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70 minutes of total and utter shite, we were absolutely diabolical and looked shambolic until the goal and the players finally realised they were playing a game of football.

today was the first time this season when i watched a game and thought to myself that we're going down. there was no cohesion, no communication, we couldn't hold onto the ball and when we did have the ball we gave it away cheaply.

there was no width, no strength in the midfield and fallon had no support. if you're going to play 4-5-1 then the two wide men (roberts and bouazza) need to get wide and support fallon, not drift into the centre.

pook, whalley and mcdermott all gave very good performances, or at least they were convincing headless chickens.

didn't see the elbow but fair enough, if it was he deserved to go. i still felt obliged to give the ref some stick. without fallon for three games, we're fucked.

roberts is a selfish greedy lazy cunt but without fallon we'll have to persevere with him.

...and i got told off for swearing by a steward. at a football match.

see you at 'uddersfield

i thought those middle 3 were all shit, like you say they were completely overrun

fallon only gets one game- two yellows

Pook once again showed today that he works as hard as possible, but it just isn't good enough.

i lover you johno come to the merlin and back me up

i will do if you want.  :beers: why others think differently?

I don't suppose the Wiltshire Shield game on tuesday counts does it?

they all think the sun shines out his arse.

really? you can't blame him for his effort, but his passing isn't that great. he'll continue to get into the first team, but he isn't really good enough imo.

The bit in bold is kind of harsh dont you think? They played well for the majority of the second half and they had spells of good play in the first.

I think its a reasonable assesment from SY...we were truly awful.....a classic case of asking players to do what they're not able to....ie playing 4-3-3....

 Its only to be expected that an inexperienced manager is going to make a lot of mistakes.....unfortunately we don't really have that luxury.

did you walk past me after the game young man??

wasn't sure if it was you or not.

Wish Whalleys shot had gone in first half that grazed the post. Would have been mad.

Roberts is officially a pussy. Bouzza is a better player and impressed today. Colwyn-Platt, decent. Mcdermot, rubbish. Pook, no comment.

Ref - total shit.

i did mate, didn't want to say hi as i didn't know if you knew it was me or not.

ah i thought it was.

no worries dude.

depends if the fa decide it was violent conduct or not, doesn't it?



i can't think of a single positive thing from the first half, possibly whalley's shot that just missed the post but other than that i'd struggle to agree with you.

only if the referee includes it in his report?

Mcdermott missin an open goal with a header, Bouzza puttin a shot just wide from 8 yards.
The second half was a big improvement though.

At halftime today I said to a colleague who was sitting next to me - it would be interesting to see how Town play without Fallon because we  have been a bit one-dimensional - trying to play through Fallon all the time...  as a result the smaller, but faster players get cut out of the game ....  little did I know that my theory would actually be tested!   Then Rory got sent off and it was fair to say that our football improved .playing the ball on the deck for Bouazza and Shakes to terrorise the Scunthorpe defence.....leading to the penalty ..   so we shouldnt despair - we'll just have to play using a different system at Huddersfield......  I thought the fans today were fantastic all round as well and with all three stands yelling for the last 15 -20 minutes - it was just like the old days!!

We were much better when Fallon got sent off, we used the wings. and Roberts and Bouazza tried to beat people.

Ref was shit.

Stewards were shit. Surely swearing and inciting the away fans is all part and parcel of the game?

Singing I-i Iffy Alan Reeves.... :D

Roll on the rest of the season

I have soooo got to try to start that against City!

Or would singing be inciting the away fans. Perhaps the stewards are more used to the peacefulk surroundings of the Carling Atyeo Stand?

Scunthorpe really should have won today, we were bloody terrible. We played some good bits and I don't think thats the worst performance from us this season.

Electric at the end though. Reminds me a bit of the Oldham game.

And why does everyone always try and get our players sent off  :evil: *adds Sharp to kill list*

Yeah but if he had a yellow, then the fa can't intervene surely. Isn't that why Essien wasn't suspended?

I'm not entirely sure, I thought the FA were looking at the Essien challenge...dsigraceful tackle.

Surely if they cant rescind a double yellow they shouldn't be allowed to altar it.
Although to be honest with the way FIFA are currently handling the rules, nothing would surprise me  :?

I thought it was to do if the ref saw everything or not.

I'm sure with the essien incident he watched the video and agreed it should have been a red rather than a yellow but as he'd seen it at the time then the decision couldn't be changed.

Maybe you have a case there Bedford

i agree with everythin above

Unless by "they" you mean Scunny, I can only assume you were at a completely different game to me. We were terrible until the last 20 minutes - and Roberts is a selfish, lazy, showboater who should be routinely beaten with an iron bar until he's prepared to play for the team (he adds, to stoke some controversy  :) )

They meanin Swindon Town. And i felt we were the better team in the second half. They hardly got through our defence (apart from down the wings occasionally) and Heaton didnt have much to do at all. Two good saves and thats all he needed to do.

Did anyone else notice by the way that Bouazza improved when he played down the middle as a conventional centre-forward rather than out on the wing? Same on Tuesday, he looked great (well, good anyway) running at defenders, taking them on etc but hugely uncomfortable when out on the wing (which given the dreadful crosses he put in is not surprising). Or is this just me?

All I want to say is that if he'd scored after that run it would have been bloody awesome.

Henry got goal of the season for something similar a couple of seasons ago, and if he did that in the Prem this season Hanson et al. would be swooning over it.

i saw you at the game today KT with Magic. i thought the game today was poo until the penalty. what was going on with the ref though? why not just give the initial goal instead of the penalty? and then when he gives the penalty the bloke only gets a booking for handling the ball in the box. what is going on there? good result considering we had 10 men for the last 30 minutes.

Where were you Rich?

about the second row just to the left of the goal in the Town End.  a geek at the front  :mrgreen:

Ah, don't know who you are then.  Fats and Walrus were with me too, and my dad of course.

i was going to shout your name bet then i thought you probably wouldn't know who the fuck i was anyway so i didn't bother. did you start the old s wobbleyou chant off KT?

I did one, Spencer started one I noticed and a couple of others did too.

I was the loudest. :wink:

I wasnt too happy with my effort today actually.

The one in the New Inn at Brentford was good though. All their fans left.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Cool, I liked my one at MK in Spoons, didn't go to the New Inn I'm afraid mate.

Brentford sounded ace but MK was funny as there were approx 70 casuals there but all were Swindon. So when MK tried to sing they didn't last long and promptly left.

http://67.18.37.16/525/186/emo/fing32.gif

i missed that at MK, gutted. i left about ten seconds before it.

i was also on my own in a pub at brentford until tom arrived

Best thing was I was with a couple of mates from work who went to support the Dons, think they were quite stunned to see what football supporting is really like.

You were with your dad!

 :wink:

That's true too actually, forgetting your dad is one thing, but BR?  That's not on. :)