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Swindon 0-3 Harrogate att: 5,766 (86 away)

2-1 To town. A new era begins. Then ends again at Cheltenham

I'd love it to be sub 6k. Start to send a bloody message.

Harrogate will help out. Will that break 2 figures?

Suspect it'll be 6.5k

1 : 1, deflected equaliser for Swindon in the 94th minute.  Attendance, 6,001.

Harrogate have brought a total of 193 fans thats an average of 64, last year they brought 41. The lowest away following in many years of any team, possibly the lowest Saturday league following (excluding Covid) ever.

Count the away crowd won't kill much time then

We had 5,991 home fans against Newport. A fixture that you think would attract more fans. England/Wales, our 2nd closest game etc. I think my guess the gate is being quite generous at 5,776

I'd absolutely love it if we drop into the 5k zone. It would be a huge middle finger up to the club.

First game of the season, going with a few Tefers for an old school meet. I predict we will be back in the pub before half time.

Clique

I predict you dont make it out of the pub John

0-1 official attendance of 5,971 actual attendance will look closer to 5,450

Merlin?

Need more than Merlin to magic a win out of this lot.

Starting at the Sir Dans for breakfast :D

+1

Due to work, its the first time I can go this season.

I dont know if I want to.

 

Christ you're going and an old school tef get together. Maybe I should fly over

Least you'd get a good parking spot now...

Enjoyed the quote in the presser where Kennedy said it’s too early to judge teams by stats

😮😮🤣🤣🤣🤣

 :D

COme on Mex, Easyjet to Swindon international Airport.  You know you want to.

They'll probably give you front row.  Extra legroom.

Oh.

I'm there. Fly Mex

Swindon 2-1 Harrogate. Optimistic I know. :headhurts:

Attendance: 5999 (88 away)

If we lose this game then there's no doubt in my mind Kennedy should be sacked. :bye:

Unfortunately 3 year wait for a disabled badge in spain

Whaaaat? That's madness.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: even though that's all he talks about, oh and how incredible his Lincoln side were

Swindon 2-1 Harrogate att: 5,866 (71 away)

2-0 Town(Cotterill,Drinan) 6,704

1-2 Harrogate

STFC take the lead in first half

Then concede 2 late 2nd half goals.

Att 5100(51) Harrogate

I’m slightly dreading this tomorrow. I’ve tried to be blindly optimistic going to games recently, only to be consistently let down. I fear a defeat in what feels like a pre season match, with no away following and a sparse, non-league worthy home following. I want us to be a proper club again.

Our home gates against Harrogate...

Feb 2023  8,687
Mar 2024  7,683

Judging by the ticket site it looks like a 5.5k crowd.

That's some decline!

I'm going tomorrow - borrowing a ST.

We haven't had a sub 6k league game since 23rd March 2019 against Morecambe from what I can see.

Yes Morecambe in 2019 was our last sub 6k total attendance.

That same season we had 3 sub 6k attendances (Morecambe Cambridge and Stevenage) and also 5 sub 6k home attendances (Crewe, Col U, FGR, Mansfield and Oldham).

Last season we had 6,05 for a Tuesday game vs Accrignton which was 6,085 in total of which 6,011 were Town fans.

Lets see if we can break that target.

In fairness if they are to be believed (which I know is a bit of a stretch) there were something like 1500 ST’s given away (or at a very reduced rate), which would mean that 7,600 would be closer to 6,100.

I’m guessing we might struggle to hit that number, unless people come to look at the new shop front 😂

Where can we get them?

Its going to click today 6-2 att 5988

 bad feeling about this . Unless harrowgut help out with putting the ball in their net I fear we will struggle to score.  Probably going to be a 1-0 defeat

1-2 defeat, Wright scoring.

6,181 crowd (33 Harro's).

I’m only going to watch as is too flipping hot in Crete!

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 One change from Tuesday night
⚡️ Joel McGregor starts on the right
👋 Rosaire Longelo back in the squad

Change of plans and I'm home instead of out. Guess I'll stick it on in hope of at least another point towards safety.

Would like to see Ofoborh start but can see the argument for starting our most creative midfield at home against Harrogate.

I agree, I thought the last 2 games Cotterill has been useless so would like to see Offy give the defence a bit more protection. For me Cotterill has only had 1 good game so far which was vs Newport.

