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Does anyone think that making a Fjortoft banner with the display money would be a good idea?

A silhouette of his celebration with some words maybe? I can mock a design up if people thing this is a good idea? Nothing too big, maybe 6x5 ft and I'll see if we would be allowed to mount it on some flag poles to make it stand out in the TE.

I can liaise with the club about it if we think it'll be a good use of some of the money?

Do it

Superb idea.

Darren Bullock would be better

How about Harry Agombar,might be the only chance he has to make an appearance at the County Ground

Isn't Fjortoft coming to the Yeovil game ?

It would have to be something like this...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2zd3X4zO88A_N2mxATpkLMCxdx5Ua6BCEy8JNQ4jZrnlgQjHp6A

It was better when he was in full flight.

(http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/resources/images/3077174/)

He left Town 20 years ago this month. Madness.

Indeed he is
Club offering chance to lunch with him, for a price

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/article/return-of-a-legend-2337870.aspx

I thought the money raised was to get behind the team? How would this idea promote that?

Yes, that's a better one...

Worst Transfer Ever...!

I agree. I'm going to follow your massive counter-demonstration of passionate club support.

It was a genuine question.

God there's some sensitive souls on here.

Flags, banners, balloons, streamers all add to the occasion I suppose. The fact that one of the flags has a legend on it will hardly detract from what's going on and a lot of older Town fans will associate with it. Flags with heroes from the past are quite common around grounds; it helps I suppose to create a link.
I think it's a great idea. I also think that Sippo is a miserable cunt who's either on the blob or going through early menopause.

Both mate. Both.

Probably not enough to balance out the insensitive ones.

Come on.  A silhouette of Jan Aage Fjørtoft in full flight is about as iconic an image as you can get with Swindon Town.  And the image was all about us.  He may have carried it on with Middlesbrough and Sheff United, but the aeroplane was pioneered when he was our player.  It's about the joy & relief he (and we) felt when he finally broke his duck in that Cup game vs Ipswich, and the goal spree that followed.  Not enough to keep us in the Prem, but a ray of sunshine in an otherwise challenging season.

Do it, Jay.

No one wants a banner of this

(http://imgur.com/TC6hEPY.jpg)

Jan Aage is a great idea though

Do it Jay

Big fan of your work these past few days

Good work Jay. Nice idea, but money permitting you should try and double the size. 6ft by 5ft will get lost in any kinda crowd. Sippo is a miserable cunt.

Fjortoft = nice idea, but for my two pennyworth I think the bulk of the money should go on team support. A Jan banner would be ok if it doesn't  cost much. And Sippo is a cunt like the rest of us so stop jumping on him.

Sippo is a miserable cunt.

I have nothing else to add.

Yay the TEF is back. I miss the days when people were like this. All this happy clappy stuff is not what the TEF was built for...

I'll do it as cheap as I can. I have £200 left in the bank for our support stuff. I was going to buy 4 huge flags, sew them together then print out a silhouette on a few A3 bits of paper taped together (unless I pay for A0 or something) then use the stencil as a guide to paint it on myself.

Then to make it legal in football grounds I'll get some fire retardant treatment spray.

White on red would work well. Shall we hang it somewhere, run two sticks up either side like the image below or use it as a surf banner on DRS?

Does anyone have any thoughts on words I could put on it?

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01804/flag_1804612c.jpg)

Fuck off Oxford?

It's such an iconic image, I'm not sure you'd need any wording on it

I have one of Fjortoft's socks, unwashed from 1993. I'm going to bring it to the match and swing it around above my head.

This.

'JAF - Jan Air Force' with the picture of him after scoring doing his signature celebration.

This x2

Thoughts? Bearing in mind I'll have to paint it onto canvas ;). I'm not sure which one would have the right impact.

Like it Jay. I thought something like this would be good...

I like the number 9 idea. Maybe a bolder font will less detail that'd be hard to make out from a distance would be more effective from a far distance?

Also, I'm looking at buying the material this week. How big do we think we should do? 150cm wide material sold by the meter. So if I buy two strips I can sew them together so we have a banner that's 300cm wide and I guess we could make it 400cm tall. See below mock up at 30cm x 40cm.

