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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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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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It’s the ‘clear directive that became noticeable a number of months ago’, the praise for Michelle and Roj, the total absence of thanks or praise for AchingHead, Sharp and CEO Roberts, and the bit on James Moody fighting the Merch Labs corner to the very end. That all suggests to me that there is huge tension and massive internal difficulty at the Club. Can we read into this, on top of Smoking Goat’s comments about Sharp, that the problems are now not just confined to the boardroom and the two factions power-pissing in there? Has the whole place gone toxic again?

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If you’re going to go out in a blaze of glory, be classy about it. Well done ML.

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Harrytheiron wrote:

A wet dream for Sherbert and his ilk (oh he’s banned)

Soggy biscuits ahoy.

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Rene Artois

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Exactly the sort of Bru antics that pushed mentally fragile Super Dave out this.

Bru antics?

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Having had time to digest it the Friday and Saturday are absolutely abysmal. I understand there’s an audience for the Sunday stuff though not my cup of tea at all. Still not sure there’s enough to shift tickets for that night still.

I know it’s local bands and tribute acts on the Friday, but where are you looking for the Saturday line-up? I did see D:Ream mentioned somewhere, though I can’t find that now.

On this video. Brandon Bloc, Phats and Small, Livin Joy and Capella – https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH_q-PgscUw/?igsh=bWYzajNqdThqZHJs

All a bit one dimensional, isn’t it?

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Harrytheiron wrote:

Having had time to digest it the Friday and Saturday are absolutely abysmal. I understand there’s an audience for the Sunday stuff though not my cup of tea at all. Still not sure there’s enough to shift tickets for that night still.

I know it’s local bands and tribute acts on the Friday, but where are you looking for the Saturday line-up? I did see D:Ream mentioned somewhere, though I can’t find that now.

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unity iron wrote:

Marco’s sojourn on the pitch when he has contributed literally nothing to SUFC, taking the praise from those who did good work to save the club. The man didn’t even carry a bucket.

Are you suggesting he should be in one?

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Bitter.

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Club online shop still down.

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Harrytheiron wrote:

Do you think the club has an actual strategy or was it all hot air from ‘Sharpy’?

Clearly there was A Strategy! Public outcry before it had even been officially launched made it clear it would not be received well, even if inaccuracies about it were floating around and influencing opinion. That whole episode was a shitshow, and so now the Club has to find Another Strategy. I don’t think the actual shareholding drive has too much to do with the recent debacle, actually – it has been ongoing for several months. However, the timing of mentioning it again this week was perhaps a way for the Club (or Sharp) to say “Alright then, mouthy c*nts, step up and put something in”.

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Harrytheiron wrote:

I get the impression they’ve had lots of rejections or never had the contacts in the first place.

Do you mean the Club (pre their association with Zanetti)? Or do you mean Zanetti himself?

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Club online shop still down. Shitshow.

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Awaywego wrote:

So sell up and give someone else ago.
So yes I’ll take that distant billionaire and run that risk.

So a Hilton with real money? Lucrative and OTT 2/3 year contracts and decides after 1 season that he’s had enough. Been there – don’t like it!
In case you’ve missed it Michelle & Co have given us a successful football club under extreme difficulties, something that looked unlikely a year or so ago. Your constant sniping has become tedious, can’t you look for the positives at least some of the time?

Now is obviously the time for a carefully planned and well-orchestrated move by the supporters to secure some significant part of ownership of the Club. This, in my opinion, obviously has to be done through a formal body such as the Trust, who already have a respectable shareholding and have decent infrastructure in place. I’m sure that there would be volunteers willing to contribute the necessary time and their expertise (legals, etc), and plenty of supporters who would be willing to join a monthly subscription service to generate funds to buy more shares.

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What have they really done other than get the government to stump up most of the money for the ground

“… other than…”

Wow. And you think that was easy, or that we should take it for granted?

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… and this, this morning.

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