Swindon Town v Millwall Official Matchday Thread

[Berniman]

About as well as this match day thread by the sounds of it..

[Batch]

Take the context of the league table out of it an look at the game in isolation for a minute.

This was a game we never really looked in trouble in. Millwall were proper shit today, they had two tactics 1. Lump it forward to try and get in behind our central defence. 2. Be a bit niggly against a very inept ref.

Tactic 1 looked like it would work early on as we got away with a couple of their hoofs leaving us 1 on 1. But aside from that we looked solid. The age old problem of not getting the ball forward quick enough was still evident so its fair to say Millwall initially coped just fine with our attacks too as they got numbers back. They also had a couple of big lumps in the back 4.

But as the half went on we showed a bit more about us, passing it a bit quicker and starting to knock on the door of the Millwall defence. Unfortunately half time came and stopped that.

All the way through the second half you just knew Millwall were there for the taking. If they played like this every week they'd be in the relegation mix. We started to mix it up a bit ourselves and Williams went for it by bringing on Noris and Brophy. We weren't exactly creating and missing loads, but we were the team that was going to score - although obviously I expected us to concede under such circumstances. We also gave a bit of the niggle back.

And when Ajose almost created a chance that someone (? Colkett?) took and blazed over it looked like being a 0-0 at best, shooting ourselves in the foot by an obvious cock up aside . But the inevitable loss didn't come, and at the end the ball broke in the box to Thomas in injury time to side foot it home.

We deserved it. I forgot how good winning feels.

So in the context of the game a good day, I'll enjoy it. Until I look at the league table tomorrow.
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Ince and Conroy standout for me.
Thomas probably had his best game in a Town shirt - very limited going forward (goal asdie) but did OK defensively.

Please can Gladwin be injured for a few weeks...
Also, I assume Thompson is injured?

[Batch]

How was the big protest?

What protest?

[Saxondale]

Ah right.  Well I guess Ill just wait until the facebook group post all about the glorious spectacle.

[sonicyouth]

Dreadful game, beer afterwards good.

[Batch]

seriously SY ? didn't think it was that bad a game in the context of the shit we've had to watch this season.

serious Q, have you missed loads this season or do i just see it differently?

[sonicyouth]

I haven't been to many games tbh but those were two dire teams

[tans]

Not the greatest game, but a wins a win.

Good to see Ralphy, Herthab, Sonic, Bennett and Luciensanchez before the game

[DV]

Said after Bradford our best bet to hold onto lead would be to score in the last minute!
Result, seems too little too late though.

[ronnie21]

Cannot believe we have beaten a side with 16 unbeaten games and just gets to three pages - apathy reigns!!  Deserved to win, the longer the game went on it seemed Millwall withdrew into their shell and didn't really go for it.  Ironically, i thought the goal was scored by the worst player in a Swindon shirt, others may well disagree!  Was surprised Goddard was subbed, he seemed better than Thomas - who should have scored 5 mins before.  Thompson withdrew because of the old heel injury apparently.  Good to see we didn't play back quite so much, in fact not at all in the first half .  Ince was immense for us!!

[Bob's Orange]

We are shit, Williams is useless.....

Oh hold on, we won! Fair play!

[nigel grays a postie]

Ince brilliant. Conroy and Branco also excellent in defence. Vigs only 1 shot to save which is a rarity. struggled to create too much meaningful and neither team sparkled but think win was deserved and even we seemed able to hold onto a lead for 30 seconds today. Thought Thomas was his usual invisible self but all credit for a nice calm finish - thank God chance at end didn't fall to Branco or Norris.

[joteddyred]

Today was another example of how shit this league is.  Millwall unbeaten in 16 games and in the play off places didn't have a shot on goal.

We deserved to win, but I couldn't help but think we'd probably concede at the death.  Nice that it was the other way.  Can't beat a last minute goal.  It's that little glimmer of hope again and the 'what ifs' that kills you.

[Bogus Dave]

Millwall were shit. That was the least I've ever celebrated a last minute winner ever, because I fully expect us to still go down. But it keeps a tiny bit of hope/faith/delusional

[Johnny Reeves]

The sad thing is i don't think we have the players who should end up in the bottom 4.The division is pants but our disorganisation and inability to keep players fit has killed us.Saying that i still think this our worst squad ever.