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I didn't know they disliked us this much. According to one of the ill informed twerps Paolo has spent all the money on "crap". Tossers, the lot of them.

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=81140

I was just browsing through that the other day.

They really do seem to have it in for us, a bit strange really. Even (some of) the pox fans were quite reasonable about the whole embargo thing.

*Edit* Maybe the Pox fans were a bit more reasonable about it because they understood a bit more about it and realised it isn't that big a deal. Shrew's fans however seemed completely ignorant to it and thought it spelled financial meltdown. Doesn't quite explain the animosity though.

They've always been jealous of us.

Wow, never realised they hated us so much.

Who gives a fuck what the 'nearly Welsh' think.

Wouldn't give them the steam off me piss

I think it all stems from last season when we beat them at our place. It was all the ref's fault for not sending off Macca and giving them a penalty. Turner combusted after the game! They fail to mention that the "foul" was outside the box anyway.

They're jealous they are not the real "STFC"

Small club with small minded fans who gives a fuck what they think they are a glorified non league side end of

We won the title and they did not.....simple.

Better known as Amwythig Clwb Pel-Droed Tref.

Shit fans, tiny club, throwback manager and Welsh enough to be my Uncle Dafyd Euan Llandridroid

What a mis-informed bunch they are

A truly small time club, with small time fans who'd be better off back home in League Two.

It upsets me that we have the likes of them trying to stoke up some kind of rivalry. Run along.

Just because they have more fingers than points, bless the sheepshagging wankers.

There probably just looking for a new rival...

Couldn't give a fuck about them myself  :shrug:

I believe their local rivals are Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch Rovers?

I'm not sure that a town that can't even work out how to pronounce their own name is in any position to criticise others to be honest...

Even if we were in crisis, our crisis is situation normal for Shrewsbury. If it wasn't they'd keep players like James Collins.

They're misinformedly laughing at us. Let's make petty jokes about them. That'll show them who's boss...

Can't we just laugh at their pathetic comments, direct them to the league table, and move on, rather than going down the "small club" "nearly welsh" "league two team" route?

I heard Shrewsbury are £30 Million in debt...

I heard that too.

Not surprising considering their wage bill. I heard Collins had to take a wage-cut to join Swindon.

I remember Gay Meadow :soapy tit wank:

Remember they had a guy that had to retrieve the ball from the river in a coracle (?) - one of those saucer shaped ice-age water crafts.

Shrewsbury rhymes with poohsbury. That'll learn em.

Depends which pronunciation you use.

They are nicknamed The Shrews not The Shrows.

Agreed. I've been doing it for a while now. Some of their fans are an embarrassment.

Classic now, one of their forumites is claiming to be related to our chairman in 1990 who was responsible for bringing Hoddle to us  ::)

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=81140

Who was chairman in 1991? Hunt?

so in one post he says stuff about our trouble in the early 90's then in the very same post he says his great uncle was chairman in the early 90's and couldn't wait to get out due to the stick he was getting from the fans?

i'm sure the shrewsbury fans would have been delighted to have a board act the way ours did and would have erected statues of them for the sterling work for the community...

that post isn't contradictory at all...

Was if ray hardman?

and as they're now reading...

we should have had decisions go our way that didn't last season, you don't see us trying to manufacture some sort of rivalry against macc town for instance.

oh, and your manager doesn't really have that much class and has a track record in L2, he will never manage a club in a league above this one, paolo will, probably us...

I believe it was Ray Hardman, but didn't he become Ray Hardman (deceased) a year or so ago, yet this Slop imbecile is claiming to have met him last week? Could be wrong though, but nethertheless  :smugfu: How did you enjoy the gubbing last week?

also - salop means bitch in french

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i have a set of pj bottoms almost exactly the same as those only with teenage mutant hero turtles on them

beat me to it.

Ray seemed a good ol boy but did indeed used to moan about the fans for wanting signings, opposing player sales etc and not appreciating the board when it was the board that had to dip into their pockets to keep the club going.

twas ever thus, not much change there then except Shrews fans obviously like losing their best players...to the likes of us!

Ray is alive and kicking, re: the Shrews board, remember him getting plenty of grief (well founded or otherwise)on that Channel 4 documentary, but if he didn't get the passion then his change of vocation was a sensible one.

thought I'd just double check on google, Kinky.

In one version "tu es une salope"  = "you're a cunt" [copyright thetownend.com]

Enjoy your one stop visit to a higher place Slops, next season you'll be back down in the division you made a dog's dinner of getting out of. Completely outsung and outclassed last week.

As Ray might now say "the news of my death is much exagerrated"

Glad to hear he's still going after all.

Hello, I come here in peace, my name is Dale and I am the 'imbecile' (as claimed by that nice person Dostoyevsky) who is related to Ray Hardman, whether you want to believe it or not is up to yourselves but he IS my great uncle and he is alive and well, Ray was originally from Shropshire, moved to Swindon in the 1960's and moved back to Shropshire in the late 1990's not long after leaving your club, Ray has recently been involved with the Ironbridge Rotary Club and the Friends of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. Please dont insult me again Dostoyevsky as it is not really appreciated, thanks.

i live in france in the winter, we like to tease a french girl we're good friends with by singing about what basically translates into 'big bitch trousers' to the tune of the french anthem.  1 month left here...

