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Post all your reasons for still being positive about the future here.

I'll start us off:

We're 2nd in the league and we aren't in administration. That's about as good as it gets for Swindon through our history.

I think/hope the appointment of Kevin MacDonald will still turn out to be a masterstroke. We are still picking up points, and I am still hopeful of promotion.

 ;D

Ask me tomorrow. I'm on my period.

I'm positive we're getting 3 points tomorrow.

As for all the shenanigans since the takeover - KMac looks a big plus

I'm suddenly feeling euphorically positive again.

Being barred, from sheer cowardice, by the most boring person ever to have lit up a low watt bulb= STFC in Bournemouth

huh?

Stop being a cunt, this is the positive thinking thread.

lovely person = STFC in Bournemouth, lots of things to say

I had a headache earlier, it's gone now.

Wrong thread innit?

Aww come on dosser, you've been doing so well recently

Sorry guys, I need to go to bed, too much cider, i'm a cunt when under the influence

No you're not..

Ooh a Dosser meltdown, its been a while

Can't believe Dostoyevsky has already derailed this thread.

Just to reiterate my current thinking on the situation:

WOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

*cough cough inhale*.

WOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Gif thread? GIF THREAD!

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I am going to watch some Bosnian, Serbian, Croat and Montenegro vids on youtube because I have turned the corner from reasonable to downright offensive. Check out my Guernsey thread, i'm not always like this. See you soon.

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What in the name of... :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdyk1vzECI

I must go now, I am having a funny turn, if only we could send the TownEnd like this. Much love to everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opk4x7jzRS4

The entire Universe will one day cease to exist.

Says who?

The second law of thermodynamics.

And Benzel.

I don't know which one suggested it first.

We're going up as FUCKING CHAMPIONS

The second law predicts the heat death of the universe. It doesn't necessarily mean it'll cease to exist. Also depends which universe you're talking about ;)

Schrodingers cat is alive

Cibocchi is coming back... If I think it hard enough, it WILL happen.

you've skipped the 1st law of thermodynamics

I thought it was supposed to be simultaneously alive and dead? Not that I could ever get my head around that.

-2 + 3

Big changes coming.

Maybe I'm getting old but this does look like it's a little bit of a fire hazard

We didnt get Andy King back as manager.

Kingy would have signed us Jermaine Defoe by now.

Well he did sign Eric Sabin to be fair, only made funnier by the fact that King likened him to Theirry Henry.

And when he left he went up a division. Kingy finds talent that are so good that it fools everybody.

I met Callum Rice in goddards earlier. Was with Martin King and Murrell. Seemed a nice guy and the board have been put through the mill by the FL.  he chatted a lot about a variety of subjects 1957 debentures, Ian wright and Pdc/wray/black etc.

Are you able to expand in any detail about what he said?

Elucidate or GTFO.

I heard some interesting stuff out in old town tonight too, so I can vouch for that.

Just for the record, I don't care what the bosses think, I'm going to ban the next post I read which hints at knowing stuff without giving details. BanBANBANBANBANBAN

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Kmac was the only one offered the stfc job. Ian wright was offered a ass manager position to kmac but nothing else. The only other one considered was Adkins.  They spoke to his representatives regarding a caretaker role till the end of the season but were told no pretty quickly due to legal situation with Southampton. Newell and buckle never considered.

In jan Pdc wanted 350k to stay as manager till end of year. Board believe this to be a spencer stunt.  Who as rice said pulls PDC's strings.

He believes for the £250k a year wray earnt and 190k Watkins earnt they should have been stronger in their financial management of the club. Those sort of salaries inplie a responsibility and they need to consider if they failed that.  If they had said no Pdc financial meltdown could have been averted.

Best of all ... 3 days after resigned the coaching staff other than piccareta asked to come back.

At 3pm the club had to provide the FA with a list of injured players and the length of time expected to be out before embargo was formally lifted.

The debentures related to 1957 totalled around £32k. I don't understand the legalities but people they were due to no longer alive and so a mass clearing up exercise. I asked why this wasn't picked up previously and he said as a result of our past issues they have gone through the club with a fine tooth comb.

Why has your post count changed to 2?

What did you hear in Old Town tonight?  

Edit:  Thanks FCB, interesting stuff.  My dad heard something about the coaching staff asking to come back as well.  Pretty stupid to resign if they didn't want to and subsequently end up out of work.

Eh?

Doardo loved that free laptop.

Thanks for actually posting all that, and sorry for my sarcastic response on the last page. :D

You only have 3 posts...this witchcraft will bring us all down...

(oh, and thanks a lot, fcb, good stuff)

thanks fcb.

Hopefully a statement with all of these details will be forthcoming.

It was just a ruder way of saying what Jo said, and you've satisfied the demand anyway.

Thanks for posting. An interesting read. One thing though: I thought J Wray had said he'd been working basically for free? 250k sounds like a fortune to me.

An interesting read FCB.

Did King have much to say about why he isn't actually on the board? I suppose he has particular reason to be bitter against the Football League after the whole 'fit and proper' debacle.

Interesting that he still seems to have a fairly active role, so he is involved in all but 'job title' so to speak. I do wonder when Mr Duffen will be unveiled. 

With Jason Roberts?

I spoke mainly to rice and some fella who's name I didn't get who did most the faffing around with the FL. Rice pointed King out to me and called him a football consultant which leads me think he does play a very active role.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Brilliant!

What a cunt

Pretty sure the articles of the company weren't changed until after Wray was asked to resign. Don't think he was allowed to pay himself. Watkins was on a fair amount but earnt most of it IMO.

The Articles were changed after he left to allow non-exec directors to get paid (Patey). Wray was an executive director as far as I'm aware.

Saying that, Wray was never paid in previous years, so this would have been something new.

This was my understanding also.

The more info that comes out it would appear, allegedly, that Phil Spencer is a complete smacktarded thunder cunt.

What's clear in hindsight, perhaps even at the time if I'd bothered to put any thought into it, is that, in essence, Phil "I'm a bottom feeding agent-leech" Spencer, was our Director of Football, no?

Am I the only one who thinks you've been fed a load of rubbish?

Offering Wright the assistants job for starters doesn't sound right to me.
 No way would Di Canio let someone else pull his strings either.

Sorry this isn't positive folks and not in keeping with the thread.

Oooh, yeah. Now you put it like that. Eurgh.

Maybe but who really knows. I don't overly trust the new mob but I didn't really trust di canio. Spencer is clearly very important to him though shown by how involved he was in the clubs transfer dealings.

We return to playing away from home for the next 3!

Having watched Cov v Doncaster today...if Doncaster play like they did in the first half we'll win comfotably (and Williams will have great fun again their centre backs).  Go Town.