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I want to book flights to see this game on Nov 15th. Is there any chance it will be postponed because of international call-ups?

Almost certainly going to be postponed.

Thanks, guess I'll have to pick another game. Combining away to MK and home to Preston would work, but flights are more than double the price :-(

Didn't realise they were playing today, thought they would have 3 Internationals too. Maybe it won't be as certain as I thought. If Smith doesn't get back in our starting lineup he may get dropped by Australia.

Australia have a game that week but not sure if Iraq do.

Both have friendlies

If it doesn't get called off for international call ups then Sky might want to televise it given current form and a derby game!

Im in the same boat - now Brad Smith has returned, do we reckon this game will be on?

When did this happen?

Brad Smith has returned?

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He means "now Brad Smith has returned to Liverpool", Shirley?

I think that's the case. I want to book my train across to Swindon, anyone have an idea when we might know if the game will be postponed?

He's returned to Liverpool, so the game will be on..

I am not responsible for anything incurred from believing me.

Think Power may want a full house plus Sky money even without the Powerhouse Two

Yeah, but Dinger/Toffee may be called up for baby football

Its not on Sky, live games are announced yonks in advance

I was told that under 19s doesn't actually count towards international call ups.

Not sure how accurate that is.

Can you lot sort this out quickly, cos I might come over for this if I can get a flight early enough?

Quick! Let's prevaricate!

There's more chance of it being on than Audrey's toaster.

You oxymoron.

I think were ask both not to play the international friendly. Game on.

That'd be fair seeing as they'll be away for a month in January

Sorry for the confusion earlier, I meant returned to Liverpool.
This is annoying.... I've already lost money this season booking train tickets to Chesterfield for it then to be called off!

So is it safe to assume this is on?

Just realised this is their next League game, time for their unbeaten streak to end?!

They are selling tickets so yeah it looks like its on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qShAZg2Zw

I'd say yes. But don't make your decision solely on my point of view.

I can imagine Yaser and possibly Mass might give up the international Friendly for a derby day.

The Aussie FA have refused us permission to keep Luongo for an extra day, meaning he will miss the City game.
The cunts.

See, this it what fucks me off with football (Well, not only this tbh). A meaningless friendly is more important than a competitive league game? We pay the wages of the player but have no say in the matter? Absolute wank.

They seem to think we have already sold more tickets for their visit than we have for Preston tomorrow!

If you look at online ticketing we have, well 2 sections are yellow as opposed to green
But its only to be expected, ppl come out the woodwork for a derby and a saturday usually wins hands down over a cold tuesday night for many

I'd better get me skates on then!

Fuck  me, they are banging on about how obsessed we are with them yet here we are with one little thread about the game and they even have a thread about our game with Preston as well as 2 about our little skirmish.

It's all the usual 'Swindle' this, shit hole town and just to be different, roundabouts.

There's a Kevin Keegan-esque rant about they'd 'luv it if we beat them' - someone on there is going to have a coronary before the 15th.

Calm down, dears!

The countries most under-achieving footballing city giving it the biggun :smugfu:

Lets not belittle the achievements of our fair neighbours. For a 32 year old club they're doing very well indeed. I wish I could have seen us lifting the Welsh Cup.

It takes a really special club to lose £10m a year and not get promoted out of league one.

£10m? And the rest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20607144

They cared 23 years ago when we beat them 4-0 at their place. We didn't get let out the ground until quarter to six. Bloody joke.  ::)

It's funny - "Swindon isn't a rivalry" one minute, then saying how much they hate us the next. Best rivalry we'll get in a while, bar cup games, as Oxford won't be going up anytime soon.

What are the sanctions if we keep Luongo an extra day? I'd like to think he'd rather play in the Shithead game! Cant we say hes injured but then use the miracle of jesus to cure him for the game?

Every pub in Swindon can only sell Fosters

Get him on the plane. Now.

Otib is a bit like a wurzel version of thisis.  :doh:
Endless, thought provoking threads about us. Makes great reading  :)

They say we are obsessed, it's our cup final ( which it isn't) etc., so why do they have so many threads about us at the moment and we just have the one?
Hypocrites.

I've been watching Swindon since 1989 and this is the first time in that period they may sell out their allocation. Tin pot springs to mind.

I reckon Rovers have bought more on average over the years.

I had a little look on there yesterday. Thought it was pretty split. Half of them were talking about how they're realistic and think there's a good chance we could beat them and the other half are the "swindle" spouting mugs.

They sold out in 03/04. Fallons bicycle kick!

Whenever Bristol City roll around, I find myself remembering Neale McDemott, a loanee who did nothing notable whatsoever...apart from score a nicely worked free kick against City. I wonder what he's doing now? Wikipedia says he's playing in Malta, which is a nice gig if you can get it.

Friday night Sky game if memory serves me right? Didn't Lord Fallon of Bicycle Kicks also score that night?

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20060117

Good memory. Tiny crowd that, I know it was on TV and we were terrible that year but still, 7.5k including 1.2 from City. Interestingly the table from that year looks like this years upside down- City, Franchise and ourselves were the bottom three.

Hypocrites indeed.

They seem to be scared we will end their little run, most Shitty fans I know (and I do know quite a lot) are split between down to earth realistic fans and stuck up arrogant over inflated egotistic wankers. But I guess that is the same for most clubs but it is reflected on their forum.

