Suffolk Blue wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 1:50 pm
litefoot wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 1:31 pm
I'm a Swindon fan and I'd take him over Robbie Fowler tbh
So Swindon fan - when the football press stops talking about what the EFL is about to do to whup Derby's ass, the chatter seems to mainly about the financial mess at your gaff and speculation about fines, points deductions etc. for next season. I heard some pretty horrendous stories about the debt that Swindon had accumulated to get into L1 and that would appear to have been borne out by results. When Wellens went to Salford it was obvious that something was very amiss. Even before the pub landlords best friend Sheridan was appointed.
As someone who as a boy attended the last (home) fixture with Swindon, I'd really like to have a chance at making the County Ground next season. I do hope there will still be a Swindon Town to play against.
The club has always been absymal at communicating with fans, especially under Lee Power. Apparently a survey the other year placed us down with Bury and Macclesfield on the engagement and we all know what happened to them.
Re Wellens - I got the impression that he was covering himself in case he got sacked or thinking we might go bust. This was at the start of the season when who knows what could have happened to EFL clubs - you could easily have foreseen a situation where a club went bust and there was a domino effect where other clubs didn't even have the iFollow money they were expecting from their game against a club who resigned/were kicked out of the EFL and half a dozen clubs ended up collapsing (and, of course, the more clubs who went under would have left more blank days in the fixtures). Even points deductions for missing payroll during the season would have finished clubs off - it's one thing to go to games when your club is definitely down because of a points deductoin (e.g. Luton went they went down to the NL, Peterborough in the 60s) but it's another to pay a tenner to watch a game on TV when your team is definitely down. Wellens seemed to thinking the Town were in trouble and that he'd be better off at Salford - even if they ended up sacking him at least he'd get paid up.