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just had official text through...interesting one...

Stupid move if true

Now I'm beginning to get worried....

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2379041,00.html

Why? If he's not needed why not sell?

Crumbs.

How strange. Still need to bring in a couple of centre backs and now at least 3 strikers then.

Insanity...  Give the lad a chance ffs.  Proven scorer at League Two level, but obviously di Canio knows better.

Haha Mental.. Obviously didn't wanna stay in league 2

WTF - how stupid is proven at this level, he needed a chance to prove himself.. by my reckoning we need about 10 new players now and so far we have 2.. Not happy.

We don't know the facts. Might've wanted the move.

Probably the club(s) that want him can't afford him.

I je nes understand

Just plain wierd

very strange to lose a proven league 2 striker

WTF, that is all!

There should be a whole host of new signings immanently then I presume.

Exactly. L1 or L2. I know where I'd rather play.

Making way for Messi. ;-)

Not good enough

Messi has no L2 experience.

Leaves us needing an entirely new forward line, with Bodin to provide back up

Very very surprised.

What the actual Fuck?

Leaves Bodin as our only registered striker at the moment.

Baffling.

Guess the player must have initiated this move, but does leave us with zero players whose main position is striker.

However a complete overhaul of the front line might not be the worst thing, our forwards weren't exactly prolific last season.

Unless we sign 2-3 recognised forwards in the next few days I'm thoroughly unimpressed

End of the day he may have said he wants out but if no one offers what we spent then whats the point in selling? Loan him out if he scores then we get a better fee if he doesn't then fuck it.

The lad is a wycombe fan and used to be a season ticket holder,i really can't imagine this is just the clubs doing here

This is one of the strangest STFC deals ever.

Can only assume he wasn't committed to the cause but Wycombe couldn't afford to buy? OR Di Canio has threee shit hot strikers coming in.

yes yes, long way to go before the seasons starts, etc, etc. Still finding it a bit worrying right now.

Lunacy

Fucking Wycombe.

Now I'm starting to get worried. We have 1 week until the players are due back and our squad is about 10 strong at best.

Fucking pissed off.

Rumour has it he was told he wouldn't be part of Di Canio's plans next season

Perhaps PDC thinks we play in a 5-a-side league or something? Somebody should tell him PDQ.

Rumour rjack? From where?

In all honesty i didnt rate the lad. He scored goals at this level true and thats something not to be sniffed at. I guess if Paolo has watched the videos of the games from last year he hasn't seen enough to keep him.

I guess eye brows are always raised when you loan a player to a higher division club!

Strange one, but I can't imagine the loss or Benyon being fundamental to our success or failure this season. The squad is certainly wafer thin, but while we've still (apparently) got our key midfield 4, I'm not too bothered. The less players we have, the more there are to bring in. The more we bring in, the more potential points of excitement exist!

Born In Wycombe
Family in Wycombe
Wycombe fan and season ticket holder

Yep definatly all the clubs doing

That's useful so long as we don't want to try and keep goals out, or score them at the other end :)

Di Canio must have a few strikers/defenders lined up to allow this to happen. Surely?

The bloke who told me said it came from Benyon himself but i'm sure it'll all come out in the next few days

clearly we have players coming in who can fill these gaps otherwise all these players wouldn't be leaving.

but i do have a feeling the club is starting to be run how it was 5 years ago which is rather worrying

We're clearly not going to NOT sign any strikers having let all ours go*. The consensus at the end of the season seemed to be that the deadwood needed clearing out to make way for new signings. The fact that one has happened before the other should not be undue cause for concern. It's the 20th June, not 5th August.

(*Unless he's planning on playing a Roma-esque 4-6-0 with Ritchie in the Totti role? Only kidding.)

Spot on Barry, that's the way i'm feeling.

So...

Half a defence, a midfield with very little back-up and no strike force.

Going to have to be very, very busy in the transfer market this week because we're really going to need a good pre-season to get a "team" together.

Roll on the good news...

WTF is going on, we have a player that is proven at L2 level that we bought for a fee and then we go and loan him out for the season when we will be needing goal scorers, why not give him pre-season to prove his worth, strange, I think more detail is needed on this one

Its amusing me, PDC said he wanted the squad together for the start of preseason (we all know that never happens) but this maybe the smallest squad that ever come back to start it off with, what will those still here think!

A poll on how many join this week? officially only Devera so far so what do you reckon?