In that game he must have remembered what the Wales coaches told him. Lasted 1 game upon return and then back to the way he was beforehand. Slow of thought, slow of movement and letting the game pass him by.

I think confidence played a large part in that, he came back from the Wales game full of enthusiasm and confidence. 1 game later and he just looks lost and not even trying to get into the games again.

Theres no doubt he has talent but he cant do it consistantly and if anything he looks consistantly poor, 1 good game, 2 or 3 average games and 6 poor games is not good enough.

Harrogate must be the only club in L2 and maybe in L1 as well to not have any loan players in their squad.

41 Harrogate fans there currently. Solid turn out by them.

Don't care if he is left footed, I don't think Freck should be starting

He has been very sloppy in the last few games TBH.

I'd rather have a right footer tbh. No good being a leftie if it's crap

Our passing is very heavy so far. Not much going on, no chances really so far.

Harrogate sitting off us a lot, not pressing us.

1st corner to Town.

Is it Cox or McGregor that Bodin keeps calling King?

Good pressure by Town after the corner but we cant get a shot on target at all. Butterworth has an awful slice in a great position.

I hadnt noticed, will have to look and see now!

Drinans close control is awful so far today.

Gate put in a cross and win a corner off Mcgregor.

Cox, apparently.

Freckles down injured after a clash of heads.
(Adje says get Minturn on).

Gunning looking unimpressed in the background, perhaps he is wondering when he has to go to Clementes' house again

Awful long ball from Barden, straight into touch.

2 bang average L2 teams on this showing so far.

No quality from either side.

Good save by Barden but Sobo was fouled in the lead up to it.

Freckles loses the ball under little pressure but gets away with it after the striker strays offside.

Cox (King) crosses from deep to Drinan but his chest was way to heavy a touch.

This is fucking shite, and we’ve counted 63 Harrogate fans

Playing Hartlepool now, already in the National League?

So there is no movement between Tshimanga/Drinan.
Cotterill and Butterworth don't come short or move to create openings.

This leads to the CBs passing it around between themselves, then out wide to Cox who has no options forward leading him to go backwards to the CBs. Invariably back to Barden who hoofs it forward.

Exceedingly dull so far.

Also I counted 62 Harrogate.

For your Harrogate counting pleasure(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241005/9b272633c587750767405cd4d7df901f.jpg)

Just a lot of aimless high balls to the shorter of our 2 strikers, the crowd must feel like they are at Wimbledon...  new balls

Duke McKenna sounds like a legendary jazz man.

This game is even a bad advert for Conference league football.

And now King keeps putting in crosses against Hartlepool

This.

To be fair I thought some of our earlier crosses were ok.

Nowhere near bothering their keeper, obvs

Good shot by Cotterill from the edge of the box and a very good save by the keeper.

We're quite good at long shots, which is fun if not a particularly reliable way of getting goals. Feels like we'll not score much all season but have an absolutely blinding goal of the season package.

Tshimanga down injured now.

Hammy

Glatzel on for the injured Tshimanga.

Looking good for Botan Ameen's chances of a debut on Tuesday.

Hopefully nothing too severe for Tshimanga and a chance for Glatzel to get going.

Wright long throw onto Freckletons head and its on target but an easy save.

That didnt look like a foul by Sobo.

Good powerful volleyed effort by McGregor but its blocked in the 6 yard box.

2 of our 3 CB's advanced on the left wing

Cross by Gate headed wide.

The game has taken 35 mins to come alive.

Great run by Cotteril beats 3 men and wins a corner.

Harrogate look very suspect defensively at corners.

Sobo gets away with that.

Its frustrating when we are overloading the fullback and pressing them down the wing and then 3 backward passes later the balls back with Barden.

7 mins added time.

Some good defending by Sobo there.

Some great close play by Wright in their box, twisting and turning, his cross wins a corner.

Wright header cleared off the goaline from the corner with the keeper beaten.

Another corner to Town.

Ironically Wright has been our most creative player this half

Way too deep a corner and there was a foul anyway.

I would risk him up front late in the game if we need some height.

HT 0-0

The game didn't come alive for the first 35 mins, Sobo, Wright and McGregor the pick of our players for me.

Our most dangerous goal scoring threat and creative threat this season has been our CB. Outstanding.

A bit like Carlisle, we've created a couple of chances. Largely dominated. Not scored.

