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Andrew Fitton has said no to a return for Sam Parkin and asked us to stop living in the past.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/display.var.2199133.0.no_going_back.php

Can someone set Fitton up with a user name and access rights to this forum, please?  He denies he reads internet forums, but he's clearly got his nose in the Adver site and he's taking the ill-informed drivel that he reads there as being representative of the views of the club's fans.

I don't know anyone that thinks that re-signing Parkin would be the best way to take the club forward.  It really bothers me that Fitton seems to think our fans are all fuckwits.

I wonder if Fitton uses Facebook?  If so I hope he realises its all a bit of fun  :D

Just as important shouldn’t Malpas be the one telling us what players we are and are not looking at.

I realise that many of you weren't at the fans forum, but this is the source of the article.

I believe Malpas said he was not on his list of targets - i.e. the manager IS selecting the transfer targets.

He also likened the forum situation to Margaret Thatcher 'not reading the newspapers', just because he doesn't personally read them he knows what is being said :)

The whole article is based on answers to several questions asked at the Forum on Monday stitched together so it reads like an interview which its not. But he was responding to questions from the floor, not "fuckwits" on the Adver or any other site. And Malpas did initially answer the Parkin question and say that SSP was not on the list of players they were looking at. Don't slam them for the way the Adver have reported it which is so out of context that I can understand why people have found it misleading.

 Not really...its the model, based on Europe, that chairmen or Directors of Football are involved in decisions on player recruitment.....AF obviously enjoys this part of it, he's in it for the football.  Look at the job Nicky Hammond has done for Reading.

 Th emanager obviosly has an input, but MM's main job is surely to coach.

And see my answer above - MM did answer the question, AF made very clear that MM is in charge of player recruitment, he just expanded on it a bit. Don't construct a whole thread of hypothesis on the back of one piece of misleading reporting

Meh. I'm really not bothered if we dont sign parkin again.

They should be looking for the NEW Parkin, not the original, bald, injury prone one.

double bluff?? playing it down so we can sign him without anyone else going for him??

well I can hope cant i!

Ok  :roll:

wait till he sees our (well Im calling it our I didnt do any hard work) Facebook petition

all those hundreds of people.............. kind of  :oops:

:mrgreen:

We will get there!

   Fair enough, but I stand by the opinion that AF is quite hands on when it comes to player recruitment...quite rightly.   I'm not suggesting that he makes all the decisions, but rather he will be involved somewhere.

My original post on this thread was based on comments AF has made on a number of occasions recently.  This is not the first time he has commented that 'fans' (generic) are being unrealistic etc.

Completely take your point about the reporting of these comments, but the fact is that most supporters - and certainly those living outside the Swindon area - use the online facilities provided by the local press as their main source of info.  Of course we shouldn't trust everything we read, but it isn't easy sifting the bullshit from the coverage worth taking at face value.

Yes, fair point, but as with any source of information it's important to be aware of how reliable it is, how the stories are constructed etc. In this instance the Adver are clearly looking to drag a few days' worth of coverage out of the Fans' Forum which makes today's piece potentially misleading in not giving the context in which those comments were made, especially the fact that they've stitched together several separate points and made it look like one interview. Which is fair enough, standard journo practice and all, but people need to be aware of that when reading it.

Fair dos. I'd be inclined to agree with the "quite rightly" as well - no chairman can just give the manager carte blanche to sign whoever the hell. Well except for Peter Ridsdale at Leeds maybe

 If all you read was thisis, then it would be very easy to reach that conclusion.

  It would be entirely understandable, if the TEF wasn't taken seriously as a vox pop for the average Town fan.

  Which leaves Leroy and Riddel on MoS, as teh voice of sanity  :--

I only really read the tef and I've still managed to come to the conclusion that our fans are fuckwits.

Where is this facebook petition?!

It's all a lie anyway, Fitton just doesn't want us to think he's gonna sign Sam Parkin so we'll love him even more when he does. Very clever Mr. Fitton.

I agree

pah, Fitton out Parkin in!

Boooooo Fitton out  :mrgreen:

Fitton said he didn't need to read forum's as he had people that already do that (stated that Jeremy Wray does and Chris Tanner) and they keep him informed, has JW got access to this site then ?

Fuck knows.

Bloody well ask him then, you layabout  :soapy tit wank:

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