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Kasim set for new deal
           
           


  SWINDON Town chairman Jed McCrory has revealed that he intends to sit down with Yaser Kasim and review the midfielder’s contract in due course after the Iraqi’s sensational start to the season.

           

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Clearly just offering a new deal to get more money when he’s sold in January.

Absolutely. It's why Power and Jed are picking and playing him at the moment. Get him in the shop window and shift him for a quick profit.

and so the asset stripping begins.

We're spending money like its water and it'll only come back and bite us, Jed and co. will have come and gone by then. Driving into the distance in an S-class.

Seriously though I can't fault them or Cooper for the efforts over the past few weeks, long may it continue

I still think we are over budget slightly so we have to be a little wary of that.

However we appear to be doing some good business and things are looking a little rosier in the STFC garden, long may it last.

Was interesting to watch MOTD on Saturday and see Paolo ranting after Sunderland lost to Palace. I really don't think he can afford to openly criticise his players at the very top level. You rarely see the very top managers do it, he could very quickly lose the dressing room.

I wonder if the Gary Roberts comment about it being a shit year at Swindon was more a dig at Paolo. He did say he had nothing against the club or the fans so it makes me wonder.

Fredi does seem to have gone strangely quiet recently. Hmmm i wonder why?!

A lot of the doubters have gone quiet.  I do think we are one loss away from it starting up again.

Never doubt the doubters. Herthab summed it up nicely for me yesterday.

I disagree. We've got an extremely tough month coming up and I think most of our fans realise that. I think it will take a disaster for the regular moaners to come back out and start abusing Cooper again.

I can't wait to see Kasim in action.

She/he's been "taken out" by Jed's sinister henchmen ;)

Because he's moved to Birmingham

Well...one of you could be right I suppose :sherlock:

We'll just have to wait for Chang to confirm.

I do wonder how people can be so sure about an upcoming season without having seen us play or without even knowing what the squad will be.

It'll happen next season as well, and the one after that..... and so on.

As for my expectations: I didn't set any and that hasn't changed, except I do now expect us to not get relegated.

From what I've seen we have a technically superior team to both last season and the wembley PO season. Whether we will have the consistency or know how to push at the top remains to be seen, Although for sure we shouldnt bother the bottom half at all. If I was a betting man I'd say somewhere between 9th and 6th at the moment. Although injuries etc or even a good run could change that either way.

 :beers: :pint: :D

Great news

It was definitely a dig at Paolo, no doubt about it. He also tweeted around the same time about Sunderland going down

Quite a few of our former players have had digs at Paolo since he left. It's quite amusing

I'm less certain than you Sutton.

So far the season has exceed my expectation by quite some way. But I think its too early to call it as a not going to finish bottom half of the season just yet. Pitches turn shitty , and we haven't seen whether the youngsters can fight when we go through an inevitable sticky spell.

Very very encouraging though. I'm being cautious rather than negative.

Who else out of interest?

He did get results, but at what cost?

Can't recall off the top of my head but McCormack springs to mind. The comments are usually about early training and veeeeeedeos

The French chap didn't like him much..

And Black described him as 'management by hand grenade'.. which I don't think was intended to be complimentary.

Watkins.

Ooops.

I put that in the wrong thread.

Ho hum

Good news this and I hope he keeps up his impressive performances so they don't slack once he has a comfier, long term deal!

Would be interesting to compile a little bank of such comments. Probably too much effort though!

Way to early, to take the r word out of your consideration...of the 16 games Cooper has been involved in as cone collecter, caretaker or gaffer...we've had one away win at Yeovil, but 6 consecutive defeats...4 home wins, but only against 2 different teams, Stevenage and Crewe.

The away form definitely needs to show signs of improvement in the league...the cup win was welcome, but it's the nature of cup football that sometimes you get an odd result thrown up.

It's best to stick to old saws, like take each game as it comes, get to 50 points and then see where you are etc.

The majority of the doubters' grievances (mine included) were about the lack of transparency and poor communication. The fact that we appear to have assembled a capable squad should not take away from the fact that many of us had genuine concerns. We were being spun half-truths, had concerns of another Diamandis-like figure in the background with a colourful past, and we had heard from a number of sources that Steve Murrall was getting into dust-ups at the ground. First impressions count - their's was not good.

