Swindon Town vs Colchester Utd FA cup 1st round MDT

[Freeloader]

2 : 0, attendance 4,967 (131, away)

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

I really dislike the notion that the local press should be positive, without any real reason to be. They're there to do a job. Report on the club. They would not be doing their job correctly if they were being unnecessarily positive considering we sit one place above the relegation zone. As said above, the club media channels? Go for it. Be as positive as can be, but when it comes to local press, they are there to hold people to account and give an accurate reflection on matters at the club.

Its the same notion as lot of these toxic positivity drongos on the facebook groups though, isn't it? Nonsense. Like some terrible self help book. Speak it, believe, achieve it.

With a positive attitude you too can bury your head in the sand and pretend the actual reality isn't real. Why not even try to suggest that your local newspaper should conform to your delusions?

[molepar]

Looking forward to tomorrow strangely. Hopefully we get a new manager bounce. I initially liked Kennedy but sadly the coherent early interviews never materialised into a consistent effective style of play. The interviews became progressively more delusional and I didn’t like the insistence on starting Cotterill and Freckleton. Hopefully the eccentricity and motivation of Holloway combined with more tactical diversity will make us more competitive. I don’t think we have a “bottom two” squad but of course no one is too good to avoid the drop. I am hopeful we have enough to avoid the drop, and it feels sad saying this as someone who has grown up seeing us a highly competitive league one team.

[Robinz]

In my opinion Kennedy was a master of blarney
Good talking with no carry through.
As we all know Swindon is currently in serious need of an experienced football coach who is "real". Just possibly Ian Holloway is the man.
 

[DV]

Mr. Kennedy was a good talker.
Mark Kennedy not so much.

[iParadise]

Swindon 2-0 Colchester att: 7,120 (147)

[Wobbly Bob]

So, at 61 years young it looks like Holloway becomes the oldest to manage their first game for this great club.
Also, arguably the first to sport an earring and favour a pork pie hat.

In a jobs for the boys industry it's still unlikely that a crap manager would get anywhere near 1000 games.

Would expect to see a highly motivated side in red this afternoon.

However, given the respective FA cup records wouldn't be surprised to see both teams doing their best to go out today.

[kirky69]

With no replays, we could have the added excitement today of extra time and penalties

I believe we have only even been to pens once before in the FA Cup. That was the infamous 3rd round replay defeat at Barnet when Town missed all 4 pens losing 2-0, with Barnet only needing to take 3 of their 5 pens because of our inability to score from 12 yards out.

[Ginginho]

Hopefully a slightly bigger crowd today what with reduced ticket prices and a new manager.

I'm taking my 8 year old lad for his first experience in the Town End.

Looking forward to it.

3-1 win.

8420, with 260 Colchester fans

[tans]

Clem, Hall, Gunning and A N Other in Longs last noght apparently

The messiah is back

[Bob's Orange]

Any performance today to get us into the second hand draw thank you. Have a strange feeling we'll get to the third round and draw Palace at home.

[Peter Venkman]

So, at 61 years young it looks like Holloway becomes the oldest to manage their first game for this great club.

He beats Phil Brown by 2 years in that achievement and here is a list of the over 50's who managed us for the first time and some of it makes not good reading to say the least. Difficult to say any of them were successful in any way, the only one being Fred Ford who won anything of any note.

Phil Brown 59
Paul Hart 58
John Sheridan 56
Tommy Wright (caretaker) 55
Roy Evans 53
Fred Ford 53
Colin Todd 53
Kevin McDonald 53

[Jericho]

Clem, Hall, Gunning and A N Other in Longs last noght apparently

The messiah is back

Sounds like a lovely night out with his favourite yes men.

[Wobbly Bob]

He beats Phil Brown by 2 years in that achievement and here is a list of the over 50's who managed us for the first time and some of it makes not good reading to say the least. Difficult to say any of them were successful in any way, the only one being Fred Ford who won anything of any note.

Phil Brown 59
Paul Hart 58
John Sheridan 56
Tommy Wright (caretaker) 55
Roy Evans 53
Fred Ford 53
Colin Todd 53
Kevin McDonald 53

Interesting. Apart from Ford & maybe McDonald none of them had particularly good tools to work with.

Four years away from football could be a good thing but the game is always evolving.

The cynic in me would suggest that Holloway, outside of winning some games, is here to nurture Gunning ahead of him eventually getting the job.

[Peter Venkman]

Just to reiterate what we all know.

Our recent form in the FA cup has been nothing short of disastrous with only 1 forray to the 4th round 12 years ago and 4 trips to the 3rd round in 20 years.

We have been knocked out in the 1st round 12 times in the last 20 years with 7 of those to non league opposition at the time.

23/24 1st Round 4-7 Aldershot
22/23 1st Round 0-4 Stockport
21/22 3rd Round 1-4 Manchester C
20/21 1st Round 1-2 Darlington
19/20 1st Round 0-1 Cheltenham
18/19 2nd Round 0-1 Woking
17/18 2nd Round 2-5 Stevenage
16/17 1st Round 1-3 Eastleigh
15/16 1st Round 1-3 Rochdale
14/15 1st Round 0-5 Cheltenham
13/14 1st Round 0-4 Macclesfield
12/13 1st Round 0-2 Macclesfield
11/12 4th Round 0-2 Leicester
10/11 2nd Round 2-3 Crawley
09/10 3rd Round 0-1 Fulham
08/09 1st Round 0-1 Histon
07/08 3rd Round 1-3 Barnet
06/07 3rd Round 1-2 Crystal Palace
05/06 1st Round 1-4 Boston United
04/05 2nd Round 0-2 Notts County
03/04 1st Round 1-4 Wycombe
02/03 2nd Round 0-1 Oxford