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Well, I’m going whatever.

If we do have a couple of new faces I’ll want to have a peek.

If we don’t it’ll just be for shits and giggles.

I'm going too. Yay.

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might take me boots
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1-1
7845

I'm not going, bollocks to em.

I have to travel 150 miles for home games and try to make most, will not be going for the rest of the season.

I travel 2 miles and seriously wonder why!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gyP_Ty_B8

Some talk of RHM and Clayton being back, we know who is gone...

L Ward

Minturn
Brewitt
UGM

Kokolo
Hutton

Khan
Kinsella
McEachran

Austin
Shade

Subs: Redman Evans, Tom Clayton, Jake Cain, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy, Brooklyn Genesini, Anton Dworzak, Miles Obodo

It's... not good. But not truly awful. If TC and RHM aren't back, and there's any other mystery injuries and/or Kokolo's deal has expired... well, it could be really grim.

Is Brewitt expected to be recovered from his Monday injury and are we sure that Kokolo is still contracted?

Kokolo is OK at the moment. No idea what was wrong with Brewitt. Probably bored shitless like the rest of us.

Swindon 0 Colchester 1 att: 7,780 (370 U’s)

Yep, 0-1 my prediction too as I expect we’ll be utterly toothless in attack and Colchester will settle for a routine away win.

Would bite your hand off for 22nd place as things stand. How depressing is that?

Turn the sprinklers on, get the game postponed.

Not yet, wait till the fuckers have travelled up here first

Including any points deduction this season and not deferred, I would too.

When we going to know if Clem is guilty or not and what the punishment would be🤔

Got a season ticket but this could be the last game of the season for me. Just going for a laugh to see how bad we will be really and to vent some frustration. We lost to them recently with our better players so can’t see past a defeat, Christ knows where a goal comes from with this squad.

I could have written this myself. Exactly where I’m at.

"Mercy, Me Lud, capital punishment has been abolished."

"A fine would involve capital, so twenty thousand quid and a Mercedes with Swiss plates plus six points deducted."

I won’t be going, one, because I really can’t be arsed putting good money into a bad, very bad product and two, I’m in the frozen north on Saturday for my company Christmas party. So I’m out, out if you will.

They appointed the Cowley brothers today. Definite defeat.

what are the chances of doing a double on waterlogged call offs?!

the roads and out and about were awful yesterday, though it's due to stop now

Swindon 0-2 Colchester in front of 6,855 (112 Collys).

Ooh, breaking the 7000 barrier, eh!

Missed the 4 games over Christmas so oddly looking forward to getting a Swindon fix in. It's difficult to know if we can get out of the current malaise, a trio of exciting signings today may aid that, but given where we currently are, and the Cowley's looking to get off to a winning start, a trip to the County Ground at the moment isn't the worst place for them to try and do it.

A week on the Guiness seems to have affected your senility mate.

As well as the belly :)  :pint: :pint:

Trying to look at the positives currently, that won't last long i'm sure JJ!

Its already lasted longer than mine!

He had a dead leg, so in the normal world he should be back.  We all know what the world is like for players when we are struggling though.

Colchester are my dad's and grandad's team, so this is always a game I look out for when the fixtures release. Can't see where our goals are going to come from and can't see us keeping a clean sheet, so think they're going to hold the bragging rights over me again with a 2-0 victory to Colchester.

We'll lose.
Manager will say we are too easy to score against.
Rinse, repeat.

Funnily enough, I'm way behind on my LSPODs and yesterday I listened to the one post Colchester away, (the game after the Aldershot debacle) which we lost 3-1 despite being 1-0 up at half time. Flynn said exactly the same thing you alluded to, that we are too easy to score against. It's HIS job to fix it, and so far he's not done anything about it.

The Cowleys have been sacked from their last 2 jobs at good clubs in the Championship & L1, although they might consider themselves unlucky to lose the Huddersfield job.
Since then it has been a downward trajectory to end up back in L2.

No guarantee of a new manager bounce if the Col U squad struggle to adapt to a possibly more direct approach and different style to their previous coaches this season.

Straw clutching maybe & without our 2 most productive players it could be a difficult afternoon.
A bit fed up of losing to Colchester now, one win in the last 9 meetings.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/24029433.press-conference-live-swindon-town-v-colchester-united/


Is that a hint or blind optimism from the Adver?

It’s still not started, do wonder if they’re trying to find a scarf

We’re signing a cartoonist?

Another L to Col U as always

Michael Flynn on injuries:

Brewitt is likely, RHM can play some part but I will have to sleep on that with the risk, we have to be careful with him. Clayton has had a setback. Kokolo contracted this weekend and next.

I think we are on 14 or 15 fit professionals.

I got it  ;)

he's getting flogged isn't he and doesn't want to risk getting injured?

TBF, if we could get money for him or Devine I'd snap your hand off, not because they aren't decent players but they're hardly ever fit enough to play

Be interesting to see who else gets an ‘injury’ tomorrow. Hutton, Khan?

Wouldn’t give a toss personally. The whole club is a fucking joke.

Glue factory?

Not really in the same category, Clayton played 35 games last season. Just only four this year. Devine's only managed two total over two seasons, and didn't finish either of those.

Devine is definitely crocked - but the cynical in me suspects some players are not as injured as we're making out. I guess we'll find out if they are sold this month and play plenty of games for their new clubs. I also sense Flynn has fallen out with RHM.

Or they could all be properly injured and I'm a drama queen! :)

I've been convinced RHM is being flogged for a while - but yeah, could be wrong

That's fair, although of his four games this year he's only played just over 90 mins in total.

I’m absolutely convinced that RHM wants to leave and that playing a 15th league game will automatically extend his contract hence being ‘injured’

Either the club get rid or he & the club come to agreement not to honour the automatic extension

15 seems a tiny amount of games for an extension

It does, but don't forget he's coming back from quite a long spell out injured so perhaps it was an agreement between club/player/agent.

Nothing surprises me anymore, who can really tell fact from fiction at the club.

Tbh, he can fuck off - as can any of them. Hopefully we can see the season out and start, yet again, with new owners/manager/players in the summer.

This summer would be a dream. I can't see Clem and co fucking off for a while unfortunately. Not until the penny finally drops which most of these mouth breathing morons that still see Clem has the messiah and gates plummet.

You can write this game off already before we have kicked off.

Can the new guy play tomorrow?

Looking at the online ticket sales an attendance in the 6k’s must be very possible tomorrow, certainly when it comes to the number actually in the ground. Other than season ticket holders barely any seats seem to have sold.

Last minute rush :D

I think those that play tomorrow are going to need good support from the fans.

