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  • in reply to: Trust in the Trust #300978
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    I’m definitely in favour for some kind of subscription membership like this (for scunny fans, by scunny fans obsv). And this could certainly help tip the financial balance into something more favourable.

    However, this only takes you so far. Modern football is an astronomical money pit. Even a millionaire can struggle to achieve success. At the top level you need to be a billionaire (preferably one that doesn’t see the club as a toy).

    I think it’s very important to set realistic goals/targets and do everything to live within a clubs means. For some this causes dissapointments.

    I’d rather have a stable club than one that overshoots and folds.

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    in reply to: Merch Labs. #300738
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    Despite his success I had never heard of Ian Sharp prior to his attempted takeover from Swann/WHAM. But I couldn’t say if he was a regular attender or not, didn’t/don’t know the guy.

    I don’t know Aitkenhead personally or his attendance record but I know from others that he’s an Iron fan.

    in reply to: Michelle’s turn on the radio (BBC Humberside) #300731
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    I didn’t go great, and I think everyone could see/hear that. But the fact that she stepped up and put herself out there was the best move.

    I think FC100000 dropped her in the shit on a Sunday because they just couldn’t contain their excitement.

    I don’t think Michelle would’ve had a lot of preperation time between dealing with death threats and angry sponsors. Maybe that’s where the CEO could’ve been a bit more visible?

    in reply to: Michelle’s turn on the radio (BBC Humberside) #300728
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    Loads of respect for Michelle but that interview was a mess. Surely our media-trained CEO should be rearing his head for things like this.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if Michelle saw it has her responsibility to put herself in front of the microphone, I think she could be made of stronger stuff than the others.

    There’s also the problem that people would only criticise if the CEO had gone out, some would have said that the board were hiding.

    in reply to: Will We Win The League 2024-25? #300705
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    I can’t remember all, but apart from us, York, Hartlepool, Kidderminster, Torquay and Hampton & Richmond were definitely on there. I think Boston was too.

    Sorry, it was a bad joke about an SUFC rebrand (not a question about acquisition for influence only).

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    in reply to: Will We Win The League 2024-25? #300703
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    Drama United FC

    What was the other options on the fc100000 voting list?

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    in reply to: Will We Win The League 2024-25? #300699
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    All aboard the promotion roller coaster.

    in reply to: It’s going to take more. #300697
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    I do think there’s a misconception that Matt E is Mr Iron Bru because he’s heavily involved with the podcast.

    I think people just make the assumption based on that.

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    in reply to: Brad’s Food Truck #300695
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    Good luck to all involved and all those that where involved.

    Catering, for whatever reason(s), seems to be a large poisoned chalice.

    in reply to: Michelle’s turn on the radio (BBC Humberside) #300511
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    Well that makes two of us that remember it.

    I can’t remember much about it though. Perhaps a nominal one off annual cost? Then that gave you first dibs on tickets?

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    As stated in the interview, every cloud.

    in reply to: Michelle’s turn on the radio (BBC Humberside) #300504
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    Like most, got a lot of time for Michelle. So, I’m going to take her word for it that nothing was signed/agreed.

    For me this does put a LOT more in the negative column for fc100000. Utter amateur omnishambles from them to even start being billy big spuds about agreements in principle (and the rest).

    I do have niggles in the back of my mind that maybe some fibs are being told to calm things down.

    Personally, I would have no problems at all with a club/trust run membership scheme. I could be imagining it but I thought there used to be one. I’m sure I used to have a little laminated card with passport photo on it. Maybe it was for something else.

    I want to wake up tomorrow forgetting any of this happened.

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    in reply to: FC100000 interview on BBC Humberside #300483
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    The unfortunate thing is it does have an air of predator behaviour about it.

    Vultures circling round any poor sods in dire situations. Promising piles of no strings attached cash, except for the opportunity to film people making cups of tea in the boardroom, maybe a 24hr livestream of watching the pitch grow.

    I don’t buy the social, doing it for the love of the game angle.

    Sympathies to any clubs on their hitlist.

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    in reply to: FC100000 interview on BBC Humberside #300471
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    I just feel it’s a big gimmick, flash in the pan. People get bored of this type of thing very easily.

