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I see those Yellow shitheads are panicking as transfer deadline approaches.

Loads of departures and no arrivals - looks like they are in financial trouble.

Maybe we could have a whip-round and send them fuck-all.

The season keeps on getting better and better!

Kassam is a legend.. :D

Ooh Firoz Kassam, he used to own the scummers, now he's fucked 'em up!

Statue outside the Arkells please.

He should get freedom of the city for what he's done to that club, his legacy ensures they stay a laughing stock for eternity.

Good idea, we could paint it red just like the one at the Kassam.

I thought we were the ones in financial difficulties though? chortle....

It does look like another failed season for them, the super rent Kassam is charging means they are crippled forever, topbloke.

Let's nominate Kassam for an honour...

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgovernment/Honoursawardsandmedals/DG_067917

I dislike kassam for his crimes against football, pox or otherwise it just ain't right.

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Care to explain what he has done wrong? What crime is it you are talking about?

Holding a club to ransom effectively. Doesn't sit well in my ethics. Would rather people like him were out of football.

I'd rather Oxford were out of football. Well Utd, I've nothing against City to be fair.

(And no I don't really mean I'd like to see Oxford out of business, I'd just like to see them languish in The Blue Square Southern division 3 west reserve League)

Me too, but just by them being crap.

Did he not build them their state of the art 3 sided stadium? He is only claiming what is rightfully his, why wouldn't he want his money back?

Which is why I have nothing against Willie Carson, as he only wanted his money back. Can't blame hime for that.

Don't know much about Kassam.

But, I'm with axs. I would never applaud the actions of any board of any club that puts the club into risk.

This is Poxford we are talking about, they deserve it.

Isn't that why Diamond Mike hung around like a rotten fucking smell for so long, trying to get Wills his money back?

Why is Carson off the hook?

We were fucked and he bought the club for £1. At that time we owned our ground, the Manor. He sold the Manor to his other company for a measly fee, knowing that he'd be able to get planning permission easily on the land, got it, and then sold it again for something like £8 million and kept all the money. So we lost the money that the land was really worth, lost ownership of a ground, and now have to pay £400k per year to rent his shithole stadium on some kind of lease that we can't get out of. And he won't sell the ground to us for any less than some ridiculous asking price of £13 million. That's the tip of the iceberg, but the main reason that he is detested. He raped our club and our fans and would have done it to anyone. He sniffs around other sports teams who are in trouble, occasionally his name crops up when clubs are in dire straits, but the press from his past business always catches up with him.

Anyone who thinks that is okay is basically condoning all forms of rape, business and human.

I need to speak to my Solicitor.

And businessman of the century award goes too........

Kazaam is a cunt if truth be told. It;s all well and good playing the 'oooooh he is oxford' card, but their fans are 95% the same as us. Anyone wishing them to go bust needs their head checked

I would never want them to go bust, just to languish in pain,poverty and depression.

Kazaam maybe a cunt but every Swindon fan has enjoyed seeing the pox fail miserably, and that is down to him.

The Maxwells come to mind as well

Exactly how I feel, if the same had happened to us you can get bet your bottom dollar the ridicule would have been ten times worse.

Hes built a nice golf course though.

Good game, good game!

I personally hope they don't go bust, not for the good of football or all the brotherhood fan unity shit that goes on but simply laughing at their demise and general shitness cheers me right up.

don't write comments on my behalf and many other Swindon fans who just read your comment and instantly cringed.

What Golf course might that be?

And we all remember their sympathy when we were in the shit.
I don't want them to go out of business anymore than Darlo, but I shan't lose any sleep over their problems. 
Now Portsmouth, the sooner they lose 10 points, the better.

Heythrop park.

Youve been there havent you?

Unless you have another username/account then you have not written in this thread, so I'm a tad confused to how I've answered on your behalf?

I have indeed. Played two rounds there.

And may I say what a lovely course Mr Kassam has assembled.

With the proceeds of the stadium rent ;)

So now we know why tickets for our game were sold 3 months prior to kick-off.

They were desperate for the money.

And why they were also desperate to offload Cunstable - well done to him for staying, doing fuck-all and screwing them financially.

Good lad, Jim

I only cringe with your love in with the Pox, why would we cringe when a fellow town fan saying he laughs at their demise but doesn't want them to go bust? Seems very normal assessment to me but I can't speak for all Town fans.

Does anyone know if Redknapp and Kassam are good buddies? Heard Redknapp and him are besties and can be found playing at that golf course mentioned earlier in the thread.

I don't want Oxford to go bust, just suffer in eternal misery in the basement division.

