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I've heard he puts cat's legs into smarties tubes and runs off

Will that affect his value?

I heard he was the culprit who puts used sweet wrappers back in the tin...

He demands he be paid in Smarties and Whiskas, to fuel his hobby. This can only be detrimental to his market value in my eyes

I have it from a reliable sauce, that Reading are prepared to offer payment in Sheba...

And taking coke?

See, this shouldn't even need to be a factor. FFS, fitton and wilson need to sort this out FAST

I have heard that is why he never shaves......he prefers whiska's.

I saw him do this, and yet people still blame Pericard for it. Unbelieveable.

It is unacceptable...apparently Orient are prepared to pay John Campbell in 18 months worth of pan haggerty, whereas we're just offering 6 months of leftover frozen stovies from the Sturrock era... :suicide:

I heard Campbell wasn't signing because his mum shops at Iceland, and Wilson is more of a Morrisons man.

I've hear that if he were a gift, he'd be myrrh.

That'll up his value, Stephen Hawking doesn't even know what myrrh is. Sooner or later somebody will pay a lot of money to find out.

he buys cans of sild, with a cheque, and taunts them at half time

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That cat looks like Jeremy Beadle.

Hi there guys , Celtic fan coming in peace would just like some info on our new target Austin , just what type of striker is he and do you think he could make the step up to going from Swindon to a massive club like Celtic and playing in Europe etc ,

Gary Hooper was a fantastic buy for us from the championship unsure about league 1 players but I know Austin has massive talent and we have been tracking him for some time now , since the good relationship between both clubs i do not think a deal would be to hard to do , How have the ex Celtic lads been for you guys and good luck for the rest of the season.

Sorry, all transfer rumours have to pass through my mill and this one is being immediatley dismissed   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Step up? Celtic and Rangers aside, Scots Premier League is League 1

Mate its a massive step up going from Swindon No offense meant to Glasgow Celtic we are one of the biggest clubs in the world with one of the biggest fan bases in the world ,

We might play in a league you class as poor but the fact is we are a massive club and can offer the lad the chance to win leagues , cups and challenge the best in Europe , if your telling me Austin would not want some of that your having a fucking laugh .


Scott Cuthbert,Paul Caddis, Simon Ferry . How have the lads done for you guys ?

Oh good, another game of bash the SPL, we haven't had one of those for a few days.

http://www.wearetherangersboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85219

Just a rumour, but saw it thought you might want to slate it and rip it to shreds or believe either way.

He won't go to Celtic.

You know, no wonder it takes us so long to buy anyone if all our board members are busy leaking information to fans of other clubs all the time.

Shows how good their supposed information is, after saying we have 3 Celtic players on loan..

 I'm disappointed.....I thought Hooperman was going to a Town fan whose name was paying homage to two of our worst players namely Wynne and Dean Hooper.

FWIW reckon Celtic would be a good move for Austin...think of all the chances he'd get, and he doesn't miss too many.

Yep.  Some of them also seem to think that being a little club well bite their hand off for small fees.

Where have a said anything about a small fee , we paid a big fee for Gary Hooper 2.4mill and he has been excellent i came here to find out info on Austin , i never once said he was definitely joining us , was just looking for some info on him .

Back to the first question if he does sign for Celtic could you see him and Hoops linking up well together what type of player does he play best off ?

What is his style of play and who would you compare him too ?

To answer the question a (normally) clinical striker who even at his worst comes alive in the box. That's not to say the rest of his game is lacking, can hold his own outside the box and bring others into play too. Not got explosive pace, but seems to know where to be and when to be there. In short, Austin scores goals.

I can't see Celtic  having the money to spend on what is still a bit of a gamble. Do I think he could play in the SPL? Yes, easily successful outside the old firm. God knows what he added crowd pressure and a big transfer fee would do, he'd be expected to perform from day 1,  you have to remember little over a year ago he was playing for Poole Town.

A bit academic I'd say, Brighton or Huddersfield will outbid you anyway ;)

No Hooperman, Im talking about the blokes on the QPR forum.  Who also seem to think you have the advantage as we have 3 of your players on loan!  Not the best informed people.

As for you questions, Charlie when he was first here just seemed to have the knack of being in the right place at the right time and being deadly accurate.  A natural finisher like Fowler or Lineker.  After a pre season he seems to have bulked up, still has that natural ability but can hold up the ball and shrug off other players as well.  He could become a fantastic all round player.

He plays excellently off Vincent Pericard, in fact, all of his goals are down to Pericard.
you after the wrong player, you can have Vince for £1million, baragin.

If I was going to compare him to anyone it would Ian Rush for his finishing, although I don't think he's got as much pace as Rush had.

He contributes a lot in other areas. For his size he wins a lot of headers, and seems to be able to direct them to teammates when it looks like the angles aren't there for him to do it. He's also prepared to run himself into the ground for the team, harries defenders and forces mistakes.

I think he would do very well in the SPL, but I can't see Celtic being prepared to stump up what we would want for him.

Think you are getting us mixed up with Glasgow Rangers we have money and we spend it ,

2.5million on Hooper was a gamble , our board are more than happy enough to take a gamble on a player , if Lennon rates him and wants him he will get the cash , its then down to is Austin wants the challenge to play for us .

Ranger, Celtic, always get those two mixed up. Which one plays in blue again?

 :fishing:

I know that you have the money, but when you were chasing Cox you refused to spend that kind of money on a League One player- he eventually went for 1.7m and I'd imagine we'll be looking at some similar for Austin (A few rumours are going higher but I imagine that's more hopeful). Depends how certain Lennon is that Austin is his man- there are certainly cheaper strikers around as Hull just found out.

But STFC4Life has it right, you want to sign Pericard, ideal striker partner and wouldn't cost you much over a million.

Cheers mate sounds like he would be perfect for Hooper , We have been tracking him since last season from what i have heard there is real interest in him , if we want him and he wants to come i do not think the money would be a problem if you only want 2million i think it would be a steal for a player like him .

Unsure when you guys signed Ferry and Caddis if the money was all upfront . so if you guys still had future payments to be made on them that could easily be taken off any fee for Austin .

Anyway thanks for all the info and the good welcome , All the best in the new year and good luck in the rest of your season .

Pericard would do brilliantly for Swindon and actually help us win promotion if he went to play for Celtic!

Who is Fox and is he fantastic?

Was more down to the fact Tony the clueless clown wanted Fortune and we spent 3.5million on him instead of Cox , and turned out a total waste , good winger not a striker .

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Meant Ferry ended up thinking on Danny Fox some how.

Err, no you aren't. What was your last home attendance?

A shade over 40k.

Probably be a good move for Charlie as he'd asily score 30 goals for Celtic and then would probably progress again and move to someone like Newcastle or Bolton

Think Rangers are the ones that win the League up there
 :fishing:

looking at the fees paid by hull,and the money being talked about for bothroyd,we wont get much more than a million for austin.
i'd say upto 1.2 upfront with add ons is realistic

Bothroyd is out of contract in five months, so I don't think that's really a fair comparison

it can give you an idea of the market though.

Bothroyd is almost 29 aswell so not so much potential for the future.

Agree with that.

Sat watching the old firm now, Charlie would rip the SPL apart Hooperman judging by the amount of chances.

Not sure how Charlie would play with that Gypo up front though.

A player is worth what a pursuing club can afford it is not like buying a second hand car there is no set price , Villa paid 10million for Fabian Delph and he was a shite League 1 midfielder. Austin is priceless to Swindon at the moment and if the board believe that then they will hold out for as much as possible it really depends upon how good Fitton is with his poker face. The best case scenario for AF is that he gets QPR, Hull , Celtic etc into a bidding war .

am I the only one that thinks his last 2 performances reeks of someone not really wanting to be here ?

No you're not, Fred.

No, i hate to say

Lambourn Red, when Delph played here in the game we lost against 10 men he was the best player on the pitch by an absolute mile. He ran the game.

Fred, I agree he's been pretty terrible in the last two games but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion it's because he doesn't want to be here. Against Posh he got himself into good positions, missing two that he should have scored and hitting the post with another. Yesterday he was just muscled out of the game by some good defending. Unfortunately instead of trying to find a way around it he got frustrated, lost his rag and offered nothing to the team.

As cynical as it sounds, Aston Villa paid so much because he was a Leeds United player. If Delph was doing the same stuff at Swindon Town then we'd have got £2million maximum.

There's probably truth in that, but at the same time he was far from a "shite League 1 player" as LR put it

Players value is more about the length of time on their contract than there talent.

Bothroyd has 5 months so is worth next to nothing. He can sign a pre-contract agreement today with someone if he wants to.

We sold Cox for 1.9m with a year left. Austin has 18 months - so should be worth more.

McLean has been on the transfer list for ages and its well know Peterboroughs finances arent what they once were.

As for Delph - his value was also increased by his international career and the fact Leeds turned down plenty of bids for him.

I still think he's put himself about enough and tried harder than most... he does look frustrated with life though.

Set the world alight since leaving Leeds has'nt he , unproven at the top level which is the same issue that has been levelled at CA yet he is worth 10mill. It makes me laugh when they talk about 6mill for Llana and 10mill for Chamberlain at saints who have has as much Championship experience as CA  what a joke

He was only 19 when he signed for Villa. He played a few games then spent 8 months out injured, and has only just really come back from that. Give the lad a chance.

I really don't think there is any lack of effort from Charlie, in fact the problem (especially yesterday) looks like it might be that he's trying too hard.

My sauces tell me that Sothampton are pulling out the stops to get him....do you reckon he would go there?

Yes. Big club who look like they'll be playing Championship football next season and they also happen to be on his doorstep.

Depends on what other options he has I guess.

Given a choice of say QPR or Southampton, I would imagine that QPR would be better as they are already in the Championship, and with a decent chance of being in the Premier League next season.

Swap for Barnard and £1million quid  ;)

If he goes to Southampton, i will forever hate Charlie even though he has been amazing for us

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Wind up, surely?

You're deluded, Lambourn.

Give over, they're not Oxford.

It would be a lot better if we sold Austin at the end of the season, for lots of reasons.

Or for one simple reason. If we sell now we're all but fucked.

Nope i hate Saints with a passion.

Would much prefer him to play for Oxford then the scum to be honest

Out of interest, where did the Southampton hatred come from? Was it the 5-1 in 1993? That pissed me off too.

You'd prefer our star player to play for Oxford? Mental.

Have a word StefPol !

Stef is a closet Pompey fan :-[

this season is a write off anyway.

if the money from austins sale was spent wisely, then it would see us out of the current campaign ok,and help prepare for next season.raises questions though....
can wilson be trusted to spend wisely? and would sufficient funds be made available to him, or should he be sacked another manager?

Just another snippet

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/football/8765390.Killick__Austin_s_rise_will_never_be_seen_again/

No i live in Southampton and all the people at school used to give it the large one that Saints were in the premiership and that i should support saints because i was born in southampton.

So its nice to see them doing rather poor (this season aside)

Less of that....what was the result at Brock?

Yes! :)

I think you will find that you are

Poole play Brock Tuesday night

OK...cheers.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Brilliant. Who says you can't believe everything you read on the internet - that is so obviously 100% fact!

There's been hardly any Wessex League for weeks leefer

Nice rumour

Lucas missus is fit too

Sometimes I think I should get off this forum... These sort of rumours keep me here.

It's just the opposite - he desperately wants to stay so has put in two underpar performances to put off potential bidders. Dave Lucas's dog's vet told me

Haha class, I hope that's true, remember when Gurney got caught hammering it to Mrs Hewlett in the ThisIs days and it went into meltdown, I got an email from the editor telling me to zip it or I'd be up for libel when we all knew anyway. Fingers crossed!

Oh scandal ! This would explain Lucas not even being in the squad recently because he's 'injured'.

