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1)what finishing position would you be happy with at the end of the season..

2)what players will be the ones to watch out for(only two choices please)

3)what player is likely to cost us points.(only one choice please)

heres mine anyway

1)i want top 3 but will be more than happy with play off spot

2)christian roberts i think he could be massive in this division and obviously dennis wise

3)jerel iffil.

please bare in mind my opinions are only based on what i have heard and read in the last 4 years.

1. Top ten

2. Peacock and Wise

3. The invisible keeper at the moment.

1. would be disappointed if not promoted

2. wise o'hanlon, o'hanlon because with proper guidance could turn into a great centre back

3. hopefully nicholas will be kept out by vincent so in that case shakes, pace is his ONLY attribute

1. automatic promotion  :D

2. obviously Wise  :king:  , perhaps Monkhouse :o

3. Whalley - just aint up to the physical bustle of this div ! :(

firstly, i think a top 12 finish is satisfactory but only because i feel this season will be about consolidation, next year will be our title challenge! i'd be disappointed deep down if we didn't go up or at least challenge for promotion but i'm being realistic enough as well.

secondly, i think peacock is going to thrive this season under wise, especially if this fitness regime works. i can see vincent being an integral and experienced part of the side as well. wise, if he plays, will undoubtedly be of a standard well above this division.

finally, jerel will be the weak link in the side unless he actually gets some decent defensive coaching and turns his game around completely. sadly i think that's beyond him, so i'm praying we sign another centre-back.

I think you need to be kicked in the face if you think we're going up next season.

1) top half
2) someone completely unexpected
3) nicholas

Im sorry but I dont buy all this top half  and ill be happy crap.Not one of you thinks we will be anywhere but at least the playoffs and you know it.You either think Wise is our saviour or you dont.If we dont go up he's failed pure and simple.

I'm don't agree with that at all, and surely it depends on how you thought we'd do before he arrived.  If you thought we'd struggle then getting us into the top half could make him our saviour.

don't tell me what i think, you damned god hippy twat fascist!

i don't understand why he's failed if we don't go straight back up. he's taking over at a club in a transitional period, players have left, players have come in, we have no goalkeepers, he's needs time to get things right on and off the pitch.

Hes been brought in to get promotion and if he doesnt he's failed.We don't have time to fuck about in this division.You don't appoint Wise and Poyet to consildate Div 3 football you get them in to take you up.You cant tell me this so called "feel good" factor that everyone talks about is because people feel  the club might finish top half?

bollocks, you can't pissabout with quick fix solutions anymore. that's what iffy was and look where we've ended up.

oxford have gone through managers almost yearly since they were relegated to the bottom division and they've ended up in non-league, all because their fans had the attitude of "we're going to get promoted" every single season, regardless of how shit they were.

if we don't go up next season - which i doubt we will - then replacing wise & poyet with someone else next summer will just prolong our stay in league 2 and further our demise...

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me I was more pleased by Bill Power's arrival than Dennis Wise's.  That gave me belief that we wouldn't end up going out of business or out of the league, and that a few years down the line we might end up with a club that wouldn't want to settle for league 1 football.  I may be niave, but then my relationship with STFC is often irrational.

Im not listening- Im not listening -Im not listening

If we finish 12 you will be pissed off..I know it ..you know it ..Wise knows it.

If the extent of our ambitions next year are consildation then they players hes managed to sign must be crap.

"come to Swindon were hoping for a top half finish next year it will be ace"

Personally I think your trying to cushion the blow of probable failure for yourself and thats fine

course i'll be gutted if we don't go up, but that's a given surely? i'm just not overdosing on blind optimism, my esteemed friend.

in fairness the players we've signed aren't exactly setting my pulse racing so maybe you're right

Ok well good then. :D

I shall return to my book (its a great read Amir)

Ham on rye ?  Did you like the message in the front that I forgot to tear out ? :D

The Plot Against America

only started it properly yesterday already half way through.

Very well written and extremely believable.  If you're are anything like me you'll love Ham On Rye as well.

I'm off to bed before this becomes a book thread :smile1:


PS
Download the Bill Hicks thing, the man was a genius and it's annoying me that it's only had two views.  Bloody heathens !

1. Play offs minimum

2. Peacock, Monkfish

3. Ifill. The blokes a liability. please sign at least 1 centre back Dennis. please. for the love of god man do it

1. Play-offs. but only because yeovil red will attack me if i say otherwise :wink:

2. peacock, and ccp. peacock for his goals, and i reckon ccp is goin to become much better this season under wise.

3.ifil. don't really need to explain that do i?

1.  Play offs
2.  Peacock/Poyet if he plays
3.  Nicho, because he was disappointing last season.  I actually think Ifil will be better under Wise.  Hes quick, powerful and with the right coaching could be a great player.

Play-offs
Wise and Peacock
Monkhouse - i have a bad feeling he'll miss sitters/fail to work hard for the cause. Dunno why, as i've never seen him

1. Top Half – Nothing to that suggest anything different and getting carried away with, yet.  
2. Wise & Roberts
3. TBC

Playoffs minimum but we should get at least a top three automatic promotion
Looking forward to seeing Poyet play. Also Monkhouse and Peacock should be goof next season.
Liability of the year is Gurney. All his suspensions will cost us.

Avoiding relegation

Wise and a new goal-scoring striker we are about to sign

Jack Smith

Right then:

1. Top

2. Wise, Peacock and Vincent (based on the two 10 second clips I have seen and nothing else)

3. Not an issue as we will not be dropping that many points and every point gained against us this season will be earned by hard graft, not by us giving goals away on a plate.

1.play offs minimum

2.a new forward(hopefully)   wise(again hopefully)

3.the baffoon-beast, ifil

1. Play-offs, but if we finish 9th or below I'm not gonna fook off to the Kassam over it

2. Peacock and Wise, Roberts could be a surprise if he gets it right

3. Possibly Ifil but he could come good

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

You never know! He does have his good points. All he needs to do is to erradicate the silly errors from his game. He makes great tackles and can man mark a player out of a match, he just loses concentration.

1. Champions
2. Wise & Peacock
3. We wont drop any points, 138 points here we come  :beers:

1 TOP 2
2 Jutkiewicz,CCP
3 Fucking Gurney

Why top 2 specifically??? top 3 go up automatically, there are 4 promotion spots from this division

Got him there  :)

1. Top half
2. Mooney  8)
3. Shakes

1. 1st - Champions...I wont be happy with anything less

2. Lukas Jutkiewicz and Lee Peacock

3. All of them

1 - 22nd
2 - no one
3 - dunno

Because 2nd is better than 3rd!

 Are you sure you don't mean TOTP 2 ?

  Sonic speaks with commendable sense on this matter....but where did he get 5K from?

1) What finishing position would you be happy with at the end of the season..

2) What players will be the ones to watch out for(only two choices please)

3) What player is likely to cost us points.(only one choice please)

1) 1st
2) Ifil
3) Pook :twisted:

Top three. Any lower in this shit league is failure. Those who say there is not much difference between Leagues 1 and 2 are wrong. League 2 is shit.

Peacock & Roberts. If Roberts gets himself fit these two can tear this division apart.

Ifil. A truely shocking player.

1. Be happy with play-offs, but realistically we're more likely to finish mid-table IMHO.

2. Peacock & Roberts (I bloody well hope)

3. Gurney. But I hope he proves me wrong.