Swindon v Crewe matchday thread

[Processed Beats]

Good point all in all. They're a decent, hard-to-beat side.

[Audrey]

0-0.

Performance/result has got me thinking we’re getting out of this.

Couple of real nice cameos from Ameen.

[Nomoreheroes]

Wow! What an exciting 0-0! I feared that they would get an undeserved winner.

[Nemo]

Well, not quite sure how that game finished, but fair play. Decent point, probably the better side but just relieved not to get sucker punched at the end tbh.

Drawing our way to the Morfuni Marker (formerly Beamish Line). Probably time to start tracking that...

Holloway has turned us into a hard-working but limited midtable side. Which to be clear is a huge step forward from where we were prior to the Colchester debacle!

[Bob's Orange]

Home form has really picked up recently. With Barrow and Tranmere at home later this month, we've a great chance of putting more points on the board.

[Ides of March]

Decent point. Crewe looked poor but suppose they had a couple chances to win it. Nichols should’ve done much better with his chance early in the second half and Drinan was wasteful. I like Drinan, think he has a big part to play for us, but his composure in front of goal is woeful.

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Drawing our way to the Morfuni Marker (formerly Beamish Line). Probably time to start tracking that...

We should. Gives us something to aim for a bit better than just the relegation line.

[iParadise]

Good point in the grand scheme of things. We had more than enough chances to win however. The game highlighted that we need a quick right sided wide player in place of Drinan.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Holloway needs to be given credit he seems to know what he’s doing and knows what players are needed to get us up the league.

[Nomoreheroes]

Holloway:
- Absolutely fantastic effort by everyone
- Didn't want the game called off, but it was borderline.
- Referee handled it superbly
- Well done to the EFL and their manager
- It could have been a lottery, but it wasn't
- We had the better of the chances
- Delighted with the first clean sheet
- We looked really solid
- The more the game went on the better we got
- Massive positive to be able to do that against a team where they are
- Brought Ameen on as a winger, because he can run with it
- The way he floats and runs with the ball: He's impossible to stop
- His skillset was slightly different from the other lads.
- Nicholls is cup tied so wont play on Tuesday. Thats why he started and had lots of minutes today
- Well done to those lads who weren't playing so well a few weeks ago
- We have to keep building
- The crowd enthused Holloway today. He felt the lads grow
- That's why Ameen could do what he did. Noone got on his back when he tripped over the ball with his first touch
- Well done to all the volunteers anf groundsman for getting the game on
- Longelo had a sore knee part way through the week. Swelling has now gone, but he hadn't been training for the last 2 days
- Barden wasn't close to being involved today. But Bycroft was outstanding. 'It wasn't his fault before was it?'
- We are getting stronger every day. Wasn't pleased when he came in, but is pleased now
- We are nowhetre near where Holloway wants to be. But that's a good marker against a team that is second. You wouldn't have known who was second.
- Hopefully be able to bring other skillsets to the squad. Its difficult to build when the squad was built by a lot of other people.
- Its a real tough thing to do in this window. So wants to make best use of what we have got (as well as adding)
-  Wright and Delaney were outstandin
- Most players were playing at 8.5-9 today
- Its so great to what it was.
- We are working hard and they are earning the right to wear the shirt. But if Holloway doesn't see it, they won't have it!

[blinkpip]

Sounds like the upper part of the DRS is closed due to the weather and people having to find new seats...

Utter shit show communication with the stewards and fans. Got in and some fans were ushered to the TownEnd and some to the lower seats in the DRS without any reason why.
Minutes before kick off, many fans in the DRS lower section moved up to their usual seats. Obviously us fans that got moved to the Townend wanted to move back.
Along comes one senior steward acting all highly and arrogant blatantly refused with no reasoning (fair play to the general ones, they were sound and understood). Took a high up supervisor to resolved the situation and allow us back. Clusterfuck.

 

[Ticker45]

I have always thought that when a team is at the top end of the table things a simple as a bad bounce seem to go your way, the same with shots, free kicks, corners etc. and today’s game was a good example as I am sure the chances we had would have been put away were we not where we are. Perhaps just my very biased view!

[Jimmy Quinn]

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[Nemo]

BBC match report says that's the first league clean sheet in 99 days. Blimey.

[Steak supper]

Decent point against one of the division's premier teams.  Sadly they are many levels above us. We could learn a lot from Crewe .