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Or 4-5-1 again with Green wide right and Gilliead inside?

At least Kev isn’t being risked.

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Will he take his boots along given we’re short of strikers?

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Bloody long trip from Hereford to Scunthorpe to play for U23s.

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We’ve had no fit for purpose strikers since Kev broke down again.

And why have we no fit strikers? More training pitch injuries no doubt.

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Will you be thanking him if we get relegated into non-league?

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And on the treatment table on Sunday!

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Heath wrote:

His best play has been when the team tries to pass the ball and keep possession on the ground rather than 10ft in the air.

Our midfield are always closer to our penalty area than the opposition’s, and now with three in the centre there’s no outlet.

Cox needs to rotate Beestin, Spence and Karacan and stick someone up alongside Loft. Anyone is better than no one. Green, Hippolyte, even McAttee if he can be arsed.

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Speaking of Walsall, I see they’ve taken Frank Vincent on loan.

Bournemouth must think he’s got a better chance of developing there.

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It’s certainly not up the chairman’s arse!

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

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Did John Peacock and Bob Oates ever play CB?

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We’re not getting relegated anyway. Swann said so!

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To stop the playground spat and get back on topic, here’s a typical lineup from 1974/75 when we finished bottom of the pile. It was a 7-0 thrashing away at Mansfield!

Norris

Peacock
Simpkin
Atkin
Oates

Collier
Money
Sproates
Pilling

Roberts
Charnley

We also had the likes of Geoff Barnard, Angus Davidson, Nolan Keeley, Peter Markham and Neil Warnock on the books.

I reckon there’s a couple of similarities between it and today’s squad. Is Rory Watson the new Mike Norris? Is Alex Gilliead the new Dickie Dosh? Is Ryan Loft the new Derek Charnley?

The defence didn’t look too bad, but to let seven in!

Anyway this isn’t the wort team in our history. Swann said it wasn’t so that must be right.

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mistertonmick wrote:

he still had the guts to come out here and be interviewed, he had some valid points about it being difficult playing without spectators etc,

But it’s the same for all EFL & NL clubs.

If it had all come about since March then fair enough, but the football has been dire for three years now.

I didn’t need to hear about roundabouts on the dual carriageway. What I wanted was an admission that recruitment policies had failed and what was going to be done to turn things around.

Being told we’ll be fine once Kev is back didn’t cut it for me!

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16. How many more matches like the present one’s are you to put up with ?????

Didn’t he say that all the games in the division had been poor this season?

Something to do with pitches (our was holding up okay) and no crowds in the stadium.

BS, even if those questions had been asked Swann had a lame excuse ready.

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How about we have a whip-round and hire Jeremy Paxman to host the next one?

As noted above, pure politician speak. Waste of an hour and three quarters. Shouldn’t be surprised of course he’s been doing it for years.

The classic was saying that Hurst was dismissed because he didn’t do what he’d promised to do. Pot calling kettle black or what?

Jarvis starting to show promise? You’re having a laugh!

Everyone is up for it next Saturday. We’ll see.

I don’t want to dwell on the past, let’s concentrate on the present. Then goes on about promotion from L2, five seasons in L1 etc!

Have we a contingency plan for if we’re relegated? No, because we’re not going to be relegated! Really?

So nothing is going to be happening. Swann, cygnets, management, coaches are all staying.

Best case scenario, fringe players out on loan and a couple of new signings.

Depressing.

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Plenty of football club owners find themselves in similar situations.

But only three of them are below us!

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I believe there are things called puppets! Can anyone confirm this?

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Thing is that Swann has tried everything else.

Nick Daws, did alright in a handful of games as caretaker so give him a go. Internal appointment, worked with Adkins.

Stuart McCall, success with Bradford in his first stint there. Experience in SPL. Former International.

Paul Hurst, did very well at Shrewsbury on a limited budget. Sounded ideal at the time.

Last summer posters were saying – forget the has-beens on the managerial merry-go-round, go get an up and coming young manager from the National League. Evatt, Flowers or similar. Get someone who bleeds SUFC when you cut them. Get some passion back.

Lillis did an in conversation podcast which was effectively both his application letter and interview rolled into one!

Swann tried something different but it hasn’t worked.

Again!

Conclusions?

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Sadly I think both Vader & Alcazar (on the other thread) are right.

We’ll no doubt get phrases like – “Look! I’m a fan like the rest. I hate to see us losing, of course I do. But …….”

Covid, no money from the government, no fans in the stadium etc etc.

Other clubs, some with a fan base smaller than ours are producing better football. Accrington, Rochdale, Newport, Forest bloody Green! So no excuses please.

Nothing positive will be forthcoming, just a list of excuses and a failure to answer questions.

Hope I’m wrong but I won’t hold my breath.

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As I said yesterday. With one isolated forward our best, if not only, chance of scoring is from a set play.

On recent showing O’Malley is the best option to deliver from set pieces.

If he doesn’t play at LB next game then there’s something fishy. And I don’t mean the opposition!

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Since Graham Alexander left you have appointed several managers with very different levels of experience and ability, yet all have produced the same poor results, and as yet none have seen out a full season. In fact each has been progressively poorer. The football we are seeing at present is arguably the worst since the club entered the league in 1950.

Similarly we seem to be signing poorer players. Fans understand that we have a much smaller budget than in previous years, but the recruitment of four forwards (Loft, Jarvis, Turan & Mooney) with limited ability must now be seen as false economy. In hindsight would it not have been better to bring in a young hopeful like Mooney alongside an experienced L2 striker?

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Good post IA.

Brad/Matt/Matt should just email Swann your OP.

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Stephen Humphrys got a brace for Dale including an added time equaliser, playing up front alongside Matt Lund today.

Yet we remember Humphrys as another stroppy ne’er do well. Very similar in fact the the current situation with McAttee.

This is another feature of the Swann era. We seem to have had a number of players like this. Coincidence?

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When I saw today’s lineup I thought that apart from the forward line (if one constitutes a line) it was a reasonable starting XI given our injuries.

Two proper CBs flanked by experienced FBs. Rather have had Eisa than Hippolyte but the rest of the MF are capable if perhaps too similar.

So really if you take out Loft and Hippolyte, all the others could comfortably move to another L2, or even L1 team and do okay.

Which makes it even more baffling as to why the perform as they do (or should I say don’t?).

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As soon as he started bandying ideas around re: new stadiums and Championship football.

If confirmatory evidence were needed it came via his spat with NLC. The icing on the cake has been the last few transfer windows. Culminating in appointing his son head scout.

Sorry Peter, I’ve tried to say positive and supportive, but it looks like the branch is about to snap!

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If this were to happen then Peter Swann will (rightly or wrongly) be forever known as the man who destroyed Scunthorpe United.

A point per game with half the season left. Time to stop blaming Covid and injuries and get your finger out!

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Today’s buzzword is EMBARRASSING.

I have to agree, and doubt very much if I can be arsed to spend another tenner. I might as well watch last Tuesday’s or today’s game again.

Will wait until I’ve had a beer and calmed down before posting re: manager and chairman!

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They’ll soon have that coached out of them!

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Onariase on bench if required, but agree. All fingers and toes crossed.

Hope we’ve been practicing set pieces, as I can’t see us getting a goal from open play with that lineup.

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4-5-1 again today!

Defence looks slightly better. Hope Brown, McGahey and Onariase haven’t been rushed back too soon, although we desperately need them.

Still not sure where the goals are coming from.

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