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I was round my mates house last night.  He's good mates with a fella he went to footie with last week, who is very good friends with Mike Walsh's son.  Anyway, according to the Walsh man, the Mick Harford deal is on, it is as most of us were thinking, he's waiting for his severence pay from Forest then he'll be coming to the County Ground, in charge of the firsts.

Let's hope it's sooner rather than later.

:-))(  we hear this all the time. rumours.

True, like I say believe it if you want.  No skin off my nose.

i'm gonna believe ya.

i'm not he is shifty  :wink:

Peter Reid let something slip during the BBC's rolling scores last week (I wasnt at the Swindon game :oops:) about King, they were discussing about Kings move upstairs and the link to Portsmouth and Peter Reid said  "I dont want to get Kingy into trouble but some people at Swindon want to move him upstairs", I assume "some people" meant the board and not the fans hence the "I dont want to get Kingy into trouble" before it. Might explain the will he wont he shenanigans the other week if they're waiting for Harford.

And Garth Crooks also said he'd like to see King given the Portsmouth job.   :soapy tit wank:

to be honest if king went i would be sorry to see him go.
all people have there critics but i think he has done supurb for us over the last few seasons he just needs a decent number 2 or get Harford in to run first team and he takes a back seat.

Yes i have moaned about him also but when the red mist clears after a defeat i realise he has done well so would like to see him stay on.

i believe you jan, it's just a case of if your friend or friend of a friend is telling the porkies

I'm not just saying it cos it's my mate, but I know that he knows Mike Walsh's son and he's not wound them up before, don't see why he'd lie about it now.  We'll just have to wait and see I suppose.

i hope it's true.
would be supurb for this club to have Harford here.

As long as he's only assistant. I would hope even our board wouldn't be stupid enough to sack/change a manager in the position we're in at this stage in this season which would be one of the strangest,most bizarre and suicidal decisions ever made.

Apparently that's the thinking, bring him in to take training and assistant AK.

I think it's all arse.

Read the Gazette.

don't forget walsh has been sacked. would you be happy?

He wasn't sacked mate, he left by mutual consent.  Meaning he would have had a nice little pay off.  So if my company did that for me, when it was obvious that things aren;t working out, yeah I think I would be quite content with leaving.

He was only on a monthly deal though so got paid off with..... 1 months pay. which is probably less than mine :?

I believe you Jan, not sure if I believe you're mates mate though. Time will tell.

like pie face said, month to month. HE GOT FORCED OUT. lets not sugar coat things, his friend has had to tell him to hop it. doubt he'd be happy about that

Don't think that's the case really as he was only on a trial basis still plus we don't have the money to give any nice little pay offs - hence why we haven't sacked King yet  :wink:

Despite the way I feel about King, we've just won 3 games on the bounce.  Now is not the time to sack the fella, plus he has done a lot for the club.  I know very little of Mick Harford so I'm not so sure signing him would be such a step-up.  I think King's head should roll at the end of the season if we don't make the playoffs, but while we're in with a shout, it's madness to move King out the way as a new manager would take a while to settle.

At the end of the day, I don't care if Tommy M**ney is in charge as long as we make the playoffs.

I got a mate who has a friend and his uncle works with a woman who's son goes down the pub with a lad who is the brother of a 'reliable source'..............

UPDATE - I was out last night and had it confirmed by one of Swindon's starting eleven that Mr Harford will be announced as a new STFC employee this week.  Other than breaking into Kingy's house holding him at knife point and recording his answer, I can't really do much better than that.

HARFORD WILL BE HERE THIS WEEK!!  FACT!!!

This still seems a bit unlikely, as Walsh only took the job because he was desperate, because the pay is well below the national average.

    I suppose if he's getting a hefty wedge from Forest, he might regard it as a sort of voluntary work.....to keep your hand in and lookgood on a CV.

  The fact that Forest trousered the Spurs dosh for Reid and Dawson, poss means they're in a position to paya lump sum.

I'm not a liar Reggie baby, I swear that this player told me that Harford's coming.  He actually said "he's already in mate", so unless the whole world is winding up Jan the Jock, it's gonna happen.

I'm not suggesting for one minute that the conversation didn't take place, rather there are enough reasons for it not to happen, that a players confirmation isn't really quite sufficient to convince at this stage.

   Especially if said player had been on the pop.

There are a few people on various sites saying they spoke to players in town or whatever and the players have apparently said Harford will be here.

There's an announcement due tomorrow anyway so we'll see.

If you're right, I want to meet your source  :D

I believe him, but I am gullable.  Good news!

It's true. Harford starts Monday as "Assistant Manager". Lets hope he has more influence on team and tactics. The first thing he should do is get them really fit again. Each player should have his own targets including maximum weight. Miss the target and you don't play. That should keep Howard out all season. :wink:

If it happens,whatever Harfords title I can see big renditions of "Mick Harfords Barmy Army" from the Town End on Wednesday to rub Kings nose in it!

Will be an excellent appointment if it does come off.

Harford played a large part in restructuring Luton Town while they where languishing in the old 3rd division.  

He looks to have had a big influence on Mike Newell who didn't look like he was cut out for management in charge of Hull after managing to blow a massive points advantage in the league.

Hopefully he will install some agression and orginisation into the side and stop us dropping some of the points we have this season.

Mick Harfords Barmy army would just be a ridiculous chant considering he is playing second fiddle, but I can still see some people in the Town End ctrediting the season (if we finish 9th) to Harofrd, despite it being lower than when he arrived!

Walrus you see the fella who told me playing for Town every week.  Nice bloke.  I couldn't see why he'd not be telling te truth.

I dont believe you Jan. You jocks are full of shit :wink: