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I have no idea what if anything has gone on behind the scenes, but the club is in good hands with the four shareholding directors whom I fully support.
For the record Simon built up a relationship with WHAM to try to limit the damage inflicted on our beloved club.
He worked behind the scenes with a lot of other people to resurrect our club and spent a lot of time and effort doing so.
I hope that Simon has not left the board on bad terms and is still a major player in the fortunes of Scunthorpe United FC in the future.
The club is in a totally better place than it was under Ernest or WHAM but there is still a long way to go before the club can return to League football and we need people like Simon around to make that happen.
I will point to the global companies who have sponsored us due to Simon’s connections primarily in the motor industry as one positive example.
This whole post reads like a statement from Simon.
That was first impression when i read the post Apollo.
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Badapple is a better speller.
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Don’t know Simon, never met him, never spoken to him but there is substance in ironking’s post above IMO.
Tend to agree with this. He did add value in terms of sponsorships he brought in and events like the Kevin Keegan evening he organised. Was it enough to warrant a seat on the board? Well that’s Michelle’s decision but I personally don’t see why he gets so much stick. He’s contributed with his money and his time, to the survival of our club, let’s not forget that!
My own feeling on this is that Simon probably did have something to offer regarding sponsorship links. However, the shareholders have been split among those who contributed the most financially. If Simon has been disgruntled because he isn’t a big wig, he needs to get his ego checked. I remember when that news article didn’t include him among the saviours, until hours later when he was included. I wonder if that was him with some angry phone calls.
I do feel like he has an ego. Photos with Jimmy at the operation and being at Hilton’s side when Hilton needed some credibility. The problem with Simon and Hilton was that he opposed anyone who dared call out Hilton at the time, which goes against this portrayal of him as tirelessly working to save the club (people were citing Simon’s say so for why they trusted that Hilton had the funds). Compared to Michelle, Roj and Sharp his contributions seem to have been minimal. A streamlined board will serve us better than Simon, if he did kick up a fuss about shares. I don’t think his advantages with bringing in sponsors from Volkswagen or BMW outweigh him being a potential trouble causer because he wants his name in lights.
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Lol, Bad Apple?! And he accuses others of being idiotic and ‘on crack’.
If anybody knew Badapple then you wouldn’t be stupid enough just to think he would leave the forum and not have other accounts he posts on. Badapple had a track record of such behaviour.
It wouldn’t even surprise me if he currently had more than one.
If believing that’Bad Apple’ and ‘awaywego’ are the same person makes you happy, who am I to deny it? Fill your boots.
WG’s biggest mistake was coming off the valium.
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WG’s biggest mistake was coming off the valium.
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Haha! Reading some of WG’s comments I think he’s been hitting the hard stuff… he’s away with the fairies!
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I knew it would attract some negative comments by posting an alternative view but I have never been afraid to hold my own opinion even if it does ebb against the tide.
Unfortunately an alternative opinion usually results in being accused of having an ‘agenda’ or being WHAM! Or in your case IronKing… being Simon Elliott. It can’t possibly be that you just have an opinion different to others!
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