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Another example of an inept board - sacking a manager when they have given him no resources or way forward for the club in order to sell it to new players.  You can blame King if you like but I think he did an excellent job with the tools he was given. To replace him with someone within who has no experience at a time when the club is struggling as a whole is tantamount to football suicide.  Onoura will stuggle and not last that many games - I predict in 3 or 4 games, i mean DEFEATS, time the fans will be calling for a new manager.  Thats when they will dish out a manager such as Bobby Gould or Alan Ball - someone else cheap who they can appoint with no thought.

I had continued to follow the town despite some early poor results hoping that Kingy would turn it around .. without him there is no chance of that happening and Im not sure Ill be visiting so regularly from now on.

The board needs to have a hard look at what they are trying to achieve and start by appointing a half decent chief executive as Sandy Gray is alienating supporters against it with her ineptitude at the job. It is simply TOO MUCH MONEY to watch and yet I see no initiatives to help any supporters through this.

Obviously I want the club to do well but I find it hard to support a manager who is obviously just an easy choice .. so expect me to be the first one to call for his head ... for the record I never called for Andy King to be sacked EVER

Unhappy Swindon fan! :(

Andy King was the easy choice when he was appointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Can't say i'm that pleased with Iffy's appointment but i think King needed to go.

I see what your you saying,I wanted King to stay.I'm still a little annoyed but we all should give Iffy a chance he could be the one for us :D

Things can only get better,can only get better da da da :\/  :|

Totally agree.

There aren't may options. The club is skint, broke, has no dosh. The fan base is down and the crowd divided.

The board were pressured by the fans to try something, but had to do it for free. Iffy/Reeves/Woan were the only options.

I too worry Iffy won't have the contacts to bring in players and change things come January. On the flip side at least we won't bicker with each other....

Fabury - King had done the hard part and assembled a decent squad with no money.  He has fallen down an his tactical and motivational skills. His time has come.

Great choice of song to run out to at our next home game! 8)

indeed :)

in a non I'm-glad-king-has-gone way 8)

I don't think anyone's going to be over the moon at such an appointment but in the situation we're in, it's pretty much all we could hope for.  

So Iffy's in charge for a while, so what.  I'm hoping least he won't be playing 1 up front and maybe it'll breed a little confidence, dawn of a new era and all that kinda thing.  Well here's hoping anyway!

4 up front against Doncaster  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

king was only in charge because he threatened to sue for unfair dismissal!!!

mate, you obviously arent quite town thru and thru if the sacking of a tactially inept manager is gonna keep ya away from the ground...

I agree.

If Saddam Hussein was our boss, i'd still watch my club.

No ive only been going since 1979 ... but theres a limit to how much you can pay when your heart isnt in it ... i blame the board

(and being the idiot I am .. ill probably still go!)

Singing I I Iffy Iffy I
Singing I I Iffy Iffy I
Singing I I Iffy
I I Iffy
I I Iffy Iffy I

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Damn right - the Townend massive will be singing that in full voice at Donny!

Yep, I want to be there early so when the players and manager hopefully come out to the warm up we can given them a nice reception.

DV85 your like the cat thats got the cream now :D Never heard you sound so happy!

king had to go, simple as that!

to be honest i really couldnt care less who our next manager is, just so long as king's gone!

this is a great day!!!  :D

  You will still have to watch the same crap players though with no hope of replacements.....its a shame everyone gets so excited, but nothing has changed if anything relegation is now more or less a certainty.

Totally agree with that!  :beers:

we've been watching crap players come & go for the last 7 years or so. at least with king gone someone else gets a crack at motivating & organising them. if king had stayed for the rest of the season, even til christmas, things would have got worse & worse.

ok onuora's not a world beater, but i'm still getting 100% behind him & i hope he does well for the club. if he doesn't, at least we wont have to listen to the same post match bollox king spouts every time we lose.

no it will be post match onoura bollocks like what he writes in the paper .. in fact the same crap he came out with saturday?

AK did all he could with the  very limited resources that were made available. How many of you cheered when Colin Todd/Roy Evans were appointed? and look at the mess they left behind. Kingy didnt always get it right but he was always 100% behind the club.
                       The players need to take a look at their performances and ask themselves if they have helped the situation . I cant say that im overly excited about Iffys position but who else would want to come to Swindon :?  Maybe they should have sacked the never present Mr Carson and not the man who always wore his heart on his sleeve and gave his all for STFC.

This bloke that wore his heart on his sleeve is this the same man that tells supporters to 'fuck off'?

I really dont think we would start winning just because the Poison Dwarf turns up. :roll:

if the team wins he can talk as much bull as he likes...

If you dont go by results,falling attendances,low morale and unhappy fans how else do you judge a manager?If it wasn't about these issues,no manager would ever get the sack!

...and the same man that tried to take the club to court when they got rid of him the first time. yep, he really loves us.

Exactly, he couldnt give 2 shits about the club.

:nod:

And he always said that if a team from a higher level came in for him he would jump at the chance.

C'mon gentlemen ! Think that there is alot of bollocks going around here ! So how many of you wouldn't have taken your employer to court if you felt you were wrongfully dismissed ? How many of you wouldn't take a pay rise and move to another company if you were ambitious ? Think about what you are saying before you post it. This is a bloke livelihood not just some flight of fancy !

NMH

I take that on board NMH, but I got the impression he wouldn't have taken any job given it's individual merits - he would have just taken ANY job .

There's a few managers around who have chosen to stay put - Kingy would have rejected that idea out of hand.

Anyone who says Kingy wasn't passionate about Swindon Town is very very wrong.

He had plenty of passion and a comendable work rate. Sadly for king this was not enough.

I think its unfair to have a go at him for "working for himself" rather than love of the club. Unless a hardcore fan is appionted manager (elections via the TEF :wink: ) this will always be the case.

 1. at least these 'crap' players might get played in their position now(or get played full stop)

 2. We have not got crap players anyway, this squad we have is just as good as seasons past and could reach the play offs once more.

 If you have the type of players we have, and are second bottom in league one, then the manager is not getting the best out of them and IMO that was certainly the case with king. I will completley back iffy now and believe that we can avoid relegation.

All the best to king but his time has definatley come.

Yeovil Red for manager!, if that doesnt scare them into winning then i dont know what will.

Very true Reg it's quite sad really.

Also I totally understand what you're saying Fatbury, the board have fucked up competely.