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Had to switch off midway through, was excruciating.
Pitch forks are out again it seems, another corpse to throw on the heap. Saying that, Dean’s got to start looking inwards after those last 4 games, the players have downed tools and it’s on him to figure out why exactly that is. Performances are as bad as I’ve ever seen. I want to give him next year but if we carry in like that for the remaining games then his position will be untenable.
Seems like we say the thing every 6 months but we need a total clear out. With the cutbacks being made and crowds still north of 3.3k, we should have one of/if not the most competitive budgets in the NLN.
We need to stop warehousing players and having 10-12 centre mids on the books. Get 2 players for every position and a couple spare. If we run into injuries/suspensions then utilise the loan market where needed. Using 30-35 players a year and expecting a cohesive team is just insanity.
Most importantly we need organisation and characters. The 2 opposition players that stand out for me this year were Woking’s centre back, if you saw the home game against Woking you’d know what I mean. Get a solid spine assembled and usually that’s when the higher quality lads start performing. We have 2 proven strikers at this level already in Carver and Elliot. It’s no coincidence they score whilst at other clubs and look useless here.
I want to hear and see players next year encouraging and bollocking others when necessary, can you imagine Bilson time wasting at York with Crosby, Dawson, Bishop, Hope, Mirfin etc in the team. Scunthorpe has for too long been a holding pen for apathy and an easy pay cheque. Are we paying that poor of a wage it’s subconsciously filtering down to the pitch?
We’ve used nearly 130 players in the last 5 years, half a dozen managers and keep getting the same results. Hilton’s got to change an entire culture at the club, no easy feat in just a few months.
Can’t wait for the season end but equally I can’t wait for a new start in August. Very few supporters in the country will have been on the journey we have been on; when the tide eventually turns it will make it all the more Sweeter.
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Who is going to ask for a refund because their advertising board wont be seen due to a lack of stadium tours at GP? Or training days whatever they are.
If anything the club should be charging more because we are getting nearly an extra 1,000 punters through the door on a Saturday now Swann has gone.
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The idea of fans wanting to become a sustainable club and actually coming one appear to be 2 different entities entirely.
A point of interest: speaking to people without an emotional attachment to the club seem to understand the motives for the decisions been taken.
Perhaps a dose of pragmatism is the medicine the club needs; whether we agree with the decisions taken or not, the club is/ has been a poor state for a long time now.
It cannot carry on operating in its current state.
Still not happy with the season tickets- supporters should be able to commit to a season ticket using a card in 2023. The other option means paying an extra tenner each game for step 2 non league football which will put many off.
Understand the reason for moving the training facility as it stands- however, developing a facility within Scunthorpe should be a priority.
Always knew the academy was going, it’s a shame but it hasn’t produced anything of note for a long time now and will turn into money pit once the EFL funding goes.
Never nice hearing staff will be losing their jobs, but again, the reality of the situation is we are soon to be competing in a league with Buxton and Farsley; we have to become sustainable and that’s going to upset a few along the way.
Not sure how the signing of cat 1 academy will work. Are we permanently signing them and then loaning them out for development ?
Can’t believe the playing staff budget is 30% of turnover, no wonder we are witnessing the dross we are.
Disgusting performance.
Dean needs to accept some responsibility for that show and not deflect on the players. We put in a great performance against Wealdstone with Shrimpton and Pugh excelling, we then sign 2 centre mids and it’s back to the bench for those lads.
How can you sign 12 players mid season and expect them to genuinely give a shit whether we stay up or don’t ? How can you expect them to gel and resemble anything like a professional team?
It’s an absurd strategy and it has been the same for the past 5 years.
Stop signing f**king players for the sake of it and show some vision and strategy.
Only positive is we’ve now got plenty of time for the new regime to identify players for NLN. We get this wrong again and it may be the end altogether.
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Keep up to fine work, SST.
I don’t think you need bait anymore for a nibble
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Some good posters on that thread which is nicely balanced by the clown who thinks we were unsustainable during our “glory years” due to funding the club through players sales and cup runs🤣
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I’d go after my original choice of Craig Elliot currently performing miracles at Buxton in the NLN.
Isn’t that basically what we did when we brought in Dean?
Round and round we go.
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I don’t know if Dean’s the answer but we were relegated in January, the Nelson would’ve kept us up theory doesn’t hold water for me. He did the best he could with the tools available but we never hit the form where survival was a realistic aim. Our team was absolutely abysmal, we aren’t much better at the minute but Hilton either had to roll the dice or stick and accept NLN back in January. He chose to throw everything at survival so credit for giving it a go, it’s not worked out but it was always a long shot.
In my opinion one of our biggest problems is the turnovers of players, we have no identity at all. Too many short term contracts and loans and the team is in a constant state of flux. We must have used an average of 30-35 players a season over the past few years; it’s ridiculous. Throw in a good 5/6 managers/ probably more to the mix and you start to paint a clear picture why we look like a bunch of strangers most weeks.
Unless things catastrophic go wrong between now and May, then I want to see our coaching set up in place over the summer and for the start of next year. Dean/Plummer/Nelson will know who’s worth keeping and who’s not, there’s plenty of time to find the right player , and more importantly the right character to build for next year. Give them a proper pre season to build a team and judge them then.
As mentioned earlier, Dean may prove to be out his depth- I don’t know yet. But to be calling for his head now is for me, mind boggling.
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Touch of class by Notts county supporters for joining in and the referee for stopping the game.
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The kids at half time were
Brilliant, best bit of the game.It’s the scunthorpe way that anytime we have a decent crowd turn up then the team doesn’t, 2-0 down after 10 minutes just kills the game.
Not going to read too much in it tactically, they are an exceptional footballing side for this level and would beat most in league 2 comfortably . Even if we turned up today then we get beat quite easily; the gulf in class was staggering.
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Free hit is usually always abit of a cop out but that’s what tomorrow is. Play with the same belief and tenacity as we did against Wrexham and we stand half a chance.
Enjoy it tomorrow Iron fans and get behind the team, it will be a great occasion to be apart of.
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£220 to stand at 6th tier football? I dunno, it sounds a lot to me.
£9.50 a game for an adult. Seems fair to me.
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I believe attendances will increase next year ironfan.
Let’s be honest, there’s no difference if the opposition is Kings Lynn or Wealdstone. I’m going to make fairly safe assumption we will be winning more games next year, couple this with the stayaways returning since Swann’s departure and I wouldn’t be shocked if we average 3,500-4,000 next year.
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