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Fingers crossed the game is on

So, with all the talk of safety inspections and closed bits of the ground, we've rather ignored the probably reasonable chance of there being a football match of Saturday.

Team news is that Harry Smith is doubtful (so he'll start), Kirkman is out, Munroe has tonsilitis. Ameen left wing back? Bodin?

We are 'struggling for subs' so could be one or two more.

Feels like we need a win for morale here, doesn't it?

A home loss in combination with the recent off field issues would certainly put an end to all the pre season optimism.

It does have the feeling of a must not lose already.

When is the game being on going to be confirmed? I'm holding off buying a ticket.

Scandalous that the club have left it this late to comply unless of course they enjoy the media coverage :D

Pre game between 1 and 3 Leggett and others, along with the Swindon Food Collective will be er collecting outside the TE tomorrow, near the club shop. If you have some items on this list or want to donate financially, anything helps.

- Tinned fish  
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned meat
- Tinned vegetables        
- Tinned potatoes  
- Tinned puddings                    
- Pasta / Curry Sauce - packets or jars
- Biscuits
- Toiletries
- Household Products

Cheers all xx

Any chance McGregor is back?

Played 80 mins in the week according to holloway, my guess is bench

Would expect to see a more energetic performance tomorrow.

Can't say that I've ever harboured anything other than indifference towards Cambridge Utd and its fans.

Having said that, the football shit list is always open for new & deserving entries.

Bloody hope so. Don’t know if I can cope with Snowdon at RWB again!

Looking forward to Martins' mum's frozen's before?

(niche reference)

Samantha Janus  :)

Indeed

More like Hugh Janus from my experiences in the DRS.

I'm not going Saturday, HTH.

Any tips on how to get my Hugh into a gokart?

I expect nothing from tomorrow, that way even a point is worthwhile.

Looking at their website it’s the rivalry we never knew existed😁

Reminds me of being at school and this Exeter fan calling us a rival. Everyone just turned around and laughed.

Sticks and stones and all that. Funny thing is I don’t remember the dislike for us when they had Calderwood as manager.

One of the most depressing 6 days as a Swindon fan, something to smile about would be nice but feel Cambridge will be up there this season.

Pre-match presser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHJSn3DBjQ

Holloway presser quotes:

“Joel McGregor got a whole game into him, all apart from the last 10 minutes. So that was really good. 2-2 draw with Forest Green, which was a great exercise.”

“Harry is doubtful. Joel and Billy are sort of available, they will be in the squad.”

All of a sudden im not feeling too confident about this season :D funny how quickly things can change. Walsall was a bit of a slap in the face with our lack of experienced defenders. Still for the life of me, I  cant understand not playing Ryan Delaney. If we're paying him, play him. Three players in the back line making their EFL debuts was absolutely disrespectful to the league.

Im going for Swindon 2-1 Cambridge but that's me wanting to be optimistic and hoping that Walsall was just a blip :D I want to see Bodin feature, hopefully along with McGregor, and Ball starting instead on TWB

The nature of the Walsall defeat will do that.

Hate to say the obvious, but got to give it time to see which way the wind blows.

Wanted Westley. Only found out he was available late. Thought they could get him

Now looking for a Tshimanga replacement. In for someone that several are in for. Will know more Monday. Later comments suggested that this will be a loan.

Kirkman has a hamstring injury and is out.

Finlay Munroe has tonsilitis

Minturn only interest from teams he wouldnt want to go to. Needs games so he can stop making mistakes

Struggling for subs for Saturday

Struggling for subs.... really??? Fuck me... I'm having a hard time believing that...

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1gUFb-BKM&pp=ygUZTmVpbCB3YXJub2NrIGZ1Y2tpbmcgaGVsbA%3D%3D

Available tomorrow:

RipleyWard

I don't see how he can be struggling for subs when he had Delaney and Butterworth sat at home last week.

Also, Bodin is fit enough to play some part.

If we’ve got a squad of 23, including Delaney, Minturn & Butterworth, and they’re not going to be involved it only takes a couple of players out for us to be struggling to fill the bench.

