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The draw is at 11 today. Who are we hoping for?

Anyone at home

On an interesting note, went on the Coventry fans forum and they said they would pick anyone but us to draw against. Home or Away.

You know it will be Argyle away!

Bit of bother we had with them last year no doubt.

London club away. Is that even possible?

Barnet and AFC Wimbledon were knocked out.

Our possibilities are...
Bristol Rovers
Coventry City
Oxford United
Exeter City
Plymouth Argyle
Wycombe Wanderers
or Yeovil Town.

I want Oxford Home but I can see Yeovil away happening.

Oxford away please. C***'*

Bring Oxford or Rovers to the County Ground.

Deliver us the turds and we will flush them.

Oxford vs Rovers on Sky tommorow. What a horrible fixture 😀

why oxford?what if we lose AGAIN?

Because it's the best game going. Period.

Atmosphere, the occasion, the possibility of dominating in our main derby game.

I live in Chipping Norton, so I'm quite familiar with the hatred.

Then they'll still be in League 2 with a three sided stadium looking like walking piss stains.

They currently have bragging rights. This needs to be fixed with a jolly good hammering.

SoccerAM Delaying, both Sam and ASD getting narked off.

Oxford away!

Scum away

Have they sold out of home tickets for their big cup final already?

YESSSSS   :soapy tit wank: :soapy tit wank:

WOW. This will be something!

If by something you mean a shit game over policed to the max then sure. We won't sell out, or get anywhere near, and we'll lose on penalties.

Eric will be knocking one out as we speak

Oh dear. Part of me wants to go to this, while another part is still remembering last time.....

Evening game means they can't mess around with kickoff time too much  :-D

ROAR

when is the game to be played?

W/c 5th october

Should be around the time our team hits form too, though the Scum have a "Reasonable" team this year....

I'm going for sure.

Anyone think we will get more than 500 tickets for this ?

I'm going by Stagecoach. Yee-haa. Get your kicks on route 66.

Didn't that dive of a pub near their tip close due to lack of support?

I'm more confident in seeing Town winning at Wembley than ending this other shitty run! I can't believe it's three years since the last attempt.

Let us give it a ruddy good go.

Just checked JPT ticketing rules apparently we are allowed 10% of 12,500 = 1250. woopee wee.

http://www.football-league.co.uk/global/trophyrules.aspx Rule 17.1

Hoping that'll be on the telly.

International weekend that weekend, england have got estonia on the 9th. So i reckon we'll be without some players
Wales play on the sat and Iraq play on the 7th

Delighted is an understatement.

Let's get back to beating them all the time,much more fun.

And a decent allocation please.

Aye, this is a big one for me too, Tans I'm sure can sympathise being based in Oxfordshire?

oh fuck

Great draw, especially with the endless northern trips this year in the league!

Another thing, we have the Millwall Away situation a week and a half after the game...

Sounds like you have an exciting two weeks lined up. Better get down the gym and tool yourself up.

Why not go to the Queens's Tap tomorrow afternoon if you're that desperate. Do people really still get off on this kind of thing? :zzz:

Ooo its gunna be propa nawty

Looks like the Millwall game will be the least aggressive part of the day. For once.

Oh god...We've never scored at the Kebab

soapy tit wank 'Swindon fans wont know whats hit them'

Lovely time to change that then, we're due a win!

Christ, we have to go through all this bollocks again for weeks.

Could do without it TBH - yeah I get the animosity but FFS it's plastic

But its nawty  :wotjump:

But it's not.

It's fluff

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Harry Toffolo ‏@Harry_Toffolo  · 47 mins47 minutes ago 
Oxford vs Swindon in JPT 👀 I've heard stories.. 🙊

Best gif ever

That is very good

That's a nice cock

Agreed - it's very, very boring.

Is that Aaron Moody?

Got no balls...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/oxford-united/11846445/Meet-Oxford-United-English-footballs-most-attractive-team.html

Be afraid...

They will sell out.
We will take 450.
They will win 3-1.
We won't play them again for 5 or 6 years.

