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Swindon Town Football Club
STFC are Swindon's top football team, based at The County Ground Stadium.
The County Ground, County Road, Swindon, Wiltshire , SN1 2ED
Website 0330 002 1993Full-time at the County Ground and that might the first time a manager has ever had boos after his first home game. I wouldn't put it past Swindon, but it seems likely.
OFF: Close
ON: Barlow
5 minutes added on *obligatory where did he get that from*
Attendance in 9486
OFF: Williams, Kadji
ON: Kanu, Brennan
83- Williams has gone down injured off the ball. Couldn't tell you what happened but he doesn't seem too comfortable. 0-2.
OFF: Miller
ON: Lavery
OFF: Wakeling
ON: Jephcott
73- Double trouble for Molyneux, this time he hits a shot first time from the edge of the box into the bottom corner. 0-2.
Goal. Swindon 0 Doncaster 2 (Molyneux 73')
71- Against the run of play but Donny take the lead. Molyneux is allowed to run across the top of the box and squeezes his shot passed Brynn at the near post. 0-1.
Goal. Swindon 0 Doncaster 1 (Molyneux '71)
70- Chance for Doncaster. James Maxwell gets a cross into the middle and Molyneux wins the header and Brynn got down low to push it out for a corner. 0-0.
68- Austin heads the ball wide to Hutton, he skips beyond his man and plays in a nice cross, but Mitchell does well to block it off. Swindon are on top, but have not forced the Donny 'keeper into enough saves. 0-0.
67- I said this of Doncaster in the first half, but Swindon seem to have been told to shoot on sight in the second. It has produced a few nice efforts but given they haven't been in good areas that much it feels like a waste. 0-0.
67- Darcy gets booked for a foul on James Maxwell. 0-0.
66- Ronan Darcy wriggles through a few bodies and lets fly, but his effort goes over the top. 0-0.
OFF: Charlie Lakin
ON: Tommy Rowe
62- Austin plays a ball over the top towards Darcy, Olowu heads it away but only as far as Williams, he plays in Wakeling and his fizzed cross across the face of goal is too far ahead of Darcy. 0-0.
60- Iandolo gets booked for a late challenge on James Brown. 0-0.
60- Williams and Darcy combine to get Swindon forward, Town's number 10 rolls the ball out to Iandolo, whose low cross is hacked clear. 0-0.
55- Great play from Kadji drives Swindon up the pitch and the ball is worked to Cain and his shot from distance is not too far away. 0-0.
54- Not a bad effort from Cain from about 25-30 yards, but it whistles just over the top. 0-0.
53- Jacob Wakeling is the League 2 Jack Grealish. Once again he gets brought down by James Brown, and the defender goes into the book. 0-0.
50- Dangerous looking attack as Cain finds space in the middle of the pitch, he plays a nice ball out to Williams, but the midfielder has strayed offside. 0-0.
50- I was wrong, this is no different. 0-0.
45- Charlie Austin gets us back underway. 0-0.
The players have come back out for the second half, here's hoping there was something of a rollicking in the home dressing room.
To sum up that first half I shall take an extract from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Nothing happened and then nothing continued to happen.
Swindon have come close with two shots from range and Brynn was forced into one decent save, but overall it has been a drab first sight of a Jody Morris team for the County Ground faithful.
Half-time here after a lacklustre first half that almost had a box office ending.
45- So close guys, so close. Cain lines up the free-kick from the corner of the box and rattles the connection. As close as anyone has come. 0-0.
45- Tom Anderson is booked for tripping Wakeling as he was running in behind. 0-0.
One minute of additional time, and that feels generous.
43- There would be more updates, but I respect you all too much to write about things that nearly happened. 0-0.
38- Swindon get off the hook. Cain woefully underhits a back pass that Molyneux latches onto. FBT positions himself well and in the end the pass is poor and Kadji intercepts. Donny should have done more there. 0-0.
35- Charlie Lakin gets booked for cynically chopping down Jonny Williams as Swindon looked to counter. 0-0.
32- Brief scuffle between Austin and Brown after they get into a tangle of legs as the ball goes out. Austin wasn't pleased with something I couldn't see by the dug outs, but neither players get booked. 0-0.
30- As I said earlier, this has not been the thrill-a-minute Gav-ball from the past two home games. A lot of Swindon not looking too secure in possession and Doncaster being dangerous until they reach the final third. 0-0.