Surely it makes more sense to involve those players, rather than not have a full bench.
Unless of course it impacts them getting a move away, or it costs us bonus payments

25 players at the club before touching the youths (Foye at least) and that's not including the five players out on loan who could all be recalled if we really were unable to fill the bench - I'd suggest that Holloway is being dramatic.

https://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=59328.msg1689579#msg1689579

Even if Smith, Munroe, McGregor and Kirkman are unavailable that's still 27 footballers who could reasonably be in the 18 man squad.

Holloway's "small squad" just involves pretending fringe players don't exist as far as I can see.

Available:


Ripley      Ward

Wright  Delaney   Mabete  TWB   McGregor (Fully fit?)

Kilkenny  Oldaker   Ball  Clarke  Snowden

Glatzel  Butterworth  Bodin (Fully fit?)  Smith (Doubtful)  Drinan  Nicholls  Ameen  Tabor



Assuming no Smith, that makes choice of 19 for matchday squad, expect Butterworth or Mabete to miss out. 

Just in case it was missed, thank you folks!

Owen Foye captains the u18’s. I had a feeling we may have used him as LWB cover.

Had a quick read through the Cambridge forum - wow, they really hate us considering I have absolutely no feelings towards them whatsoever.

The hatred is bizarre as I’ve not heard of it before.

It's really funny bless them, other than playing them I don't think I have thought about Cambridge once. Just always support them in the boat race

They're discussing their top 3 most hated clubs in the FL. A large proportion of them include us in their top 3 - I doubt anyone on here gives a flying fuck about them.

I bet a lot of them weren’t even around in the early 90’s when Hoddle was in charge.

As I posted a few days ago its absolutely bizarre.

Probably not in my top 15, another league 2 side that have picked up a hatred for us despite being miles away. Bizzare…

 I doubt that I am alone in thinking that this will end in defeat today .  I am sure that here will be  renewed calls to get it  forward  and a few boos at half time .  

I can see this finishing up as 2-1 defeat. Glatzel to score from the bench.

Comparable to Harrogate, Barrow and Accrington in the hate stakes.

Cambridge never really cross my mind. Always thought of them of a bit of a nothing League Two side that have over achieved in the last few years. What have we done to upset them?  :clap:

Unfortunately I agree, I dont see where the goals will come from.

I have a feeling if Smith is out that Drinan will start as lone target man and Glatzel will start the game on the wing.

The only other change I am expecting is Munroe being injured at LB so surely Delaney must play at CB with Wilson-Brown moving to LB unless Holloway thinks Fil is ready to come in at CB.

                        Ripley
            Wright   Clarke   Mabete/Delaney
Snowdon                                  Wilson-Brown
              Kilkenny       Oldaker 
                      Nichols
         Drinan                Glatzel

Release the Kraken!

1-1 draw

Piece of piss. 4-1

Can't see this being a cracker. 0-0, or we sneak a 1-0

I think if we did a poll of the 92 they'd be very midtable. I'm not a big one for hating other clubs but even in this division Rovers, Gillingham, MK, Salford all attract more of our ire easily, and then probably Cheltenham and Crawley. They're just not a club to have strong feelings about, short of a two year period thirty years ago where John Beck made them a meme club. I could see a few years of Neil Harris giving them a bit more of unpleasant identity though.

Have a pretty grim feeling about the game today, but hope to be wrong.

1-0 att: 8,010 (280 insignificant U’s)

Swindon 1-2 Cambridge
Drinan scores our goal
Att: 8,014 (338 Cambs)

0-3 Cambridge

Comedy defending and hit on the break.

Last week was very poor so you'd hope we couldn't be much worse than that.

Needs to be a good performance and result.

Smith starts.

Butters on the bench

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gx6ObDpXIAAwK5G?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Sort of lineup i’d expect away to a top side, hopefully eat my words but that’s very flat.

Holloway clearly been attending the Richie Wellens school of fitness updates.

