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http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1718458,00.html


ACE!

Great News! Well done Ralphy first to break this on the TEF.

Welcome to STFC Jonathan,i know you're best mates with David Lucas.

FUCK ME!!! WHAT A BRILLIANT SIGNING!!!! Never thought in a million years we would get him!!!!!!!!!

Danny Wilson said 'Quality not quantity'.

Fuck me, never thought he would ever sign for us!

Top stuff!

their sales pitch cant be half bad

nice! who'd be the best guy to play alongside him then?

Bet he's crap.

But he's not ginger.

Please please please don't be like Gareth Whalley.......impressive signing though.

Timlin.

cracking signing

Ha, we nicked a player off Leeds :)

Surprised and delighted we got him.

Right, a couple of strikers, one on a season long loan and the other a medium size investment (Ruben Reid?) and a left back and we're almost there! Douglas is a quality signing for this club and shows how far come off the pitch in 18 months and how much DW has improved the club since he has been here!

must have one hell of a sales pitch to pull this off, He was linked with Championship sides. Never in a million years expected us "a poxy little club like swindon" (as a leeds fan told me) to sign Douglas. Get a couple strikers in and it could be an interesting season now....

agreed. are you coming to sit with us with your season ticket, now that cunt leggett hasn't renewed there's space!!

No you frighten me a little.

Great Signing.  Good to see the adver are on the ball and haven't noticed yet!

you cunt!

hehe leeds fans arent happy with little old swindon

http://www.waccoe.com/index.php?showtopic=153152

Sounds good to me. Even if some of them are a little behind the times on our financial situation!

Yes being the skint club we are, in and out of financial trouble blah blah blah, muppets! :D

Wow... Impressive signing! I'm not really sure how this has happened!

Excellent signing, really starting to show ambition.  I cant wait for the season to start now!

Great news, I've just been reading all about it on the Adver site..... the comment posters arent too happy though... "we're going down unless we get in 2 strikers" apparently...

Someone please register and stir those dirty, scummy bastard Leeds fans up about how we're a rich club these days and look to poor clubs like themselves to poach players off :D

Suprised and happy in equal measure. How long have we signed him for

Well chuffed with that. Can't wait for the start of the season.

Just need at least one striker to make me hit the roof with excitment.

only today, hes off to huddersfield later.

seriously though, thats a top quality signing. just need a couple of strikers and a full back now :D

Is that too difficult to do yourself Ralphus?

yeah, the lazy fucker :)

Hahaha, I see they've already checked this thread on that forum and posted a warning about a "Swindon Invasion".

I already registered but they have to approve me... someone better go over and warn them not too!

Hehe, the Leeds fans do make me chuckle!  They may have massive crowds compared to us, but they really are behind the times on the financial front.

We are not skint you muppets, we have far more money than you, we just don't piss it away willy nilly on wages for names that will get you er.......... in the same league as us!  :D

Great signing!  Exactly the pedigree of player we should be trying to sign if we want to start heading in a direction to make a step up!

Well done DW and AF!

The bit i like on the forum is where they say he is happy to just sit in fron of the defence and tidy up.Fuck me we have needed a player like that for years

I'd tell them not to worry - Ralphy's a postman so he'll drop half the messages on the way over there, deliver most of the rest to the wrong board and those that do get through will be days late :)

Fantastic signing - major coup. Let's hope they've got a similar card up their sleeves for a striker

Well thats out of the blue really, great signing. Interestingly Leeds fans normally slag off people who leave, but most are dissapointed which is a realy positive sign.

I have just heard that Douglas is the new Franck Ribery!

The bit I like is that photo of Cheryl Cole, she's unbelieveable

Any player who leaves leeds is "shit", they said the same when Kewell, Ferdinand, bridges (although true), Alan Smith etc... anyone who doesn't play for "we are the biggest club in the world" Leeds is shit. Just received this email from a leeds fan...

Hey Gaz,
 
I read your links with interest. We've lost two players who are only 27 but have loads of experience in Douglas and Frazer Richardson and both have joined League 1 clubs who aren't even as good as Leeds, let alone to the Championship where I expected them to go. Lucas is no big loss, useless.
 
