MATCHDAY LIVE: Swindon Town v Colchester United (From Swindon Advertiser)

Robinonfire wrote:
Here we go again....Come on you REDS

smirg kcab wrote:

Robinonfire wrote:
Here we go again....Come on you REDS

I know the feeling nearly a quarter the way into the season already, and we are only fourth.
Onwards and upwards

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

smirg kcab wrote:

Robinonfire wrote: Here we go again....Come on you REDS

I know the feeling nearly a quarter the way into the season already, and we are only fourth. Onwards and upwards

We're RUBBISH!! :-) ---. Feeling good about tonight despite their new manager....we'll turn up and scare the pants off them by half-time. ---. Give a shout for me please folks...stuck over in Ireland for this match.

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

smirg kcab wrote:

Robinonfire wrote: Here we go again....Come on you REDS

I know the feeling nearly a quarter the way into the season already, and we are only fourth. Onwards and upwards

We're RUBBISH!! :-) ---. Feeling good about tonight despite their new manager....we'll turn up and scare the pants off them by half-time. ---. Give a shout for me please folks...stuck over in Ireland for this match.

Swindon1984 wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

smirg kcab wrote:

Robinonfire wrote: Here we go again....Come on you REDS

I know the feeling nearly a quarter the way into the season already, and we are only fourth. Onwards and upwards

We're RUBBISH!! :-) ---. Feeling good about tonight despite their new manager....we'll turn up and scare the pants off them by half-time. ---. Give a shout for me please folks...stuck over in Ireland for this match.

Enjoy, you could be in worse places! :-)

TheDukeOfBanbury wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

smirg kcab wrote:

Robinonfire wrote: Here we go again....Come on you REDS

I know the feeling nearly a quarter the way into the season already, and we are only fourth. Onwards and upwards

We're RUBBISH!! :-) ---. Feeling good about tonight despite their new manager....we'll turn up and scare the pants off them by half-time. ---. Give a shout for me please folks...stuck over in Ireland for this match.

I will do your bit Mate........but your COYRd's is fairly impressive !!

No doubt you will be close to the action.

mancrobin wrote:
Strange comments about Nathan from Paolo. He must also be wondering what he has to do to keep his place. Hasn't he been a MoM contender in the games he's played? He can only improve as Paolo wants if he plays him.

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

mancrobin wrote:
Strange comments about Nathan from Paolo. He must also be wondering what he has to do to keep his place. Hasn't he been a MoM contender in the games he's played? He can only improve as Paolo wants if he plays him.

What did he say?...missed that

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

mancrobin wrote:
Strange comments about Nathan from Paolo. He must also be wondering what he has to do to keep his place. Hasn't he been a MoM contender in the games he's played? He can only improve as Paolo wants if he plays him.

What did he say?...missed that

Just seen it:
“Nobody asked about Nathan until one week ago, he did very well but he has to improve a lot. Then when I call him back he has to do his job properly."
---.
Not quite true as several of us have been banging on about him for quite some time now....he is the future lets just hope htis is all about keeping his feet firmly planted on the ground!
---.
My problem is that I've seen Bessone twice now and on both occassions he has been wasteful at best with his distribution...he needs find the players and not look to hoof so often....my big worry is that he'll cost us tonight.

joey butler wrote:
Best Board of Directors for many years.

Biggest squad for many years and very highly paid.

Most enthusiatic fans for many years.

And we cannot even beat Colchester!!

Very sad evening at The County Ground.

Guv wrote:

joey butler wrote:
Best Board of Directors for many years.

Biggest squad for many years and very highly paid.

Most enthusiatic fans for many years.

And we cannot even beat Colchester!!

Very sad evening at The County Ground.

Best cup run for years
best chances of going up year on year for years
We could beat Colchester, however, the performance was under par tonight. It happens.

Get behind the team! It will happen. Collins needs to start finding the net now, he's not employed for running, he's supposed to be a striker! That's our trouble, we still cannot find real strikers!

southside7 wrote:
Thompson was injured......what does Bostock have to do?

mikek wrote:
I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Davidsyrett wrote:

southside7 wrote:
Thompson was injured......what does Bostock have to do?

Thompson was available for selection tonight but not picked. Bostock has been waiting in the wings all season, he could have added pace to a very flat performance. Why not give him a chance? We always bring an Ferry,

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote:
I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

mikek wrote:

Davidsyrett wrote:

southside7 wrote:
Thompson was injured......what does Bostock have to do?

