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Awaywego wrote:

As if they dont employ enough down there already lol.

Though i dont believe they’ve filled the Hospitality and event manager they were advertising for back in January.
More the merrier.

They certainly need to sort elements of the hospitality. It’s been a decent enough experience on the occasions I’ve had the good fortune to go – but the food was almost CSE Home Economics level.

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When he was doing videos I did message him about the effect they were having in creating an upsurge in abuse, doxxing etc when people like him sent out toxic messages about fans who didn’t like Hilton, his reply was unrepentant. He said he’s not responsible for how people react to his videos. He’s right but it’s left me thinking he gets what he deserves now. Reaping what you sow.

Valid.

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It’s more or less the same thinking for catering points etc, I’d say. Contracting things out and charging a fee removes certain costs from your equation and you can actually end up with more profit than you otherwise might.

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Awaywego wrote:

Iam not.
But let’s go back to junior school, Treat it like a cake, one person in the room that person could have all the cake, 2 people in the room and your only likely to get half at best.
Enough said!

If the Club was the organiser of this event (or others), the wage bill associated with spending time on admin and so on (plus the production expenses) could negate any profit. Let the outside organisation do the work, let the Club get what they can without blowing too much in the way of resources.

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

I wasn’t aware Vee Harness and the other two held any “position” at the club, I have seen her walk around upstairs like she owned the place and quite a few have asked who she is.
I assume it’s a matter of time before she comes out with “do you know who I am?”

Maybe the ‘position’ is just to offer counsel and contacts in exchange for the kudos.

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IronIronIron wrote:

Jerry has been, and will continue to be, a big help to our football club.

However, he is not a Legend and never will be. He should not be mentioned in the same breath as Staffy.

Never mind the fair to middling quality of his books, just for the dedication to research alone John Staff is a true Club legend. He’s unearthed and compiled so much information for someone to pick up and run with, to write the absolutely definitive tome about the Club, imho.

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Awaywego wrote:

Andy Cole evening is just room hire along with the Bruce Grobbeler evening run by Nor Lait promotions all tickets from their web site, so no creaming anything from the ticket price, lost opportunity imo.

Unless you’re party to private business info about the arrangements made over room hire costs, how can you say it’s a lost opportunity?

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All being kept under wraps because we’re about to tie up Cliff Richard “contractually” to be the headline act.

Doing it for the kidz.

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Siderite wrote:

He wasn’t always right in identifying who the toxic fans were and encouraged toxic fans to slander his critics.

This too.

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CMC wrote:

Good post by Lancs Iron on X
“Bury FC seem to have stopped arguing with each other and are getting the job done”
Would never happen at Scunny

Hilton did get one thing right – there are some toxic Scunthorpe United fans.

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64 wrote:

He only had to apologise once months ago for me

There are a lot of double standards around some fan behaviour in the last couple of years, for sure.

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I’ve had two encounters with Jerry in the last year or so. In one of them he was very rude, and in the other he was very pleasant in his own clumsy way. We all have good days and bad days.

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ironfromafar wrote:

Apollo11 wrote:

IMO It was a bit of a strange appointment and im yet to see anything positive CEO Roberts has brought to the table.

Bike nights, Andy Cole evening, Tom Zanetti event, yada yada.

How well are these events being received re interest and ticket sales which at the end of the day is what its all about .. the Zanetti gig especially looks like a hot potato and far from being a certain success hope im wrong.

The first bike night was a success, by all accounts, but the second has been cancelled.

Andy Cole etc – not an attractive event for me personally, but a reasonable idea for the Club to host this sort of thing imho. Fingers crossed there are enough plastics (etc) to sell these out.

Zanetti – could do better than we think, the line-up looks reasonably impressive for jogging bottoms and baseball cap wearers. However, 10,000 people a day is a massive ask – and whether or not the event has a licence from the Council seems to still be a question.

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Or maybe he’s been brought in to replace Matt Roberts.

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Being Ian Sharpe’s mate and a Cambodian “Real estate” vendor is not something that I immediately expect to be the prerequisites for pushing a football club forward.

Maybe his brief is that he’s going to be working a shitload of (otherwise unreachable) contacts for investment into the Club.

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IMO It was a bit of a strange appointment and im yet to see anything positive CEO Roberts has brought to the table.

Bike nights, Andy Cole evening, Tom Zanetti event, yada yada.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Since arrival dialogue between the fans does seem to have reduced and that is how we ended up in a mess – disengagement !

Said as much on another thread regardless of Sharp rattling on about transparency club to fan communication other than the Trust has dramatically reduced on most issues except for selling STs sponsorship and merch.

It looks to me like a certain faction at the Club wants to trade heavily off Michelle and Roj’s community vibe and hide behind the goodwill while also drawing the curtains and shutting the doors.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Since arrival dialogue between the fans does seem to have reduced and that is how we ended up in a mess – disengagement !

He did a podcast with Iron Hour.

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64 wrote:

Sort some complimentary tickets because some people booked on a private coach? What Nonsense!
I reckon I should get one, I filled my tank with Fuel expecting to get a ticket

Exactly. It’s probably highly annoying for some to hear, but the coaches are merely a means of travel, and in no way a guarantee of a ticket. You’d hope there’d be some joined up thinking in the future, and that those organising the coach transport would be able to work with our club and other clubs towards putting together a travel plus ticket package.

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Regardless of the ins and outs that have caused Maw’s paddy over the Hereford ticketing situation, any mental health issues aren’t going to be helped at all by the knocking he’s receiving here, or the Facebook group or on X (Twitter). But I suppose that’s modern life – if you live by the social media sword, you die by the social media sword.

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Yet more business blandness sweeping away the community vibe?

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ironfromafar wrote:

Some fella on FB advising ST holders to check their settings with regard to receiving emails as it appears quite possibly some may have ticked the NO box thus blocking them.

I shot myself in the foot but it’s your fault.

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He’s making a complete fool of himself, the big bloody baby. We’ve all missed out on tickets for stuff we feel we should have been able to get to! You just have to take it on the chin.

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unity iron wrote:

Mr Maw has well and truly spat his dummy out. Didn’t get a Hereford ticket so has taken his SUFC flag down and stopped all fundraising. What a pathetic creature! Oh dear oh dear

I think he is trying to crack a joke.

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If we get promoted this season I don’t see the Club actively aiming for anything other than stabilising next season. Survival, with mid-table a bonus, will probably be the order of the day given to Butler. We have got to, as I’ve said elsewhere, face the fact we’ve almost certainly found our level. Yo-yoing between the division we’re in and the one above could be about as good as it gets.

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Siderite wrote:

AI has gone too far when it can just bastardise a Michael Buble-esque piece and turn it into some autotuned slop

Don’t you mean “AI has gone too far when it can just bastardise Michael Buble-esque slop and turn it into an autotuned piece” ..?

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The advantage is definitely with Brackley (two home games), but anything could happen so it’s too close to call. The picture may well not be much clear after Good Friday’s matches. It is almost certainly going to go to the last game, this.

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ironking wrote:

Apparently it’s something to do with monies going into a personal account.

Oh dear!

For clarity – Jerry didn’t mention “personal account” (if we’re looking at the same post on the cult page). He said “banking app”. Not quite the same thing.

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ironking wrote:

Something has gone wrong with the money for the coaches v Kings Lynn.

Like someone said “this lot couldn’t run a bath”.

If the organisation and accounting for a simple coach trip has gone a bit awry, what hope is there for the rest of it?! Hope they get sorted.

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ironfromafar wrote:

While we are talking daft Clunan to score would be a bigger shock

There’s always someone who takes it too far.

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