Swindon Town v Gillingham matchday thread

[Processed Beats]

Not good enough I'm afraid.

[Peter Venkman]

Was it a bad performance, no not really, was it a good performance? no definately not, just utterly frustrating against a team with a packed defence.

FT 0-1

[Red Frog]

And that’s how you defend a lead 

[Quagmire]

An absolute masterclass in how to defend a lead and see out a game.
We could learn a lot from that.

[RobertT]

Gills set out to get a 0-0 draw, fill the defence and hope to hit us on the break, its a perfect away performance from them.

Pretty much 1 shot on target and it gets defelcted and goes in so then they dont need to play any more just clear the ball, which they have done well.

I think that undervalues them a bit as well, they missed a penalty and had two clear cut chances to score on top of their goal.  We had maybe one or two good chances all game, when we were trying to press.

[Stef Troll]

Frustrating.

[4D]

We were poor, slow, and predictable. We didn't change it either.
Back in Pub

[theakston2k]

Started off well. Got progressively worst and could have played for a week and not scored. A lot of the players look mentally tired if not physically with decision making really poor tonight.

[Pericardinho]

An absolute masterclass in how to defend a lead and see out a game.
We could learn a lot from that.

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.

[oxonrobin]

Missed the good chances again. That wasn’t happening earlier in the season.

Bad luck with the deflection for their goal. But they defended really well after that.

Young reducing his future weekly wage every game at the moment unfortunately.

We were not bad tonight per say. But in both boxes they were better when it mattered. Shit penalty aside of course.

After seeing it again it probably was a penalty for the foul on Kemp, but not enough to make him fall over, so why not stay on your feet and take the shot on! Infuriating.

With our home form where it is we need a rethink against the low block, because we will see it plenty more times.

[jayohaitchenn]

Shit game. Shit goal, Gills defended well. Young was fucking awful. Not going to be voting in the MotM poll.

[adje]

You couldn't really ask for 3 better chances to win a game in the last 5 minutes

[adje]

Oh,and another blatant pen turned down

[adje]

An absolute masterclass in how to defend a lead and see out a game.
We could learn a lot from that.

It does also help if your opponents miss clear chances

[tans]

Run out of steam by mid october.

Good job we have the squad depth to switch it about. Oh.