In addition we've got two guys in on Bosmans who are 30 and 32 years old as the only signings so far. Plus, the papers are starting to crank up the Delph and Beckford links. Even Leeds official site said we've turned down two concrete bids for Delph ( believed to be Villa and Fulham, maybe Everton ). If we are going to sell them, make it soon so we can spend and bed the new players in.

 :)


Ha Ha Leeds muppets ! Touched a nerve have we ?

Me too, I think Ribery could do a job for us !

I wasn't confident about quality of strikers coming in, but the best thing about douglas is that it will show intent and should aid other signings. Christ i wish i was going to Austria ;)

Wow,what some news to come home to,with a signing of 2 strikers and another full back,dare we dream of the play offs.

Hey all, Leeds fan here, and yes, from WACCOE.   :bye: (That's not me saying bye, I just thought i'd wave "hello" :) ).

Anyway, I jsut wanted to come and say how this is a good signing for you guys. Obviously in the latter stages of our season Douglas was falling down the "midfield" pecking order, after having to play at right back for a significant spell. He wasn't really going to get a look in under Grayson again after Howson, Kilkenny and Delph started performing consistently, and that's a shame. In certain games we missed the strength that he offers, as well as his more defensive attributes.

I just thought i'd give a bit of information, from my perspective, on the lad. As you all know, he's a more defensive minded midfielder, 27 years of age, and experienced at a higher level of football. There is no doubting his talents are there, he's shown them at this level for us, and in certain cases in the league above, during our playoff-final season in 2006/07. However, his mental ability can lack sometimes, and sometimes bigger occasions can make him easily frustrated. This was recognised in the playoffs when he'd shown signs of giving up against Carlisle, and again at Wembley. He's also made mistakes and eventually got sent off in heated derbies.

However, said all that, he's performed in some of these higher profile games, captaining Leeds to a 4-0 victory over local rivals Huddersfield, and scoring in that game. Should his ability to keep calm in higher profile games be improved, you've got a player able to match any occasion in this league.

To be honest, it's a shame that Douglas' own wage valuation was not the same as ours, as i'd have liked to have seen him sign on, although probably in a more squad-role position.

Anyway, good signing you have here. Good luck for the rest of the season. Oh, and shame about signing Lucas!  ???

P.S, is STC Gazza retarded or something?

Gotta say I am so chuffed with his signing, as stated earlier a new left back, a good striker and a striker on loan and away you go!

 :D  Good work Gazza!

maybe there will be more signings today russ :)

No but his good mate STFC_Gazza is quite the window licker.

Now you're telling porkies. I'm supposed to believe you have friends?

That really would make my day.

Fair play. Been here 2 minutes and has Gazza sussed already

this is some signing... certainly heading in the right direction, and adds a bit of gravitas when talking to would-be striker signings. All good!

Sounds to me as if, at last, Leeds are learning to cut their cloth according to their means.  And given their recent history, you would have thought their fans would welcome the fact.

A decent signing by Danny.  I always enjoy my football more when there is a solid, creative midfield to watch...and we now have the makings of one.  I'm sure DW's now focussing on the striker situation, and would expect to hear something soon.

Couple of interesting inputs from leeds fans on 606

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A54247935

Chuffed with this signing.

With Doncaster interested i thought this would be dead in the water, but very good news and by all accounts the sort of midfield player we have been missing for some time.

Great signing. As soon as I saw the picture I realised he was the fella who really destroyed us at home last season. A real powerhouse who seemed to come out of numurous hard challenges with the ball. We were soft as shit last season and this gives us steel right in the middle of the team.

Nice one Danny.

Have to agree that we need strikers though. Peacock really is finnished up there. Either one good striker or two gambles in the hope that one pays off.

This is the signing that attracts other free transfers though. We can go to them and say weve signed a midfielder and a defender that are both too good for this league this summer.

Just to wind the Leeds fans up, start spreading the rumour about Beckford looking at houses in Wiltshire!

From that Leeds site:

Bitterness...