It's a pretty shit rivalry, all in all.

The yellows forum will be oozing testosterone bollocks as usual.

Barring being close, it's such a shit away day too.

How not - and where not - to build a ground.  I hate everything about the place.  And if I was an Oxford fan, I'd hate it as well.

Omg how can you not be excited . Our old rivals .We owe them 1 or 3 we are their  biggest rivals behave yourselves . This is what we are all here for

well ive been to the last 3 meetings with oxford and it made our last 3 Wembley appearances look
good :suicide:

From the telegraph  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

They have only been in the league since 1962 so not that old rivals... We have much older.

Just spoke to one of the managers from an older job and turns out he supports the scum and is going! Another reason to wipe the floor with the pissy bastards.

Go get them rocky.

It's the JPT.

I know Oxford are supposed to be our main rivals, but I just don't get that excited about playing them. They ain't much older than me.

I was hoping for Millwall away, Probably wont even register with me this game is on, certainly no interest in going.

well I fucking love the fact we've got them.

and I'll fucking hate it if we put in our normal performance at the kebab triangle.

hope it's on TV, the chances of going are fairly low

Would have been an interesting draw as they are in SE group and we in SW

That grouping system doesnt make much sense to me, how are Coventry in SW draw

Aren't Walsall north west too?

 :hmmm:   I suppose they had no choice but to 'load' the South West group, but it throws up some real strange ones:

http://www.johnstonespainttrophy.com/news/2014-15/draw-details-announced-for-2015-16-season/

Did anyone watch them today? That Kemar Roofe looks good, took his goal well.

I'm not sure they're one of the best footballing sides in England as that recent Telegraph article implied but they played 'the game' well and by that I mean, going down 'injured' at the right times etc. Nothing wrong with it but it was glaringly obvious throughout.

That Roofe looks a handful, went off with a shoulder injury didnt he?

great goal though

I used to really 'get' the rivalry, but now I honestly don't give a fuck.

There was a spell in the late 90's/early 00's that we use to play them quite regularly, but that has disapated because we don't play them that frequently. Rivalries will be in 'fashion' based on how frequently we play a team.

must be the glut of local derby matches we have this season dulling the excitement.

People say the same about City not being a "Real" derby and such.  ::)

Lets be honest, the reason people aren't that 'bothered' is because we haven't beaten them in the four attempts over the last 14 years. Oxford is our biggest rival and as a collective we've got to embrace it, whatever the level and whatever the competition.

I assume a lot of you being based in Swindon and other places that are not Oxfordshire, don't have to deal with Oxford fans on a regular basis.

I was brought up near witney and thus always surrounded by Oxford supporters but was always influenced by family to think of the Bristol clubs as the real rivals

I think the Telegraph has form bigging up the yellow filth.
I think one of their reporters is a fan

All this feigned disinterest would soon dissisipate if we beat the fuckers.

I'll happily forgive Di Canio his foibles, excentricities and strops but his record against that lot from up the A420 was a disgrace and an embarrassment.  Especially the home defeat.  It's time we put the record straight.

Brings out the worst in people and brings every knuckle dragging moron out of the closet

That occasion when suddenly your non-football enjoying friends and other people around you who are normally innocent become your mortal enemies in a piss stained wash.

living in Chipping Norton and having to listen to them on a daily basis it would be lovely to shut them up.

Oh, you too?

Yep

Rather odd we've had 7 pages on this thread of mostly posts which express a view they don't give a fuck about Poxford.

That's fucking brilliant.

I'd like to think Sky will televise it.. but probably not.

I'm assuming C5 haven't got a JPT highlights show?

of course it is a game that matters. Long overdue a win. Forever in our shadow. End of.

The bragging rights are all about this one. The Bristol and Reading games really don't matter and are forgotten about.

I haven't really given a crap about Oxford, until we play them.

Can't wait for it. Just need to work out transport...

We'll probably do what we did last time we played them and just go on one of the Coaches.