If you're going for that, then the middle one looks best. Two colours, nice and simple!

See the updated post above your reply :)

Nice. I'd definitely just go for white and red, but others might disagree.

I'd suggest that you drop the 9 and just have the image of Fjortoft celebrating.

But what the hell do I know? Very little.

Jay let us know if you need any more funds mate, I'd be willing to chip in and I think a few others on here would too.

They're always welcome. The material is £15 if we make it 3m x 4m. Unless we want to go bigger? I guess we need to decide whether we're making a surf banner or a banner a couple of us could hold up.

Yeah, I'd go with that. And red and white are obviously the right colours!

So this will be a 3m wide banner. That's pretty much surf banner size. This is going to use up a lot of paint at that size! So I'm thinking this will cost us around £200 if we get it printed from somewhere like footballflags.co.uk or I can get the lengths of material, sew them together myself, get the paint, take the time to do the painting and buy some fire retardant treatment spray all for the following:

Material - £15
Fire protection - £15
White Acrylic - £5

£35 for the Fjortoft banner if we home-make it.

Everyone good with that? If you want to contribute financially to this banner I can PM you my paypal address.

Cheers.

Unless you are a fully qualified seemstress Jaybox, which I suspect you are not, you would need some help with that (by help I mean some one to do it for you).

Good luck any way.

I have a sewing machine ;). Well... my missus does.

My tip. Start with a white banner and get some red paint.

But the red:white ratio favours the banner being in red, surely? It'll be easier to stencil the white onto the red. I'll have to cut up the 3m wide image and print it on about 40 A3 pieces of paper unless I can find an A0 printer or something like that.

Part of me hopes you do a really good job, and another part that you end up doing the Jan Åge Fjørtoft version of this.

(http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8487791.ece/alternates/w460/Ecce-Homo.jpg)

I'll be using a stencil though, so I hope that won't happen. Turns out my Dad's work has an A1 printer... so I need to cut the stencil up into A1 size chunks and stick them together...

So that £35 + paper costs for his business and we should be good to go! I might have to recruit some mates from work to help paint it on... I just measured it out an it's a bloody huge banner. 4 meters is actually huge... hahahaha

I must admit I never thought a discussion regarding sewing would make it onto here...

Looks great though!

That still makes me laugh every time I see it. Turns out that church is getting more visitors than ever.

Good work, JayBox.  Good idea, great enthusiasm and hopefully a well executed paint job!

I love a good flag and banner at a football match.

Haha, cheers.

It's bloody huge though. So it could be spread out over the Stratton Bank, held above our heads in the Town End or be a surf across the DRS where it'll be pretty hard to miss.

Good effort!

For your next one, could you do Chalkie White with his shorts pulled up to his nipples, and then Duncan Shearer with his clenched fist celebration in front of the Oxford Road. Nice.

Nathan Thompson 'inciting' the Bristol City fans.

JayBox could have a whole team of Legends floating around the ground/being waved in a couple of years!

The Don could just have a big moustache over the advertising hoardings...

I am talking to STFC about whether they can supply me with a high res version of this image for this purpose ;)

Speaking of which, they've just got back to me with the options attached below. I am still hunting down the celebration of Nathan...

Not sure if that pic you hunt was taken by the photographer link sport use

No it wasn't. It was taken by another photographer. The photos I linked above were sent to me by the club, at the minute it doesn't seem like they have it either.

It's got to be iconic images or nothing otherwise banners can date quickly.

If high res exists for the following images...

Shaun Taylor straight faced celebration vs. Leicester
Steve White vs. Gillingham (arms aloft)
Calderwood carried off by the fans vs. Chester
Don Rogers vs. Arsenal

These would be cool.

I'll send these over to the club & the Trust and see if they can source anything using their channels. Cheers!

All photos are available on swindon-town-fc.co.uk if you don't know what they look like.

Struggled to find a gallery on that site a few days ago when I was looking for one of Fjortoft. Have you got a link? Also, would we want one for Glenn Hoddle with the promotion trophy?

