Ferry: Fans helped us lay down our marker (From Swindon Advertiser)
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Ferry: Fans helped us lay down our marker
8:00am Thursday 18th March 2010 in
SIMON Ferry believes Town have laid down the marker for their League One promotion push, and urged the club’s supporters to back them every step of the way.
Swindon’s 1-0 win at Southampton on Tuesday night was arguably their best performance of the campaign, and they were roared on to the memorable victory by more than 2,000 travelling supporters.
Danny Wilson’s side are now firmly cemented in the play-offs and only five points adrift of an automatic promotion spot, and Ferry is confident they can achieve their goal with the fans’ help.
“Southampton was a great result and that sets the marker down for us now going into the run-in,” explained the midfielder.
“We had two bad results, but to bounce back and beat Brighton and Southampton is superb and the boys are absolutely buzzing.
“People thought we were just going to slip away now but we always had the belief that we would come back and start winning games again, and that’s what we’ve done.
“We’ve shown that even when we do take a couple of knock backs we will come straight back again and go at it.
“The fans played a massive part though - they were brilliant and have been all season, especially away from home.
“That’s exactly what we need. We’ve had decent crowds everywhere and if they could keep it up until the end of the season then the boys would really appreciate it.”
Ferry will miss Saturday’s game against table-toppers Norwich through a one-game suspension, having been sent off at St Mary’s Stadium on Tuesday night.
And the 22-year-old is “devastated” to miss Town’s clash with the Canaries, after questioning whether he deserved both of the late bookings he received.
“In the first one he was going for me and I was going for him, so I thought he should have booked both of us, but the referee thought I went in worse than their player did,” said the on-loan Celtic man.
“For the second I didn’t think I touched him and the boy started rolling about when there was nothing in it. It’s never a booking but the referee was under pressure with the fans on his back.
“I’m devastated to miss Norwich on Saturday - it’s one of the biggest games of the season. But there’s boys who came come in and do a good job, so I’m sure we will be fine.”
Comments(42)
SAPFanSTFC
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8:32am Thu 18 Mar 10
ing what several of the decisions were about and how lucky they were to get away with one or two of the Saints tackles(?)/holds.
I know I sohouldn't do it and that I'm not the only one but when you look at the league table I shiver when I remember Charlton equalising in BOTH games so late in injury time....take those 2 goals away for a few seconds and imagine how the league table would look!! The Leeds game is big already but will be even bigger if we beat Norwich and Leeds drop points to Millwall.
BurtBacharach
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8:45am Thu 18 Mar 10
astonished to read that Bristol Shi1tty are about to sack Johnson, how big do they think they are all of a sudden after missing out on the playoffs last season?! he was 'the best manager' going a year ago.
duncan shearer
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8:53am Thu 18 Mar 10
BurtBacharach wrote:hope they do sack him , it will be a mistake and hopefully contribute to there demise :))
i do think some lower league referees try to orchestrate matches sometimes. ie go with the crowd or make for an exciting finish.
astonished to read that Bristol Shi1tty are about to sack Johnson, how big do they think they are all of a sudden after missing out on the playoffs last season?! he was 'the best manager' going a year ago.
umpcah
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8:53am Thu 18 Mar 10
umpcah
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9:03am Thu 18 Mar 10
duncan shearer wrote:Gosh, I`m beginning to think you dont like Bristol City ! Some good players in Div.1 or Div.2 are not good enough for a starting eleven place in a higher league. The same goes for managers. City are determined to get Prem. footie into Bristol and know that Johnson is not the man to help get it. I was talking to a City fan only yesterday and he is surprised that Johnson is still there. However he concedes that Johnson has the ability to get an average Div.1 side e.g. Yeovil into the Championship. Poor Gary !
BurtBacharach wrote: i do think some lower league referees try to orchestrate matches sometimes. ie go with the crowd or make for an exciting finish. astonished to read that Bristol Shi1tty are about to sack Johnson, how big do they think they are all of a sudden after missing out on the playoffs last season?! he was 'the best manager' going a year ago.hope they do sack him , it will be a mistake and hopefully contribute to there demise :))
stroudred1959
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9:32am Thu 18 Mar 10
ly think the back 2 back defeats against Rovers&MKD's will prevent us from getting automatic promotion but I hope to be proved wrong.
Is that you Lovesey
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10:23am Thu 18 Mar 10
mallorca
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11:20am Thu 18 Mar 10
with the reserve players out to prove themselves who know's.
