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  • in reply to: Enough is enough! PROTEST at GP 8th may #206276
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    when is the protest then and werebouts
    i want to be part of it
    SWANN OUT!!!!

    “Get up, get into it, get involved”.

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    Love the ways he says it’s like a junior school playground after yet another “you started it, not me” post!

    in reply to: Recruitment Strategy. #206247
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    Awaywego thinks Iron supporters are the worst in the country. In his mind all Scunny fans hate all of the players!

    As I said at the time of the penalty incident, I’d rather see a player fighting to take a penalty than one who dodges the responsibility.

    And as for not wanting to stay here, I seem to recall his family coming down to watch him and when interviewed his mother said how much he was enjoying his time here.

    Once again, following on from those three seasons near the top of L1 we had built up a reputation for developing quality players. That’s why we attracted loanees like Toney, Crooks and Yates. Now we’ve sunk to the depths it’s the likes of George Miller and Tyler Cordner.

    If anything the recruitment strategy has to be better than it was four years ago.

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    in reply to: Recruitment Strategy. #206231
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    if we had got promoted that season, we probably wouldn’t have sold Townsend, Wallace and Holmes

    Had we got promoted I reckon we’d have had a good chance of getting Ivan Toney on a permanent.

    30 goals for Brentford this season and most likely off to the PL for top dollar.

    Who’d have thought eh?

    in reply to: FA Vase and FA Trophy Finals #206215
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    Just watched Hebburn Town win the Vase.

    My mate lives next door to the ground and a late mutual friend of ours had his wake in the clubhouse a couple of years ago.

    The town will be buzzing. Such a shame for the pub beer gardens it’s peeing down with rain.

    Congratulations to the Hornets!

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    in reply to: Recruitment Strategy. #206198
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    Kenan Dunwald-Turan – 4 days 5 hours left. Bids 0.

    in reply to: Recruitment Strategy. #206190
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    If they have footballing skills – that would be rather nice but not essential.

    If they don’t have footballing skills, how the hell have they made it up through the academies and youth teams. We’ve released young players with greater skill levels than some we have under contract now! I play on. Sunday evening with guys who have a better first touch than Loft, and retain the ball better than Hippolyte.

    Football agents are like the stereotype used car dealers. “Got a lovely little runner here. Only 25,000 miles on the clock and four new tyres”. I bet young Swann just takes it for a quick test drive without even looking under the bonnet or checking for rust! That or takes the modern approach and buys online having just seen a two minute video clip.

    Might as well set up a “Vinted” type website for clubs who want to get rid of/buy players.

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    in reply to: Player Contracts #206156
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    Apparently Bradford City have 18 OOC.

    So we could always re-sign Lee Novak!

    in reply to: Manchester Utd v Liverpool #206154
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    I await the “be thankful we have Peter Swann” posts.

    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206137
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    Well I hope we can do what Morecambe have done this season, I’ll give you that.

    But is this what it’s come to, looking on in envy at Morecambe?

    Bright-eyed optimism is all well and good but we need action over the next three months to make sure we don’t have a fourth season of anguish. If ownership and management are to stay in place I expect a BIG improvement in what they can serve up.

    Have they learned from the last three seasons? I won’t hold my breath.

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    in reply to: Staying Up ? #206134
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    The moral of this story is don’t expect to be able to complete if you don’t have a forward line worthy of the name.

    Don’t waste our reduced budget on 4/5 non-league standard hopefuls. Get someone in who knows where the back of the net is.

    And if you’ve got one already, just play him even though he is only eighteen!

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    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206121
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    I have been watching football long enough to know that more than likely we will be better next year.

    A bold statement indeed.

    Bet you thought things would get better after Brexit.

    UTI99 must be having a long lie-in this Bank Holiday Sunday. Not had an answer to any of those questions yet.

    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206110
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    You only have to listen to some of Cox interviews throughout the season to understand what I am talking about.

    After you’ve answered Deerey’s question, please can you explain the above?

    Thank you.

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    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206097
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    Stats say next season we’ll be higher up the lge,

    Are these Bucksiron stats?

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    in reply to: 2003/04 #206096
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    As I posted on another thread we actually entertained that season. 69 goals scored (MacLean 23, Torpey 11) in fact out GD was only -3. We scored the same number the following season when we finished second.

    Unless we go wild against Stevenage our GF this season will be 41. So it’s obvious where our weaknesses lie.

    Unlike 03/04 when it was a young inexperienced defence of Byrne and Butler that was the problem, it is in attack where we desperately need experience.

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    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206054
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    Club survives a pandemic. Team retains its EFL status.

    Just like the other 72 EFL clubs have survived Covid.

    You’re as bad as Swann. Maybe you are Swann!

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    in reply to: Swann on the ropes #206014
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    One would expect all parties concerned to sit down and discuss the retained/released list long before any player was told.

    One would expect it everywhere but Scunthorpe United of course!

    in reply to: Swann on the ropes #206010
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    I just hope the player in question wasn’t Alex Gilliead.

    in reply to: Bradford City latest defeat thread #206009
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    My Bradford mate says they (BCFC) won’t win!

    in reply to: Ground Valuation #206002
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    Depends on who or what is “the club”!

