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Is it sunny there? or snowing?

Not that it's important, have they announced the matches yet?

It would be important if you were going for a holiday? surely theres no point going on holiday if you cant get brown???

I was referring to the opposition not being important, not the weather :)

Oh!!! good I thought you were being a tad rude! ;)

I only shop in HMV cause of you!! I got 2 DS games for £30 for my holiday! bargain!!

Has the full list of friendlies been confirmed yet (not just the oppo in Austria)?

I don't recall reading anything but I may have missed it, not much on the OS when I looked.

You really don't have to do that.

I was going to go to this but going to Ibiza in September and seeing Deadmau5 at Brixton Academy the week before this!

I've got that week off but I haven't been to Westbury to see the parents and siblings in just under a year so I better see them.

I know but I always think of you when I go in there and I dont even know you - thats a bit random really!!

Are you a bird and are you fit ?

No he's a travel agent.

BUT WAIT!!! DON'T ORDER YET!!

IF you buy just 8 tickets using your credit card we will throw in a free towel and alarm clock set...

Is it a towel with ARSE and FACE on it?

If so I'm in.

I know we're quite a sad bunch, but I really don't think anyone can get away with bragging on here.

Austria smells though.

heh!!! you have to admire the persistance ... I would have been up for it but Im going on a med cruise instead!!

So whats your name Noughtie nine? As I went to Ibiza as well  

I would go to Austria for the holiday and the added bonus of watching Swindon in a distant land but since when have friendlies been a good indication of how it'll go during the season?

whats the RRP of the alarm clock?

You're right. I may never recover.

Enjoy your hols.

 :soapy tit wank:

Honestly, and we all like town, but get out more.

You Sir, are holier than thou

:)

And coooooonsiderably richer than yoooooooow.

You pay?

I'm sorry but I just can't afford to go, does that make you a better fan than me?

I think he's on the wind-up.

I'm not, I'm broke...

All our "GOLD" Level prizes are worth AT LEAST £7.99 Retail value at time of competition.

I wouldn't doubt that.

I don't get paid until f the month so if you don't mind fronting up the money and buy the ticket I'll pay you back.

I will hopefully graduate on the 18th of July, and whilst I'd quite like to go to Austria (and see the Town), I'd never get holiday at this short notice. Or, you know, be able to afford it. Broke student and all.

If you had sat to the side of the town end you could have seen the scoreboard. I would love to go but i can't.

Who is going?

Or climed a tree like the pikey kids at the Mannor

Our first game is against Fc Cluj Romanian

Are they the lot that beat Juventus in the CL?

Edit: Roma.

They drew with Chelsea too didn't they?

Dare we ask who?  :footinmouth:

are you taking the fucking piss out of me ????

Dont know about that fred, but i reckon quids in going, that's a woman typing all the Austria stuff! ( i'm good like that)

Have a look at thisis forum, under the fans from around the world section  ???

I've had piles, horribly annoying.

An old flat mate of mine's dad once told us over a nice fat joint that the thing he regrets most in his life was sprinkling itching powder on his girlfriend's piles whilst she was asleep many years ago - ouch!

Too worrying looking at the fans in london thanks( and i've just been drinking with a few of them)

Hurt like fuck, there is a video of me on here somewhere taken on the way back from Port Vale where I could hardly fucking walk

Try snowboarding with 'em...

fucking ouch

You WALKED back from Stoke Fred?

tried to walk to the shitter when we stopped on the M5 on the way home, not a pretty sight

i deleted it aaaaages ago :D

good lad !

Aren't Cluj from Transylvania? And sure they used to be bankrolled by the the son of Ceaucescu also.

Not a cluj, but should be something to get our teeth into tho

I winced at that, paul.

I don't think anyone's that bothered

I'd love to go but I'm banned from Austria. Also I'm skint.

Yeah Si, you knob.

haha nice.

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At the risk of starting a picture war

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Argh it's so big.

Plymouth are a bigger club than us though

According to your own statistics, they are 16.6 to 33.3 times bigger than us.

Probably because they don't have someone joining their message board on a Pied Piper of Hamelin mission to lead an army of town fans to Austria for a pre-season tour.

Are you wound up because people have got other things they need to spend their money and time on?

Haha that has got to be someone with an alteriror persona - own up! :D

is it ralphy's dad?

Fans have been to their fair share of pre-season and Wiltshire Shield matches over the years. It's a good laugh and sometimes you can't help but watch these pointless matches because you have the buzz.

Just to clarify, I'm not having a holiday this year and I'm not in prison. It is fun winding you up though, but I suspect you're having as much fun as me  :)

I haven't posted my real reason for not being able to go because you've already shot people down for having other important commitments. Your attitude saddens me.

