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Title: Swindon Town
Post by: Draytonian III on June 25, 2021, 01:58:23 pm
Looks like there’s more fun and games there, their manager and his assistant have left after a few weeks, look like the chairman is up to his old tricks, he’s Power mad
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: DRCraig on June 25, 2021, 06:17:34 pm
Same clubs who just carry on making stupid decisions They are one of them.
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Wiltshire Exile on June 25, 2021, 08:46:18 pm
Should anyone find difficulty sleeping tonight then I recommend that you read this:

https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2021/1744.html&query=(PT-2019-000964

 :)
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: BobG on June 25, 2021, 10:43:02 pm
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: NickDRFC on June 26, 2021, 07:28:21 am
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

There are a couple of grammatical errors in your post; people in glass houses and all that…  ;) ;)
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: aidanstu on June 26, 2021, 09:05:14 am
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

There are a couple of grammatical errors in your post; people in glass houses and all that…  ;) ;)

Can you point them out please?
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Wiltshire Exile on June 26, 2021, 10:23:45 am
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

It would, indeed, Bob, but then you would have the legal profession moaning that they don’t understand the Queen’s English!
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Draytonian III on June 26, 2021, 10:49:22 am
I think my news about the upheaval at Swindon and a play on words has turned into a full on English language row
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Geoff Blakesley on June 26, 2021, 12:07:28 pm
 I'll start. No comma after wonderful ?
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Wiltshire Exile on June 26, 2021, 02:30:09 pm
They really are in the brown stuff. Manager and assistant resigned after a month, creditors owed about £4m, no season tickets sold and another court appearance due in September. Some fans are prepared for the worst. Another Bury or Macclesfield?
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: belton rover on June 26, 2021, 03:00:15 pm
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

There are a couple of grammatical errors in your post; people in glass houses and all that…  ;) ;)

Can you point them out please?

Bob has an annoying, but regular habit of using ellipsis incorrectly to ridicule others for incorrect grammar. Some people…
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: roverstillidie91 on June 26, 2021, 05:16:20 pm
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

There are a couple of grammatical errors in your post; people in glass houses and all that…  ;) ;)

Can you point them out please?

Bob has an annoying, but regular habit of using ellipsis incorrectly to ridicule others for incorrect grammar. Some people…
Does it really matter? Can clearly understand what it says. People obviously with too much time on their hands have to critique everything
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: belton rover on June 26, 2021, 05:29:45 pm
It would be wonderful, Wilts, wouldn't it, if these people would, or even could, write in the Queens' English....?

Cheers

BobG

There are a couple of grammatical errors in your post; people in glass houses and all that…  ;) ;)

Can you point them out please?

Bob has an annoying, but regular habit of using ellipsis incorrectly to ridicule others for incorrect grammar. Some people…
Does it really matter? Can clearly understand what it says. People obviously with too much time on their hands have to critique everything

You are completely missing the point, rovers. You are quite right that it shouldn’t matter. However, we are talking about someone who calls people illiterate, or such like, quite regularly, for making grammatical errors. Very often, as he insults other posters, he makes similar grammatical errors. As Nick said, people in glass houses…
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: scawsby steve on June 26, 2021, 07:23:58 pm
I'll start. No comma after wonderful ?

The comma after wonderful is correct, actually. The main mistake was the apostrophe being in the wrong place in "Queens'". Because it's in the singular rather than the plural, it should have been "Queen's".
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: selby on June 26, 2021, 07:37:46 pm
Must have had great English teachers Steve.
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: ravenrover on June 26, 2021, 08:19:15 pm
No he's just well up on his "Queens"
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: DRCraig on June 26, 2021, 10:51:17 pm
Hope they don't end up like Bury or Macc.
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: BobG on June 30, 2021, 08:37:13 pm
I'll start. No comma after wonderful ?

The comma after wonderful is correct, actually. The main mistake was the apostrophe being in the wrong place in "Queens'". Because it's in the singular rather than the plural, it should have been "Queen's".

Correct Scawsby.Thank you. I spotted it just now when I re-read this thread. I'm still glad that Fowlers Modern English Usage continues to exist!

Cheers :)

BobG
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: scawsby steve on June 30, 2021, 08:49:08 pm
I'll start. No comma after wonderful ?

The comma after wonderful is correct, actually. The main mistake was the apostrophe being in the wrong place in "Queens'". Because it's in the singular rather than the plural, it should have been "Queen's".

Correct Scawsby.Thank you. I spotted it just now when I re-read this thread. I'm still glad that Fowlers Modern English Usage continues to exist!

Cheers :)

BobG

sum peepel on heer fink wee karnt spel
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Draytonian III on June 30, 2021, 09:17:52 pm
Quiz question, who is the Chairman of Swindon Town ?
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: RedRover45 on June 30, 2021, 09:23:22 pm
Is it still Willie Carson ?
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: BobG on June 30, 2021, 09:37:44 pm
Lee Power.

Dont know his antecedents but he comes across like a proper tool.

BobG
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Draytonian III on June 30, 2021, 09:40:58 pm
Looks like there’s more fun and games there, their manager and his assistant have left after a few weeks, look like the chairman is up to his old tricks, he’s Power mad



Correct, Lee Power is the chairman of Swindon Town
Title: Re: Swindon Town
Post by: Wiltshire Exile on July 02, 2021, 03:05:13 pm
And it just gets worse…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57693793

Paul Jewell, DoF, has also left apparently. Well, at least John Sheridan is no longer manager. Good luck for that!