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So are you saying nobody else but the club should recognise their efforts?, if so it seems a bit churlish imho

Their efforts have been enthusiastic and determined and I genuinely applaud them for their service to the good of the club – as should everyone else. However, anyone other than the club itself formally recognising them for those efforts (in this case by handing out shiny gongs) seems like a bit much, to me.

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Awaywego wrote:

Congratulations also to Stuart and Sue Maw being recognized by the ironhour podcast for all the fundraising they do for Scunny, bit ott at times for me but you cant fault their efforts.

Plus: “… recognised by the Iron Hour podcast for all the fundraising they do for Scunny”

It’s not Iron Hour’s place to recognise them, imho. It’s the Club’s.

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Awaywego wrote:

“recognised by the ironhour podcast for all the fundraising they do for Scunny”

I saw this somewhere on social media – a photo of a couple of trophies which have been fashioned up for the Maws. Waste of money. A pat on the back should have sufficed, and the trophies cash donated to the club.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

The Euro’s league? Wouldn’t know but the season long league is based on predicting scores from a presented list before the start of each round. You then get points based on correct score, home or away win, draw etc.

How many games are on each presented list? How often is there a list presented? Each league fixture?

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Could someone please explain how this league works ..?

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Northumbiron wrote:

Well if you want to look like Kevin and Perry!

Liam Gallagher Retail Park

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Awaywego wrote:

Do you lot live in a shed, why pick on this merchandiser at least they are Scunny fans unlike the ones offering phone covers or the ones offering pin badges.
Third party merchandiseing goes on across all clubs and sports for that matter and always as done nothing new to see here.

It does go on, yes. But this particular case is also to do with the fact that club hasn’t really properly launched its 125 merch. For ‘proper fans’ to do this really lacks class. Plus, they’re seemingly not donating their profit – and that spirit of supporters giving to the club for the greater good is the order of the day at the moment (see Iron Bru beanies etc).

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Sanfran49 wrote:

It was used on the Beach Towel I believe.

Issued by the club? Fair enough, they have publicly used it.

Still doesn’t excuse this.

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64 wrote:

This really is bad form ,while the club probably don’t have the cash to stop them it’s up to us to not buy them.

It is bad form indeed… Mark and Carol should donate their proceeds thus far to the club, and then stop.

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WonderGoals wrote:

The debts are nearly under control…ground is going to look fantastic, we have a new manager in so all we need now is the playing staff to match everything else.

Nearly a complete turnaround from where we were.

Amazing what can happen when those at the helm actually care about the greater good.

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And what a broom. The fans are buying into the project of club sustainability and looking forward to the future.

She is one of the most significant figures in the club’s entire history.

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Awaywego wrote:

“And they will look after YOU” Rene.
Giving us a friendly on the 27th of July and then another chance to go to the open day on the 28th how benevolent of them.

I’d say Michelle saving the club at a critical moment thereby ensuring you have one to support, buying the stadium back from a difficult former owner, putting the stadium into a CIC, harnessing the goodwill in a tangible way with stadium improvements, and repeatedly reassuring that the club belongs to the fans and the community is looking after you.

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lesgeo wrote:

Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages.
noun DEROGATORY
“A well-meaning but unrealistic or interfering philanthropist or reformer.
“they were not going to welcome bossy do-gooders from far away telling them how to run their lives”
Let’s hear it for ‘those who do good’ – not the above.

That’s certainly one – but not the only – definition of the term.

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Iron-awe wrote:

If small community style football clubs are to survive then more fan involvement is a must because the cost and pitfalls of keeping a club in business are colossal these days. Michelle and her board have done brilliantly but they have also had lots of personal and community input to help out along the way, long may it continue.

I agree. I think it’s important to look past the fact that the stadium itself is a beast by NLN standards. We’re a small club that needs its people.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Mr Swan actually said at a forum turn up, buy a pie and a pint watch the football and then go home

I would say all previous owners / Chairmen have seen supporters as no more than customers. Even the good one(s).

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Just Iron wrote:

ps I may be wrong but there seems to be a not so thinly veiled poke at Staffy and Jerry … ‘do gooders’ and all that. These guys love the club and have been great servants for decades. A bit more generosity wouldn’t go amiss.

Not at all, I meant it in the most literal sense – ‘those who do good’.

