Swindon v Huddersfield Official Matchday Tread.

[Samdy Gray]

Made the mistake of reading a Huddersfield forum. They're even more up themselves than Leeds were! They can't believe they lost to measly Swindon.

[nevillew]

For the first time in a blue moon I was in the Legends pre-game. Was honoured when Mex and his dad (a convivial chap) sat at our table. I was too overawed to make much conversation,but basked in reflected glory. The day was completed by a cracking performance, and Amankwaah's second half skill spot will take some bettering.

When are we finally going to get this centre back in on loan ?  oh, hang on...

[BANGKOK RED]

This is possibly the first time ever that those who went commentate along the same lines as Vic Morgan.

We must have been a bit good!

[Crispy]

Fucking quality! 

[LJ9]

No, and I agree it was a stupid thing to shout. Just thought I'd point out he's not Haitian.

It was just one of those off the cuff comments that summed up the IQ of some of those who claim to "support" the side!! Had to be there I suppose!!

[Panda Paws]

In other news, when Dossevi gave McCombe the runaround the shitty defender looked so slow and fat it was hilarious. Would like to have seen us isolate him a little more, he had the turning cirlce of a bus.

[Batch]

Made the mistake of reading a Huddersfield forum. They're even more up themselves than Leeds were! They can't believe they lost to measly Swindon.

I read that too. I also read a couple of posts from people that went to the game that they thought we were poor.

I look forward to seeing us play Brazil at the Gandalph (or whatever its called) then.

[No Longer Posh Red]

Second half we were fantastic, and thoroughly deserved to win.

I would have given Sheehan MOTM, but it could have been any of the back four as they were all immense.

That said it would be difficult to find a single one of them that had a poor game.

It's always great coming away from a game having scored a last minute winner

[Arch Stanton]

Erm, I though he just moved a couple of seats to the end of the row? He was quieter today if it was him. That's how well we played!

Yeah he was at the end of the row, if it is the same guy, he sat right behind my dad - who's pretty deaf but had no trouble hearing the endless advice being yelled. At one point we had a hatrick of 'idiots' - class. I heard some guys really taking the piss by shouting 'bad ball' every two mins.

I thought Douglas was MoM, he was a beast in the tackle and kept the ball moving by always playing the easy pass. Prutton looked more comfortable and made some good runs, Morrison was fantastic.

I loved one of the text's sent to the radio when I was driving home - "where have the Pericard boo boys gone now?" well, they're still there pal, except they're cheering, the bunch of fickle bastards that they are.....

One guy who sits further down from me hated Pericard with a passion, never stopped moaning about him, dishing out some really overly harsh shit. Today he was full of over the top praise, metaphorically tugging at his shorts for a chance to suck him off......

[Batch]

Yeah he was at the end of the row,

I'm only a few seats in from the end of our row. So yes its him. Heard my mates dishing some "bad ball" taunts, I don't know if they started it or just joined in

Dougie was superb. Back to his best.

[stfcinbmth]

"I thought we started the game well and in the first fifteen minutes Jordan had a very good chance to put us one up - I think he probably had time to pull it onto his stronger right foot as well.

"After that they tweaked one or two games and started getting into the game, causing us one or two problems down our right side - without Alex having to make lots of saves. We tried to match up what they were trying to do, but it was a 'bitty' game. They had a lot of possession but there wasn't a lot in it and a goal from a set play sealed it - one of their lads out-jumping one of mine to get the goal."

Clark lost both Gary Roberts and Scott Arfield to injury by the start of the second half and Lee explained that the former has broken his arm:

"The two injuries were massively disruptive, because they have been two of the better players for me. Gary Roberts has been the best player on a consistent basis for the last four or five games and he was causing problems in the short spell he was on the pitch.

"It's a very serious injury and he's in hospital as we speak. He's broken his arm badly in a high area and the specialists are looking at it - whether it needs surgery or just pinning we don't know at the minute, but he will be out for a period of time.

"At half-time Scott told me he couldn't carry on because of the kick he took just before Gary's incident; that had made his calf too tight and he couldn't move around.

"To be fair to the ref he apologised at half-time. I said at the time that Gary wouldn't have got his injury if the ref had blown when Scott was fouled; there was no advantage on because one of their players was close enough to tackle our man and as soon as Scott got fouled he should have blown up. But full credit to the ref - he came out and apologised and I appreciate that. However, that doesn't mask over the fact that I've lost one of my best players for a period of time.

"With only 45 minutes gone we were forced into two substitutions and it leaves you unable to change personnel - it restricted what I could do later in the game.

"Gary will stay down here in hospital tonight, but Scott has a dead leg and we can get a bit of treatment into that."

Despite defender Sean Morrison scoring the winner for Swindon in the final minute of normal time, Jamie McCombe came very close to restoring parity before the end of the game:

"Jamie came close at the end, but I have just said to the lads that I get frustrated with football and that type of scenario. We went one down with a few minutes to go and then put pressure on the opposition, but why not do that when its 0-0 and we have 30 minutes to go?

"We didn't pass the ball at all well today, but all credit to the lads - they showed great grit, determination and desire to withstand what Swindon threw at them. They headed away all the balls into the box well and the goalkeeper took some magnificent crosses. I thought we had withstood it, but when you keep giving the ball back to the opposition there will be wave after wave."

Lee is now looking for his side to bounce back against Rochdale on Tuesday evening:

"There will be lots of twists and turns and we cannot be up and down; we can't be massively over the top when we're winning. It's a tough one because we love to give the supporters highs and to be top of the table is a great high, but every time I pick up the paper there is always reference to where we are in the table and we're only in September!

"Of course we're disappointed - losing a match is the worst feeling in football and that will never change. When that does, it will be time for me to pack up. However, we have a great chance on Tuesday in a bit of a local derby against a team that are doing well and we have to dust ourselves down and get a result at Rochdale."

A little bit too much up his own arse for my liking

[suttonred]

Think everyone's covered everything, but Cant say it enough we were superb, Dougie just MOM over Sheehan and Morrison. The only player who was slightly off his game was Caddis I thought. And what's with Manky's magic boots? What godawful colour were they? Oh and for a team of very tall and a couple of very lardy players, they didn't like it up em Capt Mainwaring.

[Don Rogers Shop]

Slightly agree about Caddis Sutton but what i do like about him is he is very direct. It's a new position and think the signs are he will be ok in that position.

He likes to run at players from the middle which is something we have missed for a while. Special mention for prutton today who is getting better every week.

[suttonred]

Agree he wasn't crap, just wasn't as good as the other 10 today, He'll have blinders of that I have no doubt.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Well, I don't know what the fuck you're all on about. bristolterrier on the 'down at the mac' website is clearly far more perceptive and inciteful than any of you...and I quote...

"Swindon were poor and we were worse."

Seriously, I wonder what planet some of you are on with your "Ooooh, what a great performance, we played them off the park" bollocks