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Just announced on the 3.00pm news on BBC Wiltshire.

Bill Power is pulling out of STFC. More to follow!!

why start a new thread ?????????

oh fuck... mind you, if I had just piled into a golf course in a plane I'm not sure I'd do anything different

Leaves us in the shit though doesn't it?

In the paper the other day, there was talk of other investment coming in??  Hope it fuckin does now other were back to square 1.   :doh:

I'm normally a pretty placid kind of guy, very laid back, but I am so pissed off with our current board for 'forcing' Power out!!  :evil:

I think Mark Devlin could soon be following his friend out the door and then we're back on the slippery slope again after briefly looking like we were heading back up!!  :(

GGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!  :x

I did say that Power would leave, i bloody know this would happen, them f****** idiots on the board need to go.

Bloody Diamandis, Sir Seton Wills, James Wills, Bob Holt, Sandy Gray etc have f***** up this club yet again and we are back to square one, typical of them to drive our investor out of the club.

Back to where we were last season then, no money, crap board, there's always something that goes wrong with this dam club, what next? Wise will definitley go now i think to be honest, cannot see him sticking around with no money what so ever.

Can't blame Bill Power in a way though, i mean who in their right mind would want to work with idiots like Diamandis, Holt, Carson, Gray, SSW, James Wills etc?

Also they never even rang Power to wish him well after the plane crash, they have not even tried contacting him, i would have told them to f*** off as well if i was him.

Any bets on Wise and Mark D following before the weeks out.

I'm absolutely fuming. Seton Wills, for everything you've done for this club I'm eternally grateful, but for the love of god, just let the club move on. But you haven't have you. You've let us all down.

Well done Carson and co! put the fucking nail in the STFC Coffin why dont you! conference here we come!

i'm over it.

Taxi for Wills

There should a major f****** protest against this joke of a board, we need to force the t**** out, we cannot allow them to keep making this club a laughing stock, i bet everyone is laughing at us once more, leeds are probably laughing even more, they know if they want Wise it will be very easy to tempt him away from the club especially now.

I reckon Devlin, Wise, Poyet and Ince will be gone by the end of next week.

I was looking forward to a good game against Notts County this weekend but i don't really feel like going now, the players will probably be affected by this news as well and i don't wanna give this dam board any money, i want to hit that board hard and make them get the f*** out of our club.

Rupert Lowe takeover anyone?  :|

And one thing I hadn't thought of until now - the capital that Bill Power put in (£1.1m is reports are true) will now have to be paid back to him - it was an investment - not a gift.

now you really are making it worse  :( never mind the conference we will be bust before we even get there

Bob Holt - "we are over-budget"

Numpty Newbury Solution: "lets get rid of the one bloke who'll get his wallet out"

I for one am not attending another game or putting a penny into the club as ong as these m******* are here

I'll never refuse to go to games, but how can you e enthusiastic when someone with the commercial nous of Nora Batty and the moral fibre of Pontius Pilate is running your club.

still nothing on internet...?

There's plenty of porn to tide you over

It starts with m, it's got 8 letters...can anyone help me with this it's starting to bug me.

I could only think of mudflaps.

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~900946,00.html

can't 'fulfill' his role due to injury.

Bullshit.

Bullshit and more fucking Bullshit.

Bob Holt give us some respect....nearlier you said last nights talks were 'illuminating' - hardly a quote that fits in with him pulling out due to his injuries.

It was illuminating because he realised what a fucking state you lot are.

Calm down ffs!

It's happened now, doubt it would have if their plane had made it that extra mile and landed - heck he'd probably be chairman by now!

comforting.   :-))(

I know we can't do anything really but you have to let/expect people vent after something which could bugger up the whole club!

Would you be venting your 'anger' if it were a player who was out of action for 18 months?

No - because he wouldn't be potentially putting money in - you'd be wishing him all the best and hoping he can get on with his life.

Get a fucking grip people, he's a human being with his own concerns - concerns that have changed dramatically in the last month and a half!

Meh.........That is all

Get well soon Bill

For fuck sake people! Get a grip! It's not the end of the world or of this football club!

I don't actually totally believe the press release. I'm sure Mr Power does need 18 months, and maybe that is all there is to it. But several sources who may or may not be in the know suggest it's more than that.

This statement is the only way the board can ammicably announce losing major investment.

That's a bit fucking vicious isn't it?!  I was simply making a point!  

Anyway, disappointment can take many forms and this is what it all boils down to in the end....Of course there is nothing new in being disappointed in the state of affairs at Swindon Town Football Club, we all know that.

But hey, get a grip people, it's only football after all!

Not anywhere near as vicious as some of the things being said, no.

But they haven't lost the investment Power has already put in. Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand it he bought a million quids worth of shares. He still owns those shares and they are his to do with as he pleases. If he keeps them or sells them it doesn't take money away from the club.

What it does mean is that Power will not take up a place on the board of directors and there will be no future investment from him.

People are concerned about their club - everyone will calm down soon I'm sure!  I'm certainly not blaming BP - far from it - and I hope he makes as speedy a recovery as possible, I'm just saying many people want to blame someone, rightly or wrongly, it's human nature, and that the current board are obvious targets.

That is all.

Blimey just heard the news! Best wished to Mr Power! I can understand that people are upset and there is a bit of me that thinks that there is something more to this than what is being said but like KT says, he is human and if he feels he cannot fulfill his role then so be it! What does worry me is that we are really challenging our budget and with the likes of paul ince on the books, we may struggle! So the question is what can we do? I really dont think people not going to games as a protest will do anything for our club! We need to support our football team by going to games and pushing our lads to promotion, because at the end of the day that is what we care about the most!

Just say thank you to Mr Diamandis- it is down to him AGAIN

Kinky Tom is about the only person in this thread to actually have a grip on reality at the moment it would seem.

i have a very firm grip piemonte!

i dont thats why i walk around with a smile on my face

Yeah, I'm sure he was the one that brought the plane down.

If there's one thing I dislike more than Holt & co, its some of the fucking idiotic twats who support this club (not naming any names..ahem). Get a fucking grip ffs.

Big blow, will be interesting to see what happens from here but I don't think it's all doom & gloom.

I concur, well said Tails

I am sure that the truth will out

THEN we will make our own minds up on whose camp we pitch our tent

No, Robert brought the plane down but he blamed it on Cameron.

None of us know the goings on of the club, but all I'd say is I'd love to put millions into the club further down the line and not be able to oversee that investment because I was recovering from injury. Power is so selfish.