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165704-swindon-v-preston/

Also

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165720-the-logic-of-a-swindon-town-fan/

Most of them that I know are more obsessed with the non-league team up the road from them rather than little old "Swindle" the overspending cheats from up the M4.

I had a chat to two of them over the weekend, they were stating that Premier League clubs should not be allowed to overspend on wages/transfer fees etc that clubs like Man City and Man Utd shouldnt be allowed to buy the best players on massive wages and make a loss every year....I pointed out that was hypocrisy as they have had debts of £10m to £15m over the least 3 or 4 seasons....yeah but its different....was their answer.....no it isn't, just because they have a backer who is paying those debts does not mean that they don't have the debts every year.

Bournemouth and Rotherham have done it in this league in the last 2 years, now Shitty are doing the same and will probably easily win the divison because of it. Makes a mockery of the FFP.

Yeah theres probably a bit of sour grapes because it was fun for a while when we did it but there shouldnt be ways around it, a rule is a rule and teams that constantly break the rules like Shitty with their always being £10m+ debts every year should be relegated, fuck me we got relegated for much less back in 89-90.

Sorry, rant over.

I remember that game, when a load of City tried to trash up the Merlin when Shaun Hodgetts was interviewing people for the radio :)

All their allocation has been snapped up by ST holders - so I would imagine a few may buy for home areas.

Interesting!

With a BS postcode?  :sherlock:

Not far to come in person and make up a name/address

I just had a read of the BCFC forum thread up above and jesus, they think we obsess over them. Yeah, it's a good game for us, with all the Yorkshire games this season, a Bristol City derby is a bigger game than most. No shit Sherlock.

Also, a lot of their spoutings are pretty out of date and/or bollocks. See exhibit #1:

"Their team is dangerous, but largely made up of loan signings from other clubs. Its certainly not a sustainable way to progress and should they be promoted, id expect them to have the sort of season Yeovil had last year once all the loan signings went back."

Who's on Loan now? Louis Thompson (kinda), Toffolo & Bell? Anyone I missed?

Turnbull and Stephens

When Bristol City were wound up in 82, the reformed club should have had to start in the non-league, in the same way that Newport, Wimbledon, Chester, Aldershot have done.

It was around this time that the present pyramid structure of non league football was starting to form, the Conference, was known as the Alliance League....and had Trowbridge Town in it. It wasn't until 86/87 that relegation and promotion happened between the FL and non league.

Under the Alliance, there were the Isthmian League, the Southern League, and the Northern Premier League, which had some sort of developing feeder structure into Alliance.  City 82, should probably have started in the Southern League (Midland Division), where they could have found Cheltenham Town, Forest Green, with derbies provided by Bridgend Town and Merthyr, for traditional Welsh Cup encounters.

Interestingly Milton Keynes City, who were in that League, finished 67 points worse off than Cheltenham, who were on their way to League status by the correct method....MKC, achieved a grand total of 4 points, so they stole a club instead.

City 82, were very, very, lucky to keep their League status...so should really keep their gobs shut.

Not sustainable to pay 400k or whatever it was for the donkey known as Aden Flint either

Spot on, they go on about our financial irregularities and our 2 brushes with administration (not bankruptcy as they had) as if they have never had a similar experience, despite them running absolutely massive losses for this level of football. Losses that they can only financially cope with due to Lansdowns backing.

Been moved to 1:30pm kick off apparantly.

Link?

Just a rumour on Moosehead's twitter account

Bit short notice if so isnt it?

It is but not entirely unexpected, if true.

Audrey...is that you going into the admin/bankruptcy thing on OTIB? ;)

Would imagine some City fans would have booked train tickets already and no matter what any of us thinks about them it's just another kick in the nuts for football fans in general.

Nobody gives a flying one about fans

What makes you think that?

A ploy so Mas can play before hot-footing it to the Aussie training camp...

From the last time Swindon Fan on the OTIB was winding them up...within minutes you came on and said you were on their forum winding them up! ;)

I often go on there have a read of what they are saying about us.

The move does make sense. It is probably a move 'suggested' by the Police.  After all, it is them that has to sort the little shits out!

3pm last year (both games) and not sure there was any trouble at all. Don't see any reason why it can't be kept that way.

Indeed

That is true but Shitty were quite literally shitty when we played them languishing near the foot of the table last season (certainly for the home game), and with them the level of twattery is directly proportionate to the league position of the team.

Think there is an England game at 5 so could be because of that

There was a meeting at the club on Monday to talk about the KO time but no decision was made. I'd imagine it would have been moved after that meeting, if at all.

Hope they announce it soon. Want to book my trains for the game.

That fits in nicely with a 3pm kickoff

Now all ticket for home fans according to Sam, as City have sold out their allocation. When was the last time they managed that?

03/04

Cunts then, cunts now

All home games are all ticket. No cash turnstiles anymore.
Or does he mean no tickets sold on the day.
Most ppl I know buy then them.
What with guess the KO time and this probably be a few that won't go
Any excuse

Wish they'd make a decision on this. Breakfast in the Merlin sounds good.

Go up The Harvester, top of Drove Rd, all you can guzzle for £4.99.

Sam seems to think means no tickets on the day, probably cos the bellends on their forum saying they will get tickets for home areas.

That old chestnut us rolled out every time we play them or the scum.

Remember the Di Canio home game, first time for years we'd played them and all the talk then was about lack of tickets and how they were going in the home areas.

Never happened then and it wont against the wurzel fuckwits

Although the Scummers didn't actually sell out did they?

