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Never mind this rubbish about the importance of being in management or having an insider’s overview in order to talk sense about the state of the club.
On the contrary, it’s often an advantage to be on the outside because supporters are less likely to be swayed by groupthink or dogma.
Most fans have seen for many years that things aren’t right, that the club’s going from bad to worse with defeat after defeat and rubbish football, yet the board have continued in their own way, unswayed by public opinion, each member appointed to sing the song Swann wanted to hear.
That’s where the club has gone wrong, and look what’s happened. It’s like a plane on an increasingly unsalvageable crash course, while the crew look up and admire the sky.
No, it would be wrong to dismiss the views of those on the outside. Those without a stake are often the sanest and most clear-sighted ones around.3 users thanked author for this post.
For once I largely agree with you, Gurny, though I do understand Les’s point. Football supporters aren’t always the most rational when talking about their club and in my case I’ve always supported the owner as much as possible, regardless of who it might be, because supporters are notorious in blaming them for everything. Clearly I was wrong in Swann’s case.
In my defence I couldn’t see how anyone could possibly take a club doing well at the top of the third tier and plunge it to the depths of non-league, with or without a pandemic. Yet Swann’s managed to do it. I don’t know if there are any stats on the worst football club owners of all time, but given what’s happened at SUFC it’s hard to believe Swann wouldn’t be up there with the worst of them.
Regarding him selling the club, I must confess that I’ve no idea what the latest might be as my interest has been sapped by our predicament over the last few months. Something that should be borne in mind, however, is that just as the sale of any business has to take account of ‘goodwill’, surely the price of SUFC should take account of the ‘badwill’ (or negative goodwill) generated by Swann; and, let’s face it, there’s plenty of that around, to say nothing of our dire league position.
Regardless of any hard assets, the future of the club is now bleak and IF Swann has any conscience he’ll take this into account and offer the club for a reasonable price. But I’m not holding my breath. What a total and utter disaster this man has been.
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Don’t expect conscience from the Prawn, businessman, money will be his God, nothing else will relate.
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Unfair when you don’t know what was in the post. Maybe prudence rather than censorship?
Dear Prudence eh, never did want to come out to play.
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I am sure that is the motive, though I hadn’t made any accusations. I just said that he’s up there with other owners deemed poor (with non-sweary nicknames for these).
Anyway, I realise that running this site brings such risk, so I don’t want to make anything more of it.
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Nice to see you’ve thrown your principles and morals away Alcy and grace us with your presence again , have you thought of mending those fences with the club and Swanny. Did Swanny ever censor you?. Maybe some humble pie wouldn’t go amiss lol.
No he just f***ed our club up. ( took the liberty of pre-empting you alcy, apologies )
Non-footy’s back, Heath. If you click the forum button at the top you should be able to see the section.
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Non-footy’s back, Heath. If you click the forum button at the top you should be able to see the section.
Aha!
My “Right wing video posting finger” is already twitching.I’ll be watching you libtards.😉
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Who thinks Swann is a coward? He resigns as Chairman, but that’s made no difference to the disastrous situation to which he has taken our Scunthorpe United. He puts Lee Turbull in there as Chief Operating Officer, in name only, and allows a fans director on the board, Neil Wright, who has no say or knowledge whatsoever as to what the present situation is or what Swanns future intentions are. So Swann disappears, the invisible man, and leaves everyone else to take the flak.
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