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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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Many thanks to Matt once again.

Nice to finish as one of the Big Six!

Or should that be Forum Six?

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Chicken and egg?

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alcazar

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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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lesgeo

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lesgeo wrote:

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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inspector

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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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alcazar

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My question would be that IF Eisa, McGahey, Gilliead and KvV WERE offered new deals and THEY turned them down. Why was that?

Was it that the new contracts offered were so far below what they were earning they thought it derisory?

Was it that they think they should be playing in L1 or higher?

Was it a combination of the above (ie they think they can get more money playing for Blackpool or Ipswich)?

Or was it that they’re so pissed off with the Mickey Mouse set up at Scunthorpe United that they’ve had enough?

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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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alcazar, BobbyGmeister, inspector

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Mentally preparing yourself for the inevitable, eh UTI?

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And let’s not forget that in this country Swanns are protected by law.

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inspector

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cassidystash wrote:

Agree with mick about those that turned down reduced contracts, might want to reconsider if nothing better turns up.

Stranger things have happened. Like with Jordan Clarke last year.

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I’ll wait a couple of months until it’s 200/1.

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Anonymous wrote:

LW – Hippolyte

CF – Loft, Dunnwald-Turan, Jarvis, Jessop

🤣😂🤣😂🥲

Give over!!!

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Bart's Elephant, IRONINTHEBLOOD

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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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IRONINTHEBLOOD, Iron-awe

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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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IRONINTHEBLOOD, alcazar

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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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North Lincolnshire Irons

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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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Kenny Spennymoor

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It’ll be the fault of Covid.

Nowt to do with signing half a dozen duffers we can’t get off the books.

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The Tories sold off OUR nationalised industries and services.

The Swanns have sold off OUR stadium and its environs.

Both will say they weren’t really OURS anyway, and that it was done in the best interests of the club/country.

Soooo many similarities!

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Can you put a price on effort and application?

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Don’t think you’ll get rid of Jarvis and Turan that easily!

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“Based on recruitment being near to 12 then another coach may be need to work with a specific special needs group in prep for pre-season.”

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🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣

There you go!

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alcazar

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Or alternatively you could have used those two sizeable paragraphs to give us your opinion on the topic.

Is The Pawn ignoring the fans and bulldozering his own plans through with scant regard for the history of the club (a bit like HM Government). Or is he our very own knight in shining armour saving us from the same fate suffered by Macclesfield and Bury?

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Dunno about released. Some of them should be banged up for criminal damage!

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Blimey Awaywego, if that’s right he’s worse than I thought!

I also didn’t realise he was 25 now. I don’t think he’s going to get any better.

Howard going is only bad news if he isn’t replaced with better. Because if Mr Swann still thinks Watson is our No1 we’re in trouble.

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alcazar, IRONINTHEBLOOD

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Correct, these are analogies.

The “club” is doing what politicians do.

Telling us that although things look bad everything will be okay if we continue stick with them.

Anyone with grievances is being petty and unrealistic as the silent majority support what the leadership is doing.

Whilst all the time……

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Deereyme66

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Which brings us back full circle.

Because if you haven’t got a spare £11 million Johnson and his mates won’t be listening to you.

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Sounds like an accurate description of the present leadership of both club and country!

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inspector

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Even more irritation Mick!

Yes, I’m afraid it’s all weasel words, so unless there’s actually something positive to be SEEN he might as well not say anything.

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