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Please don't confirm relegation here  :cry:

2-1 Town. The Phoenix rises   ;D

Tyler Smith has come out and said he asked to leave in January because of Sheridan.

Well be can jolly well get out there tomorrow and get a hat trick just to stick two fingers up to him.   :twat: :twat: :cunty:

Didn't someone say that in January?

I wonder who that was........?

But the Forum police said I was talking bollox

Seeing as Wimbledon will beat Ipswich and Wigan will beat Burton tomorrow, I’ll go for:

Franchise 2-4 Robins

I reckon Real Dons win but Wigan lose.

If T.Smith is pumped up even more to prove a point then it could be a high score as you say. Not going to tempt fate though, just give a good account of yourselves Town.

0 - 0

In typical Swindon style we will win all our remaining games yet still go down.

Thanks to  Wellens for getting us promoted last year as this season panning out in league two would have seen us drop out of the football league. 

Christ you're an insufferable bellend.

A fair few others as well.
Sheridan was pure poison. Some if the things I know truly shocking and surprised someone didn’t lump the twat.

Was only thinking that this week.
Could have happened for sure.

Thanks

But a correct insufferable bellend!!!

its a very strange way of thinking. do you mean if we have a points deduction? i know the season has been bad but not southend and grimsby bad.

Is it? Just if we hadn’t gone up last season, wellens going, Sheridan appointed, pandemic, ownership shenanigans etc etc we’d be even more fucked and I don’t think there is much difference between league 1 and 2 when the team is demoralised and losing every week.

 1-0 Town (Peacock)  :pint:

Sadly I am with you.
I can’t belueve how poor we are and have been. League Two would have battered us.
Need to get out of this free fall as soon as possible. The quality is being diluted and we are falling.

Wasn’t it Bamboo would mentioned it first?

What do you know? I’m intrigued.

A rare draw. 2-2

2-1 win to the mighty Reds.

3-0 town and Lee Power announces Stfc to be part of a re-imagined European Super League :pint:

2-1 Swindon

I didn't think you wanted to say anything at all?

Seems to be a lot of confidence on here but don't think it will make a jot of difference.   The fat lady is waiting to sing,  unfortunately Power has left everything too late for this season, if only the cunt had acted in January.  Can't wait for the day he fucks off.
A good performance would be a result and it seems players apppear to be taking an interest again.  Just get this season over and start to rebuild for next seasons big promotion push !!. COYR COYR.

The Bletchley Park Enigmas would be a good name for a football club. That rules out our opponents then.
I guess that the irony was lost on the opposition manager when he made mention of fans being at the heart of every decision that is made.
Premier, Super Duper, Cosmic, Galactic. It's an uptitled world that we live in.

Anyway onto our Championship 2 fixture at the home of the Premier League (darts version).
The attraction of the padded seats in the concrete bowl seems to draw Town fans in good numbers every time we play there.
Retaining a passing interest in the season for another week is out of our hands, but winning is not an impossible task today.
Just want to see a bit of spirit from the team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tZOlUlRI8

I thought the rumour was, somebody did!

I don't know why, but I am really looking forward to the game today. Is it because Sheridan is gone or that we are at the beginning of the end of Power (what that brings is anyone's guess)? Dunno.

I am not expecting realistically to get anything from the game and I have accepted that we are down and it would take a miracle to preserve our league 1 status.

But roll on 3 pm and COYR!

I understand it wasn't just 1 that did.

The Smith thing was common knowledge that back in January Sheridan told him to pack his bags, empyt the flat and fuck off back to Sheffield and Smith was eager to go back but Sheff Utd turned the tables and made him return, unwanted and unrated by an idiot manager.

As for today, MK ripped us apart in December desipte them being a fucking poor side eventhing they hit went in that day it seemed. Kovar was like an partially sighted cat on acid that day and was so far from saving them that it was embarrassing.

They have won 3 of their last 6 games and won both their previous games without conceding.

MK Donkey Dicks 3-0 Swindon.

Relegation will then be mathematically confirmed.

On the plus side, Nicky Ajose is available on a free after being released by Exeter!

He’s been poor.

I hear he has been injured a lot, no idea if thats tactical injuries or not, hes still only 29 too, could be of use in L2 next season IMO.

Now that the pressure is relieved , we might well win this one say 3-2

3-0 plastics Luke Williams enjoys a bottle of wine this evening knowing he's helped to destroy power

He might be destroyed but he still won't sell up !!.

Not yet but whilst he's still here it's costing him alot of money

He's trying to, or so we are led to believe.

It's the entire reason there's been court proceeding overs the last couple of weeks.

It isn't. Clem/Standing have to pay - the court said so.

I get what your saying but somehow he must be out of pocket

Getting relegated by the filthy Franchise.  A fitting end to the most awful of awful seasons.

The only plus point of that is that we will probably save the Real Dons from getting relegated, a team they probably hate more than they do us.

Confident much?

http://www.sitdownorwellstealyourclub.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6283

http://www.sitdownorwellstealyourclub.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6293

That's one shite record we have against them

Rovers looking good to save us the embarrassment of first club relegated

(https://rfdtv.images.worldnow.com/images/10769616_G.jpg)

Made me sick to see a member called Towcestrian toward the top of their prediction league, Towcester is literally 15 minutes from Sixfields, I live 4 miles from Towcester when in England so hate to see this kind of thing. 

I've made my feelings on this matter well known in the past being local to the problem, football existed in the region long before Franchise rocked up, if people wanted it in their life there were opportunities.  Several Luton, Watford and London clubs fans hop on the train from MK and Northampton is 20 minutes up the M1 or the other way on the same train line, football was always there!

If only people had cared as much about Wimbledon back then as they do about the ESL proposal now...

They are the absolute epitomy of a plastic fanbase.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzvZIYVXoAQFAaT?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)

Frenchy starts 😮

I’m saying he’ll last 31 minutes.

Baudry and Grounds cb, let's hope Franchise don't have anyone quick...

