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Saw some Carlisle mates at the weekend and they were telling me that Paynter can't afford to move to Carlisle so is doing a 2 hour journey but Curle has told to live there and do extra training to get fit. He is living in a caravan!

 ???

Didn't he, given he went on a free, get a massive signing on fee from Dirty Leeds?

 Presumably will sign for Gillingham in the summer.

In terms of temporary accommodation for the itinerant footballer, then the daddy is Killer Kilcline, with his canal barge  :)

Not exactly an accurate thread title for a playing with a decent goals/games ratio for us

Shame he retired before the playoff final.

Leeds fans gave him that nickname as he was utter gash for them

He was good for us.....got his big money move and took it.

Shame he took it before the play off final!

Would be sad to hear if we has actually short of money, considering he took plenty from Bates not so long ago.

He wasn't too shabby when playing against them.

oh come on he was good for a season for us, at a stretch a season and a half. and his stats would only be 'fair' if he wasn't on penalty duty

As we well know given our recent rash of misses, those pens do not kick themselves into the net...

Nope, tho Leeds fans were convinced they bought the wrong one out of the duo
And so it proved

They couldn't afford the other one though I shouldn't think?!

...and was signed after scoring two decent goals in the 3-0 away win......great game that watching Elland Road empty after Austin scored the 3rd
Had a great day as went Corporate at Leeds that day and enjoyed Company with Clarke, Hunter, Reaney and Jones. The real dirty Leeds. Spent ages in particular talking to a Clarke who was fantastic. My Brother now Swindon was a massive Leeds fan as a kid and Clarke or Sniffer as he was known rang him on my phone. Biggest regret ever that my Brother turned down the ticket that day and I took my best mate a Leeds fan.

Don't give me that, he was good for all three season. First two he played second fiddle to Simon Cox but was the perfect partner for him and they were lethal together. Proper old fashioned strike partnership...

...and as mentioned penalties don't score themselves.

Yep....Billy weighs in at number 18, in our list of all time league goalscorers,  a decent achievement.

That name was branded about a fair bit hear in his first season.

Stone, judging by the last photo that surfaced.

I disagree, so there.

 :)

I suspect Billy might go a bit Steve Bruce, when he finishes playing.

Was it not that dodgy Spanish outfit that were supposed to be buying us out (I forget their name) that signed him. The consortium 'with more money than you can throw a stick at' (What a silly phrase that is).

Paul Sturrock was the manager at the time.

Best Holdings, Jim Little, Rufus Brevett,  Jose Veiga, the three Amigos, good god, flashbacks man flashbacks.

Best holdings, that's the badger.

Bullett......... well and truly dodged.

The throwing a stick at comment was Terry Brady, Colin Todd time I think. It's so sad that there have been that many chancer buffoons flirt with this club that we can't keep track of who said what.

would've been quite fun though

Even more fun than the Brady bunch...

Ladies and gentlemen, I remind you of Bob Holt.........

Big firms are on our side
THE consortium hoping to wrestle control of Swindon Town Football Club claims to have secured financial backing from three major multinational companies.

It says the money ­ which is understood to run into millions ­ would “virtually guarantee the future” of the club, should the consortium take over from the current directors.

No contract has yet been signed but, following a series of meetings last week, a verbal agreement has been made and the deal is expected to become official later this week.

The consortium includes former Queen’s jockey Willie Carson, former club chairman Cliff Puffett, ex-Robert Maxwell aid Bob Holt and James Wills, the son of the club’s biggest shareholder, Sir Seton Wills.

Mr Holt, spokesman for the group, said the three firms are all international giants in the development industry, but have local connections to Swindon.

“They’ve got more money than you can shake a stick at,” he said. “At this stage we are still talking with them to finalise details of how they will support us, so we cannot name them yet.

“The consortium has for some time had at its disposal £1m to deal with short-term cash flow difficulties at the County Ground.

“But this proposal will secure the long-term future of STFC and provide the club with a new stadium for which the freehold will be owned, without any encum-brance whatsoever, by the football club and not by some property company.”

Mr Holt said the removal of the current directors, Danny Donegan and Ian Blatchley, was the consortium’s next target. He added: “If they (the directors) had the best interests of the club at heart, they should elect the members of the consortium to the board, then both of them should retire gracefully.”

The Advertiser profiled all last week the ongoing saga at the County Ground, revealing that the club had apparently broken the terms of a creditors’ voluntary agreement (CVA).

The agreement was made last year to stop the club going into receivership and involves paying off debts to the creditors in an arrangement agreed by all.

Now a creditors’ meeting is to be held in the next three weeks which could force the club into receivership.

The club also owes £87,000 rent arrears to Swindon Council, has had minibuses repossessed and faces the possibility of being forced to call an annual meeting by the High Court.

It was also revealed on Saturday that the council may strip Swindon Town Properties Ltd (STPL) of its preferred developer status for the Front Garden.

STPL was set up specifically to buy the Front Garden land from the council and to build a new £40m stadium, hotel, conference centre and leisure complex.

Town chief executive, Peter Rowe, speaking on behalf of the directors, said he wasn’t surprised by the consortium’s new investment claim.

“I think I might know who these companies are and, if I’m right, they are in direct competition with the developers we are dealing with.

“If they’ve actually got the money, they should sit down with the directors and talk. But at the moment, they seem to be just playing political games.”

 :nod:

Don't remember Brady throwing a stick but "More than money than you can shake a stick at" was Bob Holt, famously and hilariously so.

And Best Holdings were the Portugeezers, not Spanish. But Paynter was signed during their brief tenure. Along with the three Spanish "stars" we then couldn't get rid of.

In the sense of the kind of fun Hereford enjoyed recently, maybe...

 :banthem:

I stand corrected.

One didn't actually seem that bad and scored in an LDV vans game I believe.

You're wrong, so there.

You and your fucking facts Davis, pissoff.

:D

Oh well, at least nobody mentioned Andonikou.

Oh bugger.

Well at least nobody spelled it correctly :)

oh, r.

I remember being irritated at his forehead.

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Your mind on brizzle away game?  :sherlock:

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I see what you did there.

This thread freaked me out due to my baby son being called Billy!!!