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Is he really Mark Devlin?

to be fair I think it is him, given his comments on the stadium thread.

But the cynical side of me cant help but think its MHWG's best ever wind up

If it is MD, no offence, keep up the good work. we just get wind up merchants on here :D

He has been on the thisis site before with the same name, it seems a bit to uncontroversial to be MHWG, he says he looks at the forums so why not him?

MHWG wouldn't choose a name like that anyhow.

good point.

MHWG wind ups are funny, entertaining, and pretty clever when you think about them.

If this is a wind up it's a pointless one.  Waste of their and our time.

It has none of the hallmarks of MHWG. Good to see Devlin on here.

Everything i can see from a mod/admin view looks correct and unlike the previous pranksters.

Fair enough. I take it back then

Hiya Mark :grin:

Mark Devlin is on OUR forum?

don't cum in your pants fatbury  :wink:

fair play for him coming on here and taking an intrest in our views.

Wonder if he is enjoying the World Cup Stunners?

 :soapy tit wank:

:nod:  :nod:  :nod:  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

I can picture it now

Q - Mark, anything interesting bubbling on that hotbed of STFC rumour and chat, thetownend.com

A - There seems to be a wealth of young, foreign talent around at the moment, I'll keep you posted

:soapy tit wank:

I'm sure hes made his way down to NSFW section by now and is enjoying some of Spuddys threads !:wink:  :nono:

Yes, I'm sure some topics need some "out of hours" investigation

indeed. I'm surprised that they've even got internet access at the CG to be honest :?

He's probably pulled a sickie today and posting whilst watching This Morning.

Like fuck is it Mark Devlin.

Wasn't Grunt Sniff rumoured to read the forums too? If that little shit didn't post a response to the crap dished out to him, why would Devlin feel the need to post on here. Surely he'd go through the proper channels to comment on the club.

Someone's on a wind-up surely (excellent spelling and grammer though, so obviously not a regular on here) :D

maybe he will meet us at the merlin for a pre match drink  :-))(

Maybe he could tell us who's spanking Aston Martin is in the car park on match days recently, mores the point whoever it belongs to, can we have some money please?

FWIW I think its Devlin.

For what its worth.

Mark Devlin will be on wiltshire sound at half 10 this morning to answer questions.

East of the A419 has been mentioned...

Shrivenham Town Football Club wouldn't be too bad and we'd be able to keep the STFC bit.

Wanborough Wanderers anyone?

Just one thing - east of the A419 is the community forest - aka green belt
So we'd be looking at moving to Wantage or Abingdon

By Honda

Not AKA green belt, that's a totally different legal entity, community forset still doesn't sound good.  It could mean the east side of the A419 out of town towards Gloucester maybe?

in Honda - it's got to be big enough to fit a football stadium inside hasn't it?

Great idea!

Anything North East is encroaching on Oxford fans base - so would be denied by the powers that be FA/UEFA/FIFA etc.

North encroaches on Cheltenham's catchment population

Either South, East, or West then

He refers a lot to Rugby, and reading/london irish. Makes you think. But he's right behind the idea of CG redevelopment. He wants to stay where we are which is good.

It could be on the East side of the 419 as it leaves the Town just outside SBC boundaries

The bloke is obviously very passionate about STFC. What pisses me off is that members of the public have negative thoughts. Why? One bloke said 'Why should I as a SBC tax payer, pay for STFC to develop its ground?'. FFS, it'll benefit the whole town bring in extra revenue etc.

I would just like to congratulate Mark on a brilliant radio interview and hopefully all goes well for monday.

I think that the land inbetween Cricklade and Blunsdon is where they are looking. I've nothing to back that up, it just makes sense.  NWBC rather than SBC, most of the land is privatly owned by farmers I'd imagine.

Good transport link with the A419, not far from Swindon itself. I could be wide of the mark but it would all make sense to me.

You should go into stand-up Monte :D

:soapy tit wank:  I didnt even think about that. Its the MARK of true genius, that :wink:

Indeed. He is missing the point. We would be the major user of the facilities, but it wouldn't be 'our' ground. It would be SBCs ground.

Not to mention that most of us pay council tax for suff we never use ourselves. If we didn't the system would collapse.

seems I've missed a few things on my travels.

Can we not get a football stadium that floats in the sky?

A mate of a mate has some land near Blunsdon, applied for planning permission for a small bungalow - denied
They will never get permission for a Football Stadium around there.

The Blunsdon lot are the biggest NIMBY's out there.  Agree with NR.

Buts its different when it affects them. Don't they want a new by pass?

With regards to the by pass there's been meeting after meeting about that.  The local residents stick together like glue.  I only know as my mrs' family seem to have a lot of friends from Blunsdon and they're always going on about meetings.

Thats an idea...Give them a by-pass then put the new stadium where the old one went! wahey!  :D  :soapy tit wank:

we barely get 4,500 going with the stadium in the town centre what chance have we got if you stick it in the middle of nowhere

yep, thay are getting it too. runs between motorola and the abbey stadium

I live near there some of the time and would say there is no chance of building a stadium there, dunno which side of the road you mean but pretty much all of the land on the right as you go down Blunsdon Hill is owned by one guy and he wouldn't sell, it would never get planning permission anyway as it's all greenfield land and there is a small forest on the right.

Didn't Mark D, say he'd been approached, which wherever it is suggests that he has either a keen landowner and/or a keen local council for the project, which must remove the odd stumbling block.  I agree though BWB that area would be something of a surprise.

Is Motorola still used?

Yep, see people going in and out of there all the time.

they are squatters

This was the same at Reading though. They're site is at least 5 miles from the centre. Now look at them.