Plastic town
Plastic Stadium
Plastic fans
Plastic History

Should be MK PVC

That may be right but I suspect that they will look at STFC with some pity

So it looks like we will likely line up as

                     Camp   
         Grant  Baudry  Grounds
Garrick   Palmer  Payne  Thompson
                    Twine
            Smith         Pitman

Hopefully Baudry is fit enough and will raise his game against his old team.

Rovers are the first club in the football league confirmed relegated after losing 1-0 at Pompey, at least 1 local derby next season then.

Now Dino has gone is it now ok to call our no 9 by his Christian and surname? Any reminder of when Dino was here is hard to take!

Good tackle by Grounds in the 6 yard box after Thompson was skinned.

The Dongs right winger Ethan Laird who is an England U19 international from Man Utd looks a handful so far.

Don't think we have kicked the ball more than 10 times so far in the first 7 mins.

Grant makes a good connection from the corner to clear.

Chasing shadows

Thanks for updates PV finishing pint in pub before heading back home to radio

Grounds goes to ground heavily.

Don't rush, you arent missing much!

Ref’s got this situation completely wrong.

Give the coaching team a few days with the squad and any positives from the last game can be removed from them.

Wh'appened?

Don't know why the fuck we are sitting back so deep, this is fucking MKDongs not Man City FFS.

Must be 80% possession to them and they looks like brekaing us down every time they get near out box. We are not even pressing them at all.

The last game showed we are only really much kop if we just go for it, so we rock up today and park the bus.

0-1 to the wankers.

Its been coming.

Tuesday I decided to just stay in the pub, if any of you want to send me some drinking funds I can be a lucky charm

Grant asleep as the cross come over.

Unbelievable!

Comedy defending again by Baudry and Grant.

1-0

Grant playing as though he forget there's another team on the pitch.

Grounds head injury right in the middle of the goal, he let Dongs continue the attack, then when Camp eventually gets the ball, he stops play, waits for treatment then asks Camp to return the ball to the oppo.

And to add insult to injury Wigan are losing at home to Burton.

Probably gonna have another pint. Will put it on the tef credit card

Ta

This could be a cricket score by half time if we carry on like this!

We'd have been better off this season if the players didn't bother turning up to training.  4 days after an off the cuff performance gets a result we seem to have been coached back to utter shitness again.

Dongs number 10 dives in front of the camera trying to con the ref that hes been pushed int he face, the camera says otherwise and the ref doesnt give it, rightly.

I don't think I have ever seen us play at such a pedestrian pace, we just look like we aren't bothered.

Dongs are a bunch of diving wankers.

Blatant dive. Should have been a yellow

Town make 5 passes in a row for the first time today and Baudry launches it into the stand, that sums the day up.

Baudry asleep on the ball just outside out box, puts us in danger.

Nice easy training session for Brazil. Sorry I mean Franchise

Thompson heds out for a corner.

Penalty to them.

Baudry maintaining his 20-21 form.

Handball from Baudry.

This is a fucking joke.  Can Wright just resign at half time as well please.  The most embarrassing thing is that the team are clearly playing to instructions here, like so many games this season.  A bunch of average players far too focused on trying to remember what they were asked to do.

Handball Baudry. Penalty

0-2

Never in doubt.

Gonna be a long afternoon.

I'm off out.

Broadbent on for Baudry thank fuck, hes had a fucking nightmare.

5 minutes out ffs

Waste of a wage

Broadbent coming on for Baudry.

Going down without a whimper, game over.

We're making the Dongs look like a Prem side. I can't wait to see the back of all these players.

This is comically bad.

Good guess, I have never rated Baudry TBH and today he shoed hes nowhere near good enough for L1 or even L2.

Mum 3-0 loss prediction seems a little lightweight 😀

Taking Baudry off is fair enough, but why keep the shape the same.  What fucking positives have they seen that this is worth sticking with.  Fucking useless Cunt on the sidelines should have walked with Sheridan in January.

Tawdry Baudry

As it stands I don't give a shit if every player leaves at the end of the season, total clear out like when PdC joined us.

Still the same dogshit side, still the same dogshit management - not sure why anyone is surprised.  Just because the dinosaur has left doesn't mean that we were capable of putting a run together.

Such a shame that Garrick has the touch of a rapist. He tries to do stuff but more often than not puts it into touch!

Why was he even playing, he is Shite.......

I agree, but nothing matters with this team at the moment until somebody else owns us..

Jesus we cant fucking buy a pass today.

The conclusion is we're dogshit and can't see things changing anytime soon

Great run from Payne. Corner. First attack 31 mins!

Start from scratch again next season....

New ownership completley new team...

Waste of a tenner anyway ;-)

The annoying thing is I torn between 26 and 31.

Just so predictable - it’s amounts to fraud really. Even Curran is more use.

:D

Great turn from Twine! Syed through Smith who was offside.

Superb from Twine. Didn’t look offside to me.

Worth keeping Twine if we can.
Pitman would do alright if we built a team to play to his strengths.

The rest should be fucked off. Sack them all off contract or not.

Garrick has reverted back to the same form of his first 2 matches today.

I don't want Pitman anywhere near our side next season..

As long as he is sold after Power leaves I don't mind losing Twine for a good fee that is invested back in the team.

Even Grant is off the pace today, the only one I may consider keeping is Camp who is a bang average L1 keeper but still way better than Kovar, Fryer or Trueman were alongside a younger keeper like Wollacott.

I would potentially keep Pitman, Twine and Payne but equally i wouldn't be too bothered if I never saw any of them in a town shirt again

I wouldn't mind Smith having a go in League 2

How far is Dean Lewington off Sir Johns record for appearance for a single club?
He’s been playing what seems like forever.

For me Payne and Odimayo only ones who should be kept

Not surprising.  He's not a great player with the ball, has zero end product but has pace and showed that when part of a two man right sided effort he can be effective.

Today we've taken everything that worked in the week and binned it.  Exposed the right and left backs, decided to get back into shape rather than get into them a bit.  Put Payne back in the central position where he puts us constantly at risk, especially when the other two are lightweight, and so on.  The team has been set-up to fail, yet again.