I think he's gone. Shame, I thought he was alright.

Can you shut the fuck up about Austria. We all know you're going - good luck. To be honest the thuoght of spending money and time and ending up stood next to a stupid cunt like you depresses the fucking hell out of me - even more than the family barbecue that I'm just about to do.  
Like a lot of others on here there's a balance to be had of supporting STFC and having a life. Some of us have families, others of us are suffering due to the recession. The last thing a lot of Town fans need is a patronising fuckwit like you bragging on here.

and don't forget that some of us just can't be arsed.

Your attitudes sadden me.

You say about 6 fans going.

I know a couple of people who booked up a flight for the Fenerbahce game, the date of that game was then moved 24 hours, just 3 days before the game. So their flights were useless.

Most working people just do not have the sort of time where they can book a week off, not knowing who, when and where we might be playing.

I slagged it off big time last year. Although I was well impressed by the opposition, its still a pre season friendly, which borders on a training session. Needs more planning in advance.

So I think they'll be lucky if 3 fans go this year.

Ralphy, tans and Ralphy's dad will have a good time though Spencer.

The problem is people's wifes and kids want a propper holiday,beaches etc not being dragged around villages of austria watching glorified training sessions.

I love my football as much as the next person but i also like to spend some time with the wife and family away from the football, and im sure many more like to do that too. 

I get it. You all work for the Swiss Tourist Board.

'AUSTRIA IS FUCKING SHIT; COME ON HOLIDAY TO SWITZERLAND!'

Spot on Russ.

We are broke this year. Just about stretched to the Season tickets for me and the boys, but our only proper holiday this year will be a mates caravan in West Wales and the odd weekend camping.

Actually I'm with the southern alps in France, the Austrians and Swiss can kiss my arse.

visit norway


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  Here's a nice little thread about our first faltering footsteps in Austrian pre season stuff.

 http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,22390.0.html

  My disdain for the sauerkraut munchers has grown with the gains made by Ironside's mob in the recent Euro elections, where the much loved Nazi salute made a bit of a comeback.

 I suppose we should be grateful that the joint forces of Poland, the Germanic States and Austria, under Jan Sobieski, turned back the assembled Janissary hordes of Suleiman Benn the Magnificent at the gates of Vienna in 1683, and that the Golden Horde of Batu Khan's Mongols jacked it in at the gates of Vienna 300 years earlier.

 I think it is these ein volk memories which instinctively lead Austrians to lean to the right.

Russ is bang on.

Im looking forward to the Poland/Ukraine Euro's. That will be 6 years since WC 06. Basically makes it football all year round. You cant get away with that every year.

Massive respect to Austria for turning to the right. Been there plenty of times and it's shocking how the demographics of the country are being distorted against the wishes of the majority. Can't emphasise enough just how much I doff my cap to them for having the cajones to turn in great number to the political right. A great people, culture, territory who won't be faced down in the onslaught of multiculti-bullshit.

Is it him?  ???

Thanks for that Adolf.

And there was me thinking this thread was about pre-season friendlies.

Ho hum.

Aberdeen, Birmingham City and Stoke are all 'pre-seasoning' in Austria in July.

Perhaps we might have a friendly penciled in against one of them.

If you do not want to read about the pre-season tour to Austria then please have some self restraint and do not click on this thread in future - you know the one that starts 'STFC in Austria...'.

I am really not intersted in your domestic situation, if I were I would go to mydomestichell dot com or something similar.

As for the abuse you have dircted at me, I can only assume you were in a bad mood (maybe you'd just had an arguement?). I would consider my response to you if you offered an apology.

"How to make friends and influence people".

Written by Summer of Noughtie Nine.

It'll be a riveting read, must look out for it.

What do you expect me to do with what was written about me above? Sit back and relax?

Hey Noughtie Nine, I can't go myself but have a great time and report back !

Thanks Anty - I'll bring back some more photos like this one





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To be fair this is the Town End Forum and all of us know that anything that is written is fair game for any and all sorts of come backs, hopefully you'll get to know how things work round here - you did come on here and offer an air of 'I'm better than you lot, take a leaf out of my STFC following handbook' - people will respond to that I'm afraid.

I will be interested when it happens, I just can't go. Really the thread is about going to the tour rather than having an interest in it.

fuck off

Hey Kinky - thanks for the advice (genuinely). If that's the way it appeared then it was not meant to. I just could not believe that I was being slagged off for following the Town 'my way' and people saying they are not interested in the tour. The thread was an appeal to anyone else who might want to come and I am offering some knowledge of how to do it through my experiences last year.

