Ritchie shortlisted for League Two Player of the Year (From Swindon Advertiser)

SeanG92 wrote:
Strange Di canio isnt up for manger and Lee Clark is when he got sacked :P Cant see past Ritchie for the player of the season tho

Stickshaker wrote:
Good luck Matt. and after last night's performance, the League's worst fans goes to Swindon Town. the average STFC fan is clueless about the game and should stick to watching Gary Lineker on a Saturday night. Even Caddis in front of the DR could not believe some of the comments. . GET BEHIND THE TEAM !

London Red wrote:
Matt has to win it really - especially as 1 player is not even in L2! . Boos were ridiculous - even if we were cr@p - considering what they have done this year they should be allowed a cr@p half or game now and again and still be supported . It was not as if they were not trying like last years losers! . Would be ironic if Clark did win - but has he been harshly treated? . He has been given an absolute fortune (Ward was £1m alone this summer) yet has failed to deliver promotion for what is looking like a 3rd striaght year! . Like PdC said this week - if we win 10 straight and break a record it counts for nothing if we don't go up! . If PdC had us in Oxford's position after the support he had been given by the board would lots of our fans still be singing his praises? . I know some would - but lots have said non promotion is total failure - so should people be rewarded for failure? . Anyway - only Freedman has done anything this year out of those 3 - shows the nominations are at the wrong time of the year . Just like team of the year - bet the L2 team will not be full of our players even though at least 6 should be in it! . Wes, Caddis, Flint, Macca, Ritchie and Ferry should all be considered . Though only one of Macca or Flint should get in alongside McFadzen at CB . Strikers would be interesting as both Tubbs and Barnett would be in the running but neither are in L2! . Must be Kee and McLoed now

Reality Red wrote:
All good points as always. Creepies must be in a pickle! I dont want to do old ground but yet again our crowd number was poorish, if you take into consideration 5k season tickets in. If 25000 go to wembley, great, but that does not equate to a crowd of under 8000 for a top of the table clash. Something is wrong somewhere and it may well be price lead. That price surely has to be 19.95 max from now on. We must be trying to get 10000 in the ground otherwise its selling a bad story to PDC and JRAY about how much people in Swindon want good football. Finally to Boo after our run is just moronic, very very sad and I can only praise the calm way PDC pointed out to those people that that is just wrong.

ICDeadpeople wrote:
Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

We are PANTS wrote:
Off subject slightly, i have 10 seats remaining on a 57 seater coach departing the Merlin @ 8.15 if anyone is interested? It is a family friendly coach and the cost is £17.00 per head.. You can contact me at stfc1963@yahoo.co.uk .... T

London Red wrote:
Watkins said the other week that 65% of the fan base lived outside the Swindon area . That would explain lower midweek attendances! . I can never go to midweek games at the CG

ctown_red wrote:
shortlist for stfc player of year will be a tough one this year, at the present moment i would go for a top 5 of

1st, Paul Caddis
2nd Alan Mccormack
3rd Wes Foderingham
4th Aden Flint
5th Matt Ritchie

what would everyone else's be?

RamsburyRed wrote:

We are PANTS wrote:
Off subject slightly, i have 10 seats remaining on a 57 seater coach departing the Merlin @ 8.15 if anyone is interested? It is a family friendly coach and the cost is £17.00 per head.. You can contact me at stfc1963@yahoo.co.uk .... T

Any idea where it is going? Magical mystery tour?

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

RamsburyRed wrote:

We are PANTS wrote:
Off subject slightly, i have 10 seats remaining on a 57 seater coach departing the Merlin @ 8.15 if anyone is interested? It is a family friendly coach and the cost is £17.00 per head.. You can contact me at stfc1963@yahoo.co.uk .... T

Any idea where it is going? Magical mystery tour?

