Swindon Town vs Doncaster Rovers MDT

[DV]

We deserved a draw.
We didn't get a draw.

On one hand we probably matched top of the league. The kind of performance that should see mid table tedium.

On the other we created very little. Again.
We conceded stupid goals. Again.

Still in a relegation battle. Fact.

On the other hand….was the bloody ball….

[4D]

I cant imagine anyone ( even the hardcore fans of the rising tide) thought we were going to win that . A draw would have been a very good result but we are just not very good.

But thats the problem, I can't see us beating Morecambe or Colchester, and they're down here with us.

[Posh Red]

Freckleton needs to be dropped, he’s just a liability now and is woefully short of confidence.
Ofoborh was awful when he came on
Couldn’t understand why Glatzel went off for Smith, apparently was injury so made a bit more sense then.
Cotterill was really poor.
Barden was really good or really bad, dropped a couple of easy crosses but made a couple of really good saves.

Another game we probably didn’t deserve to lose, but we did and unless we sort out how to defend set pieces properly it’s going to keep happening.

A great weekend ruined by a stupid decision by Freckleton

[TailBetweenLegs]

"Re players mistakes."I always ask players if they meant to do it,and if they say no, I say don't worry about it then"( Mark Kennedy )
😃

Please tell me this wasn't said

[DV]

Clayton is still a free agent.
If fit would slot in nicely at LCB.

[Jimmy Quinn]

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[Pericardinho]

This guy will defend Freckleton at all costs.

Fair enough. I hope it's worth losing your job over.

[Bob1978]

This guy will defend Freckleton at all costs.

Fair enough. I hope it's worth losing your job over.

TBF he does say that he is 'BEYOND LIVID'

[tans]

Clayton is still a free agent.
If fit would slot in nicely at LCB.

For one game until he gets injured again

[Nemo]

We do literally have a (we assume) quite expensive, experienced LCB on the bench, he's just not quite fit yet. I do think (although with ever reducing confidence) that Delaney was meant to fill that role all season and Freckleton's just been unlucky in a way to be undroppable. Hopefully Delaney is ready by next week.

[UTR]

What’s confused me is when Delaney has played it’s been at least half spent in the centre of the 3 and they’ve spoken about him playing in there.

If that’s the plan when he signed then that’s confusing as we allegedly only dipped in for Freckleton when Delaney was crocked beyond the season start.

Regardless though, think Freckleton needs taking out of the firing line now if Delaney can manage it. Run with a back 3 of Sobowale, Wright, Delaney. Obviously the ideal right now would be Wright, Hall, Delaney but as expected when they signed, Hall is probably only going to only manage limited minutes.

Sadly unsurprised to see Cotterill come straight back in to the XI. Nothing against him, he’s a steady player but you’d question whether he’d have come straight back in for Ofoborh after last week if he wasn’t a loan player. Glad to see Smith get a goal, hopefully him and Glatzel can create some sort of partnership moving forwards when both fit.

All a bit meh at the moment. We’re running in that expected pattern that I mentioned of 1 win, several draws/defeats, 1 win, etc repeat. Just about enough to keep the heads above water and managing to scrape a result out the bag when pressure is approaching its limit.

[Freeloader]

TBF he does say that he is 'BEYOND LIVID'

The manager can say that, but I for one was frothing at the mouth, why waste Saturday on this crap?

[Frigby Daser]

The fact they got clapped off shows how far expectations have dropped.

21st in League 2.

Our goal aside, anything positive we did was effort-based or a recovery tackle. Sobowale, McGregor, Wright, Kilkenny all fine. I think that gave it a glaze of being ok at times. But when the crowd got up for it, it’s because McGregor did something defensively, or Sobowale beat his man 25 yards from our own goal.

But my god going forwards…. Zero creativity. Zero threat going forward. No plan. Blind passes into nowhere. I think we might go all season without a counter-attack. Remember them?

Cotterill has an incredible ability to occupy the area of the pitch where nothing is happening, and hold it. I reckon he had about 15 touches today, in centre midfield. It’s miserable, miserable football that would send you to sleep if it wasn’t for Freckleton’s three heart-attack inducing mistakes a game.

I like defenders that are calm, strong and assured, but we’ve chosen a loanee that is skinny and scared. Our loanees are beyond useless, and they’re keeping better players out of the team. If we agreed to a deal where they have to play then Jamie Russell deserves criticism, because you just don’t sign up to those deals unless you’re signing dead cert. They are a liability.

But the manager is the absolute pits. He’s on a par with Gunning for me.

The County Ground has become a really sad place to be of late.

[doomster]

Freckles is a liability.  I don’t care how fit/unfit other options are the guy needs to not be anywhere near the football pitch.  What is worrying is now Barden seems to have the same glue on his feet as Bycroft.  Why do both keepers refuse to leave the goal line.  Yesterday Doncaster made no effort to block him yet he still remained rooted. Mildenhall needs to get this sorted as it’s ridiculous that they are making no effort to own the six yard box.  Both goals were piss poor and very avoidable

[DV]

Only way we’re going to get Freckleton out the team is to talk him up massively & hope the Sheffield Utd scouts don’t watch him and just read social media so they recall him in January because I can almost guarantee we can’t afford to drop him.

Maybe get him snogging the ill players…