Swindon Town v Cheltenham Town matchday thread

[Nomoreheroes]

Flynn:
- Shot themselves in the foot with penalty and sending off
- Nam were on top at that point
- Holloway has got Swindon confident
- It was a battle
- Glad they came away with something
- Frustrating to be 3-1 up and comfortable
- First one wasnt a free kick
- Cheltenham got lots of yellows Town got 1
- Nice to see some familiar faces here
- Good game in testing conditions
- Chelters were doing well. Flynn thought they were deep first half with the wind with them
- That was some team spirit as they dug in and got something out of the game
- Thomas and Kinsella were excellent
- Tough place to come. Harry Smith is a handful in any league. Difficult to mark. A throw back to an old school number 9
- Bradbury apologised for getting sent off
- Moment of madness cost Chelters
- They could have had a couple of 1 on 1 chances. Didnt cross the ball in
- Frustrated but proud
- Thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere. Praised the Cheltenham fans
- Frustrated that they should have more than 50 points at this stage. Not giving up on playoffs.

[Freeloader]

From 3-1 down, you take that. The red card obviously helped.

Big question marks over the defending today though. Probably suggests we're still a bit away from being promotion contenders next season.

Yep, playoff-ish form since Ollie took over, need more quality in the summer to become realistic promotion contenders.

[Nomoreheroes]

Holloway:
- Bitterly disappointing
- Weather changed. Bit of sun. Bobbly pitch. Horrendous bobbles
- In stand due to 3 yellows
- Looked like both teams couldnt get the ball down and play
- Horrendous fouls
- First goal: Showed them in training what Thomas does. We aren't good enough at defending that
- For a long time he's said how great the performance has been. Today wasn't good enough. Cant let goals like that in
- You have to organise yourselves out there
- Second goal. Unbelievable. Two people should have gone out. That should have been blocked
- How we've let them score 3: That's not good enough
- You could say we came back: I'm expecting that!
- You can't expect us to have to score 4 goals to win at home
- Bitterly disappointed! Huff! There you go!
- The more attackers I put on the better we look
- If we started like that we'd be 5 down
- We didnt hurt their back line to begin with
- We pinned them back after the sending off
- We didnt have the right width in the first half
- Outstanding free kick from Wright
- Wright lost his mum this week. So proud of him today!
- Annoyed because we are better than that
- We should have won today
- First half wasnt good enough
- We didnt get tight enough. Should have been 0-0 minimum at HT
- How many defenders did the first goal go past? Should have had a block on it
- 2 points dropped
- Got to win next week. Four out of 6 might be alright
- Holloway's plan was to win today. Its all out the window
- Liked what Ameen did last week. Liked some of his stuff this week. He's growing and learning
- We have to take control of things out there. Don't rely on the coaching staff telling you what to do in the game
- Ameen needs to learn to defend, but thats nothing to do with him today
- Their extra width surprised us and caused us problems. Fuming with himself that he couldn't sort it out from the stands
- Goals for and goals against. Evening them up because we are scoring lots!
- Maybe we start with all of our forwards as we pin everyone back! But, we'll get walloped.
- Maybe the starters stay starters and the finishers stay finishers
- On another day we would have won 4-3. But we can't rely on winning 4-3
- Raised his voice in the changing room as he's fuming about today. He believes they are better than that, but need to take responsibility
- There are still 27 points to fight for

[Batch]

I'll be honest, I didn't enjoy most of the first half. Hot potato low quality football and I thought they looked more threatening on the break with their pace. Good free kick though.

When they went 3-1 up we looked done and the second looked to be heading to being worse than the first.

I thought Ollie got the team selection wrong. Too weak physically in the middle without offy or Clarke.

But the sending off turned the game. We were all over them from that point. It was a question of whether we could find the winner, so near but not quite. And I don't think we deserved to, to be honest.

Think the subs were 5-10 minutes late too.

But a good fightback none the less.

[adje]

The point is though, why was the game over?  Because we didn't show up for the first hour..  that is what we have to learn, a game is 90 mins not 30, stop giving ourselves a mountain to climb by picking a better starting lineup.  It's easy to look at the game differently because we've pulled it back but that doesn't paper over the first 60. I know Holloway lauds his finishers, but perhaps take a moment to look at the right starters as well..  Smith defo MOTM for me, was a pain in the arse for Num all day long..

My point is the game is not over after 45,60 75 or whatever minute. That is unarguable as we've proved many times. Yes the first half hour was shite but that's bugger all to do with the point I was making. I said at half time that it was worrying that our impact players were already on the pitch. I just get annoyed with people saying "games over" or "seasons over" or "we're definitely going down" as many did 4 months ago. It's stupid.
That's just my opinion

[adje]

Flynn:
- Shot themselves in the foot with penalty and sending off
- We were on top at that point
- Holloway has got Swindon confident
- It was a battle
- Glad they came away with something
- Frustrating to be 3-1 up and comfortable
- First one wasnt a free kick
- Cheltenham got lots of yellows Town got 1
- Nice to see some familiar faces here
- Good game in testing conditions
- Chelters were doing well. Flynn thought they were deep first half with the wind with them
- That was some team spirit as they dug in and got something out of the game
- Thomas and Kinsella were excellent
- Tough place to come. Harry Smith is a handful in any league. Difficult to mark. A throw back to an old school number 9
- Bradbury apologised for getting sent off
- Moment of madness cost Chelters
- They could have had a couple of 1 on 1 chances. Didnt cross the ball in
- Frustrated but proud
- Thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere. Praised the Cheltenham fans
- Frustrated that they should have more than 50 points at this stage. Not giving up on playoffs.

Flynn is a dick. The reason they got more yellows than us was because they were a bunch of fucking dirty twats and we weren't.  Also an obvious foul for our first. And what about the clear foul on Smith in the first half. What a fucking sap

[Steak supper]

expected lots of goals . very nice comeback .

[Ides of March]

As others have said, selection was all wrong today. Thought Holloway took too long with the subs as well, but good character shown in drawing level. No chance we’d have got anything out of that without the silly red card from them. Seems we’ve had a fair few penalties at home since the turn of the year, with the conversion rate getting better after missing god knows how many

[Terminator]

Weird sort of game. Need a different plan where we don’t lump it up to Smith everytime. He’s so good at winning them, but Cheltenham were just doubling him all day and made it real hard. When we don’t put Offoborgh on the pitch we look so weak defensively and totally different side. MoM for me was Smith who never gives up and won so many 1 on 1 balls. Didn’t stop running all day. Don’t get me started on the fouls. Some awful stuff going on which was not punished.

[Nemo]

In the circumstances of Wright losing his mum midweek that free kick was a beaut and explains the whole team celebration with even Ripley coming up. Fair fucks for playing at all.

[Mr Stevens]

Get Freckleton off , back to his awful best...

Cowley38 adding to his reputation for positivity. I thought you were done for the rest of the season.

[Jimmy Quinn]

It is what it is……he’s not happy!

[Audrey]

Chatted with a bunch of Maastricht supporting Dutch fans queuing up for the DRS. An annual bash, apparently, going to various non-PL games. Were at Ashton Gate last night.

God know what they made of our 3-3.

[Legends-Lounge]

Cowley38 adding to his reputation for positivity. I thought you were done for the rest of the season.

Like an AA meeting. I haven’t had a post today. Then you sadly fall off the wagon and the old demon rears it’s ugly head.

[4D]

I got away with loads of verbal, stewards couldn't give a fuck