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Anyone interested in this one ??.  Only 15 hours to kick off !!.
No mention of a pitch inspection so presumably warmer up there than down here.  Barrow looking for volunteers to help remove the covers this morning and talking of temperatures above zero tonight.
On current performances not holding my breath and think a point here would be a good result.

They're sounding optimistic.  Covers are off now, anticipating milder weather.

AFCB Statement (https://www.barrowafc.com/news/2022/december/161222-pitch-update-ahead-of-swindon-town-clash/)

Nice maniac I did post earlier asking for information on whether the game would be on!

Barrow 2 Swindon 1 Att: 2,590 (280 brave reds)

Barrow 0-0 Swindon att: 2,954 (182 away)

0 shots on target out of 2 attempts, 463 passes.

Been above freezing all day today and not supposed to freeze over night,its positively balmy here.

Only thing that may cause issue is we had a sleet shower this morning onto frozen ground which has made things a bit sketchy again.

With trains on strike I can't see us taking many anyway.

Dukey will sure to be there (fair play) I don't know if there any other posters who to nearly every away game like he does.

 going to win this one at a canter - lets say 3 nil. 

Gotta love that wild optimism.

Three own goals😀

3-0 loss with Lindsey declaring he was pleased with the performance as we got into their box on at least 12 occasions - forgetting to mention that we didn't have a shot on target

We're setting off around 09:00.  Pitch inspection 30 mins in to the drive.  Fingers crossed.

Almost exactly 12 months since we were there last time.  Can't possibly be worse than that.

Looks like Anton Dworzak and Oscar Massey are with the squad tomorrow.

I think we'll win this one. We've been up and down all season (we've had consecutive wins once and consecutive losses once in 25 games) and we've been shit recently. That is the extent of my logic.

Hopefully MacDonald back in defence alongside Brennan allowing FBT to go back to LB. Tough on Lavinier, who looks a good player but is very right footed.

it's been 5C since 4pm

how many hours a lb does the pitch take to defrost?

‘ All frost covers have now been removed from the pitch at the SO Legal Stadium, as temperatures are rising.

With a favourable forecast, we remain optimistic for the game's prospects and expect to review conditions again at approximately 9:30am.’

Piece of piss. 1-4

3 degrees and raining.

The 'So Legal Stadium' sounds like it has something to hide. Is this legal? Oh yeah it's so legal!

We're in Barrow for our next League Two fixture today...

The pitch passed an early inspection this morning and another is scheduled at midday.

We'll keep you posted🤞🏻

#STFC 🔴⚪️

Another victory for Mick Lynch & the forces of darkness.
His level of fanaticism is greater than mine on this occasion.

Tough game today.
An astute managerial appointment by Barrow is to be applauded.
A win would see us go above them.
Looking forward to watching on iFollow, if it goes ahead.
Hopefully not a tale of a shambolic late call off with people well into their journeys.

Suspect pitch will be fine, what may knock it on the head is the rain falling on the cold ground and freezing, roads and pavements here are bloody lethal this morning, as is the A590 (only main road from M6 to Barrow) apparently.

I think strike support is starting to wayn in the tracks. Lynch was very ropey on radio 4 the other day, he's normally quite good

Anyway it's a fook of a long way to go in the form we are in. And because you've not gone we'll win 2-0

A win would see the Boxing Day crowd in a better frame of mind that's for sure.

Fixtures make interesting reading today in L2.

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They're not rushing with this announcement...

Spidey sense tingling

game on

Barrows great start to the season has slowed down lately with their last 3 results being 0-5. 2-3, 3-1, 0-1 and 0-1 so 4 defeats in 5.

By comparison we have only won 1 game in 6 with us losing 2 and drawing 3.

Thier top scorer is Josh Gordon on 10 and he is followed by Billy Waters on 7 and Ben Whitfield on 5.  

They are managed by ex England manager Peter Wild (England Amputee football team that is) and he has a record of 85 wins from his 183 games as manager, he has won 44.44% of all his games in change of Barrow winning 12 of the 27 games so far.

