There’s too many major obstacles I fear we will encounter if a Phoenix club to emerge and become successful.
As you point out, we have no realistic prospect of playing football in Scunthorpe for the foreseeable future. After all that has gone on, will we get over 1,000 fans bother to travel to G’boro every week to watch a different version of SUFC? I don’t see the appetite for that.
The biggest one, and something that that most of the other clubs who set up Phoenix clubs didn’t have to encounter, is the division of social media. Everything in society is becoming increasingly polarised; look at how things have emerged this week following the athletic article. How are we meant to agree on a club kit, name, nickname etc? Anyone at the club currently who has stuck their head above the parapet recently has swiftly realised it’s not worth the hassle.
Maybe if we achieve some unity if the club is to fall, get some local businessman involved with a pinch of integrity and manage to find luck on the way we could achieve what Darlington have. But look at how they are reaching a ceiling, even at this level.
