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TOWN COMMENT: Hotshot Austin must be replaced
           

ADVERTISER sports writer Ned Payne has his say on life after Charlie Austin.
           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8820747.TOWN_COMMENT__Hotshot_Austin_must_be_replaced/?ref=rss
           

I like it. I know it's what each and every person on here knows but it's good to see the Adver growing some balls and coming out with it. It needed to be said.

agreed - austin is in the past now we need a replacement & fast otherwise relegation will become very realistic

Yeah, good article. When I saw the headline I thought 'no shit sherlock' and thought it would be a load of the usual limp Adver tosh - trying hard not to offend anyone at the club.

But it names names and sums up a lot of what the fans are thinking - there's nothing new here, nothing we didn't already know, but at least the Adver have publicly acknowledged fans concerns.

I wouldnt want to have Danny Wilson's job over the next 4 days. Massive pressure to find a striker.

But we have backed ourselves into a corner. This is it now, if we dont have a striker on tuesday then chances are were headed for the drop.

You cant rely on loan players at this time. They can be recalled by their parent club.

Fair play to the Journo, spot on.

Fitton and Wilson must know it too.

Whether we pull out all the stops and get a replacement or not really is an indication of whether Fitton and the board think dropping into League 2 is an out and out disaster in terms of the club's business model.

we aint replaced paynter yet,let alone austin.
the article just states the obvious.

Agreed. But at least the Aver have come out of their bland, suck up to the club report not much period. 

Yes, I know it does. But the local paper needed to make some sort of comment on the Austin situation and one of it's purposes is to reflect public opinon. It's done that very effectively with this article so fair play.

Now the dust has settled I believe losing Austin has galvanised the club in quite a good way. I'm not sure why, maybe it's a distraction, but since he put in his request, the overall temperature of hatred and anger around the club has dropped and there's not so much "Wilson Out" and what not.

I personally feel about a million times more positive than I did a month or so ago and perhaps feel the adversity is going bring us together and be good for us.

Glad Austin situation is resolved. Still need a couple of strikers before I'm feeling the same as you.

Yes, they clearly have to get one, preferably two strikers in before the deadline. Maybe Mr Fitton will have to put his principals to one side on this occasion for the overall good of the club and pay some wedge to a blood sucking leach agent if that's what it takes :hmmm:

They've had weeks to get this sorted. The pressure is on now because the press say we got a huge fee for Charlie, so suddenly everyone is more expensive to Swindon. They should have had the replacement lined up. No sympathy at all.

yes i agree and hope we can get a good 2-0 win!!

In other news man invents wheel.

I know what you mean but I think we need a win or at least a good draw (coming from behind) to sustain it. Otherwise I think everyone will be right back on Wilson's case again.

For all we know they might already have two or three people they're talking to. Just look at the Misun deal - nobody knew about it but it had been going on for weeks.

I think they just need to get a replacement in, if I am honest we don't really have a goal scorer, and until we replace Austin we will be missing him.  But we shall see what happenns in today's game

What would you say if you were being dishonest?

Longer even than that I suspect :hmmm:

He is incapable of being dishonest!

More transfer action will happen on monday than the rest of January put together.

We put the offer in and the clubs around us will have to say yes or no. No horsetrading or agent bullshit. So I am still hopeful.

But we should have been doing this last deadline day back at the start of the season.