Brilliant!

Wasn't you who should have zipped it :)

To be fair it's probably those sort of rumours that make him think fuck it i aint dealing with this shit.
The amount of bullshit that has been spouted by his own supporters is fucking shocking to be honest.

It's not true.

I've been shagging Charlie Austin.

Fuck off, no you havent

Bart has

True Dean.....but wait till he goes to a big club,he better get used to it.

I honestly don't think he would get it on this level though. The problem is there are some very jealous local people round here who know him or his missus and are happy to just shit stir.

That be true.

I've deleted the post because, well, it's not worth the bandwidth.

Agreed!

Although I still don't really understand the whole footballer obsession!!!!

I find it a bit sad people feel the need to spread this kind of shit, whether true or not (almost certainly the latter IMO)

celebrity obsession innit

same retards who sit glued to x factor and develop personal feelings positive or otherwise toward big brother contestants etc

They actually fucking disgust me.

Lucas has definitely been injured the last week or so. I didn't see the rumour before it weas removed, but whatever it was I'm sure it fitted into the 80% category of this forum.

Especially when similar rumours and small minded people are unsettling the player.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Austin go just to get away from the mongs.

Some of it is just plain nasty aswell.

I don't want to hear salacious rumours whether they are true or not. I want to know whether Austin is staying or going. I also want to know who we are going to buy/loan to replace or play with him.

I'm also intrigued to see who leaves and who else comes in. Furthermore, I'm excited to see whether any new additions improve the team or not.

Finally, I'm really looking forward to watching the Town on the box tomorrow - Eventhough they are normally pretty shit whenever I get this excited!

All of it is.

I'm not normally one to get into players private lives etc. on the forum, but I know for fact that Austin has been very unsettled by a few idiots who've actually confronted him directly (quite nastily), spouting a whole load of nasty untruth's just because there's a possibility of him leaving the club. It's completely moronic.

Now if I were him and someone was offering me 5x my salary and the chance to get away from these idiots, I wouldn't hesitate in taking it.

jealousy.pure and simple

Along with sad, pathetic lives.

How?

He knows his best mate Dave.

What DRS said.

moves to bigger club= more fans spreading more rumours.
charlie will have to have thicker skin,and maybe change where he socialises?

As i said though arriba these ones are by people who know him and his missus he will get no where near the same abuse

If I saw him out I'd also call him a cunt. How dare a player want to leave the mighty swindon for more money and career progression.

according to skysports, hull  are reportedly doubling their bid for Swindon hotshot Charlie Austin to 1.2 m, cheeky cunts

So Steve Claridge reckons we have received a 2mill bid from birmingham.  Thats a new one!

In Wilson's post-match interview he said they've had no offer which will turn their heads

Everyone is saying there is 18 months left on his contract (including Austin himself) but when he signed the new contract the club said there was an option in their favor to extend it by an additional 12 months. Anyone know for sure?

I expect no matter what the options are Charlie would still have to agree to it and sign something.

a "mate" of mine knows someone at the club who reckons that he gets on with all the players except Charlie as he is a bit "full of himself"

Or maybe your mate's just a tosser and Charlie doesn't like him

Quite possibly - and if you bothered to read it correctly it isn't "my mate"

The latest rumour on some of the non league websites is that Matt Tubbs will be coming to us to either replace Charlie or to play along side him...ummm i wonder  

I thought we looked at Tubbs when he was at Salisbury and they didn't think he was good enough for League One.

Personally, and having seen him play i would say that he could do a job for us, certainly better than Big Vince but then again that is not much of a yard stick. I think that Crawley would want at least £750,000 for him which is a lot of money for an unknown quantity but you have to speculate to accumalate. 

£75k Benyon
£750k Tubbs

Let me have a think about that one and get back to you.

What makes you think they'd want £750k for him?

I wouldn't be massively keen on signing him anyway, but especially not at that price

If they value tubbs at 750k, then whats charlie? 5mil :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

No way is a non league player who has never proven himself at League level worth anywhere near £750,000, I would say £250,000 at the very most.

And if he's worth £750,000 then Austin is worth £3.5million.

Because that is the sort of money that is being mentioned, i would say that the top 4 teams in the
conference could easily hold their own in league 2 so that the level of football is very close to what he is playing now.   

They might want £750k to fund "Project Promotion", but Peterborough only paid £125k for Mackail-Smith and £260k for George Boyd from non-league and they seem far more accomplished players than Tubbs.

Leeds and another Champ club are after Tubbs apparently.

they've just paid that for Fryatt from Leicester. maybe they've withdrawn interest now

I've heard more reports that we're in for this Elliot Benyon. Can't say i've ever heard of him, but he's 3rd top scorer in League Two with 12 goals, so must have a bit about him. Plus he put two past the scummers, so that's good!
I'm surprised to see Adam Le Fondre still plying his trade in League Two. Hasn't he been consistently scoring goals at that level for a few years now?

I think their owners said they wanted 2 strikers - Aaron McLean being the other who signed for them recently so hopefully that will end their interest in Austin.

Saw Benyon's goals on the FLS last night. Looks like he could be another Austin type player. Seems to know where the goal is at least. Tbh i'd take a punt for 75k.

Why?  So he can bench warm with Paynter?!

Didn't Tubbs get signed for a healthy wedge by Crawley, so they'd be looking for a decent sum.

without reading this thread apparently Birmingham have tabled a bid of £2m for Charlie

In other news L1 forwards catching the eye: Will Hoskins has already scored a brace.

It was £70k apparently... not sure why he's now worth £750k after playing half a season for them, even with the goals hes scored.

As for Birmingham bidding £2mil, if thats true I expect the board would accept that, would be good if they didn't though. Although there is no mention on the 'Football gossip' bit on BBC football:


'Birmingham are on the hunt for a striker with Tottenham's Robbie Keane, Cardiff City's Jay Bothroyd and Liverpool's Ryan Babel high on the list. Manager Alex McLeish said: 'We're working actively to try and enhance the striking positions."'

Really like the look of Benyon, hopefully as Charlie's partner until the summer initially and then replace Austin at the end of the campaign

As I mentioned last night, Steve Claridge said there was a 2mill bid from a premier league club, probably birmingham lodged last night.  Could be bollocks.

Adam Le Fondre please.

Probably way out of our price range though.

http://www.torquayunited.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10445~35981,00.html

5 foot 9, hmmm abit small for a striker isn't he. Is he pacey ?

A second striker/on the shoulder/poacher kind of guy from what i can gather. Would work really well with Austin until he leaves in the summer, and then splash the cash on replacing CA.

Is bollocks.

http://twitter.com/#!/stfcadver/status/22285350609092608 (http://twitter.com/#!/stfcadver/status/22285350609092608)

It did seem stranger than your recent addiction to Twitter.

:)

To be fair, Claridge said a PL team had bid £2m and he thought it was Birmingham. Maybe it was another team, though I doubt it - Fitton would have already started packing Austin's bags if a £2m bid had been made.

I have it on good authority that Charlie has signed for Cardiff... or it could be my brother winding me up.

Wind up.

You really think so...? ;)

Yep!

I thought Cardiff were skint despite the Malaysian guy being involved post-Risdale?

Does John even have a brother?!

How about David Mooney on loan at Colchester from Reading loan deal up in Jan he's scored a few for John Ward

One of my best mates is a Cardiff fan and apparently.....this Malaysian guy (Dato Chan Tien Ghee) has promised to invest a lot of funds in the team if the right player comes along, I would guess that Austin is "that type of player".

Something on teletext on BBC this morning saying that we had refused a bid of £600k from Hull and that they were about to double their original offer or sommut like that, couldn't be assed reading it properly cos its probably shit anyway.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3327624/Tigers-up-their-bid-for-Charlie.html

That's about 4 days old.

Dunno was only reading it in teletext this morning so I thought I would google it.

Its shit anyway.

Blackburn would be better off buying Austin than Ronaldinho.

How long before goofy teeth starts moaning about the British weather and Blackburn being a shit hole?

Probably a while, because he's not going to join

He's going to Gremio (sp?). Ron that is not Austin.

Is that official? It is the sun after all

I'm just going by what I saw on SSN regarding Ron joining Blackburn.

I meant him going to gremio

Gremio, home to the delightful celebration known as The Avalanche. It's not in anyway dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKnujGgUMco

Nutters!

Considering Ronaldinho wants to go somewhere that he can go to the beach and stay up until 4 am, the boy is going back to Brazil. Anyway their economy has picked up so they are getting close to being able to again bring back these past it players.

What kind of mental would you have to be to stand at the front of that terrace each game?

A Scouser?



(my mate's joke before anyone flips)

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/readingfc/s/2085026_austin_and_leigertwood_in_at_reading_fc

Wonder if we owe them money from the Cox deal.
Mooney looks fairly decent at this level.....leaving Reading by the looks.

Firstly, that link speculates that they've been put off by the asking price. Secondly, I can't imagine Fitton letting any debts go unpaid, especially one that comes out of money receieved for a transfer.

Looks like Fulham and Newcastle are the latest to be interested

http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/fulham-newcastle-watching-swindon-striker-austin-1367731?

This can only be good for Fitton and Co we just need to keep saying no and play the game of poker.

Newcastle would probably be a no especially after Leon Best's permformance last night.

Looks like Carroll is off to spurs or chelski so they will probably be after another striker who knows. I would love it if we can hold onto to Charlie in Jan it would show other fans that we have a board who are no pushovers anymore.

If the Prem clubs are really interested I can't see us holding out, just playing the game to maximise cash.

Big if though,£1.5M (guestimate) is a lot to fork out for somebody who was playing for Poole Town 18 months ago. Big risk for them

From what Ive heard Charlie definately does not want to go to Reading.

Haha, I thought that to myself when I read that non-article involving Reading. If I was Charlie, I could imagine Peterhead being further up his list of preferred clubs than Reading. I imagine he'd take great pleasure in scoring a few past them one day and would relish turning them down if we were to accept a bid from them.

Newcastle would be my choice if I was in Charlie's shoes.

The Toon will adore him.

Depends if fat boy Ashley is willing to take the risk ?

Bit of a risk jumping to the Premiership. If Carroll goes then fair enough, as Charlie's better than Ranger who seems to be getting the odd game. But it'd be a bad move for him to go somewhere and not get games regularly.

Dont agree...if they offer top dollar he will go there...end off.

If he really didn't want to go to Reading then I think money wouldn't force his hand. Charlie will probably have his pick of a few teams when the time comes and I doubt Reading will be the team to offer him the best wages.

I doubt that too...but IF they did offer the most wages,or biggest fee dont ever believe he wouldn't go...thats not a slur on Charlie...more his agent and Swindons interests in getting the biggest fee.

Charlie's worth a lot more than 1.5mill if you're selling him to an EPL club.

1.5mill to the right Championship club with a 40% sell on clause is fine, but to an EPL club he's worth way more than that.  We should be looking at 1.5mill upfront with another 2mill in addons based on performance (appearances, england caps etc).

Hes going to newcastle 2mil deal has been done was before xmas. dont believe me wait and see, god will i look a twat now if he dont.  reliable source though!!!  :cry:

Why the fuck is he still here then you gypsy

Ask the club you knob :smugfu:

They didn't want to sign him before the FA cup as he is cup tied.

Why have we played him in three games since and risked him breaking his leg?

I am going to presume that you are talking absolute bollocks. He may well end up at newcastle, but no deal will have been agreed yet, especially since december. Otherwise he wouldn't have been playing you fucktard

you do already

I'm going to sign up for a swindon forum where nearly everybody will be Swindon fans. I know, I can make myself stand out by naming myself after the club itself! Brilliant, nobody will have thought of a name based around stfc. Oh shit, that's gone. I know I'll put a 75 on the end. Sorted. I'll be super memorable and everybody will care what I have to say.