Glad to hear he's doing well. I was reading a programme from back then last night, times have certainly changed.

Like - paraphrasing you here -  describing us as a "very nice set of fans" - with sarcasm in ultra mode, thereby insinuating we're not well liked by your dear great uncle, neither yourself, thereby you think we're scum?

sounds like you're learning some really useful stuff, Kinky.  Make the most of your last month.

I dont think youre 'scum', I work with a Swindon fan who I get on perfectly well with and exchange 'banter' with, obviously he is gloating a lot at me at the moment as you may expect, I dont want Swindon Town FC to go bust either but as an outsider I do wonder where all the money is coming from? I have no axes to grind with Swindon Town, my great uncle does not dislike Swindon Town FC but I did watch the video with interest of the early 1990's C4 documentary on You Tube and he did get some stick? But many chairmen across the Football League do I guess.

Fair do's Shrew, but it has prompted me to open a thread on thoughts of the chairman. I started supporting Swindon in 89 so my memories are sketchy of his tenure are the club, thought he got a raw deal, but have opened it up to fellow Robins' to invite their views. Regards

The above question remains unanswered.  Just how did you happen upon that thread, Dostoyevsky?

Peter, got accosted by six of their fans at the recent match and visited their forum to see if any discussion was going on about aftermath of the game. Satisfied? At least one other townender had viewed the same thread. Do you never go on the Ox forum to see the melodrama of how they refer to us?

I wasn't having a go, just being nosey because when I read that quote I thought, "yeah, I wonder why he went on there..." so figured I might just as well ask.

Fair enough Pete, was just viewing their forum to get to the bottom if this was a regular occurence at their ground, because it's not something i've experienced at away games before, keep to myself, but a group of their fans confronted me because they saw my red shirt, as well as other gripe that day. Did not form a good impression of their support.

Shrews fans are proper nut jobs, sounds like you got off lightly.

i never look on other boards unless instructed to by someone on here, i don't really give two hoots about what other clubs think about us and don't go looking to find out.

however i know a lot of people on here have a passing interest in what is being said on other boards and there is no reason whatsoever for them not to be interested.

when it becomes clear that that there might be something to actually talk about i might get involved.

i am stfc (the real one) through and through and apart from hoping the franchise, chelsea and oxford lose i don't really care what is going on at other clubs unless it directly correlates to our league position.

Pass on our best to your Great Uncle, Ray will always be remembered fondly by some of us lot. He had a tough job to do back then, when there was little to no money about, relatively speaking. He did get a bit of stick from some quarters but at the end of the day he was at the helm during our most successful times and of that he should be proud.

Sorry to the Shrews guy for doubting his honesty. Yeh, echo the sentiments of the above post, hope Ray will be told he's well esteemed by the majority here and hope his chairmanship here didn't take a toll on him because of a moronic minority. Sounds like he's keeping busy. Have a step sister who lives in Ironbridge, beautiful place.

Apology accepted pal, I don't see him too often but I can always pass on any positive feedback through my parents who see him a bit more often than me, I've never really spoken to him in too much detail about the club but I've never heard him speak ill of the club itself I think he was just frustrated of the abuse he received from some people at the time, I have heard him speak very highly of Hoddle and Gorman.

Met Ray Hardman on a pre season tournament in Nieuwdorp 91.
Must admit to giving him and Mike Spearman a bit of an ear bashing but in my defence, i had been on the lash for 2 days.
He is probably a nice bloke . . ?

 I've always regarded it as an axiom of being a Town fan that you dislike and mistrust the Chairman...certainly with plenty of justification in some cases more than others...this is probably why Black got rid of Wray, liking and trusting the Chairman, doesn't sit well with Town fans.

 I'm hoping Patey will revert to type...the fact that he's Scottish should help no end.

At least we got a bite on that from one moron  :)

Yep, and one of his own made him look like a right idiot for it :D

You mean they never knew Collins was on 7k a week at Shrewsbury? I thought it was common knowledge

where do clubs get this idea that we think we're a big club?  i've never actually seen any of us play that card?

sure we're one of the bigger clubs in the division and many of us have said that but that in no way makes us a big club.

just because we're confident that we have a good squad and decent shot of promotion doesn't make us the devil, we've all seen many, many bad swindon sides and at the moment we're on the up which we're enjoying in the main.  what's wrong with that?  did swansea get such envious eyes directed toward them over the last decade?

what if we'd have had the success we've had over the last 16 months but with - for example - paul tisdale in charge instead of paolo?  would we still be so universally hated?

as a side point i've only been to shrewsury away once, in the wise/sturrock L2 campaign.  i said on the way home to my dad that they were the most backward set of fans i had ever seen.  nothing has changed my opinion of that - even crawley's weirdo fans and bury's strange attempt to get into the away end recently.

That was pure comedy!

Nicely put and I agree with all of that TBH.

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i heard he is on 70k a week here

Just close the thread now that tells us everything we need to know about the average Shrews fan.

I notice that Charles Darwin was born there.  :sherlock:

That's why he was so fond of sea voyages. Trying to get as far away as possible.

It should of been the first place he looked for the missing link too.

AT LAST...... A beacon of hope


Perhaps there is hope after all?

We tip our hat to you Sir.