Up the Swanee

[IronIronIron]

Swann has ruined the Club, but let’s not make out that it was deliberate.

He wanted to be a big success. He wanted to appear in the Director’s box and have people chant his name. He wanted to be the Messiah.

Unfortunately for us, the supporters, he had no idea how to run a football club.

[Anonymous]

I’m guessing he derives more pleasure from his Cool Silk thoroughbreds?

You need 11 / 14 players to play well to win a game.

A big run from one of his horses and he’s won a Grade One.

[Northumbiron]

IronIronIron wrote:

He wanted to be the messiah.

But instead he’s just a very naughty boy!

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[Ironawe]

Bolton fans had a similar predicament, for them their corrupt owner took the money from the club from season ticket sales (according to their fans), could be that people are nervous around that, as Oldham fans are.

In order for the club to survive it has to be sold, that is out of the fans hands

[Anonymous]

Ironawe wrote:

…could be that people are nervous around that, as Oldham fans are.

I feel for Oldham fans.
Prem to National League in 27 years.
Founder members of the Premier League too.
The very best of luck to them!

[BobbyGmeister]

I don’t feel for Oldham fans, I feel sorry for our fans. Get a grip Stella…

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IRONINTHEBLOOD, open hearth iron, ironking, Lord Kitchener, North Lincolnshire Irons, Awaywego

[ironking]

Some good posts on this thread but there’s always one! Unfortunately on this site its always the same one.

So Peter, another week passes by with no news of any impending takeover or sure sign that you are prepared to invest into the future.

So how does this impasse end, we the supporters are like yourself Peter not parting with any cash or investing in the Iron and certainly in no mood to place our hard earned monies into the most uncertain of futures?.

Meanwhile the club remains in limbo with no clear direction or leadership, and all the best players and their agents cutting deals for the 2022/23 season meaning we will be scraping the bottom of the barrel again from the outside (as in emptied of the dregs and turned upside down).

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open hearth iron

[Deereyme66]

Posting for UTI99: ‘cutting your nose off to spite your face; acting like customers not supporters; business confidentiality, blah blah blah…’

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[mistertonmick]

Anonymous wrote:

Ironawe wrote:

…could be that people are nervous around that, as Oldham fans are.

I feel for Oldham fans.
Prem to National League in 27 years.
Founder members of the Premier League too.
The very best of luck to them!

I’ve only ever been to one Premier League game and that was Oldham v Everton, I was going to watch us at Chester but got held up at Haltwhistle for 90 minutes because of roadworks and traffic lights not in sync, Neil Pointon played for Oldham and Peter Beagrie played for Everton that day.

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ironking

[lesgeo]

Sorry to get a tad political but doesn’t all this rather smack of Lenin’s ‘useful idiots’ strategy?
(There are some who doubt the attribution of this idea to Vladimir Ilyich himself – but it is just so very Leninesque that I possess few doubts that this was indeed, his baby.)
He both scorned and valued those quarter wits who had so easily and naively fallen for all of his propaganda. They were incapable of grasping that it would either lead to their own destruction or to an end product which would be totally out of synch with their desired outcomes.

The old teacher in me feels the need to say: DISCUSS in the context of SUFC over recent years!

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[Deereyme66]

Putin has plenty of useful idiots globally, both on the left and the right (ahem). Who are you suggesting is the provocateur here? Peter or UTI99? Or both?

[lesgeo]

No suggestions – only questions.

[Iron-awe]

lesgeo wrote:

No suggestions – only questions.

Questions and answers honesty lies/ Sham 69 had a point? 😎

[SteveJobsworth]

mistertonmick wrote:

Renee.Artois wrote:

Ironawe wrote:

…could be that people are nervous around that, as Oldham fans are.

I feel for Oldham fans.
Prem to National League in 27 years.
Founder members of the Premier League too.
The very best of luck to them!

I’ve only ever been to one Premier League game and that was Oldham v Everton, I was going to watch us at Chester but got held up at Haltwhistle for 90 minutes because of roadworks and traffic lights not in sync, Neil Pointon played for Oldham and Peter Beagrie played for Everton that day.

Slightly off piste but the last two Premier League games me and Awaywego went to together we saw the first ever Premier League goal and Man Utd beat Ipswich 9-0, absolutely no bonus points for names of scorers in either.

UTI

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Awaywego

[TwoWrights]

SteveJobsworth wrote:

mistertonmick wrote:

Renee.Artois wrote:

Ironawe wrote:

…could be that people are nervous around that, as Oldham fans are.

I feel for Oldham fans.
Prem to National League in 27 years.
Founder members of the Premier League too.
The very best of luck to them!

I’ve only ever been to one Premier League game and that was Oldham v Everton, I was going to watch us at Chester but got held up at Haltwhistle for 90 minutes because of roadworks and traffic lights not in sync, Neil Pointon played for Oldham and Peter Beagrie played for Everton that day.

Slightly off piste but the last two Premier League games me and Awaywego went to together we saw the first ever Premier League goal and Man Utd beat Ipswich 9-0, absolutely no bonus points for names of scorers in either.

UTI

Closet Mancs eh? 🤭

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[Awaywego]

I saw Dennis Laws final league goal at old Trafford, and it wasn’t for United, plenty of pitch invasions that day, game never got finished but the result stood.

[Deereyme66]

Jobsworth and awaywego going to a match together?? Now that’s something I couldn’t have imagined reading.

[Northumbiron]

mistertonmick wrote:

I was going to watch us at Chester but got held up at Haltwhistle

That would be the six-fingered highwayman.

Halty has a lot in common with Summer Isle!

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ironking, TwoWrights

[ironking]

Any news on finding a buyer Peter or are you waiting for the season ticket cheap deal to end before you announce you are errrrrrrr actually going to stay and like Moses deliver us back to the promised land?

[Lord Kitchener]

Nah, Peter Swann will never part the ocean. He has enough trouble parting his hair!

[meth]

To be fair… our so called “run down” stadium will be one of the better ones in the league.

UTI

[Iron-awe]

Bet it’s filthy and the scoreboard still doesn’t work when the new season kicks off.

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

[mistertonmick]

Awaywego wrote:

I saw Dennis Laws final league goal at old Trafford, and it wasn’t for United, plenty of pitch invasions that day, game never got finished but the result stood.

and most importantly United got relegated.

[Awaywego]

Not that day they didn’t Mick. Bit of an urban myth.

[mistertonmick]

only because of other results the same day.

[ironking]

So what is happening Peter are you keeping the club or still selling.

What have you done with the season ticket money?

Are the consortiums real or a figment of your imagination?

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

[Awaywego]

Well unless you are calling our fan director and Turnbull liars I would imagine the consortiums are (were) real, and Turnbull did say the season ticket money was going into the player budget.

[lesgeo]

Somebody at the club told me – 6 or 7 years ago – that the ‘working’ parts are so ancient that they cannot be replaced when they fail.
New scoreboard or nothing.
(Nothing might be tidier.)

[Awaywego]

Big screen TV nowadays no need for a proper score board anymore.

[open hearth iron]

You mean like a lot of the ones on here watch there football on?

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