No matter what the Town does we support them.So lets hope DW can bring in a few new faces, still the deadline is only a couple of weeks away so it's a case of wait and see
GOOD LUCK ON SAT
Old-Stager, Hilperton
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11:27am Thu 18 Mar 10
Malpas for City !
robinmeister
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12:23pm Thu 18 Mar 10
As to the fans, the support this season has been far superior than last season, both home and away. Well done everyone!, but I have recently (Bristol & MK Dons) still witnessed behaviour that is counter productive. For example, booing and misplaced chanting during the game! If there is anything that is sure to discourage players from performing their best its being booed at whilst the game is still in progress! Yes, if you really have to, express yourself at the end, but please, whilst we are still competing keep it down to constructive and encouraging efforts.
red rich
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12:50pm Thu 18 Mar 10
midland red
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12:58pm Thu 18 Mar 10
red rich wrote:But who'd have thought we'd get the double over Southampton or thrash Leeds - a good turn-out of support and much noise could just turn things our way - keep the faith!
yes many injurys and one players suspeneded aginst the best team in the league that we have already loss twice to this season i dont think we can expect much from the next match.
Dover Red
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1:53pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Northstand1
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1:57pm Thu 18 Mar 10
red rich wrote:The home loss in the cup doesn't really count as we piled on the pressure at the end and were only beaten on penalty kicks. Our home form has seen us win 10 times and only lose twice in the league. So we have good odds of making that 11 on Sat. COME ON YOU REDSSSS!!!!!
yes many injurys and one players suspeneded aginst the best team in the league that we have already loss twice to this season i dont think we can expect much from the next match.
stroudred1959
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2:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10
midland red
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3:03pm Thu 18 Mar 10
stroudred1959 wrote:An interview with DW has just been posted on the official site - a new player is coming in tomorrow (not half a dozen but every one helps) but still a mystery as to who it is at the moment.
I really hope northstand, doverred, midlandred are right, however we are going to be short of a half dozen first choice players, and we happen to be playing the best team in the divisionso it's going to be a tough ask.On the positive side when me ,Wes, Tom , and Tom come to the cg together to watch the lads we have not lost a single game, and we are coming this saturday lets hope our run continues!
But so far most players (subs etc.)have done really well when called on! Glass still half full here!
billbst
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4:10pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Custodian
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4:14pm Thu 18 Mar 10
It makes me smile when I think back to when Ferry and Hutchinson both arrived at the club. Most people thought wow! we've signed a former Premier League striker and some lad called Ferry from Celtic. One went back to the reserves and the other is making a real name for himself in England. We struck gold with Ferry.
shaner,bournemouth
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4:28pm Thu 18 Mar 10
midland red wrote:I reckon Carl Cort.
stroudred1959 wrote: I really hope northstand, doverred, midlandred are right, however we are going to be short of a half dozen first choice players, and we happen to be playing the best team in the divisionso it's going to be a tough ask.On the positive side when me ,Wes, Tom , and Tom come to the cg together to watch the lads we have not lost a single game, and we are coming this saturday lets hope our run continues!An interview with DW has just been posted on the official site - a new player is coming in tomorrow (not half a dozen but every one helps) but still a mystery as to who it is at the moment. But so far most players (subs etc.)have done really well when called on! Glass still half full here!
SwindonDude
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4:46pm Thu 18 Mar 10
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SwindonDude
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4:47pm Thu 18 Mar 10
SwindonDude wrote:Apologies, he "insists it will be a tall order"
Interesting to note that DW doesn't feel Town will be good enough to fill the 2nd automatic promotion spot. See http://www.skysports .com/story/0,19528,1 1719_6033251,00.html
stroudred1959
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4:55pm Thu 18 Mar 10
shaner,bournemouth wrote:Interesting Shaner any reason behind the hunch?
midland red wrote:I reckon Carl Cort.stroudred1959 wrote: I really hope northstand, doverred, midlandred are right, however we are going to be short of a half dozen first choice players, and we happen to be playing the best team in the divisionso it's going to be a tough ask.On the positive side when me ,Wes, Tom , and Tom come to the cg together to watch the lads we have not lost a single game, and we are coming this saturday lets hope our run continues!An interview with DW has just been posted on the official site - a new player is coming in tomorrow (not half a dozen but every one helps) but still a mystery as to who it is at the moment. But so far most players (subs etc.)have done really well when called on! Glass still half full here!
Is that you Lovesey
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5:25pm Thu 18 Mar 10
stroudred1959
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5:25pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Oi Den!
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5:42pm Thu 18 Mar 10
stroudred1959 wrote:That goal of Austin's will be clear in my memory till the day I die. The anticipation when he went round the keeper and you just knew he was going to score was electrifying. I thought Ferry was very unlucky to be sent off, but I think referees are under too much pressure to book players these days. 20 years ago he wouldn't have been booked for either of those tackles. There was nothing malicious or dangerous in them. It seems referees don't have much leeway to show discretion nowadays.
Just seen Ferry's second yellow card on bbc sports highlights, complete joke he never touched the guy.There is no way their player could have jumped up and squared up to our players trying to pull him up if Simon had caught him with that tackle.Class finish from Charlie almost Pele like the way he knocked the ball one side of their keeper then ran round the other side to collect it for the tap in, only Pele missed the knock in!