Unless Twine signs a good length contract he’s not going to worth anything bar some randomly made up low ball compo

Better. We've looked less like a pub team in the last 10 minutes.

Excellent move ends with a cross to Smith who blasts it over unchallenged!

At least Baudry is a good option for the protest vote MotM brigade.

Perhaps.

I think we can all agree all our defenders should go.

And Smith must score...  :headhurts:

Just put a superb cross in that Pitman dummies and drew the defence away for a Smith chance.

Odimayo, Grant, Twine, T.Smith, Conroy and maybe Payne would be the only players I would consider for next season.  I don't expect to see any of them though..

Twine freekick wide.

Odimayo can stay the rest can go....

Forgot about Odimayo - I would definitely keep

oh. going well then

Conroy is pointless

JFC.

That's me out until Power's gone.

Conroy?

Why so he can sit in the medical room all season....

Even when he is fit has promised so much but delivered so little.....

I disagree.  In league 2, with a preseason behind him I think he would be useful.  He is still a better player than the majority of this team, just need him to be fit - i think he is worth one last go.

Season over. Send on Curran in goal and Matthews up front.

There are players in the squad who would be okay in L2 under better management. Wouldn't mind seeing the likes of Palmer, Hunt, Hope, Caddis, Camp, A Grant sticking around if they fit the way we want to play. But equally not really fussed if they go. Payne, Odimayo, Twine probably get better clubs but would like to keep them.

I guess it's not so much 'everyone must go' as 'nobody must stay'

3-0 Poor defending from a corner. Strikers have so much time on the ball.

HT. Hello L2

Apt

https://youtu.be/wr9EJKqmhOU

As it will be for most of us- not renewing my ST after 30 seasons unless the ownership changes

Grounds just had a right go at Thompson for not getting in a better challenge on their third goal, but seems to have overlooked the fact that as a central defender he appeared to be marking Anthony Grant and offering fuck all protection in the middle of the goal.

I can't get my head around Palmer.  He's been well thought of before and played higher up, but he's looked utterly shit for us.

Agreed

In some ways this pitiful surrender is better than a heroic failure finish to the season. There can be absolutely no possibility of whoever the owner is keeping Jocky McJockface

Nice of them all to try so hard today, what a shower of shit, hope they are proud of themselves.

My feeling is he's a player who will play to about the standard of the team, rather than being a leader and driving the standard higher. We're shit, so so is he.

We've said that every pre season he has been here....

He has become a liability the same as Lyden has.....

Same here. Had a season ticket since 96/97. Can't justify travelling on my own from Wales if this prick is still in ownership.

I disagree

Ability wise you might be right.
They haven’t got the balls thought. They can’t fight, they don’t want to fight. That attitude and mentality gets you relegated. Same thing happened under Wilson.

This league is fucking garbage and we can’t even get ourselves up for a fight.

Tommy Wright should be on his way home now ffs

I wouldn't give any of the players too hard a time right now.  We've been a zombie club for months, and the writing's been on the wall for this season for most of that time.  I wouldn't expect to see anyone performing at the best when we're rudderless up top.  I'll renew my interest when the owner has moved on and there's a fighting chance of rebuilding something.

Sad times.  Hopefully better ones ahead.

Lyden, Conroy and Fryers all fit into the category of players we can't really decide on without a pretty thorough medical report, but all three at their best are a class above most of this squad. That was always the gamble we took - last season we won, this season we lost.

Utter fucking shit. We all know we were down before today but at least show some personal pride. The lack of any kind if effort is unforgivable.

In all fairness, the first 30 minutes appeared to be the result of a "game plan".  The way we sat off them, the formation change exposing the wing backs, it was all on purpose.  What purpose I have no idea.  The management team since Sheridan cam in have set about creating issues for the players which makes them look even worse than they are.  Not saying they are world beaters, but you can't expect Garrick to look good when he is overloaded in defence.  If you insist in dropping to the edge of your box and letting the other team pass it around for fun, you are going to look like a shit team and that was by design.

They've been set-up to fail for most of the season.  Granted, they are not great either so it looks even worse.  This team was never going to win that many games by trying to play football by numbers though.  Keeping shape, focus on defensive positions blah blah.  It was fucking obvious we were going to have the type of players who make mistakes.  The only way out of that is precisely what we did on Tuesday, have a go at the other team, set-up to attack a bit.

I hope no club down the bottom goes into the last game of the season relying on us to beat Wigan to stay up.

We’ve got no bottle, no spine, no bollocks.

A pathetic embarrassment

Im the opposite. When the ship is ruderless that’s when the senior pros should step up and at least try and steer the ship. I mean it most likely still ends up with the same result but you know get rich or die trying.


I think all (most) would agree being shit is one thing. Not trying is another.
This season we’ve been both and that is unacceptable.

Swindon being Swindon will probably win 3-0.

Conroy had his minor op and will be running the week after next.
Pre season and I would expect him to be ready.
Hope he stays and we give him a year deal to see his fitness.

Agree we have a very experienced squad, Sheridan was useless but the senior players should of stood up and pulled the team together....

They didn't......

They just said on the radio that Peacock was arguing with Wright

Half time team talk worked wonders

4+0 within 60 secs!

4-0 ffs.

Ha ha. Go for it boys. Great half-time talk. 8-1 on aggregate.

Hopefully Wright will fuck off after the game.....

That’ll be great for the first four games before he’s injured again.

Garrick was caught out down the right and the cross beat Grant and Grounds leaving Griff unmarked on 6 yard box to score hit hattrick

I hope it’s sooner than that.

5-0

Keep the score down lads?  :oops:

in a 'roundabout' way, it's quite fitting that will grigg relegated us. After all the rumours of him under wellens

Can we make 5 subs now.

I don’t even care who they are.
Curran would improve this defence

And yes Mr Sheridan, this relegation is firmly and squarely on your fucking CV. As apparent as a 3 inch facial wart. Cunt

We want six!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What kind of fuckery is this?

