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  • in reply to: Marine (H) #289757
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    No it’s a question to you..

    Why did he supposedly have one? What’s your reasonings?

    I can’t answer why he seemed to have an attitude. You’d have to ask him why he had one.

    But complaining about every decision that went against and not doing much work – worthwhile or otherwise – in the time up to his first goal… those things suggest he was mardy.

    Edited to add: I should say, for clarity, I really like Whitehall. He can just be an arse sometimes, and it looked that way for a while on Saturday.

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    Go on WG enlighten us all on how he was going to make money once liquidated.
    I suspect you wont you never do when challenged, your not alone though still waiting for Ferrite to name the other bidders when Hilton took over.
    The only joke is you thinking he could lol.

    I’d suggest, if she’d entertain the idea, going and talking to Michelle.

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    in reply to: FA warn Hilton #289746
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    Yet more paperwork he will file in his ‘DGAF / Got Away With It’ drawer.

    in reply to: Scunthorpe Telegraph #289720
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    I thought the Telegraph only covered Grimsby Town since they moved there

    As a publication it is not what it was. Ask Chris Sumpter or Paul Crute.

    Ask anyone.

    in reply to: Scunthorpe Telegraph #289711
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    The website must be absolutely the worst online user experience ever

    I suggest you go and take a look at other fan forums, this is light in comparison.

    I was, in a thread about the Telegraph, talking about the Telegraph.

    in reply to: Marine (H) #289698
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    Why did Whitehall have an attitude?

    How would I know why? That’s a question for Whitehall.

    If you think Clunan is a nothing captain then your judgement is shocking!

    Don’t be so ridiculous. He might do a lot of talking and a lot of pointing, but I’ve never seen any of the other players on the pitch acknowledge or respond. He lacks presence and authority.

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    Who cares?

    The website must be absolutely the worst online user experience ever. It seems to have been designed purely to grind your gears.

    in reply to: Marine (H) #289672
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    Drop Clunan??

    I counted one forward pass on Saturday. Everything else went back to the keeper, sideways or out of play.

    in reply to: Marine (H) #289664
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    Butler doesn’t see the introduction of subs as weakening the team (I suppose he has to say that really) But 5 subs gives a greater opportunity to take off somebody not influencing the game and replacing them with somebody that will. Fishburn, Brogan and Rowley have shown the ability to do that and it’s likely we can add Carlton to that list very soon. Good options off the bench for a change. (No offence to Evans & Kelly BTW but they have a different role to play)

    I don’t understand why Evans isn’t in the side from the off. Perhaps he’s been carrying a knock or working his way back to full fitness or something?

    in reply to: Marine (H) #289647
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    im not getting all the hype about the actual performance it wasnt that great,first half except the goal was dire improvement second half way better more dominant

    On the whole it was competent rather than inspiring. The second half was a big improvement over the first, once the substitutions had been made.

    Whitehall’s goal was a belter but he seemed to have an attitude problem up to that point.

    Clunan is a nothing captain, with little to no presence or authority. Is he good at doing the phone calls and collecting the subs for the snooker tournaments and golf days?

    in reply to: Marine (H) #289519
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    See their manager is called Neil Young, let’s hope we are all Rocking in the Free World after a thumping home win. 4-0 to the Iron

    After The Goal Rush etc etc

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    in reply to: Brackley prediction thread #289365
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    Brackley 2 – Scunthorpe 0

    Very happy to be wrong about yesterday – but it’s only one game.

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    Brackley 2 – Scunthorpe 0

    in reply to: is this the tories? #289133
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    In answer to the question you posed in the title of the thread. Yes it is. The Labour Party is the new brand of the Tory party, achieved by coup. The establishment and its money and agenda needed a party to operate after the last clown show let them down.

    in reply to: First First Team #289125
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    I think we’ll be competitive this season, not least because we should have a team of players who are a bit more used to playing at this level, and we’ll have a manager who’s got an ounce of footballing sense. Not saying we’ll win the league by any means, but I think we can look forward to the ride.

    From what I’ve seen in pre-season, I don’t expect promotion.

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    in reply to: Chesterfield #289111
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    i was always a meat pie n Bovril guy ..long before the days of pulled pork the like.

