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Sonic Youth being interviewed on the radio at the moment. :D

Team -

Heaton
Smith
O'Hanlon
Ifil
Nicholas
McDermott
Gurney
Miglioranzi
Pook
Bouazza
Fallon

Subs -

Bulman
Jenkins
Shakes
Comyn-Platt
Roberts

Heywood and Smith both on the bench for City.

Just got in from work  :(

Burgess Hill to Swindon in 25 minutes isn't really going to happen!

Beer, pizza and watching the game on Sky it is then.

Come on lads!!!!!!!!!!

Haven't got Sky, friend videoing it for me. Got it on the Internet though.

Still feeling quite good for tonight, 5 changes to the team from Boston.

The internet is in my bedroom, but the big widescreen TV is downstairs so my posts in this thread will be a bit sparse Bedford!

I feel like we're the only one's from the forum who aren't there. Will be listening out for Tom starting a 'give us an S' though  :D

I feel that too!

I won't post too much as I don't want to appear even more sad.

Will listen out for KT, Sonic was interviewed earlier.

 how are you watching it on the net? i haven't got sky either and someones videoing it for me but at present i'm stuck here waiting for stfc world commentary to finally start working - lookig doubtful :(

Not watching it, wish I was, was listening.

I'm also waiting for STFC World to start as BBC been switched off, but for the 3rd week in a row I'm getting silence.

STFC World - complete shite!

Just started, penalty to City, ffs.

Heaton saves it  8)

Re-take, you must be joking.

1-0 ffs.

ah what a piss take. ive had to listen to the cocky city commentators so far as the swindon commentary has only just started working for me. why was it a retake? did heaton come off his line?

No-one seems to know, typical of our luck this season.

I guess it will be either encroachment or Heaton coming off his line.

YES mcdermott superstrike apparently :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

Neil McDermott  8)  8)  8)  8)

1-1 Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on yooooooooou reds!

ooo grunt sniff is coming on

Smith on for Murray.

I have a horrible feeling he is gonna do us some damage

He's bound to raise his game against us, not played well for City this season.

If Roberts comes on later he's going to be really up for it though.

Excellent, theres another City injury. They seem to be dropping like flies, its a second substitution... could we be reintroduced to matt heywood?!

2nd sub for City, looks like Heywood coming on as well for them.

Matt Heywood is on aswell, turning into a bit of a second string Swindon team 8)

city defender sent off, the game gets better!

City defender sent off  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

This is starting to look very good for us, 2 injuries and 1 player sent off. With Fallon and Bouazza back, Miglioranzi apparently playing a blinder and all the other players really up for the game, this could be the turning point of our season. I just hope we can capitalise!

It does sound a much improved performance from the Boston game, not hard i know!

Phil King says they're playing really good football, as you said Miglioranzi having an excellent game.

We just need to keep going at them, with 1 man short we should be able to take advantage of this.

FALLON SCORES! :D  :D  :D

WE WANT 6, WE WANT 6!!!

Rory Fallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  8)

This is one good game.

WE WANT 6, WE WANT 6!!!

Well don't think we could have asked for a better first half... things are looking bright

Agreed. Excellent first half, keep that up for the 2nd and 3 points should be coming our way.

Alright guys. Been watching the game. Poor start, stupid handball by O'Hanlon. Great save by Heaton and very harsh for it to be retaken. Almost got to the second kick but too much power. 1-0 City. Quick free kick to Mcdermott, great finish across the keeper 1-1. Mcdermott booked for going into the TownEnd. Through ball, Bouazza's pace making it tricky, defender takes him out, deemed a professional foul, city down to 10. Migz running the show, good team move, great Rory finish 2-1. Could have been more and a great first half.

Oh, think Tails was on TV at the start as well, a Hanson lookalikey!

Oh and a packed Townend as well! Great stuff!

Cheers Edinburgh, looking forward to seeing this on video  8)

thanks Edinburgh, so we are firmly on top then? I hope we can hold on to this, we need the points like hell

yeh same, makes me wish I had sky though, will never be the same if its not live

Yeh, but if we win it will still be good to see us beating City whenever I watch it.

yeh true

Decent 1st 10 mins of 2nd half, pace seems to have slowed a bit but not surprising after the 1st half.

I'm still a bit nervous, 2-1 isn't a safe enough score line for us to defend. As much as I hate to admit it, players like Grant Smith can score and if we leave it at 2-1 theres always the chance that city will nick one near the end, leaving us with an extremely dissapointing draw. We need another to seal it.

Agreed. If we get a 3rd I think then it's over, will be a bit nervous till then or the final whistle despite being the better side.

It sounds like City are starting to dominate

Smith Booked  8)

I expected City to come at us a bit more, they've got to give it a go.

With the extra player I hope we can try and stretch them, maybe Roberts may come on and run at them with his pace.

Roberts on for Pook.

Pook sounds like he's had a good game.

Come on Christian, show us some of your early form in the last 20 mins.

Jack Smith off, Jenkins on.

Fabulous save from Heaton, thought that was going in for a minute.

sounded like city scored on the stfc world commentary there, maybe i'm just paranoid :D . yeh I hope we can hold them off, having a man up and home advantage etc. But thats not what supporting Swindon is about!

It did sound like that, the bloke who was commentating made it sound like it had gone in, my heart sunk for a few seconds.

4 mins to go, Come on Swindon

McDermott off, Comyn-Platt on.