Very much this. There's only one club (I use the term club loosely) in the football league I want to go bust and it isn't Oxford.

Franchise? Crawley?

It's Franchise.  Trust me.

Always and for ever.

Looking forward to your 'home' game, then?  I'm on baby-sitting duty once more.  Enjoy!

Yep, about to have bacon and egg sandwich.  Grab a shower, watch some cricket, meander off to the pub...my first ever 'home' game.  Woo-hoo!

You goon, why would you not sell 10,000 tickets in advance if you could?

Because there is no need?

I'd like Oxford to be in the same division as us every year, lose twice to us and finish below us every year.

Lets be honest, we want to be better than then dont we? but i'd rather be better by beating them twice a season and finishing above them. Even if we finished 1st and them 2nd all the way to the Premier League.

Also, all these fans hatred for Oxford - the same people who wanted to sign their captain (or at one point captain) the other week, for shame....

The only way we would sell 10,000 3 months in advance is if it was a cup final...

That says more about Swindon than Oxford.


What football club outside the Premiership doesn't need £200,000 if it's there and waiting?

It was just common sense to sell the tickets, because we could.

The tickets will still be sold. That 200k will still be obtained.

And by your logic, can we assume tickets to your other matches are being sold 3 months in advance?

So why couldn't you wait until now? The board budget and manage cash flow during the season so asking for £200k months before the game either says your board can't manage cash flow or you are in trouble. I don't know of any other club that has picked the biggest income game of the year and pulled the gate money in early.

Doing what you've done is basically the same as going to QuickQuid for a payday loan, just to cover your bills now.

As you say though it is probably just common sense, just like your board agreeing to sell your main striker to your main rivals. Yeah, you don't need the money.

Your biggest game is always the next game.

Why are the Pox playing today instead of yesterday?

One final thing. Bit alarmed that Redknapp almost got involved with the scum. He would have been brilliant for them. Phew!

We've covered this already.  While the cashflow advantage arising from selling the tickets early would certainly have helped, Oxford's main incentive was probably to ensure crowd segregation.  They probably always knew, or at least suspected, that they were going to offer an allocation to our fans that would fall well short of the demand.  (We took 4,000 to Leicester yesterday, so fair to assume the demand for the Oxford game would be 3,000+).  Selling out their own allocation first ensured that none of our fans would end up in the home stands when they realised that the away allocation was so inadequate.

Quite clever really.  And all the more important given that a fair proportion of our fans have Oxfordshire addresses/OX postcodes - making it difficult for ticket office staff to know who they're selling to.

Well Oxford fan one of your own told me before new year that it was a money issue thing. He also suggested that the same reason applied to the Constable saga. Constable was offered an improved and extended contract after the August game, that he's not banged in many goals this season didn't help his or your situation. So, yeah, points to a cash flow bottle neck as you also had very few home games in November also.....

Not according to your fans. Many say that if we were playing the derby at the County Ground in March, you would sell out now - but you didn't earlier this season.

And also, imagine this scenario. Someone is offering you £200,000. You can either have it now, and put it in the bank to earn interest, or wait 3 months and lose out on the interest. Are you saying you'd wait? You're a fuckwit. Azza you're similarly retarded for suggesting that it's a loan. I hope you two don't run your own businesses.

Ardilles has a point too. I sat with your fans, and a good few of ours, in the reverse fixture remember.

1. Why aren't we selling Clarke and Leven too, then?
2. Is your friend the club accountant?
3. Does he know that we were one of the few clubs in the football league to turn in a profit last season?
4. Is he aware that we've just got about 7 players who never play for us off the wage bill?

Hit a sore nerve OF?

I can't wait to leave this lot in L2. After 10 years apart this rivalry has become nothing short of embarrassing. I'm bored of feeling unrelenting pity for them.

If you have cashflow problems it won't be going anywhere near a bank to earn interest

1) Fuck knows, they're your players and your team. Maybe they're not a drain on your cash rich club like constable?
2)No, however, a mature and sensible well informed individual. He's not a friend perse, a valued customer with a business in Headington.
3)Likely, however, that was last season and a negative cash flow scenario can afflict any club at any time especially a year after turning a profit. Accountants turn losses into profit for a living remember!  
4)Likely also, I've other things to do today so you'll forgive me for not ringing him today to confirm that nugget. He'll be closed anyway.

Any way son, it's Sunday, not worth vexing yourself over a business run by people who have only your money at heart. Same applies to us btw before you go off on another one.

Not at all, just countering the rumors. Which option would you take in the scenario then? It's the same sort of chimps making these kind of suggestions about your club over on our boards. It's shit or bust for you lot this season, isn't it?

