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So, another cultural voyage around the provincial backwaters of the country comes to an end.
Looking forward to a lie in on Saturday mornings. No more 06:12 trains out of Swindon.
Hopefully the AAA Hope Springs Eternal batteries can recharge over the summer.
More importantly the 2018-19 lucky grundies can finally be removed after 10 months of continuous wear. Free to a good home, anyone?

The chants of “Phil Brown, we want you to stay” at the end of last season are now a memory that was only retrieved through regression therapy.
It’s been a disappointing season, but at the same time, more enjoyable to watch on the road than last season, if not as successful.

Only 4 defeats in the games against the top seven is pretty good.
The problem has been in not dealing with the rest of the division and possibly bears out RW’s comments about some of the players thinking that they are better than they actually are.

I like RW, good luck with the squad building, he’ll need it.
Will getting business done early be seen as sign of intent?
If it means that the top targets have been landed then yes, but it never works out that way.

The fans need a team that they can be proud of again and will raise their own game accordingly (and it needs raising).

Anyway enough of this bollocks, here’s some more with the random end of season away travel awards.

Best piss up.
Newport.

Hall of Fame.
Bury and Tranmere, but the win at M K was very satisfying.

Hall of Shame.
Stevenage.

The Daniel Boateng award for loanee of the year goes to Elijah Adebayo.
Thanks for making me smile, if not for all of the right reasons.

The don’t stand too close to the jet powered taps in the toilet award goes to.
Carlisle.

The is it even worth trying to get to this ground anymore award is won by Colchester.

The chavdom is alive and well prize goes to Mansfield.

The don’t get relegated from League 1 until we get promoted award goes to Scunthorpe.

Worst public transport provider.
Cross “this train is formed of not enough carriages” Country.

Worst journey.
Carlisle (numb bum).
The mass of humanity squeezed onto the 18:01 Gulag transport from Cheltenham tomorrow should be fun.
The drunken rugger buggers seem to an extra carriage after games in Glawster. We won’t.

Tomorrow will be a good day.

Every time we play there - and lose - I say it will be the last time I ever watch us as Whaddon Road (or whatever monstrosity of a name it now has) Needless to say I will be there tomorrow. 2-1 Swindon backed by 1100 happy away fans

 Thanks for your work WB... the updates on Wetherspoons pubs, through the dank days of Nov-Feb, a highlight.

 I'm hoping Scunny have a renaissance, not a great road trip, and can only guess at the horrors of the chuffer.   

Interestingly as things stand, if Orient go up direct of the rest of the Conference PO's only Wrexham are a traditional league side... so chance of a new ground. Hopefully not Salford.

 A point or better tomorrow and we take the Wilts/Glos/Somerset mini league... ave it.

Looking at the BBC page how does the PO system work as this seems to suggest two tiers of PO?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leyton-orient/table

2 and 3 move staright to semis, then 4,5,6,7 PO off to reach semis.

Yep.  Here's the detail:

http://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/articles/play-offs-1427

Good stuff.

On a selfish (or in the case of Fylde Shellfish)  level Fylde, Salford or Harrogate would do nicely.

Talking of play-offs this has been bothering me for a while if Mansfield & Franchise make it to the play-off final I'm torn as to who I would support ??!! as I dislike Mansfield due to their manager and dislike MK for being a football club thief

I have a similar dilemma when watching, for example, Man Utd v Bournemouth, Villa v Brum/WBA/Wolves.

The kind of games where you’d like both teams to lose. It’s so much easier when it’s the piss stains.

As Reg knows, I hate Flitcroft with a passion, to a point of blindness, but that is a no brainer.  Mansfield to win 6-0

To see Franchise only get play offs with 82 points and then lose in the semi-final to 7th placed would make me a very happy football fan.

Flyde and Salford would probably outspend us, much to Reg's chagrin.

Wiouldn't be the frst time my shag ran....

Wouldn't mind Fylde... never been there.

