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My understanding is that there is a £10 raffle for a chance to make the squad. However 5 of the spots on the supporter’s team and 1 on the legends team can be bought for £1000 and £2500,respectively. If no-one goes for the guaranteed spots, they will go to those who went for the raffle. Either way, there should be several spots available to those participating in the raffle, even if the 6 guaranteed spots are taken up. If I am understanding correctly.

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I hope the weather will be fine, as it won’t be pleasant walking down the desolation rows of the backstreets of Scunthorpe if a hard rain’s gonna fall.

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Trying and failing with a takeover bid doesn’t match the mismanagement of Swann and the saviour.

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The humility of Michelle is such a change after the previous two egos. No need for brags or reminders about how she saved the club and we should be forever grateful. The primary focus is on righting the club and steering it in the right direction, not basking in being the saviour or bragging about how she saved the club, so we shouldn’t question anything. We can and should be grateful, I don’t see much to question or complain about, but this mindset is best for leadership and ensuring the decisions are the best ones.

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Legend gets bounded about a lot, but Hayes will always be an Iron great to me. Some of the ‘lazy Hayesy’ stuff was ridiculous.

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I am not astounded he’d be fast and loose with the truth, but I am surprised that he thought he could fool people with something so obviously dubious. At the end he was saying how “Hilton was mostly good.” All while he was supposedly spearheading a dossier documenting Hilton’s problems.

Don’t forget that he’s also making out that he is a fair figure who came to bat for the Matts after their banning orders. While omitting that he made caveats in that defence about how they were in talks with the Swanns, which always was an attempt to discredit them and Bru. Hardly the fair figure he is now trying to portray himself as.

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Bobby Grant plays for them too.

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64 wrote:

Notice he’s not said which comments his objects to,

He seems to have objected to yours. He seems to conflate negative things said about him with abuse.

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Bishops Finger wrote:

David four names played Bell and his cronies like a fiddle ,

Rumours are that he might have added another name now.

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Max Bell wrote:

Standing on the sidelines and bitching does rather sum up why this forum has completely died since Luke Thornhill handed it over to Matt Blanchard, though.

Think it has more to do with the fact that in Luke’s day Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist or were less ubiquitous. Since they gained traction internet forums across the web have declined. The Facebook page is hardly some den of welcoming views, where Hilton critics got abuse far worse than anything on here, yet it gets plenty of people talking.

As for comments about Matt, you don’t help yourself with your snide digs in the same manner as you criticise, and putting out false information to undermine Matt and Iron Bru because it suited Dodgy Dave.

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People who disagree with you aren’t always illogical, lesser minded fools, Gurny. They might just have a different opinion, based off reason. I felt there were cases to be made on both sides of the Dean in or out debate. I disagreed with him staying, but it doesn’t mean I don’t think those who disagree with me were abandoning logic; they raised some good points. It doesn’t make anyone ‘abandoning logic and forethought’ because they disagree with you.

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I think a leadership change would only claw back some die hards. I think the swing voters and most of the public would see it as another PM with no public backing being thrust on the public, and would be just as frustrated with the Tories as they are now.

As for BPG, I suspect he would be praying for PM Farage, not the Tories.

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I would be incredibly surprised if Tories win the election. They’re doomed, barring a miracle.

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Felt Boston were one of the best footballing sides to visit the Attis this season, from what I saw. Well done to them.

Their match v Dag & Red should prove interesting next season. Daggers fans are not keen on Boston after Steve Evans led Boston to the Conference title in 2002, with Dag & Red 2nd, only for Boston to have found to have broken the rules. They saw it as cheating and do not like Boston Utd at all as a result. They haven’t played each other since, until next season.

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No, Dean wasn’t given the excuse of having to start somewhere after a year and 4-5 months, as opposed to Butler’s 2 months as an interim coach at a team in freefall at the time, because that’s not a good comparison.

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It’s a risk, but any managerial appointment would be. All managers have to start somewhere and given the context, we were unlikely to get an experienced manager from above, like Ardley or Sheridan, whatever you think of them. It would have been someone like this or another manager with non-league jobs on their CV. The alternative was to stick with someone with many known faults that made him not good enough, in my opinion.

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Gurnelista wrote:

Well, plenty to lose if we go backwards! And the reason he might not succeed is lack of money and lack of experience, except with the ladies, apparently. But, at least he speaks nicely.

Passion and he’s a nice guy were the most common reasons for sticking with Jimmy.

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We seem to have found the nothing that the something came from.

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Well, yes, it hasn’t been 18 months (18 months was what was reported at the time) exactly yet since Jan 2023, so any remaining time will have to be allocated for. Still better than giving another year or more deal then having to pay out because fans have turned by September.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

Looks like the contract wasn’t expired after all according to the latest podcast. If so we are potentially paying off another management team unless a clause was inserted within the deal.

WG assured us it was so it must have been true.

Do the Iron Hour people have any knowledge or is this WG style guesswork?

Jimmy signed an 18 month contract and no extension has ever been announced.

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Or he realised it was intended as a light hearted joke with no real malice intended.

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Just Iron

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Aye, that’s because a donation isn’t a loan.

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Nah,he means someone else is going to be given another role.

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Give it time and it might evolve into a –

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Yes, he didn’t like him wanting the loan repaid.

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Awaywego has taken exception to him before, especially regarding the issue with the loan given to pay wages.

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Apollo – He’s responding to Awaywego.

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That wasn’t aimed at anyone. It wasn’t meant to be a critique of anyone on here. The debate has been measured.

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Yeah. I essentially used it as a short-hand for the style of football we have been used to under him. One up front, possession focused football.

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Deereyme66

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NLN will never have the same free flowing football as higher divisions, but I think it’s possible to have a better game plan given some of the teams we’ve played this season have. I was more impressed with Boston (in both games) for their forward play than I have been with us for many games this season. Certainly since post-Christmas, when Jimmyball got found out.

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