I think what frustrates me is the complete lack of perspective among a section of the Iron fanbase, combined with the vocal section which cheered on Swann & Hilton’s ruinous spending for the last decade. We’re not rich any more. We’re not going to blast our way through this league – if that was going to happen, the time was last season but sadly we had a completely incompetent manager.
And I don’t think it’s just this board or social media – just have to see the IronArmy vid from Guiseley to disprove that.
And a lot of them haven’t changed, they think we can just walk out this league when you see how long it took York City and Stockport County to get promoted.
Since being bored by Hurst, Covid and the downward spiral of the last two owners i’ve seen a lot of Non League football… they are countless examples of throwing money at a league(or throwing money on credit as we did) and not getting anywhere.
Boston is a good model to follow – they were in a mess and they did have David Newton’s money but it wasn’t millions and they had a lot of financial mess to clean up. They also had good club men(Craig Singleton) who were prepared to do anything.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of James Moody given when Swann and Hilton were putting words in his mouth, but he’s delivered over the last few months.
The older fans don’t help though.. Some who were quite happy as long as they had their perks(you don’t need me to mention who)and little club and barked at anyone who mentioned anything wasn’t quite right.