Playing Colchester at home on a bad run of form reminds of the 2-2 at home to them in 2002/3. 4152 at home that day and went 2-0 with a Bart Grimienk howler but we pulled it back and went on a run.

I think that was in the middle of the Steve Coppell debacle, we were under an embargo and Kingy under pressure. They all just rolled up their sleeves and ground out results. That was one of the low spots in our history.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20030113

Anyone fancy predicting how we’ll set up tomorrow?

Badly? Like they just met each other as they came out of the tunnel?

Saw a rumour Brewitt is out so I’ll randomly guess at:

                     Ward
Hutton    UGM     Minturn   Kokolo
      Kinsella  Khan  McEachran
                     Cain
               Austin   Shade

Redman Evans
Hart
Genesini
Devoy
Aguiar/Dworzak
Obodo
RHM

Imagine the Cowley brothers are sat in their hotel room rubbing their hands at that team!

I think Devoy and Aguiar mean Flynn is thinking about tweaking the formation to one up top and two in behind. Two of Devoy, Aguiar, Shade and Cain. He’s probably going to sign another striker, holding mid and central defender.

 can't see anything other than a loss tomorrow . Bit depressing really

Who’s going to score for us? + Little chance of us scoring = defeat

Going to be well worth 5 or 6 hours in the car  :doh:

Have we ever fielded a worse team than this?  There were some poor ones in L1 a few years back I suppose, but that is a poor group of players.

Imagine we'll still stick to the back 5 and put Khan in there as we did for Tranmere and Wrexham, with Devoy going straight into the starting XI

Hoping Brewitt is back, so going with:

                                       Ward

                    UGM          Brewitt           Kokolo


Hutton                                                                 Shade
                                      Kinsella


                         Khan                    Devoy

                                      Austin
                           

Ward


UGM
Minturn
Kokolo

Hutton
Khan
Kinsella
Cain
Shade

Either Aguiar or Devoy

Austin


Brewitt in at CB for Kokolo if fit I suppose

What is most depressing from all these proposed line ups are how slow and devoid of any dynamism they all are, it’s going to be beyond pedestrian tomorrow. Shade apart there’s literally no pace at all attacking wise.

Our squad is so thin we can’t even field 11 starters now  :D

Agree with DiV’s prediction with Aguiar starting and Devoy on the bench.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I got to the strikers and just ran out of options!

I wonder if Flynn starts with 10 like when a manager doesn’t fill a bench to send a “message” to the owners!

Morning all.

Any chance we’re going to need a pitch inspection due to the rain over the last few days?

Not seen anything mentioned

Will be on unfortunately 😂😂

I've changed my prediction for this multiple times but I've a sneaky suspicion we might win today.

Will back the 11 (hopefully!) men on the pitch as always. Desperately need an early goal.

First goal wins today I think given our brittle mentality.

Either a 2-0 win or a 0-6 loss. Can't decide which!

We haven’t even got some lumbering giant of a CB we can shove up front and hope he gets on the end of some of Hutton’s crosses. Hope Aguiar plays.

Aguiar should be sub.

Be interested to see the home fan attendance today. Since our poor run began back in October, we were getting 8.5k to 9k home fans on average, that seems to have dropped by 1k to 1.5k. Obviously that doesn't include ST holders who aren't bothering to show up. Lowest was 7,330 against Barrow, I think that will get beat today.

Going to need some home wins from somewhere because can’t see us doing bugger all away with the current mentality in that so called squad!

Really? He’s 100% match fit from playing regularly at Worthing. Mr DD can’t have played much. If Flynn wants to replicate post Kemp, Aguiar is the natural replacement. Anyhoo, no doubt it’ll be another shit show.

And on that topic, attendances should be reported as exactly that, the number of people who ATTENDED, not those who happen to have tickets. It is supposed to be an official attendance figure which is recorded for posterity.

fuck, I was halfway through replying that Cain should get the nod first before remembering Kemp was gone !

hmmm.. neither he nor DD can have trained much with the squad?  my guess

                  ward

        dokes Brewitt* minnow
Hutton.                                      kokolo

               khan McEachran
                       Cain

            Austin.     shade

I reckon we’ll go with Austin up top on his own and go 5-4-1

I think Flynn will be desperate to show off his new signing and Dawson will start. Just a feeling

he might slot straight into the kemp role I guess

In a side short of goals, and without confidence, I’d personally play Aguiar, and continue his momentum from the loan.

I could be wrong but I’m not sure Devoy plays the same role as Kemp, for some reason I have in my head that he plays slightly deeper

I can't see today going well.
Best part of the day will be the pub in Old Town.

1-3.

Says something about Adeloye's stock that we're not recalling him when we have one striker who has even absolutely shagged for months.

Still, first game post Young and Kemp. Let's hope people step up or it could be truly grim.

Absolute dread in my stomach today.

Can’t really remember that before. Always felt we had a chance of turning it round under Quinn, Iffy, Malpas, Wilson, even Hart and Sheridan or any of the other crap seasons.

This feels devoid of hope.

Will enjoy my fish and chips and the craic but this is becoming a tough sell.

On our way up from deepest darkest Gloucestershire.
Can’t believe skybet have us even money to win and Colchester 21-10.
First time ever for a league fixture ive backed the opposition to win.
Won’t be enough to buy power sorry Morfuni out but will ease the pain of another likely shit show 💩💩💩

I'm going for a dull draw today.

yeah Cowley bros, but they are shit. we are shit. everything is shit

Its all SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!

Colchester are always shit and they always beat us, it's just one of those things like Cheltenham.

It’s even shit speculating about it🤣

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDKZFlcWMAA568U?format=jpg&name=small)

Probably best case scenario, Brewitt back, Cain starts in the 10, Shade up top. DD clearly not registered.

Surprise, surprise, RHM not in the squad again.

The new bloke was obviously signed too late. Well played Town.

Don’t see a goal in that team, no dynamism or creativity anywhere.

4 CMs on the bench, handy

No FBT, thought that Double D was signed in time, did the fax machine jam?

Where the hell is RHM?

Cant see anything past a loss today.

He has a sore knee.

As in "Soreknee there is somewhere else I could be"

Medical next week at Crewe, ahead of a free transfer (Made that up, but he has slung his hook).

Suggests it was rushed and certainly not pre-planned. We’re just a complete shambles.

Flynn should do his post-match interviews at 2.30 p.m., not 5.30 p.m.  "Sore knee, short of numbers, to-easy to score against.....................blah, blah, blah."  

You literally wind yourself up.
He may not have been signed in time, but he also may have a knock, he may not be fully fit, you don’t know, so don’t worry about it.

This stress can’t be good for you, if it’s not on here you are ranting on twitter.  

