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Which Swindon team are gonna turn up Tuesday?

ColU 5-1 Swindon att: 4,163 (232 away)

You’re being generous, we won’t score.

I’d say Colchester

Colchester 1-0 Swindon in front of 3,312 (243 Town).

Let’s hope the Monday morning bollocking gets a response from the players if not we could be in serious trouble on and off the pitch.

Colchester 1 Swindon 2 att: 3,178 (280 Town)

Colchester 47-0 Swindon. 0 Swindon fans and 22 Colchester fans.

9k protesting outside.

I’m dreading watching Tuesday

Tuesday is another day. I don't think Saturday has a bearing too much.

League form and RHM being injured more of a concern. I think we can get something though

I’m more worried about Stockport who have won their last 10 games :eek:

so they're due a loss then :)

Nothing last forever :D

Exactly, look at the optimism we had before losing at Notts County

Unbeaten Mansfield were knocked out of both cup competitions at home within four days.

It would be so STFC to get a win Tuesday, assume Young starts and hopefully got Kokolo in by then too.

Whener I see Kokolo mentioned I hear this song in my head.

https://youtu.be/fJWmbLS2_ec

 :D

Saturday, for all our shortcomings, feels a freak result. We’ll just succumb 2-0 tomorrow.

Phew! I’ll settle for that!

Is there a pre-match presser for this today?

From the Col U forum.

Yes spending beyond our means has done this.

We struggle to put out a bench. Fucking thick cunt.

Like divvy Bristol City fans that call US Swindle when they went bust and retained their league position. Zero comprehension of reality.

In fairness I don’t think the ColU fan meant specifically this season we’ve spent beyond our means…

And I think they have a lot of evidence to use over the years

I don't think is a stretch to accuse us of financial instability.

Happening now I think.

Indeed.

RHM, Young, McEachran all available by the sound of it.

I will be there but i have lost my orange hat!

Realistically what can Flynn do here?

I'd go with:

                                Mahoney

              UGM            Brewitt          Clayton

Hutton                                                           FBT

                       Khan              Kinsella

                                  Kemp

                        Austin             Young



McEachran needs a rest and it is time to see if Kinsella is worth a wage.

FBT needs taking out of the backline, no question.

The KKK in midfield. Might catch on...

Wouldn’t be against Genesini in at LWB but seems like he’s never going to get a game…

No, that is the norm.

But these are not the repercussions of us overspending. Quite the opposite. We've underspent for a decade to fund Lee Powers horse hobbies and god knows whatever else.

I agree, this is (to us fans anyway) the result of underspending even if we are guilty in the past of overspending, currently this is not the case, but its tarring the club with the same brush. Its lazy but then thats what most football fans do I guess.

I was saying to someone recently that I am not sure what a normal Swindon budget would look like, as we always seem to be either extreme of it. Perhaps only 2003/2004 was a fair representation of a normal budgeted Swindon in the past 25 years, if you don't take into account seasons when parties like Terry Brady, BEST or Bill Power were involved and put extra funds in/made signings.

RHM back after successfully navigating being cup tied for January 😁

Just shave the rest of your head  :)

There is a fresh coat of paint on the arkells roof though  :)

Bet it's one coat

So the 11 pretty much picks itself then.

Mahoney, Shade, FBT, Brewitt, UGM, Hutton, Kinsella, McEachran, Kemp, Young, Austin

Bench: Ward, Minturn, Genesini, RHM and 3 kids?

Going to be a tough ride until January. And then probably a tougher ride after that

Clayton

Can see players fired up to show how much they’re up for it - the inevitable red card incoming.

I’d happily never see Shade play again, if at all possible

You should have been there Saturday. He didn’t play then.

For ages I've been in the camp where I constantly say to myself 'Shade has got something about him'

Trouble is, it's useless when he only shows it about 3 times a season.

I would say get rid, but we have nobody else. So get used to seeing him until May.

Shade is a classic example of a player who has got through the academy system on pace and power, with the hope always being he will develop a football brain along the way.

He's like a freestyle footballer. Looks good against a ragged backline on the ropes when he can pop up in gaping holes but he has the tactical discipline, application and footballing brain of a  4 year old kicking a beach ball around in a hurricane.

Would shade get in the Aldershot team😁

Would anybody except Kemp get in the Aldershot team should be your actual question.

On a good day, yes. On Saturday’s showing, no. Going to this tomorrow and bringing the other half along too. Probably wouldn’t have bothered if I hadn’t bought tickets before Aldershot. Oh well, will probably have a shandy or two and am thinking about lobbying to go for a pre match curry.

Copy and paste for RHM, as well.

What's Flynns issue with playing FBT at left wing back? He's not the best crosser, but would make us more solid than any other option.

Can only assume Flynn doesn't think much of Clayton either.

He looks ok when he doesn’t think about what he’s doing.

FBT showed me why he just wouldn’t work as a wingback.
On Sat, he constantly checked back and looked lost.
He needs the space in front of him, being in the back 3 let’s him see more of the pitch and push through into more forward positions.

It's just me that would be focused on his defensive skills for his position first is it?  If he can add something to the attack, great.  We already have one good attacking wing back who cannot defend, a LWB who can defend a bit and isn't a complete tool going forward would be a good prospect for a club shipping about 3 goals a game on average.  FBT is also not very good a playing centre back, based on the evidence he has provided over two seasons.

Got to give Genesis another go at LWB as we beat FGR last time he played

There’s something in the air tonight

Phil Collins  isn't going to buy us Aud.

No but hopefully Mike and the mechanics put a decent bid in  :)

Be an upgrade on Power and the Plumber.

Every football fan
blames the owners before
when all of their defeats
come beating on the door

I know that I’m a supporter
Of my father held so dear
I know that I’m a hostage
To all his seasons hopes & fears
I just wished I could have told him in the living years

Oh crumpled dirty programmes
Filled with ads and stats
Lay scattered on the terraces
That’s we’ve sadly got

You say you just don’t see it
He says it’s perfect sense that 442’s the way forward
With this present squad
We all talk of different tactics
When we can’t defend

Say it loud (say it loud), say it clear (say it clear)
You can defend as well as attack
It’s to late (it’s to late) when we lose (when we lose)
To admit we should have subbed way before

I got tired decided I need to sleep, my head is spinning after day one of induction.

Top effort that!

Heh. I was referring to Tamworth Red Army’s post suggesting Genesis should play at LWB tonight. Too subtle?

Not subtle, just wrong. Although Phil "i wont live in the UK if Labour win" Collins was in Genesis, in the air tonight was a solo effort.
Maybe Land of Confusion would have fitted better :)

I always liked Duke at LWB. And yes, that's a niche Genesis joke.