So it's entirely wrong to suggest that we should not have criticsed this board. McCrory telling fans on twitter that they were wrong to criticise off the back of a five nil win misses the point. The board's communication has improved, they have removed the B&B owner, and there have been no more stories of Murrall getting his fists out. That is a positive, and worthy of praise. It must continue though.

Nobody has done as far as I can see.

The concerns were, and in some cases still are, valid ones. It's just unsurprising that those who are very quick to criticise are totally silent when it comes to praise.

This.

I personally well always remain aware and have that little bit of doubt....because the time I/We did completely let our guard down due to good times, we found ourselves in the Andrew Black position.

I've been quick to do both.

The problem with that, though, is last season's games were with KMac in charge of a completely different team.

People are basing their expectations this season on what they have seen this season.

And pretty damn good it has been as well

Never a good place to be.

Not saying that there aren't plenty of people who have been both critical of some aspects whilst praising others, just that there is (and always will be) a minority who will only ever complain and do so extremely loudly and repetitively - especially at the County Ground

Agree with the fact you cant rule out relegation (although I don't think we will, personally) and also that away form does need to improve, but there's no point bringing last season into it. Different attitude, different squad (bar 3 or 4) and different manager. Doesn't matter that we beat Stevenage and Crewe twice, it's still 4 games and 4 victories.

The same team? Really? And this is a negative because?

Bringing Cooper's record as an assistant a bit mental too.

Agree about the last bit though Reg, take each game as it comes. Not ruling out relegation either but based on what I've witnessed so far I would be very surprised.

I concur.

Of course Reg.

How remiss of me to not take into account Cooper's managerial record with us when he wasn't, errm, manager.

 ::)

Poor lambs, being made to work for their wages. It got results though.

So far so good with the new players and new methods this season too, just in case anyone assumes that's a dig.

The Board emphasised at appointment, that they wanted continuity, which was them sitting down with KMac, Cooper and making decisions, therefore he had an input into those end of season games.

If you need to go back to the days when he wasn't even manager to state a 'case' then I'm encouraged as it must mean he's done a pretty good job so far.

You keeping on clutching at those straws Reg. Personally I'm going to judge Mark Cooper as a manager on how Mark Cooper does as manager at Swindon.

This bizarre logic means the current cone gatherer, Luke Williams, is going to be England manager within 5 years.

Yep and that will never change soapy tit wank

Williams is quite an interesting one, because he crept in under the radar...Brighton opinion crossed the whole spectrum, from he was a decent coach of young players, to, yeah but none of them ever made it through to the first team.

Someone appointed by Poyet is likely to have some credentials football wise, so would be interesting to see how much input he has...unfortunately the days when you could just pitch up at Wanborough and watch training are gone.

Was going to start a thread on this guy, very highly regarded in the lower leagues and youth set up to be keeping the ball on the ground getting the young lads passing, Gus brought him in at brighton and unfortunately for him lucky for us got kick out just after he did, their fans were sad to see him go.

So, if you don't count the away win at QPR for idiotic arbitary reasons that make sense only to you, and you do count games in which Cooper wasn't the manager, wasn't picking the team or style of play, and had almost no input to the recruitment of the playing staff (bar probably a quick "yes bugger it anyone we can get" in the tiny sliver of time we were allowed between the embargo being lifted and the loan window shutting) then Cooper is shit at away games.

Honestly Reg, that might be the most stupid thing you've ever posted. And, you've missed out the win at Coventry, but I'm sure you'll discount that because he'd only just arrived and not touched a cone by that point.

I didn't think anyone would be dreging this "run of awful away defeats" up again now the Paolo was sinning the league and KMac screwed it up debates were finally finished with but here we go again.

We played 12 games under the new regime at the arse end of last season. Of those 7 were away from home, and we won only two, Yeovil and Coventry. The rest we lost. But they were against:

Brentford
Doncaster
MK
Sheff U
Scunthorpe

Guess how many of them we managed to beat AT HOME earlier in the season with a full squad, loans in place, Ritchie on the wing and PDC shouting from the sidelines?

One of them. We lost to Brentford and drew with all the rest. And Coventry took a point of us at home as well.

