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All remnants of the old regime are gone...
http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/4636639.James_Wills_resigns_from_Town/

Asides from James being an arrogant cunt, the Wills's where just incompetent. Things could have been so different had they found a decent advisor.

It's that fat greek cunt that I despise the most.

good. fuck off you cunt.

Hey don't shoot the messenger - I just posted the topic  :D

 i echo The kings comments

Why are you all picking on me?

that wills bloke can fuck off too

what you talkin bout Willis (in a Mr Fitton voice)

Glad about that.  Not one moment too soon.

James Willis was once best described to me as Harry Enfield’s Tim Nice but Dim character without the charisma.




Or the intellect.

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The comments on thisis are up to their usual standard. My favourite goes something like:

No Wills = No STFC.

Absolutely astounding.

This is quite a historic day really as Wills' exit marks the end of an "eventful" era.

Now we can move on.

Finally Wills have gone - and not before time, I lay the demise of our club firmly at their door if they had not appointed that Greek then we may be in a better position today.

But history says if the greek had not been here then we may have no Fitton & Co

You can kind of see where they come from with that argument, in that sense that SSW is a genuine Town fan who put a lot of money into the club to keep it afloat. In all honesty, we probably wouldn't be here today without him.

BUT, there seem to be a lot of people who don't realise that it was down to the Wills family that we ended up with the Greek one. They weren't greedy, they didn't steal from the club, but their incompetence led to them appointing somebody who did his level best to bring the club crashing down to the floor. I don't particularly hate any of the Wills family, I just get pissed off that they couldn't see what thousands of orange-hat-wearing fans could.

thank fuck that cunt is gone.deserved a kick in the bollocks as a leaving present

If you could put all of our troubles down simply to the bumbling incompetence of the Wills family, I would think you had a point.  But you can't.  I agree that they were poor businesspeople and hopelessly out of their depth, but they had the error of their ways pointed out to them time and again.

They knew that the fans were unhappy.  They knew that the boardroom staff were not up to the job.  They knew that the club was going backwards.  But they held on regardless...to the detriment of the club they claimed to love.

Our troubles were not a result so much of their incompetence (although that didn't help), but their pigheadedness.  I'm glad James Wills has now gone.  We needed a completely clean slate and now we have one.

"Yes, without the Wills family our club would have been dead long before Bill Power and subsequently Andrew Fitton's consortium came along. All those who abused off Sir Seton and his family and donned the orange hats like sheep should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves."

But whilst you get comments like that being posted on thisis then it says how little the arm chair supporters out there knew of the troubles that were actually happening.....

Pricks !

To be honest all James Wills leaving does is clear the last remnants of bad feeling from the club. It's not like he actually did anything constructive for the club as far as I can see.

I don't think I'll ever understand why the Wills trusted the Greek so much. I'd sure like to hear their side of the story one day, but I don't think we'd ever get a full and accurate account.

 I take no pleasure in seeing the demise of the Wills' family involvement in STFC, as I believe SSW did genuinely have the best interests of the club at heart...it's just that it wasn't enough on its own.

 I've always felt SSW got Diamond Mike on board, as he thought the football world to be a murky place of shady deals, therefore better to have someone of that ilk, than an Old Harrovian or summat.

 It's done now...time to move on.  I'll save my protesting for the next Tory government  :)

Seems fair to me. I don't have any time for any of them, but even those who can still see the good in Seaton Wills would have to admit that James is a cunt. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I don't think any more needs to be added - end of thread. 8)

And the reason they clung on was in the hope of a big pay day to recover the money they had put in plus a big profit.

The true nature of their tenure was brought into sharp focus by the dealings with Best Holdings. Nobody with the clubs best interests at heart could have entertained that deal in preference to the other offers on the table.

They put money in, and fair play to them for that but if we are playing the game of "STFC wouldnt exist without..." the list is extensive, inclding...

The fans
St Modwen
Bill Power and Phil Emmell
Hundereds of creditors who stuck it out through two periods of admin
Andrew Fitton and his consortium.