Ban every cunt with a shit username.

Oh good, another "done deal". If I had a pound for every "done deal" for different clubs that's been touted over the past couple of months, I'd buy him myself*



* There may be some element of exaggeration as to the exact scale of financial recompense this would involve. But I reckon I'd have enough for a black Samsung shirt with his name on it.

You're more than welcome to place a £6 bid for Austin.

I doubt it'll give you 'done deal' status though. Well...

I'd like to take Charlie Austin on loan for the day so he can do my washing up.

No, but I'll be able to tell some nobend in the pub it is though and it'll be on here/thisis within a couple of hours

Here we go again, now it is reported that Reading have made an offer - I'm sure they have not got the sort of money needed to buy him though

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_6639466,00.html

Im sure ive seen that before.  Is it not exactly the same wording used for stories about Hull trying to buy him, just with different team names put in?

So do we believe Sky or the Adver - who've released a story about the Reading manager saying they can't afford him?

Denied in the Reading Post.  They seem to accept that would not be able to afford him.

Reading Post (http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/football/readingfc/s/2085122_reading_fc_cool_swindon_striker_interest)

We dont believe either.  We should all believe the football rumours website which says we're launching a 2.5 billion bid for messi.

Sick!

you're a fucking fucktard aren't you.

if it was a done deal the minute the transfer window was open he'd have gone and not like others have said played 3 games in risk of breaking his leg etc.

think about it before spouting complete bollox.

now fuck off back to thisis

I've read or heard somewhere today (can't actually remember where) that Leeds are the latest club showing an interest.

I can't see why they would want another forward if it's true, they're already overloaded.

Uncle Ken wouldn't cough up enough money for Austin anyway.

It said that in the Adver.

Bates can fuck off.

I think we're doing okay... 7 days and he's still here.

[url width=460 height=288]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/Austin66.jpg[/url]

Hope he stays, got £100 e/w at 20/1 that he s top scorer of league 1 !!!!!

I do not see Charlie going during this transfer window:

1. He's under contract for another 18 months and we don't have to sell our biggest asset to pay the tax man as we have had to do so often in years gone by.

2. Andrew Fitton, as far as I can tell, is not an idiot. Why flush the season down the toilet now when we can get just as much, if not more money for him in the summer?

You hear people saying, "Oooh, it's inevitable Charlie's going to go during the Window" and so on and it's just fucking bollocks. I can't see it happening.

That is all.

Oh yeah, just one more thing. I have a feeling (no sauces involved) that we're going to get Danny Ward in on loan for the rest of the season to play up front with Charlie. Write it down ;)

I don't think he's going just yet. Unless the silly bid comes in which it won't.

Sky Sports don't operate the transfer system... They just wish they did.

He'll sign a new contract, stay 'til the summer, then move on for a hefty fee that satisfies all parties.

I completely agree with your first two points, we really don't have to sell on this occasion and we all know it will potentially send us backwards if we do.  For that reason I'll be mighty pissed off if we do lose him this month, particularly if it means he goes somewhere to bench warm!

Your final point really doesn't sound as absurb as it might have done a couple of months ago.  I think most of us would love it to come true.  If there was any truth in the interest and we pulled our finger out it could also sway Charlie completely.  Everyone's a winner then  :D

I'd love to be proved wrong but i think Charlie will be going this month- it's not always as easy as saying 'the club don't have to sell'....

It's nice to be in a situation where if a decent (well, decent on the level of a tranny porn addicted OAP) offer comes in we won't automatically be packing him up in a box and and asking the nice lady at the post office how many first class stamps we need. Don't need to be recorded love, standard delivery is fine. Fallon is still scared of enclosed spaces and cardboard.

Ultimately it will come down to Charlie himself. I can't really see Fitton telling him to stay put if he really wants to go. That would be a bad situation for everybody all round.

If everything in your post came true I'd be as happy as a pig in warm shit. And then some. I'm just worried it won't because you didn't "FACT!" it.  :(

It's going to happen Barry....











FACT!  8)

I'm only guessing of course, but I don't think Charlie is that desperate go right now. Things could change in the summer obviously.

I agree, despite the speculation i really can't see Austin going anywhere this month. I actually think he'll sign a new contract now and then possibly move on in the summer. Now if an offer of 2m+ comes in then it could get interesting, but i don't think anyone will risk that much just yet.

If it comes to that, we should negotiate a best price and sell him now, on condition that Charlie stays with us until the end of this season (i.e. on Loan), then everyone wins.

COYR !!!!!

I hope you're right! Best case scenario for us imo.

Totally agree. I've been saying this for while. We should remember that we don't have a bunch of twats running the club now. The people in charge now have made real money themselves & as such know how to maximise their assets. It would be madness to sell him now when it makes more sense to keep him at least until the summer. It's not like his contract will run out then as with Paynter, & the likelyhood is CA will extend it. He should continue banging in the goals benefiting the club AND increasing his value. The only thing that would upset this senario is an offer NOW that is too good to ignore, & I would put that at about 2.0 - 2.5 million. (Which is what I think we would get in the summer minimum)

Well if he scores a treble today its going to be interesting.

An awful lot of people seem to be having a hard time grasping this concept  :nod:

Don't start him off again... He's not mentioned this for a few weeks. :D

Only reason I could see for selling him now would be if they were worried that if he didn't sign an extension and then were to pick up a bad injury that ruled him out past the start of next season that it would then become hard to recoup fair value for him.

Unless someone comes in with a £2+ million bid in this window, I will be right. Trust me.

What does bother me is that a large offer will come in on deadline day and we will not have enough time to go out and sign 1 or 2 replacements

Insider knowledge ? ;)

although celtic were interested,they are now looking elsewhere.

QPR may well step up their interest now that Jamie Mackie has a broken leg, Warnock wasn't very happy with Diouf was he!

can i just say, austin has been pretty shit last few times ive seen him, a bit like paynter at the back end of last season. is he already thinking of loftus road?

If QPR come knocking I wouldn't expect Charlie to be around for much longer...

If QPR come in with a £2m bid for him this month he'll be gone I'm afraid. Trust me.

Warnock said on Talksport yesterday that they have no money to spend in January they will have some in the summer though, supposedly the owners are like Mr Fitton in that they won't spend money needlessly, he will need to bring in someone on loan rather than buying.

Im not sure if it has already be mentioned but has anyone picked up that charlie has conceaded two pens in three games?

Theyve got no strikers at the moment.

No

Yes that tried-and-tested method of giving away so many penalties by handballing it that the club HAVE to sell the player...

I'm sorry, what's your point?

That Charlie is going to sign for the Harlem Globetrotters?

so when is this move to Newcastle going to happen?!

Looking like a twat is putting it mildly

You take a hard line on rumour-mongers, don't you MR? :)

Haha what a cunt

Don't call MR a cunt, a bit uncalled for!

Never met him then berni? ;)

11-1-11.......and he is still here.....will he be here on 1-11-11?

you want a fucking slap

Don't bite MR or you will make yourself look a cunt, and they will be right!

kiss kiss

i know him anyway Berni so only a bit of banter

good game good game

I know it was a bit of banter, I was joining in!

Now i know you're a cunt!

Mackie ruled out for rest of season. Imminent bid from QPR then?

Reading have pulled out of the Bradley Wright-Philips deal due to medical complications.

But Sam (and a different friend of Austin) says Charlie says he wouldn't go there. So Ierm, why am i posting,. No idea.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6660457,00.html (http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_6660457,00.html)

Not good news if this is true

He isn't going to stay.  We need to accept that now.  What we need to hope for is that the manner of his exit (ie where he goes, how much we get for him, how we then rebuild) works as well for us as it possibly can.

Now that the Wright-Phillips transfer from Plymouth to Reading is off, I could see Reading coming in for Charlie now...despite the denials in the press last week.

If he is to go, we just need to really spend the money wisely, as the thought of a Pericard and Dossevi partnership basically makes me want to  :suicide:

Maybe he should stick to playing football and not basketball, that might help

first time I've seen direct quotes stating what  I guess we already knew, gone if the right bid comes in. the difference is this is coming from the player.

if he goes I hope its soon.  we need the time to get a couple of strikers in.  can't leave it until deadline day and hope somehow we find a loan star.

Disappointed not to be going to Hull?... Meh! - made up story

Reading were getting BWP on the cheap, 500k I beleive they have not got the £2m it would cost for Charlie so we can rule them out

If we do get £2 million for him (and we've been disappointed with valuations before) that will be one of the tidiest pieces of business in the club's history.

Would that be a club record? Or did we get more for Cox?

I hope Wilson has an ace up his sleeve because the thought of Pericard and Dossevi strike force plus a couple of young loans does not look good especially if we get sucked further into a relegation fight.

It's a real opportunity to kick start the rebuilding of the side as a whole...not just the forward line.

Great avatar. Are you as tight as him Ardiles?

I can be when I want to.  (And thanks!  Winston's always been my favourite.)

Even though you have to be pretty naïve to have thought a move to a higher division wasn’t tempting him, it still makes my heart sink when for the first time I see him saying he wants to go

I take that story with a pinch of salt. Charlie is merely saying he wants to play at a higher level. He also says how much he enjoys being at the club in the meantime. So nothing new there then.
Mind you when you hear of that kid at Southampton being talked about in terms of 10 million, why would we be happy with 2 million for the leagues top scorer. I'd rather have CA in my team on a saturday thankyou. If we have to sell him, & I know we will have to sooner or later lets get the maximum we can.

Yep, the figures being talked about for Oxlade-Chamberlain are absolutely mental. The sad thing is it seems likely Liverpool will pay it.

SkySports.com is the sports news equivalent of 100 monkeys at a typewriter, throw enough shit transfer stories around and one of them will turn out right eventually. But most of it is unremitting bullshit. We're in the same place we were before - if someone offers enough money (and hopefully "enough" = "frankly ludicrous"), and the offer's right for him, he'll be off. If not, we'll keep him till the summer and then he'll be off. Everything else is just spin and bullshit. Especially if it's on Sky or in the tabs

I had forgotten his name!

Still Game is brilliant but few people outside of Scotland will have seen it!

He is saying a lot more than that, i.e. disappointment at not having the chance to play for Hull.  I hate to think what his reaction would be if an offer from a more geographically friendly team gets turned down, i.e. QPR, etc.

Nothing positive comes from a player wishing he was somewhere else.

I’m in a negative mood generally today.

You're assuming of course that he actually said that as opposed to SkySports made up some quotes on the back of a brief chat with his agent who's actually the one putting the story out there to try to stir some more interest.

I'm pretty sure you can't alter quotes and pass them off as somebody elses for your own amusement. That could get you in trouble, a source close to Batch said.

It just sounds like he's putting himself in a bigger shop window to get interest from bigger clubs than Hull. It's what footballers do. It also has a good knock on effect for the club. Charlie is looking for a higher level of football and what comes with it...more money for his services.

All in all a pointless article!!

By the looks of things, he said those comments directly to a sky sports reporter:

@SkySportsbucko: Swindon Town hot-shot Charlie Austin has spoken to skysports.com's @skysportspeteo about speculation surrounding his future. Austin is disappointed Swindon rejected an offer from Hull and he would be open to the prospect of discussing a move to a higher level.

Thats from the 'transfer clockwatch' on the sky sports website.

He's evidently never spent time on Humberside...

You're right, Hull has to be probably the 2nd worst place to live in England behind Middlesbrough.

Sppoky, I said to the the Mrs (who lived in Hull for a year) that Austin wasn't going to go to the biggest hellhole in Britain. She could only come up with Middlesborough as a worse place too.

