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I think we can beat the franchise.

Saying that I don't think there is a single team in the league I'm "scared" of. especially when we're at home.

2-0 Town.

Williams to get off the mark and McCormack.

2-0 was going for three but think they will be a bit harder to crack. Williams and Collins with the goals. 8,006 in attendance 600 from franchise.

Every team has off days. Tomorrow wont be one for us though. Easy 2-0

Can't see Wes conceding tomorrow, or anytime soon.

3-0, Alan Mac with a brilliant surging run and Williams with a pair

I think we'll edge it 1-0.

Still fucking detest the franchise cunts.

Good to see SSWS on top of his game which means a certain win. 3-0, Flint, Ferry and Miller.

Yes SSWS!

2-1 win, a Foderingham brace   ???

Whilst there will be those of us who I am sure will have a 'bad feeling' about this, I am going for...

2-0 Williams, Ritchie

Looking forward to this....think we are all going to get soaked.

Any win will do for me.

Rather than try to predict a score, I got in my time machine to take a look at tomorrow's papers and get the result that way.  Richard Branson seems to be one of their fans...and he's not happy.

Link (http://www.heart.co.uk/miltonkeynes/news/local/branson-anger-franchise-loss-virgin-trains/)

3-0 To the town! Ritchie x2 and Benson.

I have a bad feeling about this. 2-1 defeat.

5-1 home win

Its going to be tight but a nervy 1-0 with Collins off the mark will do nicely

Looking forward to this one.  As usual will be having a couple in the Merlin before.  They have a DJ and barbeque from 1130 today.

1-1

It'll be a demolition job - 5-0

9782 in attendance

1 all draw

0-0 or 1-1

I'd be happy with that

Sky sports news there all day

Will be a very tough game.

Wouldn't be disappointed with a draw.

Tough game, but we'll do 'em 2-0.

0-0 9,234 crowd with 428 frachisers.

This should provide a much tougher test than Crawley, suspensions or no suspensions. MK are my favourites to be champions and rightly so I think. Robinson's managed to keep the side that reached the play-offs last year together and added the experience (Lowe, Smith, Kay etc) that could finally tip Franchise over the promotion finishing line, as much as I hate to say that.

BUT, we are in good form, unbeaten at home for a whole year and have only conceded one goal at home in something like 18 or 19 games. Our defence seems to be strong even with one or two of the first team defenders out, while the rest of our new signings have gelled really well with the squad. We looked really good the other night, really good.

It'll still be a close game, but I reckon we'll edge it 1-0 or 2-1.

With all the talk of Sir Wes and the clean sheets and our home record, I'll go for a 2-1 loss and a fan meltdown before we go on to finish top 6.
Hate these bastards

Very tough game today, will take a draw tbh as MK will be up and about the top of the table come the end of the season.

COYR

Should be a great game today, I can't see any team running away with the league this season but I expect us and franchise to be in the mix. They may be a strong side but I fancy our chances at home against any team that likes to get it down and play. 3-2 for me

Lots of hate for us on their forums, nice to know our feelings for them are recipricated 

Hated by a group of club stealing Frannies?  There's a badge of honour.

Wear it with pride.

Do they have a forum or is it just a customer feedback form?

In the words of Dennis Healey thats like being savaged by a sheep. I'd happilly take their feedback face to face.

2-0 Collins to get both

Hardly any mention at all on the MKD Concrete Roundabout forum, its like we don't exist on there. I used to enjoy the moo camp always good for a wind up but that seems to have mooooved somewhere else now.

Which is their other most active forum because I can't find any loathing of us now :( and frankly I quite like being hated by the franchise :D

I'm going with this, 8551 in attendance at a rain soaked County Ground

 ;D

All I can find - http://www.thezonemk.co.uk/phpbb3/viewforum.php?f=107&sid=717c41d09a9f981e9ea49da1af562404

In fact, this is about as animated as they get - http://www.thezonemk.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=7494

Their presence in the league is abhorrent to a good many fans, even now.  Glad one of our fans went on there to remind them.  They will be getting heartily sick of hearing the message by now...and hope they always do.

I'll never set foot in that ground.  Not this season, not ever.

Franchise FC: English football's shame.