Weirdly I'm looking forward to tonight's game. Didn't get to watch Saturday and so having a midweek game to tune into is always welcomed. I'm working in London today but couldn't quite work a route home via Colchester on the trains so Ifollow it is.

Confidence is going to be very low so a game away at a place where the atmosphere is bound to be pretty poor may actually work in our favour. That said, I think we'll lose and Shade to give the travelling fans the finger/fingers

Lost every game ive watched there....it has to end....please!!

Pedant alert!

Pre match not in 7th heaven in the Moon and Starfish.

So good old Clacton.
A sedate walk along the prom followed by a visit to a tearoom is likely to win out over a rampage along the seafront booting walking accoutrements out from under the locals.
I'll be joining them in the not too distant but won't be going gracefully.

Not dwelt too much on The Debacle.
Some had predicted a thrashing at some stage but what happened on Saturday had little to do with the style of play.

Hopefully the team will step up tonight & show some pride in their work.
They owe it to themselves & to us.

If Flynn can't get a tune out of them this evening then that won't bode well for the rest of the season.
It's a pivotal game.

Other than that it's a fine sunny day, it's a Tuesday & there is a game on.
What's not to like.

Yep, put £10 of my refund money toward this. Also looking forward to it,as I do every game. Not saying that I never retrospectively regret it though!

We all look forward to it, we all regret it. continuous loop. My girlfriend has really tried to understand why I like a team who are so fucking shit. Its hard to explain to her. Im planning to take her young nephew to see Real Madrid next month, she can get behind that. She is Venezuelan and simply doesnt get the whole follow your local team ethos

I'm not looking forward to it. I'll suffer it.

If Flynn get us out this division at the right end with the absolute mess we appear to be in he deserves the keys to the town. Under different circumstances I feel like we'd be having a cracking season.

Its a curse we all suffer with.

My old neighbour was 70 recently.

I told him that it was he that got me into following the Town....and i will NEVER forgive him for it!

Ironic that he defected to Salisbury City when they started doing well in the National League!

Well at least that worked out badly for him.

Having listened to the Presser episode of the Lspod for this fixture, can't help but think Flynn's treatment of Acklam was unfair.

Could be prickly due to all of the off-field shenanigans too.

Never more so than Preston at Wembley but at least we got to spend time in the bar with Asher for most of the second half!

If that's been his attitude in training, think we could be in trouble tonight.

Any result tonight other than a defeat would be a bonus.

I think we may see a few in headless chicken mode followed by a red card.

Just listened to that. Embarrasing. He's the manager of a lower league football team. We have two worthwhile local media outlets. He's making an arse of himself. Honeymoon firmly over.

So is it Liverpool or Man Utd she supports?

3-0 Colchester I'm afraid. I just don't see this container ship being turned around in 2 days.

Call me entitled, but I'm never content with a point against anybody in this division. Maybe I should be, but a draw at Colchester will just feel like a defeat to me. Unless it's in dramatic circumstances perhaps.

We’ve got them again on Jan 6th

I listened to this and it seemed that the podcasters were a bit vague about what was actually said. Was it just a case of him being a bit short and/or rude with them? Not excusing it if that is the case, just wanting to know a bit more.

He's starting to get that late era Jody Morris dead behind the eyes look...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78caAISroIo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78caAISroIo)

I truly think hes shitting himself in case there is a repeat of Saturday result and performance this evening.

He’s a fidgety fucker isn’t he.

He's got a three year contract. Nothing to worry about!

They played the audio excerpt of Flynn's answers towards the end of the episode.

What the fuck happens if that’s the case?

The Flynn neckline tug is more annoying than the Wellens throat clear. Morris was pretty polished on the media front as one would expect.

I don't go against Stockport.

My big concern with Flynn is this:

He started well last season at Walsall. Then shit went wrong and he couldn't claw it back.

Are we seeing the same again here?

He’s aged quickly since coming here.

Players are smoked aren't they? He hasn't got anyone to replace them with other than the youth team. He knows we're fucked.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2Tks3wXsAIKbJj.jpg)

You stood me up last Saturday, too!

He's Dom and Clem is Boris? Who is Nadine? Zav?!

In hindsight it was the right decision  ;D

Damn right!

In all competitons so far this season
Colchester form LLLWLWDLLWLLLLLWWL     - P18 W5 D1 L12
Swindon form DDWDDWDWWDWLLLWDLLL - P19 W6 D7 L6

Last 8 games Colchester have won 2 and lost 6
Last 8 games for Town we have won 1 and drawn 1 and lost 6

So Colchester are the form side in the last 8 games!

Colchester have ex Town players Ellis Iandolo and Mandela Egbo in their squad but Iandolo is unsurprisingly injured at the moment.

They also still have ex Town coaches Ross Embleton as head of recruitment and Scott Marshall as assistant interim manager.

The Jussie Smollett of SN1

My iPTV service is back up.

Can I summon up the courage to watch it?

Theres fuck all else on TV so go for it.

Wonder if we'll see Brewitt in midfield today with Khan missing

Just imagine if we let one in in the first few minutes

Honestly not sure I can bring myself to watch...

 :no:

Baseball. Only Baseball. Venezuela are actually bloody good at it.

Wonder how many players are secretly hoping they’re on the bench and not starting.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-WXPzGXwAA6hW2?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

2 changes from the weekend
Kinsella replaces Khan
Kemp, Young and Austin lead the line

Not that there was much choice, but that’s about as good as it gets.

Have they got any collective bottle?

that bench ..

shudder

It’s a long way home if they get beat😁

Where’s Khan?

Totted up yellows suspension.

Not just bottle....pride.

Still don’t think I can watch

Ah, shame.

Well im at Banbury United vs Scunny tonight

Fuckin Football Phil is here ffs

time for Kinsella to step up

Hes been standing up all season hes just not very tall!

Blimey is Football Phil still alive? :D

Is Clayton injured again, or is he sick?

I’m in a hotel in Bradford all week, no TV in the bar anymore and certainly no Sky in the room. In fact been here since Sunday and not turned on the TV yet. Relying on here and the DAN and his mate with some dodgy TV stick or something in their digs down in Pompey. Assuming they’ve the appetite to watch.

I knew there was someone missing... thanks...

no idea

Bloody hell. Clayton injured again?? It's fucking relentless

Hes already collared me

‘Dont you go Swindon’

‘Yes Phil’

‘Did you go saturday’

‘NO!’’

I've just stuck Ifollow on.

Is there anybody in that ground? is my feed behind because it sounds like a Graveyard.

You deserve that for trying to get away from it all.  :D :girlgiggle:

Hodgetts and Hawes not aware of any injury.

