League One Swindon on the brink

[Cass63]

f**k um, let them go under.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Petula Clarke is re-releasing her famous hit to raise funds funds for Swindon.
“Down Town”.

 

[LeftSideBoy]

 

[Fourthstand]

I’d like to donate to the ‘save Sw@ndon’ fund, but I was keeping that 50p for something special. Soz.

 

[Scotchegg]

As @Jon-ioualways says, suffer on the pitch, slip down through the leagues and have your Histon moments, but I hope they survive as a club.

Footballing finances are exceptional fragile at the moment and one club going bust could very quickly be followed by several others. Forget salary caps and u21 PL teams, the biggest threat to lower league football is finding ourselves in the summer with a dozen or more league 1 and 2 teams out of business. And I think some would be amazed at how close that is to becoming a reality. And if it does we could start the 2021/22 campaign with only 3 professional leagues.

And, let's be honest, for all their problems in the first year, we are exceptional lucky to have a board that is not only covering the losses but are going above and beyond to keep everyone safe, secure and, hopefully, successful. But it's not too long ago that we could have been in a very different situation, and I know those fuckers wouldn't have cared, but we're better than them in every way.

So I hope they survive, but that they also suffer, not least of all by seeing us go in the opposite direction where we belong!

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Hope we go there and batter them.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

Would be funnier to see them rot in the National South losing to Dorking Wanderers and Concord Rangers than seeing them go under.

 

[OUFCGav]

I don't want them to go into liquidation, what is footy without rivalries (and there is only 1 rivalry for us - the biscuits, the chairs and the thieves don't make the grade).
But a slide down into non-league will be a good thing - losing to Kings Lynn & Wealdstone will be good for them.

 

[Leysboy]

Two words for them Sh*t and Bust!

 

[Big Ronaldo]

Don’t want them disappearing completely. However, it would be nice to know that they are indeed in our shadow for the long term

 

[QR]

the biscuits, the chairs and the thieves

Ah Carter USM, Only Living Boy in New Cross. Love that song.

 

[westyorkshireexile]

No worse than ‘Swinedump’.

We know we’re better than Swindon, it’s so clear, we don’t need to sink to their level

 

[westyorkshireexile]

No worse than ‘Swinedump’.

We know we’re better than Swindon, it’s so clear, we don’t need to sink to their level

Not really, as Swindon comes from Saxon words meaning swine Hill.

 

[Peterdev]

Hopefully they can work out a deal to merge with Swindon Supermarine and forever live in our shadow

 

[Grumpy Git]

Hopefully they can work out a deal to merge with Swindon Supermarine and forever live in our shadow

They already do.

 

[Fourthstand]

I don’t want to see them go bust. Just want to see them suffer. Maybe non league for 4-5 years?

 

[LeftSideBoy]

I don’t want to see them go bust. Just want to see them suffer. Maybe non league for 4-5 years?

And then go bust.

 

[Essexyellows]

Ah Carter USM, Only Living Boy in New Cross. Love that song.

Try Sheriff Fatman........... someone very near this place gets a "name" check in the song. Used to have a drink with Leslie.

See if you can work it out....

 

[Maurice Earp]

See the following threads on the Town End Forum

Has he gone yet?

Has he gone yet?

thetownend.com

https://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=58461.0 (Ignore the first 50 or so pages on this one)

 

[mariokempes]

I want them to spend at least 5 years in The National League (and maybe NL South)
We spent 4 years there so hope that they suffer....

More likely NL North, geography isn't a strong point with the administration at that level