Thetownend.com

It seems that News Monkey is asleep.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9011156.Ritch_pickings_for_Matt/

MATT Ritchie has been voted Swindon Advertiser Swindon Town Player of the Year, narrowly beating surprise challenger Vincent Pericard after the latter was backed by rogue voters from internet forums.

Fans disgruntled with Town’s dismal 2010/11 campaign seemed to be making a stand against what they felt was a meaningless award after a hugely forgettable nine months at the County Ground.

And their collective efforts took Pericard, who has played only 68 minutes of first-team football since the turn of the year, to within a handful of votes of winning the coveted trophy.

However, winger Ritchie received enough support from those fans more keen to take the nomination process seriously to pip his strike partner to top spot.

The victory hands the former Portsmouth man a place among some all-time Swindon greats on the Adver trophy, including Don Rogers, Mike Summerbee and Colin Calderwood.

And the 21-year-old, who was young player of the year at Pompey during his spell on the south coast, was honoured to see his name among theirs.

“There are some big names on the trophy and it’s nice to be on there with them,” he said.

“I just try to put a shift in week in week out and I suppose it is good to be recognised.

“It’s good to know the fans appreciate you and obviously it gives you a little bit of a boost.”

Ritchie and his Robins teammates now have to adjust to life in League Two, but the wide man is confident they can make an instant return to League One in 2011/12.

“Something good has come out of a bad season and hopefully next year we can kick on and make it a good season all round,” he said. “It won’t be easy but I’m sure if the right people come in it’ll be a successful season next year.”



Anyone know what they're on about?

Fixed.

This is why I voted no to av. :)

How can they say it was suggested by rogue voters?! Where's the evidence?

Oh my god!!! It's clearly rigged! Booooooooo  the people at the adver need to get a life & stop looking on here!! :)

We've got a mole!

Let's find out who it is & kick there scrawny ass!

Oh fuck off adver you cunts

I think we should declare war on the adver.

Its fucking war.

I bet Pericard actually got the most votes, but they just didn't let him win.

My thoughts too sambo

The Adver obviously doesn't practice 'first past the post'.

Pericard does though Ralphy.

it was in the lounge.there is either a grass,or a coe who hasn't declared they work for the local rag.
still had an impact so fuck em

It was in The Lounge.

People shouldn't be talking about this in open parts of the forum...

Um don't then sam  :D

Strike that then there is a mole I could have sworn it wasnt in there.

Removed my previous post about it.

doesn't matter now as its done and dusted.

I've always wanted to be a rogue voter.

Damn those rogue voters and their pesky internet forums! And they'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling Adver journos with their searchlight of investigative truth

So, we can beat the combined might of some geeky comic book forum and the largest Man City forum, but we couldn't beat the few STFC fans that bothered to vote for Ritchie? (And let's face it, a lot of fans wouldn't have bothered to vote at all this season).

The Adver has clearly rigged the competition.

Fuck me, if you can't trust a second rate, crap filled local rag, who can you trust?

I suggest we find the mole and remove his bollocks with a rusty razor.

Although in fairness, out of an admittedly not terribly competitive field, Ritchie does deserve it. Hopefully will encourage him to stay. Although POTY winners usually guarantees they leave immediately

Pah, you and your sensible posts!

There is no place for sense and logic on the TEF.

Have Talk Talk and Gazza taught you nothing?

Good thing is we would only sell players like Caddis,Ferry,Ritchie for a profit we wouldn't accept stupid bids for them imo.

The Adver is obviously run by Lizard People who worked out what was going on by secretly tapping into the UN mind control matrix and reading our brains. Why oh why didn't we listen to the sage TT and wear our tinfoil helmets like he told us?

Better?

Someone get Vince a tinfoil hat before they get to him and convince him he deserved to be second.

Much.

Order is restored.

Vince knows he's a winner. You can't create winners - they're born with that extra touch of genius denied the rest of us.

I agree with Samdy on this.

I bet Pericard won hands down.

I reckon i organised 30 odd votes alone...

rigged.

This could be a blessing

Hopefully vince sees that the fans take the piss out of him and he decides to fuck off

every cloud

Fucking adver, ruining our fun, Vince must have won easily.

Would love to have seen the mongs reaction if he had won and also the embarrassing interview they would have had to have done with him would have been funny!

That's all well and good, but Where did sonny finish?

so who's the mole then?

Maybe it's not a mole.

Perhaps it's a pine martin, or maybe a marmot.

That's you lot told. You fixers and spoilers, you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwLp0co6C0



As it seems that the POTY was fixed can today now be called  'Pericardgate' ?

There's a pie chart with some figures in the paper version:

Ritchie 43%
Vince 38%
Caddis 8%
Dougie 7%
The rest 4%

And of "the rest" who the actual fuck voted for Dossevi, O'Brien and Rose? I mean I like a pisstake as much as the next man, but there's a line

It's a shrew.

Largest brain to body ratio of all mammals.

No its not

its a Numbat

  :D