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New Chief Scout in today.

Apparently MM has been back in Dundee for the last few days aswell.

If we do play on a Friday night it will be a one off.

From Nick Watkins on BBC Swindon this morning.

I dont blame MM going away for a few days

i really don't know what to make of him being back in dundee, it does seem a bit strange and annoying considering he's in charge of the team yet we're using a byrne tactic etc etc i'll let bart fill you in on the rest

But surely he should be concentrating on the squad? If we are on a winnign streak then fine but when we're palying badly al lhis concentration should be putting it right?

Just a thought like.

cast out for the bite with that one did you

When things are going bad for me at work, i go away and hide too... :wink:

Management does not have a 123 as such how to get it right, im sure Fred will add to this but sometimes taking a few days out to assess things can work better

The fucker was out of work for a year thats long enough surely .

do we actually know why he has gone back to dundee?It might not be football related, lets hope its nothing bad to do with his family.

They said it was football related luckily

I agree. It's the same with any 'problem'. Sometime some time out gets you to the solution quicker than hammering at it for 24/7.

Good to see the Friday Night Project quantified. If it's one or two games then why not.

I would agree with that after a long hard season but not after three months in a new job in which the seson has gone pear shape since he arrived. He should be rolling up his sleeves and getting those lazy players in early each morning and leaving late each afternoon, only hard work will turn this around, not a jolly up to Dundee for two or three days.

Ken Ryder is not even in football manager..

Good source of info there

Fucking hell Dundee's only an hour's flight it's not like his gone on a shopping trip to New York for a week.

1 or 2 days back "home" will do him good, recharge the batteries and all that.

Not the point, he shouldn't need to recharge, should be in hyper mode. Theres only 92 blokes who get the chance to manager a professional football club in England.

If you have a winning formula and a good back-up team then great take a deserved break, but that is a no and a no on both accounts, so roll up your sleeves and sort the problem out, and problem is here in Swindon not in bloody Dundee.

It's almost primordial, elementary that man will go back to his radioactive beach, deep sea vent or big bang shelter to get back to basics and try to unravel the puzzles thrown up by the search for the meaning of life and an effective formation for match day. A few days in the sand, sea or cave, depending on which theory you subscribe to, will see man emerge possibly clutching the answer to abiogenesis or how to beat Oldham as the case may be. There are two potential difficulties here. Firstly, it has been almost 4.5 billion years and still no unanimous consensus, so for hoMo Malpasiens to resolve matters in a few days seems unlikely. Secondly, he could have his head bitten off by a dinosaur (most likely Thisisosaurus Wrecks) as he steps blinking into the sunlight.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ex Wolves apparently...

I googled him and found nothing but then I couldn't be bothered to search through the pages.

Our OS doesn't say much about him apart form the Wolves bit.

So he may have been up there talking to some of his contacts, possibly players coming out of contract at the end of the season, maybe potential coaches?

I hope he's had a full set of jabs - wouldn't want him coming back from such a strange and exotic location with one of them funny foreign lurgies and spreading it round the players. It might affect their performance.

i dont know he has not told me

Tucked away near the end of this report from the G & H but still doesn't excuse him for not asking for permission to leave the room  :roll:  ...

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/swindontown/news/display.var.2167998.0.byrne_hoping_moses_wont_part_with_town.php

Byrne hoping Moses won't part with Town
By Jon Boyle
Comment
Assistant boss David Byrne is desperate for Swindon Town to keep hold of Moses Ashikodi for next season - as he believes the on-loan Watford striker is the new Jason Roberts.

The pacey 20-year-old Nigerian struck a sizzling hat-trick in the Robins' 6-1 thrashing of non-league Chippenham Town in the semi-finals of the Wiltshire Premier Shield on Tuesday.

And Byrne believes if the injury-plagued Ashikodi can stay fit, he could develop into a multi-million pound player similar to Blackburn's Premiership ace Roberts.

advertisementByrne said: "He hasn't had a pre-season for two years but if we can get him fit he's the sort of player who could be worth a lot of money -I think he's the new Jason Roberts.

"Whether he can come here permanently is something we'll have to sit down and talk about from now until the end of the season.

