Crewe Alexandra v Swindon Town Matchday Thread

[I JBZelieve We Will Win]

Worse than Anton Rogers.

Steady

[Mooneyraker]

Steady

I’d ask you to envisage Kadji attempting the Anton Rogers free kick…

Now imagine you also have a smart new car parked in the Town End car park or a newly launched satellite in low-earth orbit… They are getting smashed!

[Jimmy HaveHave]

I wonder what the Bristol City scouts saw in him🤔

[Batch]

I don’t accept that we shouldn’t have a better budget that the club suggests with our gates.

here's the thing that worries me most.

We have had 9k crowds last 2 seasons. We have moved external debt to Clem. We run an absolute shoestring operation off the pitch, or at least it seems like it.

All that we are still losing 500k a season.

We are driving to sustainability. ok Clem hasn't any money, fine, that's the way it is.

So what happens when we lose 1000-1500 off the gate, which is historically not a stupid alarmist value.

where are the cuts for 500k + whatever we lose in fans coming from other than rent savings? Playing budget?

And why are we fannying around *at this time* trying to get the women's team to academy status*, and pissing around with Karachi which even if you believe Zav pays for it is optically a shit sandwich.

*can't work out how they can be self funding, maybe I'm wrong

[Mooneyraker]

I wonder what the Bristol City scouts saw in him🤔

Sandro confidently suggested he’d turn out to be better than our #1 midfield target that we missed out on in the January window. I can only assume that that was Jesse Starkey.

[Batch]

kadji is young and nowhere near ready. He may be great in a year or two. who knows.

I'm not interested in throwing him under the bus but he's not our player, why bother paying him.

financial?

[Mooneyraker]

kadji is young and nowhere near ready. He may be great in a year or two. who knows.

I'm not interested in throwing him under the bus but he's not our player, why bother paying him.

financial?

It has been suggested that we are chipping away at his loan fee by playing him, yes.

[tans]

0.86 ppg average. Over the course of a season thats 41 points, which is less than Hartlepool

[theakston2k]

0.86 ppg average. Over the course of a season thats 41 points, which is less than Hartlepool

I’m guessing you’ve got that off Whelan’s tweet?  Hopefully we are approaching the end of him having any sources within the club so won’t hear much more about the club from him.

[Mooneyraker]

I’m guessing you’ve got that off Whelan’s tweet?  Hopefully we are approaching the end of him having any sources within the club so won’t hear much more about the club from him.

It is very odd how much time he spends on Swindon. I guess it could be that he gets good engagement on those posts as we have a biggish fanbase but the guy is evidently a turd.

[Batch]

I’m guessing you’ve got that off Whelan’s tweet?  Hopefully we are approaching the end of him having any sources within the club so won’t hear much more about the club from him.

where are we going to hear about the club from now?

[theakston2k]

where are we going to hear about the club from now?

Not fussed, he’s not exactly always been accurate and has always had an agenda. As bad as Nixon.

[Mooneyraker]

where are we going to hear about the club from now?

When was the last time anyone found something out in the Adver? What do they actually do?

[Batch]

fair enough. I like the rumours even if they turn out to be shit/agenda driven

[Batch]

When was the last time anyone found something out in the Adver? What do they actually do?

they don't do journalism now. the days of Andy Crier and Sam Morshead are long gone. It's mostly lots of stories picked up from a single press conference (or Facebook).

BBC wilts seem to be sidelined or under resourced too.

even Hanners is stepping away from the STBL!