Swansea v Swindon Matchday thread

[Batch]

Sturrock says.....we were unlucky.

Jack Smith - suspected dislocated shoulder.

[Lumps]

Arse. If we're serious about finishing in the play-offs we should be winning games like this/

Yeah if you don't win away from home to one of the pre-season favourites for promotion you're just shit aren't you.

Fuck me at the start of the season I think I would have been happy enough with the results so far. Mid table will do me this year and anything else is a bonus.

Anyway with the revised table posted we're ninth and three points off second place.

The seasons as good as over!

[yeo]

we wont win every game will we.

im not arsed,I watched Murhpys Law instead.

[flammableBen]

I listened to most of the game and feel like I've wasted my evening. I'm sure it's because we lost either.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

we wont win every game will we.

im not arsed,I watched Murhpys Law instead.

  Murphy's Law is ace. Was it the episode that he gets his finger cut off  

[janaage]

I listened to most of the game and feel like I've wasted my evening. I'm sure it's because we lost either.

I know what you mean mate, listening to that this evening was a complete waste of 2 hours of my life, I also had the champions league on but didn't really watch it.

What a waste of such a beautiful Tuesday evening in Sunny Swindon, life is just too good, too enjoyable at this precise time of my life.

[Rich Pullen]

Arse. If we're serious about finishing in the play-offs we should be winning games like this/

What a cliche that is - surely the object of any positve target is to win as many games as possible?

Bring on Gillingham.

[pumbaa]

Cox you bellend!

No need for that  

[magic8ball]

Went to the game. Here's my lowdown:

First half was fairly even. Swansea had a few long shots, nothing to trouble Smith. We had a few half chances, nothing of note before they scored.

Their goal came from a Zaboub error. For some reason, he collected the ball on the left, just inside our half, and cut in and made his way across the pitch towards the right. He was robbed of the ball, they went down the left, crossed it in and scored. I could see a few players letting Sofi know that they weren't happy with him. I think he knew he was at fault.

After they scored, we had a spell of pressure. Two corners after eachother, I have no idea how we didn't score from either! Clearances of the line by the looks of it (we were right up the other end). Paynter also had a header saved well by their keeper.

Second half, we came out looking by far the better side, although created nothing clear cut. Paynter hit the post, and we had a couple of other half chances that came to nothing. Then Paynter flicked the ball with his head beautifully inside to Easton, who passed across to Roberts. He turned his defender inside out, then hammered a shot across the keeper. Almost took the net away with it.

They then broke away, got a cross in and Feeney scored at the far post. Not sure who should have been marking him, but this was one of their few breakaways of the second half. We were playig like the home team for sure until they scored their second.

Cox had one disallowed for offside (although I thought he used his hand Maradona style) and he also turned his defender and went through on goal only for the gay ref to give a strange handball decision.

Ratings

Smith: Made a dodgy punch in the first half. Couldn't really do much with either goal.

Smith: Didn't see too much really. Let the cross go in for their first goal I think, but didn't do much wrong.

Ifil: Man of the Match. Awesome. Had Jason Scotland in his pocket for the entire game. He appears to be growing in stature each time I see him play. He was commanding in the air, and made some superb tackles/interceptions.

Collins: Not sure about him. Good in the air, and not bad on the floor. Didn't create anything with his long throws.

Vincent: Was solid enough. Made some nice runs, but still tends to lump it downfield more than I'd like.

Zaboub: Not one of his better games. Gave the ball away on several occasions. At fault for their first. Made some decent runs, and put in some good corners, but I'd much rather see JPM playing.

Roberts: Quietish in the first half, woke up a little in the second. Seemed to relish the stick he got. Cracking goal, I'll remember than for sometime. Ironically, the one time he went on the outside, he scored. Cut in several times, and shot wide or had it blocked.

Easton: Our second best player on the pitch. Tireless running. Great tackles, and he can play too. I like him a lot.

Peacock: Didn't stand out. Won a few headers in the second half. Has a tendency to look for fouls too often when he's clearly not going to win them. Has silly hair.

Paynter: Linked up well with Cox, is a threat in the air and looked lively throughout. Had a header saved and also hit the post.

Cox: Worked very hard. Would love it if we could hang onto him, but I'd imagine Reading will want to keep him.

Commingues: Not a bad game. He does something great, then something a bit daft. Iron these out of him game, and we'll have a very useful player on our hands.


Overall, we deserved a point at least. I live in Swansea, and read each week how Swansea outplayed their opposition. Apparently, teams come to their place and defend. There were points where we looked like the home team. Was disappointed in them to be honest. They won't go up this season playing like that.


We looked good. Impressive away display. I really wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at a play-off play come the end of the season.

One last thing. The stewards/ref/linesmen were a disgrace. Two lads in the Town end were taken out. I have no idea why. Some people were going a bit nuts then. We clearly weren't a threat, I just don't think they liked it when we scored.

[Simon Pieman]

*Referee was fucking abysmal. If it's true that he was the one who swore at Wise I do actually hope the cunt gets what is coming to him.

*Vincent cannot defend, he cannot go forward and he cannot play any pass apart from the long ball straight forward. What a wanker.

*Zaaboub can cross. He can also consistently lose the ball by either passing straight to the opposition, dribbling it into the oppositions feet and then standing there expecting the opposition to probably do the same, or some variation of the above. Still needs to learn that it's a fucking team game because he really can look dangerous when in the opponents half. Just don't try and take on 10 men when you're in your own half you big bellend.

*Peacock was pointless. Should be dropped, even for Pook.

*Roberts had a real Jekyll and Hyde of a game. One minute he was diving on the floor, the next taking the defence on and scoring into the corner.

Now that the ranting is over I thought the positives were our two strikers. Worked their arses off and Cox was particularly deserved a goal I thought. Easton did the same in midfield and stood out for it. Unfortunately the central defensive pairing kept having to cover the exposed wing and sort of buggered things up for them a bit. Otherwise they did well. Smith in goal gave his typical decent display.

[Simon Pieman]

Wasn't Smith off the pitch for the first goal? If so, you can't blame him for the poor marking.

I think Vincent couldn't mark a brick wall with his own urine and didn't commit himself when people ran at him with the ball. By far the weakest link today.

[axs]

and for most of the season so far, i have not been impressed.

[STFC_Chris]

Wasn't Smith off the pitch for the first goal? If so, you can't blame him for the poor marking.

I think Vincent couldn't mark a brick wall with his own urine and didn't commit himself when people ran at him with the ball. By far the weakest link today.

Yep. If anybody is at fault for their 1st, I'd go for Peacock. He had moved to right back to cover Smith while Comminges was getting ready to come on, but got caught way out of position and left their winger to cross the ball in for the goal unchallenged.

Ref was dire, Stewards were even worse than last time we went there...although I didn't see any cameras confiscated this time.

[Run_the_bath]

we had 3 or 4 very close chances where a bit of luck and we would of scored...

it seems at times that when we score we go to pieces and concede a goal, then for that goal to give us a kick up the arse and so on....

brilliant atmosphere in my opionion, 6700 crowd in a 20'000 seater stadium and was still very noisy, probably down to the acoustics but very noisy!

Stewarding for the away fans was piss poor, wasn't aloud to stand up basically! yet all the home fans could do as they like. surely if your going to enforce a sit down at all times policy then its got to be for the whole ground not just the away fans!

About 8 town fans were thrown out for basicaly refusing to sit down. Absolute disgrace, there was a huge gap between the fans so no chance of violence whatsover...

[axs]

i thought there were 10,135 there?