In the 6 previous meetings between the 2 sides Swindon have won 3 and Barrow 2 with the single draw, Swindon scoring 8 goals and Barrow 5. In games at Barrow its level with 1 win 1 draw and 1 defeat each Town scoring 4 and Barrow 3 times, our only defeat up there coming last season in the 0-2 defeat.

Connections between the clubs.

They have Jordan Stevens there who had an unsuccessful loan spell at Swindon.

We have Remeao Hutton who had a fairly successful season at Barrow playing in almost every game before joining Swindon as well as Jake Wakeling who had a very unsuccessful spell at Barrow only managing 5 games during a 6 month loan spell from Leicester City.

They have midfielder Josh Kay banned for the next 6 games gafter he has been found in breach of FA Rule E3.2, following his sending off during Barrow v Leyton Orient on Saturday 24th September 2022. [Should the comments include a reference to any one or more of a person or person's ethnic origin, colour, race, nationality, faith, gender, sexual orientation or disability, these are considered 'aggravating factors' and FA Rule E3(2) may apply.]

Barrow seem to prefer playing the 4231 formation

Barrow 0-0 Swindon Khan MotM (att: 2,645 with 190 Swindon)

Passed a Barnes coach on the M6 up to Holyhead.

Think I'll tune into your Match day updates today if the WiFi on the ferry works OK. Don't let me down JJ! ;)

So Jordan Lyden didn't sign for them in the end?

Big chance to make the table look a fair bit better today then.

Dont expect miracles :D

Forgot all about him, I assume he doesn’t have a club?

Can he play CB?

No, but neither could Taylor Curran :D

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Very weak bench.

ok, threadbare and weak bench.

Brennan injured or ill. explains minturn
Someone said jephcott injury worse than expected. Well it looks like it

Debut match for my new iPad.

We've been so shit the last few games and with hardly any games recently its meant the cloud of shite has hovered over us for a while. Please perform today.

29 contracted pros and that's our bench. Quite the injury crisis really. First XI looks okay though. Fingers crossed.

Iandolo keeps his place.

How are we lining up?

Who else is there?

Looking at that, it baffles me how some people seem to think we have a better squad this year than last.
We really don’t.

To be fair, if we had this many injuries last year we'd have youth players starting, not just one on the bench. It's a bigger squad, not the depth of quality you might like though of course.

If that’s the case, then Lindsey is performing better than Garner.

defensively we are totally stuffed through injuries. must be risky playing MacDonald. just unlucky in that department

who else we missing? jephcott, khan and Gladders. That's not quite strong enough in depth in attack.

Devine (although he has been all season), Clayton, Baudry, Brennan and Harries

Aguiar

yeah, defensively we are unlucky. we had cover but it's all broken

I wasn't clear but I mean midfield and attack. surely it's more than 3 out in this positions

It was in response to quags "not a stronger squad".

What I'm getting at is other than defensively I think I agree

@dv, Aguiar on bench.

Considering we have "state of the art" medical facities and team we have way more injuries this term than we have in a long time.

And a real lack of depth of quality all over the squad in pretty much every position.

Don't see any/many goals there. See a potential for the odd slip up or two. Think it's going to be a horrible game.

Brennan
Harries
Clayton
Devine
Gladwin
Khan
Jephcott

…all out injured. How would we have coped last season with the equivalent out injured?

So, let’s say;

Baudry
Conroy
Odimayo
Hunt
Gladwin
Reed
Davison

I know he’s on the bench but (depending on formation) I’d see no harm in playing him ahead of Iandolo

I see what you are saying.

I just feel we’ve filled the squad with a lot of average players, and there isn’t much quality. If the players you have listed were injured last season, we’d still have McKirdy, Payne, Barry and Williams on the pitch.

At the moment, we have Williams, and that’s it.

If that makes any sense, I know what I mean.

I predict we will win possession game by 61% to 39%.  I expect us to have 8 shots off target 0 on target.  3-0 defeat with us continuing our coaches post match incredibly unlucky summaries.

Happy Christmas All

Arguably more depth, less individual quality but also more injuries.

