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Fitton: A band would be music to my ears
           


  TOWN chairman Andrew Fitton is searching for a some new transfer targets in order to help his side hit the right notes at the County Ground.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4721022.Fitton__A_band_would_be_music_to_my_ears/?ref=rss
           

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please don't do it Mr Fitton.

Bands/drummers and the like belong at places like Franchise and Cheltenham and make me want to smuggle knives into football grounds.

Fuck no.

He raised this at the AGM and the point was made quite forcibly (and pretty much unanimously) there as well

Absolutely totally totally agree with comments so far ! PLLLLLLEEEEEAAAASSSEEEE NNNNNNOOOOOO !

Unless its a string quartet in the middle of the magic roundabout.

I can confirm that as well, and someone threatened to shove the trumpet where the sun doesn't shine !!

would fucking hate it. lower town end price to £10 and rip the seats out of it if you want a better atmosphere.

From where he sits near the away fans he probably thinks it helps the atmosphere (Arkells sadly dead).

No drums please, now a trumpet played in tune - not sure I wouldn't mind that.

what tequila says

Having read the story, he does acknowledge that supporters have said it's not a good idea. I suspect he's "flying a kite", to see if it garners any more support when floated more widely.


Erm, this might be my fault - we had a quick chat afterwards and I suggested that if he was going to put a band in the Town End, he might like to borrow another American tradition - the cages they put in front of Country and Western bands in redneck bars to catch the flying bottles :)

Surely he's got more important things to worry about, what a jackass.

the atmosphere is shit thanks to the daft pricing structure that wasn't sorted out after last season.
alot of ex townenders are now spread between the two main stands, so it's obvious there wont be as much noise generated.
a band is a fucking stupid idea.

We should just go the whole hog and provide everybody with air horns and those god awful Buzz-stick things they have in South Africa.

Unless its like Girls aloud or the Saturdays or something????? ;)

If its aload of mings tunelessly tooting instruments or banging drums then for the love of god no!!

Maybe we could pipe Hammond organ music over the PA system like they do at ice hockey matches as well.

Go Swindon!
You rock!
Yeah!

Just reading some of the comments on the adver site ref this band idea, there is a mention of a bloke called 'Whelan' who I can vividly remember getting many a chant going in the Town End....anyone know what happened to him and if someone knows him, please persuade him to make a reappearance, a much preferred option to a bleedin' drum!!

Here's my contribution to song material for said proposed band (to the tune of she'll be coming around the mountain)

You can stick your fucking band up your arse,
You can stick your fucking band up your arse,
You can stick your fucking band,
You can stick your fucking band,
You can stick your fucking band up your arse

You missed "sideways" off the end.

If it's kazoos I think it's a great idea.

fitton out!

Thats reminds me of Russ Abbott!

God Im showing my age!

A band.....no thanks!!

"And now a rendition of Wise Men Say featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor on the Kazoo and Graeme Garden on the Swanny Whistle"

I think it's a great idea. ;) I'll bring my recorder on Tuesday night V Norwich to get things moving on this front!

If those ex-townenders care about the atmosphere why don't they move back?

That is the danger of course; five anal beads go up, only four come out.

Is this the real Ben??? possibly on drugs or something???? or an imposter!!!!

Been rocking the crack pipe, but got to go babysit in a bit.

because their season tickets are for other areas of the ground.if the tickets for the townend were reduced accordingly,they probably wouldn't have moved in the first place.

Take the seats out and install a band......this will give them another excuse!

I think he gave up when Town appointed Malpas. Him and his mates seem to prefer Supermarine and Shrivenham, non league stuff now. I think they feel the football league is too far gone from the common man now, too much of a business.

He was the best song starter Swindon ever had. Used to make up songs that had you in stiches as well.

No way Fitton! Sorry but the thought of a band not far from where I have my ST is enough to put me off going totally. Now I can understand him wanting to get the atmosphere going. After all it is pretty shit. Part of the probem is that our fans are retards and can't keep in time with a lot of the songs. I don't think the DRS/Arkells movement is such an issue. Yes there are less people in the Town End but most of them empty seats are to the left of the goal which is not where the chanting generally is anyway. It's possible to create a decent atmosphere. We did it against Southampton. We don't need a band we just need everyone to actually join in rather than spend half their time moaning that Tope played a shit pass and Hutchinson is lazy.

this is his worst idea since appointing malpas

A big no from me. Bar also being predictable crap football wise, I cant watch england games anymore, for fear of hearing that monotonous drivel banging out.

