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Ok so now we are mathematically down, it's really time to look forward.
No negative comments on here please - let's try and be more positive now this shit season is over for us.

What are you looking forward to about next season?
I'm looking forward to a couple of new grounds
Morecambe and Burton Albion.
And of course the scum matches.
What about the rest of you?

Being able to get out of the DRS much more quickly at the final whistle.

playing football
not going to the county ground
no caring

Perhaps winning a game?

winning more games?-er,perhaps not.

We get it DV, you're not going next season. I don't think it's the monumental event you think it is.

Pericard, Dossevi and Cuthbert being released.  Hart, Andrew, N'Diaye and Frampton hopefully too.

winning a game at home more often than every 5 months

Will deffo be going to a couple of grounds that need ticking off my list.
Plenty of golf beforehand though,looking back the Crawley home match in the Cup was a big turning point in my opinion so dicking them is a must.

Starting in League 2 on Football Manager with the Town.

Games at Shrewsbury and Crewe, as long as the Shrews don't go up.

That's a bit of a shit attitude for someone who wants to manage the side!

My boys will get to see their first matches against Oxford.

kicking the shit out of Crawley fans.

Paul Hart not being manager, Oxford home and away, the fans that only went this season because of last seasons success not being there.

DV keeping his word and sparing us his all-seeing wisdom

It being more of a challenge on FM to get Swindon to the Prem

all-seeing wisdom that would have kept us up!

Going to enough new away grounds to get above 70 grounds visited.
Renewing rivalry with the pox.
Our new inspirational manager eading us to glory.
The sun in August.

Oxford.

Texting in to Radio Swindon getting Longdon's name wrong after every game.

Yep - I hope noone extra turns up.  The lower the attendance, the lower the revenue for the club and the more miserable the atmosphere.  I hate it when loads of people show up for matches.  In fact, I would ban everyone who has missed a match in the last ten years, the twats.

How very grown up of you.

Not having a season ticket

The 2 games against Oxford for me. Apart from that currently i'm not optimistic about going up or having an enjoyable season until we know at least who the manager will be.

i'm with you.
was going to say more or less the same.

At this very moment absolutley fuckall

I always find the summer transfer merry-go-round quite exciting. Should be a good one if we have a bit of a clear out.

DV not being around to depress us all

Well it won't be a quiet one I wouldn't have thought.

Pre-season games at Ciren/Supermarine/Chippenham are always a good laugh.

Being a married man and being told that I can't go to the football...hopefully!

The games against the Pox and us running away with the league title with a record points winning every game.

I am a dreamer!

Very true.

The return of Fatbury!

Hello!  :bye:

OUFC.

6 points against the Pox scum. (I'm surprised they haven't been crawling all over this forum yet)

See the post above yours! :D

One post hardly counts as 'crawling all over'  :)

You know it's going to be a boring campaign when the above feature in a things your looking forward to about next season thread.

I just hope we aren't stuck down there for more than a season, this could have awful consequences on the club.

Haven't thought about next season really. More up for enjoying a summer without football.

I honestly couldn't cope with watching England fail miserably at a World Cup or European Championship after the shit we've watched for 8 months.

Will say one thing though, the clear out/rebuild needs to start asap. Being fully prepared for a quick return is vital.

Fully agree with this.

I'd like to see a return of the Burns Beano weekender.  Morecambe could be a contender.

Aldershot (A).  Local game for me.  Looking forward to it already.

New grounds, My first Swindon-Pox games, that's about it!

That would be good, as would meeting up the any London Reds as they come through Leicester (or Birmingham for the NW).  Drinking on the train is good.

Lets be honest.

Everyone will be back next season (apart from the peeps who moved) even DV.

Looking forward to a new start. Its just part of being a Town fan.

We been in worst places.  :nod:

The fact that its not this season.............yet.

Now I have weekends off, I can attend more games.

Looking forward to the summer.
Looking forward to possible new appointments.
Looking forward to the wielding of the axe.
Looking forward to the rumour mill.
Looking forward to new signings.
Looking forward to a new season.
Looking forward to Oxford United.

I don't support Swindon Town for the division we play in... Just wish we weren't in League Two again that's all!

By the new season, all being well, I will be in a position to afford to get to games again.

So true, I'm with you on this - a couple of lads that sit near me in the DRS said they weren't coming next season if we're in League Two. They're obviously gutted to be missing out on playing such stellar names like Rochdale and Dagenham & Redbridge and being stuck with the likes of Crewe and Southend.