If you could find the front on version of this of the Thompson twins?
(https://fraserdigbyswashbag.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/thompsons-celebration.jpg?w=918)

I agree that it should really be limited to iconic moment/images, like those listed.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Text.asp?Page=1987_PO (under White celebrates a goal)

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Text.asp?Page=1986_LGE (under Calderwood carried after the game)

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Text.asp?Page=1993_PO (under Taylor celebrates - you'll find Hoddle images in that gallery)

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/Text.asp?Page=1969_LC (photo gallery bottom of page)



 

Nice! I like these:

(http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/images/Pics/Achievements/Pic19930403_13.jpg)

(http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/images/Pics/Achievements/Pic19860139_01.jpg)

(http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/images/Pics/Achievements/Pic19870405_02.jpg)

The one with White celebrating against Gillingham, I'll have to draw the end of his fingers and his boot on to complete the image, so I'm hoping the club have access to some High Res copies. Cheers for the help finding those, mate.


I really want to do one of these two, but with Louis never playing for us again and him going off to Norwich it seems odd spending money honouring him. But I'd be more than happy to do it, cause I'm a huge fan. Not to mention he has been with us since he was a young'un.

yeah, I know what you mean, and although he's much loved by the fans at the moment, he's obviously not a "legend" like those being discussed.

I like the photo, though.  I'm sure that I've seen a front on version somewhere, but couldn't find it just now.

I'm trying to think 2011/12 photos that isn't PDC heavy (not that he should erased from history or anything)

Simon Ferry in his pants?

Benson vs. Wigan?

I know what you mean. He shouldn't be honoured in the same light as the previous legends though. Simon Ferry we should just use the quote from him swearing on BBC Wiltshire. For the life of me I can't remember what it was now.

Also, check out this image I just got sent of Nathan against City... LEGEND.

That guy dancing in front of the disabled enclosure, im gonna report him

Link to The Washbag with low res image-

http://thewashbag.com/2014/11/17/nathan-thompson-bristol-city-and-the-leap/

Low res and been mutilated with Photoshop effects ;). I'm getting in touch with the Adver as we suspect it's from their photographer.

Gotta start with the most iconic and Jan is a good place to start.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_NWBHmWsAAonmj.jpg:large)

This is a good resolution! I'd ideally have an image that's 1000-2000 pixels big, but that'll do for now!

Just the outline of Nath, keeping only the name and number on the back of the shirt would be brilliant.

I'll mock it up this evening while listening to the game and get back to you. I need the Nathan one done for City (if I'm allowed to take it) and the Jan one for April 15... that's a lot of painting between now and then. Hahaha damn.

Bristol City are but sensitive, as we know. I'd be surprised if they let you bring it in to the ground.

They made their own fans take a banner down for the West Ham FA Cup tie. To the best of my knowledge it simply states 'East Enders'.

It now lives over the entrance to the 3 Lions pub on West Street.

I thought it was because it said "Ultras" and their owner didn't want to be associated with Eastern-European violence and discrimination that usually follows with the 'ultras' out that way. But that could be wrong.

Perhaps you're right. I'd still contact BCFC before potentially wasting your own time getting it ready.

Plus the bloke above his left elbow  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I have sent them an email last week about what we'll be allowed to bring. I'll chase it up this week.


It won't be the photo on a banner, it'll be a white silhouette on red like the Fjortoft ones above.

Do you have a ticket Jay?  :sherlock:

Not yet, no. The sales don't start until the 23rd, even then I'm 10 points short to be in Phase One.

I've just walked past it, the banner does say ultras.

I just sent a design off to a printer to get a quote on how much to get a stencil printed on huge paper. 3m is so fucking big that printing it out on A1 and sticking them together would take forever. If anyone has any friends in a printer business let me know, we could do with trying to save a bit of money on the stencil to keep costs down.

I might know someone Jay. I'm seeing him in the morning so can ask then.

Cheers mate. It'll just be a very thin outline so it'll use almost no ink. But just needs to be able to make up a 3m x 4m stencil, a Bath-based print company were saying they'd do it in two long strips, so whatever you mate can offer.

Cheers

Just like to add my thanks to you Jay for all your efforts on bringing back some atmosphere to the CG, great work mate!

