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Has to be on a minimum wage equivalent. Grafter as a cheap extra body on the staff?

Butterfield’s salary is what worries me – it’s rarely mentioned. Wouldn’t be surprised if we couldn’t have six+ very decent NLN standard players for his salary.
How did we get a Championship player to come? – I’ve never understood that. At worst – could have gone into League One.

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Beestin – the new Hallam?
Sorry but, for me, Shields is another from the Beestin school of ‘how to show flashes of excellence approximately once every twenty minutes or so.’

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North Lincolnshire Irons, cassidystash

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Actually, MFI, our players are not quite as good as those who play for Man City, Liverpool and Barcelona.
But it is an easy mistake to make.

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Just Iron

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As with so many recent Scunthorpe managers – we have a man in charge tasked with doing the impossible.
I agree. He can’t do it. He’s tried just about everything you could try and none has worked. They haven’t even looked as though they might.
He has a certain pedigree – whether that will be enough only time will tell.
If given a possible task, then – and only then – can we judge his success level.

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The patients were spared the worst – these last two seasons!

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Hospital Radio closed down commentaries.

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It’s the players – the only common denominator.

My biggest worry for next season is how many are still under contract.
Getting rid of contracted players isn’t easy.

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Way ahead at the top of the division and a sudden change from successful tactics to ones which were unrecognisable.
Something caused that. I have no idea what – but it was surely the turning point.

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I wrote a week or two ago of the problems we face when CM is absent – no supply to forwards and impossible pressure on the defence.
I honestly believe that we have a back four good enough for the NL but that they have four, five, six times more defending to do than a side with a proper midfield in front of them.
Every defence will make errors and concede sometimes.
Minimise the pressure they have to endure and you also minimise the number of chances created. It ain’t rocket science.
Even with Butterfield in the side and the rapidly improving Shrimpton – our midfield never seems to work.
It can be argued that this is down to management with wrong formations and wild experimentation – but when did we last have an actual functioning midfield?
I suspect that the bigger problem is not so much lack of leadership from the dugout but rather, a total absence of leadership on the pitch.
Sorry to go on but I dream of those heady days when Bish’ was the ultimate in leading and also leading by example.
A full Charlie Brown sigh!

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I hadn’t picked up the fact that Elliott had scored more than 30 goals in the NLN for Boston.
Build the team around him!

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Once bitten twice shy as a concept is perfectly understandable.
IMHO though, too many on here are looking at Hilton as if he is PS wearing a face mask as a rather poor disguise.

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I thought DH had said that the training in Ilkeston would be temporary.

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It was only 0-2 coz of poor reffing.

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Yup. Certainly loadsa doo doo.

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I’ve stopped blaming the managers. Almost identical complaints about ’em all.
Gotta assume that they have all been trying to learn how to herd cats.

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Yesterday, the total absence of CM could have seen us ship a record number of goals in a single match.

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I wouldn’t keep Beestin.

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No defence should ever be exposed like ours was yesterday. No defence should ever have to soak up that much pressure in a single game.
I actually felt sorry for ’em. Overall, they weren’t that bad.
Zero protection from in front of them.

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It seems impossibly odd to me that we have had a shedload of managers who have all been utterly incapable of managing.
All have been pilloried by fans.
All have been booted out.
The logical view must be that it is not their management ability but that they have all been victims of a toxic environment with a built-in confidence-destruction bot.
It is just not feasible that they have all been poo!
“Well, this one is but the next one probably won’t be.” – Sigh!
Dean should be made to work to his own level of expertise – which, incidentally, is NLN.
He must be given a chance. Just how much more upheaval can we take?

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Odd – I’d thought more like 13.
If they’d had a pair of Wrexham strikers – it could have been.

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I don’t care what standard he is – that was a vicious assault. Get rid! I detest thuggery.
Felt sorry for the defence not having even the suggestion of a midfield in front of them.
I felt sorry for the forwards not having even the suggestion of a midfield behind them.
Could easily ship 7 unless Dean finds a magic wand to wave.

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I would certainly expect us to sign up a number of our youngsters on pro contracts.
Surely, nothing that happens would preclude that as an option?

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Listening to supporters?
Sorry. Don’t understand the concept.

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Just Iron,

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The trouble with ‘Brave New World’ is that it begins outstandingly well and sags badly over the last third of the book.
I gave Huxley another chance and found ‘Chrome Yellow’ weak and unreadable. Didn’t finish it.

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Relegation to the NLN was never going to be pretty.
I had zero idea what would happen but, TBH, it was always gonna be horrid – and the buck must surely be placed at the feet of the former owner.
To me, the degree of financial naivety displayed was simply dreadful under Swann.
If Hilton has found ways to increase the playing budget – he has my attention.

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Let us break into the realm of dreams and imagine that a year from now we are poised to burst back into the National League.
I can easily foresee the comments from a number of posters on here:
“Time to sack Dean. Forget the present success – he won’t be up to managing in the NL.”

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Just Iron, Iron-awe,

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I thought I was listening to a pragmatist.
As time proved, the previous owner was actually a fantasist.
(Gainsborough was the clue so many of us ignored.)
Our present clue is Ilkeston.

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Just Iron, Iron-awe

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It’s not happening, Rene. JD gets a fresh notepad to write on. Okay. I’ll accept that but with a few reservations.
DH seems to be approaching the future without an ego trip. Loadsa tough and painful decisions to be made. I don’t envy him.
Promise – no loans – only donations. Promise – the max will go into the player budget.
Promise – in my words – to run a tight ship.
His Ilkeston history encourages me that he keeps his promises.
Food at GP to be sorted – the biggest promise of the lot?
(We all know one brilliant businessman who couldn’t deliver that one!)

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Did I get this right that only 30% of the wage bill goes on players’ salaries?
Redundancies in the pipeline – fancy him spotting that we are no longer a Championship club. Swann never spotted that!

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SODIron

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This was one of the worst examples of passing the ball that I’ve seen this season.
We appear to have better players than we had previously but this display simply stank!
Thank goodness the final vestige of hope has now caught the last train to Clarksville.
Hate to say it but could Coxy have done worse?

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