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My mate (Louavo on the forums) just emailed me and said there is going to be a big announcement today??  Any idea is this is true etc??? The Arkells rumour is making the rounds by the looks of it, could the 2 be related??? This is 100% not confirmed just wondering if anyone else heard anything about an announcement?

ooo good news I hope then!

ace, i'll have to wear a hardhat to collect the mail then. woop! :P

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Are the pre-season ticket prices not news enough ?

If there is a big announcement, and it were the Arkells story, it would be a massive kick in the balls. Still can't see it myself. New player perhaps (Ronaldo loaned out to us as punishment for his disloyalty :))

If it is the Arkells rumour then I'll be mightily pissed off at losing my seat  :x

its not the FALSE Arkells rumour

Tell us then gaylord

IT'll be a player signing or a kit release

But is there a BIG announcement, or is that guff too?

Are you trying to incinerate something Mr JPC82?








It's just thought that I could smell burning?

i know there is an annoucement today, the arkells rumour isnt true

Sponsor for the shorts

I'm getting a bit worried as no news at all on the adver and they'll normally post anything, hoping it's a player or two????

Perhaps its embargoed.

fucking spill it out. stop fucking whistling and acting like a proper know-it-all cunt :D

when i have told u stuff and u ask where i heard it, i get slated cos a few players have told me stuff

if jcb82 knows what it is some youth teamers probably getting a contract

like this cunt

:D

or they have him the bad aids

I've already heard somewhere that a few youth players have got pro deals. The ones I remember are Ben Joyce, Sean Morrison, Callum Kennedy and Jack Winter.

is that some sort of cue to get me to name them? :D
9 got contracts last season

JPC82, If you arent going to spill the beans then dont say anything. I used to work for the club and got a hell of a lot of information. I wasnt allowed to tell anyone obviously, so didnt even hint it on the forums. Its just gonna wind people up, and make you look like a smug cunt :)

what do you mean, 'make him look like a smug cunt'? :P

if he knows the stuff and spills, then it will only make him look like he actaully knows stuff from within.if he comes on saying he knows, then does fuck all then he will look a twonk.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I had heard a similar rumour a couple of weeks ago that we are going to ditch lotto at the end of the season and we have a decent deal with Adidas for all club merchandise lined up. :D

That would be superb (assuming it is true and things stay affordable). I have found the quality of Lotto kit rather disappointing, and I'm not on about peeling sponsors logo (resolved for black kit), but the 'cheapness' of the embroidery of the club badge and along with "Swindon Town F.C." on the blue and white Lotto .

 That said, it's net clear who was responsible for the embroidery. Lotto, or the club via Mrs Doris Chumney-stoker , aged 81.

Hmm.. I said this months ago but thought it wasn't true...

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=535317#535317

How could adidas be second sponsors? We'd have their logo on a lotto kit, just wouldn't happen.

like Sam says everyone knew the adidas rumour from months ago, if thats what today is about, there is bigger news coming very shortly

I think it was alleged they'd be replacing Lotto, not coming in as a second sponsor. All heresay.

I'll put my guess into the ring now. Stadium sponsorship or Bath rugby groundshare.

It's probably signing that players from wolves. PM me JPC I got to go to work in a minute till 11.

Sam ive been banned from sending PMs

Ha ha jpc i know who you are now. Anyway anyone know for a fact anything is happening

C'mon if you know anything just spill it.

This thread is infuriating!!!  Aaaaaaarrrrrrrghhhhhhhh!!!!!!

in all seriousness i know of a big annoucement, but if Gazza has been informed it was the kit deal then fair enough. But i cant post what the other news is, in case thats not todays annoucement, if it comes out, people at the club know which person has told someone and he would be fucked

The club did say about all club merchandise being reviewed....

in all fairness, the "source" of the original hint is pretty reliable, in so far as he wouldn;t get a kick out of spreading rumour for fun etc.  If he thinks something is being announced he'd be genuine in that belief.  I suppose it's a case of whether he's been given a nod and wink that something might happen, or something will happen.

I can't really think of much to be honest, I think this new world we exist in has made announcement about sponsors etc seem normal again.  It used to be big news if we'd paid the players, now I'm thinking that Big may mean a huger multi million pound investment in the playing budget.  Damn, must get back to having negative expectations.

What? How gay.

Be good.

That was a rumour, no one of any credibility told me it was a kit deal

Right, I'm confused. Gaz, do you actually know what the announcment is? Or is it just JPC that knows?

JPC thinks he knows

why would a kit deal that wouldn't even start until this time next year be the big announcement?