Up to date and showing a 90% empty Jobserve stand.

More atmosphere at a graveyard.

Wasn't it claimed he was homesick in the summer?

the bench is so shit he must be ill or injured.

or he fucked off Flynn somehow

Swindon favourites to win with the bookies. Then again they were favourites on Saturday and look how that ended up.

honestly think it'll be a tight match

Seems an easy thing to do

I had the joy of being sat next to him for the last game we played at Coventry, OMG my ears bled, has he told you how many Scunthorpe fans will be there tonight? he usually knows to the nearest thousand! and delights in telling everybody withint shouting distance.

Might play to our favour. Not sure the players are emotionally ready for any kind of atmosphere.

Comms is annoying me already and it hasn't even kicked off.

Why does he talk like that?

Are we losing yet?

I can hear a fucking drum😡

doing our best to play them in already whoever that was....

Commentator is a proper deaconoid

We have a player Calle Mc-re-Han apparently!

Annoying

What score you gone for you’re right behind me😁

Their keeper is a flapper.

You get more atmosphere in Aldi

I am glad we dont have to listen to their comms then, we have Super Sammy Parking on co comms.

Sharday......has this bloke suffered some sort of brain injury?

Fuck me. Shade is Shaday. Great commentator.

And Sha-day (wasn’t she an 80s singer)

Tyreese "my love is king" sade

Hutton wins the first corner.

He’s a Smooth Operator

Can we take proper corners today please? Swing them into the mixer don't fuck about.

Thought it was a nice idea

On the evidence of that.

No.

Quick answer. No.

FFS...

I'd love a statistical analysis of short corners vs in the mixer. I hate the former!

Charlie Orstun

wtf

Charlie Olsen ????

Now it’s Charlie Awston

So far the evidence is unequivocal, Aldershot are not only miles better than us they’re also better than Colchester.

Tovide had the legs on Dokes there.

Pulled his shirt first

Not wishing to jinx it but Colchester look proper shite.

You should know better than that, JJ!

I know mate :)

Only worrying thing is Tovide is causing Dokes some problems

So do we though.

Never a foul by Kinsella there.

So far we look better than we did at MKD and I would imagine vs Aldershot too although I didnt watch that game.

We are passing well but not creating many good chances yet.

Well early signs look like at least they’re trying. Lacking a little bit of quality at the moment but certainly better than Saturday.

Hutton left foot cross and Austins header just wide from 8 yards.

Austin wide from a header he buries 5 years ago.

How many more is he going to miss

Should have scored

we are the better team.
Colchester have been shit

1-0 Young.

Yay 1-0

Great low finish from the edge of the box.

Jake Youngggggg left foot. Great finish.

Quality finish

That’s his wrong foot isn’t it?

The defender marking him went off for a Greggs after his first touch but hey, we will take it!

Nope left foot shot by predominantly left footer.

Their keeper seems well off the pace, flapping at crosses, was nowhere near that finish and his kicking very suspect.

Tovide might have some pace but he is very similar to Shade in quality.

Young had acres for the goal, didn't he?

Our defense looks equally likely to open up like that at the other end.....they look less likely to be able to do something about it though.

Kinsella having his best game, breaking up play, getting his foot in and protecting defence well.

Why do I get the impression one of their players is not called 'Mingy' and its another nonsense pronunciation from their comms?

Yellow for Kemp.

Is it me, or are both teams poor?

Hawes is also calling him Mingy so I guess its right.

Terrible free kick from Colchester

Oh its definitely not you.

No, it’s Cunt 😂

Shade almost through on goal but back heals it

"Much better from Colchester United since falling behind"



.............Is it though!?

Lovely pass from Austin to Young but he cant get the cross to Kemp, good chance.

Its definately better, certainly not "much better" though.

fucking hit it youngy

Kinsella is doing well

Looking more like a player so far today.

We can't afford him to be a passenger so that's good.

Fantastic pass from Dokes to Hutton but his cross finds Shade and his shot is poor.

Great shot by Young and the keeper flaps and punches it away.

Sounds like we need to kill them off now.

Oh fucking hell what now

So was Kemp booked or FBT

….before they score 7!

That Tovide is making a fucking meal out of nothing it seems.

Ifollow seems to have gone from replays at unfortunate times to no replays at all.

Corner to Brewitt but he hits it high and wide from 6 yards.

Different gravy from a CB that.

looked like Kemp to me

Yeah Kemp on Jiff's clip on X.

Btw, it is Mingi

Good defending by Kemp up against a lump of a player.

Poor by Kinsella there and a yellow for him too.

3 mins added.

Looked like he decided he needed to tactically foul the guy but he really wasn't on for much and had another player in front of him

Not to worry about the yellows lads. Got the biggest squad in the league. It'll be grand.

He chose unwisely, but I can understand him doing it, if he looked up though he would have seen Dokes covering him.

HT 1-0 to Town.

TBF, Shade has been tracking back and made a couple of good clearances.

Shade has been abysmal.

Austin has touched the ball maybe twice. One header just wide and a good pass to Young.

FBT been good. Young always looks a threat in the final third.

The Bradford CEO has told fans there will be a new striker in in January.

Young no doubt.

good half. bossed it.

are col u the worst team we've played yet so far.

1-0 never usually enough though

Shade has been running into dead ends (aka Egbo for the first 30 mins) in the final third

Well that is a massive improvement. Hutton again with good deliveries,great assist from FBT and what a finish! All strikers have lean periods let's hope those 2 goals can trigger another good scoring run for Young.Midfield 3 working well,Brewitt holding the line together well after that early slip. Only criticism I can find is we should be 2 up.

We could or should have been at least 3 up, a good chance for Young when he passed to Kemp rather than shooting, his 20 yarder that the keeper couldnt hold and the chance for Austin.

On this occassion I dont agree about Brewitt mate, I though hes been very poor today so far, looks rusty.

RHM for Austin on 60

Comfortable and should be more ahead.

Decent enough half from everyone. Including shade who is doing his defensive duties well

I agree, I thought Shade was playing quite well, he gets a lot of stick, sometimes undeservedly.

Att: 3,455 (370 Town)

Come on Colchester turn the fucking camera back on!

Standard ifollow experience

I noticed Shade defending well, but he’s so frustrating at times.

Oh! We’ve started!

1-1

Cock

Their first shot and that hit him rather than was a shot.

Can't help but think I'd we'd actually appealed for a foul there it might have been chalked off, but nobody seemed to.

Here we go!

Great cross to be fair.

it was

That is the sort of cross I wish Hutton put in rather than floating them in.

Colchester like being snipered and going to the deck. Its like the ghost of Johnny Williams.