    It’s all very well serving that basic notion of football food – but I think we should be trying to raise the bar on it and get a bit of a name for ourselves for the effort and quality.

    If we’re doing hot dogs, it’s so unambitious to charge £4.00 (may even have been £4.50) for a sloppy tinned ‘eyelids and arseholes’ processed-to-f*ck sausage in a cheap (and unbuttered) bun with no onions and no ketchup anywhere to be found… Charge £6 or £6.50 for something special – a decent local sausage in some sort of quality bakery roll, with onions and really nice sauces.

    This means, of course, it’s essential to have absolutely the right person (capable, confident) in control of all this stuff. Smoking Goat did improve the food offer – but as he tried to speed up / simplify / cheapen the process, I have to say that very quickly the quality declined markedly.

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    in reply to: Chesterfield #289110
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    It has to be good enough to make fans walk past several food opportunities and buy at the AA.

    The hot dog on Saturday certainly was not.

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    Options appear limited to pies, sausage rolls, foot long Lincolnshire hot dog and a tinned hot dog

    Cheap tinned hotdogs are the devil’s own revenge on humanity.If our much vaunted catering manager considers these acceptable he’s in for a hard life on this side of the river

    Last night at the kiosk it was the cheap ones, plus staff flapping about not knowing what they were doing.

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    in reply to: Chesterfield #289022
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    On a non-footballing side note the catering was well wide of the mark tonight. Girl serving looked like she was going to go into cardiac arrest at half time and the food was taking far too long to get out. Might the incinerated goat rise like a phoenix from the ashes next season?

    The food was crap, as well. Basic hot dog – no onions, no ketchup available.

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    in reply to: The Butler Did it #288921
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    If you don’t know how can you say it was a ruse, like I’ve said before he put more money into the club than he took out, based on gate receipts wages tax bill etc, etc, don’t forget he to took over the club receiving no season ticket money,
    sponsorship or shirt sales as well so your financial driven doesn’t stand up.
    That leaves your actions of a mad man if that be the case we should thank him because without him and the time he bought for Michelle to step in we wouldn’t have a club because at the time there was no one else to step up to the plate, especially one of the current Co owners who had walked away.

    Wow.

    in reply to: Halifax #288885
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    We all see different things. Folks around me were agreeing that Beestin looked the fittest and sharpest anyone had ever seen him on Saturday.

    I like him, too – but I haven’t seen anyone that ungainly since Jason White.

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    i think its time for a change of captain so who would your regular club captain be for the coming season ?

    Evans.

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    in reply to: Halifax #288876
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    When they realise Clunan isn’t good enough,we should be ok.

    See also Beestin, lumbering about. Like watching a barrel of tarmac try to paint the Mona Lisa.

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    in reply to: Halifax #288860
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    IMO a long hard season awaits plenty of twists n turns for sure and its play offs at best.

    Exactly this – a long hard season ahead.

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    in reply to: Halifax #288857
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    How did you come to that conclusion ?

    Because (a couple of moments aside) we were dull to watch, we didn’t create that many chances and we allowed too many opposition chances to develop.

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    I didn’t see Whitehall out on the pitch warming up with the rest of the team before this game, so presumed he was left out and probably not even present. But he was definitely named amongst the substitutes during the announcements because I remember raising an eyebrow and thinking “Oh, he must be here then”.

    It wasn’t the greatest game. Despite a couple of quite nice moments it was a bit of a 1-0 bore draw, if you catch my drift. It’s saddening but on this evidence I really don’t expect us to do anything this season.

    in reply to: Scunthorpe 2.0 #287332
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    Totally lacking any real creative spark, imho. Imagine a solid passing team with an unpredictable lock-picker like Gascoigne who can ‘play it as he sees it’!

    in reply to: Scunthorpe 2.0 #287317
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    All the average fan knows is that we were crap. We don’t know why we were crap although we probably all have opinions. It’s surely the job of the players/manager/coaches to work out why and put it right. They’re paid well enough and that’s their only job.

    Not enough gung-ho!

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    in reply to: Car Parking #287156
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    Are you still allowed to park on Gunness straight?If not where can you park to get a prompt exit to Gunness or the M181 please?

    Do you mean on matchdays?

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    Anybody know Foden’s role last night because he didn’t seem to?

    Scapegoat, I think.