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qwerty wrote:

Don’t think anyone is ‘anti trust’.

How you/the trust think it’s acceptable for them to effectively set up their own club shop is the real issue.

What business in their right mind would allow a 3rd party to do such a thing when they have a legally binding contract with another?

It’s more nuanced than ‘Shop B setting up in direct commercial competition with Shop A and selling Shop A’s product’.

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Hoping for an opening day home fixture and a final day home fixture, plus home on Boxing Day and NY.

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lesgeo wrote:

Dec’s goalscoring talents are many and varied.
On the Cod ‘ed video, he also scored a significant number of goals as a consequence of seriously shocking defending by defences and GKs.
He will only find a tiny fraction of such dross in the NL.
No reason why he can’t get 15 to 20 this coming season – his close control and first touch will probably condemn Carlton to the bench and have Dec as a regular starter.
The option to play Carlton as an attacking wide player is possible, of course – a role with which he will be pretty familiar.

That’s what I thought, when watching the Gainsborough showreel. He might score 15 – 20 for us and that could probably be considered a good NL season for him. You never know, though.

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Rene Artois wrote:

If CR10 re-signs then that’ll be like signing a new player. Fingers crossed on that one.

I can’t see CR signing, and I think Declan Howe is the player Butler has acquired to more-or-less step into his boots. I was feeling quite down about Roberts, and the impact his loss might have on United next season, but after last night’s news I’m not worried.

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The ‘Declan Howe showreel’ video Gainsborough Trinity have just posted is worth a watch. He looks to have a good instinctive eye for goal, reminds me a bit of Billy Sharp.

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64 wrote:

“through terrace ” bit intrigued me

Probably means they would have funded Terrace’s legal bills or something?

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cassidystash wrote:

Dawson & Howe? I guess that means farewell to Danny.

More likely goodbye to Roberts, imho…

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64 wrote:

Club threatened to sue the Trust through Terrace about the shop

So what you’re saying is that “the community Club” threatened to sue the Trust, the fan organisation which had only recently helped the Club by securing an Asset of Community Value (ACV) designation for Glanford Park – essential in buying enough time to save it. What a very bad look for the Club.

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Joey Dawson has signed for us.

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RedMistTorpsFist wrote:

Fitzsimmons gone – no surprises there.

That’s the cork out of the bottle. Who’s next?

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Calum Roberts has been linked with Wigan.

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The nub of the matter for me is that the merch kicked out by the Terrace is pretty tight-arsed naff, generic guff, quite thoughtless and lacking in intelligent design. If it was exceptional, they might have been confident enough to leave the Trust’s efforts alone.

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qwerty wrote:

Don’t think they have an online store selling such a wide range of merch?

Splitting hairs, there. Irish Iron advertise their wares online, those prints are sold online and tat hawkers used Etsy or Ebay or whatever. You can go on Amazon and find a load of Iron shite too.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Wasn’t the loud clubbing music during the match due to Zanetti’s over enthusiastic promotion for the weekender? So in theory it shouldn’t happen again.

In theory.

I could hear it from where I sit, and I’d not be happy to do so again. It was quite distracting. The idea of an extra bar is a good one though.

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qwerty wrote:

Or a very sensible decision given their contract with Terrace.

Weird that there are people who actually think the club should allow a 3rd party to sell a wide range of merch that they have zero control over.

So why wasn’t the same cease and desist order issued to Irish Iron, why weren’t the people selling prints of goals pursued, and why aren’t the online hawkers of general tat pursued?

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CMC wrote:

Players like Hopey, Keogh and so on who moved the club forward and made us a few quid, they’re legends. Not a professional turncoat

Legends ten-penneth.

Although he didn’t do as much for the Club during the 2024/25 season as other strikers (Whitehall and Roberts, who both did far more), you’d have to include Ubaezuonu. His promotion-clinching goal may prove to be an absolutely essential moment in the survival and ongoing history of the Club.

That’s how fickle the legend criteria can be.

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The beautiful game.

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Sambbeadle wrote:

I think one of the key takeaways is that while the club were banning the trust from selling anything other than mugs on the corner, they were inviting Irish iron in to sell all their merch in the iron bar…

Just seems to me that the supporters clubs that have supported the club are not being treated fairly or equal…

Short memory’s…

A deliberate ‘f*ck you’ to the Trust from the Club, it looks like.

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There’s a bit of a movement on social media for a permanent outside bar (a container-type) near to the Iron Bar. I’d be happy with that as long as it served well-priced decent beer, and was not accompanied by very loud disco music (as per the final few matches at the end of this last season). Before, at half time and after is alright. But I saw someone on Twitter having a go at the Club about the outside bar still playing music during (and throughout) the matches themselves and I 100% agree. That’s way too much sense of entitlement. All these ‘add-ons’ to the matchday experience are fine, I think, as long as they are respectful and don’t step on the toes of the sacred match experience itself. Pumping music does that and should not be allowed.

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Awaywego wrote:

They don’t do the food Apollo, someone called Brat’s do.

They may do now but earlier in the season they didn’t.

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Awaywego wrote:

Evidently not anymore they don’t.

That should mean the food is sorted out for the better. Really poor value for money last few times I’ve been.

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Being given merit badges by the establishment is not really that impressive.

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Rudyboy wrote:

Signed from Altrincham where he scored four goals in two seasons but, according to Cods fans, he’s big and strong, something they lacked last season.

Other than the Altrincham bit, it’s got Mark Beck written all over it.

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Awaywego wrote:

Michelle doing great PR with the tour of the trophy ……… fair play to her, right up my street involving everyone with scunnys success will pay dividends for a long time to come.

Completely agree. Michelle’s PR tour with the trophy has been a great way for the Club to engage with businesses which have provided financial support, and should be applauded not sniffed at. Same as the bus tour. Such things inspire people, younger fans, new fans, and provide nice memories to look back on. It’s been great to see Little Old Scunthorpe battling away and then taking a moment to celebrate its successes (however modest, and however relative to past glories) and give dues to those who have helped.

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Awaywego wrote:

From meeting them over the fc100,000 debacle then within days advertise for fans to be a mouthpiece to work with, (anyone know if anything came from that call) the club showed what they think of the trust, similar to how they treat Danny.

Some people don’t like being disagreed with or held to account, particularly by people without any skin in the game. But often especially by people who do have skin in the game (however modest an amount).

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The stuff Terrace have been knocking out in the name of our Club is only marginally better than what was on offer before, and it’s a very thin margin at that. It’s mostly guff – very boring generic crap.

The apparently aggressive move by the Club to limit the Trust in this way – is that indicative of a relationship going sour? It looks it to me.

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Awaywego wrote:

unless you think they were lying

So everyone else has lied about proof of funds but not Dave!?

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ironfromafar wrote:

Never heard any info re just how things turned out financially with regard to the weekender.

No-one official is going to lay the accounts bare for the public, are they? When the Weekender is mentioned it’ll just be the usual PR stuff about what a great event / experience it was, and how Scunthorpe is lucky to have had it on.

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There won’t be any pre-season friendlies at home this year, for pitch reasons.

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Personally, I think 3 up is a good idea – as long as the third of those is through the Play Offs. I like the system, it’s exciting and adds incentive – and York’s hard luck this time round is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Incidentally, I think I’m right in saying that in both 1999 and 2009 Scunthorpe were not the top finishing team out of those that contested the Play Offs.

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