Scunthorpe’s players put on something of a finishing masterclass today at Glanford Park in a welcome home display for new manager Graham Alexander.
Alexander, who had only been in the job with the Iron since taking over from Nicky Daws on Tuesday, saw his charges hit Luke Williams’ Swindon Town for six as Scunthorpe emerged victorious in a game that ended 6-0.
Five players contributed to the 6-0 scoreline in a game Scunny easily dominated. The scoring was started with Conor Townsend’s 27th minute opener and finished 49 minutes later when Hopper scored his second on 76 minutes. In between these two goal markers, Scunthorpe scored a quartet of goals through Jordan Clarke (44′), Hakeeb Adelakun (48′), Hopper’s first (52′) and Patrick Madden’s 18th of the season (62′).
Scunthorpe manager Alexander will no doubt be understandably ecstatic with how his team have performed in his first appearance as manager at home.
However, on social media site Twitter, fans of the Iron are also tickled pink at the way their team performed.
Scunthorpe take a 6-Iron to Swindon – Twitter reacts
The general view of Scunthorpe fans can be summed up with this Tweet.
All @SUFCOfficial fans right now after watching that! #UTI pic.twitter.com/st8zRNACrx
— Marcoooo (@MarcoPuliga1) March 28, 2016
This fan revels in not just the scoreline but also the performance that came with it.
6-0 is just incredible though. But it's not just about the goals, a brilliant second half performance makes it better. #UTI
— Brad Mell (@BradleyMell) March 28, 2016
For this Scunthorpe fan, the performance was definitely unexpected.
6-0 to @SUFCOfficial wow, where did that come from? 😱 #Speechless #Amazed #UTI ⚽
— Jamie King (@NUTSY_33) March 28, 2016
This Scunthorpe fan is just thankful that it wasn’t a season of wasted support.
@SUFCOfficial Thank you team for repaying my season of support with today's effort, play and win for both the badge and fans. #UTI
— Gaz 🏴🏴 (@Redcometraven) March 28, 2016
This Iron fan is just glad that he left the house this afternoon.
@SUFCOfficial Was not thinking we would win 6-0 walking out my door at 1pm, absolutely fantastic boys 👍🏻 #goals #UTI
— Jack (@JackF_12) March 28, 2016
Not all Scunthorpe fans are happy that they scored six goals.
https://twitter.com/markgravill/status/714493295708209153
This fan looked away from the six goals scored and instead focused on efforts at the other end of the pitch.
The back four are probably going to get overlooked but they all played extremely well. Clean sheet was certainly earned. #UTI
— Brad Mell (@BradleyMell) March 28, 2016
Scunthorpe play 5th place Bradford City in their next game, a match up that will likely be more testing than today’s encounter.