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Can we please have a blanket boycott of any pub which agrees to host away fans exclusively for matches at the CG. Why not mix?

Seriously? Letting pubs have Swindon/Oxford together just wouldn't happen anymore.

Will the old bill keep the pox out of The Merlin?

Couldn't tell you, have only ever been in their for about 10 minutes.

The merlin is oxford fans only.

You serious Dean?,joke of a pub.

that pub became a joke years ago.

100 Percent serious.

Oh well,can understand it in a way because of buisness,lets hope they have full property insurance!

Surely the Bulldog would make more sense, Pox would think it was a high quality boozer.

I like drinking in there. The landlord's a bit of a knobber though.

Queens Tap,The Falcon,The Rolleston and onto the CountyHotel before kick off for this Saturdays curtain raiser for me.

Be interesting to see what time the cgh and the tap and barrel open for the oxford game, early as possible hopefully.

Send them to the Cricketers. close to the station and plenty of back door action to keep the boys happy.

They can also go to The Mail Coach if they want to go into the town centre. You have to enter through the rear at that pub, apparently...

You have to be fucking joking ???


They're giving the Merlin to Oxford ?

i wouldn't be surprised if they dont get a pub at all. Police may well order all pubs to remain shut until midday also

Merlin is opening at 9am for oxford fans.

kinda defeats the object of an early kick off then.

Oh dear. If thats the case then they deserve the pub to be trashed.

 :D :D

Liquid picnic on the boundary rope then.

Not any more, it hasn't been a gay pub for a while.
I went in there a few months ago while on a crawl.
T'is a bit of a shithole though, if you parden the expression.

I'll probably frequent the Tap And Barrel before the Crewe game.

Fuck it, lets go out Saturday night and just not go home  :pint:

What a pisstake that the yellow bellys have got the merlin.

Turncoats!

I have a feeling DRS may well be on a wind up :)

I used to drink in there many, many moons ago when it had a good metal jukebox. I've not dared venture in there since.

 :hmmm: :hmmm:

Spoke to the landlord saturday and his words were 'Police have asked us to be an away pub only'.

I normally park at the Merlin.

I still don't believe you DRS.

This has to be a wind up.

Fucking ring them then.

So not only are the pox getting a brand new bar In the stadium (bar 71) but they also get the merlin? This has to be some Sort of sick joke!!! Can't imagine we will be getting the same of treatment for the away game.... :hmmm:

The club would be stupid to open bar 71 that day.

And theres no pubs within a five mile radius of the kassam for away fans anyway

One of the key points argued when talk of moving out of Town is considered, is loss to the local economy, it's good that plenty of O*ford fans are coming...Town centre needs the money.

O*ford's ground is stuck out in the arse end of nowhere, precisely because the city doesn't want it in the centre.

Crewe fan in peace here. Me and me mate are getting into Swindon about midday and were wondering where the best pub to drink at that will: allow away fans wearing colours, has sky sports, has decent beer? any suggestions?

The previously mentioned Merlin will be fine.

Usually allows anyone in, will have sky sports on and the usual selection of beers.

In peace? Goddamnit, at least come back and moan about the ticket prices.

:)

So the usual became a not possible for the Oxford match - that is a joke - why should Oxford have any pub at all? They have their own bar in the ground!!

How can the police have the power to decide something like that anyway? Surely the landlord has the final say?

The Merlin used to be called 'The Oxford' after all. Never Been a fan. Tap and Barrell for me, but I can't see them opening it on the morning of the derby.

Its not.

The Merlin has technically always been an away fans pub.  The only reason this hasn't really been monitored to date is that we have few fixtures as high profile as Oxford.

It used to be a Morrell's pub, hence the 'Oxford'.  I understand why people go there, given how close it is to the ground.  But there are much better pubs if you're prepared to walk a little further.

I know a girl who works in the Merlin. They have been asked by the police to be an Oxford pub for the day.

I say we get there at 10am, wait for it to open and stage a 'sit in'  :pint:

Apparently they are, I asked on Saturday - but it will be the 'regulars knock on the side door' set up.

Millwall/Green Man stylee.

So, would I be foolish to park at the Merlin if it's full of Pox ?

Looks like a pint in the County and then off to the Legends lounge.

park in gorse hill. plenty of space

Sounds about right. Might do the same so long as I don't end up queuing outside the LL!

What time does the LL open ?

10 am ??

Please do

Dont know why some are getting annoyed about the merlin being Oxford only? Let's be honest it's going to be full of them either way so why would you want to drink there anyway? I wasn't planning on it. It'll have to be the CGH or the Legends with possibly a cheeky few in Town beforehand.

Drinking before 12 on a sunday?! How uncouth

So you think it's ok to give them a pub where alot of Town fans drink ??

They won't give us fuck all at their place.

