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Agree Cliff. Amazing energy and the whole team plays at a higher tempo when he plays.
I think we saw his value even more during the games he missed. Wouldn’t be surprised to see bids for him in the January window.
Forgot about Roberts who based on reputation might be somewhere near the same class as Butterfield.
Time will tell, hopefully.
It’s a shame Beestin and Clunan picked up such bad injuries at Rushall. Not in the same class as Butterfield but a bit closer than Shrimpton and Scales. We certainly created more when those 2 were playing.
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With what was on his mind there was no chance of getting to the correct answer.
If we had a £1 for every porky we have been fed these last 11 years we could buy Wembley and pay to have it moved here.
Woolworths in South Africa is M&S in all but name.
It’s just wrong and does my head in every time I go there.
and Wordle
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Only 1 letter out.
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With a special emphasis on delivering the new stadium.
That was money well spent.
Was that not what Rodwell did for his £200k a year.
Could we just leave the bickering and the search for a new bogeyman for a week or two?
I don’t know Simon personally but it is blatantly obvious he cares about our club passionately. Unlike most of us anonymous experts he has got off his arse and tried to help. With Sharp he tried to put a better option on the table and was knocked back by Swann. He didn’t throw his toys out of the pram but tried hard to support what was the only option once Hilton took over. With hindsight we now have many who claim to have known Hilton was a wrongun from day 1. Shame none of them spoke up at the fans forum.
Nothing is resolved until the ground is secured and Swann has nothing to do with the club. It would be good to keep the unity thing going until that is sorted at least.
While I am at it I want to apologise to IB who was actually was giving out warnings about Hilton pretty much from the start. I questioned his motives a number of times but whatever his motives actually were his warnings were substantially correct.
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It was Swann who caused the issue that necessiatated Sharp having to stump up the money in the first place.
Based on your logic, it was Wharton’s fault for selling to Swann.
We could go back even further …..
That’s nonsense. Wharton did not pull the financial plug. I don’t know this for sure as I was not party to the negotiations but I suspect Swann was still suggesting the Sharp consortium bid could be successful at the time the loan/donation was accepted by Swann.
Agree IA. Bennett won his fair share of headers yesterday and put 3 or 4 of them into good areas. If Elliott and Wilson had been switched on chances would have resulted.
Biggest problem this team has is that none of our forwards look like they can score 20 goals a season from open play. Dean has the team favouring a pass back to the halfway line rather than hitting a hopeful cross. Not necessarily disagreeing with that tactic but for it to work we need the crosses to be high quality when they do come in. Neither Elliott or Wilson cross the ball well and Ogle/Denton/Kelly don’t either.
Butterfield can deliver but is rarely in a crossing position in open play. We are comfortably the best football team in this league (based on the teams we have played so far) but we create a low number pf chances relative to the football we play.
Fine if you have a Sharpe or Hooper up front but a problem if you don’t.
Roberts might have the quality to make the difference if an when he finally plays but until then I would prefer getting the ball into the box more quickly and more often.
Then we might see what Whitehall, Bennett and Elliott can do.
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We had 70 minutes of Bennett trying to win the ball followed by 20 minutes of Whitehall ignoring the ball and trying to win free kicks.
Neither did a particularly good job of it and both would benefit from mixing their game up a bit.
It was Swann who caused the issue that necessiatated Sharp having to stump up the money in the first place.
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Surprised the lad from South Korea didn’t get a shout out and a walk on the pitch today.
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Ogle got into some fantastic forward positions today.
If only his final ball matched everything else.
Mind you if it did he would be playing 3 or 4 levels higher.
Happy with the old ground.
Perhaps if we had directors with contacts in the structural steel and fabrication businesses then in time we might be able to improve the tin can without breaking the bank.
2 or 3 stands with pillarless roofs would make a massive difference.
If you are ever stuck again without wheels on a match day MM just let me know and I’ll happily give you a lift.
Just up the road in Westwoodside.
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Start the new era with a 2-1 win in front of 5,036 (35 away and 1 from South Korea).
Announcement about an interim agreement over GP?
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Good post Sidy except the bit about losing the ground. We lost the ground 2 years ago. Hilton had a very poor plan to get it back but it wasn’t him that took it from the club.
There are enough facts out there that any sane person will be relieved and delighted he is no longer involved without the need to embellish the story.
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Thanks for the kind offer Juryeff.
Already have a ticket. Hopefully someone can use it. Would be surprised if DRE doesn’t come close to selling out on Saturday.
I’ll be there.
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October 4, 2023 at 6:59 pm in reply to: This saga is unending but I hope it resolves like this #274644I think Swann did a fair amount of club breaking and he wants £3m to dissappear.
Takeover deal is off according to Aiden McCartney on Twitter due to a late change in terms.
Where does the value of £1.5M come from?
If you are making up a random number, why not go lower?
Yes that valuation is just my opinion of the top end value and certainly not what the opening offer would be if I was negotiating.
There are suggestions on Twitter that Peter Swann is open to a rental agreement with people other than David Hilton. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true of course but if it is then it suggests Peter Swann has not got a queue of buyers for the land banging at his door.
The real valuation is fairly hard to work out.
Without planning consent the land only has any real value to SUFC as a going concern which probably puts the value at £1m or less.
On the other side of the coin if the club is saved as a going concern Glanford Park is the only venue where the club can accommodate the 3k plus attendances it needs to thrive. Hence the seller probably thinks he can squeeze more than £1m.
Throw into the mix how likely is the council to grant planning consent resulting in the demolition of the towns football stadium? Coupled with the popularity level nationally of the Tories right now that would leave Rob Waltham with a worrying day next time the local elections come around.
I agree a solution without Glanford Park is really not a solution at all.
It would be a stay of execution which is better than we are facing currently but without debt free use of the stadium I cannot see any prospect of a return to the EFL.
It would be ideal if the stadium was fan owned or at least 51% fan owned to guarantee this kind of situation cannot happen again.
Owning and funding the football club is a much more attractive proposition if the ground is guaranteed available for running costs and a peppercorn rent.
I would happily chuck in a grand or so towards the Iron Trust owning or part owning the ground providing Peter Swann is prepared to sell at a realistic price. There may be the appetite and the means amongst fans to raise the £1.5m that would seem to be about a fair price. Of course if Peter Swann has folks queuing up to pay the reported £3m for some relatively unattractive land with no planning consent and significant demolition costs then I fear the ground is gone forever.
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Be good if it ended with an Honest Owner.
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Both Hilton and Swann still have fingers in the pie.
Not sure there will be much to feel good about until neither has any connection with the club, financial or otherwise. Interesting that both blame the fans of the club for their own failings.
Given living rent free is going out of fashion it might be a good time to evict Herbert and his gang from your heads.
Does anything actually happen on there that matters a toss right now?
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