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Friendly Lamb wrote:

Good morning Scunthorpe, from sunny, sunny Tamworth, the home of an ancient Norman castle, and our iconic heritage site, the Snow Dome!
Please allow me, I come not to gloat or crow despite our five point advantage this morning. On the contrary, I bring goodwill, chocolates and flowers from south east Staffs.
I have to say, I am stunned by the air of negativity on your website. It seems a bit premature for some of you men of Iron to be waving your white handkerchiefs so early in proceedings.
How quickly the landscape can change at the top. After all, most humble Tamworth fans believe we are merely keeping the top seat warm for you. We expect nothing less than a battle to the death on April 20 – and that’s what I am sure we will get.
But when all is said and done, surely the massive disparity in our two clubs relating to history, tradition, player-budget, spending power, full-time, fan-base and your wonderful ground, which we are so looking forward to visiting, will tilt the balance in your favour.
However, despite all this bonhomie, I do have to take umbrage with one of your posters, MK Iron, who claims Tamworth are neither clever, pretty or entertaining.
Let me address these three points individually.
1. Clever. I am not privy to any Ofsted reports but I can only suggest that the GCSE success rate at English and Mathematics is at least on a par in Tamworth’s secondary schools with those in Scunthorpe.
2. Pretty. Now granted I am no oil painting and a few of my fellow supporters can hardly claim to be Brad Pitt either. Indeed a couple of our players are in urgent need of a hair transplant – but by no means do we play ugly football.
3. Entertaining. Again I have to concede we have a paucity of great entertainers who hail from Tamworth, though we do claim Del Trotter to be one of our own because of his love affair with a three-wheeled Reliant Robin which was built in Tamworth many moons ago.
But on a slightly serious note, I spoke to a few Warrington supporters last night on leaving the ground who said Tamworth were the best team they had seen at their ground in years. They had been well and truly entertained by little old Tamworth.
So, keep your chins up lads and we look forward to crossing swords with you a week on Saturday. Will Kevin Keegan be at the game? Our most famous footballing son. Paul Merson. has promised to come along to support us providing he can get out out of Soccer Saturday.
And hopefully I will get the opportunity to say hello to a few of you pre-game in the Honest Lawyer, while drinking a pint of your finest Lincolnshire ale. You will easily recognise me, remember, I’m ugly and I will be carrying a box of Thorntons and a bouquet or red roses.
Friendly Lamb.

Kyle Finn seems to be ripping it up for you guys?
17 goals (as of 10/01/24) in all competitions from midfield I believe?

[Rene Artois]

Friendly Lamb wrote:

Good morning Scunthorpe, from sunny, sunny Tamworth, the home of an ancient Norman castle, and our iconic heritage site, the Snow Dome!
Please allow me, I come not to gloat or crow despite our five point advantage this morning. On the contrary, I bring goodwill, chocolates and flowers from south east Staffs.
I have to say, I am stunned by the air of negativity on your website. It seems a bit premature for some of you men of Iron to be waving your white handkerchiefs so early in proceedings.
How quickly the landscape can change at the top. After all, most humble Tamworth fans believe we are merely keeping the top seat warm for you. We expect nothing less than a battle to the death on April 20 – and that’s what I am sure we will get.
But when all is said and done, surely the massive disparity in our two clubs relating to history, tradition, player-budget, spending power, full-time, fan-base and your wonderful ground, which we are so looking forward to visiting, will tilt the balance in your favour.
However, despite all this bonhomie, I do have to take umbrage with one of your posters, MK Iron, who claims Tamworth are neither clever, pretty or entertaining.
Let me address these three points individually.
1. Clever. I am not privy to any Ofsted reports but I can only suggest that the GCSE success rate at English and Mathematics is at least on a par in Tamworth’s secondary schools with those in Scunthorpe.
2. Pretty. Now granted I am no oil painting and a few of my fellow supporters can hardly claim to be Brad Pitt either. Indeed a couple of our players are in urgent need of a hair transplant – but by no means do we play ugly football.
3. Entertaining. Again I have to concede we have a paucity of great entertainers who hail from Tamworth, though we do claim Del Trotter to be one of our own because of his love affair with a three-wheeled Reliant Robin which was built in Tamworth many moons ago.
But on a slightly serious note, I spoke to a few Warrington supporters last night on leaving the ground who said Tamworth were the best team they had seen at their ground in years. They had been well and truly entertained by little old Tamworth.
So, keep your chins up lads and we look forward to crossing swords with you a week on Saturday. Will Kevin Keegan be at the game? Our most famous footballing son. Paul Merson. has promised to come along to support us providing he can get out out of Soccer Saturday.
And hopefully I will get the opportunity to say hello to a few of you pre-game in the Honest Lawyer, while drinking a pint of your finest Lincolnshire ale. You will easily recognise me, remember, I’m ugly and I will be carrying a box of Thorntons and a bouquet or red roses.
Friendly Lamb.

How many are you expecting to bring… 500?

[Rene Artois]

Iron-awe wrote:

Is this Rene in sheep’s clothing?

I assure you; I’m nonplussed.

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WonderGoals wrote:

Are we allowed to sign unattached players if possible or are we not allowed to sign anybody ?

