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He said last night his personal spend was up to £1.7m
Why does anyone buy a football club?
Very few these days are fans of the clubs they buy. Swann was a Leicester fan I believe. We found out the hard way he didn’t give a monkeys about the club, the town or the fans.
We had a local consortium but they (correctly?) thought the valuation too high.
Time will tell if Hilton’s motivation is more beneficial to the club than was the case with Swann.
He is going to have to drop us a couple of leagues for starters to get close to his predecessors achievements.
The fact is we as supporters have no influence over what happens next no more than we had any influence under Swann or even Wharton.
Might as well chill and see what happens next. It would be nice to stop losing and waving the white flag as we have done most matchdays for the last 5 years.
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I think you are right Daz.
My own view is that if the previous owner comes out of it with a bloody nose and a lot less cash then that would be a bonus.
He may have picked a fight with the wrong man here.
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Hilton gave chapter and verse on what Swann has done (and not done) that has caused the issues. He stated the reason for the forum not being streamed or recorded was because he would not then have been able to fully clarify this without possibly giving Swann a lever to use against him.
Of course we will hear a very different story from Swann so it will come down to who you believe or who wins the dispute legally or otherwise.
Given one of the parties record as a bigger liar than Boris or Donald you can probably guess who I am inclined to believe.
Hilton gave a fairly comprehensive response to the rest of the recent hysterical character assassination also.
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Totally agree Richgy a joy to watch even when the were ripping us a new one at their place.
Better footballing side than any we saw in League 2 the previous season.
I would accept the industrial style of football that the likes of Wrexham and Borehamwood play if it meant us winning a few games but it’s crap for the neutral.
Hope they stick to their principles and do well with it in League 2.
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Not looking for guarantees of EFL football Awaywego. Nothing can be guaranteed and we have had 10 years of bullshit promises.
I do hope though that the club have a plan to have a go though. Happy with one step at a time so a plan on try and win NLN will do for starters.
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No interest whatsoever in 98% of that stuff provided he gives satisfactory (and believable) answers to the 2 questions that matter:
How are you going to return us to the EFL?
What is happening with the ground/site?
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A quick search of his profile shows the first post to be from 2020 with a post or two not complimentary towards Swann.
Stop taking it out on fans because they don’t worship the ground Hilton walks on. Concerns about Hilton can be brushed away as unfounded, no matter what (and some seemingly are), but we can assert other fans are conspiracists based on nothing? That’s no better than Rene’s conspiracies.
8 posts in 3.5 years of Swann 1 of which was mildly critical of him.
35 since Hilton arrived virtually all have been posts that would have had Swann contacting his lawyers had they been about him. I still think my question was valid and fair.
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A quick search of his profile shows the first post to be from 2020 with a post or two not complimentary towards Swann.
Stop taking it out on fans because they don’t worship the ground Hilton walks on. Concerns about Hilton can be brushed away as unfounded, no matter what (and some seemingly are), but we can assert other fans are conspiracists based on nothing? That’s no better than Rene’s conspiracies.
I asked the person a perfectly valid question. Read my post again and there is nothing criticising fans for their opinions of Hilton. Like many people I will make my mind up on what he does for the club. Don’t give a monkeys about the many other agendas doing the rounds on antisocial media.
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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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