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Dont apologise for the rant Ironawe. Its not a rant its pure facts. I agree with absolutely every statement you have made. In my oinion Swann is unfit to run any football league club and him and his family should do the decent thing and sell their shares and leave.
My husband and i have been supporters of our Club since 1958 and my father long before that. This is the worst team i have seen wear Scunthorpe United shirts and this in my opinion is the absolute worst this Club has been run in all that time. The only way it is being run now is into the ground by a Chairman and his family, who in my opinion havent the slightest idea regarding football on and off the pitch. Nor do they understand how to treat supporters with respect and value.
I cannot believe how our Club has gone so downhill since the departure of Steve Wharton, our previous Chairman, during his tenure we had great success with promotions and several trips to Wembley and many good cup-tie runs. When Peter Swann first came here he said Steve Wharton had run the Club as a hobby. Well yes he treated it as his hobby too and went to all home and away matches, always applauded the players off the pitch and his heart was in Scunthorpe United. But also he was a very shrude businessman and wouldnt have allowed us to have the debt hanging over our Club which we have now.
These are very worrying times for Scunthorpe United supporters who value our league status and it shouldnt be allowed for one family to destroy our Club.
When Peter Swann first came here he said Steve Wharton had run the Club as a hobby
That was one of the first statements that put me off Swann, I thought it was incredibly disrespectful to the previous owner given that, whatever you think of Wharton, he had just overseen the most successful few years in the club’s history. Whatever Peter Swann thought privately, and he may well have had good reasons to back up his comment, I don’t understand why he would put it on the record.
I very rarely post on this site now but given where things stand feel it is right to do so before Swann’s talk this evening.
I always backed Wharton while he was the owner and have been one of the few to back Swann 100% since he arrived. I will continue to back him but must say the following:
1. I feel completely let down by what’s happening at the club. The managerial merry-go-round has been a disaster and contributed enormously to where we are now, for which Swann has to accept 100% responsibility.
2. Swann cannot blame supporters for venting their feelings. I’ve disagreed with the moaners and groaners on numerous occasions but understand their frustrations completely — I feel them myself. Supporters deserve to know that Swann remains 100% committed to the club and will continue to provide the financial support necessary for it to survive, with the immediate priority to remain in the league.
3. We know that covid has changed everything and made financial planning extremely difficult but supporters deserve to know that Swann has a plan to turn the club’s fortunes around.
I’ve never agreed with those who knock the club in the past and I won’t be starting now. Finding problems is the easiest thing in the world — it’s solving them that’s difficult; and while I understand supporters’ feelings I also appreciate it won’t be easy for Swann, especially at the moment.
I do, therefore, remain 100% in support of the club and the owner. He needs to learn from past mistakes and do everything possible not to repeat them. In the meantime he must provide the resources necessary to get us out of the appalling situation we find ourselves in.
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Topics: 4Sounds out of his depth and clutching at straws. He signs a manager with no management experience, and approves his decision to hire Swann junior, who also has no experience, but ‘has a plan to get the club into the Championship’. Yet, he can’t put his finger on why performances have been so poor.
I’m sure he means well, but I really don’t think he’s able to see the error of his ways, and while he’s surrounded by ‘yes men’, nobody will tell him.
Should he go? Got to be careful what you wish for in these straitened times, as has often been said. Some would say it couldn’t get any worse, tho’.
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The hosts don’t help matters. I appreciate all the hard work Matt puts in with this site and the twitter page but he and the others could have made it a bit more challenging for him.
Some of those questions sent in were cracking….non got asked though. Time is an issue but even still, ask a few of the difficult one’s.
That’s the last one I’m wasting my time listening to.
Damp squib.
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