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That's not the reason we have suffered 3 relegations though is it?
That's a different question, We have been poor for over ten years, Bad managers and bad signings, Some people might even go so far as to say, a bad chairman !!!!!!!! |
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Apologies for any offence caused, I simply don't understand how we can't attract quality players because of our location and Scunny manage it.
I haven't made a study of Scunny's fortunes but they certainly benefited from being able to sell some of their better players a few years ago. Admittedly they used the money wisely. It is worth noting that recently they appeared to be gravitating back to their natural level until their "new" chairman, who I believe is heavily involved in the Wilkos chain stepped in. Money talks ... |
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I haven't made a study of Scunny's fortunes but they certainly benefited from being able to sell some of their better players a few years ago. Admittedly they used the money wisely. It is worth noting that recently they appeared to be gravitating back to their natural level until their "new" chairman, who I believe is heavily involved in the Wilkos chain stepped in. Money talks ...
Scunny got lucky imo in that the physio turned out to be a decent manager so i suggest we sack hurst and install dave moore as manager its that simple |
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Scunny got lucky imo in that the physio turned out to be a decent manager so i suggest we sack hurst and install dave moore as manager its that simple
Scunny already tried Dave Moore. |
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Scunny already tried Dave Moore.
That was agent moore deliberately installed to shaft them  |
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Scunny got lucky imo in that the physio turned out to be a decent manager so i suggest we sack hurst and install dave moore as manager its that simple
Helped hugely by chief scout Lee Turnbull who 'found' a lot of their strikers |
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the trick is to find decent players, develop them and only sell them once you know you have an excellent upcoming star to replace them with. Not entirely sure what Southampton are up to but you'd hope for England's sake they won't go out and buy average European players instead of relying on developing more home-grown stars.
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Helped hugely by chief scout Lee Turnbull who 'found' a lot of their strikers
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I've always thought the location argument was a bit of a red herring
Grimsby is in a no worse location than say Carlisle, Morecambe, Hartlepool to name a few and whilst they might have troubles of their own attracting players and then persuading them to sign on the dotted line, they're arguably better at it than we are
We're out on a limb in some respects here on the East Coast but it's not totally the back of beyond....within 75 miles or so there's a substantial catchment area for us to try and tap in to
In some ways it says more about the ambition of a certain kind of player if they aren't interested in playing for our club with its heritage and potential
It's not stopped lads like Shaun Pearson coming here and developing his game and his future prospects so there must be others out there....it's just up to the club to sell what we have and what we could have
I don't think it's a red herring, our location ( not necessarily the area ) doesn't help. Scunthorpe is 36 miles closer to South Yorkshire and the league clubs that are there. It might not seem a lot but it all adds up to commuting time and travel costs especially if you don't want to uproot your family and move here. The thing about London and any of the big cities is that you can have a progressing career from being a Youth Player to your twilight career with several clubs at all levels and not have to leave your local area. Morecambe is close to the Manchester area , with loads of clubs in that district at varying levels in the Football Pyramid. We know the surrounding areas, such as the Wolds, are very picturesque coupled with some lovely villages and small towns but I don't think this is widely known in other parts of the country. |
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I haven't made a study of Scunny's fortunes but they certainly benefited from being able to sell some of their better players a few years ago. Admittedly they used the money wisely. It is worth noting that recently they appeared to be gravitating back to their natural level until their "new" chairman, who I believe is heavily involved in the Wilkos chain stepped in. Money talks ...
But surely the point is, how did they attract those players in the first place? They don't have a big support and they have a Town that isn't very appealing, yet they consistently do better than us and attract better players. You have to speculate to accumulate and we don't seem very good at signing promising players and selling them on for a profit. It does happen occasionally, but nowhere near enough. |
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