Just having a pre drinkies breakfast burger in town

Another comprehensive 3-0

Pre-match Mela today I think.

http://www.thezonemk.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=7494 (http://www.thezonemk.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=7494)


Re their whingeing about £10 parking for disabled supporters, think they'll find if they show their blue badge when entering the car park they will only be charged £5, also they'll be looked after in a nice new disabled bit (pitchside covering) Have also heard that there is a dedicated steward that would go and collect their half time drinks for them (coffee/tea etc but not alcohol). I know other teams allow a carers ticket at a reduced rate or free but not sure if we do it at the CG.

Amen brother.

Hopefully we can continue today with the same level of performance we saw on Tuesday.  If we do we will win 2-0 COYR

5-0 town today

Whenever talk of Franchise FC comes up and people 'never setting foot in their ground', I always have to make the following point...

Whilst I have no more time for Franchise than any other self-respecting fan, there is nothing more important to me than the success of my own team. This is why I would go, and have been (just the once) to MK.

To me, the best way of hurting them is to beat them. By going and supporting your team, you are helping to increase the chances of that happening (I'm sure no one would disagree that teams play better when well supported).

What you are advocating is that no one turns up and supports our team - Swindon Town - this is anathema to me. Would you not even go to a play off semi-final at MK? Presumably not. For me though, the desire for my team to succeed far out-weighs my desire to see the failure of any other team, however much I might dislike them.

Two ways of looking at the same thing really.

There's a debate to be had there, certainly, and I understand your argument.  The play off semi scenario you mention would certainly cause a bit of a headache.  But on some things, I think you have to take a stand and then stick with your decision.  For me, the theft of the League place and the parachuting of a new club in to the upper echelons of the League structure runs counter to the promotion/relegation principle that underpins the whole of English football.  It was wrong in 2003 and it's wrong now.  I'm never going to compromise on that.

Don't get me wrong.  I 'get' the other argument and I certainly don't resent any of our fans for following it.  I'd even go so far as to recognise that my hard line on this puts me in a minority.  But that's the way I feel.  Franchise FC is a fucking abomination.  And for anyone who asks me or anyone else to forget or to 'move on', I would simply ask them to recognise that next time it could be us.

3-0 Town

Benson hat-trick

A little more dislike of us here.....

http://www.concreteroundabout.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4929&start=10

Not sure it's not even dislike - more nerdy-twat talk

Its certainly not a hatred as such but could just be a knee jerk reacton to our comments, tit for twat as it were.

Understandable I suppose for a club with zero history

Personally, I've never really been one for doing things 'out of principal'. My attitude is, 'if I take a particular course of action, will it make a difference?' I would prefer not to shop at Tescos, fly with BA, eat at McDonalds or Burger King (in principal I should be a vegetarian) but it takes so much effort not to and ultimately makes no difference. I gave up having principals some time ago and frankly, I'm glad I did. It makes life much, much easier.

There will be those who would say I'm a lazy, complacent bastard but to be honest, I couldn't be fucked to argue with them 8)

Heh! heh!



nerdy twat talk.



Certainly none of that on here 8)

I don't understand this.

yeah I don't really get that either, we had a crowd of almost 8.5k against them last time and probably a similar size crowd this time too.

There will no doubt be an appearance of a drum in the away end today.

3-1 with a late consolation for them.

I hope Williams scores.

There often is with the Clubs Nouveau, ala MKD and Creepy etc.

Going to be a tight game, can see it being 1-0 Town. Collins 90th minute winner.

Good post, I think you summed it up well, BUT.......... must admit I'm with the other two - will NEVER give a single penny to those club-stealin Franchise scum !!  (just hope we don't get 'em in the play-offs  !!

Same team as Tuesday.

Foderingham; Devera, Flint, McCormack, McEveley; Ritchie, Miller, Ferry, De Vita; Collins, Williams
Subs Bedwell, Navarro, Risser, Storey, Thompson, Smith, Rooney

Just saw Caddis walking into the CG. Obviously not in Birmingham just yet...

Where's Benson then, not even on the bench today?


I think it says alot about his character that he's still turning up to watch to be honest.

No Benno on the bench, is he injured?

They haven't mentioned yet but I would imagine he must be.

Can some one text Ian Longden about it? He's clearly not twigged yet ::)

He's got to be injured.....hasn't he :hmmm:

What the?? And they ares supposed to be among the favourites?

And why not put a youngster on the bench, even if only for the experience. 

mmmm doesn't make sense, as you state surely a youngster on there to make the numbers up would be better.

.....a dead one at that.I for one will be disappointed with a draw.Smash the parasites!

fucking hell, a waterlogged match in August in the PL?