It's not great. But it's been worse. They are there for the taking and get 1 we'll get 3.

There have been a few bits of good play that have created chances but 90% has been as I described earlier.
Harrogate are absolutely there for the taking.

Wright MoM so far.

I wonder what odds you could get on Wright linking up with Lindsey at MK in January for a below average fee

Harrogate are utter gash. Has to be three points here, don’t think we will face too many more teams as poor as these. If we can’t find a winner vs these lot then God help us

Kennedy team talk:
McGregor: You were tricky and ran at players last game. So, what I want you to do is stand on the touchline and we won’t give you the ball. Then, your job is to defend (which, actually, he did rather well)

Cox: When you first came on you were direct and threatening. What I want you to do in future is receive the ball and then play it back to the defender. Then stand there and hope something happens. Half way through the half, pass back and then run forward. Oh, then, can you take the corners and free kicks please.

Butterworth and Kilkenny: Don’t bother doing anything. Just stand around and see what happens.

Drinan: You got it mate. Just run where the ball isn’t.

Cotterill: You know how Scholes used to play? Don’t worry about that, start attacking a few mins after the rest of the team and the ball might come to you and you can thunderfuck it!

Wright: You are my one man team. Get the ball from the keeper and walk it up the other end. Then do your crap long throw. We won’t have anyone who can win it, so look for that second ball and do something fancy. When we have corners then try and win the ball.

Freckles: When you get the ball, either pass it to Wright or pass it to someone else where they least want it. That will give them opportunity to practice on their weak sides.

Barden: See that bloke in the Shrivvy? Try and hit him!

Sobowale: Cover will you. Get the ball coming out and just give it to Wright. When you can, go in for a weak challenge anywhere on the pitch and give away a free kick.

Att: 6,333 (71 Gates)

Good low cross by Cox but its behind Drinan.

McGregor shoots from 20 yards high and wide.

So MacGregor is making his home debut is he Zippy? ignoring him doing that last season!

Dire as usual

2 very poor passes by Wright so far this half.

No movement at all up front for us in possession.

10 shots, 2 on target..

Macgregor has taken a  knock.

Great chance for Harrogate, well wide in the end from 8 yards though.

We are just lofting balls into the AMC/ST area and hoping for the best

Thats our tactic of the season so far.

Bad choice by Butterworth not freeing McGregor and the ball comes out wide to Cox who beat his man and his cross was behind Glatzel.

Sobo puts in a good block after a Freckles mistake, corner to them.

Good high claim from the corner by Barden.

It’s about time we brought on “Own Goals” our joint leading scorer

Early days, but i already feel more relaxed with Barden in goal, and he actually came and collected a ball which is a novel idea

Awful choice by Drinan when he had the chance to get a shot off.

Ofoborh, Minturn and McGurk on for Butterworth, Kilkenny and McGregor.

Is he actually playing Ofoborh in his correct position? Blimey

It feels a bit like a final group game in an international tournament where a draw is fine for both sides, and whilst they haven't actually fixed the game, neither is that arsed about pushing it.

Minturn with his normal mistake at the back, we get away with it as the cross was terrible.

Kilkenny looked leagues above anyone else in his first 2 games a month with Kennedys coaching and he's now as bad as the rest of them.

Long list of players in the last few years who've started well and we've dragged down to our level.

Minturn messes up his header but gets away with it and clears.

If we fail to win, Kennedy has to go, right?  

We have created very little so far this half, its pretty slow and plodding.

McGurk, Glatzel, Ofoborh etc

Players doing their best but tactics are shit. Harrogate will score soon

Hawes just got it spot on...."the crowd are too bored to get angry" about this performance.

Only switched on 10 minutes ago, this is desperate.

To be fair, if he sees Freckleton getting 90 minutes every week his confidence must be shot. A decent player in my opinion who's been extremely badly managed by both previous bosses

Good pass to Glatzel in the box from Freckles but his shot is deflected wide for a corner.

The players are better than the results. I’m not one to call for the managers head but the fault lies with him and his non existent tactics. I just wanna see us get rid of the awful formation. Five at the back restricts any attacking ability

"You don't know what you're doing"

Sobo off for Longelo.

Sobo probably my MotM today, Wright was good first half but has been poor so far this half.

