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In answer to the question you posed in the title of the thread. Yes it is. The Labour Party is the new brand of the Tory party, achieved by coup. The establishment and its money and agenda needed a party to operate after the last clown show let them down.

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I think we’ll be competitive this season, not least because we should have a team of players who are a bit more used to playing at this level, and we’ll have a manager who’s got an ounce of footballing sense. Not saying we’ll win the league by any means, but I think we can look forward to the ride.

From what I’ve seen in pre-season, I don’t expect promotion.

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i was always a meat pie n Bovril guy ..long before the days of pulled pork the like.

It’s all very well serving that basic notion of football food – but I think we should be trying to raise the bar on it and get a bit of a name for ourselves for the effort and quality.

If we’re doing hot dogs, it’s so unambitious to charge £4.00 (may even have been £4.50) for a sloppy tinned ‘eyelids and arseholes’ processed-to-f*ck sausage in a cheap (and unbuttered) bun with no onions and no ketchup anywhere to be found… Charge £6 or £6.50 for something special – a decent local sausage in some sort of quality bakery roll, with onions and really nice sauces.

This means, of course, it’s essential to have absolutely the right person (capable, confident) in control of all this stuff. Smoking Goat did improve the food offer – but as he tried to speed up / simplify / cheapen the process, I have to say that very quickly the quality declined markedly.

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Cliff Byrne's Right Peg

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cassidystash wrote:

It has to be good enough to make fans walk past several food opportunities and buy at the AA.

The hot dog on Saturday certainly was not.

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64 wrote:

SST wrote:

Options appear limited to pies, sausage rolls, foot long Lincolnshire hot dog and a tinned hot dog

Cheap tinned hotdogs are the devil’s own revenge on humanity.If our much vaunted catering manager considers these acceptable he’s in for a hard life on this side of the river

Last night at the kiosk it was the cheap ones, plus staff flapping about not knowing what they were doing.

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Iron414

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Iron414 wrote:

On a non-footballing side note the catering was well wide of the mark tonight. Girl serving looked like she was going to go into cardiac arrest at half time and the food was taking far too long to get out. Might the incinerated goat rise like a phoenix from the ashes next season?

The food was crap, as well. Basic hot dog – no onions, no ketchup available.

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Iron414

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Awaywego wrote:

If you don’t know how can you say it was a ruse, like I’ve said before he put more money into the club than he took out, based on gate receipts wages tax bill etc, etc, don’t forget he to took over the club receiving no season ticket money,
sponsorship or shirt sales as well so your financial driven doesn’t stand up.
That leaves your actions of a mad man if that be the case we should thank him because without him and the time he bought for Michelle to step in we wouldn’t have a club because at the time there was no one else to step up to the plate, especially one of the current Co owners who had walked away.

Wow.

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MK Iron wrote:

We all see different things. Folks around me were agreeing that Beestin looked the fittest and sharpest anyone had ever seen him on Saturday.

I like him, too – but I haven’t seen anyone that ungainly since Jason White.

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i think its time for a change of captain so who would your regular club captain be for the coming season ?

Evans.

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Iron414

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billpuntonsghost wrote:

When they realise Clunan isn’t good enough,we should be ok.

See also Beestin, lumbering about. Like watching a barrel of tarmac try to paint the Mona Lisa.

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Iron414

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IMO a long hard season awaits plenty of twists n turns for sure and its play offs at best.

Exactly this – a long hard season ahead.

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Iron414

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How did you come to that conclusion ?

Because (a couple of moments aside) we were dull to watch, we didn’t create that many chances and we allowed too many opposition chances to develop.

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I didn’t see Whitehall out on the pitch warming up with the rest of the team before this game, so presumed he was left out and probably not even present. But he was definitely named amongst the substitutes during the announcements because I remember raising an eyebrow and thinking “Oh, he must be here then”.

It wasn’t the greatest game. Despite a couple of quite nice moments it was a bit of a 1-0 bore draw, if you catch my drift. It’s saddening but on this evidence I really don’t expect us to do anything this season.

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Totally lacking any real creative spark, imho. Imagine a solid passing team with an unpredictable lock-picker like Gascoigne who can ‘play it as he sees it’!

