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Hi everyone,

Terry here (the artist formally known as Panda Paws).

Thanks to the admins for sorting out our account; I won't be posting too much on here but we can use this thread for questions, updates, plans etc. Maybe we could pin this thread until December 21?

First update: hats are back in stock. Someone, somewhere mentioned they wanted 10 for family members or something, so hopefully they see this and get their order in this time!

https://ko-fi.com/s/cc302c5b21

Thank you so much for the support so far, it's been overwhelming to say the least.

Most importantly, please please please show up on December 21.

TP

Well done Terry for everything you lot have set up in a short space of time and the momentum you have gained, couldn't think of a better 3 to take this forward!

But absolutely right, a lot of us constantly moan on here and now is the time to do something about it. If able to we must turn up on the 21st and give our full backing and apply as much pressure on the ownership as possible.

Well done guys. I'm so happy to see so much of the fanbase on board! Let's bring these fuckers down.

Must be close to 1k hats sold now. Cracking stuff and nice one Tel et al x

 :bye: :clap:

Morning everyone,

We could do with 6 volunteers for Saturday, handing out leaflets and hats between 1345 and 1430.

If anyone is willing and able to help, can you ping me an email on [email protected] with your mobile number.

Cheers

Just checking, is that email address correct?

I wondered that surely its 69 and not 60?

Good work Terry.

Can we push everyone to try and get tickets in the TE that day, get some noise going. Rather than be spread out and quiet. Plus, it's cheaper so less funds

Amended. Basic admin error.

Are you sure you arent Clem? :)

"Happens to the best of us" - Clem Morfuni

 :D

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

First time poster, ordered a orange hat for the 21st, are people planning on wearing them this weekend?

Absolutely. Should be wearing them every game. Thinking about getting a banner made.  

Will be wearing mine this weekend.

Are hats available to buy this weekend and where abouts will you be positioned? Unsure if the club will try to move you on if selling at the ground.

What happened to the banners/flags lot would they be up for this or still tied in with the club?

Who was that bloke who did all the flags and banners, was it Jaybox?

Have ordered a hat with SO69 but have also ordered a cheap one off Amazon to be here for the game this weekend

I think it was, I did ask the question on twitter if the GW Reds would consider getting back together for this but I believe he said there was no plan to.

Yeah, GW Reds.

He was a big fan of Clem, and was always defending him from criticism.
Think he has somewhat changed his mind now

Fuck sake if Oasis can do it why can't they....

Yeah he cant stand him now

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I think like a lot of people he was taken in by the Morfuni bullshit.
Would be interesting to know what made him see the light.

For me the change came when he threw Rob Angus under the bus.

This is what really annoys me. There is an ever increasing number of examples of Morfuni using people and them eventually falling out. Yet there are still people that think Morfuni has the clubs interests at heart. There’s literally a mountain of evidence to the contrary, it’s absolutely clear the type of character Morfuni is, he’s a pathological liar who only cares about himself and will happily use people to get what he wants.

Not an exclusive position, I don't know of anyone who has met him that has upheld their initial good view of him - Hanners (STBL), GWReds (including Jay), even Dean here to a certain extent.

That's not a criticism of these people. Most of us welcomed him, but only a few of us have met him.

Thing is it doesn't matter if he's sinner or saint. The club is a mess either way. I don't get why some people can't see that and persist with "its fine, its the recritment not Clem".

It started way before for me, but that was probably the point of no return. I stopped believing he might just be incompetent at that point.

Making Rob Angus from the trust the chief exec was a master stroke on Clem’s part.

The Man City thing did it for me.

Especially after ringing season ticket holders begging them to give up refunds

Almost anyone could have taken over just by dint of not being Lee Power - I certainly welcomed it.

He won’t  give a flying fuck when we eventually go tits up. Just leg it back to Oz and never look back.

Wonder if he’s watching The Day of the Jackal and maybe, just a little bit . . .

