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« Reply #58500 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 12:44:11 » |
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Nixon's got a Swindon story tomorrow. Assuming it's transfer related.
Probably something boring to do with Lewis Ward. |
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #58501 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 12:49:06 » |
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Probably something boring to do with Lewis Ward.
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Lewis Ward undergoing his medical at #cafc. Deal will be until the end of the season.
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG
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« Reply #58502 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 12:59:57 » |
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There was definitely a Sunday League team called AFC Swindon at some point and there is an AFC Swindon vets team.
I remember being told waaay back when, like early 2000s that someone had started a Sunday League team and called it Swindon City - so if Swindon became a City and the football wanted to change their name they’d have to buy the rights off this Sunday League team - how legit any of that ever was, fuck knows
Yeah I remember seeing a Swindon City as well. |
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Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG
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« Reply #58503 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 13:01:26 » |
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Nixon's got a Swindon story tomorrow. Assuming it's transfer related.
Is Power back? Used to be his only source. |
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« Reply #58504 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 14:53:50 » |
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Matthew Olusunde - from sam morshead
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Audrey
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« Reply #58505 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 15:02:44 » |
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Another classy player plagued by long term injuries - ACL and groin.
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« Reply #58506 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:07:37 » |
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aka 'cheap'
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Fuck you Leggett, fuck you.
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« Reply #58507 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:21:55 » |
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I guess if we're - at best - midmarket, and want players who will improve us, injury prone players are one way of getting it - a Zeki Fryers or a Jordan Lyden type is no doubt cheaper that a plays-every-game-every-season Paul Caddis or Jonathan Douglas, and will end up playing further down the pyramid than their talent would suspect.
One of the reasons we got Jonny Williams - who we then turned into an every weeker. That's the gamble, but I guess for every Williams you get a Devine.
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« Reply #58508 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:24:17 » |
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It's a bit shit when every signing is a complete gamble
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« Reply #58509 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:27:52 » |
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We’re be signing Manikins next  |
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« Reply #58510 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:30:17 » |
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It's a bit shit when every signing is a complete gamble
It is, but honestly, how many signings have we made in the last say, five years that didn't feel like gambles? This season's most "solid, experienced, should be good enough" signing was Kinsella, and that looked like it had gone horribly wrong until recently. The skill is getting (most of) the gambles right, rather than not gambling at all, unless you're playing with a Wrexham-sized budget. |
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« Reply #58511 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:31:42 » |
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The Wellens signings made sense - they were, in the main, proven talents from above but with those injury concerns. The difference now is we are signing unproven talent with injury records, or unproven talent full stop.
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« Reply #58512 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:32:35 » |
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Well, this fella has played 40 odd games in the Championship.
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« Reply #58513 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:38:27 » |
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And about the same in League One, then lost a season to injury. He's a very similar profile to Zeki Fryers, no? If anything a bit more experienced/less consistently knacked.
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« Reply #58514 on: Saturday, January 20, 2024, 17:45:20 » |
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And if the gamble does pay off they get sold on to one of our 'parent' clubs like Milton Keynes for £25k profit
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