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3 points on offer as always but we need these to put our season back on track not attempting a line up prediction not sure who is fit, but whoever is selected I,m sure they will try their best up the reds.

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Another team at the wrong end of the table, who are fighting to stay in the league.

Will not be pretty, like you Andy, not sure who is fit enough to play, but that does not matter really :rolleyes:

McConville has to start!

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to be honest dont think it will be a bad game.

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Football is always good Cashy at least it's no VAR at our level yet agree with Scott Parker Fulham manager it's ruining the spectacle at Premier level, let's hope it gets binned before Stanley get up there.

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Swindon have got key players coming back from injury who are available this weekend. It will be a very difficult game for us.....

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They’re all difficult! ;)
That’s what makes being a Stanley supporter interesting.
Anyone who needs boring certainty should buy a Man City Inc shirt! :rolleyes:

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doubt many will find that boring. they,ll be binning their liverpool shirt for a new city one now. many of the armchair premier fans do not support a club but just support success.

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I would rather watch somebody watching paint dry, than watch Man. City.....!!!



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One thing I haven't missed is witnessing grown men on the long leash in the bar Sunday afternoon pertaining to be avid United, Liverpool, City fans not many when say Brighton were on some maybe genuine but majority probably don't even know where the relevant grounds are never mind attended, final whistle rush back home to help with the ironing.

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like one of my workmates when i worked in coventry. you name it he had man. united on it even down to his sandwich box. wound himup one day saying i had a free ticket for a forthcoming match at old trafford. asked him to write directions to the ground off the M6 and where to park. never heard a thing and he avoided me like the plague after this. nearest he ever got there was his remote tv control.

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Well, at least one of our injured soldiers from Tuesday is fit to be in starting line up today & Toby will have had time to prepare himself to start - best of luck lads, let's get our first double of the season

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Looking like diamond formation again,:-
Savin.
Nottingham. Barclay. Hughes. Burgess.
Conneelly.
McConville. Butcher.
Smyth.
Charles. Bishop.

Subs:- Isherwood. Russell. Maguire. Rodgers.
Phillips. Scully. Morgan.

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I'll say it again, at least 3 tired players in that IX...

I just hope that unlike Tuesday, it does not cost us..........



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Sshhhh you haven't said that.

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Ipswich getting beat 3-1 with 5 minutes to go.

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How can Brett Pitman still be playing?????? :confused:

Always scores against us..............



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i reckon they would have got beat on tuesday but for an idiot.

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And we will get a penalty today ;)

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No surprise really Andy !.. not the best team to visit The Crown so far !..:alright:

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1-0 charles good cross sean

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YESSSS...Dion baby !!!

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Width using it what a difference.

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1-1 bad goal

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()*&^&&^#$^@&%*^^%i&%(^% !!!!!! :(

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:(

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We started well but we dare I say it looking jaded, Smyth unwell before game, Bishop constantly holding his thigh, Conneelly limping hopefully he,ll run it off.

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This ref is a mare... he will send Yozzer off..........

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Don’t like to say it again Andy, but midfield is not functioning at all, Butcher in particular is just not in the game.

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2-1 bishop

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Yessssssssss.

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At last a set piece goal keep it tight till half time and a breather.

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Have to stop Twyne (sp?) running the midfield for them.
He’s no full back but some good deliveries by birthday boy.

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Hard game to call Swindon no mugs good at set pieces so need to cut out needless fouls around the box, Pompey getting hammered 4-0 at Northampton lot of football left in this season 3 points a must today soldier on and hopefully as games continue to mount we have more bodies fit and available we,ll need them.

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He’s got em tied up Exile !.. but where is Butcher ?.:confused:

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What a miss hopefully we won't regret it.

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Nice one STANLEY.

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Crown Grounder was spot on - that was difficult!
But we’ll done to the squad to get three points and not to let the ref make matters worse.

