Swindon v Southend matchday thread.

[Mexicano Rojo]

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton

[deltaincline]

I still don't really see what Sturrock did wrong to get dropped, the lad's run his heart out in the last 3 matches, scored too, and looked to link up well with Cox.  

Corr comes back for 40 minutes, does nothing more than Blair's been doing, then Paynter comes on and in all fairness if I were BS tonight, I'd be pretty fucked off at not being in the first team.

Spot on post.

[DV]

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton

...and which song is that?

cant say it was heard on the radio!

[Bogus Dave]

Nothing was heard on the radio!

[Mexicano Rojo]

banana splits

[Berniman]

Anyway. MOM - McNamee. Smith and Minge also did OK too.

Smith was the worst player on the pitch today IMO, and I usually rate him!

If anyones interested :-

http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=203

You're all wrong :mooney:

No you are!

 :shhh

[Berniman]

Anyway. MOM - McNamee. Smith and Minge also did OK too.

Smith was the worst player on the pitch today IMO, and I usually rate him!

If anyones interested :-

http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=2036

I'd like you to back thay statement up.How many times did the guy smith was marking get past him.How often did Smith give the ball away/Answer to both questions is very few.Smith is the one defender who can pass a football and who tries to play the way out of defence.I cant agree with your assessment,sorry.McNamee is a class act and overall you cant blame the manager for missing three ABSOLUTE SITTERS.Southend,a top 6 side,did not create a single clear-cut chance.Yes I agree Malpas made a big mistake with his team selection and formation(Corr instead of Paynter ffs?) but he did at least change it at half-time and the fact is we should have won the game-I dont agree with all this "Southend deserved to win"stuff.How can you deserve victory when you dont create any clear cut chances-their goal was a complete fluke.The one thing that does annoy me is the feeling that if it was us who were 1-0 nil up and Southend had those three chances at the end we would have lost.Mac mom,Smith close,Easton half-decent,Aljofree and Ifil horrendous,McGovern-total waste of space.I wonder if Paynter will ever miss two better chances-the sort you cry out for at that stage of the game and Peacock's,unbelievable.

WTF was that all about, you wanna try breathing!  I'll try to work it out!

Loads and loads is the answer.

Pass to anyone wearing light blue!

And the response to the rest of your ramblings is, I didn't comment on Malpas at all!

Like I said, I am a fan of Smiths but he was piss poor today and looked the shadow of the Smith I saw before he got injured.  He looked off the pace, was ripped to pieces by the left winger and his distribution was poor!

Only saying what I saw and just because you were watching a different match is not my fault!   :face:

Where the rest of your rant came from fuck knows because I haven't even commented about the rest of crap that you were spouting off about.  I just posted Malpas's Managerial record in case anyone was interested!

If you don't like seeing it don't click on it!

JEEZ!

 :roll:

[Power to people]

It is about time we got rid of this narrow midfield, Easton is not a right sided player he is better suited in the middle.

Our tactics at the moment seem to rely on getting the ball to Mcnamee which is fine until teams mark him up with 2 players, like they did at times yesterday and he's not able to run with the ball and cross it, we look devoid of ideas then and just hoof it.

We need to go back to basics, 4-4 bloody 2 everyone knows there job and what is expected of them, and we have 2 solid banks of 4 but we will need to get a right sided midfielder as JP is shit (I think I've only seen him have 1 good game) but we only have until Thursday as the window then closes for the season.

I think 1 win should see us safe from relegation but we may have to wait a while for it, the team we have player for player there is no way we should be fighting relegation, we should be mid table at least.

MM needs to show that he has a clue on how to deal with this and quickly.

If Sturrock was at the game, I wonder what he would have made of it as most of them was the players he left behind and we were not playing this badly under him.

[Spencer_White]

I thought Southend dominated the game completely in the opening stages. Once they scored they sat back and tried to kill the game. I always thought that if we had got an equaliser they would have come back at us. Basically they were a much better team.

One plus was that we did try and get the ball down and pass it. But our plays werent good enough and we would have been better off just trying to work the flanks and cross it. Malpas completely changed the team at Half time, Easton back in the middle. Which to me says he didnt back his own judgement of the starting line up he put out.