My announcement rating might be a bit out of whack, but since when has boring kit stuff been considered big. (Edit: sort of what Arriba just said)

I'm guessing it's just a boring signing. Or we've extended the lease on the ground or something, although I'm not sure we could do that with out the council making it public.

I reckon no announcement

So who even said in the first place that there's going to be an announcement today (big small or medium)?

Roll on the start of the season when real football topics can be discussed again.

No i don't All i heard is

- There is a big announcement today (apparently AF said this on BBC RS on Friday)

- My mate said he heard it was an adidas kit deal

Nothing is confirmed. For all I know there may not even be an announcement at all..?????

"deal done with council over ground redevelopment"
"super sam agrees wage cut to rejoin club he loves"
"ridiculous club badge to bew scrapped"
i'll take any of those

JCP is your source Emma in the club shop? Because that's what it sounds like!

So having had a brief look through, Gazza has heard there's going to be a big announcement but he doesn't know what. JPC82 claims to know what it is but says he can't tell.

Possibility of nothing then.

Also, the "I know something but I can't tell you" game is super lame. The next time someone does it when I've been drinking too much, I'll change their avatar to a picture of a gay Elephant and then ban them or something.

I'm with arriba, I can't see how a kit deal starting next season would constitute a big announcement.

i know what it is. no-ones said it so far

 :D

Malpas has been sacked.

Malpas is sacked and Andy King is back  8)

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http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/stagay.jpg

Bet you read the 5 pages though :D

My guess is the club is merging with Oxford.

a bit of speculation never did anyone any harm.

I'm curious in relation to fB's threat to turn people's avatars into pictures of gay elephants as to how gay elephants look different from ordinary elephants. I know you tell the difference between African and Indian elephants by the size of their ears (or something) but is there a further subdivision between gay African and Indian elephants?

Gay Elephants have very distinctive ass rot due to intensive rimming.

Lovely i shall take that thought to lunch with me cheers!

you seem to have a bit of an obsession with anal activity don.

does anyone know the time of the annoucement? just so I can get all excited and sit by the computer like a geek and stuff?

5:26 pm

Thanks for clearing that up DRS, the question, not the rim rot

Gay African elephants have pink tinsle around their trunks. Gay Indian elephants have their ears pierced.

Now, back to rumours.

We're announcing the groundshare with Bath Rugby, but only if the Arkells can be renamed the "Jeremy Guscott Stand".

Only with animals arriba

:soapy tit wank:  thats ok then

I think JFW has it. The announcement is that the 5 o'clock announcement is making a return! Yay!

Im waiting for Bob Holt to appear and tell us there is no announcement

Theyre getting rid of Byrne and bring back Gorman as assistmant manager as he has left Southampton  :shock:

Bob Holt is returning.

Rockin robin is being put down and replaced by micky the manatee

Announcemtn from the club....

The last 6 months has been one big scam to get the tax man off our back. Mike Diamandis is returning to the club and will be taking over as chairman. His first duty will be to scrap the sponsorship deal with 442 and sign a deal with AJ Khans newsagent.

I thought gay elephants were the ones with spunk dribbling out of their arse.

lloyd macklin has taken out a restraining order against jcb82

As we're guessing, we've bought the ground back from the council, or they've found Brian Hillier underneath the Arkells foundations.

4000 season ticket is half price

We've issued a fatwah against Joey Beauchamp?

Swindon Town Football Club can today comfirm that director Jeremy Wray has left the club due to personal reasons.
Wray was part of the Andrew Fitton consortium that saved the club 6 months ago.
More news to follow.

www.thisisntstfc.co.uk

I nearly fell for that until I read the link you posted

I wonder if it is anything to do with the Arkells stand getting a new sponsor (why is it still called Arkells anyway ?)

Just by the fact that there is still no story on the adver site, it must be a biggie surely?? Guessing they've been tipped off and are holding back their normal non stories.

Was there antthing in the paper today?

A HOMELESS man was assaulted in broad daylight.

Poor Chris Blackburn

If there no announcement - I might beat up Gazz  :wink:

Nothing in the adver today. checked at lunch. No STFC news except the club wanting to know about "your memories of the 1969 league cup triumph"

I don't know if your question was a serious one but they sponsor the stand, hence it's called the 'Arkells Stand'. Nice obvious answer!

My question was more to the point was I didn't think that Arkells did sponsor the stand I thought it had something to do with when we bought the stand they contributed to it ?

I may be totally wrong of course  :oops:

Yes

I reckon that we've agreed to have the Conference Play-off final be played at the County Ground.

BReaking news on OS....


Hereford game brought forward to the friday night :-))(

Nevermind Hereford has been brought forward. a bit anti-climatic!

