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Ironfan wrote:

Went downhill when Bob Steels retiref

Went downhill when people stopped paying for their news, same as the rest of the industry sadly. These days people don’t buy papers and don’t want to pay for new websites, so it’s not surprising that the quality drops. What is unforgiveable is the way the last government cut BBC funding forcing them to slash BBC local radio, something which is really important for communities & democracy. These days there is very little Humberside-specific reporting which is combined with a big drop in the number of journalists working in the region.

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Awaywego wrote:

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.

You mean apart from the answers I already gave you?

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ironfromafar wrote:

Chorley ..always decent n there or there abouts come April.
SS .. same as above and our seeming dislike for getting points in the NE
Kiddy .. dropped from NL and 3 wins to start the season conceding only 1 goal.
Curzon .. bit of a bogey side if i recall correct and aslo won all 3 games so far.

Whilst there’s very little chance of us winning all of them, you can equally say that none of those sides will be looking at our results so far and be looking forward to playing us.

Especially as there is still plenty more to come from this side, whether it’s getting Roberts more involved, introducing Carlton, and so on.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Looking at some of the footage from last season did think Ogle left his position on several occasions and we seemed to concede.

From what I saw, Ogle was very over-rated. Defensively suspect and his crossing was dreadful. His forward runs offered some threat but I never saw him as irreplaceable.

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Just Iron, Deereyme66

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Three games in, three games won, no goals conceded, but apparently it’s not good enough?

We used to have great fans but in the last 15-20 years they have become more & more entitled with ridiculously high expectations. Enjoy it, we’re started on the right track, it won’t always be this good.

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I do hope we’re not going to be like England fans and complain even when we’re winning because we’re not winning well enough.

Iron414 wrote:

Correct – predicted he would play the ugly, defensive and direct football we are now seeing.

Honestly, I don’t know what to say to nonsense like this. Did you even see a game played until one-plan Dean last season?

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TheJuryeffsOut

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Never been a better advert of the need for a proper regulator of the game in this country.

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open hearth iron, SODIron

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I’d expect another challenge like the one Marine posed. A well-organised, robust side who may well tire in the final 1/3rd of the match. I’d be tempted to leave Roberts out based on what I saw on Saturday, the match seemed to bypass him for long periods. I guess we have to be careful with Beestin too and now push him too hard given all his fitness challenges.

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WonderGoals wrote:

I suspect they’ll still want money out of us to report for us and we won’t pay it, which is quite right as I wouldn’t either.

Erm, I’m pretty sure it was the other way around.

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Bobby Grant is on a select list of Iron players who I actively disliked. Had a tremendous shot on him but unfortunately that was all he ever wanted to do rather than pass to teammates.

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Is that the land where some works were carried out towards the back end of the Swann era?

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If you want to sell a premium product, you have to ensure it’s premium, otherwise people will wonder what they’re paying for.

cassidystash wrote:

Surely a few free upgrades for the AA volunteer force wouldn’t be out of order.

Agree with this, there must be some scope for some “thank you” arrangements for those who have give their time & skills.

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Just Iron, Siderite

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CMC wrote:

Loves to have a go at fans, like Maw and Mahony, and his meltdowns. New Era, United we Stand… Not with these characters around.

Probably best just to ignore him. Often people who are like that have their problems and the internet doesn’t always help them.

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CMC wrote:

Also, is it time to remove Steve Hope’s services? He’s an embarassment to the club with his actions, month after month. The club have a professional photographer in Luke Broughton who does a great job.

In what way is he embarrassing the club? I seem to remember him being fairly strong on his pro-Hilton opinions a year ago.

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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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TheJuryeffsOut

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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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Siderite wrote:

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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Siderite

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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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