West Ham look useless against Swansea.

Cue the PdC rumours

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

On an unrelated note, I see T WATT has scored for Celtic 8)

i like paolo's pronouncation of Franchise

STFC just tweeted that Benno has a slight injury & therefore not being risked

Phew! :D

Another bunch of wankers with a drum, oh joy

Can confirm presence of drum. Gah.

from the Adver site:

2:37pm

A little bit of light on the Paul Benson situation now, with the club saying:

"Paul Benson has a slight injury and not risked this afternoon."

Make what you want of that.


i'd have thought they'd stirred enough shit lately.

I'd have thought


Benson has an injury

No conspiracy theories with this one

There's papers that need selling

That is totally out of order.

Cunts.

Nice to see Billy Bodin scoring for Torquay

Close by Collins, great save by Martin.

oooooh close vCollins!

Cunting cunts. They really need to stop stirring the pot. It's becoming tiresome.

Match sounds like it's going well. And I can't hear the drum on player. So that's a bonus.

Lewington sent off ha fucking ha!

Ginger twat off!

4 reds in 4 games! Is this a new record?

Maybe another one sent off to make it 5 in 4? :D

I have to be honest, I would have preferred it if Lewington hadn't been sent off.

why?

Get in Collins!

Or was it Ritchie?

Given to Ritchie, who says he can't play as well without Caddis?

Half time, sounded like it was mostly us going in 1-0 up can't be bad.

Sounds like another Ritchie fluke

Collins definitely got a touch. Didnt see red but being Dean Lewington should be a red card offense anyway.

Because they have a ready made excuse when they lose!

Great time to score, means they can't just park the bus & play for a point.

Town have had a few good chances & deserve to be in front.
Can't remember Wes having to make a save.

Lewington is a prize cock,  he was holding onto the ball to stop Ferry taking a free kick quickly and appeared to catch Ferry with his elbow. Really not sure it was deliberate, and didn't think the ref was going to send him off.

Oh and I fucking hate drums.

hahahaha, Petter Solberg on the radio at half-time

Norwegian as fuck

So Norwegian it hurts? :D

Another sending off?!  As well as being filthy Franchise, they're dirty fuckers as well.

Come on Swindon!  Three points essential now.

So have we brought a sub on or not??

what have I missed?

Is it me or is the match reporting from the adver really slow today?

Fucking golf?

fuck off!

I've been dying to know Alan Mac's golf handicap for months ::)

I thought Alan macs handicap was commentating...

Yeah, loved him as a player, commentating - not so much :no:

Williams seems to be playing really well so far this season but just can't get a break in front of goal.

I don't even know who's on the field.

Did McCormick go off?

We never signed McCormick ;)

McCormack is still on though. Navarro came on for DeVita.

I could have sworn earlier that Alan Mac said after Collins missed a chance..."oooh that's a shame, he's missed a chance and Di Canio is going to bring him straight off" or something like that, I'm sure of it...WTF??

You don't want to know details like that....

he did say that

Macca keeps doing that, he was doing it especially with Connell last season.

What. The. Fuck.

Three points are three points if you can get them...


apparently :hmmm:

And there you go... :crash:

bar!!!!

Wycome 1 Rovers 3 game abandoned....ouch!

Hanging on by the sound of it-Storey on for Collo

Nice to see Storey get a chance again

Just get the ball in the cunting net!!!!

Devera has a yellow,what for?

where can I get one of those cunting nets?

I would've taken a point before the game, so 3 is fantastic.

Is that it?

The same place you get wedding post boxes probably 8)

Think we are 2nd now

yeppers

Did Andy Williams piss off some Gypsies or something? He's hit more balls into the framework of the goal in four or five games than most players do in a whole season.

Very good result, another clean sheet at home!!

Up yours franchise.

8,299 crowd there with 497 dongs.

Not a bad turn out....and wierdly the last time we played them home the crowd was 8,305.

Great attendance according to BBC!!! Didn't realise the new stadium was finished

Ref: Phillips
Att: 18,299

 :nod:

We made hard work of that tbh.  After the sending off they played so deep it made it difficult for us.  They never really looked like scoring, but Foderingham made a good save towards the end which was the difference between 3 points and 1.

We were definitely the better side, but a little disjointed at times.  Flint was probably my MOM and Mceveley was particularly poor.  

Franchise need to sort out their discipline, but considering their manager spent most of the game moaning at the 4th official, it's no surprise his team are no better.