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    in reply to: Ten years ago today. #205983
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    our much superior strike rate.

    Wow! I never thought I’d read that statistic this season.

    So we could be kept up by a strike force that has gone through whole games without registering a short on target? How ironic would that be?

    The ‘swing’ didn’t actually happen!

    Indeed it didn’t. Courtesy of a guy playing his last game of football who scored both of Ossett’s goals. Amusingly Chester invited him to be guest of honour at their end of season awards dinner.

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    In his statement Swann says security of tenure for 100 years!

    in reply to: Ten years ago today. #205959
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    That’s Dr Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira to you!

    Correct, you win the goldfish?

    in reply to: Enough is enough! PROTEST at GP 8th may #205950
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    Total disrespect to the English Football Pyramid and the other 23 teams in league 2.

    22. Southend fans have already held protests.

    in reply to: Enough is enough! PROTEST at GP 8th may #205943
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    Have you actually read the statement? Simple question.

    The season hasn’t been great and we have been so poor at times, it has been hard to watch or stomach, but we are where we are because of those performances. Over the next two games the players, the coaches and the club must find a way to find enough character and pride to ensure we get the point we need to retain our league status. If the players take any responsibility, now is the time to show it and I ask them to leave nothing in the locker as we finish the season, one that has been so difficult for all involved.

    We also know that our visit to Bradford will evoke memories of a terrible disaster they had to endure and our thoughts go out to everyone that was lost and the families left behind to mourn.

    In our last game at home we will honour the fans who have lost their lives whilst being supporters of our club, but we will also think about the other lives lost – not just locally, but UK-wide due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The club will endure, the town will endure and the country will endure – that is who we are, we must remember, we must care.

    I will briefly talk about the leaked shareholders resolution, because I had planned a more concise and informative press release, but that was scuppered by a few negative and uninformed individuals who would rather print lies than pick up the phone to me.

    The club is financially safe due to extra funds given to the club as sponsorship for the stadium naming rights, which over the next 10 years will be close to £4.2m. This covered our relegation and the lost revenue, due to the Covid situation and is not part of any loan to the club. The £11m loan was removed because we were obliged to charge interest at £360,000 per annum, by the Revenue, so by offsetting that we were able to save the club £360,000 per annum. The club will pay no rent until it can afford to pay a market rent. It is fully protected, in that it has security of tenure for over 100 years and cannot be moved, or developed unless a new stadium and training facilities are provided elsewhere and that is whilst I am here, or anyone else. It will not be borrowed against and will remain a community football club for all our and our offspring’s lifetimes.

    We have had numerous forums and shareholder meetings where I emphasised my commitment to the football club and have proved that with over £24m of investment, which includes £8m of share purchases equating to 92% ownership. Although not quite achieving Championship status, we gave it a go as a little club without risk to the future of the Iron. In fact the future is looking good as we develop the site to provide a more modern looking stadium with better facilities and a quality football and leisure facility. This will include a fully developed training facility, which will incorporate all our teams in one place. Please don’t believe the doom mongers who just want to stain me and my family, or the individuals who have nothing good to say about our club. Look at our investment and commitment to the club, and our future hopes and dreams to leave a legacy and not a tattered and tired stadium and a club in huge debt, but one with supportive owners who put their money where their mouth is.

    I can’t talk about all the commercial dialogue, as it would put us at a disadvantage, but I will print everything I can over the coming weeks and all of this is true and as a statement of fact, not what you have seen in the press.

    My family and I wish you a safe exit from the restrictions and are honoured to be the owners and protectors of the Iron, both now and into the future.

    UTI

    Peter Swann

    “The future is looking good”

    Not from where I’m sat!

    in reply to: Saturdays Match #205925
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    Just had a WhatsApp conversation with my Bantam mate. Here’s the cut-and-paste: –

    “Thanks. Agree a draw would suit us both, but reckon you’re due a win. My boys are set up negative; lost that winning feeling and even the ball’s stopped running in our favour. Need season to finish asap; shed the out of contracts and start again next season.”

    Not just us then, but I wish we had their 58 pts!

    in reply to: Enough is enough! PROTEST at GP 8th may #205924
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    Au contraire. It would appear he HAS achieved what he wanted.

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    in reply to: Feeling pretty vindicated right now #205922
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    Precisely Barrie. Read the post again!

    in reply to: Angry Doesn’t Get Close to How I Feel at the Moment #205921
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    Sometimes Awaywego I wonder what the hell you’re on about.

    Does that make WHAT alright?

    Criticism of Wharton was on par with what Swann has received in the last 5 years. Do me a favour!

    The situation with the present incumbents is totally different. Not the “it was exactly the same with Wharton” nonsense that Bucks would have you believe.

    Scroll through a few posts from that past week or two to check out what the majority think. Or to save time just have a look at the POLL thread.

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    in reply to: Who said this in 2015? #205919
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    Who said this and about what?

    “There is no switch you can turn that suddenly builds back trust with them and the fan base. It is a long and difficult road back”.

    a) Scunthorpe United’s fans about the Swanns.

    b) Richard Scudamore about the Big Six owners.