Swindon Town Vs Colchester Official Matchday Thread

[welshred]

What the hell is Paolo on about?

[ronnie21]

Sorry guys, my fault.

Not it wasn't, I blame Tans!!  He didn't aim his burger at Rose as promised!!

[singingiiiffy]

Shocking performance. How people are texting in saying Troy played well I will never know. Lack of pace all over. When will bostock ever get some game time!!! Looked decent at Preston and hasn't played a minute since.

[chalkies_shorts]

Complete and utter shite but I think we've got to give credit to Colchester here. They didn't give us a second on the ball and chased and harried for everything. They also appeared fitter than us and were certainly more up for it. Our midfield were absolute wank and ferry made no dofference to it. This meant we needed  good distribution from the back that was totally lacking - both Archie and Bessone's distributions were not worthy of professional football. McEvely couldn't beat the front man which left macca who was probably MOM but by default by being less shit than the others.
Up front their two centre backs had our forwards in their pockets. I'd take their no 4 - he was superb all game.
All in all a fucking shit evening but credit where its due, col U had done their hoework, they worked hard and they go a break due to what seemed to me to be a completely fucking useless wall.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Complete crap topped off by Rose scoring and taking the piss.

The more I see of Collins the more I think that Shrewsbury have shafted us. Very worrying.

You would think that a 200k player at this level would be able to pass a football, wouldn't you? Sadly not in Troys case.

If Roberts is going to miss matches then we need to sign a left winger on loan to cover. De Vita should have been shipped out in the summer along with some of the others deemed not upto this level of football.

Is it just me or are Benson, Collins and Rooney all near identical strikers? It was crying out for a spark up front tonight to get behind them.

I can see Bostock starting Saturday and rightly so. Very frustrating evening but we will soon be back on track I am sure.

[welshred]

Shocking performance. How people are texting in saying Troy played well I will never know.

I was presuming they were being sarcastic.

[ronnie21]

If Bassone is a professional footballer, then I'm Pixie Lott!!!!  Fuck me, people thought Sheehan and Rose were bad, this guy hasn't got a clue.  I am sure he is colour blind and he never found a red shirt all night, and the corner he gave away at the Town End just about summed him up.

[LucienSanchez]

That was possibly the worst game I've seen under Paolo (I was on holiday for Orient).

 - Long ball wasn't working, and was obvious from the very outset, yet the tactics remained the same.
 - On this note, Troy played a cracking through ball to Williams (along the floor) that almost set up a chance in the first few minutes... from this point onwards, he assumed what appeared to be his sole role of the player of aimless lofty hoofs. The tactics appeared to be Macca to Troy, then straight up to Benson via the now redundant Lyneham flight path.
 - Navarro was shite. The very fery few times we gave the ball to our midfield, he wasted it.
 - We never utilised Ritchie, which is criminal seeing as he only had Rose for company all night. He wasn't double marked, but never got the ball. This is down to Bessone being rubbish, and our CM's not getting the ball to him.
 - We came off second best in all 50/50 challenges except when Jay took out the corner flag.
 - Our set pieces were shocking. I had to leave before the final whistle having seen yet another poorly thought out and shittly executed short corner hit the first man yet again. We should have corners and free-kicks nailed by now.
 - The goal: was the wall in the wrong place, or did it just split/jump over the shot, my angle wasn't great? Still, it didn't look like a 'worldy' strike.

I seriously would rather have watched the Great British Bake Off than that utter shite out there this evening, it's left me pretty annoyed.

[Spud]

People who text in saying Troy played well, need their mobile phones destroyed.

Of all the people to score, it had to be that Cunt!

[TheMajorSTFC]

That was fucking shocking, definately on par with and IMO worse than Leyton Orient. I don't expect us to win every game (even if it would be nice) but we could show some fight! The majority of teams we play and are winning 1-0 against will normally always pin us in and make us defend for our lives and earn the win, yet with us that never seems to be the case. Every player was poor tonight and the hoofball should have been cut out after 10 minutes. They had 1 6.6 centre back who was winning everything. Why oh why can John Bostock not get a game, wouldn't be surprised if more changes are made ahead of Bury (if on) and hopefully Roberts/Thompson will both be back!

As for Rose, 1 word...CUNT!

[chubbslovesbeer]

People who text in saying Troy played well, need their mobile phones destroyed.

Of all the people to score, it had to be that Cunt!

Ex town players always score against us

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Awful display from us tonight. Colchester played more football than we did. I have no idea why we insisted on lumping it up top all game against a team full of 6 footers. When we tried to pass it we couldnt execute it properly. So many players had bad games tonight. Ritchie never really had much of a chance to get into the game, Navarro had the touch of a rapist and couldnt pass it for shit, Troy enjoyed a cameo performance to rival the Peter Kay John Smiths advert "avvvv it".

Colchester played for a point and packed the midfield but took the chance when we gifted them the free kick. They didnt really impress. The only positive i can take from tonight is that we will not play that badly again this season.

[Nomoreheroes]

PDC:
- Not even angry
- Would have liked the game cancelled as he could see that the players had turned off after recent results
- No passion. No desire
- He could have changed 7 players as it was a poor performance across the team
- Lots and lots of meaningless waffle saying that we were crap and have to learn lessons from this and try to improve
- He wasn't surprised, but he can't keep changing 7-8 players each week when across the team there seems to be a lack of desire (from context)
- Loads more waffle which was about it being easy for players at this level to lift level of performance against Premiership teams, but not against teams near bottom of the league.
- Mentioned Ritchie having a poor game and being only average at this level when showing this level of desire
- Need to check on Thompson and Roberts injuries in next couple of days

He mumbled so much tonight that I couldnt get everything

[Hitchinred]

Might have missed it but didn't hear a sponsor's man of the match. Hardly surprising after that performance!

[welshred]

Might have missed it but didn't hear a sponsor's man of the match. Hardly surprising after that performance!

They didn't award one. No reason given but its not hard to guess.