To me League One and League Two are interchangable in their level of shitness, I'd fully understand their standpoint if we were falling from Championship into League One.

I'd still prefer to watch the shitness of League One though. Although the allure of a possible fixture next year with the mighty Fleetwood Town is quite mouth watering.

Perfectly put

And the unveiling of the new kit of course. I had heard that because the white kit had been so popular with the fans at Wembley, the club were looking at bringing this in as the home kit for next season.

Having Reeves as manager finally

Agreed!

After recently being made redundant, I'm hoping to get a monday-friday job and get to more next season. I'd love torquay away to be august or april, cheltenham away, barnet away (possibly) and exacting revenge on the pox for the last outing. That goal was the kind of shite we've let in this season.......that better stop by August!

Spot on

You many as well just leave the forum then. Do us a favour, cheerio.

yeah I many as well.

may *

no shit dickhead

that was deliberate

::)

Playing the Swindon side from 3 years ago when we play Southend.

The fact i'm going to Uni in Northampton in September and if all goes well Swindon will play a game there.

And being turned over by them will really show how far we have fallen.

Excellent post.

Would also add the release of the new season's fixture list.

Would love to be getting ready for summer but sadly have a southern hemishpere winter to get through first. Hey ho, can't have everything I suppose.

What we are going to call the Adkins Family Stand.

Who our new manager is going to be.

Who we release and bring in.

Fixture list/pre-season friendly announcements

Kit

Usual really.

Pox.
Not standing in The Town End.
Being able to see the game from DRS.
A few more wins.

I've just realised there's potentially 12 new grounds for me next season, depending what happens in the L2 & conference play-offs, which would see me to 50.

That would depend on me doing them all though and going to places like Rotherham and Accrington.

not being able to get BBC Swindon in Bristol
no season ticket and accompanying sense of duty
getting back to full fitness to restart my gridiron 'career'
going to Berlin for new year
moving back in with the girlfriend

basically, everything that doesn't involve watching the Town. I need a break. I'll only keep my interest via news stories and the TEF.

If next season is as nail biting as 5 years ago, i'm not looking forward to it one bit.

More than 1 striker up front !!

New Gay Meadow - whatever that is called. Never been to Shrewsbury for any reason. Didn't realise it was practically Welsh - a bit like Hereford.

Shrewsbury is a great town, great pubs close to the old Gay Meadow. Great chip shop there as well. Not sure about the new one but the old one was ace as was the day out. Its practically Welsh but they are good patriots..like hereford.

Last time up there under Wise was a fantastic away day.

Bet the new one is crap though. Saw it miles out of town on the way in on the train in 2006.

Can you even get back to the station in time to make the connection at Newport?

I saw Kamara chin Melrose there many years ago. I think that was when Douglas Bader Geddes scored the winner for us

Remember the little boat in the river for when the ball went over the stand at Gay Meadow.

Hehe Gay

Its sad but most looking forward to the Morecambe game and for only the second time in my life being able to walk from home to watch the Town (the only time previously was Newcastle away in the Premiership season - look what happened there - although I was away on holiday for that game and never made it anyway!).

If Fleetwood also come up would be cool.

Paul Hart being in charge next season.

Coracles.   (no, it's true)

Playing Oxford in the play off Final :pint:

Please not a play off final again.

Oxford.

I haven't been back to Swindon (or to an away game) for at least 5 or 6 years. Sorry - I know I'm probably not a proper fan anymore! But, I'm going to make a major effort to catch some games next season - esp Oxford home and away!

Oxford away? I suspect unlikely unless you'll have a season ticket. The away tickets surely won't go on general sale

Half our ST holders are boring old farts who never go away.

A lot of people struggle with the expense of even making home games, let alone away ones and it's the 'boring old farts' who stump up the cash for season tickets that help keep the club afloat financially, just as much as those that go home and away.

I can't see myself attending that many away games next season due to a change in personal circumstances. Having said that, pox is one I'll definitely be at.

Shame we have all the bitching between our own fans, no wonder some people think we're a bunch of moaning fuckers.

I've only had a ST once (this year...good call, eh?!), and I've always got a ticket for the Pox.

I'm a boring old fart who does go to (some) away games. Now I'm struggling to stereotype myself properly

I honestly don't think I could take that.  Win...OK.  That would be quite a lot of fun.  But lose it?  It would take years to get over.  It's the type of game you would want to sedate yourself for so you could just wake up at the end to be told the result.

Yup, and yet you'd still HAVE to go. It could be the best of times, it could be the worst of times...

What the Dickens are you on about?

Oh, don't get your knickers in a twist.