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MK Iron wrote:

Looked decent rather than spectacular in pre season. Played well when he came on second half at Brackley but has been fairly anonymous in his other outings.

I thought he looked good in the pre-season stuff I saw, but that hasn’t really transferred to league form at all.

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I along with IFA and many others were completely taken in and deceived by WHAM. Trying to see the best in people doesn’t always work out

Without wishing to sound The League Of Gentlemen about it, the first reaction to any owner with absolutely zero connection to the club’s town should be “What do they actually want?”

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ironingboard wrote:

I’m not sure if the signs ever came down or if they were robbed for posterity.

They were up until a couple of months ago.

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That ‘new stadium’ thing was a complete load of bollocks and the land was never bought. He may well have made some initial agreement with the owner of the land to buy which enabled him to put up the ‘acquired by SUFC’ signs at the actual site, or he may not. Either way it was just a very public chess move in David Hilton’s attempts to put pressure on an awkward Peter Swann to sell GP (and surrounding land) to him.

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64 wrote:

I thought the early releases were all only a few months ,not years left

It was reported on the news that the early release system will mean most prisoners serve about 40% of their sentence, rather than the current 50%.

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As for Mr Herbery out early so can fit more rioters in the jails possibly .. wasnt he banned for AAGP?

This is what I was wondering, too.

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Ironawe wrote:

What’s happened to Simon Elliot? Does he. No longer attend or just removed from his perch?

Listen to the laast Bru podcast interview with Michelle Harness.

She does seem to hint that he had a little cry and took his ball home.

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His best mate Simon Elliott not being around any more is a good start as it surely limits sympathetic ears within the club.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

If it is indeed him I’m sure the Matlock fans will be singing ‘there’s only one David Hilton’, tattooing his fizzog on their butt cheeks and offering anyone out (and worse) who has their doubts about him in no time. Stone Island and Nokia mobile sales will go through the roof

I hear Herbert’s out of clink soon, perhaps he can move to Matlock and do some Useful Idioting.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Wasn’t trying to alter your point just explaining why Glanford Park sounds so 1980s, if built in the 2010s it might have been sponsored by our current local authority and called the NL Arena, it doesn’t matter its not important most ground names are bland IMO.

Thanks for fansplaining.

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Agreed keep the money rolling in whatever they want to call it, it will always be GP to the Iron faithful, couldn’t give a toss what the press call it long as the Dosh rolls in, remember, no Dosh no club, that’s how it works.

Always been such a shite name though, Glanford Park. Very 1980s.

Could it be because it was built in the 1980s? Old Trafford, Anfield, both named after city districts both boring as hell but its tradition, sometimes tradition is boring thats what makes it so English.

None of that alters my point!

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Iron-awe wrote:

Agreed keep the money rolling in whatever they want to call it, it will always be GP to the Iron faithful, couldn’t give a toss what the press call it long as the Dosh rolls in, remember, no Dosh no club, that’s how it works.

Always been such a shite name though, Glanford Park. Very 1980s.

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TheJuryeffsOut wrote:

That works for me !
And in x years time, someone else will hopefully pay even more money to say it’s it’s something else.

Agreed. I, personally, would always have preferred the ground to be known as The New Showground… but completely understand the financial sense in pimping out the name.

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TheJuryeffsOut wrote:

Not sure what you’re getting at here Rene ?
Surely the naming rights is a commercial sponsorship arrangement between the sponsor Attis Insurance and the club Scunthorpe United. Unless you know that arrangement specified that the club will change its postal address and all club documentation, and repaint the “Glanford Park opened 1988 etc “ sign over the tunnel then I don’t see any issue with it fundamentally being Glanford Park on a document you have to search for and read.

Think of it as ‘the Attis Arena at Glanford Park’… The stadium is the Attis Arena and the whole area that the stadium sits on (incl. training pitches, car park, approach road etc) is Glanford Park?

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I get that you’re discussing something else – but I think it’s worth pointing out somewhere (in relation to 1.4 and 1.5) that there are some shocking seats in the family area. The ones on the family area side, right next to that area’s entrance tunnel. Due to the railing work at the top of the tunnel edge, the view of the away end is massively obstructed. If you happen to be a kid in the first couple of seats next to it then you stand little chance of seeing most of the game. Zero warning given in the club office at the time of sale of the tickets.

Rene Artois wrote:

“ 1.4 Warnings will be given in advance when selling seats with a restricted view of the pitch at Glanford Park.

1.5 Scunthorpe United will make an area of Glanford Park available for the exclusive use of family groups and junior supporters.

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Saw them live in their early days. Boring.

Having said that, the first two albums are good.

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64 wrote:

Have we lost our minds so much that this could even be said out loud?

Look, can as many of you oiks as possible please be ever so good and just die as soon as possible? Thanks!

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WonderGoals wrote:

To judge Shrimpton on that is ridiculous, he was only on the pitch for 5 minutes and were his first minutes of the season.

I didn’t judge him, I said what happened last night.

I hope he settles down and goes on to do well.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Nice to see Shrimpton get a short run out near the end last night, he’s got onto the bench now and I’d like to see him given more games in the future, I’m sure Andy will give him a run in the side at the appropriate time.

First touch was poor, second touch appalling! Didn’t really notice him ‘do’ anything much after that.

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Ferrite wrote:

Among all of the impressive aspects of Butler’s start to management is his use of the squad, not being afraid to change things up to cope with the schedule and keeping things fresh.

I don’t think it has always worked, or will, but 6 times out of 7 so far is not a bad return on the new style of using substitutions.

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wotnowbrncow wrote:

… one person in particular just seemed to like the sound of his own voice a bit too much which was enough for me to turn off …

He does have an air of being completely self-satisfied. So to speak.

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Siderite wrote:

Anything of interest, except for Max irritating Scarborough fans with his jibes at their club?

Just Scarborough fans?

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I’m sure they are all salt of the Earth sorts and so on and so on – but Max Bell is so grating.

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Only just found the time to listen to this latest Iron Bru podcast featuring Michelle, James and Lee.

I thought it was very interesting that Michelle made a point of saying there was no ill will on the club’s part towards former recent directors, and there shouldn’t be any on their part as they are supporters of the club.

Once again calling out or schooling a certain someone, imho.

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Dragoniron wrote:

Reading the match report on the official website, like the first two games, seems like it’s been generated by AI, some really strange use of words in there again

This is definitely happening. Chat Shit GPT.

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Competent Tories sorting out the mess left by incompetent Tories. That’s the reality of it.

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billpuntonsghost wrote:

..and the Marxists in power now don’t have an ideological agenda?

You don’t really think the current Labour Party is Marxist do you?

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Prediction for tonight: Difficult. Unknown quantity (to us). Pretty sure Butler and co. will have done their homework! NM 0 – SUFC 2

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Plenty of authority for me, funny how the manager seems to think so too.

No, it’s not funny.

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