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These professional years of chairmanship are so much better than those hobby years. Imagine a businessman trying to be professional being bested by someone just mucking about in hobby mode.
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(unfurls list of head executioner by Melchit)
O’Malley
rolls back up
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clear out last summer 17 players leave
Clear out this summer – most likely 20+ players leave
Clear out in January 5+ players leftThis is the problem – even if we find somebody worth keeping (rare) they are on very short term contracts. The 2 yr deals for KDT Hallam Perry etc – all duds and have no future in the club – KH may rebuild the club but whi is going to come in on a 1 yr deal being paid £700/wk – we will get dreggs again and guess what clear out next Jan/summer.
Until we change the structure off the pitch nothing will change
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Remember when Swann said the loan isn’t a problem because we are way within the constraints and also remember KH being flabbergasted by the constraints of the loan
It’s almost like somebody is full of sh*t
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One thing both managers said ‘the players just aren’t good enough’. We all know what stinks in the club we all know how to fix it but it won’t get fixed. We could have Ancelotti at the club but with Swann thinking he knows football and can pick a player we will keep sinking. This era will be known by historians as the Kelsey Mooney era. A chairman who knows nothing about the business employing an equally lost at sea son who knows nothing about the department he heads up. btw Kelsey Mooney now at Leamington FC but don’t know if he gets a game
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Is that true about the loan being wiped? If so that makes it quite a serious predicament for us moving forward.
Getting back into the league with that hanging over our heads won’t be easy. EFL will want the money back.I am growing increasingly concerned about Simon Elliot who has recently become just a mouthpiece for the regime and not a voice of truth/light for disillusioned fans.
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Keith one win in thirty Hill should smash it
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Seriously though what is the plan??? Do we have a plan? does anybody in the club have a plan about anything?!? KH said he does but he says a lot but also says very little, its the most haphazard strategy in the history of SUFC.
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Scunthorpe went from being adequately funded by the Chairman to a full stop overnight. Throw into the mix a crippling loan which was apparently needed to survive then you don’t need to look any further. If any other business had this to contend with then it would also end up part time (ironically a hobby rather than a genuine business). KH has not improved us but he had dreggs to pick from and dreggs already in the club.
Never need to look any further than Swann – the useless chairman and Swann the equally useless head of recruitment who, in any other walk of life would not be anywhere near that job or if had the amazing fortune to convince a business to take him on would’ve been made redundant for performance issues.
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We were down after the Oldham game. The manager isn’t all he thinks he is but the Chairman would see the club fold and not really care / he really shouldn’t be anywhere near a football club. We have a worst version of Fenty – that’s how bad he is. Always liked to beat Grimsby but would never wish the club ill because these are community clubs which are being ruined by these waste of space chairman
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Swanns are there today – wonder if they will pick up a vibe or two.
No doubt they are here to sign the assets back over to the club like he promised, also pay off the loan like he promised or do whatever it takes to stop us going down like he promised or maybe start the slip road in October like he promised, or……..well you get the drift
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One thing I will say is that Hill’s diamond formation rarely works – Rowe looks garbage in that sitting role and he is so slow when we lose possession and get countered he just cannot keep up.
The fact that Hippo leaving is a loss in some eyes shows how really shit we are.
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Hill got the players the embargo let him get – he has had OK games and disastrous games – but we’re expecting a club which is dying to suddenly get up and perform – budgets went from OTT to manage on your own overnight – add to that a loan on a club which had zero debt (if you believe what the chairman says) but needed the loan to survive.
I reckon Hill had none of these players earmarked to come in but had to see what was left (hence end of Jan signings).
Hill isn’t a messiah and time will tell if he is just another decent manager to fail under Swann which is the only place to point the finger for where we find ourselves.
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Over the past season and a bit the standard of strikers has been the worse in all my years watching Scunny. I do like this ‘own goal fella though
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How bad is it?
minus 35 goal difference and the goalkeeper is head and shoulders above anybody else for player of the season.
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Why wouldn’t he try and sell now? Too scared to turn up, more heavy handed stewarding to home fans, paranoid about repercussions, nobody believes a word he says (maybe one or two still do)has stopped putting any money in, has a loan which looks difficult to pay off – what’s left? (aside from lucrative development land and approved planning for numerous apartments…..)
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Only thing to look forward to is Hill’s post match interview
‘building for the future
‘unlucky’
‘disappointed’
‘got to do better in possession’The issue is Hill had a small pool to pick from due to the Embargo, having said that what improvement have we seen from Cox? I still back him but we’ve got to see some improvement otherwise this club won’t last in NL.
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I see the goals per game dropped off a cliff as soon as the Swann family thought they could sign footballers themselves without any footballing input (except from Will’s agent mate).
Has anybody else noted that Bunn had the weakest shot in the football
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2 goals in 14 hours of football tells the tale. We can look at the positives (Sinclair was really good tonight) but we have no goalscoring threat. The players who put a shift in are either on loan or have 6 month contracts thanks to the wonderful embargo.
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A bit of schadenfreude but you cannot argue with it. The state of the ground is a perfect reflection of its owner.
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The problems manifested themselves later on – absolutely suicidal decisions to appoint son as chief scout, turning off all funding almost overnight (maybe his wife stopped his money I don’t
know) 11 managers in 9 years, u-23’s built up then disbanded (actually become the first team) awful recruitment without any football knowledge, a loan leading to crippling embargo which results in the loss of our league status – but it is the constant untruths spouted in the press that sum up his tenure – he has zero credibility now and knows it – hence his absence from SUFC10 users thanked author for this post.
Agree Les – at least 3/4 times second half the hole/gap in midfield was astonishing – it was absolutely inevitable. Rowe again is nowhere near good enough as a footballer – part time or otherwise – to play him in that pivotal role is near suicidal add to that he cannot run at any pace whatsoever; but its not just him the whole club is just rotten from top to bottom no manager can save us.
I fear for our existence because this team, this club isn’t stopping the slide in NL it will go further. Those who say I don’t care where we are I’ll support the club whatever league miss the point completely. This chairman (who didn’t turn up again) is destroying a club and a community.
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