Thetownend.com

 Good stuff

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Looking forward to reading the thoughts of other legends like Juan cobian and Shaun close who I'd have on a par with cowe. Moooooo

"“There was this figurehead that kept coming in and looking the part but nothing was really changing. I enjoyed working with Colin Todd.

“We had a massive turnover of players that summer from all over the world. It was mental. I think there were 60 or 70 players coming on during that summer."

Huh?

Probably trialists...interestingly it does confirm the long held view that T*dd was in the pocket of agent(s), hence some of the bizarre signings...bit like PDC.

"Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his move, Cowe was more than happy to move to the County Ground. Town were accelerating towards the League One title with a record points tally.

He scored his first goal for his new club on the night they secured promotion back to the Championship"
Except they didn't win the League One title or secure promotion back to the Championship, did they? Not in the 90s - the "Championship/League One/League Two" nonsense was only introduced in 2004 IIRC so Cowe got promoted out of Division 2 to Division 1. Bit surprised at that coming from Sam.

Or... If your not so picky about these things, it does describe in todays terms what actual division they were promoted from and to.

As does from Division 3 to Division 2 for those of Reg's vintage

This is always a tricky part - because I'm really just trying to describe what level of the pyramid it was, rather than the actual name of the division. I get your point but it was deliberate rather than an oversight. It was the Division Two title. Guess I could have written "promotion to what is now the Championship" but it just seemed a bit of a mouthful.

I wish we were in The Championship, old Division 1, older Division 2 again.

Give it a few months!

1st tier, 2nd tier, 3rd tier.......

I don't remember us playing at any level other than the two bottom tiers. It's so dull.

That 10 year period from 1985 was incredible.

I remember a quote from the radio which was along the lines of "you know it's near the end if the football season as Swindon Town are about to change divisions again".

Virtually every season then was a promotion or relegation season.

In the 10 years from 85/86 to 95/96, there were only 2 seasons 87/88, 91/92 where we weren't either in PO's, promoted or relegated....this included 2 championships.

The 11 years leading to this season from 03/04 haven't exactly been lacking in drama, only 4 seasons 04/05, 07/08, 08/09, 13/14 where we weren't either in PO's relegated or promoted....this includes 1 championship.  Certainly never dull for long being a Town fan  :)

Fair enough, but it came across that you didn't realise they've been constantly buggering around with the Leagues for the past 20 years. Interesting piece though, pedantry aside :)

I quite liked the suggestion that they were going to rebrand the lower divisions again so we'd have a more realistic reflection in the Division names - "Premiership", "Championship", "Receivership" and "Sinking Ship" :)

:clap: Loving your work. I may well use that at some point. 8)

Feel free, not mine, but can't remember where I pinched it from right now

Used to see Cowe out at weekends a bit.  One night in the Brunel Rooms he was rolling a pint glass up and down the back of his leg with his other foot, showing off his skills (or lack of).  How some twat didn't smash  it on him was more luck than judgement.

Good read that.

I was at Chesterfield and will never forget that Charlton victory....only went as my then wife's gran pegged it and she was clearing the house nearby as I went to the valley.  our goal mouth was a coconut shy for 80 odd minutes!

http://www.swindonlinksport.com/subcategory/swindon-football-club

Nothing to do with Cowe, but Sam's take on last night.....could you make it 6 things you've learned?  Iraq, wasn't Persia, that was Iran....Mesopotamian Pirlo maybe.

In fact, Iran and Iraq fought a very unpleasant 8 year war, making it the 20th Century's longest conventional conflict.

Agree though about fans being a bit more tolerant...this is so important to any chance of success this season.

I believe this is our longest spell outside the top 2 divisions (15 years) since we got promoted in 1962/3. Someone watching Town as a 15 year old in our last season in the 2nd tier would now be in there 30s. Hopefully that situation might get resolved shortly.

Sam's latest Big Interview....Rafa de Vita, didn't know he was at Cheltenham.  Another good read.

http://www.swindonlinksport.com/swindon_sports_news/devitainterview