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Fully agree Sanfran. The irony is we will probably start a season in the national league IF we get promoted with a weaker squad than we have now.
I’d imagine the likes of Kian Scales aren’t on a mind boggling sum and that’s the type of player I’d prefer to have then Tom.
I also thought Jai gave it everything here, but again, he was part of one of the worst squads in our history that dropped out the national league and is probably more suited to this level.
I hope he does well. Worked hard when I saw him play.
The standard overall in this league feels light years behind the national league. I don’t think he’s good enough to play there which is where I expect us to be next year.
What was the attendamce?
4,450 with 50 away fans.
He was there to put the ball in the net, he is one of those people that some people doesn’t like, but one of those you don’t like playing against you.
People think because he’s a big lad he should be playing back to goal. His strength seems to be in and around the 6 yard box which is where he is picking up goals from.
Great for the lad.
Never seen anything to suggest he is worthy of being a regular in the iron shirt though
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Piss poor game, we still cant break a team down, they came for a point and got it so they’ll be far happier, worst ground I’ve ever visited thank f more didn’t go the view was bad enough as it was, nice stewards helped us to leave easily at full time if you were on the train, 2 points dropped rather than 1 won still haven’t seen them play well away from home, lets hope that changes at Farsley. Wow that hill you had to climb up from the town to get to the ground good job we were roped on and had ice axes.
Good following by the looks of it. Didn’t expect 500+ 2 days before xmas.
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Thought Buxton did a number on us both games- dodgy ref and our off the field issues can be partly used as an excuse,
But in reality they just had our number and beat us pretty convincingly.A good barometer to see if Jimmy has learned from the previous games, tactically we must be smarter.
Always hope for the win but will settle for a point.
1-1
Just in time for HMP Walton Xmas turkey.
Sensible points, the club is nowhere near out the woods yet and I believe it will many years before we witness EFL football at GP.
The squad will surely have to be trimmed come the summer, with the best will in the world we cannot support the wages some of the lads are supposedly on.
Like Rene states, we need to be launching an EFL return on a sound footing. That means: no debt, larger crowds, and income from other streams. Plenty of work to be done, but im optimistic about the future with the current regime.
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If we do get promoted, build a team of NLN players you’ll end up being a NLN team again. Just look at the teams promoted last season there are no shortcuts.
Agreed; overall the quality in this league is very poor. A big drop off in quality from the national league as the game against Solihull demonstrated .
Whitehall, Evans, Roberts, Butterfield certainly were worthy contenders for MOTM.
Was really impressed with Evans tbh, probably his best game for us.
Felt like a routine victory which is a credit to the players and management. Pleased to see us mix it up going direct which straight away resulted in a penalty.
Roberts looks to be coming good now, played some clever balls today and his touches and movement are a nightmare to defend against. No poor performances today from any individual though.
Only criticism is really the crowd size; I know it’s the week before Xmas but numbers are dropping off and 3,100 home supporters is poor IMO.
December 14, 2023 at 11:54 pm in reply to: 1899 / 100 Members Consultation Event @ GP Monday 18th #278162All these extremely naive people who invested money into the scheme, invested into SUFC (1988) LTD, a company solely owned by David Hilton, a sole trader and Director, they did not invest in any company associated with Scunthorpe United Football Club.
They have no claim legally against the club. The claim is against the owner of the company they invested in, that company is still trading and a simple google search will point them in the direction.I’d hold back on the extremely naive when it doesn’t look like you’ve read the T&C’s.
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Disappointing game, performance and attendance.
Sad to see Solihull have succumbed to the standard National League methodology of spoiling and shithousery. They used to be a good footballing side and a pleasure to watch. They have turned into Borehamwood.
Still better than us though tonight. 5-4-1 without the ball (sometimes 5-5-0) until they went down to ten. Attacked well for the first 10 minutes to stamp their authority and physicality on us and then went into their shape and waited for our mistakes. We obliged.
It’s the template to beat us a la Curzon and Buxton. Close down Butterfield and we become a team of ponderous and misplaced passes.