If some people choose to go to the away game in Brighton but not the one in Huddersfield - that's their business; I would not say 'you are supporting the club in the wrong way'.

Hey ARCHIE - Brum were in Salzburg the same time as Town last year.

I generally don't take a dislike to Town fans but you really do come across as a smug condescending prick. After reading my comments again I was probably a bit too fair on you.
I know a couple of lads who went last year and they had a great time. What they have not done is bang on an on and on about it. They're not on a recruitment campaign but will probably be there again this year.
I'm surprised how lightly you've got off.

Friendlies are uber-dull. I think I'd find myself going to Austria and not going to the matches.

Come on Summer of Noughtie Nine, I've had my fun with you. If you can think of a fellow Town fan as fat as you around your age also from Park South then you can work out who I am. Have you seen the Aaard Vark lately?
Welcome to the TEF.

What tour of Austria?

My experiences of this forum have persuaded me to cancel my trip to Austria, and I have also cancelled my helicopter flight to Silverstone for the F1 GP tomorrow. I will use the money together with the proceeds of selling my house and all its contents to keep Simon Cox at the CG.

Even though it is genunely his name, this makes mildy tipsy me snigger a lot.

I'm not going because:

1) I don't like Austria
2) I don't really dig on pre-season all that much

If it was in Spain, or Portugal, or anywhere nice and hot where the nation is known for some decent sides, then I would probably go.

Nick Watkins if you are reading this then please consider this feedback.

After all it is coming from one of your 3-year-season-ticket holders :)

All these people who are slagging of the host country - it's Austria we're talking about - now if it was Australia, I would agree with you.

Hey Michael - I take it you went to Ibiza in 2006 to see STFC lift European silverware - that was HOT! And as for playing decent sides, um last year we played Fenerbahce and Steaua Bucharest! Not all the oppostion comes from Austria, in fact the country is one huge pre-season fest. There are several games to see every night. Real Madrid regularly stay nearby, and the Austrian League kicks off at the same time of year so there are matches to watch there. Plus Munich is only a hour or up the road - I think they might have professional football club or two?

Top see Christian Roberts lifting European silverware for STFC - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuiGD9qo64E

are you a bit special?

Yeah, I feel really special coz I've won a hundred quid off my mate for getting over 1,000 views and over 100 replies in (well) under a week!

Now I'm off to the Kassam to spend it all on crisps and pop in the social club.

They haven't got a social club at the Kassam.

 How long have you had the OCD concerning obscure STFC pre season fixtures in out of the way places....for example did you go on the Hoddle/Gorman tour to Finland.

 Lakes eh seen one and you've seen them all.

My take on this is that (until this season) my very understanding better half lost me every other Saturday for nine months every year - even I'm not selfish enough to say "no we can't go to Italy this year, but how do you fancy an STFC tour in Austria?"  Sometimes you need to prioritise.  Supporting your club should never be a "I support them more than you" contest between fans.

what a bizzare thread.passed me by which was no loss

Which Kassam are you on about???!!!

No I did not go to Finland, nor Malta, nor Holland, nor Northern Ireland for those respective tours. In the 80s there was the prospect of Town playing in Indonesia which fell through!

Coincidentally I am planning a day trip to Venice on one of the rest days. Also within easy reach of the Town basecamp are the Italian towns of Verona and Brescia. Maybe you could combine the holiday?

have i missed something here?

Don't do it Doore, he wants to eat your liver.

I'll sum up my interest in attending friendlies with an analogy to record collecting. You've got all your favourite bands albums and you've played them to death (like attending League games), you've got all the singles and the memories that come with them (Cup games) and there are always the limited edition 12" singles (extra time & penalties) but you want something MORE, something a little outta the ordinary. Something like a bootleg recorded at an obscure venue which only a handfull of people have ever heard -that little piece of magic that has a special place in the hearts of the people who were there - THAT is a pre-season friendly in a far off land!

So you're going then?

At what point do you make it a daily ritual to ask if people have heard the bootleg?

 :D

It's all about the liver.

Well, the chianti won't be difficult to find.

Wrong it's all about the skin....

I'm going to Supermarine. Put that in your pipe and fucking smoke it noughty.

See you there Dean!

Anyone know when the players report back for pre season training i see some clubs have gone back already.

Monday

Cheers tom

Next Monday mate!

OK - see you there. Come up & say HI. I'll be wearing the Official 2009 Austria Tour shirt as on sale in the club shop.

Good wind-up, or sad pathetic loser? It's a toughy....