Wow that was a shocking free kick by them.

BBC have it as Kinsella OG?

Flynn looking to make changes.

Nice interception by Brewitt there.

It definately hit their striker square in the face almost on the goal line, he knew nothing about it.

wake the fuck up town

In January?

FBT manages to get his head to a cross and Mahoney picks the ball up.

he he, good trick shot defending from fbt

What the hell was that FBT.

Young misses a great chance from 7 yards after Shade sets him up.

That backheel made me make a very odd noise.

August.

oh youngy

Brill from Sade

he's a Smooth Operator

Brewitt with a massive cock up there nearly cost us a goal.

Kinsella kicked in the head there

cheers ref

Had the ball kicked into his face.

you can't drop it uncontested there ref

That was all just odd.

1-2

Tovide, naturally.

We’re flaky as fuck

Sigh.

Was coming, so it was.

Hawes put it perfectly.

Brittle.

Bugger.

fucking hell

We have been poor this half.

STFC the gift that keeps on giving.

Nice marking there leaving their striker all alone despite us having a box full of defenders

Fuck that. No midfield then. Kinnell off the pitch getting treatment

Talk about a game of 2 halfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGp11BIGhfA

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Their scoreboard is saying Colchester v Sutton!

The same Colchester who lost 5-0 at FGR. Fuck Saturday.

I blame Hutton saying he felt like we were never going to lose... we've barely won since!

All our crosses floated high into the box, all their crosses whipped in with pace and low.

The Same Colchester who beat Notts County 5-4 just 2 weeks ago too.

RHM and Minturn on.
Austin and Kinsella off.

UGM into midfield?

I'd just like to officially sound the Beamish Line Klaxon

Flynn’s really not all that is he?! Our ‘defending’ is unforgivable and just getting worst.

Deckchairs, Titanic

His record is mediocre at best and does not warrant a contract extension!

6 wins in 16 in the bottom division. Shite

If I was Clem I would put 50k on us losing against Stockport on Saturday.

That does seem to be the plan.

If that's above RPI the bookies have if wrong!

We are absolutely crying out of an extra body at CB. It is criminal that that hasn't happened this season.

Now Flynn has the safety net of an extended contract you’d think he’d come out and say he desperately needs reinforcements. The more and more he says we have enough players the worse he’s making himself look.

No point as they’ll be odds on, the plan was to get the odds up so he can put the money on us ;)

Kemp long shot just wide.

I can't even begin to blame Flynn.

Bloke assembled about 12/13 players capable of promotion and then Clem lost his wallet and his pen.

Players are smoked due to a lack of squad. Only one man to blame.

Anyone see us scoring 2?

Hepburn Murphy was offside but looked like he was trying to shoot at a goal to the left of the goal.

Yep, was the same story with Morris (even though Morris had the added bonus of acting like a entitled child)

Colchester are fucking shit, we are fucking shitter, this half especially so.

Not sure I see us scoring one more.

Even odds on he would win a little….don’t forget we’re skint😁

Can talk about the budget all we want but when we leave their #9 unmarked in the box that’s nothing to do with fatigue. Just shitness.

RHM misses a great chance, good tackle though.

What a fucking turn from.RHM

I guess Morris maybe didn't financially need the BS like Flynn might, so felt he could speak up.

fucking good last ditch on RHM.

bastard

I agree to a large extent but this way of ‘defending’ is his choice and is just becoming fucking stupid. It’s been shambolic even when we were playing well. If you can’t just keep doing the same thing over and over again.

SHOOT FFS!!!!

Agree with that. Yes he has a shit hand but he's hardly shuffled it, which is a manager's job.

We just keep standing off them defensively, we cannot defend.

Morris just downed tools when he saw what he had to work with

Yeah was fine when we were free scoring but that is no longer the case.

Fucking hell Hutton.

I’m genuinely worried about relegation.

We battered Wimbledon. Almost Flynn esque.

Shocking decision

Shocking team. Waste of a season.

We all know whose fault it is but I wish Flynn would come out and say we’re desperately fucking light on players and everyone is knackered instead of blaming injuries. Everyone gets injuries, the difference is, all the other teams in the top half have the players to replace those who get injured. We’ve got Shade and fucking Minturn.

Clem has as a dealer seems to constantly be dealing out 7/2 off suits in all directions.

RHM FFS shoot!

I think our home form saves us but after seeing last year's end of season run in who knows

Yup. Wheels are off.

RHM just doesn’t know when to shoot.

Especially if we get any points deductions for either not paying players or the court case.

I think he’s forgotten how too.

He seems to want to wait for a foul

He does look for a foul constantly.

Yeah, towing the company line just gives the drips on Facebook (and a couple on here) that think Clem can do no wrong more ammunition to shout people down and live in their own warped little world.

Or just doesn't shoot at all. Wants to walk it in.

I am not even angry any more.

This just has a feeling of defeat being innevitable.

Clem can’t afford to sack Flynn anymore.

We can say Morris was petulant and downed tools but if it is as shit as we believe, is that surprising?

Would we rather have a Sheridactyl just fronting it out because they need the job?

It's a balance but I'm not sure Flynn is getting it right. His contract extension PR looks ludicrous already.

Their defender heads the ball out and they give a goal kick, sums up the evening.

Do the club actually want promotion? Higher costs etc.  :sherlock:

Very true. Should speak up.

Old Mother to make the difference!

I'd respect Genesini if he walked that's for sure. He's been absolutely mugged off.

I think everyone is aware that our squad is light. However nothing can be done about this until January as there isn’t enough deemed quality in the free transfer market.

If sufficient investment isn’t made in January then even Clem supporters will start to question things.

Investment will not happen Clem is skint. His businesses are on their knees

No, they'll need to see him dragged kicking and screaming from the building before that happens sadly. They are true believers.

So what was stopping us from using our last loan spot or signing a couple of short term deals so the players aren't so clearly over ran until then?

3-1

3-1

Because he's the reeeeeaaaal deeaaal ya know.

Fuck this club.

I’m speechless😡

1-3

1 win and 1 draw in the last 8 games. Not acceptible.

ST or not I’m not going

Fuck the cunt of an owner, for sure.

cunt off. fucking football

Shambles.

Sent from my XQ-AD51

Only the kid chasing it back. The pros have given up.

Fuck off Clem you Aussie fraud.

free agents only until January, no loans attached to clubs allowed.

Rotten to the core, feel for the 370 fans who went tonight. We were sold the dream by a plumber….FFS

The sign of a good side is always said to be winning whilst playing badly. We've perfected losing whilst our opponents are playing badly.

Stockport are going to tear us apart on Saturday

They really arent fit to wear the shirt. No passion, so pride, no quality.

