David Hilton

[knutsofiron]

Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

I said he owns everything; however, the stadium is under Scunthorpe United LTD and the land may be under a different company that Hilton own. A company that will look to develop the land for the club’s benefit as he stated.

Like I said, I may well have interpreted it wrong, but it was something I picked up on.

That is how I interpreted it too, Cliff.
If that is how it is, it boils down to whether we trust the new owner more than we did the former owner with that.
My view on that is that I’d rather the club be where it is now than where it was a week ago.
The longer term plan must be to develop much of the land around the ground (obviously with the acquiescence of the planning authority) and maybe the end game would be to relocate the ground (across the road?).

[Anonymous]

knutsofiron wrote:

The clearest message from that is that he thinks we are very over staffed off the field!

I’ve thought that for a number of years.

[Anonymous]

WonderGoals wrote:

At one point Swann employed a full time biscuit dunker !

The bearded one?

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Sanfran49

[Awaywego]

Whatever! The ground and land is no more ours than it was with Swann, just stop overthinking things, we’ve have still got a club and that’s all I was bothered about specially for the grandkids.

[Anonymous]

And unless it’s handed back for free, then it’s probably gone for good?

[Awaywego]

Oh we’re keeping it going, precisely what should be handed back for free or otherwise, people buy things then “THEY” own them it’s all quite simple really, so long as Hilton doesn’t come and try and tell me what to do with my land and property I won’t tell him what to do with is. But wish him well with any developments he does if it benefits the club.

[WonderGoals]

Hilton did mention he had plans drawn up already which hadn’t obviously gone through planning process yet. It will be interesting to see what he has in store. I’m guessing that project will include a new training facility.

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[64]

Until the cheques clear, its still all Swann’s

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Sanfran49, SST

[WonderGoals]

Is there something really dodgy about Hilton because I’ve been reading a lot cryptic posts about him ?. I hope not !

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Brassy sharman

[Anonymous]

So, the club owns… nowt.
Rinse, repeat?
Maybe not with Mr Hilton (?) but it doesn’t control its own destiny.
It is not the people of Scunthorpe’s club.
It is a real life FIFA 2023 for a wealthy man.

Small towns, with small clubs and small fan bases need to be community clubs.

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doris

[knutsofiron]

But remember this time last week we were looking at no club at all.

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bartonscorpion

[Iron-awe]

Conspire theories mean nothing, facts, numbers and deeds done are the realities of life, just keep supporting your club and give thanks it’s still operating and the Gambler has gone.

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bartonscorpion, BarnardFoxtonBarker.., Awaywego

[cassidystash]

knutsofiron wrote:

The clearest message from that is that he thinks we are very over staffed off the field!

First action to increase that by two seems strange then?

[Anonymous]

Brilliant.
Do it this Friday night.
Let’s have a full house!

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63741981.amp

[Anonymous]

cassidystash wrote:

knutsofiron wrote:

The clearest message from that is that he thinks we are very over staffed off the field!

First action to increase that by two seems strange then?

They need their wing man, crutch, marker picker upper, sound board.
And above all, a mate to talk to on the bus.

[ironfromafar]

Im guessing Hilton is quicker to sign up n add staff then he is to sack the ones he feels are surplus to requirements but it is coming as sure as eggs is eggs… there is areal urgency to get new bodies in in the slim chance of survival … then sort the wheat from the chaff… or the better chaff from the chaff

[Anonymous]

Iron-awe wrote:

Conspire theories mean nothing, facts, numbers and deeds done are the realities of life, just keep supporting your club and give thanks it’s still operating and the Gambler has gone.

It’s a 17 game season.
Let’s see what the stats tell us at the end of the mini season.
Let’s see how we perform.
Let’s see how the squad is strengthened.
Let’s see how many supporters and hopefully new fans attend games.
Let’s hope that pies & scoreboards are taken seriously.
UTI

[Anonymous]

T’internet suggests that Mr Hilton’s wealth is between $1m and $5m (£830,000 to £4.1m)

Is that enough cash to buy, restructure, develop and run a football club? Let alone to bring quality players in.

How much do you need to spend to get back to the EFL?

Stockport & Wrexham have thrown big money at it these last 2 seasons.

It’s going to take a lot more than $5m to get us back to the EFL.

[BarnardFoxtonBarker..]

