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Well I for one probably wouldnt.

I cant lie, I still would

I would

well you're a pair of twats then

Why fucking Chippenham

No out of principle - the club needs to be in Swindon or Swindon Corridor - ie out as far as South Marston or Blunsdon but no further - otherwise it simply ISNT Swindon

nope, cos it wouldn't be swindon. i aint supporting a town-jumping franchise thankyou very much...

shut the fuck up yeovil.im not saying i would agree with it just answering the question and thats all

NO.  Non-league Ciren Town would hold more affinity with me than Swindenham FC.

i'm with you.

I would consider anyone that went to Chippenham to watch Swindon complete and utter scum.

i would support supermarine

I honestly dont know.  If I did I wouldnt be very happy about it though.  I might even write a letter to the adver. or whatever they have in 'nam

Now thats a hardcore stance

i wouldn't bother. i'd probably go to the first game or something out of curiosity though...

No chance.

Move it out of Swindon and it's just not the same, fuck Franchise Football.

nope

How would Chippenham Town feel about this do you think.

A growing club with ambitions of Conference and maybe one day league football, having a league club plonked down a few miles from them.

I think they'd have a few words to say to the FA about it. And I seem to remember that all the noises that came out from the FA and FL in the aftermath of the MKd's move intimated that they weren't gong to allow that sort of thing again.

I think they might find that difficult to enforce if soneone came along prepared to fight a lengthy legal battle, as some sort of precedent does seem to have been set, but I doubt that our board would be up for that sort of thing

This is weird one really...

I dont think right now I can give a yes or no answer.

If the football club did move to J17 it wouldnt be the same, it just wouldnt....but I dont think I could just turn off my love for STFC just like that.....I'd be lost without football on a saturday thats for sure.

But, as I said it wouldnt be the same...

However, if it turns out the move to j17 is the only possible answer to keep the club going no matter what...then I'd be tempted to keep the faith. If all other avenues had tried and declined, but seen as the current re-development of the County Ground (which is at an advanced stage isnt it Mr. Bodwen....so advanced that you're still looking at plans Bs....stupid dickhead!) has got such a decent backing I see no reason as to why that cant go ahead....there is no need to move to J17

If our current board took us to J17 that would be the end of the line for me

No from me, I'll support another Swindon team i.e. Supermarine.

The day we move that far from Swindon is the day the management kill our club, it simply won't be Swindon anymore. Plus I doubt I could stand the franchise piss taking we'd receive from other fans.

In all honesty, I don't know. I'd be gutted if they did move out of Swindon, even though it would take less time for me to get to Chippenham, But following my team is the only real interest I've got (Pathetic as that sounds).

Hopefully this will remain a mute point, the board will be kicked out, the consortium will take over, we'll stay at the CG (Albeit upgraded) and we'll be in the championship in 3 years.

if we moved but there were other options (as we know there are) then no.

My dad is an associate director at Chippenham Town and that would mean being closer to the cunt.

Then again maybe he'd start watching Swindon again. Doubtful.

I think it's worth considering that the move is unlikely to take place without a fairly protracted battle with fans groups, protests etc. All that's bound to get a bit nasty. I think even those of you who might now think that you'd still go might have been completely alienated from the club by the time that's over.

Frankly I think they'd be mental to even consider it. It's moot point as to whether it's far enough away from Swindon for the new FA rules that Reg has mentioned to be applicable, but it's fairly clear that they'd loose a good chunk of the fan base through it. If people who live in Bath and Chippenham wouldn't go, and people who already travel from Oxfordshire, Sussex and other distant parts also think they can fuck off, that's not a good sign.

And on a good day CTFC get a couple of thousand, who I can't see suddenly deserting for the bright lights of the M4 and lower league football.

Meh! Bluffing!

I used to go to Chippenham Town games when it was one man and his dog attendeces.

If Swindon had the ocassional big game then CTFC would suffer because so many of their fans are un-usually fickle for Non-League.

This is just one of many parts of the interview where Diamandis drifted off into total fantasy land. After the MK Franchise debacle, the League made it very plain they would take a much harsher look at such proposals in future. In particular, they'd fail on the following three counts:

1) Fans totally opposed to it
2) They have an existing ground
3) They have a viable alternative with council backing (redevelop the CG along the lines we outlined last week - sorry, no huge profit from using sporting/council land for houses, but there you go)
4) There's an existing senior (not League but would still be taken into account) club in the area

On those grounds alone, they couldn't claim they had no alternative etc and the League would laugh them out of the building.

