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« Reply #30 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 11:33:43 »

I recall a match at Southend away thinking it was the last time I'd watch this club. Can't remember the year. Must have been the same period as the aforementioned Brentford game.
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« Reply #31 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 12:58:35 »

If anything the clubs the most stable it's ever been.
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« Reply #32 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 13:25:27 »

Just unstable people in charge
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« Reply #33 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 13:40:12 »

I recall a match at Southend away thinking it was the last time I'd watch this club. Can't remember the year. Must have been the same period as the aforementioned Brentford game.
Cheltenham at home in the JPT was one that I recall thinking "this could be it"

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« Reply #34 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 14:29:03 »

Just unstable people in charge

No doubt about this - I hope it is "just" and we come through this
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« Reply #35 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 17:10:03 »

We have a club. Yes it might be during bad times, but the club have done well to survive. Wages have been paid, and no-one, that I am aware of, has been made redundant. No income, or very little.

New Training Ground in progress.

Not all bad, but not all good. Wellens started the sinking ship and was certainly a coward jumping. He made poor decisions on recruitment. What we don't know who actually makes the footballing decisions.

Is Power a cunt? I don't think he is. Does the club need a change. Yes, most definitely. There is more going on behind the scenes than anything we all know about. Who, can honestly say, they would want to buy a football club even more so during the last 12 months.
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« Reply #36 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 17:15:23 »

Who, can honestly say, they would want to buy a football club even more so during the last 12 months.
Sorry but that's a bollocks argument, the same as "Ooh, Boris is doing the best he can, would you do any better?". No I wouldn't want to buy a football club. But I didn't. Power did. He bought our club. And he's making a right fucking mess of it at the moment.
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« Reply #37 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 17:32:07 »

Who, can honestly say, they would want to buy a football club even more so during the last 12 months.

Me. If I had the money.
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 17:40:49 »

is power a cunt?

yes.

and no I'm not quantifying the reasons I think that
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 17:43:34 »

Who, can honestly say, they would want to buy a football club even more so during the last 12 months.
If I had a fairly large supply of money then yes I would, If I had a smaller amount of wealth as Lee Power appears to have then no I wouldn't.
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 18:16:15 »

Wellens didn't start the sinking ship, COVID did.  Wellen's recruited poorly, but ideally didn't want to recruit the majority of those positions at all, Covid put paid to that.  Once he had to recruit there wasn't the same level of money available, because of Covid.

Did he jump ship? of course he did, and I would have done exactly the same given similar circumstances.  Would I have done it in a more honest and honourable manner, I would hope so.

As for is Power a cunt, I concur with PV.  He likes to play in a wealthy mans world, which is manageable in the normal world, but in the new world he is out of his depth.  This just proves that him financing the ground purchase and the training ground without dipping in his mates pockets was not viable and therefore he has sold us a pipe dream, for that he is a cunt.  He should have sold a long time ago, but didn't because he was greedy.
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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 19:25:21 »

Malpas was under Fitton. Wills/Diamandis ended around 2006-7, with the Power/Emmel/Trust takeover efforts not getting much traction and the board ended up selling to Fitton & co. from memory.

I think BEST holdings were a brief, terrifying flirtation during that period too. https://thewashbag.com/2012/11/07/hall-of-shame-20/

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Some memories there (most of them bad!) Arthur Hunt, what a terrible commentator, he didn't rate Fjortoft!
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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 20:31:29 »

If I had a fairly large supply of money then yes I would, If I had a smaller amount of wealth as Lee Power appears to have then no I wouldn't.

Interesting, how much do you personally want/need to then be able to support a club like Swindon to a level you’d feel was appropriate?
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« Reply #43 on: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 09:15:19 »

Interesting, how much do you personally want/need to then be able to support a club like Swindon to a level you’d feel was appropriate?
A lot, I would be talking about Roman Abramovich levels to comfortably afford to invest in the ground, team, staff, infrastructure etc...
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« Reply #44 on: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 09:20:35 »

Who, can honestly say, they would want to buy a football club even more so during the last 12 months.

Not a chance. I wouldn't have the patience to deal with the % of football fans that seem to know everything and are massively vocal about it. Way more hassle than its worth IMO.

What I might be inclined to do, if I did have a ridiculous sum of money behind me is just be a very silent benefactor and let people that have experience to deal with that. Even then I'd be likely to get grief and a driveway painted etc.
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