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WonderGoals wrote:

No, he’s still gardening.

Amazing, I would have thought with his achievements he’d not have been short of offers.

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On the topic of our ex-manager, has this exciting young manager been snapped up by another club this summer?

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Jimmyball is dead. Long live Butlerball.

Yellow card, bans will follow for anyone using the manager name + ball formulation. Nearly as annoying as people who say “footy”.

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

I’m not sure Jimmy did him any favours last year positional wise and personally would prefer to see him more box-box.

Well there are plenty of people who fall under that category. What I have seen suggests he’s either unambitious or limited in possession, so it could be that Dean’s structure failed him.

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TwoWrights wrote:

Football on TV, shove it. Hull will only have three Saturday 3pm home kick offs between now and Christmas, well done Sky, not.

Quite right, the new TV deal for the Football League is a complete disgrace.

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Iron414 wrote:

The ‘we’re lucky to have a club’ card has been played often enough now and isn’t something we need to hear repeated in the upcoming season.

Disagree completely. This is the first season of the rebirth of our club – and we are still carrying a lot of the scars of the last few years. We’re still not the club we were, we don’t have the deep pockets of even the Wharton years and we are still in a rebuilding phase.

As for Clunan, I’m really not sure what he offers to the team, but in Butler we trust.

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

The above posts are about Asians supposedly gathering on Frodingham road. If you can link that to Scunthorpe’s first team then you might want to try the Kevin Bacon movie game.

If find AWG’s contributions tangential at best on all threads, so tend to just filter them out.

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Siderite

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

It’s a loose connection at best and nothing to do with Scunthorpe’s first team.

Loose connection as to whether or not the Scunthorpe first team’s game should or will go ahead?

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

Can we confine this shite to the Non football section? There’s enough disinformation on the internet this week to keep people entertained without it creeping onto a football board

I largely agree, although I think there’s a strong argument for this weekend’s football to be cancelled given the state of emergency across England & NI. Even at our level, it’s a lot of Police resource at a time when they’re vitally needed elsewhere to help protect people’s lives.

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MK Iron wrote:

Agree Ironawe. Debts now cleared or not quite cleared a club with almost 2,000 season ticket holders and likely in excess of 4,000 home crowds would expect play off places in the National League never mind NLN.

Important to remember that the club is still operating with at least one hand tied behind its back thanks to Messers Hilton & Swann. Remember the EFL Covid loan? So we definitely won’t be able to make the most of our financial advantage count just yet. And I reckon the owners got their fingers burned by some of Dean’s ridiculous signings towards the end of last season, when the club was already financially stretched thanks to all the signings of last summer, adding players that simply weren’t needed and some of whom never even played.

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.

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cassidystash wrote:

AWG not a fan of the Sharpe/Elliott combo.

Or facts!

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Awaywego wrote:

Must have slept through that Ferrite Siderite didn’t realize people were quing up to buy us, bids what bids Swann only wanted a £ for the club and whatever for the ground and Swanny was never going to move on that which we can all agree was fair enough,you cant rewrite history im afraid.

You may indeed have slept through it, not remember the Sharp-Elliott bid where they even made a downpayment?

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Highest bid that ultimately didn’t matter, because much of that was for the stadium and he pretty much immediately found excuses for that with the ‘ransom strip’ that was miraculously fixed easier than it was made out when Harness bought it. Almost as if it was an excuse by Hilton.

Quite. In very basic terms, the highest number isn’t always the best offer.

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“The company’s most recent accounts, published in December, show an operating loss of US$1.04 billion during 2022”

Blimey!

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£15 a month if you sign up for a year, £25/month if you just sign up month-to-month. Another laughably expensive TV subscription.

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Be interesting to know how much they’re paying, 7 years is a bloody long TV deal and DAZN have been reported to be making redundancies over the last year.

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I’m amazed that 64 isn’t raging about American “cookies” being marketed instead of “biscuits”.

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I didn’t realise they’d got rid of them, was that a Hilton or Swann “improvement”?

I haven’t bought a programme in decades, I don’t really see the point of them in the internet age, but I know they’re important to many people.

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ironfromafar wrote:

As for Hilton hes gone and for now i trust quote “enjoying his life away from football” though im sure hes harboring thoughts of where next to have a go next.

I’ll be surprised if he comes back to football again, I think he was genuinely taken back by the level of attention & scrutiny a club of our size brings with it.

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No idea, the fun* lies in finding out.

*fun not guaranteed.

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Awaywego wrote:

He paid the bills till obviously he said he would stop, just the same as Swanny.

Is that true?

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cassidystash wrote:

If any team at a realistic level need to match Fitz’s wages then they will probably not be looking to pay a fee. Would we let him go on a free to save the money?

Yes, I reckon transfer fees are pretty negligible at this level and I assume he’s only got a year left on his contract anyway.

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From what I have seen of Roberts, he’s clearly a good player, but in many ways he makes us quite easy to play against because he always cuts back into traffic. Teams that want to defend deep against us will be happy with that.

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Dragoniron wrote:

My source tells me they’re looking to save Fitz’s 2k a week. 5 players make up 50% of the wage bill, him being one!

The guy who left Chesterfield, a kick away from promotion to the Football League, to sign for Hilton’s Mercenaries? Aye, I reckon we should be looking at offers for him, tbh.

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64 wrote:

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

What’s not OK with it?

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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.

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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.

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BigLeftToe wrote:

It is a terrible idea, it’s very much a standard working day for many. Some people have a lot of Friday’s off, shall we start moving games to 3pm on a Friday too?

Yes, let’s take a perfectly reasonable decision, one which has been clearly explained by the club giving good reasons, and just make up something nonsensical.

Club statement: King’s Lynn Town encounter

FWIW, I’m self-employed so I don’t get paid days off at any point, not even bank holidays, but you won’t hear me being outraged about this.

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The Kidderminster game is an evening kick-off. Not my preference but not an outrageous decision.

A game on New Year’s Eve at 3pm is a good idea I reckon, lots of people are off work anyway, can use the game as the starting point of their NYE celebrations, rather than being dragged out of their beds on New Year’s Day. I agree that a bit of explanation of the thinking behind the change would be good but I don’t think it’s a terrible idea, personally.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Getting the scallys to behave is the tough one, wonder how many flare attacks will take place this coming season?

“Flare attacks”!

These videos are wonderful, it’s such a great feeling to feel proud of our club again.

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