Scunthorpe United v Torquay United, 3pm, Saturday 1st April, 2023

[North Curry House]

Totally agree, GJ has been great servant to football, and for while he brought the smiles back to our faces, I'll always be grateful for that, through out GJ's career, he's been successful when the goings good, and when he's had money to spend, but when he's needed to build squads from scratch, he's hit a brick wall, he's not always been successful in improving young players either, from Lolos, to Omar, Crowe, Hanson, Umrah etc, and I'll highlight McGavin, who was outstanding in pre-season, and performed well in early stages of our league campaign who's just gone backwards.

What's been highlighted, and why the focus must now be on how much we pay Pete Johnson for scouting is, whilst Lee Johnson was at Bristol City, then Sunderland there was no shortage of players, soon as Johnson junior went to Hearts, where there is no players we can to into, the recruitment, particularly on the loan front has been awful.

Lee Johnson is manager of Hibs NOT Hearts, to confuse the two is a hanging offence in Edinburgh.

[SuperNickyWroe]

Lee Johnson is manager of Hibs NOT Hearts, to confuse the two is a hanging offence in Edinburgh.

Who gives a f*ck about Hibs, Hearts or Edinburgh?

[culmstockgull]

I was reading an article on scunthorpe today, judging by its content they have accepted their relegation, they are sacking back office staff, closed the academy and the first team are training in ilkeston, 70 miles away. Is this a portent of things to come for us?.

[teddiebear]

Hope not ilkeston is more than 70 miles!!

[SuperNickyWroe]

Hope not ilkeston is more than 70 miles!!

Er, that's what he said......
Reason being that he owned them before he bought Scunny and the facilities there are "much better," he also mentioned that the location of the training ground was close to the M1.
He also said that a lot of the players travel to Scunny, so it will also save money on accommodation etc.