Gazza please fell free to beat up Martin  :soapy tit wank:

now do u understand why i couldnt tell u earlier  :wink:

I guess there is no announcement then. 2pm is this years black.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good one!!

(I meant good one as in good comeback - not good one as in you knew nothing yet pretended you did)

Some big announcement that was. What an anti-climax.

I understand.


You dont actaully know anything do you? :roll:

What a fucking waste of my time.

9 pages of nothing......................

JPC.... whatever the fuck you're called, you are a twat (Notice the lack of smiley)

If you know something, but can't say, say nothing.

'I know, but I can't say.....' What a load of wank............

Double post.

Move on.

Nothing to see here......................

I'm a little confused - is there still a big announcement to come later or was the Hereford game moving the announcement and someone was just on a massive wind up??  :?

fuck off u cock

Not sure. my mate who normally isn't a wind up merchant said he heard AF say there was a big announcement today. No I posted asking if anyone else heard this and it spiralled to this??  :soapy tit wank:

Good comeback. You really are an annoying prick.

its not hard to remember my username, just scrowl up a few posts, its only 3 letters and 2 numbers, try next time, its not difficult

But you've had some many...............

i dont understand what the problem is?
say what you like about him but JPC clearly has a source on the inside, so he probably does know this sort of stuff.
i say fair fucks to him for not spouting everything he's told/telling everyone who it is who tells him... unlike 'i know trollope' fatbury...

there's some proper rumour merchants on these sites who regularly make stuff up and fabricate things they've 'heard' but i dont put JPC in this category...he's my bessie mate

 :bow1:

told ya

Incorrect.

JPC-whatever... there's a perfectly good forum for reeeeeetard town fans over at the adver site:

http://forum.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/

just add a 82 mate

Do you like being unpopular?

I think he likes being the centre of attention, I'm guessing he's an only child.

So, anyway, is there a big announcement expected over the next few days or not, or does nobody know?

No, nobody knows if there is any announcement at all. Everyone is full of shit. :mrgreen:

JPC82 is michael pook! :o

FINALLY!!! Did Wellsy tell u?

nah, i saw matt bulman in asda earlier, he let slip

good ol' Bully, cant keep his mouth shut!

oh that explains the animosity...

i dont think we can be bessie mates anymore.

I had heard you can't beat a bit of Bully.







 :shock:

please please dont end it like this  :(

if you are michael pook i ask a question or two.
which football team did you hand trophys out to around this time last year,what other player was with you,and who is the coach of that team?
you will know if you are him

what the hell??????? :shock:

its not him for crying out loud.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

You would say that wouldn't you.


:)

next time i see michael pook bopping around asda wallmart i'll ask him

If im with Lucy dont mention anything

Im lost  :x

everyone correctly guessed that im Ben Wells, i mean Michael Pook

If it is Pook can you do me a favour, can you kindly fuck off to the conference? Thanks

There's no way you're Michael Pook...... is there?!

This thread is hilarious.

I'd watch out for fatbury if i were you jcp!!

Is this the big announcement?

no

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

This has got to be a TEF record 10 pages of absolute shit, from start to finish, not even a sniff of 25% fitba!!, just pure 100% grade A bollocks.

If you ARE Mr Pook some of the things you said to me make a bit of sense

Why would Michael Pook waste 90% of his life on this site spouting nonsense?

 :shhh

he's poked your mate then?

gotta do something whilst recovering from his dead leg...

NO!!!!! not that bit

im not Michael Pook

:soapy tit wank:

and half of me thinks this as well and thinks your are not Mr Pook

Do share your thoughts with the group Charlotte!

You're Don Rogers aren't you?? That's why DRS and you don't get on, because secretly you hate your own shop!!!

No, I'm[/u] Michael Pook, and so is my wife.

Im very easily led you see I believe pretty much everything Im told

:D

Now you're learning - keep up the good work.

really  :o

Where did Arriba's comment go?

i deleted it as i misread it.my mistake jan

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting.... <stores for future use>

I thought you might have!!!  It happens to us all, and I'm not being sarcastic honest!! :wink:

  I wouldn't classify this as absolute shit...certainly not a well formed space docking quality turd.   More a cesspit of runny farmyard slurry.

 I think Gazza is trying to deflect attention from teh fact he hasn't organised the TEF BBQ yet

You lot still entertainin the attention seeking twat.

exactly, just leave PVC69 to his own devices.

 :D  good man

To think a week ago I wouldn't have had a clue what a "space docking quality turd" was.  Thanks Tef'ers.

I thought Michael Pook was Spartacus.