Neither did we, in fact we haven't in any of the last 4 home games against them (the only home games I've seen against Pox)

It's bit poor all round really

Maybe not but as all the tickets went to ST holders the average neanderthal shithead had no chance of getting one so who knows
Be a bit of fun

They're a massive, massive club. Huge.

First post from me.  City are huge, never won fuck all, never played in the premiership, in a nutshell achieved nothing.  They are also the scruffiest peasants going.  If we play our football Sat week then we win.  Just hoping we can entice some of the armchair support from the Town itself to attend.  COYR. 

Said it before.  Bristol is the most underachieving city in English football.  Being a 'massive club' in Division 3 is nothing to be proud of.  If you're so massive then, frankly, you should be playing in a higher division with all the other massive clubs.

It's like the big kid from your class in primary school with goofy teeth and a personal hygiene problem boasting that he's king of the hill - when everyone knows that the only reason he's in your class anyway is that he's been kept back a year.

Some of this thread is pretty cringeworthy. People commenting about how they don't give a shit about City and then going on their board to see if they are talking about us, and reporting back to base. 'ooooh, they have TWO threads about us going, what a bunch of sad acts etc'. 6 of the 7 pages are probably comments like this.

Anyway, when are we going to know about kick off time? I'm really looking forward to the game, big crowd against the team unbeaten at the top of the league. A good challenge made even harder without Luongo, who has been excellent recently.

Sorry Bob, but for those of us who grew up west of swindon we had to put up with Bristol based news and sport. It was irritating  :)

Bloody Roger Malone !!

Mind you, 1982 was fun watching the feckers going bust and only being saved by their players accepting 50% of their contract value.

They stiffed a load of local businesses along the way - but hey, we are the real bad boys

I remember the days when he would be sat in the section above the shrivvy below which I used to stand, he seemed to enjoy the banter  :)

That's a fair point 4D, having spent most of my adult life away from Swindon (I was only born in the town and grew up in Cirencester mainly) and the surrounding area, I guess i never really experienced any of the hardships that you did!

I think we all know our main rivalry is Oxford and theirs are Rovers but given the ineptitude of both of our rivals, this game is the best both of us can do really for a 'derby' game and there will be some spice given the big crowd and how both teams are doing in the league.

Despite my earlier comments, I should add that I've always considered Bristol (can we drop the 'Rovers', 'City' thing now that Rovers no longer exist?) and Reading as offering the best potential for proper football rivalry.  If we do ever pull our finger out and manage promotion back to Division Two and do something with the ground, it's games vs thesetwo that would offer the potential for 18,000 - 20,000 crowds.  Oxford clashes, to me, have always felt bitter, parochial, brutal and small time.

Speaking of which we've an FA Youth Cup game, coming up v Oxford. Think they play them at Didcot, so plenty of opportunity to display the qualities you list.

So do the games v City and Reading - remember exchanging bottles at Elm Park

I can recall being pelted with bricks at Eastville too

Eastville was one helluva shithole of a ground.

Saw us hammer them there one year - God knows what year it was - 4-0 or 4-1.

Used to be very good as a greyhound track, though

It was 1981, I was there too and it was a fucking shithole with a terrible view from just underneath the M32.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzN4AbpxZLo

Fucked them 5-2 in the home game same season

Surely we would of heard by now if they're changing the kick off time ?

Haha, I remember going past Eastville to visit family in St.werburghs in the late 70's and early 80's,  great to watch the game as we drove by.

Alison Hollaway  :hmmm:

Didn't she marry Jim Davison

Yup, this was their wedding song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxd9d41Hhc

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/JIM+DAVIDSON+EXPOSED%3A+MY+HELL+MARRIED+TO+CRUEL+TV+COMEDIAN%3A+People...-a079472757


Just to be clear, domestic violence isn't funny. Low life scum that he is.

Was there Saturday buying a chest of drawers. Was also there in 81. Went top of the league after that game, got Marks dad the sack and then got relegated. 

I know it was the early 80's but it had all the hallmarks of 70's football. A pitch that looked like a field, flares (trousers) and the cars parked pitchside  :)

The 3 wheeler spastic chariot was Roger Malones outside broadcast unit.

Time could still be changed:

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/11587589.League_to_decide_kick_off_time_for_big_West_Country_derby/

Personally don't see the point in changing the kick off time. The most stupid change in recent years was having the Leeds game in 08? changed from a 3pm to a 2pm kick off.

We are so far behind here with the news as city fans have been moaning for days that they had wind there was a possibility that the start would be brought forward. Personally it's a no brainier it has to be earlier or played on a Sunday as their mob will head straight from the station into the pubs in the town centre where they will inevitably meet the locals and all in front of innocent shoppers. The bottom line is they are bringing too many and there's too much history of violence over recent decades

Wasn't last season

Difference being they were struggling and now they are flying and that brings out all of the old school wnd many mire than last season

What exactly will the 150 coppers / horses / helicopter etc be doing while all this is going on?

"Yeah it's alright City fans, don't worry about us, just go straight into the Town centre.. it's alright we trust you.."

Aww, yeh it's gonna be proper tasty innit?

(No)

They're no different from anyone else, don't let it worry you yogi.

I disagree theres big rivalry there and it seems some town fans have been winding them up check their forum Otib. I could never see a Norwich type club bringing close to 3000 and causing trouble it's just teams like city, rovers, Oxford & Cardiff and I'm not sure we have caused anny known trouble in bristol

That's Audrey....not really his name, (that's Stella) but he's STFC top boi....Audrey is a nom de guerre, he uses to throw OB football intelligence off the scent.