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good win today against a good footballing side should have been 4 or 5 for us though,

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Not at all pretty to watch but it's the 3 points that matter so well done lads for grinding out a result. Hope Seamus & Colby are ok, we don't need any more injury problems

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Great 3 points pyshio,s and medical staff will have their work cut out patching the walking wounded up but the spirit and never say die attitude needs no such attention another big game at Barton,s new charges but hopefully another run starting and 3 more in the bag.

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Your right Cashy but at least we are back to creating chances.

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Very uncharacteristic performance from Butcher but what a difference if that late strike had hit the crossbar two inches lower!

Much of the outfield squad look tired towards the end but Morgan looked a useful battler to bring on in a match like that.

Thought Swindon were a better team than one sitting a single point above the drop-zone. Shows how tough this league is this season.

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i enjoyed the game swindon are better than the table shows am delighted with the victory,

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Personally think Charles is the only player who hasn't shown any tiredness he,s a bundle of energy thought he caused their defence problems just by being a nuisance, his control at times let's him down but 15 goals says it all my by a shade mom today, Morgan looking a decent signing hard looking type game time will improve him and way things are surely will get it.. Phillips when he came on looks a threat when facing goal could be an asset in Smyth's role, Russell did ok for Bishop in an unfamiliar role and really should have scored. Apart from the goal defence solid enough Barclay and Hughes do the simple things well 50 points target reached next target top 6.

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50 points works for League 2, but not always enough in League 1 with 4 going down. Not that I think we are in any danger :), just noting something like 10 clubs have gone down with 50 points in the last 15 years .....

Looking up, we can nick Pompey's playoff place if we just win that game in hand ..... :D

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I think Sean MC was man of the match today. His delivery was superb Admittedly Dion was a handful as he has been consistently this season.Are back line defended well apart from there goal. A hard fought win. Well done the reds.

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Well done Stanley and thanks for the wn. I was forgetting how good it felt. Not going to say any more as really the result is all that matters. Have a good evening all and a rested and enjoyable few days ..... before we get to do it all again.

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Like Sean,s post match interview staking his claim for the left sided roll, but he,s spot on 15 games left and a lot of them will be like today not necessarily on your best but grinding out results well said Sean. Quick mention for Toby Savin hard for any keeper coming back in fantastic save from the free kick kept us in it hope Baxter is ok what a bonus having 2 excellent keepers.

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I have to agree with earlier comments about it not being a pretty game today.
The most important thing today was getting three points which our boys achieved. :alright:
The match was more like a game of badminton with constant high ‘ping pong’ headers to and fro with neither team able to consistently get the ball down and keep possession and build any real momentum.

I don’t believe that there are issues with ‘tiredness’ as some have suggested. The players are professionals, coached and cared for by professionals. However, there does seem to be an issue with a number of players carrying injuries along with those injured and clearly out of contention!
The next few matches are crucial to finishing in a play off place by the end of the season. It is a big ask for our team but not impossible.
I think it is about objectives now;
1) Avoid relegation.....looking likely.
2) Finish in the top half.......definitely possible.
3) Achieve a play off position......possible but needs a little good run of results.
4) Promotion via the play offs with a win at Wembley..... not an impossible dream but something for the players to aim for.
5) For our wonderful supporters, a play off final at Wembley so that we can actually see some of this seasons squad play ‘in the flesh’!:theband:

ON STANLEY ON:wave8:
BELIEVE!:theband::rose8:

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Spot on Choirboy, agree with all of your point although I do think your numbers 1 and 2 are almost a given, the rest are a bonus and the fact that we are in this position a great achievement by a great team.

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You could even read about it:

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All 176 pages of it :D

"John Burbidge has aimed his brush, roller, and spray gun at everything from ritzy mansions to trashy trailers. He’s gone underground to paint sewage-treatment plants and risked death to paint factory ceilings. He has no doubt inhaled enough noxious dust and paint fumes to shorten his life.

But he’s not dead yet. And the captivating characters he has encountered along the way have more than offset the toils of painting for a living. Ex-cons, addicts, drifting college grads, even a guy with a hole in his head—that’s your typical paint crew, bonded only by the fact that they’re caught in a job society thinks is for simpletons. In Watching Paint Dry, John Burbidge scrapes beneath the surface of painting’s reputation for monotony while intimately portraying the men and women who craft the backdrop to our civilization.

