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I am worried we have such a good board now? Can we protest? lets storm the boardroom against rovers, Paul D is in already!

Oh fuck it im off to Pompey

ManUre is the place to be with their green and yellow thing....a straight rip off of the orange campaign.

They have yet to get a blimp out yet...

Which was entirely our idea and wasn't stolen at all.

Fuck off with your Eastern European special pleading, or I'll say meerkats at you. The big difference with ours was that you really had to dislike the board to wear an orange hat because we all looked like twats wearing them. Whereas ManUre just look like Norwich on a day out. (Or stray St Johns ambulancepersons if you just see them slightly out of focus in the background of the League Cup final as I did the other day)

What ever happened to Jan Aage, Orange was his idea wasn't it? He vanished about the same time as Steve Irwin.

I think he discovered life outside of the internet.

Life outside the internet?

Someone suggested I should be offended by that remark.  So I am.  I vow to kill all meerkats I encounter on my way to Swindon this Saturday.

I saw janagge last week in the winners he looked very well. i miss him on here i think i loved him a little.

Simples...

Oh and Bushey's right btw. This board have consistently done pretty much everything right, on and off the pitch, bringing us financial stability off the pitch and success (and good football) on it. This flies in the face of Swindon's tradition and history of being a complete fucking basket case - we want our Swindon back, indeed!

It's got to the stage that those wishing to engage in our main historic interest of having a bloody good moan have been forced to fall back on complaining about the state of the chips at half time. Which, frankly, compared to the embarrassment of robbing ticket money off bloody Cheltenham forchrisssake, the horror that was Munto-in-a-sombrero or the didn't actually happen despite the new chairman who never was being paraded on the pitch for Sky, or just the sheer embarrassment that was Sandy Gray, is deeply unsatisfying and barely worth the effort. Much like the chips.

"Gloom Not Goals" will be our slogan, Reg will be our leader, we shall rally under the flag of misery and do some shouting behind the Arkells until things once again get much, much worse.

That's just rumours, surely?

I agree with Bushey, and pauld.

This board has come in and ripped out the stone cold, blackened heart of STFC without a single consideration for the displacement of so many fans' longstanding, soul-destroying pessimism. I remember a time when I used to be able to go the the County Ground and moan for ninety minutes, and I would be supported in my grumblings by all those around me. I remember a time when I could make predictions about finishing 7th in the league without it being considered a failure. Where is the camerdarie? Where is the common sense of despair? Where is my Town End bacon roll?

We want our Swindon back.

Thing I like about the current Board is that they are willing to admit when they make mistakes. Ticket pricing this season was something Watkins said they made an error on (yesterday's Adver). Under any Board you expect some fan discontent at certain decisions, but the people currently running the club are doing a cracking job and it's a relief to know that we have been stable and nowhere near to having to be so proactive.

If only we could get the emotive energy of those dark days back - but to channel it into something positive inside the ground. I don't know whether it was the 'protest era', the departure of Sturrock or the Maurice Malpas reign which has tarnished things, but I feel I should be far more excited about football than I am currently. Saying that I'm hugely looking forward to next season whether we go up or not and I think there's going to be a return of atmosphere in the ground. In fact it's already starting to surface.

I think ^ has lost the plot.

If things get much better I think you should check the quality of the tap water.

Have you ever been to East Anglia....makes the Forest of Dean look cosmopolitan.

:D

I still want to kick off, I might go around teh Arkells after Saturdays game, purely for a protest if the police ask :)

What with your new haircut?!

He'd have difficulty going without it.

Hahaha.  :soapy tit wank:

Have you seen his new haircut?!!

......and when Paul became Paula and my Wife accused me of having an affair as I was on the phone to you every fooking night trading information.

Happy Days or is it boring watching this football now. I miss the days of protest, glue and everything Greek.

YELLOWS.........sorry I mean reds.

:D My missus wasn't that impressed either. But you never consummated it, did you, bloody tease? :)

I had you down as Banbury, and quite clearly I was not having an affair with the entire town, even one person would have been stretching it a bit in my wifes eyes.

Not really. Just saying that the passion when the protest stuff was about was far greater than it is now.

Banbury the home of Paul Gadd and the infamous Gary Glitter.
As long as your ring tone was not "do you wanna be in my gang" I'm sure you would have got away with it.

Steady on, remember that the FOD is full of Egg chasers.

Having said that it's full of people with webbed feet up here,  and Arsenal or Chelsea fans, which is probably worse.

Not for me, nor the guys I go to the game with. I've thoroughly enjoyed this season - I set out on a Saturday (or Tuesday) genuinely looking forward to going to the game in a way I haven't for years. And I can open my paper/look at websites without that "Oh, Christ, what have they done now" feeling, just interested in enjoying the football. I do understand what you mean about the strength of feeling back then, and I know you're not looking to go back there. This season, I've had the passion/emotion/pride, but for the right reasons.

Sadly that hasn't been reflected in the atmosphere within the ground, although it is getting better.

a lot of sexual tension in this threaf

That's because we (used to, fingers crossed) do moaning better. It was our forte, mainly due to lack of practice at the positive end. I'm sure it's something to do with the tap water.

Ha, look at Ash pretending he's still allowed to go to football.

Atmosphere will be rocking today.....

:D

Just for Si:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/8552137.stm

Shame I'm not in Cardiff anymore Paul!

Home is where the heart is.

Didn't realise you were from Wales too

After yesterday I am quite glad I am not allowed to go, that was shit.  Can we now start a protest?

Don't come back you jinx

I heard the players were distracted by an alarmingly extravagant bouffant in the crowd

ha ha