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I’m glad they made it. Well deserved.
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Leagues are continually being restructured, expanded, contracted… evolving.
Let’s deem it to be an organic body rather than an immovable mountain range.I opened in my first sentence with the distribution (locality) of the clubs and the amount of travelling.
Less miles is a cost saving for clubs and supporters alike.
If you look at whom we will be playing next season, you will see that there aren’t many local or even close games!
Gloucester 175 miles and a shade over 3 hours.
It’s hardly regional football at those distances.
Massive gap? You’ll have to do better than that!
Last season we were a L2 club – next season we are NLN.
Season after, we may be Northern Premier!The gap? Ha ha.
Yeah, like everyone has been breathing down Wrexham & County’s necks all season!
It’s not about fewer games.
It’s about saving money on travel costs and making it more affordable for fans and actually regional.Kapish?
No, I don’t capiche.
You would need to disrupt a lot of leagues across the whole country, at the same time, to implement what you suggest.
The arguement that we have dropped 2 leagues in 2 seasons does not support your argument. It supports mine. Can you imagine our current mob against League 2 teams?
In terms of travelling time, many of our supporters travel the length & breadth of the country to follow the team. Then there are people like me who live a long way from Scunny so appreciate less travel on occasion.
Yes, we might save some money but the competition would not be as strong – in all 3 areas that you would break it down in.
Thinking of stepping away from this cesspit but I will be back on D-DAY for my apologies. And there will be apologies.
There will be no apologies whatever happens, the few of us that called out Swann from day one never got an apology for all the abuse we got and the lies told about us.
From day 1. Right……..
So ApAp, you are planning on ruining the structure of a lot of leagues up and down the country to save playing 4 games.
Instead of 48 teams in 2 leagues you would have 66 teams in 3 leagues. Where do these teams come from? They would have to be regional (North, South, Central), so you would bugger up a lot of lower league structures. There would also be a massive gap between the top teams and the bottom teams as they could be 2, 3 or even 4 leagues apart at the moment.
All that disruption not to play 4 games? That’s what a squad is for.
Ilkeston Town?
you will see
If you know anything, share it.
Posting that you are ITK but not saying anything makes you look a bit of a prat.
Stupid & pointless post.
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I’ve held back in recent weeks but enough is enough!!!!
He doesn’t know what he’s doing and his total incompitence is making people question David Hilton when that doesn’t need to be the case.
My choice was Craig Elliot who Boston let go, now most Boston fans regret that!
He dropped down a league to manage Matlock town and had them in the play offs but Buxton (bottom 3 in the NLN) came calling for him and he’s won almost every game since taking them from the relegation zone to a play off place with one game to go… Take a look Jimmy because you’ve had more than enough games and we’ve got worse!!!!!!Even if it’s not Elliot it can not be Dean!!
He’s totally useless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!David Hilton… this man is causing you issues you don’t need… You messed up the appointment… admit that and move on because Dean isn’t the man for next season and he’s going to cost you a lot if you don’t move him on!!
Great post. I concur.
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Dean is not the answer. Another 10 games next season will leave whoever comes in a gigantic mountain to climb.
I really wish we could get some stability with a manager, but it ain’t gonna happen with Dean.
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The man has no idea.
There has been no improvement anywhere on the pitch.
We are poor and his substitutions make no difference – and often make it worse.
New manager for next season please.
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It is hard to be more clueless than Hilton, but Dean has achieved it.
If somebody cuts the piece of string outside Glanford Park, Dean will never get home…..
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Milton Keynes (new town, not the original village) was created by an Act of Parliament on 23rd January 1967.
Wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes in 2003… some 36 years later.
MK wasn’t a new town when Wimbledon moved there.
And… just like Wimbledon, weren’t we on the brink of going bust?
At the time Wimbledon were already playing their matches at Selhurst Park. Which for those who don’t already know, is Christal Palaces ground. Plough Lane had been left empty and abandoned…
Wimbledon played in Kingston for a good few years after Crystal Palace.
The Plough Lane site was built on long before they went to MK too.
I was, surprisingly, impressed with Hilton’s interview. Hopefully the next 12 months will show us how much he can really do.
Dean, on the other hand,fills me with woe & his outrageous interview yesterday only leads me to believe that he will not be long for these shores. Let’s hope he is gone before he causes too much trouble with the squad – Inc any newbies that come in close season (because he will undoubtedly still be here).
An appalling interview. Listening to that you wouldn’t believe that Jimmy Dean had anything to do with what went on out there.