Don't get why Nichols seems to be nailed on to start (admittedly 2 games out of 2, so may be jumping the gun),  Snowdon playing out of position to fill in and RWB still isn't particularly encouraging and leaves a bit of conern about depth their while McGregor is still building up fitness

Great to see that Smudger is starting, making a possible transfer to the Abbey Stadium less likely.  Also, could be Butters chance to show that his impact off the bench is indispensable.

Or the Clemente Morfuni school of bending the truth

I forgot James Brophy played for them.

The day i see him use his right foot at the County Ground i’ll stop following football.

Don’t curse things😁

I would like to think that it was absolute gamesmanship by Holloway on this Smith fitness thing.

Cambridge bouyed yesterday by the news that Smith isnt fit so they change their formation to suit and all of a sudden Smith plays and interupts their formation, as he did with playing Smith at CB vs Wimbledon last season.

Best part of five seasons and 200 appearances, imagine us having a player stay that long! Nobody since Foderingham and Nathan Thompson I think.

We don’t do long servants anymore! Fair play to him nearly 200 appearances in league one so must be better than some have him credit for.

Kaikai used to be a bit of a handful at times when he was at Blackpool his career seems to be starting high and getting lower every season. Very quick though and likes to take on fullbacks.

He caused us problems in the past so Snowdon will have to be on his toes today.

I hope Smith can get something out of the veteran CB 37 year old Michael Morrison today who even when younger wasnt known for his pace.

Currently showing Walsall v Gillingham on Swindon on ifollow

Not on actual iFollow mate. All fine here.

Cambridge channel fine. Just have to listen to loads of shit about peterborough

Is that "real" iFollow or "ahem" iFollow? cos the real one is fine here.

Shaun Hodgetts having a bit of a dig at some posters on the TEF on t' radio.

I am hearing that we are having issues getting people in the DRS at the moment, huge queues. I am not an expert but maybe open more turnstyles earlier that might help. 

The U's have travelled in reasonable numbers.
400+ maybe.

Cambridge Comms taking the piss out of Swindon, didn't have WiFi and no one knew the password

That’s thinking ahead we don’t do that😁

They are our new rivals init.

Forced to listen to Cambridge commentary, already talking an absolute load of shite.  Apparently the Harry Smith thing and the safety certificate debarcle will motivate Cambridge and makes things a bit spicy.  Even said that the wifi wasn't working and it took them 8 attempts to log in, whinging like a complete bunch of turnips..

Brophy spent 6 of the last 10 years in League One while we have spent 3. If someone told you that in 2015 you’d have laughed.

Cambridge is nearly Norfolk.....All together now count to 12 on just your fingers....

Likewise, can’t get the Swindon channel to work on the naughty stick, they make for painful
Listening!

Ditto.

We have Mr Fjortoft on Swindon comms, I like him.

He said naughty stick.    :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I just put on Sky Sports plus expecting to watch the game as there are no PL games same as last week and they're not showing it... bastards!

What have we done now?

0-1

Same mate, gutted!

Brophy, shit defending.

Brophy ffs

Jesus! What’s Ripley doing? Where are the defence?

 You couldn't make this up

Come Ollie stand and deliver!

Awful defending. 1st cross was awkward, but easy enough to put out for a corner. Nobody tracking in the box. Completely avoidable.

We just look all over the place so far.

I think the camera operator may have had a liquid lunch

Fuxake.

I agree, normally its way better, got the YTSer in.

We have no midfielder winning things, we do miss Ofoborh.

What's happened to Delaney? I thought he was usually very good last season.

Did they sort the queuing issues from last season?

Midfielder flicks Nichols in the face with the hand and ref ignores it.

Did they fuck.

The pitch looks way better than our team :)

This is shite.

Munroe cross to Wilson-Brown and a good save by their keeper. Great chance, great cross.

Great save by their keeper from Wilson-Brown

We might have dodged a bullet...

Fixed it for you.

What did he say?

TBH I cant remember now but it was a snide dig at some posts about the game being on.

What a twat.

No width. No pace. Our plan is once again diagonals to Smith.

Cambridge comms think we have terraces behind both goals.

I know the bank isn't usable but surely you can see the fucking seats.

Add to that not having any midfielder who can actually pass to a red shirt today.

