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I'm amazed nobody's picked up on a throw away remark by Mick Harford when Kamara and/or McCaffrey asked him if Swindon could still make the playoffs.

One part of his reply was "If we can keep the squad together".

Now remember the question wasn't do you think you can make the playoffs next season but do you think you can STILL make the playoffs.

In the light of King's interview in the Adver about nobody being offered any more money than they're currently on it would appear that the coaching staff, at least, may be worried about a bit of a player exodus before Thursday's transfer deadline.

Well....you've picked up on it.

  Hadn't given it too much thought myself, but if someone wants Parkin, and meets the valuation then he'll be gone....this would mean a certain symmetry.. hat trick on debut, hat trick in final game.

And he will follow in a long (well too long for my liking anyway) and illustrious  line of deadline day departures...

1995 - Jan Aage Fjortoft 1.3 million (??????????)

1993 - David Kerslake - Hoddle himself said that it was that sale that started to make him think that he himself should be moving on.
 
1992 - Duncan Shearer - Words fail me.  THE worst piece of 'business' in the club's history.

I don't suppose we should be too surprised if Sam joins that list should we really?

When Shearer left it felt like a dagger through the heart.  The way we capulated to Jack Walkers wallet made me sick.  It'd be like us selling Parkin to Bournemouth or Wednesday about a month ago.  Fucking disgraceful.

I can remember listening on the radio in lessons thinking £2 million and a striker wouldn't be too bad.  Then we got that and Drysdale.  Cue a school full of scouse and manc wannabees taking the piss.

A  couple of years later at a corporate, had a chance of a few words with Dalgleish, and asked about Shearer....he openly admitted that he didn't particularly want Dunc.....but realised it would be a good and cheap way of taking one team out of the PO equation......Blackburn finished 6th, STFC 8th 5 points adrift.

 Dunc didn't feature in the PO's played 5 games and was moved on to Aberdeen.

 Cambridge finished above us both though and they're on the way out of the league.

Kenny Dalglish, what a shite fucking manager.  To be honest I can't believe Dunc left for them.  I lost a little bit of respect for him after that.  Especially when Terry Gibson was brought in to replace him.

Terry Gibson - They could not have found a more woefully inadequate replacement if they had tried :evil:

They could have promoted Shaun Close to the first team I suppose, that'd have been a similarly shit decision.

Dalglish was so shite, that he won the League with Liverpool and Blackburn.....if the club makes it plain  they want you to go for financial benefit to the club and someone wants to pay you more, then you're hardly going to stick around.

 Probably in the history of the game there has only been one such nob and that's Beauchamp.....who could have gone to Forest, for 800K and possibly kept O*frod out of the hands of Kassam and the inevitable decline that followed.

We didnt bring in Terry Gibson to replace him did we? I thought we signed him when we ere in the premiership?

 Think that' s a bit harsh....we only loaned him as a short term thing, it not being easy to replace the second flight's leading goalscorer with 8 games to go......Hoddle used some of the Shearer cash to buy John Moncur.

 Oh and we never lost any of the 7 games that Gibson started.

No dear boy, but here are some useless past it fuckers we DID sign in the Prem:

Lawrie Sanchez
Frank McAvennie
Brian Kilcline
Terry Fenwick
Keith Scott

Reg has spoken. I'll be wrong then.

I think I was getting him confused with the drug trafficing Frank Macavenie

Brian Kilcline... what a legend.

Keith Scott wasnt past it!

He never had it in the first place! :D

I don't think Keith Scott, was past it, not saying he was great like but for 300K probably value for money......he scored a few and the following season him and JAF were a decent pairing.......Macari rated him enough to take him from us, then his first manager O'Neil took him to Norwich, before the boo boys drove O"Neil out, in what has probably proved to be the most stupid example of its kind.

I'm sorry Reg, but just thinking of that Shearer transfer well and truly harshes my mellow :x

Scotty probably doesn't deserve to be on the list. I was just feeling all harsh at the time :wink:  He did get us our first ever Prem win v QPR and scored in what was oh so close to a famous victory at Anfield when we drew 2-2.  If we had held on to win there, I think I would have quite literally wet myself.

I know the feeling, I got to the stage of dreading transfer deadline day, knowing that the Board would flog someone to save their own miserable skins......even if we were doing well.

   I've quite enjoyed, the recent ones knowing that we don't have anyone worth selling.

   Now that BigStan has mentioned  it I fully expect Parkin to be gone by Friday, Sheffield United or Sunderland would be my bet for 450K

Yes, I suppose the recent of seasons of tedium and ineptitude have had their upsides.

Maybe we'll re-sign Chris Hay as Sam's replacement?

It'll be Graz.

I sometimes wonder what might have been if by some miracle we'd managed to stay in the Premiership, although looking at Oldham and Sheff Wed I'm not sure it'd matter really.

I saw Gibson's one and only goal for Town-away v Millwall at the old den and yes,he WASshite!

  He was the last player to score 30 league goals for us in his time before Parkin.........Isn't there a Parkin at Macclesfield or Rochdale who's banged a few in.....we should just sign him.

Yep, Jon Parkin at the Macc lads.  He could have Sam's old shirt to save a bit of money. Would they be dumb enough to sell when going for promotion though?

The shirt printers wouldn't need to learn a new word.....and we could sing Super Jonny Parkin......thelikes of  Parkin Ticket could keep their user name  and he could become the third Parkin to be voted PotY.

Sorry Reg but I can't agree with you on King Kenny.  The bloke inherited an amazing Liverpool side, in a very average English league.  Then as soon as the team aged he struggled to replace key players.

At Blackburn he had more money than Bill Gates and managed to win the league but did nothing, and I mean nothing in Europe.  
At Newcastle he was dreadful.  Dalglish has to be one of the most over rated managers in my life time.  He handles pressure worse than Keegan.  He's the man that brought Stephane Guivarc'h to these shores, that sums him up, more money than sense, useless

All I said was that if you win 2 titles with different clubs you can't be that shite...maybe not in the very top bracket.....but its a results business and they look good on the CV.

 Thinking a bit more about this, didn't Dalglish bring in the likes of Barnes, Aldridge, Beardsley and Ray Houghton as replacements after he'd won the title in his first season....and then they went on to win several more up til he quit in around 92....he did 7 years there I reckon, which is quite a bit by normal standards.

I just think Kenny was a very fortunate manager.  Souness came in at the wrong time at Liverpool and was slaughtered for it, Kenny couldn't have timed it more perfectly when he left the HMS Anfield.  Kenny won 3 league titles at Liverpool as manager, 86, 88, 90.

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~642709,00.html :?

This thursday as in 24th is the transfer deadline?? :?:

Yes it is. I can't believe some club actually approached us to loan Parkin till the end of the season. Tossers.  King told them to fuck off of course.

I know Justin Jackson, he was actually a one time Town target as well back in the day.

Did well enough for Doncaster.

Don't think they quite have the clout or the pulling power for Parkin mind.


Who was the club that came in for a loan?