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64 wrote:

Apollo11 wrote:

11am on a Monday morning – 11 hours into a new week and no sign yet of any drama pouring forth from Glanford Park. I want my money back!

Who’s Brad?

The new catering point person is taking requests on the cult page.

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Awaywego wrote:

Im disappointed in the official Scunthorpe united Facebook site telling us there’s 4 massive games to go!
Maybe tell the manager and the players that, would have been handy to tell them before Saturdays game that there were 5.
Guess with it being sunny they thought it was a pre season friendly and could just go through the motions.

Not quite fair, imho. The highlights package on You Tube suggests we were a bit unlucky – Calum Roberts hit the bar from a free kick, hit the side netting and had one tipped round the post by the Radcliffe keeper. Carlton had a glimpse of a chance which he seemed to fluff, there were a couple of other small moments that could’ve developed into full blown chances. I’d say it was a bad result, but if one or two of our chances go in it doesn’t quite look like the apocalyptic performance some have made out.

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10.15 on Tuesday morning and still nothing!

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There’s nobody to run it since Sam was kicked out, he was the IT man.

It doesn’t exist at all.

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Michelle Harness Commemorative Plate

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The Club’s online shop: Still down.

Four and a half days and counting.

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Watched the extended highlights on You Tube and it looks like Calum Roberts could have had a hat trick and Ubaezuonu could have had a goal too. United unlucky? Doesn’t look like 1-0 was a fair result, doesn’t look like 0-0 would have been the right result.

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Scunnytim

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Awaywego wrote:

risk keeping Ross and let a perfectly fit guy go nagh.

Also, Barrows is not going to be injured for the entirety of next season.

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Awaywego wrote:

Cant believe your stance there Apollo you’ve been so adamant that every little drop of money should go to the club for the benefit of the club, and yet your prepared to keep Barrows for a further year.
Cant afford freeloaders no matter what sentiments you might feel for him, so come the who we keep and who we let go we risk keeping Ross and let a perfectly fit guy go nagh.

Sadly, I can believe your stance.

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North Lincolnshire Irons wrote:

I agree Apollo11, if we are not promoted this season in my opinion the Board will have a lot to answer for. I do not believe they are focusing on the football, but rather on fun fairs and concerts. Without fans there will be no football club. There is far too much division in the Boardroom and pulling in different directions. The banning of Danny Stamp after previously finishing his Smokin Goat catering,finishing Merch lab, Kelme and now no on-line shop in place. They couldn’t even get our playing surface up to standard, the worst it has ever been. Far too many egos in that Boardroom and not focusing on the main thing, THE FOOTBALL! Let’s hope they will realise and now all four should be putting our SUFC first, all pull in the same direction and help gain promotion. Remember we supporters are the 12th man and showing this with the excellent support we are giving. C’mon you directors get your ct together.

I slightly disagree. I don’t think it’s their job to focus on the football. It’s their job to focus on the business side, and that might mean funfairs and whatever (but with the caveat of ensuring that stuff doesn’t spill over and affect the football). I am presuming what you actually mean is they are behaving with very little regard for the stability of the football side at a crucial point in the season..?

Completely agree with you about the pitch, it’s the worst it has ever been since we’ve been at Glanford Park – and by some considerable distance. It’s a total embarrassment and a massive liability. Without being too explicit about the effects of that terrible surface, I hope the Club does absolutely the decent thing and stands by Ross Barrows for a further year, if he happens to be out of contract in the summer (does anyone know?).

As for ‘all pull in the same direction’, it doesn’t work like that. When there are fundamental differences of opinion in the boardroom the best you can hope for is stalemate and/or an uneasy truce – which never really holds for too long as the type of animal that inhabits a boardroom doesn’t like to be kept on a leash.

I expect even more uproar at SUFC over the summer.

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Yes, he has.

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ironfromafar wrote:

FC xxxx fiasco
bye bye Merch lab .. Now no online shop
Catering operations changing with the wind
New kit suppler
Pitch Fk Up

I really wouldn’t like to be in the Board’s position should we fail to get promotion. They’re likely to receive hostility and abuse if that happens. So many annoyances and distractions this last few weeks, it’s been hard to stay buoyant and focused as a supporter – so how must Andy Butler and the playing staff have felt?