The Merlin has always been an away pub Ralph. I think a few have already pointed that out. Sure they let home fans in but how often do you drink there when the likes of Leeds, Rovers or Saints are in Town? It's so packed and annoying I never bother. It would be a disaster to have both sets of fans for this game drinking in there. Just my opinion though. It's common sense the way I see it. We have the CGH they have The Merlin. Simple.

the merlins shit anyway

I quite like it when it's quiet. Like I say though for the big games I prefer to steer clear.

Bad move by the Landlord, Pox fans will trash it (and then claim 400 Town fans were in there at the same time).

Yep exactly.

I hope the staff realise what they're in for.

The previous landlords sold out that pub,shitting on previous loyal customers. Fuck em!!

No, they'll all claim they were in the Town End like they have been every year we've played them after a few pints in the CGH

Then doctors on tuesday after 36 hours of relentless wanking.

But they've got fuck all anyway!!

I say we give them the Legends Lounge so Ralphy will get even more upset.

Apart from Ralphy, who ACTUALLY drinks in the Legends Lounge?

The big question is......where will they be drowning their sorrows?  :sherlock:

Judging by the queues at the bar and queues to get in, quite alot of people.

The Oxford fans have got to go somewhere and I have heard that the town centre pubs will be shut (not confirmed though).  The Merlin would be the logical place.

On Saturday I also heard the Tap and Barrel is open from 10.  Well, when I say 'open', the doors will be locked and they'll be letting in regulars/friends of regulars.

The CGH is open from 10 also, obviously only for Town supporters.  Not sure whether the garden will be open though and if it's gonna be as hot as this, the CGH is the last place you'd want to be locked inside.  It's like a sauna.

Oh yeah and to the Crewe fan, you'll be fine pretty much wherever you drink as Swindon have no beef with Crewe.  Possibly a good idea to avoid the County Ground Hotel but other than that there are loads of the pubs in the town centre which is only a 10/15 minute walk from the CG.

Just a thought re the Oxford game but as its a Sunday, won't the Merlin open at 12 instead of 11?  With kick off being 1 its surely not that big a deal?

Why would places open at 10? I thought the whole point of moving it to a Sunday was to stop people drinking so much? Then the just go and open up 3 hours before kick off anyway?!?!? I don't disbelieve you  it just sounds crazy.

like those 4 Brizzle Shitty fans did a few years ago. followed by bricks through the windows.

Speak for yourself mate....some of us recall coming under attack from a hail of railway track ballast at Gresty Road in the late 60's....LMS scum   >:(

So we've never taken the Town End??? Know yor facts before posting comments please.
I hope nowhere gets trashed, I'm going to hopefully watch a long overdue win against you and a good sing song, that said though if the SAS starts their silly little games they've been promising I can see something getting trashed

You havent though have you

Cheers mate. Yeah seen on an away fan guide that the CGH doesn't usually let away fans in, so Dont think we'll risk it. Merlin had been mentioned and looks the likely destination at the moment. any stand out ones in the town centre that do good food and have sky by any chance?

No we haven't have we? ::)

Not during a game though, i heard the time you "took" the townend was an hour or so before kick off, when hardly anyone was in there anyway

Do you or any of your mates have a drum?

I hate it when the travel club gets punchy. Explain yourself Sal.

I took the kassam the other week. It was about half 6 on a thursday, and nobody else was around, but that doesn't matter. No Pox showed up at all. All running scared I bet

Does it need explaining then brains? Or have they not promised us a repeat of Banbury?

I've actually taken a piss on the Kassam, it was around 7pm on a Wednesday evening a couple summers ago.

Archie's just been whooshed.

I took his house once, by the way.  But then his Mum told me off and I had to leave.

brilliantly so

You heard? I heard Jennifer Aniston wants to fuck me...doesn't make it true does it?

They have. Coach departs CG at 12pm, £5 for members, £4 for non-members. HTH.

a coupla young lads I dont know have one and might be there. however they are shit and its quite embarrasing. 10 out of 10 for effort but their drumming skills are shocking. why do you ask?

I'm surprised she didn't try it on...fucking slut that she is.....oh dear I've just been whooshed again ::)

You're trying too hard mate and just embarrassing yourself....probably better to stick to your own forum.

No I think I shall stick around, you know just to keep embarrassing myself.

 i can tolerate the odd poxford fan but this is getting stupid.

Can anybody provide evidence of our fans 'giving it the biggun' on their forums? I'm not saying there hasn't been, but i've not seen any. Not looked too hard mind.

How do you know which one isn't the "odd" one?

I can tolerate all Sw*nd*n fans, they are of no threat.
A certain song about Martin Aldridge was put on our forum the other day! Who's giving it the 'biggun' anyway?

well you just described swindon fans as 'no threat'...

sounds like you're up for something to happen to me

The dick waving stuff between the knuckle dragging fans of our clubs, about who took where and who ran who, doesn't really impress on here Archie.