I can't remember if this came before or after finding out he wanted to keep a convicted money launderer who was here under Power Vice Chairman, but both of those were early WTF signs.

We all jumped on the bandwagon of hope on Day 1. It wasn’t based on evidence. And then on Day 1, they released that ridiculous statement talking about Austin had been beaten up, but was a key figure for the club. From that moment, alarm bells rang - but we tried to ignore them. Zavier Austin is at the absolute heart of this and as much, if not more of a problem than Morfuni. He clearly has some form of leverage over him. If I was part of this mob, and I wanted an untouchable lapdog front man to help deflect blame, I might also choose the guy who lives in Sydney.

You can put glitter on a turd, but it always washes off in the end  ;D

100% on the leverage, I’m convinced without proof that he has shares in the club off the books.

That statement about how Zav was beaten up was published by Zav to send Lee Power a message.. That’s how much he, at least, was involved in the day to day running of the club.

I mean, it was obvious from the spiv-like, childish grasp of the English language, that Zavier Austin wrote the statement that made the takeover of the club news all about Zavier Austin’s black eye.

I am back at Christmas, I'll get Loud & Proud back together, although without Reg having a subtle pop, not sure it would be the same.

Hoping a few of the fans that have decided to stay away are swallowing their pride, (myself included)
If a few more of the fans that decided to stay away start attending and try to bring a friend or encourage another stay awayer to come back.

We are in a terrible state at the moment, really need the fans to back team and help get us out of this.

LOVE THE CLUB
HATE THE BOARD
LOVE THE CLUB
HATE THE BOARD
LOVE THE CLUB
HATE THE BOARD

Back holidays, or back back?

Apologies if I missed it, but any plans on a sea of vocal orange in the town end on the 21st?

would be great to all get together in T2/T3 and put all that energy to good use.

No good being spread all across the DRS.

Not seen anything, but I'm not so sure. I grouping might be batted off as a "troublesome group", a less concentrated splattering "widespread discontent".

Not sure it really matters, the focus will be outside the ground anyway.

Or

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
OUT OUT OUT

Personally think it will go the other way - I have a season ticket but do I want to do a 2.5 hr round trip and give up my Saturday afternoon. Not really.

Completely understand that. When the fun stops, stop.

I think there was reason to get behind Clem for the first year. He brought in Chorley, Garner and a pretty decent experienced squad with some exciting young players. I forgave some of the early red flags.

It was after that it all fell apart for me. The appointments of Sandro and Lindsey (I know he's done well since, but taking a month to appoint the assistant and claim he was your number 1 choice?!) and then everything escalated.

I've been boycotting since the start of last season (I have been to a few games with free tickets) but I will go to the Grimsby game.

Fun stopped some time ago Mate.
Only feels like yesterday when we bumped into each other at Wrexham.
Both of us complaining about getting sunburnt. 4-1 up at halftime.
That precise moment in time was a special time.

Now here we are, no hope and it’s no fun.
Only knows where the Club and myself go from here. 120 mile round home trips feel longer.

I will be on the train Saturday and will be protesting on the 21st with my lad who is back home then.

So wound up and angry.

I was so looking forward to going to the games again after living out of the country for a few years.

It’s taken 18 months for me not to give a shit anymore. 56 years of supporting the club, come what may, and it’s come to this.

Tbh, for me, it’s worse than the team doing so badly. Ned Kelly and his bunch of loathsome spotted reptiles have achieved something I didn’t think was possible - not giving a shit.

Bastards.

You're not wrong.

Its unravelling at such a pace now. We've been through shit times. But this feels different.