Guess Shade is upfront, hopefully he can put in a better performance than his woeful display when we used him there against Aldershot

It’s cathartic gotta vent it somewhere. But come on you can’t tell me it’s not shambolic that we are lower on numbers a week in than we were before the window opened despite Flynn banging on for months about it. The one player we have bought in can’t play and that just sums it up.

The club is a shit show, I’m not disagreeing with that.

But, we don’t know why he’s not playing so it’s pointless just assuming stuff and stressing about it.

Jake Young not on the bench for Bradford so thats a transfer lined up for him this week.

Iandolo starts against us.

Even the pundits are losing interest Ian Herring on Comms with Hawes.

Signed Decoy and he’s so shit he can’t even get into our squad.
Worst player, ever.

Spud is an old mate of mine, top bloke and still loves the Town.

Not knocking him just surprised it’s not Smith or one of the other regulars.

hope he scores and celebrates in front of flynn

To us  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Spud sounds knowledgeable, may well be an improvement on the usual moaners such as Phil Smith or Hockaday.

Early signs sound promising :D

I wonder if two players numbered between 1-11 is the least we've ever fielded in a league fixture?

The only time ever may have happened could have been under PdC when we used 39 1st teamers.

Crowd looking particularly sparse at the moment, understandably.

And yet it will still somehow be, “Attendance today is 8,568. Thank you for your continued support.”

It’s only season ticket holders left around me.

Probably!

Charlie has got himself a very harsh haircut.

No choice, unpaid wages.  ;)

Colchester look to have broiught a similar amount to FGR and for a much longer trip, fair play to support their new manager appointment.

Has on one side, been on the other?

There’s definitely not 6k actually in the ground regardless of what they announce.

Have you counted them all?

Shade did well to rob the keeper but we cant get a shot in and Kokolo ends up winning a corner.

Iandolo doing Iandolo things, keeping the ball in with a header and giving it away :)

So little quality all over the pitch so far by both teams.

Surprised he didn’t get injured doing it

There’s massive gaps in the centre of the Arkell’s, it’s been years since we’ve had that. It is noticeably emptier than it has been for a long time.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Should make it easier to spot Clem😁

Shade down the line pulls it back to Cain who wellies it almost over the Town End, great chance.

Especially as the hospitality section is half empty as well

Cain has been eager so far but his touches have been very heavy.

Dokes fouled bringing the ball out, yellow for the Colchester player.

You have to admire the Colchester number 10 trying to look shocked as he gets booked for as obvious a professional foul as you will ever see.

Looking to be our best player so far, I know its early but he looked eager to run and chase things.

Dokes off limping, should be ok to continue though.

Shade with a great shot after the FK and the keeper saves it, corner to Town.

Nice little free kick from Hutton finds Shade, who is certainly the main character of the half for good or ill.

Khan wins another corner, the keeper flapped badly at the last corner.

Wooo penalty

Dokes fouled in the box, penalty.

Penalty on UGM

He absolutely was being pulled, but it's nothing you wouldn't see at every set piece for me.

1-0

Things are looking up :pint:

1-0 Austin

Soft, but we need the breaks.

Good penalty that.

New Haircut 1-0!

Kokolo wins another corner.

Colchester are struggling to defend our corners, not very often I have said that this season.

Colchester have a shot from outside the box but its well over the bar.

Kamikaze stuff at the back. Lucky

Brewitt with a fuck up in defence but gets back to tackle and then Ward pulls off a nice save.

Brewitt struggling a bit against Hopper so far.

Hutton gets away with a dubious challenge in our box.

He’s doing his classic of focusing on his battle with the man rather than defending so far.

Shade beats his man on the left and gets a good cross in but it wont reach Austin.

Handball just outside the box as Austin flicks it up.

Just checked into hotel in Bradford and we’re 1-0 up, wow, didn’t expect that. No sign of Jake Young, though I notice Crawley are winning at Valley Parade 0-1.

Shade low poor FK at the wall.

We seem to be trying to get the ball forwards down the wings faster so far today.

Have to win this. This lot are woeful, worst than the Vegans so far.

I think they are slighly better than the Vegans so far but its close, they are a poor side for sure though.

Chilvers, Hopper, Jay and fevrier all better than any FGR player.

Cross in and header on target fairly easy save for Ward though.

That looked like a foul by Kinsella on Jay.

Referee clearly feeling the pressure of a big home crowd.

2-0

They really are the worst team I’ve seen all season

2-0 Brewitt

Bad Team 2-0 Terrible Team

Hawes says that's Brewitt's first goal since September 1922, which is a hell of a drought.

Clearly Young & Kemp have been holding us back.

3 mins added time.

…was gonna post this just to see if I heard it correctly

Fuck sake. 2-1. Free header

Expected😡

2-1

That was poor. UGM's man I think, he seems to have decided to double mark with Brewitt.

Brewitt beats UGM in the air under no pressure. Our defence looking like they've just met again.

Khan is having a shit game. Constantly giving it away.

77 games in 101 years #injuryprone

HT 2-1

I can only imagine Ricky Aguiar is sat on the bench feeling that this is very much the standard of football he's been used to this season.


One of those that's easy to understand what he means, but it did make me smile.

I would get him on 2nd half for the awful Khan.

I like the commitment we've shown this half.  Two goals is a fair return given the dip in quality.

As ever, defence asleep for the short corner and then the ball into the near post.

First half demonstrating that both sides lack quality.

I was pleased to see that ‘some’ of our players seemed to be trying. The exception seemed to be Khan, who is jogging around doing nothing.

I thought Shade and Kokolo seemed to be putting in effort.

UGM playing like a right back and not part of a 3.

I would say terrible, but more like ‘no’ defending for their goal.

Referee seems to be a homer. Hope he doesn’t try to even things up 2nd half

Can see this being a draw

Watched their goal back: Short corner taken quickly (those never lead to goals, do they?) our defence asleep to the risk and nobody anywhere near their two players out on our right. Probably Hutton should be, Kinsella goes out but too late, in the middle we have 5 on 2 (the three CBs, Austin and Hutton) and manage to lose one of them to the simple front post run. Lots of players could have stopped that.

The inevitability with which my question to myself ‘have we just conceded’ being answered ‘yes’ after refreshing the page is painful.

Let's hope it's not as usual second half capitulation. With our "best 2 players" missing though,it's a decent situation so far

Decent situation if not performance.

Shade gets in a 1st time shot but its too close to the keeper and an easy, if fumbled, save.

Minturn with his trademark fuck up at the back.

This feels like a game to test the DV theory of "it doesn't matter how bad the game is if we get three points"

Kinsella clears the ball off the line.

Think Kinsella cleared off the line there

Holding on currently. Need to get through this early pressure

Iandolo again doing Iandolo things!

