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You’re the only Iron fan that as had a bad word to say about him.
Football is about opinions mine align with a majority of Iron fans on Ross Fitzsimmons.
He was excellent. As were Joe Murphy, Joe Neenan and Muzzy in his second spell. Sam Slocombe and Luke Daniels too Those keepers as with Fitzsimmons played in teams which won things.
Glenn Letheran was very good also but played in a poor team.
Despite the many deflections and distractions in the thread the current goalkeeper situation is unacceptable.
I am all for young talent being blooded and thrust in and when a young talented goalkeeper arrives I will support him.
Until then experienced goalkeeper required.
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The thread set out to spell the need for an experienced goal keeper who has played games at an higher level. That has not changed.
The thread did not set out to destroy any individual. However a lad was handed the No 1 shirt, and told not to read social media.
That was worrying and every Iron fan recognised the importance of Ross Fitzsimmons and his excellent all round capabilities and knack of saving games.
Ross won points and saved games making very few mistakes throughout the two campaigns he was with us.
We need that even more at an higher level a capable keeper who instills confidence in the defence and indeed the crowd.
We simply have not got that at the moment.
Fact.
Yes, his dipomatic reason was that he “wanted to play in front of big crowds”
So not for more money then? Yeh right!I know of one Iron supporter who is 6ft 7 and at least two more at 6ft 6 how much bigger does Max want his crowd to be?
There is a reason York let him go, and their assistant manager at the time was previously at Notts County as assistant. Rather oddly he did not rate Fitzsimmons at County, and Ross was not County first choice.
The adage “you can’t polish a turd” springs to mind.
Another thread on Bru deems to undermine the fact that we need a first team goalkeeper.
If we start the season with an unproven keeper who makes basic handling errors we will lose games and be at the bottom of the table.
Most fans I suspect will take a season of consolidation in the National League without the drama of a dogfight trying to avoid relegation.
A bad start sets the rot and undermines a teams confidence. First team keeper needed asap.
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Maison did himself no favours with dodgy handling in his performances v Newcastle Town and Warrington Rylands.
The last two seasons we have watched games knowing that our keeper was capable of saving us, once the defence was breached.
Our keeper bred confidence in the crowd as well as the team.
Rory Watson was a good keeper who did not command his box, and unsettled the crowd as well as his defence. Or maybe they unsettled him.
Andy Butler tells the lad not to read social media and has a keeper on his shopping list.
There is a clear message in those two statementsIf Mr B does start the season without an experienced keeper and it does not go well, then it will ignite calls for a managerial change, because everybody knows that an experienced senior keeper is needed including Mr B.
How’s Bob Cratchit these days Ebenezer?
This lads only £80 away from his target,come in fellow Iron Fans I anonymously donated due to have read this on here.
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Will the cods buy this second kit it looks awfully claret and blue to me.
Isn’t it a shame that this town used to be blessed with excellent fish and chip shops, yet now we have to go out of town to get decent fish and chips.
The last decent one was on Berkeley estate but when the couple Micheal and Carol retired it too went down hill.
Ross Fitzsimmons won games for us as a goalkeeper and it’s been a while we have had that luxury.
Probably need to go back to Joe Murphy since a keeper has done that for us.
I am surprised that a keeper signing wasn’t one of the first announced and even more surprised that as we embark on the pre-season friendlies we still have not signed someone.
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The Trust is independent and represents 1200 voices, whereas I believe UNITY was prompted by the club to put a paper trail to a certain persons random/ad-hoc/unaccounted fundraising. UNITY sprung up from the remnants of SUOSC which had been heavily influenced by people who work at the club Jerry (ticket office supremo) and Earl (matchday experience entry technician).
Hence the current splits in UNITY, which was doomed the moment it tried to fallout with the Iron Trust, then has it turned out very dodgy characters involved with certain predilections for young ladies of questionable age. Allegedly.
The question for me is where are the former SUOSC shares? Are they independent or under the control of UNITY.
Maybe Qwerty can answer as this person seems to represent an insider knowledge of Trust/club matters?
If 23 people have a guess one will be right.
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“Obviously impressed someone at the club!”
So did Mark Beck.
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Liz Truss joins thug who battered OAP to launch whiskey at Glanford Park #305350I take the Sun no more seriously than I would financial advice from Liz Truss.
If he had stopped playing 5 across the back after the glaring failure and exposure of it away at Scarborough, and not subsequently spent the next few months and games being so negative and defensive of the dreaded and boring system we would have finished as champions.
For the record he dropped the 5 across the back after L.T left, and I do not believe it was his own choice to do so.
One of the directors said “if your shop window is not attractive everything else behind that won’t be successful”.
Our shop window i.e the football was not attractive and we were in danger of dropping out of even the play off places.
Mr B turned things around so he must now keep going forward and definitely not backwards. Its nice that he has a sense of humour and can reference his faux pas humourously.
Before I share the laughter I will need to see the squad for next season and where we are table wise at the end of October.
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The whole event is being put on by a promotor called Spencer who has been around the club for the last few months.
Hope she wasn’t there offering financial advice to anyone!
The greatest failing was the manager insisting on playing with a system last Autumn that had long outlived its early season usefulness.
I would not disagree with the statement, only point out that after that major on field issue was sorted out.
Somebody somewhere created distracting havoc off the field, which did not help.
Had a quick look at the website it’s looking good. Talking to the Iron Trust people they were talking to Merch Labs prior to the club ditching them, after Mr Beadle approached them at their quiz night.
As for Earl,Jerry and Unity they do the clubs bidding against the Iron Trust and are nothing but very sad individuals.
Duncan for me.
Duncan was sacked because he changed a winning team by dropping Alan Boxall and putting in Steve Baines for a Friday night game v Bury which we lost 1-0 our first defeat of the season.
When Wraith asked why he changed a winning team, Duncan replied that another director (Plumtree) thought as we were paying a lot of money for Steve Baines he ought to be playing.
Alan Boxall was PT and a schoolteacher from Cleethorpes, possibly the first long throw specialist in the game.
Wraith was not impressed that another director had the managers ear.
Clarke was a tosser as a manager and Duncan’s track record against Clarke’s proves Duncan to be better.
Should any Matlock Town fan think any of this malicious. They ought to contact the FSA who according to the Iron Trust have a professional view of WHAM.
That makes it worse, we could have had an attack minded player-manager instead of Mr Cautious don’t lose at all costs Andy Bottler. Mr I would rather draw three 0-0 games for 3 pts then win one draw one lose one for 4 pts?
Those odd points would be telling now Mr Bottler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Both Wham and Butler have damaged our club, in different ways.
Hope Andy Bottler goes to Matlock.
Nothing impending, it happened yesterday with a whimper rather than a bang.
Kiddy have goals throughout their team, we rely on Roberts and Whitehall, then sign this absolute lumux, he is shite and we are stuck with him.
He can’t even do the very basics like stand up on two feet.
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Is Ramus Twat handing out the eggs?
Poor away performance based on caution and a sit in style for the first half then attack in the second.
Questionable team selections throughout the season, poor substitutions and Beck as a striker option.
Those 3 x home bore draws are now biting us in the arse.
Faustian swarming turd is an anagram of Stuart Maw fundraising.
Just saying…….
Faustian implies, sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge or material gain.
Just pointing it out.
Yugo Turnip is an anagram of Unity Group.
Just saying………
So how much has Ramus Twat put into the Turnips account since formalising his personal fund raising?
Just asking
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