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CMC wrote:

Darryn Stamp and a goal with flashing lights

… or an airport runway marshaller.

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ironingboard

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Awaywego wrote:

Seriously though they would sell well.

How many people would buy them? How much would they be?

Answers: Not that many. And, therefore, a lot of money each, to cover the costs of time / production.

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*Neenan.

Predictive text is a fudging cult.

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Joe Keenan / Ian Botham / Tiffany’s nightclub / back alley punch-up edition.

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SODIron

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Deereyme66 wrote:

If I was changing my online shop provider, I’d make sure the new one was ready to switch on as soon as, or before, the other is switched off. Hope this simple process was in place?

Clearly not. Ridiculous.

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Awaywego

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TheJuryeffsOut wrote:

I can’t actually bring myself to watch it or Butlers post match interview.
Just hoping it’s all enough of a kick up the arse for them to better in the last 4 games.

His post-match on BBC Humberside was full of fairly tough questions and pregnant pauses. He coped pretty well with it in what must have been a completely deflated state, and stayed positive. I like him, I hope he does well – but after Saturday the fear is kicking in a bit, I must admit.

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The Club’s online shop is STILL down.

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Seen footage of the goal, a good effort against a defence that looked disorganised or had switched off. Fair play to Radcliffe for keeping going for 94 minutes!

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Awaywego wrote:

Sharp and Roberts wouldn’t be welcome in the Dre again, dont think it will be to long before they’re not welcome anywhere in the ground.

As for being unwelcome, they’ve shown with the Goat banning order it’s actually you who are guests in their Kingdom and not the other way round…

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Awaywego

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WonderGoals wrote:

Sharp is no good for the club and neither is his mate, the useless C.E.O Roberts. All the falling-outs which have been going on lately, one name always crops up, A certain Mr Sharp.

If Sharp and Aitkenhead are pushed out, where does their share of our costs come from in the immediate future?

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North Lincolnshire Irons, Siderite

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WonderGoals wrote:

Whenever we see/hear of turmoil behind the scenes, Sharp always crops up. Also don’t forget that C.E.O Roberts is a mate of Sharp’s. Make of that what you will.

Agreed – but I’m suggesting that 50% of that could actually be snowballing poor reputation and really bad PR running ahead of facts. He might have something worthwhile to say. If so, he should say it.

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64 wrote:

For a club that’s seemingly desperate which clown is pouring pints of goodwill into the slops tray?
Matt Roberts? His track record so n far is lamentable

Hatchet man. Brought in as someone’s Paulie Walnuts.

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Awaywego wrote:

Cant say this season but every time I went in for tickets last season there were always 4 in the shop, I remarked about it at the time.
So that says full-time to me.

I’ve been down loads of times and never seen anyone except Andy Brown mooching about on his own.

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Harrytheiron wrote:

I hope we’re all being overly dramatic and it’s nothing more but I think all the latest stuff underlines the lack of experience and footballing nous in certain areas. Should be focused on the five cup finals and not letting all these sideshows get in the way.

How can this stuff not distract Butler and the team? If we don’t go up this season, I know exactly who I will believe responsible.

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Siderite wrote:

Things are choppy with this CEO’s errors and Sharp causing issues, but the end point? Some grips need to be got.

They may actually turn out not to be commercial misjudgements, time will tell. Definitely huge PR errors though, and certainly appear to be bad manners.

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Awaywego wrote:

No thanks Rene.

You won’t have to join in. You can just sit on the sidelines sniping about being ripped off.

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If two resign, whichever two, we’re about fucked.

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Rene Artois

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Awaywego wrote:

Their treatment of people is beyond contempt.

Still Cass will be along soon telling us about how the board are still doing wonders.

Not good PR, not a good luck, don’t they realize that other companies can see all their dirty washing, hardly a “come and invest and support us” but then again shouldn’t think their bothered.

They might be working wonders – time will surely tell. It’s the apparently brutal manner in which they’re working them that’s concerning.

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