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He joined Grimsby Town today on a two year deal.

Don't have a great deal more to write - but he's ex-Swindon so therefore felt it was appropriate to mention it!

You just get that feeling that his career post-Swindon didn't quite work out the way he intended it too  :?

Good Avatar Rich....oh and i hope Heywood likes fish.

I like Matt Heywood - he is funny and northern

Oh man, disappointed with that move, Matt's a decent fella, shame to see him leave town.

Hope he does well up there.

Ah but is it safe to drink the water in that country up there Charlotte?  :wink:

Im not sure - Ill ask Matt dog

He's an absolute cunt who should have been sacked straight after the 'Nam away game. Don't forget this fiollowed on from his previuos v sign v Vale to us. He was crap in the air, positionally shit and slower than me but most of all he was a cunt.

He's not a cunt at all Chalkie, no need man.  Let it go dude.

Cunt for going to Bristol City, Yes but end of the day I thought he did rather well for us.

Yes, because you wouldn't go and work for another company 30 miles away for alot more money?? It's a job to these guys, they have short careers and need to earn as much as possible. he had no tie to this club apart from a contract. No emotional attachment or anything, why would he not leave? 99% of people would do the same.

Difficult to let it go. As far as I'm concerned any player who abuses the fans like he did twice deserves his contract torn up regardless of who they are. Even if the great man Chalkie had done it I'd have turned against him.
I couldn't care less he went to the Slave Traders for more money - good for him but I still stand by my original post althuogh it was assisted with copious amounts of white wine.

I think if players are getting abuse off their own fans then they've got every right to turn around and give some back. WoooooT!

I respect the way he did not lead the fans a merry dance he was honest from the begining and allways said it was about more money and lengh of contract.

Good luck to him.

what dd he say and what was said to him?

"Heywood you cowardly cur, show some courage in the fight!"

"You sir, lack the nobility of a simple peasant. Good day to you."

:D

Did anyone actually hear first hand?

At the time I somebody told me that someone had said something to him about "knowing where he lived and burning his house down".

Now that may be total and utter cack and he may have been just getting normal stick, in which case he was out of order despite the frustrations.

Or if it is true, the fan deserved a punch more than a verbal volley.

The original abuse was directed at Gurney and from what I recall was extremely unpleasant and aimed not just at the player but his wife and family as well. Whether he should have responded is a moot point obviously but it was certainly well beyond the normal fan-player abuse/banter. Heywood then joined in in defence of his team-mate and so got some of the same. That game still ranks as pretty much an all-time low  - the atmosphere that night was utterly poisonous, both between fans and players and among fans.

Gurney or Heywood,  my point is we all have a go at a player for being crap, but there is such a thing as going too far.  And whilst they should have walked away they are human too.

If he'd been Zaaboubesque ne'd have slapped him with his glove too.

matt heywood is a decent bloke and played well for us overall.
so what if he gave a bit back to some fans after being abused or seeing his team mates getting abuse?
its like those plonkers who moaned and whinged about the leeds keeper.fucking idiots

Yup. Not sure what was said to Heywood, but some of the stuff dished out to Gurney was well beyond the pale

End of the day everything about that game at Cheltenham should be forgotten.

Matt Heywood was a good bloke. He did like Swindon and went to City for the money. It was right for him to go in footballing reasons as well, because his best season by far was his first here, he was on his way down, not up.

As for regretting leaving Swindon, Im sure he did career wise. But he doubled his wages going to City and even though he has played for some pretty dire clubs since, he probably hasnt had to take a wage cut because they were all done on free's.

He's lived in Swindon for almost a decade, seen him out in Town countless times. If anyone actually wanted to have a go at him you wouldnt have to look too far. He's certainly no hate figure.

I'd need a step ladder to have a go at him

Spot on Spence.

I agree that game still sticks in my mind as one of the worse games I have been to for a long time....bu that was then this is now

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  I come up exactly to his nipple when I stand next to him!

Would you like to come up to my nipple

I like the word nipple, but I think there should be a usuage for the word "nupple", maybe there is already and I'm unaware, but if not nupple should be introduced.

My 6 year old calls them knobble bobbles. There surely must be space for such an expression.

Knobble Bobbles are ice creams I think, Sainsbury's version of Fabs.

They have more sprinkles on than fabs! you get them off the ice cream van!

Nobbly bobblys are my absolute faves!Fabs are nice but you have to put up with the healthy strawberry ice bit,Nobbly bobblys are just yummy chocolate goodness all the way through :D

SCREWBALLS....the lot of ya!

A colleague of mine went to an ice cream van last week and accidentally asked for a '69'.  True story.