The thing for me is it enough to get us out of NLN.

[Anonymous]

£7m in debt (SUFC) ?

https://www.checkfree.co.uk/Company/00123622/SCUNTHORPE-UNITED-FOOTBALL-CLUB-LIMITED/Company-Details/

[Anonymous]

Mr Hilton’s three incorporated companies:

Albany Land And Investments Ltd is listed at the official companies registry as Active Private Limited Company. The company was incorporated on Wednesday 16 November 2022, so this is a new company. Albany Land And Investments Ltd has been in business for 4 months.

Church Street Developments (Nottm) Ltd is listed at the official companies registry as Active Private Limited Company. The company was incorporated on Thursday 23 December 2021. Church Street Developments (Nottm) Ltd has been in business for 1 year and 2 months.

Ruddington Developments Ltd is listed at the official companies registry as Active Private Limited Company. The company was incorporated on Friday 11 November 2022, so this is a new company. Ruddington Developments Ltd has been in business for 4 months.

No financial data available on any of the three companies at this point.

Martin Carruthers is the second of two directors at Ruddington Developments Ltd.

Carruthers is currently the manager of Matlock Town.

The Gladiators currently sit in eighth place in the Northern Premier League, Premier Division.

https://www.checkfree.co.uk/Company/00123622/SCUNTHORPE-UNITED-FOOTBALL-CLUB-LIMITED/Company-Details/

[Richgy]

What are iron fans thoughts on him so far ?

Is the stadium sponsorship scheme a goer in terms of take up ?

[Richgy]

I dont expect many clubs are bankrolled in NLN so your attendances alone will put you up there alone surely? Given that the highest average att down there is 2k

[Richgy]

Anonymous wrote:

T’internet suggests that Mr Hilton’s wealth is between $1m and $5m (£830,000 to £4.1m)

Is that enough cash to buy, restructure, develop and run a football club? Let alone to bring quality players in.

How much do you need to spend to get back to the EFL?

Stockport & Wrexham have thrown big money at it these last 2 seasons.

It’s going to take a lot more than $5m to get us back to the EFL.

I dont know
Wrexham , County ,Chesterfield will surely get out and then it will be a more even league without teams throwing silly money at it (hopefully )

[Deereyme66]

I’d take Rene’s tendency to negativity with a pinch of salt rich.

[ironfromafar]

Richgy wrote:

What are iron fans thoughts on him so far ?

IMO … its still very fresh in my mind that Mr Hilton came in bought the club, got rid of Swan and immediately paid off its debts for these things alone he gets my thumbs up …however on the footballing side of things again IMO he was too hasty in appointing the new manger and a raft of signings in a gamble that hasnt paid off and doesnt look like it will. Some of the newbies have already gone others rarely feature and expecting a new manger to get a new group to gel in any sort of quick time was a tall order therefore i have sightly negative thoughts re how things have been managed that way.

With regard to the GP ground 1899 share scheme .. the jury is still out as it appears it was still listed as in the Coolsilk name unless that has changed recently.

Very sad what has happened at the club .. the county needs all its clubs to be in the EFL creating more local derbies but let the Cods with short memories on the fishy forum have their fun ..

SCUNNY WILL BE BACK

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BobbyGmeister, SODIron

[Anonymous]

Back to the NL or back to the EFL?

It doesn’t appear that Mr Hilton has the wealth to transform us in to the next Luton (4th in Championship – unbelievable), a Fleetwood, a Leyton etc.

I hope I’m proven wrong.

Non Scunthorpe United footballing friends are saying that we are entering the footballing equivalent of a nuclear winter!

[Deereyme66]

I’m surprised they know that much about our club and the next few years ahead. Most I know, haven’t a clue about our prospects.

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BobbyGmeister

[Brassy sharman]

Wondergoals, why are we apparently looking for a new training ground, the existyone is great, is it to build commercial premises on? How you get people to subscribe to a new share issue when allegedly the land belongs to someone else, what about existing shareholders, no mention of them,is there any proof anywhere the new chairman now actually owns all the land, I’m not so sure unless the new chairman would like to make a up to date statement on affairs currently, a bit of transparency goes a long way.

[Awaywego]

What’s it matter who owns the ground the football side of things has been taken over. Whoever is selling it by a membership offer is trying to ensure the town has a ground forever that’s got to be good, better than one person owning it.

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