Swindon v Huddersfield Official Matchday Tread.

[Hitchinred]

Thorougly deserved victory and good performances all round. Think Sheehan's return has a lot to do with it and Morrison seems to be maturing at a rate of knots. Prutton seems to revel in the advanced role and if only Kev could improve the distribution we'd be a match for anyone as an attacking unit. Didn't really miss JP's width today.

Up the football league we go.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Brilliant - absolutely superb stuff. Moments like that make football all worth it. I thought Sheehans crossing had been awful all game but then he puts in a beauty of a cross. Well done Alan, he had a great game. Much like his ball in for Greers header against Norwich last season.

Huddersfield were very poor, we dominated from start to finish and they didn't have a clue what to do. Wasn't at all impressed with them.

Bring on Plymouth.

[Bennett]

i hope Clark is humble, for once

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

That was the best performance of the season thus far. We looked fantastic on the ball and the passing was brilliant at times. Huddersfield came with typical away tactics looking for a point and the only real threat from them was from set plays. Thankfully we dealt with everything they threw at us in that respect but make no mistake there was only one team that deserved the 3 points and that was us.

The 2 centre backs were rock solid. JD was back to his best, Prutton is improving every game, Pericard has the confidence he lacked earlier on in the season and causes problems, Dossevi looks class just needs that goal. Sheehan is 10 times better than Rose. Great stuff. It's really starting to come together now and we're getting back to how we were last season. Hungry for every ball, running our socks off, defending well, passing well. We're not creating as much but we are making up for that by playing better as a unit off the ball and defending a lot better. Huddersfield didn't even have a sniff today we were that good at the back. It's a tight league and if we can continue this run and get a biggy going like last season (that run of 10 wins from 12 games) we could fly up the league. Good times indeed.

Oh and I forgot Sean Morrison. Not just for the goal but for his whole performance. Outstanding and for me MOTM. Didn't put a foot wrong with anything and won every header, read the game well, did the right things when required. This lad is slowly making Greer look an average defender at this level.

[tans]

Good result.

I didn't go either

[Bennett]

you'd have loved my ref rants mate. he was a clueless cunt

[PocketScience]

That was the best performance of the season thus far. We looked fantastic on the ball and the passing was brilliant at times. Huddersfield came with typical away tactics looking for a point and the only real threat from them was from set plays. Thankfully we dealt with everything they threw at us in that respect but make no mistake there was only one team that deserved the 3 points and that was us.

The 2 centre backs were rock solid. JD was back to his best, Prutton is improving every game, Pericard has the confidence he lacked earlier on in the season and causes problems, Dossevi looks class just needs that goal. Sheehan is 10 times better than Rose. Great stuff. It's really starting to come together now and we're getting back to how we were last season. Hungry for every ball, running our socks off, defending well, passing well. We're not creating as much but we are making up for that by playing better as a unit off the ball and defending a lot better. Huddersfield didn't even have a sniff today we were that good at the back. It's a tight league and if we can continue this run and get a biggy going like last season (that run of 10 wins from 12 games) we could fly up the league. Good times indeed.

Oh and I forgot Sean Morrison. Not just for the goal but for his whole performance. Outstanding and for me MOTM. Didn't put a foot wrong with anything and won every header, read the game well, did the right things when required. This lad is slowly making Greer look an average defender at this level.

Agree with this, loved it the way they were so hungry for the ball and first to it a lot of the time. Sheehan has been really good, vs Walsall and again today, good going forward and constantly gives Lucas option other than the big kick by coming short. We held on to possesion a lot because of that, and for large parts of the game it was all us with Huddersfield occasionally kicking it out or back up the field. So pleased we scored and as we completely deserved it.

Their only clear cut chance came really early on, which from where I was they should have easily scored, glad they didn't

[PocketScience]

Oh and "Dovessi" was being called Dossiev by the people behind me, not sure which is worse!

[Sippo]

'Pericard is still rubbish, and jpm is off the pace...'

Just some of the ridiculous comments I heard today. I thought we bloody outstanding. Big Vince had another great game. I never rate morrison but today he was fucking superb. My flat cap goes off to the lad.

[DV]

The ref was an odd one.

I'm not sure what was wrong with our first goal apart from the fact Pericard jumped infront of the keeper? at least twice their player headed it wide and got a corner out of it.

The whole Huddersfield player down injured, they play on, we get the ball, play gets stopped was stupid and after all that the player got up 3 seconds later. Why even go down for fuck sake, cheating cunt. Wasnt the only one.

The player who went off injured, looked like an awesome tackle from Dougie in fairness.

[tans]

you'd have loved my ref rants mate. he was a clueless cunt

What gems did you come out with today mate?

Save some for the rovers game please

[joteddyred]

Totally agree with IOB, an all round superb team performance.  We were the far superior team throughout and anything less than 3 points would have been an absolute travesty.  I have to admit, I didn't think the goal was ever going to come and a fair few round by me had already left when it did.  I can't ever understand people leaving early in a situation like that?

The celebrations after the goal and at the end by the team and supporters showed how much it meant and how deserved a win it was.  Good to see us really keep at it right to the last minute and get our reward.

Defence was outstanding and won literally everything.  Morrison or Sheehan would have been my MOMs, Sheehan makes a massive difference to the team and the midfield is playing as a unit now, although McGovern seemed to struggle at times.  Will be interesting to see what happens when Ferry returns?  At times we played some really good football and made Huddersfield look quite poor.

Top of the league -you're having a laugh!  On that showing, we're as good as anyone in that league and will be up there at the end of the season.

Bring on Tuesday night! 

[Bennett]

The whole Huddersfield player down injured, they play on, we get the ball, play gets stopped was stupid and after all that the player got up 3 seconds later. Why even go down for fuck sake, cheating cunt. Wasnt the only one.

The player who went off injured, looked like an awesome tackle from Dougie in fairness.

i think he did his shoulder or something, he motioned towards the bench and pointed at his shoulder straight away.

with regard to the cheating..i tihnk i was a light tap if anything that lead to the guy being down but they were happy enough to attack when they had the ball and he was down. then the ref stopped play

fucking shit interpretation of a pretty simple law

[Bennett]

What gems did you come out with today mate?

Save some for the rovers game please

just general expletives, and again the feller didn't have a clue half the time. as evidenced in other posts...

[DV]

Having Ferry come in and take Pruttons place has really made Prutton buck up his ideas. Added to the fact he's playing a bit wider away from Douglas. He's been in a couple of decent performances now, also knowing full well Ferry will want back in.

Sheehan has been different class since he came back. Looks like the Sheehan we first go on loan last season. I think he dipped towards the end of last season after his injury but is looking the part again this season. Might as well ship Rose off to Stockport now.

The lack of options on the bench worried me today, no Austin and no Ball left us short up top but the starting 11 did a fantastic job.