Good morning all.
I cannot make the 21st but I have been bought a ticket for Saturday which I have decided not to decline. I hope to be in a sea of orange unlike last season.  :)I
Well done to the organisers for getting a protest up and running. I think it may be too late to force change before we drop. But, i'm in it for the long haul. Let's get rid of these imposters and move towards happier times!
The worry is that Clem sells (assuming he actually owns any of it) to a mirror-image of himself and the decline continues. The club dies if we don't at least try to resuscitate it, so I raise a glass in hope to our future success.  :pint:

Orange hats ready for the weekend, and will be down for the 21st.

As depressing as this all is and I feel exactly the same......but the comeback from this will be epic. Appreciate I went on a massive rant just yesterday and it'll be tough getting back in the league if we go down which we almost certainly will, but our false dawn under Clem shows the potential of the place.

We will get our club back eventually and when we do, I'm here for it. Season ticket, home and away shirts, just take my money whatever league we're in.

I wish I had your level of optimism.

We go down & I don't think I'll ever see Swindon Town in the football league again in my life time.

If we go down, I doubt that we will claw our way back up.

The thing that we have in our favour compared to other league clubs that have gone down and stayed down is the fan base, attendances and potential. I know that it isn't a given but it makes it more attractive for a rise of the phoenix scenario. Clubs like Chester, Bury, Scunthorpe, Hereford etc isn't comparable in that sense. hopefully...

I had Oldham in my list and then took a look and they are a bit weird, league 2 average attendance floated around low 4000. their conference average attendance is now around 6500.

If Clem's still the owner i cant see our attendances in the National League being above 4k. If we have a new owner by then that has invested and things are looking bright we might be able to hit 7k

Grimsby went down and came back up and their attendance is like 5k or something. No disrespect to clubs like Bury but we're a different animal.

This is all based around getting a decent owner in of course. The issue with The National League is only two go up,  so it wouldn't be a given. But I absolutely expect with a decent owner we would be at the right end of the table and competing.

But go down and stick with Clem and the crooks and we could genuinely go down again.

make no mistake the optimism in my post was only dependant on clem being ousted

What can morfuni gain with us dropping out the league?  :hmmm:

Also, does the ground development still have to go ahead if we do drop? Mayne the 2 are connected?  :sherlock:

If we go down with Clem&Co still in charge, we'll go down again.

Is the governance in the NL as stringent, or would it be even easier to get up to some dodgy financial dealings

Easier

Surprised there isn't more interest from the FA, particularly when you look at the history.

It's not the FA's job. Anyone can submit a suspicious activity report to the National Crime Agency though (if there's any evidence)

Just for Christmas.

How's the job hunting going, Rob?

It went well, started end of July with HomeServe.  The downside is the COO is a Walsall man and has been revelling in my misery.

You can get in his good books and get them to stop bombarding me with snail mail trying to get me to sign up to their plumbing cover every 6 weeks or so. I mean it's not far from the front door to the recycling bin, so minor in the grand scope of things, but does seem a little aggressive in their tactics.

Morfuni goes and if we're towards the top end of the NL I think we'd average 7500+ home fans a game. Momentum can and has played a massive part in recent lower league clubs, I've thought last couple years we might benefit from going down to gain that momentum, but all depends on the crooks leaving.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/this-sydney-plumber-saved-an-english-soccer-club-now-the-fans-want-his-head-20241129-p5kung.html

What a load of shite

Behind a pay wall could you copy and paste the text?

Three years ago, Sydney businessman Clem Morfuni was being hailed as a saviour. He became owner of English soccer club Swindon Town just before the 2021-22 season kicked off. Had he not, the club may have died. He endeared himself to supporters, promising to restore their team to its former glory. Long-suffering diehards dared to dream again.

Today, Morfuni is almost a pariah in Swindon, a drab railway town two hours’ drive west of London, where there is little else to do but follow the fortunes of the cherished local soccer team.


Things haven’t been going well. And everyone is blaming him. To the point where he’s effectively being chased out of town.

“Welcome to English football,” Morfuni, a former plumber who founded the Axis Services Group and is worth a reported $200 million, tells this masthead.