The hassle of getting the train and being stuck on one of those buses that does a tour of the Oxfordshire countryside is not an option for me.

Spot on.

Only 14 years because the fuckers were out of the league for almost half of them.

My thoughts on the matter from a post in another thread about 6 months ago.  Views haven't changed.  The only thing that has is another season has got underway so we've now been in the same division as them for just one season out of the last 15.  The Swindon/Oxford rivalry is a shadow of what it used to be.

What ?

Constantly boasting about Division 2 and recent experiences of non-league football ?

Probably more about the last time we played. And the time before that. And the time before that.....

About how they are better then Swindon, and complaining that the town has a lot of Town fans...

I find it a bit odd seeing Oxford fans drinking in an Arkell's pub too, but to be honest it's the problem of having a town that's half/half in terms of support.

Do you live in Chippy then ?

I used to live near there and it always seemed 90% Oxford, not 50/50

In.... Around...

To be honest, there's a mix of both. I know some people who are generic Oxford fans and others who are die-hard Swindon fans. The postie is a Swindon fan too, as are some of the local workmen.

When the Play Offs were on, there were plenty of Red shirts in the town centre as well.

You still get the glory hunter majority though.

The postie' probably Ralphy. Or Pete.

Your postman posts on here, its the infamous Ralphy.

Ive always found i know more town fans than oxford fans in chippy to be honest.

Wherebouts?

There's still tension, and I cringe every time I see someone wearing a scum shirt.

Ralphy *sigh*   A man who scaled the heights of having his very own forum, only for it to lay unused since June 2007.

Such is the hubris of the human condition.

Can anyone draw a comparison between the Oxford squad and ours?

One's in League One, one in League Two.
One has internationals (maybe), the other not (probably)
One play in the colour of blood and passion, the other urine and cowardice.

That's well worded. Poetic almost in it's truth.

Bananas.

In Ojamaas

Are running down the stairs

Lived in Milton - u - Wychwood for a bit when I was younger
School at Burford

Im guessing once you get upto/ past north oxfordshire the most supported clubs start to become Aston Villa and Coventry?

I attended College in Banbury, and the tutors there either supported Oxford or Coventry, with the third most supported being Liverpool.

I find that not many people support Villa, until you reach Birmingham. The Towns around Aston, Sutton Coldfield etc are rife with Villa support as one might expect.

Yes, it's been closed years now. A shame as they were doing some top notch roast dinners about 7 years ago before closing.

The tiny clubhouse on the village green now serves as the village pub.

Don't suppose you bump into Mark Smith at all ?

He used to be something to do with the sports club

Nah, sorry. I've never been down there.

The only sporting folk ever ran into were the Schofields? Not seen them in years though.

Villa

Just like to add my thoughts on this draw.
Bloody brilliant.
I always go to the home games in this bleak cup but this as raised the stakes a great deal.
Can't make the game at the kebab but I'll listen to the game(if I'm in the Swindon area) and shout at the radio with all my might.

I'm sure the ticket allocation will be reduced to the late 00's - not sure how they will sell the tickets I assume 1 per season ticket holder first come first served type of thing

I would assume it will be using the points system as they've used the last couple of seasons but I may be wrong.

They are going to hold auditions as to who can be the most nawty when it comes to engaging with the Oxford supporters!

Yellow bastards! etc.

Just checked on how @TownEndDisplays was doing for and some Oxford fans let me know they're putting on a display and how ours will be shit compared to it.

Feel free to donate to gofund.me/stfcdisplays for this one.

It might mean that the Millwall display isn't as big because they're so close, but it'd be cool if we can so something.

Jealousy Jay. don't fall for it.

But theirs will be yellow and, therefore, the colour of pus, vomit and cowardice.  It will be impossible for our/your display to be shit in comparison to that.  Impossible.  They should have thought that through, but clearly didn't.

Anyone seen the latest thread on their forum? soapy tit wank

Fuck 'em in the ear

Maybe their banner or ours could give the overall head to head results:
STFC wins 23
Draws.       20
Pox.           13

Your post directed me to their site for, probably, the first time in a couple of years.  There was an advert at the top for a pub more than a mile away which, these days, is the nearest place you can get a drink.  Sums the place up.