Audible boos for that sub

The stomach turning thing is, if he goes, we will get Gunning again.

This is how I feel

I’d take Gunning over Kennedy. Shocking I know, Kennedy is really THAT bad.  

Obviously, in an ideal world, where we have competent owners, I’d take neither

I think with good managing he could well be a decent player at this level, hes still young, but he does always make a couple of mistakes each game which could be improved upon if he was given a good run of games at a league lower IMO.

We just seem to have no tactical nous and no discernible style of play at all, very similar to when Gunning was in charge last season.

Its pretty dire.

His team talk must be "just go out there and do what the hell you want".

"We're fucking shit" - very accurate from the TE.

An embarrassing defeat at Cheltenham will be his end

Longelo booked.

This might be the worst game of football I've ever seen. Not even hyperbole.

The worst game of football you've ever seen so far.

Yep,that's fair. You couldn't say the same about Freckleton tho. Truly terrible

Shit game between 2 shit teams.

Excrutiatingly boring tactics..

Freckleton has again played a few terrible passes today again.

Corrected.

I think there's a player in Freckleton, but I think we're doing him more harm than good at the moment and he's becoming a focal point for anger at wider problems because the manager treats him clearly differently to the rest of the team.

Good cross by Longelo and Cox heads it well wide from 6 yards.

"I thought we were excellent" guarantee it..

3 mins added.

Glatzel is a mere shadow of the player he has last season.

TBH we deserve all the boos we are getting today, its been terrible.

Flynn turning out to be just as shit at Cheltenham. That will be a very interesting game if both are still in a job

WWE style 'Loser Gets Fired' match. Maybe make it a ladder match to make it more fun.

FT 0-0

That was one of the worst games I have witnessed at the County Ground.

Sobo MotM for me.

Doomed

Toothless dogshit

Boos pretty loud and clear through the radio

About time the fans turned on them, as much as it pains to see it

Decided that I’d skip today iif drinnan started.  Thank fuxk I didn’t bother.  Utter tripe.  Kennedy has no clue whatsoever.  He has to go else we sleep walk to relegation.

Maybe but it's fucking well hidden! He must surely be on a "must play" loan. If that's the case,send him back

 Again, will be interesting to read how some here spin that

Well I said pre season I would give Kennedy 10 league games.

We have passed that marker with just 1 win and 5 draws.

Its not good enough, I am not calling for him to be sacked yet as I think that may not achieve anything, but I do want us to change our tactics as they just are not working at all, we are creating almost nothing in 9 out of the 10 games we have played (Newport excepted) and its frustrating and annoying.

So much aimless passing and no attacking impetus or actual tactic when we attack, nobody runs and makes space, there are virtually no through balls and very few crosses.

I know I am a broken record but lets get back to basics with 4 at the back please.

There is no way anything positive can be spun out of that performance.

The squad isn't as bad as the performances suggest.

It's Kennedy and his coaching team that are the problem..

Can't see anyway out of the hole we are in.

You have to be really, really bad to even get 30% of the CG to turn. Very audible boos at FT, Kennedy is completely out of his depth. Sad thing is, unsure if anyone else gets much more out of this squad

That was truly awful.

Unbelievably took of Sobowale, who was the best player on the pitch in the 3 positions he was asked to play!

Could have played all week and not scored.

Poor midfield who create nothing week in, week out. Strikers who run around but don’t actually contribute anything.

Thankfully not able to listen to Kennedy tonight.

It's really bad.

Same for Cotterill. Neither have been dropped or substituted when shite.

I agree,Kennedy is the problem, he should be dismissed. As for positives,your prediction of defeat and a sub 6000 crowd didn't happen!

Not sure it’s that good!

Wouldn't call that a positive.....

If you believe a draw against a very poor Harrogate side is a positive you really are clutching at straws!!

Just nothing. No vision. No creativity. No excitement.


Maybe this was Clem's grand idea. Get Kennedy in to bore us into submission.

Sobowale's substitution, yes, was unbelievable - thankfully Ofoborh came on to play in his natural position.  Otherwise, Butterworth was summed up by not making the simple pass to McGregor in acres of space. Cotterill had too few good moments.  Yep, nothing much created from midfield.

 I like what Bodin has to say . it's all about the 'double ds' and cockles has been a great addition .

We are clearly at real risk of going down, anyone thinking any differently is kidding themselves. We are absolutely abject!