Kilkenny almost finds Drinan but he was 5 yards offside.

If nothing else the excuses will start to become fun if this doesn’t change. Can’t use gelling this season as it’s mostly the same squad and can’t be fitness what with the ‘famous’ fitness test. Wonder how long it would take for Holloway to turn on Morfuni?

Rinse and repeat from last week

It is and not dissimilar to the Kennedy season start if I am honest. All the pre season hope gone after just 120 mins of play.

This midfield 3 is depressing. Not working at all.

We dont have a single midfielder who can find a red shirt today.

Drinan offside again from a long pass.

Looking forward to the red card.

Don't know what Butterworth has been to be out in the cold he was head and shoulders above any of this lot playing last season, but then again so were the players on the pitch now that were here last season.

This is shit

You’d never have known Smith and Drinan played together at Orient.

That’s is absolutely dreadful! We can’t string 3 passes together!

1-1 Drinan

I was just about to call Drinan shit

I am sorry Drinaldinho

Thought Drinan had been poor til then!

2-1 Smith

Perfect :pint:

Hahahaha I am the GOAT

What a partnership

That was an inch perfect cross by Snowdon.

Well fucking hell! Mad few minutes! Superb! :)

This whole progression of page 9 is hall of fame stuff.

Did really well to score from where he picked the ball up there. They had ample opportunity to foul Drinan before he reached the box, but didn’t for some reason.

soapy tit wank now 2-1

Thought we butchered that attack as well. The wind is playing havoc with the defending of crosses so far.

And in 3 mins it all changes, nice.

Might need about 3 more with how we've been defending.

I would settle for a 2-1 win now fuck entertaining the crowd.

  “I don’t think this Swindon side is all that defensively” Fair observation  :)

 you have got to love division 4  football . I think that we have seen it all this half .


Great to see Drinan score. Maybe I picked our top scorer after all.

Let’s see if someone at the bank can show some leadership now. We shouldn’t have to score 3 or 4 to win a game like last season, we need to start controlling games when we are in front and see leads out.

I asssumed that’s what they would have worked on in pre-season😁

3 good chances for us and 2 goals scored.

The first 25 mins was absolutely terrible to watch from a Swindon point of view, but we have come back into it far more, but I dont think the goals have finished, could be a 4-3 to either side.

4 mins added.

Apparently the wind is the reason that Swindon are on top now  :wtf:

Drinan wins a throw near the corner flag.

Long throw headed clear and it finds Clarke who has a wayward shot from 20 yards and then we foul them as they break.

Shot by them that bothers the car park.

HT 2-1

Not the best performance so far but at least we are winning.

Fell asleep after Smith goal! Did I miss owt?

Not much, looked vulnerable again down Cambridge's left.  Also, some more curious refereeing decisions.

Wilson-Brown certainly doesnt back out of a tackle.

Great flick over the head from Drinan but his cross is too fast and theres nobody in the box.

Good tracking back by Drinan there as they counter on us.

2 changes by Cambridge already.

Nichols looks knackered already, hes just not covering the ground and chasing down as quickly as he should be.

Drinan with a  break and shoots but he hits the bar.

3-1 Oldaker.

Whoop whoop!

Misskicked cross but a good header into an open goal as the keeper goes awol after flapping at a cross.

Get In. Professional remaining 40 please

If we can sneak another, we'll be on for our 3rd 4-1 win at home to Cambridge since 1992.

And that would be nice.

This please.

Oldaker following up Nichols shot just now was great to see

It would be great to beat such a historically massive rival so convincingly.

Insane lack of advantage for Cambs. No idea how Ball didn't get a booking for losing his shit for perhaps 10 seconds

I struggle to think of a club I care less about than Cambridge.

Drinan started the game very slowly but my god hes grown into it today.

Genuinely about as non descript as it gets isn't it? Doesn't even register.

Att: 8,862 (628 Cambs)

Ideal time for Tabor to get his first CG experience

That's about 3 times what they usually bring.

Decent :clap:

That's OK.  Considering some will still be away for summer etc.