The lesson from that run in isn't that KMac / Cooper were rubbish and lost us the league because they couldn't win away games, it was that some of the better sides were better than us, and took points of us home and away regardless of who was in charge.

How Scunthorpe end up on that list I don't know, but as the away defeat was the last game of the season with nothing to play for it's sort of understandable. How they took a point of us at home when we were supposedly an unstoppable Paolo fuelled force storming to the title is a bit less easy to explain.

Are we fucking done with this now?
 

 

Tried that with the missus, but just couldn't bring myself to pull out before she delivered the goods.

:D

I know you're a bit OCD about PdC...but the point here is that it's a bit early to be thinking everything in the garden is rosy, especially as the away form is ropy and needs to improve. That cup games can be an unreliable guide, look no further than Cobblers a couple of years ago...knocked out Liverpool in the LC at Anfield, had a feel good win next up then lost 6 in a row and the manager Sampson was out in the new year as he couldn't turn their slump around.

To answer your last point...I doubt that we've heard the last of PdC from you.

Question: Why are we over analysing this if A) 2 managers being mentioned aren't with the club anymore? and B) if it's too early to 'suggest everything id rosy'?

OK, it is too early to suggest so, but it's too early to suggest it isn't also, surely? Why can't we just enjoy the season and moan when we lose, and celebrate when we win? Is that too hard to do?

I'm not one to get carried away when we win/lose...I don't see the point.

P.S the title of this thread is great news.

Of course it is. But his main point was that it's a bit unfair to judge Cooper on games he wasn't in charge for. Fact is it's too early in both the season and Cooper's being the main man to make any kind of judgement on either.

Reg was probably as cautious about PDCs future after a few games as he now is about predicting how our season will progress under Cooper.  Occasionally Reg's signature gloom provokes irritation but you have to admire its universality and evenness.

The pyrotechnics of Dalumpi's storm shattered Reg's gloom, spitting and thundering until we all appreciated the superiority of KMac's record to Paolo's.  Then, as suddenly as it erupted, it subsided like all good storms with the pin drop quiet of "Are we fucking done with this now".

As Reg didn't even mention Paolo, the answer to Dalumpi's question must surely be from Dalumpi

and more to the point STFC really does need to ensure its has the right deal with Kasim - a fantastic signing that we all want STFC to ensure it fully benefits from

Does anyone know when they are moving to beaversbrook?

October

 A resounding win in the televised game at Franchise, would certainly set the feel good factor into hyperdrive, and yet consider a couple of seasons, when that has happened... 94/95 a 5-2 thumping of WBA at the Hawthorns...surely this side was too good to go down...it wasn't.  10/11 a 4-2 beating of Charlton at the Valley...surely this side was too good to go down..it wasn't.

The key ingredient in both cases...losing a star striker in the transfer window. Ranger's case is in January  :(

Not like you to look on the bright side Reg.

Is Ranger a star striker now then? Hasn't he only played 3 games?!

I thought my point was pretty clear; Cooper has actually only been in charge for 3 away games, we've played badly in 1.

To refer back to the games of last season was a bit idiotic, but you need to take that up with Reg. Once he had though, I felt it was fair to point out that those games were some of the most difficult away games of the season, which unfortunately had piled up over the season and came all in a row, due to us having got so lucky in the League Cup ('cause as Reg tells us those games are just a lottery and nowt to do with talent) .

I don't have a problem with people being cautious, with "keeping feet on the ground", "early days yet" type sentiments, but Reg's got to the stage where he's actively searching for "Reasons to (not) be cheerful".

It's like he revels in it. I bet he's banned from every chip shop in Swindon for relieving himself in the fryers.

And his goal in the Carling Cup doesn't count, because we're dismissing that remember.

Now the likes of Cooper, Luongo and Kasim (soon enough) have got their cushty contracts sorted wait for the performances to start slipping.

McGovernitis is not a laughing matter Mr Pie.

No need for racism Lumps.

Don't you bloody start!

So there you go, be warned. We could get relegated. Just like every team in every division in every league in the entire world could get relegated every season.

Don't forget where you heard it first. Don't say you weren't warned.

The credit will be all yours OST...

Fucking hell, you mean someone bothered reading that?