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Not been this excited about a season in god knows how long!! Incredible to think we're coming into it off the back of relegation to the bottom tier. It feels to me like a new season post promotion! di Canio appointment has been a masterstroke. Roll on tomorrow. Hope everyone has a cracker of a day!  :pint:

I'll have whatever you're having. I'm excited, but also shitting it!

Me too. I'm really excited about tomorrow but there's that nagging doubt that it's all going to go tits up.

Tomorrow evening is going to be either a massive high or a major low!

None of us know which

Yeah, I feel the same.

yeah i feel the same way. Just dont know whats going to happen tomorrow.

2.0 to the town, att 9670  :pint:

Didn't sleep too badly apart from pigging a load of choccy biscuits in bed in the early hours and waking up feeling a bit sick. Let's hope I don't have the same sick feeling tomorrow evening, or if I do it's just the beer

I slept ok last night. Quite looking forward to the new season but have some trepidation after last season's first day defeat that I also flew over for.

Flying over tonight and spending the night in London with the new other half and then getting the train tomorrow, arriving into Swindon at 1 ish. Bit of a different route for me pre-match so hopefully a change of luck (my recent Swindon record is pretty terrible)

I imagine it's a bit like getting an invite to a pool party at Barrymore's.

I'm just happy to have something to do on a saturday afternoon again

We'll draw or lose. Whatever the result is, it will have little to no bearing on how the rest of the season pans out - opening games rarely do. Regardless, I am looking forward to the barrage of extremeties which will be postedon here from 5 onwards, positive and/or negative.

As the 5-0 drubbing at Gillingham proves. I think we'll win tomorrow and I also think we will be very hard to break down at the back. 3-0 to the Town!

Agree Herthab, I haven't seen any of the pre season friendlies, so can't judge the players.
But I'm expecting to see a hard working side that is hard to break down, I think we will be hard to beat this season. I'm not expecting free flowing football, I can see us getting a lot of 1.0 wins.
But that suits me fine.

Cant wait for tomorrow from a football and social point of view
Pub from 1130....yeaahh

Sounds like you may be on the same train as a few of us London lot BO. Coach B if you're on the 12.00, we'll be in the middle of 500 Millwall fans!

Aaaaha, New Seasons eve (if you don't count the fact some northern monkeys are playing later).

My New Seasons resolution: Try not to suffer football tourettes.

Bring it on. 3pm tomorrow seems ages away...hurry up!

I'm on the 10.50 from Clapham Junction changing at Reading.

Which train are you referring to?

Millwall fans, excellent!

On my way back to Swindon now! Cannot bloody wait!!!

The last game I saw was in the 06/07season but back at the moment and will watch the game tomorrow.  I'm really excited to see the game as it's probably going to be another couple of years before I get the chance to make it back again.

Thats mine as well, I turned into some kind of yob whose main vocab was limited to the F and C word last year. Sitting in the Arkells stand it doesn't go down as well as it might in noisier places of the stadium!

The night before we started last season I didn't sleep a wink, but this year although being excited I really dont know what to expect tomorrow so feel more nervous than anything else.

I missed one home game last season which was Sheff Wed and never made it too many away games, so because of that I haven't seen Town win live now since the 14th November. (Im not counting the Charlton 4-2 game which is still saved on my sky plus box) Please let that 9 month wait end tomorrow!

Ah, were out of Paddington at midday, didn't realise you were on the slow boat to china.

Hello everyone,a newbie here :D I am very much looking forward to tomorrow and haven`t been so excited for years but i remember what happened last season,our first home game against brighton so a little nervous also.
lets hope we dont return home as dissapointed :cry: and enjoying a great start :clap:

And the season before.  :)

Welcome.

Haha! Did look at that train but I have a massive suitcase and the woman lives in Battersea so would have been a pain in the hole to get to Paddington and Clapham Junction is just down the road!

Drag her along.  If she can survive an afternoon of Div Four football and the slowest, stoppiest train journey on the planet, you'll know she's one to hang on to.

It feels strange getting back to the old routines of Saturday matches. I've made good use of the close season with jobs around the house and garden. Tomorrow it's back to normality, a good hours walk with our springer spaniel in the morning before setting off to football. A couple of pints and a bite to eat whilst meeting up with fellow town supporters, putting the football world to right and then waiting for the 1st whistle of the season at 3 pm !

I still reckon you may pick ours up at reading, as it gets in to Swindon at 12,58 i think.

I'm really nervous/excited, and it only Crewe. The lead up to August 21st is going to be unbearable.

Why, what's happening on the 21st?