"I think he's out of contract in the summer but that's something we'll have to discuss with our board of directors and also with Watford.

"He's certainly did himself no harm on Tuesday."

Byrne feels Ashikodi could cause problems to any defence, and added: "People might say it's only against Chippenham but I don't think it would have mattered who he was playing against.

"He's one of these players that if you give him the opportunity by putting the ball in the right areas he can be a handful to anybody."

Byrne believes the powerful striker could be the answer to struggling Town's current goal-scoring woes - and was eager to fill in boss Maurice Malpas ahead of Town's home clash with Oldham on Saturday.

"Maurice wasn't at the game because of a prior engagement arranged a long time before he came here, but I'll be letting him know just how good Moses was.

"We're struggling to score goals at the moment and he's done what we've asked him to do by scoring a hat-trick, plus his link-up play was excellent too.

"And this week in training he's been as good as I've seen him. I just think he's starting to regain the levels of fitness that he needs and he's now starting to see the dividends come from it.

"All we can do is report back and then obviously we'll take it from there, but he's done his first team prospects no harm at all."

I wasn't replying to you bud, just using your little bit of info to explain that he may have gone up for the good of STFC, not for a family reunion/piss up/time to reflect on his future/jump off the tallest building/to take a tour of Tannadice....

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Or perhaps not according to the Gazzetta della Heralda!

Am i reading that as byrne is picking the team saturday and moses will play :?

Hes a human, not fucking robocop. If taking a two day break allows him to think up new tactics/ideas away from the spotlight then its all well and good. Its not as if the whole backroom staff have decamped to australia

but he has not has he he has gone to a prior arrangment

Ok. I still don't think its that big a deal

Neither do i really the further away from the team the better :wink:

The most shocking thing in this thread is that we are considering signing Moses.
Scored a lot for the stiffs, but looked a bit like Fola/Sabin rolled into one in the limited first team appearances he's had.

Of course my judgement may be wrong, but you can only say what you see.

I wish he was robocop. Dont think motivation would be such an issue

But he could be a £1m+ Fola/Sabin lookalike!!!

Robomo

:D

Exactly!

Meanwhile, back at the topic, perhaps Ken has been employed to find some better fans?

Instead of criticising Malpas for buggering off to the land of the sweaty's for a few days has anyone actually stopped to think that the players may have been given a couple of days off and Malpas is in sweaty land then and it just so happens to co-incide with the donald duck shield game (apptly named as we have already been knocked out of the mickey mouse cup)

Oh and Moses on a permanent basis...now I am worried if that is the 'quality' we will be signing

No because as the story states it was a prior arrangment, stop sticking up for him it dont matter does it they have just not trained since friday then :D

Does mo really need 2 days in the sunny dundee to figure out a new tactical plan?

I've just mad one up on the spot.  Its called "operation pass the ball to Macnamee"

He had a prior arrangement.

There are others who can take training.

Ken doesn't stand a chance, anything he says or does will be ignored until Mo is boiled in oil or the ravens leave the Tower of London.

2+2=5875058

























i.e. no   :wink:

I reckon I can make 2+2=11 by using a ternary number system.

Anyone can make up a tactical plan but it will be getting our players to understand it that may be the problem

Remember most footballer's are thick so they need things explained in triplicate.... :soapy tit wank:

malpas has been moaning about lack of time with the players in last weeks adver.then fucks off to scotland for a few days this week.
daft!

No thicker than most of those standing on the terraces/seats telling them what they should be doing and where they should fuck off too.

fair point

More about Ken on the OS now. Seems we will have a further 3 scouts, and he looks like Hitchcock (Alfred not Kevin) and he worked for Oxford Utd!
http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Interview/0,,10341~1281009,00.html

Think it's a good idea to have a scouting "team" so to speak. Maybe we should offer King a job on it?  :mrgreen:

I see he once worked for Oxford then!

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Athelstan?

When Cannon was in charge of the youth development, Swindon had scouts everywhere in the south Berkshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, when he left so did the scouts.

No Phil Cannon had contacts and obviously took the contacts wiht him, we have never had a proper scouting network, although some could argue we had that under Andy King  :soapy tit wank:

How about a few scouts in Wltshire.