All of those groups have bankrolled the club to at least as great an extent as the Wills family over the last decade

It is sad that a lot of the good that Sir Seton Wills did (e.g. keep the club running in the first place) is over-looked because of what happened at the end.

We can move on now.

I wonder what the new stadium will look like :)

My thoughts exactly! That awful era has now finally come to an end once and for all.

It seems such a long time ago from the days of the Wills Family and Diamond Mike ... God have we moved on ... time to forget those who use to be at the helm. SSW, well without him we would have gone under years ago, but at the end of the day he was out to get his money back, who can blame him. He was sucked in by a Cypriot like a lot of others, regretfully me included.
James Wills is a tosser, end of.

In the current issue of FourFourTwo, apparently they found plenty of models, plus they has Mr Whippy's big masterplan stuck in his head!!

I've heard a rumour that James 'resigning' is due to the fact that he's been banned as a company director. Anyway, at least he can go and watch Arsenal play more !!

They started off with good intentions and turned into the most poisonous cunts ever at this football club. The Greek was a grade A cunt but without the Wills family he'd have been fuck all to this club. Once they opened the Pandora's box that was the Greek Cunt they didn't have the backbone to shut it.
I for one celebrate the last remnants of these cunts going amd young Wills really was a classic example of what yesrs of not stirring up the genetic pool does for you.
James Wills - fuck you for the spiteful and contempt you held STFC in.
Its lucky you'll never need a job because I doubt you can even hold a wax crayon - cunt. 

Interesting


Obviously taking advice from Greenback and has been found out !


I would fucking love it if he got implicated in the DTI investigation

The statement in full:

Town chairman Andrew Fitton told the club's official website: "The Wills family has given a great deal to Swindon Town Football Club both in terms of time and money.

"James agreed to remain on the board when Swindon Football Holdings Limited acquired the majority interest in the club in Januaray 2008 in order to help with the transition, but has now decided that it is time for him to sling his hook.

"I would like to thank James and his family for the support they have given the club over many years, and for the support they have given to the new owners since the beginning of last year, and I trust that the door didn't hit his arse on the way out."

Fucking ace news that the chinless cunt has finally done the decent thing. Mind, i don't know anyone who has seen him at matches for ages so him staying on a token puppet of the old guard was probably only for them to save face.

That cunt and his equally chin-deficient father may of put millions in to the club, but who knows how much more they took out? We all heard the stories about how benevolent they were supposed to be and how much they loved the club, then witnessed them standing firmly behind a fucking tyranical twat like Diamandis, let alone unleashing the likes of;

Mike Spearman
Cliff Puffett
Rikki Hunt
Donegan and Blachley
Colin Todd
Willy Carson
Terry Brady
Andy King
Iffy Onoura
Bob Holt
Sandy Grey
Andrew Andronikou
Mr Whippy
Martin Starnes
Ben Lambert
The Portugeezers
Rufus Brevitt and Jim Little

Some fucking legacy, eh?

I wonder if that'll be Deltas last ever post.

thats one of the best posts ever dont ever post again.

as said previously fuck off you fucking shit stain.

along with Thatcher and Pink, wills and diamandis are the only people in  the world whose eyelids i would hapiily drag along a kerb.

Some of those people actually did, or in one or two cases, still do have the interests of the club at heart.  Pretty sweeping statement Delta.  That dark night at Brentford when we were within minutes of losing our club can still be remembered by a few of us.  If I am correct it was Lady Wills that bailed us out that time.  Unfortunately I can also remember that big fat greek cunt who fronted for them, and who almost pulled the club back down!  James Wills was a waste of space, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, I shall lose no sleep in seeing him leave the board of directors.

I think Mike Spearman should be removed from that list...unless some one knows more than I do ???

Indeed, i always thought he was alright.