Thompson was available for selection tonight but not picked. Bostock has been waiting in the wings all season, he could have added pace to a very flat performance. Why not give him a chance? We always bring an Ferry,

No he was not both Thompson and Roberts were injured and that is from Paolo himself on the radio.

Rebel_phish wrote:
Poor showing tonight, thats a gimme...

Lets put some perspective on the season so far.

P10 W5 D2 L3

Last season:
P10 W5 D0 L5

We also lost the next game as well, but ended up as champions.

People get a grip. We lost 11 matches last time out, so there is no need to panic at all. We will lose matches we think we should win and pick up max points when we think that a draw would be fair.

Keep the faith boys and girls, keep the faith.

the don69 wrote:
Beaten by much the better side on the night!so the less said about tonight the better,we were utter Rubbish end of!!!!!!!!!!!!

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

Tom3000 wrote:
Is it just me or is the Miller/Navarro midfield combo simply not good enough? We missed someone who could break up play and distribute the ball intelligently. We seem to come unstuck against the rubbish but physical teams, and let's face it, you don't get much more rubbish than Colchester in this league.

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

the don69 wrote:
Beaten by much the better side on the night!so the less said about tonight the better,we were utter Rubbish end of!!!!!!!!!!!!

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance.

Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season.

A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!”

Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

old town robin wrote:
Have to say, that has to be as bad as it gets. Colchester were no better than us, but we were so inept, the whole team needs to hold their head in shame. we expect to play the ball on the ground so what do we do but hoof ball. My ratingsfor staerting 11. Wes, did OK - 6 Besonne shocking - 1 Archibald, poor - 3 Macca, best of a poor team - 7 McEverley, did OK - 5 Ritchie, as bad it gets, - 2 Navarro, ditto - 2 Miller, ditto - 2 De Vita, lack of sevice - 4 Williams, shocking - 3 Benson, run out of steam - 4 Subs, no improvement For those that were not there, this has to be as bad a performance as you can imagine, lot of work for Paolo to sort out

old town robin wrote:
Have to say, that has to be as bad as it gets. Colchester were no better than us, but we were so inept, the whole team needs to hold their head in shame. we expect to play the ball on the ground so what do we do but hoof ball. My ratingsfor staerting 11. Wes, did OK - 6 Besonne shocking - 1 Archibald, poor - 3 Macca, best of a poor team - 7 McEverley, did OK - 5 Ritchie, as bad it gets, - 2 Navarro, ditto - 2 Miller, ditto - 2 De Vita, lack of sevice - 4 Williams, shocking - 3 Benson, run out of steam - 4 Subs, no improvement For those that were not there, this has to be as bad a performance as you can imagine, lot of work for Paolo to sort out

Oxon-Red wrote:

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

Malkym,

Don't disagree with your comments regarding a certain poster but it is noticeable that he is more vocal when Town have not done well and seems to get pleasure from getting a reaction from other posters. His comments appear shortly after the final whistle which begs the question does he actually go to games ?

But yes, after tonight, he has a point. Improvement is needed but it is all part of the learning curve for Paolo.

COYMR

Oxon-Red wrote:

old town robin wrote: Have to say, that has to be as bad as it gets. Colchester were no better than us, but we were so inept, the whole team needs to hold their head in shame. we expect to play the ball on the ground so what do we do but hoof ball. My ratingsfor staerting 11. Wes, did OK - 6 Besonne shocking - 1 Archibald, poor - 3 Macca, best of a poor team - 7 McEverley, did OK - 5 Ritchie, as bad it gets, - 2 Navarro, ditto - 2 Miller, ditto - 2 De Vita, lack of sevice - 4 Williams, shocking - 3 Benson, run out of steam - 4 Subs, no improvement For those that were not there, this has to be as bad a performance as you can imagine, lot of work for Paolo to sort out

Very poor assessment of players at the back. That game today was lost becuase they won the midfield battle. To give 1 to a player that is part of a unit that restricted the opponents to 6 shots all game, 5 of which were either from 20 yards plus or from set pieces, is ridiculous. You may not like him but judge him fairly. COYMR

joey butler wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

Malkym, Don't disagree with your comments regarding a certain poster but it is noticeable that he is more vocal when Town have not done well and seems to get pleasure from getting a reaction from other posters. His comments appear shortly after the final whistle which begs the question does he actually go to games ? But yes, after tonight, he has a point. Improvement is needed but it is all part of the learning curve for Paolo. COYMR

Just do one OxEn Red! You just get worse and worse Wizard!!