I know what you mean and you know what I mean!

if he plays like he did at Bradford, I do

Sandro to Chorley not to much.

Wollacott

Iandolo
Egbo
O'Brien
Minturn

Lyden (although the idea of having an injury crisis not involving Lyden is odd)
East
Williams

Payne
Barry
McKirdy

Bench would be pitiful... Ward, Parsons, Aguiar, Dabre and some youths. We were *really* thin squad wise at the back end of last season.

We'll have a lot of box entries though and we'll play to our brand.

…Iandolo hasn’t exactly been great this season has he?
Plus, Aguiar will hit one from distance every once on a while

Which would be a vast improvement on our current attacking play

I don't get the logic of giving Aguiar a three year deal and then never playing him. There's talent there, he's not the finished article, but he's not likely to improve hugely without minutes.

We could nearly play without forwards😀

Yeah that defence is woeful. Midfield not much better. The attack is pretty decent though.

Commentary just switched on to hear Lindsey say Barrow are a good team and that we've had the most shots and touches in the opposition box in the league. The iFollow technician is clearly trolling us...

I've never seen him as much more than a reasonably solid lowest league utility player.

But at least he tries.

I think I can be persuaded Aguiar needs a chance. But his effort level at Bradford.. looked unfit and disinterested..

And third most clear chances where you only have to beat one man...

may have misheard.. was busy shouting 'fuck off' at Alexa

But then you need to include someone like Cooper who was injured.  So either you count him as fit, or someone else comes off your comparison.

Whichever way you cuti it, the best first team we can put out this season is a downgrade and is challenging Flitcrofts for overall quality.

That is still good enough to be around the play offs.  Just rather hoped we were trying to improve.

Pitch understandably boggy in the middle.

MacDonald makes his first mistake but gets away with it.

Penalty

Odds on us missing the target?

Penalty to Town.

1-0

1-0 Reed

1st goal in 335 mins.

Reed.  Cool as you like.  :)

Great pen, that.

ANOTHER SHOT ON TARGET

never in doubt

Great effort from Lavinier curled from 20 yards and just saved.

Really strong start.

This pitch has plenty of howlers in it.

MacDonald gives away another poor pass.

Wakeling with a decent long shot. Saved.

Best start for ages from us. Shots too.

long way to go but credit where it's due

FBT then Wakeling then Williams fail to get in a shot inside the box.

Great break by Williams but his cross is inches in front of Wakeling.

I know conditions are tricky but Barrow look like they've never seen a football before.

Lovely move by Reed playing a 1 2 but his shot is too weak at the end of it and easily saved.

Jordan Stephens hasnt improved since he left us.

Another good delivery into the box from Hutton but its cleared.

Reed being allowed acres of space to dictate the play in the middle.

Stevens, it’s Stevens

Town ripping Barrow a new one so far.

Same shit different spelling :D

Great tackle there to be fair.

Shade has a long shot but its just saved low for a corner.

Long may it continue….  

MacDonald booked.

So far he's looked like someone who hasn't played for months. Which is is, so fair enough.

Decent in the air but poor on the deck.

Pretty much as he was before injury then.

Lovely cross by Hutton but Wakeling is just  beaten to it in the box.

TBH it is really, he just started hitting some decent passing form when he got injured.

Am I the only person mildly amused by the half arsed paint job on the stand the camera is above?

Don't like the fact we haven't killed this game off. Possession is great, but we need another goal in case we make a mistake.

Stephens(v) decent early cross, defended for a corner.

Williams with a poor cross from a good position comes out to Reed who tries a shot from 30 yards thats well wide.

These are like the anti-Stevenage, they don't put any pressure on possession at all.

Sounds like this is there for the taking,  let’s take advantage and not fuck up like we normally do, need that second goal.

Barrow have been awful, really need to get a second as surely they can't be this bad in the second half.

Barrow do on this showing look possibly the poorest side we have played, they dont press onto us at all as nemo says they are giving us loads of space and we are creating chances too, but, not capitalising on them yet..

It really is a properly poor ground.

HT 0-1,  still got our noses in front -  come on town!.

Awful long free kick by Barrow, truly awful.