3pm kick off.

Confirmed by City.

Check it out http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165774-nawty-swindon-waiting-at-the-station-for-us/

Good.

Yogi bear is 'topcat' btw  ;)

Topdog don't know about cat

Have a look at the 'gasheads are no saints' thread. Similar subject, similar style   :)

I haven't got the time to" read that trash but will take you word for it

Kasim available for the city game, likely miss the Peterborough one after

I hear the aussie game is in fulham?

Bit shit they wont let luongo play if so

No, Aussies are playing in Japan.

Luongo's earned some air miles in his short international career thus far.

I stand corrected

Feel much better about the City game with Kasim playing. Reeves or Gladwin are gonna need to step right up without Mass.

Well, if Reeves doesn't take over he will be mighty pissed off I'd imagine.

Still no sign of a new contract for him either

Plays well in a great performance alongside Yas, we win, he gets contract.  Nice and simple.  At least that's what I'd be doing.

Gladwin's been stepping up more and more this season when called upon. Very impressed. If he comes into the Derby day squad and plays well, again, somewhere where the pressure is much higher, well I think we've got a good player on our hands...

I've only seen Gladwin once, and that was the Rochdale match. On that performance I'd have told him to find a new job. Hope he can find some consistency because by all accounts there's a good player in there.

Don't think Gladwin looks much better than last season if I'm honest.

Gladwin is so hit and miss, can look a great player on occassions and on other occassions looks like he has never seen a football, but then the same could be said about Byrne when he first came to us so I hold out hope for his progress.

He looks a skilfully awkward player. If he finds some consistency I think they're could be a player in there. Cooper and Williams obviously rate him and their judgement hasn't been wrong too many times so far.

MC always says he's the best player in training, once he gets a run he'll be good, don't forget the injury knocked him back a couple of months

Said the man in the orthopedic shoe !

When he's good, he's unassumingly good; so deceptive when taking it past players. Saying that, when he isn't, he's horrendous.

cooper just said no Kasim next week.

Yep no Kasim, Luongo or N Thompson
On the back of yesterdays performance not sure whether its a good or bad thing

Its bad in the context of expecting a new midfield pairing to come in an do a job on the thus far best team in the league (results wise).

At least Branco can come in at the back. Still looks like a red card waiting to happen to me,  but since he's replacing NT then I guess that's a lesser evil.

To be honest,Branco doesnt fill me with confidence for next week after watching the highlights

1-0. Gladwin with a heavily deflected strike..

Absolute comedy gold from him yesterday.

Yay Chang's back. We must have lost.

Him and their left winger were at it. And after getting done a few times his way of dealing with him was running back and just booting the ball off his feet as hard as he could for a corner.

Wes had a right go at him for it then Turnbull almost started a fight in the build up to the corner...

The final 20 minutes were so worrying. All of the boys were clearly furious at the situation. I'm surprised we didn't end the game with 9 men.

Onto City. I feel they might be a bit over-confident now and expect to walk over us. We'll see how it goes... but it's definitely going to be an entertaining game.

Worried about this one one now. Without Luongo or Kasim it was gonna be tough enough but take Thompsn out too (unless the Football League / FA / Whoever see sense and overturn that farce of a red card) it's gonna take a hell of a performance to get a result.

According to this....

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/PlayingRecord.asp?PersonID=TURNBULJ&Season=2014-2015

...we should also be without Turnbull on Saturday against Bristol City because that was his fifth yellow card of the season against Cheltenham Town. Do yellow cards get rescinded? I suppose if they did, we wouldn't here about it because it's so trivial compared to a red.

Sam was asked earlier if that was his 4th or 5th yellow
4th he replied  :hmmm:

Double post but meh

Tweet from stfc store account to a question asked many times today


So that's around a 10,500 attendance so far

7500 is pretty tinpot

Another 1000-1500 should be achieveable

7500 is very tinpot considering where we are in the league, i'm sure the cheltenham result has put off a few pricks who'd find any excuse not to go.

Is Thompson really that big a miss though? He was at fault for their first with a piece of awful defending.
Stephens was just as bad. And Thompson had a shocker for their first before he was sent off. 

5:0 drubbing doesn't just put off pricks...

I reckon we might leg em over....

Just bought my ticket for this! No game for me this Saturday meant it possible - Godsend. However, the bad news, I've been to two other games this season - Colchester (Draw) and then Preston (Win). So no doubt the inevitable will happen..

In all seriousness, I quite fancy us for this one.

STFC

FTAO Tails - We having a few beers pre match? Or a chocolate fudge brownie in the Harvester, either or..

Apparently it's going to piss down all week.

Get those sprinklers on 24/7 as well - job's a good 'un!

We can see you getting wet... :)

Turn the sprinklers on all day Friday! Either you get a nice Nd greasy pitch - suits us, or it ends up waterlogged, suits us as we can play tommo, KASIM and luongo...

see - Rochdale & Colchester.

Yes, we really do miss him that much.

Where are you sitting mate??

Yeah I'm up for a pre match fudge cake!

Townend with you fella's. We can discuss politics and ways to solve world hunger. It will be glorious.

I'm already moist

Forecast is for rain all week and then nice and sunny on Saturday :(

We normally eat in the Harvester before the game. Might see you guys.

we're the emo kids in the corner eating cake and drinking j20. and cutting ourselves, naturally.