5-0. Garrick beat again. Grant watched it go past him to an unmarked Grigg on the penalty spot. He gets his 4th.

Walking the ball into the net now.

The defending today just about sums up the state of the football club right now. A sorry state of affairs.

Thank tuck we didn't travel to watch this debacle. Fucking embarrassing.

and to think fucking Baudry has another year on his contract ...

Pitman for Hope

Blimey, Will Grigg's on fire

I mean, this isn't that hard to work out - we have a non right back being exposed as a right wing back with nobody helping him and Franchise have spotted it so are sending two players down his wing.  IN the middle we have Grounds playing like the Sloth he seems to be - for the third goal he was marking our player, for the fourth he was 6 yards off his man and for the fifth he tracked his man and then walked away from him to leave him free to score.

If someone on our bench couldn't work this shit out then they don't deserve to earn a wage in football.  It was fucking obvious from the first 10 minutes and we have done nothing to solve the problem.  It may not have got a result, we probably still go on to lose the game given they are better than us, but to not try and change the shape is criminal for a Management team.  In fact, to send the team out the way they did was criminal.  Fucking useless pricks.

That brings back memories of the Stoke fans doing the conga on the Stratton Bank !.

We’ve had a huge number of games with players played out of position - whether by design or not.

Others not picked for no apparent reason, some sent packing - probably for bring too good.

The whole set up stinks.

Conroy has never and will never stay fit for a full season....

Has become a liability same as Fryers, Lyden and Baudry

If he stays it should only be on a pay to play basis...

Would be a complete waste of a full time contract

Why not give the Norwich loanee a run-out instead of Hope?

I'm guessing I'm lucky to be missing this!

Eighty fucking four goals. EIGHTY FOUR! IN LEAGUE ONE!

I would say play the kids next week, but haven't we released must of them

If the ownership doesn’t change, they’ll only need to open an away turnstile next year.

We’d actuálly be better off forfeiting games - only a 3-0 defeat given.

At last. A game plan.  :clap:

It is not just them, but the volume and standard of some of the goalkeepers this season has summed up the season really

Yep, shocking

J Grant for Thompson who has been awful again today.

Surman taking pity on us

Christ! Easy 6th missed!

Franchise at walking pace and still well on top.

Was there an announcement then? I figured it was unlikely anyone was getting a contract in the current circumstances but still.

Hawes said Surman has been the best defender for Town this afternoon!

I am glad I didn't part with hard earned cash today

I'd guess all the loan players will go back before the next game (and they shall be bloody glad to be doing so)

I've heard of damning with faint praise, but is this praising with faint damnation?

Why? Those that have watched are seeing the most inept performance ever. For us, things can never ever be this bad again.

The ownership has to be sorted by next season. HAS TO BE.

It’s easier to watch now it’s over. Not often I look forward to the close season but I’m so done with football after this abortion of a year.

After that, let’s hope the courts or an investor offer us some hope.

I was just wondering whether I have seen a more abject performance in 45 years. I cant recall one but I am sure there must  have been?

There were a few toward the end of McMoan's tenure but they, at least, were against decent opposition

Glad I stuck to not paying a penny more until the parasite leaves the club for good.
I will not renew my season tickets if he is still here.
To be honest I don’t think he will be.

You say that...

7-1 at Forest was pretty bad.

Makes you wonder just how on earth Bristol Rovers are even worse.

This is Franchise.

7-0 v Bolton was horrendous, too. Attended both of those

They may end the season not being

THIS IS FRANCHISE.

Broadbent out of position manages to stop one chance and then MK miss from from his 'clearance'

indeed. They have a billionaire owner as well apparently

But they, at least, were against quality opposition

MK striker offsites but puts it wide anyway

I haven't posted here for years.

But relegation/shipping five goals.... Seriously, what has become of Swindon as a club? What a shambles. Gutting.

Nice bit of play culminating in a cross from Hope towards Smith that was cleared for a corner. Corner was floated into the keepers hands.

Just got to hope there are a couple of basket case clubs in L2 next season - and pray we’re not one of them.

Longest 45 minutes I can remember.

As a matter of very little interest, have we had a shot on target?

No. Two off target first half. No shots at all this.

Camp pushes header from corner onto the bar. Great save.

Subsequent corner headed wide.

In a game we had to win!

The team 10th in league 1 could have been into double figures today if they had put away some of their chances. The sort of score you would expect against a pub side

Camp earns MOTM with one quality save. We’ve been utterly woeful.

At least a pub side would get angry and not just give up

We could have lost 5-0 by going for it. Just to not give a shit is unforgivable.

Can you do some Swindon Till They Die mugs?

not giving a shit, or just a totally shit standard?

Yep. A win would have kept us in it as it stands

Hope has a shot!

From 35 yards and flew miles over the bar and into row Z...at least!

1 minute added. That’s hilariously patronising.  :D

Dire.

Another one bites the dust

Then playing another one bites the dust

I just hate football at the moment full stop😡

5-0 FT with MK not really getting out of second gear! Absolutely awful.  No defence, lightweight midfield and isolated strikers

Power, Sheridan and Wright, take a bow.

Send out the kids for the next 2 games.
Tell the senior players to fuck off now.
Send the loan players back.

Sheridan. Whatever you say this relegation is on your CV. It has you written all over it

Clear the physio room out as well, rehab somewhere else

Let’s just hope relegation is as bad as it gets.

28% possession and no shots on target!

Just let MK play. Baudry was awful in the first half. Grant and Grounds didn't mark anyone. Broadbent was constantly trying to recover from being in the wrong position. Thompson was giving about 40% and Garrick kept dribbling the ball into tough in our own half in the first half and was constantly skinned in the second.

Yeah, but apart from that....

Least of our worries, tbh.

There honestly is not 1 player I want back here next season. Twine has been fucking awful the last few weeks, in fact, other than the odd ‘worldie’, he’s been fucking shit since he’s been back.

Why single him out?

Got to be a complete clear out. Unfortunately, there are players under contract.

And then fuck off PLEASE.

A lot of this falls on Wellens too, the recruitment was fucking appalling, there were only 3 Sheridan signings out there today.

Mainly because he’s the one being talked about about going to a bigger club, I just can’t see anything in him myself. Wasn’t blaming him as such.

Can we put that fiction to bed? I think by this stage, it should be clear the recruitment wasn't on Wellens.

How anyone can single Twine out after that performance is beyond me. Yeah he’s no fucking Pele but our defenders have been atrocious all season. Mistakes by Baudry, Grant, Grounds, Thompson and Garrick all game and yet let’s say how shit Twine is!! Fuck me.  :suicide:

Can’t agree. He was hamstrung by Power - that’s why he fucked off. Kovar apart, the decent signings he made were either sent packing by Sheridan or frozen out. Once he left and Power decided on Sheridan we were in deep shit. Just where he wanted us.

He's not the only one who's been awful

But yes he has disappointed big time, can't see many higher league team following up ant interest...

QPR, Peterborough and Brentford have already said they are not interested any more....

This is the first time ever that we have been relegated to Div 4 and I have not felt that we had a good chance of bouncing straight back up (even though in reality we didn't).

He spent a fair whack of the wages on Pitman, so we can’t not blame him for the signings, surely?

Wright:
- Not a lot of pride not a lot of effort. Could have been 10
- Massive mistake to play Baudry. He was miles off it. Wright said he'd take the blame
- They were good, but they weren't Barcelona
- We didnt get a block in or a tackle
- Tame way to get relegated
- Players need to look at themselves.
- We have had 4 different managers and no difference
- Too placid and gave them too much time on the ball. Let them run in behind them
- Goals weren't that intricate.
- Poor penalty
- Playing against a good team you might get beat, but at least give it a go.
- Placid
- Recruitment and choice of players? Recruitment is a massive thing and 99% of getting good players
- Players have been injured or not made a step up from L2 to L1
- Some have hardly played and when they have they haven't played well
- Recruitment has been a big thing
- In both boxes we have been poor
- Recruitment and players resigned have been poor
- Players are out of contract and its a chance to start again
- This is not the way to get relegated.
- 5-0 was flattering to us!
- We have a blank canvas for L2. In L2 we are an attractive club. there will be a new manager and a clean slate
- Good club with good fans and not a L2 club
- Wright said contract is up and he will probably move on
- Will take charge for last 2 games.
- Consistency of play. We have players who get 7/10 one week and then 2/10 the next week
- Some of the performances over the last few weeks has been very very poor. Gutless would be the best word
- In the modern day, people will look at that, and analyse players. Players wouldn't want their clips from today's game
- Few words at half time and then we came out and concede two goals in the way we talked about at half time
- There wasn't a lot of pressure on the players. But they played with fear and they were placid. Now that its over they might play better. But you dont want players like that at your club
- Need a leader and recruit good players and good characters who might have bad games but not too many.
- Twine and Payne both tried today
- Club need to go  back to the drawing board.

Brett is top scorer, though - even in this shit team. Those signed to supposedly supply him - Smiths J and M - were binned by Sheridan. DJ was sold as a final pay off for Power.

This is entirely down to the gruesome twosome - Power and Sheridan. And manufactured at that.

Hartley:
- Shambles
- Not enough fight or spirit
- Wright cant explain it as he expected his players to put in a different type of performance
- Worse in the defensive box and the attacking box all year

Thing is, recruitment is only to be able to recruit against the budget given. If we built a team in a higher league on 50% of the budget in League Two like Wellens said we had, we deserve to be relegated for thinking that is sensible.

All the problems lead back to one problem. Lee Power and the ownership issues. Everything else is a consequence.

So do we have a bottom 4 L1 budget?
Do Rovers who are bottom have the lowest budget?
Do Hull have the biggest budget seen as they are top? Does the league finish in budget order?

Glad the Championship clubs have gone off him. Sign him a new contract, get a decent coach in that's not a dinosaur and he'll set League Two alight next season.

Hartley part 2:
- Vast majority of players didnt step up from L2 to L1
- The likes of Fryers and Baudry. Injury and poor form
- A Grant. Injury and M Smith made him play second fidddle
- Swindon started in a higher division in a weaker state than they fininshed L2.
- As a division, its not as good as L1 has been in previous years.
- Developed into a 3 tier league. Larger group in the middle with 3-4 at the top and 3-4 in the bottom

Agree

I've not said the league is ordered by budget but if you spend significantly less on a team per season than what you spent in a lower league, there's only one result. Similarly, when Blackpool made it to the Premier League and then capped the maximum wage at £10k a week.. You can't build a team on a shoestring budget. The investment is needed and we got hung out to dry with the hope that we'd pull off staying up. Result of it, we haven't

It appears obvious now that Power wanted relegation - and it’s not a conspiracy theory.

He is desperate to put the club into Admin and offload the club for £1. He’d get more back this way then actually selling the club for a few million.

He wanted relegation to try and guarantee there would be no buyer willing to buy the club - even better with a points deduction possible.

He’s come a cropper with Clem willing to be that improbable buyer and all the financial shenanigans coming out.

I hope the cunt gets rinsed.

Hartely part 3:
- Terrible year
- Waiting for that spark and for it to turn around
- Oxford and Bristol Rover then good performaces at Ipswich and Fleetwood. You though those would be the turning point, but they weren't
- Couldn't pull a rabbit out of the hat
- So much going on behind the scenes and so many players used plus so much we probably haven't heard of yet that have made it a poor season

Ha ha. Proper trolling sending Baudry out to face the press. Baudry.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Baudry:
- Injured since December.
- Tried to come back but it didnt go how I wanted
- Injury is fine, but manager decided to take me off
- So now trying to get ready for next year
- Not an easy team to play. They are very good and know what they are doing. Pulling us out of position
- It hurts. The whole season hurts. Its not just one reason. there are a lot of changes that need t o be made.
- Hard to take after last season. Need to regroup and come back stronger
- Main problems? Its not 1 or 2 players fault. Its come from t he top of the club to the bottom. Mistakes on and off the pitch. Need to reflect, regroup and be better next year
- Haven't built on last year's promotion. A lot of different factors that got us here.
- I personally haven't been good enough for different reasons. I need to work and get better for next year. I'm getting older and dont want to finish like that.
- Chairman, Paul Jewell? Do they need to look at themselves? Exactly. As players we haven't been good enough. Some may lie to themselves. But coaches managers and all the way to the top need to look at themselves
- Can't blame people for work ethic. We have just come up short. MK have made lots of teams look bad. When you concede early against a team like that.
- Baudry has another year. Doesn't want to finish like this. Wants to be better next year. Got to stay fitter.
- Whatever happens at the club, it will probably be my last opportunity.

