Swindon town V Hartlepool United official matchday thread

[ronnie21]

Wrong formation, really only played two in midfield with two wingers, not the right way to go about breaking a team down with four in midfield.  Obviously people have their favourites and their most hated, but I am definitely not a Macca fan, but I thought he was as good as anybody in our team today.  Hutchinson should be on the overnight train back to Glasgow, he was utter shite.  Revell is not the answer, but the service to him is poor.  I felt we didn't apply much pressure until Peacock and Paynter were up front.  Cannot understand what Easton, Timlin and Paynter have done to upset DW.  They all deserved to be in today.  Final thought, just when a change was required at half time all we did was replace a left back with a left back.  Yes, Kennedy was having a torrid time but we needed more in the centre of the park.

[Rich Pullen]

This is the type of result that makes you really curse those late goals conceded over the last month.

With all respect to Hartlepool, we should be getting at least a point from them at home especially when we travel to Norwich City next which is one of those fixtures where you sort of automatically assume you won't get much from it.

[adje]

What absolute fucking bollocks.

Send the loan players back and get some Swindon players in.

Mid table at best for us this year

I think thats what most people would have settled for pre-season Bart

[Simon Pieman]

not biting si.just responding as everyone does if taken to task.i stand by what my response to your post says mind.
i bit last week for sure,but today highlighted how people see things differently when we wi,lose,draw.
i dont feel picked on at all and like the debate after matches(long may it continue)i'm happy tonight as i coined it in on sunderland winning.

I'm just trying to wind you up. You do mention quite often you're singled out though

[Rustle]

Some of the football played was alright, had absolutely no cutting edge whatsoever in stark contrast to Hartlepool who looked really decent going forward.

They looked decent because they done the basic simple thing's,we seem to overplay everything and that passing it around at the back and across the face of the goal makes me nervous,if we do this against the better sides they will be putting pressure on our defence from the word go.Im not saying hoof it but we seem to play in triangles at the back and the ball mainly goes backwards not forwards.

It's same up front we try to be clever one touch to many but sometimes just the basics will get better results,anyone who has a spy at our games could fathom us out easy,we have become way to predictable IMO.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

They looked decent because they done the basic simple thing's,we seem to overplay everything and that passing it around at the back and across the face of the goal makes me nervous,if we do this against the better sides they will be putting pressure on our defence from the word go.Im not saying hoof it but we seem to play in triangles at the back and the ball mainly goes backwards not forwards.

It's same up front we try to be clever one touch to many but sometimes just the basics will get better results,anyone who has a spy at our games could fathom us out easy,we have become way to predictable IMO.

Agree and it's exactly what Hartepool did today. They got the basics right and sussed how we play.

[Arriba]

I'm just trying to wind you up. You do mention quite often you're singled out though

nah its only cunts like you, pauld and dave.
 

[nevillew]

Come on Town,put them under some sustained pressure.

Neil Harris with a hatrick for Millwall at Stockport ..oh 

Does that mean he gets to keep the ball ?

[pauld]

nah its only cunts like you, pauld and dave.
 

But you rise to it so well

Totally agree with what you said a few posts back about what was wrong today btw and whoever it was about we effectively played with only a two man midfield

[Mexicano Rojo]

The VIP curse strikes again. We were asked to pick the man of the match and we said none of them so for the first time i can remember there wasnt one.

[JPC82]

The VIP curse strikes again. We were asked to pick the man of the match and we said none of them so for the first time i can remember there wasnt one.

id say Macca, because he skinned his man a few times and put a few crosses in, thats as good as it got today

[Arriba]

But you rise to it so well

Totally agree with what you said a few posts back about what was wrong today btw and whoever it was about we effectively played with only a two man midfield

yeah i know, but i like to think i back it up with reason for my points raised.
not biting really is it though?more like carrying the debate on.
i think there is a difference personally

[jonny72]

Greer was complete and utter shit today, Cuthbert not much better. In the first half there was countless times when Hartlepool got in behind the defence and the marking was non-existent. In the second half there was 3 or 4 long balls played which weren't particularly dangerous yet somehow ended up with their player and the ball between our goal and our defence - Greer was the main culprit for this.

For the first 15 minutes Amankwaah was all over the place to the extent that it was impossible to tell what formation we were playing. It actually looked like a 3-4-3, which I thought was brave of Wilson until it turned out it was just Amankwaah played far too far upfield with the team being lopsided as a result.

How anyone can criticise McNamee is beyond me. He put in half a dozen decent crosses in the first half which was more than the rest of the team combined, and was defending pretty well. Our best player in the first half by some distance. He dropped out of the game a bit in the second half but was still one of our best due to the rest being so fucking shit.

My biggest problem with Tope is that he appears to be played out of position on the wing. Everytime he cut in with the ball he didn't seem to know whether he should be crossing it or heading for the goal and shooting and in the end he did neither. But I'd blame his poor performance on Wilson for failing to see that Tope is our best striker yet never playing him in that position.

Talking of strikers all four that we played today were shit and I doubt they would have scored even if they were still playing now. Hutchinson was terrible and always is. Revell runs around a lot but achieves little. Peacock did nothing. Paynter tried and there was some signs of brain activity but not much.

For my final criticism I'll come back to Wilson. His team selection and tactics are shit and the majority of the blame for todays performance lays firmly with him. His bizarre decisions make it difficult for the players to perform as well as they can. I really do wonder what the fuck he is thinking most of the time.

[alanmayes]

Tonight's Football League Show will feature todays game.Report and interviews from Mark Clemmit.

[Bob's Orange]

Tonight's Football League Show will feature todays game.Report and interviews from Mark Clemmit.

Even though I am going to be up (we are 1 hour ahead). I am not going to bother. Thankfully the 1 Hartlepool fan in Lux wasn't in the pub today, would have been muchos annoying otherwise!