This was not a one-off. We have seen it far too often recently.
The problem we have is that he is likely to stay. Do we expect the players to play for him? He’s thrown them under the bus and is likely to see a reaction – negative!!
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Rene Artois
I do not know other peoples financial status, but from experiences at Ilkeston and monies spent, with breathtaking improvements to the club and playing structures I think he has proved he is a winner… without doubt!
As for poor communication, we’ll its not is it?… replying, and responding to negative comments from a small percentage of fans, who you would not have heard a peep out of, if the team were likely to escape relaxation is not my idea of good communication.
As I said, let the doubters go to Ilkeston and ask independent fans about Mr Hiltons capability.. and not listen to keyboard warriors.You’re going off course here, probably on purpose.
There has been no response to reasonable questions which are nothing to do with team performance and nothing in regard to his plans for the club / ground / land.
This is a professional football club, regardless of the previous tenure teh fans expect and deserve to be properly communicated with. Not through Twitter.
What does properly communicated with mean? If not twitter, then what? Carrier pigeon, newspaper, email, meeting at Glandford Park, personal phone calls (mobile or landline?), town crier or smoke signals?
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We are getting further from survival by the minute!!
Wasn’t that Alf Tupper?
(For the over 70’s)The Victor if I remember correctly?
The same publication that I learnt to speak German 😆😆
Could this game be the turning point?
It does seem as if we have some fight in us…… at last.
We were level for 8 minutes…. .
Ferrite, City will hire the best 30 lawyers in the world and tie up the whole situation for the next 20 years.
I don’t think that any of the football authorities, either in England or Int’l, will have the wallet or the desire to fight them.
Sadly, it is too late to bolt the stable door. Not only has the horse bolted, it has covered at least 8 furlongs and is still out of control!!
… yesterday emulated our feat against Leyton Orient all those years ago! 2-0 down at Borussia Dortmund in the 89th minute, won 3-2!
I remember that game Bobby, I was driving home thinking we had lost 2-0, after leaving early.
I had a worse one than that though, after driving with my lads to watch the Notts Forest FA Cup match one Saturday after phoning their ticket office to order our tickets, arrived to find that they had not saved them. So with Scunny at Lincoln City that same afternoon, we called at Lincoln on our way back to Barton, and entering the ground about six minutes after kick off, the game was 2-0 after two early goals, I think to Lincoln. The score was still 2-0 with five minutes to go, so we went back to the car to avoid the traffic, there were two late goals and the score ended 2-2, so after driving all the way to Notingham, then to Lincoln and the Lincoln game, we had a full day but never saw any of the bloody goals, then back to Barton ha ha! Funny thing is that I nearly always still lerave when just a few minutes remaining in games.
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Those were the days RoamingBull, thats when Scunny used to play attacking football, five forwards whoever we were playing, also a great night when Scunny won 4-0 at Leeds, I think that Barrie Tomas scored all four goals, and I slipped full lenth climbing a steep muddy bank inside Elland Road.
At your age you should realise that leaving early is not a good idea.
I never leave until the final whistle has been blown. Even when we are getting hammered – and there have been a good few times, both home and away – I just can’t bring myself to leave.
Now have 3 grown up children who also stay to the bitter end!!
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As pointed out already, they are innocent until proven guilty.
What I want to know is why, in 2023, are they going back to 2009? Have they not checked them out since then or are they incompetent?
It’s not only City who should be getting chased. There are a number of clubs around Europe who need reviewing.
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Sticks to his word. Paid up and talking to players to bring in.
Have we stumbled upon a top chairman ?
Only yesterday you were asking if he was dodgy!!
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Good game and excellent atmosphere.
Feeney was really strong when he came on. Like him a lot.
Their no 6 was quality. Lanky bastard as well.
If we keep playing like that, and convert a few more chances, we have an outside chance of staying up.
Enjoyed the day.
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If everyone that has said they are going turns up we should be over the 4,000 mark.
My first 180 mile round trip for 4 years. I wonder why…….??
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I haven’t seen any “I told you so” posts, so probably not!!
You don’t know how banal it is until you’ve read it…..
What’s that your life story.
Don’t give up your day job (if you’ve got one).
Of course people are going to speculate.
We’re surrounded by tabloid journalism and reality television shows!
That doesn’t mean that you have to read/watch them.
It seems that everything is LCD these days.
And if any posters find it that boring, they are always welcome to stop reading it and reacting. It’s a forum, it’s normal practice.
You don’t know how banal it is until you’ve read it…..
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