And you can Stick the FA Trophy up your bottom

Despite living in the London area*, unless we win on 15th I don't think I'll have the heart to turn up on 22nd. I've had enough of this under-achievement. The more people who go in those circumstances the more the board will be encouraged to persist with a failed strategy.

* I could totally understand someone not wanting to travel 160 miles to do it.

Not so long ago I would have made alternative arrangements for the family commitment I have on Sunday, and got myself a ticket by hook or by crook. I can't do it any more.

Quoted from 75

I'm not going to this tin pot final, I'm also genuinely on the verge of walking away from the club. Any club that allows it's 36 goal strikers contract to expire isn't right in the head. One of many reasons, after 32 years I've had enough.

That said, I'll be there on Sunday, I'll be behind the players and the manager until Braintree are through. Then I will turn on the illegitimates! Go on Paul, shove my words down my throat.

You make an interesting point BPV I just wonder if the apathy on the pitch may be down to certain players being p1ssed off with not having their immediate futures secured until after the Trophy final.

Think it's pretty clear
Win on Sunday or close the club
We can all get on with our lives then

Quoted from HertsGTFC

You make an interesting point BPV I just wonder if the apathy on the pitch may be down to certain players being p1ssed off with not having their immediate futures secured until after the Trophy final.

You'd be worried about going into 50/50's when you're a leg break away from losing your house.

The policy of not rewarding excellence bit us on the bottom last season when we lost our player of the year for free. It's shortsightedness at best and sums up our club. When Hurst has gone, we need to get the manager right. Cheltenham's manager won them the league, we finished 21 POINTS behind a squad no better than ours IMO. If I'm not happy with the managerial appointment then don't bother sending me the renewal pack.

Agreed

Quoted from 75

You'd be worried about going into 50/50's when you're a leg break away from losing your house.

The policy of not rewarding excellence bit us on the bottom last season when we lost our player of the year for free. It's short shortsightedness at best and sums up our club. When Hurst has gone, we need to get the manager right. Cheltenham's manager won them the league, we finished 21 POINTS behind a squad no better than ours IMO. If I'm not happy with the managerial appointment then don't bother sending me the renewal pack.

I am not sure I know another supposedly ambitious club who will lose their player of the year tow seasons but it looks highly likely we will do exactly that.

PH says that awarding deals mid season p1sses other players off but its part of the game at every professional level, we could have saved cash on the Straker, Jennings and Stewarts and spent it towards a deal for Podge. It might not have covered the whole of it but it would have been a start.

I always thought the policy of waiting until we know what division we're in before offering new contracts was the board's. Not Hursty's fault.

That being the case, my advice to the board for next season is, if the manager is Paul Hurst you can safely offer contracts for the next two seasons.  

I've always said it and we've been relatively lucky with regards to player loyalty but that not the norm. Still our best players get cherry picked and massive uncertainty every single year.

Because of a job balls ups in past (Makofo three year deal etc) we don't dare do it anymore.

Write in clauses to trigger pay increases if go up for God's sake. Or 30 gsmes triggers a year extension or whatever, sure there's plenty of fair ways to sort the wheat from the chaff

Its a win win for me.

Win on sunday win at wembley = win all round , we are promoted.

Lose on sunday  = win all round, paul hurst will no longer be Grimsby town manager and the club gets a fresh approach.


Surely .

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Its a win win for me.

Win on sunday win at wembley = win all round , we are promoted.

Lose on sunday  = win all round, paul hurst will no longer be Grimsby town manager and the club gets a fresh approach.


Surely .

Not really. We will still have the same regime running the show if we lose on Sunday and that is where the real problems lie. Our only hope is success on the pitch so let us hope we can turn it around tomorrow.