“It’s not for the faint-hearted, I’ll tell you.”

Since losing on penalties in League Two’s promotion play-off semi-finals at the end of his first season as owner and chairman, and the high of hosting Manchester City at home in the third round of the FA Cup in that same campaign, Swindon Town has been trapped in a grim downward spiral, churning through players and coaches at an alarming rate.


This week’s 4-0 defeat to Colchester United has bumped them down to last place in League Two; relegation, which some fans believe is a certainty if Morfuni remains in charge, would end their 104-year spell in the Football League and condemn them to semi-professional competition.

Six months ago, the Swindon Town Supporters’ Trust called for Morfuni to step aside, declaring they had lost all confidence and faith in his leadership. The anger and tension has built since then. Last week, a separate fan protest group formed, committing to rolling “non-obstructive” action with the sole purpose of pressuring Morfuni into selling the club, saying they “will not rest” until it happens.

English media typically doesn’t cover the ins and outs of fourth-tier football, but Swindon’s ongoing plight has captured national attention - helped somewhat by the presence of inimitable lower-league quote machine Ian Holloway, who became the sixth permanent manager during Morfuni’s reign as chairman when he was appointed two months ago. Working his first job in four years, Holloway is still yet to record a league victory, and recently suggested their struggles could be because Swindon’s training ground, located near an ancient burial site, is haunted.

According to Sam Morshead, the founder and editor of The Moonraker, an independent website which covers Swindon Town, the relationship between the community and the owner has been strained by the team’s on-field decline - and then snapped entirely when, last year, the club was fined £10,000 by the Football Association because Morfuni failed to disclose that he had sold shares to another party.

“It’s that sort of issue, when you come in on a mandate of transparency, where things have fallen down. Basically, trust has been broken between the fanbase and him,” Morshead says.

“I don’t think he has really clocked that, and he probably feels quite personally affronted by what’s going on at the moment. I can sort of understand that, because he has put a considerable amount of cash into the business - but there’s more to running a football club than there is to running a construction business. And I think the clash of cultures between how he does business to make the money that he has, and how you need to do business to maintain a football community in a lower league club in the UK, has just been incompatible.”

Morfuni only got into club ownership out of a longstanding love for the game, and says he’s still in it for the same reasons. And while he understands where fans are coming from when they say they want him gone, he reckons the reality isn’t so simple.

If he was accused of impropriety, of taking money out of the club or not investing enough in it, he says he could understand. But their budget was doubled this season.

He insists he can still fix things.

“Like I’ve said in the media, show me a proof of funds, a letter of offer, and someone who can do this a lot better than me, and by all means, I’ll sit down with them, and I’ll go through it. And if I believe it’s best for the club, I’ll go,” Morfuni says.

“But where are they? Show me. I’ve had a lot of people come to me and go, ‘Clem, we want to buy the club.’ And I go, ‘Yeah, alright. Have you got a proof of funds?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ll send you a proof of funds.’ Guess what? No proof of funds.

“So you’re looking for a billionaire who’s going to put millions of pounds into a club, go to an advisory board meeting once a month with the supporters, and if it doesn’t go well, you’re going to get battered. You’re going to get abuse on social media, you and your family.


“I said, if you find that person, can you let me know? Because I want to meet this guy.”

Morfuni is a season ticket holder at Tottenham Hotspur, and points to the treatment of Ange Postecoglou as another example of how fickle fans in England can be.

“If next season, we stay up we get promoted ... mate, they’ll build a statue,” Morfuni says.

“I don’t know what Ange thinks, but at least he’s making four or five million quid a year. If I was making four or five million quid a year out of the club, I’d say, ‘You know what? I can cop it.’ But when you’re copping it, and it’s costing you money? Trust me, it’s not a pleasant place to be at all.

“The English are brutal. It’s their religion, football. But listen, I’ve been in construction for 30 years. I can fight with the best of them.”

