Cods forum vs this one.

[alcazar]

Had a look in to see what they are saying about us.

Breath of fresh air: they disagree without insulting one another, and little nastiness amongst them.
Go take a look and learn how it’s done.

[Iron-awe]

You should read it more often, like a pack of dogs most of the time, stop fooling yourself.

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[Deereyme66]

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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BobbyGmeister

[Anonymous]

Was their defeat to Bromley today Fentys fault or their new owners?

[Ironfan]

No really bothered about the cods. Ours was entirely due to our current owners

[Lee1424]

They played well today by all accounts, although they are wanting Hurst out now

[Anonymous]

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.

[mistertonmick]

They may have lost today but they are not losing every week and not scoring any goals.

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[cassidystash]

Anonymous wrote:

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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[Anonymous]

Ah right so Cox didn’t sign Billson, Millen, Davis, Thompson, Kenyon, Scrimshaw, Wood, Hackney?

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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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[cassidystash]

Anonymous wrote:

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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alcazar

[Anonymous]

You said that Cox wasn’t allowed to sign players.

[SteveJobsworth]

Anonymous wrote:

You 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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[Ironawe]

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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North Lincolnshire Irons

[Anonymous]

Where have you seen who represents Millen, Davis and Kenyon? I’d be interested to have a look.

[Ironawe]

Shouldn’t take you long with your club contacts, crack on

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North Lincolnshire Irons

[Anonymous]

No contacts, so would appreciate you backing up your claim?

[Ironawe]

My claim for what? Asking their agents who they dealt with? Or maybe recalling the radio interview. Come
on Mr Low Bar expand

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alcazar, North Lincolnshire Irons

[Anonymous]

‘Customers’ like you are the disgrace. Turning on your own team because results aren’t going the way you want.

We’ve had good seasons, we’ve had shit seasons, deal with it instead of crying like a baby.

[Iron-awe]

Yep 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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[Deereyme66]

‘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.

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[Awaywego]

5800 against Bromley and they are still running at a significant loss according to their owner,yes they are investing time and money in the foundations of the club it is called Debt same as any other club, but if they can’t break even with 6000 crowds their foundations are on more doggy ground than ours, as for Wharton he left us with a manageable debt of £4 million and was prepared to put us into liquidation if a buyer was not forthcoming.

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

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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[Awaywego]

Didn’t Swanny do the same purchasing the training ground next to the stadium for the team how many teams have a location like ours now, for all of Stockwoods comment’s all Grimsby have done at the moment is improve facilities at their training ground which is 8 miles away from the ground, a new training ground announcement was imminent in October, still no news and the latest statament says we’re in no rush. What infrastructure have they put in place Cliff?.

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

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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[SouthYorksIron]

£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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alcazar

[mimmaGTFC]

The one thing our new owners don’t do, is make false promises. After years of neglect by Fenty the ground is in need of lot of TLC. They have improved the match day experience, including the food and drinks served in the ground. They want to bring the training ground into town, and open it up for public use, seven days a week. It is going to be a comunity center when it is finished.

What they won’t do is put us in hock to the tune of millions chasing the inpossible dream, unlike some club owners I could think of. That is why it will take time, the list is long, money is tight.

See you all next season, if you think the refs are bad in the 2nd div, wait untill you see the refs in this league!

[Pat O’Cake]

Anonymous wrote:

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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[Just Iron]

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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