Fylde is a tidy little ground, new build and small capacity of 6k but nice.

3 stands when I went there not sure if they have built the 4th yet.

The owner has a lot of spare cash and is investing it into the team and ground.

There isn't a place called Fylde...more an area.... the FC was formed in 1988 from amalgamating KIrkham Town and Wesham.... the club is in Wesham, never heard of either until 5 mins ago... so now want them up.

Only became AFC Fylde in 2008, prior to which they were  Kirkham & Wesham FC, changed name after they won the FA Vase, when coincidentally a lad I worked with played for them.

On a similar basis I ended up having a pint in the pub the other week with the guy who made the  record number of appearances for Barrow including scoring at wenbley, no idea who is he/was but my Fatherin Law plays golf with him now!



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That ground really is out in the sticks!

Once saw us win at Cheltenham. Friendly circa ‘87 with Hockaday bagging the only goal. Seem to remember storm clouds gathering in the second half to darken the early August Gloucestershire skies.

Anyone know how many tickets we have sold for tomorrows game?

https://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagues/conference/conference-premier/mill-farm-afc-fylde.html

I think its the sign of a supportive Council as not really sure how they got planning permission for it?

on the 0900 from Paddington tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it, apart from the 90 mins in the middle.

Years ago there was a boozer over the road from the station that did 2 pints, a burger and minibus to the ground for £10. Anyone seen anything to suggest they're doing it again?

The pub outside Cheltenham Spa station closed down some time ago.

The Midland is back open again, it only shut for a short time.

Anyone know if we can buy on the gate tomorrow?

Oh, right. Sorry. It was boarded up and looking ready for demolition when I last went past it. Probably at the time of our last game there.

According to this, there’s no pay on the day, which seems a bit OTT!

https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2019/april/cheltenham-ticket-information/

Shame. May have to sit with the home fans then.

Pre match pop up Festival of Piss Art in The Moon Under Water.

This is it then. In Scotland they have Helicopter Sunday.
Today it's Muck Spreader Saturday as we try and win the Wilts/Glos/Somerset mini league.
The Fertloizer Trophy is up for grabs plus a sponsored Teage Titan for each of the winning squad. Will look great behind the SUV, rear discharge of course.

Can picture the team sauntering out for the warm up with beach towels & flip flops.
Hope that's not the case as this game does matter.

it's going to be a glorious unexpected victory I tells ya

in 2019,
on penultimate fixture day,
the Cheltenham went to the Johnny rocks stadium,
they walked the

oh never mind

We will destroy them 4-0, then capitulate at home to an already in mourning Notts County to end the season in suitably bafflingly inconsistent fashion

Chatting to mate last night, who supports another club... who did that, his mob scored after 4 mins, and he couldn't help himself.... thrown out by stewards. You should be OK then...

Wet, windy, Whaddon Road...

Am also in The Moon Under Water. Young Chelt fan just walked carrying a drum! Doesn't look old enough to be in a pub. Where did it all go wrong? I blame the parents.

I'm still here. :)
Reg is perched on a John Deere somewhere close by, ready to present the trophy.
Might be the usual away fan bravado but have a sneaky feeling that we might all go home happy from here, for a change.

He's more likely to be perched on the crapper at home.😁

The Sandford Park Ale House is thoroughly recommended.
Some serious beards in residence.

Still have a vague idea of where the Get yer rocks off stadium is from here.

Moved on to The Feathered Fish. A bit poncey but some decent ales on offer and quite close to the ground.

Edit: Unbelievable. The same cunt with the drum has just walked in. It's an omen!

In the bank house

Na nananannaaa na na na na nana na nana naaa dustpan and brush.

You'd have to be here

Team news.

Yikes!

Matty Taylor, McCourt, Carroll and Woolery all start.

Taylor cannot be fit.

Safe to say we won’t be seeing Koiki again.