Oxon-Red wrote:

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

Malkym, Don't disagree with your comments regarding a certain poster but it is noticeable that he is more vocal when Town have not done well and seems to get pleasure from getting a reaction from other posters. His comments appear shortly after the final whistle which begs the question does he actually go to games ? But yes, after tonight, he has a point. Improvement is needed but it is all part of the learning curve for Paolo. COYMR

Oxon-Red wrote:

joey butler wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

Malkym, Don't disagree with your comments regarding a certain poster but it is noticeable that he is more vocal when Town have not done well and seems to get pleasure from getting a reaction from other posters. His comments appear shortly after the final whistle which begs the question does he actually go to games ? But yes, after tonight, he has a point. Improvement is needed but it is all part of the learning curve for Paolo. COYMR

Just do one OxEn Red! You just get worse and worse Wizard!!

Just proved my point OBU.

Malkym wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

Malkym wrote:

redjet wrote:

mikek wrote: I think tonight it was a case of Colchester being excellent, they closed us down and had more desire than us. We just could not get going and the harder we tried the worse it got and were second best all night. What saddens me is where is Flint he is far better than TAH in the air and commands his box and yet he is sat in the stands. I believe Thompson suffered possible head injury from the Burnley game so feel that is why he may be missing but Bessone looked shocking and can't understand why Devera never played at right back. Colchester did their homework and outplayed us it was that simple.

Add to that we could not get the ball down, make a good clean pass, realise where their team mate where, get to the ball first blah blah blah. Colchester where average at best we where extremely poor, end of. I really thought they where hung over they where that bad. And I really don't moan about the team much but that was really painful to watch tonight.

As two combined posts that is an extremely accurate assessment of a very poor under par performance. Not so unusually (when he decides to concentrate on the teams performance rather than other posters) I'm leaning to agree with Joey B who said -> "After Orient and now tonight, we are sure as hell not going up this season. A degree of realism is required and we are not anywhere near as good as we think we are, including me!” Well I think we can obviously still go up at this early stage of the season but certainly a reality check is required because on the strength of the Preston, Orient, Oxford, Colchester performanceswe definitely are not as good as we think. Spoke to mate who went to the Shrews game and he reckoned we also didn't play great there and got lucky with the result - tonight lady luck evened out her favours.

Malkym, Don't disagree with your comments regarding a certain poster but it is noticeable that he is more vocal when Town have not done well and seems to get pleasure from getting a reaction from other posters. His comments appear shortly after the final whistle which begs the question does he actually go to games ? But yes, after tonight, he has a point. Improvement is needed but it is all part of the learning curve for Paolo. COYMR

Hi Oxon - yes you could be right about JB - wooden spoon does come to mind and he may not go to gamesor but can be posting from a smartphone i suppose -not that it matters one iota but I just feel that we are going to have a much harder job in achieivng a second successive promotion because opposing teams appear to be generally better and are sussing our playing style big time and succeeding in stifling it as happened tonight. But that remark in itself is a bit of a paradox because we are clearly better on paper than the teams we have lost to although I take nothing away from Colchester's performance tonight but they only threatened twice - once when they fizzed a shot over the bar and when they scored. we badly need that plan B I reckon.

the wizard wrote:
Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote:
Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Hello Me !!!

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote: Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Hello Me !!!

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Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote: Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Hello Me !!!

???????????????????? ??????????? Please explain.

See the Joey Butler posts above.

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote: Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Hello Me !!!

???????????????????? ??????????? Please explain.

See the Joey Butler posts above.

I don't read them as they don't concern me, I do not respond to WUM's. You could watch this and it explains everything about the non person to who you refer. http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=C3Zn3M-WM zM Then decide who is pulling the strings.

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:

the wizard wrote: Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref ! I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid. No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.  We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs. Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.

Hello Me !!!

???????????????????? ??????????? Please explain.

See the Joey Butler posts above.

I don't read them as they don't concern me, I do not respond to WUM's. You could watch this and it explains everything about the non person to who you refer. http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=C3Zn3M-WM zM Then decide who is pulling the strings.

By replying I suspect I have made his night but each to their own.

