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Call me a kid but I love derby days, woke up this morning after 3 hours sleep buzzing! Sent a couple of texts to th etown fans I know about loving derby days and then proceeded to sing swindon songs all the way to work on the phone to dilly five bellies......

Felt a bit silly in the traffic jam but bugger me I love a derby day.  Just hope the chosen 11 bloody turn upo today, 3 wins in a season over teh scum would be magical..............and that moet I have sayed for promotion can be cracked open.....anyone buzzing or is it all doom and gloom around here?

Are we playing Oxford tonight?

I was singing along in the van to myself this morning!! C'mon!!

I'm too tired to be buzzing...   :(

I'm too "12th in the league" to be buzzing.  And I just heard King on the radio, fuck me that's enough to put me in a bad mood.

We can't beat them 3 times in a season can we? Something is going to go wrong.

Thats why I dont listen to anything but radio 1!

Theres three derbys for me, oxford, city and reading.  I am buzzing about city as its the only fun im gonna have between now and August. FACT

I don't consider Reading a rival at all really. Just Oxford and City for me.  And Brighton now.  I think i will always hate them.

i alway hated Brighton really. Reading has got to be cosidered a Derby hasnt it? why wouldnt it be? And besides they hate us more than we hate them

I'm with Dave, never really seen Reading as a local rival.  City and Oxford yes, they're the two biggies.  Brizzle Rovers were always like an irritating little brother that deep down you don't really mind that much.  But I think that's because I depise City so much and have a respect for the Gas hating City too.

yeh me too. i cant be bothered with Rovers because we never play them anyway. i hate City and Oxford the most but i always think Reading are cocky little shits

Rovers are ok reading are not! were hated by a fair few clubs arent we? Cityt, rovers, reading, Oxford, Bournemouth, Gillingham.....

Aren't we the most hated team in the country?  According to some poll done by a magazine a couple of years back.

cardiff..

would have thought that was milwall?

why would Gillingham hate us? i know plymouth hate us though!

They just do something happened back in the 80's but cant really remember what

we beat them in the play-offs around 86/87 so they dont like us. look on www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk and there are videos n stuff!

haha! the chav bastards!

Gillingham have hated us for 25 years.

http://www.gillingham-mad.co.uk/news/loadfeat.asp?CID=EDW3

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No there was some survey done in a footie mag, where football fans had to list their top three hated sides.  Swindon came out on top apparently.  We happen to be in a lot of sides top three's.  Plymouth, Oxford, Reading, City, Rovers, Bournemouth, Gills and others.

I like being hated its better than being loved........

was it this thing??? i remember reading it ages ago on thisisstfc...

http://www.footballfanscensus.com/issueresults/Club_Rivalries_Uncovered_Results.pdf

Maybe, it's taking an age to open the file.  Are we up near the top?

We haven't done a double over Shitty since 1948/49.........they really will have had to gone into a rapid decline under Tinman,  for our lot to manage it.

  I hated Bristhole before we even played O*frod for the first time.

do you have adobe reader or acrobat JA? may be why its not loading?

top of the list for teams with most rivals are:

1 man u
2 burnley
3 leeds
4 chelsea
5 sheff wed
6 bolton
7 sheff utd
8 millwall
9 wolves
10 bristol city
11 crystal palace
11= scunthorpe
13 cardiff
13= swindon
15 nottm forest

the scum are 10th! i cant believe we are level with cardiff though! surely they would be more hated than us?

Check this out - from Reading

http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s253/st44311.htm

Reading do hate us a lot. thats why i said they hate us more than we hate them. i hate them more after that though! anyway how come they aint in the prem yet? they have had years of cash thrown at them and they still can get out of the championship.

I've none of the Derby day exitement, especially when compared to the exitement I felt in last season game.

That's a fantastic write up on the Swindon v Gillingham games from 1979 on the Gills website. I didn't start actively following the club until a couple of years after that so my recollection of that time is a bit foggy.  I love these bits:

"There was a crowd of over 15,000 and the locals were up for it."

"the crowd were to prove again to be one of the most nasty and vicious in football."

"Swindon started to dish it out as well, and Ken Price got flattened by Stroud,"

"for the rest of the game we were swore at, intimidated, physically threatened on several occasions, and had to take our team being called every name under the sun"

I don't advocate violence or threats or any kind of nastiness but all of the above is about passion and caring, two qualities sadly lacking at the County Ground in recent times.  I certainly do remember those five games from 86-87 though and they were awesome, especially the three play off games (I know a pub in Gillingham  got totally trashed before/after the away leg).  Again, those times were all about passion and caring about the club.  I'm not saying people today don't care but anyone who was around then will, I am sure will know what I mean.  There's just something really lacking at the Club these days which is highlighted by those articles.

I really enjoyed reading that.  It's just the tonic for these 'post-Walsall we're going nowhere any time soon and we're going to struggle to put a side out next season' times.

i think a few beers and all will be well before the match

I honestly don't care about Reading, as far as I'm concerned Oxford are our only rivals. City only exist for derby games when we can't play Oxford...

I would have said Man Utd are the most hated club!!

For pure thug fans, Cardiff, Chelsea, Stoke and Millwall win.

The Utd thing is only because of how succesful they've been recently.  IN a few years when they go through the phase Liverpool have been in over the last 10 years poeple's hatred for the Manc's will diminsh - no doubt about it.

I hate Oxford more than anyone, i really hate them  :evil:

me too

It's their fans which make them worse than City, pure thuggish scum.