Fucking Stupid Idea. I fucking hate Drums and Trumpets at football matches

 A band would be as welcome as 4 twats in Pox shirts stood in the middle of the TE.

Take the seats out of the Townend, charge a fiver to get in there and serve alcohol before and at half time and I pretty much guarantee you will get the atmosphere back at the CG.

Band - No

Some sort of half time karaoke would be good alternative

He's still around occasionally. Last time I saw him he was with a few of our more extrovert older fans who are well known. He's a top lad. Does a lot of work in boys football i believe as well.

I like Whelan....it was him who started the Fukin head in song about Mooney....and countless others.

I think Fitton knows the current fans won't like it and is hoping they'll sing up to stop it happening.

If the flat atmosphere occurs then I think he might go ahead which is a real shame. If I wanted to listen to a band I'd go watch the Salvation Army for free not spend money on a football match to hear a repetitive drum.

We'll probably end up being one of those clubs who play Tom Hark when we score :(

They should give local music groups a chance to play before a game and at half time. Get the Young Musicians band in one week, some local bhangra band in next, a west indies steel drum effot in, etc.

Keep the bands out of the football time.

On a sort of flip side to this when I go to watch Motorhead in a few days time at the Oasis can I have Yinka doing keepy uppies on the side of the stage ?

I think that when clubs do get bands, the music ends up reflecting the football. So at a dull stale Sheffield Wednesday (didn't they ban the band) / England game you'll get some amateur dribly half arsed trumpet shit. What we'd get would be a sad state of affairs.

If we start playing some amazing flowing football that will stun the world, then I'm more than happy to have some crazy samba beats flowing from the crowd. But until then Fitton can fuck off.

Obviously when I said watching the salvos for free, I'd give them some money. Especially if I was going to listen to them for 90 minutes.

Actually I think listening to a brass band for 90 minutes would be punishment. They should pay me.

i know the fella you guys are on about.the old shrivvy road days when it was rocking in there was mainly down to him starting the songs off.
was sat right by him and his lot at wembley vs sunderland too.

I used to get annoyed when you constantly pull out the daft pricing structure argument, but I sort of agree with you, even though I disagree with your reasons.

You should be able to wander up to the match on a Saturday and get in for a tenner. Anything more is too much.

Where I disagree with the current pricing structure is that I don't think they should do townend season tickets at all. Keep the season ticket prices for the big stands, make the townend a tenner a game.

In all honesty I think the idea of season tickets is shit anyway, but it's a fact of modern football and not something which is going to go away.

Why do you dislike season tickets fB ?  Afraid of constancy ?

For out of towners, season tickets are great.

Saying that, even if I still lived in Swindon I'd probably get one.

if it was a tenner for every game in the townend, then the club would lose a fair few season ticket holders i think.people would know that they are going to get in cheap so might not bother paying upfront.a fair price for a season ticket for the townend and a similarly reduced matchday ticket is the way forward i think.
i can see why the club had all season tickets the same(to maximise upfront revenue)but it's killed the atmosphere for 2 years now.the townend is always half empty nowadays

i've decided that a band would be fine but only if it was XTC.

Nah, they should book Morrissey. At least then we'd only have to put up with one song before he fucked off. On which note, not planning on coming back apparently so get your refunds from Oasis if you haven't already

"I was going to sing a song and now ive sang a song and heaven knows im not coming back!"

The thing is, if you had a house party, then employed 5 big blokes in orange coats to walk around and tell people to take their shoes off or tell them off for leaving the toilet seat up, etc etc, then that party wouldnt go down very well.

Fans most of the time do exactly what they are supposed to do. Sit down and shut up.

Lower league football does have a serious problem. It's not much fun.

You sound in need of a good ruck Spencer....haven't we got Rovers soon?

Im going corporate for that. Looking forward to it, better than the tent anyway. Although last season was good.

I always enjoy the drinking. And a good moan. About football.