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« Reply #30 on: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 17:25:34 » |
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The Championship should be our only target short term, the board have outlined this.
However, in my opinion, too many not-so-illustrious clubs have entered the Premier League in recent years to completely dismiss the notion that a team like Swindon could get promoted into the top flight for a 2nd time.
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« Reply #31 on: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 17:38:52 » |
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To be fair it took us 70 odd years of league football to get there the first time. Its not exactly suprising that we are a long way off is it?
Championship would be nice. We would get swamped by away fans again. But I'd enjoy that. It's all too cosy for Swindon fans in league 1. You either have shit northern team bringing 200 fans or big southern team filling the Stratton bank and being given massive escorts everywhere.
There's nothing like really getting the piss ripped out of you by a team like Sunderland or Pompey for providing a bit of backbone. A few gritted teeth.
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« Reply #32 on: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 17:44:16 » |
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I actually met Fitton the other day and said to him "thanks for all you've done for the club" and he said "we haven't started yet"!!! Which implys the man has high hopes.
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« Reply #33 on: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 18:35:14 » |
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I actually met Fitton the other day and said to him "thanks for all you've done for the club" and he said "we haven't started yet"!!! Which implys the man has high hopes.
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« Reply #34 on: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 19:10:41 » |
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If we were to go up to the Championship we'd get an extra 2000 glory hunting fans and up again we'd get the same again plus.Promotion comes with as many negatives as it does positives.I think we have have to face the fact that Fittons vision for Swindon is more "Reading" than "Stoke" and if the clubs to grow I suppose its the way forward.I dont know but to me it seems theres a sort of glory to being the shit club in the Prem that there wasnt the last time we were there.
Not that I went during the Premiership season , I couldnt afford it and I had more fun things to waste my money on.I went to most of the games before and after though and I regret that massivly in retrospect.
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« Reply #35 on: Monday, September 21, 2009, 22:55:17 » |
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Seems like you were not the only one feeling that way Mex. The intro of Ivan Speck's piece in the Mail on Monday reads as follows...
"Any first-time visitors to the Emirates Stadium on Saturday would have spilled out on to the Holloway Road fuelled by a curious cocktail of emotions.
"Thrilled by the spectacle of the Barclays Premier League match, certainly. In awe of Arsenal in full attacking flow and the glamour, the glitz and the majesty of the arena, yet somehow feeling evert so slightly unfulfilled."
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« Reply #36 on: Monday, September 21, 2009, 23:11:49 » |
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sssh that my pseydonum.
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« Reply #37 on: Monday, September 21, 2009, 23:17:51 » |
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I'd actually quite like us to re-establish ourselves as a solid, mid-table Championship club. Mix that with a well planned and executed ground redevelopment on the CG footprint, with the board taking full account of supporters wishes in the design, will do nicely for me TVM.
I quite like being the underdog. Most of my friends and associates support established Premier League teams and find it quite interesting that I disassociate myself from that machine and support an unfashionable club. Provides a talking point during the 9 to 5......
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 06:18:07 » |
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I quite like being the underdog. Most of my friends and associates support established Premier League teams and find it quite interesting that I disassociate myself from that machine and support an unfashionable club. Provides a talking point during the 9 to 5......
Most people I know support other teams (mostly the top ones ), a lot "look out" for the Town's result but that's as far as their interest goes. It is good to be the underdog Pumbaa, I enjoy that feeling of watching a match that you are not expected to win but do. |
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 07:02:58 » |
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If we had the stadium and were in the Premier League I could see us averaging 30k a game, albeit as a result of the people that would be coming along to see the big teams play - but they all count.
We had 11k for our first ever Premiership game!!!! We would not fill the CG as it is now for a prem game vs Burnley or Hull let alone a 30k souless bowl on the edge of town. |
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 08:32:17 » |
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Mid table championship and revamp the CG......sounds good to me...
A season of getting whipped in the Prem would be good too......but a bonus!
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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 08:47:28 » |
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We had 11k for our first ever Premiership game!!!! We would not fill the CG as it is now for a prem game vs Burnley or Hull let alone a 30k souless bowl on the edge of town.
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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 09:00:52 » |
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i think we would now because you get all the glory hunting cunt fucks reappear again
Nicely worded Tans  , and also true, the pull of the Premiership is 2 or 3 times as much as it was when we flaunted there 16 years ago. |
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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 09:20:58 » |
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We had 11k for our first ever Premiership game!!!! We would not fill the CG as it is now for a prem game vs Burnley or Hull let alone a 30k souless bowl on the edge of town.
Football is a totally different sport now than it was then.We would sell out every game in the premier league now. |
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« Reply #44 on: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 09:47:52 » |
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Football is a totally different sport now than it was then.We would sell out every game in the premier league now.
Unfortunately, it's differently priced as well. I paid £156 for my season ticket on the Stratton Bank the last time we were there (or £237 in today's money). I would be surprised if the equivalent ticket these days would go for much less than £600...which would certainly act as a brake on attendances. All hypothetical anyway. |
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