Tuesday 28th November

[Dirk Diggler]

That only adds up to 91.

Oops number 88 of 92

 

[Ellis]

we won’t be in the top 3 by New Year’s Day with our injuries. Comfortable Salford win tomorrow.

 

[gary]

I thought that too, although the litter pickers do always manage to get something against us, normally in the last minutes and normally a scrappy finish off someone's arse. Also, normally an ex-Gill scoring. About time we got revenge on them with a Cheye Alexander thunderbastard from half a yard out.

We're much better at home than away generally speaking, but when it comes to the Dons it just doesn't matter in the slightest. 2-1 defeat.

Thank god we have no ex gills this season !!!

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

I think we will see a reaction tomorrow.
Dieng in for Lapslie to give a bit more physicality and maybe some minutes from Hawkins off the bench.
3-1 Gills for me.

 

[Meadow]

Should win?
Bold statement

I say it as I see it. We demolished Cheltenham, did a job on Doncaster and got past Notts County.

On our day we can beat almost anyone with the rider that it depends which team turns up. There could be a couple of brainfarts which is the Wimbledon way. We do have a pretty good record at your ground though.

 

[GTFCfish]

Oops number 88 of 92

That’s some going, at a guess I reckon I’m only at around 20-25 although quite a few I’ve done more than once, West Brom and Mansfield the most I’ve been to those 3 times with bizarrely the exact same sequence of scores at both.
First time L 2-0
Second time W1-0
Third time W1-0

 

[Dirk Diggler]

That’s some going, at a guess I reckon I’m only at around 20-25 although quite a few I’ve done more than once, West Brom and Mansfield the most I’ve been to those 3 times with bizarrely the exact same sequence of scores at both.
First time L 2-0
Second time W1-0
Third time W1-0

Thanks although in mitigation I am nearly 66 and have been watching Swindon since 1966. The "92" is a strange one though and interested to hear others thoughts. I count Highbury and The Goldstone/Withdean grounds as opposed to The Emirates and Amex (which I haven't been to) in my 92. I also include The Stadium of Light when I saw England v Turkey play there although I've yet to see Swindon play there or Roker for that matter

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

I say it as I see it. We demolished Cheltenham, did a job on Doncaster and got past Notts County.

On our day we can beat almost anyone with the rider that it depends which team turns up. There could be a couple of brainfarts which is the Wimbledon way. We do have a pretty good record at your ground though.

I get what you’re saying, we can be the same.
We have beaten Stockport, Swindon Salford etc. and would have beaten Mansfield had the ref not had a total meltdown. We have also lost at home to Colchester and Newport.
It was just “we should beat Gillingham” sounded very arrogant to me.

 

[Son of Cod]

Thanks although in mitigation I am nearly 66 and have been watching Swindon since 1966. The "92" is a strange one though and interested to hear others thoughts. I count Highbury and The Goldstone/Withdean grounds as opposed to The Emirates and Amex (which I haven't been to) in my 92. I also include The Stadium of Light when I saw England v Turkey play there although I've yet to see Swindon play there or Roker for that matter

I was somewhere around the 55 mark last time I counted (will be doing two new ones in the next 5 days), but I didn't include the ones that had been knocked down/replaced that I'd been to. I think I've since re-checked all those ones off by going to the new stadiums though. I absolutely include the ones I've not seen Town play at and that probably counts for a good 10-15% of my list. I'm also fully in favour of including the National League and rebranding it 'The 116 (or 115 depending on if someone has gone bust this season)' as I've done over two thirds of that division too.

Edit: Having said that above, just realised I actually haven't re-visited all the old ones and re-checked them off as I'm off to MK Stadium tonight and hadn't included the National Hockey Stadium in my count before.

 

[Crewelad87]

we won’t be in the top 3 by New Year’s Day with our injuries. Comfortable Salford win tomorrow.

