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« Reply #30 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 10:21:37 » |
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How will they fit their 40,000 fans in Whaddon Road  |
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« Reply #31 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 11:44:11 » |
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Let's hope the fixtures give their home games against Leeds and Forest in April !
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« Reply #32 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:07:14 » |
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By all accounts starnes is totally baffled
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« Reply #33 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:11:00 » |
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Press turn up - 'there is no announcement!' STFC board in Chief Wiggum moment, move along there's nothing to report here.
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« Reply #34 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:11:08 » |
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By all accounts starnes is totally baffled Awww poor old Martyn the fans have ruined all his hard work, wonder whether he's still not speaking to Mr Whippy  He's got nothing to do now either I'm guessing........didn't his only job appear to be trying to sort out this groundshare? |
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« Reply #35 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:11:11 » |
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By all accounts starnes is totally baffled So what's new !!! I still see that he's 'acting' chief exec. |
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« Reply #36 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:15:22 » |
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The Bristol Evening Post was suggesting that Rovers want to ask Bristol City to play their big fixtures (Forest, Leeds, Swindon, Yeovil) at Ashton Gate.
Me thinks not.
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« Reply #37 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 12:22:00 » |
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By all accounts starnes is totally baffled Awww poor old Martyn the fans have ruined all his hard work, wonder whether he's still not speaking to Mr Whippy He's got nothing to do now either I'm guessing........didn't his only job appear to be trying to sort out this groundshare? Especially as he couldn't get those damn plans out of his head. |
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 13:05:10 » |
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Dont think the league will allow them to do that- move grounds for certain games. Thought it was one ground only May be wrong though
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 13:41:34 » |
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"In a statement on the club's website director Geoff Dunford said the decision had been made because of Cheltenham's high quality playing surface." Which implies that Swindon's is not high quality, contrary to the odd award in the past. This explanation is quite incredible. These decisions are made based on money not goodwill. The best solution would have been Shitty, with their promotion to the Championship. Perhaps Shitty were afraid of losing support, or were miffed about the Sherpa Paint Rover trophy. Playing in the same league and sharing a ground is a bad idea. Cheltenham should not be permitted to play two "home" games against Rovers, though. The Football League should held accountable for that. |
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 13:55:00 » |
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"In a statement on the club's website director Geoff Dunford said the decision had been made because of Cheltenham's high quality playing surface." Which implies that Swindon's is not high quality, contrary to the odd award in the past. This explanation is quite incredible. These decisions are made based on money not goodwill. The best solution would have been Shitty, with their promotion to the Championship. Perhaps Shitty were afraid of losing support, or were miffed about the Sherpa Paint Rover trophy. Playing in the same league and sharing a ground is a bad idea. Cheltenham should not be permitted to play two "home" games against Rovers, though. The Football League should held accountable for that. To be fair our pitch has been a disgrace for the last few years, our award was in out league 1 play-off season I believe so a while ago now |
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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 13:56:06 » |
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Dont think the league will allow them to do that- move grounds for certain games. Thought it was one ground only May be wrong though Rovers once did move their game against us to Ashton Gate, though it was about twenty years ago so the rules may have changed since. |
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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 14:07:46 » |
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Dont think the league will allow them to do that- move grounds for certain games. Thought it was one ground only May be wrong though If there are fears that a ground is not fit to hold a certain game they are more than capable of moving it to another ground providing that the ground they are moving the fixture to is available and the owners of that ground allow it. Would also need consultation with the police and FL obviously. |
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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 15:09:36 » |
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"In a statement on the club's website director Geoff Dunford said the decision had been made because of Cheltenham's high quality playing surface." Which implies that Swindon's is not high quality, contrary to the odd award in the past. This explanation is quite incredible. These decisions are made based on money not goodwill. The best solution would have been Shitty, with their promotion to the Championship. Perhaps Shitty were afraid of losing support, or were miffed about the Sherpa Paint Rover trophy. Playing in the same league and sharing a ground is a bad idea. Cheltenham should not be permitted to play two "home" games against Rovers, though. The Football League should held accountable for that. To be fair our pitch has been a disgrace for the last few years, our award was in out league 1 play-off season I believe so a while ago now The pitch in the 70's was described as "sewage", by a national newspaper (do you recall that, Reg?), at the end of this season it looked pretty good. I think that was after the cup tie against Arsenal, in which Alan Ball made his debut and scored one of the two goals. The explanation was too much sand being applied on mud during bad winters and bad drainage (again Reg, I have had a few beers since then). They should never have made the pitch smaller, the extra space was great for wing play. Incidentally, Sturrock making sure the pitch was watered well before the Walsall game was exactly what Cloughie used to do according to his book I wouldn't call the CG pitch a disgrace, based on history, but Cheltenham's pitch being high quality may be a reason, but is not the reason. |
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« Reply #44 on: Tuesday, June 5, 2007, 15:14:37 » |
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Great news! And in answer to Fatbury's question, no, I don't think it is a lie!
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