Unrelated but sky are saying reading are in for morrison too

Plastic cunts

Tweeted the new guy at the Adver, forget his name, for his thoughts on the story.

Apparently the interview took place a week ago and although the story is a bit exaggerated the quotes are genuine but nothing wrong with showing any ambition, there are still plenty of clubs enquiring about him however.

let the serious bidding begin

We'll be signing Dean Ashton as his replacement.

Leon Knight is coming in from Coleraine as a replacement apparently

Wha would we get for Morrison then, £500,000 + add on's perhaps ?

We couldn't sign him anyway as Rushden ( i think ) own his registration so he can't play for anyone else in England or Wales.

Not for your own amusement, no, but with permission it happens all the time. Half the quotes you see in the press from politicians/pop stars/sports stars are actually from their agents/spokespeople/PR people either via a press release that the semi-literate star in question never went near writing (viz any quoted statement from Rooney in print media) or a phone call along the lines of "Yeah, you can quote Wayne as saying .... blah, blah". It's what the PR flacks are there for, so the star doesn't need to be bothered with speaking to the press themselves and/or doesn't have their complete inarticulacy exposed.

But from what Abrahammer says, it doesn't apply in this case so it's a moot point

Actually I was just making a cheap joke by altering your quote. But I hadn't realised such practices took place so it ended up quite useful.

Ha, ha, I missed that
The PR flack stuff or the goat-blowing stuff? I'm denying both btw

 Think we should get rid asap....clearly ego has taken over, should be sold and money used for replacement.  No good having disaffected players at the club...but I'm sure the management realise this and do the necessary.

Still on the wind up then  :)

Im sick of hearing Austins name he is apparently signing for every club under the sun.

Totally agree.

I'd take even half of that - he would get destroyed in the Championship.

My Reading supporting friend seems to think this is a done deal! Apparently waiting for our manager to give to the green light, all fees etc have been agreed... Might be bullshitting me but he seems pretty confident the smug git...

I do think Morrison's a decent player but I'd drive him there for half a million*

* Obvioius proviso that we actually get a replacement in rather than just talking about one.

If we could then go out and buy Micky Nelson or Adam Barrett for half the fee then I'd do it tomorrow, but without a proper replacement lined up this shouldn't happen.

Austin will go and will be replaced by Barry Hayles

But we'd never sell a player without an adequate replacement lined up... ::)

One thing I am guilty of is forgetting the lad only just turned 20. We'd be selling with a fee based on the potential rather than the current performance level.

He may never reach that potential, or may exceed it. who knows. But good luck to him if it turned out to be true.

I was one of the hopeful fans who thought he'd sign a new contract and stay on until the end of the season, however i had a conversation at the weekend with someone who knows him personally and unfortunately he is looking to leave. Whats more i think the club aren't overly upset by this, as long as the money is good they're happy as he is turning out to be..... I'll say high maintenance to be polite. There have been one or two unreported off the field indiscretions, which have dogged him throughout his career, even at non-league level.
Cue the abuse, but this is fact i'm afraid, here's hoping that no decent bid comes in, at least until the summer anyway.

He does give it the big 'I am'. If he was an opposing player I'd fucking hate him. A bit like Steve Claridge. Hate the fucker but would love him on your side.

Yeah, the day he scores against us is the day I hate him. Because I can only imagine he WILL cup his ear or something...

I'm a regular lurker and don't often feel the need to post comments, but fuck me are people really starting to moan about CA??? Can you blame the bloke for wanting to move on and better himself??  This bollocks about ego and high maintenance, i can't remember a player who put in as much effort or showed as much desire to play for STFC for years. Not to mention the fact that we would be fucked without his goals.
Some people have short memories.

No one on here is moaning?

agree, charlie's a gun

Yeah... I think we're all well aware where we'd be without him at the moment...

Sounds to me like Charlie's been tapped up.

If you have a club who are reluctant to sell a player, you sneakily let him know via his agent what he could be earning
elsewhere. The player becomes "unsettled" and the club is pretty much forced to sell, because as we all know
"unsettled" players don't usually perform very well.

It isn't fact at all though is it? It is bullshit rumours that maybe the club have heard of but it all stems from bullshit rumours.He want's to leave no doubt because every fucker thinks they know him or have some nice juicy gossip abouit him.

In the last 3 months some of the rumours have been nothing short of disgusting. I don't care if someone wants to remove this but let's look at some of the bollocks our so called fans have said.

He battered his missus
He caused her lose her baby
He takes drugs
He is a dealer
He is the most arrogant cunt ever,everyone i know who has met him disagrees.

The second one alone is enough to make anyone think about where they are playing.

I fully agree, we would be in serious trouble without his goals and he simply cannot be faulted for his on the field performances, they have been nothing short of superb. The high maintenance thing, it really isn't some bollocks i've made up to put a slight on his name for some bizarre reason, no one could gain anything from something as pathetic as that! However he now has to have someone with him when goes out, to put fires out before they start as such. If you still don't believe what i'm saying then do some homework on the guy at previous clubs. I wasn't trying to start an argument, although everyone will have an opinion and rightfully so, i was told this information and thought i would share it.

They say Andy Carroll is "high maintenance" at Newcastle. Doesn't mean they will offload him anymore than we will Charlie.

Let's face it, your average footballer is a mutant bell-end turd on a string. That's life.

who cares what he's like off the field (and training pitch)? this is football not some popularity contest

Well said, sir.

Surely these are more than likely 'bitter' locals opposed to town fans?

Quite. FFS, at an average of nearly a goal a game, he can be as "high maintenance" as he wants. Some of the comments in the past two pages have just been fucking ridiculous.

Well the wanting to leave thing came indirectly from the horses mouth, so i would say that is fact! The high maintenance thing, well the club now send a minder out with him because of various past issues. Guys i'm just letting you know what i do, i thought you'd like to know, although i can just make up some bullshit rumours if you want!!
As for the club not caring, of course they do, he represents them wherever he goes and the more goals scored/popularity gained the worse this gets. If you've been through a professional trial, or even attended one for that matter then you'd know even at a young age that after ability, off the field character is one of the main things looked at! So in summary, yes clubs do care!

he will move because he deserves a move.end of.

slagging players off and bullshit rumours are nothing new.
jealousy.

Ok, just as an extreme example, would you be happy to see Marlon King in a town shirt? A very good goal scoring ratio, but a fucking liability off it to put it lightly!
I am in no way comparing the two players by the way, just using that as an example.

Although it has to be said that our league position is a major factor. If we were top, I reckon Charlie would be happy
to stay at least until the summer and hopefully play for us in the Championship. Clearly that isn't going to happen this season.

In which case, could it be said that if we could get £2m odd we should sell now and use the money to strengthen the team?

Another lurker and too need to say what's the point here.
Rooney, Drogba, van Persie, Tevez all cunts, who cares..!!

At least Charlie doesn't shag grannies, get banged up, shaft the club or shit on the fans..!

I love him... :D

You are right you can't compare so don't try. Who is this minder all of a sudden the club have employed

As i've said, i'm not trying to rumour monger or anything of the like, simply passing on information. To get more specific on previous, Go to the Tavern in Hungerford and ask if he's ever been baned, how many times, when and what for!!

Banned from a pub? You serious

I didn't know it was that bad.Bring back hanging

Ok, just as an extreme example, would you be happy to see the Crossbow Cannibal in a town shirt? A very good aim, but a fucking liability off it to put it lightly!
I am in no way comparing the two players by the way, just using that as an example.

i couldn't give a fuck what he's done.
i'd love to snort a line of coke with him.he can fucking pay though

Dennis Waterman

Fuck me, I'd have Osama Bin Laden in a town shirt if he could bang 20 goals a season in..!

:)

What the fuck are you on? if you're not comparing them, why bring it up?

Fucking pointless bollocks.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/perspective_1

Yeah they don't call him "Charlie" Austin for nothing  :)

Simply making my point that clubs do care what happens off the pitch, as do fans!! Yeah that's right, a pub, and from a professional sportsman that i pay to watch, yes i do think that's bad!
I'm not gonna get involved in an argument about what's right or wrong, that is down to personal opinion. He will not be here come Feb.

Fucking hell, this is dross

Fuck me if you havent been banned from a pub you aint lived

I agree he won't be. Out of interest serious question when was he banned from the tavern

Did you quote the wrong person

Christ, is it kicking out time in the trolls' home or something?

Read the last few posts, and then go and look up irony in the dictionary

Actually this being Town it won't be Waterman as we will have let him go and replaced him with that wet bastard who replaced him

Things could have been oh so different if it hadn't been for that bloody wembley turf  :(

Can't be bothered to get involved in the whole off the field conversations.  I certainly don't want to see him go in this transfer window, but it seems inevitable now.  If it's true that he actually has said he wants to leave then I'd rather it happens in the next few days rather than it dragging out until deadline day.  Look how stressed we all are over it?!

I know it's glaringly obvious but we need to see some movement for a replacement in the transfer market and soon.  There seems to have been plenty of movement elsewhere, but as usual nothing happening at the County Ground (that we're definitely aware of anyway!)  I certainly don't want to be listening to the excuses of why we missed out on Tom, Dick and Harry the day after transfer deadline day if we get nobody in.

Also is Gasha2 and Borgnan the same person?  Two of the comments about comparing people are nearly identical.

Read the last few pages and ask yourself why any player would want to leave ::) Small minds in small towns doesn't begin to cover it

Yeah, I meant you (Or borgnan)

I think Dick's injured anyway and I've heard that Harry once got thrown out of a chip shop for pushing in the queue

Yes and the really annoying thing is that that was the last game on the old rubbish Wembley turf. Every game since has been played on a pitch more akin to a billiard table.

You obviously know why he was banned and what all this off field stuff is so why not just say what he has done, then everyone can make their own minds up can't they.

Tom's off to Brighton I believe...

What about Tom?  Oh wait, he's probably in the pub toilets with Charlie!  :D

Indeed,

If you wont say the reason, say fuck all in the first place

Hardly fair mate on a public forum, don't believe me then go and find out for yourself, simple!

You don't want Bin Laden my mates sisters cousin has heard he's been up to all manner of naughty stuff off the pitch...

Borgnan, PM us then

That would be suicide.

Exactkly.. so why raise it at all, byu saying it it just fuels the fire...

Much as I love Charlie I cannot see my missus accepting me travelling 300 miles to visit a pub to make enquiries...

it would be funny to see the linesmans face when he patted him down before he came on as a sub though!

"21 year old footballer occasionally acts like a nob shocker"

Come on guys. This misses the point. Even if Charlie Austin was some grotesque Craig Bellamy-Joey Barton hybrid
it wouldn't matter a jot.

The fact of the matter is, the guy wants to leave.

Sad as it is to say, we need to sell Charlie now and use the money to buy a fuck load of new players.

Even better, don't fucking shit stir in the first place.

No wonder he's off to Brighton then :)

"Previous" i.e. before he played for Town or even before he became a pro footballer.

Maybe Charlie isn't a saint, but who is?

I don't know who your source is or whether you/they are twisting his words, but Charlie doesn't want to leave. But when there's dickheads spreading shit about what he may or may not have done previously, moving away seems a very worthwhile option.

I think you'll find i stated some genuine info which was ridiculed as people wanted specifics, i gave some more info then it's shit stirring.

Yeah, it is. You're spreading gossip about a player's private life which has absolutely fuck all to do with his performances on the pitch. That's shit stirring. Please feel free to do one at your earliest available convenience

Charlie came
Charlie scored
Charlie was hailed by real town fans and resented by a few bitter locals
Charlie attracted interest
Charlie was sold for mahoosive profit
Charlie's profit was spent on improving the squad/keeping the club afloat
Charlie's legacy will always be a good one in Swindons history

The bloke might be a cunt (I don't know him so can't tell), but if he is, at least he is our cunt (at the moment)! If he goes, lets just hope he turns into an expensive cunt! That way, we can get another couple of cunts in to replace the cunt!