Always be grateful for what you have, and spare some pity those less fortunate.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFioRHiLNpw

I'm tempted to rename the thread to something innocuous just to throw them off.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Why would you check on a Twitter feed you run yourself?

Also good plug to get some more cash.

It's getting a bit fruity on Facebook regarding the refugees banner as well - a particular highlight being.... Hmmm

'Im going to buy a 'FUCK LABOUR'  banner and hang that up.
debating on a 'Jay Collett sucks Syrian refugee dick' also'

I have my personal account I stay logged into so I need to check on it every now and then.

But yeah, as some have alluded to, I pocket all the money so yeah, it's my only source of income.

I presume 'Eric Read' is a parody act? I can imagine him trashing his own house getting all angry because someone in a red car drove down 'his' street. What a weirdo.

That's going to look incredibly impressive waved around a wall they're all stood on because they can't get in the ground. I'm shit scared already.

You need to stop biting son. Way too easy...

"Are you Power in disguise?"  :band:

Is there a link?

http://yellowsforum.co.uk/thread/21808/read-swindon-forum

Oh dear.

Beyond embarrassing....

love the bit about our forum being written in Crayon  ;D

It is good to know, though, that STFC validates Eric's very existence.

His real name is Paul

They think of themselves as being proper nawty don't they?

I actually only know 1 Oxford fan to speak to and he is a grade A tool, only see him about once every 10 years and all he ever goes on about when I see him is how superior they are to us, tedious anddull little fucker!

Let's see.

Would you prefer Swindon's knuckledraggers to best Oxford's knuckledraggers

OR

spend 5(?) years in non league, followed by 3(?) in the basement and have a carbuncle of a ground which the landlord will forever be a financial millstone round their neck.

The future is bright - the future is RED

Haha blimey.

I went to the manor once, crap ground, crap atmosphere, and no threat felt at all.  We won 1-0.

I know three brothers who are Oxford fans, and they are very decent lads.

Cringe worthy.

I like the bit about 'taking the Town End', considering in the 80's and 90's they could only be bothered bringing 7-800 to the games at the CG and no way selling out their allocation...and we always gave them a good thumping.

This same bile issues forth every time we play them.

I've yet to hear about any actual trouble.

What's this Banbury of which they speak? :sherlock:

He seems to have named himself 'Eric Read' on the forum to remind him on a daily basis that Eric Read was the ref in the game at the CG in 1982 with the smoke bombs.

Nice to have a chip on your shoulder about a referee for over 33 years...

Eric took his tiddlywinks team for a game against the duke of Banbury and friends. Our side won, however, Oxford claimed this was because some of their best players had already gone home(their tea was ready).

They got their revenge in a game of hide and seek in London. Rumour has it they didn't count all the way to one hundred, and as such the result is also disputed.

Can Pox fans count to 100?

Strange choice eh? I might call myself John McGinley so I can seethe with rage whenever I log on.

Or the list of dodgy refs we had. Take your pick from Lester Shapter, Allan Gunn, Kelvin Morton, or any dodgy refs from the last 20 years.

What an arsehole he was!

That's dedication.

Thank God they can't read that FaceBook group... it's almost as embarrassing as that.

No, it's sad.

 :D

Pox announce their ticket details/prices for game

http://www.oufc.co.uk/news/article/oxford-united-swindon-town-tickets-2678385.aspx

Nothing our end yet

Got 1,206 then.

Fuck 'em!

The only Oxford fans I know are a couple of (actually) mentally disabled people, a woman I got on quite well with until a relative informed I was Swindon born and bred, and an ex colleague I got on REALLY well with who was right arsey with me today.

It's like they all hit their collective piss stained rag when fixture time comes around.

I loved going to the Manor. Comedy ground for the most part, but with proper home and away ends. The squeeze along the path behind the away terrace was usually 'fun', and I quite enjoyed the sense of threat before and after matches - not that I would ever want to get involved in any violence.