Not saying I do, but maybe you should!🙂

Kennedy repeatedly made a point of mentioning the importance of facing the fans, win or loss.

Did he just head straight down the tunnel today?

We are rubbish, but we've also played about four or five also rubbish teams and haven't seen Morecambe or Accrington yet. Some mightily shit sides are going to stay up this year.

Time to go mr kennedy cant take much more of this dire football.

He did.

Of course it's a risk but on today's evidence Harrogate are at more of a risk

And round we go again...

I've seen this film before.  So depressing.

That was poor. Piss poor.

Anyway, someone posted a picture of their hospitality meal on X. Christ.

Freckleton and Cotterill have to play or we have to pick up there wages,which we don’t have the budget for.

That’s probably the worst performance I’ve seen at the CG in 40 years.

In the name of god Clem please fuck off- you’re taking us into non- league

His majesty's hospitality, I assume?

Best bit of the match was between Minturn snacking a free kick into #9s perm, and the goal music playing as we took a free kick.

Oh dear oh dear.

And yet there's still a sizeable number of people applauding it at the end

Do they mean hospital?

Dog shit?

Clem is copy and pasting his programme notes as we speak.

Re: hospitality. Last year the food in the main lounge was excellent. Wtf.

A man who hopefully knows he's about to lose his job. Fingers crossed!

Probably in a few hours

I struggling to see if that is the food before or after

 I don't agree with what the trust geezer said on the radio .

Ha! I had to have one a couple of months back as i was having some cancer investigations (it wasnt in the end, thank fuck) and as the bloke was spraying through my bowels he managed to spray my shit all over the ceiling in the room. Looked just like that :D

What did said geezer say?

This was the Robins suite for rather than 1879 suite. But even so

Lots of stuff. Mainly about trying to meekly influence things in a very small way from within rather than making noise and waves from the outside .

That is proper school dinner standard. Embarrassing.

The statement doesn't match that narrative

As I said, fucking send em back. Especially Freckleton. Cotterill maybe keep

Has he been on the radio yet?

The trust can't/won't hold any feet to the flames but they don't see that as their role is seems. As mentioned above, all we can expect is meek commentary

don’t why everyone goes on about Cotterill he’s a good player in a shit team he was the only threat for us today he had a few good moments more than you can say for any other Swindon player

Yep, he was the "most likely" today

 :D :girlgiggle:

If the manager wants to keep his job he surely must realise he needs to change the way the team sets up.

Assuming Kielly will allow Morfuni to sack his mate.

straight down the tunnel, no post match interview. 10 games in and he’s completely gone, so far out of his depth

Three Central midfield guys doesn't work and easy to combat. Other teams must be rubbing their hands looking at the team sheet & formation.

Were trying to set up playing like Man City with the skill of Dads Army  :crash:

Also signing no wingers this summer is a total clusterfuck.  :suicide:

Article in Adver

Said we did enough to win!!

Deluded

The pitch was too dry.

The dog ate our attacking plans.

The crisp packet hugged the line at the DR end really well.
Decent wing play.

The was absolute garbage.

The shine from the Adidas stickers on the club shop blinded our midfielders and stopped their creativity

No pace, no energy, no leaders, lack of quality and conviction, Kennedy is clearly one of the good guys, and I like him, but he can't be far away from the exit.

The team looked strong on paper, a full bench so my thinking was we appear quite well balanced so off we go and put this game to bed. What did we get? a complete and utter failure to do simple things early at pace and with any semblance of structure or thought.

It is obvious that the coaching/tactics that Kennedy has imposed on the team is detrimental to many of the players and has alienated many of the fans so early in the season.

Not certain what the answer is but certainly not happy in any way witnessing what I am currently seeing.

A midfield 3 with no desire to get on the ball and drive at the oppo, LWB that spent most of the game cutting back and passing it back to Freckleton, the least threatening front 2 I can recall.. No swap of formation or anything to try and combat how they had set up.

I feel sorry for Freckleton, clearly this seasons scapegoat.. sees far too much of the ball for a CB, has a midfield in front of him that don’t want the ball, that constantly turn back and give him the ball and don’t want it back. He then gets pressurised into trying to pick a pass that isn’t on or pumping it, which looks to effect his confidence once it goes wrong.

