Swindon Town Vs Bournemouth Official Matchday Thread

[Langers]

Tough to read too much into as Bournemouth were dreadful, BUT...

Thompson's performance was very encouraging, had Grabban in his pocket first half hour.

Williams is very fast and quickly becoming my favourite player, works hard.

Matt Ritchie is good at football.

Pretty much sums it up, very enjoyable game. Really impressed with Thompson.

Ward is starting to look a lot more solid as well.

[red sheldon]

this is the start of a good run I can see us starting to close down the top two teams, PDC seems to be settling on his team a bit more now and there is such strength in depth to change things if necessary its looking good

[chalkies_shorts]

That really was a very good performance, all over the pitch. I'm not sure if Muff are shite but we certainly made them look it. The first goal was a goal of the season contender - Ritchie picked the guys posket, one touch and boom. The second was a greart cross from Roberts. The third one their keeper should be embarassed about. The fourth was great team work but Muff had given up after the 3rd.
Thompson was deservedly MOM and its good to see a player in a red shirt fly in with the tackles - particularly when he times then so well.
When Roberts and Ritchie really get flying its going to be happy days.
A word also for Ward today. At Scumland he was absolte dogshit. At Pompey he looked better but still a bit rusty. He played really well today.
I also Macca was back to his best as he has looked pretty ordinary so far. 3 of his long passes out to the wing were top drawer.
The main thing though was we looked like a team again.

[Batch]

Matt Ritchie is good at football.

A couple of those first time cross field balls showed exactly why he would be hard to replace. Sublime.

[Ardiles]

Been out today, but just read this thread start to finish.

Love football.

[Dozno9]

I thought that was to get rooneys attention to say he was coming on as he wasn't happy with Collins.

It was about 5 mins before that, bloody funny.

[RedRag]

Loved PdC waving his foot when the TE asked Paolo for a wave !!!

Me too - that was a first, pure Paolo!

[LittleRed]

Did anyone else see PDC going fucking nuts over the subs watching the game and sending out the fitness chap.

Yeah I saw this too. By the looks of it he gave the fitness coach a rollicking for not noticing it, of which the fitness coach passed it on. The players warming up certainly had a lot more urgency about them afterwards.

Thought the game was great today and hats off to Nathan Thompson I thought he had a stormer, especially as they targeted that side for a while until the realised that the kid was quite useful, soapy tit wank

Still no sign of flint though, that's my only concern as a quite rate him. Hope he's not on his way out. Also no room for Luke Rooney either.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

I wouldn't say Muff were a bad side for the first 25 minutes. Lets not forget Fodds back to his best and that amazing save. Games turn on those situations.
After that Swindon showed their class.

Pleased for your Thompson....great game and Roberts gives us that extra balance which has been missing on the left. Good game for Ward and Navaro. Whilst people will talk about Williams and Ritchie I thought Tommy Miller mastered the middle of the park this afternnoon. Nothing special but done the right things.

Enjoyed the game.

........oh and of course my local team had a good result against the mighty Bantams

[jonny72]

Charlie Austin is on fire. Will be interesting to see if he will come back to haunt us tuesday!

He scored 3 last Saturday and 2 today, meaning his Burnley and career scoring ratio is now 0.5 (a goal every other game). It's actually a lot more impressive than that if you take in to account the actual minutes he's played, reckon he's been a sub or subbed in a quarter of his games.

[lambourn red]

Yeah I saw this too. By the looks of it he gave the fitness coach a rollicking for not noticing it, of which the fitness coach passed it on. The players warming up certainly had a lot more urgency about them afterwards.

Thought the game was great today and hats off to Nathan Thompson I thought he had a stormer, especially as they targeted that side for a while until the realised that the kid was quite useful, soapy tit wank

Still no sign of flint though, that's my only concern as a quite rate him. Hope he's not on his way out. Also no room for Luke Rooney either.

Flint ,Bostock and Rooney sat just down in front of me at the top of the Arkells .

[Shaw Rosso]

Really chuffed after today's performance, some great individual performances (Thompson, Williams, Ritchie, Miller), some improved efforts (McCormack, JayMac, Ward, Foderingham) but best of all a decent team effort.

Enjoyed telling Bournemouth they would never sign Matt Ritchie, and he and Roberts look like doing what most of us have predicted. Williams first touch is sublime at times, he buys himself an extra yard and has pace to burn.

So encouraging for Tuesday night, wonder who will have the job of looking after Charlie?

[SleafordRobin]

Just got back, 12 hour round trip but what a cracker.  Read some of the thread & most points have been covered.  I don't think Bournemouth are that bad, but that we were as good today as I've seen us under PDC.  Thought the back 4 were solid, Wes made an outstanding save just before HT which could have made things interesting.  Macca was class today (back to his best) & it was great to see him play well with Ward, who was equally solid.  Young Thomson was exceptional! In my opinion his inclusion has given Richie more attacking freedom & he's looking back at his best.  Miller was very good today & the front 2 chased everything.

Great goals, great performance, a bit of tippy tappy & loads of passion, best game I've seen under PDC!

[sonicyouth]

I'm not sure if it is worthwhile reading much into which players didn't make it on to the bench - a squad with as much depth as ours has means that some will always miss out

[No Longer Posh Red]

Just got back, 12 hour round trip

Did you cycle?