Swindon v Crawley pre match chat and matchday thread

[Berniman]

If Garner comes out and says we played well tonight just didn't take our chances, I might drive down there myself

[STFC no2 fan]

If Garner comes out and says we played well tonight just didn't take our chances, I might drive down there myself

Better get the car warmed up then :-)

[Nomoreheroes]

Garner:
- Take the positives from that
- We just didn't take our chances
- Great performance. Didn't deserve not to win
- At least 10 penalties not given for us. They got one.
- Not clinical enough. Made a million chances
- Gladwin was super speedy in midfield, but his speed of thought didn't match the rest of the team
- We go again
- Not going to criticise the players. It was all down to the referee.
- Take the positives and move on.
- Very positive. Got minutes into Barry's legs
- If we were more clinical we'd have been in hospital

[Berniman]

Meh, suppose a draw was a fair enough result even if grabbed late.  However, another team there for the taking to an extent.

I just don't think we are a good enough "team".  We have the look of a good sort of Academy team.  We are good in possession, when we are given time we look nice and tidy and we probably have some of the more gifted players with ball at feet in the division.  That is not enough to make a team in professional sports though.  We come with all the same issues an Academy team has, which is why nobody watches them.

We look ambivalent to set pieces - our only trick seems to be our own free kicks around th box leaving it to Reed.  Other than that it looks like it probably bores us to focus too much on the rest of the set piece repertoire.

We look like a team without blame - Academies, quite rightly, focus on the development aspects.  So you'll get critical feedback no doubt, but the result is secondary to the performance.

We look like we can really beat down a team once we get on top of them - confidence flows, the other teams struggle with our technique.  We also look just as likely to become very ragged if things start to go against us - the petulance of youth, the lack of experience to know when to focus, when to grind, when become more pragmatic etc.

We look very passive without the ball, like we spend all our time preparing for what to do with it.

I don't see us changing under someone like Garner, I don't see us changing with our approach to recruitment.  It's all kind of safe harmless fun.

I think the Transfer window wasn't that kind to us, but it's also a side effect of this approach.  KKH may not be a favourite of many on here, but he scared the shit out of defenders.  It created space even if he didn't make the best use of it.  It opens up the field for others.  We look toothless on the right now.  Simpson looks a better player than Davison.  Granted that is not on much time yet, but he just looks a meh type of player to me.  Competent enough, works hard, but lacks a strikers instinct.  Simpson maybe didn't have the latter either, but he just seemed a bit more instinctive, if a little less rounded in other aspects.

I still think the Play Offs are possible, but we haven't come into February looking a better team than we left December.  More of the same probably.

Can't disagree with any of that

[RobertT]

Garner:
- Take the positives from that
- Great performance. Didn't deserve not to win
- At least 10 penalties not given for us. They got one.
- Not clinical enough. Made a million chances
- Gladwin was super speedy in midfield, but his speed of thought didn't match the rest of the team
- We go again
- Not going to criticise the players. It was all down to the referee.
- Take the positives and move on.
- Very positive. Got minutes into Barry's legs
- If we were more clinical we'd have been in hospital

The worrying thing is I had to confirm to myself that the sarcasm was dropping!

[Berniman]

Better get the car warmed up then :-)

Where's my keys...

[4D]

Garner:
- Take the positives from that
- We just didn't take our chances
- Great performance. Didn't deserve not to win
- At least 10 penalties not given for us. They got one.
- Not clinical enough. Made a million chances
- Gladwin was super speedy in midfield, but his speed of thought didn't match the rest of the team
- We go again
- Not going to criticise the players. It was all down to the referee.
- Take the positives and move on.
- Very positive. Got minutes into Barry's legs
- If we were more clinical we'd have been in hospital

Is this real?

[STFC no2 fan]

Time for JML to impress me for the first time.

Are you the same PV loyal on FF- WATP?

[hobnob]

Is this real?

Not real, but probably quite close!

Wait and see?

[Nomoreheroes]

Is this real?

 

[Berniman]

Garner:
- Take the positives from that
- We just didn't take our chances
- Great performance. Didn't deserve not to win
- At least 10 penalties not given for us. They got one.
- Not clinical enough. Made a million chances
- Gladwin was super speedy in midfield, but his speed of thought didn't match the rest of the team
- We go again
- Not going to criticise the players. It was all down to the referee.
- Take the positives and move on.
- Very positive. Got minutes into Barry's legs
- If we were more clinical we'd have been in hospital

Scary thing is that I believed that when I started reading it..  He could actually record that and play it out at the end of every game, save himself some time

[Nomoreheroes]

Scary thing is that I believed that when I started reading it..  He could actually record that and play it out at the end of every game, save himself some time

Sorry 

[adje]

Who's that numbskull who just gave Lyden Man of the Match?Cost us 2 points with his knobendery

[Berniman]

Garner:
- Take the positives from that
- We just didn't take our chances
- Great performance. Didn't deserve not to win
- At least 10 penalties not given for us. They got one.
- Not clinical enough. Made a million chances
- Gladwin was super speedy in midfield, but his speed of thought didn't match the rest of the team
- We go again
- Not going to criticise the players. It was all down to the referee.
- Take the positives and move on.
- Very positive. Got minutes into Barry's legs
- If we were more clinical we'd have been in hospital

He is literally saying this word for word

[Stef Troll]

Same old Garner. Should have had a penalty blah blah blah