Swindon Town v Oldham Athletic Official Matchday Thread

[theakston2k]

'Today has taught me that one or two players can talk a good game but can’t back it up'

Doesn't that sum Cooper up as a manager as well though, he spouts stuff about desire from the players but when he's a corpse leant against the dug-out it doesn't really inject any urgency or provide any direction to 'young players' (as he keeps telling us). I'm not sure the players have that much respect for him and the whole Ranger thing must have seriously undermined him especially when they decided they want Ranger back.
As for Ranger being late, he took part in the pre-match warm up so a complete load of bollocks I would say!

[Reg Smeeton]

Question: When Ward was subbed for Troy, who was giving the Captains armband ??

Nathan Nathan Nathan Nathan Nathan, Nathan Thompson

[sonicyouth]

Doesn't that sum Cooper up as a manager as well though, he spouts stuff about desire from the players but when he's a corpse leant against the dug-out it doesn't really inject any urgency or provide any direction to 'young players' (as he keeps telling us). I'm not sure the players have that much respect for him and the whole Ranger thing must have seriously undermined him especially when they decided they want Ranger back.
As for Ranger being late, he took part in the pre-match warm up so a complete load of bollocks I would say!

According to his Q&A yesterday it was Cooper's idea to ask the players if they wanted to give Ranger another chance.

[JoeMezz]

Yes...that is a bit of a concern, not sure what Mason's contract situation is , but he's a long way from the finished article and could probably do with following the Luongo road to the CG full time. Pritchard, reading between the lines we'd be unlikely to get. At the appointment stage, I was against Cooper getting it, but I think he's doing OK...as long as that continues, all well and good.

Could be a fairly long process, but Walsall are a model that we should be looking at. Same model been in place for a while now, and starting to reap the rewards now, likely to get a play-off place and got a very good team, best I've seen at CG this season.

[suttonred]

Doesn't that sum Cooper up as a manager as well though, he spouts stuff about desire from the players but when he's a corpse leant against the dug-out it doesn't really inject any urgency or provide any direction to 'young players' (as he keeps telling us). I'm not sure the players have that much respect for him and the whole Ranger thing must have seriously undermined him especially when they decided they want Ranger back.
As for Ranger being late, he took part in the pre-match warm up so a complete load of bollocks I would say!

Even if he did take part, players are meant to be there at a designated time. normally about 2 hours before kick off. he could have got there at 2.20 made kick about and still been late for all we know.

[Honkytonk]

Back from the pub.

Nathan Fucking Byrne deserves a full on defrocking and 400 penal laps of the pitch after his performance today. Appalling, appalling, appalling. How he stayed on for the entirety of the first half, then survived half time, then survived all of the second half, I do not fucking know.

Harley was shit. Anyone who taps the ball straight into the wall from 25 yards with a 50/60mph tailwind doesn't deserve to take free kicks. the worst of a bad bunch in midfield.

Doubtless other piss poor excuses for players will cross my mind later, but right now that's what sticks out.

I'd like to say that Branco wasn't as bad as some are making out. He's a good defender and in the lead up to the Oldham goal he made 2 goal-saving tackles.

[Anteater]

Kept quiet all season so far but now just a couple of comments after today

Harley - Shit (agree with the Hewlett comparison only Hewlett was marginly better)
Rekord - shit
Byrne - shit today
Ref - Shit
Cooper - rightly given time but proving himself to be out of his depth......looking shit....Luongo substitution and fans mentioning Malpas today as a prompt tells a tale
JPT - Shit.......lets stay up please and not mimick Chesterfield

[timmyg]

Shit game played by two shit teams in front of a shit ref. shit.

[Anteater]

Overheard and not prompted on three seperate occasions today after the game, fans (who I do not know) likening our performance to the Malpas era, and I think todays performance only encourages those comments.............and after today Im not going to argue.

[DV]

Doesn't that sum Cooper up as a manager as well though, he spouts stuff about desire from the players but when he's a corpse leant against the dug-out it doesn't really inject any urgency or provide any direction to 'young players' (as he keeps telling us). I'm not sure the players have that much respect for him and the whole Ranger thing must have seriously undermined him especially when they decided they want Ranger back.
As for Ranger being late, he took part in the pre-match warm up so a complete load of bollocks I would say!

I remember previously we had passion fuelled highly animated manager on the touchline...

People complained about that, too....

[manc_red]

I remember previously we had passion fuelled highly animated manager on the touchline...

People complained about that, too....

Andy King?

[theakston2k]

I guess my main worry is we know we have a young team and if we lose a couple in a row you can see heads going down and things really falling apart. We've seen already that Cooper hasn't got a clue when it comes to sorting the away form, if the same happens to our home form what will he do then....

[sonicyouth]

I remember previously we had passion fuelled highly animated manager on the touchline...

People complained about that, too....

Have you not noticed that people tend to complain regardless of who is manager or how we're doing?

[random_five]

Could be a fairly long process, but Walsall are a model that we should be looking at. Same model been in place for a while now, and starting to reap the rewards now, likely to get a play-off place and got a very good team, best I've seen at CG this season.

Which model is that? The "recruit a manager that knows what the fuck he's doing" model? Yes I would quite like us to give that one a try.

[manc_red]

Which model is that? The "recruit a manager that knows what the fuck he's doing" model? Yes I would quite like us to give that one a try.

Funnily enough I recall their fans saying similar after we beat them at their place last season.