Another clean sheet and 3 points at Fortress County Ground.

Just back.

Probably just about edged that. Very good first half from Town where it could have been two or three nil at the break. The sending off was right in front of me and the correct decision from the referee; Lewington elbowed our bloke and was rightly dismissed. Thought the sending off would change the game and it did with Ritchie scoring from another cross-cum-shot. Expected Town to come out and dominate after the break but it just didn't happen. Have to give credit to Franchise who dug in and battled on, though they were lacking somewhat in the final third. Overall, a good three points and nice to see us up to third in the table - early days yet, but it certainly sends out a message to the rest of the league.

Just got back.

A good 3 points but made hard work of it. Ref spoilt a good game with the sending off but to be fair we should have been a couple up by then any way.

Thought all the new boys did really well. Rafa with a bit of confidence and time on the ball looks a different class compared to last year - very gifted and skillful. Back 4 looked solid and Flint was his usual battling self.

Ritchie wasn't my MOM, I'd give that to Miller.

Angry porn?  ;D

We're now the only team, outside of the Premier League, not to have conceded this season, including all the Blue Square leagues. I know it's only 3 games, but still something to be proud of.

Just about edged it ? their goalkeeper made 3 great saves and we also hit the woodwork where as Wes only had one save to make. Fair play to MK they looked more dangerous second half, but for a 10 minute panic period near the end I thought we looked in complete control.

WTF has happened to the league table on the OS and Sky website?? Apparently we've played another game since the MK game finished, which we won, to put us on to 10 points from 4 games and into second place behind Yeovil, who now have a GD of +10 ???

Edit: The BBC site is the same - is it me losing my mind or something??

damned predictive text

On sky website our att:18,299 :eek:

Same for me too. Odd.

It's like they've added today's scores on twice - it's wierd how it's on all the web sites though ???

You must have been at a different game.

We pissed all over them first half and had the better of it in the 2nd. Easy win.

Fuck the franchise cunts.

I hope twat with the drum gets a kicking on the way home.

Agreed, that was very comfortable indeed.

It was just a case of whether we we add to the score as opposed to holding onto the lead.

Somebody get down there and ask him if he's enjoying stirring the shit!

We were completely dominant in the first half and it was a good job we got the goal when we did. They were much harder to break down in the 2nd half but we still created enough to really finish the game off. That number 5 couldn't handle Williams, De Vita had the better of Otsemebor for the majority of the game and we always looks threatening going forward. Flint had another solid game and Devera is growing more and more into the RB role. A lot of positives again today, let's hope for plenty more.
We couldn't really tell what Lewington got sent off for, all seemed like a bit of handbags to me. Shame it didn't stay 11v11 as it was much easier for us up until that point.

Thought we totally deserved the victory today. Battered them for the first half hour - at times they couldn't get out of their half. BBC said we had 5 shots (3 on target) in the first half but I listed 6 on target off the top of my head - all over them. Think the red card is one of those where it could be red, could be yellow, but Lewington was stupid for doing what he did and knew the risk he was running. Then the goal finally came - a lovely ball from Ritchie which Collins apparently flicked home.

Second half we didn't really get going. For play to Franchise for battling but there wasn't an awful lot of quality on show and they very rarely looked an attacking threat, despite our play becoming increasingly disjointed.

Ritchie was OK today, but wouldn't have given him MOTM. I thought Flint was immense, whilst Williams worked his backside off and deserves a goal soon. McEveley didn't have a great game, hopefully it's just a one-off.

Bring on Stoke Reserves.

4 reds in 4 games and the MK forums are putting it down to them being Franchise. Fortunately one of them has his head screwed on but is being shouted down for it.

Another valuable 3 points, and what may turn out to be an early season 6 pointer. Their resilience when down to ten says to me that they won't be far off at the end of the season.

Fantastic first half from RdV, showing technique and confidence that we haven't seen from him before. Maybe it won't be so straightforward for Roberts to get in after all. He does on the left what Ritchie does on the right, in that he can go inside or to the byline. Otsemoboor was stumped. If he can improve his final ball then he will become even more of a threat. He tailed off second half, but overall, a good game.

Miller: my MoM. Everything he did worked. He uses the ball well, simple, uncomplicated, just keeps things ticking. His positioning is good, and he's constantly are aware of what is around him, organising those around him. He closed them down well, put in some great tackles (some of which was wrongly blown up by the ref) and generally marshalled things. A central midfielder in a Di Canio side ever be the fulcrum of the side - our creative play is down either side. If its tenacious battlers with a good level of composure that we are after, Miller is an astute signing.

