Swindon Town v Franchise pre match drivel and matchday thread

[Bob1978]

Problems:
New manager bedding in
New players bedding in
No pattern of play
Strange tactics
No midfield
Players coming out of contract
Need to start building for next season!

[adje]

Dongs settled for two, could have had more on the break in the second half. 

But they didn't want to?🙂

[adje]

Hey,at least we're scoring late on instead of conceding🙂

[adje]

I'm a bit embarrassed really, the usual banter with the away fans went out the window. I should be past this shit, but these cunts wind me up as they are a nothing club who have done fuck all in their 20 year history.  Even the twat who offered me out was being apologetic at the end. Pussy.

Utter fucking fools. But winning fools

[Nomoreheroes]

The real Gunning:
- Average performance
- Completely different to what we have shown in the last 4 games
- Two early mistakes lost us the game. Frustrating
- The first goal: There's nothing you can do. It is what it is. The keeper should come. The defender should clear
- The second was just a basic error in positional judgement.
- If you dont do the basics right you dont win the game
- Always will struggle when you go 2 down to a possession based team
- Performance wasnt great today
- Got ourselves marked. The outside forwards were supposed to create space for the midfielders.
- That's football. We didnt get it right today
- We changed it about. We are obviously trying to win. We through the goalkeeper up at the end.
- That wasn't what we were trying today today
- When we had Austin and Drinan then we started to pass it a bit
- McGurk was leggy. He's been a bit ill. Didnt realise how much the other night took out of him
- Before we would have conceded 4, 5, 6 or 7. We didn't which is the one positive Gunning takes from today
- We have to win game. Not great to play Stockport next week.
- We've played the in form teams. Its when we can learn most about us
- When its a poor performance you learn a lot about individuals and the team
- Should be able to make tactical rather than minutes based substitutions after Stockport
- Its been tough for those lads, holding their minutes back, but its where we are at
- The lads who have come in are the lads Gunning wanted to bring in. That's the good part. But there are still lads here that aren't part of the squad Gunning wants. But it is what it is.
- You have to judge Gunning on every game. Not just when everyone is fit
- You take over when you take over.
- Noone else back next week

[Nomoreheroes]

Drinan:
- When you lose its always disappointing. But have to take positives from defeat
- Group can be positive that in the last 2 games, when we have gone behind, we have rebounded. We have character
- If we had got the ball wide more so that they could cross to Drinan and Austin
- Was injured before arriving. Starting to get fit again now
- To get back to the form he showed a couple of seasons ago, Drinan need to stay positive mentally
- Drinan said he is here for 18 months.
- The gap to the playoffs is quite small. Next season we will tackle it.

[theakston2k]

Some of that Gunning interview is just bizarre. Not losing by more is a positive? Playing in form teams, MK lost 4-0 on Tuesday.

[BambooToTheFuture]

Drinan:
- The gap to the playoffs is quite small. Next season we will tackle it.

Did he get that one straight out the ''Gav Gunning Book of 1001 Practical Jokes'' 

Town ain't winning 3 without reply and 10 or 11 teams above not picking anything up.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Just back.

Disjointed, second best all game. Created nothing. Franchise had our measure all game, thought they looked very good tbh. Too many players had nothing games - Drinan, McGurk, Khan, McCreachan. Eye opener as far as the midfield argument goes. They had small, technical players but dominated. Didn’t need a destroyer type.

Boozy livened things up a bit towards the end.

[Batch]

What an utter bollocks performance that was, even if you take out the nightmare start.

There was no obvious pattern of play, I've not got a fucking clue what we were trying to do.

They were sharper, had more movement and were simply better than us, especially first half. FBT and McCarthy kept losing their men and we were bloody close to conceding on numerous occasions. Bycroftf was poor but didn't need the (literally) one or two knob ends in the town end shouting that at him. Kokolo - pish, ugm, pish but good forest gump running. Mifdfield pish, McEachran put in effort but not quality, khan was largely poor, McGurk no Kemp yet.. Drininan -shit, Gratzel - anonymous, RHM - uber shit.

We are miles off it, Gunning seems to equate 'lots of attackers = good' and the whole on field situation is as bad as I can remember it. We are rudderless..

Fucking hell.

[blinkpip]

This fitness excuse is a joke, all the players have been training all season weather or not if they are playing.
Drinan should be back up to Austin, he's a central forward lump, not a left/right attacking forward running down the channels.
Midfield personnel rotates more than a revolving door. Cain I thought was decent against the Gills was then subbed off at half time and then we went to shit. There is no consistency in the line up and the random subs in the last five games, I really don't think the boss knows what his strongest team is.

[Lemis]

We've seen Mad Gav and Bad Gav, so dangerous to know Gav must be up next.

Sad Gav when he's relegated to being loan manager again

[4D]

They looked more drilled. First to everything was the difference.  Football is so simple sometimes 

[Bob1978]

I don’t know why we started with a midfield of 2 against a possession based team - we were never going to have any control. It was like ping pong.

[theakston2k]

I don’t know why we started with a midfield of 2 against a possession based team - we were never going to have any control. It was like ping pong.

Same reason Gunning thinks Khan is one of the best CDM’s in the league. I don’t think he even believes there is such a thing as a midfield to be honest as he has very little interest in playing one.