Haha! Nailed it. Aka the handsome devils corner. Albeit this time I feel a few beers are in order...
But yes Bob's Orange, would be a pleasure.

They've just given Bristol City an extra 80 tickets. That's an extra £2k in ticket sales.

Money's money. Heard rumours they've bought up in the home end up until it went all ticket - as long as they sit there, keep there wurzel, slave trading traps shut and cause no trouble, I've no issue with them giving STFC their money. It's not like we're going to sell out and it helps towards boosting gate revenues I guess. :hmmm:

£2,160 you mean!

About £1,800 after concessions probably

Ah yes, had forgotten about those.

Anything less than 10k would be pretty disappointing. I reckon it will be 11,300 ish.

We've sold more than that already????

(7500 home tickets, away end of 2800)

We're at 10,500 as of yesterday.

Another 1000 or so before the week is out and that'd be OK - about the same as last season.

In seasons 2004 and 2005 the home attendance was 7500 - where were all the wurzel fuckers then

Worth mentioning in this thread too that Thompson's red rescinded and he'll be available for Saturday! Hurrah!

Drop Stephens for Branco?

Get in!

Now lets do these Wurzel c*nts :smugfu:

(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs4/i/2004/207/2/4/Stuff_I_Do_At_Work__Flying_Pig.jpg)

The wurzels aint happy. As if 2 missing players isn't good enough for them.

They're getting twitchy!

I'll give him 10 mins on Saturday:-)

Yes

They have been worried about this game for months.

Just had a look on their forum. Best one I read was about them singing "Cant pay we'll take it away" and how that would wind us up.

Yeah I'd be fuming at that.

To be fair most of them seem like reasonable normal people. Bar the tiresome, cheap Swindon insults on every thread. And they seem to think Nates sending off was definite. Probably a bit biased there. Would love the outrage if he bags a winner!

No definite red card has ever been overturned in the history of football disciplinary bodies ever. FACT!

I thought we would beat them without Thompson.

Long range strike to win it.

Bit rich considering they went bust and were reformed in 1982!

And their owner has been funding their £12m annual losses...

A lot of their posters are well informed when it comes to swindon  :sherlock:

I don't think hypocrisy is in the Brizzle dictionary.

History, history
We've a hundred years* of it and you've got 33*.

*rounding

Great news about Nathan, but Ben Gladwin just tweeted how he's getting ill from the weather...

Hopefully he's blowing the sniffles out of proportion, but if he's out with illness that's shit.

Would expect Louis to take over the Kasim role - Reeves likewise Luongo - Gladwin taking Louis' position

But WTF do I know

That's what I thought. It's going to be interesting to see.

Few of us STFC Twitter fanatics are trying to encourage people to bring flags on poles/sticks/whatever not just tied on fences. And everyone to hold their scarves up as the teams come out. Try and get some sort of atmosphere at the ground again.

Thorts?

Not too bad an idea. I mentioned it on here before, I went to watch an NHL game in Toronto and the team came up to everyone waving scarves over their heads. Looked mint.

But you won't get people doing it, our fans arent really into all that stuff. I would be up for a mass boo everytime City touch the ball as well!

Well I'll be in Arkell's with a Flag on a long ass stick :P I'll bust it out when they come out and when we score, so hopefully it'll get a lot of use.

Our fans have never really been into it, but you never know... with the occasion on Saturday, if we do it well and get a lot of interaction with scarves & flags, it could be a regular thing. Even only for away games I'll consider it to be a success.

And what do you think the stewards will do with all your sticks on your way into the ground?

I have a Pole living next door to me. I'll ask if he would mind if I stuck a stick up his arse and took him to the CG

That is a very good point... It'll just be one. I made a flag in Arkells when we were bringing stuff in to ask Paolo to not leave. I'll probably use the same bamboo stick I took for that.

Hopefully won't get confiscated.

I agree with the booing when city on the ball- gotta make it as hostile as possible.

To use a lovely Denis Healy expression the hostility level at Town is like being savaged by a sheep.

Fuck booing- chuck bricks at them.

Now, if it was a Polish lovelie, who you could get draped in a flag, might be worth doing.

How're you going to get all these bricks into the ground?  :D

Do you not really rate Anglo Saxon totty, Reg?

Possibly some outrage at that. We were chastised for a bloke slapping a goalie, I don't think throwing bricks would go down well.

In my capacious scrotum

The FA would be all hod and bothered and probably come down on us like a ton of them.

Glad to hear you had a plan. I'm going with the case of "up my coat" for my flag.

Saw some tweets a few days ago about a guy on Twitter (@MrGoooooood) getting 'involved' with a display for Saturday...

Sounds ominous....

It does. It's probably just another teenager with a bag of celery.

Thinking back to the Paolo era, the scarf thing was brilliant. Thinking back to minutes silences at Bradford and Aldershot away, looked incredible. It's a pity our fans need a lunatic Italian for something like that and it died off when he left.

That's why away games are better - plus half of us are bladdered.

I would imagine that applies to the majority of clubs

Bollocks to the flags. Get everyone out of the boozer and into the ground by quarter to, switch the fucking gay music off and break out the old school singing.

That fuckin' Robin needs to take the day off, too.

Need to get some cross stand singing going as well

Amen to that...

I'd imagine there will be a fair amount bladdered Saturday which should help contribute.

I loved the 'right side-left side' shit at Cheltenham. That was great fun... then it all turned to bollocks. Sorry for bringing it up again.