Just heard the sound system being tested for the first time in months. Certainly brings back memories and helps build that excitement

Coach B it is if that's the case!

Tia a good test and one I plan to use for future matches!

I'm not all that bothered. In fact I'm not even going tomorrow.

^^Same as this

I know it doesn't make a lot of difference in the grand scheme of this season but I really hope we get off to a flier tomorrow and have a comfortable 2 or 3 nil (or more) win to continue the pre season excitement/high morale. Excited and nervous but football is back!! COYR

Woohooooo, down the Merlin for the lunch time kick off. Cider, cigarettes and football. Saturdays are back baby!!!

Excited and nervous. 1-1.

Just had a sneaky peak at a Crewe forum and some really mixed predictions from them. Quite a few of them think Swindon will win by a large margin. They seem to have a few injuries themselves.

Also, there is a lot of moaning about the £25 to get in.

coyr

I was supposed to be playing football now i'm not.

Still not going - I dunno, like most said when I said I wasnt going that the enthusiasm would come back as the new manager came in, as the new players came in, as pre-season started, as the seasons started.

I think Di Canio will do a good job here and I'm more than happy with the summer transfer activity.

Cant say I've got that exciting feeling everyone else seems to have, first time for a long time I havent been counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds till the season starts.

You're getting old DV. That's what happens.

Maybe - but there are people older than me on here still with that enthusiasm.

Last season really killed me off.

I'm starting to feel excited now. I'm sure I will sleep Okay tonight after a few beers  :pint:  The worst part for me is tomorrow morning when all I can think about is the football and three o'clock can't come soon enough  :clap:

Last season would have killed anyone off.  Wretched season. 

The older people on here have gone through to the other side though DV.

The season has certainly crept up on me.

I'm neither happy clapping or doom mongering because I haven't a clue how this will go.

Just hope we perform well from the off so confidence will remain high and gates don't dwindle (...and ultimately so we can get promoted!)

YOU REDS!

I for one am excited, and won't be able to sleep tonight!!  :headhurts:

Not because I believe we'll walk the league, or because I am pessimistic either, but because supporting Swindon over the years has proved to be a real roller coaster of a ride and as they say... the sweet is never as sweet without the sour.

Roll on another exciting season, regardless of what happens! COYR

Last year I was flat as a pancake pre-season start and it got worse.

This year I am excited again, mixed with apprehension!

Same as you batch, on top of that it's my 1st game since Soton away as the missus broke her arm shortly after. I was going to take it easy and get a decent kip. I can already feel lots of beers and crap music docs until 3am coming on!

I'm optomistic about this coming season and looking forward to it,but losing sleep over it? no. It's not that important to me.

I'll sleep just fine tonight. I'm excited but apprehensive about tomorrow as anything could happen. This has got to be the most difficult season to call for a long time. The fact we're in Div 4 is maybe making people more optimistic than they should be. I'm not doing a reg but we could equally win or lose 5-o tomorrow and it would probably make bugger all differecne to the rest of the season.

When i was young the night before kick off was Ace...i lived at The Limes(kids home) and one season i went out and bought a great big fuck off air horn....i gave it a blast at 10pm the night before,trouble is it got jammed and was still blaring at 10.15,woke up all the kids,Staff,most of Green Road and Stratton.
It was confiscated for a month,think we lost 2-1 at Sheff Utd with Argie Alex Sabella scoring twice after Mayes scored for us early.
The Di Canio appointment means i am looking forward to a season that to be honest i was thinking of missing.

Would you like it pushing back in?

Alwwwwwwwwight?

God bless Michael.

Ahh first post :D

Cannot wait for the season, after watching pre-season think we could be in for a really good year!
2-0 Town tomoz!  8)

Get f@coed DV!! Man up and get down there pal!! It's all about the rough and the smooth. Also it takes hitting rock bottom to make the good times all the sweeter!!

Not going and not arsed.

What the fuck are you doing on the forum with an attitude like that? If you are not arsed about the match whatever makes you think that by being here you could read something of interest!

You obviously are, so why the negative shit?

Habit mainly and General Discussion used to be fun,although even that sucks these days.


I obviously am what?

won't have any trouble sleeping even though really excited about tomorrow, wait a minute make that really excited about today

Steady on Yeovil....freedom of expression is somewhat limited these days..get with the zeitgeist. Would like to see a win, but not expecting it.

The opening day has limped into my soul rather than exploded.

Well, that opening day certainly lived up to the hype! I LOVE SWINDON TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB AND ALL WHO SAIL IN HER!! Thank you and goodnight!