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Quoted from GollyGTFC

I know Scunthorpe are our rivals, but if the unthinkable happens and they lose the use of Glanford Park I hope nobody will object to them becoming tenants in NE Lincolnshire temporarily. I’m sure Cleethorpes Town would put them up.

Quoted from Poojah

Number one; no, I think it’s started to dawn on many Scunny fans that they are in dire straits.

Number two; I’m not sure you can describe what Peter Swann is doing as ‘every day business practices’. In the past year, he has reigned in expenditure to a level nowhere near capable of maintaining league football, to the extent they were relegated with a points tally close to an EFL all time low.

He’s transferred the ownership of their stadium and surrounding to his own company, and now he’s taken out a mortgage secured against the stadium / land with no explanation as to why or what the money released via the mortgage is to be spent on.

As it stands Scunthorpe do not own their stadium. Their stadium is subject to a substantial mortgage now secured against it, via Coolsilk Poperty ltd. They have virtually no senior players left. They have an owner who clearly no longer has any regard for the club, and certainly no intention of funding it beyond this point. To the contrary, he is quite literally asset stripping it.

The National League take no prisoners when it comes to its members. They will want cast iron guarantees they can fulfil next season’s fixtures to a degree that maintains the integrity of the league. Who’s going to give them that? Not the club’s owner, that’s for sure.

No admittance to the National League ends the club, as it has done for virtually if not literally all others to have been denied entry. And I think that’s a realistic prospect, especially since it’s a narrative that suits Swann. A dead cub doesn’t need a ground; a ground worth millions in land value.

I think there’s a less than 50% chance Scunny start next season in the NL, or at all. The bad news is being drip fed, day by day, week by week, but there’s a long time between now and August and a lot still to play out, I expect.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Sorry, I've just realised this is a stupid suggestion as I hadn't fully thought it through. Now they are in the National League they could play at Grimsby Borough on their 3G pitch at Bradley. That way Cleethorpes Town's grass pitch won't suffer.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Just because a charge has been registered it doesn’t necessarily mean that a loan has been taken out. The fact that the company many taking in the charge is controlled ( directors ) by a small accountancy practice in the north west suggests it’s internal financial engineering

Quoted from Poojah

I’m going to take you at your word that you are being serious; there is absolutely no fúcking way on earth that any self-respecting Scunny fan is going to start following Town in the event they fold. Would you or I reciprocate if the shoe were on the other foot? Not in a million, gazillion years.

If they do go the way of Bury then the only things Scunny fans can and would do is form a phoenix club. Given their recent attendances in League Two, it’s unlikely they’d have an AFC Wimbledon-esque procession through the leagues but the news that AFC Scarborough have at long last reached the NLN offers them some hope.

I hope for their sake they manage to rid themselves of Swann without it killing their club - I’ve no time for characters like him in football, no matter where they reside. I’m not hopeful of a happy outcome for them, but I cannot bring myself to wish terminal destruction on them - not even them.

Quoted from Poojah

Perhaps, but there’s little about Peter Swann’s recent actions or apparent motives that would lead me to err on the side of well meaning when it comes to suspicious, unexplained developments. Would you have felt comfortable had Fenty been pulling similar moves at GTFC (which, in the spirit of absolute fairness, he never did).

I think what we’re seeing at Scunny right now is a series of ‘Alex May moments’, but without the apparent ire or consternation of the Scunny fans, and with no viable exit strategy.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Just checked Companies House website only to find BP is back under mortgage this time to Football Grounds Improvement Trust in respect of grants received totalling approx £160k as secured last September.
Make of that what you will

Quoted from HerveJosse

Just checked Companies House website only to find BP is back under mortgage this time to Football Grounds Improvement Trust in respect of grants received totalling approx £160k as secured last September.
Make of that what you will

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

A 5000 gate at BP all paying an average of 20 quid each generates 100k.