"Informative, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking . . . this is a book you will want to recommend to everyone you know."

--Sharon Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times book critic for 28 years :)

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Good post but just to pick up on " tiredness " if as you say some players look to be carrying injuries that means they aren't 100% so in some viewers eyes this can be looked upon or appears as tiredness, I think that with all the injured I think Dan Jewell mentioned 7 potential first 11 unavailable yesterday players are being asked to or wanting as in Smyth's case to carry on, fully fit available squad we could finish easily in top 6 just a case of battling on now.

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Sama, Cassidy, Uwakawe, Pritchard, Mansell, Baxter and Sangare all presumably carrying some kind of injury not sure about Sama plus Sherif and Sykes out for the season that's 9 decent players to be were we are is a fantastic achievement hopefully most will be available for the run in any side would miss that amount of quality.

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Boys dug deep to get those 3 points, at one point it looked like they didn’t want them and tried everything to give something to Swindon, fortunately it seemed Swindon didn’t fancy anything themselves either!
Chuffed for Colby to get his goal.
Dion is like a Duracell battery at the moment, just worried he’s going to get his international call up (well deserved) and we will miss him for a couple of games.
Couldn’t choose between Matty Butcher or Cam Burgess for MOM, asked Coley after the game and he said he’d have given it to Burgess.
Impressed with our super sub David Morgan as well, think he can fit nicely into Seamus’ role doing the simple things really well.
Final note, Sean McConville, best game for him in a year! He might just hit form right when it matters most. As he mentioned in his post match interview, we are still up there.
I think we’ve had our wobble at the right time!

Onwards and upwards (well, downwards to Brizzle Tuesday night.)

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for me thought sean mac was mom though was a few good performances,the last couple of stanley joshs post i agree 100%. certainly hope its correct,the top6 clubs are all much bigger clubs than us, so if we get in playoffs its an amazing achievement in my eyes KTF lets go for it.

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not going to buy the DVD of the game but its another game ticked off and 3 more points in the bag. this season thats the main thing for me. armchair saturday afternoons and tuesday nights just isn,t me.

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Nor me but it's all we have at the moment Tuesday night interesting a lot of the teams above us play one another so another reason 3 points would be useful, should imagine Bishop dead leg and Smyth under the weather will be ok rest is down to recovery and fitness but whoever gets the shirt now hopefully will play out if their skin.

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Andyd, your response seems to acknowledge the difference between ‘tiredness’ and ‘carrying an injury when considering reasons for not being 100% fit to play. It doesn’t matter how other viewers see it.....there is still a difference between ‘tiredness’ and ‘carrying an injury’.
I believe that our players are well trained and 100% fit unless they are ....‘carrying an injury’. I would think that the physical training for Stanley at the moment will mostly be based on rest and recovery. They will probably be spending more time working on team matters such as playing formations and set pieces than running themselves hard as they would in pre season training. IMHO, two matches a week is not an excessive load for well trained professionals. It only becomes a problem for individual players if they start to carry an injury.
Tiredness and carrying an injury are totally different!

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have to disagree rest and recovery to me is NOT starting a player who aint right or is ill its ridiculous to me.ok we all know some players will say they are ok when not, but im damn sure the manager knows if thats correct.

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Looking at the photo gallery on the Fishy site, I reckon Stanley’s physio had a good shout for Man of the Match! ;)

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Well said Cashy it's a bit about character management as well but manager,s are there to make decisions we all don't always agree that's life, as a player it's your job and to me if your nowhere near fit you,ll know it yourself being tired isn't just a physical thing it is a mental state has well that is the one they might as we all do not recognize, especially in this strange season no fans to urge you for that bit extra when your minds wondering but it will be the same for every team I suppose.

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Think he was hoping for an appearances bonus :D

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lots of this tiredness thing is in your head anyway. more people who tell you that you look tired the more you,ll believe it. once you are over the white line a niggle can kick in but you forget that you are tired. know everyone is different but thats how i still feel myself and always have.