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We signed up to the pace energy excitement philosophy a year ago and we can’t have more than 10 failed promises a season. So as much as the Chairman would like to spout some more guff he can’t at the minute – we just need to be patient
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I am still unsure about Spence and Beestin to be honest. Spence keeps it simple – which means passing back – but he sure as hell slows the play down most of the time. Not a patch on Dawson or Bishop, never will be. One good game in ten. Beestin similar – some of his passing was beyond dreadful – basic stuff. Probably one good game in five for Beestin but with those two in the centre it will be more of the same next year
Remember how Bishop and Dawson used to almost referee the game, in the ear all the time, marshalling the players making sure the ref was on their side. Spence is quiet unassuming quite weak on the ball.
Beestin has more scope to
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Fair play to those getting season tickets. There is clear correlation between falling quality, dropping through the leagues and the marketability of the club. There will still be 200/300 season ticket holders if we drop to 8/9th tier the problem is the club are trying to sell these tickets under a cloud of asset stripping, squad disintegration, incompetent management of the club and a general feeling of disenfranchisement of the fans perpetuated by the reckless actions if the Chairman. Some fans will never feel this but majority others will.
The latest promise from the Chairman that we will have the players in place by the end of May – well let’s just see how the latest promise goes….. the past records of promise keeping is nothing short of pathetic – for whatever reason.
I won’t and haven’t had a season ticket for 3 years now – my boys just got bored and just don’t want to go – I have also bribed with hot chocolate and cake from Costa’s but the fare on offer has been pretty poor for a good while now (the footy!) I’ll select certain games if and when I can. Logistically its sometimes impossible.
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both offered to allow Scunny to command a fee. Doubt either will be here in a few weeks
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Isn’t Shrimptom a midfielder?
If you showed a bookie those players and then ask for the odds for League 2 champions you would get a very good price.
That team would struggle National League North
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The chief scout is doing his GCSE’s so it will be next week
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If Watson is number one for any length of time next season we will be relegated.
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Wow – there are plans to build and develop in the coming months (repeat ad nauseam).
The take I got from this drivel is the ACV isn’t what it seems (according to Swann) and only lasts for 6 weeks so nothing for him to be concerned about – however he will still block it because that’s the kind of inclusive business he is running for the community.
He used to end his statements with ‘Up the Iron’ now it’s buy some meat, get some beer give me some money in whatever form you can because I don’t really care about it but if you want a striker then give me some money so my son can ask his agent mate if he’s got anybody with less than two hernias
I’s like to know who buys into this consistent message?
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Deckchairs and Titanic. Is he worthy of the job? Doubt it very much but he isn’t the problem. The reason the club is such a shambles lays at one door. Normal circumstances Cox will be given 10 games into next season but will be gone after that – the different dynamic now is the chairman doesn’t give a shit anymore
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The demise of Scunthorpe United would only benefit one individual/one family.
Unfortunately for us they are the very same who can facilitate such
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Onaraise hernia op – played on with it for a few games.
Cox would rather name a reduced bench then put a youngster in (I thought two had signed professional contracts)
So with 5 or 6 new players we still won’t have a decent squad.
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You’re right Mick, there is only one thing to make it worst next season.
What I would say is that we should get some cracking odds for reaching playoffs/promotion
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3rd worst professional team in England
1 win in 18
1 point from 18
most losses in basement division
1 game in 4 with one or no shots on target
Consistently worst performances ever seen
Complete assets stripped
Fans as distant from the club now more than ever
half a dozen season tickets sold
Vice like death grip on club by one family with no connections to club or community
No decent strikers left in club
Everybody except extreme lickspittles worried for futurebut hey well done Swann for surviving a pandemic which saw zero league clubs fail – but then why would any club fail because it just affected Swann
The result today felt like getting the all clear from the docs, nothing more.
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Protesting about the grotesque nature of how the club is being run with assets stripped and an incompetent chairman is not spreading hate and abuse, has nothing to do with the unacceptable abuse Cox received and to link the two in any way is reprehensible beyond compare.
Ask any journalist, former director, majority fans if they think the club’s future is at risk they will all say yes – more so now than at any other point in the last 100 years. That is what any perceived protest will be about, don’t try and Swannwash this by somehow linking the actions of some idiots with the genuine concern most have on here for the future of the club.
Pathetic, the most pathetic thing I have read on here.
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Robert Maxwell?
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From the Times today;
The Southend story is an all too familiar one. Reliant entirely on the patronage of one man yet trapped in a painful and predictable spiral of decline that is a result of the same man’s chronic mismanagement……
hmmmm
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criticism is relative to football fans. Alexander at the time was dropping a now premiership player and playing our best CB at left back, we had gone off the boil on the cusp of league one playoffs. Offer fans a view of the future – i.e. struggling to survive as a league club with no player looking like a professional footballer and they’ll probably take Alexander, just like Arsenal with Wenger but none of this is at the door of the fans – we are still paying to watch this farce and the chairman treats us with contempt. So retrospect is wonderful – ask how many would pay for ifollow if they knew how they would play and the score and you won’t get many paying
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It’s not gauranteed 999 years on site, its just a lease for 999 years. Means nothing if SUFC go bust – which is a hell of a lot closer now the missus is tightening his purse strings and the club has no assets after giving it all to pay off the spending the owner did. The lease is between two businesses who are owned by the same people – you could write what you like to yourself and you can close it down quite easily I would’ve thought. This just makes it harder for potential buyers to come in – they would pay punitive rents or find funding to move location.
But like the chairman said nobody has been knocking on his door enquiring about the club…. he also said he is always in discussions with people but it has to be right for the club so we’ll have to pick one of those as the truth
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Players who I believe genuinely care about the club
KVV Karacan Gillead O’MalleyKaracan may or may not be in this bracket but he is a solid professional with pride so comes across such
The rest are made up of barely good enough National league mid table players, players who are looking for next meal ticket, 1 or 2 injured players forced to play now and risking long term damage. That’s it
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