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in reference to the current situation at SUFC i cannot think of one remotely positive comment to make regarding anything… its all doom gloom and despair and its all down to one person whose actions over the last few years has destroyed our once great little club.
My planned trip back to Blighty has been dampened by the turmoil and subsequent relegation to non league where i think we will linger for many years to come such is my optimism UNTIL new owners and a whole new set up can be completed … in fact if the Iron get promoted Cod style first time round i will gladly walk from GP to the town center wearing only a flowery hat flip flops and a smile.
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It’s like the replica kit saga another absolute shambles. Who dreams up these own goals time after time?
The hardcore home support base is down by two thirds of what is was under Graham Alexander.
It’s like somebody sits there thinking what can we possibly do to piss another tranche of supporters off. Hey look we have served up some absolute drivel on the pitch for a few years and they are still here.
Look 30 miles up the road and it’s a different story on and off the field, Ernest Pawn needs to go so people can be brought in with commercial nous and good business acumen.
Our club stinks from top to bottom and I cannot think of a single positive for some considerable time. My loyalty to Scunthorpe United is paramount and unwavering but I dislike everything about the club.
I will not be driven away by the egotistical narcissist wanker responsible.
PS I won’t be buying a replica shirt anyway it’s f……g embarrassing being an Iron supporter without advertising it.
Nail on the head time .. Mr Mrs Third or fourth Gender Ironking couldnt agree more from your first to last word…
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Pleased to finally get another player signed and IMO Whitehouse fits the requirements on experience and part of the spine the team needs .. not overly fussed re his goal scoring due to the position he plays BUT my only concern he has a bad injury record and no good being sidelined for weeks or months.
As previously commented ..desperately need a Keeper (Ohara still free ?? ) and strikers with a plural S .. oh and more additions to that spine and wingers and a right back and ……… yhe list can go on , i reckon we are minimum 5 signings more away from a team that could at least hold its own in the NL.
Many other lower league and non league clubs seem to be signing at will ..the Cods for one im sure the current long running toxicity at the club isnt helping entice players to comeHoping for more to come in ovEr the next few days ..PLEASE
A few words to describe my thoughts on the fixture list .. DEPRESSED DEFLATED SAD UNINSPIRED.. the fact this league or lower could well / will be our home for many many years compounds my grief.
Mean while back the club war room Hill n Co are still waiting for those “value” signings to appear as are the fans.
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On the basis that KH must be sacked even if he should succeed with his ‘new squad’ – we might as well sack now as failure is the only possible outcome having seen how sparse this squad is.
As we have apparently reached a point where only the insane, the unhinged or the downright crazy would accept the post – do please give a rational explanation as to who is going to manage this shambles after his departure.Not sure it counts as a rational plan but the history books show how keen Swann has been quick to sack other managers who had a much better points tally ratio than our current chap at the helm..
For me it just shows that Swann has washed his hands of the club installed Turnbill as his mouth piece lakky and now is just after out via a sale or liquidation as either way he wins ,,,hes doesnt give a toss about whose in charge as its of no interest to him… my rational is why keep Hill this is gonna turn into another protracted disaster as was Cox. Yes agree wtf would replace Hill .. i cannot even think of anyone stupid enough to want the job also with the club in his current state of limbo.. IF Hill is to be believed and has a plan lets be having it out in the open and see some players signing as without we are proper fooked this coming season.I totally supported Hill arrival but you can only go on what he has achieved ..relegation and a very poor win ratio possibly the worst of any Scunny manager in historymeans my opinion has shifted and i see him as some one just along for the ride collecting his salary , he made some really strange selection decisions , players not wanting to play and shows little ambition , talks in cliches and sucks up to Swann to prolong his pay check. , we wont get anywhere with his youth only plan as it stands now..
Thats my opinion and rational .. in truth would the club be better without swann ..yes please most definately ..new owners a must … without hill i dont think it would change much hes been crap and i would take Ronald Macdonald over him now at least he might be able to land a few new players as it appears Hill n Co cannot unless they are from Rochdale , Tranmere or some how connected which leads me to say .. how much have we fallen that we are crying out for Rochdale rejects and has beens to be signed .. reiterates just how shit we really are.
Whatever team we field next season ..i sahll offer my 100% support i hope the youngsters can get us enough points to stay up ..alas a Cod style promotion push isnt on the cards IMO
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the Club knows fans are worried yet remains totally tight lipped on everything except advertising streams to relieve them of their hard earned cash .. season tickets to restaurant hospitality when all we want to know is THE PLAN or at least regular updates not this total radio silence.. seems to me obvious that the owners /those running this shambolic situation of a club dont really give a shit about the fans at all.. and as for Hill having a plan .. thats a joke his plan from day one was to keep his job as long as possible, he has zero affinity with the club and IMO doesnt give a toss just stumbling from one cliche filled excuse to another whilst sucking Swanns ball sack along the way to extend his working life before job seekers .
