ericofarabia

In the match at Huddersfield I was amazed that the ref/lino/4th official/our bench didn't take some action over the actions of the ball boys which were so blatently bias in favour of the home team (presumably pre match instructions rather than uni lateral decisions :cool:) Whenever there was a Huddersfield throw in their player had the ball in his hands even before he reached the touch line, half the time when it was our throw in / goal kick our plyer had to go and retreive the ball himself ... to the extent we were being booed for time wasting I say ban the multi ball system completely. It wasn't so long ago if a ball got kicked out of the ground a replacement ball was dilegently inspected by the ref and both captains to see if if was ok, now we end up using up to 20 different random balls per match :confused:

I was very impressed wih the vocal support from the Brentford fans. We as per usual went a bit flat when they equalised, we should be used to it by now Hoping for better vocal support at Stockport than we mustered at Huddersfield. Obviously a better performance on the pitch would help

I absolved myself by not even listening to the Swindon match. Only found out the score when we came back in from a lovely meal out with friends. Brentford game was a bit of an improvemnet so fingers crossed that I get a win under my belt before I fly back :cool: For after match drinking next week at Stockport, things could get interesting in Manchester as Arsenal are at Old Trafford with a 5.15 KO

Seems to be a bit of a prob entering my prediction for todays game In case it hasn't worked I was going for a 3-1 home win. Cheers E

£5.30 for bus and train from Leigh via Atherton .... it would be rude not to

Recognition at last ....... Yay It sounds a bit like the Huddersfield game, once again crap game but also crap support. Away games used to be fun win, draw or more normally lose. but Saturday and it seems last night were a bit flat to say the least. Come on SuperFans make yourselves heard at Stockport (and SMS on Saturday) and every game for the rest of the season.

Oh dear sounds like you got more of the same Things better improve on Saturday for my visit to SMS :cool:

My first chance to post since the match ..... a few things that crossed my mind:- 1/ Were Huddersfield really that good or did we just make it look that way. I lost count of how many danderous crosses they put in and as the the guy who managed to miss the open goal from 6ft by kicking the ball into the ground and making it loop over the bar was an amazing miss. 2/ I don't think I've ever seen a team go the whole match with such a low amount of completed passes. I don't think we ever strung 3 passes together all game, even when we elected not to lump the ball up to the 2 c/fs.:mad: 3/ Why didn't we have more width, all our crosses were from deep and easy peasy catches for their keeper 4/ Even our fans seemed half asleep for most of the match. Considereing there were 823 of us for most of the game we were pretty quiet, admittedly the team gave us f'all to cheer, but it's a 2 way street our support could lift them a bit. 5/ As somebody else mentioned, Huddersfield perfected the roll over in agony in front of the ref to avoid a dead cert booking technique to a T. :cool: 6/ The Rolling Ball tactics were so biased I'm surprised the ref or our players/manager didn't lodge a complaint about it. Everytime they had a throw in (and there were 1000's of those as we couldn't keep the ball in play ) the ball was in their player's hands before he even reached the touchline to take a quick throw in, putting us under immediate pressure. Yet we when had a throw in half the time our player had to get the ball himself (at one stage the crowd were booing Davis for time wasting as he had to walk to the corner flag to get the ball :confused:) 7/ Obviously with such a good result their crowd were pretty noisy at times, but I'm convinced it was being enhanced and piped thru the tannoy system and at one stage there was feedback and the sound CD's make when they get stuck :cool: 8/Thank God for Kelvin Davis, it could have been 4-0 after 25 mins but for him, shame about the penalty save 9/ I think the goal was the only time we got the ball into their area in the 2nd half 8/ As highlighted the stadium announcer was a good crack ... 'The 4th official has indicated there will be some extra time to be played' was probably the high light of the game. Hope all you lot at Swindon get served up a better nights entertainment than we had on saturday.

Shortly setting off, only a relatively short journey from Lancashire for me, but plenty of pre match drinking to be done :smt047:p Got my I Spy book of Yorkshire at the ready:- Old Blokes wearing flat caps and smoking woodbines sat on park bench, ferrets, racing pigeons, whippets, etc , sign posts ending in Thwaite, shops with good old English names such as Ramsbottom, Higginbottom and Patel Hope the locals are as friendly as my last visit to Yorkshire 2 years ago (Barnsley) but a slightly better result, although a draw again would be quite creditable, I feel the bar (my expectations anyway !) has been raised somewhat, would be ok. Hope someone posts a good match report later, in case my memory is slightly jaded It will be a bit embarrassing for me as I don't think I'll recognise any of the players on the pitch ... I'll be the one going 'go on lad', 'well done my son' etc :cool: COYS

I keep buying Toblerones now ... I never used to at all.

Thanks for the great info mate. Hoping for a great day out tomorrow and hopefully a good result too

Don't think anybody will be owning up to that little display of class in a rush

Great ... no pressure then :cool: Tickets arrived today, which pub will it be then? Planning on arriving about lunchtime ish, but will have my father in law in tow, so will be relatively well behaved Is there anybody in the squad from my last game at Derby still at the club COYRs

Is the commentator have a competition to see how many times he can say 'Cobblers' on live radio Ooops we nearly got done by a Delap type long throw in :cool: Probably my last post ... I'll just have to fume away to myself at the **** poor commentary and the visits to other grounds for updates. (Eastleigh have gone 1-0 up and we rejoin SMS as somehow we have a corner ... wonder what we missed :mad:

Glad it isn't just me then. Link wouldn't work on PC but managed to get it on my daughters lap top. Signal keeps cutting out for about a second every few minutes and the actual commentary team make Cope plus whoever was with him on any particular week top class Also the build up was more about Eastleigh than SFC and now they have left our game for an up date from Eastleighs game. Isn't this service that we are paying for suppose to be exclusively for SFC :mad: Also the supposedly seamless transition to Saints Player from Saints TV was impossible to fathom out till the other link on here advising people to use 'password' as the password instead of your own one ??: Lost count the amount of times I was redirected to the page telling me to sign in or that I wasn't a signed up member All in all NOT IMPRESSED

Tickets are in the post, now to plan the pre match drinking Any general preferences yet? I'm planning on arriving early doors, probably take in The Grove pre match, assuming it is roughly en route from the station to the ground and one of the pubs next to the station for a few post match quickies in way of celebration hopefully As so many people have said already, this is the first time in years that I am actually looking forward to Saturdays. COYRs

Oh well just arrived in blighty, sat in business lounge at LHR, nobody showing the footie ... I guess a draw against one of the play off teams from last year isn't too bad considering 1/ We were on Sky 2/ It is the opening game of the season and 3/ Dubai Phil was online Now where is the bar ....

I wont bother predicting seeing as last season I predicted us for a playoff win promotion and Burnley dead certs for relegation :cool:

My chances of actually making it to the ground are now severely in doubt Sounds a bit like The Brunswick in Derby ... I'll settle for 10 pints (5 before and 5 after) 3 points and a performance to match the one at Derby last year. Was our football really as good as it seemed that day or were my beer goggles working overtime

I can only hope that this is a wind up. Try sitting next to me banging a drum and you'll soon find that your drumsticks are firmly implanted where the sun don't shine :smt093 (Admittedly it would mean you are in my house in Dubai banging the drum so I'd be fully justified ) And as for the video clip, if you ever wanted to show just why we shouldn't have drums at games (anywhere not just SMS) then that was perfect. Surely one of the most cringeworthy clips of fans I've ever seen. Whilst you're banging away on your drum, why not get your own song going.. 'we're the barmy scummer drummer bummers army' :cool: If this isn't a wind up fred, you need to have a word with yourself and maybe give yourself a damn good kicking.

We're on our way to Wembley we shall not be moved X 2 Just like a team that's gonna win \the \jpt We shall not be moved. Happy days are back. :supz: Not often we get past the opening round of any competition

i was guessing something like Stevie Wonder playing table tennis :cool:

My earliest musical memories from when I started going to matches in the late 60s early 70's was that they always seem to play The UK Eurovision song entry So if I ever hear Puppet on a String (Sandie Shaw) Congratulations (Cliff) or Knock knock, whos there (Mary Hopkins) it takes me back to my early days at The Dell. Then one night match they played Dave Clark Five's Bits and Pieces (probably as a preview as to how the opposition C/C would end up after 90 mins of John McGrath's attention ) and it sounded incredible, so edgy and violent compared to the other stuff they played. My earliest chant that stands out was 10 seconds after the opposition scored "You're gonna get your f**kin heads kicked in " As a young impressionable lad, to hear thousands of angry grown ups swearing was awesome. Back in those days you didn't hear swearing on TV or at home, so it was brilliant Watching match of the day was great, because you knew it would come booming thru your TV as soon as the away team scored, but I think after a while the beeb cottoned on and muted it a bit

This was how Phil celebrated his victory back in Dubai :grin: Media whore, can't keep his face out of the local press

Maybe he could team up with team up with John 'Budgie' Burridge and John Sydehham who was affectionately known as The RoadRunner, when got the ball it was beep beep and off he went Unfortunately we;ve had far too many Turkeys, Headless Chickens and complete T!ts to mention , and one who shall remain nameless with his association of shooting ducks :mad: