Let's start with a given. We really ought to sign Harry Smith. Yes I know he's a bit of a div and I know we've tried before, but we should forget the first bit and try harder on the second part. He obviously absolutely loves playing at Plough Lane, he might as well be wearing our shirt and playing for us rather than doing his Marco Van Bastern impression playing for someone else. If he played every week like he always does when he plays at our ground, he'd be in the Premier League not L2.
As for our performance in the game itself, if it was a film the first half was the Benedict Cumberbatch western, The Power of the Dog. If you haven't seen it, forget the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood classics, the Power of the Dog was boring and a pile of shite. Swindon were good, much better than their league position suggested they might be, and Marco Van Bastern scored a fine goal from a beautiful through ball.
I've a quick suggestion here by the way. I've seen us on quite a few boxing days now, next year I propose we modify our preparation. I suggest the players should come to help out at the Alex on Christmas day. That's not because of some funky "cultural enrichment" notion, it's because we always get hammered afterwards, blottoed as it's known in my circles. They invariably play in the first half as though that's what they did on Christmas night. I'm sure that obviously they DIDN'T, so we may as well try something different. There's the added bonus that if we DID play the first half of the boxing day game looking like we've got a stinking hangover, nobody would notice the difference.
Anyway, thankfully for everyone after the break we binned off the Power of the Dog. If you haven't seen it, don't. It NEVER gets going and is an utter waste of time which you'll never get back. If any of your friends tell you it's great because of the "cinematography" or any of that old bollocks, get some new pals sharpish.
Anyway I digress. This is what happens when you've got a hangover 😂. In the second half while we didn't exactly become "Die Hard", we DID at least improve to a kind of "Meet the Fockers" kind of standard. Not a performance or a film you'd be urging your mates to watch at all costs, but as least it wasn't a waste of your time.
Josh Neufville made a goal for Tills with an absolutely sublime run and cross, then "we wuz robbed" in the dying seconds as we bundled the ball over the line from a corner. We didn't actually bundle the keeper at all, but his "come out in sympathy" backwards plunge into the net was enough to convince the ref. Tha t was a shame for more reasons than one, not least because apart from that I thought she was excellent.
We're obviously allowed to feel hard done by, but in all honesty (it's Christmas after all) Swindon DEFINITELY deserved a point in what in the end was a good game.
One last quick point. Romaine Sawyers. As my friend Nige so beautifully put it, the game slows down when he gets the ball. That was the first time I've seen him play, sheesh let's get him fit.
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