Swindon Town v Crewe Alexandra pre match chat and matchday thread

[Ides of March]

For a game we’ve been in control of, it is concerning how much more threatening Crewe look on the attack

[Audrey]

For a game we’ve been in control of, it is concerning how much more threatening Crewe look on the attack

That’s a common occurrence in most games of ours.

[Red Frog]

Is it me or is Hawes getting names wrong more often? Mistook FBT for Darcy there.

[Peter Venkman]

Crewe manage to scramble the ball clear yet again, then Jephcott gets in a header thats saved.

[Peter Venkman]

Is it me or is Hawes getting names wrong more often? Mistook FBT for Darcy there.

It is a constant thing this year.

Saying that he mistook Odimayo for Baudry last season

[Peter Venkman]

3 mins of added shitness.

[Red Frog]

It is a constant thing this year.

Saying that he mistook Odimayo for Baudry last season

Confusing Darcy with Shade was a highlight.

[Peter Venkman]

As Grant says "its just tooooo slow".

[Nemo]

There's mistaking someone and there's just saying the wrong name because you say hundreds of names every game. It's not ideal but he's still miles better than every visiting commentator I've tried.

[Peter Venkman]

There's mistaking someone and there's just saying the wrong name because you say hundreds of names every game. It's not ideal but he's still miles better than every visiting commentator I've tried.

Morecambes comms were easily the best 2 years ago, brilliant and funny.

[Red Frog]

There's mistaking someone and there's just saying the wrong name because you say hundreds of names every game. It's not ideal but he's still miles better than every visiting commentator I've tried.

Wouldn’t argue with that.

[Peter Venkman]

Really poor header by Iandolo from the cross.

HT 0-1

Really poor and slow.

[Ides of March]

Well, pretty typical Swindon performance. Look in control, but moments of madness at the back and in midfield has allowed Crewe to feel like this is a winnable game. We are brilliant at giving teams low on confidence (Hartlepool, Colchester etc) a real sniff of coming here and winning. Aware we won those games, but so much tighter than it needed to be. Not  expecting 5-0 wins against these sort of sides, but we make them far more tough affairs than what they should be.

[Nemo]

Well, that was very disappointing. Two pretty poor sides, and make no mistake, we are a poor side at the moment. We put good crosses into the box but we're simply not set up to be a balls into the box side - Wakeling and Jephcott are nobody's target men. Since Hutton's improvement, we seem to have stopped playing through the middle and Gladwin after a great start to the season has become a passenger.

Frustrating one. A very winnable game, but will need the manager to change things up now, not on 70 minutes.

[DV]

First 25 or so minutes it was all is playing quick, attacking (but not overly threatening) football (which is what we needed more of last week) and Crewe time wasting.

Play ourself into trouble, penalty, goal and we lost our way for 10 or so minutes.

Got better last 10 of the half but not nearly threatening enough. Most coming down Hutton whose crosses at least go in a dangerous area if not directly to a red shirt. Iandolo can’t cross at all. Which very much echos what’s I said last week.

Not sure we have a game changer on the bench.