Simply pointing out it's isn't a claim it is indeed fact, it doesn't impress me, but it is indeed fact.
They are no threat to me, I don't go to football for trouble so why should they be?

yawn.

Exactly yawn. We could argue forever more but your views won't change and neither will mine.

Who is arguing?

I think you'll find that the vast majority of the people that post on this forum come here to read about football and you keep blabbering on like a half wit about taking the town end?

Who really cares?

Can we please have Eric back? At least he was relatively entertaining, you are just mildly annoying.

There are a number of facts in this world Archie my son, a number of them relating to our record against your team.

As Bob has rightly said we like to talk football on this football forum, but then i doubt you have much to add on that score do you?

Is Adam Chapman going to be out of the nick in time to play us?

Run run run run Archie

By posting continous crap on here archie you are just proving your insecurities. There is acting childish and being childish, which one are you ?

I predict Archie will not be drinking in any pubs judging by his posts. I reckon he's about 13, then again he's living with his parents so he could be 50  :sherlock:

Who is this Archie chief? Some form of cyber warriors

INTERNETZ HOOLIGANISMZ

I hope this archie character is actually a fully grown man called Joey....

I also like, how who ran who and who took what is fact - what possible proof could their be for such events?

Well if he is still living at home with his parents it probably is Joey

When i was younger i used to go to the adventure playground during the summer holidays and we would make boats from wood and kytes for special people who had learning difficulties and were basically disowned by parents.

It's a shame to think that archie won't be getting things like this any more made for him due to the adventure playground shutting down.

I think Archie's adventure playground is his brothers arse.

Archie, I'm going to give you a Chelsea smile you pug faced little cunt.

(Hope that will scare him off;   seriously though I will)

 :smugfu:

He was already stupid judging by the last few pages.

Swindon fans on our forum seem to fall into three categories.

1. The fairly decent ones who engage in witty repartee, punctured by factual exchanges and occasional tribalism (your very own Benzel and DiCanio's Meatballs being examples);

2. A very few who are a disgrace to STFC and the British educational system at large (eg Fantasy-something-or-other, who published an obscene rhyme about the departed Martin Alkdrige);

3. The remainder who are, frankly, plain boring (stand up BigKev, who punctuates every post with "forever in our shadow", and various juvenile keyboard warriors). This is the most annoying group by far. Our administrator has decent values and will only ban the likes of Fantasy, leaving the bores to continue peddling their tedium.

Good luck against Crewe (and I mean that, let's hope we both have a 100% record to defend on the 21st).

That pretty much sums up every football forum Eric, as proved by your very own "ArchieK".

And I hope, like you, that we both go into the game on a 100% record so it adds even more spice to what is going to be a Phall of a spicey encounter!

Good news! We both still have a chance of a 100% record to defend on 21st.

:)

Like it.  Here's hoping we both still have 100% records intact after the game as well.

 :D

Wouldnt say he's a keyboard warrior, just a fan who pointing out how shit youve been over the years. And why not.

Does anyone know is Oxford have been allocated The Merlin for the game on the 21st? I swear i've heard this somewhere.

Did you hear it in the "Oxford allocated The Merlin" thread?

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/131351-futurama-fry-not-sure-if-x

I detect sarcasm. Well played :D

Thank you all for your input. We have got an Adver front page out of it today.

I intend to boycott pubs (in Swindon and elsewhere) which agree to be exclusively for away fans. I remember going in the Merlin once and only then realising it had been given to Leeds. Leeds fans had been told but not Town fans. Not on.

It was the same with charlton in the playoffs, was a good thing they fucked up the pool tables for the landlprd to shell out for

The £30 I would spend in the Merlin tonight and the £50 I would spend in the Merlin on Sat night are going to other pubs unless the landlord changes his decision to open at 9am on Sunday as a 'designated away pub'.

I assume the "designated away pub" was a police decision?

Opening at 9am was presumably a financial one though. Police must have been happy to have 'em all rounded up in one place. Though if I was an Oxford knuckle dragger looking to kick off I'm not sure the Merlin would be on my list for that very reason.

Shame PaulD left the board, always had some good stuff to say....gets me thinking about BR as well...whatever happened to him?

Is Lidl open yet? Does it sell booze?

I understand your resentment towards the idea, but I'm sure the landlord of the Merlin would rather open the pub and make several thousand pounds from the mass travelling army of the pox then worry about losing your £80 over the next 2 nights.

For the record I called The Sir Daniels Arms earlier who informed me they would def be open this Sunday from 9am as well as the other 2 Wetherspoons in town centre. However, they also said they themselves will not know until 8am that morning if they are designated as a 'home' pub or an 'away' pub and that it is a police decision, not theirs.

that makes sense, letting both sets of supporters turn up to see if its  a home or away pub :no:

A good turnout at 9am and they'll be in no doubt.

Down the Sire Dan for opening time.  Fuck the scum, I go in that pub before every home game.