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Well Andy, time has come for you to move on, 5 years is a long time in football and it is time for change. I just wanted to thank you for the memories, these in particular;

Bringing Super Sam to the club, one of our most popular players in recent times.

Being seconds away from beating Leeds in the Cup, never have I felt such contrasting emotions that night.

Being seconds away from getting to the play off final, I can still remember being in tears after that game.

Your baffling substitutions and team selections/formations.

Your heart was in the right place, we all make mistakes in life, you showed passion for the club which sadly was not shown on the pitch. Maybe the players that you brought in this season have let you down, and they now owe you a performance to keep this club up.

Good luck Andy and if you want to be our scout, I'm sure we'd all have you!

Hear Hear!

Great post Edinburgh.

seconded !  

best of luck to him, but it was clear that his time here was coming to an end.

Lets hope Iffy can do a job for us...at least we should still get an entertaining post match interview - his column on the thisis web site is hilarious..

Agreed, good post

Yeah, I wish the guy the best - he had a shot at success, and perhaps because of Mooney's over cautious humping it forward against Brighton was cruely denied it.

He failed to push on from that, or even consolidate so his time had to be up.

Well written....I know King's a bit of a knob.....but I liked the fact that even when we had a bit of success two years back, you knew nobody else would want him because of his media unfriendliness.

 With our more successful managers, I hated how it appeared as if we were just a stepping stone....and they were always being linked with moves away.

  With King,  I always felt he was working 100% for the club.

Apart from when the ridiculous interest from Pompey was hanging around.

Will he get another job in management?He's always said he could manage Chelsea!

he took us to the play offs but he has done fuck all since. Hopefully when we get a proper manager he will get the players playing. I think that this is our main hope of survival.

Good words Edinburgh.

but lets hope the board leave aswell cos that fucking midget and his cunts i hate more than ever

I feel a bit nervous to be honest.

I can see us getting a couple of good results, then it'll be back to the same old shit, as per usual.

Testing times ahead I think :|

 :(

Let's hope not. September 26th 2005, the phoenix rising from the ashes? :roll:

Well said Edinburgh,can i add beating the pox away to that list as well.

Thanks kingy :cry:

Thankyou for sam parkin,tommy mooney,james milner,lee holmes,jimmy davis,evans,howard,Igoe and all the other great players you have brought to swindon.
Since supporting swindon the only high I have experienced was When we got into the playoffs and that memory will always stay in my head.(also thanks for making me laugh on opening day last season when you told that old granny to put her teeth back in when she had her photo taken with you  :D )

Good luck kingy whatever you do.

(you do realise we are all going to look like plonkers if we have this imformation all wrong 8)  :soapy tit wank: )

I forgot the Oxford game :beers:

And Jummy Davis as well :evil:  Thank you for giving us the chance to see great talent, R.I.P Jimmy.

Id be inclined to feel more sorry for him if he hadn'y treated the fans with contempt on many occasions.

King had to go, his position had been increasingly untenneable.

I've generally supported him during his time here, and thought that he'd done a reasonable job given the limited and diminishing resources he was given to work with.

However, over recent weeks my gut feeling has changed - I felt like he was coming to the end of the line. OK, we've played reasonable football in the last couple of games, I dont think we were that bad v Bradfrod tbh but we still lost.

We underachieved last season with the squad we had, we all know which players were responsible for that. utimatley its up to him to get those players going. The same follows this season - decent players with no clear game plan, big names underperforming.

Either Thorpe. Cureton & Whalley - who've all had good and sucessfull careers at a higher level have totally forgetten what made them good in the first place or they were not being coached or motivated properly. The same could be said for the likes of Igoe, Howard, Evans etc last season.  Some trends during his era have always contuinued ie a shit defence. our back 4 on saturday are individually decent players, but did not play as a unit at all. This is kings fault - no-one elses.

In many ways hes not helped himself by just being himself. Even though I wasnt a memeber of the KOB I'd find myself shouting at the radio about some of his post match comments. when you've just lost 3-0 at home to the likes of Colchester for example, the last thing you want to hear is your manager contridicting himself over and over again before going off at the most random tangent you have ever heard.  You'd like to hear someone who sounds like they had a clue what went wrong.

The King era RIP - I dont hate you and you gave us some good memories. However your time had come to go. Lets hope this unites the fans.

Your spot on Pie,i agree with everything you've said there,great post.

I didnt like the bloke but thanks for the memories of the Play-Off year, that year gave me some of the best memories in recent years as a Town fan.

Going mental when Parkin gave us a 2-0 lead at Leeds was probably my best memory even though we didnt hold out.

I'm in no doubt he was utterly committed to Swindon Town, I've never said otherwise. But I do feel that he's lost the players and lost the fans, and the time had come for a new direction.

He tried his best, I'm sure of that, but the fact is his position is one that's based on results. And ours have hit rock bottom.

Thanks, and good luck, Andy.

Well said all, I agree with pretty much everything in this thread.

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unfortunately that line sums it up

Thanks Andy, a manager that did more for the club than most appreciate under impossible circumstances. I have no doubt that with a lesser manager the club would at best be in league two and worst wound up by now so we have a lot to thank him for.

The playoff season was fantastic and easily my favourite season since 1995/1996, I only hope that we will get back to those highs again soon but I can't see it.