Crap clueless manager get rid ASAP.
Im expecting a few signings from now on as more player become available … waiting with baited breath to see just who the messiah Hill lands.
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Kieran O’Hara, released by Fleetwood, would be better IMO.
Take him in a heart beat .. he was very good and impressed in his brief spell on emergency loan
doomed
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Speaks volumes … whilst all around football clubs notably in L2 (WALSAL CODS AS EXAMPLES) and NL (WOKING ALDERSHOT) are signing players at will nary a whisper of any action at SUFC, the Parker pen is primed ready for the rush of last minute signings and the book of Hill cliches open and on chapter entitiled
“New players must say this to the media”…
its great to be here .. a dream move for me.. it was great to meet the BOYS a great bunch of lads.. the gaffa has told me my role hes a great guy we go back along way.. i want to get the club back on track ..its will take time but im fit determined and ready to play anywhere… money was not an issue .. the chairman seems like a really nice guy whose heart is in the club.Note in case of emergency fire exits to the rear , left and right ..
Up the creek without a paddle and the boat has sprung a leak .. it aint looking good and a very tough season awaits
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be lucky to a mass 8 signings in the next 12 months not a few days … by then we will be dropping into the Conference North.
I simply cant see any righ minded semi decent pro footballer even contemplating coming to Scunny
Pros
Hang on need time to think
Guaranteed a first team spot ..if fit
Nice new apartment in the fantastic new development built next to the ground ..oh scrub that !!Cons
Toxic state of the club
Ownership limbo
Crap wages due to a budget lower than most others in the NL
uncertain Future re the club even remaining in business
Being a non league club players will sign for any club that is in the league.
The beach in Scunny isnt that nice and the high st and night life is drab
Having to listen to Hills BS on a daily basis and the solid promise of being played out of position then told your just not good enough at this level.
The smell of Drapolyne nappy rash cream emminating from some of the younger players that form the back bone of the side.
Getting thumped every week by former footballing power houses like Aldershot and Barnet
The perminent doom n gloom .. dark clouds over the town are the norm
Swann n family AND yes man Hill.
Boycie must have had one too many sherries or just very desperate to come back home ..please add any ive missed
WHERE DO I SIGN ????
Henceforth im prediction not a lot of action re players coming in .. also the likes of Taft will be going..
Thanks Peter
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I popped down this afternoon out of interest. Looking around I noticed two gents sat at a desk in the corner. One in tracksuit, one neatly dressed in a sharp suit, clearly a man of substance and high standing. The track suited gent caught my eye and beckoned me over. ‘Hi son’ he said in his grizzled northerly voice. ‘Alright Keef’ I responded…‘didn’t see you there’. ‘You ever played the great game son’ he asked. ‘Ten years between the sticks for St Bernadette in the Scunthorpe Sunday League Div 6’ I replied. Keef and his mate looked up in an air of excitement, Keef opened his book and began scribbling. ‘Any achievements during that period son?’ He enquired. ‘2 players player of the year trophies and a top half finish one season’ I responded. Keef and his mate turned to each other and they both grinned widely. ‘You will do for me son’ said Keef ‘fancy a contract ?’. His mate was now becoming increasingly excitable, ‘how did you achieve the top half finish?’ He enquired. ‘I remember it well’ I said, ‘it was the year we brought regular Bru poster Iron King into the holding midfield position to do the job Kenton never quite did for you last year, supported with Jerry Mahoney dancing down the wing Beagrie style, doing the job Devarn Green never quite did for you last season and with Bru poster Stocky on the bench, usually introduced towards the end Of games getting on the end of the Mahoney crosses when we needed the all important winner notching, doing the job that Bunn and Hallam never quite did for you last season’. By now there was frantic scribbling in books’Iron king available do you think?’ Said Keef ‘is he cheap?’ Said his mate. ‘What about Jerry and Stocky ?’ Said Keef. It was all becoming very frantic and dribbles of excitement were beginning to form amongst the pair. Turning to his mate Keef said ‘if we play our cards right here Will we could have squad reinforcements done and dusted in one afternoon’. ‘I don’t know’ said his mate beginning to look a little crestfallen ‘they look over 17 years of age to me, not sure dad will be happy, and I think they will want paying more than the apprentice rate of £3K per year’. The mood changed in an instant, ‘yeah your right’ said Keef ‘ah well son, maybe next year when we breeze the Conference’ he said as I shuffled away….dreams shattered.
