Swindon v Stevenage official match day thread

[Wobbly Bob]

A pleasure to watch that.
Must be a long time since 'our own' scored 3 in a game.

Anderson, superb tonight, played with purpose.

Wouldn't it be great for the club to flourish on the pitch under a hungry young manager who looks as if he might know what he is doing. Time will tell.
Not quite Bert's Babes, but Richies Rascals did ok.

[Reg Smeeton]

Must be a long time since 'our own' scored 3 in a game.

I'd hazard a guess it would back to the days of John Trollope's side, if looking for more than one.  Charlie Henry scored 18 including a hat-trick in 85/86

[REDBUCK]

A pleasure to watch that.
Must be a long time since 'our own' scored 3 in a game.

Anderson, superb tonight, played with purpose.

Wouldn't it be great for the club to flourish on the pitch under a hungry young manager who looks as if he might know what he is doing. Time will tell.
Not quite Bert's Babes, but Richies Rascals did ok.

Nothing like getting carried away after one performance.As for Anderson, couldn't disagree more about his performance. Too much of an 'look at me' game for me, doesn't do enough grafting for the team when he hasn't got the ball.

[Batch]

thought Anderson was Anderson. Good one second, slow to pass/misplace pass the next.

he's an 'almost' player, so frustrating.

[Panda Paws]

I've no idea how anyone can criticise Keshi for last night, and highlight his work rate. When Pryce and Twine were dead, it was Keshi who led the press for the last 20. And he was excellent on the ball the first 70.

All round, tons of positives. Add Diag, Dunne, Bayo and eventually Woolery to the squad but maintain that attitude, pressing, enthusiasm, intent and we could be on to something. I think Dunne for Taylor in that mf makes it very mobile.

Still, think Iandolo has a lot of work to do defensively but he's a very good attacking LB.

Knoyle is very much becoming indispensable. Nelson and Woolf were fantastic. Doughty so good in the ball.

They did overrun us on transition a couple of times, the first goal in particular when for some reason it was three on one wide right.

On to Sunday. Would rotate a little. Smith for Taylor for sure, but keep the front three the same. A win and a good third round draw and all of a sudden we have a season.

[Wobbly Bob]

Nothing like getting carried away after one performance.

Yeah I know. It doesn't last very long. Shoulders are now back in slumped mode.

The players need to stay grounded though, which is also a test for the management.
After the run of wins last season I think it was Dunne who mentioned that a bit of complacency then crept it.
Which was surprising given that it was an experienced group of players.

[DV]

Firstly, fair play to Wellens for those brave selection. So many others would have shoehorned in other experienced players or completely changed shape to accommodate.

Wellens did neither & chucked in a kid who hasn’t played any senior football as far as I’m aware.

It was a brave gamble & it paid off. Fair play.

[ferret]

I've no idea how anyone can criticize Keshi for last night, and highlight hlight his work rate. When Pryce and Twine were dead, it was Keshi who led the press for the last 20. And he was excellent on the ball the first 70.

All round, tons of positives. Add Diag, Dunne, Bayo and eventually Woolery to the squad but maintain that attitude, pressing, enthusiasm, intent and we could be on to something. I think Dunne for Taylor in that mf makes it very mobile.

Still think Iandolo has a lot of work to do defensively but he's a very good attacking LB.

Knoyle is very much becoming indespensible. Nelson and Woolf were fantastic. Doughty so good in the ball.

They did overun us on transition a couple of times, the first goal in particular when for some reason it was three on one wide right.

On to Sunday. Would rotate a little. Smith for Taylor for sure, but keep the front three the same. A win and a good third round draw and all of a sudden we have a season.

I agree with nearly all of that, especially re: Keshi.

I can understand why he frustrates, but he really bust a gut when the going got tough near the end. He's as fit as anyone out there.

[Wobbly Bob]

I'd hazard a guess it would back to the days of John Trollope's side, if looking for more than one.  Charlie Henry scored 18 including a hat-trick in 85/86

April 83. Batty & Bailie against Aldershot.
Not sure that Storey and L.Thompson in 2014 v Sheffield United would count, but Storey did sign as a youth.

[Reg Smeeton]

April 83. Batty & Bailie against Aldershot.
Not sure that Storey and L.Thompson in 2014 v Sheffield United would count, but Storey did sign as a youth.

I thought we were looking foir 3 goals....

[Bob's Orange]

Re Anderson.

Everytime I have seen him he has shown signs of being a decent footballer. He has good pace, can drift past players, good dribbler and always works hard and puts in a shift. However - his distribution is often poor and his shooting (aside from his howitzer at Grimsby last season) wayward.

If he can improve these elements of his game, he'll be a decent footballer.

Another well done to Wellens for regrouping the players he lost in the dressing room after the Carlisle debacle. As DV said, throwing in Twine and Pryce is a brave move, and paid off in spades.

[REDBUCK]

I've no idea how anyone can criticize Keshi for last night, and highlight hlight his work rate. When Pryce and Twine were dead, it was Keshi who led the press for the last 20. And he was excellent on the ball the first 70.

All round, tons of positives. Add Diag, Dunne, Bayo and eventually Woolery to the squad but maintain that attitude, pressing, enthusiasm, intent and we could be on to something. I think Dunne for Taylor in that mf makes it very mobile.

Don't get me wrong we played well against a solid side but Anderson may have led the press but not very effectively as we were under constant  pressure. Also he never seemed to show in the right place for an out ball when we cleared the ball in that period, although he was doing it on his own as we were too deep. Something to work at.

Also, he may have looked excellent on the ball but not very effective or particularly threatening towards goal.

As for Dunne for Taylor it may increase mobility but reduces the quality of long balls forward of which Taylor did a few yesterday which started off attacks quicker. Unfortunately Taylor needs  time and space these days which we don't always give him. He needs to become Ross Maclarenesq. Sharing corner duties might help.

[Batch]

Talking of corners... Even they were quite good last night.

After months of hitting the first man or drifting harmlessly towards the back post they were whipped into the danger zone.

[pauld]

Aside from the perfomance on the pitch which others have covered better than I can, what was great was hearing the crowd singing and cheering the team on with real belief again. I think I'd forgotten how long it is since I've really heard that, got too used to the sullen silence. Last night people were genuinely proud of their team again. I know someone will pipe up now with a "It's only one game, one swallow" etc etc but that's kind of my point really - it doesn't take much to get the crowd back behind the team, we want to support the team, we want to believe, give us something to cheer about and we will.

[Quagmire]

Last night reminded me why I support this basket case of a football team. Weeks of absolute shit and then we come up with a performance like that.
I can only see it getting better too, more time on the training ground with Wellens, and the likes of Toumani, Dunne, Adebayo and Woolery to come back in, hopefully we are in for a very exciting second half (and a bit) of the season.