What an arrogant wanker. Wonder if this is a bit of a slip too?

Clearly the Sydney Morning Herald is not aware of the Steam museum!

It's standard stuff, just written a bit more sympathetically to the Australian. The complete lack of any reflection is normal now, but how you can write "Swindon Town has been trapped in a grim downward spiral, churning through players and coaches at an alarming rate" and not... consider who the one constant in that time is is remarkable.

Didn't know Clem had a Spurs ST though. Can't imagine he uses that much.

Build a statue of him?! Only effigy of him we’d build is scarecrow version to throw on a bonfire. Every word that comes out of his mouth just reaffirms the type of character he really is!

So disrespectful to the club's history. Build a statue for a chairman who gets us up to the Prem maybe, not promoted from fucking League 2. Pathetic 

I sometimes think people take the mutterings of Calamity Morfuni too seriously.

He's an Antipodean builder for fuck sake- everything is a joke to him.

If ever you wanted a quote to sum up the complete disdain this man has for the fans - it is this:

“If next season, we stay up we get promoted ... mate, they’ll build a statue,” Morfuni says.

No Mr Morfuni, we won’t. You’d be lucky to get a dog shit bin named after you.

Noticed in early articles he talks very differently to the Aussie media.

Arrogant wanker.

Re Nemo’s comment about the Tottenham ST
I remember reading somewhere that Axis were one of the services contractors in the new Spurs stadium construction - hence that was the link.

That in turn was why I assumed he got involved with Swindon - stadium redevelopment was a way he could make money through his Axis business. More difficult now the UK arm has wound up however…

Wonder if its a paid for season ticket or a free one?

Cant be having free ones you know.

What an utter twat, he just doesn't get it, never will.

Even more difficult now considering that his JV partner have publicly come out and said they don't want him here at all. Considering the massive CoI his contracting firm doing the work would have created I was always somewhat surprised that people thought the Trust would just let him get on with it and it would be his big cash bonus for owning this shit show.

Saved?  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
So what do you call what you are doing to this club now numbnuts?

well Power got us promoted with a league winning side and we haven't built a statue after him :smugfu:

I think that is amongst his most damaging interviews. I hope the Adver re-print that. He is so unbelievably ignorant when it comes to comms and PR.

There’s an undercurrent of him talking to an Aussie who gets him, unlike the dopey Swindon fans on the other side of the world, who would be so fickle as to build a statue if there was a promotion.

You started with a clean slate, which is why you were once popular Mr Morfuni. As soon as people saw what you actually had to deliver - a complete vacuum of ability, meandering and incoherent rhetoric, and a difficult relationship with the truth - your reputation started to align with your character.

But they won't will they, see also their complete radio silence about the past of those close to the supreme leader.

I don't know how to put images in here but plans for the 21st:

https://x.com/so69fangroup/status/1865079027184132189

If someone else does know how, feel free to rip them and post them.

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That worked better than I'd expected.

Well done to all involved, hope we can get as many people there as possible. My orange hat has arrived in time for tomorrow

I just dug my orange hat out, might go tomorrow now.

One, this shits all over the premise of the actual meaningful and rightly celebrated statue of Don Rodgers and a peak point in the clubs entire history. This just shows Clem up as being even more of a cunt.

Two, we will never, never ever build a statue in your name you fucking cunt, so eff off with trying to victim blame the fans for your own misgivings. Jeez he's more of a narcissist than a narcissist

I bet it is a freebie. The freeloading wanker

As we are marching on the shortest day of the year is it worth ordering a few of these, in orange of course?