Williams and Collins: played closer together today than on Tuesday and showed the early signs of an understanding. Here's hoping. Both have a good touch and good pace - especially Williams. Williams won everything in the air. The goals will come - very happy with them both.

Back four was solid, Ritchie his usual threat....onwards and upwards.

Just back fucking horrible drive home to Worcester.
Should have been a few up in the first half.
Rafa man of the match for me

Why did people spend the entire game queuing up outside the ticket office?

I think its good when many fans are saying different players were MoM's RdV, Ritchie, Flint, Miller, Williams etc

That shows it was a good overall performance even if the amount of goals in the win wasb't as good as some wanted, a win is a win and another clean sheet....excellent.

Haha! To be honest, reducing them to 10 every week "just for being Franchise" wouldn't be such a bad idea. They have no right to be playing in the FL.

At the end of the day, if you raise an arm to an opponents face you risk being sent off. Ferry didn't make a big deal of it by going down or anything - the linesman saw what Lewington did and gave what all/most officials will give.

no matter,we've always got......er,

It's not as if he had a Rose-like shocker, just mis-hit a couple of crosses. He was fine defensively.

Pox tickets being sold after the match.

Happy with that.

The first half was a total shitting on summed up by Raffa taking the piss out of their no 17 who must have been twice his size. a lucky goal but we were compeltely different class to them for the first 45. The second half, however, was a different matter. They had a lot more possession but didn't do too much with it. we made a few errors but they didn't seize on them. Fl.int had a  cracking second half more so when Ibere came on for them. Their number 5 was a cheating cunt who every rtime he challenged in the air pushed his man away. The ref was a bit of a cock but the lino on the DRS side 1st half had a shocker.
MOM for me was DeVita but Miller, Ritchie and Flint weren't far away. McEveley has definitely had better days in a Town shirt but he'll be better next game.

A decent write-up on the Franchise OS to be fair, although they made no real comment on the red card incident (link below). However, their manager wasn't happy with it. But I've just had a look on BBC website. Recent headlines include "Franchise boss condemns Alan Smith red card" and "Robinson upset over Gleeson dismissal". So I suppose that's to be expected!

http://www.Franchise.com/news/article/report-swindon-vs-mk-dons-334165.aspx?pageView=full#anchored

miss a game to queue for another. Daft

Three points against Franchise is always welcome, and Lewington getting sent off tops the day off. If you give an elbow on a player, you deserve to go. He just didn't need to get involved. 4 off in 4 games takes some doing.

Other than that it seemed the ref came in the Franchise team coach.

First half we pissed all over them and it seemed it was a matter of time before we did. Due to the fact we went in 1-0 up, I think the players thought they could 'coast' through the game as they were down to 10.

Anyway, 4 clean sheets in 4 games is not to be sniffed at, with Big Wes now only conceded 1 goal in 18 League games at the CG.

MoM - Miller.

Was Paul Caddis there again today?

I wonder if he's realised what a mistake he has made...

Fully agree. IMO this was the bigger game.

Happy with the performance and 7 points out of 10, no goals conceded and in the 2nd round of the cup to come...an impressive start to the season!

Hope we keep up the good work, O*ford ticket in my pocket and looking forward to Tuesday!

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA
Winkleman not happy with decisions over four games which have seen four Franchise players sent off.

Well Wankleman can fuck right off.

Presumably he means decisions like Lewington's decision to raise an elbow or Karl Robinson's decision to sign Alan Smith?

Just got back.

We were the much better side and fully deserved the win. First half some of our football was brilliant, and we should have had more than 1 by half time. De Vita had a brilliant first half, he tore their right back a new arsehole.

It did look like a sending off to me, it looked like he threw his elbow at Ferry. It changed the game a bit but we still looked fairly comfortable. I can't remember Wes having to make a proper save all game.

I thought Miller and Ferry were great in the middle and we looked as solid as usual at the back. Williams is looking very good, he wins most things in the air and has a great turn of pace, only bad luck has stopped him getting a goal so far.

A great three points and the signs are very positive for the rest of season.

Should be a good test on Tuesday without any pressure on us, bring it on!

One decision yes, but four...that surely demonstrates a pattern.

