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QA with Jeremy Wray
           


  JEREMY Wray will be answering your questions exclusively on the Advertiser website from 12pm today.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/9162232.Q_A_with_Jeremy_Wray/?ref=rss
           

Fair play to JW for giving a straight answer to the question asked by 'sniffmyhoop'.

My Ferrysense is tingling...

He's a stilton man...... i like him more and more

He did himself a few favours vs Cirencester.  Still not sure they will want to part company.

I don't think Ferry will leave.

He's thrown Dairylea into the favourite cheese debate... is this a worrying sign?

And to the question about matchday prices. He does allude to what some people speculated, that £25 won't be the price for every game, just the bigger ones - from JW:





Would also just like to clarify that the London Red who seems to have got into a slagging match in the comments of the QnA article isn't me!

Think it is....I'd have had Wray down as a La Vache Qui Rit man.

'The truth is it is far easier to move prices down during the season where appropriate than to attempt to move them up.'

Also suggests that if this is a huge issue they may come down a bit...

Aren't we all partial to a bit of dairylea from time to time?
Nowt wrong with that.
I think you're worrying over nothing.

No.

You'll be owning up to a thing for Kraft cheese slices next  :)

You cannot beat them on a BBQ burger, the cheaper the better if possible the Sainsbury Basic ones.... its a dirty pleasure

Depends if its the spread or the triangles at least it wasn't Babybel

Exactly.
If he'd have said "I'm partial to cheese strings" i'd be handing my season ticket back.

I agree with the cheap american cheese on a BBQ'd burger... beautiful.

You can... with any other cheese.

Just had my first Babybel for years..... it was fantastic, there are times when any cheese will do.

Think there was always a risk of mistaken identity when you chose a username like that!  (Clue: quite a lot of Town fans in London.)   ;)

 :nod:

No other cheese tastes as good on a burger.
I can't explain it, but it's a fact.

Dairylea spread (or a supermarket own brand version) is an ever present in our fridge.

Haha a fact I was blissfully unaware of at the time unfortunately!

hahahaha, he is coming out with some absolute corkers.

I especially like the reply to people in TE getting 'treated like dogs'

That is a punbelievable answer.

Marvelous

I don't get why there are so many moaners re the food at the CG?  I personally don't think its that bad?  The Chicken Balti pies are actually rather nice and everyone loves a dirty CG burger now and again!

They don't have anything else to moan about since they got over the 'blow your socks off' comment.

The food in the town end is atrocious - often the burgers and hot dogs have stale bread, no onions etc and for the 'privilege' we're charged a price that is ridiculous. Of all the great things this board have done, in my experience, food is one thing that has deteriorated.

The pies are good. Have to disagree and say I think the burgers and hot dogs are rank. And a bit pricey too.

 That said, allowing the catering vans in the car park is good. As is the food hole in the wall in the Winners (or whatever its called).

Me neither... a) it isn't that bad in an emergency, and b) i don't go to the ground to have my lunch. There are pubs and chippies nearby, and a really decent pork bap on offer by the club shop.

Not ever had a prob with the food myself - but not had a burger in yonks, tend to go for a Steak n' Kidney pie - which is always nice. Not much can go wrong with a pie though, even the 16 year olds behind the counter can manage it successfully - heat it through, open the packet, take inflated price from consumer, job done....

Not suffered any vicious stomach cramps yet...

I almost shat myself on quite a few occassions at the CG last season, but that was due more to our 'defence' than any over priced pies

So good to see JW has a sense of humour...

sthatyoulovesey: Why are we treated like dogs in the Town End an yet charged almost as much for the privilege?

JW: I think you're barking up the wrong tree, but I'll get Nick Watkins to give me a lead on this. It should be something he can get his teeth into.

Does anyone know Jeremy's email address at the club?

They shouldve done this through the club website rather than the site that has a vast population of mongoloid cunts

I didn't think the questions were too unreasonable Tans.

edit: One interesting point:

"I would prefer to see seven subs not least because we must have six home-grown players in the starting 16 and 18 may prove easier. "

Have we got that many home grown players :) Point though, will we be forced to pick a weaker squad just to satisfy the criteria? I'll have t go through Johnny's squad list to work out home many home grown we have later..