I was on a stag do with an Oxford fan a couple of years ago. He was a decent bloke - a normal lower league (and non league) footy fan who supported his local team, enjoying the good times and willfully suffering the bad times.

And the Kassam ISN'T a comedy ground?

Was wearing my Town shirt to the Southbrook pub for an after-game meal. Started chatting with a guy, apparently he was a teacher for one of the culprits of the pitch burning that happened all those years back; when he said he taught the guy that did it there was genuine pride in his voice.

Aside from the twattery that happens, this fixture can be quite memorable in terms of well meant mischief.

The banter has started at work with a few Pox I work with.
Their hatred of us has always remained constant however ours has always been confused with that of Bristol and Oxford.
Only one rival as far as I'm concerned.
Mind you as has already been mentioned away following from both sets of fans during the later 70's and 80's was very poor probably due to the trouble.
I have not missed a derby game since 1975 and most pass with little trouble, sadly always a few from both clubs acting like pricks.
4 games without a win is far too long however having only witnessed the scum winning once on home soil I can live with that.
Forever in our shadow. Mind you we have had some cracking games with them over the years and used to enjoy going to the Manor. The Kassam is awful, dull, and everything I detest about new built grounds. Sadly for our friends most of them agree.

I detest the JPT however as its against Oxford I can't give it a miss although the thought of losing still has an effect as any game against them matters in my opinion. I can't see both teams fielding weak teams either and it's a game both clubs could probably do without.

No. It is not a comedy ground. It's worse - a shit design in a shit location that has no redeeming features whatsoever.

The good thing about the Manor was the choice of pubs. We used to walk passed the hospital, then the church and there were 3 or 4 decent boozers. Only ever had trouble once before a Simod cup tie or somesuch.

Think we pissed it 4 nil and a couple of scummers had sore heads!

Only thing it's got going for it is that it's better than the old Withdean ground.
Terrible views and difficult to get to. At least the Manor had 7 sides.
.

The Withdean, while being pretty awful, always had the feel of a temporary home. The Kassam appears to be a permanent albatross. I'd take the Manor over both of them.

Reading that on the yellows forum I assumed it was written by 15 or 16 year old lads, not blokes near retirement age.

It is? I've been talking to an Oxford fan on Twitter who's involved in their display. It's been just shy of a friendly conversation. Much prefer this to the childish insults and boring bickering all over social media in the build up to a match.

I'm very excited to have two opposing tifos at the same time. I'm reserving all my yellow scum insults for the day.

They've raised about £650 for theirs so far.

A post on a piss stained yellow forum claims that James Cuntstable will be paraded around the pitch. I hope so, I like singing that song.

Tickets go on sale today. The OS doesn't say how many allowed per ST holder. Not helpful. Queues already at CG.

You need 300 points + to get one today. You can get as many as you need/like providing all your mates have this number of points too.

Shouldn't this thread be like Facebook this morning and be full of people noting that they have bought their tickets this morning and how they are going to get proper nawty up in Oxford - I am frankly ashamed of you all!

We got our tickets today. We are going to the Jolly Farmers first, then to Browns for a delightful spot of high tea. Then on the piss up the Cowley Road. We are really looking forward to the day out.

I went to atomic burger down the cowley road today. Very good it was too

Went there before a gig last Feb.. Was so good!

Still no mention as to whether this game will be televised yet?

We might challenge the locals to a game of Aunt Sally. It's the only thing they're good at, ol' boy ;-)

No chance, who would watch it aside from a few thousand of us lot?

686 sold for this at 5pm according to stfcstore on twitter

:yay:

You never know..

Don't think there is any live JPT game for this round.

700 sold before general release is pretty good

That's not bad at all. I can't remember when Gen sale starts nor can I be bothered to look, but with only 500 tickets left it wouldn't surprise me if we got more tickets.

Monday for general sale

No chance of more tickets

I think their supporters' trust and ours were both talking to the clubs about the chances of more tickets.