Probably enough poor teams in NLN for us to get away with it but if we do go up we will struggle in the National League without a plan b and c. Has Jimmy got one?
That’s how we saw it.
Solihull were good a good, organised team; ready to press us before we played a pass and everyone on there knew their job. Very much reminded me of Woking last year who came and did a number on us.
Not going to get downhearted after it, thought we moved the ball quicker 2nd half and were unfortunate not to grab at least a goal. Actually enjoyed watching a decent side come here and play rather some of the garbage we have to witness in the NLN week in week out. Dirty set of **** though.
Not really one for cup games but looking forward to this one. Be interesting to how we cope we with an established national league side, I was impressed with a number of their players during both our games against them last year.
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Att: 2865
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16 for Tamworth was one of the better players I’ve seen this year.
Kings Lynn LWB and Buxton’s RB looked good too.
How many for the Solihull Game? we got 5,000 for the Friday game with Barnet although a lot of those were Freebies.
2,800
There’s always the Herbert character to talk about, many want him banned, he made the effort to go yesterday so he’s not all bad, id rather ban fansy but they’d be no point he doesn’t go anyway.
Should be banned, and thankfully he is banned.
Onlyawayhegoes.
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Fantastic end to a fantastic week.
Up the Iron
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Well said SST.
Just to add, there has been substantial work and risk taken on by NLC for this deal to be completed. Putting political tribalism to one side, it is worth applauding they have stepped in to save the football club.
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Incredible work by all involved.
A good night iron fans
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Chairwoman just been on radio said dodgy d never paid any bills.
Rightly so too.
Over to you Dave
There were people questioning decision’s , there were others who access to information going on behind the scenes and foresaw what was about to come. They were few and far between though. I remember a few posters on here getting stick for questioning his motives.
His name was chanted on the terraces right up until the banning of the Iron bru 2 and Dave Green. EVEN, after all that in which he admits to planning an exit strategy, he still received support on the Cult Facebook group and throughout our support. There was even a crowd funder to help with legal fees FFS.
I’m not buying it Awayswego and I know you’re not daft enough to believe it either.
Still no explanation Dave as to why you decided to stop paying the bills
In July when your support was near universal across the fanbase.If you genuinely believe that potential adverse supporter reaction to an article was a good enough reason to stop people being able to pay their mortgages is justifiable then that’s certainly some legacy.
I suspect we both know there was an ulterior motive though.
Why did you stop payments in July when you had near universal support and a ball wasn’t kicked ?
You thought some fans might turn on an article being released so decided players and bills needn’t be paid, how does that sit with you on time to reflect?
Why, when asked directly at the fans forum, did you conceal the truth when supporters when all we asked for honesty?
‘Servicing the debt’ is a meaningless concept until we know what the % is.
4% would be awesome but 14% terrifying.Outstanding debt aside… it’d be interesting to know if we are breaking even yet?
Unless the squad have agreed a 50% pay cut, or the crowds are going to double- the answer is probably no.
Certainly feels fortunate to leave with 3 points today; keeper getting MOTM says it all.
Naturally fees harsh criticising when we’ve won 7 home games in a row, but when you’re spending what we have then the expectation is there.
Team feels like it needs minor changes, whether that be personnel or formation- I don’t know. Whole build up play feels slow and teams seem comfortable defending against us.
As others have alluded to, Clunan was very poor, if he wasn’t captain he would’ve been off at half time. Whitehall had another poor game too.
Positives were obviously the win and another clean sheet. Fitz was excellent, Butterfield/Scales/Denton did well and Roberts can now hopefully finally now kick on.
3-1 Iron
Att: 3,688
Ref – four notches below the dizzy heights of average!
Inconsistency was unbelievable.
No red for the thug at the end? – 2/10.There was a period in the second half where he and the linesman near the dugout got 5/6 fairly simple decisions wrong in a row.
This included when the Southport striker beat Boyce for pace and was running on goal, Boycey shoved him over and not even a free kick was awarded.
I’m never one to jump on officials but the standard falls off a cliff once you drop down to this level.
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