As for Wills, i hope that cunt catches ebola and dies a slow and painful death

cliff puffett was a fairly decent chap too was he not?
always seemed genuine to me

Yes puffet was a decent chap who had stfc running through his veins,some of that list is bollocks,i guess people have short memories,king got us to the play offs and within a whisker of a play off final and iffy FFS get a grip he tried his best with what he had to work with.

Posts like this really piss me off and belong on the adver comments section.

Sadly, he later became a bit of an apologist for Wills/Diamandis.

I really cannot agree with that comment Ardiles.  Let us not forget that it was Diamandis that eventually pushed Cliff P. out.  Some years ago, before the greek cunt's name was well known in the town, Cliff - who had been pushed out then - warned me about Diamandis, telling me a few things about him and basically not to trust him one iota.  I never knew who Diamandis was then, but Cliff's words certainly came true!!  And the guy is a self-made man, with STFC blood coursing his veins.

Ben Lambert is a nice enough bloke. He was always straight with me. Ok, so he married the Greek cunt's daughter but perhaps she has astonishing breasts and an arse that you would die for.

Puffett used to sit in fans' forum meetings nodding away in agreement with anything that fell out of the mouths of Holt and Andronikou.  I don't doubt that he's a big fan, but he certainly showed a serious lack of judgement over a sustained period.

Last post? Dont make me fucking laugh:-)

Some fucking bullshit short memories today or what?

Mike Spearman - licked the arses of every board since being pushed out as chair of the club.

Cliff Puffett - someone has already explained. Decent man, but a fuckwit.

Rikki Hunt - Cunt.

Donegan and Blachley - dodgy cunts wanting to build houses.

Colin Todd - dodgy cunt with zero skill in spotting players

Willy Carson - Diamandis apologist and general all round cunt

Terry Brady - Long pockets, short arms. Another house builder

Andy King - Over promoted wanker. My fucking nan could of got us to the PO's that year and would likely won them as well.

Iffy Onoura - Useless. Fucked up a decent chance to get the managers job.

Bob Holt - Cunt

Sandy Grey - Cunt

Andrew Andronikou - Cunt

Mr Whippy - Hilarious for his forum rants, but another Cunt

Martin Starnes - Cunt

Ben Lambert - Ginger, useless fucking cunt.

The Portugeezers - Cunts

Rufus Brevitt and Jim Little - OK. Not their faults for getting themselves into the mess and had the decency to fuck off when it all went tits.

Now, if someone can put me right about my cunt-by-cunt report above, get on with it.

who's mr whippy?

He's a ...

What was Bob Holt's user name on here?

Sure there was someone else who used to come on too who was something to do with Dunwoody?

Whippy used to come on - until he got a bollocking off the rest of the board.  "I am a corporate lawyer you know"

I almost got run over by him once.

Nice car, it would have been a bloody shame to have dented it.

I'd agree that both Cliff and Mike Spearman are thoroughly decent guys and both undoubtedly have the best interests of the club at heart. But Cliff let Diamandis dangle him on a string - one moment he was cast out, next he was back in favour and all too grateful to be so and so scared of losing his inside track, he didn't dare say boo. I can sympathise with Delta to some extent (although I think he's harsh in dismissing either Cliff or Mike so blithely) - at the time they were most needed for the club, the "grandees", the old guard call them what you will, could have intervened, could have stepped up to the plate, could have come out and told the whole world what Cliff was happy to tell ronnie (and many others) in private. But they didn't.

Nice blokes, yes, decent men, yes. Best interests of the club at heart, yes. But they allowed themselves to be bullied into keeping quiet at a time when the club most needed them to speak out. And, at various stages, to actively collaborate in keeping the Diamandis spin machine turning. In doing so, they prolonged a bankrupt, both morally and financially, regime far longer than anyone who has the club's best interests at heart should be allowed to excuse themselves for.

So, yes, decent blokes, STFC through and through, but for many people, they lost a lot of the respect they had earned in years past by aiding and abetting though silence or active cooperation one of the most destructive forces ever to beset our club. There was a time when their club needed them and they shrank from it in the face of some pretty low-rent bullying.

