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Agreed; I am also disappointed by the lack of action from the Trust and other groups. I don’t expect intricate details of a takeover process but the lack of information we have received is poor. The Trust should act as a rallying point for supporters to throw their support behind.
Additionally, I have resisted criticising Neil Wright but his role as fans director is redundant at best, he was elected by the Iron trust and seemingly does nothing to enlighten supporters on the ongoing situation. Our only information is rumours on Twitter or leaked bits of info from SST.
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Don’t worry about any other club other than SCUNTHORPE UNITED.
If they enter Administration extinction really is around the corner.
This is the problem. No one gives a shit until it happens to them.
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Rochdale seeking investment too as they are on course to lose over £1million.
God knows what’s going to happen at Crawley, their owners appear to be complete looney tunes.
Really is a complete shambles on the lack of regulation; these are 100 year old institutions that are being left in the hands of narcissistic tyrants to do as they like with.
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I didn’t think the EFL was payable yet?
Also If there is mortgage taken out on the ground wouldn’t Coolsilk be liable ?The playing squad wage can’t be substantial and crowds are still averaging 3,000 which is roughly what we must have budgeted for. Something doesn’t seem to be adding up to why we are losing so much a month.
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Where is the money going ?
Crowds have held up reasonably well so how on earth do we lose 90k a month if we were meant to be sustainable going into this year.
Wasn’t all debt wiped off with the stadium transfer?
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The club is worthless, operates at a loss and has no tangible assets other than some training bibs; Effectively it should be bought for a £1.
The stadium/land was allegedly last valued at £4million, I don’t know if that’s still the case and how the planning permission expiring for the apartments will affect it.
I highly doubt Elliot and co have the readies to afford the stadium. You are then potentially looking at paying the mortgage loan off and also the EFL loan. God knows what else is hiding in the closet as there is rumours of unpaid tax bill.
The consortium is going to need deep pockets
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Bigger question is will there be a club by March 4th?
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His gambling addiction is shocking but it’s not something I’ll use to beat him up with; I just want his ties with Scunthorpe United completely severed and we can move on.
If that means us going bust and reforming, then so be it.
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Made a massive difference just keeping things simple formation wise and playing people in their correct position; disappointing not to get the 3 points as 1 isn’t sufficient I’m afraid.
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Not what I wanted from the new owners, maybe the old chestnut “His contract was up in the summer better to get abit of money now than nothing later”
Didn’t realise the takeover had been confirmed ?
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Still think we should be blooding Foster in, highly rated yet deemed not good enough for us.
Would rather not ruin another promising young keeper’s career.
An 18 year old keeper shouldn’t be nowhere near this side
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There without doubt should be a panel set up overseeing this type of carry in the lower leagues. Swann should have had his knuckles wrapped on the very first season we/he decided to spend more than what we were earning.
One point he spent around 120% more than what we were earning. A panel overlooking such matters should have nipped that in the bud very early on because that’s absolutely ridiculous.
More certainly needs to be done.
They were almost 150% and at its worth pointing out nobody on this forum- nor on social media- was particularly concerned; we were content with watching entertaining football and trying to compete with Sheffield United and Bolton.
Wasn’t it Phil Parkinson who said Bradford- a club with 15k attendances- couldn’t compete with Bury and Scunthorpe in wages at the time.
Madness
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Would’ve been below 4K without the announcement. If we can get back to 3k+ home crowds regularly then that’s a start, no easy task with such a diabolical football team.
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Don’t expect any miracles soon. Make no mistake, this an absolutely woeful team and it’s not about getting 2/3 players to make things better.
Mass clearout required unfortunately, every position needs strengthening.
Pure comedy whoever decided to play ogle left back by the way. Set him up for a fail there.
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I’m a very emotional Iron fan tonight, and am not embarrassed to say I shed a tear of joy at the news.
But as others above say it isn’t all going to change for the good overnight. Let’s face it we are still deep in the doo-doo footballing wise.
Let’s hope it’s a new dawn not a false one.
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If we stay up then great but I fully expect to be playing NLN next year, and to be honest I couldn’t give a shit. Mass clear out and rebuild the club from top to bottom, won’t need a large budget to compete either.
Local games and winning football will bring larger crowds no matter what league we’re.
Not felt this excited about watching the club for years.
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Loved listening to Elliot on Humberside; no bullshit, no false promises. The pockets aren’t deep so it’s not going to be quick fix.
Good news is we’ve got the ground back, not sure if we have to pay the mortgage taken out or if that’s included in the deal.
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