Official Swindon Town Vs Colchester United Matchday Thread

[JPC82]

Agreed but lets face it, Rhys Evans was garbage and lived off a reputation of being at Chelski, Griemink was a cheap shot stopper so did a job, Lonergan was recovering from an injury, Heaton had no experience, was very young and in an awful team. Brez is the best out of all of them yes by far but he is not a 'class' keeper........Buffon, Cech etc are class.

alright i wasnt putting Brez up there with Buffon and Cech! im talking in league1 terms, Brezovan is class, like people say how amazing McNamee is, yeah hes good cos hes playing in league 1, stick him up against Micah Richards or Gary Neville and see how he gets on!

[Rich Pullen]

and the bald goal keeper coach whos name I never knew but he also fucked off to Leeds, I wonder if hes still there now Wise and Poyet have gone...was here?

He is still working for Leeds under the McAllister regime.

[Reg Smeeton]

Smith better one on one? give it a rest Reg, u on a wind up?

 You have your opinion, I have mine.  Football is a game of opinions. Some poster's opinions I respect some I don't...let's leave it at that.

[dell boy]

Making comparisons of what was here before is pointless.
Out of the two keepers we have Brez imo is better than Smith.

Smith is an able replacement, goalkeepers are not our problem at the moment.

[JPC82]

You have your opinion, I have mine.  Football is a game of opinions. Some poster's opinions I respect some I don't...let's leave it at that.

same here, some peoples posts i dont read cos they ramble about subjects nothing to do with the previous posts, and about what happened in 1935

[Simon Pieman]

Agreed but lets face it, Rhys Evans was garbage and lived off a reputation of being at Chelski, Griemink was a cheap shot stopper so did a job, Lonergan was recovering from an injury, Heaton had no experience, was very young and in an awful team. Brez is the best out of all of them yes by far but he is not a 'class' keeper........Buffon, Cech etc are class.

It's all relative though isn't it? I would say Simon Cox is class - but for league one. Obviously he'd be out of place amongst the best strikers in the world.

Which is partly why the attitude that we can only get average players in because we're only Swindon Town frustrates me - I've seen this written a lot recently. When we had our play off year we had some players who were class for this league. Parkin, Mooney and Howard are the notable examples. Just because we're Swindon Town doesn't mean we can't get the odd really good player in.

[dell boy]

Cox

same here, some peoples posts i dont read cos they ramble about subjects nothing to do with the previous posts, and about what happened in 1935

Reg isn't that old I dont think,

[glos_robin]

Brez is a way reminds me of Rhys Evans - looked pretty handy when he came here but has got worse rather than progressed.

I mean for Rhys he obviously had top class goal keeping coaches and Chelsea and then dropped to Swindon where we didnt have one.

No idea what Brez had at his old club. I know the injury played a part but any co-incidence that his best spell was when Wise, Poyet and the bald goal keeper coach whos name I never knew but he also fucked off to Leeds, I wonder if hes still there now Wise and Poyet have gone...was here?

Fair point and Wise's coach was Andy Beasley who I always thought was pretty good. Granville just seems clueless and a bit like a sports teacher.......shouts and points alot but isn't actually very good at the sport and doesn't really know what he's on about.
Maybe I'm being unfair and he may be a brilliant coach but the regression we have seen in the form of both Brez and Smith would suggest otherwise.

[JPC82]

if even you can spot Granville isnt very good then why is Malpas allowing him to destroy our 2 keepers?

[glos_robin]

Which is partly why the attitude that we can only get average players in because we're only Swindon Town frustrates me - I've seen this written a lot recently. When we had our play off year we had some players who were class for this league. Parkin, Mooney and Howard are the notable examples. Just because we're Swindon Town doesn't mean we can't get the odd really good player in.

The manager himself has said it though as we've struggled to sign our targets so it stems from the very top.

[glos_robin]

if even you can spot Granville isnt very good then why is Malpas allowing him to destroy our 2 keepers?

I'm just basing it on what I've seen, I have no first hand knowledge that he is useless and I may be being harsh on him...................you may have more info of course.

[JPC82]

dont know fuck all about Granville

[Simon Pieman]

The manager himself has said it though as we've struggled to sign our targets so it stems from the very top.

I think we simply spent more money that year. Players aren't necessarily going to better teams than us.

[michael]

Hey! Leave Granville out of this!

He is a good man, and thorough.

[JPC82]

or was it that Kingy could spot a player better than Malpas?