Keep up the good work Jay, Port Vale was the best away atmosphere I've been in for a while.

Jay, I totally respect your enthusiasm and eagerness to support the team and to encourage others to do likewise. At Vale I helped unfurl one of those red bog-rolls. After the final whistle, I slapped you on the shoulder and said "Well done mate" as we walked up the steps. You slapped me back. Cunt.

Please calm down a bit and utilise your funds to best effect. I think your website design and creative abilities are getting the better of you, when sometimes the the simplest of things can work better. Keep going, but slow down a bit. Please.

Haha. Cheers. I said hello to a lot of people that day so sorry if I don't remember!

I know what you mean. I'm trying to think of different ways of getting an atmosphere and getting people turning their heads at what we're doing so instead of doing the streamers, balloons etc I'm going to try and mix it up with some interesting banners.

Below is the rough plan so far and if you have any thoughts on what we should do better or if we shouldn't bother with something, let me know:

• Franchise - red & white sheets in the Town End (ideally do something on DRS to get the crowd here involved)
• City - streamers, balloons, sheets, flags etc... whatever they'll allow us to do.
• Yeovil - Jan Age Fjortoft banner, I know we should be focussing on the current run but while he is at the CG it'd be good to recognise him
• Preston - whatever we can get away with
• Play offs...? - whatever we can get away with
• Leyton Orient (Celebrate promotion??)- whatever we can get away with

£200 left in the bank for all of that. I have some sheets left from the Vale game to use, too. So if we have some people happy to donate specifically for the banner then we should be OK for the rest of the season. Every game is a big one and I want to keep the momentum in atmospheres going to the final day.

I think it should be written into the contract of all Swindon Town no. 9's that THIS is how they celebrate scoring.

I have got a quote back and it's looking like it'll be around £85 for a the Fjortoft stencil if I get it printed professionally. I have asked for a cheaper quote saying I'll stick it all together and cut it out, but I doubt they'll knock enough off. Looks like it'll be a night of sticking together a hundred A1 sheets it is ;)

Good work on what your doing! If your doing a 3 meter banner and an a1 poster is .59 x .84 meters, surely your quote and measurements are a little off? 

I just got a quote back from MinuteMan in Bath and they can do it for £40 (mates rates) which will be 18 A0 prints. Which is pretty good.

So it'll be £15 for material (as long as the samples I asked for show it'll do the trick), £15 for fire protection (I'll talk to the club about whether this is needed) and £5 for paint.

Would anyone be happy to donate a few quid for the Fjortoft banner? I have a good few weeks to get this sorted so no rush.

Also, I'll be doing the Nathan Thompson one on a normal 3x5 flag which myself and someone else could hold up so this will be £5. ;)

Jay, was that quote from my guy?

Nah, he quoted £84 + VAT unfortunately, so I don't think there's much competition. If people are happy with surfing a Fjortoft banner while he's here for around £60, I'll get started.

Depends how professional it is I guess. Is the banner something that's going to last 1 game or is it likely to last and be able to be displayed in the future. If you get more than just the game out of it, I'd say £85 is pretty reasonable.

Yeah, it'll definitely be reusable.

you should get 'faen i helvete' printed on it, it's Norwegian for 'we love you'.

Bollocks to that, he speaks English. Nobody else will have a clue what it means.

I'm guessing you didn't translate it then?

What about this? It'll only be a 5 ft flag so something small for City.

Yep like that. And I spent half my day  looking at logo's for a website we are being charged 100k for, and they were all crap, and I said it..

Nice. Send me the brief and I'll charge you half that ;) hahaha

That's awesome Jay.

Would make a great wallpaper for my laptop/phone too.. Do you mind if I pinch your idea for personal use? I'm at uni in Bristol so it seems almost necessary  :girlgiggle:

Fill in the gap at the top of the inside of his legs / thighs a bit.

After all isn't it supposed to be 80% BOLLOCKS ......

Personally that chant grates on me. It reminds me of George Baldock scoring in the last minute against us last year, and now Harry Kane.

PDC running the touchline with De Vita has gotta be up there though surely?

