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Topics: 59My guess is that Pre-season friendlies will take place at ‘our new HQ’ and that they will be ‘an unprecedented success’ and that ground sharing is financially beneficial to both clubs.
After that – merger?
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
A lot of truth in these old sayings!
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Aye, the ‘how do you eat an elephant?’ one you used on the other thread seems the most apt right now.
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lets just note ..
its quite possible you will get 2 away fixtures back to back with a home postponement due to bad weather or cup action so GP could realistically not a see a competitive game for a 3 weeks or even a month… the ground will just go to rack n ruin as will the local fan base ..
IMO this will just lead to the the desired end result of Ilkeston Iron …which in my book they can stick up their arse.
SUFC should stay in Scunny , shit training facility or not its be ok for how many years already yet now its deemed not fit for purpose as we drop lower down the football pyramid .. this move is the first move in the chess game i believe will come to fruition ending in a merger and Scunthorpe not having a club at all.
Yes ive slept on Hiltons words and even more so now im very skeptical as to his real divide n conquer motives..
Time will tell … lets suck it n see as mu old gran used to say!!
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Why do people think the end goal is to merge us with Ilkeston? What sense does that make? I agree we need to be sceptical, and I will only support a short term base at Ilkeston. However, I cannot see the sense in moving a club with more potential than Ilkeston to an area where they can’t get more support.
Wimbledon to Milton Keynes worked to some degree because London was saturated with clubs and Milton Keynes is a big place with fewer draws from the outside (not like that was right). Ilkeston has little pull in an area containing Derby, Notts Forest and County. Scunthorpe has more potential than that.
if i thought any move to Ilkeston was short term or temporary i would not be so vocal on the subject , alas once its happened i cant see it being reversed and more so the owner spending money on a training facility in Scunny just wont happen also after the current training location has been used for so many years it just strikes me strange that all of a sudden its deemed not fit for purpose was it not this pitch used for training during the clubs happier times ??
Whatever Hilton wants to do its his call but all this has put a dampener on the takeover and pissed on my chips whilst back in Blighty during next season.
Non of us have a crystal ball so lets wait see .. alas i do think this move will diminish local support and SUFC GP at some point in the future will be no more..
sad but only my opinion i hope im wrong.
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All of our training facilities have been fine previously and that is including when we were promoted to division one and also twice to the Championship. I think Hiltons motives are very questionable. Couldn’t believe the number of times he kept saying ILKESTON in his statement. We are not Ilkeston Town and do not wish to be, we are Scunthorpe United FC and I am sure most of our supporters do not wish to be connected to them. If he takes our Club away from our town he will lose a lot of the fan base. We are now feeling hesitant at renewing our season tickets and feel the club could be taken away from us.
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Totally agree on sleeping on it. But I don’t feel any different. What is the point in supporting this version of scunthorpe united?? It’s essentially Ilkeston FC now, playing for 90 minutes every other week in scunthorpe.
I have supported scunny for 40 years. But next season I’ll be supporting Brigg Town where I live. It will feel wrong supporting a black and white team, but at least I know its a community club.
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