This genuine info then, you won't specify any detail and we only have your word its genuine, its not exactly what they would call hard evidence now is it....

Just fuck off you complete and utter cunt. How low is your life, that you have to shit stir on the internet? How completely devoid of any joy must you be to come on here and spout what I presume is total nonsense because you refuse to back it up. I despair for you, I really do, because you are one sad sad individual.

Pissfaggottosserspazmoidcunt

Nicely summed up sir

We're just being played.

It's fucking obvious that Austin's agent/s and other interested parties are unsettling STFC fans in preperation for his imminent departure.

Hes going to go by the end of the window - blatently.
The lack of ability to replace our top players Pericard will replace him and will proceed to bang in a shit load until the end of the season...

Keep the faith (I'm living in a cuckoo land)

Right. If people want to make claims about players personal lives then they're going to have to grow some bollocks and provide some tangible examples rather than drip feed us with tiny bits of information and silly stories about pub bans, in order to claim pseudo-kudos for having insider knowledge.

Just be warned that if you can't substantiate the claims then you could end up subject to libel action. The owner and admins of the forum aren't going to take any heat for that, it'll be solely down to you to defend your comments.

If I was Ca reading the forums, I'd think to myself "You know what I was happy here, but I can do without this shit lets leave"

FFS some of the stuff thats been said, particularly regarding his missus is disgraceful.

We've got a real talent at our club & some seem to just want to drive him away.

I've not been on here since November because of the trolls and fuckwits.

So I pop in to have a look for transfer info and find this. Some of you cunts need your fucking heads banged together.

I'm off again.

But surely he has to be proffessional and ignore such rubbish? Stories get splattered all over the press and rumours fly around. I don't think fans have influenced him or will.

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A bit like 'H' from Steps then ?

I love the phrase" Indirectly from the horses mouth" what the fuck does that mean? oh you mean from its Arse, that would explain all the shit that borgnan has been spouting

You have to take a lot of these rumours with a huge pinch of salt there are lots of people in the Hungerford/Lambourn area who would love to see the lad fail. Not a day goes past when someone does not stop me and tells me Charlie has done this or that and he is going to X(replace the x with any of 20 clubs). I think there is a lot of jealousy not just over CA footballing career but the fact his family are very well off as well, I know his old man from school and all I can say is that on the occasions I have met the lad he has come over as very shy but hey so do I until I have had 6 or 7 pints. :beers:

What the fuck is going on in this thread?! Borgnan can get a fucking ban and who else is spreading these annoying, shitty, libellous rumours please?

Enough's a fucking enough. Jealousy does not warrant trying to force OUR player away. I'm disgusted with some of the comments from our FANS and after reading some of this thread, hope he moves with 2 fingers up at our fans.

Unfortunately Barry there are many Reading fans living in Hungerford/Newbury so I don't think it is particularly Town fans starting the rumours, most of the people who stop me in Lambourn/Hungerford(knowing I am a massive Town fan locally) are armchair Premier supporters and the first thing they say is "Have you heard Charlie has done this" or "spoke to Charlie's aunties gardener and he is definitely off to X next week"

Precisely.  One of the things about internet forums is it's easy to pass yourself off as something you're not.  (Avatar of Jan doing the aeroplane...must be a Town fan!)

If Charlie does read any of this, he should just bear in mind that some of the folk posting here are not regular posters, may well not be Swindon fans at all and almost certainly have an ulterior motive.

Well fucking said.

Just wasted 10 mins or so reading the last 6 or 7 pages of this thread.

Charlie Austin is a 21 year old lad. When I was 21, i did alot worse things that get chucked out of a fucking pub. Although I suspect this is another bullshit story made by some jealous idiot who have it in for Charlie.

As for the ego, what fucking footballer doesn't have an ego ???! Especially a striker! It's part of their game and they thrive on it ! George Best was a drunken, womanising, big headed cunt to put it lightly but did Man Utd fans care ??

Who are we to judge the lad off the pitch? We are in no position to do so.

I don't care what he does off the pitch, thats his and the clubs agenda not mine. As long as he gives 100% on the pitch when he plays I really don't give a shit what he does.

It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of it is all bollocks anyway, it normally is.

I was wrong about Borgnan and his ban has been removed. Sure, what he says is a bit spikey, but it would appear he didn't intend to cause the problems he did. (I'm also a drama queen.)

hahaha quoted for truth.

Reading threads like this makes me glad that I have a life in the evenings and early hours!

Some sad twats frequent this place sometimes.  What happened to the harmless drunken threads started by Ben?

I think the least you can do is change the thing under his name to something insulting

If Austin had done even half of the rumour stuff I've heard he'd be in jail for the next 5 years.

I mean pro footballers arent exempt from the law are they? If he genuinely had done all of this shit the law would have been involved by now.

Not with Dennis Waterman around.

So, thats where the Greer money went then!

I'd like to (like some timeless childish retort) but I lack the ability to do things like that well. fB is You are the talent we need.

"Tittle tattler"

Thank you Mr. d. My post stands corrected.

Always in the know aren't you Brian - leave it alone you didn't make it private life's are just that..private

Someone posted the other day about Celtic not looking at Austin anymore as they were looking elsewhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/9345994.stm

Possibly could mean they could reignite interest in CA.

Doubt it, if that article's correct:


Unless they'd be willing to pay more for Charlie than they were for a Norwegian international

Sad thing is it really dosn't matter....he will be gone within the week....so who gives a fuck about rumours....i want to know who our new centre forward will be......rather read about those rumours.

Bloody hell Leefer you are depressed today.

this

He's not alone though.  Two people I know who are season ticket holders have told me today that they are so pissed off with everything on and off the field that they won't be renewing their season tickets.  One has said that he can't even be bothered with the rest of this season.  My dad has followed swindon for more than 50 years and even he says he feels conned after all the promises that were made in the summer and as far as he's concerned we're going backwards again. This is obviously only the tip of the iceberg and I don't doubt there's plenty more thinking along these lines.  I'm not far off tbh.

Unless some money is invested on new players in the next couple of weeks in the obvious positions they are needed, Fitton and Co are seriously going to run the risk of cutting their regular home support in half.

If people are going to stop going because for the sole reason we have been shit this season then they are fickle.

Let's wait and see what happens in the next few weeks before we run our mouths off about Fitton and how the club currently is.

You sound like most people who were pissed off in the Malpas era or even beyond that. This is nowhere near that bad. OK so things haven't gone well on the pitch but we're a much better club now than we were even a few years back. We have to rebuild now for next season not just the rest of this one. So sadly selling players is a part of that as well as signing them. I think it's a bit extreme to claim that the support will cut in half and that you're not going to bother anymore just because we've sold Sean Morrison (i'm not aiming that directly at you btw I just mean in general)but hey ho.

On the field, I can understand, it has been a very disappointing season so far. Won't stop me renewing, nor most people I know, but I can understand it. But, genuinely curious, what's their beef with "off the field" stuff? The club seems better run and healthier than it's been for a long time off the field

It's not about being fickle and it's not about one bad season. It's more a case of having been shit and the club being in an utterly dire state for years and years, it looked like we were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But this season there's been no progression. Selling Greer, horribly inconsistent performances, probably selling Austin, I know....blah blah blah moan moan moan...it think it's having your hopes built up and then dashed again and again. It just fucking wears you down after a while. I'm in the Leefer camp  :suicide:

I'm not saying Fitton's doing a bad job, or Wilson. I'm just sick of it.

If Leefers depressed, what hope do the rest of us have!!

Agree whole heartedly

To be honest, I think we need a bit of a clear out of some of our fans anyway. The South Stand central 3 blocks have just become 1 massive whinge fest.

Its not that bad, the team is in re-building and we'll be back next year. No doubt all these same non renewers will be so bitter by then that they wont be comming back, well stuff em.

I know we’re in a far better position financially than we have been for years.  Maybe that naively makes me think that we should be able to hold on to our assets for longer than we seem to be able to currently.

The statement about attendances being cut in half was a bit ott  I agree.  However, I do think there is real risk that attendances will drop massively next season on the back of this one.   This will then impact further on the need to continue selling players and set us back further?  It’s also not just about Morrison, it’s a follow on from Paynter, Greer and potentially Austin.  Losing 4 key players in 7 months is never going to go down particularly well.

I hope I am completely wrong, but I just don’t feel particularly confident that the money will be reinvested where it’s needed. I’ll be the first to eat humble pie if this is not the case.

People bought into the success of last season, even tho we lost at Wembley it was a great season. We all hoped for something similar or even better as the league this year is on paper easier than last season. All of the hard work from last season with recruiting new fans and building up the support has been undone. Im unsure if i will buy a ST for next season due to personal reasons but i can easily see why people are giving up.

So the performance isn't meeting your expectations. I'm afraid that comes as part of being a football fan. Will it stop you going? If it does you're fickle.

One could argue we wouldn't have seen Austin come here without the current setup. The Celtic lads wouldn't have come here under the old board. That's progression. It's rightly (and constantly) pointed out that we sold Greer and didn't replace him. That's hardly the root of the lack of progression despite what we thought earlier in the season.

It's not even like we had a choice not to sell Morrison. He's not been a key player for us by choice, he's inconsistent and that is always getting picked on by the fans. I will be moaning when we play shit but the club is still being run well despite the poor season.

Get a grip you fannies.

Not if you've been going for 50 years. That's hardly fickle.

I dont disagree with you. But i can see why new fans and former supporters who decided to give the club a chance and start to attend games again with the hope of seeing something different from recent years feel like they have been sold a lie.

What is the reason we are so shit compared to last season? Is it the sale of Greer? Is it because we haven't replaced him? If so, then the news of losing another Cb is not the most refreshing.

So this season is the straw that broke the camel's back? Cheerio then.

Talk for yourself....i for one never picked on him....and its a bit of a myth that he got picked on...most i know supported him and wanted him to do well....which he did.

Should have read "picked up on" leefer. He was inconsistent. For what it's worth I thought he would become a decent enough player but seems to have stagnated a bit. Disappointing we've let a promising youngster go but I don't think he'll ever be as good as Cuthbert.

That's football though and it goes back to the point Si made. You can't expect your team to win every week it just doesn't happen. Last season was a breath of fresh air and I think most of us enjoyed it and made the most of it while we could. Many of us would have believed we might not be seeing a season like that again for a while but it certainly wouldn't stop us going. In my eyes there shouldn't be any "let's give this club a chance" crap. You're a fan or you're not. Simple as that.

I don't know the answer to the question but I do know that the poor results we've had this season haven't just been down to the sale of Greer. How can 1 player affect a whole team? Other players have been poor and not up to the standards and the players that have come in have taken time to gel and at times haven't been good enough either. That's not down to us selling Greer at all.

I mean sure selling players isn't exactly news fans might want to hear but like I say Morrison wasn't exactly the bees knees and wasn't totally commited to the club. Why not sell? It wasn't really the board's fault this time.

Dont agree onion.....there are many Town fans who would come back if they felt the club were pushing on....on/off pitch.....i mean Reading were getting 4000 before the club started to show the public they were serious about a top fotball club.....its not right to say you you are either a fan or your not.....many fans cant/wont pay a lot of money to watch rubbish...

Combination of things Paul.  These are the reasons I've heard:

The old favourites of allowing Greer to go and not adequately replacing, not extending Paynter's contract earlier,  subsequently getting no money for him and again not adequately replacing.  

Fitton has been fairly conspicious with his silence this season, wheras last season when we were doing well he was commentating on the radio and regularly giving interviews around all aspects of the club.   He only seems to have given interviews when it's clear he's really pissed off about something and apparently hasn't attended many games recently, so is possibly losing interest all round?

