mainstay of the team. Flynn hardly brings him on off the bench and towards the end of his tenure at Walsall wasn’t picking him there either. I know we’ve played pretty well without him but I’d have thought he’d be ahead of Cain in the pecking order.

Hes been carrying an injury most of the time hes been with us TBF, only back in training full for 2 weeks.

Nice to see Clayton back on the grass.

Good to hear Flortoft junior on comms again today.

Are all the kids out on loan…?

I think the kids had a game earlier today against Boremuff so were all needed for that.

So it makes me wonder if this is an overnight illness for McEachran or a late injury or they would have pulled one of the kids out of the game I would have thought to fill the space on the bench.

I never understand why they don't just stick a youth team player on the bench in those circumstances, even if they've no intention of playing him. Got to be good experience I'd have thought.... and on the face of it, the squad situation wouldn't look quit so desperate...

Edit: PV just answered my question...

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Yep.

On now.

I fear we will miss McEachran who for me has probably been our most consistant player so far this season.

Suddenly switched to Creepy v Sutton. Wtf!

Fine on iFollow.

Khan saves us as FBT who made a fuck up.

Austin hits the post, offside though.

Corner to them.

Ukwakwe blocks another cross, corner to them again.

FBT puts it out for a 3rd corner.

We are struggling at the back in the air at the moment.

I give up. Keeps jumping back, stopping. Rinse and repeat.

Town struggling so far.

Corner to Town.

We look like (not saying we actually are) but we look like a team that’s starting to believe it’s own hype

 :dito:

Speaks so well, love his accent.  :)

It is one of the most unusual accents, part English, part Norwegian, part American but sounds almost Irish at times!

Just thinking that about Fjortoft

That he talks a lot of sense that is

Its end to end but little quality so far from either side byt Grims have had the best of the chances, havent seen Cain yet TBH.

Lovely interception and break by Dokes but his pass to Austin was weak.

Must just be me but I find Fjortfot’s relentless analysis for the sake of analysis utterly infuriating!

Poor backpass by Cain there to Mahoney, got away with that.

Nice run by Young down the line but his cross hits the defender for a corner.

Their keepers kicking is very poor so far, worth targetting that.

Grimsby pressing very high and making it tough for us.

Hutton cross deflected for a corner. Good pass by Dokes for it.

Lovely play by Fbt to Kemp there.

I wonder if he has any aspirations to get into coaching or management

Dokes is pressing up into almost an attacking midfielder position so far.

How many centre backs in L2 can do what FBT does on the ball?

He can certainly read the game well.

Not many.
How many can defend better? Probably a fair few.

Good cross by Grims but luckily nobody there in the middle, got away with that.

Same for Dokes I would think too TBH.

Kemp releases Hutton to Young but his shot is blocked for another corner.

I'd love to know what percentage of our chances involve Hutton

Kemp twists in the box but his right foot is for standing on and not crossing and it goes weakly out of play.

Hutton gets a LOT of crosses in unfortunately very very few actually find a Town player.

1-0 Kemp

What a finish.

Hell of a finish

Nice touch by Austin to Kemp who takes it past his man and hits it low and hard into the bottom corner, from 18 yards, great finish.

Great job composing himself and staying calm.   BOOM

Lovin' that!

Just talking about the difference in quality between League 2 and the Prem, when Charlie Austin plays a beautiful ball through to Kemp who finishes well!

Get in.

Grims give us another corner with some shocking defending.

Hutton deep cross headed out for another corner.

He had no right to score from there.
Like, running forward towards the goal with the ball logically made a lot sense than waiting for it to come down and hit it from there…but hey ho.

Gonna be shit when Franchise sell him to Oxford in January

Another good effort from Kemp blocked.

I wish we were a bit better at attacking corners.

Beautiful finish from Kemp for the goal. Can’t see how MK aren’t going to have him back in Jan.

Enjoy him while he lasts.

TBF he is better than L2 quality.

Another corner for Town.

Our passing at times is as good as I have seen from a Town team.

Great save by Mahoney with his body, not sure he knew too much about it tho.

