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Aden Flint: Why I had to leave Swindon Town
           
           


  DEFENDER Aden Flint felt he had to leave Swindon for League One rivals Bristol City to give himself the best chance of playing Championship football and progressing as a player.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/10477728.Aden_Flint__Why_I_had_to_leave_Swindon_Town/?ref=rss
           
           
           

I was expecting a little more of a whinge to be honest.

Sounds like Bristol City have been on the case for quite some time.

I can get why he went, 4 years, probably more money in his pocket, owner with cash to build a squad.

But coming out with the "bigger club, step up" stuff, well I hope he gets a fitting CG reception :)

He was in a team heading towards the championship, now he has joined a club who have come down from the championship.  :hmmm:

The "bigger club" thing can generally come back to bite you in the arse.

Just ask Sean O'Hanlon.

I think what he means is that he's gone to a club spending beyond there means. He was quite happy to stay here while we continued to do the same but now wants a step up, in salary!

“After we lost in the play-offs I was fully committed to Swindon"

Yeah, alright then

He doesn't actually call them a bigger club in that interview, just a club with a better chance of promotion next season. In all honesty, I'd find it hard to disagree with that as things stand. And I hate Bristol City.

 Like all the players that we bought in the Fitton era, we paid a bit of money with the aim of then selling them on at a profit. That's what has happened....it also happened with Cox, Austin, and Ritchie.  Caddis possibly, and only Ferry has let the policy down...although more than covered by profit elsewhere.

And he tried to miss his penalty. Only complete luck made it go in!

With Lansdowne's supposedly open cheque book, it would be very difficult (but also hilarious) to see Bristol not managing promotion next season.

He did, the Adver didn't print it. Well, technically it was BBC RS interview I suppose, the Adver may have had their own. In any case listen to the radio interview :)

Let's hope he suffers the 'Andy Williams Syndrome'.

Left Yeovil for a 'bigger' club and they go and get promoted and he is stuck in League 1.

Speaking of Yeovil, I was disgusted to hear that at a meeting of League clubs they were the most outspoken for being against League 1 and 2 clubs getting a bigger proportion of the revenue for League clubs.

Here's hoping that comes back to bite them on the arse in the not too distant

When/where was this?

They were probably too busy screwing their sisters to be paying much attention.

ah that massive club Yeovil

If he says what you're telling me he says, I don't think I'll bother. Still, if he has an inflated sense of Bristol City's place in English football he should fit in well with the rest of the deluded twats over there.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2338083/Patrick-Collins-The-inequality-game--93-27-TV-billions-goes-Premier-League.html

Cheers Red Jed. As if I needed any more confirmation that Yeovil are cunts...

..... and incredibly short-sighted.

Absolute greed.

"I am looking forward to it (coming back) and I know I will get a bit of stick, but I am big enough and grown up enough to take it and block it out and play my game".....

....I'm sure you were big enough outside Baker Street and then got knocked out (sorry couldn't resist :girlgiggle:)

Fuck off and close the door on the way out. Aden who????

Too true. It won't be long until we see them again and it won't be because we win promotion

Anyone on here who really seriously thinks we are a bigger club than Bristol City, and that we have a better chance of promotion to the Championship, is mightily deluded.

As much as I dislike them and would love to see us do the double over them next season.

Exactly. Bigger club, bigger squad, bigger budget, bigger fanbase, better place really... competent chairman (hargreaves lansdown v mccrory...what does he  do again)... Otherwise, hard luck Aden. Good move for him.

Bigger egos, bigger bunch of cunts, bigger expectations etc

Bigger coverage on HTV (or whatever it's called now)

Competent = rich in football nowadays i assume?

No hes gone, he can fuck off!

Nice target for next year when we play the shitheads.

He's spunked the best part of £25 million of his personal fortune in 4 years. How on Earth can that be considered competent?

This'll be the competent ownership that:

- Sacked Gary Johnson after he'd kept them in the top half of the Championship table for the previous 3/4 years
- Appointed Steve Coppell to replace him and somehow didn't manage to keep him in post until the season started
- Panic appointed Keith Millen who was a disaster and sacked a year later
- Rebuilt Ashton Gate but somehow "forgot" to include any corporate boxes - which probably helps explain how the club have been losing about £10m a year under his control

Wow I wish we had someone that "competent" in charge. Oh hold on we did until recently didn't we.