Swindon Town vs Doncaster Rovers MDT

[Pericardinho]

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.

good post. agree with all of that.

loans are supposed to be a 2 way thing. we get a player who is technically above our level, and the lending club gets 40+ games out of them. both parties benefit.

Only sheffield united are benefitting from this so far. Whilst we get closer to the trap door.

[Batch]

. If we agreed to a deal where they have to play then Jamie Russell deserves criticism,

After 3 shit seasons with him allegedly in charge of recruitment it's time we had that conversation anyway.

I suspect Russell's hands are tied, but it's his name above the door as it were.

[JoeMezz]

At what stage could we question if Kennedy is actively sabotaging this club? Playing Freckleton every week, dropping Ofoborh, the bizarre subs in game and the even more bizarre comments pre and post match. Something isn’t adding up, I’m struggling to believe a manager / head coach is truly this woeful.

[4D]

The concern from the boardroom is deafening 

[Peter Venkman]

No real surprises today.
Kennedy set us up to fail from the start.  Ofborh deserved to keep his place given his performance last 2 games but yet Cotterill comes waltzing back into the team.  Todays set up allowed Doncaster to dictate the ball so it was no suprise our game plan was to hoof it to Glatzel.

Just don’t know what the hype is about Butterworth utter dog shit again and just don’t know why he’s favoured over McGurk.  McGurk offers far much more creativity.

Overall a shit poor penformance caused by baffling tactics and game plan by Kennedy who should take the blame.

Silly penalty by Freckleton should be dropped but Kennedy won’t drop his favourite 3 (Butterwoth, Cotterill & Freckleton)

Exactly this.

[Frigby Daser]

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…

With less than a minute to go, the ref could at least have sent him off for the handball. Would have offset the loss of two points.

[Nemo]

I think on reflection, even in the knowledge that it'd be Gunning or Bignot instead, I want Kennedy gone asap.

[Oaksey Moonraker]

https://x.com/OneGFB/status/1847910924184670370?t=JBo9gT3oTSO0irFcjXvQkQ&s=19

Looking at this picture, if Freckleton doesn't stick his arm up, he might have got a foul against the Donny 20 who is all over him.

Problem is he panics and gives the ref the easy decision to give the pen. Why couldn't Delaney have come on for the last 5-10 mins.

Worse penalty handball since one of the Liverpool loaners caught the ball from a corner because one of ours was having treatment

[Batch]

Oh yeah I remember that. He assumed the ref was stopping play like he should. Technically the ref was right.

[Berniman]

Please tell me this wasn't said

It was..

[McGurk's Missus]

It was..

I conker

#SeasonalPun

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

I gave up watching at 0-0 and decided the cleaning the house was a better option. missed their first but caught our equaliser and their late penalty.

Neither got much reaction out of me, just laughed at the end.

We're in big trouble *sigh*

[Pericardinho]

This is the saddest thing.

It's just emotionless now. I don't celebrate goals. I don't get angry when we concede.

I still watch though. Always will. It's hard to be invested though when you know by October that your season is over.

[Ticker45]

This is the saddest thing.

It's just emotionless now. I don't celebrate goals. I don't get angry when we concede.

I still watch though. Always will. It's hard to be invested though when you know by October that your season is over.

This in a nutshell.

[No Longer Posh Red]

This is the saddest thing.

It's just emotionless now. I don't celebrate goals. I don't get angry when we concede.

I still watch though. Always will. It's hard to be invested though when you know by October that your season is over.

Ironically we would be in better shape if our season was over, at least that would mean we were safe from being relegated to the non league.

Under Clem & his clown show I fear we are heading that way sooner or later