Arkell's can wake up occasionally, just needs a handful of us to get it going. So give us an "Arkell's give us a song" and I'll try my best.

Still fancy a derby game against Reading.

TBH I do prefer the Bristol City game to the Yellow stains - those fuckers grip my shit big time

How times have changed

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Although was 51 yrs ago  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

About £500,000 in today's ticket prices

Wow, that's impressive.

Expect Reg was there for that
1963 v L Orient

Yep....we won 5-0. It's the game featured in 6 Days til Saturday.

Just before being snowed in for months

Twas where the screen grab was from

That was the tail end of 62, into the early part of 63, the Orient game was in the autumn, so all gone by then and nothing really quite so similar since.

I was only 8 so a few years until I made my debut at the CG

Somewhat obsessed with us?

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165876-the-return-of-our-man-flint/

Then again it is their cup final.

I wasn't even close to being born. My parents weren't even together then. Just thought I'd drop that for all of you.  :bye:

Was the year I was born  :cry:

Audrey seems to have made some new friends on TFF

http://www.thefootballforum.net/index.php?/topic/228999-roundbout-robins-v-unbeaten-robins/

:D

Anton Rodgers must be delighted with his summer move. 6th choice central midfielder.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing those 3 play together.

Not the brightest are they?

Can someone DM me the details of the 'meet' as I must have missed the arranged fight on this forum...

"There has been talk on a number of internet forums of fights being arranged but Supt Carr said they are being monitored."

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11594648.Police_ready_to_keep_peace_at_big_match/

Wiltshire Bacon talking things up again!

Excellent!

There is a certain irony in your post...

Not seen it like that in a long time

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Not at all, I always check every teams forums before and after we play them, by no means am I any more bothered by them than any opponent.

Aye, but on a dedicated thread about City (now 17 pages) I don't think we're immune either from the criticism of being obsessed.

sratton bank  :hmmm:

I don't think either set of fans is overly obsessed with the other. It's a local derby between 2 teams going well in the league, it's bound to get the juices flowing a bit.

They might have more threads on the go but that's to be expected as their fanbase is sizeably bigger than ours

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Yeah been like that since introduced

I don't why everyone tries to pretend that playing city isn't important. I fucking hate city, i would love nothing better than to turn them over. I will never forget getting relegated at ashton gate, in the same way I will never forget rory fallon. If these happened against shitty little teams it wouldnt stay in the memory as good.

All this means nothing is bullshit, look at ticket sales, its no match against chesterfield is it.

SRATTON BANK according to the club's official graphic.

Looks like upwards of 12500 expected now.

Bit more like it.

But, of course, 12400 of them will be City fans   :horse:

Shut up you 'tool'

To be fair, they've got a point.

A lot of tickets left to be fair. Quite disappointed. I'd like to see a few of those yellow blocks turn red and definitely the green ones turn yellow tomorrow.

It's the 20,000 Bristol City fans in the home end. According to their forum.

20,000 of them and they have ALL been in the Town End before and shouted when they scored and have only been given slightly dirty looks....urm yeah right, whatever.

Fuck me, if you can't engage in a bit of banter before a game against a local rival when can you.

Those of us who attend games like this are emotionally investing in it - and that is the same of both sets of fans.

Football has become sterile enough without people moaning about a bit of banter.

And if I see a City fan near me in the CG I shall give him the frowning of a lifetime!

I've already practiced my tut and head shake.

I'll be glad when this is over, some of the reading on their forum is a tad embarrassing. They do bite though  :)
They do seem to believe in their own myth that they are the big and mighty and are slumming it in this league. Here's to them bottling it  :pint:

Rovers always had more vocal support here over the years.

Inherit the red/green colour blindness gene (like me)....job done.

Have you seen how few tickets are actually left in some of those yellow sections? I think there's every chance at least a couple will be sold out today.

We have something in common. How fun was the game v Dagenham a few years ago?!

I'm always OK when at a game, as there are other ways of telling who's who, but sometimes televised games are a bit 20 blokes randomly chasing a ball around.

So will city be wearing their purple and lime kit? Always reminds me of that vacuum cleaner.

Rovers have always been far more vocal than Shitty, but both are far more vocal in derbies than the yellow filth ever are.

Sounds like my view of the Premiership.

Just picked up two for the TE, looking at 13k according to the lad at the counter.

Funilly enough, a wurzel was in there when we walked in having a full on strop because the lad wouldn't sell him any tickets for the TE.

Fucking wurzel wazzocks...

Looking forward to rossos matchday thread  :)

Could whoosh the fuckers about 13000 at the CG being a bigger crowd then they've had this season.

Some little reminders of some good games against Shitty over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYR5JZRmfxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANk7oZCMsP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNoELP39Bc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0saMvXiXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRFCctOgeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL7LimrW0pk


And my fave away game ever...4 goals to nil you say? at Trashton Gate you say? don't mind if I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gfg5iSXWg


Its been 7 games since Shitty won at the CG and there have only been only 2 wins for Shitty in 13 games at the CG since 1990.

Tbf they have only been going since 1982  :soapy tit wank:

I was there for the 4-0 thumping. Behind the goal about half way back.

There's a one word post on their forum which has got a  mega whoosh explosion.

Funny as fuck

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165716-swindon-tickets/page-10

In fairness, Goodnight Irene is dreadful, they're right about that one.

There's something rather odd about both of our forums reading the other and taking the piss out of eachother's less intelligent members (not so tricky in either case). It's a bit like an electronic zoo, only both ways round.