Not convinced we'll need more tickets but would be delighted to be proved wrong.

I didn't think we'd sell out until I saw how many we'd sold before GS. It'd be good to sell out our allocation.

I've got mine but I can understand the stay aways.

Getting there is a right ballache, being kettled in for a least an hour afterwards etc etc..

Always thought we would do well to sell out.

Totally agree Flash. It's the worst "away day" ever. Has to be done though.

Latest update is we've sold 906. Not bad given the circumstances.

Booked a coach ticket, anyone else getting the coach?

We're getting a stretch limo painted & shaped like a banana.

Does anyone know what time they go on GS? 9am?

thanks

Two purchased at 9.01am

We should sell out today, I'd have thought. As there were less than 300 left on Saturday.

I just bought two. Can see these gone by 12.

Just got a couple.

https://twitter.com/Official_STFC/status/648441929726828544

Sold out now.

Anyone getting the train down?  :pint:

Good luck with your hour trip round the countryside before the game then

Train in. Drink in city centre. Taxi to the dump.

I think some of us are. Then a taxi to the ground.

Okay, let's all clarify who's getting there and how?

I'm going by coach.

I'm going on a sea of expectation and returning on a wave of euphoria

I'd try the coach if I was going.  I think it's hilarious that the main public transport option (ie the train) dumps you more than 5 miles from the ground.  How is that acceptable?  For those then taking a cab to the ground, I doubt it would take a lot longer if you cabbed it from Didcot instead.  Would not be much more expensive and you'd avoid a whole lot of aggro.

Everything about that ground is wrong.  All of it.

This is why I picked coach over train. Getting in and getting out quickly and easily. Will go for a pint in Swindon before the coaches arrive. Early for a Tuesday but who cares?

You'll be held back for an hour after the game anyway

You getting the Chippy to Oxford bus in?

Who did this then... http://yellowsforum.co.uk/thread/21934/oxford-swindon

Sam morshead i reckon

I went to all the games at the CG in the 80s and most in the 70s.

I honestly don't remember them taking the TE. I remember battles with Arsenal and Bristol City at the corner of the Shrivvy and the TE.
, but that was in the 70s. Surely in the 80s there was segregation and the away fans were in the Shrivvy/Stratton Bank corner.

Probably an Oxford fan or Tans.

Nope not me, im banned

In the 80's/90's they never bought enough to fill the away end, let alone to 'take the Town End'.

Am I the only one who doesnt give a shit if they ever did 'take the town end?'  I find it hilarious seeing the old farts who thought it was big and hard to have a fight in the 70's still banging on about it.

The children who claim to be still doing it now I also find pathetic.

All this 'we took the Townend' crap. What used to happen was the Oxford fans would turn up at 1:30 when the gates opened and go into the Townend. Just before kick off the home fans would leave the pubs and enter Stratton Bank. They would all then mass at the corner of the Townend and Shrivvy Road and then push the Oxford fans towards the North Stand side. You would then end up with the Townend half and half with both sets of fans with the Police in the middle. This happened with most matches, not just Oxford.

Just booked coach. 5.15 leave do CGH for a few  :pint:

That's the first time I've been on that site for a while - and what strikes me is just how civilised things are on there compared to the way it used to be.  The Oxford fella who married in to the Swindon supporting family has it about right:


The intensity is no way near what it used to be.  And neither will it return until such time as we start playing them again on a regular basis.  The bile, vitriol and hatred originated mainly in the 1970s when we were playing them practically every week.

If memory serves me correct, except for Boreham wood.

Early score predictions?

Us to win on penalties.

The only violence I have seen at an Oxford match is when one of their fans jumped the fence at the CG into no-man's land, punched a ballboy who was about eleven years old. Then the culprit legged it back into the Oxford end.

God please no.

I'd rather that than us to lose on penalties  :D

Touché.

Jordan Williams called up for Wales U21s.

We are without Kasim, K Stewart, Thomas and N Thompson so far.

