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It’s like the replica kit saga another absolute shambles. Who dreams up these own goals time after time?
The hardcore home support base is down by two thirds of what is was under Graham Alexander.
It’s like somebody sits there thinking what can we possibly do to piss another tranche of supporters off. Hey look we have served up some absolute drivel on the pitch for a few years and they are still here.
Look 30 miles up the road and it’s a different story on and off the field, Ernest Pawn needs to go so people can be brought in with commercial nous and good business acumen.
Our club stinks from top to bottom and I cannot think of a single positive for some considerable time. My loyalty to Scunthorpe United is paramount and unwavering but I dislike everything about the club.
I will not be driven away by the egotistical narcissist wanker responsible.
PS I won’t be buying a replica shirt anyway it’s f……g embarrassing being an Iron supporter without advertising it.
Nail on the head time .. Mr Mrs Third or fourth Gender Ironking couldnt agree more from your first to last word…
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So is ours!
At the risk of sounding like UTI99, I don’t think GP is shit actually. It definitely needs plenty of TLC, some improvements in some areas wouldn’t go amiss but on the whole it’s fine. Compared to plenty of other grounds, it has the benefits of having a roof on all stands (yes, supporting pillars but how often is the ground that full that you have to sit/stand behind one?), seats are pretty good for leg room from memory and sightlines are generally ok, apart perhaps from the first couple of rows of seats.
I’m sure it could be a lot better but I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with it. Just needs some cleaning, some fresh paint, a bit of improvement in some of the toilets & catering facilities and I think most fans would be fine with that.
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Glandford Park ground was built undersize somebody measured the OSG pitch and used that footprint.
The other 6 ft of shale along each side was never taken into account therefore we actually got less then we paid for, a full 12 ft less of concrete and seating along each side and 12 ft less across each end.
The smaller playing area has contributed to the shite football we watch where surprisingly the away team each week manages to cope but we don’t!
Is there actually any proof this old yarn is true?
And what about all the brilliant teams we’ve seen at Glanford Park down the years? 5 promotions between 1999 & 2014, not too shabby for a team that plays “shite football”!
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Yep we have seen some great home based footy at GP over the years but the last four years of shite is fresh in the memory so tends to colour some peoples views right now. I think any team with the ground and pitch dimensions we have at GP would have somehow learned to adapt and use it to their advantage in the past 34 years and the Iron have entertained us all magnificently over many seasons at GP, just recently however the massive rot has set in but it’s nowt to do with pitch dimensions, indeed many opposition teams and managers have stated over many years that GP was a notoriously difficult place to come and win. Let’s keep it in perspective yeah?
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Whether it’s true or not GP is far from being the smallest playing surface in the leagues. Far from it….
111 x 73 8103 Scunthorpe United
112 x 72 8064 Sheffield United, Newport County, Queens Park Rangers
110 x 73 8030 Bristol Rovers, Walsall
111 x 72 7992 Accrington Stanley, Cheltenham Town
111 x 72 7990 Barnet
114 x 70 7980 Mansfield Town
110 x 72 7920 Crawley Town, Burton Albion, Luton Town
113 x 70 7910 Bradford City
112 x 70 7840 Ipswich Town
109 x 71 7739 Fulham
110 x 70 7700 Swindon Town, Colchester United, Stevenage
106 x 72 7632 Oldham Athletic
102 x 70 7140 Reading
110 x 60 6600 Wigan Athletic
100 x 66 6600 Crewe Alexandra(L x W + area in yds)
So clubs like Accrington and Cheltenham with smaller pitches and smaller fan bases being in L1 shows just how badly we have underachieved.
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Yep we have seen some great home based footy at GP over the years but the last four years of shite is fresh in the memory so tends to colour some peoples views right now. I think any team with the ground and pitch dimensions we have at GP would have somehow learned to adapt and use it to their advantage in the past 34 years and the Iron have entertained us all magnificently over many seasons at GP, just recently however the massive rot has set in but it’s nowt to do with pitch dimensions, indeed many opposition teams and managers have stated over many years that GP was a notoriously difficult place to come and win. Let’s keep it in perspective yeah?
Quite. There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with our club, let’s not forget the good times along the way.
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Think ours were £22,always thought your season tickets were a bargain ours have always been about £100 dearer whatever league the two clubs have been in.
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Fanbanter has everybodys’s ticket prices and offers, Scunthorpe’s stand favourable with most and beats everyone hands down with the offers, Oldham even put their ticket prices up.
Couldn’t care less. We need to bring people back to Glanford & the current prices ain’t going to do that.
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