They should have scored

Brewitt makes his 2nd good goal saving block on a shot.

But didnt!

The Grims CB is all over Young all game so far, niggly.

Is that Waterfall? Remember him being a twat at Lincoln

Huton cross floated to the far post, another corner for Town.

Yes huge twat. All arms and legs and holding.

1 min added.

HT 1-0

Bit similar to Morecambe in that it's a competitive game with one moment of quality for Town at the top end giving us the lead.

Kemp is a Rolls Royce of a player.  I don't think there's any chance of keeping either, but if it was him or Young it'd be Kemp for me.

Dokes and Khan looking good, Hutton lots of crosses but nothing finsing its target, about 7 corners, all poor.

Brewitt making some decent blocks.

Solid but still could go either way as Grims are still capable of hitting us on the counter.

Relatively solid if unspectacular, not a lot that of quality from either team yet other than the goal. Cain and Uwakwe Just passengers so far and doing very little other than giving the ball away or getting caught out of position.

tight game, bit scrappy, just on the right side of physical m. mostly

the one bit of quality in the game separates the teams. thought we were going to kick on from there tbh. but didn't 5 minutes aside

struggling in the air a bit against them

Brewitt out in a couple of immense blocks

Done a speculative acca. Colchester v Notts County - home win

Crawley v Sutton home win

Wrexham v Crewe away win

Gills v Mansfield home win

Can’t believe I’ll be cheering on the Pikeys

Decent half.

Grimsby strong and well organised and we are playing to their strengths when we going forward annoyingly. They look much more panicked when we run at them. RHM on for Young before too long for me on that basis.

Uwakwe and FBT looking out of sorts which is making the left hand side a weak spot for us.

Some cracking blocks from Brewitt.

Khan excellent. He's really grown up this year. Doing a great job.

Cain doing a decent job but we are missing our midfield fluency that McEachran contributes to.

Brilliant strike from Kemp. As sweet as can be.

Missed the last 2 home games as was on holiday in Tenerife, if my ears aren’t deceiving me they appear to have finally fixed the PA system in the DRS. Half time and it sounds like I’m in a nightclub, bloody fantastic!

Totally agree on Kemp. He seems like a player who wants to be loved and have a home. We need to break the bank for him. He's Payne x 2 at least.

1000 sold for Reading.

For shame!

On Khan growing up - absolutely agree, he's much improved as a tactical player this season. Even pulled out of tackles when on a yellow a few weeks ago!

Watch him get a dumb red in the second half now.

Kemp is the player Jonny Williams should have been at this level…

They said there wouldn’t be any interest us older fans knew different😁

On the stats what constitutes a successful cross or a successful dribble

Exactly. I liked Jonny but he brought his A game to one match in every three at best and went MIA for the others.

How’s he been performing for Gillingham

Successful cross...finds player on your side, successful dribble....a dribble without losing the ball that ends up keeping possession or scoring.

Poor pass by Uwakwe in the corner near our touchline.

…and hit the deck way too often.
How often do we see Kemp on the floor?

Brewitt easily beaten there and they have a shot that Mahoney just gets his fingers to.

Another poor pass by Brewitt, he is a bit of a slow starter this half as he was in the 1st half.

Dokes and Kemp link up but Dokes pass is too heavy to go out for a goal kick.

Excellent observation

Uwakwe loses the ball again in a dangerous position, hes having a mare.

Grims have a shot from 20 yards thats 20 yards wide.

Town have barely put together 3 passes this half yet.

Get Uwakwe off, a liability doing his best to gift them a goal.

Ukakwe fucks up massively and Mahoney saves him with a fantastic save.

According to the many Gillingham fans I know down here, class.
No goals tho!

Wow Uwakwe is having a stinker

Mahoney down injured.

Jesus H Christ!

Back up again now.

We have been awful so far this half.

Tend to think most of our defensive issues this season have been system problems rather than individual poor performance, but this is definitely a player having a bit of a mare.

WTAF

I dont think it will be too long before we see Shade on for Uwakwe.

