Macari Night?

[Bushey Boy]

Miss Angry got her username after her bloke confirmed my food was nicer than hers.

Give us an S decided to go to the toilet every 15 mins (ragga ragga sauce?!?!)

Legends match involves fjortoft, I nearly shot my load there and then!

[Batch]

With Hoddle and Gorman managing one team, and King (and Macari?) managing the other.

Did he not also mention Bodin, Taylor, Ling,  etc, etc. Too.

Would be the better than anything the preseason throws up (including Everton). But they need still need to get permission from Sturrock to use the pitch.

And it's for charity too (Prospect Hospice), so it's all good.

If he (Sturrock) blocks this (which there is no real suggestion of)  I'm going give him a really fucking big chinese burn.

[Ralphy]

Will Shaun Close be playing???  

[Fred Elliot]

With Hoddle and Gorman managing one team, and King (and Macari?) managing the other.

Did he not also mention Bodin, Taylor, Ling,  etc, etc. Too.

Would be the better than anything the preseason throws up (including Everton). But they need still need to get permission from Bristol Rovers to use the pitch.

And it's for charity too (Prospect Hospice), so it's all good.

If he (Sturrock) blocks this (which there is no real suggestion of)  I'm going give him a really fucking big chinese burn.

 :twisted:

[Sippo]

If sturrock blocks it I'll arrange mannington rec.  

[Power to people]

i couldn't go due to work commitments and i'm gutted i missed it.
i knew macari's lad commited suicide a while back but never heard the tale.
could somebody post on here what lou said about this please.

also, did lou say about foleys kids shitting all over the social club(as it was then)and his mrs leaving nappies all over the place?
i heard this from a former work collegue who used to run the bar in those days

He was just saying that out of his 3 sons he was the one with the most ability, had an awful lot of talent.  Think he said he joined Stoke? and things didn't go so well for him there and alot of his friends were getting paid off so he took this option as well.

Cant remember exact amount but pay off was in its thousands and he ended up blowing this over 6 months and things got on top of him and thats where he decided to take his own life, sorry not sure how accurate that is as cant remember it all but have nothing but respect for Lou for being able to tell that story, not sure I would be able to in the same situation.

He was reluctant to tell stories about dragging players out of nightclubs which was a shame  

Yeah he said that Jonathan had the best talent to really make something of himself, the other lads would have made a living in football, he was signed by Forest but after Lou went to watch him 6 months later he noticed a real difference in him and then thought he may not make it, he blamed the money as players at that time and age were just earning too much, Jonathan found that a lot of the young lads at Forest were being given payoffs in the region of 40-50,000, Jonathan decided that he wanted some of that and came up with reasons why he didn't want to stay at Forest and told them he couldn't settle, he eventually got a payoff of 28,000 which was gone in 6 months and it was this that eventually led to them losing him.

Macari was a total legend, I knew it would be a good night but it turned out better than I anticipated, and the story's he and Phil came out with were just brilliant.

And of course for Lou to be able to talk about his son like that shows the type of man that he is, he enjoyed the night himself as well.

And of course thanks to those of you that bought tickets to attend as you guys (and girls) helped to make the evening.

[Power to people]

Anyone want to see some pics from last night see the attched link.....note the queue's to speak to Lou

http://www.swindonweb.com/stfc/loumacari07.htm

[Fred Elliot]

Yay

Fred's in there !


Boooooo

Stanley's in there !

[Bushey Boy]

Fred loves a picture! Top feedback from who I went with, any more lined up as if we sold tickts in CGH you would have got loads of people there I reckon

[Spencer_White]

I havnt heard anyone ever speak as truthfully and knowledgeably about the game for a long time.

He didnt duck anything. Which made for fascinating listening.

In short Lou was fantastic. And I was only dissapointed that more Town fans werent there to welcome home a true Swindon legend.

I know its easy to say in hindsight, but perhaps there could have been a bit more face to face selling of tickets in the CGH?

[flammableBen]

http://www.swindonweb.com/stfc/macari2.jpg

This is so getting photoshopped.

I wonder if anyone can guess how.

[flammableBen]

Meh, didn't work as well as I hoped. Couldn't get a decently sized reggae reggae sauce and I had to shrink and distort it to the point where you can't read the bottle. I think you can see what I was trying to do though.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/fredreggae.jpg

[Summerof69]

Lou got two standing ovations at the end...That says it all.

[Give us an S]

Give us an S decided to go to the toilet every 15 mins (ragga ragga sauce?!?!)

I know. I knew you were sat there watching me too and tried to hold it in. But im rubbish and when im drinking i keep needing the toilet!!

[Fred Elliot]

I know its easy to say in hindsight, but perhaps there could have been a bit more face to face selling of tickets in the CGH?

I was trying to flog them in the CGH before the Torquay game Spence but there was little interest. Posters have been up in the CGH for weeks.

We also put up 2 posters in 32 Swindon pubs as well mate.

It was advertised on the radio and the EA as well

All in all, what else could we do ?