Away from home, three days after a 13-hour return trip to Carlisle, against one of the strongest sides in the league? Were you expecting us to be expansive tonight?
Someone called into 606 last weekend complaining about the Premier League referees and saying that the refs from the EFL should be given a chance instead... he has no idea.
The pitch wasn't in a good way at the weekend, it rained a lot yesterday and it has been raining all day today too. I thought that it may have been in doubt so the only major surprise is that it has been announced out of the blue without any prior indication that it was likely.
The drainage was...
Sounds similar to us - we can fill in the corners and add a tier to one of the side stands to take the capacity up to circa 17,000 I think... nigh on impossible to imagine a world in which that would ever be required though.
Pepple was mentioned amongst our fans when it was reported he was being recalled, and I thought it was underwhelming so surprised Chesterfield would go for him with their loftier ambitions. Rubbish for Grimsby and up until two games ago he had failed to score in fourteen of seventeen league...
Of course, it always is to some extent - I thought Swindon were decent and deserved to win as I've said elsewhere. That doesn't detract from the fact that we were also well off it compared to how we've been performing throughout our unbeaten run though.
I think we have a pretty decent core...
The only thing I would say for the second penalty is that in real time at first glance I thought it looked as though Gordon had got to the ball first and kicked it against the goalkeeper, but he clearly doesn't on the replays. Even more surprising as if he had got to the ball first you'd still...
We were incredibly poor today but that's still a really frustrating way to lose it at the end there.
Swindon's first goal came from a very soft free-kick, we then equalised through a very soft penalty, went in front through a shambles of a penalty decision, had a man sent off without appearing...