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Post by chip on Jan 9, 2022 18:32:14 GMT
Me personally a mid table finish and a bit of a cup run would have done but sadly my cup run ended before Christmas again so now we have to look forward to a mid table finish anything on top of that is a bonus. I just feel that this season we are playing better quality teams so we needed better quality players. Santos needs an experienced centre back to help him and we need a goalkeeper that will command his box oh and a new striker other than that a change of tactics. Onwards and upwards stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 9, 2022 21:02:22 GMT
Politic's assist for Port Vale against PL Brentford on sat'day. starts at about 2.47. quality stuff.
not that , that snake in the grass Iles would agree. what a disgraceful comment. fans and club will be here long after manager has gone. no need to get involved. i 've always accepted they have to suck up to the club to some extent, but this is just sickly stuff...brown nosing. ( nb. may take a sec or 2 for tweets to load ).
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Post by OohMac on Jan 9, 2022 21:12:59 GMT
I really don’t know what everyone on this board expected. Another promotion? Of course, that would have been fairytale, but, in my view, very optimistic. Agree that it was optimistic to aim for promotion with a net spend of zilch as a promoted club. Ian Evatt was the one talking up promotion by the way. Bookies had us about 10th favourites. And of course it was a little different for us, usually a promotion season you are at a certain level all the way through the season. May have a rocky patch with a purple patch but usually you know where you stand. With us we went from night to day. So we werent just another promoted team(3rd place finish) we were a far superior team in L2 from Jan onwards. We were far too good for that league. After a strong start its easy to see why people got carried away. But we've had a reality check. We are in relegation form. Thats not hyperbole, a throwaway comment, over the last 10 games(near half the season) we are in the bottom 4 of the form table. So without the good start we would be in the mire, and if we are on a downward trajectory. A lot is made of the injuries maybe its more the pile up but theres no one injured who I felt was THAT important. Jones weve missed but thought he was a much improved but pretty average right back. Isgrove was a bit of a utility player. Amaechi and Bakayoko never saw enough to miss. Sheehan after a decent start faded quite badly and MJ we missed but come on, hes no Kante. We should have been able to cope. My gripe isnt that were not competing at the top. Its that weve completely derailed. Think Evatt has pressed the self destruct button and if we cant turn it around we are back to L2. So yeah negative view and think it would be best for all parties if we got someone else in. A sacking may humble Evatt and he may bounce back better and ditch his whats the point background staff. May realise that you cant soundbyte your way to success. Can all read The Art of War but thats no bloody good if you cant defend a corner!
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 9, 2022 21:30:46 GMT
another passing out from the back cock-up !!. if i had time, i'd be tempted to do a full thread on these. starts at 1.15 ish. Ally Mccoist gets it spot on. absolute joke. to do that against Man city of all sides. madness.
think there was another one in the fa cup at Yeovil.
would love to hear BSA on it. big name opposition managers would no doubt praise Swindon for their laudable style. but BSA would rightly be cynical about it. of course they would say that. they know they'll get an easy game. they hated his style in the typical Arsenal away at Reebok. as they know they'll get a tough game and it's not 50/50. Arsenal are big favourites on paper.
Coyle got linked with the Arsenal job after no time at all. he was ok for the media. he tried to play football. where is he now..media quick enough to talk these types up, while decrying others like BSA. media soon go quiet about these types when they flop.
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Post by whiteofthesouth on Jan 9, 2022 22:56:02 GMT
A lot is made of the injuries maybe its more the pile up but theres no one injured who I felt was THAT important. Jones weve missed but thought he was a much improved but pretty average right back. Isgrove was a bit of a utility player. I have to disagree about Jones in particular. Our form went down pretty much straight after his injury. I realise he has his limitations, but I think his unavailability has cost us at least six points.
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Post by whitesince63 on Jan 10, 2022 10:42:59 GMT
I have to disagree about Jones in particular. Our form went down pretty much straight after his injury. I realise he has his limitations, but I think his unavailability has cost us at least six points. Agree on that south, Jones has been much missed as he’s arguably been our most consistent performer this season prior to his injury and we haven’t had anyone remotely like him to stand in. I’ve never been totally convinced of Isgrove personally but his partnership with Jones was certainly working well and without that we look half the team we were. I think you may be conservative at losing 6 points as it could have been several more against the weaker teams we’ve lost to?
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Post by OohMac on Jan 11, 2022 8:16:13 GMT
Yes we have missed Jones and he has been one of the more consistent and better performers, and maybe im doing the RB role and injustice but my point is that we shouldnt really have struggled AS much. We could have looked to use Aimson, Johnston(who dont fit the bill as CBs) or Baps(yes weve seen him struggle in that role) but we picked Isgrove which hurt us as we lost an attacking player and he wasnt very good defensively either.
The other injuries weve had are fringe players. So affected our depth but not a good enough reason to lose 7 away games, exit cups in the manner we did and free fall so badly.
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 11, 2022 10:12:08 GMT
Yes we have missed Jones and he has been one of the more consistent and better performers, and maybe im doing the RB role and injustice but my point is that we shouldnt really have struggled AS much. We could have looked to use Aimson, Johnston(who dont fit the bill as CBs) or Baps(yes weve seen him struggle in that role) but we picked Isgrove which hurt us as we lost an attacking player and he wasnt very good defensively either. The other injuries weve had are fringe players. So affected our depth but not a good enough reason to lose 7 away games, exit cups in the manner we did and free fall so badly. totally agree. i've often thought if Afolayan was part of the injured bunch, we'd be saying how much we'd missed him too. problem is, he wasn't . & we've almost had as much out of him as if he was !! no guarantees Jones would have kept his form up either. don't know how much truth in it, but Dapo did get linked recently with Barnsley.
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Post by realtrottersforever on Jan 18, 2022 21:42:49 GMT
I should really have a special thread for these "passing out from the back clangers ", but seeing as I put the last one on here..the fa cup.. city v swindon, and mentioned the one at Yeovil, i'll bung this one on here too.
saw it on motd 2. only skimmed through the punditry, but as far as i could see they didn't even talk about it. no doubt it was laudable & well intentioned. normal. acceptable. nothing wrong.
back to the clip- the "crime" starts at 1.36 in the vid. to do that against Liv'pool of all sides with their high pressing. and with 3 Liv players stood there..waiting for you to do it. I would have thought that'd be the ideal chance to bypass them all. you get good at football, by doing what the opposition don't want you to do, not the bleedin' opposite. again..just utter utter madness.
too proud to knock it long.
after the initial crazy headline of....gave nothing away in open play...WHAT!? . has he seen the 3rd goal. he does actually talk sense on the 3rd goal when finally asked about it at 5.47.. deliberately went long in 1st half. says they did it against City,when they kept it down to just a 1-0 defeat. and says when they tried to press high on Liv and City..both teams WENT LONG against them. he rightly says...WHY GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY. hallelujah. some refreshing sense and honesty.
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Post by Pedro on Jan 19, 2022 9:23:03 GMT
"Has anyone been offside as much?" LOL Andy! Very slow learner - thick?! And all those scuffs and misses and weak shots straight at the keeper. He was losing it - fast.
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