Yes, saw him walking into the CG.

There was one right at the end, which naturally he saved superbly.

Best part of the ginger ninja getting sent off was that it wasn't actually in play, ref had blown for a foul and Ferry tried to get the ball to take the kick, throw your arm out and expect to be sent off.  Interesting one or two are making Miller mom, I commented on the way out you hardly notice Miller during the game - which must mean he is doing his job well, although it was Flint mom for me.  And I won't even start about the fucking drum . . . .
Oh and the guy sitting a few rows behind me who claimed that it was Taylor (Oldham) who was sent off just didn't have a fucking clue!!!

Oh yes, he did really well with that as by then the pitched was soaked.

Lewington has always struck me as bit of a dirty cunt.  Before the game kicked off I asked my mate how long it would take him to get booked, so laughed my head off when he was sent off for something so completely unnecessary!

Poor lewington doesnt have much at our place.

Last time the cunt left in an ambulance

Agree with the above. Not surprised Their discipline is so bad with Robinson in charge. He spent big parts of the game trying to wind up Paolo and was more interested in arguing with the 4th official and our bench than the game. Thought we played really well first half and looked comfortable for most of the 2nd but would of been nice to finish them off with a 2nd to save a nervy last few minutes. Great three points and capped off with another clean sheet.

Best part was Winkleman getting shit as he went through the car park as I was queuing for Oxford tickets. Twat.

Has DiCanio spoken to the media? I can't find anything anywhere...

Yeah he was interviewed on bbc wilts

Now added to BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19304170

Missed that; thanks.
Mind, I did nip out for a poo after the final whistle, so it must've been while I was on the chod that they interviewedhim.

Good.

The thumbs up saying 'good game chaps'....then getting abused by us in the queue was amusing in the rain!

We need a better account than that....what was said to him? Scum, sub-human scum.

Watched an interesting interview with Karl Robinson on the MK OS last night. He came accross very well I thought and made some good points. He was nothing but complimentary about Swindon in general and Di Canio in particular. When asked about the (as it was then) 3 sendings off, he left a good 3 or 4 second pause before replying ..."well we didn't lose any (of those 3 games) did we?"...so basically he was saying he didn't have any problem with a player being sent off as long as they got something out of the game. That was all he said, no..."we've got to be more disciplined"..or anything like that, no contrition whatsoever.

They're fucking themselves badly though. It's ridiculous to (seemingly) ignore it as Robinson is (seemingly doing) or for their fans to dream up conspiracy theories (STFC fans are pretty adept at that as well in fairness) but they really need to look at themselves if they want to be serious promotion contenders.

Not wanting to jinx anything, but I reckon our disciplinary record has been pretty exemplary under PDC hasn't it? A red card for Risser at Northampton last season, Comazzi early on, other than that, pretty damned good I would say.

A few shouts of 'Gyppo' and 'You've got no history'.

He said "Well played today guys and good luck for the rest of the season". With that one of his staff took his jacket off of him and put it in his boot. Winkleman got in his private plate Jag, leaving all his staff to squeeze into another car.

Presumably he forgot about the 3 match bans that come with a sending off...? Having three or four of your first team players unavailable for the next match is not the wisest tactic for promotion. What an arse

Only had 6 subs today,

They'll be fucked for their next game!

Good

Yeah, if I was a Franchise fan (shudders) I would have been wanting him to at least pay lip service to wanting to improve their disciplinary record. The way I read it, he just seemed to be saying 'the end justifies the means'. Bit short sighted I would have thought.

Just back...made a very decent  team look ordinary at times today....De Vita outstanding.....Flint also top class.

Dont worry peeps.........cannot see anyone getting near us............CHAMPYARMY!

Not back yet, still in Reading

MOM Flint

The franchise don't like us, you teenage trolls (60% of us)

http://www.thezonemk.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=7554

We were excellent, never stopped working, Miller was class and my MOM.

Rafa's improving with every game this season, Ritchie was fantastic, Flint, Macca, Devera solid as usual, I rate Jay but he's not the best going forward. Love watching Ferry play, assured and uses the ball intelligently. Collins and especially Williams were a handful all game.

We made one of the favourites for this division look bang average. Fortress CG.. long may it continue.

fuck em and their plastic cows. Club robbing bunch of pricks.that scraggy haired rat faced cunt of a chairman can go fuck himself too.arriba aged 37 and 3 quarters

Ooh I like angry arriba  :girlgiggle:

Didn't he read the 80% bollocks bit...?  :)

To be fair, I can't even find a matchday thread,

That where they're going wrong. ;)

Rearranging swear words?