What forums are for, Shirley

I think cringeworthy is the word you are looking for. Could cause a nasty injury those keyboards falling on little pinkies, when bashed in anger...

I read one of their posts about 'firms' in the above link... at that point I cringed and left.  :zzz:

I'm going to open myself up for ridicule here, but I reckon Goodnight Irene is a decent football song, when sung loudly. At least it is 'unique'

Couldn't agree more about the lack of intelligence though Nemo. Its the '6 fingered inbred' comments that get me, staggering level of comedy!

The poster that points out we misspelled Stratton Bank is right though. How tinpot

Similar to the poster who commented "embarrasing"  :-[

Goodnight Irene is a shit song, and they put it on repeat, but at least they actually make noise.

That thread is just a "how many boring, unoriginal & tired clichés can we throw out".  Let 'em have their fun, I know I enjoy mocking other smaller local sides for our er.. 'superiority'. Whichever way you look at it, City are a 32 year old club that have achieved nothing, never won anything (of note), and have spent millions upon millions along the way. Well fucking done. We may have our history of shit finances, but we've never been wound up and we aren't currently racking up a fuck ton of debt to be a third tier side (granted, possibly only for another 6 months in their case).

Mock all you want shitheads, but your obsession with us is starting to get tedious :)

Although to give them some credit, when they played Hartlepool in the P/O semi final, they went nuts when Roberts scored. Only time I've seen Ashton Gate so lively, and it did sound good.

http://youtu.be/Ud2F_K546qg

Seems likely that Rovers hopes of a new stadium could be up shit creek.

Sainsburys, who were to buy the Memorial Ground thereby funding said stadium, no longer want to buy the site.

Goodnight Irene, indeed!

We sing this at Bath City. :')

We mix it up a bit though... we sing "We're going down to Yeovil to do the bastards over" though.

p.s. I say "we" as I'm a Bathonian and go when I can't go to a Swindon game ;).

Is that seriously a word?

I'd have thought that particular scheme (20,000 capacity?) went down the pan as soon as they dropped off the coupon.

Apparently not. The Wovers board are making chugging noises about they have a cast iron contract for the sale to Sainsburys.

Darlington springs to mind

The Rovers thing has been dragging on for years. One of my best mates is a Rovers fan and his Dad has some small shares/attends the AGMs - they all say Higgs (?) the chairman is a prick and the reason he's pushed so hard for the new ground/sale of the Mem is that he stands to make some money out of it, so he can walk away. That being said, even when everything was passed as go they didn't think they'd get a new ground as they don't have the money.

Looks as though Sainers potentially pulling out confirms what was said. Anyway back to talking about Saturday and the other Wurzels.

hahaha yeah. Anyone from Bath is seemingly a "Bathonian". Much like people from Swindon are "Swindonians".  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Yep

Back on the stadium theme, lots of them there Wurzels reckon even with a revamped AG they will still only get around the 12000 mark  if they end up a middling Championship team.

Surely it's Bathian?

not Bathite?

Or Ba'athist.

Ha, Bathonian is the correct demonym

Wasn't the Roman name for Bath...Aqua Sulis?  So it's inhabitants could be Aquaphibians....

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so putting the demon in demonym

Oxonian? Sounds like a gravy mix.

Oxonian - I sort of get (because of the Oxon abbreviation).

Swindonian, Bristolian - clearly make sense as well.

Bathonian - well that's just rubbish.  If I lived there, I'd demand a rethink.

Bather  ;D

Bathmats

(with a lisp) Bathy boys.

This is amazing.

Ishihara tests not your friend? I've always had trouble with opposing teams playing in black against our home kit.

I remember the day we played City at home & the Town End was full of Shitheads.

TBF it was the season that the club decided to put away fans in there, fucking stupid idea that didn't last long.

Other than that, I can't recall there ever being many as more often than not they haven't sold out their allocation so no need.

Updated seat plan, few more red sections on there than yesterday

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I doubt be many in the TE
Keep an eye on section D1L of the DRS
Went limited pretty early,right next to the shitheads in the bank and seen more than a couple of tweets as thats where a "crew" will be. ::)

Thank fuck the away fans in the TE was short lived, prefer the fuckers in the rain with no atmoshere, shame the forecast for saturday is dry  :cry:

So what do the colours mean?

They really do need to fix the spelling of 'Stratton Bank'

Red is sold out ( apart from away areas which are always in red )
Orange is limited which triggers ( iirc ) around 40 ish %
Green plenty of seats

Look at Chav corner, that would have been red in the 90's (when I sat there).

Sright.

I see city beat barca tonight  :). Never thought I'd ever type that.

The "top boys" have taken up a fair bit of the bottom section though

Sright

Just a quick question for those Bristolians out there.  What happens when your Owner dies. Surely, you're totally fucked?

Yes, rovers have always been more vocal, not a wind up.

Apart from being pretty bad taste, I'm guessing his son, who I think is already involved, would take it on. Lansdown is a real success story - who sinks personal wealth into a black hole for the love of it. Fair play to him.

Take this picture of me down now...

I disagree.  He represents much that is wrong with the game.  He ploughs his well-gotten cash in to a medium-sized football club to the extent that that that club has an unfair advantage over the other medium-sized clubs at that level (incl STFC).