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Courtesy of the BBC:
Crawley chief executive Alan Williams said: "Our manager is extremely disappointed that Tyrone is leaving but the offer from Peterborough not only met but exceeded our board of directors' valuation.
--
Let's hope he blows a gasket

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Stickshaker wrote:
Good luck Matt. and after last night's performance, the League's worst fans goes to Swindon Town. the average STFC fan is clueless about the game and should stick to watching Gary Lineker on a Saturday night. Even Caddis in front of the DR could not believe some of the comments. . GET BEHIND THE TEAM !

bullyfish wrote:
west country tonight on htv suck, mentioned swindon at start and said action to follow later in show and guess what, absolutely nothing, no highlights and not even mentioned again, total joke

Red Army wrote:
I think the price is a fair cost to watch league football. people want everything cheaper but in the real world you get nothing for free. there are teams you can watch cheaper supermarines for one.
Regarding fans from Swindon I really would like to know how many from the county ground are from Swindon. I know twenty or so regulars at the CG and only 2 are local. The rest like my family travel to swindon.
We have one good little football league team in Wiltshire no major rugby teams and the support is not the best. I know times are hard for some at the moment but for the last eight years Ive been a season ticket holder people have complained about the cost. for the quality of football we are watching at the moment and the fact that Swindon are one of the cheaper football league clubs out of the four divisions you would think there should be far more fans.

Oi Den! wrote:

Reality Red wrote:
All good points as always. Creepies must be in a pickle! I dont want to do old ground but yet again our crowd number was poorish, if you take into consideration 5k season tickets in. If 25000 go to wembley, great, but that does not equate to a crowd of under 8000 for a top of the table clash. Something is wrong somewhere and it may well be price lead. That price surely has to be 19.95 max from now on. We must be trying to get 10000 in the ground otherwise its selling a bad story to PDC and JRAY about how much people in Swindon want good football. Finally to Boo after our run is just moronic, very very sad and I can only praise the calm way PDC pointed out to those people that that is just wrong.

£19.95? Are you in advertising or marketing?!
.
Seriously though, I find it difficult to see how we get only 8,000 fans for crucial promotion battles but 10,000 for a less important game - and against lower opposition - in a knockout competition.

Oi Den! wrote:

Reality Red wrote:
All good points as always. Creepies must be in a pickle! I dont want to do old ground but yet again our crowd number was poorish, if you take into consideration 5k season tickets in. If 25000 go to wembley, great, but that does not equate to a crowd of under 8000 for a top of the table clash. Something is wrong somewhere and it may well be price lead. That price surely has to be 19.95 max from now on. We must be trying to get 10000 in the ground otherwise its selling a bad story to PDC and JRAY about how much people in Swindon want good football. Finally to Boo after our run is just moronic, very very sad and I can only praise the calm way PDC pointed out to those people that that is just wrong.

£19.95? Are you in advertising or marketing?!
.
Seriously though, I find it difficult to see how we get only 8,000 fans for crucial promotion battles but 10,000 for a less important game - and against lower opposition - in a knockout competition.

avo wrote:
Personally, I think 'wem-berley' and 'we're top of the league, we're top of the league, we are the swindon, we're top of the league' will be great chants on March 3rd.

Malkym wrote:

avo wrote: Personally, I think 'wem-berley' and 'we're top of the league, we're top of the league, we are the swindon, we're top of the league' will be great chants on March 3rd.

Only if we're winning the game by a comfortable margin! Egg on face and all that! and anyway for one reason or another we might not be top of the league then!

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Courtesy of the BBC: Crawley chief executive Alan Williams said: "Our manager is extremely disappointed that Tyrone is leaving but the offer from Peterborough not only met but exceeded our board of directors' valuation. -- Let's hope he blows a gasket

the don69 wrote:
Crawley playing tonight chaps,let's see how low there gate will be!good news is there losing 0-1 at half-time!after losing two top striker's let's see if they slip down the league!!!!!

EeeByGum wrote:
Does anyone know if there really are financial problems at Craley or is it the case that with their gates they couldn't turn down £1.8 million for two Division 4 strikers?

bivver wrote:

the don69 wrote:
Crawley playing tonight chaps,let's see how low there gate will be!good news is there losing 0-1 at half-time!after losing two top striker's let's see if they slip down the league!!!!!

result :
Crawley 1 Morecambe 1

bivver wrote:

bivver wrote:

the don69 wrote:
Crawley playing tonight chaps,let's see how low there gate will be!good news is there losing 0-1 at half-time!after losing two top striker's let's see if they slip down the league!!!!!

result :
Crawley 1 Morecambe 1

and their next match is away to Shrewsbury

swidonpremiership wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Reckon we could fry around 25K eggs if Evans went into meltdown

bivver wrote:

the don69 wrote:
Crawley playing tonight chaps,let's see how low there gate will be!good news is there losing 0-1 at half-time!after losing two top striker's let's see if they slip down the league!!!!!

result :
Crawley 1 Morecambe 1

Oxon-Red wrote:
ctown,

I identified my player on another thread.

For me it has to be Simon Ferry with Mac, Cads, Ritchie and Fods close behind.

Ferry for me because he is the driving force behind the Ritchie and Caddis partnership and our forward play. His intelligent use of the ball, the running he does (with and without the ball) is outstanding and he is second to none in this division in central midfield. He is playing well below his standard and will hopefully play at his true level in the championship with STFC. After the shaky start he ran the show at Leicester (and they knew it) and was only stopped by that crude tackle by Konchesky. Last night it took two minutes for him to make an impact.

My opinion but Simon for me :-)

COYMR

deviant in the tupping pen wrote:

Oxon-Red wrote:
ctown,

I identified my player on another thread.

For me it has to be Simon Ferry with Mac, Cads, Ritchie and Fods close behind.

Ferry for me because he is the driving force behind the Ritchie and Caddis partnership and our forward play. His intelligent use of the ball, the running he does (with and without the ball) is outstanding and he is second to none in this division in central midfield. He is playing well below his standard and will hopefully play at his true level in the championship with STFC. After the shaky start he ran the show at Leicester (and they knew it) and was only stopped by that crude tackle by Konchesky. Last night it took two minutes for him to make an impact.

My opinion but Simon for me :-)

COYMR

A little late in the day for me to be putting in my two pen'orth I know, but I'm with Oxon-Red. It has to be Si Ferry (followed by Ritchie, Wes, Cads & Macca - in no particular order).

bullyfish wrote:
west country tonight on htv suck, mentioned swindon at start and said action to follow later in show and guess what, absolutely nothing, no highlights and not even mentioned again, total joke

topsecret wrote:

Malkym wrote:

avo wrote: Personally, I think 'wem-berley' and 'we're top of the league, we're top of the league, we are the swindon, we're top of the league' will be great chants on March 3rd.

Only if we're winning the game by a comfortable margin! Egg on face and all that! and anyway for one reason or another we might not be top of the league then!

thought you hated the 'wem-berley ' chants , Twa* ? On the other subject , my player of the year would have to be Alan Mcormmack who has been a rock since moving to centre of defence closely followed by Flint and Foderingham

Malkym wrote:

bullyfish wrote: west country tonight on htv suck, mentioned swindon at start and said action to follow later in show and guess what, absolutely nothing, no highlights and not even mentioned again, total joke

bit like BBC Oxford TV last night - Jerome K Jerome or whatever his name is - said Town were top and then said Oxford were "just behind them in the play off spots" First time I've heard of a ten point gap described a "just behind" Of course they're supposed to be impartial re all the teams they cover in their region - clearly they ain't!

Malkym wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Courtesy of the BBC: Crawley chief executive Alan Williams said: "Our manager is extremely disappointed that Tyrone is leaving but the offer from Peterborough not only met but exceeded our board of directors' valuation. -- Let's hope he blows a gasket

SAP long time no see -keeping a low profile? Disappointing to see you've still not had the good grace to apologise to Den re your silly remarks about his supposed negativity on here - not one of your better comments if you don't mind me saying so. Perhaps you're still on that downer you mentioned the other day? Still you know what they say takes a big man to say sorry - come on still time to do the decent thing. Thought you'd be on top of the world -top of the league -Wembley final and all that - where's all that enthusiasm gone - hope of course it's nothing more serious for any reason outside of these forums.

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

Malkym wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Courtesy of the BBC: Crawley chief executive Alan Williams said: "Our manager is extremely disappointed that Tyrone is leaving but the offer from Peterborough not only met but exceeded our board of directors' valuation. -- Let's hope he blows a gasket

SAP long time no see -keeping a low profile? Disappointing to see you've still not had the good grace to apologise to Den re your silly remarks about his supposed negativity on here - not one of your better comments if you don't mind me saying so. Perhaps you're still on that downer you mentioned the other day? Still you know what they say takes a big man to say sorry - come on still time to do the decent thing. Thought you'd be on top of the world -top of the league -Wembley final and all that - where's all that enthusiasm gone - hope of course it's nothing more serious for any reason outside of these forums.

Oh dear Malkym - back on the attack eh!? .. I only apologise where I see that it is needed - if I have an opinion that is genuinely offensive and I didn't mean it then I'd apologise - why is it you asking for an apology and not Oi Den!? .. Pewrsonally I believe in freedom of speech and you of late are on an offensive which belies any real common sense. .. Cheerio matey...take the tablets again and we'll have that beer one day.

