Swindon Town Vs The Gas Game Thread And Poll

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All the build up to Saturday's game will appear on this thread its also the match day thread (if anyone is around)

The poll will close on Friday 26th at 4:19 PM. So get your vote in now You may change it if you wish

 

I'm going for a 1-1 draw

 

Tickets for Bristol Rovers away game at Swindon Town are on General Sale until 11am Friday [26th August].

Darrell Clarke's men travel to the County Ground on Saturday 27th August and the club have been allocated a total of 2,888 tickets for the ALL TICKET fixture.

The club have already sold over 2,500 tickets for the fixture with around 300 remaining.

Ticket Prices

Covered North Stand - 960 Tickets:

Adults - £25.00
Seniors [65+] - £19.00
Student with NUS - £19.00
Young Adult [17-19] - £12.00
Under 17 - £8.00
Under 11 - £2.00
Wheelchair - £19.00
Ambulant Disabled - £19.00 [Carer free of charge]

Stratton Bank Uncovered Stand - 1922 Tickets:

Adults - £19.00
Seniors [65+] - £15.00
Student with NUS - £15.00
Young Adult [17-19] - £12.00
Under 17 - £8.00
Under 11 - £2.00
Ambulant Disabled - £19.00 [Carer free of charge]

Anyone who requires a wheelchair or Ambulant disabled should contact the clubs Ticket Office Manager Clare McDonagh direct on 0117 952 4001.

Rovers supporters have until Wednesday to purchase tickets if they require them to be posted. However, supporters can request collection at the Away Ticket Office at the County Ground.
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2-1 The Gas
I believe that last nights performance will help the team to kick on and move up the league

 

Clean sheet and a convincing win...2-0...

 

2-0 To the Gas. With a new goalkeeper playing or on the bench I think we will start to see a lot of Rovers clean sheets.

 

Our Record At The County Ground

PLD 44 W 9 D 9 L 26 GF 52 GA 76

 

Swindon Town Info

Full name: Swindon Town Football Club

Nickname: The Robins

Founded: 1879; 137 years ago (1879)[1]

Ground: County Ground

Ground Capacity 15,728

Pitch Size: 110 x 70 yards

Address: County Road, Swindon, SN1 2ED

Telephone: 0871 876 1879

Fax: 0844 880 1112

Ticket Office: 0871 876 1993

Owner: Lee Power

Chairman: Lee Power

Head coach: Luke Williams

2015–16 League Position: League One, 15th

Website: http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/

 

I hope Tuesdays game havent took it out of the players but I expect tinkerman to tinker around and make 4/5 changes to freshen it up a bit to solve this.

Im going for a clean sheet too and I think we will win. But it depends how we start the game. If we play this game like a home game which is to attack from the start I think we will beat them 3 or 4-0. If we go slow and defensive to start with then I thnk we will win 1 or 2-0.

Taylor to score though. I got a funny feeling so will Montano.

 

I was going for a win until I noticed they've had a good start to the season I will be happy with a draw.

 

Rovers have been passed some important information for supporters traveling to Swindon Town tomorrow.

Network Rail are carrying out engineering work just north of Bristol Temple Meads.

Buses will be in operation from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway, Gloucester and Patchway. Trains from Bristol Temple Meads to Swindon will be unaffected.

Their advice is for fans to travel to Bristol Temple Meads – on rail replacement buses or local buses, and take the train from there to Swindon.

For further information on your journey, please click here.

 

By Gerry Prewett

One win above Bristol Rovers, Swindon Town sit in 9th place on the SkyBet League One table. Rovers will see their short trip along the M4 as a chance of catching up with their West Country rivals.

The Wiltshire team have had a mixed start to the season. Beating Coventry 1-0 at home on the opening day, before going gown 3-1 at Chesterfield. A creditable 1-1 draw at Gillingham gave them their first away point, then on Saturday they maintained their 100% home record with a 1-0 victory over Port Vale.

Swindon started the better of the two teams but had it not been for stern defending from Lloyd Jones they could have gone behind. Jones made a critical tackle to block what appeared to be a certain goal from Port Vale striker JJ Hooper in the 33rd minute.

It was just two minutes into the second-half when Jamie Sendles-White played a ball down the right channel to Michael Doughty, who cut inside to find Bradley Barry, charging into the box. His right-footed shot was hammered into the roof of the net and gave Jak Alnwick between the sticks for the Potteries team no chance.

Swindon Boss Luke Williams was well pleased with the result, the best part for him? “The clean sheet, for sure. We know if we keep clean sheets regularly we have a chance to compete in this division. That’s the most pleasing thing.”