Didn't watch it but from the still I see where you are coming from. Perhaps we will meet one day ! Prediction League gathering perhaps (hint, hint Sapfan)

But then again according to Joey...

COYMR

Oxon-Red wrote:

old town robin wrote:
Have to say, that has to be as bad as it gets. Colchester were no better than us, but we were so inept, the whole team needs to hold their head in shame. we expect to play the ball on the ground so what do we do but hoof ball. My ratingsfor staerting 11. Wes, did OK - 6 Besonne shocking - 1 Archibald, poor - 3 Macca, best of a poor team - 7 McEverley, did OK - 5 Ritchie, as bad it gets, - 2 Navarro, ditto - 2 Miller, ditto - 2 De Vita, lack of sevice - 4 Williams, shocking - 3 Benson, run out of steam - 4 Subs, no improvement For those that were not there, this has to be as bad a performance as you can imagine, lot of work for Paolo to sort out

Very poor assessment of players at the back. That game today was lost becuase they won the midfield battle. To give 1 to a player that is part of a unit that restricted the opponents to 6 shots all game, 5 of which were either from 20 yards plus or from set pieces, is ridiculous. You may not like him but judge him fairly.

COYMR

Oi Den! wrote:
Have to say I agree with OTR. The only player in the back four to emerge with any credit was McCormack - and he was far from his best. Not sure about them restricting the opposition to 5 or 6 chances either. The opposition was very spirited but hardly adventurous. I bet if you'd offered them half a dozen chances, long range or otherwise, before the game they'd have bitten your hand off.
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At the moment, I continue to believe our best back four is Thompson, Flint, McCormack and McEveley.

Psychedelic Syd wrote:
Woeful performance last night and very worrying. Tactics were dire and after a first half of lumping long high balls up for their defenders to mop up with ease we came out second half and did exactly the same. Bessone was poor at Shrewsbury and bad again last night, mind you, other than De Vita (how could he have been subbed?) and Macca, everyone outfield was diabolical. Troy looked very suspect last night and rapidly lost confidence after his dreadful early distribution. I thought he had looked very promising up until last night's game, now I am not so sure. I don't understand how Flint can be persistently ignored, Ward was OK at Shrewsbury but is nothing special, Aden is far more dominant in the air and we needed someone like that last night as the ball seemed to spend 50% of the game at head height or higher. We lack speed on the flanks. Ritchie is easily shut out of the game without a good overlapping full back and supportive midfielder like Si to draw players away from him. Roberts when he plays has skill but hasn't got the speed to get away from the p;layers he has beaten and his tackling is almost non-existent. 50:50 balls - forget it! Andy Williams had a poor night, nothing seemed to work for him and Benson was similarly off. Collins does not look like the answer either, smart piece of business by Shrewsbury. Depressing game all round. Hope to goodness that Bostock gets his chance soon and that young Nathan is fit again. Our midfield is sadly lacking when Miller/Navarro start together - their combined age is 64 and age is telling on them both. Apologies for being so negative, very down after that performance.

Malkym wrote:

Psychedelic Syd wrote: Woeful performance last night and very worrying. Tactics were dire and after a first half of lumping long high balls up for their defenders to mop up with ease we came out second half and did exactly the same. Bessone was poor at Shrewsbury and bad again last night, mind you, other than De Vita (how could he have been subbed?) and Macca, everyone outfield was diabolical. Troy looked very suspect last night and rapidly lost confidence after his dreadful early distribution. I thought he had looked very promising up until last night's game, now I am not so sure. I don't understand how Flint can be persistently ignored, Ward was OK at Shrewsbury but is nothing special, Aden is far more dominant in the air and we needed someone like that last night as the ball seemed to spend 50% of the game at head height or higher. We lack speed on the flanks. Ritchie is easily shut out of the game without a good overlapping full back and supportive midfielder like Si to draw players away from him. Roberts when he plays has skill but hasn't got the speed to get away from the p;layers he has beaten and his tackling is almost non-existent. 50:50 balls - forget it! Andy Williams had a poor night, nothing seemed to work for him and Benson was similarly off. Collins does not look like the answer either, smart piece of business by Shrewsbury. Depressing game all round. Hope to goodness that Bostock gets his chance soon and that young Nathan is fit again. Our midfield is sadly lacking when Miller/Navarro start together - their combined age is 64 and age is telling on them both. Apologies for being so negative, very down after that performance.

