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I think the most important factor is the 20,000+ Fans watching….
No, the most important factor was Chelsea lost!
Yes, quite a few L1 & L2 clubs have issued their released list (BBC Sport Football on Transfers page) and whilst none are as long as our record breaking seventeen, they make interesting reading.
It is noticeable that high earners feature on many of them. Probably understandable given the massive loss of gate receipts. So we are not alone in cutting our cloth.
Some will not have too much trouble finding a new club, but others will definitely have to accept a salary reduction to secure employment.
So there will be decent players out there and if clubs go about it in the right way there’s no reason why a competitive squad can’t be assembled on a budget.
The question is will Scunthorpe United go about it in the right way?
Most clubs will have been monitoring players. They’ll have experienced scouts and will be talking to knowledgeable ex-professionals. The manager and coaches will be involved in the recruitment process and the assembled squad will be a balance of experience and youth and not overloaded in any one department.
This doesn’t seem to have been the case with us for the past few seasons. We have a chairman who is now more interested in property than people. A chief scout who has barely started shaving, and a manager who must think he’s just walked bruised but otherwise unscathed out of a plane crash! We use wide-boy agents who could sell sand to Arabs and have an unbalanced squad.
It would be possible to rebuild the team, but on past records I remain sceptical.
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Chicken and egg?
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In that case he did he really want to stay.
Was the offer less that what a plasterer earns?
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And let’s be optimistic that a new set of players must SURELY have better attitudes than those recently witnessed.
Isn’t that what we were saying about last summer’s signings after “sleepwalking to relegation” from L1 and another pitiful campaign in L2?
What makes you think the new faces won’t be sucked into the vortex of mediocrity?
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So he says he wanted to stay. The club says he was offered a new contract. The Twitter feed says he was released because of budget cuts.
Where’s the truth in all this?
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Get Bish in as chief scout then! He certainly knows his onions.
Or send Lillis back to his care home and appoint him assistant manager.
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And let’s not forget that in this country Swanns are protected by law.
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LW – Hippolyte
CF – Loft, Dunnwald-Turan, Jarvis, Jessop
🤣😂🤣😂🥲
Give over!!!
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It was the same dream in which we re-signed a player we’d released 14 years ago!
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You need to ask the question, why did they underachieve at this club, this season?
If any of the departees go on to do better at their next club then you have to wonder if it runs deeper than the player(s) in question.
The other question of course is who signed these underachievers, and why?
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Agree.
If he stays fit. If he’s interested. If the rest of the team are on his wavelength. A lot of IFS!
BUT! He was to an extent our current “Mr Scunthorpe United”. At Christmas Swann was saying that having a fit KvV back in contention was like signing a new striker. Another U-turn!
Not quite on par with selling Barrie Thomas to Newcastle, but I’d guess there’s a few more now who won’t bother returning to the SVS if Swann continues to sell off the family silverware.
He replacement needs to be someone special.
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And the only one who wants to stay. The one we know has some ability when fit. The only one approaching anything like a fans’ favourite is told he’s too expensive to keep.
Only makes sense if his wages are more that Loft, Jarvis, Turan and Mooney combined.
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