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Top bloke, reads the TE forum, needs to be part of the STFC furniture for many years to come.

Best chairman we've had.

Please stay.

Agreed, exciting time ahead for STFC with him on board

So far everything he's spoken about, he's delivered....lets drop that 'interim' phrase...speaking of which wasn't the AGM supposed to happen this month???

Jeremy if you've got to go away
I don't think I can take the pain
Won't you stay another day

Jeremy Wray is the best thing to happen to this club in a long time, brilliant chairman! Hope he becomes 'permanent' chairman soon...

I wonder how many of you would think the same if a certain player signed?

Dont go away, say what you say, say that you'll stay, forever and a day (Gallagher N)

best Chairman during my 30 odd years of support

Do we really need an appreciation thread?  I think the Chairman understands that most of our fans - at least those with a brain - think he is doing a great job.  I am irritated (as I have pointed out on the other thread) with the way the McCormick story has become a distraction for us.  It was well-intentioned, but we didn't need it.  If it did cause the Chairman to seriously consider resignation, only then would my respect for him start to falter.

PS  Some positive news regarding ground redevelopment would make my summer.  JW and the other board members have a real opportunity to carve a legacy for themselves and for the club.  I hope (and expect) that this is not going to be derailed by an episode involving someone who hasn't even signed for us.

in a strange way i think i would respect him more as a person for sticking to his principles, even though i disagree with him

If perchance he casts his eye over this thread (and forum to be fair), I hope that if nothing else, he realises that he and his cohorts are hugely respected and that we have a rather large section of dribbling idiots who like to make a lot of over-reactionary fuss and blow everything out of proportion. This club will go places, and the majority of supporters want them to remain for a long time.

Unless he classes Laughing Cow triangles as his favourite cheese. In that case, he can do one...

I find the cheese speculation unhelpful.

Would that be because you don't like cheese, or that you just find calling Laughing Cow a cheese, sacrilege?

I bought myself a lump of Grana Padano yesterday. That's a sexy cheese. Although truth be told I still find Parmigiano the daddy.

Most important person at the club and much needed. Done nothing wrong and must not go

I have followed the club nearly 40 years and he is by far and away the best Chairman we have had and is media friendly as well as being a top bloke, long may it continue.

JW is the most level headed chairman that we have had in a long time, able to see both sides of any situation and not afraid to tackle issues that others would shy away from.

With regards to the LM issue, as I stated at the time there was no right or wrong side of the debate, it is purely down to personal views.  The majority of the views on this forum were very constructive and well thought out, even though some of them were strong which is to be expected given the topic.  The ones that wind me up, and probably made JW consider things are the "haven't the board got kids?" and "the board ought to be ashamed of themselves" and "the board sicken me" sort of comments which do no good, anger directed to the wrong people.

There were plenty of heated opinions on here, e.g. Batch, but the majority of those opinions on here were just strong feelings about the issue without having to lower to the level of accusing the board members of double standards and questioning their integrity.  However, the FB page, thisis and numerous other places I saw outrage directed towards the board which is not right.  If anyone was angry it should have been directed at the man himself or the judicial system.  The only ones excempt from that is the family who you would expect to aim their feelings in any direction they want, and it would be understandable.

Hopefully JW will realise that there were a lot of strong feelings because of the children, and a lot of internet warriors that will jump on any subject as an excuse to vent their anger about the world in which we live in.  Apart from the family concerned, none of what was written should have been aimed or taken personally.  Hopefully we can just draw a line and move on to more success next season.

Facebook is full of anger and and hatred toward signing McCormick for us, on a post that is all about McCormick not signing for us.

I think it's fair to disregard the majority of those 'views'.

So glad I'm not on that.

You should all try it.

We've just finished a season where we've lost to Oxford twice and lost a Wembley and yet, if people feel the same way as me, there is a feeling which is different to what outsiders can observe and that is a genuine belief that something IS FINALLY HAPPENING at Swindon Town Football Club. The bigger picture looks potentially great and Jeremy Wray is major factor behind this.

I've never been as optimistic supporting Swindon as I am right now.

It's quite amusing if you are in the right frame of mind.

It starts off that way but I just made my way down to the miss firing gun (sic) post and now I'm finished.

It's not. All it proves is that selective breeding programmes need to be introduced.

Exactly. Read enough negative shit and whether you agree or not in grinds you down and makes you more negative yourself. I choose to abstain from anything too negative, where possible, it's simply not conducive to living a happy life in my opinion.

I had to stop reading that Swindon Town FC (Fans) page. It was abundantly clear that people were not interested in anything other than unleashing their rage (see Flashheart's reference to the 'he is not signing' comments)

Oh, and nothing annoys me more than to read comments by people referring to Swindon Town as 'we' when their profile picture is the badge of Spurs/West Ham/Other team.

But that's just a bugbear of mine.

Certainly in the last 20 years since the euphoria of us reaching the Premier League with Hoddle in charge.

Its hard to believe that is 20 years ago this year that we reached the "promised land" of the Premier League..

I'm finding it hard to be amused at something that has the potential to bring down what could be our last chance to turn this club into a success.

Over-reacting? We will found out if Wray walks.

Being 8 years old when it happened so I was too young to appreciate the importance of promotion Premier League. Although I enjoyed the era at the time (you didn't have to be old to appreciate Glenn Hoddle on a football pitch).

Well...it will be next year anyway!   :)

Hopefully the Adver 20th anniversary pull out will be accompanied by news of our return to the Championship.  I'll keep dreaming.