Quite.

May: Our squad is shit, we need a clear out. What are they doing?
July: Oh my god, they're having a clear out. What are they doing?

No idea why but I reckon we'll sign Clayton Donaldson very soon.

No sauces, just pure guesswork.

he'll play along side Phillips then surely ;)

Anyone seen on their website he says it has always been my ambition to play for wycombe.

Think most people are pleased the dead wood has gone but don't really think Benyon fitted that category, he was rarely given a chance and I think most were looking forward to seeing him lead the line in League 2 as he has a good record there.  To be honest I don't care if he was a Wycombe fan he was contracted to us so shouldn't of even been given the option of the move.  Strange transfer by the club, really hope we are going to see a flurry of arrivals soon as pre-season is fast approaching!

If we does well there then at the end of the loan then there will be the possibility of getting money for him or him coming back and doing the business for us.

Good Luck to him he is still a Swindon player

Now for 3 new forwards hopefully

PDC talked about having a system. Maybe he is planning on 1 up top and Benyon doesnt fit that role

Oh god I hope he hasn't been learning Paul Hart's tactics  :(

What the fuck! I hope these 7 new signings are first teamers as we don't even have 11 pros at the moment (okay, a slight exaggeration).

I'm not going to defend Hart as he was a complete tool.

One upfront is the preferred formation of most top teams at the moment. Either with two wingers or 3 attacking players behind him. Hart just played defenders everywhere!

Hope the fans don't think 1 up front is negative if that is what PDC does

sorry but this decision is ludicrous. Benyon scored goals for fun in league 2.

Will the last rat to leave the sinking ship please switch off the lights  :bye:

Tomorrow we will be reborn ( I hope)  :pint:

Yep 39 in 140 appearances wasn't it. Goals for fun

clearly he isn't good enough for PDC's squad which if that's the case the players coming in have to be better. i think our midfield is our benchmark. if all the new signings are of the same quality i'll be one happy fan

I think this is may be the club's thought process in accepting the offer after Benyon engineered the move. He cannot play up front on his own, so it's fair enough if he wasn't going to be in the plans or fit in the system.

Wednesday hopefully, when PdC returns with a coach load of players.

Think he's due back tomorrow

Thanks BR, I thought it was Wednesday.

It was just a hopeful guess by me !
I know sweet FA clinging to this rock in the Atlantic with 2,000 drunks  :D

Going to Chesterfield apparently.

The 3 strikers we needed has become 4.

Lets hope we sign a couple this week.

Yes, one can only assume Di Canio has two strikers lined up who he thinks are both better than Benyon. Let's just hope he's right, because on the face of it Benyon was one of the handful I would have bothered to try to hold on to.

Bit of an over-reaction going on regarding our forward line bearing in mind it's June 20th.

Do people no realise how significant July 1st is?

Would have been a good signing at our level.

I think what's slightly being overlook also, is that the wage cap in League 2 may be having a distorted effect on who we keep.

Biggest clear out since my tummy bug in France 84....

depends what you class as fun

Drinking heavily and playing with breasts.

That place is going to age you ten years mate..

My Leeds mate works out there and i didnt recognise the cunt when he came back for a holiday!!

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6995242,00.html

said he doesnt want to play in league 2. chesterfield look favourites

McGovern's gone now. It's almost an evacuation.

twitchy bum time....

 I had Benyon down on my very small to keep list, more because he'd only been here a while, and had a long contract, rather than he was any good.  Obviously he wanted out, so fair enough no point keeping players who don't want to play for you. Personally I'd have fired out Caddis and Ferry as well....

Are you for reel?

These Wycombe fans have no imagination.  His Wikipedia page really could do with another update.

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I think he's fishing Barry. Boom boom.

This departure is the one that has angered me the most

Not at all, I've consistently held the view that last season was so woeful, because of the poor quality and attitude of the players.....while absolving one or two from reponsiblity, I've said we should look to move on as many as possible.

That has happened....in the case of Ferry and Caddis, we should move them on, but plainly, the club would only do this if getting back the money spent. 

Despite having a similar view to Reg in so much that we should be getting rid of as much deadwood as possible.

Caddis and Ferry are probably the only 2 i'd want to keep.

Think this may have more to do with freeing up wages to ensure that we stay within the 60% wage cap- him going on loan as i doubt that Wycombewould have been able to afford the transfer fee. This is a bit of a worry in itself as if we are sticking to the rules rigidly and others are not (Creepy Crawley) then this puts them at an unfaior advantage.

