Scunthorpe.

Quoted from RonMariner

Makes you wonder how much he is asking for. Nothing like £11 million surely? After all, Our owners effectively paid £2.5 million for what is clearly a bigger club.

I suppose his asking price all depends on who owns the ground at the end of it. In his mind, I guess the precedent was set down the road here in Grimsby when the man he's got absolutely nothing in common with (his words, not mine) walked out of failure with all of his money back and £200k profit.

I don't want to see our local rivals go to the wall but I'd love to see Swann go bankrupt. I hope if a new owner comes in, they make the stadium his problem and immediately ground share somewhere else. Gainsborough would be quite a poetic ground share.

Quoted from RonMariner

Makes you wonder how much he is asking for. Nothing like £11 million surely? After all, Our owners effectively paid £2.5 million for what is clearly a bigger club.

Someone on Twitter reckons £8 million which seems insane but isn't the land Glanford Park is on supposed to be really valuable. The land and the ground that the football club don't actually own anymore.....

It looks like Mr Facts Right is issuing red crosses this morning.

Good Morning John, what have you done with that £200k?

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Someone on Twitter reckons £8 million which seems insane but isn't the land Glanford Park is on supposed to be really valuable. The land and the ground that the football club don't actually own anymore.....

It’s not as valuable as it used to be, I’d imagine. I haven’t been there in a while but presumably the Debenhams unit remains empty. Can’t be much demand to build new units, and not many people would want to live in a new house there.

I think he’s knackered, as are Scunny, the latter of which makes me very happy, personally.

Quoted from Heisenberg

It’s not as valuable as it used to be, I’d imagine. I haven’t been there in a while but presumably the Debenhams unit remains empty. Can’t be much demand to build new units, and not many people would want to live in a new house there.

I think he’s knackered, as are Scunny, the latter of which makes me very happy, personally.

Site  and adjoining land ( car park etc )without stadium or as either out of Town retail or residential development I think is currently in the £3- £4m current value bracket . This still makes it worth more then a non league football club with 2000 gates so I can only see this ending one way

Quoted from RonMariner

The really crazy thing is that he had Hurst and MacAtee at the club. If he had given Hurst the support which Jason has, the Scunts would now have a pretty good team on their books. Certainly better than what they have now, and most likely would have avoided relegation last season.

Ok, so this is all with the benefit of hindsight, but from where I am standing it looks like he didn’t give Hurst the time and money to dig them out of a pretty deep hole.

Aren't we the lucky ones. Without Hurst and McAtee we would probably be having a pint with Chalky before a County game. Thank you Swany for helping us, it's the only decent thing you've done.

Scunny new ground

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The loans for his development in Blackpool are allegedly due…could that force his hand somewhat?

Seeing them lose every week is one thing but seeing them teeter precariously close to extinction is all rather sad. We may laugh at their measly gates but those people love their club and yet again, a despotic owner with no conservation for anything or anyone apart from themselves has ruined a football club.

I’m past caring about rivalry at this stage, there’s a wider problem in football and nobody seems to want to do anything about it, particularly those with the power to do so. How does one meet fit and proper standards without having the money? Surely that’s a key component to meeting the standards?

Quoted from aldi_01

The loans for his development in Blackpool are allegedly due…could that force his hand somewhat?

Seeing them lose every week is one thing but seeing them teeter precariously close to extinction is all rather sad. We may laugh at their measly gates but those people love their club and yet again, a despotic owner with no conservation for anything or anyone apart from themselves has ruined a football club.

I’m past caring about rivalry at this stage, there’s a wider problem in football and nobody seems to want to do anything about it, particularly those with the power to do so. How does one meet fit and proper standards without having the money? Surely that’s a key component to meeting the standards?

And it's not even at our level (or former level, thanks Hursty!)  - I saw last week that the head of the Spanish FA wants to talk to EUFA about how the premier league is spending too much money and unsustainable etc etc and he's probably got some great points to make but when we hold up the likes of Barcelona and Real to scrutiny he hasn't got a leg to stand on.

It is mad though how chairmen/board can move club stadium ownership on to other companies they own/are part of and it's not dodgy legally speaking.  You'd think the FA (don't laugh) would be all over issues like this, being the custodians of the game and all that.

Neil Cox is speaking to the boys at UndrTheCosh later this week, lots of questions coming through about Scunny so it will be interesting to see what, if anything, he can say about it.