https://www.temu.com/ul/kuiper/un9.html?subj=coupon-un&_bg_fs=1&_p_jump_id=895&_x_vst_scene=adg&goods_id=601099670433140&sku_id=17592795394214&adg_ctx=a-786d8caf~c-f5fdfc13~f-513f23ba&_x_ads_sub_channel=shopping&_p_rfs=1&_x_ns_prz_type=-1&_x_ns_sku_id=17592795394214&_x_ns_gid=601099670433140&mrk_rec=1&_x_ads_channel=google&_x_gmc_account=710731536&_x_login_type=Google&_x_ads_account=6950480996&_x_ads_set=21215360554&_x_ads_id=161793958696&_x_ads_creative_id=697208216761&_x_ns_source=g&_x_ns_gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuZz3je-YigMVFYtQBh2n8y4AEAQYBSABEgKtf_D_BwE&_x_ns_placement=&_x_ns_match_type=&_x_ns_ad_position=&_x_ns_product_id=710731536-17592795394214&_x_ns_target=&_x_ns_devicemodel=&_x_ns_wbraid=Cj4KCAiAgdC6BhBrEi4Afa7mOxA1sjmHWVdChIZLsS-zU6mp06qOvxsk1fEYlgV3g6oFmJTMbqTSUmDhGgIQDA&_x_ns_gbraid=0AAAAAo4mICGQEdOQ0RUbFbZ3t0SHRJQ6p&_x_ns_targetid=pla-2299298078558&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuZz3je-YigMVFYtQBh2n8y4AEAQYBSABEgKtf_D_BwE

They last about 10 hours and you will see them in the stands during the match for sure, along with all our hats.  :toocool:

That's a hell of a link  :soapy tit wank:

I doubt they will let you in the stadium with them anyway

Wouldn’t buy anything from Teemu for multiple reasons

Yeah, like it wouldn't get here in time.

Aliexperess is great for Chego (chinese Lego) by the way

At least spell a 3 letter word correctly!

Thank you 😀

At least write a 7{seven} word sentence correctly correctly!

Just noticed that you are two posts away from number 56789, Batch. It's a pretty cool one, as it is not a:

Prime
Fibonacci
Bell
Catalan
Factorial
Regular
Perfect
Palindromic
Polygonal

Thought you might like that one  :)

Now don't post any more as it will mess with everyone's OCD if you go past it!

So 500 freebie orange hats given out Saturday. Is there another batch for the 21st?

At least 300, hopefully more, will be given out on the day plus the 400 pre-sold will be delivered by then too, so well over 1000 hats out there somewhere!

I see that Boo moron was complaining about it on X

I'm blocked. What has he got to say this time?

Coz he didn't get one?

There's a nice Clem it's time to sell banner hanging over White Hart roundabout

Moaning about how people were only wearing them because it was cold and they were free.

Then moaning about children wearing them blaming parents for corrupting them

Then he had a rant about paying people by saying do you wait till payday to pay your barclaycard. That may be the case but at least most people actually pay! This lot dont allegedly

LMFAO fuck sake.

Nothing but a troll that people should just block and not engage with.

Children being taken to the county ground by their parents will probably curse them for something other than the orange hat...

Who’s funding the free hats🤔

Stfcboo :)

🤣🤣

I'm pretty sure he believes it. As do the usual suspects on FB. Indoctrinated.

People keep putting 10p in that imbecile.

Bet he has a Clem tattoo somewhere on his body.

Funding? The sale of the branded hats and some donations. Same as everything else we've spent (leaflets, postage, tifo to come etc).

Who's cash-flowing it? Me, for now, but Stripe will pay out any day now.

If anyone's interested in the detail: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pFLSfIVxwMfS6Ov51jQwkldHpo457I9mVPGIcWspE_0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

now that is #OpenAndTransparent

Fantastic job you’re doing I had no idea how much work you’ve been doing and appreciate your openness sharing the detailed information.

Need to see a more detailed break down of your admin fees I think. What is the thickness of the embroidery thread and is it cotton or polyester? We demand answers!

Brilliant, well explained, maybe the club could use this system and show us the true state of affairs. 

Featuring such breakdowns as enough cocaine to supply Bobby brown and Witney Houston on tour