Massive historic rivals, are you forgetting the great 2-0 win in 1962 where there was no petrol and the game was called off blah blah blah.

Fake rivalry from their end for whatever reason, let the haters hate.

Nichols looks like hes treading water, time for a change get a bit of pace on like maybe Tabor or Ameen.

Our end must be close to sold out with the restrictions. Wonder what the safety certificate capacity is.

Kaikai long shot just wide with Ripley nowhere near it.

Cambridge counter and get an early cross in and Wright intercepts it for a corner.

3-2 good finish by Kaikai from 18 yards, Ripleys view blocked by loads of players.

But. Who was marking him? Why did Ripley dive out the way of the shot?

Cambridge striker dives in the box.

Ollie said we need to conced 20 less goals than last season…..

I struggle to understand how a club can be around for so long and even have an instance like that register as semi important. Are they that boring?

Will be more not less at this rate.

The defence does still scare me.

Glatzel on for Oldaker.

I would have taken the knackered Nichols off TBH.

Cambridge big striker just strays offside for the 10th time at least.

Monroe robs Brophy and he fouls Monroe as he breaks with pace.

Brophy holds back Munroe and beaks off at the ref. No card

Since their 2nd goal we arent pressing them as we should be or running down either flank.

Ameen on for Nichols
Mabete on for Snowdon.

Crikey! Look at the size of Mabete’s feet!!  

Boots sponsored by Cunard.

That didnt look much of a foul, we need to stop giving away fre ekicks around our own box.

Weird that when you have a proper wall how it stops shots coming in, I wish we did that last week at Walsall from the same position.

Ripley clears the corner for another corner.

I’m not sure I fancy our chance of not conceding 1 or 2 more!!

You arent alone in thinking that.

Cambridge badge is fucking awful. Epitome of modernity shite.

The subs we made dont look to have improved us.

I dont like this, we are on the back foot now.

Cambridge bring on the huge Loft to add some height. Incoming air raid sirens.....

Munroe booked for pushing the angry Brophy.

Is the wizard of Oz in the crowd today🤔

'...the lofty Loft...', surely?

Not much in the attic.

Here to 'personally oversee' team performance?

'personally oversee the transfer window"

Amongst other things hopefully 😁

We need a plumber to isolate the water valve before the toilets on the Bank are knocked down
(The cold water valve, obviously)

Ameen should have taken the defender on and not crossed.

The original was full of shit as well.

Would that be gents and ladies can’t remember!

Are we at 90 mins yet?

Butterworth on Munroe off.

89 mate.

Never seen it all as I’ve always been pissed and fallen asleep :D

Glatz moved to LB.

Loft shoots but a fairly easy save for Ripley but he looks injured.

6 mins added.

I wonder when the last game finished at 4.45😁

As a kid at Christmas?  :D

About 2002 probably

Foul by Mbete just outside the box.

I wasn’t allowed to watch it then too scary :D

The wall does it job and blocks the shot from the FK.

Remember looking through the windows on county road to see the football scores on TV

2 forwards ending the game playing in defence, yet we are still signing forwards

Kilkenny needed to find Drinan there.

Crazy.

Yellow for the angry little Brophy.

Chance for Cambridge passed out for a goal kick :)

We'll need more forwards if our current forwards are playing in defence

I will be glad to not have to listen to this pair of Cambridge commentators again, it's like Stadler and Waldorf

Smith deflects a shot wide, corner to them last seconds.

FT 3-2

1st win and points of the season.

Who da thunk that Brophy would be a threat, let alone score.

Well I said we needed to win that one and we did. So fair play for turning it around, Town.

Still some things to worry about though. We need defenders. And the formation seems off. Work in progress.

I have absolutely no idea what to make of that.  It was as unstructured a game as you could hope to watch with both teams seemingly throwing eleven men on a pitch and asking them to play wherever they fancy I guess.  Weird, win, who cares really.

That joke he made about tonisilitis…

This.

After the most stable summer we've had in years, I was genuinely hoping - and maybe expecting - a strong start and a bit of continuity.  Early days, I know.  And 3 points from 6 is not a disaster.  But it feels chaotic.