There is nothing to be impressed by BCFC 1982 Ltd.  They operate in one of England's top 10 cities, and still only manage to maintain a place in the 3rd tier of the professional game via a cash feed from their owner of £12m per annum.  Next time you hear a boast from them about how 'big' they are, don't envy them.  Just pity them, instead.  If they had anything about them - with a catchment area of that size available to them, and the resources of their owner - they would be playing along side all of the other 'big' teams in England in either the Premiership or the Championship.  Their status as a 'big' club in Division Three is not a matter of pride, but an indicator of failure.

All this may seem a little uncharitable, but then I do speak as someone who went out on a work night out in Reading this evening and fell asleep on the train home; and then had to walk home - bit irritated - from the next station down the line after missing my stop.

Thanks :)

Can't agree with Ardiles on this one.

The only chance a traditionally nondescript club can ever hope to mix it with the big boys is to catch a wealthy owner.

To catch one who is a genuine fan, as City have, is a bonus.

It's what I would wish for

It's not all good news.  Some of the locals are getting concerned over their identity as Lansdown creates a Bristol sporting franchise which now includes the rugby, basketball and ladies football. They are worried that the stadium will become the home of the franchise rather than just the football, with a change of colour or name etc.

If Bristol Rugby get the promotion based on  the money he's spent City may be over shadowed this year. He does however seem prepared to lose money on city Indefinitely to get them to the very top

The only thing he's not embraced are the Rovers who may get left behind and be non league for good.

Cooper is alluding to a tactical re-jig tomorrow. I can't see us abandoning wing backs, given how much of a threat we know Byrne can be. I wondered whether he might push Stephens forward to hold in midfield and slot Branco into a back 3? Difficult to imagine as both had poor games last weekend, but I'm not sure what else we'd do to change things up.

I'd rather see us stick with what has, in the main, worked for us.

            Foderingham
Stephens Nathan T Turnbull
Byrne                          Toffolo
   Gladwin Louis T Reeves
       Smith         Obika

With Willo to come on and tear through them a la Preston.

I think you are right, now is not the time for a tactical change. Up to about an hour in to the Cheltenham match, I thought Stephens was certain to be dropped for Branco for City. After his half hour cameo, I would be very surprised if Cooper puts him in.

I do like the idea of Stephens in a midfield holding role, seeing as his ability on the ball has not declined, just his ability to defend and head a ball.

Byrne is up against a very good LB in Little tomorrow who is very dangerous bombing forward so perhaps this one of the reasons for a rethink?

Little is a doubt - and I always thought he played on the right?

I am in Chav corner tomorrow

First ;eague game of the season for me, can't ruddy wait.

Would be crazy to over-complicate things. The back 5 picks itself, Gladwin and Reeves in the middle with Louis. Smudger and Obika up top.

We'll win. Williams will score the winner. 2-1 in front of 11437.

Apologies, he is a Right back. A bloody good one at that so hopefully he is injured!

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City signing some RB on loan from Chelsea so sounds like Little is definitely out. Happy days.

But the player that replaces him played 41 times for Blackburn last season....so not all good.

Haven't seen confirmation of this anywhere other than on their forum though.

Watch out for the City (in) firm. They have taken the front two rows, seats 197-200 inclusive.

This came up as a recommended thread on the Tapatalk app:

http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/165906-chant-for-swindle/

I'm shaking in my boots.

I read that, utterly pathetic but thats what you expect from them.

Er... is that actually new to you?

No. I'm a big fan of the raider. This is the best use of this video so far:

https://vine.co/v/Oiiij0DUI1P

I'm getting bored of all the "Oh look they're calling us pathetic, how pathetic" type comments. It's like listening to 6 year olds in the play ground. I'm hoping for 3 points, with the added bonus of upsetting a local rival. Everything else surrounding the game is pretty trivial.

That video has been going around for ages now. YOU WANT SUM!

And they say we're behind the bloody times.

I'm really annoyed I've got to miss this. It's shaping up to be a proper derby.

But it's not a derby and we are not important to city,  they make the same amount of threads for every team they play against. When will people learn.  :no:

It's not their fault. For football fans, the closer you get to Wales, the more you go back in time. Bristol is practically in Wales so..

So a guy at work, who's a City fan, has been banging on how Brizzle fans are going to 'take over the town centre pre match and post, and will be in and around the home stands... Thousands of fans without tickets making the trip to take over"

Pahahahahahahaha! Righto then!

This is hilarious.

They're welcome to the Town Centre and all the chavs, religious nutters, feuding immigrant gangs, beggars and their dogs. Let them smash the place up its not going to make it any worse is it? Best of luck to them.

In fact, if we could direct their anger a bit, we might be able to improve the place.

If there any City fans reading, I'd like to make it very clear that we all value the large number of bookmakers at the bottom of Bridge Street and the nearby Yates'. Any damage to such establishments would be a huge blow to Swindon morale.

If it means I can't have my pre match chocolate fudge cake and J20 in sir dans I will be most displeased.

and to add to this, the old religious homophobic preacher is a massive Bristol Rovers fan and told me the other day he thinks all City fans are cunts.

Stfc store tweet

See The Merlin is home fans only tomorrow, which is a shame.

Thought the yellow stain were allowed in a couple of years back.

Was home fans only last season v the shitheads too

We're meeting at Sir Dan's now, yeah? CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE AT THE READY!

'Unfortunately, one or more items in your basket is assigned to a newly registered client, which is not allowed.'

Wow.

Got 50/1 on 4-1 tomorrow

Fuck 'em!

I have a ticket for the Arkells (R
U 123) £20 if anyone is interested.