HT 1-0

Easiest 1st half of the season so far.

Most enjoyable half for ages. Pace of pass, crisp and decisive on a poor pitch, shots and looking dangerous. The midfield is boss in and out of possession in the press.

The only down side is it's only 1-0

This feels like a first round FA Cup game, everything from the half a stand to the dodgy pitch to the gap in quality between the two sides in possession. However, we all know how first round FA cup games tend to go for us...

Penalty is funnier every time I watch it back. Properly odd refereeing.

Very good.

Might need to dig in second half.
Should be opportunities on the counter though.

It's brilliant football for this level.

However, there is still a lack of cutting edge when we approach the box.

Let's hope it doesn't cost us.

11 shots so far and 6 on target!

Barrow were almost as bad as Rochdale in that half.  Just let us play.  Still lacking a cutting edge though and surely they won't be as bad second half.  What was Shade doing, idiot.

Overall we are getting a lot of joy by the Midfield 3 being able to play with their heads up facing goal.  Then they are getting sacked in and giving Williams and Hutton loads of space.

Several deibblers from 30+ yards thoigh

Barrow will change shape. They can't let us do that again.

midfield had so much time and space

Good value for the lead, loads of shots. Bit concerning that we've still not scored from open play. Reed is playing very well, but Barrow are letting him.

How are (were?) Barrow above us in the league, they have been woeful so far.

Will be getting a train from Marseille at half-past, so would appreciate JJ's text commentary please.

They just had a great start to the season but have faded recently. On this showing though they must have played all the bottom teams in that run.

Absolutely my pleasure.

Finally some positives.

Reed bossing it. Williams and FBT class.

Darcy and Shade offering nothing, get Shade off now stupid yellow card.

I thought Shade looked pretty good if a little wasteful and the moment of madness of course. Hes created more in that 1st half than he has in his last 5 or 6 games.

I thought the same

FBT very good joining the attack but some careless moments in possession at the back.

Williams felled heavily.

Shade very poor miss inside the box after doing well to beat his man and the 1 2 with Wakeling.

Lovely header by Wakeling finds Darcy but he loses control when he should have shot probably, great chance.

Jordan Stephens(v) shoots well wide from distance.

Keeper is so far out, why hasn't he tried to lob him, I don't get the extra touch.

Hutton and Shade ripping the left back apart.

Barrow still sitting back off us so far this half and letting us have the ball.

Williams beats his man with a step over and shoots from 25 yards just wide.

Need another goal as bound to fuck up at least once, COYR

Hutton beats his man and has a shot and its tipped over the bar.

it looks like my optimism was well placed

Corner from Reed finds FBT who turns and falls but no foul is given.

Darcy should really have done better there as he shoots over the bar.

Darcy and Lavinier should both have got a shot in there.

Corner cleared off the Town line.

Pull.  The.  Trigger.

50:50 this half.

Roberts on for Darcy.

Absolutely hammering it down now there.

Great chance for Barrow and an awful finish saved Town.

Att: 2,617 (171 Swindon).

The weather has made the game more of a lottery and opened it up a lot.

Feels like this is going to be a very long last 25 minutes  :suicide:

They're finding a lot more space right now.

Really not sure how Shade hasn’t been the one subbed. not convinced by Lindsey’s subs at all this season.

RHM on for Shade.

Well timed.

I think Shade has had a decent game today other than a couple of poor decisions.

me no likely. it's getting scrappy and stretched

Conditions are awful now.

The Weather being a huge contributor to that.

Hutton good interception in our box saving us as Barrow broke.

Not sure i see it like that. Not had a terrible one but darcy going off ahead of him was an odd one considering that midfield three working well together.

Their keepers kicking is fucking shit!

We all look for different things in performances, for me he looked eager and had the beating of the fullback constantly, I thought it one of Shades better games TBH.

Good heading chance, Barrow.

Pure slugfest now. 

Barrow winger has a good move, beats his man and hits a shot 20 yards over the bar and 10 yards wide.

It has the feeling of the 14th round of a heavyweight fight.