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cassidystash wrote:

All the average fan knows is that we were crap. We don’t know why we were crap although we probably all have opinions. It’s surely the job of the players/manager/coaches to work out why and put it right. They’re paid well enough and that’s their only job.

Not enough gung-ho!

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Awaywego

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Peter Promise wrote:

Are you still allowed to park on Gunness straight?If not where can you park to get a prompt exit to Gunness or the M181 please?

Do you mean on matchdays?

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Anybody know Foden’s role last night because he didn’t seem to?

Scapegoat, I think.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Great to see the 1,000 membership surpassed recently and this notable new member:

https://x.com/KieranMaguire/status/1802658737347322121?s=19

Excellent stuff.

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64 wrote:

I don’t watch much football and a high level and must say that Harry Kane never makes me think a centerback would be glad to see the back of him. He may score goals but if he doesn’t help the team out the team won’t win trophies in my opinion .The ball just comes straight back even if he stays up like Shearer advocated he just doesn’t make like hard

One of those players who will nothing his way to everything.

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ironking wrote:

… worked closely behind the scenes with Simon and others long long before WHAM, was publicly exposed and derided.

The work that was undertaken then paved the way for a relatively quick takeover…

Simon acted like a twat (publicly going out to bat for Hilton, publicly decrying supporters in heinous terms) – and you seem to be saying his position was deliberate, an effort to keep Hilton onside while things were put in place for the club to be saved? Having observed Elliott’s ego in action on various occasions, I just don’t buy this I’m afraid.

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I hope the matchday catering points are also improved. Although the food was better when Smoking Goat was doing it, the service was ridiculously bad (slow, and often clueless).

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Don’t know Simon, never met him, never spoken to him but there is substance in ironking’s post above IMO.

Tend to agree with this. He did add value in terms of sponsorships he brought in and events like the Kevin Keegan evening he organised. Was it enough to warrant a seat on the board? Well that’s Michelle’s decision but I personally don’t see why he gets so much stick. He’s contributed with his money and his time, to the survival of our club, let’s not forget that!

Other than a bit of training kit, HIS money!?

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For the record Simon built up a relationship with WHAM to try to limit the damage inflicted on our beloved club.

The more I think about this revisionist nonsense the more I feel annoyed that someone would post it. It’s whitewashing.

Elliott stood up at a forum with Hilton and personally vouched for him when he was being questioned by anxious fans, and then later went online and berated and insulted anxious fans for questioning Hilton.

However hard you try to spin them, those things were not damage limitation, they exacerbated the problem.

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That was first impression when i read the post Apollo.

That ‘For the record’ is a tell.
As is the egotistical ‘major player’ later on.

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ironking wrote:

I have no idea what if anything has gone on behind the scenes, but the club is in good hands with the four shareholding directors whom I fully support.

For the record Simon built up a relationship with WHAM to try to limit the damage inflicted on our beloved club.

He worked behind the scenes with a lot of other people to resurrect our club and spent a lot of time and effort doing so.

I hope that Simon has not left the board on bad terms and is still a major player in the fortunes of Scunthorpe United FC in the future.

The club is in a totally better place than it was under Ernest or WHAM but there is still a long way to go before the club can return to League football and we need people like Simon around to make that happen.

I will point to the global companies who have sponsored us due to Simon’s connections primarily in the motor industry as one positive example.

This whole post reads like a statement from Simon.

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cassidystash wrote:

Don’t know Simon, never met him, never spoken to him but there is substance in ironking’s post above IMO.

Certainly the bit about sponsorship from car dealerships etc.

Some of the rest is rewriting history, and offensive for it.

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For the record Simon built up a relationship with WHAM to try to limit the damage inflicted on our beloved club.

Wow.

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Absolutely nothing SUFC of any real note to say for months. Sulking?

You’d think the man who, because he cared so much, drove 200 miles to get a hospital photo with JD and then publicly post it would have something to say in public when JD was relieved of his duties.

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Awaywego wrote:

He didn’t say anything when he left the Swanny board, so hold your breath, though he is more into X nowadays where more seems to be said off thee cuff.

He’s been unusually quiet on X. Absolutely nothing SUFC of any real note to say for months. Sulking?

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