Ref ends our misery

The players are a disgrace

Nothing left in the tank for these 13 players - they have been run into the ground, simple as that..  over to you Clemente

Even money to win as well. Would never bet against the team I support but that’s got to be one of the bets of the season.

Genuine question; over the last let’s say 20 years, what is worse….

Our record in the FA Cup or our record away to Colchester (because I swear we always lose there)

The squad is emaciated. But is it that thin that Genesini can't even get 10 minutes?

Even Power kept the wheels turning during the season.

Morfuni now closing in rapidly on the worst ever owner slot. And it was all so inevitable. Well done Trust STFC. Your boy is really knocking it out of the park. Best critical friends forever!

I saw us win there 0-1 Michael Reddy, it was about 30 years ago though..

Yep, I can only remember two wins at theirs. FA Cup 2011 and their relegation side in 2016. And we’ve lost to some really shit Colchester teams since

He must be on a deal where we can't afford to pay appearances or something. It is nonsensical.

Fletcher Hubbard the only positive tonight. Feel for these kids being thrown in before they’re ready but it’s at least some experience for them.

I saw us lose at Layer Road 0-2

A Friday night at Layer Road. Lifetime away.

A lifetime with STFC. Jeez!

And a long miserable journey home.

some say he shall in Flynn's training shoes, some say he shagged Flynn's daughter,
nobody knows.


honestly, he's not the answer. but to not play him at all...

Especially when the alternative is Shade.

The worrying thing for me is that we can play well for 45 minutes but the opposition only need a 10 minute spell to pick us off. Now,is that down to the manager? I'd say partly

Same old shit different season   :crash: :suicide: :pint:

Absolute gash and they were no better.

Flynn left woefully short. Surprised he signed a new deal.

It’s the inevitability of it - game after game. You know what’s going to happen - and it does.

Whatever ‘style’ Flynn thinks he’s trying to play it isn’t working. We haven’t had a functioning defence for years, but this lot take the biscuit.

Flynn has massive question marks now. Some managers thrive in adversity. Not looking like he's that guy.

This.

Olly Lancashire gets in this team right now. Maybe even Chris Robertson.

I witness at 1-0 (Super Sammy Parkin) either late August / early September 2004

Milan Misun must be free?

Clem said we’d have a competitive budget, Angus said we’d have a competitive budget, Flynn still says we had a competitive budget but we have not built a squad that can compete over the course of a few months.

The fans have done their bit by buying season tickets and attending games in their droves but we were all sold down the fucking river. Lied to from day 1.

Who have Supermarine got on Saturday?

Russell Lewis is better than what we got and he was shite🤣

Surely we should be recalling Aguiar/Adeloye at this point? Just for the bodies...? But no, that would cost £££.

Home to Sholing😁

Flynn:
- Great performance
- Didn't get rub of the green
- Pleased with the players
- Lots of creativity
- Didn't deserve to lose
- Genesini isn't fit enough to wear the shit
- Was thinking of playing Ward tonight to send a message
- Young is increasing his value for Bradford. Hopefully they will send us more players
- Looking forward to the weekend.
- Think we will definitely be back to winning ways
- Eyeing up 3 signings next week.

I do feel he's been given a free pass in all this. 100% complicit in the disaster even if Clem threw him under the bus disgracefully at the end.

Happy with that. Good interview. COYR!

No, not saying he's the answer but he's not even getting on before the kids. Weird

 :D

I'm so fucking angry. Honestly not just with Clem but with a section of our fan base. For burying their heads and allowing this to be un challenged. Particularly on Facebook. Everybody on Facebook can do one.

Highest gates in 30 odd years yet wages are being paid late and we have about 13 pro players.

There is no fucking way on earth Clem budgeted for 9000 gates either. Anybody who isn't a complete moron budgets this club at 6-7k because that's where our gates usually lie at this level. He's taken our tremendous support for granted.

So even with 25% more income than he initially expected before taking over, he still can't afford to run this club.

Lee Power was right. He said he didn't think Clem had the funds. Yeah Power was a prick but he was 100% spot on. Clem is a chancer. Took us all for a ride.

Notts County - in the midst of an injury crisis, particularly in midfield, can sign Dan Gosling for a couple of months.

Town - crying out for a decent CB, naming teenagers in the bench - tumbleweed.

Fuck off Clem. Fuck off now.

Well played lads, really put the effort in after last weekends shite  ::)

Can't remember the players downing tools like this since Hart.

Hi clem, how are you doing hahaha

Which is interesting since the first half wasn't bad at all.

Maybe the perception is they're downing tools when actually they're already knackered as we have zero scope to change the side round unless we're throwing kids into the mix. In an era when you can make 5 subs instead of 3 strength of squad can win you a game more than ever before. And ours is piss weak.

Our midfield tonight was reminiscent of playing Fifa against the AI on amateur mode when you just hold sprint and we had zero option to change it.

Imagine this team without Young and Kemp, Hutton sold, Charlie Austin on the Antiques Roadshow.

Replaced by the chief barrel-scraper

Has Flynn resigned? Taking his time.

No EFL team is 0-7 at home to a non league side after 60 mins unless they've downed tools, 'fatigue' or not. They hadn't played in a week.

Murphy,twice, just shoot mate. Brewitt our best defender again,though not saying much, apart from the assist FBT one of his worst ever. UGM not bad in midfield rubbish at the back today. Young good first half,anonymous second. Kemp,McEachran and Kinsella (see Young).Hutton put in several decent crosses as usual. Trying to find plusses is like the haystack needle

https://twitter.com/stevecollins88/status/1722012956534186217

This has absolutely done me  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Why would the manager sign a new deal if the players have given up essentially making him look terrible in the process?

Yet, next game, Flynn will send them out with ‘Same again, lads’ ringing their ears.

Same cock ups, same defensive naivety, same powder puff midfield.

13 goals in 3 games and it’ll be more of the same.

Probably couldn’t believe his luck, a normal club would be looking to sack him. We’ve lost to 3 teams in the last month who have all sacked managers. For all the mitigating circumstances Flynn is exactly what Walsall fans warned us about and isn’t immune from the blame. We are now in a battle for football league survival, we need to face that reality.

I don't know but perhaps he was offered a chance to secure his financial future in the short term and prioritised that.

Clayton out for 6-8 weeks??? This is fucking unbelievable

He's made of Wotsits. No use sadly.

Him and Cain. Soft scouse.

Looked in control early on. Much better than Aldershot at home. Bit of a capitulation in the second half. Probably missed Khan. We missed a few chances, RHM chance our end seemed like the biggest from my perspective. Difficult to see a league win in the next couple. Fingers crossed it’s not a total free fall.