Att: 7,564 (329 Collys)

Oh no it isn't!

Panto season dragging on it seems.

Hes certainly very good at those! Consistently makes the same mistake every game!

It looks no more thsn 6k to me.

He is consistant!

Obviously can't see the DRS from the iFollow angle, but the Arkells and TE look sparse to put it mildly.

Indeed, I would say it is easily the lowest attendance so far this season going by how many we can see in those 2 stands.

They’ve sent Ankinde and Wilkinson to warm up. I fear for my neck muscles shortly.

Indeed mate

So a 1000 st holders not bothering then?

We need to do something. It’s one way traffic currently.

Wonder whether the players have been told that we are in red? We don’t seem to be able to find our own men - Ward especially, but no midfield and no up top passes

Possibly, as they are still counted anyway if they turn up or not, it looks sparese though.

All Colchester so far this half.

Thinking subs.McEachran to shore up or Aguilar to get a third?

We've done absolutely nothing this half

Ricky Aguiar coming on

Jesus! Austin treading water running back after being dispossessed!

Aguiar on
Cain off

Land of the giants up front for them now.

Thought Cain had been anonymous

So our lowest home attendance 7,235 (including about 1k ST holders absent)

Clem needs to get used to it as there won’t be any big away following coming here this season to bump up the crowds.

Not sure how tactically deliberate this is but Remeao Hutton has been our furthest forward player for a while now. Looks like we're getting that Shade/Austin/Hutton front three that was asked for, with a back four UGM at right back.

*7,564.

That does sound sensible.

Hutton is definitely pushed on now, appears to be RW

Town currently on 37% possession, yep to fucking Colchester, managed by Cowley!!!

Looks like 4231 now.

UGM Brewitt Minturn Kokolo
            Kinsella Khan
Hutton.      Aguiar.         Shade
                   Austin

It would be nice to see some crosses going into the box to see if Austin has still got it

In theory, in practice it could be anyone anywhere on this performance. Outplayed at home by Colchester.

"Swindon need to change their shape" says Ian Herring, who hasn't noticed that they did ten minutes ago yet.

I wonder if he means change it "again"?

Maybe he’s just woken up and hasn’t realised  :D

I think if this reffing performance was going the other way, we would be very disgruntled.

Kinsella has been our best player today, going about his business very well, doing the dirty work and breaking up play - the stuff that typically goes under the radar

McEachran on for Austin.

McEachran for Austin. Formation guesses on a postcard to SN1...


Been up there for a few weeks along with Shade, both very much outsiders over the first part of the season. A cynical version of me thinks that we've declined to their level rather than them improving, but beggars can't be choosers.

Since their subs Colchester have been poor again. We might just see this through.

10 behind the ball to close the game out!

Are we being battered? Stats say we are.

Great turn and cross by Kokolo there.

2nd half it has been all them.

We are sitting so deep and not pressing them, this is only going to end badly.

 A third on the break to give us a 50/50 chance of 3 points!

We’ve decided possession is no longer necessary

They have had all the possession but haven't exactly created too much, as yet....

Its still early.

Not sure Ward has made a save this half? Kinsella cleared one off the line but can't think of much else. Under siege, but the battering ram is made of jelly and the trebuchet custard.

Colchester can smell our fear.

I can from here as well

Have we sat back from 43rd minute?

We are in full get rid mode.

How many added mins?

Our defending is always reactionary rather than proactive…

Different philosophy today without a doubt. Still shite.

4

A bunch of useless Kants?

2 mins of added time left.

Yes, very agricultural. Sort of early 00s style div 4 style.

Fucking shit!

Dokes and Hutton both go for the same easy ball and both miss it. Sums us up today.

2-2 its been coming.

Well, that was the least surprising thing ever to happen.

That was a fuck up by Ward not getting a hand to that corner.

Somehow we ended up with three Colchester players stood on Lewis Ward there.


It wasn't good from him, but you'd expect a bit of help from your defence.

2-0 and we fucked it up🤣

Embarrassing and can't see it changing!!

Flynn out.

Cant say it wasnt coming, that was utterly shit against a terrible side.

Flapping McFlap in goal

Let's guess the copy and paste post match interview with Flynn

I wonder how many late goals we've conceded since he got narky with Hawes about us not being unfit when we actually scored one in injury time.

Awful second half but another point towards safety

Utter fucking rubbish!

Gritty performance for a change, better outcome than expected at 3.00 p.m. could have easily been a worse outcome.

Considering how shit they are, that 2nd half was an absolute embarrassment. Did absolutely nothing all half. So poor

Shocked a foul wasn’t given on Ward. Don’t think it was, but normally a given.

That was a fucking miserable ending, befitting of the current mood around the club.

Get well soon Swindon.

Saved myself £70  :toocool:
Thanks Morfuni/Flynn et Al, won't be back anytime soon.

The ref's done his absolute best to win us that game to be fair, he's given Colchester absolutely fuck all from minute 1 to minute 94, if that performance was the other way around we'd be steaming.

Promotion this year anyone 🤔

Agree. But then, you thought "definite defeat"

Keep on clapping, happy clapper.

By my count, that's now ten goals we've conceded in the 89th minute or later in the league this season. Abysmal.

(admittedly, half of those in two games vs Accrington and Wrexham)

Have we ever been this bad?  Honest question because I don't really remember the early 80's shit.  

That was terrible, from beginning to end, although it got worse as it went on.  Colchester are an awful team as well, it made my eyes hurt.

Everyone responsible for getting us to this position, please take a bow.  It takes real incompetence or criminal intent to turn a club like ours into this level of shit.

Goals conceded in injury time both halves. Do our players have off switches installed?

Ridiculous comment. I agreed Flynn out and the rest is a fact.

Call me a happy clapper but I give credit to the players today.  Contrast the benches.  Full respect for the effort.  

Flynn out

No, even in the darkest days we ate not as clueless as we are now......especially defense wise

Even under Sheriden we weren't as bad and he was trying to lose

That was an ending fitting for the state of the club at the minute. A scrappy goal met with genuine apathy around the ground. If it wasn’t for the season ticket, I’d see zero lure to go. Everything about the club is just plain fucking shit currently.

On each occasion I can remember us being that bad, we have been relegated. However, I think that when we have been this bad, we haven't been given penalties or scored from corners.

FGR and Colchester are very much the same standard as us - And they are both bloody awful!

I’m not blaming the players. Saw plenty of effort other than from Khan, who was awful.

Almost no skill or quality on show for either side.

My absolute disdain is reserved for our regime.

Colchester had options on the bench. We had none.

The stench of death hangs over the club.

I’ll never forgive the Trust for railroading these individuals into our club.

Sick of it all.