They have obviously told him he's gonna be captain! It's just such a bizarre carrer move, I saw Swindon twice last year and they were the biggest one man team I've ever clapped eyes on. Judging from the crowd you'd have thought they had 11 players called Coxy...''Come on Coxy'' ''Give it to Coxy'' ''Coxy's Free'' And now that one man has gone, I can't see anything other than a relegation dogfight.

...and then the reality check...

What is abundantly clear - if we didn't already know it - is that our club is shrinking in status before our very eyes. Soon we will have a very well-run mid-table third division side to enjoy at Premiership prices.

I think the first poster might be getting something of a shock next year when he comes to see our 'one man team'.  (Poor lamb.  Probably still thinks of Man U as his club's true rivals.)

You do realise none of us will bite at that, right?

Ah, go on, go on go on....  Not often in the last decade we have had much to gloat about.

They wont get as much for Beckford as what we got for Cox.

Because Beckford is a complete cunt character wise. Who bottles big games.

Any transfer kitty could come a bit late for them anyway.

I've just read that thread on WACCOE, they really are a deluded bunch. When will they realise that "massive Leeds" aren't so massive anymore.

It was an observation, Rosie, nothing more.  Bite if you want to.

You just did,Ardiles got a nibble.

 :fishing:

I'd disagree here, and not to make it sound like we're up our own arses or anything, but it's because we're Leeds. It's just unfortunately common sense that if someone plays well at a high profile club (Beckford), he'll be valued more than those playing well at lower-profile clubs (Cox). I'm not saying that to wind anyone up by the way, it is just the way it goes in football now. Media's play on it is huge.

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Samdy, you are right, we aren't a massive club anymore. We're a League One club.

^ ^ ^ I dunno if you lot count this one as a bite, I see it as quite tame myself.

Exactly they are an average League One side now. Ok they have a bigger fan base than most clubs in the division etc. but they are no different to Swindon Town or even Exeter City now, They are a League One club nothing more, nothing less, I wonder when their fans will finally realise that.

You're all right really.  I've seen/read a lot worse.

Apparently 24 seconds before you posted this.

If only the rest of your fan base would realise this.

Basing it on a people's opinions on WACCOE isn't really considering our whole fanbase, is it?

that made me laugh :) you seem ok for a northerner, i used to have a cat called rosie however she got killed by a heart attack, any chance you could give cunty bates one?

True, if you base your judgements on the ThisIs forum then I would be ashamed to be a Swindon fan.....which I am not before you say! its just one slice of fanbase.

What will happen at leeds if you dont go up rosie? Will there be a mass backlash? End of season i would have said you would finish top 3, now with takeovers and other traditional low spenders spending. (us, udders, Brighton etc) it's not looking as clear cut.

:clap: What an introduction, fantastic! I like you already (No offence, Gaz)

Well, every season it's said that "this has to be the season for Leeds United". Whilst this holds true again for us, i'd honestly state this is the last chance we have of getting out now. If not now, then it'll be a decade in this league. Our season is based on three men, in all honesty. Jermaine Beckford, Fabian Delph and Robert Snodgrass. Beckford is a goalscorer, and there's no doubting he'll get them, should he play. It looks, with his agent spouting off time and time again, more and more likely that he'll be a Leeds player for the season. However, it wasn't looking great at the start, so its got some way to go before it looks likely. Delph, we all know, he's a great talent. However, his second half of the season was poor, as he was stuck on left midfield. We need to keep him, or at least replace him well with some funds from him. The same applies to Beckford. Regarding Snoddy, he's simply a player we cannot lose. I'd say he's more irreplaceable than the other two. Goalscorers come ten a penny nowadays, and the money from Delph would make it easy to replace him. That's Beckford and Delph covered for. Snoddy though, is a player that has it all. Hes a rare talent, and i'd think he'd be hard to replace.

Basically, if these three stay, or are adequately replaced, we'll be fine... hopefully.

If this season doesn't work though, it may just be the last straw for so many fans. Not protests as such, but jsut not going to games anymore. It's Premiership prices for this kind of football, and we're yet to really see value for money. Any more sub-standard football, and it'll probably clear the stands.

Ignore the member who practically ejaculated his testicle at the news of this signing (Gazza, is it?) and you're an alright bunch :)

Im glad we didnt sign OTJ now

song for douglas to the tune of slades merry xmas

so here he is jonny douglas
ken bates is total scum

he's signed for a big club now
he has hair just like my mum.