Haha. I dunno, it doesn't stand out to me as obviously wrong or out of place. I'll amend it if it's catching a lot of people's eyes though.

I have ordered a sample of the material I'm buying so if I think it'll work well enough I'll order the fabric. Here's how the finances treasury is looking:

£215
- £40 for the stencil
- £15 for the fabric
- £5 for the paint
- £15 for the fire protection

Leaves us with £140 to spend between now and the end of the season not forgetting I have about 30 streamers & the banquet paper left so we're good for now but if anyone is happy contributing towards the Fjortoft banner, let me know. :)

Sorry JB. Was an attempt at some TEF humour by myself that flew over your head I thinks ( 80% Bollocks being part of the TEF philosophy ). Just thought if you modded the silhouette to give him some massive dangly bits It would be like some sort of TEF copyrighting :-)

haha, sorry I'm at work so I have to skim-read so I must've missed the tone ;).

Fucking love it! 10/10

I'll get this made up hopefully in time for MK so if I'm not allowed to take it to City he'll be relatively inspired ;)

At 5 foot too you should be able to get it in regardless, not like it will attract that much attention.

Yeah, well if I have it for MK, I'll bring it out. If not, I'll definitely aim to have it for City :)

(https://fraserdigbyswashbag.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/di-canio-celebration-v-northampton.jpg?w=600)

Superb.

It was a great moment. However, I didn't mention it due to my initial statement.

You can't focus on 2011/2012 without it being Di Canio heavy. The guy was the centre of the universe for us and rightly so (at the time). Although I think some fans are still bitter, he will definitely be looked back on with fondness as time goes on, it was a fucking great season.

The passion from that man is second to none. But it's a shame about everything that came with it.

I've just bought the material for £30 and I am getting it printed this week for £35, so considering what we're getting for the price, that's pretty good.

I'll be posting photos of how it's coming on here for those who are interested ;).

I've fallen a bit behind in planning this due to being caught up with getting anything sorted for Franchise. But I'm back onto getting this done, now!

Very interested, good work.

Good good! The Adver have said they're going to try and help with it if they can, which is a great help :)

Fair play, about time they got involved in something positive instead of keep moaning, fair play to you though for keeping going with everything

They said that they're keen to get involved due to the stigma they seem to have gathered in the Town. So yeah, I'm happy to help them by letting them help me ;)

If I can get this painted up at the weekend I will need a few volunteers to help with getting it out on the fans in the DRS stand. Is anyone up for helping? I'm tempted to move my seat to the DRS for one game so I can get it out there myself, but I'll still need more than just myself ;)

Here we go!

(https://igcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/11142814_413006888824508_1674940029_n.jpg)

 :clap: :clap:

Cracking job

Top work, that's awesome!

Good work, looks great.

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/not%20worthy.gif)

Not very big is it??

Just kidding!



Looks good. Well done  :clap:

Excellent!

That's brilliant, good stuff

Should really go up permanently once that game is over.
Maybe inside the side wing of the DRS, SB end.
Or elsewhere  :hmmm:

nice work!

That looks fantastic!

Gutted I can't make the game to see it! :(

my bedroom

(http://i.imgur.com/mnaOksv.gif)

Awesome job, Jaybox.

Simply brilliant.

Cheers guys.

I'm Buzzing for it. Came out really well. This is when we get a message where he's had to pull out... hahaha

I'll be moving my Season Ticket seat over to DRS for the Yeovil game so I can help get it out on the day. Any other DRS fans able to help? Probably just need one or two people.

that looks superb. Great work

Brilliant

I am looking to attend the Yeovil game. Normally sit in the DRS, which part of the stand is it going to be in?

?

 ??? Can I borrow your dashcam Sippo? It doesn't say whereabouts in the DRS as far as I can see.

Edit. Oh, he's deleted his post  :)

Hi mate,

it'll be in the DRS. If you're able to help, that'd be awesome!

Can't guarantee I'll be there but I always had season tickets around seat 150, town end side. Is it gonna be around there?