I thought there were some decent questions and some excellent answers there from Mr Wray, and he certainly has a sense of humour, taking out the seats for the oxford game etc :)

I'll have to third that one, can't beat a bit of square cheese on a burger

Love the double square cheese burgers from the van in the car park by the magic roundabout, yum

I always thought it was a minimum of 4 rather 6 home grown players so just had a look on the football league website and it says the following:-

"32.7 Home Grown Players. Each Club shall, with effect from the commencement of Season 2009/2010 be required to nominate a minimum of four Home Grown Players on their Team Sheet of Players for all League Competition Matches (including Play Off Matches)."

I would assume that De Vita would be classed as homegrown because of the time he spent at Blackburn and so would McCormack but Ferry and Caddis would not be classed as homegrown as it applies to being at English and Welsh clubs for 3 years under the age of 21.

I make it that we currently have 9 players that would not be classed as homegrown so whether its 4 or 6 required we should be okay.

Stilton and Dairylea - interesting. I think Mr Wray is a proper man ( Stilton ) who is in touch with his feminine side ( Dairylea ) but not in a Bummer way. 

I registered to ask a question about what plans we had for January if we werent meeting our targets.

All Wray said was we'll worry about that at the time. Which certainly wasnt the sort of answer I was looking for or expecting, even if you have full confidence in Plan A (which I do for the record) there still needs to be a Plan B.

I also mentioned whether we'd turn down bids for our top players but I believe that got completely ignored.

Much more important than the fucking food!

Ahem.

I thought he answered it perfectly.

Interesting quote from Wray:

"But inevitably the squad will get pruned down in the coming weeks."

At first glance seems a bit odd that we're signing up a lot of players on 2 year contracts with the intention of offloading some of them quickly.  Presumably will be on loan, and maybe mainly the younger ones, but surely is likely to cost a bit to have players under contract that we won't be using.

Agree with needing a plan B.  I have every confidence we won't need one but you just need to look back at last year for evidence of needing one.  Wilson didn't have a plan B and when things started to go wrong he had no idea of how to put them right.  This continued until he left which was by then in hindsight too late. 

Hart then came along with his plan A but again forgot or simply didn't have a plan B and we all know the result  :suicide:

Are you sure about this? From memory, I think that may be massively overstating his planning skills.

what do you say though, you get to january and if we're not meeting our targets then we're not in the play-offs or even lower.  there's so many different scenarios that could happen between now and then that you can't have a plan b in place for 5 or 6 months down the line.

would you be happy if he said 'we'll sack di canio and his staff but because of the pay-off for that i'll be running team affairs until next season'?  ott i know but i don't see the club publicly declaring a plan b for in 6 months time productive at all, it's not the right message to be coming out of the club at all?

Having no plan B post January/Austin is one of the main reason we're down here in the first place. We sold him before we had a replacement lined up, bid for Mason got knocked back and panic signed Benyon.

They should have multiple back up plans for just about every possible outcome between now and January. If the board want to get promotion right first time (and they do) then meticulous planning for everything is needed.

Maybe they do have these but don't want to undermine Di Canio/the team so won't even talk about them publicly.

At a minimum Di Canio should have a transfer kitty and wage budget left available for the January window.

I'm not sure, but it's probably [email protected] assuming it's the same format as Nick Watkins

ta.

yeah, they'll have ideas about what might need to happen, it's the telling the public those plans that i'd have a problem with

Of course it is.  No bugger'll eat it.

I'm surprised nobody asked what the situation was regarding Milan Misun. Does anybody know?
I'm assuming that because he wasn't allocated a kit number he is no longer with STFC........but it would be nice to have this confirmed.

yeah good point, can someone tweet Gary Rose and ask

I did ask in the comments but it never got asked!

Done. Asked if he is 100% detached from the club.

He said  'Official line remains that he was never under contract and as a consequence is not a Swindon Town player, hence no shirt no'

What about the 6 figure fee we paid to Celtic?

is that just being written off by the club as 'whoops'?

You'd assume that if he didnt sign a contract, we didnt pay a fee.