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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 BobbyCummingsTackle

Quoted: The Football Grounds Improvement Trust is an independent body formed by the Football League and the Pools Promoters Association. Its primary objective is to provide financial assistance to designated League clubs towards the cost of safety work required by the Safety of Sports Grounds Act, but as more funds become available it will be able to help with more general improvements.

I have no idea why BP has to be under mortgage to them but 160K is not that much in the grand scheme of things. There's a lot of people on here who probably owe similar amounts on their personal mortgages. I doubt Messrs Stockwood and Petit are losing sleep over it.

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

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

So I'm going to be serious here....

The loss of a long standing football club is not good for football in general and we would lose our closest and oldest(?) local rivals. As things stand Lincolnshire only has one club in the football league and 2 others who can be described as senior, professional clubs. Losing one of those three is not good for football in Lincs.

If Scunny were to go the way of Bury we need to reach out to their supporters and let them know that they would be welcome to come and join us at Blundell Park to support local football in Lincs. It would stick in their craw at first but long term Grimsby could become a stronger club for their support and could come to represent North Lincolnshire, not just the town of Grimsby (in the way that some clubs in Europe represent regions - Bayern Munich or Eintracht Frankfurt for example).

Another factor to consider is what impact will losing their football club have on the town of Scunthorpe. Already a town with problems and a poor reputation, they will lose an economic driver that the town could guarantee every other Saturday for 9 months of the year.

Part of me is loving their travails (the rabid Grimsby support in me) but a bigger part is saying that this is not good news for football in general and particularly in N Lincs.

And once again it's history, culture and people's dreams potentially being evaporated by one person whose ego has got in the way of decision making. Scunny may well be what we feared we would become.