Yes the midfield was shit. Didn’t even notice Kilkenny was on the pitch until he was subbed. What’s happened to him?

Is he? I wouldn't trust the nan of anyone connected to this lot.

Where do you start with that?

Apparently Kennedy has said that he’s happy with the fact we’ve drawn half of our matches.

I’m a season ticket holder now actively on the lookout for other things to do on a Saturday. It’s just miserable. Miserable football, and a set of people running the club who I will never be able to get behind. They should be ashamed of themselves. Complete disillusionment.

Kennedy is on a different planet.

That would be a fair comment if we'd won the other half!

BBC Wiltshire interview at the bottom of the page.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cn5zqp4123xt

I thought the pitch comment was a joke, but he actually said it. He could have got then to water it right?! What a pathetic excuse or are saving water now?!

Me too. Fucking hell. It's our pitch. You've warmed up on it. Fucks sake

🤡🤡🤡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64n1N9XAxk

He's caught Swindon Town

I will say one thing in Kennedy's favour - he keeps fronting up and doing these interviews rather than sending Bignot. Sheridan always used to send out Wright when we lost.

On the other hand, Kennedy probably shouldn't be doing them as he just digs a bigger hole every time.

We’d never hear from the cunt otherwise

The two interviews could have been from different games!

He needs to understand that the lack of quality in the team means that we need to create a hatful of chances to score one. Also, we are likely to give away a fair number of goals, so we need to score at least 2 per game.

So, we don’t want to hear him being pleased at creating less than half a dozen half chances. We don’t want him to be unconcerned about us not scoring. We want him to coach a team to pound teams at home and be a bit tighter away from home.


I don’t think he is capable of turning this around. I fear we are going to see the return of Mad Gav soon.

That was poor today, it was shite early on but Kennedy didn't try anything to make it better, again!.  He's fixated on a particular formation and individuals but and doesnt do anything to change momentum when it's clearly not working. Made it so easy for Harrogate.

I'd be amazed and disappointed if Kennedy is still the manager in the Doncaster game.  Although he thinks he should be managing in the prem there's very little, outside if his own ego, that suggests he should be managing at all.

He’s been in the game a long time! He gets it!

I'm amazed we got over 6k today, who'd want to watch that?

So, first game of the season and Im not going to break my neck to get to a second game.

Really wasn't good.  2 Shots off the line.  Ive no idea how one didn't go in at the town end.  Harrogate didn't have a chance in the game.  The one save our bloke had to make the ref blew up for a free kick anyway.

For me the positives - Cox seems like a good player as does Wright.  Though Wright can still bung in a few shit passes.

Negative - No shape, no idea.  I have no idea why, when Mcgregor was apparently POTM on Tuesday we refused to pass to him.  Just bizarre.  Sobowale just turned inside again and again.  Let the kid run at them ffs.

All in all it seemed like 2 piss poor sides.  I hope there are piss poorer teams in this league.

I’m 27 and I’ve never seen a Swindon manager so bad. So many red flags, persistence with a system that is clearly not working, not changing tactics to try and outsmart the opposition, the contradictions every week and such a lack of respect for the clubs history. Everything this guy says pisses me off, I’d honestly prefer Sheridan. I don’t think many managers could do well here but we need him gone now 

It’s almost like it’s all part of a master plan to make Gunning an acceptable appointment.

Thing is Gunning is a Clem man and Kennedy is kielys .

I think we’d have a better chance with Gunning tbf

I think it would be the same results but with more ‘entertainment’. Wouldn’t actually improve anything just rearrange the deck chairs.

I feel a little the other way about him from today. He regularly mentions about fronting up to the fans win or lose at the end of matches and is routinely doing the lap applauding etc. Which in isolation, I did respect and have some time for.

However, today heading straight down the tunnel (it appears, apologies if I’m wrong or if it was for another reason) and avoiding it when things are rough doesn’t line up with what he said. Granted the atmosphere today was as toxic as it has been this season + the “you don’t know what you’re doing” chants but it doesn’t line up to mention those things (plus mention post match it being tough for the younger players) and then leave your squad and assistant to face the music post match.

I think he was protecting the players - I think he has enough self awareness to realise he’s the target for criticism. I respect him for fronting up in interviews and staying positive. Rather that than sheridans everything is shit approach. I hope it comes good but he’s going to have to change his style or something.

