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It’s very bad form to literally tell an old person you’d like for him to die. 😟
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A few forum members who joined recently are attempting to sow the seeds of doubt. The trouble is that we are in a better place since Hilton purchased our club. He pulled us out of the deep doo doo, then payed off our debt with the tax man. We now have to look to the future, now that we have one, and give the man a chance to build success. I will now ignore conspiracy theorists on here. At the end of the day, Swann is gone, things will only get better.
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If I remember, Ivan Toney was not very good when we had him. Now there are rumours that Ten Hag wants him at Manchester United.
So it’s not just managers that are not up to much when they come to The Iron, then go on to prove themselves at a higher level then? It’s players too.
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Okay so I read this on the companies house website, having searched Coolsilk…
(Fair review of the business
The directors continue to work on the disposal of the Scunthorpe United asset to the new owner with a deadline of 24 May 2023 for completion.)I do hope that this is what will happen, and that PDS doesn’t reneg on it.
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We have had, imo, years of corruption and mismanagement from the very top. It is hard to be enthusiastically optimistic, even with new a new owner and manager. I have no problem with Ilkeston, indeed before Hilton arrived I hadn’t given them much thought. If our new Chairman can run The Iron as well as he did Ilkeston, I will be pleased. But I’m NOT interested in transferring ANY aspect of our club’s running seventy miles down the road, great training pitch or not.
That will be my last comment on the matter. As long as Mr Hilton doesn’t have any more of those ideas.
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Whoever he does sign would struggle to be as badly motivated as the shower we have now. Short term loanees are ok if you lose both goalies, as we did with two broken arms in one match, remember that? But to sign all those players on such terms was too much! At the same time I’m still relieved that we still have a club to support in Scunthorpe.
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I’ve lost count of how many manager we have had over the last twenty years. The clamour of fans to get them sacked has always bothered me. The fact that some of these ‘terrible’ managers have proven themselves by being successful elsewhere, is a case in point. Look at where Mark Robins is now for instance, doing very well at Coventry. Could it be that he is getting better backing from their board? Or perhaps they are letting him do his job without interference? Maybe both.
I don’t believe how far we have fallen, but really can’t see the same thing happening next season. So let Dean have his chance, bring in his own players on real contracts, and see how he gets on over a longer period of time.
This is head and shoulders the best topic being discussed on this forum right now. Best drink to go with curried goat, any takers
Got to be a nice Chianti 😎
I wonder if any local people will volunteer to help the club in these desperate times. It doesn’t look like there will be many people employed there for next season.
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We had a shed load of nonentities in the January window, just wondered who chose them. If it was Hilton, then perhaps it is no surprise that they are not seeming to play for Dean.
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So (and apologise if this has already been covered), how much say did Jimmy Dean have in the recruitment of all those new players? They don’t seem at all loyal to him!
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Ok, so the plan to move the training of our players to Ilkeston has been abandoned. I don’t know if there is still time to save the academy.
The main problem for me is playing in NLN next season. Only one promotion place to play for, it’s like an elephant’s graveyard. I fear we might get stuck with it…
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He wanted to try something different re the training of our players, but it was a step too far and rightly or wrongly, the move led to much mistrust from us fans. So much to consider here, and I personally was against the lads training in Ilkeston. But whatever his true motives were, we cannot blame him for being pissed off.
I have to admit that I don’t know where in Scunthorpe the lads actually train. But have to assume that the facilities are substandard. So thanks for trying to find an alternative Mr Chairman, sorry but taking any aspect of The Iron out of North East Lincolnshire is unacceptable to us as fans of the club. And now you know!
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