Excellent .. good to see a creative sense of humour is still alive n well in Scunny even if the football club is up the creek without a paddle.
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I’m not prepared to accept that a really good manager like Hill can just lose all his abilities. It is illogical.
You should have seen what Tranmere fans said about him. Playing players out of position for no real reason and tactically inept was just two. We all saw evidence of this last season. I must admit that some of his decision making was completely bonkers and made little to no sense.
Tranmere fans actually cheered when he went. I remember one of their fans laughing when we signed Hill on twitter and went on to explain people were getting pissed off with Hill playing one of their LB’s in CM and a RB at CB when they had no previous experience in even playing in those positions.
The fan in question said it was only when he went and they got in a manager who actually played the players where they were supposed to be played that they started to progress.
Keith Hill did well at Rochdale signing bargain bin basement players fuelled with the “everybody are against us” siege mentality. Hill always has played ultra simplistic, direct football. I’ve never seen a silky Keith Hill side.
Another thing which was said by the same fan was that he over emphasis work rate and “passion” over every thing else. That was also apparent last season.
I was the first person to credit the club in signing Keith Hill but I was another who was suckered in by his Rochdale days but when you look beyond that he’s dubious to say the least. I quickly began to realise that the Tranmere fan knew what the crack was.
Do I think he’s the one for us ?. No I don’t !
Hill will stay though while ever Swann is hanging around like a bad smell. I want both the Swann clan and Hill throwing out.
Cant disagree with any of that … a new broom sweeps clean n BOTH Swann and Hill need to go.
long hard tough season awaits ..with IMO little to cheer, with this current mob its a relegation fight all the way and i wouldnt be surprised to see us drop further at the end of it.
weakest SUFC squad i can ever recall
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You need not spend too much of your time assessing promotion needs pal, ask yourself how many points are required to save relegation, or more obviouse, how does the club stay afloat, with no imput from it’s owner, that has only been interested in taking from the club, and who’s aim appears to be to destroy it. National League North or liquidation is coming our way.
Yes agree ..a more realistic area in which to assess and predict… defo a higher likely hood of relegation than promotion IMO
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the more i hear from Hill the more i think hes just covering his back in the likelyhood of another dire season … nothing will be his fault and never blame laid at the door of Swann..SO
WHERE HAS IT ALL GONE WRONG ..
other clubs seem to be able to find and sign players ..alas not Scunny , im guessing the current toxicity at the club is one reason… the future most certainly isnt claret n blue with this current outfit from the top all way down to the matchday food and broken scoreboard .. its rotten
im dreamin of new owners exciting football, a new manager and no ore Hill waffling.
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Buy season tickets kids, enjoy all the excitement that you’ve come to expect in recent seasons!
I always thought Hill was a motivator, a budget Adkins, but since he’s been here it feels like all he’s done is try to get us to revise our expectations downwards. Come on Keith, give us something to dream about! Give us some hope!
Hill interview was tedium at its best .. negative offering zero inspiration to supporters more so in a way telling them to expect the worst..
Hill just the latest yes man lacking in many departments ..similar to Southgate spewing sound bites without actually giving any info on stuff that really matters to the fans .. already covering his own arse in advance of weekly NL tepid defeats and lack of exitment n hope… can hear him now a few weeks into the season..
we didnt sign players we are not good enough .. when really should be .. im a shit manager working for a really crap water tight snake of a chairman who doesnt care.
increasingly im tending to think Hill is just the next appointed YES man .. i was pretty chuffed when he arrived but now after his woeful stats and equally inept man management skills ( some players didnt want to play to avoid injury still erks me ) like to see the back of him .. talks in cliches n its the same old bollocks he spouted last season , without new owners and big changes with him and Swann we are totally screwed ..DOOMED to further bad times and ridicule.
The clubs current situation remind me of a purple resprayed old banger Hillman Allegro thats been up for sale on the forecourt for years .. the price gradually reduced as the rust spots start to bleed through and still no takers .. finally the wheels fall off it rots and has to be scrapped.
Just who in gods name would want to buy the club ???? its in a shambolic state both on and off the pitch and more so financially so unappealing to any investor of sound mind n body.
i wish i had some thing positive to post but the reality is .. theres nothing to see here move along please.
England will never win any meaningful trophies with Southgate in charge .. boring and clueless but media friendly just how the EFA like their men … even with all the young exiting talent on hand seems only know a set up that is defensive and negative. Being ripped a new arse by the mighty Hungarians confirmed just how bad this turd has become .. a turd very difficult to flush and imo no way will he get the boot as no one to replace him NO ONE ..
ITS NOT COMING HOME , ITS NEVER COMING HOME
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