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...Or the Noughties Awards, but I don't like the term.

After the success of the top Album poll, I may as well jump on the bandwagon of every other TV Program/Website/Tom, Dick and Harry and hold an overall best of everything poll. Before kicking off the votes though, I need a bit of help with categories- I don't want too many as frankly that means not many people will vote and it'll be too much work for me, but I thought I'd get some feedback on what categories people would like to see. Here's a few ideas of my own, broken down into categories

Music
Album is obviously already done, but Best Song and Best Band are obvious ones. Perhaps worst as well, as they tend to be just a fun

Film
Best Film could be broken down into genres or just comedy/serious perhaps. Would best actor or best character be better? as people tend to mean the latter when they vote for the former.

TV
Best TV show again can be split as the films are, best character is a definate here I think, possibly worst show as well so Simon Cowell can win something. Or Bonekickers, that was woeful.

Sport
Split this into STFC and non STFC- Best and Worst moments, Best and Worst performer/single performance, biggest Greek tosser award?

Culture/Other
Best Computer game or something like that? Scraping the barrel at this point

Any suggestions, fire away.

keep it simple, no point going down too many sub genres. It will just get messy otherwise.

I was thinking we should do a top 50 TEF Swindon Town players of the decade.

There is no way that it wouldn't end up with Kasal ranked in the top 3 from joke votes though.

Who are you to claim that they are "joke votes"? The lad is a footballing genius.

Top 50 Numbers from 1 to 50?

My top five are 6, 3, 17, 21 and 44

Best Disaster? It's been a big decade for disasters.

Top 10 stfc  away games would be good

I agree with Chubbs that too many sub categories could ruin it. Here's my thoughts tho...


I think it would be too difficult to pick best songs. You would probably end up with a very split vote too. Plus it can be hard to judge one song you really like against another of a totally different genre. Best bands or male/female solo artists could work I suppose.


Best actor or best character polls don't appeal to me personally. I'd like to vote in a horror films of the decade poll but I accept that might be not be a widely held interest.


Best character would work better here than in the film category. I think a best TV comedy series would be well worthwhile. Best cartoon series might be good too (altho most of these would prob fit in the best comedy series so maybe not necessary).


All these would work. Something to think about is would all these categories be a top 50? For example do we really want a list of 50 worst swindon moments?

I wasn't planning on making any of them top 50, top 3 at most.

So we would vote and you would work out the top 3 by the number of votes each has?

Sounds like a good idea.

Oh OK. 3 seems a bit meagre. How about top 10 or at least top 5?

Im up for top 10's of everything :)

Top 10s of even 10 categories is about 100 things, I'd rather have a smaller amount which is more detailed.

But top 3s isn't more detailed. It's broader in categories with less detail.

I thought awards were top 1?

I'm no Paul Plowman - or Reg Smeeton (one & the same, perhaps?) - but has this decade not been one of the most mundane in our history?

• We've spent nine years of it in Division 3, with a single season in Division 4.
• We nearly went out of business...several times.
• The highlights: few & far between.  Making the Division 3 Play Offs under Andy King in the middle of the decade was about as good as it got.
• No cup runs of note (although, touch wood, we may be in the middle of one at the moment).

I think I'll wait until 2019 and contribute to the next thread instead.

A top ten of top tens?

league cup semis in 95, fa cup 5th round replay in 96?

Both not this decade...

If that was in the last decade (which of course it isn't), I probably would have put that in my best and worst football top ten experiences. Good for the games themselves (apart from the final result), Bad for having to drive to Bolton TWO Wednesdays running  >:(

Football stuff

Staying up in 01 and Oxford getting relegated
League one playoffs
Relegation to and promotion from league two
Giving Leeds a good run for their money at Elland Road

Off Field Events

Brady promising much and not delivering anything
The Carson Consortium
Protests against old board
Bill Power and the missing £1m
BEST Holdings mystery
Fitton saves the club

Two fine strikers and one judas cunt

Parkin
Cox
Mooney

High profile/calibre managers

Andy King
Roy Evans
Andy King
Dennis Wise
Paul Sturrock
Danny Wilson


Competition wise it's been more uneventful than you'd expect with a yo-yo club like ours, but so many things have happened on and off the pitch, to call it mundane is wrong in my opinion.

Most hated business adviser of the decade?

haha, easy mistake to make.

The Wire is the best TV show of the decade, just so we're clear. Forget that category. It's done.

If we do an everything top 10, should the wire finish above 9/11?

And where would the massive growth of Greggs across the country fit in?

Greggs is shit.

Exactly. Is it's huge market growth this decade better or worse than 9/11?

The Wire is below 9/11 and the tsunami but three places above 7/7.

Don't be silly. Peep Show is the best tv programme of the decade by far.