Swindon Town FC v Oxford United FC - Official Matchday Thread - edited...

[LucienSanchez]

My notes...

Gabilondo was good, better than Esajas
Clarke has a good first touch, but his finishing let him down
De Vita isn't very good
WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE STRIKERS, WE NEED A DEVERA REPLACEMENT - he's cost us too many goals in such a short space of time (him and Risser have been massive disappointments)
We seriously need to learn how to defend from set-pieces... every single one felt like we were likely to concede
Di Canio needs to settle down a bit, getting sent to the stands is stupid regardless of how bad the offside call was
J. Smith isn't quite up to speed or positionally aware
The bloke who tried to hurdle the fence into the Bank was hilarious. As was the retarded cops decision to walk him out past all the Oxford fans, right clever that was!

Massively disappointed, but not surprised. Genuinely worried about how this season will pan out after these first 4 games. Some poor signings, weird selections and an apparent lack of preparation judging by how bad we are at marking leaves me thinking the season might not be as fun or successful as first though.

[Parkin09]

When they tried to walk him infront of them, what a ridiculous idea, the hail of bottles was expected.

[Don Rogers Shop]

Defence is a weird one for me.No goals conceded in open play yet awful from set pieces

[Samdy Gray]

The highlight of my day was the hottie in a mini-skirt sitting next to me.

[random_five]

My notes...

Gabilondo was good, better than Esajas
Clarke has a good first touch, but his finishing let him down
De Vita isn't very good
WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE STRIKERS, WE NEED A DEVERA REPLACEMENT - he's cost us too many goals in such a short space of time (him and Risser have been massive disappointments)
We seriously need to learn how to defend from set-pieces... every single one felt like we were likely to concede
Di Canio needs to settle down a bit, getting sent to the stands is stupid regardless of how bad the offside call was
J. Smith isn't quite up to speed or positionally aware
The bloke who tried to hurdle the fence into the Bank was hilarious. As was the retarded cops decision to walk him out past all the Oxford fans, right clever that was!

Massively disappointed, but not surprised. Genuinely worried about how this season will pan out after these first 4 games. Some poor signings, weird selections and an apparent lack of preparation judging by how bad we are at marking leaves me thinking the season might not be as fun or successful as first though.

Take some of your points there but maybe there's a tendancy to overlook the enormity of Di Canio's task.
Letting go what 13 players and bringing in another 13? On the back of one of the worst seasons in the club's history..? Was never going to happen over night and I think most of us said back in June that the Oxford game may have come too soon.

[Ardiles]

Desperately disappointed that we lost a much-hyped local derby, but not particularly disappointed at the manner of the defeat.  A few thoughts...

• We dominated for long periods, and at no point did I ever feel we were out of the game.
• Great performance from Ferry.  Dropping him (or, worse, selling him) is now unthinkable.  Gabilondo looked dangerous as well.  Nice competition between him and Esajas on the left wing.
• Oxford were clinical when they needed to be, and weathered the storm when they needed to.  I thought we were the better team over all, but it was an intelligent performance from them.  Wilder had prepared them well to grind out the win.
• PDC now looking a bit of an arse following his mid-week mind games with Constable.  Backfired spectacularly.
• Following on from previous point, I hope that the experience of this week - and the WLLL sequence - gives the management team a reality check that they can learn from.  I'm not cutting my wrists over this...because it could be the slap around the chops that PDC needs.  Only 4 game in to the season, and we can build from here.
• Improvement in the League now an absolute priority.  The last three results mean that I have not the slightest bit of interest in the Bristol City game on Tuesday.

[BLT]

Over all the second half we dominated and perhaps the more level headed Oxford fans will admit that they were lucky to get away with all 3 points.

Just got back, yes we were poor and i agree you deserved something from the game. Having said that i did not think you were outstanding by any stretch but you seemed to want the second ball more than we did although I never felt that you were gonna score. It was strange because you looked crap from set pieces but so did we. Outside of the football there were muppet supporters from both teams although i did have to chuckle at the old bill trying to walk your supporter across our section.

[LucienSanchez]

Take some of your points there but maybe there's a tendancy to overlook the enormity of Di Canio's task.
Letting go what 13 players and bringing in another 13? On the back of one of the worst seasons in the club's history..? Was never going to happen over night and I think most of us said back in June that the Oxford game may have come too soon.

Yeah, you have a point... just thought and hoped we'd be a force in this league, especially with the size of the squad we have and pretty hefty wage budget (comparitively). We needed a good start really, and it hasn't happened.

