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Somebody else’s sofa, surely.

Standings.

No, sofa’s are for sitting

Touché.

Turtle

I’m sure we’ve all used sofa’s for some of that in our time!!

Barrow seem to have announced a couple today.

Yes several teams do indeed, for whatever reason, not announce departures until a few days after the event.

Probably his agent touting him around as he was not getting much of a consistent look in here and the possibility of another non Sheridan player not liking the outlook. Obviously nothing came of the enquiries, depends also if we were asking money for him as well I suppose.

Was just thinking about Kevin Freeberg or whatever his name is, he was with us for 24 days in total from signing to transfer, thats got to be close to the record for least time at a club for a permanent signing ever?

..and has a manager ever signed a player, then sold that same player in the same window?

*edit: not really sold but gotten rid..

Kelvin Freebird, I think.

Ah right, I forget as he was useless when he did play anyway, no loss.

Leon Clarke - 19th August to 8th September.

20 days.

Shit was he really that short with us? I thought he lasted a month.

The 'out' was a loan, so I don't know if that counts.

He went on loan to Oldham, who were managed by a certain John Sheridan at the time.

Freeman to Swansea?

John Sutton was here for less than 2 weeks.

Nicky Summerbee's 2nd spell (which I don't think was a loan) was extremely short too.

Jake Findley goalkeeper didn't last long under Macari in 1985

Summerbee’s 2nd spell was just the one game I think. If I remember rightly it was a 2.1 win at home to Nottingham Forest.

Thinking back to DJ’s transfer, how it played out and caught everyone by surprise.. Plus how in his last game or two for us, he clearly wasn’t trying very hard and probs sick to death of the dinosaur barking at him every 5 minutes on the touch line.. DJ must of orchestrated his own transfer via his agent was touting him around with a price tag..? Seems a little suspect to me..

Isn't that literally the agents job?

Yes. How dare he.

Charlton wanted DJ in the summer but they had their own takeover issues at the time. The agent would have known of their interest so didn’t have to work hard to find him a new club

It was indeed. That was the same season Forest dicked us 7-1 at their place. That was a depressing watch that day

Was a depressing season full stop.

we had a great laugh at the forest game. Call it gallows humour, or whatever. was a good day out.

and Benjamin was offside, the scoreline flattered us

The weekend was fun. Had friends who were at Uni there at the time so was a good laugh. The game on the other hand....

Same that game was brilliant for just how much below the level of Forest Town were. Wes Morgan played for Forest that day I believe? Was a cracking day out despite the loss, I seem to remember several tongue in cheeks chants towards Christian Roberts. Did Lee Peacock hit the bar from memory? I'm sure someone did when it was only 2-1...could have been defining but unlikely, Town were a bit shit but we embraced it.

It was 6-0 when we scored :)

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20060135

Scoreboard froze at 3-1 and I think we all actually lost track of the score.
At one point we were chanting ‘is it 6 or 7 - 1?’

Remember getting a lot of plaudits from Forest fans for our gallows humour after the game. The only high point really. There was talk the players had gone out the night before which would explain a lot. Forest weren't a great team that season by any stretch!

Great weekend at Forest. Love going to Nottingham. When we scored the chant was "Six nil and you fucked it up".

I remember it was only £1 to get in for under 16s. Great day

Ahh maybe it was wishful thinking, or possible Peacock hit this bar (not the pub) at 2-0?  :hmmm:

Didn't expect this thread to be so active after the transfer window 'slammed shut'.

power speaks, including the DJ money

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0962gtk (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0962gtk)

you don't know who to believe, "budget available" Wright, then "keep us going until end of February" - power

So DJ’s money will keep the club until the end of the month but a £375k grant from the EFL isn’t enough to cover a months costs... Bogle’s sell on kept the club going for a month or two at a rumoured £500-600k.. £450-500k clause in the contract?

Who is sending LP emails saying he is doing a good job then

The numbers you quote all stack-up - it's probably between 350-400k a month to operate the business.  That's all running costs.  I doubt much income is coming through the bank account at the moment, so the grant would indeed be tight for a month.

As much as I rant about the current performance levels, that's based on the potential of the players, not based on the situation we are in - I have no idea how lots of clubs are making it to the end df the season.

if we are genuinly that close to the edge, why bring in new players? like mirisolou - especially when Grant is in the bench

sure we might get relegated, but it's better than going bust

Given other clubs seem to be hanging-on, I wonder if there is some sort of belief that they will all be rescued this year, so it's one to play chicken with Admin over.  Obviously very few are going gung-ho, but there is no financial reason that clubs should still be trading right now.

Not listened to Power yet. But the suggestion the DJ money keeps us going until the end of the month seems slightly contradictory to Wrights, the release clause was met, there is nothing we can do. Wrights line was i suspect bull shit from the club trying to save face.

Also, didnt Power say there was no offer from the americans a while back?

Now its, im regular contact with them and they have loads of money!

he did also say we didn't have a choice (power that is)

Sorting the wheat from the chaff is nigh on impossible. Who to believe? I was convinced that by now some clubs would have stopped trading, yet the majority recruit pretty much as usual.

Most businesses having to absorb relentless losses month on month shed staff and close.

Football clubs are strange beasts.

He said that? (I can't listen to it.)

He did indeed, says he is regularly speaking to then trying to get them to hold on

One of my favourite away days, coincidentally also the most drunk I've ever been at the footy.

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Season Ticket Time.

Yes we hit the bar, Peacock and then the flood gates opened.
By the 7th was having a crack with the car park attendants.
Love Nottingham and spent plenty of time in the City. Used to date a lass from West Bridgford and both clubbing and drinking in the City.

In constant contact with the American group and hoping they will allow sale of the club without the court injunction Mr Power says as he thinks the court case could drag on for another year after the date they gave.

Newcastle away. THAT FA Cup game. Absolutely blasted.

Closely followed by Millwall home. THAT League Cup Quarter Final.

Ah Trevor Benjamin, the flying wardrobe. That was my eldest lad's first away game, he had an absolute blast, seats right by the pitch so he was close to everything going on, bizarrely really good atmosphere and goals flying in (he didn't realise they were mainly against us). And he had a cheese and onion pasty at half time, which was the only bit he remember when we got home :) Doesn't even like cheese

I wonder how many ‘after x games contract automatically gets renewed’ we are trying to avoid?

Newcastle away. 🤣🤣 yeah that was a hoot.

I thought so!

Ah West Bridgford, the posh part of Notts. Yep Notts is (when allowed) great for a few drinks and also pretty good going up Pelham St for a few improtu live gig. All the way up there, past the Bodega to the Jam Cafe and nip into Rough Trade on Broad St to flick through some records :)

Sat on that makeshift wide open stand made of scaffolding and planks of wood, bloody freezing and a long journey home. Think we left home at 7am and got back just after midnight.

Train up using the Persil voucher for rail tickets scheme. Epic boozy day.

Large finances was what he actually said I think, which could mean anything compared to his.

Looks like we are not the only club with odd keeper problems, Southend just taken a keeper on emergency loan from the Mighty Heed due to injuries to first and second choices.