Until the owner realises he's spent a shed load, still has no fans and is losing money hand over fist. Let them spend I say. It's unlikely to be without detriment.

Are you suggesting we should break the rules Bart?

I hope di Canio can get more out of these two, as they are obviously seen as investment players.  We can't really afford money down the drain.

Bit of a strange one. Clearly PDC wants his own squad from scratch. Whilst it's pleasing we're getting rid of the deadwood it's also worrying that with pre-season training just a week away we have barely got a squad. I'm sure there will be many signings to come. I do however want to know where this whole idea of PDC returning to England with a handful of players has come from though?

He's pretty close to being able to do just that.  Strange one, this.  I await to be impressed with the new signings.  The ones from Barnet and York don't exactly have me jumping for joy.

Pointless departure. Pointless signing in the end.

If he starts banging them in for Wycombe (which he won't) are we allowed to recall him?

Haven't read through the thread, so probably been said, but this is getting fucking ridiculous.  At least give the lad a few games. He's done well at this level before.  This is another completely unnecessary replacement now required imo. Somebody remind me who we've actually got up front, oh yes, Billy Bodin on his own!

If its on a season long loan then no, but Wycombe can send him back at any time.

Probably wanted out or was one of the dressing room splitters. Can't see why we would loan him out otherwise

Good news for me,not impressed with him anyway,always look likes hes carrying a sack of coal on his back and never seen him smile.
He was brought in a rush and was money badly spent.
Wish him well...........BUT BRING IN THE NEW BOYS!!

Could it be to do with fitness, maybe?

I'm not sure he was ever fully fit for us last season, and perhaps the type of injury he might have could mean that he is continually in and out of the team or not able to complete 90 mins and therefore disrupts continuity.

Straw-clutching and I would not be surprised if he played loads for Wycombe and scored a decent number of goals.

Adver twitter said he wanted lg 1 football so fuck him.

He signed a 2 and half year contract with us when we were rooted to the league 1 trap door, why if he wanted league 1 football ??

Jordan Pavett?

Kaid Mohamed signs for Cheltenham on a two year deal...is that old news?

I saw Kaid Mohammed playing for bath city against maidenhead a couple of years ago. Failed to control the ball once, and missed an open goal from inside the 6 yard box. Fair play to him for getting another league club, he seems to have done alright in the conference last year

Cos he thick as fuck evidently

i'm sure this lad is no real loss to us.
i'm also baffled at the ferry love in.he was fucking rubbish last season

He (Ferry) might have been good if he played a bit.

possibly if he had a decent run in the team. he didn't pull any trees up when he did play though. hopefully will be decent in league 2

To be fair to Ferry even last year when played sparingly he was apart from one game never awful was he. He also was one of the only ones who looked like he gave a fuck

stop talking like yoda you cunt

That made me actually laugh out loud.

Hahah i wish you still worked nights so i could post without worry.

Oh, angry DRS are you?

preferred it the way it was he did

Off the top of my head,

The two games Ferry started in the last part of the season, didn't he get motm?

Maybe Ferry should have put more effort in during training instead of fucking about on the sidelines? Seems strange neither Hart or Wilson chose to play him.

Just sayin'.

Maybe we should have played him more because he's good?

The only reason Ferry is on my keep list is because he didn't play enough last season to be part of that awful team.

Even if he did piss about at training (do you go and watch them train?) At least he didn't piss about on the pitch unlike Prutton!!!

You have a point, the post I made doesn't necessarily describe my feelings on the matter, but there has to be a reason he wasn't playing.

I don't watch them train, no, but despite Wilson obviously knowing his quality, Ferry didn't get a look in. Lack of fitness was often talked about in regards to Ferry throughout the season.

Then again maybe Wilson's tongue was simply too far up Prutton's arsehole for him to care.

For the record Ferry and Douglas without a doubt start as my midfield partnership next season assuming they're both still here and fit.

With regard to Ferry, whatever the reasons for him being out of the side for most of the year, I was impressed with his performances (and, crucially, effort) in those last two or three games when we were already down and had nothing to play for. Will have a big role to play next season.

If it was just Ferry i would agree but Wilson broke up alot of the team last season

Ha, me too!  Top work Arriba, miserable cunt you usually are!  ;)