What's worrying is that he really seems to think that la-la land plans like this and rescheduling the CVA over 10 years are anything other than a deranged fantasy - if this is the level of the "5-year plan" they keep talking about, things are worse than we thought.

did not hear the interview, but did md mention how this new club in chippenham was to be financed, unless they want to share with chippenham town they will need a new ground.

they do not own the land at the cg & so moving will not release any capital there.

I guess there is always bath rugby club looking to redevelop their ground too. I think their supporters would be equally happy at the move.

Junction 17 my arse! Diamandis was making that stuff up as he went along!

I'm with DV on this one

It will still be the closest league team to me, so probably yes. But nowhere near as often as I do now. As much as I'd be against the move I don't think I could stop supporting Swindon just like that.

Yeah, but it wouldn't be Swindon would it Tails?

I get off and on the M4 at J17 on the way to work every weekday. The sign says "Swindon - 15 miles".

We get worked up but deep down, surely, we know that it won't happen.

Apathy is the enemy.

We need to make absolutely SURE it doesn't happen.

Agreed.  :thumbs:

I won't go anywhere near Chippenham.

The club is called SWINDON TOWN for a reason.

I love the idea really. Just down the road for me.  :P

All I want is a new ground and a future.  So moving to Chippenham, I don't mind. Chippenham have so many glory hunter fans, that all the people that go to the Chippenham games, will go to watch Swindon.

Then saying, I wouldn't like it if we moved further away from my home.

Blinkpip you have just let yourself and the town of Calne town.  Any Caln-ite declaring that he wouldn't mind going to Chippenham needs his head being read.

2 more junctions futher up the fucking m4, no thanks, hungerford maybe  :P

if you went to chippenham you would be a scab.

Answering this as a hypothetical question, because its not going to happen....no.

I wouldn't go. I think there is a rule in place saying a club cant move more than 20 miles from its "natural" home so chippenham, is in that area. Saying that... It would be a shame that all the history we have in Swindon etc would be thrown away. As much as I try to support the club, I couldn't support a move out of Swindon. I have been to every home and away game this season and spent loads of money following this club, however if they move out of the Town I could quite easily find other places to spend this money.

I thought you was up in London Gaz?

Definitely not. Moving to J17 would be suicidal for the club.

Say's somebody who's moved 4,500 miles away     :wink:

There is?  :?

Oi! I have every intention of returning which will probably be bad news to some but how many people are joining the trust from 4,500 miles away?!  :D

Decided not to go. My Nan is coming back from the hospital tomorrow so want to get a good nights kip at home for when she returns, plus I thought it would be called off due to fog.

I could be wrong, hence why I said I think....

:sorry:

Calm down dear...............its a consortium

Blinding Gazza

Ace !

 :mrgreen:

http://www.independentfootballreview.com/doc/comments/33.pdf

An interesting read. It's a complaint made by a group of Wimbledon supporters about the relocation to Milton Keynes. If worst comes to worst, there's some great examples to take on board and enforce.

No way in my opinion it is no longer Swindon and would probably change name in time as well, if we went there it would be no different to Franchise  :cry:

Don't see how this could possibly work given the amount of people who would be against it, I mean where would they glean a new support base from when only moving 20 miles away?  

It's a drastically different situation from moving to a town 70 miles away with a population of 1/4 million.

They would hope to attract more fans from Bath and Chippenscum and hold on to the hope that some Swindon fans would still go. They would also figure if the club was winning people would go.

I think the point is most people in those Towns are close enough that they'd already have gone to games if they fancied it.  Plus we have Bath RFC and Chippenham Town close by so it would be much harder to replace everyone that would stop going.

:?

Bath is a rugby town foremost obviously and is closer to Bristol than J17, plus if anything it's Rovers because of Twerton.  

The Nam is STFC and don't you forget it.  Admittedly a move would probably attract more people than at present travel to the CG because of the amount of people with no local ties who might fancy a game if it's on their doorstep, still I can't see there being a huge difference in numbers.

Basically they would rely heavily on current town fans deciding it was better than having no club at all, and that to me is a huge gamble in comparison with the MK scenario.

I would go but I don't live in swindon - I spent years travelling to swindon from london for every game.  I dunno what is wrong with you wingeing cunts who always brag about a 5-minute walk to the ground - will give you all a bit of backbone to see you make a REAL effort to see your team  :D

Although J17 can be nearly 40 minutes from me on a bad day which makes swindon easier

I can't wait to start supporting The Chippenham Robins!

 :wink:

the point is that if it's not in swindon, it's not our team.

Er, me  :soapy tit wank:

I joined from space.

No.
Id start watching Purton.

dulwich hamlet for me  8)

Id probably only go to away games. Bit like when Brighton were at Jills.