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10 February 1976, Swindon Town 6 Aldershot 3, Syrett, Dixon, Anderson 2, Stroud, Moss, 7323, 17th in Div 3.

number of fucks Sheridan gives: 0 or 7436 depending on whether you are talking 'care for the club', or player motivation during the match

I remember it, we were 5-0 up in about half an hour

5-0 at half time, they came back with three goals in the second half before we managed the sixth to close the game out. Good night that was.

soapy tit wank, he was here shorter than Luke Freeman or whatever his name was.

Kevin Freegard.

I’m personally hoping that a TEF campaign is launched at the end of season to get this Liam Fremantle fella voted as Player of the Season for his contribution

Kelvin, it's Kelvin.

What is it West Ham said about Joanne Beauchamp - had farts linger longer than he was the club same for Kerwin Freebird.

Ah, good old Kayden Freemason, I remeber him like it was just yesterday

I miss Kieron Freeloader

Best keeper we have had at Swindon.

I propose Kiefer Sutherland be given an honorary digital certificate for the most STFC MoM awards and "unquestionable contribution and commitment to a Town side destined for relegation" inside the insurmountable feat of just 24hrs...

Ron Freemason, what a player.

I don't remember this away shirt from 1980

Prety sure we wore that when we played at Rotherham when Alan Mayes scored a hattrick on his Swindon debut in the 79 season.

Good memories JJ I can't remember seeing us play in that shirt

We never wore it much as it was basically only away games at teams in red (obviously) and red and white stripes like lincoln, they werent so hot on making teams wear the change colour back then.

I probably only say us wear it 2 or 3 times ever and had forgotten it until you mentioned it.

Alan Mayes was wearing a Rotherham away kit when he scored that hat-trick - we started the game in a white kit with a red sash, that the ref then ordered us to change because it was too similar to the home shirts.  It happened more than once with that kit during that season.

The Adidas kits weren't worn until halfway through the following season - presumably we did some kind of kit deal with Adidas because we were doing so well in the cups.  Here's some video evidence of us wearing the blue one!

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

I still can't remember it and thanks for posting the video

Cheers for the clarification I just remember Rotherham away being something wierd shirt wise.

Can't help but thinking after watching that video that we might be seeing a few games like that for us this season sadly. (aside from the blue strip)

The Sheffield United fans were singing you'll never walk alone which I thought was unusual.

Also, good to see the spirit of Kovar in our keeper! (I know it's a tired, strained trope, but I went there so sue me!)

Peach Rollings and Greenwood were 3 of the worst players I have seen play for Town, and all cost us money from 1st or 2nd division teams!

Jimmy Allan in goal though is up there witht eh best keepers I have seen at Swindon ironically, every player can have 1 bad game :)

Also EVERY team including Swindon used to sing "You'll never walk alone" at games back then, it was en vogue.

I can't argue about those 3. Peach was a massive flop, apart from the free kick at Brentford that got us a draw. I think Rollings was part of the deal when we sold McHale and was crap

McHale being sold effectively tore the heart out of that team.

True, we never replaced him

surely you never slept through Kovars.episode's.  40 years of watching Town and never seen a bigger flop.

I don't count Kovar as being a player even, TBH Kovar is probably the worst keeper I have seen at Swindon bar none, but its very easy to make up a side of shocking players, last season could account for almost half that team.

Kovar was bad, but still think Lanzano was worse

Perhaps, but at least Lanzano we cottoned on quickly and he only made five starts. And we won three of them!

Difference being back then the other keeper was Phil Smith (and later Foderingham) rather than Joe Fryer...

I think he was very close, but I think for amount of goals cost then Kovar wins as he was constantantly bad over a longer period of games.

Lanzano conceded 10 goals in 6 starts and 1 sub, keeping 3 clean sheets. An average of 1.4 goals per game. IIRC Lanzano was probably at fault for 3 of the goals he conceded.