Maybe...glad im away this weekend. Could be double digits.

Just because I had to looks win away at Colchester in 01,02, 03, 04, 11, 13, 16

Flynn couldn't turn it around at Walsall when the going got tough.

This all feels very 10/11 season to me.

We're going down.

That Flynn interview felt delusional.

Flynn:
- We are too easy to score against
- Need t o be better
- Missed some chances
- Need to be better in both boxes.
- Good energy. Pressed as a team. Got the goal. Could have had a couple more
- Second half. Dropped off. Went too deep. Poor
- Everyone is determined to do well for the football club
- We are going through a sticky patch
- Need to stick together
- Effort and commitment was there. But werent good enough as a team
- No scar tissue from Saturday. Look at the first half
- Cant justify Saturday. Its done
- We lost tonight as we stopped in the second half what we were doing in the first half
- Missed Khan tonight
- Game management again is the thing
- Decision making wasnt great second half
- Young: Not interested in individuals. Want to see the team do well
- Hubbard: Been on the bench. We were going for the game. They woulnd know anything about him
- Third goal was because we were gung-ho
- Clayton: Out for 6-8 weeks. Hamstring. Passing back to the goalkeeper. Not even sprinting!
- Squad is getting thinner
- Flynn has been looking at the free agent market. But how long would it take them to get up to speed?
- The group has stayed as a unit. Some home truths said at the weekend
- Came out with better determination and intensity
- Just goals were poor from out point of view
- Flynn hurting (again)

Flynn's hurting. Boo fucking hoo.

Blah, blah, blah.

I don't understand it

How long would it take free agents to get up to speed with this current squad? About a minute and a half I should imagine.

That interview is beyond worrying, just suggests he’s delusional & doesn’t have clue.

I think any honeymoon period is over for Flynn. All well and good heaping blame on Clem but these last 8-10 games have got relegation written all over it.

Sam Parkin
- Used to take me a preseason and 6 games to get up to speed
- Didn't feel at peak fitness until September
- To expect someone to come into the team without having been playing is expecting too much

The reality is we have a mid table league 2 manager.

Just said to PV that it has all the hallmarks of a Jimmy Quinn or Iffy Onoura managed season.

I kept expecting us to get out of trouble, but we never did

This is so bad.
It's like waiting for a train crash to happen. Know it's happening but not sure when.
Really glad I am miles away although still very painful. No fight or passion.
Not acceptable and not needed.
As others have said, Morfuni has surely  simply run out of time here.

Calling bullshit on that one!

That's a bullshit excuse because if you were serious about signing someone you would bring them into training to assess them and improve fitness. Dont think theres been one example of this since the window closed despite allegedly 'looking at free agents' the whole time.

I'd take a half fit Dan Gosling for example who might be a bit rusty having not played for 6 months over a 16 year old child.

Flynn is a cunt. Instead of just saying what a shambles we are behind the scenes (he'd get the support of the fan base) he bats it all away and makes his points via cryptic messages instead. Like subbing on Hubbard with 4 minutes to go. That's got nothing to do with chasing the game. That's just making a point.

Shaun Hodgetts called him out on it, saying 'And so speaks the man who scored a hattrick on his debut in August'

"Swindon will go bust if Clem goes. Stating facts. No Clem, no Swindon."

Actually conversation I'm having with someone.

Might ask him for his bank details.

Don't bother. I genuinely don't know what needs to happen for them to take any notice. I don't even think relegation would do it. I was asked earlier if I'd still be moaning later if we got 3 points. Them lot don't get it. They're oblivious. In a world of their own.

10 goals from 18 appearances (the first 6 of each of his three seasons(

He has a clue, he just seems to refuse to tell us straight the issue is not being backed.

I mean it’s probably not that extreme but I’m no expert but as we owe Clem - he could in theory stop funding us and put us into admin (although he’d lose a massive% of what he’s owed by the club) and effectively shut up & shop and in that situation we’d be relying on someone else to buy the club whilst we slide into oblivion.

"The Power out mob are quite tonight" they used to say when we'd have a win like all our off the field problems suddenly go away. They lack the mental capacity to understand what is going on. Fucking drongos.

He'd get pennies on the £ if he does, so he'd be really fucking stupid to.

But I'm not sure he isn't really fucking stupid, so maybe he will.

Saturday will be absolutely toxic.

I mean - in that situation he’d take out anything he could to pay himself back first wouldn’t it.

I’m with you that it’s not as black & white as ‘no Clem, no Swindon’ but we are quite reliant on him right now…

I didn’t think we were as bad in the 2nd half as some here are saying when we went forwards, but as soon as the ball is in midfield, they waltz through to a back 3 that play wide and high, and with gaps aplenty. The main issue for me remains the absence of a proper holding midfielder. One that sits, and doesn’t over commit. The defence are lambs to the slaughter without that.  

We can’t simultaneously blame Flynn, whilst blaming squad depth. You could give this squad to Guardiola and he’d struggle. A decent XI when they’re fresh and confident, but they’re running on fumes, and their confidence has been knocked. Normally when that happens, some get a rest. We can’t do that. Morfuni and the shadow board have neutered Flynn’s ability to manage. He can’t threaten players with being dropped, he can’t give someone a break when they need to physically or mentally freshen up, he has no tactical flexibility because he doesn’t have the tools. The board have quickly spending all of the post-Power capital they’d built up. If they have any sense, they’ll sell before a buyer realises that 9k crowds are not the norm. Saturday’s crowd will be telling.

Don’t worry. All will become clear when the Trust see the books in the next fortnight.

And then Clem comes over in January to personally oversee the transfer window.

Hang in there everyone, it’s going to be okay! #RealDeal #InItForTheLongHaul #Competitive

Agreed on the holding midfielder 100%

Our average attendence sits us 10th in League 1. Most significant signings this season are a defender from Forest Green Rovers and loans from other League 2 clubs. Squad is well short.

Dodgy characters all over the shop.

Swindon fan on the inside gets replaced by one of his own.

Accounting 'errors'

How many more red flags needed?

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Too high, can't come down?

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Its gonna be alright!

But are the players gonna play play play play play?

Coz the haters are clearly full of hate hate hate!

New goal music for when we score to make it 7-1 down.

Don’t think our fanbase has it in them to be toxic.

Will just be people with their heads down typing toxic shit on their phone.

It could get that way.....but are most people that would get that way going to go at this point?

Is clem back for boxing day? Rumours might be on TV. Might get embarrassing and not just on the pitch.

No danger of you being in the ground either way.

Reflecting back objectively on the game, minus all of the background noise, we deserved a point at least.
Decent response after going behind & RHM has to score.
Still, result aside it's been a good day.

