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Amazing day, spent 9 hours driving to get there plus about an hour on the tube. I never had any doubt that Notts would win it even though we never lead in any of the 120 minutes.
Amazing season, fantastic end to it and I’m so pleased that my son had a chance to experience his team winning at Wembley like I did at his age in the early nineties.
Come on you pies!
Amazing season, fantastic end to it and I’m so pleased that my son had a chance to experience his team winning at Wembley like I did at his age in the early nineties.
Come on you pies!
I'm a Scunny United fan, and you know what, I'd been really enjoying this season in the NLN. We'd put together an impressive squad to win the league and although there were question marks over our future at the stadium, all seemed well.
Anyhow the club has likely been failed by the EFL and the NL's fit and proper test. There had been some questions about the Chairman's past and he denied having spent some time at HM's Pleasure around 2010/11. The Athletic published a brilliant bit of investigative journalism on him last month, uncovering this and his previous business dealings, yet another one slipping through the F&P net.
Today the club announced the owner was withdrawing funding from the club and we're getting kicked out of Glanford Park, which is still owned by Scunny's previous owner. Gainsborough Trinity, the club we're meant to be ground sharing with 15 miles away, are denying that they were given notice of this.
It's all gone to pot, and I suspect we'll be expelled from the NL soon if we can't find somewhere to fulfil our fixtures. Long gone are the days when we played Sheffield United off the park at Bramall Lane a few seasons back.
Michael
Anyhow the club has likely been failed by the EFL and the NL's fit and proper test. There had been some questions about the Chairman's past and he denied having spent some time at HM's Pleasure around 2010/11. The Athletic published a brilliant bit of investigative journalism on him last month, uncovering this and his previous business dealings, yet another one slipping through the F&P net.
Today the club announced the owner was withdrawing funding from the club and we're getting kicked out of Glanford Park, which is still owned by Scunny's previous owner. Gainsborough Trinity, the club we're meant to be ground sharing with 15 miles away, are denying that they were given notice of this.
It's all gone to pot, and I suspect we'll be expelled from the NL soon if we can't find somewhere to fulfil our fixtures. Long gone are the days when we played Sheffield United off the park at Bramall Lane a few seasons back.
Michael
Got4wheels said:
I'm a Scunny United fan, and you know what, I'd been really enjoying this season in the NLN. We'd put together an impressive squad to win the league and although there were question marks over our future at the stadium, all seemed well.
Anyhow the club has likely been failed by the EFL and the NL's fit and proper test. There had been some questions about the Chairman's past and he denied having spent some time at HM's Pleasure around 2010/11. The Athletic published a brilliant bit of investigative journalism on him last month, uncovering this and his previous business dealings, yet another one slipping through the F&P net.
Today the club announced the owner was withdrawing funding from the club and we're getting kicked out of Glanford Park, which is still owned by Scunny's previous owner. Gainsborough Trinity, the club we're meant to be ground sharing with 15 miles away, are denying that they were given notice of this.
It's all gone to pot, and I suspect we'll be expelled from the NL soon if we can't find somewhere to fulfil our fixtures. Long gone are the days when we played Sheffield United off the park at Bramall Lane a few seasons back.
Michael
it's a crazy fall, I remember when Nigel Adkin's had Scunny singing! What's the dispute between Hilton + stadium owner (previous owner) about ? Anyhow the club has likely been failed by the EFL and the NL's fit and proper test. There had been some questions about the Chairman's past and he denied having spent some time at HM's Pleasure around 2010/11. The Athletic published a brilliant bit of investigative journalism on him last month, uncovering this and his previous business dealings, yet another one slipping through the F&P net.
Today the club announced the owner was withdrawing funding from the club and we're getting kicked out of Glanford Park, which is still owned by Scunny's previous owner. Gainsborough Trinity, the club we're meant to be ground sharing with 15 miles away, are denying that they were given notice of this.
It's all gone to pot, and I suspect we'll be expelled from the NL soon if we can't find somewhere to fulfil our fixtures. Long gone are the days when we played Sheffield United off the park at Bramall Lane a few seasons back.
Michael
Never in a million years did I think I'd see S
horpe in the dire straits it's in now. Angry and upset that it seems like supposed 'fit and proper ' tests and 'due dilligence' tests seem to be easily manoeuvred round. I'm holding out for a Euro millions win Friday or a miracle that someone with deep pockets rescues us at the 11th hour.
horpe in the dire straits it's in now. Angry and upset that it seems like supposed 'fit and proper ' tests and 'due dilligence' tests seem to be easily manoeuvred round. I'm holding out for a Euro millions win Friday or a miracle that someone with deep pockets rescues us at the 11th hour. Swann basically transferred the ground into his coolsilk business to write off 11 million of debt apparently. Hilton came in and promised it'd be dealt with but sadly it turns out either he's a conman whos been outed and he's tried to get whatever money was left out the club or he came with good intentions and under appreciated the mess were in. There's been a legal battle about the ground with legal wranglings about land surrounding it and other discrepancies. Now it seems if anyone wants to buy us they now have to deal with swann for the ground but he's in a mess himself and is being difficult, and now Hilton for the club itself a st show which is going to take some serious intervention to avoid us ceasing to exist
t show which is going to take some serious intervention to avoid us ceasing to exist ribiero said:
it's a crazy fall, I remember when Nigel Adkin's had Scunny singing! What's the dispute between Hilton + stadium owner (previous owner) about ?
