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Match thread
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Is it ET & Pens if itâs a draw?
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Re: Match thread
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Looking at the crowd size, perhaps there was an argument for reducing prices or offering a family ticket. We are in a cost of living crisis after all! I know it's a balancing act but could have done with the ground being a bit fuller. As it is that's one revenue stream now gone completely.
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Re: Match thread
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Stockport are the only team in the top 6 to win today.
Mugs.
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Possibly us at least thinkingn we could just turn up and get a result..This is a wake up call and hope the senior players like Pidge let it be known no acceptable .PS Agree we have to play Goode not Sweeney.
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Goode, Houghton or White for POTS me so far.
White probably edges it on his 'goal contributions'.
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Not a single player above 5/10 today, with a whole host completely anonymous and/or putting in their worst showing of the season. Butler, Pidge and Sweeney all disappointing, Houghton and White didn't contribute anything, Reid and Roberts may as well have not been on the pitch AGAIN. Kemp and Phoenix tried but nothing came off. Campbell offered a slight spark after coming on and Jovan made some good runs but nothing came of them. Gassan and Orford didn't add anything and Phillips was absolutely shocking, giving the ball away every time he had it and just ambling about.
A really disjointed performance across the board, and poor communication across the pitch too. Totally lacked any intensity or creativity. Their keeper made two comfortable saves and we hit the bar from a fortuitous deflection off their defender, and that was it. They offered absolutely nothing other than scoring a penalty (which looked identical to the Pattenden one that the ref didn't give us in the first half (didn't think the first one he turned down on Phoenix was a pen). Even if he got the penalty calls right, which I don't think he did, he was absolutely fucking awful, and is one of those refs who just comes across as an utter cunt every single time he refs a game.
So all in all, I had a great afternoon đ
Not going to overreact to it or hold it against them though as it has been a tremendous season thus far, but that today was seriously poor and disappointing.
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That reminded me of the bad old days pre Evans, where it looked as if they didn't care less. No real tempo, no desire or will to win. I'm sure that is far from the truth but this wasn't the Boro who lead the League One table not that long ago.
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Not surprised by Phillips either. Both him and Sweeney have aren't good enough for even a squad place IMO.
Get the feeling all the players weren't that fussed about going out the cup. I hope that's what it was anyway, as the performance sounded seriously worrying.
Need to bounce back with a good display against Reading.
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Believe me, they were fussed.
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Sweeney I now reluctantly agree. He is a L2 player. Phillips is inconsistent but has loads of talent
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Defensively Phillips is a liability, as he never tracks his runner. Therefore I'm not sure what his best position would be.
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Phillips was a crazy sub when we're chasing the game.
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Re: Dose of reality
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Not good enough today but we're still in a good position and this might just bring us back to reality and get the team's head down for our league games this month.
We can't be brilliant all the time but I'm going to need 24 hours before feeling positive again.
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Absolute guff
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Wouldnât have scored had Chesterfield walked off after 80 minutes. Too many players regressing - Reid looks like heâs reverted to Conference South days, Roberts, even by his canât be arsed standards, offers nothing. Kemp is going backwards - literally. Bringing on Ahadme and Malcolm like introducing a bag of feathers. Guff. Absolute guff against lower league opposition who really didnât need to be anything special
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Thought Ahadme was alright. As usual, he won most of the balls lobbed his direction, just a shame there was never anybody nearby to get the knock on/loose ball.
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Revs post match IV
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He looked properly angry.
Good to see.
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Re: Absolute guff
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I will be seriously fucked off if Roberts starts on Thursday as I am every time he starts a game as he is 90% a total waste of time and has been for the vast majority of the past two seasons.
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Certainly one I would be tempted to move on to try and free the budget when possible.
I'm hoping today was just a case of them wanting it more than us. Hemel taking Wigan to pens and other results in the round seem to suggest likewise elsewhere.
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Re: Absolute guff
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Utter bilge though our game was, I donât think we can beat ourselves up *tooooo* much, as Bradford, Cardiff and Lincoln all went out to lesser opposition today, so weâre in good company.
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Re: Absolute guff
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He seems to respond well to being dropped. Which means playing him so often a bit strange. The players have said heâs the most naturally gifted in trainingâŚ.
On his game heâs effective. Played well against Bradford. But yes, agree
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Re: Absolute guff
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Kemp was sublime in the second half against Bradford, so easy to retrograde really, Justin
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Re: Absolute guff
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Wasnât there last week Robin. Went to Wembley instead to watch England whipped at rârugby league by the Aussies
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There was a five minute spell second half today where on three occasions Kemp got the ball in the middle and looked threatening, but then the attacks petered out (one of them after he had one of two shots on target we had today) once they got in the box.
Him and Phoenix toiled away today but nothing came of it. Same for Phoenix in every game he has started bar the FLT matches, which is why I had no issue with him not starting against Bradford whilst some were demanding he had to start just because he did well against some toddlers from a Crystal Palace.
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Re: Dose of reality
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I've just had my email through from Neil and I don't know if he's using 'giant killing' tongue-in-cheek
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Re: Match thread
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Quite concerning that.
Would certainly be looking at the strikers market sooner rather than later for January.
Phillipsâ work rate when he came on was unacceptable.
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We seem to have hit a mini-slump. No wins in three (putting aside the Vertu trophy) and only one goal.
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Is it ET & Pens if itâs a draw?
