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Whiny Swann voice:on.
“It’s coooooviiiid, not my fault, coooooviiid”
Whiny Swann voice: off.
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4,677 at Hartlepool.
But they’re just a Mickey Mouse club fresh out of non-league!
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The clubs been run appallingly with fans treated like they don’t matter… it’s only one persons fault but he’ll never see it that way!!
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Even in a clean, friendly and well stocked/staffed stadium we’d be struggling to attract people with the garbage that is on offer on the pitch.
I’d expect multiple below 2000 attendances and probably sub 1500 on Tuesdays in the winter.
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The football on offer tends to attract/repel the casual element of our fan base. If we are playing well it’s usually around the 3,800+ mark, if we are playing shite it’s usually around the 3k mark. Only on Tuesday nights has it really dropped to 2,500 in the depths of winter.
The self inflicted issue with Swann is that he’s alienated the hardcore, there are 600+ missing who are usually there through the good/bad times.
It’s actually quite an achievement.
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4,677 at Hartlepool.
But they’re just a Mickey Mouse club fresh out of non-league!
Probably just being run as a hobby too, not a proper professionally run club like ours.
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Topics: 11Maybe some of our fans need to experience 4 seasons in the National League before appreciating the EFL?
Admire the optimism thinking we’d last 4 seasons in there.
Maybe some of our fans need to experience 4 seasons in the National League before appreciating the EFL?
I think we’ll get the chance sooner rather than later
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Maybe some of our fans need to experience 4 seasons in the National League before appreciating the EFL?
Some of us would prefer it not to happen rather than being happy to sit there and smile and clap while we slide into extinction.
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Topics: 11Sad times indeed,been supporting the club many years but our gang aren’t spending any more money till the smiling assassin has gone or given us our ground back, we may even sponsor some away games, not nice but that’s how we feel, you are a good talker but you certainly can’t walk the walk,wished we had never seen you or your family!
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Ah yes it’s well known all those clubs relegated to the national league are in ‘extinction’ now.
Perhaps not, but a good few have had to start up again as Phoenix clubs following mismanagement by their owner’s. I’ve no desire to watch an AFC Scunthorpe team playing in the NECL
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Topics: 11Swann has destroyed the connection between the club and the fans
Can the players keep the legacy of previous owners/managers/players alive??
The town should have a football league club, the threat to that exists due to one man!Uptheiron is an absolute *********
Jog on!!! You Joker!!5 users thanked author for this post.
I was there today. And how long is it since we last won a match uptheiron?
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He’s well and truly fucked the club up,having supported the iron for 51 years since a four year old going with me dad,I have never felt we have been as shite as now,inept manager chairman,and squad.what pisses me off most we have 5 strikers none of em good enough new signing not been here long enough to judge.
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Topics: 11No!! The ownership have cut off the nose!!
Had the past few years been open and inclusive the fans would still be there!!
Poor decision after poor decision and fans treated like NOTHING!!It appears that the Swann family now want the fans to come along because they’ve decided to stop putting in their own money but the damage is done… the fans love the club but they don’t love the owners or the direction in which the clubs been run!
This is a low not seen for generations… who’s to blame??
There can only be ONE PERSON!!4 users thanked author for this post.
You do realise the players we can afford is dependent upon the amount of fans/customers that attend games? The ONLY way to improve the position we are in at the minute is for fans to stick by the TEAM so that reinforcements can be brought in.
You are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
UptheIron99—-I have supported our club for 70 years through thick and thin, do not think that all seasons have been top quality, but never once did I not attend matches when I was available to do so, but I have never felt like this in all those years pal. Being a season ticket holder for 13 years since retirement at 67 years of age, I missed just one match at a time that I left my ticket at home in Barton, but the way our club is being run these days, with no entertaining football or enjoyment, I have just made up my mind to stay away till or should I say, things do change, it looks as though many others are doing the same, in fact I know of 11 fans that have said the same thing. I still think that this is being done delibaratley, because once again it is 15 games without a win, and nothing is being done whatsoever to stop the sickening decline in our club. And what is the point of paying more cash into the club, when it will be thrown down the drain.
I have also not missed a Speedway meeting during past 13 years, but continue to attend because of the entertainment provided, this has stopped at GP for the past 3 or 4 seasons, each of which gets worse than the previous one if possible.
UTI99 – along with countless others, I tried my level best to give my support to the Chairman for as long as it was humanly possible.
My entire philosophy of life is to give people as much of a chance as I can do.
However, there comes a time when people throw their hands in the air and say ‘no more!’I like good fish and chips. I am a fan. I shall always like them every week or so. (A bit like my beloved team, eh?)
Where I live there are a host of chippies which serve third grade rubbish. I continue to like fish ‘n’ chips but refuse to waste my money in those establishments.
When I find a good one – it has my loyal support.You may not get it but impecunious supporters find it tough to fork out loadsa cash for a third rate product.
They vote with their feet, you see. Not rocket science, is it?BUT. We must distinguish between the hard core of supporters and those on the periphery. That latter group are lost because of what has happened in recent seasons and they ain’t coming back unless huge incentives are provided: ie) real quality football. But do not expect them all to return even then. They feel cheated you see. As casual supporters, their loyalty cannot ever be taken for granted.
The problem is that now THE HARD CORE are also voting with their feet. A product they once loved has become third rate and fetid.
Would I use a restaurant that is grubby, often dirty, with fourth grade toilets, poor value and a product nowhere as good as it used to be? – Well. For the moment … yes. But …I have already written on here that none of my supporter friends from over years and decades attend any longer. Not one!
So UTI – how’s it feel wearing extra large, extra strong blinkers, huh?
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Topics: 11The last uti99 post just confirms that sycophants never do thin, they are permanently thick.
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I know of no one on here who wants to see us lose. All on here support Scunthorpe, but an increasing majority are seeing how the club is being run – as much as supporters support is it not also the duty of the club to maintain that community link, to bring fans in and make them part of the club. Running the club like a hobby means you have a genuine love of the club and do not commoditise it.
When people get mugged off constantly they will vote with their feet….
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I actually want the ‘turnstiles to click’.
Ever fewer paying to get in is good news for nobody. It can only help the club add to its brand new debts.Back in the day, apprentices who cleaned the boots of senior players would have also cleaned the stands.
Not the worst system in the world so that 16-18 year olds don’t get too cocky and do get a preparation for the real world.
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