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Awaywego wrote:

Evidently not anymore they don’t.

That should mean the food is sorted out for the better. Really poor value for money last few times I’ve been.

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Being given merit badges by the establishment is not really that impressive.

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Rudyboy wrote:

Signed from Altrincham where he scored four goals in two seasons but, according to Cods fans, he’s big and strong, something they lacked last season.

Other than the Altrincham bit, it’s got Mark Beck written all over it.

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Awaywego wrote:

Michelle doing great PR with the tour of the trophy ……… fair play to her, right up my street involving everyone with scunnys success will pay dividends for a long time to come.

Completely agree. Michelle’s PR tour with the trophy has been a great way for the Club to engage with businesses which have provided financial support, and should be applauded not sniffed at. Same as the bus tour. Such things inspire people, younger fans, new fans, and provide nice memories to look back on. It’s been great to see Little Old Scunthorpe battling away and then taking a moment to celebrate its successes (however modest, and however relative to past glories) and give dues to those who have helped.

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Awaywego wrote:

From meeting them over the fc100,000 debacle then within days advertise for fans to be a mouthpiece to work with, (anyone know if anything came from that call) the club showed what they think of the trust, similar to how they treat Danny.

Some people don’t like being disagreed with or held to account, particularly by people without any skin in the game. But often especially by people who do have skin in the game (however modest an amount).

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The stuff Terrace have been knocking out in the name of our Club is only marginally better than what was on offer before, and it’s a very thin margin at that. It’s mostly guff – very boring generic crap.

The apparently aggressive move by the Club to limit the Trust in this way – is that indicative of a relationship going sour? It looks it to me.

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Awaywego wrote:

unless you think they were lying

So everyone else has lied about proof of funds but not Dave!?

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ironfromafar wrote:

Never heard any info re just how things turned out financially with regard to the weekender.

No-one official is going to lay the accounts bare for the public, are they? When the Weekender is mentioned it’ll just be the usual PR stuff about what a great event / experience it was, and how Scunthorpe is lucky to have had it on.

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There won’t be any pre-season friendlies at home this year, for pitch reasons.

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Personally, I think 3 up is a good idea – as long as the third of those is through the Play Offs. I like the system, it’s exciting and adds incentive – and York’s hard luck this time round is just the way the cookie crumbles.

Incidentally, I think I’m right in saying that in both 1999 and 2009 Scunthorpe were not the top finishing team out of those that contested the Play Offs.

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… those not interested are not obliged to take part in discussion around this or any other topics for that matter. That’s a polite way of putting it :)

Anything United-related is up for discussion here as far as I’m concerned, however obscure or irrelevant it might seem. I’m not interested in joining in with all of those discussions, but I’m glad they crop up.

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qwerty wrote:

Who honestly gives a f***?

It’s a non story

It happened on ‘our patch’, which makes it fair game for discussion by those who might want to discuss it here. It also happened during the Stadium Weekender, so again it’s fair game for discussion, and it involves a former Prime Minister buddying up with a convicted thug, so it’s not a non-story. It’s at the very least interesting.

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Not that anyone should give a flying toss, but…

The video was obviously filmed at San Pietro. Joyce and Truss either met up there prior to the Weekender (it’s publicly open 12 – 3 on a Sunday) and then went on to the event…

… or they went there after the Weekender. Having said that, San Pietro is closed on a Sunday night, as far as I know, but perhaps they opened up specially. Dougie Joyce strikes me as someone who might be in a position to stump up a wedge of cash or make the owners an offer they couldn’t refuse.

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What a crock of attempted narrative-shift shit.

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Northumbiron wrote:

Yes this season’s home and away have been belters.

Unlike the third strip which was minging!

I didn’t mind the third kit, to be honest. Not my sort of thing, usually, but as a one-off to tie the Steelworks and the Club even closer it was good – and turned out to be quite poignant over the course of the season. Wasn’t fond of the away kit – I know it harked back to ‘the Garcia year’ (which is a personal favourite season) but I really don’t like the yellow.