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Broadbent and Koiki dropped

The fact Broadbent isn’t in the squad, and Lancashire is suggests he either isn’t fit, of Wellens may have made a mistake with that signing.

Broadbent looked utterly out of sorts on Monday, like he has not been training.   Didn't he have some sort of personal issue?

He was great when he first came, not sure whats gone on

Wheres Danny Rose also?

No idea? He’s not had a run of games has he, consistent injuries, will be interesting if he is kept on as well.

Got an injury against Cambridge, probably not responded well to treatment. Didn't come off the bench vs Crewe either.

Ah, your right, forgot all about that.

He has been offered a contract and is set to sign according to an interview with him last week pre match.

Heard a couple of town fans comparing Carroll to Ross McLaren.
I'm glad there are people more pissed than I am.

Looks as if the Power Out brigade are out in force.
That'll work.

Carroll is more like Darren Bullock than McClaren.

Or maybe Lee Collins.

Do they mean Conroy's like Ross M

Not if I heard you correctly.  :)

That comparison makes more sense.

I wonder what the odds are that Stupid Sexy Flinders plays a blinder and Conor Thomas and Ben Tozer both score against us today.

Nice move by bennett who beats 2 men but his shot is a couple of yards over the bar from the edge of the box.

Loads of sloppy passing by both teams but Swindon getting to grips more now, the pitch looks very wet and slippery.

Taylor tries a shot/cross well over the bar.

Woolery has a shot from 20 yards straight at the keeper.

Cheltenham are shocking, up there with Yeovil as the worst teams I have seen this season.

Woolery down injured in our box.

Broadbent has a concussion...

Woolery wins a corner.

Terrible delivery by Taylor.

Town well in control but our final ball is a yard too long all the time.

The wind is ruining a shit game.

standard. 1-0 nam. og under no pressure headed into own net

Ffs

0-1 Woolf OG

Worst goal conceded all season if not in 30 years or more.

Bennett too slow to get a shot in from 15 yards and its cleared.

Shame for Woolf as he was playing quite well until that header, under no pressure at all went off his head at a weird angle. Could have been the wind moving the ball, whatever it was it ranks with the worse OG's I have ever seen Swindon concede.

2-0

Looks like the Whaddon Road curse is going to continue.  Bloody own goal as well.

We really are terrible..

McCourt is having a shit game, can't find a red shirt when he has it and is letting the attacker ease past him all the time, giving no defensive cover at all.

Another terrible goal to concede from the corner.

Can't be worse than Reeves' against Posh in 00/01??

Defensively we are shocking and attacking we can't score.

2 big problems in football.

For me it was, totally unmarked under no pressure and connected well from 15 yards out.

Ffs.  Absolutely pathetic.  Finishing the season on a whimper again.

kicking of between town fans . shouting and pointing only I think, nothing serious.

more exciting than the game

May have been 99/00 in fact. Another 5-0 today??

00/01 2-1 game Reeves from outside the box at the County Ground?

For me this was worse.

3-0. wank

0-3

What the fuck is up with them.

Beyond a joke now. I've never left this early before.

‘Judge me in 5 years’

😂

I know we've been poor at the back, but this has to be one of the most flattering 3-0s I've seen.

That's the one. The 'Danny Invincible' game.

argument escalted to punches, he's out of here

Cheltenham have been shit too.

We can't defend to save our lives and we can't even get a shot on target at the other end.

Proper shambles.

Conroy and Carroll would be the only players in this team that I would be happy to see again next season, the rest can do one as far as I am concerned...  just not good enough..

yes and no. we've defended like wankers

Saying that, the only player from Chaltenham I would take is Maddox in midfield, the rest are shit and have been very fortunate as FH says, but they have hit our net 3 times without reply.

I'd take knoyle

McCourt should rip up his contract after the game and never play football again.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

McCourt is shite..  end of

Knoyle is steady on his day (not today) but we could do better I feel..

Clear out in the summer

Tozer off. 4-3 Town all over this.

second half comeback  :wotjump:

I doubt we will even have 4 shots on target today TBH let alone goals.