Never seen Snodgrass, i'll keep an eye out for him this season, although if he's as good as you say, sounds like he might be picked off.

A terrace anthem is born.

How the media haven't highlighted him more is a joke, in all fairness. Although, a good one for us, at that. We don't really want to have teams sniffing around him. He should've been player of the year at our annual awards, but, well, you can't really not give it to a striker whos got 34 goals in 37 appearances.

But yeah, Snoddy's been a great find. Deceptive pace, chips in with goals (got eleven last season I believe) and sets up many goals (Again, just what I can recall, but I think 14 assists).

pah, you want to take the piss out of me already?, I already get that from Swindon fans who are acutely aware of my window licking spasticated tendencies.

On a serious note though, you complain about high ticket prices etc, we had them for years, its all part of being a lower league club and fighting to survive due the complete dominance and ignorance of the premier league raping and pillaging English football for personal gain. Leeds yes are a big club and if your fans complain and boycott the club due to ticket prices etc, perhaps it will again highlight the plight of lower league clubs who have to fight tooth and nail each season just to make it through the season.

To be fair, its more the promises that came with the prices. We were told Premiership prices, but with a Premiership standard. Obviously we didn't realise expect Premiership stars, but we expected something. We have done for years, and to be fair, we haven't been to unfair with our expectations. We've been promised a lot, only to be screwed over. The fact that we have paid in recent years more than the likes of Blackburn Rovers fans and Aston Villa fans is just a disgrace!

Anyway, this is a Swindon forum that's obviously excited at the news of a good signing, so i'll let you all be and enjoy the rest of your pre-season. Good luck for the upcoming season, I may be back when our teams soon face each other :)

Have silly prices for League One Football. The best way to vote is with your feet really as you say. Leeds charge silly prices because people will pay it. We had £23.00 for L1 football for a couple seasons (before that £21.00).

IF the crowds drop to say around 15-17K a match the board will think huh whats going on here? It makes more sense to say charge £19.00 and get 27K (£513.000 per game) than £25.00 with 16k gates (£400,000 per game), maybe a slight exaggeration but you get my drift. Fans who pay £19.00 for a ticket are more likely to buy food, programmes etc thus increasing profit despite ticket prices being less. Basic business one would think?

We are lucky we are run now by a decent board who have a bit of common sense and actually listen to the fans. Before we were run by a board who really didn’t have any clue about football and just struggled from crisis to crisis not caring if they alienated the fan base. Yes they probably genuinely did want success and the financial rewards that go with it, however didn’t have a clue. I did sympathise with the old board though. Our season ticket base I think was around about 2k 3 seasons ago now its around 4,700 I would say which is great considering we finished just off relegation last year.

In regards to Douglas, there are probably a few reasons why he came here, a) Lucas probably put in a good word, b) we have a well run club who are in no financial trouble c) a hell of a sales pitch. Only Douglas can say why he came here. For me it’s a cracking signing, A player who can lead. He has been captain at Leeds a team who has been there or there about so he must know a thing or 2 on how  to lead a team. With Douglas in midfield and Greer at the back our team should be more vocal and have a better idea at what they are doing this year. Yes we need a striker or 2 to get us over that final hurdle, should we get them, don’t be surprised if we are having a good go of it this season.

Good signing here. Wasn't expecting it tbh.

I'm going to give this one a 'meh'

Brightened my dreary day up no end.

Well done DW and all that were involved.

Isnt it nice to have something positive on here for a change  :D

Ever the optimist.

Who would you have signed DV? Perhaps we should have showed a bit of ambituon and signed Gareth Barry! I agree meh! FITTON OUT how dare he set his standards so low and sign one of the best free agents in L1!

Ribery is available if we stretch our budget just a little :D

meh

Not long home and had to get this confirmed...DRS confimed it for me so thanks,cant belive this one...hopefully will attract the attention of other quality players without a club.
Respect to the club on this one...ime impressed and very happy.

Huzzah! Well done Danny Wilson.