Interview lasted longer than his game did.

I remember that game. When Trevors scored a fluke to make it 6-1, we all turned around to the Forest fans and started signing 'You're not signing anymore!' at them - I don't think I've ever seen a set of fans more confused in my life. The following week was Yeovil away  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I think this season has been worse?

Hartely part 4:
- Need to focus on who might be with us next year
- No point picking old pros who wont be here
- Cant go for whole youth team, but if any are pushing for first team, we should give them a go.
- Barrow, Harrogate are new grounds next year.
- Could be another trip to Hartlepool

This one has definitely been worse.

That 05/06 season we were poor. We kept fighting but just weren’t good enough. Felt sorry for Iffy, he gave it his best shot. This season we haven’t fought at all.

Camp 5
-   Made an awesome save in the second half. Had no defence in front of him. Was slow getting to one goal, but not as slow as Baudry and A Grant.

Thompson 1
-   Was he trying? Bloody awful. Don’t come back.

Grant 2
-   Poor game. Very slow and just stood there watching MK strikers score for at least 3

Baudry 2
-   Seemed to be limping, but was miles off the pace and pulled out of position all of the time. Gave away t he penalty for handball.

Grounds 1
-   Didn’t mark anyone all game!

Garrick 1
-   Kept dribbling into touch in our half in the first half. He attacked one time in the first half and put over a great cross that Smith blazed over. Skinned all the time in the second half. But had no one helping him. Also, he was playing out of position!

Payne 2
-   One superb run in the first. But didn’t influence the game

Palmer 2
-   Weak. Beaten to everything.

Twine 3
-   Tried and made a couple of great turns and passes in the first half. But part of a lightweight midfield

Pitman 2
-   Didn’t get into the game. Defended corners well!

Smith 3
-   Ran about a lot. Unlucky to be called offside once but fluffed it anyway. Blazed over our best chance. Didn’t do much else.

Subs:
Broadbent 3
-   Was always trying to recover his position. Looks blood and guts, but its because hes never in position

J Grant 1
-   Didn’t get in the game

H Hope 2
-   Blazed over from miles out. Don’t think he did much else.

Understand emotions are running high but not sure it's wise to speculate on what Power 'definitely' wanted at this stage in such lurid terms on a public forum. Wouldn't be the first owner to end up suing fans. Let's just settle for it being past time for him to leave the club for good.

Agree about 05/06, that was a bad squad mostly trying their best. 2010/11 is the comparison for this one.

Hardly suing material. If he wanted to get the club relegated for his own personal gain that was up to him. Nothing illegal about doing it.

But I hope there’s a special kind of hell for a special kind of cunt.

Hawes:
- It was terrible in terms of a performance
- No grip at all on the ball in the first 20 minutes
- Third was a scrappy and soft goal
- Appeared they couldn't wait to get off and get home
- Large gap between every league these days. Those who kept squads together from promotion have struggled. Northants and us in same position and had problems
- We now seem to be a pinboard team between L1 and L2
- Nothing has come from the illusions/fantasy of last year. We thought it would get the club back on its feet.
- Lee Power legacy is a training ground at most!
- Seems to get in a manager and bunch of players and hope then get in another bunch. There is more to running a club than that
- Baudry is a good player when fit. He's not getting any younger. Can he do a job in L2? Maybe. But need to get on top of injury problems. A talented but fragile player
- Wholesale changes, which happens a lot at this level as teams cant afford more than a 1 or 2 year contract
- Don't know what type of manager we are likely to get.
- Covid has hit a bit, but no idea what the plan has been
- Genuinely looking forward to going to Barrow and hoping that fans will be back. But its a long drive! Not a lot else whetting the appetite, although Exeter is always good
- Do you want to go to Ipswich or a Colchester. Reality is that it will be Colchester!

I wonder what sage words we will hear from our chairman, owner and custodian of our club as he publicly reflects on what went wrong in our relegation  :hmmm:

Is there a thread of the players and their contracts anywhere? It would be good/hilarious to see what we have to look forward to seeing in a red shirt next season.

Curran and Iandolo, that is all :)

Baudry has another year.  :beers:

Eeeks.

'Eeeks'?......Are we signing him? Is he any good? Who does he play for at present? :D

‘Fackin’ suckers!’

Just noticed we’re going to swap places with Cheltenham FFS.

Pitman has an option but no doubt a relegation release clause too

Fine. That's two defeats avoided

We still got FGR

Could have sworn he was on a one year deal. He'll be dynamite in League Two though and probs about his level these days.

Torquay away, does anyone have flipper still?

FGR, Rovers, Newport, Exeter and Torquay too quite possibly.

To be fair they're some half decent away games just in the wrong league

Yeah. He’ll blow up every game!

What he on about, its 25 mins tops, either train or car!

It is properly mad looking back that this season of all seasons was the one we finally beat Oxford.

Makes perfect sense.

Because finishing well below them and getting relegated completely negates any bragging rights we had.

Similar to how during most of their run of victories over us we finished above them anyway

According to the OS, defeat to Franchise has relegated us to league 1. Should somebody tell them?

Didnt watch the game today. Was Peacock on the bench today?

Some bloke on twitter reckons he had a big arguement with Wright in the week and said he didnt want to be involved?

It sounds like the players didn't want tomget involved either

That and "What's it like to be outclassed?" - say what you like but we fucking nailed the gallows humour that day.