Swindon supporters fighting with each other over ‘Power Out’ chants according to my friend who’s there.  What a sad state of affairs and joke of a club we’ve become.

As far as I’m concerned, Power can fuck off, so can Wellens and the vast majority of the squad.  We’re heading for our lowest league finish in 35 years.

Never left a game before halftime until today. A new low. Not one for hyperbole and a big fan of RW so far but we can't do worse. Sack the lot of them.

Millwall a few years ago was the worst Town team I've seen. Today is the worst performance.

definitely a fight. it was not far from us. couldn't hear why

For the first 20 minutes Cheltenham were no threat at all. Then they lump one into the box and Wolf heads it into our net under no pressure and then it's meltdown time. What is it about this place? As for the fighting town fans it's just a couple of guys old enough to know better. I'm sat close to where it kicked off.

Dark days!

The whole team are lacking heart and commitment where it matters.

They have given up and their minds are on the beach on holiday.

Did I miss Tozer going off?

I walked out when Chris Taylor scored in the 17th minute vs. Oldham in April 2011. A terrible shot that bobbled under Phil Smith who completely fluffed it.

Haven't set foot in the CG since.

And people still want Power in!

When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee. He has had his 5 years and every season our league position gets worse.

Every year a brand new side, change manager, rinse and repeat. Never gonna progress like that

If you did then I did too, I think the post was meant as wishful thinking.

taking of fight. it's a cliche but there is fuck all of that in our team since the goal. Cheltenham want the ball more.

you'd think it was just down to end of season slump. but Cheltenham seem to manage it.

More pashon & kwality shown in the stands than on the pitch.
Hopefully RW will get more out his plyers next season.

Send him off every game, no problem, we will still win this league.

Sigh.

BBC final score had him as sent off in the 43rd minute

No he’s off. 2 yellows

Oh good, we are going down the Power out route again..

As much as I am all for that, I still haven't heard any of these other options that we have with regards to ownership.. I must have missed the queue of people lining up to pay off Power..

Really? I missed that!

Jeff Stelling told me. It must be true.

The punch up in the side stand was the highlight of the first half!

Anderson and , wait is that Lancashire? for knoyle and Woolery?

may be wrong

Not according to the Sky Sports app.  I am watching the game on Ifollow and didn't see him go off, and it hasn't mentioned in commentary..  I just watched it back.  I must be going bonkers.

This.

He's definitely still on

BT Sport Score had him down as being sent off in the 41st minute!! Can anybody there confirm if he was sent off or not?

Lancashire is on! We’re saved!

Fuck me

Hes definately not sent off...there.

Very strange. Scrap my 4-3 prediction then  :D

My God we are awful today.

Well Anderson has a shot...probably the wrong vowel in that though.

It came up on Sky as well.  How strange.

He got a yellow but not a 2nd yellow or a red.

I suppose with Wellens banging on about a big clear out it’s hardly surprising those who may be playing today aren’t giving a flying fuck.

We’ve had no guts in our side for years.

I think the PA feed messed up. I got a notification that Tozer got a yellow, then a red, then another yellow.

Least effort applied all season by the whole team.

OMG Taylor free kick nearly clears the stand.

That’s hard to imagine

I know, its fucking shocking.

You'd think they would want to impress watching scouts but clearly not.

No we're stuck with them and they know it. Many of our team will drop out of the league when their contracts expire.
For them STFC div 2 is a good as it gets.

Hardly surprising. If your manager says the whole team is a waste of space they aren’t exactly going to go out and play like world beaters.

Another wasted (end of) season.

Bang goes our play off hopes, thanks STFC!!

Agreed he's a knob for that and now he's made another head scratching sub. LP likes appointing bad managers.

Robinson is having a mare.

Going off topic slightly, but didn’t Luton have a really big lead at the top of a League 1 at one point?  They’re in danger of bottling it at present.

You come out with some utter shit in every post but that takes the biscuit. What a retarded idea.

Whenever we get close to a playoff place it always goes south. One could almost think its deliberate?

Seriously? wow.

No, not wow. How about fucking wow.

We’ve never been close to a play off spot all season anyway.

Conor Thomas has put in more decent corners in 1 match that Taylor has put in all season.

1-3 Robinson

We've been within 4-5 points several times, only for us to bottle it.

Could they do it and grab a draw?

The fightback is on, play-offs here we come!




(there may be an element of piss-taking in this)

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :fishing:

Yep with a game in hand for a while. There's no upward movement in the club.

Attendance 4,306 with 1,113 Town fans there.

DV! Has he stepped foot at the CG since Greer’s departure?

2-3 Richards

4 mins added to claim a draw :D

First time we have ever scored 2 goals at Cheltenham.

Lot of fucking good that did us, too!

Granted mathematically we’ve been 3/4 wins away but this team is light years away from being good enough.

FT 2-3 a game easily forgotten.

Mentally fragile. Concede and we go to pieces. Get within a sniff of the playoffs, and we go to pieces.

Pretty much what can be said about the season JJ   :(

Second season in a row. Also shit at home.

Sort those things out and we’ll be flying!

Unfortunately true.

Looking forward to RW's post match comments  :crash:

Danny Rose signed a contract for next season

well the last 5 minutes kind of paper over the cracks.

My mates lad got Matt Taylor's shirt though, and he is good favourite player

Rose is a decent signing.

that's the end of Dave, though that looked on the cards regardless

Mini league goes west... and into the setting sun as Yeovil go down. The good news is that Numb can't finish above us, but Cobblers can on the final day so 14th not guaranteed... doesn't matter much as either will be our second ever lowest finish.

However could we at least avoid entering into negative GD, something never previously achieved in Div 4... certainly 2 late goals suggests the players wanted to avoid that humiliation.

This was always the danger for Wellens... that changing his stated position on next season could backfire on him, and so undoing the earlier good work. He's inexperienced, and perhaps it will work out better next season, but I don't think too many will be going into next seson with much hope of anything other than a difficult season.

Next week is going to be horrible, the football world looking at the CG to see if a founder member and the woirld's oldest pro club can survive. Hopefully Power can see that we don't want it to be us, in our centenary FL season, and provide the manager with some backing.

What was said about Diagouraga?

nothing, just my opinion and coupled with the fact he's been nowhere near the team for ages.

Toumani has another year left and I'm pretty sure he was in Wellens' good books - sure RW said that he'd be important upon his return but things change.

From what I saw he was absolutely shit. Take MCourt with him to the job centre, would struggle to pass wind having eaten a ton of food and drink that would make people pass wind consistently.

Maybe he’s good at making coffee but he’s absolutely useless on the green stuff.

Hope he has a big pre-season & forces himself into Wellens' plans. We all know he's got the ability to be a big player for us.

Nothing like presenting opinion as fact, eh?

soapy tit wank, well played Chang

Have you got copy and pastes of every single fucking cliche? 

I've a hunch Dave will still be here, Wellens has spoken highly of him in the past. It's just his fitness.

Dave was slow to get going when he first arrived but was getting into the swing of things until his injury. Then was slow to get back into it again when he returned. I reckon Wellens might want to see what he can do with him after a full pre-season.

Name one part of my post that’s factually wrong then

I want Toums to stay, yes he has had a few mares for us but he has also been the best player on the pitch on a couple of occassions when he was fully fit and ran the game, Newport AMC, Yeovil away and Oldham at home.




I like him when hes fit and breaks up play but can also bring the ball out of defence well.

I hope Wellens gets him fit rather than letting him go.

The first season Power was involved we finished 8th Div 3.... the 2nd 4th... been downhill each from then mind.

I'm still looking for significant pro-Lee Power sentiment. I don't think it really exists.

Stuff like 'who else is there?' and 'we need to purchase of the CG to go through' doesn't really count as support either.

We do look to be stuck with Power for the foreseeable, that we seem reasonable stable financially is to his credit, but sadly that has only been achieved by paring the playing side.  A things stand going into next season, another slide albeit not massively down the Div 4 table, will call into question what are the realistic aims for next season are going to be... something we'll have a better handle on in late July.

I think fans are more aware now than ever, that the majority of people that want to run football clubs are utter shysters. For every Andrew Fitton (well
intentioned, competent, but gamble didn’t quite pay off) there are 50 McCrorys, and nobody wants one of those. We have Power until there’s someone more competent and willing. I’m not holding my breath. There are far far worse out there.

As for today, they turned up for the first 15 and after that they were as disinterested as I’ve seen a “professional” side. Cheltenham has nothing to play for either, but at least put a semi shift in. They’ll regret that afternoon’s work when they’re in the Conference South in 2 years playing for Aldershot.

Ah answer a question with a question. You know what a cliche is?

That was entirely self inflicted.
A top 3 side would have won that game with the same performance.

Cut out the mistakes, be reasonably solid at the back, score some goals, rely on the opposition to have a degree of incompetence.
Play shit, win the game.

Just 5 or 10% extra in doing the basics a bit better than the rest is all it will take.

With what Wellens has said about players being braver in heading the ball in both boxes, I fully expect our first choice CB pairing to be Broadbent and Nelson next season. Conroy to play the Carroll role. Lump up top.

New LB, Doughty, Rose, Bennett midfield. Ajose.

Conroy hasn't signed a contract for next season yet

It's encouraging in a way that Wellens has started to wax lyrically about old skool values... I too watched the Mansfield v Lincoln game, to which he alludes, and he is of course right, proper Div 4 football, some technical competency but overall a physical battle.

However I'm not expecting us to suddenly be playing the %ages, next season.  Players like Danny Rose show you that... the sort of thing needed is an Ollie Banks type.... big old boy, get you a few goals and plenty of yellows.

Tranny took Banks, and now have a shot at auto...

I think Norwood scoring 20+ goals had more effect on Tranmere’s season than Banks.

Regret to say that I spent most of my day in (a) the Urgent Care Centre before being transferred to (b) A&E!!  Christ what a shambles the NHS has become and I am not blaming the doctors or nurses at the GWH for that.  Too many patients and not enough space for them to be treated, not enough staff to treat them!  Rant over, can anybody enlighten me on what RW had to say after the game please?

hope everything is ok Ronnie.

courtesy of kay brown on Twitter:

80% of squad won't be here next season; club has been riddled with cancer of complacency; not happy with building team around loan players; a lot of pretenders at the club; Conroy and Knoyle need to sign contracts soon or they're history; Rose has signed a one year deal.

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me:

he talked about how angry he was at half time, contact players strolling through game. really angry until be realised 80% would be gone soon...

said youth teamers will be around the squad next week and he'll play those who are here next year.

said building team with so many loaners in last few season was mistake

(all paraphrased)

As I've pointed out before Tranny's good home form is based on defence... last season we had dodgy home form and Banks came in. We then went 7 undefeated.... football is a team game, you're looking for individuals who can come in and provide something more effective to the whole than what at first look their individual contribution might indicate.  Our problem is that although we have some individuals who can have the odd good performance, their input isn't sufficient to raise the team performance on a regular basis.

It's all old cliche stuff but particularly in Div 4 you need to build from the back.... couple of big buggers in midfield who put themselves about.... Brown's clean sheet mentality if you like... then  go from there.

Bloody hell, is that all really accurate? Sounds seriously furious and a departure from a manager who has talked a lot about squad stability in the past.

