Swindon Town (A) - FA Cup 3rd Round - Fri 7th Jan, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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for the flight trackers amongst us, I reckon these are the flight details. flying out Friday morning 10:30 from Manchester to Brize Norton (35 mins from Swindon), with return flight back to Manchester in the evening.


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South London Red said:
We had a dodgy parasite called Lee Power (Tim Sherwood's best mate) who if many reports are to be believed, has been stripping cash from the club. There are still court cases outstanding as it seems he had a "gentleman's agreement" with Gareth Barry and his agent (against League rules) to carve up off the books transfer and sell-on fees received (and these amounted to millions, we have had some decent players in recent years).

All may be revealed in court but meanwhile, the parasite messed up in trying to do a bit of dodgy financial engineering, selling his shares to a mystery US company no-one had heard of. He didn't realise these shares first had to be offered at the same price to the minority shareholder - which was Clem Morfuni. He took up the offer. He's hailed almost as a Messiah - he's a top Aussie bloke. He's not even mentioned the Ashes.

This was just a couple of weeks before the season started. We had only 6 senior players contracted, no manager, with all sorts of debts outstanding - ground rent, wages, tax etc etc. There was (still is) a transfer embargo in place. Most supporters just hoped to survive this season but the new manager Ben Garner scraped together a squad and has implemented a possession, passing-style of football (a bit like Man City but without the goals or Jack Grealish's calves) that has delivered results beyond expectations. Realistically we kick on next season and anything before then is just a bonus.
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I remember Lee Power when he played, briefly, for Hibernian in 1997-98.

His transfer from Dundee was very dodgy. It was alleged that Hibs Manager, Jim Duffy (former Dundee Manager) only signed him to recoup unpaid bonuses from Dundee as a backhander when Hibs paid Dundee £200,000 for Power and Paul Tosh.

He proved to be predictably useless for Hibs despite scoring in a 2-1 win against Celtic in the opening match of the season. Celtic won the title and Hibs were relegated. Duffy was sacked and Power was moved on to Ayr United by March.
 
Fingers crossed for no more positives and that the game goes ahead tomorrow. I get the impression that City want to play this game if we possibly can. That said I think it's quite likely that there will be more positives overnight because the more infected people we have in the camp, the more players who are likely to go down.
 
I'm hoping for a starting 11 of:

Steffen
Walker
Dias
Mbete
Ake
Rodri
De Bruyne
McAtee
Jesus
Palmer
Grealish

Carson, Zinchenko, Lavia, Wilson-Esbrand, Sterling, Bernardo

But let's see who's missing tomorrow!
 
Marvin said:
Fingers crossed for no more positives and that the game goes ahead tomorrow. I get the impression that City want to play this game if we possibly can. That said I think it's quite likely that there will be more positives overnight because the more infected people we have in the camp, the more players who are likely to go down.
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Is Kyle the most likely to go down?
 
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