Let’s shithouse a win for once

Pitch has become a nightmare.  It's like an extra defender.

Better, like Barrow, to go long and in the air.  Even if inaccurate, the ball might still stick.

RHM looking strong in defence there.

Adeloye and Dworzak on for Wakeling and Williams.

Dworzaks first touch in league football is to clear the ball into touch from our box.

Nervy long ball stuff.

Grind it out lads

Corner to them. Last minute.

Another corner to them.

Delighted for Dworzak getting a debut, but if I was Ricky Aguiar I'd be pretty upset about that.

Adeloye is absolutely useless in front of goal.

Adeloye is fucking atrocious.

:D

What’s Adeloye like then?

Not great TBH :D

I like him

For those following on text commentary only, Adeloye had a one on one with the Barrow keeper and dribbled it into the keeper without any attempt at either a shot or knocking it past him. Looked like on Fifa if you just don't press anything and dribble forward.

Oh Tome!

No idea how long left.

Thanks, I have a really clear picture now!!  :D

Adeloye didn’t get the memo that we’re allowed to take shots today. Clearly.

Get in !!!! 1-0 FT.

Yes sorry just shook me how awful that was I forgot to say what happened :)

RHM shot saved.

FT 1-0

We did a win!

Get in there!

Great win!

Much the better team until the rain. Nervy as anything after. Somehow, we're fourth!

Definitely an improvement although a lot of the same issues - not scoring from open play is disappointing, but there you go.

Barrow no shots on target v our 7😀

 buzzin at the moment - great to get back to winning ways

Goodness me. Glad to get a win, hope it kick starts something, but still not convinced overall. We shouldn’t have been hanging on like we were considering how Barrow rolled out the red carpet for us in that first half.

Great battling performance.

From what I could see both Adeloye and Hepburn Murphy had very good chances to make it two.

But I was looking at the time indicator in the top left hand corner most of the time - without even knowing the time added.  :pint:

The weather played its part but that was a truly atrocious second half with Adeloye adding the icing and cherry on top quality wise.  Blank that from the memory and just bank the win.  Such a poor league, a few additions could at least make the play offs look more secure.

Looks like RMH stayed down and had treatment after the whistle.

Christ! Buzzin after that? That was an awful watch in the second half. We should have killed the game and made it 0-3 at half time. Their keeper made a couple of good saves. RHM was unlucky at the end. Odeloye did well to shave off a defender and be through 1 on 1 with the keeper, but had no idea what to do!

I was hoping that he was shithousing

yes - delighted to get a win however it may have been achieved

1st half Barrow were as poor as any side we have faced, 2nd half they were marginally better but the weather was the leveller, we could and should have won by more except for poor finishing and a few good saves.

Every win counts but Barrow are nowhere near play off candidates on that showing.

Hutton and Lavinier the 2 best players for me. Shade and Williams did well and Reed back to closer to his standard again, FBT did well in defence too and Wakeling lively up front.

Can only beat whats in front of you, and we did.

RHM looked really lively when he came on but oh dear Adeloye had a fantastic 1 on 1 chance to score his first goal and failed miserably taking one too many touches rather than shooting.

2,617 with 171 brave souls

Phew, squeaky bum time, especially with all those Barrow corners.  ???

3 points for Christmas, thank you Santa!   :football:

Been there ;)

So Darcy and Aguiar have been ill. Brennan too

Aguiar at the hotel. hence not coming on

Saw that Adeloye chance on my phone. It should lead to an instant contract cancellation. And a £10k fine for Statto Sandro. WTAF

I am pleased to see SL get a win and get us back on track. The manner in which we secured the 3 points is of secondary importance.

Probably fair enough then! Although odd not to put Massey on the bench ahead of him if he travelled with the side?

Interested to know what people thought tactically - to me that looked like Plan A done a bit better rather than any significant changes, but open to being enlightened!

And in the BBC’s latest round of genius decisions, BBC Wilts is no longer available outside the U.K. at any time.

Hoping to sell the feckin rights perhaps?

it's not going to happen for him is it.

I don't like to get on a players back when he's hardly played but fucking hell.

how annoying.

can you vpn around it?