24- oof baboof. Jonny Williams sees nothing on 35 yards from goal and decided to shoot. His rasping drive is headed straight for the top corner, but Mitchell pushes it behind. 0-0.
21- Juego bonito from Town. Hutton and Darcy combine to get them to the edge of the box, then the right backs attempts an ambitious chip into the box and puts too much on it. 0-0.
17- Swindon are caught in possession again and Molyneux gets down the left and lifts a cross into Hurst, whose header is well saved. 0-0.
17- Doncaster appear to have been given shoot on sight instructions. Given Brynn is in goal and they shown themselves to be bad at shooting from range, it feels like a bad plan. 0-0.
13- After a period in which there were a smattering of comically early boos and groans, Hutton drives in field and overhits a ball through, but goes to Iandolo anyway. He plays a great cross towards Austin at the back post, only for Mitchell to get up high and make a claim. 0-0.
11- Doncaster are racking up the corners early on here. Swindon are really struggling to get forwards when they have the ball. 0-0.
10- Contender for worst shot you will ever see. A Doncaster corner is played to Molyneux 25 yards from goal and his shot hits the bottom of the floodlight in the corner. Not even a very powerful effort. 0-0.
8- Fair to say the Gavin Gunning era is well and truly over. We have played eight minutes and there hasn't even been three goals yet. A distinct lack of vibes and too much defending so far. 0-0.
6- Iandolo is beaten too easily down the side by Maxwell, allowing him to get to the by-line, but Clayton reads the cut back and clears. 0-0.
3- Fairly cagey start but Wakeling was nearly played in behind from a long ball from the back, which Doncaster just dealt with. 0-0.
Ben Close gets us underway with Swindon shooting towards the Stratton Bank.
There will be a minute's silence for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria this week.
Here come the players.
A cultural insult has just happened on the County Ground pitch as the current incarnation of Rockin' Robin did a pale imitation of the fabled Rockin' Robin Hakka. He was late onto the pitch and then there was a criminal lack of choreography. To say it was disgrace would be an understatement.
GEFAHRLICH! ACHTUNG! Doncaster are currently doing a whole squad huddle on the pitch. This team is so incredibly together that Swindon have got no chance.
Ellis Iandolo - 1/2 (favourite)
Ronan Darcy - 1/3
Dylan Kadji - 1/3
Jacob Wakeling - 2/5
Frazer Blake-Tracy - 2/5
Sol Brynn - 6/1
If anyone wants to tweet me with their suggestions for which Swindon player gets sent off today, then the winner can get a shout out on the Loathed Strangers. I will do some odds, so bear with.
Ed Brand is here but clearly is still not the assistant manager as he is dressed very smartly and not involved in the warm-ups.
Some very distressing news that I learned this morning was that it looks like Joe Tomlinson has been given the number seven shirt. Nothing against Tomlinson, but in no way should a left-back be wearing number seven, it is just not on.
Two changes for Doncaster as Ro-Shaun Williams and Tommy Rowe drop out and Joseph Olowu and Ben Nelson coming in, so that seems like it will still be a back three.
Mitchell
Anderson Olowu Nelson
Brown Lakin Close Maxwell
Molyneux Miller Hurst
Doncaster Rovers XI:
Mitchell, Brown, Maxwell, Anderson, Olowu, Molyneux, Miller, Nelson, Hurst, Lakin, Close.
Subs: Williams, Rowe, Barlow, Seaman, Miller, Lavery, Oram
Swindon Town XI:
Brynn; Hutton, Clayton, Blake-Tracy, Iandolo; Cain, Kadji; Williams, Darcy, Wakeling; Austin.
Subs: Copland, Adeloye, Jephcott, Aguiar, Minturn, Brennan, Kanu.
The early kick-off isn't on in the press room today, so I was bored and starting looking to see if there was anything statistically interesting about Doncaster. The answer to that question is no. The only thing they seem to be particularly good at is not conceding from set pieces, other than that they aren't towards the top for anything. They simultaneously don't play many long or short passes, I am not sure how you do neither.
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the County Ground. Today is Jody Morris' first home match in charge and Doncaster Rovers are the opposition. Donny are 11th in the league, but could go into the play-offs today with a win.
STFC are Swindon's top football team, based at The County Ground Stadium.
The County Ground, County Road, Swindon, Wiltshire , SN1 2ED
Website 0330 002 1993In case you missed it see what’s in this section
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