Official Swindon Town Vs Colchester United Matchday Thread

[OneAndrewFitton]

sort it out malpas, this is going to be another crap result.

[adje]

oh dear

[Peter Venkman]

Very dissapointing

[adje]

The defensive rot set in at the QPR game and now we're running out of answers-apparently no improvement with Ifil and Kanyuka back,that's worrying

[yeo]

what was the score?

[yeo]

ah I saw.

I wonder why the word "decisions" is red in the OS match report

[pumbaa]

I had more fun putting a futon together........from 3rd to 19th in a week............

[Scot Munroe]

the defense was poor for the 2nd and the 3rd goal. shit 1st half. 2nd half got better. Marshall looks quick but he is very raw. Disallowing a goal because the keeper takes out his own player. mind blowing.

[Leggett]

fuck me, where do i start?

1st half, just write it off, we were dogshit. freekick against paynter for daring to challenge the keeper for a ball, what the fuck was wrong with that?

2nd half, when we actually tried to play football and get it down the wings we got some pressure on them. i cant understand why the goal was disallowed, their keeper gets munted by their player, then another of their players hits it against a town player, it goes in. fucking ridiculous.

i cant think of one player that played well really. tho if i see mcgovern start again any time soon i will be fucking livid, he's a prize cunt, exactly what this club does not need. makes up excuses before the match in the media, then shock horror, plays a fucking stinker. and aljofree, i dont want him in the defence. complete non-entity as a captain, does nothing but whinge and shout at players when its mostly his fault.

so pissed off right now. sigh.

[Luci]

What I have found from today:

I actually like Malpas, 1st half was diabolical and didn't wait until 10 mins from the end to change it.  Most of us would have picked the same squad for today so can't really blame him for the players not turning up.
Marshall - looks a good prospect and you can tell he wants to be here, can see him and Macca causing problems.  Should start next week ahead of JP
JP - Slate me by all means but I still do not think this guy is good enough
Paynter - Couldn't really do much as everytime he won a ball the ref gave a free kick
Brez - Hmmmmm....Maybe Phil Smith deserves a chance?  Wasn't impressed
J Smith - Ok he made the error for the second goal but definitely not a reason to penalise him and get on his back.  Honestly think hes been one of our better players and amazingly, one of the only ones trying to play it on the ground today.
Ifil - Poor distribution but did ok
Easton - Did well when he came on, think he should start next week.

[michael]

It's all very well me saying it now with the benefit of hindsight, but Easton HAS to be among the first names on the team sheet. The debate is whether it is Nalis or Timlin that plays alongside him.

Mostly individual errors cost us today, but I must say that Colchester look a good side to me.

I thought it was a Col U player that took out their keeper as well. Did anyone other than the ref see anything different?

[michael]

J Smith - Ok he made the error for the second goal but definitely not a reason to penalise him and get on his back.  Honestly think hes been one of our better players and amazingly, one of the only ones trying to play it on the ground today.

Totally agree with you there, I was gutted for him and it was clear that he was as well. Ironic that his footballing sensibility is what gifted them a goal - put your boot through it lad.

[Batch]

Toothless first half display, and be absolutely clear (it's not sour grapes) that make me say Colchester looked distinctly average. poor defending for the first and an absolute shocker of a mistake by Smith for the second, at least he sort of recovered.

Again I think the problems came centre of midfield where we had two players who are more than comfortable with the ball, and about as effective as a blamanche at getting it back again. Also, they fail to get back quick enough allowing the oppositions central midfield to get beyond them and outnumber our defence.

We were much better in the second half, more fight and urgency. No idea if that was solely down to the substitutions, half time bollocking or what. I can at last see that Marshall shows promise, needs more work but we knew that.

The cocknocker ref had a shocker, there was no foul in that 'goal'. He lost it a bit then and started to go with the shout.

We got back in it and I always felt Colchester could be pegged back or even defeated. The clock was running down and then poor defending and a shocking keeping error by Brez ended he match.

It isn't great, but it isn't a disaster yet. I can see we could do OK but we need to sort the issues out now.

[adje]

hopefully after Marshall's display it will mean the end of McGovern for a while

[STFC_Gazzza]

Marshall was good, I genuinly think the rest of the team were shit. maybe when I sit down and review the game again I will change my mind but FFS grow some balls. Our defence is shocking. Fair play to Malpas for dropping that waste of space JP McGovern at half time.