Indeed. It happens but I think best to make a change!

Sorry, lack of punctuation in that sentence!

Good FK by Town the keeper flaps awfully at it.

I would say on 60 mins get RHM on for Austin or Young and Shade on for Uwakwe to liven things up a bit.

Shade on for Uwakwe.

Shade on for the mercy sub

Called it 3 mins early!

This feels like an RHM type of game

He has the pace to cause them issues at the back. Their defenders seem quite pedestrian.

Obvious subs are obvious

FBT yellow.

1 away from suspension

We’re very ropey

Makes sense to bring on RHM, but not so much for Young. Now basically means Austin has to play 90 minutes and he’s usually dead on his feet after 70/80.

We dont look like a side on a 9 game unbeaten league run to be sure.

Took one for the team there

Dismal 15 mins for us

Yellow to the Grims attacker.

Best defensive header we have though from set pieces.

Need to string some passes together.

2-0 Cain

Ropey old Swindon! Get in!!!

What a finish by Cain.

Cain really can strike a ball. Should try him up front.

Brilliant timing for that goal to come

Took that beautifully, fair play to the lad

Brilliant goal from nothing! Needed Kemp to drop deeper and he did, class ball and smart finishing from Cain!

Well that was unexpected on the last 10 mins play.

That’s for another thread!

Needed that. Great finish.

You can tell we haven’t been playing well by whose posting in the thread…

I thought Uwakwe did ok in the first half. He’s not a good defender though and with us sitting back his defensive frailties came to the fore in the second.

Thought Cain had been anonymous other than his goal.

Was just thinking Cain's movement was rather subdued... Great run and Kemp, for the 2nd week running, with a goal and an assist.

Let's hope we can finish I this time. 2-0 is undeserved.

😂

Sign of a good team if you can play poorly and still win. (if we can win of course).

You can tell we're winning by who's not posting

2-1

2-1

…and it’s all gone quiet over there!

1st touch by the sub, turning FBT and scoring.

They’ll all come flooding back on to post now it’s 2-1

They might make a late appearance!🙂

Cynical by the Grim striker on Mahoney there.

FBT turned too easily.

Been coming, defensive side of our game us going to really cost us come the end of the season.

’If’

Looked like a foul on RHM in the box.

Brewitt will still get the blame I expect

Hep will get one…

Nailed on pen

Turned FBT way too easily.

I swear - every week our opposition make multiple changes and suddenly look a lot better.
We make changes and either play exactly the same or get worse.

Dokes wins a corner.

Att: 9,168 (381 Grims)

Not sure why we are making this frenetic

My best guess this season.

It's the Swindon way!

Kinsella on for Cain.

Well done Cain scored a great goal.

I felt Cain was going well… not sure about that. Feels a negative sub.

Shade misses from 1 yard after a run by Kemp in the box. Saved by the keeper.

Kemp took that out anyway

I agree.

First thing I have disagreed with Fjortoft on. Didn’t think Cain did that well.

How did Shade miss that?

It did look that way but the ref didnt give it....

Kinsella coming on to kill opposition momentum should be his role though. He's not shown much yet this season, but this is the kind of thing he should be useful for on paper. Let's hope he starts that now.

I thought Cain did pretty good TBH. Started slowly but grew into the game.

I think FBT needs a rest. He’s been out of sorts recently for me.

We’ve all got PTSD from Kadji though…

I wish RHM stayed on his feet, he learnt a lot from Williams last season.

We have no other defenders. Clayton still injured.

I’m well aware! Just saying he needs one, not that we can.

I thought he was excellent last week at Morecambe, but poor today.

Getting to the stage now where I'm always checking Bradford and MKD scores constantly! At least JW was our player!

Predictably Austin can barely move. Gonna be a long 10 minutes.

Brewitt heads a good cross out for a corner to them.

I've confidence in Minturn. Maybe misplaced!

Khan misdirects a clearance, possibly his first real mistake today.

FBT deflects a header wide for a corner to them.

Think I would like to see Minturn on for Austin.