When you’re looking to close a game out taking Austin off and bringing on an inch high midfielder is asking for trouble.  Whilst Austin maybe tiring he is one of our strongest in the air for those desperate late balls in.  What the hell are our coaches thinking  Flynn is doing it as did morris both with spectacular results.  So predictable and suicidal.  If we had a strong team of airborne rangers or subs then fair enough.

Ridiculous

It’s one point close to the 14 more I believe we need to stay in the division.  This season is about saving our place in the football league.

Next year we need to improve our recruitment we went with to few players and a bunch of sick notes later and we are left with a skeleton squad.

Gutless, spineless and generally pathetic from the outset. We are done for if we get any form of points deduction. We are in absolute free fall. The writing has been on the wall for a while. In my view the club is being rinsed and us fans will further yet suffer the anxiety of losing the club, yet again.

Meanwhile Crawley win 4-2 away at Bradford scoring in the 97th & 100th minutes

Totally agree on Austin. Stick him in the backline.

Flynn and Hatswell are literally useless.

Khan has an attitude like a stuffed toilet since not being selected for Gambia, needs to be dropped, was cupable against Crawley on Monday.

I wonder if he got the balls out first pre season session again this year…

I have it as 14 goals conceded after 85 minutes in all competitions.

Since October 3rd

L Notts 1-3
L Bradford 0-1
L Reading 0-5
W Newport 2-0
D Salford 2-2
L Gills 0-1
L MK 2-3
L Aldershot 4-7 (7-0 down)
L Colchester 1-3
L Stockport 2-4
D Harrogate 1-1
L Exeter 0-1
W Mansfield 2-1 (last minute winner)
W Accrington 4-3 (almost threw away 4-0 lead)
L Wimbledon 0-4
L Barrow 0-3
L Tranmere 1-2
L Wrexham 0-1
W FGR 2-1
L Crawley 0-3
D Colchester 2-2

P 21 W4 D3 L14
F 26 A 50

50 goals conceded in our last 21 games, including cups.

Agree that Khan wasn't trying.

Aguilar is not the Messiah! Didn't get into the game.

Midfield was non existent. Kinsella and Cain looked like two children playing against men.

Austin's movement glacial.

Minturn I'm sure is running around screaming 'Araaarghhh! Mongo get ball!' He keeps trying to anticipate and put in an early challenge/interception. Yes, it works 8/10 times, but the other 2 often lead to goal scoring opportunities.

Brewitt and UGM seemed to have a magnetic attraction. They kept being drawn to eachother rather than defending as part of a unit. (Even Minturn was bollocking them in the first half)

Hutton was stood up field.

Shade looked good for the first 15 mins; poor thereafter.

Kokolo was incredibly inconsistent during the game. Some very good and some very bad bits!

Ward - For Christ sake, why flap in the 94th min? Didn't find a Town player all game when he kicked it.

It’s hard to knock him at the moment certainly out performing Flynn & Co😁

Morfuni's silence this year speaks volumes. Feel like our club is being run into the ground, yet nothing  :tumbleweed:
I can tell you this, you'll be getting sod all money from me until something changes, sure I won't be the only one.

Austin had stopped completely.  Wasn't winning any headers on the day either.  He's been run into the ground this season.  We were being completely dominated in possession.  I can see Flynn's thinking given our pitiful bench.  Whatever he did would have been wrong.

The problem is the season long disregard for defending by Flynn.  And especially for the pitiful squad (loans excluded) that started it.

What was the attendance?

He’s doing a great job there tbh.

I thought his Town days were numbered but I didn’t hate the guy like most & certainly didn’t feel the need to dig him out over stupid things like his body language during interviews, thumping his chest or one line from one interview about pre-season training.

Most of our fans wanted him to fail from the start and got their wish.

He’s moved on. We’ve moved on.

At least we have the January transfer window to build on our squad where needed  :creep:

Never felt less confident in a Swindon side after going ahead. Wonder how many games that is now where we’ve not won, after leading. Feel bad at this point for the defence, as surely they must even know that the lead is probably going to be thrown away

Good points Div I totally agree.

It's a tired expression for someone who doesn't show 100% negativity. Shame on you you if you don't slag off every single aspect of the club. I've been called " happy clapper" for saying Flynn out!🙂

Our XG for the second half was 0.0

7,560ish can't remember exactly. Regardless, there definitely wasn't that many in there due to ST drop offs

We were never that good!

Window excuses coming out already

I'm fairly certain we have one of the best 1st half records in the league before it goes to shit in the 2nd half.

If you wanted to break me in Guantanamo, you’d make me listen to Michael Flynn post match interviews. I’d tell you anything.

We’ve needed an Akinde type for years. A huge fucker that causes chaos in the box and brings other into play. Great option.

Wants 3-4 in next week.

STOP FUCKING SAY THIS, IT NEVER FUCKING HAPPENS

He has taken no responsibility, ever, for this disastrous run. He’s delusional.

"I've gone to sign a striker today but he's started for his club and scored".
It's Jutkiewicz! 😂

I would not mind letting goals in 2 nd half it it was on the counter, but we just sit back further and further each game

52 conceded already we only conceded 100 in the premier league🤣

Flynn:
- Poor. Two set plays. Left people unmarked.
- Make individual mistakes and that what happens
- That's 13 point we have dropped through mistakes
- Second goal starts with goal kick and two players getting in eachothers way
- Worked hard and we know we are light
- Had a deal agreed with a player who got injured
- Clubs changed their mind at the last minute with others
- Next week we will have 3-4 through the door and hopefully we will have different conversations after the game
- We are lacking quality. Not just on the ball. But when to press and when not to press
- Half time talk was 'Dont drop deep'. But then we did
- Let Akinde win the ball (because that is his strength) and then stick with the runners off of that.
- A lot of things have changed since the beginning of the year.
- We should have gone in 2-0 up. They were dead. But then we've given them a point
- Team struggling to execute instructions: Should you change the instructions? Swindon fans wouldn't want us to play with 10 players behind the ball and camped in our box
- But it turned into that! Flynn agreed, but that's not what he told them to do
- Brewitt is struggling. He is anxious going forward as he is worried he cannot get back
- Khan is struggling
- Cain isn't match fit
- Aguilar needs time to get up to pace of L2 as there is a big gap
- We are not at 100% fitness or health
- Hopefully the new bodies will help give everyone a lift
- Hawes commenting about behind the scenes. Have you been let down by those above you? No, Flynn wasn't going to throw mud. Flynn is working as hard as he can with the tools he has. The club have been trying behind the scenes. We had a player who would have been playing in the middle of defence in a back 3. But he rolled his ankle in training. That isn't the chairman's fault or DoF's fault
- We have not stopped. Flynn was going to call a striker today, but he's started and scored today
- Clubs have been changing their minds as they aren't able to get replacements in
- Flynn can't blame the back room team. He has the go ahead to sign players
- Franchise player should have been done on time for today. The hold up was at the other end. He wont be the new Dan Kemp, but he has a chance to come here to show what he can do. Franchise have seen what we have done with Kemp and were impressed!
- Hawes told Flynn not to run over any black cats. Flynn said he thinks he's done enough of that already!

