It Could Be Worse..............

[axs]

they have a team in the top division in the Sunday Leagues if that helps. Im sure they won it one year as well.

WOW.

[Spencer_White]

Last time I felt like this was when King went a bit loopy and started playing Van Der Linden up front week-in-week-out to rescue numerous 2 nil home deficits. I used to despair even more listening to his post match interviews, my head dropping lower and lower as he scattered various empty comments like 'I don't know what we're doing wrong' and 'our fans are morons' down the airwaves.

I always looked forward to games when Sturrock was in charge and I don't know why, the football wasnt exactly brilliant and we didnt set the division alight with results but I always felt we'd turn in a solid performance with good effort from the team. I just don't see that anymore.

Is it me? Am I just remembering Sturrocks reign with red-tinted specs?

Come on Malpas, get those boys working and win tomorrow night.....

With King, I think everyone was stunned with Der Linden and Heywood going up front. But the ill feeling between the fans wasnt too bad that season. The strikers were rubbish that season and it seemed worth a go! We were shit, but we were shit together.

Easily easily the lowest bit, the last time I felt this depressed, was December 2002. We lost 9 games out of 11 from august to late october. In the middle of which was the fall out between players and fans at Cheltenham. In the Town End we were singing King Out week after week after week, and even when we did beat Mansfield we still sang King out, which promted the famous radio rant. It was nuclear fall out.

Then we got a good couple of away wins, but there was still loads of ill feeling, but then we got drawn away to the scum and for 2 weeks the build up was immense. Everyone got well excited and everyone pulled together. Getting beat by a goal from direct throw in, doesnt begin to sum up the misery.

Then the next week we had Crewe at home while they were looking forward to Arsenal. We made Crewe look like AC Milan and they sprayed it around everywhere and smacked 3 past us. We havnt reached those levels yet. Its more just the boredom of it all at the moment. We need some good Cup games this season now. Otherwise it is going to get pretty awful if things just drag on as they are. Plus King did seem to make spurts of progress, where Malpas only manages a couple of games before returning to same old.

With Sturrock and Wise it just felt like reputations were on the line, the stakes were high. In football player terms Malpas has had a great career, but he is well low profile. No one outside Swindon or Dundee United supporters gives a crap if he messes up.

[Bogus Dave]

you wouldnt go into a 50/50 with someone from penhill though would you

[Arch Stanton]

screenwash haha?

yeah, that or turps...

[axs]

you wouldnt go into a 50/50 with someone from penhill though would you

I've retired from football, so no.

[Arch Stanton]

I've retired from football, so no.

....because of a bad 50/50 tackle received whilst playing Penhill? Say it's so, it'll bring a wonderful symmetry to this thread.

[axs]

no, against amesbury actually.

[Arch Stanton]

Then the next week we had Crewe at home while they were looking forward to Arsenal. We made Crewe look like AC Milan and they sprayed it around everywhere and smacked 3 past us. We havnt reached those levels yet. Its more just the boredom of it all at the moment. We need some good Cup games this season now. Otherwise it is going to get pretty awful if things just drag on as they are. Plus King did seem to make spurts of progress, where Malpas only manages a couple of games before returning to same old.
 

Good post, crikey I remember that Crewe game now. You're right we havent plunged to those depths yet.

[herthab]

no, against amesbury actually.

You're still so bitter that you can't use a capital A? You've got janaageitis

[axs]

You're still so bitter that you can't use a capital A? You've got janaageitis

hehe, so true. They were cunts though.

[Arch Stanton]

no, against amesbury actually.

inflicted by some pissed off warmongering squaddie I'll wager.

[axs]

squaddies son more likely, or an army cadet. he was only 15 after all.

[flammableBen]

With King, I think everyone was stunned with Der Linden and Heywood going up front. But the ill feeling between the fans wasnt too bad that season. The strikers were rubbish that season and it seemed worth a go! We were shit, but we were shit together.

The Heywood/Linden up front thing wasn't as ridiculous as some made out anyway. Heywood was a lump who'd played up front for a bit up until quite late in his youth career (I think anyway, I swear I remember it coming up in an interview), and van der Linden always seemed like he was a step above in his general on the ball football brain ability than most of the rest of the team so probably worth a go even if he was just holding up the play up there. He scored our only goal in an away draw at Wrexham I think. I went, but all seems long ago now.

I always rated Linden as a player, thought he was quality, shame him and King apparently never got on.

I remember rumours that loads of the players didn't get on with King back then, but it never seemed to be much of an on the pitch issue for the fans as it's become with Malpas. It's a strange one really.

In fact the whole King era is a bit strange. Took over a pretty shit team which he kept up. Then maybe slightly unfairly got sacked in the build up to another broken promises regime. But there seemed to be anti feeling towards him as soon as he got his job back, I guess the public knowledge that he only got the job because we couldn't afford to pay his compensation was the main reason.

Then of course despite some shocking runs of bad form, we never got horrendously worse under him until you could pretty much put it down to the overdue things going shit in the upstairs. Then even when he got sacked it was a bit of an odd one, he'd got out of just as bad runs of form before, but the bad feeling between him and the fans had reached a point where it was untenable.

Strange all round really.

[Reg Smeeton]

you wouldnt go into a 50/50 with someone from penhill though would you

 I think I might have the wrong end of the stick here, but are you talking birds...I met an ace Penhill bird a couple of years back, well dirty.

  Her husband was up in front of the beak for domestic violence, she wanted out, and while he had some sort of restraining order, she thought she'd have some fun.

   "I'm all yours " she said, "but you'll have to be prepared to take on the baggage"
 
 This included a heroin addicted daughter and a son with an ASBO.

   "Let me think about this, and I'll get back to you after tonight" says I.

  I decided against a 50/50

   

 

[axs]

I never used to believe all your womanising stories until I started running into you in Old Town and you always had a different bird on your arm. you old bounder.