We can still field a reasonably strong side, plus Oxford's players are young and inexperienced with the Derby Day atmosphere.

So our ours

Hahaha ffs Louis Thompson called up aswell

Jesus! :(

Belford
N. Thompson - Injured
BOO
Williams - Wales U21
Turnbull
K. Stewart - Injured
Brophy
Barry
Branco
Robert
Traore
Kasim - Iraq
L. Thompson - Wales U21
Balmy
Randall
Marshall
Rodgers
Iandolo
Smith
Ajose
Thomas - Injured
J. Stewart - Homesick/eased in
Obika
Cooke - Going out on Loan
Hylton
Ojamaa

Fuck me.

Ojamaa could get called up by Estonia too

If those players callled up dont refuse their call ups they can fuck off :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Not as if they arent going to get called up again

Brancos due a red card too

Not with the form he's in at the moment.

How many need to be called up before it gets postponed? Not that I want it to be.

You'd expect L.Thompson to stay, seeing as he has history with us and it's Derby Day.

Not too worried, as some of these players don't perform at their best. It'll be 50/50. Oxford naturally have less quality than we do anyway.

We shall see.  :sherlock:

FFS we've 2 massive games before the Paint Pot, which is just that the Paint Pot.  We'll also have a good few players missing on call ups, so could get it postponed, but really no point....as it's the Paint Pot so a chance to put a few kids like Tom Smith, Marshall and Randall in.

No chance, he's a sensible lad.

Any form of international football > JPT

Always the possibility that Branco may get a brazil call up?

Perhaps he let a smoke bomb off. :sherlock:

That's just nuts.

I'm after a ticket....message me if you have one...genuine fan..not for a dimwit knuckle dragger (Jutty can't make it).

SAS Travel are so hard to get ahold of, I've been calling them during their "Open Hours" at 7-8 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and still can't get through. Anyone got any info on getting in touch with them?

Sam Morsheads after one too! Hopefully we're able to get him one.

Ah the shock of having to pay to follow Town!  :D

Yeah! It's a shame cause he made his announcement a few hours after we sold out!

Could he not go as the press correspondent for the TEF?

I rang during the day and left message on answer phone with how many tickets etc and contact number.
They rang back that evening.

Or you can try via twitter

They called me just now and I got tickets. Thanks for the info though!

There's plenty of seats available in the home end.

If I had the faintest idea what any of their stands were called, I'd suggest that you 'take' one of them.

Don't suggest that, they might take a fence :)

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 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: They'll both get a great reaction from us.

Can we ask for Gurnham Singh to referee and recreate when Beauchamp got kicked all over the CG and Singh just let the players get on with it?

Ah, that hatchet man Mark Walters. Caught him with a good kick to the head, too.

I was there, it was glorious

Wonder if Vigs can give us all his pennies...

Has  Beauchump asked his mum if he can be out that late?

What a very odd thing to do, I assume its supposed to provoke something but not sure what, one was a player who showed himself so pathetic that he couldn't leave home as a grown man and the other one never actually played for us at all?

From Billy Bonds, his manager at West Ham

Interviewed some years later, Bonds described the signing as “a total disaster” and pulled no punches in his assessment: “He said he couldn’t settle at West Ham, that the club was too big for him. The boy was a total wimp, and it was disastrous for the club…. What could I say to the kid? I couldn’t threaten him. I just told him he’d better keep his nut down because the fans weren’t going to be too happy with him.”

Keep his nut down :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

In Harry Redknapps first book he said beauchamp wanted the value of his contract (350k) paid to him before leaving west ham. Before he even played a game

It sure was. I think he actually came close to crying at one point.

Here it is again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9M7I7Ilk

 There's a particular irony with both Joey and James, that their refusal to move against the wishes of the club, considerably fucked the club up.  More so in the case of Joey, as Forest wanted to buy him for £800K....we'd have been due a slice, but the extra could have kept them out of the hands of Kassam.