Seems to backtrack on things he's previously said in interviews.

Something and nothing really, people just feeling pissed off I guess?

Dave Mitchell, in other words...

Out of interest Si, would you still see it as progression if the worst case scenario happened and we ended up in Leage 2 next season?

I'm just saying off the field we have made progress. On the field we have taken a massive backward step this season but it won't be a long term thing even if we do go down.

I'm gobsmacked that it appears that this season is the one which has done the damage to people's loyalty. Was nobody around for the Malpas season? That was more depressing than being relegated to league two.

Fair enough. Tbh, most of that I'd class as being on-field, apart from the stuff about Fitton's interviews. Don't think he can win in that regard, though - if he says nowt, then you get the "Where's Fitton then?" comments and when he does come out and say something, he gets slated for wearing his heart on his sleeve, or rocking the boat over transfers etc. (There was an example of that today on the thread about his comments on Charlie in the Adver).

Like you say, though, sounds like "and another thing" stuff - none of it would be an issue if the football was a bit better, unlike the situation a few years back when even getting promoted couldn't mask the shit behind the scenes.

For some it's this season, for others it may have been Malpas. For some it would have been the McMahon era, and so on.

I personally haven't given up long term by any means. This season is just a fucking ball-breaker though and I'm sick of it.

Maybe I worded that bit slightly wrong but the point I was getting at is that regardless of how bad we are doing most fans would still turn up even if it was not for every game. It's a valid point about the money issue especially in these financial times but i've heard all sorts of excuses over the last 10 years as to why people were not going. First it was that we were shite, then it was Andy King, then it was the board (that one was valid though), then it was Malpas, then it was lack of ambition from the board and yet all of those seemed to rectify last season. Even prices went down on season tickets. And yet people were still staying away until the latter stages. Why? For me they are only interested if we are doing well. I wouldn't call that total support.

For me last season showed what this club and board is capable of doing. We are more than able to get promotion under this board from this division. It won't be this season and it may not be for another 2 seasons or possibly more but in time things will get better. I do believe that. You have to take the rough with the smooth.

I'd say this season has very much been like the Malpas season.

Infact, I'd go as far as to say its even more of a disappointment than the Malpas season.

I can kind of understand why people are more pissed off this season even though we've had much worse times and seen much worse football before. It's the "it's the hope that kills you" factor - we kind of expected it to be shit before, but with things sorted out off the pitch for the first time in years and a genuine sight of "here's what you could have won" last season, it gave people a glimpse of success and progress for the first time in years. To have it dangled in front of you and seemingly snatched away can feel worse than never having had sight of it at all. It's classic "playoff hangover" syndrome.

Agreed, especially as the expectation after last season was so high.

Paul has hit the nail on the head here.  We came so bloody close and fell at the final hurdle, but although massively disappointed after Wembley, I couldn't wait for the new season.  Even when we lost Paynter and Greer in the summer, I still honestly thought we were good enough to be up challenging near the top of the league again.  In fact, I would go so far as to say I expected us to be in the hunt for automatic promotion this time round not a play off place.  The fact that has been the complete opposite has been massively disappointing to say the least.

In the Malpas era I never had any expectation, because we were permanently shite.

 I blame it on the kit never liked it from day one :badmood:

We should never have worn white at Wembley.




FACT!

INCONTROVERTIBLE! It's all been down hill ever since

 Dear old Maurice gets a lot of stick, but he never really had an era....42 league games W13 D11 L18.....not great, but comparable to where we are atm.

 I think the season hinged on 2 games.....Plymuff at home...we just won 3 in a row, 2 down early got back in Prutton sees red and we concede in 6th minute of added on time. Then Posh away....both these games showed some fighting spirit and a bit of belief still.

 Now we seem to have players playing for moves or new contracts, rather than the club.

 It's a symptom of the modern game...

I don't know about any of you but when I was at Ashton Gate the day we went down in '06, I honestly thought we were going to be in the bottom league for a very long time. We got promoted the season after and after a few nervy months Fitton and his consortium bought the club. People seem to forget that we were very close to going bust. The three years since had us witness the mid table mediocrity of 08, the staying up by the skin of our teeth in 09 (that OTJ injury time equaliser at Carlisle was crucial) and the Wembley heartache last May.

No doubt Fitton and Co are the right people for this football club, they have done an excellent job of the pitch they just have to get it right more on the pitch.

The difference this year is that we have relied on one person to score goals and have conceded more goals due to frailties in defence.

Solution: Change the strike force and defence.

Selling Morisson appears to be beyond our control. Think he has been played alot to put him in the shop window. Think the longer term solution is to bring on Lesc and Cuthbert by pairing them with an experienced pro like Frampton.

Austin is a cash-cow. Ideally would like to keep him, but the right offer would enable us to rebuild. Clearly Pericard-Austin, Dossevi-Austin & Doessevi-Pericard doesn't work. Wouldn't mind losing all 3 to be honest. Have seen us survive post Mayes, Quinn, Bamber, Shearer, Thorne, Fjortoft, Hay, Allison, Hay, Cox and Paynter. We will survive post Austin - I just hope that we get a big payday from him.

P.S. Can't help but think what this season would have been like if we had kept matey-boy from Southend who went to Leyton Orient. His Paynter-esque style might have meant Paynters goals from last year might not have dried up this year.

I don't think people have forgot how close we were to going bust but i also think they don't forget when they are told about 3 year plans and that we don't have to sell. I been trying to put my finger on what is going wrong for some time and think i know the problem.

We have no genuine real prospects coming through that we can pin our hopes on apart from Miles Storie so we are buying fringe players like Caddis Ferry Cuthbert and Ritchie in the hope that they perform and we can make a few quid but as soon as they perform they are off and we replace them with simalar players who won't just fit in.

I see someone say earlier that this season is a rebuilding process but i am afraid with this buy young and sell for profit policy we are just going to have a rebuilding process every fucking season.

If people are pissed off with Morrison leaving best of luck with when Cuthbert fucks off next

Revell...big mistake not signing him. I said it at the time as well, not just being wise in hindsight.


At the risk of looking like an ignorant prick.....who?

Thats football now.

In some ways your more likely to hold onto the good older players, because the young players hit a bit of form and become big time 'Charlies'.

Revell was very much a mediocre player. Anyone who thinks an Alex Revell would get us top half of L1 is wrong. Very very average, at best.

Youth team player coming through,pretty much our only real hope of making any money.

You ignorant prick.

I thought josh parsons was suppsoed to be decent?

I thank you ;)

To be fair fuck knows. Was speaking to someone today who is under the impression the production line has basically dried up with the exeption of this Storie lad.

And how would you rate Pericard and Dossevi out of interest?

Id rather revell than pericard, at least he can score

word

ten times the player

that might be the case of the current youth team,but nobody can forsee how the younger players will develop.
there's always those who spring a surprise and come good, and others who fail to reach their early potential.

Sorry mate that's what i meant the current youth team. Suppose what i am saying is the last few years we have been fortunate to sell players like Lucas,Tozer Henshall etc that have helped the coffers and now we don't have that luxury we are seeing young first team players going earlier than we want.

How is Budgie now I wonder

Doing very well mate has a few things lined up been doing a bit of work at spurs i believe.

Pericard - average, goes backward too often. Not good, but it doesnt excuse the amount of shit Swindon fans have given him. The Pericard shit was started by a racist element and a lot of Swindon fans have joined in.

Dossevi - an enigma, I assume they have a position on the continent for him that doesnt exist in England, maybe a right winger in a 4-3-3? He is a good footballer, but has no confidence in front of goal. Said all season he was a problem player because he doesnt have a position in our team.

Id say both are better footballers than Revell. But Revell was hanging onto his League career by a thread and come out fighting. They could both do with some of that desperation. But based on what Ive seen of Revell (for and against Swindon) a very very mediocre player. If your're playing Revell every week then you aren't going to get to Play off standard.

i know you were not asking me but i think they are both fucking terrible nonetheless.

I will probably get shouted down yet again, but isnt Bodin doing a great job identifying talent and bringing them through ? NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, apart from Luci's boyfriend Billy, buts that just pure nepotism

A bit early to say that Fred, he's been here two years. Youth Team people have a bit of a time lag before you can judge their success or otherwise, and he'll only have been in charge of recruitment since Byrne left, before that his job would have been coaching rather than talent identification- in fact, I'm not even sure that's his job now.

Apart from his son. He should have more sons.

Probably being biased mate but yes i agree.

The thing Byrne did well was that he was looking at other teams youth systems, and not just our own. He was on the pulse when a promising player was released from another club's youth system.

didn't the players byrne bring in come from plymouth?
i think he got lucky to a point.

great succession planning then ?

Yeah, but I remmember him saying Nile Ranger was a good player when he was released from Southampton.

Even if he is a scumbag.

I dont see why it matters.

Any decent young player will be long gone from Swindon way before he plays and long before he's old enough to sign a professional contract so we will get bugger all 'tribunal' money anyway.

I see what your saying but every club is a selling club if the offer is sufficient and the player wants to go. Obviously the lower down the leagues you go the more often its likely to happen.

But I see your point entirely, every season with this type of policy you will have to expect the big players to leave and as we know its not always easy to replace them, and if and when we do replace them and the player is successful then its only a matter of time until we sell the player on again. What you will have to expect is seasons like these when the successful players who have left haven't been replaced and your in a period of transition. Fans aren't patient.

Or what you could expect is the manager to do his job and replace the players who leave.

Its not always possible though is it.

Personally I'd rather we took our time and brought in quality rather than go back to the days of signing people for the sake of it.

what like dossevi,pericard,obrien,caddis,prutton,etc,etc?????

Cuthbert, Ferry, Sheehan, Caddis, Douglas and Ritchie would be good signings imo that would fit into the quality category, it's impossible to always get signings right but the club's policy means we should get it right more than we get it wrong.

I think Caddis will turn out to be a good signing arriba.

to be fair he has good pedigree,but you seee my point yeah?

:nod:

We've had Dossevi and Prutton for half a season so not fair to judge them yet, I'd agree on Pericard and O'Brien as they've been here long enough to judge them.

Fact is many of the players looked good signings at the time......it just hasn't clicked this season.

When did o'brien look like a good player?

The talentless cunt

The League Cup game against Wolves last year, which I think may have been his first start. I was properly excited about him after that, all a bit downhill since.

Nah, he started against gillingham. Looked fairly decent then went off injured after half hour, quelle suprisé

Can I also state my delight at the fact the main Charlie Austin thread has turned out to be one which starts by accusing him of tormenting cats :)

Lets hope if Charlie has any minimum fee release clauses in his contract, they were better negotiated than Morrisons deal

Charlton?

Boyzone isn't talentless though. That's the frustrating thing.

Oh do fuck off. 250k for morrison IS good value, especially in the scenario he signed the contract, and anyone who thinks otherwise not worthy of an opinion

He doesnt have a minimum release clause.  As stated by Fitton Morrison was the last players to have one, he didnt like it, but it was the only way to get the deal done.  I dont think Fitton should be the scapegoat on this.  Morrison and his agent have insisted on this and they've decided to bugger off.

Fitton said he was angry with Charlie about his press comments on the Hull offer.

He was shit again today. Remeniscent of cureton.

Heard others say that too. Inclined to agree.

Thing is they were all shit but his performance will stand ut because of the speculation. He very rarely actually plays very well but scores but if he doesnt get chances we got fuckall to judge him on.

 :D

First time today that I actually heard people getting on his back a bit for wayward passes etc.  Normally everyone chooses to ignore it because it's Charlie.

He missed a sitter though...Stratton Bank,not easy but should have scored.
Pericard would have needed a police escort from the ground for missing that.

