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It's a fragile 9 games old, the buzz at the CG is still barely flickering but there's been a really special feeling growing this season.

Daniel Hunt's article in the Washbag on the Barnsley game helped me realise what chord was being struck for me and it was the extreme relative youth of the team we are privileged to be supporting.

Not since the legendary Bert's Babes of the early 60s which saw Town first rise to and then briefly stun the second tier have Town had such a young side, with the Barnsley starters the 19th youngest ever in STFC history and it seems the youngest 20 ever teams are all early 60s or this season. 

Here are the stats with thanks to @dphunt88 and his own source www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk

http://fraserdigbyswashbag.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/2014-09-27-average-age.jpg?w=696

So the average age of our team at Barnsley was 8069.

And that's without Darren Ward in the side. We're not as young a side as I thought we were ???

Thank you RedRag! Much appreciated.

Over the last few years we've been subjected to several extremes at Swindon Town...

1. Big spending, experienced players, my way or the highway approach from Di Canio! With all the fun/madness/controversy that came with it

2. Budget reducing, young players + smart use of loan system, player development and total football approach from Cooper/Power.

And it makes you realise, there's more than one way to skin a cat! Long long way to go this season though...

On that note, do you have a particular favourite way to skin a cat? Out of the options you have..

Talking of cats . . .

Something got into my car overnight and pissed in it.

Fucking awful stench on the way to work.

Cant for the life of me see how anything got in and then out again.

There's not a body in the boot, is there?

Presuming that we're talking football and not cat murder  ;)

I've enjoyed both approaches in different ways. I'd say that I've never had so much fun following Swindon Town as in the season in League Two under Di Canio. It was bonkers! Almost every day, you'd wake up and there'd have been something newsworthy happen at STFC (good and bad!)... players coming and going through the revolving door... that feeling that we were unstoppable in the League (and cups), bordering on arrogance - rare feeling for a Swindon fan.

BUT... there was always the over-riding feeling that things would come to a sticky end and that we'd have to enjoy it while it lasts! Sure enough, Andrew Black got bored and so did Di Canio.

Our current approach of taking rough diamonds like Rossi-Branco + Kasim + Barker and polishing them up... as well as taking on Premier League youngsters who've not made the grade at their parent clubs (Luongo, Byrne, Obika)... has created a nice mix of hungry young players in the squad.

Chuck in some home grown players (Thompsons x 2 and to a lesser extent Storey/Waldon) to keep in touch with the club's roots and I think any success the club has in the next 5-10 will feel much more organic for a supporter. Let's face it, there's only 7-8,000 of us hardcore - which means that ownership of that success is much more personal for us than at a massive club with world wide appeal.

So long as there's a Swindon Town FC, I'm happy!

Believe me, I looked alright. It was dark driving to work this morning and I had the heebie jeebies that all of a sudden some mammal or other would leap at me.

Further inspection later

Keep me informed.

Incontinent dementia? ;)

How will he be able to do that if the incontinent psycopath currently hiding in the back of his car gets him?  :hmmm:

Maybe the incontinent psychopath can post on his behalf?..

Good post.

We'd probably get more sense out of him.

 :nod:

Well, I'm flummoxed.

Stench still there and appears to be in the passenger side footwell.

Taken the carpet out for a wash.

Whatever it is/was it wasn't there when I parked up last night.

Perhaps I've pissed someone off

Mrs Audrey? Or probably Bernard to you.

Saint  Bernard by the smell

Incontinence and dementia are both common in old age. You've just pissed yourself in your car and forgotten about it. Probably find you've shit in the wardrobe as well.

I've already discounted myself as the source as I asked myself and I said it wasn't me.

I have no reason to disbelieve myself.

It's not dog, rabbit or human piss as I am familiar with these.

Cat, rat and giraffe not so much.

Surely you would have noticed if you had been sharing your car with a giraffe? It would have asked to have a window open so it could stick its' neck out.

This thread is becoming more and more surreal.  Only a matter of time before a mod steps in.

Can I just say: manatee?

Probably an Ocelot, I'd be careful, they can be nasty.

This made me laugh, alot. Good work!

Heat exchange leaking?

On further inspection, it may well have been me after all.

Walked the dogs and I think I ended up with shite on me shoes.

Didn't smell like any shite I know of, though

Bullshit?

Being on this forum I should know what that smells like

On the subject of stenches, anyone know how Bath got on?

Those fox-eared assholes.

Fox poo.... Find the offending patch and soak in tomato ketchup before washing off... Don't aske me why - it's what they do in Canada to neutralise the smell of dogs that have been sprayed by skunks or have rolled around in Bear shit... If it can sort that then fox poo will be a piece of piss

Yep. I can confirm that this works on fox/badger shit.

Ah, TEF - scatology expertise when you need it!

Years ago I went to an away game (Can't remember where). As I was living on my own at the time and was going to be away for over 7 hours, I asked my Dad if he'd walk my dog.
When I opened the front door upon my return, I was nearly overcome by the foulest stench I've ever experienced. My dear old Dad had indeed walked my dog; allowed him to get covered in badger shit and then left him in my house to roam free. Sofa's, bed, carpet, everywhere that the dog had been in contact with stank. And I mean stank, it was fucking rank (As was the dog).
The smell lingered for days, even after washing with carpet/upholstery cleaner. The dog however, after rubbing a generous amount of tomato ketchup all over him and rinsing off, smelt fine.

I'm now imagining herthab rubbing Heinz 57 all over a dog. A most amusing thought.

*arousing

And that, your honour, is how it came about that the officer found my client naked from the waist up in a property that smelled like a charnel house smearing his dog in sauce. And there rests the case for the defence. We'll pretty much bite your hand off for anything less than 18 months to be honest, your honour

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You need to talk to someone Samdy...