Swindon v Carlisle pre match chat and matchday thread

[Cowley38]

We can disagree on footballing matters not an issue but you're a fucking prick mate. Now fuck off you bore. If someone disagreeds with you they are Clem? You sir at what drives people away from this forum

Obviously someone doesn't have a sense of humour!!

But if you want to resort to personal obscenities when anyone questions your beliefs that shows what sort of person you are...

And by the way I don't always call people Morfuni when they don't agree with me.

Good debate and banter is what the forum is about..

S
But you keep using foul language if that's who you are!!

[Batch]

The humour also passed me by. Apologies if that's not how it was intended.

[4D]

Mex Morfuni, I like that 

[Legends-Lounge]

I don't think that's true of Kennedy. A few wins, however unlikely it looks today, well see him ok.

We have a tough 7 games coming up.

Seven? Bloody hell. Usually it’s a cpl of tough games.

[Batch]

Seven? Bloody hell. Usually it’s a cpl of tough games.

Will it's just my opinion. So others may disagree! In any case I missed a couple so it's 6 from 8.


Port Vale (away) ,
Tranmere (away, Tuesday),
Harrogate (home) <---- I missed this.
Cheltenham (away, graveyard),
Donny (home, currently 6th),
Salford (away, Tuesday),
Gills (home ),
Franchise (away)

We shouldn't fear the fixtures. But they mostly don't look easy to me.

Maybe we'll raise our game against better teams and get a bit more space. Who knows.

[DV]

I mean when you’re a bottom 3rd team (at best) by default you’re looking up at the remaining 2/3rds of the league and thinking of them as tough fixtures.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I mean when you’re a bottom 3rd team (at best) by default you’re looking up at the remaining 2/3rds of the league and thinking of them as tough fixtures.

Yep. Any fixture is a tough one for us right now. The days of 'gimme' home games are long gone... Aldershot at home in the Cup would have been a stroll in the park at one time...

[4D]

So, 1 win in 14 

[Legends-Lounge]

I mean when you’re a bottom 3rd team (at best) by default you’re looking up at the remaining 2/3rds of the league and thinking of them as tough fixtures.

Statistically, yes, anyone above in our current comatose state legitimately can be considered a tough fixture. The context of my comment was that maybe top six or so would be considered a tough especially an away one.

[Batch]

Yeah I guess you are right.

Going to be a critical period of if I have over egged the 'difficult' card

[Nemo]

Sam Morshead's Moonraker Monday Morning Mitherings (now that's alliteration for you) points out that Swindon have conceded 10 goals from 17 shots this season - and we're underperforming xG conceded by miles (i.e. we've conceded almost twice as many goals as we 'should have'.

That looks quite bad for Bycroft, doesn't it?

[RedRag]

I might risk joining Mex in being a tad contrarian.

I only watched home alone on iplayer.  In glum resignation (by the second half) that our lack of creativity would never produce  a goal back.

However, comments ridiculing those who clapped the players at the end were uncalled for.  The switched-off attention at the 2 set piece goals conceded was disappointing.  But there were some positives and - crucially - no lack of effort.  Why sneer at or ignore the players rather than give them a degree of appreciation on the day?  

Kennedy of course does bear responsibility. He is one in a succession of coaches who have been willing or desperate enough to join a failing, flailing set up.  

Clem inherited a L2 club with near 10k attendances which will soon be down to 6k and fewer still which has become profoundly unattractive to coaches and players in comparison to most other L2 and indeed National League clubs.

It is unfair, imo, that every player (and arguably every manager), should have to bear the mounting, overbearing weight of STFC's terminal decline under Clem each matchday when they lose a game.

As far as this matchday thread is concerned, I would acknowledge the effort and some quality on Saturday and give the players my support to work hard at training, think a bit if the coach can't help them very well and go for it again next Saturday.

[RedRag]

Sam Morshead's Moonraker Monday Morning Mitherings (now that's alliteration for you) points out that Swindon have conceded 10 goals from 17 shots this season - and we're underperforming xG conceded by miles (i.e. we've conceded almost twice as many goals as we 'should have'.

That looks quite bad for Bycroft, doesn't it?

Don't go by stats entirely.  Or they could imply that the rest of the team have been substantially better than their results so far.

I think Bycroft has shown promise but my feeling is that he will cost us more than he gains over the season.  Tbf a number have been calling for him to be loaned out.  National League could suit him very well.  Only trouble is I'm uncertain that he would suit any clubs at that level.

[Jimmy Quinn]

I’ve no idea why Barden has come to a league 2 team to sit on the bench unless of course he’s nowhere near fit.

[DV]

Sam Morshead's Moonraker Monday Morning Mitherings (now that's alliteration for you) points out that Swindon have conceded 10 goals from 17 shots this season - and we're underperforming xG conceded by miles (i.e. we've conceded almost twice as many goals as we 'should have'.

That looks quite bad for Bycroft, doesn't it?

Not fully in with how xG translates but does that mean a lot of the goals we’ve let it have either been shots the keeper should have saved but also shots where the striker isn’t expected to hit the target but scores a cracker…

So, for example did both McGoldricks goals for Notts County have low xG because he was quite far out but went in through no fault of Bycroft.

tl:dr - does low xG & high conceded mean goal keeper errors or goal keeper errors & decent long range goals?