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Fitton said: "I have my coaching badges and I have always thought there might be a way you could run a football club that is slightly different to the way they have been historically run."

Wonder what he exactly means by that.

Fitton as Manager!  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

Just sounds a little strange, don't really get what he means by saying that.  It could just be a throw away comment, or will he be a little more involved than other traditional Chairman?

Well it impresses me that he takes an interest in it as opposed to just running it from behind the scenes.  He also said he has a qualification in sports psychology which helps.

A pro-active chairman IMO would definitely be positive as long as he gives a new manager the freedom of team selection etc...

Ron Noades mark 2 ?

My thoughts exactly Reg :shock:

I don't think Noades did too badly did he? I don't really remember.

I'm to young and pretty to know who you're on about Reg.

Did he make an Ark in the the olden days?

Here you go youngun -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Noades

   Fuck me you look a lot older than 18...Noades took Brentford to the L2 title in 99/00.

  He did a stint at Palarse in the Prem, before that about the time he fleeced Goldberg.

Thanks for the history lesson. I'll be 19 in February  :D

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 Guess Birdy always wanted a toy boy.

  Back to the original point.....you tend not to buy a bankrupt football club for no reason, and maybe this is Fitton's.   If so its a worry as chairmen sticking their oar in doesn't tend to work....

i have the feeling he was saying it  just to show hes not a totally clueless toff like james tim nice but dim wills. i fucking hope so anyway.

If he is intending to coach/manage the team, then surely he would have tried his hand at it first at a lower level with his last club (Hungerford???? Don't remember).

I think that it is not meant to be taken literally myself.

You're probably right Mex, to be fair to AF the quote has kind of just been stuck in there, easy for comments like that to be taken out of context.

"It is a tree-year project at this club and then we take stock"

What does he mean by that as well?

snorting stock cubes?

I assume the relates to his previous statement reference "it'll be a failure if we're not in the Championship within three years".

This immediately made me think of Barry Fry, if that happened I'd go a bit mental.

I assume so but does that mean he'll fuck off in 3 years if we don't make it?

No I think he's saying that we have a three year plan, then at the end of that period we have a look at what went well, what went not so well and make plans for the future.

I assume he means that he is not clueless and he knows what is required - but let's hope he does not want to be a 'hands on' chairman and decide when the team is not doing so well to tell the manager which players he should be buying and picking, I don't think he will be like that from what I have heard from him so far.

 Think it means Fitton is going to measure time in tree years.....bit like you can get cat and dog years.

  If he uses the Bristlecone pine, he'll be around a while.

The bloke won't waste his own money by having a football management role - and more to the point, he won't have the time. I think he's just showing that decisions will be made for financial reasons with football in mind - not as previously, for no reason with nothing in mind

 :goodpost: Lets give the guy a chance before picking every statement apart.

I think it is typical Swindon supporters though, we are used to every statement having a hidden agenda behind them so we are genuinelly inquisitive, it will take time to remove this from every Swindon Supporters nature but in time we will learn to trust what we are told and not worry about it albeit with one eye kept on things to ensure it is done correctly.

Until that time I'm sure we will continue to read statements and try and work out what they mean in a not so good way and get the reasoning totally wrong.

I'm sure that Mr Fitton understands this though and in the fullness of time will fully release his plans to supporters and I also think he will embrace the help of supporters in certain matters, but there will always be things that we don't know about - that is football everywhere.

I would imagine once everything is settled then Mr Fitton will be more than happy to hold an open fan's forum (for every fan - unlike the last lot who restricted it) and explain things fully to us all.

In the mean time let's continue to work out what his riddles mean  :D

Maybe Fitton will take the teamtalk on a 747 bound back to the states and parachute our players into the opposing teams ground just before kick off?

Sounds to me like hes got about a thousand jobs on his plate already. Theyve had talks with Ling. New Ron Noades, not likely is it!?  :mrgreen:

director of football?

the new graham turner?

the tree year project? is this a code or is he secretly irish? are we going to be franchised out to the republic of ireland?

 :shock:

illegal approach then if they have

Where did you hear that?

Not entirly correct. They might have been given permission to speak to him by Orient.

If you read it in a Jamaican accent it makes perfect sense Rich.

The London Evening Standard.

Got a link or anything mate?

Dont think this means that he is gonna get involved at all... just saying he knows how coaching works and knows what qualities make a good manager.

No.  :mrgreen: