Swindon Town vs Shrewsbury Town Official Matchday Thread

[Peter Venkman]

Defensively poor, no bottle, effort or creation in midfield and we struggle to score.

I too can't see where the next win is coming from unfortunately.

[adje]

Why do people on the radio keep saying "we miss nathan"?

[molepar]

Karl Robinson at the match today...

[RJack]

That was gash, no urgency and no clue. Whoever we sign they had better be a lot better than some of the players we got else we are fooked if we're not already

[Costanza]

Karl Robinson at the match today...

Can he play up front?

[Nijholts Nuts]

The worst thing is the thought that we are prime time ripe for a full blown arse reaming from Oxford at home in a few weeks times.

[THE FLASH]

Steve White:
- Game sprung to life with penalty
- Thought that was it. But couldnt get head of steam up
- Shrews always in the mix
- Brophy wrong side of marker. Stupidly gettting sent off. No complaints.
- Very disappointing
- Sprung to life as proper football match in last 10 mins
- Goddard good performer. Hylton good at the end and could have had a penalty
- After 55 mins didnt press them higher up the pitch when they had 10. Didnt seem to have the energy
- Shrews defender caused mix up with keeper. Unfortunate to give away penalty
- Probed and proded in first half but create nothing
- Why have Town struggled? Mixed mesages? Difficult for White to say. First start under Sherwood everyone pressed up the pitch with high energy and intensity. Been away for a couple of months, not sure what has happened since
- Is this a relegations battle? Don't have a huge amount of spark. Havent shipped goals. No strength in depth of squad.
- One would have thought penalty would have given them a spark
- Getting to stage of season where we get pulled into a dire relegation battle.
- Point a game is not good enough
- Next fixtures: Looks quite daunting! Sometimes it doesn't pan out like that
- With no LB then hopefully Thompson back or more players into the club

Williams:
- Dont think there was a great deal between teams
- Might have deserved win for taking lead
- Disjointed performance and nervous. Looked worse against 10 men
- Too many unforced errors
- Brophy. Quite sure after Shrews sending off , ref looks to even it up. Shouldnt have given him opportunity to do so. Bad decision cost us again
- Should grow in confidence at 1-0. But team went into shell, hesitated, made wrong decision. Should have given them a lift, but didnt
- Hard for Williams to know why players playing without intelligence. Can only think pressure affecting players
- Both teams got close to creating chance without doing so.
- Booing is just normal and part of life. We live with it constantly
- Not criticising the crowd one bit, but it can affect you if you are being booed and harrassed. But dont blame the fans
- Williams attitude to give everything to help players and not moan about stuff out of his control. Will try to help them make a difference
- Loves to come out and talk to fans, sometimes to say that he feels the same way as them.
- Fans may not like him at the moment
- Thompson had been hoped to have been fit
- Kasim was very ill yesterday (something he ate) and was dehydrated
- BOO not on training pitch yet
- Increasding psycological frailty: How do we start picking up point? Williams highlighted that they have conceeded less recently and have been close to getting the odd one goal win

Crap questions! No answers!

Then why bring kassim on?!?!!!! Shite...

Shameful day for those who paid good money to watch.

Hanging on to a draw.....Fuck off...Disgrace!

[molepar]

I don't think either us or Shrewsbury are playing Charlton soon...could Robinson be scouting players? Seems unlikely on today's performance

[Costanza]

The worst thing is the thought that we are prime time ripe for a full blown arse reaming from Oxford at home in a few weeks times.

Rovers away before that.

Confident?

[Costanza]

I don't think either us or Shrewsbury are playing Charlton soon...could Robinson be scouting players? Seems unlikely on today's performance

I imagine Robinson was hoping the game would be better.

Didn't someone tell us that Kasim was a Robinson target?

[Bob's Orange]

Hopefully he signs the lot of them.

[Nomoreheroes]

Then why bring kassim on?!?!!!! Shite...

Shameful day for those who paid good money to watch.

Hanging on to a draw.....Fuck off...Disgrace!

On the first point:  That's why he was dehydrated. (Maybe Karl Robinson was there to watch him?)
On the second: Think Williams is frustrated that he has no leaders on the pitch that can help others make the right decisions.
On the last: Think he was saying that they have been tighter at the back recently and if they had scored one more goal in the last two games they would have had at least one more win out of the two.

[Reg Smeeton]

Poor but not unexpected. Need players asap which we knew anyway.

Very true.  At least the draw keeps the Shrews down a bit and with Chesterfield and Bury struggling, not too much damage done. However we will need to win about 7 games before season's end from 20 games....we've presently 6 from 26. We've just had 2 in Franchise, worst home record and Shrews in the drop zone and behind and down to 10 and failed to win either.

Failure to strengthen will see us down....but weve been told the D o F recognises this, so here's hoping.

[Flashheart]

Vigs ain't happy.

[Batch]

Well, we were shit. They were shit. It was a bit like the Southend game. Tentative bollocks football then a mad 20 minutes. In fact the goal net getting demolished was the most entertaining bit of the game up to that point.

Shrews were actually better after their sending off. Looked a harsh red but hard to see.

Brophy had two cynical ones, nothing horrible but can see why it was two yellows.

Didn't think the challenge on Goddard was a pen, looked to take the ball. Did think the one on Hylton was, didn't see him get any of the ball.

Got no problem with booing, or "Power out" (not sure I agree, but I'd happily try a different approach) - but doing so at 1-1 with 10 to go is a bit off. Losing, losing heavily I can see it - not when its still there. I boo'd myself at the end, in case it sounded a bit preachy.

But the crowd has turned. Sherwood better pull his fucking finger out, this is going to get ugly if things don't pick up.

My MOM was ...Norris. Yeah, never thought I'd put that there.