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Maybe it is Swsnny or his family who post anonymously?… who knows?

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Yes you are correct, I am the father of the Ilkeston chairman, never hid the faCt and as far as I am aware it’s not a crime?… I also post under Patrick…my name IS Patrick and I have always made it very clear I am associated with Ilkeston…. so let’s see?… how many on here only post anonymously… well I can tell you… the ones that cricise everything, slag off moderate people or comments… and thrive on negativity, they must be devastated today that Scunny won, played well and kept a clean sheet, not so much to moan about today, probably sitting at home and stamping their feet in frustration at a little bit of success and positivity.
Yes I did know Hilton was buying the club…is that a problem?…
Had anyone been at the game yesterday they could have had a word with Dave at anytime, he was not hiding and spoke to several people from all quarters… like myself.
So anyone wanting to ask me anything…feel free I am here all the time at Ilkeston, I don’t and never have hidden behind a keyboard like the swanny fans..
I am a football and respect other fans as well.

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That canal is quite handy actually, we throw our unused bread rolls from yesterday to the ducks when our fresh rolls are delivered at about 10am…. we are certain they can tell the time as they are always there about then but not the rest of the day??

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Hi Richgy
I agree with all you say about the academy….but not at the level Scunny are at the moment, get back in the league and go for it.
But not when the club is just crawling off the floor financially…plus it will have some funding when back in the league.
Also why don’t the people who rant and rave about no academy pay for it if they want it that much…. deafening silence coming I think?

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Yes your right, but why would you let an unknown person/persons spout out pages and pages of abuse day after day, sometimes hour after hour on this Scunthorpe forum?…
And then some established members on here were sucked in by him easier than a clapped out Dyson, then they started singing from the same hymn sheet and joining the witch hunt against Dave hilton?… and not have the Brains to see that if they allowed it to bring hHilton down it would also bring Scunthorpe down…or to put it more simply..
If they did the donkey work to drive hilton over a cliff for some anonymous poster, whilst they may have Hilton in the back seat as the car goes over the cliff…. SCUNTHORPE WOULD BE IN THE BOOT… and the dopey idiot driving would have the mentality of a Kamikaze pilot, a suicide bomber, or a turkey voting for Christmas… unless of course they could not give two hosts about scunny utd?

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Hi Ironfromafar
I am not certain but did hear 1200 and people say they expected more Scunny fans..will check today and come back to you later…

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Siderite
Without wanting to sound rude, of you have not seen the abuse and insults on a daily basis to hilton and Dean you must be living on Mars…. or need an appointment at Specsavers.
He has been called a drug dealer, money launderer in Spain, fraudster, and the usual suspects would have in jailed if his library books were a day late…. sorry it has not been criticism or debate but pure hatred especially on this forum.

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Hi Siderite
Which translates to me that the penny has dropped eventually where running a pointless academy at our level is potty… as my Grandmother used to say.
As for the way he handled it …. well he always seemed by be deluged with abuse before he got the first sentence out…. BY THE USUAL SUSPECTS!

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Thank you for your kind words, really nice to meet you.
I was impressed with your grandsons enthusiasm, so much so that I am going to send him the latest Ilkeston Town shirt and get it signed by all our players, making him an honourly Ilkeston fan
The look on his face sitting in the players dugout seat was great to see, only eclipsed by the wider grin when he saw the Scunny players approaching him in the restricted area he wouldn’t normally be allowed in…
I love kids enthusiasm!
Send your details to Patrick
Ilkeston football club
Awsworth Rd
Ilkeston
De7 8jf
As I said yesterday, when I next come to Scunthorpe we will meet up and I will have a word with Dave Hilton and see if I can get him in the players lounge after the game ?
With you of course.

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Hi awaywego
Very nice to meet you yesterday, and intend to meet up again at a Scunny game in the near future.
To be honest I have not slept all night, been waiting patiently for the backlash to your brilliant post, especially the last sentence, I think you may have stunned the doom mongers in to complete silence while they actually check what you say is true?…
Yes, we ditched the ridiculous pocket emptying academy we had, and instead invested in building kids football teams of all ages… boys and girls, more than half our teams won their respective leagues this year and the women’s team climbed up to the top league from nowhere….this was something Dave Hilton had in mind to do at Scunthorpe I think?… but before he even had chance to explain why it would be so much better than a show piece academy producing sod all he was shouted down by the usual suspects… who don’t realise it is fine for big clubs like Man Utd, Chelsea, etc to have one, because the yearly cost would be about half a weeks wages to one of the players who warms the bench on match day!… but a big drain on clubs at our level,
It’s called business acumen!
30+ teams of kids with parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters tagging along for the match and a training session helps us have those facilities described in another post on here yesterday…

