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i fucking hope you read this forum because if i didn't have my children with me today you would have been laid out.
calling people wankers as they walk out of the ground for going home.
the verbal exchange you got from me is fuck all compared to if i see you cunts again.
cards are marked.
 bloke in 40s and chavvy son(i presume)in fake burberry hat.wankers!

i wont be going to football for the forseable future.our board and alot of fans are shit and i've had enough.

so why were you just walking away at the end then?

Emotions are running high - we're about to lose our club and to be fair the majority of Swindon fans are doing their best to appear not to give a shit. Perhaps we don't deserve a club.

because my 7 year old daughter was cold and i was minding a friends child who was waiting to pick him up.

I admit I was surprised at people being abused forget the song "if you dont give a shit fuck off home" or something which was pretty bad taste to all those elderly people and kids and all that walking home.

i got verbal abuse cos of swearing in Kingswood few weeks ago from some 70 yr old. I mean, no offence but as i pointed out to him it was a fucking footy match then he got up and grabbed my face... prick. would have laid him out if he was 30 yrs younger. If you want an easy quiet life, fuck off to the Arkells stand.

Come to Spurs on the 19th Arriba? :wink:

I saw that,which means I saw you :o .If im honest I think they were out of order but feeling are running high and all that.

I thought that was aimed towards the board to begin with, but was out of order to our own fans, not everyone can hang around in the cold to protest, like already has been said.

to be fair, people obviously have their reason (like arriba has just explained) but so many people just not giving a toss is disgusting.

Do people not realise we wont have a club soon?

I left with about 5 minutes left and alot of people had already gone and all the chav idiots in the Kingswood corner were there chanting swindon till i die and loyal supporters.

Where were they after the game eh? no where to be fucking seen.

Some guy had a go at me for Protesting saying "well the board aren't going to sell for nothing" I thought crawl back into your hole....

Tbf though protesting at this stage wasn't going to change anything. That's why i didn't bother. Fair play to those that did though.

so abusing fellow fans who turned up to watch their team is excusable?
protest is a right to take part in or not.doesn't make a fan better than another.and i was their post cheltenham and post tranmere.and would have done today if it wasn't due to HAVING to go

I thought it was awful, our own fans abusing each other! If you want to protest fair enough and if you don't think i think fair enough, i don't like this view that people who aren't joining in the protests are completly oblivious to what is going on in the boardroom. Everyone is entitled to express their feelings how they want, but it doesn't mean that we all have to do it exactly the same in a form of protest.

i'd say almost everybody there today cares or why would they attend games?
people shouldn't have to explain why they do or dont protest!
all those pricks did today was isolate people.i aint seen either of em before but fucking hope to again.i doubt they were the only ones giving it out too

WESTERN DAILY PRESS - Almost 1,000 fed-up Swindon supporters protested long and loud after the game calling for boardroom changes and for the proposed takeover of the club to be pushed through as soon as possible.

There is no excuse for any Town fan abusing another Town fan, even if they dont agree with the way they feel, totally out of order.

That's fucking bang out of order arriba. Hope the kids weren't upset by it

Has aribba been banned?

wHAT THE FUCK?

voluntarily unsubscribed i believe.

he asked for his account to be deleted.

why?

fuck knows, i assume he has his reasons and if he can't read what's being said it stops him from responding.

edit: didn't phrase that very well. i don't know him very well but i know he has a tendency to post before he thinks, if he can't access the forums he can't say anything he'd regret. i'm sure he'll be back soon and he'll be as welcome as ever.

:(

he'll come back. they always do

I miss him :cry:

What about me? I like being missed. I didn't mean that stuff about killing yourself.

My last post on thisis was my 1000th post, not for footballing reasons mind you. I just got sick of the tossers that where there.

I liked Arriba  :(

Drama queen, though obviously getting grief when you have kids in tow i out of order

Talk Talk still hasn't yet....

I didn't go today due to work commitments with xmas post and to be honest, i'm glad I didn't.

Losing 3-0 at home is one thing but being abused by our own fans is another.

I won't be at the Hartlepool game either due to work, I'm enjoying the time away.

You stink shorty 8)

I'm tired  :(

No excuse

:D  I rememeber that.

i think arriba is a cunt and he should have forced his kids to storm the boardroom.

A couple of things:

Protest - I went to see what was going on but had to drive to London straight after the game so couldn't stay long.  People do have reasons for not standing outside all night shouting at people.  

"Fan apathy" - I just think some people will always stick their heads in the sand, whatever club you look at.  And the people who do demonstrate and make their feelings heard eventually have the fight drained out of them.  It gets to the stage where you feel it just isn't going to make a difference anyway so why waste your energy, time and money - especially this close to Christmas - on getting angry?  

Going to the game yesterday was my worst experience at the CG since Franchise when we got relegated.  In fact, it was even worse as things are so much more serious.  

I'd like to say I'd keep going until the bitter end, but paying £15 a pop to stand and feel like crap for 90 minutes, get angry about the board and come home and feel depressed for the rest of the evening just isn't worth it for me.  I've just bought a house and things are tight so spending money on things I don't enjoy has to stop.