You're right and in actual fact Leefer if we're honest he's missed far more sitters lately than he has scored goals.

I think its a bit harsh calling it a sitter.  LJF should really have got his head to it, Charlie came in at the back post and arrived a bit late so was stretching just to reach it and ended up getting right under it.
Take the point that VP would have taken much more stick in the same position....but really he'd have been about 5 yards away from reaching the ball so situation wouldn't have occurred  :)

Point taken...i was in the Town End so maybe looked worse from there.

No, it was bad. he was stretching, but you'd still expect him to score it.

I don't think his attitude has got any worse - he still puts in a helluva shift. It;s just not going for him in front of goal at the moment,

His petty whining and diving is really getting on my tits.

His head's been turned by the lure of Championship football.  Has been for some time but now it appears to be impacting his performances in a more obvious way.

Not a patch on Pericard.

At least when Austin is sold for £1.5mn we can pair Dossevi and Pericard together.... hmmm sexy football.

finally!!!! touched the ball 3 times and got 2 goals from it even the players seem to shy away from passing to AOB hasnt had as much playing time as pericard so cant see why hes in the same book but the injuries are the reason people think hes shit.

seems like a confidence player just a shame that hes had none since arriving here

I think Austin has had too much hype and is being a bit more careful as he does not want to run the risk of injury thus scuppering his move to championship team, if he is going to go then sell him at the correct price so we can get on and get a decent replacement

You seem to have forgotten the main point that he actually is shit.
Its no good having the pace that he has if you cant do anything with the ball is it

People need to realise he has never had to deal with this before. He hasn't been afforded the luxury of being taught how to deal with being a pro footballer.

He will be being dragged left right and centre having to know how to deal with this situation.

If we are trying to sign that Benyon fella would we give a fuck if he came out and said he wanted to join us? No of course we wouldn't and shouldn't.

He is too good for us in our current situation and if we are bemused with players leaving etc then no doubt he is aswell.

More tittle tattle

http://www.clarets-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/howe_targets_austin_620981/index.shtml

Who's this Billy Painter fella then?

Any good?

How many teams in the championship though could actually afford to spend £2m on 1 player ?

I'd guestimate:
QPR - only signing loan players in the window
Nottm Forest  - Possibly
Burnley - Still get prem parachute payments
Hull - recently taken over
Millwall - only if the sold Morrison
Leicester - don't need a striker
Ipswich - got no manager

I have have a sneaky suspicion that Austin may end of staying until the summer as I don't see many teams able to spend that sort of money at the moment needed to sucure him

If he goes anywhere I think it'll be to Burnley to team back up with Eddie Howe.

He won't go to Forest because they're signing that SA player.

Im starting to believe that he he will stay till the end of the season.

burnley's a great shout...

what was the reason behind all the saints rumours saturday?

Paul Jewell is manager of Ipshit.

When have QPR said they're only loaning players?

I imagine if he does go, QPR and Burnley are the most likely destinations.

My hopes of him staying until the summer are receding by the day though - he looks like in his mind he's already off and at that point there's not much you can do.

Yep could be some truth in that one, as Howe wanted to sign him at Bournemouth

Anyone know if Charlie has twitter? I've been reading that an account claiming to be him has been talking about Celtic.

"Celtic are a massive club with great support but I'm just focused on doing well for Swindon and helping the team."

"Every player has aspirations to play at the highest level possible and in that respect I'm no different. The chance of European football doesn't come along every day and the chairman understands my ambitions but first & foremost I'm still Swindon Town player and will continue to give 100% to help the team push for the play-off's and hopefully Championship football next season."

Sounds suspect to me that he'd say all that on twitter if he is on there.

He is on Twitter, but hasnt posted since early december, so as with the other 100% of rumours on here, utter bollocks.

Did think it was, i'm hoping we keep him till the end of the season as we need him to get us out of trouble.

There are two accounts - very similar by name but one is fake and one is real.  Pretty sure @Charlie32Austin is the real one.

Really? I'm sceptical.

Off to Sunderland to replace Darren Bent

Saw an interview on Sky with Warnock who mentioned it

Before Jamie Mackie was injured

Warnock said on his talksport show with Alan Brazil that he has no money to spend and that he had to make use of the loan market. That was on last Sundays (9/1).

Ah OK cheers guys.

Roawn vine gone to Franchise so no chance of him.

Good, don't rate him anyway.

Sorry to divert from the thread, but ive just cracked open FM 2007 on my laptop

Hahahahahahahaha

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Via a friends source .......

Charlie has handed in a transfer request!!!

Someone on the Swindon Facebook page also said there will be an announcement about the Austin Situation tonight on Points West, maybe he has handed one in ,but if he has, then let him go, the last thing you want is a player that doesn't want to be here disrupting the team

And your friend knows this how?

Friends friends dad works at the adver ......

Might be crap, but might not be ..... With the way things are looking and his performance on Saturday, I would stick more money on it being true than not!

why would he hand in a transfer request when its already a done deal with Millwall, Hull, Newcastle, Reading, Southampton and Burnley?

We're going to rich when all those transfer fees come in.

It's all an elaborate con. We're going to take all their money but he's not actually going to go anywhere.

Mwahahahahaha.

We're gonna be fucked when Charlie goes to all those places, Vince goes to Le Harve and Dossevi goes to Sunderland.  Thats a lot of pressure on Billy Bodin.

Well he better have a good first touch or I'm booing the fuck out of him.

If he doesn't have a number in his name Im booing the fuck out of him

Lots of love gk_n3sh.

gk_n4sh, surely?

If he's going we're fucked. Simple as that.

We have lost better players than Charlie and still carried on, as AM says the club MUST come first no matter what, yes I will be upset if (when) Charlie leaves but the club need us to get behind the team again which currently a huge proportion of the fans aren't.

Yes we are playing crap, we often play crap, but sometimes we play well, thats what makes the dark moments like Saturdays home defeat by Yeovil bearable.

Just over 3 years ago we nearly had no bloody team to follow, in that time we have had one average season, one bad season, one good season, and so far half a bad season, lets make sure we dont get dragged into the relegation dogfight. If we can string just a couple of wins together then we can sit safely in mid table, yes if we lose the next 2 or 3 games then we are in the shit but if the fans aren't behind the team then they wont want to play for us, the fans, they will only play for themselves with no desire and do just enough to get through games without ever excelling.

We are all fucked off with performances of the players, manager, even the fans (with the constant bating of Pericard that goes on even before hes kicked a ball in anger on the pitch).

So lets TRY and give Fitton, Wilson and the players the benefit of doubt and hope that Charlie is replaced with someone that can score a couple of goals, the new man wont be as good as Charlie (they dont come round often to teams like us) so thanks for the year or so Charlie, all the best for the future and I hope you do well but we need to get it sorted and get the best price we can for him now and move on.

Goodbye and goodluck Charlie, you obviously want to move on now rather than at the end of the season, so be it, lets get behind the team at Rovers and hope for a good result, onwards and upwards.

I like that..

That is my fear as well.  A lot of the mong supporters will turn on Fitton i suspect.

Excellent post, JJ  :clap:

Is he going then or what? Because it seems like people are already assuming he's off.

Obviously I hope he stays (at least until the summer), but if he is going I would prefer it to be sooner to give us some chance of getting in some fresh players before the transfer window shuts.

Anyone know when the deadline is for loan deals?

You cant blame Charlie for wanting to progress - you have to take your chance when it comes - but what was wrong was mouthing off to the press.  

He is however a quality player and there is no doubt for as long as he is at Swindon he will always give 100 percent - he always has and always will as its an integral part of his game.

I personally would take £1 and a half million to £2mil and then go and spend the cash on the squad overall -

When not if Onion....to be honest its a sad end..............just a feeling that some Town fans are a bit miffed with him............the last few matches he has been poor.
Its just a shame that we have only been able to hold on to him for a year.....he could have became a Town legend.
Lets hope Wilson will get some of his fee to replace him.....  

If reports are true then this is now a pivotal moment for both Charlie and the club.

I've been around long enough to see the likes of Rogers,Eastoe,Mayes,Rideout,Big Dunc,Jan the man
and Super Sammy Parkin all move on.

Whilst it's disappointing to see fans favourites move on,we've always survived and will continue to do so.

Thanks so much Charlie for everything that you've done.We wish you well,but everything is clearly affecting you
it would be better for all parties that this is resolved.It's something we as fans also need to do.

Hopefully,the club can use the money to buy some players during the remaining 2 weeks.

Never forget that the club always comes 1st,2nd and everything in between!



*Apologies to those who read my original post,but i went to add something and it disappeared!

Off to Reading according to Points West....

Would suprise me that....they have lots of strikers......maybe one is coming our way.
Heard today Eddie Howe said he would love him at Burnley.....

It was only a rumour to be fair..... it was read out by the bloke who's doing that late kick off thing.

Poole Town will be keeping a keen interest....they are getting a small cut(big for them) i think.

I think it will be Burnley.

Howe wont want to miss out on him again, and theyve got the money.

Plus ... He can share the driving with Howe. Done deal, ennit?

I don't think he'll leave now. 17th Jan and still no bids anywhere near our valuation of him.

In the summer he'll be off.

But Howe's just taken over Burnley and is being given funds to mount a play off push, Howe had him on trial at Bournemouth and wanted to sign him but couldn't due to the embargo so clearly rates him so I would expect a bid from Burnley to be forthcoming.

There's still two weeks to go! I think you're wishing. Transfers sometimes get done at 16:55 on the last day.

He'll be off. Make no doubt about that.

I thought that Ralphy....but his body language was awfull v Yeovil......he will be away i think in the next two weeks.

End of the day, if he doesn't want to play for us then bye bye. I know it's Charlie but no player is bigger than the club. Thanks for the goals.

Maybe that's why the Morrison deal hasn't been announced, doing it all in one hit. Particularly if there are a couple of loanees involved, that would all take time.

Or, given that reading haven't announced the deal either, perhaps it's not been fully completed yet? (FL paperwork etc)

God this is depressing.

Austin to Burnley makes sense on all levels.

Its vital we replace him, last time we were in this position and sold our top scorer, well you know...

I hope the club hold out for in and around £2 million. He is worth that.

Reading are also buying Manset from Hereford apparently...looks a bull of a player.
Dont think Austin will go to Reading personally.

He isn't Imo. Round about 1.2, with some add ons and a 20% sell on will be enough.

Spot on Sutton. I still think £1 million ish. If you look at it, that would be an amazing profit and good business considering what we paid for him.

http://clarets-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/howe_targets_austin_620981/index.shtml

He's worth at least 2 mill in the January window

With his record he's worth more. 18 Months left on his contract also.

He he, good work leefer

And the time(s) before that, lets hope if he does go that we don't replace him with a left back (Drysdale) or a midget (Terry Gibson)

or Trevor fucking Benjamin.

he's woth 2.5 million cos we don't want to sell

Well that's what's being said in public, certainly..

Can't tell you what the percentage is, it's been kept very quiet

Even 5% would represent big bucks for Poole.

Well if Morrisson - the Millwall version - is valued at £4m, then Charlie has got to be in the £2m bracket.  But if anybody was watching him at Oldham or on Saturday they want to revise that down pretty sharpish.  Oh, and the rumour we were told on Saturday was Birmingham in the summer.

This Elliot Benyon fella, why would he want to play for Swindon Town ?

His name keeps being mentioned but surely other clubs must be looking?

I wouldn't be opposed to that if i'm being honest. In the summer would give us enough time to get a decent replacement.

Long as we get a decent amount...around 2million in my view i dont care when he goes.

Been great for the club....its time he moved on now..he aint happy.

Im retracting this statement  :bye:

I gotta feeling he may wait until the summer aswell. Qpr and Saints are both interested so would imagine he will wait and see what leagues they are in unless the board accept before then from someone else.