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Hi Ironfromafar
Oddly enough my burger van WONT be open today!
We will however have three catering outlets open in the ground, offering a large variety of food and drink, anyone can purchase from either of the outlets.
The menu is not the same in all of them although they All do hot and cold drinks.
If you want our well liked burgers you will only get them at the main kitchen adjacent to the club house.
If you want our speciality roast pork and stuffing roll, with apple sauce and gravy you will need the outlet adjacent to the members lounge those two outlets along with a third outlet near to the players tunnel will all have hot dogs, pies ,pasties, sausage rolls, crisps, chocolate, etc
The main kitchen also does a breakfast menu early all day.
Hope this helps.
Patrick

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I don’t know, or have not met, anyone on this site ( think I will tomorrow) but the many Scunny fans I have met at matches have been great company, and a joy to interact with..
Just a thought to help you…
I am 64 years of age, love my life and enjoy every minute of the time I spend at Ilkeston FC.
If I wake up alive in the morning I am the happiest person on the planet, as I will be celebrating the first day of the rest of my life…. so I will give your real world loop a miss if you don’t mind…. and suggest it might be good for you to join my world???

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Iron-awe,
I clearly stated it has been the talk of the town HERE in Ilkeston all week,
Maybe, just maybe, it has been talked about in Scunthorpe all week but not in your earshot?
In your own words “your board is only a fraction of Irons support”… so how can you know how the large Scunny supporters who are not a fraction of your board not talking about it all week?.. you have confused me with your comment, and possibly most other people who have read your post?…. this aside, we are buzzing at hosting Scunthorpe tomorrow, it’s not on your doorstep like Brigg and Winterton, so let’s see the attendance tomorrow shall we?…. I think the Scunny fans will make the journey.. you don’t, either way the Ilkeston fans will turn up as usual and shout our team on.
My predicted attendance is 1800+, about the same home and away, if I am wrong I won’t lose any sleep….

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Hi A A
Don’t let those pre season results fool you, we played lower league teams and did not play well, somehow scraped 2 -1 wins, but in fairness to Ilkeston we were trying out trialists….and by all accounts your 2 pre season games have been played on potato fields… tomorrow you will play on the best artificial pitch in the UK only equalled by the Liverpool training ground and the England training ground at St Georges Park…. no other club has that high spec, so you could well excel …who knows? , most importantly there will be a great atmosphere as it has been the talk of The town here all week!!!

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Hi Siderite,
Thanks for your reply, I am secretly hoping Scunthorpe win tomorrow to lift your spirits… just hope the Ilkeston fans don’t read this… or my son, the chairman who one day will be choosing my nursing home!
Best wishes to you and your club.
Patrick

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Correction…can interact verbally WITHOUT insults…sorry for the poor grammer

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Hi Siderite,
I am very happy to reply to your post.
I think most, if all, of what you say is probably true, and do not disagree with the points you make, the situation at Scunthorpe is not good at the moment, and I think everyone concerned understands that, so myself and others you mentioned, even though not fans at Scunthorpe hope all turns out well eventually, I think it is the personal attacks on people that is not acceptable if they don’t share the views of the doom mongers… a bit like the reverse of what you are saying…. but I have noticed when reading the face book Scunthorpe site, that there is very little of that animosity towards your IrnBru site, if any, you on the other have labeled them “happy clappers” which really means something else doesn’t it?
Posters on Irn Bru a while back actually posted a new thread for the sole intention of insulting Dave Hilton and Jimmy Dean…the personal insults were not nice and flowed endlessly for days….how can that be acceptable?…its not is it?
And this was all before all these recent troubles and if we are all honest it has continued from then to today, and every day in between, you are all fans of the same club so this should not be happening… 98% of Scunthorpes problems occurred before Dave Hilton and Jimmy Dean came on the scene, and over several years, they have been there 10 minutes and copping 100% of the blame from some quarters….
I sincerely hope the ground issue is resolved for you and you climb back into the league, finally, people can interact verbally on here with trading insults… as we two have just done with your post and my reply.

