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« Reply #15 on: Sunday, July 29, 2018, 10:46:58 »



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« Reply #16 on: Sunday, July 29, 2018, 12:44:41 »

Hope to get entertained
Fear nothing
Predict promotion
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« Reply #17 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 08:15:18 »

Hope to be entertained more than previous seasons

Fear will be more of the same

Predict a top 10 finish, fingers crossed a top 7
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« Reply #18 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 11:09:37 »

An improvement on last season and might just sneak the playoffs.
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« Reply #19 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 11:42:07 »

I thought we would just about make the playoffs last season, and to be fair we weren’t that far off for most of it.

Have to say for this season I think the same is likely, a top 10 with a chance of the playoffs.

I guess a lot depends on how the new signings settle in, the one positive is that I think we have a better manager this time.
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« Reply #20 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 11:57:24 »

Hopes:

promotion - don't care how so long as we beat MK Stealers and Flitcroft and that my expectations are shown to be ridiculous and Reg-like

Fears: 

defensive football, midtable finish, shamed by Flitcroft and MK Stealers, falling attendances, drift and mild decline

Expectations: 

once again, not quite good enough for the playoffs and, yes, another year of drift leaving us where we are today but with another wasted year.
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 13:37:19 »

Hopes:  playoffs

Expectations:  PB will continue last year's style of attacking play with better players

Fears:  Going too defensive and tippy-tappy again

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« Reply #22 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 14:20:12 »

When Saturday Comes prediction for this season.

Notts County
Lincoln
Franchise

Northampton
Swindon
Mansfield
Oldham

Exeter
Newport
Colchester
Carlisle
Bury
Tranmere
Cambridge
Crawley
Crewe
Grimsby
Stevenage
Port Vale
Forest Green
Macclesfield
Cheltenham

Yeovil
Morecambe

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The local yeovil paper down here ran a survey of teams in L2 Yeovil fans hate, and I can corroborate their findings as most Yeovil fans really don't like us much.
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Most disliked League clubs for Yeovil fans (percentage of voter)

Franchise: 74%
Swindon Town: 52%
Newport County: 45%
Forest Green, Crawley Town: 43%
Exeter City: 40%
Port Vale: 36%
Carlisle Utd: 34%
Mansfield Town: 33%
Cheltenham Town: 28%
Morecambe, Lincoln City: 26%
Notts County: 22%
Grimsby Town: 17%
Bury, Oldham Athletic: 12%
Crewe Alexandra: 9%
Macclesfield Town: 7%
Northampton Town: 5%
Colchester Utd: 3%
Cambridge Utd: 2 %

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Most disliked clubs (average percentage of voters accross all clubs)

Franchise: 54%
Mansfield: 47%
Swindon Town, Forest Green: 37%
Newport County, Lincoln City: 34%
Grimsby Town: 33%
Crawley Town: 30%
Notts County: 29%
Northampton: 26%
Port Vale, Oldham Athletic: 25%
Yeovil Town: 24%
Cheltenham Town: 23%
Bury: 22%
Macclesfield Town: 18%
Morecambe, Exeter City: 17%
Carlisle Utd: 16%
Cambridge Utd, Colchester Utd: 13%
Crewe Alexandra: 11%

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/league-love-hate-league-two-1840515
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« Reply #23 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 14:44:09 »

What does it say in the wider WSC survey, we often used to pop up as an disliked club in the strangest possible places?
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« Reply #24 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 15:04:14 »

It did surprise me that we are a fair bit higher in the hated clubs than their much closer rivals Exeter who Yeovil often have hooligan problems with home and away.

I don't remember there being a single fight or problem at any Yeovil v Swindon game in the past.

Although I do know they really don't like us yet they don't mind Rovers and Shitty who have both caused a lot of problems the last few times they played.
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« Reply #25 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 15:18:46 »

Jealousy?
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« Reply #26 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 15:20:54 »

I was surprised we were so disliked, relatively, throughout the League.  Would rather be there than right down the bottom with the likes of Colchester.

I'd put the dislike levels down to the PDC effect.

Regardless, MKD rightly top.
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« Reply #27 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 15:29:35 »

Jealousy?
Several Yeovil fans I have spoken to have said their main dislike started with the transfer of (at the time) Yeovil legend Andy Williams with us doubling his wages and his badge kissing in front of them after scoring, seems petty to me TBH and why the anger is directed at STFC rather than Andy Williams I also don't understand.
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« Reply #28 on: Monday, July 30, 2018, 15:38:52 »

I couldn’t give a rat’s arse who dislikes us.

There are only 2 things that matter in this sphere

Love Swindon

Hate Oxford

Simples!
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« Reply #29 on: Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 12:29:26 »

Presumably, the "George" character in this is from somewhere near the other end of the A420:

https://soundcloud.com/ntt20pod/76-league-two-1-24-predictions

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