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Yes there is a fair amount of discontent with the owner. Yes the ground is shabby and tired. Yes the Iron bar is a dump and the catering hit and miss at best. Yes the toilets are below standard.
But for the main reason attendances are falling through the floor see NI’s Hands Up thread.
There is only so much shite football people are prepared to pay to watch and after 3 years of it the tipping point is here.
I am still going to home games because I have a season ticket – not sure how long I will continue to put myself through it. No longer going to away games because I am not prepared to waste a whole day watching that shite.
We are absolutely hopeless when we are pleased to see 60 minutes of almost competence against Rotherham even though it was bookended by hapless defending to let 4 goal in.
I am amazed the attendances are not even lower – they soon will be.
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Certainly don’t read what I said as a ringing endorsement of that team or the management.
It was a better performance than many over the last 3 seasons but still contained 3 players that dont look League standard – Green, Hippolyte and Millen.Millen might come good but the other 2 have had numerous chances and never looked good enough.
Stop picking them and play people who look like they might cope. Bunn, Wilson and Rowe.
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Played well for the middle hour.
I hope Cox has finally learned we are only likely to create chances playing 4-4-2. We need to play a holding midfield player in front of the centre backs and Pugh is the only one of our 6 or 7 central midfielders that might be able to do that.
One of Green and Hippolyte’s better games. Therein lies our problem because in their best of games they are still poor. Neither are league standard. Both did work hard and could probably do
OK in the National League. They will no doubt get the chance next season. Staggering to hear Devarn has managed 50 games for the Iron.Loft was the best player on the pitch for me. Bunn and Wilson as wide midfielders, Pugh and Beeston in the centre and Loft and Jarvis or Scrimshaw up front and we might just win a game or two.
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Before anyone else says it I do need to get out more.
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Just checked and Rovrum have gone with a strongish side as well. Could be 5 or 6.
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I think when the original new Swann stadium was talked about the cost was quoted as £18m and was expected to be covered by the sale of the Glanford Park land as a brownfield site to extend the retail park so the circa £20m was possibly spoken of at that time.
The world has changed since then and I don’t think retail park developers are waving big cheques about anymore (or even small cheques come to that).
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Certainly not on the pitch Awaywego
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Let’s for the sake of argument there are 2000 of us still turning up UTI 99.
Thats £5,500 each just to buy our ground back and fund the chairman’s 6 years of playing championship manager.
If we could all stretch to £5,501 each that should cover the value of the team and the management.
Who’s up for it?
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Can’t dispute there are some quality players in the national league. Suspect at least half the teams would beat us if we played them tomorrow.
Disputing the assertion that McAtee only looks a player in non league. He looked quality for us when Hurst was here. He never had a half decent game under the present regime.
Where does the problem lie?
Covid and absent supporters apparently.
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My favourite bullshit from the Podcast. (I paraphrase)
We couldnt sign any decent forwards because those nasty non league people with their £3m budgets have snaffled all the good League 2 players. Some of them are paying £2k – £3k per week you know.
Later on to the question “Why was McAtee shite for us but is now the star for the Cods”
Because he is only playing non league against all those shit players, of course he will look good,
You can’t have it both ways my son.
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Brief summary of the main points for NI:
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Can’t be arsed to even listen to the bullshit. Supporters fault for not turning up. You get what you deserve. Neil and the team are doing a fantastic job. I’ve made some mistakes but I can’t actually think of any.
Are you Boris in disguise?
Wake me up when it’s over.
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I think I can safely speak for the majority of the dwindling number of Iron fans here.
We dont give a monkeys if Rotherham’s reserves beat our reserves on Tuesday. We want a coherent plan to somehow cobble 45 points from our remaining games and the silence is deafening on how we might climb that particular mountain.
We are plainly not going to defend our way to safety even if we play 6 or 7 at the back. How about a totally left field option and try for the first time in 3 plus years to score more goals than the opposition?
Probably won’t work but it would at least make our last season as an ELF club a bit more entertaining.
Cconceding in the 5th minute and knowing the game is over is pretty dammed frustrating for the fans. I suspect it is for the players as well which is probably why they couldn’t be arsed in the secone half against Newport.
It is quite alarming after dismantling last seasons team for not doing what Neil tells them we have got to the same point with this seasons group. There seems to be a common denominator here.
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You know you are really deep in the shite when someone other than BPG starts a Laws in thread.
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A pitiful disgrace of a performance.
The white flag is being vigorously waved.
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Bizzarly Wiki says he played 19 times for the Iron. Must be including unused sub appearances.
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I wish I shared your optimism that there are 2 teams worse than us in League 2. Even the basket case that is Oldham got an away win on Saturday. Something that has eluded the Iron for some time.
Hope your correct but at the moment I am believing the bookies who have us firm favourites for the drop.
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Neil for me is overly cautious and tactically naive but to say he is solely to blame is surely unfair.
I think the absent landlord has a fair amount of responsibility here.
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Nail hit on the head NI.
We worked a few promising wide positions in the first half particularly on the right but attempted crosses from Millen and Hippolyte were really poor.
We are never going to get much in from the left playing a hard working Beeston totally out of position.
We didn’t seem to think about the areas where most League 2 open play goals come from i.e. from advanced wide positions. We knew we had lost Gillead and Eisa and we were never going to replace them with the same quality but to not replace them with anybody was a massive error in recruitment.
I assume Cox thought Green and Hippolyte were going to step up to the plate which was a massive error of judgement. They both had enough opportunities last season and delivered virtually nothing between them.
Neither has done anything this season other than demonstrate they are 2 levels above their capability. We have Bunn of course but he seems determined to beat Hallam for treatment table bookings.
The other schoolboy error was to have only Kenyon as a holding midfield player. Out of our other 5 or 6 central midfielders none is equipped to play one of the 2 roles we expect midfielders to play.
Nothing Wood and Hackney have done so far suggests they are better than Beeston, Pugh or Perry but their loan deals seem to suggest they must be in the squad if not the starting line up. WTF?
I know finances dictate recruitment was going to be tough but Cox and Cygnet seem to have made just as big a mess of it as our lord and master used to when he was the one man committee.
Best hope is to play Wilson right and Thompson left until Bunn is fit and get Pugh in the holding position until Kenyon is fit and proves he can move above walking pace.
Shows what shit we are in that putting 3 inexperienced kids into key positions would probably improve the team significantly.
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We got really lucky about 8 years ago.
At least all but one of us thought we did at the time and Alcy hardly counts because he pretty much disagrees with everything.
By my reckoning all but 2 of us have changed our minds since.
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I would go with:
Watson
Millen Onariase Taft O’Malley
Wood Pugh Thompson
Beeston
Scrimshaw JarvisEven if everyone was fit you would probably replace Wood with Bunn and Loft with Jarvis. Possibly Pugh with Kenyon and Davis with Onariase.
With the current squad that’s as good as it’s going to get with a fairly weak/inexperienced bench to back things up.
He has got a mask to protect his facial injury but apparently cannot see properly when wearing it.
The club probably forgot to order one with holes for the eyes.
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