This season has been far far worse. Worst side in the history of the club and by Christ they fucking showed it today. Sheridan is a fucking terrible manager and he and those above him have to take the lion's share of the blame for the disgrace we have been this season, but the players today certainly have to take their share of the blame. I get that morale is low and they've been set up wrong and the tactics are shit and and and and but fuck me whatever happened to just simple personal pride? Just taking some responsibility and going out there and saying "Fuck everything else, ultimately the only thing I can only control is what I do in that 90 minutes and I'm going to do the absolute best that I can". Absolute fucking disgrace that team.

The saddest thing of all is this relegation hasn’t hurt at all today.
I guess the recent weeks have taken their toll.
Just want the parasite out and that will do for me, not worried about takeovers just want this piece of shit out of the club for good.
I won’t be going back if he has any part of this club moving forward.
I now know what the Oyston factor had on Blackpool Supporters where some of the real loyal fans said enough is enough.
Just strange that I find that so easy now.
Power out and nothing else, would make me happy to go again.

Won't be a popular view I suspect but I kinda hope the club crashes and builds up again from scratch. A total rebuild from top to bottom.

Depends what level of crash you mean

I'm not sure I know myself

I know what you mean but what worries me if we don't things sorted on and off the pitch during the summer next season could go the same way and we end getting relegated again which could finish us off.

Not sure where to put this but this guy has put together a decent thread on our history and current situation https://twitter.com/shaunjlawson/status/1386002773490257923?s=21

I suspect that the new owners from over the pond will be firmly in place by the end of May

Let's hope so😀

A great spot and easy to forget about the good times in tne current climate 

so Peacs rumour then:


@ShaneEdginton
Peacock isn't ill - He's had a row with TW

Peacock Had a big disagreement with TW midweek and doesn't want to be involved...

I don’t think they will.

What a Twat of a season. Will bounce back eventually, but could be in trouble for a few years. Don’t want to see anyone involved next season who was in this, with exceptions made to Payne and Twine.

Very difficult to say that this team is the worst in history. I have been watching since 1956 and yes there have been some awful teams and performances over the years but the whole playing setup has now changed radically and I agree that the current management and squad are way, way down in what should be expected of a club like ours. Players that once stayed for years and became a part of whole setup are a very small minority so the fact that being part of a relegation team matters little these days, so personal pride may apply to some but the next better paying club is a higher priority and possibly understandably so.  I want to think that come next August we will have a squad willing to run, fight and give 100% for the team but there are so many variables to overcome in this present sh1tstorm I am certainly not confident that we will see the 21/22 season being another glory one.

In other news, Skybet are short changing me 7 pence to cash out my relegation bet now rather than wait for the season to be over. Cunts.

Betfair paid out before the final whistle today!

Will be interesting to see how the legal wrangling pans out

it would if the need for it to be resolved within weeks wasn't so pressing

I assume it can be resolved if third parties didn't seek to prevent or delay the sale to our north American chums.

I hope they do at the moment.

no idea who they are, what backing they have or what their plans are.

just that they are Power endorsed and the beaches we know are into property development.

Assuming they exist, and aren't a stalking horse to be used in the road to administration

I did think that myself 😁

Not surprised we went down. Start of the season I really thought if we had kept the spine of last year with a couple of good signings we could have challenged for the POs, this league has been shite this year

Fear it will get even worse before it gets better, but as long as Power fucks off or gets banged up I’m not fussed

Lets hope it takes a year for new owners to come in, stabilise the club and stop the rot. Then, maybe mount a challenge in 2023/24.

My hope is that we get a new owner, halt the slide next year and preserve our efl status

Think that will have to be the aim, certainly won’t be putting money on us coming straight back up

So did Bet365.

Considering the way we have gone down without even a whimper looking like we were barely trying at times wonder if someone will look to see if big cash was lumped on our demise.....

A swift return to L2 is soul destroying.
The 8th relegation in my Town following career.
Must be one or two on here who have the full set of 10.
The good times will come again, they always do.

We could see Doyle, Isgrove, Woolery, Mullin and Knoyle passing us in the other direction soon.
Not to mention the Cheltenham contingent as well.
Reg would have had words to say about them being higher up the food chain for the first time.

Main thing for me anyway is to be able to see the familiar faces again next season, both home and away.
If those that are taking the not a penny more approach are back in August as well, then that would be a very good thing for obvious reasons.

That is the key to unlock us out from our misery or maybe lock us in for god only knows how long.

One thing is for sure, if we survive as a L2 club at the GC after Power has gone, unless we get new owner/s with confirmed financial clout willing to invest in both the purchase and development of the ground (with the trust) and the playing staff then we are going to be back to square one within a short number of seasons.

This 100%. The last point can only dream.

It's the 2nd time they've been above us as we swapped places at the end of the 05/06 season

Sent from my CLT-L09

Wells it's all  over! Thank fuck for that.

Like a loyal dog that you have to put to sleep but can't bring yourself to do it.

I saw us go down at Sheffield Wednesday...a proper old football club.....not that pile of shit that is Franchise...that pissed me off yesterday more than anything.

What a load of old shit that season was.

Painful.

See you next season mate  :)

At least we've always finished above them when in the same division.  :)

Apparently the judge hearing this case has ordered Power to open up the books to Axis to do due diligence and has stated that if a decision cannot be made between all the parties involved then he will be forced to make one for the good of the club and I think he said it should be sorted one way or another by May 22nd

I still don’t see how a judge can force Power to sell to a particular buyer. If he wants to sell to Able the only thing preventing it is the Standing situation. He will not be able to sell to anyone until the court decides who owns what of STFC.

If Power is willing to hang on a year until a court decides then the club will undoubtedly be placed in Admin as he sure as hell isn't going to fund it next season when he couldn’t be arsed to this season.

It’s the ownership that needs sorting quickly and that can only be done with the agreement of all concerned parties.

At least Clem has published a statement of intent if he buys the club. We have yet to hear one word from the elusive Yanks.