FBT to LB. Minturn CB and Shade up top with RHM.

Another corner to them, I dont like this.

He's on to head away corners, not for his movement.

Something he did on the previous corner.

I do think people underrate people's ability at set pieces compared to open play a little. Austin defends set pieces better than most of our centre backs! Similar with Gladwin last year, who couldn't defend in open play at all but was our best defensive header from set pieces. Obviously it would be ideal if he could still move in open play, but that's what RHM is on for I guess.

Part of the reason he’s having to head corners is due to his lack of movement, we can’t keep the ball up the pitch. You can’t keep a passenger on just for defensive corners, but obviously there’s no option now.

Absolutely correct.

1 min normal time left.

He’s 34 ffs
Not dead.

Close by them after a backheel.

I can feel my sphincter tightening.

6 mins added.

Jesus! Thought that was the equaliser!!

Minturn on for Austin.

Thought that was in

PV making all the subs today!

So not in the box,a yellow. In the box, nothing! That's bollocks

Grims miss a good chance well wide with power.

Please hold on.

This is not an easy watch.

All piss and panic

Yellow for Hutton for timewasting at a throw in.

Shade robs the player and heads for the corner.

Vomit inducing closing stages as it is so often

UGM great play feller

Last minute.

Long shot well wide by them.

Well played Minturn

FT 2-1

Get in!

We equal the unbeaten start to a season of 9 games.

Not a great performance but they all count!

Great win lads

Three more points, third, one point off top with a game in hand, best goal difference in the division. Not sure I feel as good as that sounds but I'll absolutely take every part of that first sentence. Come on Town.

Hallelujah. Far from vintage but take those three points all day long.

Slightly concerned about the squad depth.

If you’d have told me after 10 games (well 9 for us) that we would be BOTH unbeaten & below Crawley - I’d have thought you were mad…

…a team we battered 6-0 ‘n all

Last year, we'd lose that match 2-3.

Great win for the town .just need a couple of reinforcements looking thread bare.

10 more wins and a draw and we are safe

All credit to Flynn, Hatswell and the boys. Everyone has contributed at some point this season already. Cain a great example today. If you'd said we would be unbeaten by October I'd have pulled out a breathalyser.

PAY KEMP!

What was the gate? Couldn't fucking hear it.
Bloke stands right next to me and keeps coughing. Fuck off

Ta

That was hard work.
Well done Town
COYRs

When ;)

Worth adding that Mahoney comes up with a big save almost every game.

Absolutely. Also Minturn who made a couple of great clearances at the end

Or 2, made 2 great saves last week and this week, admittedly he didnt know a lot about the 2nd one which hit his chest but his positioning earned him that save.

very hard fought 3 points.

a football classic it wasn't. But frankly this is league 2 and you just need to do whatever it takes to win. which we did. just.

Yep, we "ground one out" and I'm thankful we can do that

Interesting that Flynn fancies Shade at LWB off the bench. I thought Genesini was very good there against FGR and that would free Shade up to be a physical presence off the bench up top to give Chaz a rest, as much as he is crucial defensively at set pieces. That said, Flynn watches them every day and clearly knows what he is doing!

Flynn (Sorry, had some family stuff to do so a little late):
- Team stuck together
- Wasnt a good second half, but we have played better and thrown points away
- We dug in and made blocks
- Pleasing win as you cant win everything with total football
- Could have been more clinical
- It was a definite penalty
- Grimbsy threw everything at us.
- Pleasing win
- Great move for second goal. As was the first
- Cain's finish is as good as you'll ever see
- Pleased with the way that Cain kept the ball moving. We need to get some more physicality into him
- Dokes and Hutton were unplayable today. They have a great understanding. Decision making was good too. Dont know how teams can defend against them when they are at it
- Unbelievable save. Their keeper made one from Shade too
- Bit of a relief when the FT whistle went
- Started sloppy 2nd half. Got control and scored then had a second chance. Then we were apprehensive, bordering on panic stations
- A bit frantic which played into their hand. They put the pressure on
- McEachran was ill this morning. Didnt want to risk him or spread it within the group
- Cain has put pressure on McEaschran. Kinsella is also fit now. Toss up between Cain or Kinsella. Thought Cain would move the ball quicker
- A lot of games coming up with Sat and Tues fixtures. Will mix it up for Reading game.

thanks nmh

Spot on, not at our best, most blatent missed pen you will ever see not given.
3 points that is all that matters.

