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its been ok for years of success
I was under the impression we trained at Grove Wharf during the successful years? The move to the side of the motorway coincided, with the clubs implosion and tumble down the leagues?
We trained on Wharton’s land and in the rat infested shed whilst we were in the Championship, but let’s not forget we had two years at the top of league one using the current facility.
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I was not aware training was at Grove Wharf on a regular basis
Even with the club in such a shit state all this talk about the importance of training does make me chortle.
Sub standard players, inexperienced youngsters and more worrying way too many at the club on loan who dont give a toss and zero pride wearing the shirt as means little to them other than a wage packet.
This bunch could be given the England training set up and throw in Pep Guardiola and would it make an haypeth ov difference due to level of talent they seem to have (see polishing a turd thread) ..yet now after relegation training is of such importance it needs to be moved.
opening phase of a chess game .. and im willing to bet given the option or a vote a very high percentage of Scunny fans would not want this to happen and for the club in its entirety to remain in the town and local community…
IMO over time a few months maybe a year general interest and the fan base will just dwindle to the point where the club will just be a non entity.
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We trained on Wharton’s land and in the rat infested shed whilst we were in the Championship, but let’s not forget we had two years at the top of league one using the current facility.
Exactly ..DH words re the current training facility being unfit for purpose hold little water when its been fine for so many years and possibly way better than many other clubs in and around the same level NL / NLN
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Topics: 59Did I miss the part of the interview where Hilton said he is moving us from playing somewhere we can pull in 3,000 crowds despite 5 years of shite to somewhere where their own towns team pull in 700?
If Hilton thought he could sustain a National League or higher team at Ilkeston he wouldn’t have tried to buy Bury or SUFC.
Unless of course he is an even bigger idiot than his predecessor. Which is very hard to believe.
It would have been much cheaper to fund Ilkeston a couple of promotions than to buy our club and still have to fund a couple of promotions.
It’s a personal opinion but as a supporter I don’t give a toss where the team train. According to our last half dozen managers we have been great at training but sh1te in matches. I would like like us to become better at the bit I pay to watch. Never been to watch training in my near 60 years of watching the Iron.
For balance the thing that does concern me about Mr Hilton is that (if true) then letting people know they are losing their jobs via the media rather than face to face is an absolute disgrace.
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Topics: 59I get the stadium tour thing at Wembley, Camp Nou, San Siro etc.
Glanford Park not so much.
How many other tier 6 clubs sustain either a full time restaurant or shop?
Hard though it is we need to start accepting the reality of what has been done to our football club and all of the unpleasant consequences that go with it.
Let’s try not to forget where the responsibility for the demise of the club belongs.
And it’s not David Hilton or Jimmy Dean.
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Topics: 59Who is going to ask for a refund because their advertising board wont be seen due to a lack of stadium tours at GP? Or training days whatever they are.
If anything the club should be charging more because we are getting nearly an extra 1,000 punters through the door on a Saturday now Swann has gone.
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As long as Hilton buys the surrounding land and the rest of the assets by may 24th or whenever it is and puts forward clear plans as to a estimated time scale of when this training facility will be built then I won’t have a problem.
What I don’t want us to do is move train in Ilkeston and then for Hilton not to put plans forward and have any urgency to build a training facility locally. I hope this move to train over there is a just a stop gap and doesn’t become a permanent fixture.
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Topics: 59Mr D Hilton White Swann or whatever he’s calling himself today needs to realise we are Scunthorpe United and not or want to be Ilkeston Iron/Scunthorpe and Ilkeston Sports. The clue is in the name Scunthorpe United not Scunthorpe Divided.
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And the only ones causing the division are?
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At least Swann put millions in to try and get you to the promised land before taking the stadium and land hiltons telling you he’s taking the land first
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