Swindon Town v Gillingham matchday thread

[Ides of March]

Utter bollocks sorry.

I don't buy it at all. They were crap. We weren't at the races and still had 4-5 absolute glorious opportunities. They were so deep they might as well have all been on the goal line.

I didn't see that as a good defensive performance. We had Shade and Hutton 1v1 virtually every minute. Cross after cross after cross. It was just utter dog shit quality in the final third. Nothing to do with Gillingham being good in my opinion.

The Shade and Hutton 1v1 point you make, I understand, but look at how they defended them crosses (bar the one Young header at the end). They are a VERY limited team, but astute defensively. Their keeper was forced into one good save, and a couple of routine ones. For all the possession and crosses, they were fairly comfortable. At least, that’s how I saw it..

[4D]

Think I'll give this a miss for a bit. Ends up being a £70 day for fuck all return.

[Pericardinho]

The Shade and Hutton 1v1 point you make, I understand, but look at how they defended them crosses (bar the one Young header at the end). They are a VERY limited team, but astute defensively. Their keeper was forced into one good save, and a couple of routine ones. For all the possession and crosses, they were fairly comfortable. At least, that’s how I saw it..

As I said - the quality for the large part into the box was horrific. That's what helped them.

People can say good defending. I disagree - Letting up 78% of the ball and allowing your full backs to be constantly ran at 1v1 and not stopping supply into the box in my opinion is not good defending. It's just waiting for the inevitable. And the inevitable should've came many times despite how bad we were.

[Nemo]

As I said - the quality for the large part into the box was horrific. That's what helped them.

People can say good defending. I disagree - Letting up 78% of the ball and allowing your full backs to be constantly ran at 1v1 and not stopping supply into the box in my opinion is not good defending. It's just waiting for the inevitable. And the inevitable should've came many times despite how bad we were.

Burnley did exactly that in the Prem under Dyche for years. If you think you're better than the opposition at defending crosses encouraging the opposition to cross isn't bad defending, it's backing yourself.

[adje]

The Shade and Hutton 1v1 point you make, I understand, but look at how they defended them crosses (bar the one Young header at the end). They are a VERY limited team, but astute defensively. Their keeper was forced into one good save, and a couple of routine ones. For all the possession and crosses, they were fairly comfortable. At least, that’s how I saw it..

Yeah, but the "routine" saves were because of our poor finishing

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Our wing backs are just not fit for purpose. Make Dokes and FBT play wing back and get some proper Centre backs in to fill their places.

At the moment we have wing backs who can't defend and on tonights performance have one shit trick going forward.

[adje]

Shade defended well I thought tonight

[Pericardinho]

Burnley did exactly that in the Prem under Dyche for years. If you think you're better than the opposition at defending crosses encouraging the opposition to cross isn't bad defending, it's backing yourself.

A Dyche team wouldn't leave their full backs exposed 1v1 all game. It's not the same.

[Mooneyraker]

So frustrating. They were well drilled, organised and committed but that game was there for the taking.

We looked tired. Young had an all time stinker. Kemp didn’t turn up at all.

We were just so slow and ponderous out wide and the quality of balls into the box wasn’t high enough.

Decision making in key areas was just poor.

Plenty of endeavour from everyone really but I think today was the day that the threadbare squad finally caught up with us.

Clem wanted the club in the Championship, or so he said. Laughable.

[oxonrobin]

TBF they doubled up on Shade a lot, so not exactly 1v1.

It was maddening how we kept trying the same type of cross over and over though. Shows how important the first goal is though. We didn’t defend with the same energy they did, and got punished.

[Nemo]

Stockport, Notts Co and Wrexham top three now. Ominous.

[Pericardinho]

Ultimately apart from RHM we have fuck all to try and change a game.

It's not acceptable. I can't wait until we are owned by somebody who can actually afford to run us.

Sending a 16 year old onto the pitch to try and nick us a goal. A 19 year old starting at the heart of our defence.

[adje]

Stockport, Notts Co and Wrexham top three now. Ominous.

With their outlay Gillingham should be there

[Boeta]

We were crying out for a target man to bring on.

Instead we had a 5"8 16 year old to bring on.

Flynns doing a great job. Needs Clem to give him the tools to complete the squad.

[UTR]

Utter bollocks sorry.

I don't buy it at all. They were crap. We weren't at the races and still had 4-5 absolute glorious opportunities. They were so deep they might as well have all been on the goal line.

I didn't see that as a good defensive performance. We had Shade and Hutton 1v1 virtually every minute. Cross after cross after cross. It was just utter dog shit quality in the final third. Nothing to do with Gillingham being good in my opinion.

Game of opinions but I strongly disagree there. We were toothless but Gillingham defended as good as I’ve seen in a good few years, yeah it was anti football but it’s easy to see why they’ve ground out so many 1-0 wins this season. They were defensively very well structured and their keeper had a very good game.

Yes we could have done a lot better ourselves at trying to break them down but to say none of it was to do with them setting up in a well drilled defensive structure is absolutely wrong in my opinion. They took a while to get into it but settled in their banks and then at the end conceded the width to defend the middle (more so when Austin went off) and it worked.