Lordy, I hope he does the business :)

yeah, I can't remember the last time we signed a 'big' player that is expected to do so much.... good times...

(well, apart from the time we signed laurie sanchez of course... ;))

Would Adie Williams, Paul Ince or Gareth Whalley count? I suppose they were all coming to the end of their careers though, the last one under 30 must have been...Cureton?

What are the Leeds forums saying? They rubbished the possibility of Douglas joining our beloved little club.

Good signing I feel.

Leeds are our feeder club.

They are all in disbelief that 'a small club like Swindon' can afford his wages and what a disgrace it is.

They also think Douglas lacks ambition by going to us.

I thought as much. Cheers Ralphy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/swindon_town/8143624.stm

Like this interview.................an easy decision!

He's gonna say that though isn't he. I can't see any player saying....

"Swindon is the biggest shit hole in the country and I can't understand how the fuck my career has disintegrated to such a degree that I've had to come here. I'm totally fucking devastated my life has reached such a low point and to be frank, I feel suicidal at the thought of being here for the next 12 months. The only upside is the shit load of cash they're giving me which means I can afford a big house in the country which I plan to lock myself up in so I don't have to deal with the inbred retards that live in the town."

Exactly, a general rule of thumb is to ignore everything players say when joining a club, it generally means jack shite. Im excited about this signing, but not to the extent some others appear to be. It is not this signing that will define our season. The squad building still has a long way to go. This is a very good step towards that, but we still aint there yet

Get a life Johny!...you had a bad week,this is the best signing weve made for a long time IMO..its a good interview ...people like yourself only seem happy when reading doom and gloom.

Not sure about a bad week, I have had a bad last 30 minutes on account of dropping my crackers on the floor - what am I going to eat my cheese with now?

I was only joking (and I thought the quote was pretty funny), to make the point that you can't believe everything a player says when he signs on and especially that he is never going to say anything bad and immediately alienate the fans.

You're right he's the best signing we've made in a long time (since Cox I'd say) and I'm over the moon about it. I reckon the squad is shaping up nicely and can't wait for the season to start as I reckon we'll be challenging for the title. But then I always think that so I wouldn't read too much in to it.

Fair play johny....enjoy your crackers...personaly i didnt think Cox was a great signing at the time..a good one but didnt think he would be as prolific as he did.

Going completely off topic, but from that page there was a link to this story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8144109.stm

It's basically saying how Steve Surry (golfer) has qualified for the open. He's pretty local, but he's one of those golfers that if he gets a break, he'll be world class in my opinion. You heard it here first!

Back on topic, having signed Douglas, can we not find any reasons yet to hate him before he kicks a ball please?

Well I'd heard he looks like a penguin and he looks nothing like a penguin. So perhaps that's a good starting point?

Does bath born count as local? Im fairly sure should he do any sort of success he'll jump aboard the bristol bandwagon.

And stop derailing the thread, can we get back to talking about mediocre league one midfielders that we have signed

Honestly, some people just don't bother reading posts properly do they????

I no longer have any crackers on account of dropping them on the floor. All I have now is cheese.

Cut some extra cheese and use this as crackers.  Cheese on cheese.  Lovely.  You are welcome.

Use a doorstop. Has the same nutritionous value as crackers, and tastes a damn site better aswell

Which cheese was it (assuming you ate it and didn't drop it or doorstop it), and was it your favourite cheese?

Try this for size (what Ralph said really)..

http://www.waccoe.com/index.php?showtopic=153152

I hate those fuckers..they have a serious superiority complex going on there. I so want us to do the double over them this season..according to them we shouldn't even be stepping on the same pitch as them..ass holes

You so want to do the double over us? Because had we been friendly and loving towards Swindon, you'd have happily accepted a point?  ???

Anyway, only back as a rumour is coming about on Alan Sheehan joining your lot now. I thought it'd be a little unusual to see three players make the swap from Leeds to Swindon, although you can never know in football. Are Swindon in need of a left back at all?

Yes we are Rosie.

Can I just ask, why do alot of your fans have this superiority complex? Some of the comments on your forums do make me laugh.

