The Butler Did it

[64]

Club statement: King’s Lynn Town encounter

Pathetic,if you can’t go it’s tough because others can or might, “Please paint our stands ,offices etc”

[Ferrite]

I cannot for the life of me understand why you’re so outraged about this. To claim December 31st is a normal working day simply isn’t true. Many people may work, plenty of others don’t. I reckon it’ll be a success.

[64]

It is for many mate, certainly in my industry and steelworkers.Not all industries have stop periods.Shops in town all will be open. Warehouses to supply shops are now a big part of our local.economy they don’t have stop periods.

[64]

I’m less incensed by the date change,I’ll just not go.Its the bit about others can go instead that seemed a bit”screw you”

[Ferrite]

64 wrote:

It is for many mate, certainly in my industry and steelworkers.Not all industries have stop periods.Shops in town all will be open. Warehouses to supply shops are now a big part of our local.economy they don’t have stop periods.

Sure, I appreciate many people will be *able* to go to work but equally plenty of folk will be on annual leave anyway.

I always used to work that period when I had a proper job because you could get more done and people with kids wanted the time off. But in general if you want time off in the Christmas-New Year “perineum” I reckon you’ll probably be able to get it.

[64]

Many will on holiday but many will be precluded,not sure how it effects out of towners on such a night .

[Northumbiron]

Of course no one is at work at 3:00pm on a Saturday are they?

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Ex Officio

[64]

“Scunthorpe United is aware that the change of fixture may impact in some supporters not being able to attend the game, but equally the change will allow some supporters, who weren’t able to attend on New Year’s Day, to now be able to come to the game.”
Somebody wrote that and thought it OK,
No mention of season ticket holders

[Ferrite]

64 wrote:

Somebody wrote that and thought it OK,
No mention of season ticket holders

What’s not OK with it?

[Iron-awe]

Surely some steelworkers work on New Years Day aswell?, or do they turn the furnaces off New Years Eve and relight them with a box of matches on January the 2nd.

[Siderite]

The lack of a chancing egoist or conning shyster has left some people bored and now mountains are made from molehills.

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[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

Iron-awe wrote:

Surely some steelworkers work on New Years Day aswell?, or do they turn the furnaces off New Years Eve and relight them with a box of matches on January the 2nd.

Good number will be off for stop period anyhow. I can’t work out if the outrage is a wind up or not ?

[ironfromafar]

[64]

The chat and mood music coming from inside GP since the announcement was that it was a purely football related matter, I’ll go out on a limb and say that the rest of the statement was reverse engineered after the fact.
The bit about people those not able to go being easily replaced stinks by any standards ,no body in their right mind would ever send out such a message to fans who’ve done so much to get this club back on it’s feet.
The begging bowl is full right now and it may not get filled again so easily. But then again if we can’t refill it someone else will ?
I was not” outraged” as some dismissively claim by the moving of the fixture, I did find it odd. I found the club’s handling of it and statement insulting

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Awaywego

[WonderGoals]

Sounded plausible to me about policing costs and the extra days rest for the players.

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cassidystash

[64]

it was supposed to sound plausible ,I don’t believe it was ever a consideration

[cassidystash]

Me too WG, but it seems we’re easily pleased looking at other posts.

[BigLeftToe]

The only people happy with this decision are either retired, on the doll, or don’t work the standard Monday – Friday like the majority of the UK.

[Iron-awe]

BigLeftToe wrote:

The only people happy with this decision are either retired, on the doll, or don’t work the standard Monday – Friday like the majority of the UK.

On the doll! Think Awaywego might have one of those, he’s always wanting to borrow a bike pump anyway.

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TwoWrights

[TwoWrights]

Iron-awe wrote:

BigLeftToe wrote:

The only people happy with this decision are either retired, on the doll, or don’t work the standard Monday – Friday like the majority of the UK.

On the doll! Think Awaywego might have one of those, he’s always wanting to borrow a bike pump anyway.

Did it go down on him ?

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Awaywego

[BigLeftToe]

DOLE (doh!)…too late for a crafty edit!

[Ironawe]

Probably raised eyebrows because of the uniqueness of it – I cannot remember shifting a game to a workday afternoon before. If it is purely financial then that’s the pond we’re swimming in I guess. I do agree about the ‘it gives other people a chance to go’ a bit insulting because it was just added to give themselves some gratification/justification for a strange decision. They should’ve done 12pm kick off and offer a lunchtime ticket for those who can pop out for lunch and catch a half of football.

[MK Iron]

Last time probably Newcastle cup replay during the miners strike so no floodlights allowed. 1973 I think. Got disciplined by British Steel for skipping college that afternoon.

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Awaywego

[Ironawe]

A year before I was born MK but kudos to you for getting down to the ground, hopefully it was better than the afternoon shift

[CMC]

64 wrote:

The bit about people those not able to go being easily replaced stinks by any standards ,no body in their right mind would ever send out such a message to fans who’ve done so much to get this club back on it’s feet.
The begging bowl is full right now and it may not get filled again so easily. But then again if we can’t refill it someone else will ?

All clubs think like this, i’ve not been at a home game for 3 years but ive never had a message or email from the club saying “Dear C****, we’ve not seen you at GP for some time, why aren’t you here? how can we get you back”

Clubs go on about loyalty but when it comes to making the effort they often shy away.

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Awaywego

[Iron-awe]

TwoWrights wrote:

Iron-awe wrote:

BigLeftToe wrote:

The only people happy with this decision are either retired, on the doll, or don’t work the standard Monday – Friday like the majority of the UK.

On the doll! Think Awaywego might have one of those, he’s always wanting to borrow a bike pump anyway.

Did it go down on him ?

Think he puts a plaster on it’s butt then for some reason it soon gets pricked again

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TwoWrights, Awaywego

[Iron-awe]

BigLeftToe wrote:

DOLE (doh!)…too late for a crafty edit!

Not at all it was a perfectly legitimate mistake don’t knock yourself ( up ) about it.

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TwoWrights

[64]

Dole? There plenty of white collar workers who follow the Iron and some businesses still have a stop period,to suggest it’s “doleys” is a pathetic slur and untrue
I believe the financial part is just added noise and typical of the attitude below Michelle.
As for possibly the only full time pro club in the league running scared of fixture congestion against a bunch of taxi drivers etc ,don’t make me laugh.This should be when the professionalism of theclub should shine.

[Ironawe]

One thing I know is it will be as annoying as hell when we play for a draw with 5 at the back – at the away games despite the
‘Giving the best chance of maximising points’

[Iron-awe]

Of course that’s why they changed the fixture, all those taxi drivers will be flat out New Years Eve, Lynn will have half their team missing, should be an easy home win.

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