It'll be shit if we don't go up, yeah. Bust? I don't think so.

Disappointing if we don't go up this year, certainly.  I think hope of promotion has turned to expectation in recent weeks...but there are still plenty of other sides up there showing similar form to us, so can't take it for granted.

But if we don't, I think PDC will still be here next year.  He'll still have a point to prove and, so long as we only miss out narrowly and don't collapse towards the end of the season, he will still have strong backing from the fans and from the board.  And financially, revenues have been strong this year and we have a supportive board.  I think we'll be OK.  A few players will leave, and we'll need to rebuild a little.  But Paolo has learned a few lessons about that this season.

You have to remember we are 30 million in debt and have a winding up order on the way. Also going into admin aswell.

Apparently.

OF

I can understand why 7 or so players have been jettisoned but cannot understand why no players in.

If your club are serious about wanting to get promotion, now is the time to bring in new blood, especially as you have a realistic chance of the play-offs.

If there are no players coming in I think you can take it as read that the club have no intention of meeting their fans expectations.

A few more years in the doldrums beckons

The only player we need is a midfielder, I was hoping we'd get Guttridge but he went to Northampton. It'd cost a lot to find a player other than a CM to improve our XI, and there'd be no point in getting any fringe players in, since we've just shipped a load of them out and have players out on loan we can recall if necessary.

No need to panic, like you say we have a realistic chance of promotion.

FWIW I do run my own business, quite successfully really compared to other ones, and I didn't mean it was a loan but just to get the cash in to tide you over. if you think the gate receipts will earn any worthwhile interest at the moment and you naively think this was the reason why you started to sell early then you my friend are the "retard".

Burton 1 nil up :)

Not anymore

1-1 yeah.

I'm sure Oxford will happily take a point away from home. I think that's a decent result for us plus we're still six points ahead of them with two games in hand.

perfect score if it stays like that

It has.

They're still 6 points behind us but we have 2 games in hand.

Good result really because it keeps Burton off our back too.

Now lets hammer Southend.

It's beginning to look like it's only 7th place up for grabs and it says a lot for the generally poor sides in this league that Oxford can have a string of poor results/performances and still stay in 7th.

I have a sneaking suspicion that those vying for 7th place need to keep an eye on Brizzle Rovers who could go on a run and reel in a lot of the teams above them.

Not being biased here, but I honestly can't see Oxford keeping 7th for much longer and with a small pool of players could easily fall away with a couple of injuries/suspensions

I think the Oxford rivalry can quite easily be summed up by the fact that there is an oxford fan on a Swindon forum with 6501 posts.

Yep, he's a fucking legend though.

I think he loves the Swindon, but is unable to come out to his family for fear of being ostracised.

It's like the runt at school hanging out with the bigger kids in the hope that one day someone will notice him.

You should've seen the furore it caused on their forum.

A few of theirs really couldn't handle it.

I saw that last year sometime, ha ha.

Kassam is a top man, will be paying my respects at his funeral when he kicks the bucket

I like oxford fan he is always fair with his posts.He has been a bit touchy recently though

Well we have been trying to buy their main striker...

They're moaning like hell about Constable on their forum.

I reckon we dodged a bullet there.

Forget he's a badge kissing Scummer but he just wasn't worth the money. I couldn't see what the fuss was about. He scored 2 against us when our defence was pretty shit. the first one magera didn;t jump with him and the second was Smith punching it against him. 

And to give him credit he's demonstrating what rivalry should be all about. Unlike a large portion of the oxford fans and quite a few Swindon ones too. He has had the odd hissy fit on here recently, but then I'd imagine everyone else on here would if oxford were trying to buy our best striker and all you were reading was people taking the piss out of your team.

Personally I can't abide people like Kassam and I would really not like to see oxford sink because of someone like him. And considering the shit that Swindon have had over the last 10 years or so I'm surprised that anyone takes any pleasure in the idea of another club going under because of some greedy bastard screwing the club to death.

It gave me much pleasure when they were relegated because they were shit.

Not Magera.

Dont think we'd even signed him at that point.

Thats a shame he would have leapt majestically like a salmon, prevented the goal and we would have won.

Agree with you completely.

I like oxford fan too and think he is one of the best posters on the forum. Got a bit touchy lately but we would of to if the roles were reversed.

Here's an idea then he shouldn't go onto a rivals forum if he can't take the material and then he doesn't have to have a hissy fit or get touchy about it.

I honestly can't see the attraction in posting on a rivals forum but each to their own and he adds a different dimension I suppose.