The worrying about the squad thread

[Reg Smeeton]

No. The point is about reasons for supporting/not supporting Town this coming season, therefore not an 'altogether different issue'. You've decided the signing of LMc will stop you going. I've tried to put forward a suggestion why you might reconsider, based on something positive (watching the potential progress of young players). However, you've taken that positive and focused on it becoming a potential negative (if they are any good they won't be here for long).

I've no doubt you won't change your mind about watching Town until LMc is no longer at the club. That's fair enough, but I'd like to think that there might be some other incentive to get you back to watching sooner rather than later.

As I said at the outset, I'm still undecided if LMc gets no further than the bench. I go to support the players representing what remains of our club... I don't expect much, other than not having the piss taken out of the fans by the owner and management.

[Ells]

Why does it matter if he's on the bench or if he's playing? He's still employed by the club and earning a wage.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

An altogether different issue.... I think all Town fans like to see players come through, but in this day and age it's very much a long shot.

Whilst watching other clubs kids come through on loan is OK, it doesn't really satisfy.  Of our own, if they are perceived as any good, like a Walcott or Matthew Mills, they'll soon be off somewhere like Soton... the best we can hope for is perhaps like Jordan Turnbull a loan back.

Louis Thompson, was decent, Power soon flogged him off.

...for a pretty decent fee, plus sell on.... and by the way, we got him back on loan for the season. Just thought I'd add that for a bit of context. Don't think anyone can complain about that.

[Reg Smeeton]

Why does it matter if he's on the bench or if he's playing? He's still employed by the club and earning a wage.

The gateperson may have a dodgy past, and be earning a wage....  however the nature of football, is that you offer encouragement to the players representing you on the pitch.... I've explained this previously, but fans have a distinct and unusual relationship with the keeper... for me not an option with LMc.  I'd rather have that sort of relationship that Leftside craves with Will Henry, obviously not in  :gay: way.  

[Ells]

So go and don't offer your encouragement then? Keep schtum whenever he touches the ball / his name is mentioned - our fans are quite good at that anyway. I respect people's right to attend or boycott, but your logic is difficult for me to understand.

[Reg Smeeton]

So go and don't offer your encouragement then? Keep schtum whenever he touches the ball / his name is mentioned - our fans are quite good at that anyway. I respect people's right to attend or boycott, but your logic is difficult for me to understand.

There's not a lot of logic involved in being a football fan.

[Peter Venkman]

So go and don't offer your encouragement then? Keep schtum whenever he touches the ball / his name is mentioned - our fans are quite good at that anyway. I respect people's right to attend or boycott, but your logic is difficult for me to understand.

Spot on.

[Reg Smeeton]

Spot on.

You don't need Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for this.... if McCormick is playing I won't be going if he's not playing I might go.  Try this thought experiment.... would you support the signing of McCormick if the two kids killed were Town fans?

[Sir red ken]

You don't need Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for this.... if McCormick is playing I won't be going if he's not playing I might go.  Try this thought experiment.... would you support the signing of McCormick if the two kids killed were Town fans?

Perfectly put, but the club may withold the fact he's playing, meaning you've already turned up. The only option then would be to leave the ground having paid to watch the game.

[horlock07]

You don't need Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for this.... if McCormick is playing I won't be going if he's not playing I might go.  Try this thought experiment.... would you support the signing of McCormick if the two kids killed were Town fans?

Why would it make one iota of difference, in your peculiar world view is a kid who supports Town more valuable in some way than one who supports another team, is one whose parents vote Tory less valuable than a good old socialist urchin? Ultimately as the victims were entirely random and no more than in the wrong place at the wrong time I really have no idea of what point you are trying (and failing) to make.

You choose this as an excuse not to go, that's your choice and no one can argue with it, but stop tying yourself in evermore ridiculous philosophical knots trying to justify yourself - you are not going (and are unlikely to be going to any game this season unless you plan to make the decision on a week by week basis considering the team sheet released at 2pm every Saturday afternoon), we get it.

[Flashheart]

I've tried to keep out of this, but that was bizarre. Even by Reg's standards.

What, the actual, fuck?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Yeah. If he’s employed by the club whether he plays or not is irrelevant, surely.

[Flashheart]

I was referring more to the question of which club the kids supported, but whether or not McCormick is actually playing is also a tad baffling.

[horlock07]

I am more interested in the fact that Swindon fans are apparently of some manner of superior race who are worth more, after the previous attempts to compare to the holocaust its all gone a bit Mengeley?

Perhaps this thread needs renaming as its the fans worrying me more?

[Reg Smeeton]

I am more interested in the fact that Swindon fans are apparently of some manner of superior race who are worth more, after the previous attempts to compare to the holocaust its all gone a bit Mengeley?

Perhaps this thread needs renaming as its the fans worrying me more?

Rather than projecting ideas which aren't necessarily implied.... why not try answering the question posed in the thought experiment.... presumably you're sanguine about signing McCormick, I'm interested in your logic.