Oh and Hereford are wankers...Friday night = beer, Saturday afternoon = football, Sunday = sleep...how fucking hard can it be to get it right.  Police advice?  Where would we be if followed police advice...still walking around fucking Gillingham, that's where.

I need a beer.

So what's the big announcement then?

Or have I missed something?

that's a medium announcement.

Yeah, well the whole thing was a bit of an anticlimax.

I can't believe I've read through all that dross for no actual announcement no to mention the whole "I know something you don't know" pedants again. It gets boring!

Don't read it then  :D

I know something you don't know.

I thought that as it was so long there would be an announcement in there somewhere!  :D

I know nothing...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/11/25/icon_cover2_nov26,0.jpg

13 pages, nearly 200 replies, over 3,000 views and there's nothing to see here.  This is what this place is all about.

can a mod change the title to 'Nothing to see here' to save other poor souls.

actually, if it said that I'd probably still read it.

Way ahead of you.

good work.

Absolutely. Pure comedy - kept me laughing in a "disturbing to my colleagues" kind of way all afternoon this one

I enjoyed reading this - I'm relieved that I worked today and didn't partake in the stress of it all.

Erm, maybe it'll be a late announcement... Yeah right!

glad i missed this!

I miss you Sonic

i didn't realise i'd gone anywhere

You would have locked it you boring bastard.

you have changed

do you not remember telling everyone you were going to america in every thread?  :wink:

What. A. Waste. Of. Life. Why did i read it, i should be in bed... I'm such a daft cunt sometimes.

Nice one JCB28 and Gazza, it was nice to read some excited typing. :)

Maybe it will be today?

Yes... no.... maybe... who knows? Oh, hang on... I expect JPC82 does.

Don't get upset that he knows but can't tell us, it's not his fault he has to get all smug about it.

I think there might be a small announcement today, we have small announcements most days. The question is if the small announcement is part of a big announcement.

We'll probably get a pre-emptive announcement announcing that the big announcement will be made later in the week and that no further announcements will be made relating to that announcement..........

Maybe they'll announce cryptic clues everyday running up to the announcement. That would be awesome.

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

what about unknown knowns? Things we don't know we know.

But then they are unknown knowns, we don't actually know we know them. Although, we may know unknowns without actually knowning we know them.

I don't know.

this is what the 85% bollox is all about  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

and to have JFW think that JCP82 is MP?!!! Quality

So do we get to do this thread all over again today then?

We should have it everyday. Can't let a big announcement take us by surprise.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

so hes not really Pook then? so who the hell is he???

actually Im past caring

Here it is .... what you've all been waiting for!

I'm back!

Biggest I could manage with the font size on here.

Rumsfeld?

Sounds like a take on Johari's Window (I think) which is about how you and others see things about you (or don't, as the case may be).

 "The fact that the Prime Minister needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those of us who needed to advise and inform felt that the information that we needed as to whether or not to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not yet known, or needed."

The big annoucement will be made this week

You're getting right on my tits now. Put up or shut up.

But definately not yesterday  :roll:

i never once said the annoucement would be yesterday, thats what gazzas mate told him, i just said i knew of a big annoucement

Yeah i really believe this  :-))(

Hey either way you are part of this farcical thread  :D

If such an announcement is made (which is bound to be the biggest anti-climax since [insert joke here]) then I hope it's not on Friday, I really don't want to be sat here waiting for something - I know, I could just not bother but you know the routine!

 :D  :D

Was the friendlies the big news? I'm preparing myself for some proper big news just in case.

Is that before Friday, Sunday or Monday? Or do you mean before this time next week? I'd like you to clarify please TCP, because that's one hell of time frame for some to deal with your modest and understated tone.

Oh the anticipation keeps me awake at night.

However, my frequant visits to the OS have led me to download the fixtures wallpaper much to the annoyance of the missus who for some reason unknown to me had a dog for a background. We dont have a dog.

Maybe it was supposed to be a hint - perhaps she'd like one?

Oh no - could the "big" announcement be that of the return of the Friday Statement.

 :)

the only big announcement that I want is unlikely to happen

What's that? Pook gets 5 year deal and asks Fatbury for his hand in Marriage?

If that were true though, i suspect TCP76 would be in hear gloating about his immense knowledge and how he can't tell us about a secret which is really wrong. :)

Whoa, whoa, whoa - wait a minute... But you wrote this on Monday.



You sir are full of lies.

 :evil:

Pretty sure this is a new week now, did we get the big announcement?

Yes.

It was HUGE!!!! I still can't take it in...............

keep practising.  :fag:

I told you to use lubrication, you flame haired stud muffin you......

alright, keep your hair on.

It always come back to that doesn't it?

:mrgreen: