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Piece of piss, 4-1.

Could be more people on the pitch than in the away end tomorrow. Tinpot fuckers.

I will be absolutely amazed if this is on

I keep forgetting how cold it is in the UK

If it is on I might see if I can go on their supporters coach. Looks like there will be plenty of room!

agree with DMC, amazed if on. Itwas pretty cold last night, -5, and not much of a defrost today I'd imagine ...

It's 9 degrees in Orkney today, not sure what all these southerners are moaning about.

Fun really, everyone always assumes it's colder further north, but the island thing tends to moderate both ends of the extremes.

As for this game, wouldn't really mind it being cancelled. Don't fancy playing Stevenage at all! Call it a draw and move on?

Indeed, all the  snow that's been on the ground most of the week here melted overnight, its a balmy 5 degrees in darkest Cumbria.

No chance this game will be on IMO, was in Swindon yesterday and it was -2 when we left this morning at 8am in West Swindon.

Unless there is a hge uplift in temps it will not be on.

it's 5c in the sun.

the drs Shadow may be a factor but it's not lost yet

Supposed to be up to 3 degs today and down to -3 overnight. Most importantly is that its supposed to be up to 5 degs tomorrow afternoon and not go below freezing in the evening and overnight.

Once its in the ground it needs a prolonged period above freezing to make much difference. Its not been below 0 here since Thursday night yet its only this morning it seems to have finally thawed a bit.

Apparently Stevenage have sold 22 tickets for tomorrow nights game, selling fast!

Like hot cakes.

Seems we are flavour of the month in Steveage!


Nic eof them to get their facts straight ;) Swindon Magic Roundabout built in 1972, Hemels 1973 :D :P

Quite right, call us odious tinpot cunts all you like but put some respect on the roundabout!

Crikey, what have we ever done to them.  I can barely remember where Stevenage is on a map.

it's Stevenage, I'll not lose sleep over the opinions of a few fans from a jumped up non league club with a fat cunt manager.

but they probably have a fair grievance because of this

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/19559539.flares-seats-thrown-crowd-trouble-blights-stevenage-v-swindon-town/ (https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/19559539.flares-seats-thrown-crowd-trouble-blights-stevenage-v-swindon-town/)

Swindon 2 Stevenage 2 Att: 10,245 (60 away)

Probably bitter over the fracas when he scored a last minute winner down there.

Very antagonistic stewarding to say the least had tensions high enough and then we score an equaliser. Their commentary losing their shit over it like they'd just seen a full on riot was amusing though, before they then start encouraging their players to dive.

Weird bunch.

I'm looking forward to all 22 of them singing this tomorrow.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Have they been able to afford new advertising hordings after last season? Cry babies.

Stevenage are younger than me. 

I would say I feel old but they've very rarely crossed my mind.

There’s a lot that happened this day. As for the stewarding, these same stewards refused entry for a fan who had Parkinson’s, on the basis that they insisted this fan was drunk. Same stewards that then goaded fans in the ground.

I can imagine with 3 degrees it will be a postponement and a case of When Will I See You Again...

Quick tempo lads and keep the ball on the ground!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QP67uR3TWhM

it's off

https://twitter.com/Official_STFC/status/1617583007765860352?t=J6pDCXiDov-P9BcRVOtfsg&s=19

Jonny Leighfield
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BREAKING: Swindon Town v Stevenage has been postponed over 24 hours before kick-off due to a frozen pitch. #STFC

Well, I can't imagine anyone has started travelling just yet so that's a plus.

Good early decision to my mind, looking at well below zero overnight and far preferable to a mid-day call off  tomorrow.

The couple of Stevenage fans were bringing on a skateboard must be devastated.

Lindsey's not having much luck Crawley v Grimsby off

Or a lot of luck.

"Swindon are a tiny, obscure little club"
See also:
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/stevenage/attendances

Awkward for the grown men giving Walsall stick on twitter on Saturday   ???

Orient took a few then

They think they're big time Charlie's, they got Stoke City in the FA Cup and Teddy Sherringham once had a stint there!

Swindon are a tiny, obscure little club so I wouldn£t be surprised if our pissing of this tinpot league was put on hold tomorrow.

The biggest bunch of fucking morons to have ever existed, Swindon.

Fucking odious club from the very top to the very bottom, with half a braincell between the lot of them.

Here be the first recorded mention in history of anyone ever being excited to go to Swindon.

They have a roundabout where you can watch magic.

Hemel Hempstead had theirs first. And its got more mini-roundabouts on it.

Nic eof them to get their facts straight Wink Swindon Magic Roundabout built in 1972, Hemels 1973 Cheesy Tongue

HH version is not as compact as ours is and is spread out a bit like the old Bruce Street Bridges gyratory before the recent upgrade. Ours in footballing terms is PL, theirs, meh, at best L1.

Their caravans and orses got turned around by the old bill in…. Hemel Humpstead of all places.

Absolutely, leave our roundabouts alone! #freethemagicroundabout!

(https://i.postimg.cc/6qvS6Cy4/1674554996819.png)

If we are a ‘tiny, little obscure club’ fuck knows what they are then

And they’ve got one of the most odious managers of all time. The Brown Envelope Blob.

The phantom willy flasher of old Rotherham Town.

We get bigger gates at reserve fixtures.

Is this going ahead tonight? how's the whole frozen pitch thing looking?

It was called off yesterday.

forget that, just seen its off

That's the problem with firesticks there is a huge delay.  Game was called off last nught

 :D

I wasnt online yesterday so missed everything :)

Firestick is fucking great here, loads of videos of your mum.

I always thought you were in Mexico not Spain.

Whatever put that thought in my head?

I was :) But the cartels needed a European link

My mum misses you

I thought he was still in Brighton. That's how out of touch I am.

Brighton - Mexico - Brighton - Spain - maybe soon to the Philippines for a while

You forgot your brief spell as the King of Tonga.

Hope you are well mate. And your folks. Great memories, gigs,games and World Cup

Anyone else refreshed their match tickets for this one? I have and it’s suggesting game is on 2/2/23 at 745pm? Have I missed it being announced that it has been rearranged?

It won't be the 2nd of Feb that's a Thursday evening two days before Newport away.

Yeah that’s what I thought so must be just a ‘default’ new ticket🤷‍♂️…

All very odd jimbob😀

Indeed. Have you ‘refreshed’ yours?

Now 25/4/2023, 19:45

April is busy:

1 Hartlepool (Away)
7th Mansfield (Home)
10th Tranmere (Away )
15 Barrow (Home)
18 Bradford (Home)
22 Wimbledon (Away)
25 Stevenage (Home)
29 Crewe (Away)

Let's hope it's not their promotion party!

……..maybe ours !!

We're need to go on some run then😀

Makes you wonder why one of those rearranged games isn’t being played tonight.

I'd hazard a guess that Morris would prefer to put his stamp on the team as much as possible in the meantime.

I noticed that there was some 'BEEF' between the Franchise and Bristol Rovers admins around ticket allocation disagreements. The Bristol Rovers admin said that opponents had to give 6 weeks notice for their ticket allocation desire. I am not sure if this is an actual league ruling or just something the club have in place. If it is a league ruling then that could help explain why the game hasn't been played any earlier. Either way, it puts a potentially huge game on under the lights during the run in.

Going back to tickets, I mean Stevenage aren't going to need the bank anyway so ticketing issues for that game should in theory be quite simple, although that said if we go on a huge run, the demand for our fans could be such that we may now need to think about opening the bank as we did towards the end of last season.

I could well be back for the run in (and POs!)

The POs are mostly all gone, you may need to go into one in Smiths to get the pension

:) :)

How is the house hunting? Are you moving back to the SN1 area?

Looking at Corsham (home town). Trying to find a rental initially for 12 months - not easy, nobody seems to allow pets. Going to move back whether we’ve sold our house here or not.

I saw a similar issue on our local nosy nextdoor app about tenants facing issues with pets. Apparently some legislation had been introduced to stop a blanket ban on tenants with pets.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/can-my-landlord-prevent-me-from-keeping-a-pet/#:~:text=A%20Tenant%20must%20seek%20the,request%20on%20its%20own%20merits.

No idea if that helps or hinders you mind.

Seems older properties are more likely to allow pets than newer build ones. We wouldn’t have any if 3 local stray cats hadn’t adopted us!

They sound resourceful, if they adopted you I am sure they can adopt someone else after you have gone, they will have all manner of language problems if they come over here anyway.  ;)

Bloody Greek Cats coming over here taking jobs from hard working British Moggies!

Nah. Couldn’t leave them behind now.

I wouldn't discount them wanting the bank if its close to gaining promotion as they've suddenly found a couple of thousand glory hunters away at Villa & Stoke in the FA Cup recently.

Just give em the bank like we did with Citeh.

Depends how the next few results go really. If we're doing well then absolutely just give them the bank.

Although aren't cup rules and league rules different?

Yes they are different and have to supply a certain amount of seats covered.

Bollocks, just give em the normal seats only. Didn't we get a restricted number of tickets last time around?

I left 6 when I moved down the coast, they're resourceful, they just rocked up at a house down the street.

Not sure that the term glory hunters can be thrown at anyone supporting a lower league team

But they had only sold 60 tickets leading up to the game with us

Probably the same for most teams though in that scenario, we would probably sell x10 even times x20 as many tickets for Villa away as opposed to Stevenage away on a Tuesday night.

I know that’s not 60 v 2000 odd but it would have been odd if they only took 500 to Villa, they would be ridiculed for it

I doubt we would take 10,000 to Villa

Got attached to the little buggers.

We would

We absolutely would.

100%

We took over 5k for a league game in the 90's, which was our entire allocation.

I was there  8)
We took nearly 9k to Old Trafford in a cup tie, plus those I knew who got home end tickets  :D

It was an evening game too. Being half term helped as a lot of youngsters were able to make it.

Yes.

1:12 in, we had that end.

https://youtu.be/JKyy8v9i6Mw

I was living in Birmingham at the time of the Man united game and was jumped on by 2 "yoofs" at Piccadilly after the game as I was stood on my todd waiting to catch the train to New street.
I had a better result than the town that night  :smugfu:

What a good night that was. A lot of Man U fans went up as well in our end. OK maybe not a lot, I know of a few.

On the way home I got a puncture then nearly rear ended a tool reversing up the sliproad on the 417 exit as I exit. I reckon 10 seconds later I wouldn't have seen him in time round the corner and had an 80 mph+ closing speed accident. Not hood in an H reg Astra!

Still get chills using that exit. And the spine road, but that's a whole different story.

I remember it well but knowing what the Villa capacity is and that the maximum allocation for a cup game would be 15% it wouldn't be possible yo take 10,000 there. Not saying we wouldn't tho😀

Arsenal away 1979 8,000 & Wolves league cup semi final in 1980 over 10,000