Kovar conceded 43 goals in 18 games keeping just 1 clean sheet. An average of 2.4 goals per game. I would think that you could fault Kovar directly for at least 12 goals conceded.

But it is a bit like entering a competition to see whos shit stinks more.

Kovar was clearly out of his depth but there were a number of factors that contributed to that. I'm going from memory here but I'm pretty sure he wasn't directly responsible for 12 goals.

He was beaten on his near post on a few occasions at the start of the season & I specifically remember him coming for, & subsequently missing, punches against Plymouth & Lincoln that cost us goals but 12 seems a bit much. Might be wrong though.

I could be wrong but I do remember it being a lot of goals he should have done way better, 12 maybe too many but off the top of my head I would think its about right, but I may be wrong.

He was still an awful keeper though I think we can all agree on that :)

This appeared on my Twitter feed this morning .  We won it 2-0 apparently. :)

https://twitter.com/BlackRetirement/status/1420293111448801281?s=20

I still remember that Hereford (RIP) game at home where Lanzano was fucking awful, my mate at uni who was a Hereford fan came with me, and insisted he'd be fine in the Town End, then when the 3-3 equaliser went in I had to fucking stomp on his feet to stop him from celebrating and getting us both killed  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Bit of trivia. No googling!

When we got to the League Cup Semi Final in 1979 v Wolves who were the team Wolves had to beat to get there?

Without cheating I don't know but on the morning of the rearranged home tie I went for a job interview whilst still at school and ended up watching the Wolves squad training behind the Stratton bank on the waterlooged grass and can still visualise George Berry jogging with the ball at his feet. Later on that evening whilst queuing up outside the bank I realised I had lost my ticket or had it pinched and was on my way home when a tout offered me one outside the old souvenir shop.

TBH I don't remember, I do remember they played Forest in the final though.

Talking of history this story came up on one of my friends (the Swindon rail works author Rosa Matheson) page on Facebook which is interesting.

Took a peek. Won't say but surprised.
Wolves needed 3 games to see them off.
I guess they were a decent tier 2 team back then.

Was it the same ticket?

I'll never know but the turnstiles at the bank to the old souvenir shop by the County ground pub were quite far apart so highly unlikely😀

Now you mention it wasnt it the brothers Grim? I vaguely remember Saint and Greavsie saying it could be an all Div 3 Semi final.

I'll leave it to Audrey to confirm if correct.
Didn't Alan Buckley score loads against us?

His was the first name that popped in my head when I thought about the Grims, not sure he ever didnt score against us for Grims or Walsall. A thorn in our side.

EDIT, had a check he scored 9 goals in 12 starts against us.

Yep. The Fishy Mariners! Who’d a thunked it.

Only reason I know is I was watching the 4-3 Arsenal game on Points West and it popped up on there.

I suppose we’ve done well to avoid the non league trapdoor over the years when so many have fallen.

So many teams from the league have eventually been relegated to non league, out of 92 league clubs 27 have fallen out of the league since.

Grimsby, Chesterfield, Chester, Southend, Colchester, Cambridge, Carlisle, Shrewsbury, Orient, Wrexham, Bristol Rovers, Notts County, Exeter, Oxford, Bury, Southend, Mansfield, Newport, Lincoln, Torquay, Aldershot, Stockport, York, Halifax, Hartlepool, Hereford and Darlington.

How could you have forgotten Bristol Rovers!

Fuck yeah I had! make that 26!

Carlisle also.
Two of them bid farewell at the CG.
Another two of departures celebrated with great gusto at the CG as well.

I had totally forgotten them TBH I had forgot several that only spent a single year out of the league. Also I always forget Carlisle are even in the league now!

Hereford away used to be one of my favourites. Notts County also - in the pub right by the Trent Bridge.

Apart from Bury I’ve been to all those that have fallen.

I went to Bury 4 times, 3 wins and 1 loss, next door to the cemetary! there were a couple of pubs near the ground but none were very good but its only a few miles from the centre of Manchester and theres some good ones there.