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FANS FORUM

Season 4, Ep. 7

The One you have all been waiting for!

The Iron Hour podcast is proud to present the fans forum hosted live from the MKM Executive lounge at the Attis Arena. Questions from the floor and sent in advance to the panel of the 4 owners Michelle Harness, Roj Rahman, George Aitkenhead and Ian Sharp. And we were joined by first team manager Andy Butler and CEO Matt Roberts.

The audio file taken from the stream, apologies that the first 5 minutes were missed but we made sure to ask this question (About the academy) at the end.

Probably the most talked about fans forum in living memory, and it certainly didn't fail to deliver! We had conversations around FC100,000, transfers, catering, and much more. Stay tuned for an incredible call fro unity from first team manager Andy Butler

Thank you to the club for inviting us down and a huge thank you to Aaron Cheeseman & Pete Hewes for their incredible work in filming the event.


Apologies for any audio issues, we had several mic's in the room!


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