“It was not a fantastic performance. I thought we started very well - it was exactly what we wanted from the team but we lost our way and in the last 15 mins of the first half we were very poor. We certainly need to improve on that.”

“We created the best chances to score but we were not clean enough, not tidy enough, there were too many scruffy, bad decisions and turning the ball over too easily at times. We always felt we were in with a chance of winning the game.”

Speaking about Barry’s goal he said, “He's deserved that. It's been coming for a while. Darnell's come in and scored so maybe Brad feels the pressure now he's got to be involved in goalmouth action. It's great to have an extra threat from the wide area.”

Barry himself speaking after the game said, “It means everything to me. Being quite an attacking player, it is always good to get off my start. It was a great ball (from Michael Doughty), I didn’t even know he was going to pass it but it was perfect for me and the wing-backs, that’s what we want, just in behind the defence. I just want to concentrate on winning, that is the main thing.”

The arrival of fellow right-back Furlong on a season-long loan from QPR has put pressure on Barry down the right for Town, but he only sees it as a positive for both himself and the team and says there will be no ill feelings as they compete for the right wing-back berth through the season.

“It is good to have competition because it makes you think about what you need to do and makes sure you are looking after yourself and that you are fit and ready. We’re all family here, it is a good competition but we are all friends. There’s a lot more players now. Just in case someone gets a little niggle, you can put someone in who is just as good and it is very good to have that depth in the squad.”

With both the West Country clubs being regular members of the League’s lower Divisions it is no surprise that they have met a total of 94 times in the League and the record is pretty even. Town have won 43, Rovers 35 and there have been 16 draws.

They clashed for the very first time in 1891 when the Robins ran out 5-2 winners in Swindon, just 2 months later the two teams met again and fought out a 2-2 draw.

The first League meetings took place in 1920-21 season with both home teams’ winning. The biggest winning margin for Rovers was 5-0 way back in 1938-39. Rovers did have a 5-1 League Cup victory in Swindon on 27 August 1984.

Certainly the home teams don't dominate in these games and perhaps that should give Rovers hope. It's maybe a reflection of Swindon's topsy turvey existence that sees such a record.

Of the first six games played at Eastville after the War, Rovers won five and the other was a draw, Swindon's second victory at Eastville came on 7th September 1965 in front of a 15,855 crowd in a very entertaining game. A flashing 25 yard drive by Don Rogers just six minutes from the end of the game gave the points to the team from Wiltshire.

Less than a month after that 1-0 Swindon victory at Eastville in 1965 Rovers travelled up to Wiltshire but came away empty handed once more. This time the score line was 4-3. Bobby Jones and Harold Jarman gave Rovers an early lead, but Eric Weaver and Roger Smart equalised before half-time.

Harold Jarman restored Rovers lead on 49 minutes Then Denis Brown and Roger Smart struck within a two minute spell to put Swindon in front for the first time. Rovers pushed up desperately looking for an equaliser but Swindon defended well and took both points (only 2 for a win then!).

Rovers gained their revenge just over a year later with a decisive 3-0 victory with goals by Doug Hillard, Harold Jarman and Ian Hamilton. In more recent times the Robins have found the back of the Rovers net rather an inviting target. They have scored 4 goals four times in the last 12 visits with two 4-1 wins and two 4-3 victories.

A League Cup tie on 27th August 1984 saw Brian Williams, Paul Randall (2) and David Williams (2) give Rovers their best ever win in Swindon with a 5-1 score-line. It was some sort of revenge for a 5-2 thrashing two seasons before in a League game!

At the County Ground Rovers last victory was a 4-0 victory on 6 March 2010 Jo Kuffour Paul Heffernnan, Chris Lines and Jeff Hughes were all on the scoresheet for the Gas. On 13 October 1990 goals by Tony Pounder and Ian Holloway gave the newly promoted Gas a 2-0 win.

Town Chairman Lee Power says he is unsure at this stage whether he will let any of Swindon Town’s fringe players out on loan before the transfer window shuts next week.

The Robins brought in five players to help bolster a paper-thin squad. At the same time he is looking to loan out some of the younger players, “I think we will look at it next week to see what happens.

"One minute you are full strength and the next, you lose four and you are struggling again. That is just the nature of this league.

“I think the way the loan system has changed; it has made you carry an extra three or four players because obviously, you can’t bring anyone else in after this window closes until January. We’ll probably keep more meat on the bone than shave it off and have one less"

 

Forgot the game is an early kick off looks like I won't be on here until the second half

 

Lightweight

 

Same line up from the Southend game apart from the new keeper Roos is starting and not Mildenhall....

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