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« Reply #4695 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 12:41:09 » |
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Being manager of Swindon Town is like making love to a beautiful woman.
I'm reasonably confident it's not, you know. Surely, it's a lot more like selling a house?
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« Reply #4696 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 12:50:31 » |
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Did we hound out Flitcroft? Sure, many weren’t happy at the style but I never heard a ‘Flitcroft Out’ chant.
He must be a thin-skinned fucker if he jumped ship cos we didn’t appreciate him enough.
Diddums
Correct. Home form is inevitably going to set the atmosphere amongst the support. Considering that we are in the 4th division, have the 91st home defensive record out of the 92 (Burton are 92nd, for the record), have had several home drubbings, have only won 1 home game by more than a single goal (vs Cambridge, when we went 2 up in the 88th minute), and have played shit football in the process, I think that our support has been extremely patient.
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« Reply #4697 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 12:54:41 » |
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I'm reasonably confident it's not, you know. Surely, it's a lot more like selling a house?
Actually its probably more like selling a clapped out old banger fixer upper. With a lot of work it could be one of the best around with some investment and a fair amount of time, but it could just as easily go to the football scrapheap in the sky if nothing is done about fixing the holes etc.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #4698 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 13:16:58 » |
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Actually its probably more like selling a clapped out old banger fixer upper.
With a lot of work it could be one of the best around with some investment and a fair amount of time, but it could just as easily go to the football scrapheap in the sky if nothing is done about fixing the holes etc.
A decent analogy, I'd see it more like the old Barry Island scrap yard though...
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« Reply #4699 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 13:18:50 » |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4700 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 13:23:12 » |
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A decent analogy, I'd see it more like the old Barry Island scrap yard though... That would work too although we are unlikely to ever be a King or even a Castle, more like a lowly Prairie with an inappropriately placed tender
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« Reply #4701 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 13:41:26 » |
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A decent analogy, I'd see it more like the old Barry Island scrap yard though... Does that mean that with a bit of hard work we could end up like this (as per the locomotive in your picture.... Sadly not one of ours, although designed by a former pupil of Swindon High School and Wycliffe College....
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« Reply #4702 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 13:48:00 » |
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William Staniers finest, once Swindon always Swindon.
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« Reply #4703 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 15:08:50 » |
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good work The Stanier 8F, was a decent engine and as PV points out, Stanier learned his trade in Swindon. 80 were actually built in the works during the war years, and many were exported to see service in places like Iraq, Turkey, China and Palestine. There is still one Swindon built 8F, on the preserved metals of the Worth and Keighley. A nice line... been years since I was last there. The last time it was one of those trade of things.... bird gets to do the Bronte stuff, in return for me doing the railway stuff. I've tried but never really got the Brontes. George Elliot, yes, Jane Austen a bit.
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« Reply #4704 on: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 22:43:57 » |
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Not been linked with Coterill yet!
You'd think SGE would be wary given the Notts County fiasco..
I get the sense that sven would manage about anything for the right price
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« Reply #4705 on: Sunday, March 18, 2018, 13:21:25 » |
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« Reply #4706 on: Sunday, March 18, 2018, 15:59:16 » |
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Being reported good old Sven is new manager at the piss stains.
Good grief.
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« Reply #4707 on: Sunday, March 18, 2018, 16:00:43 » |
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Being reported good old Sven is new manager at the piss stains.
Good grief.
Where?
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« Reply #4708 on: Sunday, March 18, 2018, 16:02:31 » |
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Being reported good old Sven is new manager at the piss stains.
Good grief.
They'll be getting a case of the "Jonssons" then... What's the source AB?
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« Reply #4709 on: Sunday, March 18, 2018, 16:08:44 » |
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Oxford fan quoting The Sun - I know, I know!
‘The Sun have pronounced Sven-Goran Eriksson as our new manager. I haven't a clue if this is like all the other newspaper pronouncements and wrong or not. Faz seemed fairly certain something was going to happen this week and as Tiger is supposed to be back in the country on Wednesday it will probably happen then (if it happens at all).
I just hope Faz remains part of the set up as does Chrissy Allen.’
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