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He needs to get some perspextive.

They've got another big game Tuesday so the last thing they need is a dented dugout.  ;)

They got some work to do to get the pitch sorted first......

Good work

Is there a link to this story? I want to laugh at it in full context. Maybe a picture?

https://twitter.com/SamMorshead_SA/status/290166279464185857/photo/1/large

Ha!

That's Out of order...no doubt about it but Mr respect the chairman who has fisticuffs with fans can fuck off.

Hopefully PDC will cough up...end of..

We are SWINDON, we've got balls, this era will go down in history as the most fascinating of all. Maurice Malpas? Who?
Who knew? Who the fuck knew?

He punches our dugout all the time and it never breaks. Obviously Bournemouth have been skimping on their perspex bills. Money must be tight...

Paolo we love you. In homage to our blessed leader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPdcWja7-5s

haha how pathetic

although maybe Paolo will be dipping into his own pocket after all

Now we know why Mitchell "wouldn't want Paolo as boss", the plexiglass bill would exceed the player budget.

Some of their fans reckon Paolo never went near the side of the dugout that was damaged and that he was stood/sat the other end. So who on our bench is trying to upstage our leader ?!

Adam rooney

It prob got washed away with all that water when they drained the pitch

He does ooze passion.

[url width=245 height=318]http://images.football.co.uk/245x318/player/adam_rooney/116379.jpg[/url]

Had a good chuckle about this when I saw it... :girlgiggle:

One of their fans said regardless of whether or not it was Paolo he or the club should be charged with criminal damage ( which is fair enough ) and the only reason the plastic was broken was because someone on our bench got angry because we were being totaly outplayed and beaten by a much better side.

have to say i would agree ( apart from being totally outplayed and beaten by a better side )

Charged with criminal damage?? Surely an email to STFC asking for the club to pay the costs of repair would suffice?

that would seem the sensible conclusion , but if i had smashed someones property  i would expect a visit from the law

Maybe they can use that broken bit of dugout to fix all the leaks in their roof.

This is pathetic.

Did the Adver pay you for the use of your gag?

How tinpot are they? Get us out of this league please, Paolo.

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA
Quick #dugoutgate update. We've learnt that the damage may well have been caused by #stfc goalkeeping coach Domenico Doardo (accidentally)

Fucking pathetic tin pot wankers, lets club together and raise the £2.50p for a new sheet of perspex.

He is doing it just to make Paolo and us look bad, accidents happen and all that.

For those who havent seen the damage here is a picture of it from the boremuff forums.

[url width=750 height=1000]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/afcb_gayle/RTR/awaydugout_zps6532944f.jpg[/url]

It is just one smallish sheet of broken perspex.

Maybe we should counter claim that the design endangered our coaches on the bench :D

And it was the goalkeeping coach.  An accident when celebrating our goal.

Evil bastard.

CRIMINAL. ARREST HIM.

Perhaps if a handful of TEF members want to pay £1 each we could pay for it, solidarity and all that. I'll gladly chuck a quid in.

I really hope those cunts do go up this year, pathetic.

I would like to suggest that we make an ex gratia payment (possibly from the Red Army Fund?) to Eddie Mitchell for the emotional distress that this incident has clearly caused him.  Eddie, if you're reading this, hang in there fella.  We know that this must be upsetting for you, but things will start to look different in a day or two.  Be strong.

Love and kisses, etc etc

If it was Paolo he would have tried to fix it a la Wimbledon last season

Ardiles is right, it could gain enough publicity to make Mitchell look like the spanner he is. How dare our coaching staff show passion.

I think we're all missing the point.  A piece of the perspex could have flown off and cut Harry Arters artery before flying on to Manchester and stabbing Van Persie through the heart.  A terrifying event and we're making light of it.  Shocking.

Wonder if Domenico was caused injury by that bit of glass, and on the flip side of this maybe he could sue Mitchell as their facilities weren't safe  :D

See above!

I'll put in a fiver. So long as the new one is made of tinpot, to suit their emotionally unstable alcy chairman. What a dickhead.

As long as he let's the wife take another team talk also

As a matter of interest, who out of BBC and ITV provide the better coverage of Town on their evening news programs?

I don't generally watch them nowaways. Mighty TEF, help please!

(and I appreciate their coverage is likely to be dominated by the shit heads tonight anyway.....)

Fifty notes which I thought was fair.

See above! ;)

Some vandal fucker had smashed one entire end when I came in at 2:55....

Wigan are currently 1up, I hope they didn't celebrate too much and break anything ! Corr has got another goal tonight against Brentford, the mans on fire.

Might as well add burn injuries to everything else he's had.

And so Bournemouths unbeaten run comes to an end. James was dropped to the bench and Grabban was subbed after 34 mins.

Nevertheless, Bormuff are shelling out some big roubles, on a kid from Aberdeen. The Dons, don't want him to go, but accept they'll only get £250K in the summer, so have put a higher fee on him in this window, Bormuff are the only takers.

We're doing well to compete with such a massive club...

Is that Fraser by any chance?

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11781/8399275/Bournemouth-understood-to-have-agreed-fee-for-Aberdeen-s-Ryan-Fraser

Good signing that.

Can't say I have seen him play but he is highly regarded in Scotland.

I hear it is around £500k (£250k up front plus add ons) in total that its a fair whack of money and hopefully this will stop the Ritchie to Boremuff rumours.