Pleased we got points on the board.  Just not sure how we managed it.

Got it done. I’m sure they will feel an awful lot better with that under their belt.

Only two games in, but haven’t clicked at all yet. Hot potato at times in possession, sloppy generally with it, even with time. Not things we saw so much in the latter half of last season. Did hunk the wide men looked a lot better today, I was worried after last week.

Don’t think it would take much improvement to be at the right end of the league, we know the standard down here by now!

Agree

Maybe it is the formation. I thought we had too many that looked like they were trying to work out their role, rather than knowing it. Lots of moments with players out of position, and passes behind the man, not in front etc.

He can go fuck himself, stonewash cunt.

Munroe:
- New it was going to be tough
- Third goal was the most important
- When it was 3-2, it was just about holding the lead
- Second half got physical. Very physical
- Happy with the 3 points. Need to focus on next game
- L2 adjustment?: Its not all nice. Wants to get forward and cross, but sometimes has to not go forward.
- Experience of playing in Spain: Thought it would be a lot of passing. But it was very different. Very physical and better standard than expected.
- Ambition for the season: Known for a lot of fans. Great manager. Good L2 team pushing for L1. Found Holloway one of a kind. Fell in love with him in the first phone call. That persuaded him to join.

 getting 3 points is always a good thing .  Not sure what we take from this  but let's see where we are after 10 games.

Wins breed confidence. Especially against a side effects that many predict to be up there. Onwards!

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good result, puts a bit of confidence back in the tank

Holloway:
- Well done to the lads. They dug in
- Didnt like the performance. Didnt like the day.
- Expected us to get another goal. Their manager changed it and I didnt like us again
- We panicked. Just like the bad days of last year
- Expect the players to talk. Didnt want to have the bench shout all the time
- Wasnt kidding about Smith. Didnt think he would play
- Tried protecting the bench
- When we scored the 3rd, the players thought they had won
- Referee gave us help. Their management were irate that he didnt play on when their player was through
- All that matters is we have 3 points in the bag
- My team needs to know what every player should be doing and help eachother. They aren't doing it. Holloway has just gone ballistic at them over that
- Before throw ins the senior player need to tell the young ones where to go.
- Want to work on the fact that we wont have to dig in.
- We had lots of big players back hanging on. We knew what to do to hang on against a manager whose team never give up
- If the players did what we told them, we would never have been 1-0 down
- Players need to tell eachother where to go when there is a throw in.
- We didnt wobble. We always looked like we were going to score
- Distribution from the back was better this week
- Shocked at my team. If I was out there, I wouldnt have let the young uns make those mistakes
- They've worked with me long enough now. They should know by now!
- Got through training yesterday and Smith felt he could play. Glad he did. Good header for goal. He didn't train all week. Came in on friday, plays on Saturday and scores!
- Didnt want to see them straight after the game. Waited for the team to shower and change. Got the staff out of there and then gave the players a roasting! (Holloway was really irate)
- They need to stand up and take responsibility out there.
- Lack of communication. Took Munroe off when Drinan needed to go off
- Told Ameen to just stand up front and let the others defend
- Didnt enjoy it. Enjoyed last week more. The game is crazy. Glad we are going to score goals. But dont want team limping off hanging onto something. I want them to score more.
- Well done to them. Their manager made it hard for us
- McGregor could have been part of it. But thinks he needs some minutes to make it safer for him. He is completely flat out and doesnt do anything by halfs. So thought he'd protect him today
- There will be another player here on Monday. That was the last one they will add to the squad. Holloway cant pronounce his last name. Lots of letters that shouldn't be next to eachother. A good scrabble score. Letters in surname include 'MH'.

Just got back. Didn’t play well, never had control of the game.

Weird game all round. Don’t remember Ripley making a save and their keeper only the one in the first half.

Drinan is unspectacularly good for this team. Wilson-Brown my MofM.

Need to be a lot better than that to have a sniff.

Haven’t heard comms that shite and deluded since Wrexhams.

The fact he referred to Cambridge’s kit as ‘cream with emerald city green sleeves’ did it for me. Sounded like two blokes down a pub watching it, drinking warm ale

Just home, not a great performance but a much needed win.

