Notts County v Swindon Town Match Day Thread

[Nemo]

Great tackle from Sobowale but terrible awareness-  the game is gone, the only thing that matters is DO NOT GET A RED. But he got it right, so I suppose it's fine.

[Peter Venkman]

FT 0-2

Lots of effort little quality.

[Outletred]

Free hit this game I suppose but baffles me why he leaves our best MFs benched against McGoldrick i

[adje]

If your name is Hinchy, what is your football nickname? Do you have to be Hinchy-y?

Strider

[DV]

Second best start to finish.
Not because the tactics were wrong, not because the formation was wrong, not because we made individual mistakes, not because our players were rubbish, not because we played badly.

Notts County were simply a level above us man for man all over the pitch.

Not something we need to dwell on, not something we need to over analyse & pick the bones out of.

Hold our hands up - accept we couldn’t compete with Notts County & move on. Notts were Significantly better than Wimbledon (who are above Notts) Grimsby (level on points before todays game) & Bromley

[Nomoreheroes]

Shame McGoldrick didn’t get a hat trick. A pleasure to watch that sort of quality.

We tried hard, but are nowhere near the same calibre as Notts County.

Just think, Luke Williams could have created that here!

[Nemo]

Second best start to finish.
Not because the tactics were wrong, not because the formation was wrong, not because we made individual mistakes, not because our players were rubbish, not because we played badly.

Notts County were simply a level above us man for man all over the pitch.

Not something we need to dwell on, not something we need to over analyse & pick the bones out of.

Hold our hands up - accept we couldn’t compete with Notts County & move. Notts were Significantly better than Wimbledon (who are above Notts) Grimsby (level on points before todays game) & Bromley

Do broadly agree, and think it was probably enforced, but going away from three midfielders two strikers which has worked over the last few weeks wasn't ideal.

But yes, forget that game, onto Crewe.

[DV]

Do broadly agree, and think it was probably enforced, but going away from three midfielders two strikers which has worked over the last few weeks wasn't ideal.

But yes, forget that game, onto Crewe.

Yeah, fair point.
Not sure it would have made much of a difference overall though

[adje]

With a depleted(whether necessary or not I don't know) side,against a team that I think are the best in this division, that's not disastrous. Also, those 2 saves will do Bycroft good. Drinan MOM and Wright once again solid. Can't understand the starting formation though

[Frigby Daser]

The recent resurgence has been characterised by bite in midfield and winning the physical battle. The set up and personnel seemed to take that away from us today - but if Clarke was ten years younger, and Ofoborh and Smith weren’t injured (assuming Ofoborh wasn’t fully fit - because if he was, he has to play) perhaps that would have been different. I wasn’t expecting a result today, but it was a shame we didn’t really compete.

Actions for this week: a new (experienced, calm, dominating) keeper, some pace and some width. Lose some of the flab from the squad.

[adje]

Do broadly agree, and think it was probably enforced, but going away from three midfielders two strikers which has worked over the last few weeks wasn't ideal.

But yes, forget that game, onto Crewe.

Agree. Those were a factor in the defeat and shouldn't be ignored

[Robinz]

Just not at the races...

Could easily have been 4 or 5 nil

[4D]

With a depleted(whether necessary or not I don't know) side,against a team that I think are the best in this division, that's not disastrous. Also, those 2 saves will do Bycroft good. Drinan MOM and Wright once again solid. Can't understand the starting formation though

I thought our squad was too big? 

[reeves4england]

Second best start to finish.
Not because the tactics were wrong, not because the formation was wrong, not because we made individual mistakes, not because our players were rubbish, not because we played badly.

Notts County were simply a level above us man for man all over the pitch.

Not something we need to dwell on, not something we need to over analyse & pick the bones out of.

Hold our hands up - accept we couldn’t compete with Notts County & move on. Notts were Significantly better than Wimbledon (who are above Notts) Grimsby (level on points before todays game) & Bromley

All of this. Realistically we’re capable of being a mid-table side with the current squad, but not a side that rocks up to promotion contenders with players missing and can take something from it. Dust ourselves off and move on.

[Batch]

They were plain better than us and worthy of a routine win. McGoldrick could have had 4.

Shows how reliant we are on Smith too. The rest of the forward line is utter wank