There's a lot of moving parts here. Around 2015 when the club were slugging it out at the top of League 1, Swann wanted to move the club to a new stadium so it could be used 7 days a week and generate more revenue. A plan had been drawn up to build a new stadium just outside a village a few miles East of Glanford Park. It was going to be a part of the 'Lincolnshire Lakes' project where new villages and a reservoir were going to be built. As with most projects this got bogged down and other than a big roundabout being built in the middle of the M181, nothing has happened. One of the contractors then collapsed and this fell by the wayside. Swann blamed everyone including the local Council. If he was annoyed already, he soon got furious. Like Bloomfield Road, Swann then decided to rebuild Glanford Park stand by stand and submitted planning permission for it, alongside some flats which could be leased out to the NHS (I believe) and generate revenue. Permission was granted for that, but nothing was forthcoming for the stadium. Swann started his war of words with the Council by then, every statement he made was wittering on about the council dragging their heels and rarely about results on the pitch. While this was going on, results on the pitch were suffering and a team more suited to mid table mediocrity, found itself relegated to League 2.
The splurging on players earlier in his tenure had built up a good chunk of debt for the club. As Steve said, Swann used this as a reason to transfer Glanford Park to Coolsillk, one of Swann's companies who would lease it back to the club either at an at cost rent, or a peppercorn rent, I can't recollect which.
Hilton argued, initially successfully that he bought the club separately to the land so the club could survive and the land was rented at something daft like 7p a week. Hilton tried negotiating for it separately, with Swann looking for something like £3m with half upfront. There were rumours that Swann wanted this money to cover his legal costs as he's taking a gambling company to court separately. Hilton argued that this hasn't gone through as Swann's conveyancing team stopped communicating as long as a legal issue with a strip of land. The lease that Hilton agreed was apparently 2 years, but Swann wants to evict.
To give the club a new stadium, Hilton 'bought' some ex landfill ground and another portion of land just over the road from the first one. Whether any money has exchanged hands is unknown and the possibility of building a new stadium in just 2 years seems far fetched. As of today, Coolsilk are now refusing to negotiate with Hilton until the club vacate the stadium. With Hilton now refusing to put money into the club, we're homeless.
All of this is from memory, so if any of this is inaccurate I hope Steve will correct.
Michael
Have got every sympathy with Scunny fans for a couple of reasons. Firstly, as the user name suggests, I'm a Yeovil fan and we've had some great battles over the years, think we were promoted together one season, from memory.
Secondly, we had a terrible owner for 2-3 years during the COVID period and we only got rid of him a few months ago. No one benefited really from those couiple of seasons but Scott Priestnall made quite sure he didn't lose out & sold the ground to the council to pay his debts off. Makes you wonder how these people pass the Fit and Proper test and indeed whether the test itself is Fit and Proper.
Wishing you guys all the best and hope your situation is resolved to the good of SUFC soon.
Secondly, we had a terrible owner for 2-3 years during the COVID period and we only got rid of him a few months ago. No one benefited really from those couiple of seasons but Scott Priestnall made quite sure he didn't lose out & sold the ground to the council to pay his debts off. Makes you wonder how these people pass the Fit and Proper test and indeed whether the test itself is Fit and Proper.
Wishing you guys all the best and hope your situation is resolved to the good of SUFC soon.
Big Scunny fan here too.
Been watching since the late 70’s and father 20 years longer.
Real shame that we may lose our afternoon of watching our team and a part of our life.
Spare a thought for the staff.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/km2nup
Been watching since the late 70’s and father 20 years longer.
Real shame that we may lose our afternoon of watching our team and a part of our life.
Spare a thought for the staff.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/km2nup
SaintsPaul said:
There is a really good article in the i this morning about the plight of Yeovil. It is so sad to see teams run so badly.
It hasn't even been what's known as a roller coaster ride either as it's been all down hill! 
Hopefully we have reached the bottom now, the noise can stop and we can rebuild quietly and efficiently. Still think we could be at least a mid table L2 club but that seems a looooooooooooooooonnnngggg way away at present. Not sure if anyone has been following the Southend United troubles this season... and the awful owner. Club is now sold and took my son to his first game last week, a nice 5-0 win! He was ecstatic, "Daddy, this is the best day of my life!"
Nice 3-0 last night as well. On the up I hope!
Nice 3-0 last night as well. On the up I hope!
CrippsCorner said:
Not sure if anyone has been following the Southend United troubles this season... and the awful owner. Club is now sold and took my son to his first game last week, a nice 5-0 win! He was ecstatic, "Daddy, this is the best day of my life!"
Nice 3-0 last night as well. On the up I hope!
knew they had an owner that turned sour which is a shame, sometimes grass isnt always green (as a Saints fan we've had a few bad eggs and good eggs that got turned bad by fanbase) Nice 3-0 last night as well. On the up I hope!
nothing like an atmosphere when fans come back after bad periods.
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