[Coca Fola]

Just got back, yes we were poor and i agree you deserved something from the game. Having said that i did not think you were outstanding by any stretch but you seemed to want the second ball more than we did although I never felt that you were gonna score. It was strange because you looked crap from set pieces but so did we. Outside of the football there were muppet supporters from both teams although i did have to chuckle at the old bill trying to walk your supporter across our section.

Good to see some reasonable oxford fans who can be graceful in victory.

[Anteater]

Haven't read any of the thread so apologies if this has been said but today was a game we could and should have won. Very unlucky to get fuck all out of it. It is a fucking unmitigated disaster to lose to the SCUM for sure but the tiny crumb of comfort is that we looked way better than against Cheltenham and Daggers. PDC and Co are getting to terms with what is required regarding personnel and for the first time for months I feel we finally are tuning the corner. We may lose a game or two in the next couple of months but we will turn this around. Halfway house by Christmas and on a roll after. Also if any SCUM are reading this then remember when we do you at the Kassam fucking horse shoe shaped ground we will by the footballing Karma Gods do you good and proper. Make the most of your fleeting time in the sun.....it won't last.

[RJack]

Just got back, yes we were poor and i agree you deserved something from the game. Having said that i did not think you were outstanding by any stretch but you seemed to want the second ball more than we did although I never felt that you were gonna score. It was strange because you looked crap from set pieces but so did we. Outside of the football there were muppet supporters from both teams although i did have to chuckle at the old bill trying to walk your supporter across our section.

Fair assesment i'd say.  I thought Oxford did a good job of breaking our play down in the 2nd half fair player to Wilder on that

[random_five]

Just got back, yes we were poor and i agree you deserved something from the game. Having said that i did not think you were outstanding by any stretch but you seemed to want the second ball more than we did although I never felt that you were gonna score. It was strange because you looked crap from set pieces but so did we. Outside of the football there were muppet supporters from both teams although i did have to chuckle at the old bill trying to walk your supporter across our section.

I'm not sure I said you were poor, in fact your defence definitely deserves some credit. Your keeper and right back played well.

What the fuck was going through that bloke's head running at the "lads" at the front of the bank? What did he think he was going to do?
Had to laugh when two of Oxford's "lads", who'd been giving it the mouth and pointing outside for the whole game, bolted like startled rabbits when 1 overweight Swindon fan got 10 yards from them.. Of course the rest of them would've destroyed him, but it was still amusing.. pair of pussys.

[SCM]

Someone's been stabbed at the bus station. Don't know if it's related to the footie but it's a bit convenient.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Desperately disappointed that we lost a much-hyped local derby, but not particularly disappointed at the manner of the defeat.  A few thoughts...

• We dominated for long periods, and at no point did I ever feel we were out of the game.
• Great performance from Ferry.  Dropping him (or, worse, selling him) is now unthinkable.  Gabilondo looked dangerous as well.  Nice competition between him and Esajas on the left wing.
• Oxford were clinical when they needed to be, and weathered the storm when they needed to.  I thought we were the better team over all, but it was an intelligent performance from them.  Wilder had prepared them well to grind out the win.
• PDC now looking a bit of an arse following his mid-week mind games with Constable.  Backfired spectacularly.
• Following on from previous point, I hope that the experience of this week - and the WLLL sequence - gives the management team a reality check that they can learn from.  I'm not cutting my wrists over this...because it could be the slap around the chops that PDC needs.  Only 4 game in to the season, and we can build from here.

• Improvement in the League now an absolute priority.  The last three results mean that I have not the slightest bit of interest in the Bristol City game on Tuesday.

Disagree with that last point Ardiles. A win is a win and that is what we need right now more than anything. It is also worth noting that in 85-86 - a season where as several people have pointed out, we got off to a very poor start and ending up pissing the league - it was actually a League Cup game away to Sunderland which kick started the whole season (we actually lost 3-2 but won the second leg 3-1 and it all snow balled from there). So from a confidence and morale point of view I think it is a very important game.

[BLT]

I'm not sure I said you were poor, in fact your defence definitely deserves some credit. Your keeper and right back played well.

What the fuck was going through that bloke's head running at the "lads" at the front of the bank? What did he think he was going to do?
Had to laugh when two of Oxford's "lads", who'd been giving it the mouth and pointing outside for the whole game, bolted like startled rabbits when 1 overweight Swindon fan got 10 yards from them.. Of course the rest of them would've destroyed him, but it was still amusing.. pair of pussys.

Funny you should say that as most Oxford fans I spoke with thought our right back was rubbish today, just shows you how you can have two differing opinions. There was a lot of mouthy Oxford fans, not my cup of tea. That Swindon fan was in a shirt, meaning he was a proper fan, he is gonna get a big ban.