That's where we'll start it from, yeah. :)

Cos I love you so much and didn't want to offend your precious feelings x

Thanks  :)

Nice one Jaybox, looks great.

my eldest has been selected to do the half time shooting thing. hope he gets a chance to take on Jan :)

Make sure he does the airplane celebration if he scores.

Aeroplane. It's aeroplane.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit spelling

way ahead of you :). as long as he doesn't bottle it, and IF he actually scores

A half time massacre?

Dragging out anyone who voted Hylton as "Town's saviour" in the FLIC Wiltshire poll...

If? If? I'm expecting at least a hat-trick!

Herthab and Ralphy have Jan on their table for a meal. No doubt Herthab will try and sell him a puppy

You not going Tans?

As a starter or a main course?

No im between night shifts!
Its you, ralph, pete and chris

I've already told him it's more important than his SATs, not sure what else I can do..

I think the question is would they allow Tans in ?

Good point.

I thought i was well behaved at the sponsors dinner

I can confirm we all were.

Fair to say he was over the moon with it. He said "Thank you so much" about 200 times and hugged me a few times, too.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He did seem a bit blown away by it. Sam was nice enough to give me a shirt from the 93/94 season so I could get it signed. But the highlight for me was Jan asking where the banner was after the game so I pointed to the table where I chucked it in the Legends Lounge only for him to go and grab it to start dragging it out to the pitch announcing "Right, we're taking this outside to get a photo!"

So I got to hold it up with him on the County Ground pitch and get some photos with him and it. Probably one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Much friendlier than M. Smith was after the game when he walked past... but he did just lose a game of footy so I can't blame him...

Anyway, good job all round. The one downer is that nobody has even got a photo of it going across the crowd. :(

Fair play to you mate.

Great story. Fair play to you and to the great man himself  8)

Any chance we can see the photos?

Here's a few of us on the pitch:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDBo1UAWMAAZmBh.jpg)

Here's one from Jan himself: https://twitter.com/JanAageFjortoft/status/589473916470620162

Annoyingly nobody apparently took a photo of it while it was out on the crowd.

Great photo! Wanted to get there early to see Jan and get a picture for you of it in the crowd from the Arkells Jay, but spent 50 minutes in traffic at the bloody Bruce Street Bridges roadworks and only just made it in time for kick-off! :badmood:

Nevermind! :) I'm just frustrated that nobody got a photo... not even any of the photographers.

Well hopefully you'll get a chance to pass it around at Wembley now, Jay.

This. Good effort.

Yes, a really good effort, JayBox. 

OK.  It's a shame if nobody got a photo of it being passed across the DRS but the most important thing is that the man himself got to see it (and met the man who produced it) and knows that people here remember him for all the right reasons.

Top lad and top story.
One for the Grand kids...nice one.

Well done Jaybox.  I think we are all grateful that you made the effort to give Jan Aage a memorable return to the CG as he has given us many great memories.

Let's hope we see the banner again - with a different result next time

That'd be great. I have another thought for Wembley, but that might be a bit too expensive! If you saw the Villa end of Wembley as the players came out at the weekend... something like that.

Whatever happened to good old British Rail toilet rolls?

pay a load of miserable brummie cunts to sit with us?

They're pretty flammable so I'd imagine most stewards won't let them in... but by all means!


Hahaha. Not so much that but more of the whole mosaic thing.

If you want to use it at Wembley you'll need to check the guidelines on the website. I think you have to have it fire protected and take proof with you.

Sorry I'm sketchy on the details but all I do know we got that London Reds flag confiscated within seconds of unfurling it pre Millwall and had to pick it up after the game.

Yeah, I've had a look. It's basically the same rules as Sheffield United. Which is why I'm leaning towards a mosaic SHOULD we get there. So I'm not looking into it just yet...

Yeah, well done. You've fucking jinxed it now and we'll be out in the Semi's.

And it'll be all your fault.....

Haha. I'm not doing anything about it until it's guaranteed. I am tempted to do it in the DRS for the home second leg tbh.

But also, luckily I don't believe in all that crap! Looking at our recent form I'm fairly sure it won't be because of me ;). Yeovil were the unlikely winners a few years back...

Too young to know Izal toilet paper, but i'd defy anyone to prove that stuff was flammable.

