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The reality is that firstly we shouldn’t have been relegated down here and having come down we should have gone back up again. Any of the players on the list we have offered new contracts to can play at least at National League, and Bennett, Carver Pugh and Wilson released are all capable of that level as well.
And then throw in the likes of Fitzsimmons, Roberts, Boyce and others who dropped a division to play for us last season; they weren’t doing that because they’ve always wanted to win the National League North, did they?
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I mean, he MIGHT come on here and stir it up… The big point is, where would he get fresh Boardroom information from (working on the assumption it is true / correct)?
It’s a big assumption of course! But I imagine it wouldn’t be that hard to be in cahoots with someone who has their ear to the ground.
Either way, it’s someone looking to drive a wedge where a wedge isn’t wanted or needed.
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We have to remember that a lot of those players joined us last summer having turned down higher-ranked clubs, they didn’t do that for the love of SUFC and a burning desire to play in the Conference North.
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Athletic with fantastic work ethic, but his final delivery into the box 9 times out of 10 was terrible and made plenty of errors. I’m sure there are suitable replacements out there.
Agree on the athleticism but his passing was awful and he relied on his pass to make up for a lack of positional sense.
Not a bad player by any means but equally I don’t think he’s irreplaceable.
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Oh look, I wonder who this is?
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Condolences to his family.
Suggest a minute’s shout of “draaaaaaaaw tickets” at the first game next season.
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He never had the money to buy the ground like he promised ,he left the club with no ground and an impossible conundrum to sort out regarding the 1899 club. What a great guy!
Remember when he shut the gates and put posters on them to try to ward off the bailiffs?
He transferred the ground to one of his comapies in return for writing off £11M debt (not getting into the arguement about who caused the debt!!). This also allowed us to carry on operating solvently.
He also sold the ground at a value which I believe, as did others, was below market value (agan, not getting involved in arguing the “real” value). He could have left us with the ground AND £11M debt and just walked away.
Can’t let this slide: the transfer of the ground to Swann’s company was his own move, it did not help the club in any way. The idea it allowed us to carry on operating solvently is not my understanding of the situation at all.
As for selling the ground “below market value”: a wise man once said that something is only worth what someone else will pay for it. So you can tell everyone that the ground is worth £11m but if no one else is going to pay that price, it’s not worth that. Swann received £3m, largely of public money, in return for a stadium which SUFC owned until he transferred it to his own company. I’m astonished there’s not more outrage over that.
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Went down the other day and thought the volunteers have done a cracking job tbh.
It’s to Peter Swann’s embarrassment that he allowed to run it down to such a state after pumping X amount of millions in over the years and supposedly being a hospitality expert.
I was against Swann from an early stage, chiefly because I could see that all he was doing was spending money on players. There was no “investment”. Buying players is not “investing” in a club. Building bricks & mortar, improving facilities, putting in place people & processes that can take the club forward: that’s investment. When Swann eventually left, there was NOTHING to show for all that spending. Worse, as a result of all those signings, we no longer owned our own ground.
Swann kept going on about building a new ground but at no point did he show any sign that he could get more out of the existing one. The Iron Bar remained the same, the toilets never improved, fans returning after Covid were told there were plenty of spare seats to choose from if their reserved one was filthy.
Now we have someone who knows what she’s doing but who is humble enough to draw on the skills & expertise of others: making sure you’ve got the right people in the right positions is one of the key jobs of someone running a company. It’s something we’ve not had for over a decade.
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