It's the old line isn't it? "All that is necessary for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing"

so they're just a pair of cunts then.
glad that's been cleared up

No, not at all. They're decent guys who found themselves in a nigh-on impossible situation and on the wrong end of a nasty bullying prick. I have a lot of sympathy for them, can't have been pleasant and probably caused a fair bit of heartache. However, they could have shown more cojones in the "best interests of the club" and "STFC through and through" departments. May have made the whole thing a lot quicker and cleaner. And, by the by, it's grossly unfair to just single out Cliff and Mike in this regard - plenty of others in the same situation who sat on their hands through fear, ignorance or complacency (or all three)

I didn't single out 'Cliff and Mike'. They were just 2 names in a long list of incapable cunts brought in or retained by the chinless twats from Ramsbury. They got singled out by an old-board apologist who's probably being sucked off on a regular basis by one or both of them.

In fairness (and I do like to be fair sometimes) Mike Wilks and trust were the only ones to stand up in public against Wills and Diamandis when plenty of others were publicly fighting their corner. That took some bollocks because the supreme cunt of all cunts that is Diamandis, fought a dirty fucking fight. PaulD and Mike W, - you did a good fucking job, boys.

Ace as it is to slaughter the cunts, this debate is a waste of fucking energy. 

Good ridance to the Wills, all their henchmen and women and that dirty, stinking fucking cunt of an advisor.

Long live Andrew Fitton, his board of directors and Danny Wilson and the lads. Hopefully we've all turned the corner once and for fucking all :D

Gah, going for the consensus vote, I'm disappointed in you delta. Losing your touch :)

Interesting to see Delta didn't put Sturrock in there, who became a bit of a bopard apologist despite not getting paid.

i see richard dunwoody is going to be on strictly come dancing -  unless of course it actually is diamond mike using the dunwoody name

Is Dunwoody a Town fan?  I know Julian Wilson is, and some of the jockeying fraternity.  Just can't remember which ones.

As you say I know Wilson was and still is but I am not sure if Dunwoody is a fan by association or is an actual supporter.

Julian gave up on his fandom, when our lot turned on McMahon.....he thought it was a "poor show"

i thought he was dead by now

I dont overly think Martyn Starnes should be on that list. He didn't really seem to have too much to say during the takeover bollocks and left to join Yeovil Town where he still is today. I think he hated the saga as much as anyone hence his resignation? Who knows. Out with the old!

Fair point Gaz, hadn't noticed MS on there. Like MD before him, had to operate with one hand tied behind his back (and a boot on his neck) and often ended up fronting stuff he didn't agree with. Glad to see he's getting on well at Yeovil by all accounts

I'm sure a lot of these fellows did have Swindon Town Football Club at heart, we're just too naive to see it. All this stuff about calling people cunts is really infantile, please temper your language and express yourselves a bit more constructively

The best thing about James Wills is he is a great lesson about arrogance through inherited wealth.

I'd give that fammily fortune about another 50 years.

Having said all that I wish them well.

He was just a firefighter, an assett stripper. I thought Yeovil had probably run out of juice when he got offered the job there (although I gather he was from that part of the world? Shelbourne?).

But as he was the highest ranked member of the old board who turned up every week he did get a lot of crap!

The only naivety is in those who thought it was a good idea to let Diamandis have a free run at the club and those who refused to question what was being done.

Smarmes was the epitome of the ancien regime....I saw him last season outside the ground at Yeovil...made me feeling decidedly strange, a mixture of loathing and anger.

The asset stripper was Diamandis, just ask those printers in Cornwall when he took over their company.  Thursday he told them all their jobs were safe, by the following week the lorries were in moving all the gear out!  He still cannot cross the Tamar.  Anybody know what dear old Uncle Bob of the Friday staement is doing now?

Francome is a big armchair Swindon fan.

Fair point, although I can understand passions running high on this one.


