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WINDSOR SLOUGH MERGER

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GarySTFC Enthusiast

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Benefits to Slough:

Home ground

 

Benefits to Windsor:

Potential significant increase in support

 

Downsides:

Both clubs lose history and tradition

Clubs have shown they can already stand alone, no need to merge

Potential upsetting of a lot of the supporters from both sides, would they really be interested? Certainly not me.

 

If Slough can find a ground of their own, they have the potential to move onwards and upwards and become a much stronger club. The appeal to local fans is there for the bigger matches and has shown the levels of support the club could possibly encourage to attend. It's a non-starter and about as good an idea as your use of lower case letters.

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Ian Newbie

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There are no benefits to Windsor & Eton as the thing they would want most from us is our fanbase but if the clubs merged they wouldn't get it as very few Slough fans would follow a merged club.

 

Maybe you can tell us what benefits there are to Windsor and WHY YOU INSIST ON USING CAPITALS WHEN IT'S GENERALLY ACCEPTED TO BE RUDE?

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Well, this subject has been discussed frequently in the past, and of course, both WEFC and STFC are the products of previous mergers in their histories and so there is precedent.

 

Unfortunately, if you merge two middling Ryman League clubs you end up with one middling Ryman League club. The only asset either club can offer is Stag Meadow; STFC has no assets to bring to the table since it does not 'own' its supporter base, and a team selected from both squads would still be a Ryman squad.

 

Remember also, both clubs attract a tiny minority of its population in support, even for so-called big games. In fact, last year Slough's average home gate was 0.25% of its population and Windsor's 0.5% of its population. Maidenhead attracts a similar percentage in Conference South.

 

In any merger, at least one, and often both sets of supporters inevitably feel they have 'lost' something and this would lead them to stay away and even feel a level of resentment to the new team. Merged clubs may therefore need to find new supporters who may not have followed the predecessor clubs. Where will they come from?

 

I am not aware that there exists an 'East Berkshire' identity or community spirit, but I certainly am aware of one in Windsor and another one in Slough.

 

Actually, there is nothing wrong with Ryman football, and at least in WEFC's case, it is sustainable. Why does this area need a team in a higher league?

 

(also posted on WEFC forum)

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Being a Slough Town supporter for many years i think that a merger would benefit both clubs, lets be realistic a new ground in Slough will never get the go ahead we can all keep dreaming but it will never happen, i would rather merge with Windsor and have a decent standard of football to watch instead of playing Holyport and

Eton Wick in some useless park under the name of AFC Slough...

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No !!!! ted it is not me....!!!!!!!!!

 

bloody hell....Windsor if any merger would not be the one for me !!!!!!!

 

Beconsfield maybe !! Chairman a Wexham Lad, people that run the club are from Slough ! the Ground is on the Slough Road ! and not to far from Slough either...

 

Just my opinion.....!!!!

 

I feel we could work good with John and the Beconsfield team....and maybe have a merger of Slough & Beconsfield UTD....

 

Cheers Chris S

 

But I would of course get Slough back into town where it belongs..

 

cheers chris

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Never!!!!!!


That's only because Opti would only be able to say, "This is the worst Slough and Windsor team since 2006, whereas in the good old days in 2006 - oops - it is 2006!!!!!!!!!!!"

"You lot aren't real Slough and Windsor Fans because you weren't there at the famous match when we beat..... I remember it well, last week!!!!!!!!!"

"With this merger, good job I never coughed up with the £200 I promised to the new ground!!!!!!!!! Would have been wasted!!!!!!"

Where's the fun in that?
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No !!!! ted it is not me....!!!!!!!!!

bloody hell....Windsor if any merger would not be the one for me !!!!!!!

Beconsfield maybe !! Chairman a Wexham Lad, people that run the club are from Slough ! the Ground is on the Slough Road ! and not to far from Slough either...

Just my opinion.....!!!!

I feel we could work good with John and the Beconsfield team....and maybe have a merger of Slough & Beconsfield UTD....

Cheers Chris S

But I would of course get Slough back into town where it belongs..

cheers chris


Slough and Beaconsfield, Hmmmm....

Maybe we could find a new ground for the merged club halfway between where they each play currently- there's quite a good spot for a football club in Wexham.......... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/whistling.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/whistling.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/whistling.gif" alt="" />
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I can remember watching Slough play Leytonstone, Ilford, and Dagenham from the late 1960's, 3 of the biggest clubs in amateur football all winning the amateur cup on a number of occasions they all merged to form the now Dagenhan and Redbridge.

Three top teams who lost there history, identity, and standing in the game.

'MERGER NOT FOR ME'.

Also on another thread the question is asked who would you support if Slough folded for me I could not support another team.

Supporting Slough Town has been in my blood for 38yrs.

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Don't forget that Walthamstow Park Avenue are somewhere inside the convulted web of history that is Dagenham and Redbridge (at least I think so). A merger would never work because Windsor & Eton have all the leverage i.e. a ground. After a few years of Windsor, Slough & Eton United Town Rovers FC they'd discard the Slough bit and go back to being Windsor & Eton, with maybe a small sentence about how they merged with us. Not for me thanks

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