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Another TV date for Town
12:23pm Tuesday 15th January 2013 in Local
Matt Ritchie celebrates scoring Town's goal in the 1-1 draw against Doncaster in December
SWINDON Town's away game at Doncaster on Monday April 1 has been selected for live television coverage.
The game between two teams firmly in the mix for promotion will now will now kick-off at 12.15pm, and be shown live on Sky Sports.
Town's visit to Yeovil has already been moved to March 19 for live coverage.
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Stratton-marine
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1:09pm Tue 15 Jan 13
mr_flibble
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1:10pm Tue 15 Jan 13
TheDukeOfBanbury
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1:30pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Would be great to have a TV home game.....and show the Nation how good we are :)
Stilloyal
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1:37pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Talking of T.V Harry Hill has just sent Calamity James a cheque for £250, just sayin !
Stilloyal
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1:42pm Tue 15 Jan 13
We play good footie and score goals , thats what people want to see.
madterrier
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2:19pm Tue 15 Jan 13
In which case it would be fairer if Sky gave us one home game, although all of our promotion rival clashes are away from home.
hertz
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2:49pm Tue 15 Jan 13
SAPFanSTFC
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3:25pm Tue 15 Jan 13
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Like most I think that this could be a crucial 'Auto v Play-off' decision point and definitely one we want to win.
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Can't knock fans for saving £50 in petrol and the ticket but we REALLY need our fans up there!
London Red
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3:31pm Tue 15 Jan 13
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This just helps fans like me who won't be venturing that far North as a chance to watch the town in action
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Also as said it also adds vital extra coffers in the pot as we would not be getting £30k from Donny!
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So with Crawley, Yeovil and Donny thats £90k on top of our share of the gate - now surely that is enough to fund Hollands and Martin until the summer!
Oi Den!
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3:43pm Tue 15 Jan 13
hertz wrote:It might be. It can hardly fail to be better than the home game, that's for sure! That was awful - two teams just lumping the ball forward and hoping for the best. Around that time we seemed to go into a spell where we abandoned all hope of success by playing football. Thankfully we are playing a passing game again now but also mixing it up a bit. I don't think Eddie Howe was being disparaging when he talked about our game and players being more suited to the conditions than theirs on Saturday. He was probably just stating a fact. It's nice to have that bit of strength in the side to help us cope like we obviously did on Saturday. I just hope we never go back to that awful hoofball of a few months ago.
They will want the Sheffield United game as well after we beat Donny , that will be a cracker
LeGod
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5:00pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Although i've got nothing against DW that would be supreme if that happenned a last minute winner and PDC going mad on the touchline and maybe another broken dugout by one of our coaches and 20k plus gutted united fans,
KojaktheWarg
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5:25pm Tue 15 Jan 13
RamsburyRed
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5:26pm Tue 15 Jan 13
London Red wrote:If their combined weekly wage (or at least what we are expected to pay of it) is £8k and we have 12 weeks to fund after end Jan then it should indeed do it, more or less. Let's hope the board agree.
The hardcore away fans will go anyway - TV or not as that is what they do . This just helps fans like me who won't be venturing that far North as a chance to watch the town in action . Also as said it also adds vital extra coffers in the pot as we would not be getting £30k from Donny! . So with Crawley, Yeovil and Donny thats £90k on top of our share of the gate - now surely that is enough to fund Hollands and Martin until the summer!
Di kanny oh
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5:37pm Tue 15 Jan 13
DarrenSTFCRomain
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5:45pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Stratton-marine wrote:Easter bank holiday
Hmmm... First of April, perhaps SA are just trying to get in a really early April Fools joke!!
old town robin
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5:48pm Tue 15 Jan 13
Great to have 3 away games to see on Sky, but same as Oxford last season, ( I went to the £25 reception), I think there is opportunities for the marketing people to do something at the CG to encourage fans that can't travel to fill the Legends and the Winners and generate additional revenue. Obviously extra money for a televised home game might be good for the revenue but unfortunately it does tend to lower the attendance, although season ticket numbers count as attended, whether they are there or not. Haven't missed a home game since the season of dispair under Wilson, (touch wood), so not bothered too much if they televise a home game or not.
berswin
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8:18am Wed 16 Jan 13
Swindon1984
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12:34pm Wed 16 Jan 13
RamsburyRed says...
1:06pm Tue 15 Jan 13