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Correct me if I’m wrong but on the Podcast, I recall Michelle Harness saying she left the football operations to two directors. You can guess all you like if that is true, but in judging her actions I get the sense that she isn’t treating the Club like her play-thing and meddling in all areas.
It was appropriate she had a strong influence / decision in the Management structure, Manager and Playing Budget but I think she is leaving the football side to the people she believes have fooball nous.
Would SUFC have existed without Mrs Harness and her efforts?
Getting to what is perceived to be a sustainable operation was always going to be difficult and uncomfortable; players leaving are examples of that journey. When you don’t have all the information, a bit more consideration should be in order before passing judgement and deciding who to criticize.
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It seems likely that the prospective Buyers paid the wages bill as a way of keeping the Club out of Administration while they worked towards finalising the full details of their proposal to buy the Club. Mr Elliot’s interview on BBC clearly referred to understanding where the Club is at with regards to debts, liabilities etc. All of this would play into how they structure their final offer.
Some people may underestimate the complexity of getting this right and mitigating the associated risks for both sides but it doesn’t surprise me that it has taken a while to conclude. Hopefully they haven’t uncovered anything they didn’t expect when they thought they were agreeing a deal.
To my mind, it’s also reasonable that they would want to protect any money injected into the Club before there was a binding deal. So perhaps a condition of funding the November wages bill was the prospective Buyers would be repaid out of the funds from Joe Nuttall’s sale.
Personally, I do hope that Mr Elliot (and Mr Sharp) are successful. Listening to Mr Elliot’s radio interview, and considering his previous involvement with the Club, I think he has the best of intentions and should be respected for that.
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Deereyme66, I was born in London and emigrated as a child with my parents. This explains my interest in English Football (soccer) as well as Australian Rules Football.
I watched the Playoff game again a few weeks ago and it was such an entertaining match; it would have been great to have been there!2 users thanked author for this post.
Honestly, as a young boy living in Perth in the 70s I used to read the Football Tables in the sports pages of the local Sunday Newspaper and the name stood out. I wondered who would name their town Scunthorpe, where it was, and what it was like. It was as simple as that.
I followed the progress of the Club like that for a long time, and then with the advent of the internet information has become so much easier to access. So I’ve learnt a lot more about the Club, the town and following progress became a lot easier.
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For what it is worth, here is my contribution….
Best memory for me was watching Scunthorpe live on TV beat Millwall in the 2009 League One Play-off Final at Wembley. I was in Melbourne on a work trip when the match came on the hotel TV at 11pm. After becoming interested in Scunthorpe United and following their progress over about 30 years (from afar in Australia), it was the first time I had ever watched the Club play a match. The Playoff was an exciting match, with great goals and a fantastic result.
Second best memory (but unlikely to get votes from anyone else) was seeing Scunthorpe play WBA in a pre-season friendly in 2019. I was on holiday in the UK so it is the first, and only, time I have been to the ground and seen the Club play live.
Incidently, Matt Sparrow and Andy Keogh now live in Perth.
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