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JohnGaylesNuttingKit wrote:

Also, what happened to the Conor Smith rumours, just pie in the sky?

I’d be very happy to see him back.

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Iron Mann wrote:

Good piece. If you scroll to 0825 it is easy enough to play

They must have repeated the segment, then? I heard it at 7.20am.

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If it appears on BBC Sounds as a cut-out segment I will repost here.

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ironfromafar wrote:

If players are leaving ALA possibly more than likely Clunan IMO the club should confirm or deny such news and keep fans updated .. across SM the club is so quiet ..quite possibly waiting to counter the loss of Clunan with a new signing or exstention as they did previous with Fitz .. OFFSET BAD NEWS WITH GOOD either way im fed up of seeing the trophy photos lets get some players sorted for next season NOW …and a peak at the new kit design wouldnt be a bad idea to keep fans jolly in these dark close season days

Patience.

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Siderite wrote:

I feel Clunan was underrated by his ardent critics and overrated by his fans. He did well in NLN, some didn’t see it, but the NL will be a lot more physical and that could have been his undoing.

Must admit I warmed to him as the season progressed. Terrific work ethic, occasional good skills. Made mistakes, stray passes etc – but in general a big contributor to the success of 2024/25.

If he’s going back to Kings Lynn, I’d say it’s in part a geography issue – wasn’t he travelling up to Scunthorpe every day? He has a small child (or children?), and time travelling is wasted time, away from his kids and away from family responsibility.

Or, if he actually moved his family to the Scunthorpe area, perhaps the day to day support network you need when you have small kids just isn’t there for them.

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glanford

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Facebook cult page moderators behaving like it’s the Wild West and they can do what they like. Absolute shithole of a site.

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BobbyGmeister

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That admin took the moral low ground and should definitely be removed from the role – and probably kicked out of the group. What a disgusting thing to have done.

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Rene Artois

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cassidystash wrote:

I think Phils’issue might be to do with announcing at 3.00 “there will be an announcement at 4.00.”

Good to have the warning, then you can know the news as soon as it’s public?

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As James Moody said on Twitter, the Club announces immediately as and when they can. Better than waiting until every bit of business is concluded and then putting out a list – that could be weeks away.

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64 wrote:

Best laugh I’ve had was hearing someone at the club had suggested Rob WeDontknowhathedoes should be chairman

Mr Roberts as Chairman!?

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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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Dragoniron

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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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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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Awaywego

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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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