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Hi Bill
Yes I agree with you 100%, and also think many good people on here are starting to wake up to it as well, especially as some now appear to be getting a bit pissed off at the same negativity being posted hour after hour and day after day, I myself decided to keep off for while now, but wanted to reply to genuine questions about your visit to ilkeston tomorrow, and its my choice to do that, I could not give a toss about the doom mongers reaction to anything, ( I simply don’t interact with them in any form whatsoever), I will always reply to some one personally if I am replying to any information I can help with.
Hope you enjoy your day tomorrow. We here at Ilkeston are very much looking forward to the game, and I am laying a buffet on for Dave hilton, Lee Turnbull (nice guy met him a few times) and any friends they bring to one of our hospitality suites, and see no reason why everyone (inc officials and home/away fans) can not all have a drink in the clubhouse after the game….. win, lose, or draw, it is after all a friendly isn’t it?

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Cliif byrne’s right peg.
Very happy to meet you in the clubhouse prior to the game, obviously I can not attend to lots of people Saturday with it being a big game, otherwise you would have been very welcome to join us.
I do realise most (probably 99% or more) Scunthorpe fans sre genuine guys, I attended a few home and away games just after Dave took over, and every fan I met was 100% devoted to the club and a pleasure to interact with, I was also at the Notts County game (in the board room with the County officials) and they(the county officials) were overwhelmed at the support from the Scunny fans even though they were being completely outplayed, your genuine fans really are something special, most fans would have turned on the players that day… but not the Scunny fans, they actually sang louder!!…. something very much recognised when I went out that evening with every County fan I met in the town… that doesn’t happen too often!

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MK IRON/ AWAYWEGO
Look forward to meeting you both (and Friends you have with you (
I shall be at the club very early Saturday and all day.).
Will be a pleasure to show you round and tell you the history of the club in recent years… just ask anyone for Patrick, they will point you in the right direction.have a nice evening.

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Hi MK Iron,
Yes we do have a clubhouse you are welcome into, and three sides of the ground have cover, the other being the clubhouse side with a terrace outside.
We have parking, but will probably be busy Saturday, however there is street parking nearby.
I am very happy to show anyone around, but please respect the fact it will be a very busy day, and I did invite anyone on non match days in order to give you my time, however I am a man of my word and if you come early enough I will give you MK Iron an up to 3 others a guided tour(before 1pm) otherwise after the game and feeding the players (about 6.15pm)…you will see then that I (personally) am not running a tin pot, micky mouse, happy shopper, 50 pence outfit as suggested by someone on this site, but a very well organised catering facility, offering exceptional food at a very affordable price, especially compared to some clubs that will have your trousers down for a pot of peas!
We at Ilkeston welcome Scunthorpe with open arms, and hope you have a nice day.
The town is not far away, plenty of friendly pubs, about a 20 min walk to the ground or about £4 – £5 in a taxi.
Finally I don’t want any toxic replies from the usual suspects (I just simply won’t reply… so don’t bother wasting your time)…. look forward to seeing you.
Patrick

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Not so good with your observation skills up there in Scunny are you? Large sign ..OPEN 7AM TO 2PM MON TO FRIDAY ON TOP OF THE VAN.
The burger van does not operate for football matches, it is open to serve the local workers in the area, hence the low prices.
As a gesture to our fans I decided to open Saturday morning for our supporters travelling on the coaches leaving the ground at 9.30am for a 16 -17 hour trip away match. And charge them very little
We at Ilkeston do things for each other like that, it sure beats ripping each other apart like you clowns on this forum, And quite why anyone would want to re-post my ilkeston post on to a Scunny forum is baffling to say the least!
Going to leave you lot to carry on ripping each other apart with insults, slurs and anything else you can think of…actually, I wonder if I have been to more Scunthorpe games this season than the armchair keyboard warriors on here? Finally I won’t say goodbye forever, because if you get relegated again you could be at Ilkeston next year…and of course, if we win yet Another promotion we can still say hello as we pass on the stairs to our new leagues….. so bye bye till then.

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Deerreme
I presume if they have some sort of name, they will be known by other members?…..

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The best post I have read on here, just want to add… i do not read the posts when I see they are from an anonymous person… it feeds them to reply.
So you won’t see a reply from me to them type of post….. first time I have said this….UP THE IRON!… unless you are playing Ilkeston…

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Hi Maximus
I suspect the fluctuation is largely due to us being more or less an equal distance from Nottingham Forest and Derby County, most of our fans also support one or the other of these teams, many season ticket holders, for example if Derby play on a Friday night and forest play on the Sunday our attendance that Saturday will be higher, of course if either or both play on Saturday we will have less fans, we do not segregate the away fans so they are counted on entry, you can though have a rough guess if they all congregate in one area, I am not in control of these things so just giving my opinion…for what it’s worth?