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Anybody in charge, in their right mind, who heard Zanetti’s slurred garbage on the tannoy at half time in the Chester league game would have binned him on the spot (literally the centre spot). They didn’t and here we are.

Might not have been as simple as that given how far down the line of planning they were (contracts, promotion, agreements etc)

I get that but, after all the pre match stuff from the club telling fans not to do anything that might cause trouble, they invite someone to have the microphone who promptly starts chanting “F off Chester” after his initial incoherent nonsense fizzled out. Did they need to see any more ? I didn’t.

Actually quite funny on the day, imho, seeing someone make such a tit of themselves. But in truth a real low point, more suited to the Hilton era.

I clearly remember, just after Tom Zanetti finished his little display, James Moody saying over the PA “Oh dear, that was embarrassing… I’ll tell you what he should have told you” – and then giving details of the Weekender.

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

I’ve watched the video of Truss and the thug, I’ve no idea where it was filmed but it certainly wasn’t filmed at the Attis arena, there is no room in the building that’s decorated like the room those two are filmed in.

It’s San Pietro. Check the wallpaper.

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ironlion82 wrote:

Who has got the Club associated with all this lot ?
Who is responsible for allowing all this and these type of people having access into our Club.?

Not the first time in very recent years that dubious types have been walking the corridors of GP.

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The hosting of ‘this lot’ is more down to Tom Z than the Club, surely?

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Personally, I think the 2025/25 kit has been amongst the best looking we’ve had in the last 40 years. Whatever the actual kit for 2025/26, some will like it and some won’t. Then it’ll be changed in a year.

You just always hope to avoid either i) the designers trying to be (too) clever, or ii) the designers not giving a toss… We’ve had a couple of absolute shockers and one or two very average kits over the years for those reasons, imho.

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Northumbiron

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Mo Federa – contract extension triggered by York City.

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Iron-awe wrote:

We got promoted and AB did just fine, be grateful of the promotion and keep looking forward.

In his first season as manager he got us over the promotion line, which more experienced manager Jimmy Dean failed to do, playing (some say) worse football than Jimmy Dean, and also without the messiah Jacob Butterfield. I’d say that all told Butler did a very good job – you have to expect that there will be some ups and downs during the course of a season, and there were, and he rode them fairly well.

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BigLeftToe wrote:

I’m pretty sure that Michelle has also stated that we will now only be offering out 1 year deals??

I’ve not heard that in any of the interviews I’ve listened to.

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lesgeo wrote:

Mind you, salary isn’t everything. Some may welcome the challenge of the NL.

Not just that. Again, fairly recently Michelle said something about some players have families and prefer the security of longer contracts even if it will mean slightly less in wages – so that may work in our favour (Clunan and Whitehall).

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Interview with Steve Torpey on Radio Humberside discussing the retained list so far, and his thoughts on it. Of those listed as having been offered contracts, he expects some to go though he didn’t say who. What are everyone on here’s instincts about that party of the retained list? Who do you think will stay, and who do you think will go?

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I reckon most people who watch football will attempt to put the manager right on football than a bricky on how to build a wall but hey it’s again just another opinion and most people are only interested in their own.

Yes, more will attempt to put a football manager right. You don’t often get multiple thousand people turning up to watch someone lay a brick.

Correct so your initial analogy was flawed, I accept your apology you don’t have to come back and offer another.

It wasn’t flawed. You have failed to understand it.

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Iron-awe wrote:

I reckon most people who watch football will attempt to put the manager right on football than a bricky on how to build a wall but hey it’s again just another opinion and most people are only interested in their own.

Yes, more will attempt to put a football manager right. You don’t often get multiple thousand people turning up to watch someone lay a brick.

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cassidystash wrote:

I can cope with a back 5 if we have the players but we didn’t. We had FBs trying to be WBs and 3 CBs with no pace which at least one should have. My opinion only.

I think we were a player short in each department, tbh. Midfield lacked a hard nut and up front lacked a fox in the box.

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