Swindon Town Vs Bristol Rovers Official Matchday Thread

[Spencer_White]

Too many changes to a winning team. Cibocchi was playing well. Even Holmes, came into the team too quick. Bostocks appearance at Wembley was fucking rediculous.

That said, we battered them first half today. We ran out of steam second half, but if our fans had stopped behaving like spoilt brats, and supported the team then I am sure we would have got the result.

Murray is so one footed its difficult to believe a Championship team pays his wages.

Wonder if the Old Bill have got a grip yet? Huge mob of Rovers wandering around Town with no escort earlier.

[chalkies_shorts]

Huge mob of Rovers wandering around Town with no escort earlier.

Probably looking for a pound shop to loot. They're a real bunch of chavvy low life drug addicts and prostitutes.

[phelpsieboy]

Thought McEveley had a real good game.
Would really like to see Storey to start up front with Benson, feel he will be a great foil for Benson with his pace.

[Ralphy]

Some right proper bellends texting in to RS after the game today. Someone said that Connell was the worse striker ever to play for us !!

5 away games and 3 at home now. The home games you'd say we 'should' win. Plymouth, Northampton and Port Vale.

[Spencer_White]

Was probably that Jakey Cook off the facebook page. Complete cunt.

[Gnasher]

Some right proper bellends texting in to RS after the game today. Someone said that Connell was the worse striker ever to play for us !!

5 away games and 3 at home now. The home games you'd say we 'should' win. Plymouth, Northampton and Port Vale.

Someone even said Benson is useless. Do these people ever go to games?

[DRS]

The txts etc dont bother me.Like spencer said it is the spoilt little cunts who are becoming a joke.There is a difference between holding the manager accountable and acting like a total fucking weapon

[pericarp]

Someone even said Benson is useless. Do these people ever go to games?

Benson is the least useless player 

He was a breath of fresh air when he came on.

[Langers]

Frustrating game, but a useful point, especially with Crawley and Shrews drawing.

Ferry was my MOM, closely followed by McCormack, we miss Caddis so much, you can see him not being there has had a huge affect on Ritchie as well. Did PDC say how long until he is back?

I though McEverly had a good game, would like to see him go outside the winger more often though.

Overall, glad that game is out the way as it was always going to be a tricky one, a very important week coming up, two very tough away game. If we can get 4 points then we are looking very good.

[DRS]

Another thing i am noticing is a massive difference in fitness between our loan players and the players who were here preseason

[Gnasher]

Ferry was my MOM, closely followed by McCormack, we miss Caddis so much, you can see him not being there has had a huge affect on Ritchie as well. Did PDC say how long until he is back?

I heard mid-April mentioned somewhere.

[Langers]

I heard mid-April mentioned somewhere.

Shit, not good if true...

[reeves4england]

We played well today for about 60 minutes. After the first couple of substitutions we seemed to lose our way a little though. Not entirely sure what caused it, but I think losing Ritchie was a big blow. Holmes failed to impress having moved to the right, and for all those slagging off Rooney tonight, I only remember him being given the ball out wide 2 or 3 times, and he did ok with little support from McEvely or others.

Not sure what to think with Connell. He's scored a good number of goals, and has some very good games. Today I was disappointed to see him go off, mostly because he'd offered a lot more than Murray (not that the constant abuse Murray received from some was justified).

At the end of the day, we put in a good shift against a physical side who came for a point and will be thankful to go away with just that. Paolo seemed pretty pleased with the effort the lads put in and I can't disagree. Go to Barnet on Tuesday, do the same, and goals will come. We're top of the league with two games in hand, and we're there for a reason.

[pericarp]

We played well today for about 60 minutes. After the first couple of substitutions we seemed to lose our way a little though. Not entirely sure what caused it, but I think losing Ritchie was a big blow. Holmes failed to impress having moved to the right, and for all those slagging off Rooney tonight, I only remember him being given the ball out wide 2 or 3 times, and he did ok with little support from McEvely or others.

Not sure what to think with Connell. He's scored a good number of goals, and has some very good games. Today I was disappointed to see him go off, mostly because he'd offered a lot more than Murray (not that the constant abuse Murray received from some was justified).

At the end of the day, we put in a good shift against a physical side who came for a point and will be thankful to go away with just that. Paolo seemed pretty pleased with the effort the lads put in and I can't disagree. Go to Barnet on Tuesday, do the same, and goals will come. We're top of the league with two games in hand, and we're there for a reason.

Yeah, agree with all of that.

And I must stress. Don't play Holmes on the right. He's effective on the left, but useless on the right.

[reeves4england]

Mark McGhee's comments here for anyone who's interested. Always come across as a pretty honest bloke IMO. I would point out that our lack of width in the second half was at least partially due to their attempts to break our wingers' legs though...

http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10328~2708149,00.html