"How can a little club like Swindon afford him"

''He lacks ambition going to Swindon"

This one made me laugh...


and that shows how out of touch you are with the league you will still be in this time next year, excuse time is over, you follow a League 1 club which is now here solely on merit not some example set by the FL...

That link to the Leeds forum has provided me with invaluable entertainment over the last few days, well done to them for that!!

I want us to the double over every team of course but particularly Leeds. I hate this 'Big Club' attitude that Leeds fans have that they are way too good for L1 and we shouldn't really be brething the same air as them - it's not just Leeds in fairness. It's why I just love it when any 'Big Club' gets relegated, such as Newcastle. The league table does not lie and you're only as good as your league position.

As far as full backs go, yes we are very lacking in full backs having released (in my opinion) our first choice right and left backs this summer.

DRS posted this a few weeks back but I think it deserves another showing....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFw5a2_2xK4

Did you have a look in the general discussion part? There was a thread on teachers with some interesting attitudes on display! Thankfully it was only a minority though.

Leeds arent a big club anymore, he says after the last 5 pages have all been about Leeds!!!

As for Douglas, I dont know why he left Leeds but if he was actually as good as some of you seem to think he wouldnt have been let go by Leeds or signed for us. Dont get me wrong probably already our best midfield by some distance but L1 standard and nothing more.

Best signing....since....ermm....Gordon Greer imo!?

Do you ever get excited about anything?

Cake, probably.

i'm inclined to agree with DV on this. i'm happy he's signed as i don't think who we had prior to him were good enough to make the step from relegation flirting to hopefully getting to the top ten

No, then I never get dissapointed.

Thing is though DV, this is the first time we've signed a midfielder of L1 standard for a while...Easton I'd say was L2 standard...Nalis obviously had been a class act in his time, but the legs had gone.

I'd like to see a playmaker with the ability of Stefani Miglioranzi...who was by distance the best midfielder we've had this century.

I think you are being a bit harsh on Craig Easton. He was easily L1 standard under Sturrock and co.

Timlin has all the tools to be a very good midfielder at this level - I just dont think he's had the right partner next to him.

I still think we should re-sign Stefani Miglioranzi as he was actually fucking awesome.

The having the right player alongside him phrase annoys me. That is all

as if I fucking care...

"A lot"? Can I ask why you settle to think a few people on an internet forum with nothing better to do than mindlessly downgrade opposing teams classes "a lot" of opinions? Give me a break, your basing opinions of Leeds United on WACCOE, probably the most idiotic post i've seen in this thread. You've outplayed the likes of Gazza for stupidity here. Well done.

This is typically close to the "Leeds United are just a bunch of hooligans" because we have a known set of fans who've caused violence in the past. However, what is the percentage of Leeds fans that do this? Very small. I'd say miniscule. You'd get the same percentage for the amount of people who believe we're too good for this league and that we are too good to even know about the likes of Swindon. Don't let yourselves be fooled by a small minority who's opinions happen to be read. That is very naive.

I'm starting to like Rosie, I think we should adopt her!

Lets swap her for a ipod

After last weekend I thought I had lost my ipod. It was the second one I have owned the first being one I lost in Amsterdam. Then yesterday I found it and I was relieved.

True story.



Fucking hell I need to get out of work.

That story bought a tear to my eye.

Come on Rosie, we're not just basing opinions on 'a small minority who's opinions happen to be read' most of us have seen Swindon play Leeds on quite a few occasions now, are you naive enough to think we can't make our opinions based on more than one factor?

You can fuck off from our forum you dirty northern Leeds hoolie.

As a great man once said. The worst days of an optimist's are better than the best days of a pessimists. :)

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The optimist and the pessimist both end up the same at the end. The optimist has much more fun getting their

Got any strikers going? And I don't mean Beckford, he too much of a cock to play for Swindon.

Enoch Showumni ?

Enochs got a massive cock Enoch Enoch.He tucks it in his football sock Enoch Enoch. He shagged a girl and now she's dead he swings his cock around his head, Enoch Showumni swindons number 9

thats a funny song, only thing is i wouldnt want him here. big wages most likely, to similar to Billy P.

Geting 'their' what? Their coat?

commupance

Leeds fans make me laugh..............that is all.