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For those who are unable to make the 350 mile round trip from Swindon to Doncaster.  Today is an important game, with Bournemouth looking unlikely to get anything from Kenilworth Road today with Luton currently back to winning ways, and Doncaster hot on the heels of Swindon, just 2 points behind us.

With just Christian Roberts on the absentee list, and Andy Nicholas seemingly on King's personal black list, its likely to be an unchanged side.  Parkin's tied for 3rd with a number of players in the goalscoring charts with 18 league goals for the season, so today could be his chance to leap up into second place behind Hull's Steven Elliot.

League Table currently resembles:

4th Sheff Wed P34 58 +20
5th Hartlepool P32 58 +13
6th Bournemouth P33 53+15
7th Swindon Town P34 52 +8
8th Bristol City P34 51 +16
9th Doncaster P34 50 +3
10th Brentford P31 50 -4

It's all getting very tight, although Tranmere, Hull and Luton now look out of reach, with Sheff Wed and Hartlepool still being a good distance ahead.  Brentford are possible threats with 3 games in hand despite their current poor goal difference, and the superior goal difference of many of the teams around us must surely be a concern.  Today can see Doncaster eliminated from the playoff race and hopefully see us finally move into a playoff position since October.

The last meeting between the teams was during Swindon's dreadful run before Christmas, with a boring 1-1 draw, with that man Sam Parkin scoring for Swindon.  It was prior to the embarrassing Notts County defeat live on Sky Sports, so not a happy time for the fans.

With both teams having a relatively injury free squad to chose from, should be an interesting match and a good test of what we're really made of.

we should aim for catching sheff wed. 6th place is a bit too tight for my liking

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Swindon Town: Rhys Evans, Steve Jenkins, Sean O'Hanlon, Matt Heywood, David Duke, Sammy Igoe, Grant Smith, Matt Hewlett, Lee Holmes, Sam Parkin, Michael Proctor

Substitutes: Steve Book, Brian Howard, Jamie Slabber, Jerel Ifil, Stefani Miglioranzi

Team News - Doncaster Rovers

Doncaster Rovers

Rovers: Andy Warrington, Dave Mulligan, Nick Fenton, Steve Foster, Tim Ryan; James Coppinger, Paul Green, John Doolan, Michael McIndoe; Gregg Blundell, Neil Roberts.

Substitutes: Ross Flitney (GK), Adriano Rigoglioso, Jermaine McSporran, Nic Priet, Ricky Ravenhill.

I think a 6 point deficit is a big target at this stage of the season, but Sheff Wed were poor on Tuesday against Posh, and have a tricky match at Griffin Park, which goes massively in our favour as any result will benefit ourselves.

Should have brought in Migs for Hewlett imo. We've needed creativity recently and we all know Migs can bring that to the team.

Unless you don't live in Swindon dingus  :P

here we go!

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

GOOOALLL!!! :D

Lee Holmes!

Great play by Igoe, picking out Parkin, who cut the ball back.  Keeper got a palm to it, but ball broke to Lee Holmes who duly obliged.

What a great start to a crucial match.  We must must must keep our concentration and hang on in there!

Whilst Ed Hadwin and his co-commentator(?) discuss hair colour, sounds like we're playing very well, pegging Doncaster back in their own half.  A second would be fantastic, we must guard against complacency.

What really?

Im off down the park with the dog Im going to listen on my phone,we'll be 2-0 up by half time.

sounds like we are doing well! lee holmes is absolutely storming it! better than Howard eh walrus  :wink:

Long to hold on to a one goal lead. Hope they don't try to sit on it for 85 minutes.

Fucking hell, I roll in at 3.10 and it's 1-0  :D  :D  :D

Sweet as a nut, I missed the goal too. Great start!

Kick ass!

didnt think i'd miss owt in the first 10 mins

I just scored a cracking Fallon-esque overhead kick at the park as well. Happy Days!

donny are a bunch of pretty boys from the sound of it

Only lost at home twice, so it's going to be a fight today.

In goalscoring terms which you are implying, Holmes who has just scored his first goal from an open goal situation, compared with Howard who has scored several quality finishes, Howard.

In terms of wing play, for me it's marginal.  But we own Howard.  We don't own Holmes!  But while we're winning, I couldn't give a stuff!   :D

Stockport, Hull, Tranmere winning.  Stockport winning significant as it's over Hartlepool, who have 3 games in hand on us and 6 points advantage, but if they start to slip they could get dragged into a proper playoff battle!

Walrus - the one-man Brian Howard fanclub

i wasn't implying goal scoring or anything. i was simply trying to wind walrus up

Probably will get eaten if he's not careful.

Sounds like end to end stuff.

Hartlepool losing...

Game sounds pretty lively.

Parkin missing out on the corner desicion, PARKIN OUT.

dont start that again dangerous dave.

You know how much it wound me up last time :)  :-))(

You say it didn't but it did  :wink:

fucking hell  :-))(

Bormuff losing....

FUCK 1-1 sounds like it's deserved

Duke at fault.  Blocked the clearance.  Don't need that.

Duke let it bounce - big mistake. Another example of his natural left back defensive skills :?

duke again at fault! not having the best of games really

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Ed Hadwin's favourite word.  Lucky escape for Swindon, another Duke clearance charged down and Evans made a fantastic save.

Half time 1-1 sounds like a good game, Doncaster seem to be a decent side.

I take back everything good I've said about Duke in recent weeks.

What he needs is another good round of boos to give him a kick up the arse again

morning gayers

Wheah Howard and Slabber due to come on.  Fantastic news  :P

what about them?

Boo just Slabber came on.

King OUT!   :x

did yu watch crawley the other night?

:x Leave Duke alone

No I didn't, did think about going actually but couldn't be arsed and then forgot to watch it on the telly.  Sorry I missed out on the streaker!   :D

Winning again by the looks of it....  Crawley on a run!

Luton losing 2-1 to Port Vale, and Blackpool equalised at Ashton Gate  :shock:

steaker break danced :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick

Hehe quality.  Really wish I'd seen that now!

Stefani, Woooaaahhh

HOWARD!!!! is on the pitch.

(almost as good as a goal anyway)

oh crap!

pheeew

sounds cracking game

1st half sounded mental ,seconds getting a bit scarey.

Yeh its making me make noises like a bloody monkey.  A draw would be satisfactory with Brizzle drawing.

Igoe off for Ifil.  Interesting....  Ifil into midfield by the sounds of it, Genius King!!!

ifil on oh shit

Brentford losing 3-2 to Sheff Wed - probably good news really.

Finished 1-1. A good away point, keeps our unbeaten run going.

Port Vale beat luton 3-1, Barnsley won 4-1 and Stockport beat Hartlepool 1-0. Makes some of our recent wins look impressive.