They just have to keep going.
Harsh to blame Flynn at this stage I feel, but it will be a challenge to turn this around.

Accurate description of yourself then.

Saturday will be a rotten atmosphere I think….

You’re a cunt

(oh you’re right I can be toxic on my phone)

It was a generalisation; it’s not just Towns - anyone and anything in general. Now a days it’s the norm to rant and rave online about things / people and not say any of it out loud.

it was what I thought it would be. sadly.

A good effort taking the context of Saturday into account. But another big fat L and a season fast slipping away.

I don't agree we deserved anything from that, we defended too poorly. But at least we kept going.

Flynn has the absolute bare minimum at his disposal and it's going a bit Walsall. I don't blame him though.

I do genuinely worry that this season could turn from disappointing to clusterfuck very quickly.

 :popcorn:

This is where Reg would be bleating on about ‘retaining our FL status’ - and for once, I think he’d have a point!

Hugely concerned - I’ve never known such a dire position with squad depth. Couple that with the ownership issues and it’s a recipe for disaster.

Very much agree on the holding midfielder, McEachran and Khan are too similar when we really need a Grant or early days. Louis Reed no non-sense disruptor. The defence bomb forward and the opposition walk through midfield on the counter.

Someone just said "we still have a club" on the Facebook group and they weren't taking the piss.  :suicide: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Going over the last 11 seasons (discounting the covid season making it 10)

A team has needed anywhere from as a high at 51 points to as a low as 43 to stay up.
In reverse order oldest season to most recent 51, 50, 45, 43, 48, 46, 44, 48, 44, 46.
Averages out at 46.5 so round up to 47.

47 minus the 23 points we already have from 16 games (1.44 ppg) leaves us needing a further 24 points from 30 games (0.8 ppg)

Obviously context is key but what he said is technically true is it not?

Not sure we have 8 wins in us. We still have loans to be recalled yet. I suspect Hutton and Khan will be sold.

We don’t need to win again all season. 24 draws will get the job done!

I actually think he was taking the piss as he said transparent owner.....otherwise just looks like a lot of regular posts from that group.

That was Clem

Seen someone on twitter say that austin was offering swindon fans a fight after the game

IMO, everyone. keeps saying Hutton will get sold and whilst he pushes the top of the assist charts, how many crosses does he need to take before a good ball goes in?  A striker who has 20 chances a game and scores 2 goals, is that better than a striker who has 1 chance a game and scores every time?

As I was walking out I heard some fans talking about that, including the ones who were allegedly in the altercation with Charlie.

Yep it happened. Word for word I don’t know, but told by people that were in away end this happened and he was being pulled back by other players. Other players IE brewitt however opted to apologise to fans instead.

Do personally feel the Hutton slander is very unfair. A very quick and brief stats dive shows:
50% cross completion ratio
Most crosses attempted in the league
3.1 crosses per game
2.5 chances created
Creates the most chances of any player in the league.

Hutton would be much better as a RM in a 4-4-2

As many have highlighted, the problem is the lack of a defensive midfielder leaving the back 3 (most of the time back 1) so exposed. We looked a bit better with Dokes in there at the end, may be an option moving forwards until January.

I can imagine he must be extremely frustrated but Charlie has been a huge disappointment so far this season. Before every game, the opposition comms say how much they'll need to keep him quiet, and by the end of the game they're usually stating how he wasn't that much of a threat afterall. He missed another good chance last night. And we've gone from what looked like a lethal front line to pretty blunt. Charlie just doesn't offer enough going forward.

I have to say I'd quite like to see us Mike Bassett it as well but do we have 2 CBs...? Minturn shouldn't be first XI.

Many had the not entirely mistaken belief, that with the right service Austin would score a bucket load in this league.
Other aspects of his game have helped the team out defensively & he's chipped in with assists.
Overall, does that balance out the relative lack of goals?

Might be worth trying a pacier combo of Young & RHM on Saturday.
Nothing to lose apart from the game & most will be thinking that's a given anyway.

Not read back yet - going to be interesting.

I thought first half last night we were pretty good. We definitely didn't look shell shocked from Saturday, pressed high up the pitch, played nice football and scored a very good goal. Colchester looked a bad side and at half time I was confident we would go on and take all 3 points.

Goodness only knows what happened in the second half, we were sluggish and conceded a sloppy goal  not long after half time. We then seemed to go to pieces, the second goal was just ridiculous. The midfielder picked the ball up in oceans of space and when the ball was fed into the box their centre forward had a fairly easy task in oceans of space to pick his spot. The third goal was just us pushing for the equaliser.

The way our form has gone since the end of September is a concern. Yes we've played some good sides, but Colchester weren't brilliant and second half beat us fairly comfortably. Yet again the difference makers off the bench are stark. Colchester could bring on Hopper and Chilvers, who aren't amazing players but are sound enough in league 2 as options. Yes we've got the random firecracker of Hepburn-Murphy who on his day can get you a goal but aside from him it's all kids. That Hubbard lad looked about 15. Fantastic experience for him but when you need a goal away at Colchester on a cold November evening, it's harsh to expect him to do it.

It's hard to know how to break it down, for me Charlie looks a shadow of the player he was, he's 34 now and it's not like he's looked after himself like Christiano Ronaldo so is starting to look like a sauntering old man. He's also got an attitude/chip on his shoulder which is starting to come out as he's chipping back to fans. When your club captain is doing that, cracks have clearly started to appear. The manager is appearing to be going the same route that happened at Walsall where they started well, but then went on a tailFlynn, not winning in 20. Given the absolutely thin squad, I'm not sure Flynn can go very much. Kinsella for example needs to just sit as a Dm and not move from there, but the way we play is too fluid. We take Charlie off for RHM and continue to try and play balls into the box, that's never going to work.

At least we have an easy game on Saturday! :)

I do find this infuriating also. We have to go low whipped crosses once Charlie goes off surely... There is no one there who can win a header!

I get that Charlie's all round game has improved with experience but he wouldn't have made it in the game without the goals. Two open play goals in 16 league games isn't great for a star striker. He just needs to focus on scoring goals.

Austin is almost playing a Hoddle role this season , albeit from the front rather than the back.

I know it's been touched on but is there any knowledge whether Genesini is on a "pay as you play" contract? He IS our player,right? I know,as people have pointed out, not THE answer but surely he should be getting on before the likes of obodo,Hubbard and gray?no disrespect to the lads

I can’t image he’s on a pay as play but might be on ‘x amount per week which will increase to y amount per week after 5 first team games’

Again its difficult to judge Austin when we're not managing his minutes at all and it comes down to the squad problem again.

