I can understand why posts like ironeye/ironinsider’s get people’s backs up. He never makes any comment on us other than to just deride Hilton and it does come across gleeful when something happens. The problem is that some actual problems do exist and have been unearthed through the last few months.
I want the club to succeed, hope such concerns are ill founded. However, so far they haven’t eleviated. I am equally tired of Pat, and others, just lumping anyone not as gleeful about Hilton as not being true fans and just stoking division because some have a different opinion. That won’t convince sceptics that such concerns are wrong. Some may never be, but others might. Things like the CCJ, wage issue and SAG supporter cap can be worked around and explained. However they hint at a bigger problem to me (all of which seems to involve money, and they don’t give the impression that Hilton can afford to run the club as it should), and I don’t think it can definitely be written off as Swann’s legacy entirely. I will try to be fair to Hilton and say that he’s done a good job in backing a good squad for this level, but off the pitch matters count for our existence. Next week’s court case could be terrible for the club and we may need to accept that Hilton shares part of the blame (Swann already does and won’t get away with it without blame). Unfortunately I feel some will just attack anyone who thinks Hilton has partial responsibility no matter what. The converse may be true too, but that doesn’t make my point any less valid, I think.