One thing he does have in common with Sheridan is parents passing away. I don’t think the impact of that can be underestimated. Particularly because it effect MK ‘s pre season not ideal. But time for excuses will run out if he doesn’t change something.

I hate 3 at the back. I've had enough of it to be honest.

Yes it can work. I'm sure there's a couple of teams using it in our league towards the top of the table.

But it's fucking wank. Your only genuine width and outlet comes from wingbacks. Players who usually started their careers further forward and had to drop back because they weren't good enough at the 'going forward' part. Yet we are almost solely reliant on them for all our creativity. Why build a team like this?

We spent the entirety of last season getting hammered, and then decided to go again with the same formation. We did ok going forward because we had the best player in the division in Kemp and the best attacking Wing back in Hutton. Meant we could win games. Then they both left and we saw a glimpse of what this season would be like.

Red flags for me as early as pre-season where it was obvious Kennedy didn't have a clue what to do with Glatzel. He still doesn't. We are not a good enough football team to be dropping Glatzel. We are 20th in league 2. If you can't get the best out of him Kennedy or figure out a system to get him going then that is on YOU.

I don't want to target Drinan, I think he's completely fine as a 4th choice striker at this level but when he is starting ahead of Glatzel then I do begin to take issue with it.

Happened to Di Canio x2 didn’t it?

I know he was a different breed but he’s sheer commitment & dedicated despite suffering personal tragedy galvanised everyone - that & winning football matches obviously

To be fair Drinan is (in theory) the backup to Smith, so Tshimanga is playing instead of Glatzel, which is equally baffling

Was sunning my behind in Gran Canaria yesterday....getting loads of messages to tell me that i was missing nothing and it was shit.

Just run my eye over the Highlights...

So we have the Gas in a meaningless cup nobody cares about, Numb away, which is a graveyard for us (even got dicked in the PDC season) and then high flying Donny.

The Club is rotten to the core and not everything can be placed at Kennedys door but fuck me....he has to be gone if we get a pasting at Numb. The result v Gas should have no bearing at all.

You need to remove the text at the bottom of your posts Flash  ;)

Fronting up?

He legged it down the tunnel on the final whistle,  and then waited until gone 6 to do the interview so it wasn't live.

Even then he still managed to cock it up by blaming a dry pitch, when it's our fucking pitch for which we control the sprinkler tap

Maybe the water's been cut off?  :)

Had to save it to boil the water for the peas in the hospitality meal

It’s impossible to rate Tshimanga (or any of them really) based on the horrendous system they’re being told to play. We rate Glatzel higher only because we’ve seen what he’s capable of in flashes last season (even though Gunning was also terrible). But Glatzel has been no better than Tshimanga. Both want service to feet or balls to run onto. We simply do not provide, or even try to provide them with that.

Just saw the attendance for Saturday's game, no way was that gate anywhere near 6K, counting ST holders who have turned up or not, complete BS from the cub, as per usual.

You can beat them for plenty of things, but counting Season tickets is common place for sporting teams.

I've always wondered why. If I buy a matchday ticket before then no-show, do I also still get counted?  Is attendance then "tickets sold" (at all clubs)?

Let’s say someone bought 1,000 tickets at £24 with dodgy money, and then received that money back in fees for services rendered, sweeping the DRS after everyone has left for example, then you would have clean money.
I’m not suggesting this is happening (at least there’s no proof that it is) but would make sense if attendances were inflated ;)

To be fair every club does it, even prem clubs, it’s not just us.

I won’t be buying a ticket anytime soon. I’ve been watching on Sky or listening on the radio. I’ve had enough of Kennedy already. One of the worst managers I’ve experienced in my lifetime of watching Swindon.

A lot more diplomatically, eloquently, articulately and crucially legally safe than I would have put it  :D

 :hmmm: I did wonder why we have so many 'blue' security staff standing around doing nothing on match days !!  :doh:

Yes, all clubs announce the attendance as being tickets sold not the "actual in attendance" figure.

Does that include freebies?

Yes it does, or always did. A seat sold (given away) is a seat counted on the attendance figure regardless of the price of the seat be it free, £1 or £24.

Quite often see large square chunks on the TE side of the Arkells unavailable. I wonder if they are freebie seats?

Probably more likely that they dont put those seats for sale until the others are sold out to save on stewarding costs etc.