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Hi Guys,

First of all thanks to everyone on here who I had the chance to banter with !! both good & bad (its part of the territory but not nice to read sometimes) Some of you are really great people who know their football well and great to interact with including all the Admins on here who do a sterling job keeping everything going and giving the platform to get things off our chests  :doh:

For what it is worth it just never fell for Jonny here, and I dont believe you saw the real player at all, and I am completely convinced of that !! plus, a combination of Manager Loss, Injuries & later Dinosaur tactics, it was not going to be good especially combining that with a proposed 532 formation, so best to move on. Jonny had some great friends in all the players and they are irrespective of what is said brilliant to get on with and supported each other well, also some of the backroom staff will probably be friends with him for the long term !!

Jonny has signed for Burton on a permenant deal today after he had his medical this morning so good news that he is staying in League 1 and his time is complete at Bristol City. So I will have some banter from the opposite side later this season  ::)

Again, great being on here and meeting you all, Thanks and good luck for staying up this year !! and I really do for the sake of all the players and great support they get from you all.....

RF - Gary

You are more than welcome mate.

Take care and all the best for Jonny in his next venture.

Classy message and all the best to Jonny.

Like I said in the rumours thread, I was really excited about him when I saw him the first few games, there's definitely something about him. It just didn't seem to work out, which happens. I've no doubt he'll tear us apart when we go to Burton!

Really disappointed to see Jonny go. I feel he’s been dreadfully let down by the management. The sort of player we really should have been signing on a perm.

Hope he does well and stuffs it right up Sheridan’s arse.

All the best to you and your lad.

All the best Gary and to Jonny up at Burton Albion. It will be interesting to see how he gets on, hope he does well, apart from up at Burton when we play them, of course we hope he has a stinker!

All the best to him,  never really worked for him here this season. Pretty sure he will make it given the correct opportunity  but would have loved it to have been here.
  Different club, different ideas, and a different manager who can see his strengths and play him in the correct position,  and hopefully it will all click into place.
Thanks for trying with us Jonny,  Good luck.

All the best to him.

Bon chance.  I've learned to be careful of judging the inside forward types after spending the best part of a year telling everyone Ritchie wasn't much kop and that Danny Ward was a far better player.

Hope he told Sheridan to fuck off when he left.

All the best

Nice one Gary,

He's a top lad and deserved a perm chance somewhere, especially in this uncertain world. Hope he rips it up and is utilised properly.

Drop in every now and again. Decent bloke.

Hope he kicked him in the hole

Good luck to Jonnie will be interesting to follow his career from afar, sadly he was never given a proper chance to show his skills under Sheridan...sadly as you say a dinosaur and needs to be sacked.

Can’t help but think we missed out on a good’un here. Dinosaur tactics, says it all.

Best of luck Gary and Johnny.  I enjoyed watching him, and I'm sure he has a great career ahead of him when he is managed properly to  his strengths.

This should be a deal we're doing, and yet the dinosaur has cost us again.

Hideously mismanaged by the dinosaur we have in charge.

Would have blossomed under Wellens IMO.

Who would want to play for this team right now anyway?

I would! (But I'm fat and fifty...odd!)

I'll ask my Dad if he's got a couple of bob to see if he can make it happen! :-)

Best of luck to your lad, said elsewhere I firmly believe he has an exciting future ahead of him in the game that will in years to come bemuse some of our fans. And thanks for your contribution on here while he was here. Classy family all round!

Curran?

Goodness. This thread is damning towards the reputation of dinosaurs.

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Here's hoping that the Swindon part of Jonny Smith's career will prove to be an unfortunate anomaly. Clearly he has the ability, proved it at Oldham.

Best of luck to J.S.

Smacks of Sheridans attitude of not being “my” player so do not want anything to with him, short sighted in my opinion.

Trust that he has a good career and no doubt will be one of the many players we have ditched over the years that comes back to haunt us.

All the best to you both and a shame things didn't work out at STFC but as you can see our club Is clearly unstable and in freefall at the moment and a million miles away from last seasons success.

Sadly behind the scenes we are in turmoil.
I am so glad you had the courage and respect to post this thread Gary.
Sadly we are stuck with Jurassic John and well aware of the dressing room unrest. I was really looking forward to watching Johnny tear down the wing and the roar of the crowd beckoning him to take on the defender. Alas for many reasons that will not happen.

Importantly a two and a half year deal will give him the stability in his mind and that coupled with a Manager that wants a flair player I am sure will bring the rewards, sadly not at Swindon.
The Oldham fans got to see the potential and we didn’t.

Best of luck Gary and to Johnny.
We are not a bad bunch us Swindon diehards. Short changed for many years but passionate and loyal to the cause. Top Man for posting 👍

Jurassic John. Brilliant.

Just tried to see if there is such a thing as a phobia regarding ‘Smiths’ ( not The Smiths) which may explain why three loanees that STFC should have made the most of didn’t even come close.
Sorry that Wellens went and sorry that Sheridan came. Good luck Gary and best of luck to Jonny, he won’t need it, we will !

And thus the nickname was born

Cheers to you both, and best wishes to you, too.

We might be getting an injuntion from the original JJ though..

Don't do it Venkman, it is only for shits and giggles..

 :D

https://youtu.be/UXIVirGU31I

Live footage of Pitman painting Plymouth's 2nd goal from the sidelines on Tues :D

The difference here is that they appear to have quite a rapidly evolving game plan...

Gotta love Aardman. Brilliant stuff.

All the best

J.Smith never really produced here. Be that him as an individual or the team. Guess we will are now he is at Burton.

I don’t think we will live to regret not signing him ourselves but we shall see

To echo everyone else, all the best for him in the future, expect when he faces us :D

Professional football is an unforgiving mistress. All the very best for the future.

Not just football - I've got one at home.

Sadly not an exclusive club to be in.

You keep your mistress at home?

Good point, brave man, very brave man.

 :D :D :D.  O.k.,  unforgiving mrs !!!!