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Swindon Town chairman Sir William Patey to quit after sale
     

Chairman Sir William Patey is to leave Swindon Town once new owners have been brought in, BBC Wiltshire has learned.
     

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21188916
     

And don't come back until you've achieved world peace.

I'd be more surprised if he stayed.

Paying the price for failing to unite Afghanistan.

I will miss the hat.

If he Sir William manages to sell to new owners with the best interests of the club at heart (as well as the best deal for Andrew Black) then he will have done his job VERY well.

An odd one, not quite sure what the point of him is as there's no evidence he's done anything since he's been here.

Won't miss him, or his hat.

To sell the club perhaps? :hmmm:

Yep that was his brief when he came in, reckon he started day 1, nice little earner if it all pans out as we hope :)

Absolutely no doubt of this.

I think it’s also pretty clear that Wray stepped down because Black wanted to sell and Wray didn’t. Well, that’s my assessment of it reading between the lines.

No doubt about this at all.  This Chairman was always going to be more 'Interim' than the last one (who ironically, had the title 'Interim Chairman', but wasn't really.)  We just didn't know this at the time of the appointment.

No surprise at all that the fans have not warmed to SWP.  We were never meant to.  As Paolo69 says above, his brief is to complete a successful sale - and he'll deserve our thanks if he gets it right.

Brought in to a job.

What with all the back and forth in the media, wouldn't surprise me if Wray and Black had a good old falling out (to the tune of 'Stop saying the manager can spend all my money' 'No!'), so with Black leaving, could expect to see Wray back, particularly as he's at most home games.

This is not surprising news though. Patey was brought in to peacekeep and sell the place. Won't miss his face, but hopefully he can go down as a good guy in the annals of Swindon history by selling us to the right group.

I don't think anyone predicted that  ::)

I think i could probably do Chris Wise's job standing on my head lately.

and he still can't get it right:

"It is thought Swindon have debts totalling about £13m, and the club have considered entering administration in a bid to wipe £9m owed to investors, including Black and Fitton."

That line seems to get trotted out on every article that appear son the beeb site at the moment. It's complete bollocks too.

Not sure if there should be any reaction about SWP.

Chief Executives are supposed to run football clubs these days not chairmen.  The CEO reports to the board, headed by the chairman.

If he has helped sell the club then it's a job well done.

article is written by Chris Wise though.

Well, it's not COMPLETE bollocks I suppose....

This is neither shocking or surpising news. Bit of a non-story really  :zzz:

All you'd need is a spoon and a pile of shit.

And in futher news it has been revealed that snow is white

This.  I think we'd all come to the conclusion that was the case.

He is a total dick, thought he would have learnt his lesson by now, that cunt Dunlavy has!

Actually, i think you'll find it isn't  -  Reg .?

Quite clearly (see what I did there Nev) snow is translucent, being composed of ice crystals, it just appears white due to not being stacked regularly, like ice, but the irregular structure deflecting and scattering light randomly.

Nonetheless it seems to have come as news to some. As did the idea that he was brought in to sell the club, even though I thought he made it pretty clear from the outset tbh