Need to earn a draw first.
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Cup games are so crap when you're the bigger team and don't turn up.
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Was their pen âworthyâ? Read below that weâve had few decent shouts waved awayâŚ
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Sweeney shouldn't be anywhere near the bloody team. Utter donkey
Edited by Sludgy65 at 16:23:53 on 1st November 2025
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Course he shouldn't. We've been lucky with Pidge and Goode staying injurt free, but could do with more cover in that area.
Edited by RockyBottom at 16:27:41 on 1st November 2025
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So glad our fans aren't fickle like other clubs.
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I'm not fickle, I've never rated Sweeney.
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Yes youâve been saying it for sometime and Iâve thought it for a while . I thought he made mistakes against Luton and got a way with it and mistakes today before the one that cost us . Iâve definitely seen enough now to say thatâs enough. I think itâs the biggest fall in standard if we go like for like in each position and itâs inevitable that Pidge and Goode will pick up injuries/ suspensions . Iâd always use Freestone as back up first . Definitely time to move on in January which is probably at least 6 months too late . Not sure what TVCâs fitness is like but definitely need to concentrate on signing a centre half this January if we are to stay top 6.
Edited by Steve 1970 at 17:53:29 on 1st November 2025
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Let's be fair here, it was a seriously bad mistake for their goal, but Sweeney did also save a couple of goals with clearances in the first half (certainly the first one would have been a definite goal).
I was very surprised to see Revs drop Goode today though. He and Pidge have been such a solid pairing all season that I would be picking them in the FA Cup too (and both will be facing a suspension in the league soon too so will get a game off then). Likewise Butler as Freestone has been so strong. Easy to say with hindsight but Pidge and Sweeney looked uncomfortable with each other all game and Butler really struggled against his man and hardly got forward at all either.
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Yes he saved a good one of the line . I really donât like saying players should move on when they try hard , as he does . He is so good with the ball , but a lot of his mistakes are just such simple ones , like a concentration thing . Just think itâs got to that time now unfortunately.
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Just seen their penalty , looked for it but definitely a penalty . If the ref was unsure then Pidge pointing to say it was outside the box ( which it wasnât) would have helped make up his mind . Just an instinctive thing to do but tells the ref if there was contact or not .
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Messing with the back four seems odd. Maybe Goode had a knock?
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Indeed, or may be slightly under the weather or had been off in training all week, or a number of other factors.
And these are the little things we don't know, so make it hard to have too much of a go with team selections, unless said selections are constantly starting Jordan Roberts, but to give Revs credit he hasn't been doing that lately.
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Yes, when things are shyte like periods last season, we donât know the half of it. But menstrual people still want to write off Kemp, Phillips, Taye.
We need to close down CHOROBAT.
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You can't have a cb who makes at least one catastrophic error every game.
Edited by RockyBottom at 18:00:50 on 1st November 2025
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To be fair, rocky has always thought Sweeney was shit, and I donât think heâs wrong.
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Outscored by Kane Hemmings so far today
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Such a poor crowd today for an FA cup match. Always used to guarantee a full house.
Match itself very disjointed in the first half. Felt like the lack of crowd and atmosphere communicating to the players. Too much sloppy and lacklustre play. Hopefully they will wake up second half
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Other than against Newcastle, Spurs, Everton, it has never guaranteed a full house, or even close to it!
Which isn't to disagree with the point that it is indeed a disappointing crowd, but that part is pure hyperbole.
We haven't looked at it, they don't look great either, and it is the opposite of Bradford last weekend, which was a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable watch.
The ref is also a shit prick.
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Two good penalty appeals turned down for us and a lot of other strange refereeing decisions
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These are rubbish. Be disappointing not to win this in 90.
can our fans also stop throwing the fucking ball on the pitch.
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Yes, I think so.
I see Phoenix is starting. Good for him to have that chance and should excite the crowd.
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Might even see Orford today.
I really hope we win, I want to be in that draw!
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Hopefully, he's easily West Ham's best player.
Just not ours
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Best player to ever wear our shirt.
Pretty disgusting we haven't already retired his shirt number and put him on the mural of our players.
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I assume youâre referring to the leisure centre walk-through, alongside Stevenageâs other greatest sons / daughters.
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No line up on the club website nor the club app.
I assume it's on TwatterX but that's piss-poor comms from the club. Had to wait for BBC football to update.
But a strong lineup.
Marschall
Number3,
D. Butler
Number5,
C. Piergianni (c), Captain
Number6,
D. Sweeney
Number17,
J. Pattenden
Number18,
H. White
Number4,
J. Houghton
P. Patterson
D. Kemp
J. Roberts
J. Reid
Substitutes
T. Ashby-Hammond
C. Campbell
L. Freestone
C. Goode
L. James-Wildin
Number24,
J. Malcolm
Number26,
L. Orford
Number8,
D. Phillips
Number9,
G. Yahyai
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 14:23:34 on 1st November 2025
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 14:25:15 on 1st November 2025
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 14:30:55 on 1st November 2025
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Bit of a facup from the club, you could say.
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Made a bit of a mess of pasting the lineup in myself, maybe it's not as easy as it looks.
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Very close to a full first XI lineup.
Very happy to see Phoenix starting and Roberts back in the starting lineup. When did Jordan last start a game? (Not counting the Vertu Trophy)
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Yes, replays only in qualifying rounds.
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