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I have felt that the magic has ebbed away in recent years, with money being a big factor. It used to be that smaller/less fashionable teams like Grimsby, Crewe, Doncaster, Gillingham, Port Vale and Shrewsbury could have solidify themselves in the 2nd tier for a good few seasons if they chanced upon a winning manager of formula. Wimbledon overachieved for years in the top tier.
However, now this doesn’t seem to be the case. You know that teams who drop from tier one to two and two to three will do well next season, due to money and parachute payments. It was always true that the bigger clubs tended to fare well and relegated teams would stand a good chance of a return, but look at it now. Norwich, Watford, Bournemouth and Fulham seem to forever yo-yo between the Premier League and Championship because they have too much spending power for the Championship, but not enough for the Premier League. Likewise, Rotherham, Wigan, Barnsley and Peterborough in League One and the Championship. The effect of money dominates and you have to spend an astronomical amount of money to stabilise in the 2nd tier, which makes a dream like our 00s good run seem next to impossible now. We won’t have the days where Crewe, Stockport and Doncaster can have many year runs in the 2nd tier, because they don’t have the resources, which has killed the joy for me to some degree. The league pyramid benefits are that in theory, even the unfashionable teams can have a good run with a good manager or ownership. It doesn’t really feel that way now, because wage demands and money mean the Peterboroughs and Wycombes can’t have a good stay in the 2nd tier. And while yo-yo teams have always existed, I never got the impression it was as prevalent as today. It just seems to kill the hope when you know that the chances for others is getting less likely.
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I see that in the absence of old friends, now departed; Awaywego has taken over the role of chief wind-up merchant.
Don’t worry NI, Bucks is back in another thread. :-)
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Joe Biden is a lot better for what is happening in Ukraine. God knows what stance the US would have taken under Trump, with his Russian sympathies, and describing of Putin’s invasion as genius. :-)
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I have seen many men clap poor performances too. Don’t see why this is a gender issue or a reason for why women don’t belong at the game. :-)
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I’m hoping the Codheads win the play offs, we’re in no fit state to be playing them next season!
The only time I’d like to see Grimsby promoted is if they’re going up into the same division as us. Rivalries are pointless if they’re never played. But wanting them promoted above us? No chance!
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Which Hull away 1-0? :-) We seemed to always win 1-0 there.
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No club is too big to go down. Hate that mentality. Most annoying part of being in league one was the condescension from the likes of Forest, Leeds, Sheff Utd and Sunderland, whose fans thought they had no right to be there.
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Beating Grimsby with 2 Hayes goals, and Hayes goading their fans after a hilarious defensive mix-up for the 2nd.
Butler’s sublime header v Lincoln the same season to give us a last minute winner when we could score last minute goals.
Flo hitting the bar in the MK Dons playoff before the momentary silence and we then realised what it meant.
Putting on a great display at Chelsea in the FA Cup and going 1-0 up within 5 minutes.
The game where we could relax, knowing we’d already won the league against Carlisle in 07 when half of the Carlisle support stayed to clap our team off. Always had a soft spot for Carlisle after that.
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Fair. I misinterpreted your last sentence.
Why would Swann do that? What has given you the impression Swann takes any kind of personal responsibility after these years of constant deflection?
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Thank-you for the kind words. I can’t speak for every Scunthorpe fan, but I love having games together. I hope we can both recover so we can have have games together in the league.
Grimsby are our biggest rivals and it would be sad to not have that game again. The way it’s going I could see us going bust. :-(
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I have tried to give Hill the benefit of the doubt. However, as with Cox before, the ownership issues predominate, but that doesn’t render the manager powerless. The bizarre team selections are on him and the buck with the January signings has to lie with him too. We were told they were his signings, though our lack of attraction to players is a factor.
Regardless, this doesn’t give me hope he can motivate us in the conference. :-(
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Siderite said: ‘Johnson, likeable? etc etc’
Someone must have liked him at some point. Mayor of London. Prime Minister. Obviously things emerge and perspectives change … but ‘likeable’ is such a vague and especially subjective term. For example I quite ‘like’ the bumbling, manipulative, biffing, bonking, ‘I’ve never done my homework and am not starting now’ old buffoon …. but thats not the same as trusting him to run the country. The alternatives offered … Jezzer and Sir Keir … would you want to have a few pints and a laugh with them? ( oh… non football!) errrr …’would you rather sit next to them on a coach to watch us at Solihull Moors or would you prefer Boris?
Precisely what I meant by persona. He has engineered a front which appears likable, but on the level of his actual personality I don’t get the impression he is remotely amiable and is rather entitled and uninterested in anyone other than himself.
I would much rather have a pint with Keir, dull public persona aside, because I don’t get the impression he is a sociopathic, lying narcissist who would ditch you the moment it became beneficial for his career. ;-) He can make as many off the cuff remarks about Peppa pig world to make him loook the jovial, oafish eccentic, he is still an unloyal charlatan who was sacked from journalism for lying and has now lied to the public. :-)
As for ‘Jezza’ he is unlikable too, for different reasons. :-)
Johnson very much like Adkins very likable fellow, could do very well here, bet he could get more out of the players than Hill as up to now. As for Sunak he wasted to much money overspending on COVID help, tests, and injections,bit like swanny and Wharton, one trying to get us in the championship and the other trying to keep us there.
Johnson, likable? His bumbling oaf persona is engineered and many who know him find him a nasty piece of work. Just ask Max Hastings. :-)
Unlike Johnson, I don’t get the impression that Adkins is a selfish, narcissist who wants power for his own prestige. ;-)
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I can’t help but notice that the amount of goals conceded seems to have increased since Manny left. I know he was clumsy, and always prone to a rash challenge, but he was the only one with nous and command in central defence. It doesn’t seem an inspiring decision to let him go.
There can’t be any potential buyers, as UTI99 said that no-one would be interested in Scunthorpe Utd. :-)
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They should Pat, although there’s a difference between running on the pitch in celebration and swinging for a steward.
The Rochdale berks were doing more than celebrating a goal, they actively intimidated our players and could have done more if they were inclined, as the stewards didn’t stop them. Rochdale fans reported that the stewards shook their hands.
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