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  • in reply to: The price of football. #277501
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    Unfortunately with Some in the club i don’t see that changing anytime soon.

    Not disagreeing with you, just wondering what you mean by that?

    Don’t know if you delve into social media Apollo but some of the parasites are on there thanking the 3 SUFC officials often enough.

    Parasites?

    in reply to: The price of football. #277492
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    Unfortunately with Some in the club i don’t see that changing anytime soon.

    Not disagreeing with you, just wondering what you mean by that?

    in reply to: The price of football. #277490
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    It’s a pity the other 95% couldn’t be arsed to do their homework on his background – if they had, then like us, they’d have known he was a ‘wrong un’ much earlier and we’d have cleared him off a lot sooner.

    We now need Guinevere and her Knights of the Round Table to get us running on an even keel with creditors paid off, wages paid on time, any outstanding wages to former players/employees settled, pensions and NI payments updated and paid on time, redundancy payments made, CCJs fulfilled, HMRC paid etc.
    Only then will normality have been restored.
    I’d rather support a debt free and honourable but poor performing team in the NLN than a morally & financially bankrupt team in L1 or L2 bending & breaking the rules and the law.

    Based on those exact terms, ‘normality’ is a several years project if it is even achievable at all. Good luck to all concerned – running a club is hard enough financially without having to wipe Hilton’s arse into the bargain.

    in reply to: The price of football. #277487
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    That is to say, someone on the current Board of Directors backed Hilton and insulted fans who dared to question him – and has failed to address that mistake or apologise since the takeover.

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    in reply to: The price of football. #277486
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    It didn’t stop some backing him to the hilt, with added insults and threats, some on this board..

    … and someone on the actual Board.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277470
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    Looking for something on the Facebook group to complain about..

    Can easily be spotted through the Scunthorpe United photographers

    Eh?

    in reply to: Warrington FC #277469
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    Well Butterfield almost walked one in second half on Saturday after a brilliant run beating several players on the way but ultimately the box was that congested he just ran out of room to get a decent shot in.

    Yes, that was quite a moment – and just a tad unfortunate that Butterfield messed the shot up. It brought to mind a brilliant goal scored in that exact fashion, at that same end of GP about thirty years ago. Neil Gregory (if you remember him?).

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    As I’ve said on here before, I think it’s great to watch United coming out from the back and passing the opposition off the park – I’m not sure we’ve had a side as good at it as this lot. But there is definitely something lacking up front in the current system.

    I’d love to see a really strong striker at the business end of this team (Flounders, Daws, Eyre, Forrester, Sharp, Hooper) as I think this would help with decision making in and around the box. I wouldn’t say anyone in the current side is shirking responsibility and they’re all working – but perhaps overworking moves.

    There seems to be a problem with just giving it a crack.

    I should add: Obviously United have scored a few goals from distance this season, but in general it seems to me that things are often overworked in and around the box.

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    As I’ve said on here before, I think it’s great to watch United coming out from the back and passing the opposition off the park – I’m not sure we’ve had a side as good at it as this lot. But there is definitely something lacking up front in the current system.

    I’d love to see a really strong striker at the business end of this team (Flounders, Daws, Eyre, Forrester, Sharp, Hooper) as I think this would help with decision making in and around the box. I wouldn’t say anyone in the current side is shirking responsibility and they’re all working – but perhaps overworking moves.

    There seems to be a problem with just giving it a crack.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277279
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    I seldom bother having a look on the Facebook group – but I just did. It’s so galling to see Herbert on a charm offensive after months of being the abuser-in-chief.

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    Hull City have banned one of their fans doing vlogs, but they’re a more professional operation than we are right now.

    Perhaps more to do with questionable tone and content rather than the actual doing of a vlog?

    in reply to: South port #277264
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    Fair enough Apollo 11, LBH, Whitehall is a pale shadow of Steve Torpey in the role he is playing for us this season, no comparison whatsoever, he is not a good target man type player and needs to be part of a pair up top to be effective enough IMO.

    I do like Whitehall, but I completely agree with you. I would like to see him in a partnership with some short-arsed terrier who scores 15 to 20 goals per season.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277262
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    It’s common sense. There’s a clear line being crossed and I am sure the club (or whoever should do so) will address it.

    Do I want to go inside the ground and take photos and videos of the match or of my mates and perhaps put some of them online on my socials? Of course I do, yes.

    Do I want to go inside the ground and take photos of people who are unaware that they are being photographed, and then publish them online in a publicly accessible group? No, of course not.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277259
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    Where does all that leave people like Gareth who does a great job with Iron Army, has he an appropriate licence?, I presume he has the club’s permission to film inside and around the ground but there are loads of you tube vlogs for a huge amount of football clubs run every week in this country, where do they all stand legally?

    I imagine that most clubs, SUFC included, turn something of a blind eye to this stuff – the rules around equipment, and the fact that their supporters take photos, videos, whatever (ie. it’s the nature of modern life). However, in the case of these crowd photos I suspect they’ll draw a line and ask the person taking and publishing them to stop because they are intrusive.

    in reply to: South port #277255
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    If Carver and Bennett are doing so well at Southport then why aren’t they with us.Those two have got to be better than Whitehall (who is a joke) and Elliott

    I suspect that, just like Torpey, Whitehall “does things you can’t see”…

    Torpey was in the centre backs face constantly and held the ball up by being strong and aggressive, Whitehall is none of those things IMO.