He said if we'd gone in 2 up at the break it would have been done and dusted.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Flynn is delusional. Enough is enough.

I'm going to get pelters, but I thoroughly enjoyed the first half. We played ok with total commitment and togetherness right up until they got a fucking goal in injury time.

Second half at really struggled, and I'm not going to pretend I enjoyed it. But the commitment and togetherness remained right up until they got a fucking equaliser in injury time.

Shame we are shit really

Yeah, I’m not putting this one on the players. Saw plenty of effort from all bar Khan. Some bodies put on the line too.

In my opinion, Flynn has to go and Caddis in. Caddis one of the few out there who could really galvanise everyone. Come in and “save” the season and look to turn momentum for next year. He knows what it means to play for Swindon and how a successful lower league football should look. Get him in now and give him a go before he goes to a different league club and we regret not getting him.

I thought we were shite

I expected that team to be shite.

I thought we would lose - We didn't

I have some sympathy for Flynn.

I thought there were positives, more grit than usual.  Needed Chas to last until the end of the game, he was organising well at set pieces.  At kick off, I would have settled for a draw, keeps them at bay and given the new manager bounce decent without Kemp or Young.  Unlike Colchester, nothing on the bench to change the game.

This

Definitely seemed a shift in mentality which unfortunately still bought the same outcome.

The switch in mentality from ‘it’ll sorts itself out’ to ‘we need to fight for this’ is exactly why Danny Wilson took us down. The manager/players never made that switch. Everyone thought because we’d been in the play offs the season before things would work out again.

I think we are at a point now where we need to be scrappy rather than playing total football.

Flynn clearly hasn't seen STFC play. Fuck me, he knows how to keep digging a hole even without spades and his hands tied behind his back. He's still staying in bed with the board {understandable but he can still constructively criticise} but most of us possibly prefer that than waking up to a horse's head in the bed.

Was again impressed with Hawes to press him on certain areas. Always tries to retain respect for the circumstances but my god Hawes definitely got swerved on it with Flynn saying he works hard - sorry Flynn, that isn't even a far answer to the question. Hawes can only keep on asking the right kind of questions to him; regardless of the political style swerving. Loads of spin added to transfer questions - unfortunately I'm not buying the rolled ankle excuse and maybe the eleventh hour is more teams/players/agents realising ''oh shit, that place is a mess/they're only offering what?/so they only want to loan them?/ well no chance you're/I'm not going there, tell them the deal is off''

I think this all gets worse before it gets better :/

We need to save the Caddis appointment until these scumbags are gone from the boardroom.

Prepared to accept Flynn until the Augean Stable is washed out on that basis. No point changing management.

Khan is unfit according to Flynn, so is Brewitt, so that might partly explain the outcome, but Khan seems to have a crap attitude.

Aguiar is going to take a while to see if he can adjust. I agree with Flynn there

Spotted Randford going in the main entrance as well sums this regime up

Spud Herring basically came out and said he believed what Flynn was saying about the difficulties he was having getting people through the door on time as he had experienced similar. He talked about retention and recruitment in football being notoriously difficult.

I also understand as I have had so many people let me down over the years having not followed through with something they’d promised (something that I find morally repugnant).

Just back.

Not sure what I’ve just witnessed in that second half. Most certainly the most abysmally appalling 45 minutes I’ve ever seen from a Town team in over 50 years. Dominated by a side who had lost 8 of their previous 9 games. We have nothing to offer. Young and Kemp would have made no difference today. No idea where we go from here - still freefalling.

Midfield non existent, Hutton dreadful, Austin showing why he must hang up his boots. Thought the 3 CBs did OK under the circumstances and Brewitt should have walked MOTM - not much competition admittedly.

Disagree with those who reckoned Colchester were useless - I thought they looked pretty good, far and away better than us - which, I suppose, isn’t saying much.

Are there 2 worse sides than us in L2? Hopefully, we may just have enough points in the bag to avoid the drop - but it’ll be mighty close.

Flynn’s certainly got the biggest excuse book going hasn’t he. One scored a goal, one injured and others clubs changed their mind. It’s just excuse after excuse, the same as the summer. One day he will take some responsibility for something.

hasn't he just got an executive session ticket in the 1879 suite, which you use the main entrance.

rumours that Austin and Hart started the "he's one of our own" chant are unconfirmed

that does grate, yes.

I mean he may have already had phone calls about the striker before, but my first thought was "why the fuck have you started ringing around for a striker on January 6th"

Franchise happy with the way we developed Kemp. FFS we are in the same league with bigger crowds and a bigger club!! Wake up!!!

Exactly, perhaps try and develop our own players  :headhurts:

It really isn't to describe people not 100%, is it?

It's a term to describe people who are overwhelmingly positive about anything and just defend the club no matter what.

Like now.

These people still exist now. How much worse does it have to get until they don't exist?

Soon to be sub 6000

Whilst it’s easy to blame Flynn with such few players I cannot see any coach being anymore successful:  Clemson first season we were incredibly lucky we had very few injuries, cup success, and a healthy league position with a small squad.  As a new club owner and a business man then you’re naturally going to think you can do that again and save a few quid and still be successful.  This was a huge mistake especially when you factor in we had a group of players who know more abound crutches than they do about football boots, Devine,Clayton and the list just grew and grew ukawake, ward etc. etc.  

They need to recognise the danger in front of us and get us the players to remain in the football league as if they carry on running the playing squad on a shoestring we are in grave danger.

In terms of ground redevelopment I think we would all rather have a better on the pitch product than a vanity big screen plasma.  Priorities priorities.  

So frustrating as this seasons been lost over 2-3 extra players in the group

Comedic defending and child-like football at times. Conceding over 65% possession to Colchester at home in League 2 is some achievement.

As for why the crowd is so passive, I think there are two groups… those that went through all of this with Diamandis and then Power, who are worn out by that experience, and the newer, younger fans that vent on Twitter instead.

I still can’t get my head around how we ended up with the same owners wearing new clothes with less football knowledge and a smaller wallet, especially after such thorough due diligence (!).

Flynn’s comment about MK being happy with how we can develop their players is appalling and shows how detached they are from the fans reasonable expectations that we should be a better club than the likes of them. He’s as good at interviews as he is at organising a defence.