What a bunch of mekhotcurfing cnuts.

Innit (isn't that what us 16 year olds say?)

All I heard from their customers was a drum beat every now and again.

I'm chipper,just despise that disgrace of a football club. No real fan could support them

He also lost a tooth half way through the 2nd half. Assume that he was in severe pain for 10 minutes as he became a little ropey but regained his composure towards the end of the game

What happened to the Moocamp, other than me getting banned for my first "franchise" offence?

The forum in the link above makes Crawley's look like a hotbed of activity.

Innit bare sick?

Good point!

I thought he had a poor game, but did see him lose a tooth so that could be why!

deffo in the directors box

Its still there but has not had any activity on it for ages (bit like the Thisis forum), it used to say "Franchise and Proud" or something like that

Blood

Piff

They hate the fact that we hate them for what they really are! Simple as that! Club stealing wankers!

The entire franchise fanbase was at the match as they were desperate to get a close up look at the circus in full swing

Odd. ((The Moocamp) Seemed the #1 site to take the piss out of their no mark supporters in previous season.
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Shame to have missed the game, but while they were weakened to come away from it as the only Football League team to not have conceded a goal this season says the spine of the team may well be up to league 1. Last season we didn't concede too many, but it was not a given we'd repeat that this season (early days, but Franchise are no mugs).

Looking forward to Stoke now.

They sing that shitty song that all those wank non league teams sang last season. They've nicked the snare drum from Aldershot, brass from Sheffield Wednesday, club from Wimbledon, roundabouts from us.

Is there anything original about that clusterfuck of a town?

They stole wise men say from us at one point too.

The Asda next door to their soul less stadium had some free samples of Gruyere when i last went

every cloud and all that

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Do you mean Like I don't give a fkcu?

1 nil over the franchise bastard....yes!

Ginger ninja Lewington gets a card to go with his hair.....didn't see it myself....but fuck him anyway..

Well done to the die hards in the rain afterwards.....I couldn't be arsed.

Thin ice there - the song belongs to the mackems

Just seen Lewington's sending off on FLS.
I still think it was a red, and didn't see him square up to the 4th official earlier either!

Twat.

Another good home win with another clean sheet :)

Sick and tired of these bitter bastards questioning our home support saying that we are silent during games.

Franchise as a club, fans/players/owner is basically a massive barrell of monkey spunk....that is all.

I know I shouldn't look at the comments section on thisis but sometimes I just can't help myself...

"We all need to be much more honest.

Town should have won 4 or 5 nil today, against 10 men and even before.

I simply cannot understand what is going on with Benson, by far and away our best player since he joined.

Benson would have easily put away at least a couple of the missed chances, the result is nothing short of a disgrace.We should be top of the league this evening."

Wow. ???

When it's clearly not the case and it would be impossible to hear anything sat next to a fucking drum! If I was at another clubs ground and had heard something like the inter-stand 'We are Paolo's Red and White Army' I'd be pretty impressed. It seems to be the only thing these clubs can cling on to when they've come away with fuck all.

Oh wow.

Unbelievable.

OST - I kind of saw this coming if Collins and Williams didn't start finding the back of the net and getting goals to their name.

I don't honestly give a flying fuck if they don't score all season if we keep winning games, they keep playing well, working their bollocks off and we're getting the goals from the midfield.

Only thing I worry about though is spackers that like getting on there backs and a lack of goals denting their confidence.

I am absolutely speechless.

 ::) It's difficult to find anything sensible to say to that...

This is the one thing Yeovil fans had to say about Williams is that if he doesn't notch then his head does drop a bit, he's playing unbelievably well though and has already become a firm favourite of mine.

Legendary

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i am becoming increasingly convinced that the comments section on thisis is some kind of alternate reality

Fucking hell

Not his only comment either:

What a cunt

Remind me again why everybody should be allowed an opinion!

From the other side of the coin, I did say to my dad on the way home yesterday, if Connell had missed chances like Williams had, rightly or wrongly he would have dropped him.  I hope we're not going to see that sort of thing happen with Williams, but for some reason I think there was a bit more than met the eye with the Connell situation.

In terms of the support, I sit in the Arkells and the drums have completely spoilt the atmosphere in the last 2 games.  Even when the Town End and DRS have been singing the incessant banging has overshadowed it.  If a drum is going to become the norm for away support, the club seriously needs to think about banning them.  

