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I haven’t no, and based on some of the content of his Twitter account in response to fans with reasonable questions (his brief dialogue with SST regarding 1899 scheme for instance) and historical tweets before he took over SUFC, plus the abusive and threatening tweets from people claiming to be friends of his, I’ll be giving that one a wide berth thanks. If he reacts the way ive seen to reasonable questions and concerns, I suspect my questions would not be received very well at all. I think that’s reasonable MKI – do you? Should I be ashamed or something?
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Maybe from a legal point regarding what’s happening with the land/ ground sale being up in the air he’s been advised to keep stum on certain matters. If he’s being roasted about his past and what is supposedly going on at the club regarding monies and payments etc he’s thinking I’m not getting involved in any of this hearsay just because certain people keep posting stuff about him which he chooses to ignore because he doesn’t have to answer to anybody and certainly he has had a fans forum where he explained a lot and posted the account of events on the website.
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Deery as I suspect you know I was having a light hearted dig at the insider/bystander duo. They may have absolutely valid points but constantly repeating them behind a cloak of anonymity is not really helping anyone. They do also have thinly disguised agendas against Hilton.
Remember when we used to have a bit of a laugh about things on here.
Of course you have valid concerns as do I and I suspect every other Iron fan does. We are set to play in a part time regional football league and have not owned our ground for more than 2 years so we have plenty to worry about.
Our fate lies in the hands of one man although that has been the case for many years – be their surname Wharton, Swann or Hilton.
The current owner will either prove to be smarter than Swann or not. Such a low bar that I am hopeful he is. He will prove to be truthful and well intentioned or not. History suggests the Wharton’s pretty much were and Peter Swann pretty much wasn’t.
Time will tell but not an awful lot we can do about it.
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No, I wasn’t aware of who it was aimed at MKI, and neither was Ferrite by the look of it. What I said in my post though could be applied to II or IB. Am I right in thinking you don’t view Twitter? Some of the content from these burner accounts that crop up frequently is very out of order, and in some cases, disgusting. Nobody knows for sure who’s behind them but if they are indeed friends of Hilton as they claim, I can understand why anyone would be wary of speaking directly to him about anything beyond lite. I don’t even post on there myself but this week one of these posters was claiming they knew that an Iron supporter on Twitter was ‘Deereyme66’. He rightly denied it. The burner accountant then went on to claim this guy must be Siderite or Iron Age. Again, rebuffed. I was alerted to it and laughed it off, but it’s not good is it? We’ve never had this level of abuse and threats with other owners in the past. I think you said to me previously if I don’t like what I see on there, don’t view it. Well, kind of hard not to if someone on there is trying (mistakenly) to find out my identity on here via Twitter. I’m hardly his fiercest critic. But if the perpetrator thinks it will stop me airing my views on here, they can think again.
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That’s not good to read, Deerey. The burner accounts are a strange phenomenon clearly linked to Hilton’s circle and need stopping immediately.
I do agree with the sentiment with MK though, if IB has any new information or anything relevant to the football club, by all means go ahead and post. At the moment he is coming across as desperate to nail something to Hilton when it’s the same stuff getting recycled and questioning everything to the Nth degree. If you know anything substantial- post it in laymen terms.
You then have information and rumours coming from social media that have no basis whatsoever: I’ve heard over the past weeks we are under a transfer embargo, the tax hasn’t been paid to HMRC, the council don’t know anything about the Glebe road site, a new owner is coming in and GP is turning into a lorry site.
I certainly won’t be nailing my colours to the Hilton mast for some time, but as it stands, he is paying the bills, signing the players and has ultimately saved the football club.
Like always with football fans, there’s nothing we can do about it but sit back and see how it unfolds.
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‘That’s not good to read, Deerey. The burner accounts are a strange phenomenon clearly linked to Hilton’s circle and need stopping immediately.’
Yes, like I said, I can laugh it off, particularly as it was one of the less threatening ones, and folk who post on Twitter have had far worse as you may know. Whoever’s behind it will read this post no doubt, and it they’ve got anything to do with Hilton, my suggestion would be to pack it in – you’re doing nothing but causing more division than we already have. If you want us to pull together and get behind him and move forward, with a bit more backing and unity, just respond to the critics in a sensible and rationale manner, without the abuse and threats. It’s not rocket science. And also, we’re football supporters, we take the piss a lot, particularly Scunthonians. It’s how we were brought up!
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We so very nearly were.
Matlock fans – forewarned is forearmed.Ground share with a local non league club
Can your Dad come on here and confirm that please?
Was it wrong then?
I’ve read all the answers given to the questions and pretty pleased in all honesty. I’ll believe in Hilton until I have reason not to. For any of you who hasn’t ready the back and forth, go read it. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
We were, but not pleasantly.
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