I’d guess the NL probably did a bit of C&P…

https://www.efl.com/governance/embargoes/

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sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

Smith has left Scunthorpe United.
There’s interest from a Scottish premier league club.

Who?

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Beware of Brackley

Connor Hall bagged a debut hat-trick for them in their 3-1 win against Banbury on NYD.

Two headers and a sublime third for the 25 year old.

They also hit the bar twice and what looked to be a penalty turned down.

They followed that up with a 1-0 away win at Spennymoor last Saturday.

Three wins on the bounce for them.

Connor Hall:
https://www.brackleytownfc.com/news/new-signing-connor-hall-joins-brackley-town-2824633.html

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Tamworth P27 W19 D2 L6 Pts59
Scunthorpe P26 W16 D6 L4 Pts54

You’re only as good as your last game.
You’re only as bad as your next game.

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Closing Day of Regular Season – Saturday 20 April 2024

• Play-Off Eliminator A (5th v 6th) – Tuesday 23 April 2024

• Play-Off Eliminator B (4th v 7th) – Wednesday 24 April 2024

• Play-Off Semi-Finals – Sunday 28 April 2024

• National League North/South Promotion Finals – Sunday 5 May 2024

UTI

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Just Iron

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Is HMS Piss The League floundering around the Cape of No Hope?

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A must win game.

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Plenty of twists & turns still to come?
Or / And
Do all the squad start practising penalties?

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Form; last six games:

W 6 GF 17 GA 3 GD +14 Pts 18

They are smashing it!

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MK Iron wrote:

Might cheer Warrington on tonight from the sofa.

Middlesbrough vs Chelsea reserves not that appealing.

I’m going to be doing the same.
Then tomorrow, I’ll have a look at Chesterfield. Be interesting to compare them with last season’s Wrexham & County.

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9 games to choose from on National League TV tonight.

The pass also covers tomorrow’s NL game between Chesterfield & Gateshead.

I think I’ll spend the tenner – as some of the fee comes back to SUFC anyway.

It’s good VFM.

UTI.

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Square Ball Bullimore wrote:

A few quad ?? Is that you writing Rene or officer Crabtree ?!

Crabtree would probably muck more sense.

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Just Iron

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Five out of Six cats drive Jaguars.

We all want to win every game but it ain’t going to happen.
When we are 2-0 up, we’ve got to go for the jugular and bang in a third and a fourth.
Attack, attack, attack.
No sitting back and hoping not to concede.
Attack is the best form of defence.

UTI.

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ironking

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NLN Team of the Week

GK – Dan Atherton (Warrington)
CM – Tom Tonks (Tamworth)

All the best to Dan; and Tom, I hope that you have a stinker!

Our Mr Elliott also made the team.

UTI

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Agreed; we must avoid being dragged down to kick & rush, hoofball.
We need to dominate teams and have them chasing shadows for the full 90 minutes.
Recently, we only seem to play well for half a game?

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Sharp_Shooter24

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We are playing poorly and aren’t dominating games.

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Sharp_Shooter24

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North Lincs Council issued 77,236 Council tax bills last year.

I’ve never had the pleasure (if you’d call it that) of using the services of the fire brigade.
Another hardly used facility these days; libraries are there for people to use should they so wish. You can even use the recreational parks or visit a museum too etc.

How about adding £40 per council tax bill to help finance a community asset? That would generate £3,089,440 per year.

Just like the library, it’s (SUFC) there if you want to use it.

Forty quid is nowt – half a tank of petrol… who’d miss that over a year?

77p per week to keep the club alive.
A grab bag of crisps currently retail for 100p in Tesco.

Brown bin day… I don’t generate any garden waste. Can you divert my brown bin fee to SUFC please?

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For me, the team doesn’t work hard enough.
Jog, jog, jog.
No one’s prepared to put their body in the line of fire and take one for the team (except possibly Ogle).
We’re too slow to press and put people under pressure.
The forwards don’t make enough runs and false runs.
The midfield ain’t dynamic enough. They don’t break forward enough nor shield the defenders well enough.
A defeat to Tamworth and we’re in the sweepstake for that play off place.
How would you change it?
Does Jimbob have a plan?

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Hats off to those Darlington fans!

https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/24031330.stephen-cleeve-potential-investment-kings-lynn-town/

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Saturday 6th January; 21:30pm

Iron 8/11
Lambs Evs

Chorley 25/1
Scarborough 66/1

100/1 and bigger the remainder quoted (six other teams).

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Lads made a good start.

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They’ve nipped to the top and have us tucked under their hoof.
Wool they end up as Champions?

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Forget an epiphany.
Today turned in to a peripeteial dénouement.
We must achieve promotion this season!
At the moment, the supporters are ‘investing’ in the ‘novelty value’ of this league.
I believe attendances would dramatically slide next season if we are anchored in the NLN.
I’m starting to get a little edgy.

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Gutted!
Should Jimbob have left Roberts on?

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Synched Radio Lincolnshire to TV.

Did they say attendance was/is 4,672 ?

I missed how many were/are Boston fans.

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No bloody commentary on this one!
Not any audio at all.
Poor.

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No bloody commentary on this one!
Poor.

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