Swindon Town vs Chesterfield matchday thread #ClemItsTime

[Jimmy Quinn]

Cheers. Good news!

👌

[Batch]

I don't like that lack of update on the chesterfield player.

I'm hoping it's jist the hospital being extra cautious

[Nomoreheroes]

I don't like that lack of update on the chesterfield player.

I'm hoping it's jist the hospital being extra cautious

No, me neither.

Normally, there would have been an update if there was good news.

Edit: I’ve just seen the incident. I really do fear for him. Those around knew it was bad straight away.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Commenting on the game seems somewhat superfluous in light of the Chesterfield lad's injury but I will do anyway.

I always like reading comments on opponents forums and this one caught my eye on Bob's Board..
https://www.thecfss.co.uk/forums//index.php?showtopic=73941&st=340

At the same time you have to acknowledge Gunning did a job on us, tough tackling, limiting us in the air and bang you limit our attacking flow to zero.

Chesterfield fans are obviously familiar with the work of Mr Gunning, having played for them (did he coach them as well? I can't remember)...whilst Ollie deserves the lions' share of credit for our turnaround, should Mad Gav be getting some love as well?

Edit: I assume the poster isn't just really badly informed and thinks Gav is our manager?

[DV]

Without being there day to day on the training pitch it’s very difficult to divide the praise up exactly as it’s deserved.

All I can really say is - I don’t remember us being particularly solid & shithousey when Gunning was actually our manager. We played roll the dice, gambling, you score 3 we will score 4, no idea what formation we’re playing Gunningball.

Also worth noting that if you watch the dugout a lot of the pitch side chatter comes from Marcus Bignot whilst Holloway remains calm & seated (mostly)

Either way - thankfully we’ve seen improvement all round.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Without being there day to day on the training pitch it’s very difficult to divide the praise up exactly as it’s deserved.

All I can really say is - I don’t remember us being particularly solid & shithousey when Gunning was actually our manager. We played roll the dice, gambling, you score 3 we will score 4, no idea what formation we’re playing Gunningball.

Also worth noting that if you watch the dugout a lot of the pitch side chatter comes from Marcus Bignot whilst Holloway remains calm & seated (mostly)

Either way - thankfully we’ve seen improvement all round.

I was just curious as to why a Chesterfield fan had singled Gunning out. Yes, I had noticed that Bignot shouts his head off constantly. Really noticed it in the game at Wycombe when hardly anyone was there. He was all you could hear!

[Audrey]

Bignot has a really oversized head - like the TV Dr Ranj in the health food ads and, for older posters, The Mekon from Dan Dare.

[Peter Venkman]

Reading the Chesterfield forum they think thats one of the worst games of football they have seen! You wait until you have been in L2 for a few years, that was shit but we have seen way shitter games than that! the wind didnt help the game though.

They also think we are terrible and one of the worst teams they have played against....yet we scored a goal and won the game, what does that make them?

It was an awful game but when you set out your stall to go to the deck at every opportunity and look for free kicks rather than playing football what do you expect? They had one player I would take and that was the loan striker Bim Pepple up front who ran around a lot but had no support from a weak team, I think he would work well alongside Smith next season if Luton wanted to loan him to a better side next year.

The game itself was reminiscent of games we played with Macari in charge, slow plodding game with little quality but grinding out results late in games, as long as we can carry on then I dont mind that, not every game can be a classic sometimes it down to old school hard work and defensive solidity over quality of football.

Walsall next week will be a huge test but they have been on a pretty shit run until recently (5 games without a win but won their last 2) so who knows what will happen, we have had some big results away at Walsall even though they outplayed us in the home game. Town have won 5 and drawn 4 of the last 12 games up there.

[DV]

I mean the game was shit & they did give us a massive assist for our goal.

Personally not convinced we would have broke through & scored otherwise.

Felt kinda like a reverse of our game away at Bradford. Shit game, probably a 0-0 game turned into a 1-0 game with a defensive error.

[Peter Venkman]

Felt kinda like a reverse of our game away at Bradford. Shit game, probably a 0-0 game turned into a 1-0 game with a defensive error.

Definately this, often results like this even themselves out at the end of the season though. But lately that has not been the case with us, especially for the last 2 seasons. Maybe our luck has changed finally?

One thing though is I cannot fault our team for the effort they put in even if the quality wasn't quite there.

[Batch]

Weird how people from the opposition see things completely differently to us. Somewhere in-between must be the truth.

A few thoughts:-

We was the better side up to the injury.


The pitch was awful as was Cheltenham and Walsall depriving us of one of our main assets the skills and quick feet of Dobs Duffy and Ogy and on the occasions they didn't a no nonsense take one for the team applied.

Whilst on about the pitch in the first half their centre half completely shanked one over his head for a corner, lucky b..ger, we do similar , goal.

Didn't see the potential sending off tussle however the same ref sent Dunkley off incorrectly at Gills. Oh well.

2nd half they had 2 free headers on goal we ain't learnt much from last week.

Anybody got a clue why our goal was disallowed from our sun impaired view I haven't a clue. Game changing maybe!!!

They clearly roughed us up 1st halfwe must toughen up and play the ref better.

The best bit. Cirencester is a great pre match stop off, no doubt Sky will make next seasons game a silly KO time ruining the day completely

And finally and most importantly all the best Tye.

1. No the pitch  it isn't shit. Your players kept throwing themselves to the ground

2. We roughed them up?? Interesting take

3 Ciren isn't a great stop off.

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

Bignot has a really oversized head - like the TV Dr Ranj in the health food ads and, for older posters, The Mekon from Dan Dare.

Looks a bit like Tito Ortiz of also famously fat headed fame.

[4D]

They also think we are terrible and one of the worst teams they have played against....yet we scored a goal and won the game, what does that make them?

Small club fan syndrome? Sour because they lost 

[Batch]

The game was poor yesterday. If we played like that every week we'd be in deep shit

I mean we mostly did until January.

I can see where they are coming from

[DV]

We were poor yesterday but at least we were robust instead.

Under Kennedy we were neither.