Literally everyone is struggling with injuries at the moment though. Weve had 5 or 6 that would likely be in our starting 11 out, yet we've still kept pace and if anything strengthened our position in the league, you will be fine.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

So many teams have lots of injuries, long term injuries and/or key injuries. Some have all. The biggest difference between clubs that I see is how much people talk or don't talk about them.

 

[chief]

Literally everyone is struggling with injuries at the moment though. Weve had 5 or 6 that would likely be in our starting 11 out, yet we've still kept pace and if anything strengthened our position in the league, you will be fine.

We have a first choice centre back, our 2 first choice right backs and Stephen Fletcher injured. Comparing to other teams that's pretty tame I guess given we can field 9 of our strongest 11 (and some would argue 10 but I'd have O'Connell in the strongest XI).

 

[Son of Cod]

So many teams have lots of injuries, long term injuries and/or key injuries. Some have all. The biggest difference between clubs that I see is how much people talk or don't talk about them.

@Mansfield @Stockport

 

[AdamStag]

@Mansfield @Stockport

It speaks more about the quality of the players/management at both clubs to be where they are with the injuries they've had.

 

[joethegill]

Thanks although in mitigation I am nearly 66 and have been watching Swindon since 1966. The "92" is a strange one though and interested to hear others thoughts. I count Highbury and The Goldstone/Withdean grounds as opposed to The Emirates and Amex (which I haven't been to) in my 92. I also include The Stadium of Light when I saw England v Turkey play there although I've yet to see Swindon play there or Roker for that matter

Personally for me it has to be their current ground for it to count, so I'll need to redo Spurs, Wimbledon and Brentford at some point. Apart from that I just need to pick up Wrexham, Barrow and Salford and I'll be back up to 92. Finished it a few years ago, and literally days later was back to 91 when Spurs moved into their new place.

That said I'm not one of those who would get upset at someone else using different guidelines for their 92, it's not that big of a deal and supposed to be a bit of fun!

 

[AdamStag]

As for tonight, not been about much since the reverse result at Swindon, which again appears to be fair, despite the last minute goal.

Tonight i'd be looking for a swift, decisive return to winning ways and is a cracking chance to get back to winning ways. Be another of those games where if we get an early goal it should hopefully go well, but will still be tricky.

 

[ForzaCounty]

@Mansfield @Stockport

Would respond properly but I've just done my metatarsal

 

[Son of Cod]

It speaks more about the quality of the players/management at both clubs to be where they are with the injuries they've had.

And the size of their budgets.

 

[ForzaCounty]

And the size of their budgets.

Coal money Mansfield?

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Disagree entirely with taking a point. Doesn't matter what league you're in, bottom of the league away is a certified must win if we want to be in the promotion race. I'll be pretty disappointed if we drop points at Sutton. If we can perform at Derby with a threadbare squad against a much stronger opponent then there are no excuses for not winning here.

That's not me underestimating Sutton though, who have clearly tightened up at the back since their very poor start to the season and we have to be wary of them. But I still feel we'll be too strong for them, especially given how free scoring we are.

Going for a 3-1 win.

 

[Son of Cod]

Coal money Mansfield?

And hat money Stockport.

 

[iWomble]

I get what you’re saying, we can be the same.
We have beaten Stockport, Swindon Salford etc. and would have beaten Mansfield had the ref not had a total meltdown. We have also lost at home to Colchester and Newport.
It was just “we should beat Gillingham” sounded very arrogant to me.

Yeah, it's the sort of statement that attracts the disapproving attention of the football gods so we'll probably get spanked. I think we *can* win, but would never say we *should* away from home against a team level on points. FWIW I'll go for a draw and would be happy with that.

Literally everyone is struggling with injuries at the moment though. Weve had 5 or 6 that would likely be in our starting 11 out, yet we've still kept pace and if anything strengthened our position in the league, you will be fine.

We're not, which is a huge change from last year and one of the reasons we're still knocking around the playoffs. Only Harry Pell has been injured and he would only be sub at best.

