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« Reply #135 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:07:17 » |
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I'd have Andrew Fitton back despite him having the worst STFC side in living memory and 2 exits to non-league sides on his CV.
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« Reply #136 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:08:16 » |
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I'd have Andrew Fitton back despite him having the worst STFC side in living memory and 2 exits to non-league sides on his CV.
Wasn't Iffy's side that went down even worse? Or Jimmy Quinn's team? |
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« Reply #137 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:14:52 » |
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Wasn't Iffy's side that went down even worse? Or Jimmy Quinn's team?
No. |
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« Reply #138 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:16:48 » |
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Hard to tell. On paper, the Wilson/Hart fuck up side of 2010/11 was one of the 4 or 5 worst in the Club's history for the simple reason that we have only been relegated in to the bottom division a handful of times. For a Club that has spent a good proportion of its history in the 3rd tier, we have spent surprisingly little time in the 4th (no more than 6 or 7 seasons in total). When you add in that we finished bottom that season as well, it has to be a contender for one of the worst seasons ever. (I wasn't around - in STFC terms - in the dark days of the early 1980s though. Those that were may disagree.)
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« Reply #139 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:21:00 » |
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Stats prove otherwise with defeat ratio in a season, both 96-97 and 98-99 being worse in the table than the 11-12 season. 1 1901-1902 50 matches played 80% 2 1900-1901 50 matches played 60% 3 1996-1997 52 matches played 50% 4 1955-1956 51 matches played 49% 5 1905-1906 54 matches played 48% 6 1998-1999 50 matches played 48% 7 2010-2011 53 matches played 47% But saying that.....the morale of the team and quality of football played was pretty much up there with the worst ever. |
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« Reply #140 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:26:12 » |
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Not to mention we finished bottom, even though one of our relegation rivals was deducted 10 points.
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« Reply #141 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:29:39 » |
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I should hope so JJ, we won the league in the 11-12 season  |
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« Reply #142 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:30:34 » |
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05/06 was awful but we had crap expectations, little money and some of the worst players i've seen at Swindon.
10/11 came off the back of a great campaign and Greer aside we assembled a squad that most of us thought would challenge again. then it went from bad to worse...
the parallels between the seasons are quite interesting though; sold and failed to replace a key player before the season and then sold our top scorer in january. not sure who the worst replacement was though - Benyon or Benjamin.
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« Reply #143 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:37:44 » |
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10/11 came off the back of a great campaign and Greer aside we assembled a squad that most of us thought would challenge again. then it went from bad to worse...
That was the most depressing thing about the whole season, we assembled a team that looked fantastic on paper, but was shit on grass! I was actually really positive at the start of that season, I will never learn. |
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« Reply #144 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:39:15 » |
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We should've played on paper.
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« Reply #145 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:54:28 » |
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I should hope so JJ, we won the league in the 11-12 season  |
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« Reply #146 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:56:02 » |
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Things moving quickly apparently.
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« Reply #147 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 17:58:38 » |
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the parallels between the seasons are quite interesting though; sold and failed to replace a key player before the season and then sold our top scorer in january. not sure who the worst replacement was though - Benyon or Benjamin.
Fallon's replacement was Lee Peacock from Bristol City. They actually played one game together before Fallon was sold - and we won 4-2 with both of 'em scoring i believe! http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20060128 |
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« Reply #148 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 18:04:29 » |
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Things moving quickly apparently.
Sauce? |
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« Reply #149 on: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 18:06:16 » |
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Sauce?
Morshead on twitter. There'll be more in tomorrow's adver. |
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