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I don’t think it will, mate, to be fair. I honestly don’t think your lot will recover from this. But thanks all the same.

Hard luck lad; good luck in the playoffs. Blown it.

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It’s never good to blow one’s own trumpet. It makes you appear like you’re trying to convince yourself and doesn’t really convince others.

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Reckon we’ve settled for third place!

Might be second, ahead of the champions elect.

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This is why I never subscribed to the idea that Kiddy were shoo ins for the title, even with our stuttering away form. Brackley had the easiest run in and Kiddy could easily stumble.

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I don’t think Matlock fans were swayed by your opinions tbh. They were more likely motivated by their own worries over where the club may be without promised investment over what you have to say. I don’t think you or us are important enough to have much influence over Matlock fans.

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You will have a lot of sympathy from Scunny fans and Bury fans, Mtfc fan. I suspect those who voted yes might not get so much if things do go awry, but I understand the scaremongering tactics used on the fans. It was done here.

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I wonder who he’ll foster as the scapegoat with Matlock like with Bury AFC or Bru. There’s the cricket club, I guess, but the divide and conquer strategy will need some on the fanbase to be the enemy tormenting poor Dave.

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Fans get passionate about their teams and many feel anger towards those who they feel ruined their club. Hilton was happy to seize on ill feeling towards Swann. In time it will die down, but people will still have a say where it is relevant due to historical connection.

Grimsby fans still discuss Fenty when he crops up in talking points. We are not unique. Mark Weaver was told to avoid going to Donny ever again after he left, ‘mad Ken’ Richardson of Donny died a couple of years ago and some Donny fans cheered it on their forum. I saw rumours of SISU buying out Reading and Coventry fans were not being kind on social media. Same for other clubs with their disliked owners. I get it may be hard to hear for those with sympathy to the owner, but surely some understanding of how hurt fans were is in order and that when topical news items appear, like with Matlock, there will be some discussion and not necessarily positive.

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Not really, but given the history of Hilton with Scunny it is bound to generate discussion and maybe you should accept that many won’t be positive given how it ended. Whether you agree with it or not, many won’t like him and himself and you will just have to live with that. You can’t force everyone to like you. I don’t care if you like me, you shouldn’t care that I and others think Hilton is a slimeball. It’s not just limited to here either. I have heard not so positive comments at Scunny games from fans, as well as on twitter and Facebook. He left with us in peril and many will blame him for that.

The antagonistic kind of talk you have engaged in is the sort which created issues among some Scunny fans then and now. That was one of the things that caused souring and many suspect it was deliberate for his own ends. If you think that’s wrong, fine, it may well be, but everything done by himself and you on here helped cause the divide. Intentional or not.

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I don’t particularly care who you feel sorry for. I am quite content in the knowledge that I didn’t clap along the con man’s antics, didn’t excuse and I don’t live a live sad enough to go onto another club’s forum to insult others for daring not to see positive in a mate who contributed to the club’s downfall (I am not letting Swann off the hook).

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You’re supposed to be a burger flipper for Ilkeston, yet you’re continuing to care about what Scunny fans say about your con man pal on our own forum. Crazy or what?

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Little chance of that though if Hilton gets the club you saddos will be wanting it to fail won’t you.

No. We’ll be wanting him to fuck off, and the Club to survive and prosper.

If we wanted Matlock to fail, we’d be cheering him on with his exploits.

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Just like with us, happy clapping Hilton like a seal will do sod all for Matlock. Having concerns is not anti-democratic or wanting to fail.

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I didn’t realise that we had to agree or refuse to listen to our concerns if one group vote for something. If Matlock vote him in I won’t be clapping along like a seal, but I’d be worried for them.

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There goes the dummy.

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Ah, the usual blackmail and guilt tripping from nice guy Dave.

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He may have scammed, bullshitted and sowed divisions among the fanbase for his own ends, but at least he’s a nice guy according to his mates.

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How many con men do you need to apologise for to be a genuine fan?

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It’s heartwarming that you think about us every minute of everyday Pat.

I feel a bit bad now, it’s only because we’re envious, any chance we could all be mates again? I would let you tell me about your world class plastic pitch, or whatever else you want to talk about.

As long as it’s world class and about Ilkeston.

Yeah, his mate’s a spiv, but how many games do you go to?

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Out he goes with the words to soothe his own ego. The pugeon struts across the chess board.

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The fans who post elsewhere, barring someone who was a former Scunny White and has been imprisoned for pushing drugs to youths, think Hilton was an arsehole too.

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I have been to several games in the northern premier league. All outside of Scunny and none treated Ilkeston as some club to be envied. They were just seen as another club at that level.

No talk of their world class facilities or how they wished their scran was as good as that by the burger tosser at Ilkeston.

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Whatever has happened since day one with David Hilton, you would not even have a club without him… FACT!… all the crap about someone would have jumped in last minute…. didn’t happen did it?
As for the crap football you are playing?… when you were top and looking like going up… no mention of David Hilton!… now you have bottled it… you and the happy clappers say it is because you are playing with Hiltons signings?…. you can not have it both ways can you?… no mention of Swann anymore I notice?….I honestly believe if the roof blew off Glanford park it would be Hiltons fault on Iron Bru

He’s a convicted shill.

Why are you on here defending him after all this time? Get on with your life ffs.

Because he knows the crook and is a rather strange bloke who can’t take it that most have seen through the con man. A huge ego, on display here, doesn’t help either.

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Thank goodness for Mr Hilton, him running the club further into the ground and the bad debt.

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Which is already a damn site better than Hilton’s plan of distract fans with shiny things, so they can enjoy football for a quarter of a season, before quitting while he can.

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Indeed. She gets thanks for steadying the ship in the time of need and given this year’s drama, likely initiated by one of the other board members and the CEO, I do not blame her for wanting a more relaxed time.

Her fight for the club in a dark year will cement her as a legend. Hopefully soem of the others (well, one in particular) buck their ideas up and realise what is important.

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He wasn’t always right in identifying who the toxic fans were and encouraged toxic fans to slander his critics.

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Ukraine were really evil warmongers when they devided to fight back against invasion and not let their country to be destroyed. The country that invaded had no responsibility, of course. Another country being sovereign and not under your control is definitely provocation and wipes all responsibility from the invader.

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unity iron wrote:

So all this Unity shite was just about Stuart Maw FC all along. What a self-serving vile creature he is. I’m amazed his wife stayed with him after his naughty tweets to teenagers!

I don’t think it’s wise to get too personal. That is private between him and her and I don’t feel comfortable judging.

This whole raucus by Maw is most unbecoming and entitled. Like he thinks he deserves more than anyone else for his own saintly status. I think that should be the focus of any criticism and comments, not private matters.

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