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1) They will not sell out of their ticket allocation
2) They will not bring a firm
3) The biggest mob on the day will be the police
4) There will be no trouble
5) We will finally find our passion again
6) They will score first, but we will win 3:1
7) The police will act like total thugs
8) The return match will see our young ones witness the true white trash of a council estate Oxford is
9) They will have a firm
10) Some innocent Swindon fans will get a hard time

Yeah thats about right

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Please stop. The game is well over a month away. We haven't even played any warm up games or even have a squad in place.

I really dont mind people talking about the game this far in advance as it has been a long time coming.

What I seriously object to is "boys" crawling out of the woodwork and going all Green Street on here.

Its uncalled for and in all honesty pathetic

Can you imagine what TEF will be like during the week before the game.... and if we lose, the week after that.

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Completely agree Fred. Fair point about talking about the derby so far in advance as well. Guess as I've never been to a derby I don't quite have the same 'edge' as a lot of people on here have about the games.

Just move this to General Discussion, or something...because it's got very little to do with football or STFC.  All this chav chat is starting to get on my nerves already.  Are we going to have to face another 6 weeks of this?

Ardiles, I generally like your posts and respect your opinions, however I do feel you are getting a little high and mighty over this.
Whilst I absolutely agree we dont particularly want to degenerate into the two sets of nawty boys chruning out their usual posturing spiel at one another - there are other forums for that  I believe - like it or not, one of the talking points in the game against pox will be the potential for trouble ...its part and parcel and if people want to discuss it (in sensbile terms) then so be it.

If people want to talk about this sort of stuff on here they will, if they dont they wont and the topic will quietly drift away. The forum has a nice way of restoring order.

Oh and finally...it may not all be football related, but it is matchday related....

Quick question regarding all away support coming to the County Ground this season... they have a new bar - Bar 71, and for the life of me i can't work out what the hell it's named after, and can't find an explanation on the official website.

So where is the name from?

Is it the number of football league clubs minus ourselves?

It was the total cost of the refurbishment.

Just getting on my nerves a little.  Maybe I'm getting old.

But you're right...I should just ignore it.

The year the north stand was built maybe?

A quick wiki search tells me you're correct! Bit tenuous...

Surely it's just the other league clubs minus ourselves? or was that what you were referring to as tenuous?

A lucky guess. Wasn't the first thing that came to mind thats for sure.

> 24 degrees centigrade, wispy cloud;
> Sell-out crowd;
> Because it's early season, 1-1;
> Turgid game of little entertainment value;
> TVP will be "helping out", resulting in usual efforts to intimidate as many Ox fans as possible. No Swindon fans arrested. Scores of Ox fans arrested for "going equipped to eat Mars Bars" and similar offences;
> Afterwards, general feeling that the day failed to live up to expectations.

Maybe the average age in the Arkells stand (hmmmmm)

making reference to the 71 other football league clubs that may visit the County Ground. I think it's confused a few people because people normally make reference to 'the 92' - which includes 20 premier league teams.