READ IT!!!...your words Lumps,if you act like a cunt on the way out...dont say you didn,t say that when the above says you did.
You have an opinion that many agree with...my question is why did he act like a cunt?...in fact he signed a contract not long before which meant we got a fucking good deal out of him moving,he didn't need to sign as it was obvious he was moving on,and could have left for almost nothing if he hadnt signed,he gave his all for the club in my view in the short time he was here and put other players to shame with his workrate,i cant think of one time when he showed us the fans or the club any disrespect and if he comes back one day he will get applause from me,not abuse.
Just because he isn't the sharpest tool in the box dosn't mean zilch to me,i prefer to remember his on field achievements,not his off field antics.
Not having a go at you Lumps,just saying how i see it,dont mean that others dont see it differently.
Try reading it again and point out to me where I say anything about Charlie acting like a cunt? I make a general point about what usually makes fans hate an ex-player, and what makes them have continuing respect for them.
I'm too far away to really be on top of how Austin behaved in his last month or so, but from comments on here, it seems some people felt his mind was elsewhere, and there are rumours that he pushed for the move, leaving us without a goal scorer in a relegation battle. And in interview he doesn't seem to have gone out of his way to make the sort of fan appeasing comments that a more sensible ex-player would.
I just think the bitterness of this season of shitness is inevitably going to colour the way people think about him, particularly when they've had a example (in Simon Cox) of a player in a similar position, who behaved differently with a much better outcome for the club.
And Arriba, I've never booed any Swindon player in my life. I've abused board members, managers (well Steve Mac), referees and opposing players, but never one of our own. I just think to parcel out the blame for this season in the way you have is frankly a bit odd. Everyone (barring themselves) hates the section of our support that is unthinking, impatient, and abusive. Every club sadly has them to some extent, but their influence only grows to the extent that it has this season when what's on offer on the pitch is so fucking shoddy that the majority of the fans are left muttering to themselves and shaking their heads, rather than making some noise to drown the nutters out.
Regardless, it's not their fucking fault that we're bottom of the table. There are numerous match day threads on here from away games where people have posted how fantastic the support was throughout the 90 minutes, and you only have to look at the table to see what fucking difference that made.
If you're parcelling out responsibility for the disaster this season has become then it runs, board, management, players and a minority of the fans a very distant fourth.
As those fans also happen to be the paying customers who make the entire enterprise fucking possible I think people's anger should really be directed a bit further up the list.