Think we would all take that point Tuesday now.

Think Grimsby deserved a point, tbh. But there again we’ve won a point when we deserved all 3.

No doubt Luke Warm’s lot will take a bit of beating.

Enjoy that, was nice to see us throw bodies infront of shots etc.

Uwakwe isn’t very good is he?

He certainly wasn't today. Looked off the pace from the get go.

Don't see why we can't get 3 on Tuesday. They've just shipped 8 in two games. However one will do nicely!

He can cross a ball. I'm not convinced he's a wing back who can defend, but I trust Flynn to improve him with time.

Looking back at his season at Crewe he was pitched into every position Iandolo style, so maybe a run in one position will help - https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/tariq-uwakwe/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/396854/plus//saison/2022/wettbewerb/GB4/verein/1042

had the same conversation earlier today! Then we remembered Hutton is similar, better version on the right!

it's working ok at the moment though. so I'll worry when that stops

I think Uwakwe looks good when we are flying but he doesn't seem to like a physical battle and they seemed to be targeting him.

If Clayton was around you'd maybe slot him into LCB and push Frazer out there if that happens again. As it is, we have to make do!

At defending, no. Going forward he did well in the first half.

Well done Swindon.
My Grimsby cousin posted this.👍

https://twitter.com/markjamestattoo/status/1708153633857057218?s=48&t=1H0Iti7CUByeKvIXQPRHfA

Really well ground out win.

Liked bringing on Minturn and going to a back 4 to close it out. Wish we'd down that earlier/in other games

As others have said, left wing back is the only hole in the team. Uwakwe, Shade, Genesini, Ward - we definitely tried throwing enough shit at the wall in the last week of the window hoping something would stick.. but it hasn't

Did Flynn talk to the press afterwards?

This is class. Well done STFC

He hasn’t been great thus far.

I’d go as far as to say the best performance by a LWB this season was probably Genesini away at FGR and I don’t think he’s played since.

Dude! Look back a page or 2. I did my best to transcribe it!

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gs9STmBHmAE

Yeah, strange.
He hasn’t even been getting a look in off the bench, preferring to bring Shade on.

Nice one.

Fjortoft summed it up perfectly on the radio post-match - wins like that are great to put in the bank, so you know you get bag 3 points when you’re not firing on all cylinders. Invaluable if we are to do something this season. The class of Kemp and Khan shone through, a brave save from Mahoney at 1-0, and a lovely finish from Jake Cain (not for the first time…). Cain may not buzz around as much as McEachran, and I think we lose a bit of his energy in the middle when he’s not there, but Cain has more goal threat. Onwards and upwards.

Good win.
Despite the pressure in 2nd half didn't really get the feeling that the 3pts were ever in doubt.
Having said that the fine margins were in our favour for a change.

Was a expecting a few more to travel but fair play to the 381 that made it.
It's a shit journey.
At least they didn't witness another defeat of Ragnarök like proportions.

https://twitter.com/BBCWiltsSport/status/1708184279316865474?t=qdWm09StIXFjINXKYFvc8w&s=19

Thats a bit harsh, he has played 3 very good games for us and he is only 7 games into his Town career. In a couple of games he has put much better crosses in than Hutton does yet got little credit, has 1 less assist than Hutton this season.

He is only 23 and raw, I think he will come good but he lacks consistancy and defensive quality, Iandolo managed 8 seasons in the same position without the ability to defend.

Yes, yesterday he had a mare but I won't judge him based on that alone. But he looked low on confidence, unsurprisingly so maybe give Genesini another go there for a couple of games?

By the way why wasnt Ben Ward on the bench yesterday? surely thats a total waste of a loan? is he injured?