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Awaywego

Maltsmiths Lager, San Miguel,Carling, East Coast IPA,John Smiths, Stowford Press Cider, Guiness, all draught plus a selection of bottled beer and your usual alcopop type drinks.
Decent selection of top shelf shorts.

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Awaywego
Pleased you have told me about the friendly… I did not know.
It will be great to host you, I personally will give you and up to three others of your choice a full tour of the ground, you can see everything, no exceptions, and I will give all four of you one of my Cheeseburgers at the end of the tour, they are in my opinion the best you will get at any football ground, that opinion is echoed every week from the visiting fans, along with the price being far lower than they have been charged elsewhere….
We at Ilkeston have only ever wanted to firm a friendly bond with Scunthorpe due to obviously Mr Hiltins connection to both… a bit like the twin town scenario, you are, and always will be, a far bigger club than us, we know that and clubs at all levels have a club they help and recieve help.
I shall only reply on here to ghe person I name on my reply, and who has requested a reply from me… finally I am not sure what ales we have?…. I don’t deal with the bar, tonight when I go to the club (we have power league games on a Monday evening) I will send a list of the ales on offer.

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Cassidystash
I understand people being concerned about the ground being closed all week, in my opinion it is something that would be temporary until it could be transformed into a profitable situation.
At Ilkeston we all work together for the sake of the club, full time staff and volunteer’s, for example our bar manager also looks after the pitch, the barmaids can drop on to the catering, who ever is spare might clean the toilets, we have volunteer’s who Man the club shop, ones who do the secretarial work, ones who Man the turnstiles, ones that act as stewards, we even have a couple of guys who come and clean the car parks and light gardening duties after home games.
At our level, and your level now I suppose, it is very costly to have full time staff that generate no money for the club, or worse still make a big loss!
I have seen your facilities and know with your fantastic fan base that I could turn your restaurant in to a good profitable business, I am the catering manager at Ilkeston and do that now, with a much smaller fan base, our kitchens and bars keep our heads above water all the time, we do not rely on matchdays alone, we are always hosting some event or another,yesterday for example one of our junior teams played here and won their game to win the league this year, our ladies team also played and won their league as well (but an away match), on Saturday after a very busy day we hosted a private party in the clubhouse till silly O’Clock.
All this fund raising for our club has Been built up over the last few years, and could easily be reproduced at your ground with the right supervision, staff, and determination.
We have 2 very well furnished hospitality rooms with a bar and food counter that company’s pay a lot each week to entertain their guests, with a raised viewing section to see the game… very, very posh.
They are booked far far in advance by local businesses.
If your interested and because its my field I will post and tell you how to turn your restaurant into profit?, reading posts from Scunthorpe it appears to be losing money?, why would anyone in their right mind keep it open to employ, and not upset, old Joe bloggs, who has worked there years causing the fans to take to their keyboards and slate the chairman!
Your Chairman knows Jack shit about catering and running a restaurant, but he does know who to ask to look at it with a view to turning it around, I would imagine it is very low on his things to do at the moment, but when it does come to the top of the list it will be sorted…. do you keep it open until then and keep losing money?… or do you close it? ….until it can be turned around?….. same with the club shop, etc, you have the potential there to turn your stadium into a gold mine in my opinion… just no , or the wrong miners to mine it.
As I have said previously, I would have liked to have shown some scunny fans our ground, facilities, and the place in general,
It is most certainly not what one muppet described yesterday, mind you he did mention he found plenty on spice around here?…. think I might find plenty in Scunthorpe…. if I was looking for it as well!

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CMC… How do you know it was easy to get spice?…. on that note I will bail out realising I am corresponding with druggys….

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CMC
Of course it’s a depressing place…. for YOU!…. its not going bust is it?
It’s buzzing.

Sideline
Have you given Mr Hilton a chance to reproduce what we have at Ilkeston?… really have you?
Of course not, we at Ilkeston sincerely hope he succeeds for you, we also want Scunthorpe to do well, there is no bad feeling from Ilkeston to Scunthorpe… Tossers like CMC criticising our great set up, while his own club was sinking faster than the titanic is bit naughty don’t you think?…. especially as our chairman saved you from not having a club at all…. !!

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