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What a difference in 12 x months ....!!!

A year ago we (STFC) were a total cot case..just waiting to be relagated.

A manager (D.Wilson) without any ideas or passion. Players (Mostly the ex Leeds lot) who were fucking lost before the start of a game. A chairman who was out of his depth. In fact I suggest that the club had no leadership what so ever.

I hated just reading the results. Did it stop me supporting my football team.....very nearly yes.

12 x months later....Total transformation.

Am I dreaming. Is this really STFC 

This can't be just Paolo Di Canio or is it ?

And I bet there is no debate about what colours the Town will wear on the 25th either.


Come on you reds and long may PDC stay     :)

Nothing like supporting your team through thick and thin! Moron!!!!

You can count me out of that bit.

Yeah but i bet each and every one of us said fuck the useless bastards, I'm not wasting my money next week, a few times at least? I did.

Win, lose or draw I will NEVER give up on supporting Swindon not even close to ever giving up.

This.

But thats just not going to games, thats not stopping supporting them. I left several game slast season thinking what a bunch of useless wankers but I know most of those wankers would leave at the end of the season and be replaced, 99% of the time the managers can see who is "swinging the lead".

In a parallel universe we stayed up by the skin of our teeth last season, 'saviour' Paul Hart got the manager's job full time and last season is happening all over again.

Thank fuck I live in this universe.

The thought of just staying up and having Paul Hart full time makes my teeth itch.

Shudder.

No

Didn't miss a Game Home or Away, League, FA Cup, League Cup and JPT

Support My team though Good Times and Bad

fucking hell, where did you come from? :-)

Why? Paul Hart did a decent job I thought.

Obviously, you're a special case gazza!

You're paid too much, or not married, or both  ;)

I thought he had a bird and stopped going to games?

It's not the same one

Ha Tans you can fuck off.You missed last week to babysit a fucking dog.

Deano, don't know what the matter is with that Chipping Norton lot, as you say Tans came up with a lame excuse and Ralphy decided to fuck off to Blackpool, then must have caught a dose as he claimed he was unwell!!!  Lightweights the lot of them . .  .  . . . . unlike STFC Gazza!!!!!

I only went to the Wigan game this season...I'm a maga fan

I don't agree with this. Fitton wasn't the manager nor, as far as I recall, did he make any appearances on the pitch so I don't blame him for our relegation. He backed Wilson (perhaps a bit too much) but he would have got slated if he hadn't. Some people forget that we had been at Wembley with Wilson the year before and he doesn't seem to be doing too bad a job at Sheff Utd so he isn't a shit manager. Fitton clearly hoped by giving him time he'd turn it around but it just didn't work out. I blame the players for that.

The club may not even be here without Fitton's work so I exclude him from blame for last year. 

Very well put.

Andrew Fitton was, is and should always be remembered as the man who saved us from oblivion and took us within touching distance of the Championship. God some people have short memories, or simply no concept of what he did for us.

This

if Wilson had stayed on im sure we would of had a higher points tally at the end of the season! not saying we would of stayed up though just had more of a go at it more than that negative cunt Hart

Fitton deserves alot of credit for taking us on and rescuing the club with the rest of the board. He should not have got involved in football matters like he did though. Deffo a negative factor in that regard

He did suggest the purchase of Charlie Austin, so wasn't all bad

Yeah let's ignore his transfer policy. The transfer policy that got us relegated.

I'm all for lavishing the praise on Fitton but he isn't exempt from criticism.

Not exempt, but personally I am not going to argue with rescuing the club and taking us to within a gnats dick of the championship.

If he meddled in team affairs then that is unfortunate, he also spent a fair wedge by supporting Wilson bringing in the likes of Prutton, Sheehan, etc.

Disagree but its history.

Looking back the Paynter episode still leaves a bad taste in my mouth,knowing he was off to Leeds weeks before the seasons end had an effect and he was pants those last few vital matches including the final.
The two home matches...Walsall and Exeter just after the great win at Leeds were pivotal and the lack of a bigger squad to replace jaded players caught us out i reckon.