We were just discussing whether Snowdon was actually a footballer when he produced a great cross for goal number 2.
Drinan was at his best (like the end of last season).

Wonder if the new player is Anis Mehmeti (left winger from Bristol City) based on Holloway's clues?

Important win.
Massive room for improvement which Holloway recognises.

A win is a win.

My guess for the signing is

Princewill Ehibhatiomh

He's literally playing for Bristol City at the moment, I wouldn't have thought so.

Oh well - That's what happens when you ask an LLM to come up with an answer!

 

And he's just scored as well. What were the clues by the way?

That's a great shout tbf.

You'd do well to shout it!

In all seriousness, what on earth do we actually call him if he signs?

Just Prince :D

Princewill is completely achievable.

Maybe the Duke of Cambridge?

Cambridge fans quick to point out how they gifted us 3 goals.

Yeah. Welcome to league 2, where around 90% of goals fit into this category.

We did our best to gift them a few of our own!

Let’s hope Holloway is bluffing when he said the striker is our last signing. We had two unused strikers today in Tabor and Bodin. Great tools to have in the box, but we’re missing elsewhere.

It’s been said before, but picking up Odimayo on a free would be good business. Covers the right side and centre back, with a bit of pace and now some experience.

They need to concentrate on the boat race that’s the only history they can cling onto.

If it is, Holloway's a fucking dunce if he can't pronounce that

Morshead has pretty much confirmed this.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQN6Mps0Ds

Not much to find about Ehibhatiomh online. Scored a few in the PL2 but can’t seem to find if he’s made a professional league debut

inconspicuous :D

Let’s not forget communist spies.

Cambridge 5

Cambridge Analytica

For the sake of positivity, great to see Drinan get off the mark early. He’s a confidence player and has a lot to contribute. Good for Oldaker to be chipping in too. Only two players in the EFL scored 20 goals last year. Let’s spread the goals around the team.

What sort of state was the ground in? I thought the pitch surrounds looked smart on camera - something over the old gravel? Is the new screen fixed into that position, or is it being stored there?

It's going to be a challenge for Steve and Jonah getting Ehibhatiomhan on the back of a shirt... Must be the longest name since Troy Archibald-Henville...

Just want to say thank you for those that donated food or money today for the Swindon Food Collective, it was all very welcome and Matt from the SFC was very happy with how it went. We'll be back to do it bigger and better next time!



Proper scrappy game, not quite sure how we won but I'll take it. Cambridge a big nasty bastard team to play against.

Just have ‘Dave’. Every fucker knows a Dave.

Son was home from London to watch the first CG game based on my good feelings about this season and the general views around IH’s management of the team since taking over. Sat alongside him was a friend who was on the Town’s books as a youngster and later played for Bristol City youths. Their take on the game was both of them perplexed by the sheer lack of cohesion, team setup, players not appearing to quite know where or what they were supposed to be doing and generally muddling through the game.

I have to agree, pre-season I was fairly confident that we were on an upward path but recently not so sure, the Walsall game and to a large extent yesterday’s showed a worrying undercurrent of disjointed structure to the team, strange formations and substitutions. I know it is very early days and I desperately want to be entertained by team pushing for promotion out of this backwater of a division.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x__Wo7gibc4

Yeah, as I said, spies.

Why do people automatically think a game is a ‘thriller’ just because there were 5 goals?

Most of the game was dull as ditch water.

Because people aren't going to click on a link that says 'boring game with 5 goals'. It's all about the clicks.

Well, Katie Shanahan the Sky reporter seemed to be finding it quite exciting...

I was watching this yesterday. She's very easy on the eye.

Without a doubt... the acceptable face of football :nod:

Much of the game for me was tense rather than dull, I was waiting for Cambridge to step up into a higher gear, they needed someone to make it stick up front............er, wait a minute

There’s still time😁

James Brophy in the League 2 Team of the Week.

I mean, it was a nicely taken goal but he wasn’t immense, he just ended up antagonising some of our younger players while 3-2 down