Anon

I absolutely despise that Wednesday game. It's the biggest gulf I've ever had between how I should feel and how I actually did feel after a game. We'd taken 6 points from a possible 42 and somehow survival was still in our own hands, win the game, be heroes. Simple. We couldn't even manage that, relying on a Cardiff equaliser against Rotherham. But we survived, so people were celebrating wildly. There was nothing to celebrate. A crap performance, from a crap team, to top off a crap season.

Stop paying players so much money. This isn't a defence of the shambolic way Scunthorpe has been run, but these situations are getting more and more common and we always go straight to hand wringing about fit and proper person tests and clubs as historic institutions. They're businesses and very few businesses could survive by paying almost their entire turnover out in wages. No one ever suggests that maybe, just maybe a league 2 footballer shouldn't be getting £75,000 per annum. Maybe Scunny will go the same way as Bury, but I can guarantee if they do most people will pretend that it's because the people in charge were malicious and somehow uniquely evil rather than the fact that the cost of keeping a competitive playing squad is becoming completely untenable for small town parochial clubs.

Stop paying players so much money. This isn't a defence of the shambolic way Scunthorpe has been run, but these situations are getting more and more common and we always go straight to hand wringing about fit and proper person tests and clubs as historic institutions. They're businesses and very few businesses could survive by paying almost their entire turnover out in wages. No one ever suggests that maybe, just maybe a league 2 footballer shouldn't be getting £75,000 per annum. Maybe Scunny will go the same way as Bury, but I can guarantee if they do most people will pretend that it's because the people in charge were malicious and somehow uniquely evil rather than the fact that the cost of keeping a competitive playing squad is becoming completely untenable for small town parochial clubs.

So the chairman has kicked Scunthorpe out of their own stadium, apparently, they will be paying at Gainsborough Trinity. Slight problem, nobody told Gainsborough Trinity.
 

The headlines the next day clearly had a different meaning back then! 
 

Under The Cosh with Mark O'Brien and his 2 heart surgeries he's been through. Sharing is caring they say so here it is if anyone fancies it.
It is a long video, over 2 hours, it's a podcast not a short form video. 
 

Then someone has supposedly corrected him by saying their too stupid 😂

'There to stupid'.
You have to laugh, don't you?

Right game, one year out.
I had no recollection of this game at all, which is odd because I was going to most games in this period. To be fair, I didn't bother turning up for league cup games because our players never turned up either. This was the 4th season in succession we got dumped out by lower league opposition in the first round.

A big thank to the Rams fans who took time to fill in Oxfordshire County Council's survey into the public's attitudes to our proposed new stadium. Many fans from all over the country helped out with the survey which we won comfortably. This week the Council's cabinet voted to lease the land to the football club. Now we move on to the planning permission stage with Cherwell District Council before Christmas and we wait for detailed plans to be published.

Hat trick against Norwich today. Very impressive.

I don't know the conditions, but I just wondered based on how Sussex have struggled this morning and if it stays dry the pitch should improve tomorrow? I agree with you though. There's always a concern we'll make batting on this surface look even more difficult than our opponents.

Sussex 43-3
Of course we are going to play really well, be the only team look likely to win but 2 days isn’t enough to get it done 🤦‍♂️🤣

Appeal to emotion isn't a particularly effective tactic.

I lose nothing by waiting for a criminal conviction. A conviction that will surely be forthcoming with the plethora of evidence amassed by C4 and The Times.

When you write "have a think about what they say", can you clarify exactly what you mean? Given that it has already been established that no one in this thread has declared Brand innocent. I absolutely will not believe accusations without proof. I do not care if that upsets anyone. Thank you for the lesson in empathy though, I have never before considered that a thing I'm discussing could potentially effect me or my family.

8 million pounds... just imagine what we could've spent that on.
 
 
 
2 Jacob Butterfields. 

8 million pounds... just imagine what we could've spent that on.
 
 
 
2 Jacob Butterfields. 

I know this is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I was always worried about our bowling attack this season. Considering we often struggled to take the 20 wickets required to win games last season, I did wonder how many were so bombastic about our chances with only the addition of Chappell. This season has been one of the most toothless bowling attacks I can recall. What do people think of how the side is shaping up for next season? Who do you tip as leading wicket taker next year?

Lampard would've started Macken in this game.
West Brom, Play off final, 2007

8 million pounds... just imagine what we could've spent that on.
 
 
 
2 Jacob Butterfields. 

8 million pounds... just imagine what we could've spent that on.
 
 
 
2 Jacob Butterfields. 

Is this away at Anfield? 98?

Is this away at Anfield? 98?

Appeal to emotion isn't a particularly effective tactic.