FAO Mark Devlin

[DMR]

Erm, haven't read through the longer thread yet but is what you said true... i.e. that relocating nearer our fan base would result in move eastwards towards London?

[DMR]

And on what do you base the fact that the majority of our support hails from London? I find this difficult to believe; based purely on this forum, not one member is based in our capital.

[sonicyouth]

where'd he say that?

london is east, moving east would be towards london. i don't think we're going to groundshare with brentford or anything.

[DMR]

It's in the Western Daily Press.

[Panda Paws]

http://www.westpress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=146059&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145807&home=yes&contentPK=13591623&localNewsNodeId=145797

Well, here's the story, and I see NOTHING about a move nearer to London.

[Amir]

Nice one, Dave.

Part of this of course is Devlin putting pressure on SBC.  A good way of showing how urgent the situation is for us, putting the immediate pressure of the loss of STFC as we know it directly in their hands.  Forcing the issue is our best chance of survival in Swindon I'd say.

[Reg Smeeton]

Nice one, Dave.

Part of this of course is Devlin putting pressure on SBC.  A good way of showing how urgent the situation is for us, putting the immediate pressure of the loss of STFC as we know it directly in their hands.  Forcing the issue is our best chance of survival in Swindon I'd say.

 Trouble is SBC don't care whether we move out of town or not....so its not much of a bargaining chip.

 Should we go they'd spin it as a plus....come to Swindon the biggest town in England without a league football team...

[Ben Wah Balls]

Are you going on what the city guy said in this thread Dave?
http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=48955

Think the cockney think is totally made up, certainly doesn't mention anything about it here.

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~748244,00.html

[Reg Smeeton]

Are you going on what the city guy said in this thread Dave?
http://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=48955

Think the cockney think is totally made up, certainly doesn't mention anything about it here.

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~748244,00.html

 Think he may have been on the crack again....

[Dazzza]

You're hard core on there Dave my old fruit.

[Spud]

Some of the posts by the scummers are quite entertaining!. :-))(

[mattboyslim]

On the local news they mentioned the offer to move out of the borough and 'share with another sport'.  Now call me stupid, but there are no other sports at a high level near enough to Swindon to consider this possible.  THings like Bath rugby are too far and would contravene the FLA rules on franchising surely?

[larwood]

On the local news they mentioned the offer to move out of the borough and 'share with another sport'. Now call me stupid, but there are no other sports at a high level near enough to Swindon to consider this possible

On the other thread it mentions something about sharing a ground like Huddersfield and Reading do,both of who ground share with a rugby club,sounds to me that Bath rugby may come into it.

[mattboyslim]

Moving Bath out of Bath wouldn't be too popular with the egg chasers, but rugby does have something of a franchise culture, certainly moreso than Football, look at 'London' Irish, and 'Richmond' both played at the madejski, 'London' Wasps at Wycombe etc

[Batch]

Didn't Mr D. say it would NOT be towards Newbury, i.e.  not east.

I have no problem sharing with the egg chasers, it is the location of the stadium that is the issue.