Play offs 23/24

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Fair play Scott Lindsey you proved the doubters wrong

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Further evidence were it needed, of how fucked up and tin pot our own Club is...

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Spot on Shaun.

[Freeloader]

Jesus wept... this season just gets better and better...

There will always be that 6 : 0 win at the County Ground, but that's when our season peaked.  It's all utter crap and not getting better unless something drastic happens.

[RedRag]

Fair play Scott Lindsey you proved the doubters wrong

Just the kind of manager we need to go in for.  Lg 2 experience, small budget only, took on a club in the nether regions of Lg 2, cleared out the deadwood - installing a professional attitude where players turned up on time or were shipped out. 

Literally none of us expressed regret at Scott's departure at the time  (other than possibly its timing).

Well done, Sir.

[Reverend Spooner]

I don’t get the Lindsey love in. He was useless for STFC, and left of his own accord. He wasn’t chased out.

But, no manager will succeed at this club while the current regime is in ownership. Clem is a chancer with money issues who’s surrounded the club with undesirable people. The sooner he buggers orf, the better.
The sad part is, we were all cockahoop with joy when he prized the club from that other chancer, Power.
The reality is, there are not many people willing to invest their own money into a football club. I believe Clem thought he could pull a few pints in the CGH, and season tickets would rocket propelling this club toward league one, then the championship (5 year plan anyone?). Turned out the flamin’ dingo didn’t have a clue about running a football club, and we have discovered his  deceptive persona is not what he initially promised!

The club isn’t debt free, despite what the Vegemite Villain proclaims, he has loaded the ‘cleared debt’ on the club as payable to Clem on his exit.  
Is there going to be money available to redevelop the CG as per the agreement of purchase with SBC? No frickin chance.
Ideally the club needs to be fan owned at 51% to stop this cycle of chancers using this club. It would have been great if the Eady trust money could have been used to leverage shares in the football club in conjunction with the ground purchase…

[UTR]

I don’t have regret over any of them leaving here, not from a bitter point of view but because what they’ve all achieved at Crawley today wouldn’t have been achievable here because of how much we now know about what’s going on at our club. Building a successful team and culture here is near to impossible so I don’t look back at any of those players or coaches with “what if’s” because it just wouldn’t have happened here. Simply put, our club is not setup for success right now.

Yesterday hurt, today doesn’t invoke as much feeling, congratulate them all and move on with trying to fix our club.

As well as that, my more controversial and debatable argument is that style of football with that calibre of squad wouldn’t have been as successful at Swindon as it is at Crawley (no offence intended). When we tried that style at this level (repeatedly), we saw how many away teams came and sat 11 men behind the ball and we struggled, whether that’s because of the size of our club in this division making it easier to adopt that approach or otherwise, it worked. Most of our success came away from home where teams came onto us and attacked us and spaces opened up. It’s one thing playing that style when there’s gaps to exploit, it’s another ball game entirely when you’re doing it against a team sitting in and you have to create openings. Crawley started the season as relegation favourites and had a decent but steady finish into the play offs, I’d be interested to find out how away teams approached their games at Crawley and whether they experienced the same of teams sitting in against them and how they fared or whether teams didn’t show them as much respect and this left more gaps to exploit. Although I’ve not checked the numbers on Crawley enough to verify that so might be chatting absolute shite.

[DiV]

Jesus wept... this season just gets better and better...

Worst ever finish.
John Trollope’s record broken.
Oxford promoted to the Championship via a successful trip to Wembley.
Ex manager taking Crawley up to L1 via a successful trip to Wembley.
Even our Premier League legacy of conceding 100 goals in a season has been broken.
We’re probably the most insignificant team in English football.
Only relegation would have made it any worse.

[Batch]

No, that's Rochdale..Oh wait..

And Rochdale's trajectory is what worries me.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Hereford’s worry me.

[Steak supper]

Fair play Scott Lindsey you proved the doubters wrong

Yep ...  you were one of the many who were not a fan - particularly of his post match interviews .

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Yep ...  you were one of the many who were not a fan - particularly of his post match interviews .

It doesn’t stop me from congratulating him though.

[4D]

Worst ever finish.
John Trollope’s record broken.
Oxford promoted to the Championship via a successful trip to Wembley.
Ex manager taking Crawley up to L1 via a successful trip to Wembley.
Even our Premier League legacy of conceding 100 goals in a season has been broken.
We’re probably the most insignificant team in English football.
Only relegation would have made it any worse.

Or the dicking from Aldershot

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Or the dicking from Aldershot

That was an all time low for me... that hurt, almost physically...