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Fantastic keeper- would be great if we can convince him to stick around after the summer
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Brilliant stuff.
Credit in the bank for Butler for adapting to Whitehall’s absence.
A fully fit Beestin has been a joy to behold the last couple Of months, after the journey he’s had as an Iron player few would begrudge a promotion.
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Can’t see past the Whitehall injury unfortunately, think it will totally change dynamic of the team.
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Maybe, but Swann’s due diligence wasn’t much given he soon found out that Hilton had swindled him and came to post on here about him being hoodwinked. Some of it could have been hidden, but given it all swapped over to Hilton so quickly, I don’t think there was that much scrutiny.
True. Be interesting to hear the views of the Matlock fan that came on here the other month and see what reassurances the club has had.
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Another typical match against Curzon, be pleased to see the back of Them. Spencer had our back line all over the place first half, in fact for the majority of the game I thought the back 4 struggled- something to consider for the weekend.
Never really created enough, have to move quicker off the ball to break their lines, instead we seemed to content to play in front of them which we all
Know they prefer; A draw felt a fair result overall. A good finish from Mo.If Whitehall is injured then I’d be on the phone first thing desperately trying to bring a striker in, not ready to write him off just yet but Beck is struggling Big time, killed us when Whitehall had to go off.
Finally, is there an inside joke going on with Clunan winning Iron Bar MOTM? You’d have to be on something seriously stronger than the iron bar can muster up to give him our best player tonight.
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I’ve been impressed with him the last few months and he appears well suited to that lone striker role now; neater touches, winning a few more headers and looking to bring other players in to play quicker. Most importantly, a healthy goal tally.
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Feels like a massive result; sounded like the goal came as soon as Butler made a change too.
Credit to Butler and the team.
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Sorry but a 65k shortfall each month is debt, if you think the directors covering it aren’t going to want it back your being naive,Sharp has already proved that, just freeloader’s imo, at the end of the day we’re probably putting more into the club at least we pay for tickets. You wait and see Some of them will take more out of the club than whatever hilton did.
It’s the non playing staff wages that are killing the club not the players.
Don’t forget last season we had double the so called high earners on the books still paid the debt down and this season we’re building it back up on the back of 4000 crowds wtf, if we can’t manage this season how the hell we going to manage other times when crowds or commercial things aren’t as good.From what I can see we’re no better off under this lot than
They won’t get anything close to what’s been put in for a loss making club with no assets, our biggest selling point has always been the ground/land which is now in the CIC.
4,000 crowds are irreverent when you’re paying league 2 wages with no EFL TV income, we’re spending a third of our match day income on stewards FFS.
It’s incredible they’ve reduced the debt down so much in such a small period of time, 99/100 you’d stick a padlock on the door and start again.
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Difference is debt and cash flow. We’ve reduced the debt down to 150kish?, yet still have the legacy wages from the Hilton era which can’t be sustained on our crowds. We have 1 player on the books on a reported 2.5k a week still, not his fault nor the current owners.
Our options are either: reduce costs, or increase revenue. With the latter I’m not sure what else we can realistically do, our crowds have held up well with our historic averages and we’ve had lots of local businesses get involved with sponsorship etc. Even the kit launch was a big success and unlikely to be replicated again.
Our only real option next year, regardless of the league, is going to be slash the wage bill. Additionally, we have to put form of some strategy in place with regards to recruitment which is why the recently head of recruitment role is absolutely vital. Our scatter gun approach to transfers just isn’t good enough and as far as I’m aware our current player recruitment is down to the manager and assistant ?
Myfootballclub isn’t the answer, but at some point in the near future it’s likely we need some external investment, I just hope we fall lucky and not end up with an egomaniac or conman this time.
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Thanks for that.
Reinforces the point that keeping a control of costs is absolutely vital. We cannot continue looking to sign players every time we have an injury.
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Forgot to mention, I thought Whitehall had another good game last night. Really grown into the role of leading the line and showed some excellent touches and hold up play last night.
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Expected a tough game and that’s what we got; following 2 entertaining games the players can be forgiven for being slightly off, I agree there appeared to be some fatigue setting in.
We had to get 9 point from 9, credit to Butler, and the squad in doing so. 10 days until the next league game and we go again.
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Regarding, the subs, he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. Not doing too bad at the end of the day I reckon. Credit where it’s due. Some are unable to give any it seems. Notable by absence.
If Roberts picked up a knock and was out for a month yesterday Butler would’ve been chastised. He has a squad to manage aswell as a game.
The only thing that changed the game was another sloppy goal conceded which the subs had little impact with.
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We don’t need 10 Centre mids in the building again. There’s more than a good enough squad there, work with it.
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Nice to enjoy the games again; need to cut the errors out as they were dead and buried but I’d much rather see some entertainment like the past 3 home games than some of the dross we have witnessed this year.
Thought Clunan had his best game of the year, need to see more of that for the rest of the season. Rowley and Roberts other stand outs, again.
Although I agreed with them at the time, the subs let us down. Carlton barely looks interested.
Credit to Butler though, he’s come through a sticky patch and looks more relaxed. Have to keep this momentum going
