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Preparing to make sweet music
           
           


  THE COUNTY Ground will once again host concerts under the tenure of the new owners of Swindon Town.

           

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That's one freaking looking bloke.

There's an option to "buy the photo" underneath, who in fucks name would want to buy that photo?

I just bought 50 copies.

I wonder what macphlea makes of this.

My burglar alarm is broken this could do the job

Wonder what MacPhlea makes of this? Or won't it matter when the artificial surface gets installed.

I thought this was going to be a Paul D and Flasheart thread  :)

I bet Rice was headbanging to Kramer at half time on Saturday. Nice to hear it again.

Rice pops?

Ha, I bet that's the name of his company.

Does anyone remember the League of Gentleman episode with the band Creme Bulee?

That's what I think about every time I see that picture.

We've been down this concert road before.

Forget it.

However, wasnt the Jehovah Witness Event way back in the day a sell out?

I bet it was my copy as well. I loaned it to Chris Tanner, I think, years ago after a chat with him about it and never got it back.

Fuck STFC.

If the 7,500/9,000 capacity arena goes ahead at North Star I can’t this revenue stream lasting long.

You should get the media involved - Turner-esque.

Can't they build monster arena(s) that would cover the Town's Football, Ice Hockey, Speedway team as well as somewhere for concerts?

I think I need to ask about around about this fella.  Ive never heard of him and have had several years in the music industry. 

As for gigs, well I will be surprised if much happens.  If you look at the capacity achievable at the CG (Stage at SB end, cutting off last couple of blocks for no sightlines of arkells and DRS) is probably only about 15k Id guess and that may be generous.  Arenas range from 6k - 14k.  And have the advantages of roofs and the whole infrastructure for a gig.  How many bands play stadiums? 

The company I work for has Robbie, Green Day and Muse out this year as stadium acts.  Add in the likes of Codplay, Rhianna, Gaga etc thats about the limit of people who can play stadiums.  We've got loads of arena acts, but I cant see why you would put them into a small stadium with the logistic problems it would cause.

Added in the fact that the council are behind trying to get an arena on the site by the oasis (another thing I think is fairly doomed to fail.  Unless they employ me that is) I would be surprised if anyone I know flocks to use STFC.

Im not being unduly negative here.  I just dont think its a goer.  I would love to be proved wrong, but I cant see it.

yeah but what the fuck do you know?

Perhaps you need to contact the club and offer your expertise?

There's a certain logic in this, that can be spotted amongst all the shite presently being spouted. Martin King's name seems to have gone out of the frame...he's the fella with the Ameriturf connections, a company that has previously looked to invest in English FC's.

Ameriturf get their foot in the door, as unamed company...Rice gets his 6 gigs on an artificial pitch...it is something that can be used for the community and STFC ladies....

McCrory gets to play chairman with all the networking opportunities it presents....and Hooper gets a job as CEO.

What is Murrall?... pharmaceuticals  :suicide:

I thought it was Hooper that was supposedly involved in Ameriturf?

There won't be nay concerts at SN1 this closed season that's for sure. Anyone big will already be booked up any lesser act or an aging has been will lose us money. Like the last one I'm informed.

Yes !!! Fucking hilarious

I'd go and see them, only if the support act was someone like the Halibuthole Surfers...

One of the reasons for the takeover taking it's time was that the Football League did not like the look of this man at all. He was fully expected to be on the board and I believe that Rice was drifted in fairly late down the line as a replacement.

Where do people get this stuff from. Really?

I like to think I am a fairly intelligent bloke who keeps up to date with things that interest me. I know nothing about the background to the takeover. And I also have no idea how much individual players are paid (another thing which people on here make regular claims about).

Do people actually know stuff that I am being thick for not knowing, or do people claim idle suppositions as fact?

If they do then I'm thick as well.

Did the FL like the look of the Whitesnake roadie who's now on the board?

The King situation is common knowledge.

I'm still waiting for Paul Duffen to arrive.

My sources understand that he is one of the businessmen in the background, and was at the match last night - the club don't want negative headlines due to his dubious past and rightly so.

Which is precisely why if he is one of the people behind this, we SHOULD know about it.

my sources tell me paul robinson is one of the silent shareholders. he was looking for a challenge since selling his majority stake in the erinsborough news to globe media; the conglomerate behind the west warritah star.

Your original posts suggested he was to be appointed as a director, is this no longer the case?

Seemingly not.

so if you/your source is correct, Duffen is one of the anonymous backers. If this is the case then I'm puzzled why he would publicly give an interview to a national newspaper indicating that he is keen to return to football, only to then do so in anonymity.

edit: tweeted Sam with a question about Duffen and Allen, received this response:

"I am under the impression Duffen may have been considered for a role but had various legal issues, Allen I've not heard."

With regards to players wages, some aren't exactly shy about it - and Swindon is a small place.

Of course that doesn't mean what gets heard is true.

...but...I can see how some of it might get leaked into the public domain.

The Winners could become like a Swindon version of the Phoenix Club.

"My sources understand"

Fucking listen to yourself you cunt. Have a word.

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Ooooh, can we have a giant inflatable penis that breaks loose of it's bearings in the car park?

Its not Paul Robinson its that japanese bloke he was always meeting at Lassiters?

He already posts on here....

We haven't had an inflatable thing over the car park since the protest days have we?

One Jed McCock...

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: brilliant, superb work...

We missed a trick there really didn't we. Why have a boring old blimp when we could have had a massive flying dick? I blame TalkTalk

I'm not sure Harold Bishop, a Town End regular, is going to like this.

Can't believe he spunked the money on a YELLOW blimp. Was impressive that the bloke got it up that far though.

See again, imagine how much better that sentence would have been if it had been an inflatable cock. A missed opportunity all round.

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Those were the days...

Bloody troublemakers

I like the orange hat over baseball cap combo, proper nawty.

There's a few familiar faces in that photo :)

Looking at that picture makes me realise that the sum of the protesters were basically TEFers.

Originally at least...was it the Cheltenham JPT game where the back of the Arkells was pretty packed out?

I like the orange bed sheet which appears to have no writing on it. May have even been the one which caused Maverick to have a melt down.

Ahhhh Maverick! The most inappropriately named TEF member ever.

Yeah it was. What a depressing game that was.

There was a few after that as well. The Brighton game it was so packed you could barely squeeze a coachful of idiot footballers down there

:)

Knew there was a reason (other than the obvious) of why I hated Brighton so much. Cunts waving money at us sent me cross-eyed with rage

I seem to remember Jim Neighbour being none too impressed either.

Me and Yeovil were banned after that cheltenham game :) Something to do with Yeovil breaking the Guinness book of records for use of the word cunt 4000 times in one minute, and for me asking Sandy Gray across the stand if it was true that she lived at and shouted out her personal address .

We were told off like naughty school boys in a room a few weeks later. wankers :)

Not the greatest of behaviour for a former Fan of the Year is it? :D

I can spot 14 TEFers, plus I know I'm stood at the back of that rabble somewhere.

What the old Spurs player... passed away in 2009, poor old Jimmy had a heart attack after a hip replacement op, common condition in footballers...it's not all flash motors, pointless tattoos, and domestic violence.

No, the Town FLO. But you knew that and were just showing off :)

(And it worked - well, it impressed me anyway. Not that that's a high bar)