    I wasn’t really comparing him to Torpey.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277254
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    Aside from anything else, that means that no-one unlicensed to photograph, film or broadcast audio from the game is actually allowed to bring in a mobile phone.

    in reply to: Club lottery #277250
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    …Hilton’s scheme was misleading from the beginning… …This is much simpler…

    In other words… Then: Ponzi. Now: Prizes.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277242
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    Quick search brings up this.
    “ If you took the photo, you usually own it. But, if you didn’t take the photo but you are in it, someone could breach your rights (such as data protection or privacy rights) by posting it.”
    I’ll bring it up at GP.

    Whatever the legalities, it’s highly intrusive (as well as being a bit odd). Most people, I suspect, would accept that the club has the right to publish their own images – as long as they have all photography waiver notices for crowd events displayed around the ground or printed on tickets (or whatever legal stuff they need to fulfil). But a private individual taking this type of photo and publishing feels like a different thing – a little bit unsettling. The privacy issue: If I had children published in an image in this fashion I would not be happy.

    in reply to: South port #277240
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    If Carver and Bennett are doing so well at Southport then why aren’t they with us.Those two have got to be better than Whitehall (who is a joke) and Elliott

    I suspect that, just like Torpey, Whitehall “does things you can’t see”…

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277238
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    I Notice that supporter with the camera and long lens is still posting tons of intrusive shots of supporters in stands. His mates seem to like it but does everyone else like their dopey fizzogs plastered all over Facebook? What if you’d skived off work to go to the match and your boss sees a pic of you at GP? Does he have permission to snap fans and post them on the internet from GP officials?

    Good point, I’m not sure what the legal standpoint would be with this, I’ll bring it up at the club.
    I personally think he shouldn’t be doing it.

    He should not.

    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277236
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    Not looked on there for a while. Notice that supporter with the camera and long lens is still posting tons of intrusive shots of supporters in stands. His mates seem to like it but does everyone else like their dopey fizzogs plastered all over Facebook? What if you’d skived off work to go to the match and your boss sees a pic of you at GP? Does he have permission to snap fans and post them on the internet from GP officials?

    I can just about accept it if it’s the club doing it as it’s a marketing exercise, but I don’t like the publishing crowd photography on the internet thing at all. If a private individual not in the employ of the club is taking and then posting photographs in a Facebook group – which seem to be taken from long distance – then yes, you are right. It is intrusive and even creepy – and I suspect there are legal issues around doing so.

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    … we gave the ball away too often with wayward (simple) passes.

    Kouogun playing their striker in was something to behold…

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    in reply to: Scunny Fans Facebook Group #277228
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    Anyone who reads that group seen the long post from Paul Spry?

    Dear oh dear how wrong can you be?

    What does he say?

    in reply to: South port #277223
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    It’s can be attractive to watch when we’re making 20 to 30 passes out from the back (and sideways), messing with the opposition’s shape and pulling it about to create holes. But the effort becomes pointless when we get into a shooting position and then just pass it sideways again with, often, less chance of scoring or the move completely breaking down. That’s when, for me, patience with Jimmy Dean’s style wears really thin. Being a little more direct up front wouldn’t go amiss.

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    in reply to: What If? #277197
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    we will get stuck in this division for a while.

    Agreed. It’s a ‘now or never’ / one shot only kind of a deal.

    in reply to: Glandford Park #277190
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    Yes, Simon loves the attention..

    I think it’s probably more accurate to say he loves the adulation, which this is not.

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    If you think this guy is such an arsehole why give him so much airtime. He’ll be laping it up.

    Are you talking about Elliott, or Sherbert?

    in reply to: Glandford Park #277175
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    I think Elliott claims Herbert showed up at Barnard Castle unannounced and spotted him in the pub, before clinging on to him. I have been told he is not liked around the club, but I think they humour him. Still, humouring or not, he should be given the cold shoulder.

    A couple of times on social media Sherbert made some reference to having a drink together in a pub at Barnard Castle. There was even the inference that Hilton had been there too, and that there had been a toast when Elliott said one day he (Elliott) would “be King”. Sherbert tagged Elliott in one of the posts, and Elliott was clearly very uncomfortable. A sort of “I don’t know what you’re talking about” response.

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    Just so I’m not mistaken, is this Herbert character the guy who became best mates with Hilton, took over the Facebook group, tried to get peoples addresses, made veiled threats and is on crown court bail for some sort of football related criminal charge ?

    I’ve never seen pictures of him with Hilton to back up the idea that they were actually mates. I’ve seen a picture of Sherbert with Simon Elliott, as well as a very matey video of them together outside a pub in Barnard Castle (where Elliott lives).

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    in reply to: What If? #277161
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    According to Dean a week or two ago he stated 4 or 5 needed to go out to help balance the books. Ferris, Pugh and Bennett have already gone with Chapman probably on his way come January to be replaced by a cheaper loan youngster.

    Southport can sign Carver on a perm contract to get him completely off the books. Smith will end up going back to Hearts as well. Going by what Dean was told I think all those just about cover it.

    It’ll be a blow to lose Smith.