The quotes are accurate but miss the context and tone of voice. Just listened back on BBC iPlayer Radio. He sounded calmer and more composed than after the Crewe game

the adver have direct quotes, not all of it is there.

 sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like his response wasn't controlled and measured, it was.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/17602588.richie-wellens-reacts-to-swindon-towns-3-2-loss-against-cheltenham-town-at-the-jonny-rocks-stadium-in-league-two/ (https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/17602588.richie-wellens-reacts-to-swindon-towns-3-2-loss-against-cheltenham-town-at-the-jonny-rocks-stadium-in-league-two/)

Just read the adver article and here's my thoughts.
We don't have money for a new squad but we need one.
Starting in a new season in a few months time with mostly new players will be difficult for even the best of managers.
If next season is like every other one, then its free transfers a week before the first game of the new season.
We are fucked big time.
Under the current setup we'll start next season with talk of a playoff place (should be autos for a club like stfc)
If we get near the playoffs games will be thrown to ensure we stay in div 2
Next season the best we can hope for is to maintain our div 2 status.
Taxi for Wellens, you only got the job because you we're cheap and had a bad management record and take LP with you.

With "supporters" like that I wonder . . . . oh, I'll leave that there 

61 years of watching the town entitles me to a voice. Doesn't make me a bad supporter.

I’m disappointed he only thinks 80% of the squad will be gone.
That means we will be keeping 15% more than we should.

I think complacency sums this club up quite well. Top to bottom, owner to fans.
The club needs a shot in the arm, that will only come from a new owner. Regardless what you may think of Lee Power he simply doesn’t have the capital to progress this club.

If what he has claimed in the past is true then he has settled the foundations so to speak. Need someone else to build the house though.

Spot on

With age should come wisdom..

Or senility.

I my case its senility, I let you know when I make it to incontinence.

You keep spouting this conspiracy theory. Care to back it up?

Norman Wisdom in red ken's case......

No, then I take it? Just yet another throw-away conspiracy theory with nothing to back it up

Fylde v Harrogate tonight... a new ground to visit would provide a tiny smidge of excitement, for the hardcore in anticipation of next season....

Live on BT Sport 1 now. KO 7 o’clock.

I'm no expert RE: Fylde vs. Harrogate but given the stakes, perhaps I'd have expected a better turnout?

The population of Wesham, is 3,245.... makes Nailsworth's 5,794 look like a metropolis

The attendance last night is given as 1560. Their home average for the season was 1650.  So, yes, a bit strange.

I work next door to the stadium. Kirkham and Wesham combined (as they are basically one and the same) are smaller than Calne. Add to the fact you've got Bloomfield Road 15 minutes in one direction and Deepdale 20 minutes the other way, and the club's always going to struggle for support. Not to mention the fact loads of people round here support Liverpool, which will have affected the gate.

Cracking facility though for such a small club.

 So Wrexham gone.... a good thing, been there a few times and we always lose. 

Got to be new ground for WB, I'll take any of the other 3 over Salford, going to be them though  :(

Calne's population is nearly 20,000 now. It was half that in the early 1980's.

I have been there three times, once in 77 when we were stuffed, in 84 we won 3-0 and and then again under Macari in 86 when we won 1-0.

We have actually won there 5 times and lost 10 times, so not as bad a bogey team as Cheltenumb!

I've just been unlucky... further on a visit in the 00's, I offered to march with them on an anti owner protest, to be told not wanted, so they can fuck off.

Each visit to there though has been followed by being chased by the mass hordes of angry home fans who have little sense of humour it seems.

Yep, sounds about right.... glad we'll miss them. Not sure how welcoming Salford will be, mind

Here's weird... talking of Wrexham marches and Salford

http://www.wrexham.com/news/youve-got-no-fans-class-of-92s-salford-city-fc-photoshop-in-wrexham-fans-for-stadium-pictures-160980.html

Not really weird, merely down to architects looking for stock images of fans wearing right colour to use in CGI's. If you look at big CGI's you will often find the same people appearing over and over again as the computer programmes normally only have so many people inn the image files.

That website just confirms what a bunch of odd tinpot  bastards they are though.