I didn't go yesterday as Im not going now till takeover is sorted but sounds like emotions were definitely running high.

I think its a disgrace town fans abusing each other for not protesting.  Although I would have protested myself I certainly wouldnt expect everyone to have the same view, nor make a child stand there in the freezing cold amidst an array of bad language.

What a fractured fan base we have.  Next week, hopefully, the rebuilding job starts.

I think I've only been once since Leeds, I just can't be bothered with it. I get too wound up- our team is shit, the management duo are shit, the board are robbing cunts and half our fans are morons too.

  Same as Lady....I think its a disgace that some fans actually went.

  I was surprised that it really was quite easy.....first home game I've missed since Parkin's debut.

  I thought  as 3:00 approached I'd crack.....but a combo of things to do, monster hangover,  one of my sons coming around for a heart to heart, made it ever so easy.

  Even with a new set up....I think we're in a relegation battle.

If i miss a game im usually pissed off but yesterday when 3pm came along i was surprisingly not bothered at missing it at all.

So if nobody from here were the one's abusing Arriba and his kid then why the fuck has he asked for his account to be deleted?

Because he's a bit mental.

Ahhh that could be it.  8)

I found it remarkably easy not to go either.  Didnt even bother with the radio as that fed up with it all.  Horrible how this situation has this effect on people though as I'm pretty sure theres loads more who are also fed up and had enough.

Arriba seemed like an alright bloke. I certainly wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.

Has anyone seen 'Give Us An S' in recent times or know him? He seems to have disappeared too.

saw him on friday briefly.

undoubtedly so, but if you consider the estimates of people protesting were between 700-1,000, did the other 4,500-5,000 people really have better things to do? there are too many people who don't realise the graveness of the situation and i'm not sure what more can be done to inform them.



not neccesarily so, as a club we have a very solid fanbase of hardcore fans - the problem is that despite this, a lot of these same hardcore fans either don't do anything or criticise others for not doing enough.

as soon as i saw the red cards being held up at kick-off yesterday, the life drained out of me. i'm not sure what i was expecting but it was such a disappointment. i protested after the game but i felt the whole time that it was an exercise in futility.

i've got protest fatigue. i won't give up but i can understand why others would but it upsets me when i see fans criticising each other for not doing enough, doing too much, not protesting, not being militant enough and so on and so forth.

Give us an S has had a few things lately (I hope he dont mind saying that)

Hes fine though saw him on Friday and at game.

Ive kind of given up on this team of late

On the flip side we were abused for protesting

Im all for a bit of bias and a bit of front when we are talking to other fans, but on here we might as well take a look ourselves with some honesty.

I was hoping that we would come out of this vowing that we wouldnt allow this to happen to the club again. But the majority of town fans are just too boring and too apathetic to have that sort of mentality. Has to be said some town fans (a minority) are just downright weird and inbred the way they have backed the board until the brink of extinction.

However it is out of order to be slagging off blokes with kids. Unfortunately, this is another indication of failure and desperation on some supporters part that we havnt seen the reaction and passion from Town supporters that we would have liked.

On the other hand, the club has been run as a private concern since Wills took over (fans frequently told their views arent wanted) and I can fully understand why some people view it as someone elses problem. Most out of touch club (with the people of its own town) in the football league I rekon.

Fingers crossed next week is a new dawn.

I think most fans aren't apathetic, they just don't see how protests do anything

Yeah, I've chatted to a few people who say they agree with the sentiment but just don't think it will make any difference. I'm generally of the opinion that I might as well try; but I do understand where they're coming from.

and very few with kids/ old people are gonna turn up in the cold when there might be perceived trouble. that probably takes out 1-2000.

I used to be apathetic, now I just can't be bothered.

I used to be peripatetic but now i can't be arsed.

pro :x testing to get rid of your frustration is about all it will achive.theres 100s of thousands of £ at stake what do you think the owners think "oh look some noisey fans outside telling us to go ,fuck the money it grows on trees and they would do the same if they were in our in our shoes so we give in"dont pick on fans who have just spent hard earnt cash getting froze trying to support players who are as fucked off as them.

well put JR.

If Diamandis continues to be an apparent stumbling block, then protesting on large scale could give Wills a nudge in the right direction.

Of course this is assuming the numbers and organisation is there.

anything that makes their decisions to fuck the club over harder has an effect, however small.

and can you use more punctuation please, i'm tired and that was confusing, thanks.

sorry haven,t been to school since 1980

To be fair, we were dealing with a couple of bar room bruisers (Diamandis and Holt) in financial terms. 9 out of 10 directors would have done the right thing and abandoned ship in June.

But these people have frequently acted in an illegal fashion to stay in control.

Like I said, we were dealing with people who acted in a way that was immoral, disgusting and ruthless. Most directors wouldnt have been prepared to sully their reputations like that in public. But we got Diamamond Mike because we ruined ourselves at the back end of the 1990's.

Still keeping fingers crossed. Hopefully not long to go now.

i tend to think 9 out of ten directors are bar room bruisers and none would walk where money was involved.