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    in reply to: FC100000 interview on BBC Humberside #300465
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    Bullet well dodged. He sounded utterly clueless, all based on ifs and maybes, no substance to the model at all.

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    in reply to: Will Gareth still get paid? #300408
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    Tune in and find out in next weeks dramatic Iron bru episode.

    <Eastenders final doof doofs>

    in reply to: My Football club #300403
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    And Sharpish!

    Well played, very sharp.

    in reply to: My Football club #300401
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    I thoroughly despise everything about fc100000, but what I really can’t take is this was all done on the sly. Very underhand. This is something that should’ve been consulted with fans before anything was signed away.

    Whoever tried this on, whoever’s brainchild it was, needs to take a few steps back. Even better, leave the club, tail between legs.

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    in reply to: My Football club #300398
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    The wheels might have fallen off this venture

    page removal https://ibb.co/Kx10ybX7

    “A deal agreed in principle” page taken down and ripped up..? Although from the outside the last 24 hours have been filled with our Club’s official silence (which has frustrated a lot of people), there’s no way there hasn’t been outright panic behind the scenes. Frantic emergency phone calls, disagreements, I-told-you-sos, tears and tantrums, dummies spat, etc… And perhaps now FC100000 have glimpsed the utter contempt for them from the supporters and bailed..?

    I reckon that could sum it up. Fingers crossed.

    in reply to: My Football club #300395
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    The wheels might have fallen off this venture

    page removal https://ibb.co/Kx10ybX7

    in reply to: My Football club #300394
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    ‘We only went for a cheeky frappucchino guv’

    https://x.com/danbil82/status/1903858950979666332

    in reply to: My Football club #300392
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    Was the video produced by a professional film maker with a vested interest in the subject?

    I don’t know, I don’t have any inside track on it. It wouldn’t be a shock to discover that is the case, keep adding to the own goal tally.

    in reply to: My Football club #300385
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    seems most of this is playing out on twitter X .. i dont use it so just picking up titbits as i see em .. how has Gareth Ironarmy got himself involved thought he had more sense unless he was hood winked by slippery Sharp n radar Roberts

    That’s yet to be revealed. But it has been said that IronArmy makes an appearance in in some kind of promotional/grand unveiling video for the scheme. All parties were made to sign NDAs.

    I’m wondering if this video will ever see the light of day.

    in reply to: My Football club #300324
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    https://x.com/MurrayEngSys/status/1903906523681873983

    The sponsors are getting worried.

    Not surprised, so am I.

    Ian Sharp, Matt Roberts, Iron Army.

    BUNCH OF MASSIVE C*NTS

    in reply to: My Football club #300286
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    Grimsby shirt edited out now,talk about obvious admission of guiltj

    It really shouldn’t have, but it did make me laugh.

    in reply to: My Football club #300280
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    Absoloute clown shoes, spinning bow tie included.

    in reply to: My Football club #300278
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    If this is true, I am hugely disappointed. Whoever thought this was the best road to go down must be brain dead.

    I don’t think this is going to be popular with any of the fanbase. Incredibly tone deaf considering the recent past.

    It is true and in answer to your other question, Sharp and his buddy Roberts.

    I would like to read/hear their entire ‘thought process’ for this endeavour, but I suppose mere mortals wouldn’t understand the complexities and ROI benefits.

    in reply to: My Football club #300277
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    I suspect this is not so Sharp and the biker CEO. I don’t think Roj or Michelle would have entertained this, but with not so Sharp, the CEO and maybe George Aitkenhead, they are outvoted. All my opinion.

    I think you could be right.

    In any case I would prefer the person(s) driving this to not have any involvement with the club at all. Go and dribble over themselves elsewhere.

    I won’t be rolling out a welcome mat any tume soon.

    in reply to: My Football club #300274
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    If this is true, I am hugely disappointed. Whoever thought this was the best road to go down must be brain dead.

    I don’t think this is going to be popular with any of the fanbase. Incredibly tone deaf considering the recent past.

    in reply to: Farsley Celtic #299930
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    Can someone please post the actual url/link to the online BBC stream? I cannot seem to find it in BBC Sounds!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c8x48987zg4t#player