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Just out of interest iron insider where were you for the 5 years the Swann’s were destroying the football club?
Or have you only become the font of all knowledge since Hilton came on the scene?
Probably just a coincidence you and uninteresting bystander arrived at the same time as Hilton.
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Tamworth and South Shields.
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‘In all my years watching SUFC I have never known fans being told they are club killers by various anonymous accounts and threatened with a slap…’
However you look at it, it’s not good!
Not so long ago a board member called fans morons.
Return for the Swann’s anyone? Worked out so well last time.
Are you suggesting calling fans morons and threatening physical violence are similar?
No but I am suggesting a verified insult to all Iron fans by a board member of the club is significantly more serious than a threat of a slap by some anonymous idiot on social media.
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‘In all my years watching SUFC I have never known fans being told they are club killers by various anonymous accounts and threatened with a slap…’
However you look at it, it’s not good!
Not so long ago a board member called fans morons.
Return for the Swann’s anyone? Worked out so well last time.
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Cox suggested on Humberside on Saturday pre match that at least some of the signings were not Dean’s choices.
It is obvious that neither Dean or Hilton had seen many of them in action simply because most were not playing for their clubs. Hilton admitted on the podcast interview that Thompson was his idea.
Perhaps more interestingly Cox became the first ex Iron manager from the Swann era to confirm our long held suspicions regarding the chairman’s influence on signings and team selection.
Little wonder we are in the sh1t.
Hilton, like all chairman needs to decide whose football opinion he trusts, be that Dean or someone else and let them get on with it.
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It is not Hilton’s choice to not take credit cards. It has been forced on the club and several other clubs and is well documented.
Anyone holding off purchasing until the legal confirmation of the ownership change are making a personal choice to disbelieve Hilton’s word. No problem with that but perhaps moaning about your decision having some minor financial consequences hardly seems fair to me.
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Could someone explain to me the difference in Nelson’s system and Dean’s. Both played mainly a nominal 4-3-3 as far as I can see.
Main difference is Nelson had Lavery and Dean didn’t.
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£9:50 to stream it was certainly robbery. Even with commentary from the Hairy Bikers.
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I get the stadium tour thing at Wembley, Camp Nou, San Siro etc.
Glanford Park not so much.
How many other tier 6 clubs sustain either a full time restaurant or shop?
Hard though it is we need to start accepting the reality of what has been done to our football club and all of the unpleasant consequences that go with it.
Let’s try not to forget where the responsibility for the demise of the club belongs.
And it’s not David Hilton or Jimmy Dean.
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Did I miss the part of the interview where Hilton said he is moving us from playing somewhere we can pull in 3,000 crowds despite 5 years of shite to somewhere where their own towns team pull in 700?
If Hilton thought he could sustain a National League or higher team at Ilkeston he wouldn’t have tried to buy Bury or SUFC.
Unless of course he is an even bigger idiot than his predecessor. Which is very hard to believe.
It would have been much cheaper to fund Ilkeston a couple of promotions than to buy our club and still have to fund a couple of promotions.
It’s a personal opinion but as a supporter I don’t give a toss where the team train. According to our last half dozen managers we have been great at training but sh1te in matches. I would like like us to become better at the bit I pay to watch. Never been to watch training in my near 60 years of watching the Iron.
For balance the thing that does concern me about Mr Hilton is that (if true) then letting people know they are losing their jobs via the media rather than face to face is an absolute disgrace.
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One positive for me was Thompson. The one player in our team that would make their first eleven. He is going to punish mediocre National League teams.
The biggest negative for me was that their main threat to us was obvious in the first 5 minutes but for the next 85 minutes we did nothing to address it.
Their right winger had Leake on toast all day. We dropped deep into a shape to try and make life difficult for them but 90% of their free possession either side of the half way line ended up with an easy pass to the feet of their most dangerous player who spent the whole game without Leake (or any other Iron player) within 10 yards of him. He then either took Leake on directly very much his own terms or played a simple ball through to his full back or midfield runner who were invariably not tracked leading to an unchallenged cross.
Net result was a steady stream of quality balls across the box from their right hand side that produced 4 goals and could easily have produced 4 more.
Common sense says if you are a full back and your winger is beasting you 1 to 1 then you mark the fecker so tightly that his team stop trying to pass to him. Takes you out of the game but also takes him out of it.
Someone on or off the field should have been screaming instructions to the young lad from the 7th minute at least to get tight and stay tight.
They would probably still have beaten us because they are a very good football team but at least we would have made them work for it.
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Best of luck to Jai. Always gave his all and looked like he cared.
Not helped that his variety of coaches could never decide what position was his best – centre back, full back or midfield.
He will have more chance of a successful career if he decides which position he enjoys most and sticks to it.
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If they allowed bullshit as a specialist subject he would probably do OK.
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I think you will find none of those worked for the BBC.
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