Competition

Date

Saturday 10th October 2009

“Totally, totally unacceptable.” 

By Ned Payne » Swindon Advertiser

That was how a fuming Mark Collier described the performance of his Swindon Supermarine side following their 7-1 thrashing at the hands of Brackley Town on Saturday. And Collier, known for his calm and pragmatic approach to management, was visibly shaken after an inept display from his troops resulted in their heaviest defeat of the season, and plunged them firmly back into the Southern League relegation mire.

 

“I’m hurting after that performance and I really hope the players are too,” Collier told the Advertiser, adding that we would now be looking for new faces to add to the squad. “I mean that with a passion. I hope they are upset with what’s gone on out there today.

 

“Brackley have played well, but for us to lose 7-1 is an embarrassment to me personally. “The players have absolutely no excuses for it under any circumstances.” But the Hunts Copse chief, who recently received the backing of the Supermarine board, reaffirmed he would not walk out on the club in the wake of the demoralising result. “My personal view is that I’m not leaving the football club,” he said. “I said I would stay and when I see that kind of performance it makes me more determined to make it right.”

 

Supermarine had gone into Saturday’s game against the Saints in good form following 1-0 wins over Chippenham and latterly Hemel Hempstead. But any hopes they might have had of making it three wins in a row were dashed by half time, as Brackley strolled into a 3-0 lead, Tom Winters fired across Matt Bulman to open the scoring early on before doubling the lead with a quickly taken free kick mid-way through the half.

 

Mark Rawle prodded in the third (pictured) from close range on 38 minutes after Bulman could only parry Jerome Anderson’s effort. And three goals in seven minutes at the start of the second period saw the match turn into a rout. Jerome Anderson (52) and Ben Mackey (54) both finished clinically before Winters completed his hat-trick as he slammed home Anderson’s square pass.

 

Joe Harris pulled one back as he scored direct from an in-swinging free kick, but after new Supermarine utility man Robert Hobbs came off the bench for his debut, Mackey completed a miserable afternoon for the home side by tucking away a seventh late on.

From a Brackley perspective ~ Nothing published on Brackley site as of 17/10!