Swindons Chairman: Pre-season revisited!!

[clippedgull]

TOWN chairman Andrew Fitton is expecting an “easier” League One next season, believing less points will be needed to gain promotion.

Despite amassing 82 points, Swindon were forced to settle for fifth place and the play-offs in the 2009/10 campaign, with a higher-than-normal total being achieved by the promoted sides - Norwich, Leeds and Millwall.

Peterborough, Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday all drop into League One from above, while Notts County, Bournemouth, Rochdale and Dagenham & Redbridge have come up into it, and Fitton believes it will be less competitive around the top end of the division.

“I think it will be slightly easier and I’m less concerned than I was last year, if I’m honest,” he told the Advertiser.

“We have got rid of two of the toughest teams in Norwich and Leeds, and I don’t see what is coming to replace them.

“Southampton will be tough, but there are some teams who people expect to be up there who won’t be.

“I’m not convinced by Huddersfield’s push, or Brighton’s push – even though they supposedly have a lot of money behind them now.

“Sheffield Wednesday could go either way. Plymouth? I don’t think so, as they have some rebuilding to do.

“And the clubs coming up from League Two won’t go straight through. I see it as a slightly easier league next year.

“This season it was very competitive, with seven or eight teams all capable of getting in the top two, and that’s why the points tallies were so high.

“Next year though I think it will be less teams competing for automatic promotion and less points needed.”

 

[Simster]

Marvellous.


You might also want to circle Huddersfield, Rochdale and Bournemouth as he seems to have got them all wrong too.
And this line needs bolding too, given that two of the 4 promoted sides are fighting for a top six place.

"And the clubs coming up from League Two won’t go straight through. I see it as a slightly easier league next year"

 

[matt]

I think he was right, in as much as we found it a lot easier than last year

 

[Jesus Gul]

Good call on Plymouth, Andy.

 

[Djmiles]

Genius!

 

[Yoda]

Good call on Plymouth, Andy.

And Wednesday. Looked like they were going to push for a while, then went the other way.

 

[Vicar!]

They will have it a bit easier next year! But on the bright side, they have their annual trip to Sussex to look forward to.

 

[sam86]

Brilliant. You should post that on the Swindon board.

 

[Bean]

He managed to get almost everything wrong in that article

 

[fire&skill]

It really just goes to show that you shouldn't go 'bigging it up' until you've achieved something. A certain Mr Poyet had it exactly right after the Walsall game - that we can only now say we're the best team in the league.

Take note, Mr Adkins.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

What a plum, but for a points deduction his Swinedon hopefulls are the cackest team in the division

 

[vulture]

ninja elephant must be crying

 

[Easy 10]

He'll be disappointed with that.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Well, Swindon certainly fulfilled their part of the bargain by getting fewer points than last season, but then everyone else screwed it up by getting more ......

 

[bhaexpress]

The price you pay for giving an opinion I suppose. Mind you the blame for their struggles lies firmly at his feet, not replacing key players (or those making a sideways move) is down to him.

 

[Icy Gull]

No mention of Greer's sideways move though.

 

[Martinf]

I loved the comment I read from a Millwall fan who said he'd met some Swindon fans in the car park after the play-off game at Wembley who told him Swindon wouldn't need the play-offs to get out of the division this year - how right they were!

 

[severnside gull]

I loved the comment I read from a Millwall fan who said he'd met some Swindon fans in the car park after the play-off game at Wembley who told him Swindon wouldn't need the play-offs to get out of the division this year - how right they were!

the same happened to us not so many years ago though surely?