Swindon v Cambridge pre match chat and matchday thread

[Peter Venkman]

There was one to Everton for an FA Cup replay - absolute bastards those scousers that night.

Never went on that one, I couldnt get the day off school as an 11 year old!

[Audrey]

Wrexham was mayhem from the minute it pulled into Swindon station until it, eventually, got back. I got involved in somebody else’s fight while it was still on the platform. Turned round and somebody had pinched my carry out!

Never really knew why it turned out like that

[Mother Brown]

The Wrexham one . . mm the less said the better.
Can remember going to Burnley, Pompey. The Stoke special was cancelled due to a train drivers strike but still an eventful trip. Last one I went on was to Brizzzle city and stopped at Parsons Green.

[Costanza]

Really makes you wonder why they stopped the service doesn't it?

[Legends-Lounge]

The Wrexham one . . mm the less said the better.
Can remember going to Burnley, Pompey. The Stoke special was cancelled due to a train drivers strike but still an eventful trip.

The Wrexham one . . mm the less said the better. Agreed.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Really makes you wonder why they stopped the service doesn't it?

Imagine what stories Millwall fans who used specials would have!

[Legends-Lounge]

Imagine what stories Millwall fans who used specials would have!

Or the ICF

[Batch]

alright stattonati, what's the most consecutive games scored in in the EFL?

I can find top flight easily enough (12, or 15 if you count the run excluding games not available due to injury)

Individual player consecutive scoring run in the EFL you mean? 10 by Eoin Doyle, nobody else has got close to that.

all time record?

[Audrey]

Really makes you wonder why they stopped the service doesn't it?

Strange you mention that. British Transport Police are championing a return. Seems the more ‘energetic’ fans are annoying the regular passengers.

[Richie Wellen-Dowd]

In some cases the working man has been priced out of football - even at L2 level. £20 or £25 a ticket is bloody expensive.

Do a Bradford. STs work out at£6 per game. Never happen, though.

No doubt football is too expensive for some, even at this level, but we were £21 a ticket for the side stands in about 2003 if I remember correctly.

Our prices these days aren't too horrendous, we just need to coincide good fortunes on the pitch with ground redevelopment, then we can mirror a Swansea, Hull or Reading trajectory. 12,000 at Reading vs. QPR might look a bit shit but anyone who went to Elm Park should know they've still moved on a long way from those times.

[Peter Venkman]

Individual player consecutive scoring run in the EFL you mean? 10 by Eoin Doyle, nobody else has got close to that.

all time record?

He is now on 11 consecutive match scoring run, equalling the 89 year old record by Harry Morris.

If he scores in one more match he will obviously become the Swindon consecutive record holder but he will also be equal 2nd in the English and Bristish record books equal with Jimmy Dunne of Sheff Utd who managed 12 but still a few games behind the great Stan Mortensen who holds the English and British record of 15 consucutive scoring runs way back in 1951.

Messi hold the world record of 21 matches but Doyle is obviously never going to be able to get anywhere near that.

[Richie Wellen-Dowd]

Strange you mention that. British Transport Police are championing a return. Seems the more ‘energetic’ fans are annoying the regular passengers.

Because now they could have it all on camera and nick anyone who sneezed funny?

[Mother Brown]

Or the ICF

How do think the ICF got their name ?

[Richie Wellen-Dowd]

How do think the ICF got their name ?

By specifically not using the specials?

[Peter Venkman]

By specifically not using the specials?

Indeed, West Ham were banned from Football Specials in the mid 70s by the BTP hence they got on standard Inter City trains...which explains their nickname.