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You should read it more often, like a pack of dogs most of the time, stop fooling yourself.
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Are you on a mission to try and get Matt to throw the towel in and close this forum down too Alcy? Another defeat, further in to relegation quagmire and this is your response? Another deliberately provocative post designed to wind people up? How is this helpful to anyone?
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Topics: 11They may have lost today but they are not losing every week and not scoring any goals.
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I can’t believe that. After getting new owners I thought they’d be storming the league.
At least they have some nice food to keep the ‘customers’ happy.If a club has new owners that back the manager with funds for signings and the results don’t come then the blame lies fairly and squarely with the manager and players. What’s your point?
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Topics: 11I can’t believe that. After getting new owners I thought they’d be storming the league.
At least they have some nice food to keep the ‘customers’ happy.
5,800 at home to Bromley today. Owners Spending a lot of time/money investing in the foundations to build the club upon whilst actively engaging with the supporters.
It may not be this season but they will be back in the EFL within the next few years
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Ah right so Cox didn’t sign Billson, Millen, Davis, Thompson, Kenyon, Scrimshaw, Wood, Hackney?
You’re a bit behind, Cox isn’t the manager anymore. I’m sure you know how many of those were Swann snr/jnr signings, the only ones Cox admitted to were Hippo and KDT.
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Topics: 11You said that Cox wasn’t allowed to sign players.
Isn’t silver spoon in charge of signing/identifying players? He shouldn’t be because he’s fucking atrocious at it! Daddy should put him in charge of the racehorses and not the donkeys he attracts!
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UTI – remember when Swann said Cox wanted Will Swann in and it was nothing to do with him, so as to deflect the clear nepotism. You may also remember Swann snr – on the radio – saying his son said these players are good enough to get us promotion. Even in your mind that doesn’t tally with Cox’s signings. They were Swann signings – maybe their agents will give a clue??
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Topics: 11Shouldn’t take you long with your club contacts, crack on
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Topics: 11My claim for what? Asking their agents who they dealt with? Or maybe recalling the radio interview. Come
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Topics: 11Yep and it cost us our ground because of ridiculous debt accrued by the guy chasing his dream with little or no business acumen being applied. The ” hobby man “, Mr Wharton, got us two promotions to the Championship and a cup final at Wembley and when he left he left us with manageable debt and our ground still owned by the club. Your man is an abysmal failure UTI, he promised loads and delivered nothing but debt, despair amongst the fanbase and a club lacking identity with its fans. Oh and you are an idiot BTW.
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‘We’ve had good seasons, we’ve had shit seasons, deal with it instead of crying like a baby.’
Bit more to it than that UTI99 but I don’t think you should ‘piss off’ as WG says. In the spirit of us all wanting what’s best for the club can we stop the slanging matches? I know I’m as guilty as anyone else on here for doing that before anyone points the finger.
There’s a world of difference in running an operating loss and pumping money into the infrastructure for the long term future of a club. Eventually it will pay dividends, as seen at Lincoln.
It’s what Swann should have invested his millions in when he first arrived. Improve facilities; improve supporter engagement; improve the long term sustainability rather than trying to massage his ego by chasing a championship dream that no reasonable Scunthorpe supporter would expect.
After all his millions, bluster and bullshit we are left with an ageing, tired looking stadium; basic training facilities, attendances at a 30 year low; and probably the worst football team ever assembled in our 72 years as a league team.
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You’ve already answered the question:
Improving training facilities; plus the installation of a fanzone within the ground. Their biggest improvement- which ironically is free- is their supporter engagement, hence the 6k crowds.Not bad for a less than a year at the helm, and a significant more than we’ve done in 9 years and £12 million wasted.
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£12m wasted? That’s just the loan.
There’s also been the best part of £8m in additional share issues since Swann arrived, and the profit and loss account has gone from £111,938 in the 2012 accounts (the last before share issues started) to -£19,565,559 in 2020 (the most recent available).
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I can’t believe that. After getting new owners I thought they’d be storming the league.
At least they have some nice food to keep the ‘customers’ happy.
I don’t expect us to be storming the league under any owner, Swann included. What I do expect from any owner is to be not lied to and at least one promise fulfilled, Oh! and a team with a bit of fight win, lose or draw!
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Generally in agreement, Pat. Not with the last sentence though…not on Saturday’s performance. Hill has instilled shedloads of fight into them. That’s why I didn’t enjoy the smattering of boos at the end (the cheers for Rory excepted) as one or two of the kids came towards the fans and pulled away crestfallen. Maybe the boos were for Swanny …but it was like the Alamo out there at times and yet they came within a missed penalty of a point despite there being virtually no quality on the pitch. I would say that fight was all we had really.
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