Darcy going off first makes more sense then. Fair enough.

I'm typically an optimistic fan but man I feel so meh after that. In isolation it's a big win and could serve us some huge confidence, but how we didn't score from open play despite our dominance and press in the first half and had to rely on a penalty is a big cause for concern. Defensively I thought we were absolutely fine and a clean sheet deserved, but going forwards still a huge concern.

I think he took 3 or 4 too many touches!

Haven't read back  ;)

Plan A with the oppo standing off us completely and a bit more impetus to shoot. Shots welcome but not convinced that this is eveidence of the changes we’d been hoping for. More evidence and a 2nd half without a monsoon, needed.

While it feels a poor start and there has been some fucking awful games, we're in 4th. January coming up, a few big signings and players coming back from injury could really push us on.

it's tight in the playoff places isn't it!

January recruitment now key. FBT loss will be massive

Apparently he was crying at full time. Seen mental health issues reported (speculation). If so, give some time off ala Ben Stokes. No point playing a player if he has big mental health issues so no point playing him as he is it’ll make things worse

it was a very welcome 3 points.

had we conceded it would have been the same argument, defence was very very isolated from the midfield, barrow had lots of counter attacks in the 2nd half so fair play to a probably fitness rusty mcdonald and fbt for deadling with that especially.

the midfield has big problems in it. i know we have injuries and that isn't our 1st choice but williams, iandolo, reed, darcy is about as lightweight and small as you could possibly get and its proper hard times when league 2 giants are getting balls pumped into them late on.

we are 4th, that's decent, albeit it very inflated due to majority teams having 1 or 2 games in hand. the consequences of losing when no one else is playing would have been massive.

the same worries remain just very relieved that we got the 3 points. is this turning a corner or mean we are going to go on an unbeaten stretch- 100% no but its one tiny step in the right direction.

I think that was a much better attacking performance than recent weeks. We looked like we had a lot more ideas going forwards and we’re unlucky not to have scored more. Plenty of big chances. Austin would have had a hatful today. Very impressed with Lavinier. FBT was excellent again. Hutton back to his earlier high performance levels. Defensively we looked assured too. I don’t know the stats but I feel like this team has probably had more clean sheets already than we did all last season?

Distraught apparently. Don’t forget his pass to set up RHM was a beaut.

He needs some support - not constant pelters.

Sad to hear that about Tomi. I would love to see him do well. He will get a goal and once he gets over that first hurdle hopefully the floodgates will open. He may benefit from seeing a sports psychologist.

Ideally he needs to go on loan to National League, play a few games and get his confidence back

You have to feel for squad players who very rarely get on the pitch, it must mess with your head/confidence irrespective how much they get paid.

The commentators at the time said the miss really showed him lacking confidence. trying to round the keeper is actual quite a confident thing to try.

The pitch was slow and sloppy it really wasn't the worst thing to attempt. at the end of the day he hasn't lost us any points. twitter comments react like he has missed a decisive playoff penalty. he will be better for a goal but to get him that opportunity he's going to need more than a couple of minute cameo it seems.

Well said, let him get a few games under his belt even as a late sub to build up his confidence.

Early Christmas family day today, so didn’t see/know anything about the game outside of the stats, will have to read back a bit more. Seems like there was a lot more positivity. The win the main thing of course  :beers:, still some concern over the lack of goal threat by the looks of it.

Nice league table in the face of our poor form. Poor Tomi if that’s true, take some time off over Christmas lad, maybe talk to someone for some mental fitness.

I'm not 100% sure it was a pass. I think it might have been a shot that went very wide. I'd need to see it again though to be sure.

Definitely a pass.

to be fair their keeper pulled off a few decent saves, on another day could have been a much bigger score.

 would really like to see adeloye do well.  what we have seen so far (but this isnt much) seems to say that league 2 might be too high a level for him.

Agreed, they also came close with header that went just past the post.

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/12770210/barrow-0-1-swindon-town-league-two-highlights

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=crmgz9HKacs

16 shots - we’d pay good money to see that happen at the County Ground.