Give me 10 years or so when Bitcoin is worth a few more quid..

It really isn't, they already have recorded the most defeats in a single league season of any side in our history. And the season isn't over yet.

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/StatAttack/TeamMostAndLeast.asp?Type=Defeats&Order=DESC&Ratio=No&Club=&Venue=

Not sure "interesting" is quite the word. Vastly depressing might be a better fit

Ok, interesting from my perspective.

That's a very knowledgeable rundown.  Thanks for posting. 

Must be a Canaries fan with connections.  I recall some great tussles with Norwich when they had the likes of Bryan Gunn GK, Ruel Fox W and Robert Fleck CF.  Fleck was an awkward, charismatic bugger that used to manage to stay just the other side of c***ishness from the odious w***er John McGinlay.

Of course the judge can force him to sell.  If he decides that Power is not acting in the best interest of the club's creditors and stakeholders, which he already appears to have done, then he will order him to do so.

but can he decide which buyer

Apparently he can, but only if the relevant parties cannot come to some sort of agreement

Same here and if there aren't no crowds at the start of nex season I won't be forking out for ifollow either

Lolz.

I was tempted to go digging myself.

I don't see how the court can tell somebody who to sell their business to.

But.

I can see how the court can refuse to lift the injunction if he intends to sell to able. Which itself might effectively force Power to accept the Axis offer.

:D

At last! Someone who gets it. This is exactly the situation.

FIFY

Yes he can - in O'Neill vs Phelps the judge ordered the sale of shares from one shareholder to another creating the concept of unfair prejudice.

It essentially stops one shareholder shafting another.

I rest my case, M’lud!

Has anyone seen what I will loosely describe as 'the court papers'?  They will set out what the parties are asking the court to do.  Fan group summaries are great but the source material is much better.

It's how the Oystons were eventually forced out of Blackpool IIRC

Sort of,

Court put them into receivership meaning that Oyston had to pay the Latvian bloke what he was owed https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47229992

Which in turn led the Receiver to remove the Oystons from the board and appoint others (including fans rep) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47360416

And finally the league did not impose a penalty https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47899636

I hope that the Trust and others are talking to those involved at Blackpool as it seems potentially a very similar situation.

Ah thanks, I'd not remembered it was quite so convoluted. Let's hope we don't have to go down that route

This got me thinking actually, apart from Mullin and Knoyle (although with hindsight choosing to move to Cambridge has ultimately been the right choice but at the time it did seem unusual to see him actually make that move when he was offered a deal at STFC) you have to wonder how much the internal ownership had on the decisions that players who had had possibly the best season of their careers decided not to go on the next stage in League one and ultimately ended up the league below. (again will probably all end up playing league 1 next season)

Without knowing what is happening behind the scenes, the Isgrove and Woolery situation seemed a no brainer, continue the good work in league 1 with an upwardly mobile team. Probably nonsense but you do wonder if the players did have concerns at the club hence why they weren't grabbing the new contract with both hands.

Think it's more likely they just weren't offered as much as they wanted. Not sure how much players really know about or are that interested in what's going on behind the scenes (apart from when they don't get paid etc obviously). Clearly they know more than we do, but all the shit in the court cases etc?

Absolutely it almost certainly came to the £££ but I did wonder, as you say, how much players are aware of what is going on behind the scenes. My thinking would be more as a steer from the players agent for example who possibly are aware of what is going on behind the scenes at clubs, as surely they need to know this information so their players can make the best decision for their careers. Would they know about the Michael Standing situation for instance? I'm probably just babbling nonsense but did get the grey matter thinking.

I mean, he didn't come out and say it himself but the end of Wellens was probably exacerbated by the goings on behind the scenes. (well aware Covid didn't help either)

Yeah they might not know the exact ins and outs but you're right they'll probably still have an idea that all isn't rosy.

When all this Power/Standing/Barry shenanigans started off just after Power took over, just how did they all think it was going to end? Standing reckons - probably correctly - that his oodles of cash bought him 50% of Power’s share. But as an agent he knew it could never be divulged or formally admitted. He must have known that somewhere down the line Power would want out and all these skeletons would come a tumbling out.

Part of me thinks he deserves to lose whatever cash he put in because he’s just plain fucking stupid.

Anyone know what type of businesses Power has made his millions in as he's obviously been successful in quite a short time after retiring as a player

There’s millions to be made just by being a fat cunt. Who’d a thought it.

If only it was that easy!

Not necessarily, as noted previously with 50% Power 50% Standing (albeit basically 100% Power due to the trust or lack of trust agreement) assuming that Power could keep the plates spinning and sell the club for more than they had put in to them at least everyone was a winner, looking even more rosy when you consider the overall training ground uplift in value along with the potential for a 50% share of the ground and proceeds from that.

The one thing I have never really got, all I can assume that a hole appeared in the books, is why Power decided to get Morfuni involved in 2018 as that was only ever going to confuse things and bring a party not close to the Standing/Power 'deal' into consideration, someone who would possibly want to know what was going on, I can only assume that Power thought he would not ask too many questions.

So its all going reasonably well, we are top of the league and a possible way out emerging via either Able or an other especially if its a Lg 1 club to be flogged (whilst the fuss with Standing obviously started in late 2019, as long as there was an out perhaps he kept quiet). Then COVID strikes and the shit hits the fan, revenues vanish and whilst we get promoted its to a very unknown new world. Then that pesky Australian starts asking you to honour your deals, whilst Standing realises he has been rather mislead and suddenly the plates stop spinning and things start to emerge into the public domain.

Considering our very obvious 'can't be arsed' approach to much of the season (if we were a race horse I would imagine that Jockey and trainer would have been invited into the Stewards Room to discuss the non-triers rule) I still wonder where the final windfall is coming from?

Hasn't he already got a decent wedge from the housing, stables and training ground soon to be more housing I suspect. He's had Clem and standing paying for the running of the club. He's a fucking genius. Now for an exit strategy, able. He doesn't give a shit what they do with the club. He walks away with another wedge.