Ritchie to Aberdeen then.

Its got legs.

At least Aberdeen is a half decent team not a piss ass little south coast club with money to burn but still cant afford to fix a £10 piece of perspex.

There is NO WAY Bournemouth cannot have exceeded their playing budget if ours put us under embargo by November. Their squad was about 5 or 6 players bigger than ours on Saturday and with the sort of names at this level you'd expect to be on much higher wages than the average. Add in lower attendances and still trying to sign another player to add to that overinflated squad for £500,000 in Jan (and presumably on significant wages to go alongside that): the calculations cannot possibly compute. How are they making it work under FFP?

I was wondering this too, Barnard was allegedly on £14k per week while on loan at Bournemouth (according to thier forums) they covered 50% of his wages for the duration of the loan.

There is no way they can be under the FFP rules.

Their rich Russian benefactor sponsors either the stand or the stadium itself, and under the rules, he can keep pumping in as much cash as he wants as the sponsorships count as part of the turnover. This is the same way MacAnthony got past the rules at Peterborough

This is the sort of stuff the yellow mob come up with.

Don't want to prolong this but isn't Eddie 'The lush' Mitchell supposed to be some sort of jobbing builder?  Surely he could send one of his youngsters along with a couple of bits of '4 by 2' and sort it?
That's if he stays sober long enough to remember the job needs doing.

Hit the nail on the head, the Russian owner has pumped in money by sponsorship deals on the ground from one of his companies this is counted as revenue as opposed to an owner loaning money or investing cash directly into the club. This means that although their expenditure is probably similar or more than ours on smaller income streams they will be well under the FFP rules.

Is he a new member of the Mitchell family that's popped up on Eastenders after being lost in Australia for twenty years or something? Don't watch it anymore...

Maybe. I'm sure all their speculations about our financial shape, and our fans defence of it, will be well tested over the next few seasons if Andrew Black is looking to sell the club. We can all assess then whether our strategy was a success then.

Even so, our spending relative to size has never been in the same ballpark as Bournemouth.

Our biggest name players have mostly come in on frees or loan. A few of those players have been rumoured to be on 3-5k,  a reasonable amount at this level but not unusual weighted against the other teams fighting for promotion (tranmere excepted). I think over the 3 seasons prior to this we never spent over £150,000 for a player, and only on young players with a view to being able to sell them on for a higher fee later on. The one time we tried to sign contracted players this season (Collins/ TAH) we were sent over budget by a £350,000 tribunal fee (for both) and put ourselves by choice under embargo.

Bournemouth on the other hand have been spending £800,000 on people like Tubbs (who has very little resale value and sits on the bench), making £500,000 bids for unproven 18 year olds from the SPL, spending £400,000 on Grabban, trying to sign Ritchie for £800,000, paying wages potentially up to £14,000 a week across the biggest squad in the division, while averaging attendances of 5-6,000.

Other teams can compare us all they like but those figures are way above Swindon's spending power as its been deployed since the takeover.

This isn't a bitter on attack on Bournemouth. It's hard to be jealous of anyone else's club the way Swindon are playing at the moment. It just seems an unbelievable indictment of the FFP Rules that their current model can fit anywhere on the spectrum of FFP, assuming it was brought in to prevent the boom and bust of clubs like Pompey spending massively beyond their means.

If the Russian investor pulls out and leaves the club paying that wage bill they will be completely f*cked. The rules should be there to prevent that possibility from existing.

(have a gold star anyone that read all that)

Why?  Agreed with every word.

I also agree totally BC.

Talking of the FFP I see Brighton are getting worried by this already and thats before it is implimented in the Championship next season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20980190

Me too, excellent post.

Bournemouth also forked out a lot of compensation to Burnley to bring Eddie Howe back as manager. I dont begrudge them at all, as we are also being backrolled by wealthy owners to a large extent, just as long as their backers are committed for the long term....

Do their owners want the money back at some point?

Seems like there will be a feature on Dugoutgate on Soccer AM

 The bizarre thing about Bormuff, is they very nearly went to the brink of extinction 2 or 3 seasons back. If they haven't got this right, and if I was a Cherries fan I'd have misgivings, then I'd say it's extinction for them.

Some of the comments on the Aberdeen forum made me laugh about the Fraser transfer, this one in particular....


http://www.afc-chat.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=32069&st=1200

Apparently the SPL are on a mid season break....had anybody noticed?

Any club that finds themselves three places below Inverness CT in the table has no right to mock another.

I think he may have a point. Would Charlie Mulgrew be playing in a Champions League side if he signed for us under Malpas? That was another youngster from Aberdeen.

I like how they have a special emoticon for four people pointing at England and laughing.

this comment made i larf:

"I'd love to see us give it a go in their leagues with their money that filters it's way into the system because man United and Liverpool draw in the big bucks. "

yeah, our clubs are rolling in it

There is a whole thread on there called "which English player do you hate most" - bigoted Xenophobes.

'I love how they belittle the SPL by saying it's boring and predictable when they have the EPL which is even more predictable and boring.'

Umm really?

The human eye is not designed to cope with this level of random!

Come on, everybody knew Man City would score a last minute goal to win the league last year. And who would have thought Celtic would run away with the SPL?!!

Despite the bigots on there, I've always liked Aberdeen.  I think because I associate it with Duncan Shearer.  Much as West Brom grew on me whilst Cox was there.