Just thought the whole team were very frustrated. Completely disagree that the players arent good enough. McNamee has come on leaps and bounds and has proven me wrong, looks a class act, hands up. Gutted about Corr, is that the end?

Still think another season with this management set up is a complete waste of time. Very relieved Jills lost at Port Vale.

[broomfield]

Three words to describe STFC yesterday.

Gutless

Clueless

Pointless

Need i say any more!

[Luci]

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton

And it was very good.

You definitely wouldn't have heard much of anything on the radio as the stadium was completely non atmospheric.

I certainly don't want to be going there again!

[axs]

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton

And it was very good.

You definitely wouldn't have heard much of anything on the radio as the stadium was completely non atmospheric.

I certainly don't want to be going there again!

that should be "stadium", cos it's not really one is it. more like a bitty amphitheatre.

[reeves4england]

i and only i invented the macnamee song and it was sung at brighton

And at Orient! By about 3 of us...  

[pauld]

It is about time we got rid of this narrow midfield, Easton is not a right sided player he is better suited in the middle.

Although he has scored three goals in half a dozen games from that position, a better rate than our strikers. He can play on the right of a midfield three, and can play well there but he clearly doesn't want to.

Our tactics at the moment seem to rely on getting the ball to Mcnamee which is fine until teams mark him up with 2 players, like they did at times yesterday

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Too much pressure on McNamee if everyone else doesn't play their part fully

We need to go back to basics, 4-4 bloody 2 everyone knows there job and what is expected of them

From what Malpas is saying in the Adver this morning, we probably will be. But I don't think it's just (if at all) down to players not knowing their jobs - some of them are just too complacent by far.

If Sturrock was at the game, I wonder what he would have made of it as most of them was the players he left behind and we were not playing this badly under him.

He was at the game but personally I don't give a fuck what he thought - if he was that bothered, he could have stayed.

[adje]

Anyway. MOM - McNamee. Smith and Minge also did OK too.

Smith was the worst player on the pitch today IMO, and I usually rate him!

If anyones interested :-

http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=2036

I'd like you to back thay statement up.How many times did the guy smith was marking get past him.How often did Smith give the ball away/Answer to both questions is very few.Smith is the one defender who can pass a football and who tries to play the way out of defence.I cant agree with your assessment,sorry.McNamee is a class act and overall you cant blame the manager for missing three ABSOLUTE SITTERS.Southend,a top 6 side,did not create a single clear-cut chance.Yes I agree Malpas made a big mistake with his team selection and formation(Corr instead of Paynter ffs?) but he did at least change it at half-time and the fact is we should have won the game-I dont agree with all this "Southend deserved to win"stuff.How can you deserve victory when you dont create any clear cut chances-their goal was a complete fluke.The one thing that does annoy me is the feeling that if it was us who were 1-0 nil up and Southend had those three chances at the end we would have lost.Mac mom,Smith close,Easton half-decent,Aljofree and Ifil horrendous,McGovern-total waste of space.I wonder if Paynter will ever miss two better chances-the sort you cry out for at that stage of the game and Peacock's,unbelievable.

WTF was that all about, you wanna try breathing!  I'll try to work it out!

Loads and loads is the answer.

Pass to anyone wearing light blue!

And the response to the rest of your ramblings is, I didn't comment on Malpas at all!

Like I said, I am a fan of Smiths but he was piss poor today and looked the shadow of the Smith I saw before he got injured.  He looked off the pace, was ripped to pieces by the left winger and his distribution was poor!

Only saying what I saw and just because you were watching a different match is not my fault!   :face:

Where the rest of your rant came from fuck knows because I haven't even commented about the rest of crap that you were spouting off about.  I just posted Malpas's Managerial record in case anyone was interested!

If you don't like seeing it don't click on it!

JEEZ!




Fucking hell-it wasn't a personal attack on you.I only quoted you cos I thought you were off the mark about Smith-I didn't say your opinion was "crap".The rest was a general comment on the game and if you think it was crap that's up to you but I dont think I've ever insulted anyone just coz I dont agree with them