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All I want is a statement from the owner stating two words “ I’m sorry”
We can then hopefully go our separate ways in the near future and never cross paths again.
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I wouldn’t trust Hill to rebuild this club.
Slowly coming round to this line of thought. Was his biggest advocate before he came in, and I know there are massive extenuating circumstances but the performances are getting worse every week.
Unfortunately he’s part of the rot now.
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The useless bastard needs to sell up and never go near a football club again.
What he’s put together at this club over the course of his time here is nothing short of a disgrace.
He promised we would no go down this year at the fans forum despite supporters concerns that the squad was clearly not good enough: LIAR.
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Never get tired of videos like that.
Saw one recently of the Yeovil game in 2007. The terrace has never been more packed; certainly not enough room to throw a tennis ball.
Sharp/Keogh always get the plaudits but it’s Amazing how we got so much out of an average player like Morris, Goodwin, Baraclough and the legend himself cliffy
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Strange how despite the club basically being on life support and the stands almost completely empty- you get so worked up about some mild protest and offer no criticism whatsoever to the owner.
You’re either a Swann or a troll uptheiron; I’d expect a millionaire’s son to have better things to do with their time, so I’m going for the latter.
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Thought the tennis balls were a good idea, pitch invasion was too far as the point was already made.
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The potential new owners may be more concerned with the fact that the stand opposite them will be be almost completely empty come kick off time and wondering wtf has occurred with the incumbent regime to make that happen.
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Good to see little things like this being organised now. The club has been ran into the ground with barely a whimper.
Got my banner ordered and ready. Can seeing it lasting 2 minutes once the stewards start firing a taser at me.
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watched the Ironarmy video from last nights game at Gainsborough and at the end he showed a leaflet which states a protest is planned for the Mansfield game at the Honest Lawyer “anytime after 12 and walking down to the ground for 2pm”
Anyone know anything about this and who’s behind it?
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Lots of words with nothing said.
Pleased he’s staying away from the operational side as he’s a complete disaster at running a football club.
Lee will at least give us a fighting chance next year but I expect it’s going to be a long road ahead before it gets better.
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What are the objectives / outcomes hoped for of protesting?
The Chairman (and majority shareholder) will remain so until he sells the club.
If the club isn’t self funding and he chooses to not ‘bail it out’ of accrued debts, then it will eventually go in to administration.
Voluntary liquidation is another potential ‘outcome’.
The following clubs were liquidated:
Bury FC.
Rushden & Diamonds FC.
Chester City FC.
Macclesfield Town FC.
Aldershot FC.
Maidstone United.Criminal law and protests on private land or property:
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From the article below:
“ These rights also only apply to public spaces. Therefore, anyone protesting on private property without the permission of the occupier are likely to be viewed as a trespasser.”
https://nationallegalservice.co.uk/uk-protest-rights/
If you commit aggravated trespass then you can be arrested:
“Aggravated trespass is a criminal offence, so you can be arrested for it. You must be doing two things to commit aggravated trespass: Trespassing. Intentionally obstructing, disrupting, or intimidating others from carrying out ‘lawful activities’.”
Liberty – Protests:
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The objectives/hopes are to highlight the demise of our club both on/off the field.
We are set to break countless records for the worst season in our 123 year history, coupled with the fact we’ve been on a death spiral for 4 years and about to enter non-league for the first time in 72 years.
You could argue that we are due a stint in national league due to the size of our club- and I’d intend to agree with you- however the manner in which we’ve fallen is disgraceful; the endless list of poor recruits, the fact we’ve got the Chairman’s son as chief scout, mustering 24 points at nearly the seasons end, the fact we barely register more than a shot a goal a game.
Off the field: the obvious one is the ground; I don’t give 2 shits if Swann has always technically “owned the ground”, the fact is now Scunthorpe United are tenants to Coolsilk. We were promised this was to make it easier for funding the flats/redevelopment: what’s happened there then? The last I heard he was potentially looking to sell up, so what’s the need for the ground ownership? History tells us that A club that doesn’t own it’s ground, is in trouble.
The off the field relations are disastrous; we seem to To fall out with the local newspaper, the council, supporters been threatened with legal action, Max Bell and the fiasco with his book, John staff having to flog his book in Debenhams’ car park, fans being called morons, endless promises of ground developments not coming to fruition, £11 million of debt being racked up, the drainage being a mess, the ground looking worse than ever. ( this list is not exhaustive)
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Are we going to actually make this happen then because i would be up for it and we need to start acting now. Im not just on about a one off game either i think it needs to happen at every home game from now.
Let’s start at Mansfield then.
I’m happy to go along with the Walk out on the 72nd minute. It will take a good few hundred to make a noticeable difference as the ground is so sparsely populated these days so if people can spread the word on social media hopefully it gets some momentum.
Get a few banners out and make our voices heard for once.
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Don’t blame the guy.
Tried fulfilling an impossible task.
Be interesting to see the full story when everything comes out in the wash
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Respectfully disagree.
Not going to start jumping on the lad because he’s had 2 bad games- and they have been poor.
He’s dramatically improved all areas of his game this year; seen rubbish being wrote that his doesn’t command his area; 90% of of this season he has commanded it well. Some of the saves have been fantastic and he’s almost single handedly kept us in games- Newport at home being an example.
He’s the only one who done the shirt proud this year, and the only one I’ll bother clapping off come the end of the season.
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It’s a scary prospect to think that Our recruitment team have to go out in the summer and bring in another 15-20 players to make our squad competitive.
Unless there are fundamental changes in How we recruit players then our stay in the national league could be a brief one.
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Seasons 2004-05 to 2011-12
Memories:
You never realise the value of something
Until all you have left are the memories!I fondly look back at the years of Lawsy’s first era- 98 onwards.
Plenty of goals; entertainment; characters in the team; some cracking home/away atmospheres and a couple of good cup runs.
It may not have reached the heights of Adkins’ era, but A promotion/relegation into the then division 2, a couple of play off campaigns and the odd season in mid table obscurity was not to be sniffed at, we were the embodiment of a well ran lower league club.
Even the 03-04 season when we almost got relegated to non league was entertaining with Torps, Beagrie, hayes, McClean et al, and I’m sure convinced we would’ve been able to return to the league in a few years.
That was the club I grew up with-one which I was proud to support,-which is such a contrast to the current set up.
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He was of very few I’d have kept in for next season- but like someone said, the further down the leagues you go, geography plays a bigger role in attracting/keeping players.
As always, the million dollar question is what plan do we have in place for next year? Over the past few years it’s been nothing, however with Simon Elliot on board, it at least offers a glimpse of optimism.
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I believe that Swann can’t sell the club because he will get nowhere near what he’s put in, back. No potential investor will consider us without the training ground/Ground thrown in as part of the deal. So we are pretty much stuck in a stalemate.
I expect us To be run at cost next year with no more losses covered by the board.
Simon Elliot (non executive director) looks to be becoming the face of the board, I would expect Swann to take a backseat next year which will be a blessing for all of us.The budget for next year will probably (in my opinion) based on us averaging between 2-2500 fans which gives us a mid table budget for the national league.
However, because our recruitment is so catastrophically bad- which the chairman’s son is lead scout on- we will really struggle to assemble as side which can make any serious dent in the league. If we avoid a relegation battle next year then that will be a success.
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An absolute shower of shite again.
Sooner we are relegated the better so we can just move on from this nightmare.
Hate going to games this year and there’s not a chance I’ll be purchasing a ST next year with Swann still at the helm.
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