Even before we had this abortion of a squad composition (again *sigh*) we knew we had to manage his minutes. He's a 34 year old who had a history of injuries when we first signed him back in 2009. This isn't something profound that he might not be able to play 120 to 160 minutes every week. Its fucking obvious.

Clem has fucked us, again. Just like last January.

Can't wait for him to oversee this Jan.

An individual on Facebook. With the initials BS. It won't take a genius to work out who it is but probably not appropriate to use somebody's real name on here:

" Where was everyone with the clem out posts when we were 9 unbeaten
Or is it because we’ve lost a few games its now Clem’s fault "

Fucking infuriates me honestly. Makes me far angrier than any loss or broken promises. Our own fans are this dense. We really do deserve everything we get don't we.

First comment underneath:

" Exactly spot on, lucky to have a football club at all, could have ended up like Bury "

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Beginning to think people on Facebook are social experiments.

Whatever the reasons for the position the club is in, it’s not the fan’s fault. It’s not the happy clappers fault, it’s not the doom and gloom merchants fault. Whatever fans think it’s not going to make things better or worse.

He supported Lee Power. These people are the absolute dregs of our fan base. Complete simpletons.

They cannot be told though because they're adamant they're the smart ones.

I disagree to an extent. Of course the situation isn't their fault but their clear lack of understanding of our situation can become harmful.

Happy clappers create a rift in our fan base. a divide. Which means not everybody is on the same page and also means that when inevitably we have to go down some sort of protest route, the people who aren't blinkered and can actually see what's going on are going to be ridiculed for trying to make positive long term change.

When you mention clubs like Blackpool, Coventry, Charlton and countless others. They were all on the same page. They KNEW they were being taken for mugs and they all got together to do something about it. We will just sit and watch our club almost die again because of people like BS who both supported Lee Power and now Clem Morfuni.

Sure, the fans of those clubs protested but I doubt their actions had any effect on when and to whom their clubs were eventually sold.

We will never know. I would say it did but there's no proof without digging more into their situations.

I can't really see how a drop in gates and potential protests wouldn't accelerate Clem selling. He can't even fund us with 9k. What happens when it drops to 6k?

I respectfully disagree. A small group of fans have aided and abetted Morfuni every step of the way.

Exactly. That’s the worry.

Just look down the M4. Reading have had fans marches and protests, Mike Ashley is sniffing, but why pay full price when you can buy the club for peanuts once it’s put in admin.

The time for an owner to sell is when the club is on the up not on the way down.

The Clem apologists on Facebook also seem completely oblivious to what actually happens if gates drops too. The Bury reality may come true to that one head in the sander.

I think we’re talking about the ‘average’ fan - you and me for example. No doubt some Trust members were taken in but as has been shown, if Clem promises a look at the books and then decides not to no amount of tub thumping is going to make a difference.

Call him out - great - but don’t expect any skeletons to drive him out.

But it's only downwards for Swindon right now. Hopefully done enough to avoid the drop but it doesn't look good going forward. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Surely now is the time?

Only contracted players for next season to my knowledge are:

Godwin-Malife
Jake Cain
Tomi Adeloye
Liam Kinsella
Harrison Minturn
Ricky Aguiar

*unless other players have a +1 year option we can trigger

On top of this, our gates will dwindle and relegation becomes a scary reality for next season.

Which is why if Clem is thinking of selling and there are potential suitors, now is the time for him to sell - before we hit rock bottom.

Do the players know more than we do?

'Stick with us' and 'The good times are coming' seem like strange things to say unless there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Who has said that?

Pretty sure FBT was pleading with fans to stick with them, not sure if any of them said the latter.

Or a train coming down the tunnel?

Charlie Austin said the highs are coming on Instagram.

On the magic mushrooms

He can be on whatever he likes as long as it makes him move around quicker!

It was rumoured thay Uwakwe is a 2 year deal. I would be surprised if we didn’t include options for Brewitt as well as anyone we paid for (Hutton, Khan, Clayton spring to mind).

I hope you're right. You probably are - as we'd of almost certainly sold Hutton by now if we didn't have a year extension.

4 visits...4 defeats.

Started off OK and if Austin bags the sitter, its over. He didnt.

Went off the field at halftime 1 up but totally dejected?

It was if both teams had gone down and playing out a dead rubber.

2nd half disaster...two low crosses, two goals.

Huff and Puff...nothing.

Shade made gestures to lift the crowd and that was rebuffed by the suffering fans.

Third went in and i fxxxd off.

Something is wrong in that dressing room!

A thumping could be on the cards Saturday.

I will enjoy the pub before anyway!

if this match was on the back on a winning streak there would be no issues at all.

we were the better team for the vast majority, a 10 minute period at the start of the second half and that was pretty much it for colchester. The problem is they scored with their chances and we missed with ours

no way did that look like a set of dejected players, everyone put a shift in, created the better opportunities and controlled the match for large periods.

we concede soft goals, have injury problems and have no bench to call on.

this is hardly john sheridan era or even football under morris.

i mean iv seen talk that we are getting relegated this season after last nights performance.

im as pissed off as anyone at being in league and I am desperate to get out. the blame lies with the owners at the moment, to me the players and the manager are doing everything they can to get a result.
 

Sorry but I respectfully disagree. We bossed the first half against a poor side, but a side who changed it at half time and we didn’t cope for 20 minutes. The midfield was absent, the defence had no protection and we conceded soft goals as we do every game. The football to try and chase the game was slow, with no urgency and we created very little. It was very worrying for me

Were they on Saturday?

we probably aren't, there are some other terrible teams. I think we'll pick up enough points from home games, and with a few returnees things will improve.

But January is key. Remember what happened last year.

 Agree with most of that but I thought second half we created just about enough to get a result. Young missed a sitter from a great low cross from Shade,RHM could have scored a couple if he'd have shot sooner, Kemp missed a couple,one a decent save and the other an unbelievable miss from less than a yard out with his head. But,yes,teams only seem to need a good 10/15 minute spell to pick us off lately

Can't comment as didn't watch. If they didn't get paid though you would think they were brighter than purposely going out of the cup with revenue at stake.


That's my point, there were enough chances and if we had won it would have been no suprise based on the game play but as with gillingham game we aren't scoring them.

Strange how one of the best goalscorers we've seen has completely lost his touch in the box

There's lots of half chances recently you'd have hoped Austin would put away, let alone the sitters he is scuffing

Just a guess, but maybe he is getting too involved in other aspects of the game - mental tiredness/lack of sharpness resulting?

Even more strange is how every time he goes off, a ball will land perfectly on the head of RHM and you wish austin would still be on.

A lot of the chances are very much half chances and any other striker we probably won't notice but we knew how good austin was/is and could do better