:D

Agreed. Just hope the mental health angle isn’t too hard. Anyone struggling mentally would be not the best at their job, football applies. Support should be there and we have to remember they’re human. Let’s hope that he recovers and the support is there as there must have been something there for us to look at him.

Big win. Entire back 4 very solid, FBT the pick.

Reed bossed the game, no shocks what a run of games can do. One of the best midfielders in the league. Williams brilliant. Iandolo battled well.

Horror miss from Adeloye but just as rotten to see our own player “distraught” at end of game after we’ve won. Needs a run of games for confidence and I imagine that won’t come here..?

How on earth are we 4th? 😂. Mad what a win can do. Big January window needed to stay in top 7.

Unreal effort from those that travelled today, more dedicated and more of a fan than most of us 👏.

Great credit to the team for grinding out the result in the 2nd half in difficult conditions.
Not the time to be getting too carried away.

A relatively small, mobile and technical midfield should run rings around opponents in this league if they aren't prepared to deal with it, as was the case in the 1st half yesterday.
Everyone put a shift in and an example of the whole being more than the sum of its parts, which needs to happen on a much more consistent basis if we are going to achieve anything this season.

Possibly Iandolo's best game of the season as well, which is a bonus. Needs to carry on at that same level now.
Maybe some players need a bit more time to settle back in after missing pretty much all of pre season.

Looking forward to boxing day now.

As said above, FBT was really Impressive yesterday. Would like to think we're looking to do a deal with him/Burton to avoid a recall and getting him on a long term contract.

Sent from my XQ-AD51

Depending on how many Wallsall bring we may get 10,000

I can’t imagine practically bottom of L1 Burton have any better defensive players than FBT.
They’d be stupid not to bring him back and play him.
We’d be the same in their shoes.

Only hope is they are massively over their wage budget and have to ship players out ASAP.

We started so brightly the first 15 to 20 mins, but we started to slip back in to the same old Swindon of late. To have still gone so long without a goal from open play is seriously worrying. The conditions may have played a part though.

I'm glad we got the win, but I clearly don't see it as encouraging as some. We still have so many injuries though.

Shame about Adeloye and his mental state, but as far as I can tell no one is sending him abuse. Its just a very natural response to a player that has shown nothing to say he isn't completely out of his depth here. Would stay off socials at a time like this.

No one is pissed off at him or giving him shit as far as I can see, its more being incredulous that this is what Sandros magic spreadsheet has targeted for us.  

I’d say the young man’s attempt to round the keeper smacked of nothing but ill confidence. He simply didn’t seem to know what to do in the one on one, it wasn’t some calculated decision. Feel really bad for him on a human level, but in the cut and thrust of professional sport he just doesn’t seem to have it

The question is why isn't Parsons being given a chance.

Because he has been given chances and is not above Adeloye in the pecking order.

Then fans can't moan if he gets released without being given much of a chance.

Who? Adeloye or Parsons?

I think that SL gives Adeloye the nod because he offers something different to Wakeling and Parsons. He is a big lumps who can mix it up and head the ball (perhaps)

Parsons doesn't look to be as good as Wakeling nor RHM. He also isn't the poacher that Jephcott is.

From what I have seen, unless they improve significantly, neither Adeloye nor Parsons are going to make it

However, I'm not sure that Roberts is much better than Parsons either.

Which are going to improve dramatically? I don't know.

Fair points you make but where I struggle is when Parsons comes back from Chippenham with rave reviews and potential but dosen't get a look in where as Adeloye had been around quite a long time and probably isn't good enough for league 2

All has a bit of an air of Savo Milošević at Villa about it.

Came from an admittedly lower league but still seems able to get into the positions but finishing completely gone.

How many games has Adeloye played though? Just looks dramatically low on confidence to me...

2 starts and 9 subs appearances for a grand total of c. 270 minutes according to http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/PlayingRecord.asp?PersonID=ADELOYET&Season=2022-2023

Worth noting as well that bar once his subs appearances have never been over c.20 minutes.

Yes I agree he looks very low on confidence and would probably benefit from going out on loan to a non league club.