I'm of the opinion that people can support whoever they choose.
Personally I'd love to see Swindon Town play at the highest level possible.... Otherwise, what's the point of wanting Town to win games?
Don't take this the wrong, however, you/we need to be realistic.
STFC in the premier league? I think our chance has been and gone.
You'll need a 40k capacity ground and fill it every home game. Look at the size of Swindon. I've been here since 1963 it's doubled in size.
Yet we get at the moment, 7-8K fans with a hard core 5k season tickets @ £260 for an adult we used to get and I know I'm going on a bit but the high teen in the late 60's, mid teens in the 70's and down to 3k in the early 80's. So let's say in Div 1 8-10k with 7k season tickets @ £300. Championship we might get 12-14k with 8.5k @ £350.
Unless we get some crooked foreign businessman willing to pump eye watering amounts of money to get us to the promised land we'll always ways at best be a good solid L1 team and a respectable Championship team. Otherwise we'll get financially fucked over like last time and take years to get back on an even keel cause make no mistake about it the current investors will be long gone by then, in fact they'll be gone after we have fully developed the ground and established ourselves in the Championship, just my opinion.
I will always be grateful for them rescuing us from the fat bubble and squeak who was squeezing the life out of us and the Wills family but I doubt they've got the balls to stump up amounts of money that we would need to a) get over the final hurdle & b) sustain us there, with b being the harder of the two to achieve.
In the PL the "home" side of the ground with be about 25% of a n other teams fans who have a ST's another 25% who you'll never see again after we get relegated and 25% of the remaining 50% will drift away over the two or three seasons after relegation. By then the begging letters from the club to take up a ST or watch the club die etc, etc will be knee deep in the hall.
Yes we can dream and I'd be delighted for the club to be successful, winning the occasional promotion and giant killing in the cup is where we are, have and always will be I'm afraid.
