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If I remember correctly, the land on Glebe Rd never changed owners, so another fib from the poor, beleaguered owner who only left because he had hurt feelings from having to face criticism over being a spiv.

If you want to know what the ‘shite’ he had to deal with, it was because of the Company’s House record which shows a multitude of failed businesses, attacking fans who dare to question him, creating division in the fanbase by scapegoating to distract from himself, calling fans s******s, playing stupid games over ground ownership, making ridiculous excuses for why nothing succeeds (from the ransom strip at Glanford Park, which miraculously got sorted within a month by our new owners, to he doesn’t want to pay staff because he has hurt feelings), making statements and deleting them the next day, using a local coke head as an unofficial spokesman on Facebook, countless CCJs from his time as owner and not paying those before, threats of limits of ground capacity because he wasn’t paying the stewards, ponzi schemes that the club have had to accommodate since he left. There’s probably more, but there was so much idiocy. Including some stuff I am not going into on here.

The morale among club staff was terrible under him, and he was not well liked. As, except for the deluded, have said he is toxic and should be avoided. He may well be using Matlock as a reputation builder, but with his character it can only end in tears. Nothing is ever his fault, but that of everyone else, there’s always a scapegoat who he demonises and attacks. It was the same here and with Bury. When it came out that he was a crook he made every excuse and tried to wriggle out of it, placing blame at the journalists who dared to investigate him, while pouring a sob story. A man who takes no accountability, which is one to be avoided.

People have shared some excellent voices, like McGuire and Slater, but I would also add Jordan Zakarin and the person who is behind the Interested Bystander account on here. Though, the latter no longer posts and, while I have a strong suspicion as to who he is on twitter, I am not comfortable sharing without permission. Asking some on twitter would probably lead you to him, as he did a lot of work exposing the fraud.

A short summary from me is that he is the most toxic, disgusting man to ever associate himself with our club.

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Hilton was spotted at today’s game between Matlock and Gainsborough.

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Ferrite

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Roberts has moments where he shows his class with incisive passes, but occasionally seems to blunder into a defender. A bit frustrating, but has the potential to open up the opposition’s defence.

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Warrington’s number 17, Dixon, was a solid midfielder who held their centre line together. Good player with a handy shot on him.

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Completely agree and in that dismal season 2 years ago that was something, given so many didn’t seem to bother. He gave fans something to hold on to then and wasn’t a bad player at all.

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Got to take our chances. We created enough to win, but Whitehall was poor and Beestin went missing. Nicholson had his poorest game. Oh well, but if someone said we’d get 7 points in the next 3 games before Kidderminster we’d have been satisfied. Just need to work on passing and making the right decision in the final third. So many poor first touches and offset passes in crucial areas.

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Player of the season in a dismal year where so many didn’t play well or try, though this isn’t to disparage. He obviously had qualities in his effort and ability to run forward with the ball. Last season he was sometimes one of the few who would I am not meaning to say this shows he was actually rubbish, but it shows he had weaknesses and wasn’t irreplaceable.

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That stat puts things into some perspective.

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Keep that form up and we might just ‘scrape the playoffs’. :-)

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Anything of interest, except for Max irritating Scarborough fans with his jibes at their club?

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MK Iron wrote:

Nice to see Bru posters raising their game and posts now mainly about football. Seems a couple of years at least since that was the case.

I think it’s more the case that there’s nothing to be concerned about with the board, unlike for the past two years. Those previously complaining don’t have a reason to any more, but they very much did under Swann and Hilton.

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Deereyme66

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SODIron wrote:

The ground looks small…anyone have a clue what the capacity is?

4000 according to Wikipedia.

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SODIron

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Getting to the 1st round would probably count as a good cup run now.

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Monday

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Great win. Clunan, Whitehall, Scales and Roberts (in the 2nd half, especially) were great. Shame Carlton blazed over that good chance to kill the game of, but can’t grumble, though some will try. The team must be thinking they’re in dreamland to be winning games like this.

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There’s also the horrible tyranny of prostate checks for men over 50. Don’t they know that it’s communism to check for health issues?

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In the thread “Mask mandates and lockdowns” you said “Won’t be long before they are back. Get ready for more misery and chaos.” None of it has happened and none of it is likely to happen unless there’s another pandemic, and even then we might approach it differently.

For 20 years or more I have seen dire warnings of one world totalitarian governments happening and the death of freedom in the west and it hasn’t happened. In 2007 (if I remember right) smoking bans indoors happened and it wasn’t some harbinger of totalitarianism. I doubt this will be, even if it is wrongheaded.

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You have regularly said that lockdowns are coming in soon, one in August 2023 on this board. They haven’t, so I am a bit sceptical of this harbouring of North Korea like states in Great Britain any time soon.

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I did. It’s a load of bollocks. Just like the forever lockdowns that were supposed to come in a year or so.

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The permanent lockdowns you promised were supposed to happen over a matter of months. There is no prospect of them, however. I am pretty sure we will still have free and fair elections and we won’t even resemble authoritarian Russia, never mind totalitarian North Korea.

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You have been promising that the totalitarian state is a matter of small time away since talking about permanent lockdowns that never came to fruition.

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I am not fond of this at all, it’s too Nannying, but the unrolling of the one world Marxist totalitarian government it isn’t.

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Awaywego wrote:

And the tooth fairy paid the wages instead.
The taxman said never mind we’ll let you off the £192.000 the club owed them.

The money didn’t come from Hilton’s pocket.

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Hilton stopped funding the club on 25 January 2023.

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Ferrite

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Those who abused seem embarrassed by their past support for Dave now though, so maybe they didn’t have a better grasp of the situation when they were praising him for ‘saving the club’ by racking up more debt and more.

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The wheels of their life have slowly fallen off.

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No doubt iron414 will be along soon to tell anyone happy that they’re living in dreamland because anyone who knows anything knows that we’re bound to finish midtable at best, because we don’t play like prime Barcelona in regionalised football.

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To be fair, I think the club was healthier (but by no means healthy) when Swann left than when dodgy Dave left.

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Marine fans on twitter did say it was a lot poorer performance from them yesterday.

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