Macclesfield v Swindon official matchday thread

[Nemo]

Very poor is the average in this division (ourselves included, with perhaps one or two players excepted)

[random_five]

Very poor is the average in this division (ourselves included, with perhaps one or two players excepted)

Spot on mate

[Paolo69]

Only if you're happy to ignore the foul on our player in the build-up.

It should have been a free kick to us. If you'd had the pen and the red card, then I'd be just as furious that he'd ignored the trip on our player in the first place.

So yes. Our 'keeper does seem to clip the heels of your lad. But it shouldn't have got to that stage because he only had the ball becuse one of your lads took out Elliott Hewitt to get the ball in the first place.

Fair enough, just watched it. Could give a nudge i suppose but then your boy stands on the ball making it 10 times worse. Ref was woeful all night but then if we'd have had Martin Atkinson you'd have probably ended up down to 8 by half time.

Anyway the major issue should be be. Friday night - WTF?

[Silkyman]

Friday night worked a treat for us. Better home gate than weve been getting, better atmosphere etc and you still brought a fair few.

Partly down to the weather I suppose.

We've been shunted to a Friday all over the place in the past, so thought it was worth a crack!

[Bob's Orange]

'Lowly Macclesfield'

Yes. The entire single point you are ahead of us shows it should have been a walk in the park!

 

Are we 'thoroughly average' or 'very poor' make your mind up!

You were fairly lowly before you played us to be fair!

FYI I predicted a 1-0 Macc win in the predictor so not all Swindon fans think we would roll you over easily. I do think there is a (probably small) element of our support who think that we have a God given right to walk this league, however some people need to take a dose of reality and face facts that this is going to be a bloody hard league with teams scrapping for points.

I went to see Macc v Swindon a few seasons ago (we lost 1-0) and its a proper old school football ground with uncovered terracing. Bit sad to see the old disused mills on the walk to the ground but I remember the locals in the pub being very friendly.

Needless to say we were hopeless and deserved to lose. A recurring theme away from home this season.

[Paolo69]

Friday night worked a treat for us. Better home gate than weve been getting, better atmosphere etc and you still brought a fair few.

Partly down to the weather I suppose.

We've been shunted to a Friday all over the place in the past, so thought it was worth a crack!

Our away support is usually pretty decent in terms of numbers but to be honest we had a lot more than i thought we would. This still means we would probably have brought an extra 300 or so if it were on a saturday.

Friday traffic is a proper ball ache as my 4 1/2 hour journey to get there will testify (and it sounds like i was one of the lucky ones). Unless Sky want to pay the dosh clubs shouldn't be allowed to move their sat games to friday's IMO.

[Silkyman]

Our away support is usually pretty decent in terms of numbers but to be honest we had a lot more than i thought we would. This still means we would probably have brought an extra 300 or so if it were on a saturday.

Friday traffic is a proper ball ache as my 4 1/2 hour journey to get there will testify (and it sounds like i was one of the lucky ones). Unless Sky want to pay the dosh clubs shouldn't be allowed to move their sat games to friday's IMO.

We've had it done to us a few times. I remember one particularly arduous trip to Southend a few years ago.

You may well have brought another 300 or so along, but hopefully we'll make more than that back with the increased home crowd and members of it who will hopefully come back next time when we play Oxford.

[Paolo69]

We've had it done to us a few times. I remember one particularly arduous trip to Southend a few years ago.

You may well have brought another 300 or so along, but hopefully we'll make more than that back with the increased home crowd and members of it who will hopefully come back next time when we play Oxford.

I'm suprised you don't agree with me if you've had to endure it too. We even had Harlepool away on a friday night a few seasons back so i suppose this friday's trip was a pretty short one. No consideration for away fans and if it really was such a resounding success i expect to see you stitch up Poxford's and every other teams fans like you did ours.

I did hit my first and only 180 in a back street boozer during the H'pool trip though so not all bad.

[Silkyman]

Fair enough, just watched it. Could give a nudge i suppose but then your boy stands on the ball making it 10 times worse. Ref was woeful all night but then if we'd have had Martin Atkinson you'd have probably ended up down to 8 by half time.

Wouldn't have stood on the ball if it wasn't for the foul knocking him off balance.

There's enough contact there to make him lose his balance, so it's probably a foul.

That can be said for the initial foul and the penalty. As ours was first, then all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the clear-cut-stonewall-definate-100%-certain penalty should be tempered by the fact we should have had a free kick anyway. Which is something totally ignored by pretty much every report I've read apart from Gary simpson's post match comments.

http://www.mtfc.co.uk/page/ManagersView/0,,10393~2468970,00.html

[Silkyman]

I'm suprised you don't agree with me if you've had to endure it too. We even had Harlepool away on a friday night a few seasons back so i suppose this friday's trip was a pretty short one. No consideration for away fans and if it really was such a resounding success i expect to see you stitch up Poxford's and every other teams fans like you did ours.

I did hit my first and only 180 in a back street boozer during the H'pool trip though so not all bad.

You can only do it a handful of times in a season so you have to pick your games. It's only like a Tuesday night match anyway.

I see why it's annoying as an away fan, but I also accept that clubs are right to look after their own. No Swindon fans are going to start coming to Macc regularly. There will hopefully be a few locals who haven't been up for a while who gave it a try on Friday and will come back again. If the choice is down to 300 more Swindon fans attending one game or 100 Macc fans attending three, I'd take the second option even if it didn't make the club any more money. From our perspective, Macc fans >>>> Swindon fans.

And I'd expect your club would feel the same the other way around!

[DV]

Our away day jinx is bizarre.

If this game had been at the County Ground we'd have walked away with all 3 points without a doubt.

[Silkyman]

Our away day jinx is bizarre.

If this game had been at the County Ground we'd have walked away with all 3 points without a doubt.

We're the same. Won one game away all season - 4-0 at Hereford. Not even scored in the League away apart from that!

[Kinky Tom]

what about the challenge in the first half where your lad goes through the back of simon ferry(?) after the ball has gone and the ref doesn't even speak to him?  what about the challenge on kennedy in the first half where any other ref in the country would have booked him?  what about all the free kicks you were given just because some of your fans made some noise?

[Batch]

Our away day jinx is bizarre.

If this game had been at the County Ground we'd have walked away with all 3 points without a doubt.

It is bizarre. I wonder what the psychology is behind it?

To the layman you could argue that home fan pressure should force the away team to come forward a bit more, leaving us with more space to play in and expose the back line. IMHO we have a player or two that should thrive on that.

But the reverse seems to be true given our one goal in 5 defeats.

[Paolo69]

You can only do it a handful of times in a season so you have to pick your games. It's only like a Tuesday night match anyway.

I see why it's annoying as an away fan, but I also accept that clubs are right to look after their own. No Swindon fans are going to start coming to Macc regularly. There will hopefully be a few locals who haven't been up for a while who gave it a try on Friday and will come back again. If the choice is down to 300 more Swindon fans attending one game or 100 Macc fans attending three, I'd take the second option even if it didn't make the club any more money. From our perspective, Macc fans >>>> Swindon fans.

And I'd expect your club would feel the same the other way around!

Fair comment about the fans. Not sure i will ever see why 100 more home fans will turn up on a friday night compared to a sat but hey i suppose thats the "experiment". Never knew you could only move a certain number of games in a season to a friday night. What the hell is that all about? Plus if this is the case should it not be the more local games. A dozen of my mates missed at least the first 20 minutes despite spending over 4 1/2 hours in a car, that can't really be right.

If you had ever driven ooop north on a friday eveing you would know that its is nothing like a tuesday game.