Fact is Wilson took his eye off the ball regarding fitness and off field antics at crucial times especially last season,history has shown that Di Canio will not let that happen.

Spot on

Paolo has been absolutely brilliant so far - but I would suggest he hasn't been here for long enough for "history" to show us anything.  He dealt with the Clark situation, yes.  He's given us a great season so far.  He's created a positive atmosphere we've not had in years. 

BUT - its not too long ago we were saying similar things about Wilson.  Hindsight is a funny thing. 

I'm not being negative about Paolo in the slightest - I'm just saying we've not yet seen him a pressure situation in the last few weeks of a season - such as the situation being spoken about with regards to Wilson.

I agree with Baggins

Well he has been in a pressure situation surely,after the Oxford result the team could have folded....just because we are all those points clear dosn't mean he hasn't been under pressure and the league table shows me that he has handled it well.
Not only that he has had the death of his father to deal with as well not to mention all the shit the FA have been shoving his way.....pressure handled well in my book.
Not a slight against Wilson at all,he came close and only time will tell if Paolo can take us one step further,or who knows maybe two!

I see Wilson's Sheffield Utd's form is beginning to slip. A familiar story unfolding there it would seem

Wilson does the same with every team. Does really well all season then loses the plot for the last few months. What is the betting Sheff U bottle the play offs?

I know non attendance shouldn't impact on results but I haven't been to a single game this season, after 3 seasons as an ST holder. I'm going to Wembley though  ::)

We know who to blame if we lose then ;)

DV, right?

Interesting to read some of the comments on this subject..

No, I am not a moron for expressing my veiws.

Last year when having my son asking me "why Swindon dad?" seeing STFC in such a melt down state and with all of his friends only have heard of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United.

I kept explaining to him...They will be all right, dream a little and it will happen....!!!.

So, MaTanZa...go fuck yourself. Go back to school and learn to read. When reading "Very nearly yes" is not "yes I did"...You wanker.

As for Andrew Fitton, I suggest in his brief spell in the top job he has proven to be true to his word and steered STFC through possibly OUR most darkest hours financially. Yes, a total saviour in my veiw. Now handed over to J. Wray who seems to have the midas touch. So well done A. Fitton and J.Wray

My initial comments were more to do with PDC...what fantastic potential Swindon has whilst this guy is in Town. Long may it continue and I do envy all you lucky supporters being able to go to games week in and week out.

Have great day at Wembley and with PDC in charge it will be a fantastic experience. Only wish I could have been there in person.

Come on you reds  :)

If we lose I stop supporting us for a month....  It's been nice this season to follow a team right the way through a season.

Paynter was obviously told to "stop trying" as part of the Leeds contract. Leeds were doing the dirty to win promotion from a team (us) that were really starting to hit form, that worried them, lots!

It's a bit like, but, sneakier than when Blackburn bought Shearer from us. It was a ploy to derail the STFC steam train. We were flying. We had a run in of games that had win written all oven them. leeds played the cash card to Paynter and the leaves hit the track.

Guilt caught up with paynter for the final in IMO and the players knew it. That was the start of the end of Wilson

Everything went wrong at Wembley. Paynter 'took a dive' in boxing terms, Amankwha bottled it, the midfield vanished, the pitch hated us and it rained.

Which is why this time has to be different.

Yep

Was saying just this to a Blades supporter a few weeks back when they were still going well.

They won't go up, and they won't even get close next season.

And we wore white :nod:

bit of a fallacy this though, isn't it..

i know it's shades of grey rather than black and white but a few examples would be:

wilson's 'transfer policy':
- vincent pericard
- david prutton
- michael rose (and having four left backs in the 1st team squad)
- thomas dossevi
- alan o'brien

fitton's 'transfer policy':
- simon ferry
- matt ritchie
- aiden flint
- paul caddis
- charlie austin

You forgot gordon greer...