Swindon Town v Stevenage Official Matchday Thread

[Shaw Rosso]

Not too difficult to sum up today. The goal was the best team goal I have seen at the County Ground since I have attended. The triangles we play going forward and the speed at which we switch the play is fantastic. I remember Di Canio touting us as some sort of League 2 Barcelona a couple of seasons back, even the press bought in to it. The style of football I have seen over the last 3 games has been a darn sight nearer to Barcelona than anything Di Canio ever produced. If our manager back then happened to be Mark Cooper nobody outside of Swindon would have give a shit.

Give Cooper the job full time, not just based on 3 games but also based on the way the guy has conducted himself throughout the last couple of months. He knows that he will never be the 1st choice with many of our fanbase (me included a few weeks back), but the sooner we put the management issue to bed the better, and for me, he is currently the outstanding candidate.

Oh, and finally, "Do Do Do, Massimo Luongo, Do Do Do, He looks like Bruno Mars"  Class  

[leefer]

Sound performance today....no more,very promising,no more.

Did we have an attack the second half?




Promising and a very good goal....no more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23558652

Edit,i stand corrected....six shots on target

[kerry red]

At least I didn't hear any of the

'Get rid of it!'

type comments today.

Fans seem to be warming to the brand of football we are attempting and I reckon most will accept the odd cock up when we are pissing about at the back.

We do look surprisingly decent at the back

Hope we can keep it up and add a bit up front

Good stuff!

[walcot red]

Very very pleased with the performance today, 1st half we were all over them, 2nd half it was a typical westley team performance kick the shit out the opposition and time waste. Agree with others about the style of play and that goal, fuc me that was a cracker, (goal of the season contender already?)

The only thing I didn't like about the game today was THAT FUCKING DRUM.

If we play like this all season I don't think we'll have a problem staying up, I'm confident enough that with the right striker paired with Williams we'll in the play-offs come end of the season.

[Berniman]

Nile Rangers new look!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2379976/Former-Newcastle-United-striker-Nile-Ranger-tattoos-surname-head.html

Model citizen, just what we need!

[joteddyred]

hmmm. You are a bit further towards the te than me (20 seats!). so should have the better view. From my angle it looked 100% too far in front of him.

I would say I'll watch it again on the stfc world highlights. But lets be honest, we'll be lucky to see the goal.

I'm midway in the Arkells and he was never getting it.  If it had been Storey going for it, nobody would have said a word, unfortunately Williams now has a 'bottler' tag attached to him.

Already been said, good first half but fell away in the second and against a better team we might have thrown away the 3 points.  Byrne was shite, totally liability and is not a left back.  Would rather see McEveley there.  Storey looks like he might be carrying an injury.

[Munichred]

I agree. The thing is it's easy for us to sit and accuse, however, as a player you know instantly whether you're in with a shout or not of getting there first and in this case he was two yards ( that's six foot six inches kids so look it up ) away from having a decent chance with their keeper.

Sorry to be pedantic, but two yards is six feet. Two meters maybe...?

[newmarket red]

It's someone's personal twitter so here's the image.
I've no idea if it's him or not, or who the other guy next to him is.

That was theo robinson yesterday sat two rows in front of me ..

[DRS]

No it wasnt

[kaufman]

No it wasnt

I can't figure it out, DRS any ideas?

[Bathtime]

Not too difficult to sum up today. The goal was the best team goal I have seen at the County Ground since I have attended. The triangles we play going forward and the speed at which we switch the play is fantastic. I remember Di Canio touting us as some sort of League 2 Barcelona a couple of seasons back, even the press bought in to it. The style of football I have seen over the last 3 games has been a darn sight nearer to Barcelona than anything Di Canio ever produced. If our manager back then happened to be Mark Cooper nobody outside of Swindon would have give a shit.

Give Cooper the job full time, not just based on 3 games but also based on the way the guy has conducted himself throughout the last couple of months. He knows that he will never be the 1st choice with many of our fanbase (me included a few weeks back), but the sooner we put the management issue to bed the better, and for me, he is currently the outstanding candidate.

Oh, and finally, "Do Do Do, Massimo Luongo, Do Do Do, He looks like Bruno Mars"  Class 

Spot on SR......Lots of Williams knocking on here about him bottling his one on one...I was in the Arkells pretty much perfectly positioned to see that he had no realistic chance of getting to the ball before their goalie, without colliding with him seriously.
There`s no pleasing all the supporters all of the time but this style of football is entertaining to watch....a bit ike watching Tottenham!!
Early days but what a great start after a mixed up closed season.

[Bob's Orange]

Was it obika?

[jayohaitchenn]

I'm warming to Jed. His grammar is still shit but I like the sentiment.

JedMcCoy ‏@JedMcCoy  13h 
To all teams coming to CG please bring you're own ball ..!!.. As you ain't gonna see much of ours ..... #COYR ...

[Honkytonk]

I'm warming to Jed. His grammar is still shit but I like the sentiment.

JedMcCoy ‏@JedMcCoy  13h 
To all teams coming to CG please bring you're own ball ..!!.. As you ain't gonna see much of ours ..... #COYR ...

That's quite a good one. Well done Jed, you've finally said something on Twitter I like. Just get your fucking grammar right and we're all good.

After his injury last season Williams has been a lot more cautious about leaping into challenges. But he doesn't deserve the term 'bottler'. Not by any stretch. If he had tried to get to that and tore his hammy/broke his leg, we'd be fucked for a good part of the season, and he knows it.

Everyone knows he's a confidence player, so shouting 'bottler' at him like some morons are bound to do is totally out of order. If people don't like him, fine, but he's the best we've got atm and all shouting 'shit' at him is going to do is make it worse.

[Riddick]

Was it obika?

Doesn't look like Obika to me

Its entirely possible the picture is not of the player Jed is talking about. Didn't hear the interview but was being 6'3 mentioned? Obika is only 6', Clarke is 6'2 and so is Ranger which could be claimed as 6'3 i guess.