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Awaywego wrote:

But haven’t done enough for them to have a place on the fans team lol.

As I said yesterday, this comes across as a bit entitled when there is the potential for money to be made.

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Ironawe wrote:

Agree, off pitch matters appear to be the most positive, galvanised and community focussed for many many years. Despite the level we find ourselves at the feel good factor has come back. A positive close season and start to 24/25 season is vital to keep this going.

Absolutely agree – but really I’m just looking at the efforts to ‘tidy up’ the physical space. It’s fantastic.

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Siderite wrote:

My understanding is that there is a £10 raffle for a chance to make the squad. However 5 of the spots on the supporter’s team and 1 on the legends team can be bought for £1000 and £2500,respectively. If no-one goes for the guaranteed spots, they will go to those who went for the raffle. Either way, there should be several spots available to those participating in the raffle, even if the 6 guaranteed spots are taken up. If I am understanding correctly.

If that is the case then it all seems fair enough and no-one is really being excluded.

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I do agree with Fans 64, though. There could have been a general supporter raffle for a place on the team.

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I don’t think it’s ‘just plain wrong’. If there is the money there to be made from the people ‘who can afford it’ then make it / take it.

To expect the club to give places on this team away for free (when they could make much-needed cash) seems a bit entitled to me.

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lesgeo wrote:

Now all we need is for these attitudes to be set in stone for all future generations.

I feel fairly confident that Michelle and this Board will succeed in their aim of bringing the club into the black and making it sustainable. I’m also confident that she will put things in place to make sure that we’re protected for the future. I don’t know how those things will look, but the CIC owning the ground might be an indicator.

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64 wrote:

I’m shocked by the straight and frank way they describe how they just worked through stuff in a workmanlike manor .there’s a lot of guff in football from fans about passion ,when they mean overt chest beating, but these people have it and a huge work ethic combined .I hope there’s no more surprises and they succeed.

I actually felt quite emotional listening to the podcast. In particular this was down to Michelle’s dedication and her utter lack of pretentiousness.

She is also the first Chair of the club that I can ever recall describing it as belonging to the town and its people more than it belongs to (her as) an individual – and meaning it.

We should all be humbled that we have such a person at the helm.

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Ferrite wrote:

And Henderson & Juryeff.

Like bringing a cotton bud to a sword fight.

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Siderite wrote:

Legend gets bounded about a lot, but Hayes will always be an Iron great to me. Some of the ‘lazy Hayesy’ stuff was ridiculous.

Completely agree. Touch, vision, power, skill, a wonderful player. That goal on his third debut at Mansfield will stay with me forever, just like those goals at Chelsea, at home to Grimsby and on his debut v. Hull.

He scored some great goals, but it was his intelligence with passing and touch that has always stayed with me. A cut above.

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Siderite wrote:

Legend gets bounded about a lot, but Hayes will always be an Iron great to me. Some of the ‘lazy Hayesy’ stuff was ridiculous.

He had a great touch and could be really clever with a pass. I see a little bit of him in Whitehall, to be honest, as daft as that might sound.

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Siderite wrote:

I am not astounded he’d be fast and loose with the truth, but I am surprised that he thought he could fool people with something so obviously dubious. At the end he was saying how “Hilton was mostly good.” All while he was supposedly spearheading a dossier documenting Hilton’s problems.

Don’t forget that he’s also making out that he is a fair figure who came to bat for the Matts after their banning orders. While omitting that he made caveats in that defence about how they were in talks with the Swanns, which always was an attempt to discredit them and Bru. Hardly the fair figure he is now trying to portray himself as.

Seems to have been one of those people who thinks he’s the smartest in the room, but has been found out on multiple occasions?

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One thing that this particular thread has smoked out is Me-Boy’s willingness to mislead or to try and manoeuvre his way out of any accountability.

His defensive claim (on Twitter) that he assisted with the dossier which contributed to Hilton’s downfall has rightly been called out by those who actually were involved in it.

That lie, rather than anything else, is the key issue now – because it’s an absolute whopper.

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He seems to conflate negative things said about him with abuse.

That’s because he’s an angry middle-aged man endorsed by a supposedly impartial podcast.

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64 wrote:

Notice he’s not said which comments his objects to,

I expect he just objects to being objected to.

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