Oi Den!
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5:45pm Thu 18 Mar 10
therock4u
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5:48pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Got agree with that comment. The ref must have been on a different planet. Just goes to show how a ref's decision can change a whole season. And it's no good us complaining as we know the FA will stick an extra match ban on, just like before. We alll saw the result's that brought.
stroudred1959
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6:30pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Oi Den! wrote:Yes dead right Den, just seeing Charlie do that reminded me of Pele-still even nostalgia's not what it used to be!
PS stroudred, I think Pele just dummied it past the keeper rather than take it round him - but I'm just being picky!
Mondeaux
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6:32pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Composed, cool and confident. How many of those things can be taught?
Over the 46 games of a season, luck seems to level itself out - we were unlucky against MK Dons, but VERY lucky to have kept a clean sheet against Southampton.
No complaints here though - onwards and upwards.
COYR
Mondeaux
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6:40pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Maybe, this is a bit fanciful, but he reminds me a lot of Gerd Muller - the best striker I've ever seen.
Mondeaux
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6:46pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Oi Den!
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7:09pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Mondeaux wrote:Ah yes, Mondeaux, but don't you agree that the Saints were also lucky to concede only one? A lot of their fans - and Pardew - have been going on about how they failed to break us down. Amid all that, they seem to have forgotten Charlie's chance in the first half, his other two in the second half, and Danny Ward's shot just over the bar in the second half. As you say, it evens itself out. We were very good value for that win.
Charlie's goal against the Saint's was the best I've seen him score for us (and I've seen all of them), next best was the one against Leeds. Composed, cool and confident. How many of those things can be taught? Over the 46 games of a season, luck seems to level itself out - we were unlucky against MK Dons, but VERY lucky to have kept a clean sheet against Southampton. No complaints here though - onwards and upwards. COYR
stroudred1959
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7:36pm Thu 18 Mar 10
therock4u wrote:Yes better to swallow the one game ban(I think) and lose Simon albeit for the big one against Norwich, it really pi***s you off though, no way should he have been sent off, as Oiden says though 20 years ago he wouldn't have been booked for either tackle.
stroudred1959:Just seen Ferry's second yellow card on bbc sports highlights, complete joke he never touched the guy.There is no way their player could have jumped up and squared up to our players trying to pull him up if Simon had caught him with that tackle. Got agree with that comment. The ref must have been on a different planet. Just goes to show how a ref's decision can change a whole season. And it's no good us complaining as we know the FA will stick an extra match ban on, just like before. We alll saw the result's that brought.
Mondeaux
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7:42pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Yes, we were excellent value for the win, and on another day, maybe Charlie might have recorded his first hat-trick.
I was there and, though we took a bit of a battering in the first half, we were (by some distance) much the better side in the second.
The longer the game went on the more I thought that they'd never break us down.
I've watched the BBC video a dozen times, but am still unsure if Charlie was off-side for his goal. Many a linesman would have flagged it.
One Saint's toadie, suggested that our away support was pathetic and Brizzle Rovers was much better.
Well, from where I was sat, I couldn't hear anything from their fans, except a muted "Oooooh" when Lambert (?) hit the bar.
Our fans were excellent and the noise didn't stop from start to finish. Simon Ferry certainly appreciated it.
Onwards & upwards - COYR.
steve.
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7:55pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Oi Den!
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7:55pm Thu 18 Mar 10
umpcah
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8:44pm Thu 18 Mar 10
steve. wrote:He has only recently been lent out to WBA ! I wouldn`t expect him to go out on loan again quite so soon but if true he is a versatile forward and would be an OK addition to the squad. All will be revealed tomorrow.
Frank Nouble is on his way from west ham then is this old news?
steve.
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9:21pm Thu 18 Mar 10
umpcah wrote:Coming tomorrow mate
steve. wrote: Frank Nouble is on his way from west ham then is this old news?He has only recently been lent out to WBA ! I wouldn`t expect him to go out on loan again quite so soon but if true he is a versatile forward and would be an OK addition to the squad. All will be revealed tomorrow.
02hodgsol
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1:07am Fri 19 Mar 10
GOAL STANDS
02hodgsol
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1:07am Fri 19 Mar 10
GOAL STANDS
umpcah
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7:58am Fri 19 Mar 10
steve. wrote:Seems that you were right Steve ! Let`s hope he bangs in a couple tomorrow. COME ON YOU REDS !
umpcah wrote:Coming tomorrow matesteve. wrote: Frank Nouble is on his way from west ham then is this old news?He has only recently been lent out to WBA ! I wouldn`t expect him to go out on loan again quite so soon but if true he is a versatile forward and would be an OK addition to the squad. All will be revealed tomorrow.
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LeGod says...
8:17am Thu 18 Mar 10
As for Ferry's sending off it was an absolute joke and i do think the ref played to the crowd as alot of the refs like to be the centre of attention and he certainly did that.