In the case of James, it's been many years since they produced a saleable asset and the £250 K would have been money down the drain by PdC for essentially a Conference player, who soon found his level for nothing. Perhaps with the bit of money to spend Wilder could have got them into PO's for the first time.

 

Beauchamp's a funny one.  Became a popular 'hate' figure very quickly after heading back to Oxford.  But he never was for me.

He was the ultimate confidence player (who responded well to Gorman's 'arm round the shoulder' approach to management) and, yes, he blew hot & cold.  But I do remember that, a lot of the time when he wore the red & white, he was really rather good for us.  Not up to the standards of Summerbee, who he effectively replaced.  But very useful.

Bumchum was actually a very good player...if rather overweight and defeatist when he lost the ball and wouldn't track back.

Nice bloke though who I shared a few pints with back in the day, suffered a lot from pre match nerves.

Could have stayed and been a hero but unfortunately many town fans didn't like him and abused him which didn't help his or the clubs cause.

Never forget his one great game for us away at Charlton in the League Cup when him and JAF won the game for us with 2 fantastic performances in a 4-1 win.

I'm told a certain Firoz Kassam will also be presented pre match.  :hmmm:

Is he our pick ? :)

Probably because he is first player many think of when they of the Scum players. Coupled with him leaving from us straight to them. A real pantomime villain.

He had ability. That's as good a praise as he'll get from me.

I seem to remember quite liking Joey when he was with us, decent feet.  I also loved the game where he go kicked all over the shop when he returned.  A right little wall flower though.

Whoever is Stroudswindon please stahp!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/north-london-birmingham-tyne-wear-6493531

Sorry if this has been posted before but our derby with the Pox is in the list of top 20 rivalries in Britain according to this poll.

Firstly it's not a poll, just some hacks opinion.  It's probably fair enough to say that Oxford fans define themselves by a dislike of STFC, but there are many Town fans who aren't bothered, as there are some who are.

We've only played them one season in league football in the last 14 or so years, a bit like Reading, but we've played The Biscuitmen 140 times in league football.....whereas just 50 times v Oxford.  Little history.

it seems some on here like to diminish the rivalry and I'm not really sure why?  To look cool, to look unfazed by recent defeats?

Whilst the rivalry has diminished in recent times the Swindon Pox rivalry WAS extremely intense and rather nasty on BOTH sides  It overshadowed even City where there have been some scary times and last season much hilarity. 

Never mind the friendly if occasionally fighty rivalry with the Biscuitmen.  What is "history" if it's uneventful, peacetime history?

Only the Pox has given us a quality player that caused Town fans to fight amongst themselves.  Christian Roberts by contrast was soon "alright now"

That rivalry might not truly be in the top ten now but it probably was once upon a time.  I hate yellow.

Always been the case. It's especially obvious when you look at other club's fans doing it - we don't care / they care more about us than we do about them / they're obsessed. I don't know why either, rivalries are great. I guess it's part of seeming like the superior club, to act like they're so shit they don't even register, but meh.. Unless it's Gillingham (they just need the rivals cos they never had any proper ones) or Franchise (not a club) I think rivalries should be embraced.

That said, there's the generational aspect of it as well. It seems depending on your age (or when you became a fan) you have a different hierarchy of hatred. Some people genuinely don't want to put Oxford on the top of the bonfire before they burn it.

I try to provide historical perspective....having come from a time when we'd give Oxford a couple of players like John Lloyd and Owen Medlock to help them out.

OK they did rightly let Mick Kearns get a chance of glory in the Anglo Italian Cup, as a way of an acknowledgement.

 But times change....we can now loan them a Mehdi Kerouche.

Go to bed Reg. How can we loan them Kerouche?

A Mehdi Kerouche, not the Medhi Kerouche. A fifth columnist.

Kerrouche, it's Kerrouche.

Ells is too clever to be a woman*

*sexist comment.

I knew this, but having had a few couldn't be arsed to correct it thinking it wouldn't be noticed....good vigilance of standards Ells.

Ha ha, absolute bollocks  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

So, it's 20 hours and 40 minutes until kick off. Thoughts?

No.