Malkym wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

Malkym wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

SAPFanSTFC wrote:

ICDeadpeople wrote: Rumours are rife with regards to Crawley's financial situation. . Hence the reason for their second striker leaving them. . It's just a shame that lardy Evans isn't going into meltdown instead of the club.

This gave me a big smile when I read it in the morning papers and is a continuation of the earlier issue rumours, well more than rumours, but it does underline their accuracy. .. You cannot keep a club running like theirs on 3,000 home fans and that was for F.A. Cup 5th Rd tie!? .. Lets hope their players start to react to this on the pitch with some more poor performances starting tonight!!

Courtesy of the BBC: Crawley chief executive Alan Williams said: "Our manager is extremely disappointed that Tyrone is leaving but the offer from Peterborough not only met but exceeded our board of directors' valuation. -- Let's hope he blows a gasket

SAP long time no see -keeping a low profile? Disappointing to see you've still not had the good grace to apologise to Den re your silly remarks about his supposed negativity on here - not one of your better comments if you don't mind me saying so. Perhaps you're still on that downer you mentioned the other day? Still you know what they say takes a big man to say sorry - come on still time to do the decent thing. Thought you'd be on top of the world -top of the league -Wembley final and all that - where's all that enthusiasm gone - hope of course it's nothing more serious for any reason outside of these forums.

Oh dear Malkym - back on the attack eh!? .. I only apologise where I see that it is needed - if I have an opinion that is genuinely offensive and I didn't mean it then I'd apologise - why is it you asking for an apology and not Oi Den!? .. Pewrsonally I believe in freedom of speech and you of late are on an offensive which belies any real common sense. .. Cheerio matey...take the tablets again and we'll have that beer one day.

Not looking for a row - if you read back on the thread in question you'll see plenty of positive quote examples from Den. I find it a tad ironic that you use the phrase "back on the attack" when isn't that just what you did when you had a go at Den for supposed negativity. I just thought your remarks on that occasion were disrespectful as doubtless you've thought some of mine have been at times. I will keep taking the pills -compulsory in my case - like Wiz us oldies sometimes succumb to age related ailments that make us look like a walking pharmacy!! But are we downhearted not in the least especially as we're currently top of the pile. three more points on Saturday sil vous plait!

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Oi Den! wrote:
Multiple identities rearing their ugly heads again, eh?! . SAP, I'm guessing that what Malkym is referring to is when you said you'd never seen a positive post from me. I must confess I was a tad annoyed by that statement. Nobody has to justify him/herself to anybody else on here but I thought I would defend myself by listing some of the many positive comments I've made. You said you would respond but you didn't, so I imagine Malkym has picked up on that. . What I have done on many occasions is to try to argue that an outcome is not necessarily wrong just because it does not benefit STFC. However special STFC is to me, I recognise that the football family is bigger than one club. This may be negativity in your world, but in mine it is not. For me the real negativity is the personal abuse of anyone who has a different point of view, or who acts in good faith but happens to produce an outcome we are not happy with. . It is of no importance to me whether you apologise for your unfounded comments or not. I would just say that I perceive you to be a person of some intelligence and I think you can do a lot better than throw around ill-considered cheap shots.

dreamofacleansheet2 wrote:
I'm amazes anyone can look past Sir Wes for player of the season? Honestly last night accepted he's been different class. Back to back promotions coming. Watching the birth of a managerial legend.

Oi Den! wrote:
Multiple identities rearing their ugly heads again, eh?! . SAP, I'm guessing that what Malkym is referring to is when you said you'd never seen a positive post from me. I must confess I was a tad annoyed by that statement. Nobody has to justify him/herself to anybody else on here but I thought I would defend myself by listing some of the many positive comments I've made. You said you would respond but you didn't, so I imagine Malkym has picked up on that. . What I have done on many occasions is to try to argue that an outcome is not necessarily wrong just because it does not benefit STFC. However special STFC is to me, I recognise that the football family is bigger than one club. This may be negativity in your world, but in mine it is not. For me the real negativity is the personal abuse of anyone who has a different point of view, or who acts in good faith but happens to produce an outcome we are not happy with. . It is of no importance to me whether you apologise for your unfounded comments or not. I would just say that I perceive you to be a person of some intelligence and I think you can do a lot better than throw around ill-considered cheap shots.

SAPFanSTFC wrote:
By the way Malkym - Good to know you'll turn up now we're winning..I'd hate you to waste your sponsors money by not turning up :-)