 

[Posh Harry]

Yeah, it's the sort of statement that attracts the disapproving attention of the football gods so we'll probably get spanked. I think we *can* win, but would never say we *should* away from home against a team level on points. FWIW I'll go for a draw and would be happy with that.



We're not, which is a huge change from last year and one of the reasons we're still knocking around the playoffs. Only Harry Pell has been injured and he would only be sub at best.

Harry Pell injured. Shame. Did somebody hurt that massive cock coming out of his forehead?

 

[iWomble]

Harry Pell injured. Shame. Did somebody hurt that massive cock coming out of his forehead?

When we signed him, I think it was Casey who said "you won't love him" and wasn't wrong. Signing gave us a boost last year when we were soft as anything and had a short-term impact but I wouldn't now have him in the squad even as an 80th minute shithousing sub, which is how he's been used. Fingers crossed he'll be shipped out in January.

 

[Ellis]

Literally everyone is struggling with injuries at the moment though. Weve had 5 or 6 that would likely be in our starting 11 out, yet we've still kept pace and if anything strengthened our position in the league, you will be fine.

Don't know mate, I think it was wnm on here who made a good point that I agree on paper we have one of the best squads - but it's a hodge podge with no real depth in regards to how we play football this season. I personally think we've not looked quite right since we lost Barry but have been grinding out results through the work of our midfield.

We were flying with Barry and Tanto as they bounced off each other, now Barry is injured we no longer have a player similar (by similar I mean in terms of profile, not ability as it was obvious he looked a level above league 2) which is mainly a hangover from us playing a different style last year. Sarcevic is another one - we have no other midfielder like him other than Collar who is just as good at the pressing/off the ball work as he is on the ball. Powell is a waste of space and not fit to lace Sarcevic's boots in that regard, same with Camps. Collar has done his hammy so I reckon that is him out until the new year which leaves us with a midfield with a completely different profile to our winning formula.

Croasdale gets injured then it's game over as for some inexplicable reason for the last two seasons he is our only defensive midfielder. Our players are extremely talented individually but the squad building for the money being spent is pretty poor IMO.

Test of Challinor's bottle and skills to see if he can get us over the line to Christmas as we will have to adapt a little bit. I think Salford are going to give us a pasting tonight with no Camps, Collar, Sarcevic, Bailey in the midfield.

Probably revert back to the back three tonight:

Hinchliffe
Wright - Horsfall - Pye
MSH - Croasdale - Cotterill - Touray
Madden
Tanto Wootton

I'd prefer it if we managed to con another football club to take Nick Powell away from us, pay 70% of his wages for the loanee club, I don't care. Suspect he will start ahead of Madden again though.

 

[Son of Cod]

I'd prefer it if we managed to con another football club to take Nick Powell away from us, pay 70% of his wages for the loanee club, I don't care.

This has got Chesterfield written all over it.

 

[Ellis]

This has got Chesterfield written all over it.

Too far for the lazy fucker to travel to that, probably injure his knees driving that far too. Crewe can have him back.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Too far for the lazy fucker to travel to that, probably injure his knees driving that far too. Crewe can have him back.

Genuinely wouldn't want him back as much as a legend he is here. He's only in it for the money and absolutely hates football. Very surprised he hasn't retired yet if I'm honest.

 

[GEORGE]

Thanks although in mitigation I am nearly 66 and have been watching Swindon since 1966. The "92" is a strange one though and interested to hear others thoughts. I count Highbury and The Goldstone/Withdean grounds as opposed to The Emirates and Amex (which I haven't been to) in my 92. I also include The Stadium of Light when I saw England v Turkey play there although I've yet to see Swindon play there or Roker for that matter

Agee with you on the counting of the old grounds if you have'nt been to the new. I've been to 113 different football clubs stadiums ( which obviously includes clubs that were once in the league ) . And as I went to Highbury I count Arsenal.

 

[Indian Dan]

I use the same logic - but I’m only on 72. Do I count Rovers 3 times, though. Eastville, Twerton, The Mem?

Youve had more grounds than a coffee machine!