We’re hanging on and hoping for a knight in shining armour. This regime does not allow the club to survive another 2 seasons.

*and anyone who can’t see that Brewitt is a terrible defender either doesn’t watch the match, or does from the Town End where it’s impossible to see how positionally awful he is.

Even caddis can't make a silk purse out of a sow' s ear .

Lets not ruin the Caddis card on this regime. Total waste.

Thick as thieves.

I am probably in the minority, but i don't want Caddis appointed.  Partly because it will inevitably ruin his reputation with the club, but also because if we are now shopping in the conference south for managers then we really are in a bigger hole than i thought - we should expect better than somebody that has 6 months of professional management on his CV in the CS.  If Herefords managers name wasn't Paul Caddis we wouldn't be interested.

We are literally obsessed with ex players as a fanbase.

I think the worse it gets, the more people want to remember the good times and hark after ex players.

Fairly sure no one in Brentford’s fanbase is checking up on Alan McCormack’s career, all misty eyed, at the moment for example.

Totally understandable given our state.

Yeah, I can’t imagine 16th place in the Premier League Brentford are worrying about Alan McCormack as a potential next manager.

No harm in looking at managers lower down the food chain with some success/a good track record under their belt.

Probably a bit too soon to be looking at Caddis. This time next year though…

You don't think Man City still see players that played for them in the second and third tier as legends for the club and are happy if they get a position there?

Club legends are club legends.

Yeah its too soon anyway. He's showing promise, but even without the club being a shambles it might be a little early. He'll make many more mistakes he won't make later in his career.

Man City as a club are actually really good with players from that era.

I just mean that the fanbase aren’t thinking about Shaun Goater as a manager if they lose a game.

If they were a shit show on the pitch and Shaun Goater was managing well in the championship I bet they would be.

A lot of West Ham fans have wanted Di Canio every time for a new manager despite him being a proven basket case that failed with Sunderland.

That’s exactly the point I’m making!

Agree. We're no more obsessed with ex players than anyone else.

Frank Lampard literally got the Chelsea job a few years ago in a similar position. OGS at Man Utd off even less. It's not what we'll run clubs do, but it's definitely a thing that happens.

…and Arteta at Arsenal…

Rare one that worked out better.

Hoddle at Spurs few years back was pretty middle of the road.

Happens all the time.

It might be a thing that happens but it rarely is successful

Kenny Dalgish

Bob Paisley

 Zidane  ?

FWIW I always felt Lampard was building something with Chelsea but they weren’t patient enough with him.

Whilst he’d gone before the final I don’t think they win the CL without him & they’ve been pretty useless ever since

Roberto Di Matteo another at Chelsea who son the champions league and still ended up sacked.

 ainsworth at wycombe is a shining example

By definition,yes. But now being used lazily as a response to any kind of positivity I feel

I couldn't agree more with this. He was playing injured by all accounts, which certainly has an impact. So fair play for being committed enough to do that. However, he is absolutely terrible. It's mad the number of people who have him as man of the match today. I think people value some sort of fake passion or effort over ability. Probably the same people who think Austin still offers this team anything.

That fact that 3 players started with injuries is a fucking disgrace in itself.

Pathetic.

Is it fake passion?

On the basis that almost all of our players have limited ability, then I will always value effort.

He’s playing injured. It was clear to see from his gait when he was running. He still fought tooth and nail against two very tricky big number 9s and put his body on the line with blocks.

Is he perfect? No. One major fuck up at the back led to that spell of pinball wizard in the box.

However, does he show that’s he playing for the club more than most in this squad? Absolutely.

Met Flynn today and I can genuinely say that he is trying to make the best of a bad situation.  Very humble bloke who didn’t have a bad word to say anyone.
Reading between the lines I think the bloke has been sold  a pap by the club not that he will ever say.

I genuinely believe he is doing his best to bring players in but I think he’s been very unlucky or a few targets have used us to get a better deal elsewhere.

Wouldn’t blame him if he chucked the towel in but he won’t he really wants to bring success to the club but today highlighted how thin our squad is when he’s forced to play injured players.

The new player not playing today was due to fook up on the paperwork so wasnt registered in time.  Not sure whose end it was though

Brewitt is a good reactive defender, a good last ditch defender.
He isn’t a good read the game, organise the back line, proactive defender.

The back 3 with wing backs is a shit system anyway plus we don’t have the leader type so that will only enhance Brewitts weaknesses (and let’s be honest all CBs at this level have them hence playing at this level)

…in the right formation with a Greer type next to him and he’d be decent.

He said it was at MK’s end, however it wouldn’t be the first or even second time we have ballsed up transfer paperwork in recent years.

Cheese and onion go together.

Steak and kidney go together

Morecambe and Wise go together

Dry January and watching STFC definitely do not go together

Plus Khan on autopilot in front of the back three who was passed through by their attack like a hot knife through butter every single time. He was bordering on a disgrace.

I actually thought Kinsella and Cain worked very hard, the latter being a marked improvement on McEachran.

Khan wasn’t even in autopilot. He hasn’t been playing since Christmas

He may be a great bloke but he’s not a very good football manager. Forgetting all the back room stuff you’d still expect to see some game management, tactics and basic organisation but there has been little of that all season.

It sounds like it was exactly the same at Walsall.

He’s been sold a pup yeah, but he’s also a bit shit as well.

He’s got a guaranteed payout when he gets sacked after the new owners come in!

I’m clinging on to that!

…. any manager would look a bit shit in the circumstances. Changing managers every 6 months isn’t the answer. Flynn has our back.

That's fair.

losers try their best, winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Did Flynn ever do that well at Newport? A few big cup wins which was probably more down to a terrible pitch and a 7th? Any other good league finishes or mid table standard?

Carla was the prom Queen

That was an awful game between 2 pour teams on bad runs and devoid of confidence - everyone spent the first half petrified of making a mistake.
 Having somehow got 2-0 up, to drop 2 points by conceding a goal on half time by switching off at a corner, then holding out until the last minute of stoppage time before a series of errors - Godwin Malife losing possession in midfield, celebrating conceding a corner to a side of big blokes, Ward flapping at the corner and it creeping inside the post is absolutely ridiculous.

I am getting fed up with his inability to organise a basic defensive set up, but it is unrealistic to call for Flynn to be sacked.
He has a 3 year contract - if the club / owner (whoever that really is) doesn’t have the money to finance a proper squad, having to pay him off / keep him on the payroll for an extended period while paying his successor will just make the problem worse as it will take up more of the budget leaving even less for players.

I understand people are fed up - I have a 180 mile round trip to take up my 9 free games, and afternoons like today make me wonder why I do it. But we also need clear thinking rather than splenetic knee jerk ranting (although the latter probably makes us feel better when we’ve done it).