Syd - not so much negative as telling it like it is -as most seem to have done apart from one or two perennial rose tinters, and yes we all see the game differently but there cannot be one Town fan who can say they were even mildly impressed by that showing. Paolo has summed it up perfectly - we are average and sometimes we only perform to an average level or as well as the opposition lets us play which was zilch last night and they fully deserved their victory because they sussed we do not have a plan B. Agree that Macca and RdV were the only noteworthy contributors and Wes to a slightly lesser degree for not setting the wall up very well. There is no crisis but the alarm bells are just perhaps starting to chime because we can all see where the glaring holes are starting to develop. I'm going to bang the Flint drum again too - have done all season -willdo all season - TAH has to improve drastically IMO to make me stop.

harley red wrote:
does this mean fortress is crumbling i getting a bit fed up with PDC why cant heplay a winning team,why so many changes it is a crap idea ,what i would give to have a normal maneger.

Wilesy wrote:

Malkym wrote:

Psychedelic Syd wrote: Woeful performance last night and very worrying. Tactics were dire and after a first half of lumping long high balls up for their defenders to mop up with ease we came out second half and did exactly the same. Bessone was poor at Shrewsbury and bad again last night, mind you, other than De Vita (how could he have been subbed?) and Macca, everyone outfield was diabolical. Troy looked very suspect last night and rapidly lost confidence after his dreadful early distribution. I thought he had looked very promising up until last night's game, now I am not so sure. I don't understand how Flint can be persistently ignored, Ward was OK at Shrewsbury but is nothing special, Aden is far more dominant in the air and we needed someone like that last night as the ball seemed to spend 50% of the game at head height or higher. We lack speed on the flanks. Ritchie is easily shut out of the game without a good overlapping full back and supportive midfielder like Si to draw players away from him. Roberts when he plays has skill but hasn't got the speed to get away from the p;layers he has beaten and his tackling is almost non-existent. 50:50 balls - forget it! Andy Williams had a poor night, nothing seemed to work for him and Benson was similarly off. Collins does not look like the answer either, smart piece of business by Shrewsbury. Depressing game all round. Hope to goodness that Bostock gets his chance soon and that young Nathan is fit again. Our midfield is sadly lacking when Miller/Navarro start together - their combined age is 64 and age is telling on them both. Apologies for being so negative, very down after that performance.

Syd - not so much negative as telling it like it is -as most seem to have done apart from one or two perennial rose tinters, and yes we all see the game differently but there cannot be one Town fan who can say they were even mildly impressed by that showing. Paolo has summed it up perfectly - we are average and sometimes we only perform to an average level or as well as the opposition lets us play which was zilch last night and they fully deserved their victory because they sussed we do not have a plan B. Agree that Macca and RdV were the only noteworthy contributors and Wes to a slightly lesser degree for not setting the wall up very well. There is no crisis but the alarm bells are just perhaps starting to chime because we can all see where the glaring holes are starting to develop. I'm going to bang the Flint drum again too - have done all season -willdo all season - TAH has to improve drastically IMO to make me stop.

I'm with you on that Malkym, I can't understand for the life of me how Flint is fourth choice defender. Having one centre back who wins 99% of his headers is essential. Two would be better. I would also think about moving Macca out of the back four, and partnering Flint with TAH or Ward. Let the other outfielders weave their Fantasy Football magic, centrebacks are there to get stuck in and snuff out the opposition, in my opinion.

the wizard wrote:
Far too many negatives about this game to list. Woeful, lacking and flippin' clueless, and that was just the ref !

I was right to ask about Bessone last night, Best Gone, no wonder Swansea were glad to get rid.

No plan B then Canioman, sorry but more like Paolo de Crappio tonight. I cannot see any defence for this lack of performance.
 We fight for the ball, get it, and then hoof it into the air, kicking away possession, time after time after time. Now we have short corners, and whose brain child is that, total rubbish, put the ball in the box from the corner, anything else is second best, like we were tonight. This is the second game in a short space of time when we have dregged the bottom of the barrell. And some of this lot want to play against Villa ?? in their dreams. If this is the result of being on a cup run, then store it somewhere dark. The league must be our top priority, at all costs.
Sorry for the rant chaps but annoyed, disapointed, angry and feel very let down . If I was the manager I would have had them back out on the pitch practicing passing till midnight, because during the game they had forgotten how.