If you ever needed a picture, to explain the phrase 'Not fit for purpose', then that is the product I'd use. Toilet paper? No. Shit smearer? Oh yes.

Always a treat to use after a madras..

Excellent for tracing paper or to make a tune on a steel comb - but unquestionably unbeatable at spreading shit half way up your back.

Was there no such thing as product testing in our day?

I thought it was quite sharp when creased  :(

Only on puppies and other cute things.

My brother volunteered for testing at Porton Down. Supposedly for the human cold - but who knows

I thought the Common Cold Unit had closed......went past the back of Porton Down couple of weeks back....that's one scary place. Had previously only ever glimpsed it from the main road through Boscombe, where youcan make out some tower type things in the distance.

What's it got to do with Fjortoft?

This was donkey's years ago - sometime in the 70s when he was in the army

Bit of a tangent. Jay's intrepid celebrations, leading to Izal toilet paper (the celebration of choice back whenever), then onto questioning if said bog paper was ever product tested and finally to human testing at Porton Down.

Simples!

Jan would be horrified if he knew what his thread had descended into.

On the other hand, this is the TEF.

I didn't know that Fjortoft was in the Army in the 70s.  He must have been the youngest soldier ever! 

Blimey!  The things you learn on this Forum!   ;)

On a similar tangent. I drove past AWE Aldermaston for the first time in 20 years since i moved up here last week. Man that place has grown, god knows what they make there now since the nuclear requirement dropped...

Reminds me of this..
 
(http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cnd-peace-festival-1972.jpg)

I was  taken by Steve "Peregrine" Took, who played bongos in the mud, he dropped out of Tyrannasauus Rex when Marc Bolan went pop.

Had seen Hawkwind and Roy Harper plenty of times....the Adrians were poets....happy days.

Armada weren't that much of a surprise then.  But nobody expects the Spanish armada.

...or Inquisition for that matter.  Don't recall anything about Armada, which doesn't necessarily mean a lot, as there's plenty of stuff from those years that elude me.

They do have national service in Norway...

They still make instant sunshine for the Trident missiles.

You not a (n outer) London any more then? Will this cut down your footy habit?

You know Jacko introduced us at Fulham a few years ago, btw?

Yes I do remember. No haven't moved, was back visiting family for the day and decided to take a leisurely drive back as it was nice.

ah pete brown, psychedelic genius.

I've just noticed the bit right at the bottom about being dropped off at the Falcon Inn, pretty sure that was a Hells Angel pub. They must have loved a load of smelly hippies turning up looking confused.

Hell's Angels....yikes, you never quite knew what you'd get with these boys. My scariest memory, puttling past Mannington Farm on my scooter at night, on my way to sure fire thing in Broad Town, and getting slapped by a chain from a group who were squatting in aforementioned place.

Those who know the farmhouse might be puzzled, but in 69, the bridge in Wootton Bassett Road by Running Horse....marked the edge of Swindon going west, a quiet country lane, then led to Bassett. I thought I'd be sacrificed by cooking in a vat of sump oil if caught....the old Li never went faster  :)

I remember when it was fields right up to the railway bridge by the running horse.

My first employment after leaving school ( 1979 ) was surveying said fields for wilts cc archeology dept on a government scheme.
Building Toothill had started then

The cafe up by the bus station in Chippenham was always a 'greasers' hangout.

Had to walk past it to get to the New Inn up the Causeway. All togged out in me crombie et al!

What a prick!

The new Inn is up by the train station  ??? ???

Fuck me, you're right. Shows how the old memory from the 70s plays tricks.

Should have been the 3 Crowns

Yep  ;)

I never explored that side of town before it was developed, I remember venturing out that way when the Carrefour supermarket opened, late 70s?
I also remember West Swindon Working Mens Club was in Radnor Street.
 

Some footage of this day has made it into a Premier League feature. https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/649155834828689408

Lovely piece that. There's a Town fan entrenched in Premier League Productions, good friend of mine, and was on that gig hence the heavy STFC slant.

I spoke to the two lads that were filming it for the day. They seemed like good chaps.

Ralphy doing the Airplane!