Clear thinking? We're terrible, have been for months and something needs to be done to sort it, that's the owner and managers job.

At the beginning of the season, Flynn and Morfini were the dogs bollocks. Oh how things have changed.

I am sorry but you don't just become a shit owner and manager,.you are either not shit or shit.

Ok, I’ll bite.

If you think Morfuni was regarded as the ‘dogs bollocks’ at the start of the season by more than a couple of posters on here, then you need your head testing.

You can very easily regress as an owner, manager or even a player - there’s countless examples at STFC and beyond.

Fuck me, it’s like logging on to the Facebook group :doh:

I don’t think anyone ever said Flynn is the dog bollocks at the start of the season. What a strange comment.

Surely it’s a trolling attempt. It must be.

Either that or DV has hacked his account…

what chang said

we'd had our second worst season in history. nobody was happy but many bought his 'lessons learnt, competitive budget' shit (or Robs). I gave the benefit of doubt.

things have come out since that have shown him full of shit. things on the  are the same as last year too, maybe worse. Of course it's got nosier

Flynn at least looked a safe pair of hands rather than spectacular,  and had much more relevant experience than Morris.

most reservations were on playing style.

I don't think many of us saw it going all Walsall for him again. I didn't anyway.

Behave. I don’t troll.

Think Batch hit the nail on the head perfectly to sum up what the large majority of our fanbase thought/felt in the summer re: owner & manager

There were because we were doing so well.

Those fucking idiots singing 'we are going up...' after 3 games.

Morfini pulled a pint or two, drove around in the van and everyone loved him.

He was in Australia all summer, so he’d have done well to flog any season tickets driving around over there.

Final goal in my mind stemmed from Malife trying to gee up the crowd after being named man of the match because he seemingly completely switched off from the game. The next minute he’d completely lost his man and had to save the situation with the last minute corner that resulted in the goal. BUT the goal had been coming all half so a bit unfair to blame one player. Colchester had been fired up at half time. A draw is more than I expected from the game.

:D Stop it..

L2 Play Off Final in both 2019 and 2021

They played some good stuff in 2021 and were excellent in beating FGR in the PO Semis

Flynn seems to have to have had the life sucked out of him since the club were late paying the wages and he was given a contract extension (to keep quiet?) before the Aldershot game.

Christ 4D, how many beers do you buy in the gluepot ?.

Just watched the highlights.

Actually a brilliant finish by Brewitt.

I think UGM celebrating giving a corner away in front of the Town End in the final seconds after his and Hutton's mix-up disasterclass sums up our season perfectly.

I’d like to know what Flynn says at half time to turn a team from at least being competitive into the horrendous spectacle in the second half - combined with his now famous subs preceding a disaster.

And not for the first time.

Well, he said he'd walk Andrew Hawes into the changing room to show him his notes on the whiteboard.

It's not his fault don't you know? He's doing everything right.

He should keep on walking in my opinion.

I think the moment UGM fires up the TE there we all know exactly what is about to happen.

https://twitter.com/LookSportsMedia/status/1743790300546396649

Interesting stats here, we've conceded 13 equalisers this season.

Thought that at the time. Took a second or two to realise that it had gone in.

Great adjustment of the feet to get the effort away when off balance.

Gotta cover the tight arses. Two rounds will shed 40 notes.

Change your mates

 L :D :D :D

Change your drinking habits

……or mates !!.

Had to have mine and the son season tickets handed over and checked over by stewards yesterday before I was allowed near the turnstiles yesterday. Thanks Mr Hall  ::)    :suicide:

Me too. First time.

checking up on you freeloaders.

Easier to do now less going through the turnstiles!

Audrey the OAP trying to sneak in on..oh wait.. that doesn't work.

in fairness if there is an issue with people going in on lesser value tickets, which I doubt is massive,  it's better to enforce than remove the categories for next season.

seems to me what's missing is common sense

Had to have mine and the son season tickets handed over and checked over by stewards yesterday before I was allowed near the turnstiles yesterday. Thanks Mr Hall

DNA and I had that too at either the Stock pot or Barra home games too.

While I’m at it, it turns out I have been paying over the odds for his ticket thinking a student one ( as he’s at Uni) would be the correct one to buy. Not so, there’s an under 21 price which is cheaper. Even though when I have purchased them I told the club shop wallah his age, which is 19. So so much for freeloading bastards, more like thieving bastards..

I think the u21 will be gone or massively increased next year. it seems out of step with others in cost.

I want to rename clem to flem as i  have always some in my throat when talking about that cunt.

In discussions, Clem has admitted to me that mistakes made in his name by senior staff were wrong.  Too much leeway was given to people. Decisions made without contacting him. Therefore, he was always having to act in a reactive rather than proactive way.


He also believes that trying to run the club from Australia with months away from the coal face hasn’t worked. That is why he has decided to be here for January. He openly admitted that too long was spent in Australia.

There will be more to come out, but he is actively working with the Manager on player recruitment.

What part of that isn't complete drivel?

No Club needs the Chairman actively involved in recruitment.

Appoint competent staff.

Provide a competitive budget.

Don't be associated with convicted criminals.

Do not lie when you've sold 22% of the club.

Everyone says he's a bloody good guy, but he's either clueless or actively trying to run the club into the ground.

The one thing I have learned from talking to many, many people is that Clem Morfuni is absolutely spectacular at 1:1 conversations and telling them exactly what the want/need to hear.

He works the room very well.

Yeah the bloke is totally full of shit. Total narcissist. Unfortunately he is really good and telling people what they want to hear and keeping them on board.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Morfuni is full of shit...

Nobody in the football community trusts him....

Players talk and most don't want to come here...

Agents don't want their players coming here...

We are toxic and until he goes nothing will change

Not Michael Standings agency  :D

More bullshit from him then.

He has a different story for each person he talks to. If you want to be a good liar you have to have a good memory, he’s showed numerous times he doesn’t.

The bloke is a fraud, pure and simple.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/communication-success/201810/7-characteristics-of-the-modern-psychopath?amp

Sounds familiar…

if he had any loyalty to the fans flynn would be gone now .

wouldnt trust him to do my plumbing  let alone anything elase.

Havent read back.

That second half is up there with the worst i have ever seen at the CG. Lucky we were playing a shit Colchester Team which allowed us to get a point at the end of the match!

Any one of three Colchester players could of scored the opener!

The second was a catalogue of errors...needlessly lost in Midfield, kicked out for a corner needlessly....FFS we are poor.

It was coming though and just when you think you've got away with it......

Lets cobble enough points to stay in the fucking league (inc a possible points deduction).

Its awful at the moment...pitiful.

Only highlight was the second goal...how did he squeeze that in?