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Did they have enough pies at half time?* :-)
*Honestly no malice meant here. This is meant to be a light hearted comment and I am not meaning it as a dig like Bucks used to do.
UTVI (up the vermin iron)!
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I didn’t have anything to eat at the ground but my lads did and both said in was top notch (one had a pie and one a burger, and both looked good quality). Clubhouse was clean and roomy with plenty of staff serving, decent beer and £11 for 4 drinks. That is how to make money over and above ticket sales. The Farmhouse, maccies and KFC get most of Scunthorpe fans money, which was always my point.
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Agreed. Good little venue to watch a game and the facilities were excellent. The pitch must be one of the best artificial surfaces around.
It’s embarrassing that both Winterton and Ilkeston have better clubhouses than the iron bar.
Good performance on the pitch too- looked more comfortable playing 4-2-3-1; Whitehall, Denton and Scales impressing
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I don’t know who owns the Ilkeston ground but according to supporters it was in a poor state and the club had significant debts when Hilton stepped in to rescue them. Their words not mine. They became debt free, improved the ground, installed a top end 4g pitch and managed a couple of promotions under his ownership of the club.
Same again please Mr Hilton – except the 4g pitch needs to be at a training facility if we are to return to the EFL.
The Ilkeston folk don’t seem to mind that he changed his name or briefly worked as a debt collector.
There is a genuine and obvious warmth from their fans towards their previous owner. Mind you if our previous owner was to visit us many fans would like to shake him warmly by the throat.
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Hi MK Iron
It was a pleasure to meet you and awaywego Saturday.
Just wished we had more time to socialise, trade our football life stories and basically enjoy a bite to eat and a few drinks.
I did of course realise you both were aware that it was not so easy with how busy it was, however I intend to come to some of Scunnys games when possible (possibly mid week evening match)… and we can meet again and have some social time swapping experiences, and considering we are of the same generation it should be an interesting exchange… that’s how I found the situation to be when mixing with Scunny supporter’s at the games I have attended, I would also like to meet pat’o’cake who posts on here, his posts are very good and think he would be good company as well
I will get us one of the boxes in the stand to watch the game if you 3(pat o cake included if he wants?) and the young lad fancy it?…. that way we can have a few beers, dine out and down watch the game at the same time…but of course I understand if you want to stay in your season ticket stands.
I am quite pleased at the many pleasant comments from an awful lot of fans who enjoyed their visit to Ilkeston across this and other forums, that is how football fans should interact before and after the game, but of course sworn enemies for the 90 mins in between, we at Ilkeston realise we are a small club and Scunthorpe are far bigger, so it our pleasure to host clubs like yourself as we did Saturday, there was a lot of banter between the supporters not only at my outlets but at the bar as well…. all good natured and not one unpleasant incident all day….. that’s nice to see.Executive boxes supposed to have sold out for the season Pat unless you know someone who’s got one, but a meet up for sure then I can get you a drink.
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Hi awaywego and MK Iron.
(Said in fun) I know someone who has got all the boxes so think it won’t be a problem.. maybe if they are all full we can have the boardroom.
(Confident there won’t be a problem)
I will go through your fixtures later and see how they correspond with Ilkestons midweek fixtures and maybe find a suitable match?
Our fixtures throw up us at Whitby new years day, missus was not pleased about, but is now, as week have booked in a hotel for 3 days new year at whitby, she is not interested in football but is a champions league standard shopper so she is going to give Whitby a bash…me, I just hope the shops are shut!Bystander stick to publicly proven facts,White Hilton as fas as Bru can ascertain are the only names we know of.Anything else can be libel if untrue
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Strange how IB’s post got wiped, given some on Facebook claim the runners of this site (admins/mods) have an anti-Hilton agenda. This is not an argument against removing posts which may cause issues with libel, but just an observation about the claims against this site and those who run it.
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Siderite
Your name changed because of predictive text, and I did not read before sending.. so sorry my fault for not checking.
I think you maybe are reading my texts as they are sent?, mainly because written words have little or no inflection?
I do respect you, and you are very welcome to yout opinions, they are not offensive in any way, even if I don’t agree with them all.
You have stated you do not get to so many matches and sometimes because of finances, that’s fine (and honest as well, not so many people would say that)
You are welcome to come as my guest to the next Scunthorpe match I attend, I will buy your ticket and pay your taxi there and back, and we can discuss our disagreements in a friendly manner and hopefully put them to bed…and if we don’t I will shake your hand and wish you well… up to you, I keep my word with everything.
Ps I am not so tech savvy and would have sent this as a private message if it was possible… I don’t know?… some sites you can
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