I like drums...you cant beat them :-[

I think even if i were an MK fan yesterday i would have been tempted to murder the beating drummer.

My view is that connell was off loaded because he's not good enough for league one. Pure and simple.

Because you should never stop people from having the opportunity to make a complete idiot of themselves...

At least we can look forward to some decent away support this year, without drums....Pompey especially should provide a good atmosphere....but then there is the bell...

This. Even sitting in the Town End with all the singing the bloody drums can still be heard. Looking forward to being an away fan next weekend just to not have to hear a drum!

The sperm that should have been swallowed.

Agreed. Williams brings so much more to the table.

I agree. Still think he was harshly treated last year mind.

I think they have a drum, certainly from the videos I've seen.

Spot on.

Williams does put in more of a shift and has bags of pace to go with it.

I think we should start retaliating with obscure instruments. If your entire section of the TE could pitch up with Ukeleles, that would entertain me significantly.

I'll bring my didgeridoo

I did notice yesterday that musical instruments are banned, unless you write to the club in advance for permission.

They should just ban them...end of.

The threat of vuvuzelas at the corresponding away fixture should do it.

Crawley and Franchise: two of the most plastic 'clubs' in existence.  The drumming should come as no surprise really.

This really is worth some consideration

Noooo! You've got to be kidding me!!

And it looks like it happening again at Bradford, starts the first game & they are a goal down when he gets substituted, and the guy that comes on scores the equaliser. Has been sub for the next two games, which they have won comfortably. 

Every team we play will have drums just to piss us off

From what I've seen of Williams he looks absolutely tremendous and it's only a matter of time before he starts scoring. I remember when we signed Shearer though and it took a little while for him to get  going. There were always one or two mongs who, after that, he was never good enough for. Some people just want shooting.

What was the attendance? The BBC site says the same and so does the official site....? I can't believe it's true, considering the maximum is only about 15000 or so isn't it?

No it's right dongs bought 10,400, they're that massive.

I'd rather you didgeridon't.

Read this in today's Football League paper, they interviewed  a home fan and an away fan after the game and this is from a franchise fan " An eventful game as expected and to our disbelief our forth straight red in four games with Dean Lewington sent off. Swindon played us off the park and deserved the win. If they play like they did in this game all season they will be champions. With promotion a clear goal this season something is going to have to change and fast to control the discipline and offer more threat as a team. Dons looked slightly out of their depth and it's clear the lack of first team players through suspension is taking it toll. Overall this game offered nothing but frustration but again Swindon deserved maximum credit for a phenomenal performance . Although their goal was more of a lucky cross that turned into a shot, so the Dons did well not to concede again and David Martin kept the Dons in the game truly "
Today's FL paper has a double page write up on our game along with articles on Caddis and Paolo's fall out and a double page on Simon Cox who mentions his time at Swindon.

I'm planning to come to Crawley anyway, and if we're bringing Vuvuzelas I'm definitely in.

Re comments on Thisis, anyone who doesn't appreciate the ability and work rate of Williams and Collins is clearly not used to watching or playing football.  They both drop deep to win balls and bring the wide men into play (this was one reason why De Vita played so well against Crawley).  They are also good at winning the flick-ons and they work well as a pair.  The goals will come, nothing to worry about.

Williams is streets ahead of Connell. Glaringly obvious

True enough while the team is getting results....not so sure the lack of goals will be tolerated when we start conceding again though.

Lets hope they bang a few in soon.

Where can you watch the video highlights of past games? I'm sure you used to be able to find it in its own little section on the Beeb but buggrred if I can find it!

http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=49010.0

That'll explain it then! Cheers Pieman.

Apparently, only conceding one goal in 19 at home is a record by ANY side ever in the Football League.

Marvellous. Is there a link?

https://www.facebook.com/theswindontown/posts/514588238554875


It's on twitter by a few people too.

Cheers

 The funnier thing is on the Pox forum they are foaming at the mouth at 18,299 attendance yesterday! Retarded bunch that they are!

In fact the attandance has been recorded as in excess of 18 in every national paper I've seen. The Adver said it was exactly 10k less at 8299, so someone has put an extra 1 at the front wherever the papers get this info.

Article in the guardian today about pox says they had the second highest average attendance last year as well.  I cant be arsed putting their shoddy journalism right.