Super-sub Comyn-Platt on

4 Mins of added time.

yuk, just what we didn't want

Just what we needed, 3 points and hopefully the turning point of our season:D just shows that money can't buy success, City can rot in league two

We deserved that, well pleased.

If we can just turn in performances like that every week then we can get out of the bottom 4 in time.

Well done Town.  8)

Well done Town! Bedford, don't bother watching the second half, very nervy stuff! City came into it a bit, but never really looked like scoring. Jerel almost gave away a trademark goal but maybe the luck is changing!

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSS!

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 :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

Cheers Edinburgh, although I can watch it knowing that they won't score.

Looking forward to the 1st 45 minutes though.  :D

And I went for a Swindon win in the Prediction League, got the score wrong but I don't care, I think I might get a point.

15 people went for a 2-1 win so lots of people with the 3 points bonus are going to shoot up the league.

The first half is well worth watching. As the commentators said, it flew past! I went for 1-0 Swindon in the prediction, changing my mind from a 2-1 that I was originally going to go for!  :roll:

I'm well chuffed we won! Can't stop smiling!

I went for 3-0, I don't care though. Just like you, so happy we won.

The first half seemed to fly by on the radio as well, probably because of the pace of the game and the excitement.

Second half was a lot more nervy to listen to, don't care now.  8)

We won, they got soaked, have can of stella, i taped it and im going to watch the whole match again.


Life is great... :beers:

Good performance, fantastic result, two excellent goals and a brilliant come back.  What a first touch from Fallon, I think he will turn out to be better than Parkin (sorry to blaspheme, that's just my opinion). It was good to see Migz last the whole 90 minutes having taken a couple of hefty knocks.  

That penalty rule has to be scrapped, it's a dreadful rule.  They might as well tell the keeper he has to stand on his line and let the ball go in. The ref on the whole though was ok I thought. Red card? mmmmmm...no. Yellow card for McDermott's celebration? Joke.  Although to the letter of the law, all three decisions were probably correct.

I thought Sky overplayed City's performance, they didn't threaten that much second half (although at the time I cacked myself every time they went forward) City look a very, very poor side.  We look like we can stay up.

Finally, anyone who watched it on the box, did it look to you (especially when their kit was soaking wet) as of City were running around stark bollock naked, or was that just me?

Skin coloured shirts are not clever.

I agree that all three decisions were harsh but to be fair they are the rules! I hear Heaton was marginally off his line...their bloke pushed Bouazza over and was the last man, and McDermott jumped into the stand.

Well done referee.

YOU REDSSS!

When City ran out my mate turned to me and said 'they must be skint, they're playing in skins!'

I was sat level with the sending off in the Nationwide, it looked a definite red from there. I haven't taped the game but its on again at 01:15, i'll set the recorder for then. City looked menacing in midfield in the second half but couldn't turn the promise into chances.

Heaton made a few brilliant saves.

Pook was solid with a few very good hard challenges in first half.  (Tackling midfielder.....?)

Bouzza read the game well - always beating the offside trap and thus was able to get through.

Migz just played some beatiful balls through, throughout the first half.

Grant Smith was rubbish  :D Heywood was solid  :(


And i think Tinnion was sitting behind me - i cheered in his face as he held his head in his hands peeping through to look at me when Fallon scored that awesome goal.

My old man sent me a text saying City were the worst team he has seen this season.

I watched the game, the retaken pen was very harsh and Heaton almost got a hand on the second kick. The sending off was touch and go. Hameur would have been through and you could say it was a shoulder charge, but I thought it was a foul. We were great in the first half, Migz was running the show and what a good second goal, great passing and movement and a wonderful finish by Rory. (Celebration? What was that about?). Second half, we got tired I think, but dug in well to grind out the result that our first half showing deserved!!

Well done lads, onwards and upwards!

Just rewatched the Pen on Sky.  Did the lino flag or did the ref give the retake? On Sky the ref looked like he was watching the edge of the box, not the goalline.

All in all WHO THE FUCK CARES. 2-1!

great game! the 2nd half was a bit dull but who gives a shit 2-1 is all that matters!

Top result and well done Iffy on getting the first win at last. :beers:

City are shite and deserve to go down if they play like that. Hope we finish above them and we really should.

Hopefully this can boost the confidence and put a few back on the crowd for the next home game.

The re-take was very harsh, he did move a split second before the ball was kicked, but it was only a fraction and not really enough to give him a mojor advantage, but it was a good save and unlucky with the re-take.
I think that the red card decision was correct.  If you watch the replay, it looks like a shoulder barge, but then you see his arm go up, and he was the last defender, so he would have been clean through on goal had he not been pushed over
All in all, a great performance, and a really good game to watch

Hello - first game I have actually seen all season, in one of Geneva's only pubs with a load of TVs in it.  Found a few City fans and managed to get the game on, much to the absolute disgust of about 200 hardcore England fans that wanted to watch the U21 game...  Felt very alone in my Town shirt !

Also met a lad called John, I think - posty.  Hope you had a good weekend !

Just watched the highlights, if the ref gave the retake of the penalty he should have given teh second one too - Heaton moved exactly the same amount, i.e. none.

Wasn't sure about the red card, and said do to the city fans in the pub - but then there were more of them than me !

But great display, in fact I got a few congratulations off of random pissed punters on the way out for a good game.  Would have rather been at the Town and watched the England match on TV than the other way round, but whatever - fecking brilliant weekend's footy  !