That's who I think I was thinking of.  I wonder whether Carson still considers himself a fan?  Despite some of what has passed, I've always quite liked the guy to tell the truth.  Not sure why.  One of life's eccentrics.

Diamandis basically told Starmes how much money there was each month and it was Starmes' job to get by with it. Towards the end when all the taps had been bascially turned off it must have been an unbelievably stressful awful job.

He was still getting paid when all our playing and management staff were not. They were screaming for money. Fans going mental wanting to kick his head in! I know I would never work under those conditions, or for a man like Diamandis. Just not worth any amount of money. I was amazed he didnt resign sooner?

Your 'fucking nan' would have got us the PO's that year, with Kings squad I assume, yeah?

King may have been a bit of a cock, but you have to credit him with an eye for a player. Todd left us with the biggest pile of poo imagineable, to turn it round to a playoff team deserves credit.

not only could he spot the player but managed to get them to come here in the first place!

be interesting to know what sort of wages he could offer them as welll? Maybe we offered big wages hence we could get players and be skint?!

If Miglioranzi had stayed fit we/Kingy would/should have won that league.

mooneys loss of form was another factor

Migz played 39 games that season.

Now, if we'd been able to have Ifil on loan for the actual play off games...

Think it was 36, but not a lot of difference.

come on reg, you know I love a good stat

35 league starts
1 sub

1 FA Cup start

1 League Cup start
1 sub

I did say 'season' didnt spefically say in the league!

Why?

He has a point,if you dont like language find another forum.

We think swearing makes us look hard and impressive to our pals. 8)

Sometimes I swear and smoke and ride my bike 1 handed  8)

If it's infantile, why fucking read it, let alone comment on it? Who the fuck are you?


Yeah, of course she'd of needed Kings team to win the playoffs! As most will agree, King was a genius at spotting and getting players to sign for us but other than that, he was a cunt who failed. Twice.

Sturrock didn't make it onto the cunt list because he got us promoted. He was a fat, sweaty, boring, stovie-munching scotish cunt, but he still did his fucking job.

I'd argue that Sturrock finished the job Wise started. And only just in the end.

I love you Delta 8)

You're a cunt Tans, but I love you too :D

I missed this.

What fucking arrogance, who do you think you are to tell others how to act on a forum that has been running for years. Ever heard the term "horses for courses"?, if the TEF doesn't suit you then find another that does.

Cunt.

He's a bit of a voiceless labiodental fricative.

I've got a new favourite phrase.

Oh shut you silly old cunt

lothar is bob holt

I agree with Loather's post, some of you are  infantile tossers.  :nod: :)

Never use the 'C' word it does offend! :bye:

Fuck off you old CUNT.

we should embrace the word cunt and use it as much as possible

cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt

In Chilly Jocko Land calling someone a cunt is a term of endearment to a mate.

I think that it is infantile to be offended by the word cunt, or any other word when it is obviously said in banter.

Err, excuse me, are you saying football fans are not infantile?

Although Im not sure what infants say cunt as much as football fans do.

I agree with lothab. Cunt is a word best used sparingly to get its full effect. Wayward uses of the word only serves to dilute it's power to shock and offend untill ultimatley, it will become no more offensive than the word teak.

Oooooooooooooh, you nasty person you!!! Grow up and respect your elders, try the art of conversation, you ...

There should be a prize on here to see who can go the longest without using that 'C' word .... Tans no need for you to enter!

You have a good point young Dave.

However there will surely always be a word in any language that offends, after-all it was not that long ago that the word "bugger" would shock.

I wonder what that new shock word will be? I like to think that once the word 'cunt' becomes as common as the word 'shit', then 'Bopard' will take over as the new taboo word.

I agree with BR. 'Cunt' has had it's time. It should be downgraded to a minor profanity and replaced with a new exciting word.

Or Bopara...

Such filthy language, the language of the gutter snipe. You should wash your mouth immediately you filthy cunt.

cunt

I do use the word cunt sparingly. I reserve it for the likes of James Wills.

Twat.