Benn Ward was injured i think.

Squad depth is poor really isnt it, 6 subs?

Cheers Tans, I didnt hear his name mentioned in the walking wounded. We do need some strength but going by Flynn he wont just sign players for the sake of getting bodies in so I think we will have to manage until January with what we have got now.

Move FBT to the left, bring in Minturn as CB.

Presume McCreachan has Covid or some such so he won’t be available Tuesday.

I think this would weaken us. FBT is so important in how we play both defensively and attacking, Minturn couldn’t do what FBT does.

I do however think Clayton could fill that roll, I see Minturn as more as a Brewitt type.

Only 5 teams left unbeaten in the top 4 divisions after yesterday.

Arsenal, Spurs, Portsmouth, Mansfield and Swindon.

Highest scoring teams
Swindon (L2) (26 goals)
Barnsley (L1) (20) goals

Higest average goals per game
Swindon (L2) 2.9
Brighton (PR) 2.7

Highest goal scorer.
Jake Young (Swindon) (L2) 9
Devante Cole (Barnsley) (L1) 9

Most assists
Dan Kemp (Swindon) (L2) 5
Jodi Jones (Notts C) (L2) 5

Most assists+goals
Dan Kemp (Swindon) (L2) 13
Jake Young (Swindon) (L2) 13

Thats not bad going so far with many of those teams having played 1 more game that Swindon so far (excluding the Prem).

Happy to see Cain get a goal, definitely a player in there. Can’t add much more than what everyone’s said already, great to win without being 100% on it. Kemp is class, hope we can get him signed up. Uwakwe wasn’t on top form but he does put some good crosses in and we were told when he joined that he prefers playing CM/on the wing by Crewe fans so the extremely attacking wingback role we have him and Hutton playing was only ever going to be the role he was going to play from LWB. Khan very good, same with Brewitt.

Onto a very tough night Tuesday but we should go there with confidence that we’re more than capable of taking the 3 points. Although I saw Hutton’s “I can’t see us losing” quote so that’s the loss nailed on.

It's from the start Mooney , from the start  :D

Not read back yet :)

Not as scintillating a performance as previous games but another important 3 points ahead of a tough run of fixtures this month. UGM's probing runs the main outlet although Khan's spins in midfield were a joy to watch and he ran midfield. Unfortunately Uwakwe was having a mare at the back and the ever reliable FBT also looked shakier than usual, he seemed a bit more restrained and wasn't getting forward as much as before. Pretty poor defending for their goal as well. Fair play to Mahoney also, didn't have a stack of work to do but did what he needed to, very well indeed!

I personally though Austin looked a little laboured, as always he keeps defenders occupied but he's beginning to look like he's struggling a tad. I think he'll need to be rested for a bit this month. The ever reliable RHM looks like a whippet waiting to be unleashed whenever he comes off the bench. Much needed pace against a very slow Grimsby backline.

3 points at home is all we can ask really. And the team delivered so fair play to them. Final word for Brewitt, he was excellent again, he's showing real consistency from a player many expected not to play much this season. Kudos to Flynn to get what he's getting from him as well as the player himself.

This 100%.

Many of our fans said pre season that they dont care how we win or astyle of play as long as we win, Saturday was a prime example of that, when you don't play well then win ugly but still win.

And for those who thought that may not be a penalty on RHM, I give you this.

(https://i.postimg.cc/L5FmMXFg/F7-XO-r-HW0-AAlfyl.jpg)

The lino being perfectly in line with it and staring directly at it makes it even better. Shocking decision.

A little bit of an off day by current standards perhaps but I watched the full game replay yesterday and we still managed to play some great stuff at times. It was a joy to watch compared to some of the insipid, timid, gutless dross we had to endure at times last season. It's also a breath of fresh air after all that Garner Ball bollocks before it...

We werent as sharp as previous games and did ride our luck when the Mariners came at us.

But...3 points.

What was noticeable is that Grimsby had a go, instead of setting up to break up play etc etc. Probably where Walsall went wrong.