This topic is getting a large amount of guests looking at it. Would assume half the fans of clubs in The Championship are scanning or any inside gossip?

Because we are financially stable, ambitious, high profile for a middle ranked L1 club, and probably have a new ground on the way. The only downside is we are a bit shit at the moment, but I'm confident that is temporary, and most ambitious up and coming players would see that, or at least have decent advisors to point that out.

In which case, I hope they all realise that it's well known round here that Charlie is a broken man since the secret of his weekends in Hungerford indulging in pre-op cross-dressing came out and has been heard to say he'll never be the same player again. So they may as well stop coveting him. Ta.

With my old fashioned morals, bit ungrateful I call it

 
Me or Charlie :hmmm:

Agree with you Leefer.  I was desperate for him to stay, but once a player's made their mind up and it certainly looks like he has, they need to be let go asap.  As much as it pains me to say it I do think all the attention has got to him a bit and he believes he's outgrown Swindon Town FC now.  Can't blame him when we're doing so poorly tbh, but still disappointing that he clearly seems to have lost interest.  

We'd have had a better chance of keeping hold of him until the summer if we were chasing something this season. It would have been far more difficult for him to turn his back on the possible glory of being in a promotion winning side than to walk away from the current situation we're in.  

My other concern is the distress my 7 year old is currently experiencing.  His favourite two players are/were Super Charlie Austin and Big Sean Morrison.  Bad times  :(

You know what Dave i been thinking about this.At first i was really pissed off with him but now when i think about it this has to be both ways. The club have said numerous times that if the right bid comes along then they will sell.Sort of made me think its just about money from both sides really.

I'll give you financially stable but are we ambitious? Really ?

Sorry i'm feeling very pessimistic tonight ! It's all this talk of Charlie leaving, Morrison leaving, division 4 football next season and we still don't have a chef for fucks sake !

Does anybody on here know somebody who works for the adver? Apparently they have a CA story to release tomorrow. Could be worth a call.

Think the dressing down Fitton gave him(according to the Adver) wouldn't have helped.
I read the article and i thought it was ok....was just honest.

Anthony Marshall hasn't tweeted anything. Just says Prutton gives a frank interview.

Prutton's got a fair bit to say about everything in the Adver, shame he can't translate some of it onto the pitch!

Anthony Marshall doesn't work for the Adver anymore, he's up At Newcastle now

Sorry my mistake, the new guy!

Anyway, here's his tweet....

In tomorrow's Adver: A lot of honesty. Assessment of current situation at Town, frank interview with Prutton and fans' comments

I'm sure you know who I mean really Lee  ;)
@Dean, yep it's all about money, and it's a shame the board have leaked their willingness to sell

Fans: We are in a relegation dog fight. It's been coming for a while.

Prutton: We have to forget the play offs this season, we're in a relegation battle now.

Wilson: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...been unlucky....blah blah blah....not too far off....blah blah blah waiting on new players....blah blah.

The club would be stupid to turn down a bid of 1.5m+ and it's ridiculous to say the board only think of the money, it's obvious we would sell if a good offer came in, that's a fact of life for our level of football.

Sorted it for you ;)

Wilson: The Dean Ashton transfer hasn't gone through because some cunt from the TEF made it up. I thought I better check with Dean in case though, sometimes you just need a bit of luck. I'm still waiting on his answer but I don't think it's too far off.

Do you know Dean Aston was born in Swindon :D

I asked Phil King on sat if Dean Ashton was coming and he said def. Player manager.

Are you sure he didn't think you meant Dean Athsnot?

Phil king and charlie henry wern't very impressd about the sale of sean morrison from what they said suprised me. supost to be a club progressing and we sell our best players and all that.

Yeah it's a joke. Next you'll be telling me Man Utd sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid....

Fitton and Wilson have said over and over again that STFC are a selling club!

Every player has a price.

My understanding is that Morrison and Austin want to leave, so...

Like I said before, the blokes a cunt.

You heard it here first!

Again, would you like a gold star?

He doesn't want to be here anymore. Thanks for last season and it's now time to cash in.

There is no new sports editor at the adver......

Well I'd describe myself as a slightly overweight right back/holding midfileder with no pace, not sure I'm what the club really needs at the moment, but if he wants to make me an offer I'll consider it :D

No loyalty at all the cunt can fuck off now   :bye:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1348413/New-Burnley-boss-Eddie-Howe-eyes-wantaway-Swindon-Town-striker-Charlie-Austin.html?ITO=1490

Ow

1.2m....even if the Mail has made it up, isn't enough.

With some add-ons and a % sell-on clause don't think that's far off what we'll end up getting.

just because he wants to leave doesn't mean we have to accept that bid.

in my eyes a minimum of 1.5m Cash + add ons would be a good price. But it needs to be done quick if we're to replace him and Morrison.

I would be content with any sum over 1.2, providing we get a decent player in return for a club looking to do business that way. dont know whether burnley would be looking to offload jay rodriguez, somehow i doubt it but he seems a decent player

It would have to be closer to £2m + add on's, Charlie is only 21 and has a lot of potential any club would have to pay for that he still has 18 months on his contract so we don't have to sell him to the first reasonable offer (Hull wasn't reasonable)

I agree that he is worth that much, but i dont think we will get an offer anywhere near that. As long as Fitton reinvests a decent amount of whatever we get for Austin on players, im happy.

The club have confirmed to me that the Twitter account @Charlie32Austin isn't him. Where do these weirdos get off on impersonating people?

31 goals in 52 league games is fucking fantastic and worth alot more than 1.2 mil!! I'm sure charlie would make it easy in the championship. its not hugely diffrent to league 1,. look at the teams that went up last season they havent changed dramaticly.

If that double barreled Oxlade bloke is worth £10, million then anything less than that for a goal scorer is not enough. Having said that the aforementioned ain't worth that but anything under 2 million would be a rip off. And by 2 million I am not talking £50k upfront & the balance if he gets called up by England

The Celtic Forum are saying they want Neil Lennon to sign him ASAP as they see him and Gary Hooper an unstoppable partnership in the SPL.

Probably the same sort of feeling as you get when you harp on about him being your best mate ;)

He's not my best mate.

He's my mate's best mate.

Gah, get with it Dave ::)

Samdy, seeing as this hasn't been confirmed yet, has he actually handed in a transfer request or are we being trolled by the adver?

Yes, he has.

I don't know Bazza. Still haven't been able to find out.

But it appears VD has.

Well I have been told he has by someone who would definitely know.

Doesnt mean its actually true, but I believe it is.

I'm not 100% sure he has.  Charlie knows the club has his best interests at heart and any offers that comes in for him the club will consult with him just like they did with Simon Cox.  

The media is making something bigger out of this than it is, not saying he won't go in the January Transfer window but Charlie is a decent lad and those people that have been posting trash about him on the adver website couldn't be more wider of the mark.

Could a be a speculative punt but maybe, just maybe, this is an attempt by the agent to trigger a bidding frenzy and speed up any potential move...

Surely if he hadn't requested a transfer the club would just come out and deny the rumour rather than saying "no comment".  Otherwise you're just increasing the pressure on the palyer unnecessarily.  He's looked more than a bit distracted in the last few games as it is.  Don't deny there's an agent behind the scenes advising him to agitate for a move though.

Depends on whether they are resigned to losing him anyway and and are happy to speed up the process...

He'll be gone, they might as well just try and get the best price

If he is still here come Saturday...which looks highly likely...Is he going to get the Aaron Brown treatment? or are the fans going to stick by him?

Aaron Brown got the treatment after gobbing off and making the wanker gesture to us during an absolutely woeful personal and team display away at Barnet, this is slightly different!

No I mean his close season comments and asking for a transfer..then he came back with his tail between his legs when no one wanted him!

My dad got funny looks saturday for chanting greedy greedy austin

Obviously it is true, The club have gone silent, If it wasn't true they would have said so before now, Wilson has been very quiet this week as well.

I'm still not convinced and that is nothing more than the media making something out of nothing. Also BBC Radio Swindon have reported on the radio that Andrew Fitton has said Charlie is likely to still be a town player come Feb 1st.

Just listened to Andrew Fittons whole interview and the future of the club sounds very promising.  The new stadium development could include a technology centre in the Arkells stand an idea by Andrew Black and well received by everyone.

Also Andrew Fitton & DW was in discussion with a player joining us before saturday although BBC Radio Swindon was iunable to get any indentity of the player. Andrew Fitton said he may not sign in time for saturday.

Andrew Fitton speaks very openly and honestly about Charlie Austin and he says nothing is 100% sure but he'd like to think Charlie will still be a Swindon Town player come Feb 1st,

I cant see that us venting anger/frustration/whatever other emotion toward Charlie will make any sense at all this Sat.

Even if he does want to leave, I would rather see him up front at the gas than bloody pericard. half a Charlie is better than a whole Vince

I
I agree, he's still our player at the moment and from what Fitton said could mean he still is unitl the Summer, so not point getting on his back is gonna help noone at this stage, even if we are a bit pissed off.  We don't really know what's been discussed and whats going on, would suprise me for him to suddenly sign a new contract, or to leave any day we get a decent offer.

Did sound encouraging on the new player front, from what Fitton said, something about going straight from the interview, presumably at AGM to a meeting with Player and Agent, who was driving down to meet him, didn't give anymore away.

I was told on Saturday (from an allegedly reliable sauce) that he had already handed in a transfer request and as a result wouldn't play against Yeovil.

Well we now know the second part was bollocks, and without confirmation from either party there's no reason to believe that the first part isn't bollocks either.

I know we have a few fans (wankers) who like to boo our own players, but until he does leave (whether that be in two weeks or two years), we should support him and everyone else in a Town
shirt. 

At least save the booing until after the game.

Spot on. While they wearing the shirt, we back them.

Well the doors to the championship are closing apparently Burnley are hoping to sign Everton's James Vaughan & QPR are expected to sign West Ham's Benni Macarthy are he played in a trial game and thre are not many clubs left that either need a striker or have that sort of money - will he end up humiliated when he has to stay here after trying to force a transfer

Don't worry about getting proof to substantiate rumour and Adver 'reports'.

All par for the course these days - Heard a rumour sometime ago that Rooney wanted out of United and Tevez wanted out at City...

Celtic are keen on him to join up with Hooper. It's been on the SS website and the Celtic forum

He's either leaving this January or he isn't. If he does, and we get the money to buy a suitable replacement (and some change, hopefully) all well and good. So long Charlie and thanks for all the goals.

If he doesn't, we need to be really careful we don't end up with a player who's a shadow of his former self/just going through the motions till he goes in the summer. One really good way of doing that would be for people to take out their frustrations on him when he's on the pitch. If he does stay, we need him to be firing on all cylinders, not just for the rather obvious reason that we need his goals but also so that his sale value holds for when he does go in the summer. An out of form Austin benefits no-one

Is the interview online ?

Trouble is knowing the sort of person  / personality that Charlie is he may find it difficult until the end of Jan to go out full stop to score goals  / give his all as he would not want to risk getting an injury and scuppering any move now he's made it official he wants to go.

Except none of us do really know the sort of person Charlie is, do we? Everyone's just making a shitload of assumptions (apart from the trolls making up rumours), including me, I'll grant you. If he does want a move, it's in his own best interests to ensure his form remains consistently good or the offers may dry up. I'm pretty sure he's not daft enough not to be able to work that out (although I don't know, obviously)

Was oop north today and two people told me they heard that with Hammil not going to Blackpool(Wolves bound) that Charlie will be going there.....we will see.

thought holloway wudnt deal with agents?

He dosn't....his chairman does......should imagine Hammil had an agent anyway.

yeah but there not too keen on paying agents fees saw on sky one time saying they have only payed 50k