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He has certainly not proved himself a saviour. He has given the club a stay of execution and has tried in his fairly unique way to start a recovery process.
The tangible benefit he has brought to the club is that he has given us a team that doesn’t get beaten nearly every match. This is the fist time in 5 years that we have had that so credit where it is due.
The club will be saved if and when it is back in the EFL, owns its own fit for purpose ground and trades at a fairly small loss.
That is what Swann inherited 11 years ago and that is what success looks like for a club like ours.
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I can only assume this is Hilton deliberately antagonising the fan base so he can self justify walking away without paying the tax bill and September wages.
Should be gone by the weekend.
Sadly taking the club down with him.
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We have not looked like HMS Piss the League since the Scarborough game and have never yet given a “champion” performance in an away game.
Now we are missing probable first 11 picks, Clunan, Beestin, Roberts, Evans, Ogle and Scales for varying amounts of time we are in for a tough run of games. A point would be a good result this Saturday. 4 points from the Buxton and Brackley home games would be excellent.
After that we should be closer to fielding the first eleven. Of course that assumes no further injuries, suspensions, player sales or off field distractions.
The next 6 weeks or so will likely define our on field season. The unpopular changes referred to in the directors statement need to be announced and implemented quickly otherwise the season is going to drift away from us.
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Never quite worked out how we need circa 5,000 fans to put a team together to challenge at the top.
Our average gate this season has been 3,777.
If you add together the attendances of 4 of the top 7 (Spennymoor, Blyth, Chorley and Brackley) it is still 200 less than our total.
FFS Brackley probably the best football team we have played this year survive on crowds under 600.
Must be some very wealthy sugar daddies around at this level.
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Can’t spot our replay on Vanarama TV.
?Don’t think it will be on Les given its FA Cup. I’d be surprised if Hullberside even cover it.
Might be reduced to recreating Ceefax days on Twitter. Will be my first missed game of the season – can’t raise the enthusiasm for 5 hours in the car for a second qualifying round replay.
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Att: 1,909
9 out on my attendance prediction. Thought there would only be 17 from Brackley.
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I think Bru would lose a lot of appeal if we all had to agree with each other.
Not much that is certain with the Iron just now but I think we can rely on that Cass.
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Manure probably have a slightly better credit rating than SUFC Awaywego.
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Brackley don’t get big crowds and it’s a fair treck. Most that have the inclination are likely to wait and travel for the much more important league game 2 weeks later.
Also season ticket holders have to fork out £14-20 for an FA Cup qualifying game. Many won’t bother.
The negativity surrounding this weeks revelations certainly won’t help.
I think Cliff is probably a bit optimistic. I think we will be shy of 2000.
Going for a late Swann era attendance of 1900.
Looking at Brackley’s fairly small squad they don’t have much option to rest first teamers whilst Jimmy will be able to rest 8 or 9. He probably should as well given the limited opportunities to give them game time.
2-1 Brackley. We will reverse that scoreline with Scales joining the rest of the first team 2 weeks later – if we are still in business by then.
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Good post Siderite.
I agree with you probably more than you think. I did write a post early on after I heard David Hilton’s Sound cloud interview/statement/emotional outpouring in which I offered him the advice to issue an apology for misleading fans and to pay any outstanding invoices.
My opinion only but I think he deserves a second chance over the Fraud conviction but appreciate other don’t. I assume people that feel this way would want him away from the club immediately.
The apology and payment of outstanding debts would at least help take a bit of heat out of the situation.
None of this makes me a Hilton “supporter”. I didn’t support Swann or the Wharton’s either. I support the club and always will whoever (and sometimes in spite of) whoever is the chairman of the club.
The facts of the situation is that as ever is the case us supporters of a football club have little or no influence over control of said club.
Hilton has achieved a turnaround on the field at a club in seemingly terminal decline for 5 or 6 years. I give him credit for that. He is taking longer than I would like to solve the off field shitshow that he inherited. I have cut him slack on that due to the sheer scale of the inherited issues but after 6 months remaining issues should be sorted by now.
Regarding the ground and land I am hopeful that Hilton is working through a strategy to get that for something closer to its real market value. If that pisses off the previous owner I would see that as a bonus.
Sadly the only definite action we can ever take when disagreeing with the ownership is to stop going to games which is what half the fan base had done with the previous owner.
I am still trying to get my head around the “Feck off you criminal but keep paying (at least some) of the bills until you find a nice new owner for us that will pay Swann twice the value for his land” message.
I understand that some people find the deception unforgivable – not happy about it myself but my default is to give people a chance when they have made a mistake. I struggle personally with the low tolerance to someone making a mistake having made a few myself but fully respect that people have to be true to their own belief system and moral code.
But if you want him gone then surely you want him gone right now. Why on earth would he/should he keep paying the bills and take responsibility to find an “acceptable” new owner?
According to FA rules cup matches count as part of player suspension periods. Apart from EFL Trophy for some reason but obviously that doesn’t apply to us these days.
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To summarise the indignant faction:
Lying criminal must leave the club. No ifs no buts.
But keep spending your dirty money David and taking the abuse until the White Knight arrives with some clean money and pays Mr Swann his £3m. Otherwise we really won’t like you.
Not much to ask is it.
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On that we can agree.
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